Chicago world. (Chicago, Ill.) 1918-????, 1949-06-11
WHAT is
our GOAL?

We have a goal. Unity of Mil
Wauteeans achieved.
We have a job. The labor that
must be performed before unity
is achieved
Therefore, the Milwaukee edi-
tor Of THE CHICAGO WORLD,
has Eosignated June as Get
Together month Churches
civic organizations, and the men
and women Of the entire com
munity, are urged to use June
to work, for unity.
The first part of June, each
citizen is asked to spend one
hour a day thinking about the
problem. The second part of
June, each citizen is asked to
spend time each day working at
the problem.
Let us give an example, Mrs.
Brown, who lives, let us say, on
| Walnut ST., decides to conscious
" turn her mind to the problem
Of unityy for Milwaukeeans, from
two to three in the afternoon.
So, the first day, she is ironing
at this time, the older children
are in school, the younger ones
/ outdoors. The house is fairly
( quiet AS she irons, Mrs. Brown
thinks thoughts like this:
+ 'EWhen my husband is laid off
what protection does he have?
| He can get unemployment in
surance. Yves, but that's not en-
! ough for this family. But can he
get what he really needs? Ana
other job? No. Why? What is
wrong? If there are jobs avail
able, he should have one. If
there are no jobs available, then
maybe we would be better off
in the country on farm, where
we can grow our own food"
You see what we mean. That
is Mrs. Browns meditation for
the first day. And as a conse-
! quence Of her thinking she makes
up her mind to Ind out of there
arejobs available. She calls in a
few Of the neighbors and says:
Let us nike job survey"
Zone Of US will interview the
! manager of the State Employ
ment office and find out what
kind of labor is most in demand;
what kind least in demand.
zone of us will interview the
i local pastor and see what he
knows of the job situation. One
of us will organize a house-to-
house visitation in this neigh
borhood and find out where most
people spend their money-at
downtown stores or neighbOr-
stores. Then we will hold an
other meeting"
So Mrs. Brown and her nigh
bors did all this. They found out
many interesting facts. In he1
neighborhood aloney lmany of
the families spent $40 a month
at downtown grocery stores. Mrs
Brown went to see the neighbor-
hood grocer. If this money were
spent at his store, could he hire
a colored clerk?
The grocer said, IF this money
were spent at my store, Mrs
/ Brown, I could hire a full time
1 clerk and a delivery boy for part
II time work.
/ Now Mrs. Brown wasn't The
only one in the community whe
spent her hour day thinking
about unity of Milwaukeeans'
during June. AT the beginning o
the third week in June, when
big community get-together wa
held, Mrs. Brown told about he
project, and suggested a com
munity wide survey be organize
to determine the amount {
money that goes out Of the com
munity each month. Then sh
listened to some of the othe
ideas.
A man suggested that in vie
| of the present unemploymel
condition, that everal large fan
| lilies move out in the country an
form a farming community. +
suggested borro~4ng an amour
of money sufficient to begin I'll
l project, worNing under the 81
| pervision of a State Agricultul
Agent, and putting the farm G
a paying basis so that the loa
, could be payed Off He aske
that tanybody interested, NEE