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Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization. 144 "(1) To keep a list of the young men and women who are intelligent, trained, and qualified to fill responsible places as clerks, accountants, salesmen, janitors, porters, etc.; in this way a league can do much in getting suitable occupations for as many as are competent, especially so in Northern States. "(2) In protecting the community against fraudulent schemes, as false stock companies, that are gotten up solely for the purpose of defrauding colored people. (3) In fostering an interest in civic affairs, such as Page 196 sanitation, clean yards, cultivating pride in making attractive in appearance the home districts of our people, and in other ways showing an interest in everything that may make up a better community life." In the same pamphlet under the head of "Suggested Subjects for Discussion" comes the following list: 1. How to unify the colored people in the business interests of the community. 2. What the professional men, ministers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, etc., can do to assist the business men and women. 3. What the business men can do to assist the professional men. 4. Patronizing Negro business enterprises. 5. What new business can be established in the community. 6. How can the business enterprises already established be improved? 7. How to secure additional country trade. 8. If a bank does not exist, can one be established and supported? 9. If a millinery establishment does not exist, can one be established and supported, etc.? 10. If a shoestore or gents' furnishing store does not exist, can one be established and supported? 11. If a drug-store does not exist, can one be established and supported? 24.03.2006
Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization. 145 In another such pamphlet monthly meetings between the grocers and the clubwomen are suggested. Such meetings Page 197 would have as their object the fixing of uniform and mutually satisfactory prices and service. It is also recommended that Negro insurance agents constitute themselves unofficial health inspectors for their sections of the town. In this capacity they would report to the public health committee of the local league all instances of badly ventilated homes or schools, mosquito-breeding spots, accumulations of rubbish and filth, or any other conditions menacing the health of the colored citizens. The suggestion is made that where possible readingrooms and bureaus of information be opened in connection with the offices of Negro newspapers and that such rooms place the colored papers from all sections of the country at the disposal of the patrons after the editor has finished with them. That several small shopkeepers club together and employ one expert bookkeeper is another idea offered. It is also proposed that small retailers get together for the purpose of purchasing jointly such commodities as can be advantageously secured in this manner. It is finally urged that a committee be appointed each year to make a social survey of the Negro population. This study would show what progress had been made during the year in all lines of endeavor and at the same time furnish a directory of all the business and social activities of the Negroes of the community. It is pointed out that the sale of advertising space in its pages would alone more than pay for such a directory. It will be noted that these business leagues, like all other organizations founded or moulded by Booker Page 198 Washington, do not stick to their lasts in any narrow sense. Mr. Washington never lost sight of the fact that the fundamental concern of all human beings was living, and that farming, business, education, recreation, or what not, were only important in so far as they made the whole of life better worth living. The means employed never obscured his vision of the aim sought as is so frequently and unhappily the case with lesser men. Just as at the agricultural conferences, so at these business gatherings, Booker Washington used the methods employed by the revivalist at the experience meeting. By so doing he accomplished the double purpose of encouraging the 24.03.2006
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