Arkansas State press., 1951-11-09
Education And Women
BY Robert Durr

We must FIGHT Ter better place for women in the
world We must make the education of our girls must When
you educate man educate individual but when you
educate girl educate family The mother the chlds
first teacher and makes the all teach
e on the child Under the pressure of circumstances and Of
ten as means to end forced to do types
OF work for other people which they would die before doing
Tor people of color AS long sit idly by and make no
real effort TO remedy this situation for social equality
without which there be social justice but sounding
brass and nlng cymbal Other people respect only what
they see of themselves in
The Negro have made the greatest contribution
10 Negro emancipation We to her to provide our Wo-
men and girls with adequate character building facilities
everywhere Our YWCA facilities monuments to our
for girls who fall by the waysde and who sincerely want the
second chance which every every
saint was sinner home where they get enligh
ened and sympathetic guidance assistance and shelter in re-
habatng their lives We ought to have home for working
girls away from home where they able do better at
minimum Incidentally here made-to-oder opportuni
for churches. There such institutions the white
runtes supported by the Community Chest which
tribute money That's why must have representative
on re local boards of directors of both the Community Chest
and the local chapter of the American Red Cross.
The home is the unit of community and civiza-
ton Neither stronger than the weakest home Cities with
$4,000 or Negro populations need family welfare
cey to strengthen family life There many mothers
and fathers who do enough their children the
needed education medical and dental other funda
mental necessities which every American child entitled
needs which are just apparent feeding people in
y Welfare Society the income of such families could be
pemened gift loan basis Thereby the appalling rite
of llegtimacy might be arrested and world of human
ources going to waste and out of which juvenile den
quency and spring could be conserved assist get
ting done what should be done to lift such whole communi
ties Atlanta has this sort of organization agency.
Surely fight if would survive and progress.
Increase our courage, Lord.
One of the essential necessities of the Negro Just
is the racial pride which makes for emotional
security pose self reliance One who ashamed being
Negro and ape others is unworthy of the
1t should be the aspiration every Negro nest the
of the with honor dignity and worth
With optimism peculiar to race have declined
to be hndered by the past and with unquallng
front towards the future While others have philosophical
bout ncompetancy and pophesized DOOM
have quietly toiled like the coral deps build
ing fortunes and roofing deep cherished in
stutions.
We have set in operation agencies which full of pro-
phec meaning We have asonished the age with
dous strides We have slenced opposition rife popu
lar that the would rapidly decay and pass away We
have hushed into muteness the camor raised that
individual endeavor in distant parts in all that into
modern life, quietly bringing pass And all this
being accomplished in spite of the difficulties strong
liable every step of the way We have but with
share much retard We scorned rdicued
obstruced, and yet the march has an onward one
We must write upon the eternal sands of time a record
of endurance and just conquest that shall be ever
lasting inspiration.
1--WE Are Beaten Back In Many A Fray
But Never Strength We Borrow
Where The Rests Toda