CORRESPONDENCE Nov. - Dec. 1918 and undated 1918 1404 Franklin St., Brookland D.C., Nov. 4, 1918 Dear Mrs. Terrell: I am shortly to publish a work in which several French names of persons and places appear. I have learned no French and so am unable to pronounce the same. It is my desire to have a list of these names in the back of the book with the pronunciation given opposite each one of them. I am sending you the list, if you are willing to arrange these for me and let me use your name in the book as my authority I will be delighted. I enclose a stamp. The work deals with the service of Negroes in the early years of this country. Very truly, D.E. Wilkes P.S. If you do not mind, will you kindly write the French pronunciation opposite each word, marking the same phonetically. I would like to have it by Cange Toureaux Morne Villet Besse Jourdain Belley Beauvais Cayes Rigaud Poisson Chavanne D'. Estaing Baize Dauquire Gentilly Chef Menten Sauvage Villere Borgue Lafitte, Fortier Lacoste. PHONE DOUGLAS 4490 ALVA L. BATES ATTORNEY AT LAW 3102 SOUTH STATE STREET SUITE 1 CHICAGO, ILL.. Nov. 6th. 1918. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, 1323 T. Street, Washington, D. C. Dear Madam:- Your letter of Oct. 23rd. received and we were quite pleased to learn that you would accept our invitation to lecture in Chicago. Your terms - $30.00 for lecture, railroad fare and all incidentals - are perfectly satisfactory to us. We are attempting to negotiate another date for you in Evanston, which is about forty five minutes ride from Chicago. Of this we will inform you later. In the event we are successful in making this engagement, the terms of which will be left to you, we will expect a reduction in the amount we have agreed to pay as your railroad fare. We have selected Monday, December 2nd.,as the date of your lecture for us. Will you please inform me at the earliest possible time whither this date is convenient to you? We are desirous of starting the advertisement of this lecture without delay. I may also say that all indebtedness to you will be promptly paid upon completion of your engagement with us. Assuring you that the very earliest reply will be appreciated by us,I am, Very truly yours, Alva L. Bates Pres. S. P. M. E. Brotherhood. COPY November 6, 1918 MEMORANDUM TO MR. SETTLE: War Camp Community Service Colored Workers:- Mrs. Charles T. Dickinson, 1312 Tea Street, N.W. Miss Fannie Wright, C/o National Training School for Girls- Phone Cleveland 383 Mrs. Erma West, 309 11th Street, N.E., Phone Lincoln 961 Mrs. Eva Hood Smith, C/o 8th Street Home, 8th & Euclid Streets. (Signed) Jane Dester Rippin COPY VIRGINIA NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE Petersburg, Va November Twelfth 1918 Mr. T. S. Settle Office, Commissioner on War Camp Activities Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Settle:- The following women would please you in the kind of work you want done. Miss Grace Colson, a graduate of the Peabody High, Petersburg, Va., attended Summer School at Hampton and taught school for a number of years in the city of Petersburg. She has been connected with practically all social uplift movements in Petersburg, address - 511 Byrne St., Petersburg, Va. Mrs. Mary J. Earle, a graduate of Wesley College, the wife for years of a successful physician, the teacher for years on her home town, Anderson, S. C. and a promoter of social uplift work in her State. A letter from her is enclosed. You would not go wrong in employing Mrs. Earle, address -Box 24, Anderson, S. C. Mrs. Sallie J. Martin, a graduate, Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute a teacher for years in the Deaf and Blind Asylum at Raleigh, N.C., attended Summer School at Hampton and a promoter of social uplift movements in her neighborhood, address -Deaf and Blind Asylum, Raleigh, N. C. Miss Sadie I. Daniel, a graduate of Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute and Fisk University, a teacher in Richmond High School, and a promoter of social work in Richmond, address - 734 N. Third St., Richmond, Va. Miss Hortense Grey, a graduate, Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, a teacher in Public schools of State for a number of years. This young woman has a very pleasing appearance -- address, 1220 W. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. Miss Fletcher M. Howell, a graduate of Hampton Institute, a teacher in Portsmouth schools for years, now in Department of Printing and Engraving, Washington, D.C. She is a very fine young woman--address 1336 Tea St., Washington, D.C. Mrs. Maud Reynolds, a graduate, Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, several years a teacher in Public schools in Norfolk, promoter of Sunday School and B.Y.P.U. work in State, address--1415 Ann St., Norfolk, Va. Miss Ada C. Baytop, a graduate, Hampton Institute, Hartshorn College, a teacher for a great while, address-- Jackson College, Jackson, Miss. -2- Miss Beatrice Whiting, a graduate, Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, a teacher for years in Public Schools of Richmond, Va., 1230 Denny St., Richmond, Va. Miss Eliza Coppage, a graduate of Norfolk Mission College, a teacher in Public Schools for years, address 935 Dunbar St., Norfolk, Va. With the hope that any of these will serve you acceptably, I am, Yours truly, (Signed) John M. Gandy President. G- H COPY Box 24, Anderson, S. C., Nov.8, 1918. Mr. John M. Gandy Petersburg, Virginia Dear Mr. Gandy:- I was in Greenville Tuesday and visited the community club. I thought of you while there since it was the outgrowth of your effort. Everything looks very nice and seems to be well managed by Mrs. Allison. They have enlarged the quarters by cutting out the partition between the two buildings this making one large room. Three pool tables have been lately put in. Last but not least they have an excellent cook. Some time ago Mr. Burnett spoke to me about the work for girls saying that he thought I was fitted for such work and suggested my name to the local committee but they had already selected one of the teachers from the city schools. The work for the girls is just about to be started. Since I have given the matter closer attention I think I would enjoy doing some phase of war work and I am writing to ask you if you know of an opening at present. I would like either stationary work or something that called for traveling. If it is only temporary work I could get a leave of absence from the school here. If it be something permanent I would give up this work. I would appreciate any assistance you may be able to give me along this line. I trust that your work is moving on nicely and that you will have a very successful year. Thanking you in advance, I am, Yours truly, (Signed) Mary J. Miller Earle (Mrs. L. A. Earle) WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE ONE MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK Surround the Camps with Hospitality HONORARY PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENT JOSEPH LEE 2D VICE PRESIDENT WILLIAM KENT 3D VICE PRESIDENT ROBERT GARRETT TREASURER GUSTAVUS T. KIRBY SECRETARY H. S. BRAUCHER VM/PM BUDGET COMMITTEE HORACE E. ANDREWS CLARENCE M. CLARK CHARLES D. NORTON MYRON T. HERRICK JOSEPH LEE HENRY W. DE FOREST CONDUCTED BY PLAYGROUND AND RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT AND NAVY DEPARTMENT COMMISSIONS ON TRAINING CAMP ACTIVITIES November 20th,1918. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Tea Street, N.W. Boston, Massachusetts My dear Mrs Terrell: Mrs. Therese Lee Connelly who has become interested in opportunities in work for girls in the camp cities has given you name as reference. The Commission on Training Camp Activities of the War and Navy Department has asked the Playground and Recreation Association of America to be responsible for the work of stimulating and aiding communities in the neighborhood of training camps to develop and organize their social and recreational resources in such a way as to be of the greatest possible value to the officers and soldiers in the camps. The organization of the girls of the community for patriotic and community service is a very important part of the general program. It is therefore proposed to send into each of the camp cities a woman to act as associate with the man community organizer sent to establish War Camp Community Service. It will be her duty to bring into cooperative relations all of the agencies already at work among girls, to reach out to girls as yet untouched by existing agencies and to put unto operation a constructive program along the lines of patriotic, recreational and community service. The training of volunteer leaders will be an important part of this work. Necessary qualifications for this branch of the service are tact, maturity of judgment, resourcefulness, adaptability and, above all, organizing ability. We are counting on your opinion as one of the important factors inour decision and a statement from you in as explicit terms as you wish to use will be of very great value to us. Sincerely yours, [ ] T.O. Director Girls' Division #163 Howell St-Providence, RI Mrs Mary Church Terrell Dear Madam Nov 7 1918 I am trying to arrange a patriotic meeting in a large building here for the 19th Inst at night If I can arrange it will you be free to be here an that evening and does this letter stand good as it relates to terms? If you cannot come would the Judge come in your stead? If neither of you can appear please find out if Prof. Kelley Miller can appear? I am writing to make certain if I can get you. As the time is so very short, and I am yet to find out weather I can get the Hall. By the time I hear from you I can be ready to wire you either way. Please ans me at once. I am yours Respectfully, Rev L. C. Newby Pastor Bethel A.M.E. Ch City Send [ ] some of your cuts, MOREHOUSE COLLEGE UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY JOHN HOPE, PRESIDENT BENJAMIN BRAWLEY, DEAN OFFICE OF THE DEAN ATLANTA, GA Nov 9, 1918 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington, D. C. My Dear Mrs. Terrell:-- I thank you for your very kind and very full reply to my request. I have received the letter and the papers, and I assure you that I know how precious these are. You may count on having them all back within the next ten days. I understand that a photograph will be coming at any time. In the matter that you sent, which is all quite full and will give me abundant material, I do not find mention of your birth year. In a formal sketch such as we are now attempting I am wondering if this should not be given. Nevertheless if you object to it (and some people do object), we can dispense with it. Your sketch, however, is the last one on which I am working, and I am getting in my manuscript by the end of the coming week. If you are willing to give the date, send brief wire at my expense as soon as possible Monday on receipt of this. If I do not hear from you before Tuesday morning I shall understand that you would prefer to have me go ahead without it. This little book is written on commission for a special purpose, and yet I am hoping that it might have a wider function. First of all it is intended to be inspirational for the women and girls in the Fireside Schools in some of the humbler homes of the South. I had to be MOREHOUSE COLLEGE UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE AMERICAN BAPTIST SOME MISSION SOCIETY JOHN HOPE, PRESIDENT BENJAMIN BRAWLEY, DEAN OFFICE OF THE DEAN ATLANTA, GA. _______191____ careful in my choice of characters, as not every woman of worth would adequately serve such a missionary purpose. I have finally settled on an introductory chapter and then from fifteen to twenty printed pages on each of the following:-- Harriet Tubman. Nora Gordon, the first graduate of Spelman (the largest school for Negro girls in the world) to go as a missionary to Africa. She thus started Spelman's most glorious tradition. Meta Warrick Fuller. Mary McLeod Bethune, of Daytona, Fla., an increasingly brilliant figure in the education of Negro young women. Mary Church Terrell. As soon as the book is out, as it ought to be before Christmas, I shall ask the Home Mission Society to send you a copy. With thanks for your courtesies, Very truly yours, Benjamin Brawley VIRGINIA NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE J. M. GANDY PRESIDENT W. A. ROGERS SECRETARY L. H. FOSTER TREASURER-BUSINESS MANAGER T. O. SANDY RECTOR BOARD OF VISITORS JAMES Mcl, RUFFIN SECRETARY BOARD OF VISITORS PETERSBURG, VA. NO ANS. REQUESTED_______________ ANS. DICTATED _____________ RECEIVED NOV 13 1918 COPY SENT TO ________________________ November, Twelfth, 1918 Miss Jane Ogle, Director Girls' Division, War Camp Community Service, One - Madison Ave., N.Y. City. Dear Miss Ogle, Enclosed is a copy of letter which we are sending to Mr. Settle along the line which you desire. I hope you may be able to secure the services of some of this number. Yours very truly, John M. Gandy President. COPY November Twelfth, 1918. Mr. T.S. Settle, Office, Commissioner on War Camp Activities, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Settle: The following women would please you in the kind of work you want done. Miss Grace Colson, a graduate of the Peabody High, Petersburg Va., attended Summer School at Hampton and taught school for a number of years in the city of Petersburg. She has been connected with practically all social uplift movements in Petersburg, address - 511 Byrne St., Petersburg, Va. [ ] J. Karle, a graduate of Welsley College, the wife for years of a successful physician, the teacher for years on her home town, Anderson, S.C. and a promoter of social uplift work in her [ ]. A letter from her is enclosed. You would not go wrong in em- [ ] Mrs. Karle, address - Box 24, Anderson, S.C. Mrs. Sallie J. Martin, a graduate, Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, a teacher for years in the Deaf and Blind Asylum [ ] Raleigh, N.C., attended Summer School at Hampton and a promoter of social uplift movements in her neighborhood, address - Deaf and Blind Asylum, Raleigh, N.C. Miss Sadie I. Daniel, a graduate of Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute and Fisk University, a teacher in Richmond High School, and a promoter of social work in Richmond, address - 734 - N. Third St., Richmond, Va. Miss Hortense Grey, a graduate, Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, a teacher in Public schools of State for a number of years. This young woman has a very pleasing appearance - address, 1220 - W. Leigh St., Richmond, Va. Miss Fletcher M. Howell, a graduate of Hampton Institute a teacher in Portsmouth schools for years, now in Department of Printing and Engraving, Washington, D.C. She is a very fine young woman - address - 1336 - Tea St., Washington, D.C. Mrs. Maud Reynolds, a graduate, Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, several years a teacher in Public schools of State, a leader in Colored Women's Club in State, Address - 156 - High St., N.W., Roanoke, Va. COPY #2, Mr. T.S. Settle, Office, Commissioner on War Camp Activities, Washington, D.C. Miss Maud L. Weaver, a graduate, Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, several years a teacher in Public schools in Norfolk, promoter of Sunday School and B.Y.P.U work in State, Address - 1415 - Ann St., Norfolk, Va. Miss Ada C. Baytop, a graduate, Hampton Institute, Hartshorn College, a teacher for a great while, address - Jackson College, Jackson, Miss. Miss Beatrice Whiting, a graduate, Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, a teacher for years in Public schools of Richmond, Va., address - 1230 - Denny St., Richmond, Va. Miss Eliza Coppage, a graduate of Norfolk Mission College, a teacher in Public schools for years, address - 935 - Dunbar St., Norfolk, Va. With the hope that any of these will serve you acceptably, I am. Yours truly, G-H President. #163-Howell St Nov 13-1918 Mrs Mary Church Terrell #1323 T. St. N.W. Washington D.C. My Dear Madam I had the verbal promise of the Executive Committee of the Billy Sunday Tabernacle, that, I might have it on the 19th, as he (Billy) finishes here on the 17th, inst, Yesterday they told me that the Government was to take it over at once and they could not keep their promise. Between now and Christmas I shall secure some other place and will then inform you. If you have doubts about getting your money promptly I will send it before you come. The people here want you to come. My church is large enough, but I want a neutral meeting place. I am in good faith. Respectfully L. C. Newby [*Matters have completely changed here since Monday morning] WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE ONE MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK HONORARY PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENT JOSEPH LEE 2D VICE-PRESIDENT WILLIAM KENT 3D VICE-PRESIDENT ROBERT GARRETT TREASURER GUSTAVUS T. KIRBY SECRETARY H. S. BRAUCHER BUDGET COMMITTEE HORACE E. ANDREWS CLARENCE M. CLARK CHARLES D. NORTON MYRON T. HERRICK JOSEPH LEE HENRY W. DE FOREST CONDUCTED BY PLAYGROUND AND RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT AND NAVY DEPARTMENT COMMISSIONS ON TRAINING CAMP ACTIVITIES WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE Surround the Camps with Hospitality [*Mrs. Persons*] 19th and G Sts., N.W., Washington, D. C., November 14, 1918. Professor Farmer Girls' Division War Camp Community Service 1 Madison Avenue New York City Dear Professor Farmer:- Dr. John M. Gandy sent you a list of prospective colored workers in the south a few days ago and sent me a carbon copy. When I saw him the other day, I asked him to give us a more detailed description of some of these people. Enclosed you will find copy of letter from Dr. Gandy. I shall be glad to help you look any of these people up. When you come south, we can both interview them. Sincerely yours, T. S. Settle Special District Representative TSS:L (Enclosure) NO. ANS. REQUIRED _______________ ANS. DICTATED ____________________ RECEIVED NOV 15 1918 COPY SENT TO ____________________ PHONE DOUGLAS 4490 ALVA L. BATES ATTORNEY AT LAW 3102 SOUTH STATE STREET SUITE 1 CHICAGO, ILL., Nov 14th, 1918 Mrs Mary Church Terrell, 1323 T St. N.W. Washington, D.C. My Dear Madam:- Your letter of 9th, inst. received in which you state your inability to make any reduction even though we may obtain another engagement for you. We perfectly accede to your terms and shall expect no reduction whatever. We are yet attempting to obtain an engagement for you in Evanston. I think we will be successful. I sent you a telegram yesterday requesting you to forward me the subject of your address. Will you please do this at the earliest possible time? We will expect you to inform us of the date and time of your arrival in Chicago. Assuring you of our determined effort to make our meeting a big success, I am, Very truly yours, Alva L. Bates COPY November Fifteenth 1918 War Camp Community Service, New York City. Gentlemen: In view of my recent conference with Dr. Bryan relative to the welfare work needed in behalf of Negro soldiers and men and women engaged in the occupations "essential to the maintenance of the National interest during the emergency" which includes the time of reconstruction as well as the time of war, I wish to submit the following programs of work to be financed by the War Camp Community Service and to be executed with the National League on [ ] Urban Conditions among Negroes cooperating. I. Organization of Southern Communities for welfare work among Negroes as an aid to worthy reconstruction work in the South. The Southern white and colored people have cooperated in the war emergency on matters pertaining to the war as they have never done before. Negro men as soldiers have participated in the affairs of a free people during the war as never before in their history--this being especially true in France where no civic privilege was denied the Negro soldier. As peace returns many of the Southern whites will expect a return of the pre-war relationship between Negroes and whites. The Negroes will never again submit quietly and without protest to such an arrangement. This situation will be intensified when the Negro soldiers, many many thousands in number, return from France. We propose the establishment of a bureau in the South for the promotion of welfare movements in the South similar to those already maintained by the Urban League in many communities to: 1. Develop cooperation in welfare work among Negroes and to encourage a better feeling of neighborliness between the races. 2. Create those agencies of improvement in housing, education, recreation, employment and health among Negroes such as will fit them better for the places they should occupy in their respective communities. To conduct such a work would require the services of (1) an organizer and (2) his assistant who would devote their time entirely to field work, spending sufficient time in each city needing their services to work up organizations of white and colored leaders capable of carrying out the plans as outlined. (3) Office force to handle correspondence and records and conduct business in the absence of the organizers. Special attention should be paid to the work of adjusting the soldier in the community on his return by directing him to lodgings when necessary and locating him in a suitable job. For this work for one year the sum of $16,500 will be required. Salaries: First organizer $2500 Second Organizer 2500 Chief clerk (office) 1800 Assistant clerk 1200 Office boy and filing Assistant 720 8720 Traveling expenses 3000 Rent 1200 Light and heat 300 Stationery, postage and printing 1500 Furnishings of office (including typewriters, files, desks and other equipment 1500 Telephone and telegrams 300 $16,520 The War Camp Community Service.....#2 November 15th, 1918. These workers should be colored. It would also be well for a similar and coordinated work to be launched in the South with white workers who would be commissioned with the program of advocating better feelings on the part of Southern white people towards Negroes--a propaganda movement with a competent Southern white man as director. The bureau's headquarters should belocated in Atlanta, Nashville, or Richmond, Va. The present War Camp Community Service Units for Colored Soldiers in Southern cities could be made the nuclei for such movements in cities where they exist. II. National Industrial Welfare of Negroes promoted (in co-operation with Government labor program.) Negroes, are, as a rule, loyal, competent and desirable workmen when employed under conditions that encourage these attributes. They are just the opposite if worked under bad conditions. This is what accounts for their reputation in many quarters for unreliability, idleness and laziness The experience of many large industrial plants that have used Negro welfare workers to look after the health and recreation, home life and contentment of their Negro workers justifies a wide extension of this system to the end that more responsible positions may be thrown open to the Negro and the Country may profit properly from the service of Negro workingmen. Such an improvement in the general situation would mean much to the returning Negro soldier who would find a little better type pf job waiting him than the one he left. A National Secretary on Industrial Welfare of Negroes should be appointed with one or two assistants whose duties would be as follows: 1. Work with employers to give Negroes better chances for work 2. Work with Labor unions to get farier attitude toward fellow Negro workmen 3. Work with employers to appoint Negro welfare workers 4. Prepare Negro men of intelligence and practical knowledge of handling men for welfare workers for larger plants 5. Lecture to Negro workers in plants on fundamentals of efficiency--regularity, punctuality, sobriety, constancy application to work, etc. The Cost Salary $2500 Assistant 2100 Clerk 1500 Assistant clerk 1200 Miscellaneous 3000 $10,000 III. ROOM REGISTRY --With the problem of housing adequately the throngs in our cities is that of finding and maintaining decent rooming accomodations in the houses that do exist for women and men arriving in the urban communities. This problem while annoying among the white people is acute among the colored people. At the recent convention of persons interested in the subject of room registry, it developed that no organization had done any tangible work along War Camp Community Service #3 November 15th, 1918 this line for Negroes nor contemplated such efforts. The problem of adjusting the soldiers in the cities when they return will be no less serious than the one of finding proper accomodation for women and civilian men in environments that will protect their morals and their economic standards. We propose the adoption of a room registry program that will tend to meet the rooming problem of the Urban [????] Negro. It would involve the appointment of a Room Registry Investigator who would conduct investigations of the needs in certain larger cities through an actual survey of the rooms available--this to be followed by an appeal to the U. S. Government to establish room registries in connection with the local U. S. Employment Service or the establishment of room registries though private sources of the Government support is not forthcoming. The Cost. Cheif Investigator $2100 Two assistants at $1800 each 3600 Clerk 1300 Miscellaneous, including postage, stationary, telegrams, telephone, etc. 3000 Traveling expenses. 2000 $11,900 Respectfully submitted, (signed ) EUGENE KINCKLE JONES Executive Secretary EKJ/PW WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE ONE MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK HONORARY PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENT JOSEPH LEE 2D VICE-PRESIDENT WILLIAM KENT 3D VICE-PRESIDENT ROBERT GARRETT TREASURER GUSTAVUS T. KIRBY SECRETARY H. S. BRAUCHER BUDGET COMMITTEE HORAVE E. ANDREWS CLARENCE M. CLARK CHARLES . NORTON MYRON T. HERRICK JOSEPH LEE HENRY W. DE FOREST CONDUCTED BY PLAYGROUND AND RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA FOR THE WARE DEPARTMENT AND NAVY DEPARTMENT COMMISSIONS ON TRAINING CAMP ACTIVITIES WARE CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE Surround the Camps with Hospitality Nov. 16, 1918 My dear Mrs. Williams: Please remember the woman who introduced herself to you in Chicago last Tuesday afternoon, Dec 10- as an assistant in the personnel department. I am a colored woman, and I talked to you about the race with which I am identified. It encouraged me greatly to have you give the testimony concerning the majority of colored girls who had worked for you, even though latterly some had not been so good. But-that is not the point, after all- that is only to recall to your mind the individual who is writing this letter. I am sending you the personnel record blanks of some colored women whom I should like to have you see and talk to, with a view of having them undertake this work of the W.C.C.S. among colored people. While I was in Chicago, I interviewed a Mrs. Gaines who is now working with the Urban League here and who as given great satisfaction, according to the testimony of Mr. Hill who is at the head of that work in Chicago. mShe is capable, has a good education, has had excellent training and has a pleasing personality. I can say the same thing about Miss Mitchell, whose father was at one time president of Wilberforce University, when I taught there. I am sending you the recomendations of those two women together with the one on Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams who has been working with the clubs in Chicago for a long time. In addition to the three women I want very much to have you interview a Mrs. Helen Sayre, 4712 State St. who was a very fine kindergarten teacher in St. Louis before her marriage. She is a very fine woman with a delightful personality, and vivacity enough to make things go. There is also a Mrs. Walters whose address I do not know, but will soon be able to send you. Mrs. Walters was in charge of the Amanda Smith Home which was recently destroyed by fire. By those who are well acquainted with her and who are capable of making an estimate, she is regarded as very efficient and dependable. I am inclosing a letter from Mrs. Elizabeth Davis which speaks for itself. When you have finished it, please return it to me. I hope you will arrange to see the women whom I have mentioned in this letter, for I should like to see each and every one of them given an opportunity to work for the W C C S. I have the personnel record blanks of two others whom I saw during my brief stay in Chicago, but I will not send them to you, because these other women are better suited for the work. Sometimes, when our best friends among the white people have the power to appoint colored people to do a particular work, they are unfortunate in their selection and the work fails because of that fact. Colored people are like other human beings- they want to look up to those appointed to help them. All thru the South I run across colored people who have been appointed to teach or do some other work among members of their race by white people who believe they are good enough to fill those positions, because they know absolutely nothing about our social life and do not realize that we have certain standards, too. When I was a member of the Board of Education here, some of the foremost white people in the city came to me and implored me to appoint some girl as a cooking teacher or put her in the sewing department, because this colored girl was the daughter of this woman's cook or the daughter of the cook who had been employed by her friend for years. This may seem to you an exaggerated case, but colored people have to confront such a situation frequently. I hope you will pardon me for writing you this lengthy letter, but I was so impressed with your breadth and sense of justice and generosity toward my race that I feel that I can impose upon you with impunity to this awful extent. Please see these women as soon as you can, and let me have your opinion. Mrs. Ogle and Mr. Farmer are perfectly willing to have you do this. In fact, they want you to do this very much. With apologies for the length of this letter and with the highest esteem, I am very sincerely yours, Mary Church Terrell San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 17, 1918. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Howard Univ., Washington, D.C., My son told me he had the pleasure of meeting you recently, so I decided to ask you to look him over at your first opportunity and let me know how he looks physically. I have always understood that the climate of Washington is "bad"; he has at times shown a susceptibility to colds. Please let me know if he shows any symptoms of cough or throat irritation. Although aware of this tendency he is very careless, failing to observe such precautions as he should. We are in ordinary health and hope that you and other members of the family are well; I met the Judge when he visited here some years ago, but have no idea that he remembers me. Has the war made any openings in your section in the school room that a man of my calibre could fill satifactorily? As there are but three of us and my boy will probably desire to settle in the north, I am thinking of leaving the school room and this section; financially such a change might not be advantageous but my surroundings may be more congenial. With kindest regards, Yours truly, Joseph R. Morris, Box 376. MOREHOUSE COLLEGE UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY JOHN HOPE, PRESIDENT BENJAMIN BRAWLEY, DEAN OFFICE OF THE DEAN ATLANTA, GA Nov. 23, 1918 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington, D.C. My Dear Mrs. Terrell, I understand from your previous letter that photograph would follow soon. Kindly send me brief wire at my expense when you receive this Monday to let me know if same is on the way. With all good wishes, Sincerely yours, Benjamin Brawley. Letter dated Nov 20 just received I [sent you] mailed a letter and my photo Sunday Nov. 24- Please wire if you have not received it and I will send another immediately- The papers you kindly sent were returned some days ago and should have reached you before this time. November 25, 1918 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1323 T Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. My dear Mrs. Terrell: The Playground and Recreation Association of America has been giving careful consideration to your interest in War Camp Community Service and is pleased hereby to offer you a position in the Service at a salary of $2000 and transportation expenses, to begin with November 25, 1918, if you enter our Service. A statement of the conditions of employment is enclosed and a brief declaration of loyalty to the Government which you will please sign and return with your letter of acceptance. Instructions regarding your work, credentials and supplies will be sent you from the Field Department. It will be of advantage to you and to the Association in planning your work if you will report at the Life Extension Institute for a complete physical examination. The Service provides for a thorough examination, a detailed report and a letter of advice on hygiene. Instructions will be sent you from the Life Extension Institute and will please present the enclosed card when called. It is a pleasure to welcome you into this Service. May I bespeak for you large and satisfactory success. I am confident you will find the work simulating, the workers congenial and the opportunities and responsibilities which you confront calling out that which you will be glad to give, capacity service. Sincerely yours, W. B. Dickinson Associate Secretary WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE 1 Madison Avenue New York City The following statement constitutes the conditions under which you are employed for the War Camp Community Service. SCOPE The Commission on Training Camp Activities of the War and Navy Departments have asked the Playground and Recreation Association of America to be responsible for the work of stimulating and aiding communities in the neighborhood of training camps to develop and organize their social and recreational resources in such a way as to be of the greatest possible value to the officers and soldiers in the camps, and in addition the Playground and Recreation Association is assigned the duty of supplementing these resources, where, after consultation with local agencies it seems to be necessary or desirable. The national leaders feel it is vitally important to have recreation experts assigned to the communities near the training camps to care for the leisure time of the enlisted men. ENLIST FOR THE WAR No person should enlist in the War Camp Community Service [any more than in the United State army] except for the period of one year. Of course no person will wish to continue in the Service unless he is successful in it. The Constitution of the Association provides that the secretary and others connected with the Association shall hold their positions at the pleasure of the Board of Directors. The Association however, will not discontinue the services of any worker without giving reasonable notice. SALARY It has been felt that no one should gain financially by entering the service. Therefore no person entering the service will be paid at a higher rate of salary than his present salary. Many taking up war service suggest a much smaller amount than that which they had received, naming the minimum amount at which it is possible for them to live during war times. Most soldiers and officers are receiving much less than heretofore and men and women are taking up this service in the same spirit. RESPONSIBILITY TO WAR DEPARTMENT The men and women entering the War Camp Community Service are employed by the Association, yet through the Association and its executive officer they are responsible to Mr. Joseph Lee and to the War and Navy Department Commissions on Training Camp Activities of which he is a member. Mr. Lee himself is held personally responsible for seeing that, through the machinery of our Association, right recreation conditions prevail in the territory adjacent to the military training camps. Form 6R Director of Personnel Department W.B. Dickinson WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE 1 Madison Avenue, New York City PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT PHYSICAL EXAMINATION The bearer of this card, Mrs. Mary C. Terrell, is authorized to receive from the Life Extension Institute a complete physical examination by appointment. Signed W. B. Dickinson p The Life Extension Institute is dedicated to the work of human salvage and is counseled by a Hygiene Reference Board of nearly 100 recognized authorities in the various fields of health and life conservation It has been formed by a group of scientists, publicists and business men who believe that human life can be materially lengthened and made more livable by observing the ordinary rules of health which are now so generally ignored. They are endeavoring to make a practical application of the obvious truth that it is cheaper to prevent than cure. UNITED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN $170,500,000 ORGANIZED AT REQUEST OF PRESIDENT WILSON NOVEMBER 11 - 18, 1918 CORCORAN THOM, CHAIRMAN GEORGE E. HAMILTON, VICE-CHAIRMAN MYER COHEN, VICE-CHAIRMAN CLIFFORD L. JOHNSON, DIRECTOR ADVISORY COMMITTEE C. A. ASPINWALL MRS. NEWTON D. BAKER CHARLES HENRY BUTLER D. J. CALLAHAN JOHN R. HAWKINS MRS. ROBERT LANSING JOHN B. LARNER SIMON LYON H. B. F. MACFARLAND MRS. JOHN L. NEWBOLD THEODORE W. NOYES CAPT. JULIUS I. PEYSER A. J. TILLEY CHAIRMEN OF COMMITTEES CHURCHES AND CLUBS CHARLES HENRY BUTLER CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS W. T. GALLIHER EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS ALONZO A. TWEEDALE FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS GRATZ E. DUNKUM GROUPS OF EMPLOYEES JOHN DOLPH LABOR ORGANIZATIONS JOHN B. COLPOYS NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING WILLIAM W. EVERETT OUTDOOR ADVERTISING JOSEPH M. STODDARD SCHOOLS JOHN H. HANNA SPEAKERS CHARLES W. DARR COOPERATING ORGANIZATIONS NATIONAL WAR WORK COUNCIL OF THE Y. M. C. A. WAR WORK COUNCIL OF THE Y. W. C. A. NATIONAL CATHOLIC WAR COUNCIL (K. OF C.) JEWISH WELFARE BOARD WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION SALVATION ARMY PHONE FRANKLIN 7970 1224 F STREET N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. November 25, 1918 Mrs. Robert H. Terrell, 1323 T Street, City Dear Mrs. Terrell: I want to express to you my deep appreciation of the work which you did in connection with the United War Work Campaign. It was a great pleasure to be associated with you, and to you, as much as to anyone else, was the success of the Drive due. With cordial regards, I am Very truly yours, Corcoran Thom Chairman WASHINGTON'S QUOTA $800,00 WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE ONE MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK HONORARY PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENT JOSEPH LEE HAB/L 2D VICE-PRESIDENT WILLIAM KENT 3D VICE-PRESIDENT ROBERT GARRETT TREASURER GUSTAVUS T. KIRBY SECRETARY H. S. BRAUCHER BUDGET COMMITTEE HORACE E. ANDREWS CLARENCE M. CLARK CHARLES D. NORTON MYRON T. HERRICK JOSEPH LEE HENRY W. DE FOREST CONDUCTED BY PLAYGROUND AND RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT AND NAVY DEPARTMENT COMMISSIONS ON TRAINING CAMP ACTIVITIES WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE Surround the Camps with Hospitality Employed by the Association November 26, 1918 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell Washington, D. C. My dear Mrs. Terrell: We are pleased indeed to welcome you as a member of the staff of the Playground and Recreation Association of America, devoted to the work of the War Camp Community Service. The Service you are entering is performing an important function at a critical period in the world's history and I feel sure that you will measure up in your efforts to the importance and responsibility. Your assignment will come from the Field Department if it has not already been made. I am enclosing a letter regarding the arrangements for pransportation expense. I hope for you the greatest success possible in our part of the Service and a great deal of enjoyment in it also. Yours very truly, W. B. Dickinson Associate Secretary Director Personnel Department WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. E. ATKINS, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT RECEIVED AT COMMERCIAL NAT'L BANK BLDG., 14th & G STS., N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. ALWAYS OPEN 1918 NOV 26 PM 2 37 C 190CH SHEET 2 WOULD NOT ASK AN ADMISSION BUT WOULD SOLICIT MEMBERSHIPS FROM THE AUDIENCE STATE TERMS AND DATE RESPECTFULLY MRS MARGARET JAMISON MEMBERSHIP SECY 4331 LANGELY AVE Have just [reached] home from [*was in*] New York [*when your telegram was delivered*] found your telegram It will be impossible for me to make an engagement with you for Dec. 9th very sorry M. C. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. E. ATKINS, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT RECEIVED AT COMMERCIAL NAT'L BANK BLDG., 14th & G STS., N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. ALWAYS OPEN 1918 NOV 26 PM 2 37 C190CH 103 NL 8 EXTRA FY CHICAGO ILL 26 MRS MARY TERRELL 1323 T STS NORTHWEST WASHINGTON DC MY DEAR MRS TERRELL WE LEARNED THROUGH ATTORNEY BATJS THAT YOU ARE IN THE CITY NEXT WEEK WE ARE CONDUCTING A MEMBERSHIP DRIVE AT THE Y W C A WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOU GIVE US AN EVENING DECEMBER NINTH PREFERABLE WE WANT YOU TO GIVE OUR GIRLS AND WOMEN THE VISION OF THE WONDERFUL POSSIBILITIES IN A MOVEMENT OF THIS KIND AS WE KNOW YOU CAN WHAT A CAMPAIGN MEANS GIVE THEM INSPIRATION ON ENTHUSIASM WE WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE ONE MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK HONORARY PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENT JOSEPH LEE HAB/L 2D VICE-PRESIDENT WILLIAM KENT 3D VICE-PRESIDENT ROBERT GARRETT TREASURER GUSTAVUS T. KIRBY SECRETARY H. S. BRAUCHER BUDGET COMMITTEE HORACE E. ANDREWS CLARENCE M. CLARK CHARLES D. NORTON MYRON T. HERRICK JOSEPH LEE HENRY W. DE FOREST CONDUCTED BY PLAYGROUND AND RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT AND NAVY DEPARTMENT COMMISSIONS ON TRAINING CAMP ACTIVITIES WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE Surround the Camps with Hospitality Nov. 26, 1918 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell Washington, D. C. My dear Mrs; Terrell: We wish to take this opportunity to outline our interpretation of the arrangements which have been made with you regarding your own personal expenses. The Association will be glad to meet your expenses while traveling. It is the policy of the Association to approve of not over $3.00 per day for meals while traveling. The charge for the room will depend of course entirely upon the Pullman charge asthere will be no hotel room charge unless it is imperative to stay over one night in a city to make the necessary train connections. In such a case the charge for the room should not exceed $3.00 and should average from $2.00 to $2.50. Personal expenses such as laundry and tailor bills are not authorized. When charges for incidental expenses are not clear they should be itemized and explained. Except when actually traveling we understand that you will meet all of your own personal living expenses. Sincerely yours, W.B.Dickinson Associate Secretary DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL Office of the Principal 27 November 1918. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1323 Tea Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. My dear Mrs. Terrell: Please accept Dunbar's sincere expression of appreciation of your loan for an indefinite period of the bust of the late Harriet Beecher Stowe. This bust will occupy a prominent place in Dunbar's display of and and will, I am sure be a constant reminder to our young people of the leading part this wonderful woman played in American History. Very truly yours, GC Wilkinson Principal W/J WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE ONE MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK HONORARY PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT PRESIDENT JOSEPH LEE 2D VICE-PRESIDENT WILLIAM KENT 3D VICE-PRESIDENT ROBERT GARRETT TREASURER GUSTAVUS T. KIRBY SECRETARY H. S. BRAUCHER BUDGET COMMITTEE HORACE E. ANDREWS CLARENCE M. CLARK CHARLES D. NORTON MYRON T. HERRICK JOSEPH LEE HENRY W. DE FOREST CONDUCTED BY PLAYGROUND AND RECREATION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT AND NAVY DEPARTMENT COMMISSIONS ON TRAINING CAMP ACTIVITIES WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE Surround the Camps with Hospitality Nov. 29, 1918 My dear Mrs. Turner, Office of Urban League, 5th Ave., New York City. My dear Mrs. Turner: Inclosed is a printed statement which I want you to read carefully [*m*] if you please, for it outlines a work in which I hope you will be interested. The Playground and Recreation Association wants to establish some social centers for Colored women and girls in various parts of the United States and we want to secure the services of the very best Community Organizers we can get. You have had excellent training for just such work as this, and I hope you are interested in it. If you are, please fill out the inclosed blank, send me your picture, come letter of recommendation, stating what salary you receive at the present time. At least, let me hear from you, so that I may know whether you would accept such a position as the one outlined, or if you were appointed. If you yourself fo not care to engage in the work, please send me the names and addresses of our women who have had either experience or both, and who might be willing to assist along these lines. Everything depends upon the women who organize these social centers and we want the best in the United States. Hoping to receive an early reply, I am very truly yours, MOREHOUSE COLLEGE UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY JOHN HOPE, PRESIDENT BENJAMIN BRAWLEY, DEAN OFFICE OF THE DEAN ATLANTA GA Nov. 30, 1918 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington, D. C. Dear Mrs. Terrell:-- Your letter came duly early in the week. The photograph came two days later, and Mrs. Brawley and I both agree that t is a superb one; and your telegram is just to hand this morning. I think you for all that you have sent and for your kind co-operation all the way. The picture is still in time for the book, which after all will be a very modest little effort, one written for a special purpose; and you will remember that I said I should ask the publishers to send you a copy just as soon as the work is off the press. With all good wishes to you and yours, Sincerely yours, Benjamin Brawley [*sorry not to have answered sooner. Will try to come on about Jan. 20- Can give you definite date next week. Letter follow. I have been very busy every minute. Since your letter came working well. W.C.C.S.- I really want to speak for you very much- 45 c-Dec-15*] Charleston Women's Improvement League Motto: "Lifting As We Climb" 421 Kentucky Ave. Charleston, W. Va., Dec. 2, '18 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell Washington, D.C. Dear Mrs. Terrell: You will recall that about this time last year the C.W.I.L. tried to procure your services for a lecture in January; but that for certain reasons the scheme had to be abandoned. It is our plan to have the lecture this year if we can arrange to have you come on or about Jan. 20, '19. Please write and let us know whether or not you can be present this year. If so, what is the nearest date to Jan. 20 that will be convenient for you? Yours very respectfully, Nina C. Gamble P.S. We should appreciate having you reply by Friday if you receive this in time, so that it can be acted upon at our meeting. N.C.G. WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE One Madison Avenue, New York Honorary President THeodore Roosevelt President Joseph Lee 2d Vice-President William Kent 3d Vice-President Robert Garrett Treasurer Gustavus T. Kirby Secretary H.S. Braucher Budget Committee Horace E. Andrews Myron T. Herrick Clarence M. Clark Joseph Lee Charles D. Norton Henry W. De Forest Conducted by Playground and Recreation Association of America for the War Department and Navy Department Commissions on Training Camp Activities Surround the Camps with Hospitality December 3rd, 1918 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell: 1323 T Street NW Washington, D.C. My dear Mrs. Terrell: The War Camp Community Service training school will be held at the Ebbitt Hotel, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, D.C. Please report there to Jane Ogle Sunday evening, December 8th. Sincerely yours Frank A. Fetter Director Girls' Division T. U. WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE One Madison Avenue, New York Honorary President THeodore Roosevelt President Joseph Lee 2d Vice-President William Kent 3d Vice-President Robert Garrett Treasurer Gustavus T. Kirby Secretary H.S. Braucher Budget Committee Horace E. Andrews Myron T. Herrick Clarence M. Clark Joseph Lee Charles D. Norton Henry W. De Forest Conducted by Playground and Recreation Association of America for the War Department and Navy Department Commissions on Training Camp Activities Surround the Camps with Hospitality December 3, 1918 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1323 T Street, NW Washington, D.C. My dear Mrs. Terrell: We are asking the Publicity Department to sent you some of our printed literature and we are also sending you, under separate cover, a set of Girls Work Bulletins as well as a copy of "Suggestions for Girls' Work in the Camp Cities Conducted by Girls' Division, War Camp Community Service." We feel that it will be of great assistance to you if you will read this literature carefully before you go to the school of instruction for new workers. Very truly yours, Frank A. Fetter Director Girls Division (per H.E.P.) read this letter to write a line. That I may show Dr. Withers. Ray is so anxious to have me take up this work, all send lots of love and say do run down to St L for a few days. With all my love Haydee I cant leave here later than the 7th according to the last message. Monday Morning 2354 Michigan Ave [Dec 3, 1918] Beloved: - I too am bubbling over with joy at the possibility of our being thrown together this winter, and what a delightful anticipation would a trip to Washington with you be but I cant leave so early. Why cant you come from Chicago here spend a few days and leave from here for Washington Cant you do it? Mollie I do wish you could write me a letter immediately saying something about my being needed letter mention who Mr Frank Fetter is, I am going on with all my preparations. Yet I may have to do much urging as it seems now, I am sending a telegram to Mr Scott today asking him to send me a night letter. I think I should perish were I to be disappointed at this time. Shall be so happy to spend my few days in Washington with you. Stop Just long enough when you have for this work and briefly outline some of my duties. Why I am asking this the Supt. is reluctant to give me a leave although it was promised, he told me if I could bring in a letter from you and Mr Scott it would have its weight, perhaps you see why? The war being over, but I told him there was greater need for constructive work now than during the war etc, Mollie do this at once and in your December 3, 1918 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1323 T Street Washington, D.C. My dear Mrs. Terrell: I have your letters and various reports but have simply been too crowded with work to answer them. I trust you will find several workers while you are in Chicago. We have invited Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Connolly to attend then school. We are not offering employment to Miss Cronwell since she limits her service. I wish you would arrange for me an interview with Mrs. George during the week and any other workers you want me to see there. Mrs. Carson is another, I believe, that you want me to see. Please select only the best for these interviews as my time will be very limited, and I can give but very little time to it. I will talk with you there about Mrs. McAdoo and the workers outside of Washington. Perhaps it will be necessary to arrange for them to come in. I think your form letter is excellent, but I suggest that you change "Playground and Recreational Association" to War Camp Community Service as you know this is no playground work, but the War Camp Community Service has been taken over by that Association. We are sending you the blanks and the material you require. Trusting I will see you in Washington and that you will report to me on Monday morning at the New Ebbitt Hotel, I am Sincerely yours, Jane Ogle Assistant Director Personnel Department December 4, 1918 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1323 T Street, N. W. Washington, D.C. My dear Mrs. Terrell: We are herewith enclosing to you a copy of a letter we have today sent to Miss Mary E. Coleman, 1307 Charles Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia, in which we have made an appointment for her with you for Saturday of this week at about eleven o'clock. Miss Coleman was suggested to us by Mr. John M. Gandy and we have her personnel record on file. She has been advised that we are holding our school in Wash- ington beginning December 9th and that we would like to have her attend if she were interested and could qualify for the work. Sincerely yours, Jane Ogle Assistant Director Personnel Department WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM Newcomb Carlton, President George W. E. Atkins, First Vice-President Class of Service Symbol Day Message Day Letter Blue Night Message Nite Night Letter NL If none of there three symbols appears after the check (number of words) this is a day message. Otherwise its character is indicated by the symbol appearing after the check. Received at Commercial Nat'l Bank Building.., 14th and G Sts., N. W. Washington, D. C. Always Open D258NY 27 Dec 6 PM 6 56 1918 MW New York NY 403P 6 MRS MARY CHURCH TERRELL THIRTEEN TWENTY THREE T ST NW WASHINGTON DC APPRECIATE YOUR GOOD WORK PLEASE ARRANGE TO HAVE SEVERAL OF THE MOST ABLE APPLICANTS WITHIN REASONABLE DISTANCE OF WASHINGTON COME FOR INTERVIEW WITH ME MONDAY DECEMBER NINTH. JANE OGLE, called in Hold front ofc pty wc 9200 7p n3691 Mrs T 7:15 G.W. tele line busy 7:10 1323 T St., N.W. Washington, D.C. Dec. 6, 1918 My dear Mrs. Ogle: Have just reached home from Chicago, where a have been working diligently to find some good women for our work, I am sure I have succeeded in finding three good women who will make a success it if they are appointed. I have interviewed a great many and I have the personnel record blanks of several which I will not send you, until you see these two which I am inclosing and the others which I will send you as soon as they come. Mrs. Gaines and Miss Mitchell have both been working in Chicago, -Mrs. Gains for the Urban League and Miss Mitchell for the Social Service Dep't of the Red Cross. Both of the young women are college graduates and both have had splendid training in social service work. I have known Miss Mitchell for years. Her father was president of Wilberforce University for years, so she comes from an educated home, so to speak. Right here I think it is my duty to say that a great deal depends upon the type of women engaged in the work. Colored people are like other human beings. They like to look up to the people who lead them. For instance, it is conceivable that a Colored woman might be well enough educated and sufficiently trained to do the work, but her personality and her standing might be such as totally to impair her usefulness among her people as a Community Organizer. Some of our women would be induced to undertake this work because some of their best known leaders are engaged in it, whereas they could not be persuaded to touch it under other circumstances. And Colored peoples in the various communities in which the work is to be located will rally around it, if a woman whom they can respect and look up to as being "somebody in particular" is at the head of it. I am trying to bear all this in mind in making my recommendations to you. It is absolutely impossible for white people to select the right kind of Colored person to do a certain kind of work in many cases, because they know absolutely nothing District of Columbia War-Camp Community Service of the War and Navy Departments Commissions on Training Camp Activities Nineteenth and G Sts. N.W. Washington, D.C. Hon. Henry White President Mrs. Archibald Hopkins Vice President Alonzo Tweedale Treasurer Harold Keats Executive Officer Robert W. Bell, Assistant George E. Morse, Assistant Eugene W. Bond, Assistant Representing the War and Navy Departments Commissions on Training Camp Activities in Community Organization Marjorie A. Day Girls' Division Telephone Main 2929 Honorary Vice Presidents Mrs. Newton D. Baker Mrs. Josephus Daniels Mrs. Marshall Field Mrs. Robert Lansing Mrs. Hope Slater Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt D. J. Callahan Col. Wm. W. Harts G. C. Wilkinson Rev. George A. Miller, D. D. Rev. Roland Cotton Smith, D. D. Rt. Rev. Msgr. C. F. Thomas, D. D. Rev. Charles Wood, D. D. Executive Committee William Knowles Cooper E. C. Graham Rev. William J. Kerby, D. D. Roland S. Robbins Rabbi Abram Simon, D. D. Walter S. Ufford Mrs. William Hamilton Bayly Miss Mabel Boardsman Mrs. Thomas H. Carter Mrs. Adolph Kahn Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, Jr. [2nd Page] about our social life. That is why the work thus undertaken frequently fails. I will arrange to have you see three women, whom I consider good material, when you come. You may depend upon me not to waste your time talking to women whom I do not feel I can conscientiously recommend. I have received your letter telling me that Miss Coleman of Fredericksburg will come to see me Saturday morning at eleven o'clock. Since you have invited her to attend the school, I take it for granted that she has already been appointed, so that you will not expect me to make a recommendation. I am sure she will be a good worker, if you have seen fit to consider her so favorably, and it will be a great pleasure to become acquainted with her. Thank you for giving me the information with reference to the change in the letter. I thought it was just the other way - that the Recreation Association had taken over the work that the War Camp Community Service had been doing during the War, now that peace had been declared. I wired you to wire the St. Louis Supt't. to release Mrs. Campbell, for she wrote me a very urgent letter requesting me to write the Sup't. I knew, however, that a letter coming from you at the New York Office would have a great deal more weight than anything I could possibly say. Mrs. Campbell says she will be greatly disappointed, if she can not come. Please do everything you can to induce the school authorities to let her help us cut, for she is a most valuable woman. I have been instructed to see you Sunday evening a the New Ebbitt. Please make the change in the letter I sent you and have some type-written copies made for me in the office, if you have no objection to granting this request. I need some stationery also - the letter-size paper. I have not received the blanks and the other material you told me you had sent, but I presume they will reach me soon. With anticipations of pleasure at seeing you in a few days, I am sincerely yours, Mary Church Terrell Irena Moorman Blackston 488 Lenox Ave New York Dec/6th 1918 Mrs. Mary.Church.Terrell Washington D.C., My Dear Mrs. Terrell;- No doubt after so long a time you will be much surprised to hear from me but as you know it takes our folk a long time to really get at things and do them. We have organized our Club and Organization that we spoke of when you was on here to speak for us some time ago, and have made you the Chairman of the Advisory Board and truly hope it will meet your approval, although you said then that it would be O.K. we will wait for your letter of acceptance before we print our stationary. The Club is a womans Organization forganize for th purpose of helping to better the business condition generally., and in every other way possible; with best wishes for your health and that you may continue successfully, beg to remain yours most friendly. [Irena Blackston?] [*[12-7-18]*] CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOL Western Union CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOL Day Message Telegram Day Message Day Letter Blue Day Letter Blue Night Message [Nito] Night Message [Nito] Night Letter NL Night Letter NL If none of these three symbols If none of these three symbols appears after the check (number of appears after the check (number of words) this is a day message. Other- words) this is a day message. Other- wise its character is indicated by the wise its character is indicated by the symbol appearing after the check. symbol appearing after the check. NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. E. ATKINS, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT RECEIVED AT COMMERCIAL NAT'L BANK BLDG., 14TH & G STS., N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. ALWAYS OPEN [*1918 DEC 7 AM 3 56*] A92A 29 NL U STLOUIS MO 6 MRS MARY C TERRELL 23 1323 T ST N W WASHINGTON DC AM WAITING MY ASSIGNMENT MR FARMER TOLD ME I WOULD HAVE TO GO TO MANHATTAN KANS I DO WISH I WAS COMING TO WASHINGTON BUT WILL GO WHERE SENT HAYDEE CAMPBELL[ZM] WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE One Madison Avenue, New York Honorary President THeodore Roosevelt President Joseph Lee 2d Vice-President William Kent 3d Vice-President Robert Garrett Treasurer Gustavus T. Kirby Secretary H.S. Braucher Budget Committee Horace E. Andrews Myron T. Herrick Clarence M. Clark Joseph Lee Charles D. Norton Henry W. De Forest Conducted by Playground and Recreation Association of America for the War Department and Navy Department Commissions on Training Camp Activities Surround the Camps with Hospitality December 9, 1918 Miss Lillian L. Childs 1314 W Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. My dear Miss Childs: Your letter to Mrs. Ogle was referred to me. Mrs. Ogle is now in Washington at a weeks training school, which is being held there. I should advise that you get in touch with her while she is there. You can make an appointment with her at the Hotel Ebbitt, 14th and F. Streets N. W. Sincerely yours, Frank A Fetter Director Girls' Divisions J.O. Mrs. Lillian Childs Grad Tall Col 1 yr Boston Conser Taught under Amer Min at Cotton Valley Ala near Tuskegee 1908 Taught Public High School Selma Filing Clerk & Typist at Tuskegee under Dr B.T. W. & Dr Moten 1909 Taught 5 yrs at Selma Sept 1918- Mr. Emmett Scott Verus Decus in Virtus Pono Pilgrims' Rest & Hampton Study of The A.M.E. Church L. Cecil Newby, Pastor Weekly Services Board Meeting 8 P. M. Monday Class Tuesday and Thursday at 8 P. M. Reception Thursday 1 P. M. until 6 P. M. Strangers' Prayer Meeting 8 P. M. Sunday Services Preaching 11 A. M. Sunday School 2:30 P. M. Endeavor 7 P. M. Preaching 8 P. M. The Lord's Supper on the first Sunday in the month. Junction City, Kansas. We, the undersigned citizens of Junction City, Kansas, having known Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Newby, now in the East, while they resided in this city, and having been well acquainted with them for several years, take great pleasure i recommending them to all persons to whom they may be presented. This family was among our substantial citizens, owning their home and several town lots, which now stand in their name, and further, had the respect of all who knew them. W. B. Spurlock, Co. Clerk. Nellie I. Baker, Depy. Co. Clerk. S. E. Mead, Register of Deeds. L. R. Deighan, Depy. Reg. Deeds. H. H. Dinsmore, Justice of Peace. Wm. Ziegilash, Probate Judge. M. G. Brown, Clerk Dist. Court. Geo. W. Chase, Justice of Peace. Thos. Dixon, ex-County Treas. W. S. Roark, ex-County Attorney Jas. V. Humphrey, Attorney Thos. B. Kenedy, Pres. 1st Nat. Bank. J. B. Callen, Postmaster. G. A. Rockwell, Merchant. Chas. H. Manley, Vice-President Central National Bank Harry Pierce, Real Estate Agent. 163 Howell St., Providence, R.I. Dec 9-18 My Dear Madam I have secured a place for you to speak here on Wednesday Jan. 29th 1919. Your money is ready. Do not fail to come, There will be no change from this decision on my part. If you cannot be here yourself, I want Prof Kelley Miller or the Judge himself. Please let me hear from you right away. I am yours truly L.C. Newby I shall depend on you in sending a proxy if you can't come. I realize how very necessary this work that the Camp Community Service is doing to Keep up the Morale of the Country is for all girls but especially for ones who have suffered and are still suffering from a lack of proper home training. May I have from you with full information concerning the work? Thanking you in advance and wishing you unbounded success, I am, Sincerely Yours, Elizabeth Lindsay Davis. 3710 Indiana Ave. Chicago, Dec. 10, 1918, My Dear Mrs. Terrill;- Several persons have told me how very hard you tried to reach me the day you left. I am so sorry, had I known where you were I would have called to see you. We tried to locate you Monday for our City Federation Meeting, but failed. I was at the Phyllis Wheatley Club Meeting Wednesday afternoon and would have been so pleased to have had you present. I can not imagine why you failed to reach me, my phone is Douglas 4364 and Mr. Davis was at home from 4 o'clock on, and I came in at 5. I am told that you are securing workers for the Camp Community service. I would like very much to be one of the fortunate ones placed as I have worked untiringly as a member of the Woman's Committee Council of National Defense, Ill. Division during the entire period of its existence without one cent of remuneration. I am the Leader of the Second Ward Unit of the C.N.D. and My Committees have worked in every drive, and have answered every Call Made upon us by the Government. At our meeting of Yesterday Where plans were formed for reconstruction, the Chairman said that our Ward ranked among the best in the City. International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace Founded at the International Congress of Women, the Hague, April 28th to May 1st, 1915 To ensure that an International Congress of Women shall be held in the same place and at the same time as the official Conference which shall frame the terms of the peace settlement after the war for the purpose of making practical suggestions to that Conference. The Section for the United States of America The Woman's Peace Party Office: 116 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois Chairman: Jane Addams Vice Chairman: Dr. Aletta H. Jacobs Secretary: Crystal Macmillan Treasurer pro tem: Assistant Secretary: Rosa Manus International Headquarters: Heerengracht 627, Amsterdam, Holland Women in the following countries have organised and selected their delegates: Australia Austria Belgium Bulgaria Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Great Britain and Ireland Hungary India (British) Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Sweden Switzerland United States of America Uruguay 2513 Twelfth Street, Washington, D. C. December 10, 1918 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington, D. C. My dear Mrs. Terrell: It gives me real pleasure to inform you that at a meeting of the Executive Board of the Woman's Peace Party, which is the section for the U. S. A. of the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace, held in New York City November 24, you were elected as one of the thirty Delegates and Alternates to the International Congress of Women which it was arranged at The Hague in 1915 should meet at the time of the Peace Conference at the end of the War. The original plan contemplated meeting not only at the time but also at the place of the Peace Conference, it being supposed that the Conference would be appointed at a neutral country. Since this has not been the case it is not improbable that an international congress cannot be arranged for at the place of the Peace Conference. Correspondence as to the place and time is now pending with the International Headquarters at Amsterdam. But the place is likely to be either at Paris or The Hague; and the time either the first week in February, or early in May, or at some date between these two. We realize that this is not an easy journey which we are inviting you to undertake under crowded conditions, in winter, to war-worn countries. But we sincerely hope that your live of human welfare will minimize the difficulties, and that you will be able to go over with us. Faithfully yours, Alice Thacher Post Secretary of Delegates from the U. S. A. Detroit, Mich. Dec. 11, 1918. Mrs. Mollie Church Terrell. Washington, D.C. Dear Madam:- As a Committee for the Detroit Study Club, would like to have you come to Detroit, to lecture for us, and thought if at any time this winter you are in this vincinity, if you would inform us in time to make arrangements for a lecture. Hoping an early reply from you. Yours resepectfully, Luke P. Owens Chairman. # 501 Catherine, St. [12-12-18] WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM Newcomb Carlton, President George W. E. Atkins, First Vice-President Class of service - Symbol Telegram Day Letter - Blue Night Message - Nite Night Letter - N L If none of these three symbols appears after the check (number of words) this is a telegram. Otherwise its character is indicated by the symbol appearing after the check. Received at Commercial Nat'l Bank Bldg., 14th & G Sts., N.W. Washington D.C. A 378P 10 COLL 1918 DEC 12 3 46 CHEYNEY PENN 255 P 12 MRS MARY CHURCH TERRELL 1323 T ST NW WASHINGTON DC MRS HARRISON REACHES WASHN ABOUT SEVEN PM WILL TELEPHONE LOTTIE CONWAY St. Etienne(Loire) France Dec 15, 1918. My dear Mollie, Just a word to send you a Christmas and New Year's greeting and to ask for something at the same time. A young girl of fourteen the daughter of the janitors of the office a very bright young girl too, wishes to correspond correspond with two American girls with a view of perfecting her English I thought that you might select two of your French class to correspond with her. She will probably want to write in English and they in French but they could change about sometimes. Her name is Juliette Chorel. The first letter could be sent- Care American Consul and she'll send her number, which I forget. Love and best wishes for the New Year to you and family. Your old friend, Ida Am well & happy & at home once more & what a joyful time to return to France! Write me please Telephone Notary Public Offices of William A. Heathman Attorney and Counsellor-at-LAw 35-36 Woods Building, 19 College Street Providence, R.I. December 16, 1918 Mrs. Mary C. Terrell, 1 Madison Avenue, New York City Dear Madam:- At the request of Mrs. Hortense Tolliver, of #145 West 142nd street, New York City,- one of our very able women who has been active in club work, community work, and various lines of war work,- and who at present heads the Order of the Golden Circle, which is the auxiliary to the United Supreme Council, 33rd and Last Degree, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masonry for the Northern Jurisdiction of the U.S. - I write to inquire if you could find a place for her in connection with your new undertaking, the War Camp Community Service? I trust you will not think me presumptious in thus addressing you, but in the carrying out of fraternal obligations, I assume that risk. Relying further upon my acquaintance with Judge Terrell, (altho' I have not seen him since the Masonic Centennial at Boston, Mass. in 1908),- and the hope that you have not entirely forgotten Mrs. Heathman and I,- I ask would you make an appointment with Mrs. Tolliver, and permit her to state her own case in person, before adjudging her either "Guilty" or "Not Guilty"? In closing:- my wife and I are looking forward with pleasure to entertaining you during your stay in our city next month, when you come to address our citizens,- preparations for which event are going on apace. Wishing you every success in your new undertaking, I have the honor to sign myself, Very respectfully, Wm. A. Heathman International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace Founded at the International Congress of Women, the Hague, April 28th to May 1st, 1915 To ensure that an International Congress of Women shall be held in the same place and at the same time as the official Conference which shall frame the terms of the peace settlement after the war for the purpose of making practical suggestions to that Conference. The Section for the United States of America The Woman's Peace Party Office: 116 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois Chairman: Jane Addams Vice Chairman: Dr. Aletta H. Jacobs Secretary: Crystal Macmillan Treasurer pro tem: Assistant Secretary: Rosa Manus International Headquarters: Heerengracht 627, Amsterdam, Holland Women in the following countries have organised and selected their delegates: Australia Austria Belgium Bulgaria Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Great Britain and Ireland Hungary India (British) Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Sweden Switzerland United States of America Uruguay December 20th, 1918 My dear Mrs. Terrell: May I tell you how happy I am that you consented to be one of the delegates to our International Congress. I am sure the Committee is to be congratulated. Hoping to see you in Washington very soon, I am, Faithfully yours, Jane Addams 435 St. James Pl. Dec. 21-18 Dearest Mollie:- When sitting at that mahogany desk on the thirty fifth floor sometimes think of your humble play mate in Chic. and let her know how you work comes on. I did enjoy our little visit together and fear I didn't tell you emphatically enough how extraordinarily well you were looking fully ten years younger than when you came from Rochester. I am quite sure that 35 year old story would pass unless you had to combine it with the date of your graduation, which might make a trying combination. Honestly no one would put you a bit over forty. I mean that. I am so bare of Christmas spirit this year I didn't rouse myself to get any cards & then I am such a beautiful penman I thought I would write my Holiday Greetings- so with much love & all good wishes for next year & the success in your work- J War Camp Community Service Surround The Camps With Hospitality Washington Office Officers Honorary President Theodore Roosevelt President Joseph Lee 2nd Vice-President William Kent 3d Vice-President Robert Garrett Treasurer Gustavus T. Kirby Secretary H. S. Braucher Mamager Washington Office E. Dana Caulkins Conducted by Recreation Association of America 1 Madison Avenue, New York For The War Department and Navy Department Commission on Training Camp Activities Budget Committee Horace E. Andrews Clarence M. Clark Myron T. Herrick Joseph Lee Charles D. Norton Henry W. De Forest Washington Office [19th And G Sts. N. W Phone: Main 2926 Br 3] 18th and Virginia Avenue Washington, D.C. December 24, 1918 Mrs. Robert H. Terrell 1323 T Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. My dear Mrs. Terrell:- On this Christmas Eve, I am writing a few of the good people that War Camp Community Service has brought me in contact with during the past year. I think of you among the first and wish you and yours all the joys of the season. I am glad that we shall have the opportunity during the coming months of working together in service that has gripped our hearts. May the spirit of good will enable the love that comes to all at this season to stay in the hearts of all the people of America throughout the coming year. Only this spirit will make possible the proper solution of the many problems that we will face and only this spirit will bring the best result on the many great opportunities for service that we will have. Sincerely yours, T.S. Settle Special District Representative TSS:L P.S. Please excuse typewritten letter. It is my only method of writing a legible one. YMCA NATIONAL WAR WORK COUNCIL Department of the East Harold I. Pratt, Chairman William F. Hirsch, Executive Secretary 2 West 43rd Street New York SOUTHERN SECTION ACTIVITIES 1704 G. Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. W. M. Berry, Director OFFICE SOUTHERN SECTION ACTIVITIES 1704 G STREET N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. Mrs. Mary Church Terrill, 1323 T Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. December 24, 1918. We have arranged for you to fill the following engagement: DATE December 26, 1918. HOUR 7 P.M. Evening. PLACE Camp Meade, Admiral, Md. Report to Dr. Harbold, Camp Educational Director, YMCA Administration Bldg. ROUTE Take 5:00 O'clock W. B. & A Electric Train from 14th & N. Y. Ave.. Please have supper before leaving Washington. Programs are now being given earlier in the Huts. Please report to the secretary upon your arrival in the camp and notify him in advance of you alter the time of your arrival from that shown above. Kindly take this letter with you in meeting your appointment in order that if your right of admission to the camp is brought into question you can present proper identification. We assure that all our talent are in full accord with the purposes of the Allies in the present war and that they will safeguard in every way the reputation of the Association for unqualified loyalty to the Government. Kindly accept our thanks in advance for filling this engagement. On account of the great number of bookings it may be impossible for us to personally extend our appreciation after you have rendered the service. Sincerely yours, W. M. Berry DIRECTOR. December 24, 1918. Dr. Frank Fetter, War Camp Community Service, I Madison Avenue, New York City. Dear Sir: As Secretary in charge of the Colored Womens' Branch of the Young Womens' Christian Association I am writing to let you know of our appreciation of the appointment of so capable a woman as Mrs. Mary Church Terrell to take charge of the War Camp Community Service among colored women. From every standpoint the selection of Mrs. Terrell for this work is a happy one and I want you to know of our desire to cooperate with her in every way possible. Kindly let us know when we may be of service. Very sincerely yours, Secretary. NO ANS. REQUIRED ANS. DICTATED RECEIVED JAN 16 1919 COPY SENT TO Slogan: 500 Paid Up Teachers Missouri State Teachers Association Office Of The President 4210 West Belle Place St. Louis, MO. Officers R. H. Cole, President A. C. Maclin, Hannibal, 1st V-Pres. W. H. Dawley, Kansas City 2nd V-P Miss A. E. Ellis, Sedialia, 3rd V-P. C. G. Williams, Boonville, Sec'y W. H. Jones, St. Joseph, Cor. Sec.y Miss B. K. Morrison St. Joseph Treas. H. O. Cook, Kansas City, Statistician St. Louis, MO., Dec. 28-1918 Mrs Mary Church Terrell 1323 T. st N.W. Washington, D.C. My dear Mrs Terrell: Pardon the intrusion, but learning my friend, Mrs Helen Abbott Sayre of Chicago is an applicant for War Work Service I want to most heartily and cheerfully endorse the same. Permit me to say it was my pleasure and delight to know her and witness her work- both as a Director in the Kindergarten in my school, and as a most helpful energetic resourceful uplifter in the work of the Community in St. Louis. I believe her eminently fitted by education and experience to organize and successfully carry forward any work the government would desire executed. Hoping this may have a favorable effect I am yours in the work of humanity R.H. Cole 4210 W. Belle Pl. National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes 200 Fifth Avenue , Room 1120, New York City Telephone: Gramercy 3978 Southern Headquarters: Nashville, Tenn. Eugene Kinckle Jones Executive Secretary George Edmund Haynes Educational Secretary Executive Board L. Hollingsworth Wood, Chairman John T. Emlen, Vice-Chairman Kelly Miller, Vice-Chairman Robert R. Moton, Vice-Chairman William H. Baldwin, 3rd, Secretary A. S. Frissell, Treasures Victor H. McCutcheon, Assistant Treasurer Felix Adler Roger N. Baldwin William H. Brooks Miss Edith Campbell Paul D. Cravath James H. Dillard George C. Hall John Hope Executive Board Mrs. E. B. Leaf Abraham Lefkowitz Fred R. Moore Bruce R. Payne A. Clayton Powell Mrs. Albert S. Reed E. P. Roberts Miss Ella Sachs Paul J. Sachs Mrs Henry L. Schmelz Edwin R. A. Seligman George W. Seligman Miss Elizabeth Walton Mrs. Booker T. Washington William G. Willcox December Twenty-seventh 1918 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington, D.C. My dear Mrs. Terrell: Pursuant to my promise, I am sending to you enclosed a copy of the letter which I wrote to the War Camp Community Service some time ago. You will note that this letter was written following a conference with Dr. Bryan who is Professor Fetter's Associate. My first thought was that the War Camp Community Service should do this work independent of any other organization but with the cooperation of those movements like the League which would be in intimate touch with the Negroes throughout the Country. The fact that this program was somewhat out of the direct line of work planned by the War Community Service caused me to alter the plan somewhat. It seems to me almost imperative that some such work as is outlined in Plan #1 should be undertaken at the earliest possible date. I have just received a communication from Miss Octavia Cornelia Long, of #324 East Grant Street, Gutherie, Okla., who is a graduate of the University of Kansas and has had considerable experience in recreation work as well as class-room duties, possibly you could use her. I shall be thinking of other names of competent persons from time to time and shall be glad to communicate same to you. Some time late in January I shall be planning to be in Washington and shall make it a point to call on you at that time. Meanwhile if you are in New York City anytime before January 5th or after January 14th I shall be glad if you will call my office on the telephone so that we can get together for a conference on some of the work outlined in the enclosed statement. Sincerely yours, Eugene Kinckle Jones EKJ/PW Enclosure: "Let us work not as colored people nor as white people for the narrow benefit of any group alone, but together, as American citizens for the common good of our common city, our common country." Mrs. William H. Baldwin Jr. What we do toward this end We 1. Try to show social welfare agencies the advantage of co-operation. 2. Secure and train social workers. 3. Protect women and children from unscrupulous persons. 4. Fit workers for to work 5. Help to secure playgrounds and other clean places of amusement. 6. Organize boys' and girls' clubs and neighborhood unions. 7. Help with probation oversight of delinquents. 8. Maintain a country home for convalescent women. 9. Investigate conditions of city life as a basis of practical work. War Camp Community Service Inc. One Madison Avenue, New York For the War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities President: Joseph Lee Treasurer: Mortimer N. Buckner Secretary: Howard S. Braucher Executive Commitee Joseph Lee Mortimer N. Bruckner Howard S. Braucher Henry W. De Forest For the Navy Department Commission on Training Camp Activities Budget Committee Joseph Lee Myron T. Herrick Howard S. Braucher Mortimer N. Buckner Clarence M. Clark Henry W. De Forest Charles D. Norton J.O. *B*PM Surround the Camps with Hospitality December 28th, 1918 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1323 T Street N.W., Washington, D.C. My dear Mrs. Terrell: I have talked the work over with Mr. Dickinson and we have decided that you should go down to see Dr. Gandy, Tuskogee and Fisk University and find a dozen or fifteen strong workers. Keep a lookout for some fine recreational directors. Above all we want women of vision and who have the missionary spirit. Be careful not to promise employment as it will be necessary for me to interview them before this can be authorized. If we have the school, as it seems likely that we may, we can easily arrange for the interviews, but if this is not possible, we shall have to find another way. Keep me advised where word will reach you at any time. Mr. Dickinson urges us to be careful as to expense and I know you will bear this in mind on these trips and save the organization every penny possible. Regarding expense accounts, I am returning yours in order that you may make them out properly before I can attach my O.K. The Finance Department would not accept them not in case we would care to send them in. You will note there are blank spaces for all items. Please so not erase an error but fill out another blank instead. No explanation should be necessary regarding any items, but if they should be necessary, attach in the form of a brief statement. Keep vouchers and receipts for everything including telephone calls, pullman and railroad tickets. In fact have a receipt or a voucher for every item when this is possible, then there will be no question about any item and so avoid explanation. When it is determined about the school, I will advise you. Trusting that you will find the work a pleasure and very profitable, and wishing you and your family the season's greetings, I am Sincerely yours, Jane Ogle [JB] Assistant Secretary Personnel Department WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE One Madison Avenue, New York Honorary President Theodore Roosevelt President Joseph Lee 2nd Vice-President William Kent 3rd Vice-President Robert Garrett Treasurer Gustavus T. Kirby Secretary H. S. Braucher JO- PM Budget Committee Horace E. Andrews Myron T. Herrick Clarence M. Clark Joseph Lee Charles D. Norton Henry W. De Forest Conducted by Playground and Recreation Association of America for the War Department and Navy Department Commissions on Training Camp Activities WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE Surround the Camps with Hospitality December 31st, 1918 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1323 T. Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. My dear Mrs. Terrell: We must be ready to hold a school by January 15th to 18th, so it will keep us hustling to get our people ready. Send complete information on every prospect as soon as you have secured it. Send each one as soon as complete. I did not mean that you were to confine yourself wholly to Fisk, Tuskegee, Pittsburg but mentioned these places as centers and expect you to work adjacent territory. Wishing you good luck. Sincerely yours Jane Ogden Assistant Director Personnel Department COLORED SOCIAL SETTLEMENT. WASHINGTON, D. C. My dear Friend: The war activities have justly claimed the attention of all the people of the District of Columbia but at the same time the question of local social activities and charities should not be forgotten or else that for which you have been fighting is, in a measure, lost. The Colored Social Settlement has suffered much because attention and funds have been withdrawn from it toward what appeared to be more immediate and pressing along the lines of important war interests. The Social Settlement is doing important work as you will see by the accompanying inclosures. It can be effective for social uplift in proportion to the support given it by the public. The property is more than half paid for and the debt and other liabilities are not large considering the Washington population. The Settlement once more appeals to you for assistance and funds by which it can meet these obligations. Interest on the debt is over due. Your contribution will help in a great measure. Check for money may be sent either to Mr. H. E. Williams, Treasurer, The Rockingham Apartment, or to Geo. Wm. Cook, President of the Settlement, Howard University. Yours very truly, Geo Wm Cook President GWC/JES RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES OF THE COLORED SOCIAL SETTLEMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C., FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1918. RECEIPTS. On hand Jan. 1, 1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1.45 Miner Fund for Education of Col. Youth. 60.00 Individual donations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .471.37 Trustees dues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85.00 Churches donations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82.60 Emmeline Cushing Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.00 The Harrison Cooperative Service . . . . . 238.90 Interest on note and deposits . . . . . . . . . 29.84 Clubs and Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120.35 Proceeds of concerts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54.35 Proceeds of Canteen conducted at H. U. 449.88 Total . . . $1643.74 EXPENDITURES. Salary of head resident, Wm. L. Washington . . $ 90.00 Salary if Matron, Mrs. A. E. Williams . . . . . . . . . . 395.00 Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182.28 Gas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151.54 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47.54 Interest on note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398.55 Payment of principal of debt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200.00 Repairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23.50 Postage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.50 Incidentals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93.56 Total . . . . . $1589.47 Balance . . . . . $54.27 LIABILITIES. Balance of Loan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2869.40 6 months int. to Dec. 22, 1918 . . . . . . . . . . . . 86.08 Total . . . . . $2955.48 PROGRAMME OF THE WORK THAT IS GOING ON AT THE COLORED SOCIAL SETTLEMENT. MONDAY. Visit to the poor and sick, boys club work, 5-22 visits per week. TUESDAY. Classes in cooking, sewing, knitting and embroidery. Taught by Miss M. Price, Miss B. Ellis, Miss Spencer and Mrs. M. Tancil (one of the mothers), 6-22 per week. WEDNESDAY. Selling stamps and visiting parents. THURSDAY. Boy's shower bath day. (As many as will come.) FRIDAY. Classes in grammar, arithmetic, reading and writing, from 5-20. SATURDAY. Morning class in instrumental music. Miss Elizabeth Mathews, Birney School, Head. Miss Riveres, Mibush School. Miss Johnson Cordoza, Play grounds. Helpers promised. Afternoon. Childrens' sewing class from 2.00 to 3.30 p.m. Music and knitting taught to a blind girl at 3.30 Special Work. Mrs. Seabrook, Agriculture Dept., lecutre and demonstration lessons in War Cooking and how to save food. Mrs. Carrie Knox of the Foundling Home, Burville, D. C., lecture on how to feed, dress and care for young children. Miss Cole, Physical Culture teacher, has promised to supervise a class which she will have one of the Normal girls to teach. Dr. Williston has promised to have three young doctors to help in a class in Clinics. Dr. Philips, Florida Ave., N. W. Dr. Lucas, K St., S. W. Dr. Robinson, M St., S. W. Dr. Collins, E. St., S. W. WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE One Madison Avenue, New York Honorary President Theodore Roosevelt President Joseph Lee 2nd Vice-President William Kent 3rd Vice-President Robert Garrett Treasurer Gustavus T. Kirby Secretary H. S. Braucher Budget Committee Horace E. Andrews Myron T. Herrick Clarence M. Clark Joseph Lee Charles D. Norton Henry W. De Forest Conducted by Playground and Recreation Association of America for the War Department and Navy Department Commissions on Training Camp Activities WAR CAMP COMMUNITY SERVICE Surround the Camps with Hospitality [*Ca. 1918*] My dear Miss Nicholas: We are glad to tell you of the work of the Girls' Division of the War Camp Community Service. The Commission on Training Camp Activities of the War and Navy Department has asked the Playground and Recreation Association of America to be responsible for the work of stimulating and aiding communities in the neighborhood of training camps to develop and organize their social and recreational resources in such a way as to be of the greatest possible value to the officers and soldiers in the camps. The organization of the girls of the community for patriotic and community service is a very important part of the general program. It is therefore proposed to send into each of the camp cities a woman to act as associate with the man community organizer sent to establish War Camp Community Service. It will be her duty to bring into cooperative relations all of the agencies already at work among girls, to reach out to girls as yet untouched by existing agencies and to put into operation a constructive program along lines of patriotic, recreational and community service. The training of volunteer leaders will be an important part of this work. Necessary qualifications for this branch of the service are tact, maturity of judgment, resourcefulness, adaptability and, above all, organizing ability. We shall also need directors of recreation, as assistants to these organizers, who shall have had training and experience in physical education and recreation work. It has been felt that no one should gain financially by entering the service. The workers will not, therefore, be paid more than their present salaries. We enclose herewith a personnel record blank which you will please fill in and return to us at your convenience. Please give us a complete list of references. If you are interested in the work we shall be glad to hear further from you. Sincerely yours, Frank A. Fetter Director, Girls' Division Verus Decus in Virtus Pono Pilgrims' Rest and Study of BETHEL A.M.E. CHURCH L. Cecil Newby, Pastor and President of Preachers Meeting Weekly Services BOARD MEETING 8 P.M. Monday CLASS Tuesday and Thursday at 8 P. M. RECEPTION Thursday 1 P. M. until 6 P. M. STRANGERS' PRAYER MEETING 8 P. M. Friday Sunday Services PREACHING 11 A. M. SUNDAY SCHOOL 2:30 P. M. ENDEAVOR 7 P. M. PREACHING 8 P. M. The Lord's Supper ON THE FIRST SUNDAY IN THE MONTH [*ca 1918*] 163 Howell St., Providence, R. I.. [*JUNCTION CITY, KANSAS. February 26, 1912 To Whom It May Concern: We, the undersigned citizens of Junction City, Kansas, having known Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Newby, now in the East, while they resided in this city, and having been well acquainted with them for several years, take great pleasure in recommending them to all persons to whom they may be presented. This family was among our substantial citizens, owning their home and several town lots, which now stand in their names, and further, had the respect of all who knew them. W. B. SPERLOCK, Co. Clerk. NELLIE I. BAKER, Depy. Co. Clerk. S. E. MEAD, Register of Deeds. L. R. DEIGHAN, Depy. Reg. Deeds. H. H. DINSMORE, Justice of Peace. WM. ZIEGILASH, Probate Judge. M. G. BROWN, Clerk Dist. Court. GEO. W. CHASE, Justice of Peace. THOS. DIXON, ex-County Treas. W. S. ROARK, ex-County Attorney JAS. V. HUMPHREY, Attorney. THOS. B. KENEDY, Pres. 1st Nat. Bank. J. B. CALLEN, Postmaster. G. A. ROCKWELL, Merchant CHAS. H. MANLEY, Vice President Central National Bank. HARRY PIERCE, Real Estate Agent.*] Mrs. M.C. Terrell #1 Madison Ave N.Y. City Dear Friend:- I have written two letters to you to Washington D.C. telling you that everything is ready for you to speak here on the 29th day of Jan. 1919 (Wednesday) at 8 PM in Infantry Hall. The best men and women of the U.S. and abroad have spoken therein. Lawyer Heashman and wife with a committee of [s???] the best Ralies in the city are to entertain you Please write me and do not fail me by all means. Your money will be ready when you get here Yours L.C. Newby Verus Decus in Virtus Pono Pilgrims' Rest and Study of BETHEL A.M.E. CHURCH L. Cecil Newby, Pastor and President of Preachers Meeting Weekly Services BOARD MEETING 8 P.M. Monday CLASS Tuesday and Thursday at 8 P. M. RECEPTION Thursday 1 P. M. until 6 P. M. STRANGERS' PRAYER MEETING 8 P. M. Friday Sunday Services PREACHING 11 A. M. SUNDAY SCHOOL 2:30 P. M. ENDEAVOR 7 P. M. PREACHING 8 P. M. The Lord's Supper ON THE FIRST SUNDAY IN THE MONTH [*ca 1918*] 163 Howell St., Providence, R. I.. [*JUNCTION CITY, KANSAS. February 26, 1912 To Whom It May Concern: We, the undersigned citizens of Junction City, Kansas, having known Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Newby, now in the East, while they resided in this city, and having been well acquainted with them for several years, take great pleasure in recommending them to all persons to whom they may be presented. This family was among our substantial citizens, owning their home and several town lots, which now stand in their names, and further, had the respect of all who knew them. W. B. SPERLOCK, Co. Clerk. NELLIE I. BAKER, Depy. Co. Clerk. S. E. MEAD, Register of Deeds. L. R. DEIGHAN, Depy. Reg. Deeds. H. H. DINSMORE, Justice of Peace. WM. ZIEGILASH, Probate Judge. M. G. BROWN, Clerk Dist. Court. GEO. W. CHASE, Justice of Peace. THOS. DIXON, ex-County Treas. W. S. ROARK, ex-County Attorney JAS. V. HUMPHREY, Attorney. THOS. B. KENEDY, Pres. 1st Nat. Bank. J. B. CALLEN, Postmaster. G. A. ROCKWELL, Merchant CHAS. H. MANLEY, Vice President Central National Bank. HARRY PIERCE, Real Estate Agent.*] Mrs. Mary C Terrell #1323 T. St N.W. Washington D.C. My Dear Friend I wrote you Monday that I have arranged for you here Jan 29th, 1919. I could not get my hand on your last letter to me so I did the best that I could in addressing the letter to you. I have one of the leading Halls in the City. After you finish your address no later than 9:30 you will be taken by the ladies to a short reception either in some private home or the vestry of my Church. Do not fail me. Tell me what your subject will be? Write me at once L.C. Newby [*You will stay with Mrs Heashman (Lawyer)*] COPY OF LETTER SENT [*Ca 1918*] HONORABLE NEWTON D BAKER The Secretary of War Washington D C My dear Mr. Baker: I deem it a patriotic duty to focus and to express the feeling of the colored race over the deplorable outbreak at Houston, Texas, and the direful tragedy resulting therefrom. I realize the necessity of patriotic reticence in time of national peril, but the government has a right to know, through free and untrammelled utterance, the effect of it policy upon the feeling and attitude of loyal and patriotic citizens. The Houston outbreak was a most deplorable occurrence and calculated to frustrate the desired good feeling between the races as well as to impair the Negro's chances as a military factor in the United States Army. But it did not seem wise to indulge in public discussion while the case was under adjudication by the Federal authorities. The execution of thirteen of the participants and life sentence upon forty-one others has fallen like a pall over the spirit of the colored race. I am undertaking to explain, as briefly as possible, the nature and cause of this depression of spirit. 1. The Negro has no just cause to complain when the perpetrators of outrage meet with just punishment at the hands of the law. The black man is the accustomed and expected victim of lawlessness. His righteous plea is that the majesty of the law should be upheld. Every murderous rioter and every participant in lynching should die the death decreed by law. The race and color of victor or victim should have no discriminating weight upon the penalty imposed. 2. The Negro has no just ground for complaint against the finding of the court-martial. The culprits were, doubtless, proved guilty of offence which, according to the technical exactions of the laws of war, merited capital punishment. 2. 3. But it was universally conceded by North and South, white and black alike, that the soldiers were incited to lawless action by strong provocative circumstances. When race passion is aroused it swiftly overrides all restraint of human or divine law. The white race, with long tradition of self-control and social restraint, yields instantly to its fury. When drunk with the malignant passion of race passion, the erstwhile good citizen defies the law and overrides the judge, and even the pious preist looks impotently or complacently on, while the Negro victim swings from the limb or burns at the stake. The black race is usually the victim and the white the perpetrator. But the malignant rage of race passion works both ways. At Houston it was aroused on both sides of the color line. As the civil law is usually impotent to restrain the whites under these circumstances, in this instance, unfortunately, military discipline was not able to restrain the fury of the blacks. The whites, whose aggravative conduct undoubtedly precipitated the outbreaks, suffered the heavier toll of fatality. This outbreak attracted universal attention and all elements of our population have been impatiently awaiting the verdict of the military authority. In view of all of the circumstances involved in and the complex issues growing out of the deplorable outbreak, the Negro race had a right to expect that before the findings of the court-martial were put into execution, the War Department would have required or requested that they be reviewed by the commander-in-chief of the United States Army. From a broader and more comprehensive viewpoint, he, doubtless, would have given consideration and weight to the mitigating circumstances which the court-martial was estopped from considering by the technical exactions of the code of war. A statement from the highest authority based upon all of the factors involved would, doubtless, have led to an enlightened understanding of the compelling reasons for such drastic action. During the Civil war, when the nation was surrounded by a cloud of enemies, many a victim, justly condemned to die by military authority, was spared that fate by the humanitarian promptings of the great heart of the great commander-in-chief. But, in this case, with the enemy 3000 miles away, the helpless victims were sent to summary death without the right of appeal or plea for clemency. 3. 4. The Negro is mystified by the nature of the secrecy with which this case was surrounded. It is easy to understand how secrecy of procedure may become a military necessity. But why was the veil of secrecy lifted the moment the victims were executed? It would seem that the evident purpose was, on the one hand, to prevent the Negro race from appealing the case to the Secretary of War and to the President; and, on the other hand, to appease the spirit of vengeance of the afflicted community. If secrecy were necessary in order to keep the case disentangled from popular commotion, why might it not have been maintained until the end of the war? 5. In consonance with this view it was reported that the sheriff at Houston was a witness of the military execution, but no Negro civilian was permitted to be present at that solemn hour? 6. As the case now stands, there is not the slightest indication that the provoking conduct of the white people of Houston has received the slightest rebuke on the part of the Federal authorities. On the other hand, in the absence of an express or implied condemnation, it would appear that such conduct has received the stamp of federal sanction. 7. The Negro believes that this punishment involves an element of race vengeance and that its purpose was to intimidate and terrify the black man's spirit. It still remains unexplained why these men were not given the privilege of being shot like soldiers rather than being hanged like dastards. Some days previous a white American soldier was hanged in France for a deed of double dastardly involving rape and murder of an innocent girl. The ignominious death was deserved. There could be no plea of provocation or extenuating circumstances, except that growing out of the promptings of his own lecherous nature. The Negro does not feel that white men who had spent their lives in the patriotic cause of their country would be thus stamped with ignominy because they had been swept away by the passion of the hour which they themselves did not evoke. But if this were the purpose, the method was badly calculated to produce the desired effect. These men went singing to their doom as if consciou of righteous guilt. In the minds of many Negroes these men stand as martyrs who were crucified upon the cross of race passion. No patriotic purpose is served wmen an act of the government produces martyrs in the estimation of loyal and patriotic citizens. 4. Houston is made to contribute to the general policy that, whatever the merits of the case, the white race must be the victor and the Negro the victim whenever an issue arises between them. Although there have been thousands of victims of race riot and passion during the past half century, scarcely a white man has suffered the legal penalty of death. Even the Negro, by legal process, is bearing the brunt of the penalty of the horrors of East St. Louis although his race was the victim of its fury. This case has increased thes strength of appeal of the Negro as his blood crieth from the ground unto the conscience of the nation. Although the Houston incident, in its present phase, has a morbid effect upon the Negro race, it will not be permitted to impair its patriotic morale and devotion to country in this hour of serious peril. The Negro is of the long-suffering and forgiving nature. I sometimes feel that one petition of the Lord's Prayer is calculated to meet the peculiarities of his character: "Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us." Although the white race enslaved the Negro and for 250 years exacted his unrequited toil and bestialized his nature, and by discriminating laws and proscriptive regulations holds him in despite, the Negro is willing to overlook and forgive all of the white man will even now allow him the semblance of a square deal. But it is not wise to presume upon the exercise of this tendency beyond the endurance of human nature. The Negro, in the spirit of altruistic devotion, says to his country: "Though you will slay me, yet will I serve you," but he emphatically remonstrates against the slaying. The colored race is duly grateful to you, Mr. Secretary, for your high-minded and patriotic attitude towards the race in the administration of the Department of War. I am anxious, as a loyal and patriotic citizen, to do my full share to assist you and the nation in the tremendous task in which we are involved. It is for this reason and with this purpose that I have written this letter. Yours truly, Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.