MECCA F OF THE NEW P| NEGRO SOGENT/AGCOPY MARCHICS SSSAYEAR afl SsWhat’s the use of artificial lightning? It is mainly experimental, aiding General Electric scientists to solve high power transmission problems. Many such experiments yield no im- mediate return. But in the long run this work is prac c tical and important. It is part of the ainccarch ter study which must goon unceasingly if this powerful force, Electricity, is to be fully tamed and enlisted in your service, GENERAL ELECTRICRE you tired? It is getting close to the time of ‘year when people talk of feeling “all tired ‘out” and there is much discussion of spring Seeics. If you are fatigued and there is nothing ceqsially wrong, the tonic you need and prob- ably the only one you need is the right kind of rest ‘to restore your energy. To one person, rest may mean sleep; to another, chysical exercise; to a third, recreation. ‘While it is true that few of us work up to our full so thar exthunge of social yok. ‘enfrespandden for work f, Te makes thoeoh Allon ae bors for 2. As rapidly, ay practical to improve the living and working conditions of the Negro. Its special field of operation embraces cities where Negroes re- side in large numbers. ‘The Executive Boards of the national and of the forty local or- | ganizations aremade up'af white and colored people who have | caught the vision of social work and believe in justice and fair play in the dealings of men with each other. ! | ryicant ol service wn islet vcutdasiann cromseg Poloners mone efisient group OF foxt Of ch studies iimilape exit esvplayee je social welfare agencies to take on work, for iourk diveeny with large Indusreial_plann. Negroes or to ealarge ther x in behalf ities where the Leigue ix rtabished atl thee "News canettuents: ‘Occasionally special the cnmmininiine peenved From apch cated (0 yy Turk for Neurges ib orpanisedl whete existing MEH Lure larger anmortinity ar wotkad for edvancr sume work for Nestoes, ment am the jah for Naged. workers and co stimy tr we there ste no avaaeFuaice for ret. are Necro workers ty tril termination to fic theve needs. Tes pragtam embraces efinite "hyake good on the job 40 that their funure place lal service petivsies where itis not expedient tt in iodiatiy may be eased: ‘tablish pew agers to meet the 4. Te bela tir atailable channels af to uertain points nt aehich there In oe Tabor jigs at which there ie an {abo into one, exleing d placement acy Free ect the pas of the seer uh Rech patel aie pea malate easly become odjante Po, Hele: develo ilies mas nitements. doe good living webich ther uo, ‘The rntenmn will inh jose woathers at the eri Tide which pevaents ecu eyenrch anil “surveys a A gue treme th Tanne a) ible) moment after “erviinyy Ty = ne commepunie new ‘Natival Industrial, Depart net theaelves itt some ebuirch 9o that the Be eear rest bot Soo tela bi fn whieh ment of the Nero mit Mie year for athvee year ex Mave ten accustomed tay be’ continued REN acon en CU Le he cere ae Ki gontdinate the is to ccompliahed not rhrough activities in- BS er ee vee ree * 4, N, %S hy, N (tx anveiering this aivcitisomen fleare weman Tae SURV) WE helpe ws, H MTBEH 622,JATIONAL URBAN LEAG' My ram ASeIAL senvice abs womens “17 RAST Lame STREET Geos sana NEW YORK CITY March 1, 1925. eae taarcren Door Survey Reader!— ‘The National Urban League seeks to improve the living con Aitions of Megroen in cities, making m specialty of opening new avenues of auploynent to Negroes and encouraging then in thelr ef forts to becone nore eftiol ‘There are forty Orban Lesmuss, twenty-alx with offices ant stafte, Bighteen are included in cammmity chests, recelving the enlorsavent that this conection eutetis, Colored social vorksre are trained through fellonships provided by the Lecque at leading schools of social work, All Leseus Boerds, national ani local, are composed of leading white and colored cititens, thus guarantesing the best inter-raciel thought on our comon comunity problers grow- ing out of raze contacts. our Departaent of Reeeerch makes careful surveys of social ‘conditions preparatory to launching programs of impravenent. Ve provide facts on the llegro for lecturers, writers and students, Te ‘Publish "OFFORTONITT" riagatine - m jearnal of Hegro life, and our local ‘organizations conduct prograne in health, housing, recreation or ceneral ‘Gécumaity welfare tn accordance with the local necl ani denant. Oar tutget for 1925 {a $57,000, including $9,000 for the now Industrial Departnent which we hope will help take the color line out of industry, We invite you to $10 nenberahip in the Leame or a contritution torards the $1,600 balance needed to camlete our special, industrial baleets Eu/enr (is aasnaring Th actisomcnt Nase pcaton Tack Some Ti hfs wh Meats ow) a3THE A Monthly CRISIS | Magazine Would you like to know how it feels to be an American Negro? Would you like to know what Negroes are thinking and doing? Would vou like to see their daily life pictured? Would you like to see “Fae Negroes see them? Read: THE CRISIS A Record of the Darker Races Established in 1910 Published by THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE AD- VANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE Edited by W. BE. BURGHARDT DU BOIS (PhID, Harvard: Nevin; Fellow American Asuciating for, the Advancement: of Science; Spingarn, Mudtaltis A Sys of ‘Black F Dackwarer"™s THE GRISIS js the most hated, most popu- lar and most widely discussed ine deal ing with questions’ of race prejudice 15 cents per copy $1.50 per year tddress THE CRISIS, 69 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.Conducted by Joseph K. Hart What Shall We Do with the Facts? HAS ie no easy matter. "The old white overseer of “4 Souther plantation took the employer's son to town ith him one Avguat day, He stopped at the grocery Te get snine provisions. When the grocer had taken down the order he suggested that the overseer take the small hor dows w the ice plant to ace them make ke After prn- testing that the grocer must be "fooling," since anybody knew there “enuldn's be ice in August,” he reluctantly consented. to the adventure. ‘The two of them arrived ot the plant just fn time to 3ez the workers turing out a umber of great transparent cakes, which were undeniably ice. The overseer fqused in tervor for s few moments: dhen seizing the boy by the hand, he ran down the steps and down the stetet for feveral blacks before he stopped. Out of breath at last, he farmed and, shaking his Gnger in the small bos’s face until he Freath, he finally said I oad is i al ah, ad om aie ive the peeacher preach ugin i next Sunday Tiere ceo, are facw: Whats to be dene about them? Well it must be confessed that Ameries & on the whole, in Tittle mond for facts, just now. We prefer Sancies move than facts: and we like gut fancies to be tinged with fexrsomeness, 4 Child Welfare Negta ehildeen in Haslem, p68 a Pamity, Welfare Sear. family fe, ps 690 Pure'at the Harlem Exily, p68 5 Loam en Labret Botecting in Harlem, 7, bef & Gangoen ot Dice Pate the old stak, p. 6gt Nursing services tn ital, py he Negro ani the doctor, 715 “§ Proimeton of Health: 45 Immigration and Race Relations The new Negro, % 6 Eom may and Race. prefudice smningat Negroes, Fleas of te Newio, 0. 704 Healt Werk in Michiza®, Py 792 4 Menial Hosiene Filne jasieies Sn New York Cio pe ex ‘ioe he Negi woman's fight for fee > est Gambling ammmgst Negroes, phone ‘7 Organising Social Forces ‘The Negro’s group fife, p. 6g: tN Group panera in Taiem, 9 6y3f Socal ark im Harley p Got 8 lon outside the School: Analytic Index of This Issue Town Planning: foil 4 chy on prebidle, 7, Atal Planning the ity church, p 69st City Communities: The meaning of ehie'to races mo How ‘Harlem care be. te 835 Elfen. of eity ite, 648 Cite pater po dau How fie cae treat the Nero, p. 60214 10 Country Communi The ald Sah im the ity we aa Youth and the eace, Sf Schad ant Community ‘dveation in Haslem, 1 646: Books hy Negines. tor It cheete ve mightily tbe afenred. It makes. ur appreciate ‘our homes and schools and churches, ‘The fate of the Child Labor Amendment shows Amerie st our caddest and best, Faces are dull things. Bed-time stories, with bears growling in the swoode and. Hoos under the Sede, mike our beds feel wonderfully downy and comforting. We are going to take care of our own ehildfen: we are not poimg to let some ogre state, probably taking its usr from Rusia, tell us what to do, with our children. When we have eaten fearsome fancies long: enough awe sball become noble; perhaps ever. become handsome, “There are scientists who say, wth hat flly thar i oo char scterltie of the stientiat: "Vauld best be careful have you fool with fact —they are sometimes Toaded!” But that sore ff talk is just the profesional galesinan trying to dispose of his avn wares, Facts can be evaded—our of hand, We can logislace evolution out uf existence. We can turn the sceatist ut of bis chair and restore cur old fanciful traditions. We fan feed our minds on folly—and grow fat—of mind. “What shall we do with facts? Some peonte face them— frit that gets them into trouble, Perhaps we'd best continue to do as Wwe have always dose, praise them and ignore them! 4, Hedaneial Canton Negro property owners in Harlem, oe ‘The Neer worker, po 4p 15 Udo Relations The gang laborer, 9, 639 The Negro woman worker, The Neweu in indosry, 7006 Sein Ive ttn En of the Canadian tniyaeria Dis putes Investigation act "p. 700 Seatur of minimum wage legitaton, 700 : 7 Peace and International Relations: peat : em) Problems of optim conte, 6.301 th Moriyes and teal for demoersey, 629 Grteine of eure, gst What h jaar? ps hast The aris of the Negro, he OEE Spiral grigine of the Amesienn Ne~ 0, 9 6704 “The inet life of Hatlem. 9 679 batA Glimpse Ahead! IPLING gave us the high road of India in “Kl.” Sinclair Lewie. set down America on “Main Stree.” But that & whole story of East and West We have no hesitancy in seying: that here in the Norshern cities of the United Staten of which New York is arch type, je going forward something which vill take ite place inthe great: pageant of humanity. Bur Harlem does not tell the whole story of the Negro in America, It is & fresh app ory. It is 4 enat aut of ey cl cf social problews which widerlic it, the pattern which surfaces it. In. the ahead Survey Graphic will bring out articles which will throw light on other factors in race. relations ast is not the ach to an old h—eith the seam cultural onthe Hampton, Tuskegee and Points North Da, Romant R Maros, Priseipal, Twiheyee dvaitite Thousancls of cvuntysies have fet the yeast of the leadership of Armstrong and Frisell, Washington ont Mocom Now comes the northward migration, How are the values whieh have been veeought out in an educs Hlenal program, which iy domly tevolutionting tbe Sceviomy oF the cotton ssity, 19 be courerved Jn the new A Southern Negro’s Impressio1 of Harlem Jone Hore, President, Mareheose College, silent Presideos Hope, who in throwing open the seiences ay fuever before to the yan of hie taee, will give hs keen Sind outapoken bsereatis. of the Haven scene The School of the Home-Acres Rossh B, Cnty, Principal, Pein Schosl, St Helena Vlad, South, Carvlina Hece oa sea inland off South Carolina te eartied Profesor forward whet thas called the tint flemenisty.sdveation inthe to tchaol, smi then the school spread atl school and: comunity oat ete Islam Southern Experience in Its Bearing on the Northern City Wr W. Attensoen, Director, Commision an Tatre Teri Desperation, dite {many Sothern conmmei st peu kis come lh with the cre amd 1 Imerrcin ounce. When the boar hi South tn wien thle veer bay come Sacha’ we wien Tm new epic consracdve Seater expeiene wo be looked ‘What han thie the Novi Where East Africa Borders the Future Jsaqes Hi Disima, Povident, The $ tener, We ould have te nel te Beasley Ht wo Mat Polo tnd 3 counterpart af he edueanal expen seit out by she Phelpa Stakes Fund De Dillard war 2 member of the Ean Alfie Cammisigh which. epore oo ee The Regional Commumity N lite April a world conference on Towa: Chiy and Regional Planning will be beld fu New Vol At their special contribution to the exchange of ideas which wil ten take place « soll apintive grou Cf planners who call themeclves the Resional Plann Association of Amerien ave collaborated ith the editors of The Servey ia gathering for oor May Graphic x. sertes af articles, pips, aiageana a sketches which will throw a fresh light o@ shoniove quandary 34 which cly-ayel planners fied: themselves and on the promise oF 8 tev apprvech tn the cy wih a region a6 9 Among. thse callsvoating Gererter Allved 8, Said -Alecaner M, Hite Glence & Sic Sete Mactan Laem Monferd Seuart Chane A You Henry Wrigke irederck Akerman Joneph ti Frederik Bleger Ronee We Beatie HE Survey Graphic i maintained mutually: by o reader-inembers oF Survey Assaciates to of social inteepreeation engage in just such pie as this If you want to know of the Living cum professions where they overlap yours im the reskm of al man or woman and tions of other the common welfare® if you are a lawyer who to know of the big advances alive to the cxoss fires of psychology and education—a Inusitess man stare of the upward thrust of labor— Tf you want know Who ted How and Whither-— the Survey Graphie is for you. 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