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Page 8 THE FEDERATION JOURNAL Fall, 1958 ADDRESS (Continued From Page 7) organization, representing a cross- section of all the different classes and levels of womanhood in the state. Many of these women are looking to the women of this or ganization for direction and lead ership. As leaders it is your re sponsibility to keep abreast with all social, political, religious and economic trends so that you will be ready with a program that will not allow the women and their families of your race to be left behind in this forward march to ward a better economic and spiritual life in these United States ... as federated women it is our responsibility to see that no woman is left out of this great organization. Our organizers must become alert and see that every woman in every rural area, the women in every village and every local community is stimulated to become a member of an organiz ed Federated Club. The President of this Federation, and every other Federation in our great Na tional Association of Colored Women ought to be able to reach out and put her hands on every Negro woman in the United States, in times of crisis, or in times of sharing the wealth and progress of this country. We should be so organized, so trained that when election times come around, the president of this as sociation knows before the ballots are counted, just who we are go ing to put into office. We should be so well organized that the power of our vote will be a po tent influence for good in every Capitol building in this land. As Federated Club Women our power must be felt in the courts of this country. We must see that our boys and girls are not num bered with juveniles who are classed as delinquents . . .as Fed erated Club Women we must put on a program, now, right now, that will raise the standards of our homes. We, and when I say WE I mean We American Wom en with all our progress and op portunities have lost our family life acfivifies. As one of the min- nority groups under investigation, the I^esident’s Committee on Job Opportunities for Minorities, states that % of the Negro boys and girls in this country are rear ed in homes without the father, In many cases he has been there and gone. In too many cases he was never there . . . what does this imply? ... it implies that we as a people have failed, too greatly, to teach our boys their major responsibility in life. Our men, or our boys who are to be come men, do not take very seri ously their duty as participating citizens in all civic affairs. They do not know that it is their duty to be good husbands to their wives . . . and they have very little serious interest in fathering the next generation. It is not their fault, all together, it is our fault as older women who have left our program of sex education to chance ... it is our fault that we have not demanded that our church programs have been such that they are not planned for youth, their interest and develop ment. (They are better now, but too late.) With the great demand for trained man-power and woman- power, we are still allowing too many of our boys and girls to drop out of high school before they finish. We have a miserably small number of our young peo ple entering college from our high schools. If we as a minority group are to ever gain status and stature in this country, or, any other country in the world of to day, we must see to it that our youth are stimulated and inspired to go to school, and remain in school until they have finished, and, while he is in school ha must make good use of his time . . . the Vice President of the United States chairs a committee that is ready with all kinds of high paying, technical, mechanical, and administrative jobs ready to place Negro young people who are prepared, but they are not available . . . this is our duty , to see that our youth become prepared for all the different kinds of positions available to any other youth in this country. It does not matter whether any Negro has been hired in the field or not. It does matter whether the job or profession he chooses is in his home community or not. It does not matter whether the pos sible opening is in one section of this country or over seas, en courage your youth to take the training. Make sure that he is an expert on the job and Uncle Sam will place him ... let us not be too happy and satisfied with the “Firsts” who are being employed in these higher and more techni cal positions. Let us see to it that hundreds follow right behind every first in more and more hither-to closed door jobs to the minority. Ladies, let us put on a program of Youth Conservation in every community, rural and urban . . . let us put on a program for rais ing the standards of the Negro home. Put on a program whereby we can re-establish the family meal time, where mother, father and children meet once a day and have a daily picnic talking over the experiences of the day and plan together how to meet each others problems in a Christ-like way. Let us work together as a unit for an improved generation of young people. Let us be ready and sincere about their responsi bilities as citizens, as husbands or wives, as mothers and fathers, as workers in a highly technical economy of a scientific world. As American women we have the power to make this world what we want it to be for our children and their children. We have the power that the economy of this country is depending upon for future industrial and economic success. We have the power to make good citizens out of our youth. We have the power to bring about heaven on earth . . . let us work together for the good of every other individual in our society. Our homes, our commu nity, our state, our nation and the world . . . there are pioneers in every age and always new fron tiers to conquer. It may well be that ours is the generation privi leged to pioneer, if we but will, in giving new emphasis to cul ture, without sacrificing civiliza- there be a greater American cul- tion, to give new stature to wom en without sacrificing our hard won status. What we do in the next 10 years to come will have significant con sequences for the world in which our sons and daughters and their sons and daughters will meet and have to work for seventy years from now. Will there be women of great stature? Will there be a better economy than today? Will ture? Will there be a more peace ful world? Th answer to these questions is not entirely ours to give, but what we do, individually, in our families, in our communities, and as organized women of power will be of importance in the shaping of the answers. Treasurers Report June 8, 1957 - June 6, 1958 RECEIPTS Brought forward $1,356.93 Received from Club dues 883.05 Receiced for Blind Project 356.50 Received for Schools 40.00 Received for S.E. Federation 54.00 Received for NAACP 14.00 Refund from Delegate 28.82 Total $2,733.30 EXPENSES To Annual Meeting $ 138.51 To Schools 40.00 Blind 356.50 To Organizers (Taylor, Johnson, Gibson).. For Flag.., Secretary Mrs. Aggrey To Lawyer — Stamps.. NACCP S.E. Federation and Delegate.., Federation Journal.. Executive Board Meeting... Council on Human Relations.. President Office... Financial Secretary... Mrs. Henley, Regional Chairman... National Federation Project... Treasurer’s Bond and Postage. Total $2,733.30—Receipts Expenses $1,727.71 72.75 6.80 25.00 37.70 13.20 200.00 250.00 311.60 51.75 5.00 39.60 59.30 10.00 100.00 10.00 ,..$1,727.71 Balance$l,005.50 ..$1 Budget Report 1958 - 1959 To be received from dues Scholarships Journal Total $2 EXPENSES Annual Meeting $ Secretary Journal Board Organizers District Meetings Youth Department.. National P. S. E Editor Total Committee Mrs. Perrin Mrs. E. M. Barnes Mrs. A. P. Collins Mrs. C. M. Taylor Mrs. M. Wade ,000.00 200.00 250.00 ,450.00 200.00 25.00 400.00 10.00 150.00 30.00 25.00 100.00 25.00 965.00 Mrs. G. McLain Mrs. L. B. Ross Mrs. D. Deddington Mrs. D. Overby Mrs. B. L. Lawrence
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