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colored industrial relations worker and social workers, so, 

 always, will there be experiments to make and trials to 

 blaze, which will call for private initiative. The unselfish 

 devotion of time as well as money to making programs 

 "go" is especially needed in the local communities. 



State Governments. — The most pressing problems con- 

 fronting Southern State Governments are those of sanita- 

 tion, schools and protection from violence and injustice in 

 the courts. 



(7) As a preliminary to intelligent improvement of health 

 the registration of births and deaths should be enforced as 

 strictly as possible, and State Departments of Health with 

 administrative, as well as research, functions should be de- 

 veloped. Among the Southern States only Virginia and 

 North Carolina are approximating this ideal. Communities 

 owe it not only to the Negro, but also to themselves to know 

 more of the conditions which make for a high mortality rate 

 and of the measures for eliminating these conditions. 



(8) Communities should cease allowing a few profiteer- 

 ing landlords to endanger the lives of both white and black 

 citizens. A full realization of the menace which the bad 

 housing and congestion in Negro districts is to the health of 

 the whole community should bring with it much stricter 

 state and city laws regarding rental property, enforced by 

 a Department of Health with powers of condemnation. 



(9) Almost all the Southern State Departments of Edu- 

 cation, through the aid of the General Education Board, 

 now have an efficient white school-man as supervisor of col- 

 ored schools. So many of the ills of Negro schools are cur- 

 able by efficient supervision that the work of these men has 

 been of tremendous value to the South. Their influence 

 should be extended by the provision of assistants and local 

 supervisors, to work under their direction. The detailed 

 needs of colored schools set forth in the Report of the 

 the Bureau of Education and the Phelps Stokes Fund on 

 Negro Education should be attended to as rapidly as pos- 

 sible. The recommendations as to state aid for high schools, 



