The Half-Century Magazine (Vol. I, No. 1, August, 1916)Various
General
The Half-Century Magazine (Vol. I, No. 1, August, 1916)
Various
African Americans -- Periodicals
A number of resolutions adopted at the last biennial session, held at
Wilberforce in 1914, show that they are trying to live up to their motto,
“Lifting as we climb,” by lifting the moral status of the race. They
endorse National Constitutional Prohibition because it will save not
only our present race, but posterity, from the consequences of alcohol.
Statistics show that more colored people die of tuberculosis and other
filth diseases every year than any other race. These women are working
for better living conditions for colored people, more sanitary homes and
more modern conveniences to prevent the spread of the White Plague among
our people.
For the betterment of conditions in general, and to reach the individual
as well as the masses, this association places the work into the hands
of the women in charge of the various departments, some of which are:
Social Service, Young Women’s Work, Domestic Science, Suffrage, Mothers’,
Rescue, Humane, Kindergarten, Business, Juvenile Court, Civics and
Forestry, Religious Work, Health and Hygiene, Children, Charities,
Temperance, Rural and Railway Conditions, and Educational. Through these
departments they are able to do very effective work.
The State of Illinois will be well represented at the sessions this year.
There will be fifty or sixty delegates from Chicago alone, and they will
take a special car. The state is to be represented by six delegates from
four leading cities. Mrs. Theresa G. Macon and Mrs. C. M. West will
represent Chicago; Mrs. S. B. Jones and Mrs. Carrie Lee Hamilton, Peoria;
Mrs. Eva Monroe, Springfield, and Mrs. J. C. McClain, Rock Island. There
will be four numbers on the program from Illinois. Mrs. Joanna Snowden
Porter will talk on “The City Child.” There could hardly have been any
one chosen to talk on this subject who is better able to do so, as this
woman’s work as trained nurse takes her all over Chicago, and she comes
in contact with the city child of all classes. Mrs. Eva Monroe will
tell how we can best improve our clubs. Mrs. Theresa G. Macon, state
president, will report on the work accomplished during the past two years
by the clubs in the State of Illinois. Dr. Mary Fitzbutler-Waring, the
national chairman of health and hygiene, will talk on sanitation.
About two hundred members of the various clubs in Northern Illinois
and Southern Wisconsin attended the joint meeting in Milwaukee, Wis.,
on June 9th. Interesting and beneficial talks were given by Miss Grace
Wilson, policewoman at the State Training School for Girls; Mme. Victoria
Clay-Haley of St. Louis, Mo., assistant secretary of Civic Conditions;
Mrs. Goins, chairman of Civic Conditions; Mrs. Perry Williams of
Milwaukee, Wis.; Mrs. Lou Ella Young, the corresponding secretary, and
many others.
Katherine E. Williams.
Musical and Dramatic
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