She has aroused great interest in child study among the women of her race

A recent item in News of Colored People said that Mrs. J. Herbert Jones, wife of the rector of St. Stephen’s Church, who is one of the national workers of the Child Study Commission, is doing a great work in their city in establishing a training course for those interested in kindergarten work and to do social and welfare work in the community. This worker obtained the endorsement of the city supervisor of playgrounds so that mothers might have charge of welfare work among the girls at the Fourteenth Street school playground, the only playground that is being maintained for colored children this summer. She has aroused great interest in child study among the women of her race.  She has conducted classes and plans to hold still others. Mayor Coan, Dr. D. Clay Lilly, Mrs. J. E. Sills and other white leaders in the city have heartily approved the work. Mrs. Jones needs some central building to be used as a sort of central headquarters for the further conduct of the child study work. It is to be hoped that this need can be supplied. Colored churches in the city have shown a distinct interest in the work, and effective plans for promoting it are being shaped up more and more all the while.

(Source: Editorial from Winston-Salem Journal, quoted in The Carolina Churchman, September 1931, 11)