A USABLE PIECE OF COMMUNITY MACHINERY.

The article presents information on the Commission on Inter-Racial Co-operation in South America. The commission sought to bring together in each southern community those persons who are interested in Negro welfare, or who are sufficiently open-minded to consider the question. There are eight hundred counties in the South having more than ten per cent of Negro population. Negro welfare is fundamental to all community welfare in the South. In a community study, one southern city is reported to have made a social survey in cooperation with one of the national agencies, and at an expenditure of several thousand dollars. Although forty percent of the population is colored, not one line of this survey dealt with the relation of the colored sections of the community to the social advance to which the survey was the first step. There is no better training in social-mindedness for the average southern white person than to be led to work out some of the social problems that affects Negroes. There is, therefore, a double significance in thus using these committees.