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"AN APPEAL TO REASON"

Now that the National Association of Colored Women has passed its first fifty years, associated club women should ask themselves two questions:

1. What is the future of the NACW in relation to the world today?
2. What specific part can associated club women play in the reconstruction of an outmoded society?

These questions have no ready-made answers; the processes of readjustment will require time and patience for execution.

If NACW members, however, are to uphold their record of participation in the problems of community life, new policies and procedures must be planned, and traditions must be reinterpreted.

Associated women must set up new programs based upon the needs of a world geared to unbelievable scientific processes; they must organize to meet new needs and new objectives; they must organize to meet the rise in juvenile delinquency and adult criminality; they must make plans to stop the disintegration of the family by the establishment of better health and housing programs, through consumer protection, and through wage control.

Organized women, including NASW women, must integrate themselves into every phase of community life in order to give their children the fullest opportunity for growth and development, and their families the greatest amount of comfort and economic security. In providing these things for themselves, they will extend to the community in which they live the truest type of cooperation and give to the National Associate the truest interpretation of their motto, "Lifting as we Climb."

The national president, at every opportunity, is advocating this reorganization, this revamping of old ideals to meet new problems. She is appealing to NACW women to retain the dignity of action that they have won over a fifty year period of struggle. She is asking that the National Association of Colored Women step forward and reach out a firmer hand to those who can be helped by NACW, a "grass-roots" organization that has been the standard for uplift for the past five decades.

The use of logic, of reason will point the way--will answer the question "What part can the National Association of Colored Women play in the reconstruction of an outmoded society?" An appeal to reason will answer the question from all angles.

"What can women do?" Organize.
"What can women do?" Work.
"What can women do?" Cooperate.

Reason says, do these things and the world will be a better place in which to live.

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