CORRESPONDENCE [Feb. 1950] Doubleday & Company, Inc. Publishers Garden City, N.Y. 14 West 49th Street, Rockefeller Center, New York 20, N.Y. Circle 6-1700 In Replying Refer to: February 1, 1950 Dear Mrs. Terrell: I'm very sorry to have to tell you that our final decision on A COLORED WOMAN IN A WHITE WORLD is a negative one. We do very few reprints here and I'm afraid the feeling is that the book would be too specialized for our type of operation. I do want to thank you very much, though, for giving us an opportunity to see the book and wish you every success in placing it with another house. Since the original publisher is generally in a better position to contact the various reprint houses, I wonder if your publisher, Ransdell Inc., has tried to place the book for you. The material goes back to you under a separate cover. Best of luck to you. Sincerely yours, Bucklin Moon BM/gs Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1615 S. Street, N.W. Washington 9, D.C. Planned Parenthood Association of the District of Columbia Affiliated with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Main Clinic: 715 E Street, Southwest, Washington 4, D.C. Telephone National 4780 Branch Clinic: Garfield Hospital, 2519 11th Street, Northwest, Telephone Adams 7500, Extension 89 February 1, 1950 My dear Mrs. Terrell: On January 6, 1950 all Washington was shocked by the story of the death from an abortion of a young mother of two children. This death and others like it are tragically unnecessary and a futile waste of human life. This letter comes to you with two purposes in mind. First, to in- crease your awareness of the community service being carried on by the Planned Parenthood Association of the District of Columbia, Inc., and second, to enlist your support in our program. Here, in case you are not familiar with it, is the record of the Association during 1949: 3,678 married women provided with CHILD SPACING information. 42 childless couples received help from our INFERTILITY clinic. 123 young people were helped on the road to a sound marriage by our PRE-MARITAL services. Please take a few minutes to read our pamphlet for details. The Planned Parenthood Association of the District of Columbia was organized in 1936 by a group of progressive men and women who believed that such an organization makes a real and lasting contribution to family life. Won't you join this group so that the Association can continue to be a growing and vital force in our community? This month we are having our annual drive for funds. Last year we needed $27,000; this year, if we are to meet the increasing requests for service, our goal must be $30,000. Won't you "cast your vote" for the things Planned Parenthood Asso- ciation stands for by sending us a check today? Sincerely, Mrs. Fontaine Bradley Campaign Chairman Planned Parenthood Builds Stronger Families Mrs. Prentiss Willson, Honorary President; Mrs. B, Lowndes Jackson, Jr., President; Mrs. Maurice A. Selinger, Vice President; Mrs. Edward R. Finkenstaedt, Secretary; Mrs. Henry King, Treasurer; Walter R. Stokes, M.D., Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee; Anna Tullman Rand, M.D., Medical Director; Martha Ann Godwin, Executive Director 1103 Trenton Pl SE Feb. 2, 1950 Dear Mrs. Terrell My congratulations on a splendid job! According to the press the Corporation Counsel really feels that he is on a spot now and may have to do something. This is our opportunity to get action, I think. I am arranging a meeting for next week to plan our next steps and will let you know, of course. Is there any evening you prefer? I am enclosing a copy of the letter I sent to the Woman's Home Companion. Thank you again and again for your courage and devotion to our cause. Sincerely, Annie Stein JO-2-6932 COORDINATING COMMITTEE for the ENFORCEMENT of the DC ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS Chairman: Dr. Mary Church Terrell 1103 Trenton Place, Southeast Washington, 20, D.C. February 2, 1950 Mr. William A. H. Birnie, Editor Woman's Home Companion 640 Fifth Avenue New York, 19, New York My dear Mr. Birnie: Mrs. Terrell has asked me to convey to you our sincere appreciation and thanks for the penetrating analysis of the effects of segregation practises in Washington, D.C. contributed by Mr. Howard Whitman in the February issue of your excellent magazine. Your article "Washington-Disgrace to theNation" will go far to correct the impression here and abroad that the nation as whole condones the shameful bigotry and failure of democracy in its capital city. You have also given renewed hope to those of us (and we constitute a majority of District citizens) who resent the hypocrisy of segregation and are fighting on many fronts to end it in Washington. Our committee is devoted to the task of securing en- forcement of the anti-segregation laws of 1872 and 1873 mentioned in Mr. Whitman's piece. Mrs. Terrell and three other prominent citizens last week brought a test case against the Thompson's restaurant to the Corporation Counsel. However, the groups in Washington who profit by segregation have thus far been effective in keeping the Commissioners from even giving serious consideration to the enforcement of the law, or even to the determination of whether the law in really in effect as we contend. Articles such as the one you published and, more super- ficially, the article in "Holiday" magazine are among the very few avenues we voteless Washingtonians have for exacting some measure of attention to our needs from our governors, the District Commissioners. Thank you for your article and for renewing our faith that America is democratic once one gets out of the nation's capital. Sincerely yours, Annie Stein, Secretary Mrs. Arthur Stein ANTIOCH COLLEGE YELLOW SPRINGS OHIO February 3, 1950 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1615 S Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. Dear Mrs. Terrell: Twenty-four Antioch students have volunteered to help the College while on their cooperative jobs during the next three months by calling on certain of our friends. Miss Geri deBremont, who is now working in Washington, would like to have the opportunity of talking with you about Antioch. I am writing to her today and suggesting she call you within a few days to find out whether an appointment will be convenient. Miss deBremont is a fourth-year student majoring in Sociology and Philosophy. She has had previous co-op jobs in the New York Public Library; an orphanage home in Xenia, Ohio; United Press Associates, Washington; and the St. Louis Post Dispatch. She is a good student and has taken an active part in College affairs. All of us who are working with this student program will deeply appreciate whatever time you can spend with her. Sincerely yours, Albert R. Neill Albert R. Neill Student Coordinator ARN-N The Board of Public Welfare of the District of Columbia National Training School for Girls 5201 Loughboro Road, NW Washington 16 D.C. Edgar Morris, Chairman Fred S. Kogod, Vice Chairman A. J. Driscoll Rowland S. Marshall Mrs. Radford Moses Dr. Ethel L. Nixon Rev. R. W. Brooks Dr. Norman Gerstenfeld Mrs. Theodore O. Wedel February 8, 1950 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1615 S. Street N.W. Washington, D. C. Dear Mrs. Terrell: I wish to thank you for accepting the invitation to come to be our speaker on the chapel program, Monday, February 20th at 9:00 o'clock. We will pick you up at 8:30 and after the program return you. Would it be possible for you to get in touch with me by phone to let us know your favorite spiritual in order that the girls might sing it on Monday? Very sincerely yours, Elaine B. Jenkins (Mrs.) Elaine B. Jenkins Assistant Superintendent National Woman's Party Headquarters: Alva Belmont House 144 B Street, N.E. Washington 2, D.C National Officers Chairman Dr. Agnes E. Wells, Mich. Vice Chairman Mrs. Elma Guffet Miller, PA. Mrs. Helen Hunt West, FLA. Dr. Florence A. Armstrong, VA. IA. Mrs. Betty Gram Swing, CONN. Mrs. Horace H. Sayre, OKLA. Secretary Mrs. Mamie Sydney Mizen, WYO. Assistant Secretaries Mrs. Mildred Palmer, D.C. Mrs. Mabel Van Dyke Baer, D.C. Treasurer Miss Mabel B. Hiatt, D.C. Assistant Treasurers Miss Gladys Houston Greiner, MD. Mrs. Mary G. Roebling, N.J. Founder and Honorary Chairman Dr. Alice Paul, N.J. Honorary Chairman Miss Elsie M. Hill, Calif. Miss Florence Bayard Hilles, Del. Miss Anita Pollitzer, S.C. Mrs. Jane Norman Smith, VT. National Council Mrs. Nina Horton Avery, VA. Mrs. Queen Walker Boardman, Calif. Mrs. Cecil Norton Broy, VA. Miss Anne Carter, Texas Dr. Mary Sinclair Crawford, Calif. Mrs. Adda Lutz Ferguson, Pa. Mrs. Elizabeth Forbes, MD. Mrs. Yerda Ford, N.Y. Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest, MD. Mrs. Virginia Starr Freedom, MD. Miss Mabel E. Griswold, Wis. Mrs. Alice M. Kachadourian, MD. Miss Mary C, Kennedy, Ind. Judge Burnita Shelton Matthews, D.C. Miss Marion May, N.Y. Mrs. Perle Mesta, R.I. Mrs. Ethel Ernest Murrell, Fla. Mrs. Natalie Gray Sheffer, Calif. Mrs. Sidney M. Smith, Nebr. Mrs. George T. Vickers, N.J. Mrs. Amelia Himes Walker, Fla. Mrs. Robert C. Wilkin, N.Y. Mrs. Margaret C. Williams, Conn. Advisory Council Dr. Mary Sinclair Crawford, Calif. , Chairman Dr. Emily Dunning Barringer, Conn. Mrs. Thad Brown, D.C. Mrs. Elizabeth P. Chevalier, Calif. Dr. Mary Merritt Crawford, N.Y. Miss Lavinia L. Dock, PA. Mrs. Walker Ferguson, Okla. Miss Anne W. Goodrich, Conn. Mrs. Katherine Hepburn, Conn. Miss Malvina Hoffman, N.Y. Miss Fannie Hurst, N.Y. Mrs. Inez Haynes Irwin, Mass. Dr. Zoe Allison Johnston, Pa. Mrs. Ethel Traphagan Leigh, N.Y. Dr. Catherine Mac Farlane, Pa. Mrs. Mary A. Murray, N.Y. Miss Georgia O'Keeffe, N.M. Miss Lena Madesine Phillips, Conn. Miss Mary Pickford, Calif. Dr. Helena T. Ratterman, Ohio Mrs. Ogden Reid, N.Y. Mrs. Reeve Schley, N.J. Mrs. Worthington Scranton, Pa. Mrs. Margaret Sanger Slee, Ariz. Miss Gladys Swarthout, N.Y. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, D.C. Mrs. Josepha N. Whitney, Conn. Mrs. Marion Yatman, R.I. PLEASE SAVE FOR REFERENCE IN WORK WITH 81st CONGRESS February 8, 1950 Dear Officers, Members of the National Council, State Chairmen, and Friends of the Amendment: Most of you know that the Senate passed the Lucretia Mott or Equal Rights Amendment on January 25, 1950, by a vote of 63 to 19, but with the addition of a contradictory second paragraph advanced during the debate by Senator Hayden (Dem.) Arizona. The Amendment as adopted by the Senate reads: "ARTICLE -- "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. "The provisions of this article shall not be construed to impair any rights, benefits, or exemptions now or hereafter conferred by law upon persons of the female sex. "The Congress and the several States shall have power, within their respective jurisdictions, to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. "This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission to the States by the Congress; and, if so ratified, shall take effect upon the expiration of one year after the date of such ratification." FOUNDED IN 1913-:- OBJECT: TO RAISE THE STATUS OF WOMEN -2- As you see, the above text contains the principal section of the Equal Rights Amendment as originally introduced. The second paragraph, to which naturally every supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment is opposed, was introduced by Senator Hayden in the course of the debate, and its inclusion in the draft adopted, reflects the confusion caused by its introduction into the debate. The third paragraph with regard to enforcement was in the original Amendment. Paragraph 4, providing for ratification within 7 years in accord with the recent custom with regard to constitutional amendments, was accepted by our sponsors when it was proposed from the floor. When the vote came on the Amendment, the Hayden rider had already been attached. Although an effort was made by our Sponsors on the floor to have this section omitted, there was not sufficient time left to clear up the confusion it caused, before the vote came, and Senate sponsors thought it better to pass the original Amendment with the addition of the Hayden rider rather than to defeat the original Amendment because of the addition of the rider. Senator Hayden has been a long-time opponent dating back to suffrage days and his crippling addition was brought forward after the debate started without being referred to the Judiciary Committee, the Senate sponsors of the Amendment, or women supporters. Every supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment is agreed that the crippling Hayden rider must not stand. The reaL strength of our opponents has been centered, since its introduction in Congress in 1947, on the Biological Status Bill, introduced in the Senate by Senator Kefauver (Dem.) Tennessee, and providing for inequalities. An effort was made to substitute this for the Equal Rights Amendment on January 25. Just before the vote came on this Amendment, this Biological Status Bill was defeated by the overwhelming vote of 65 to 18. The long education done with regard to this bill bore fruit in the overwhelming defeat of this measure in the Senate. We must now start the same educational campaign with respect to the Hayden rider and make sure that it also is eliminated in the House. WITH REGARD TO THE SENATE VOTE If your Senators voted for the Kefauver Biological Status Bill, please inform them of the harm that would have come from this measure if adopted, and urge them to be on guard against it in the future. If they voted for the Hayden rider please let them know how strongly you are opposed and warn them against the inclusion of such a rider. If they voted against the Equal Rights Amendment and for the substitutes offered, please protest their stand vigorously. If they voted against the substitutes and for the Amendment, in the only form it came before them, they should receive thanks from you and the endorsing organizations. These letters are really necessary for future work on the Amendment. THE SITUATION IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES We have just had a conference with Congressman St. George (Rep.) New York, our Chief Sponsor in the House. She has notified the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee that unless the Equal Rights Amendment as introduced by her, with over 100 co-sponsors, is reported shortly from the Judiciary Committee, she will file a petition to discharge the Committee from further consideration of the Amendment. -3- The Equal Rights Amendment has been in the House Judiciary Committee for over a year. The Chairman of the Committee, Rep. Emanuel Celler, has not even sent the Amendment to a sub-committee which is considered a most hostile act. Moreover, Mr. Celler, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has personally introduced in the House the so-called Biological Status Bill as a substitute for the Amendment. Mr. Celler's bill in the House corresponds to the Kefauver "Biological Status" Bill, overwhelmingly defeated in the Senate as explained above. We feel that it is futile and would serve no purpose to appeal further to the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee for action on the Equal Rights Amendment. The purpose of the discharge Petition which Congressman St. George plans to offer unless the Equal Rights Amendment, as introduced in the House, is reported out very soon, is in order that the House can act on the Amendment. THE NEXT STEP The next step, therefore, will probably be that Congressman St. George will place a discharge petition on the desk of the Speaker. 218 members of the House of Representatives must then sign this petition in order to bring the Amendment out of the Judiciary and before the House for action. It is not ever an easy task to get 218 signatures. We, therefore, suggest that you immediately write to every member of the House of Representatives from your State to ask that he will sign a discharge petition on behalf of the Equal Rights Amendment, if and as soon as this petition is launched by the Chief Sponsor of the Amendment, Congressman St. George. You might point out (1) that it is not in line with democratic procedure for one man - the Chairman - to prevent important legislation from reaching the floor as has been done with the Equal Rights Amendment for over a year, and (2) that Party promises should be kept and the Equal Rights Amendment, a Party pledge in both platforms, should be passed by the House and promptly referred to the States. Since we want to have 218 members of Congress ready to sign such a discharge petition, will you put your effort now into securing promises of cooperation on this from members of the House. Please then send us the replies you receive from your Congressman so that we may give them to Mrs. St. George for her use. Also, if a Congressman from your state is a member of the House Judiciary Committee, and friendly to the Amendment will you make sure that he is asked to give special help as a Judiciary member in getting the Equal Rights Amendment passed in its original form as introduced in the Senate and the House. Now that the contradictory Haydon rider has been incorporated in the Senate draft of the Amendment, we are forewarned and must take immediate steps to see that every Congressman is made aware of the opposition of his constituents to the Hayden rider so that such a step will not be taken in the House. If the vote is taken in the House without the Hayden rider, the Equal Rights Amendment would then go to a Conference between the Senate and the House, where the Hayden rider would finally be eliminated. It is unthinkable that an Amendment with two articles contradicting each other as paragraphs 1 and 2 of the Senate draft would, could be put into the United States Constitution. Faithfully yours, Emma Guffey Miller Agnes E. Wells National Chairman Pearl M. Sayre Congressional Co-Chairman Anita Pollitzer Honorary Chairman MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL 1615 S Street N. W., Washington 9, D. C. Feb. 10. 1950 To the Librarian of the Yale University Library New Haven, Conn. Dear Sir: Please be kind enough to send the letter addressed in your care to Mr. Carl Van Vechten. I am not sure of his address, but since there is an exhibit of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters established by Mr. Van Vechten at the Yale University Library, I am sure you know Mr. Van Vechten's address. I have hesitated to call Mr. Van Vechten's attention to what I have tried to do and the estimate placed upon my efforts by people considered competent to judge because I do not place a very high estimate upon those who sing their own praise. But since Mr. Van Vechten wants to know those in our group who have accomplished something worth while to promote our welfare, I am sure he wishes to include the name of a colored woman who has been a pioneer along several lines of human endeavor. I am the first colored woman who was placed on a Board of Education in the United States. In 1895, the Commissioner of Education in the District of Columbia appointed me a member of the Board of Education in the Capital of the United States, and I served eleven years. After serving six years I resigned. A few years after that Congress took the duty of appointing members of the Board of Education from the Commissioner of Education and assigned it to the Judges of the District Supreme Court. The Judges declared they would appoint nobody on their new Board who had ever served here in that capacity before. And I was the only person appointed on the new Board who had ever served here in that capacity before. I am the first president of the National Association of Colored Women, organized here in July 1896- the first large, secular organization formed by the colored women in this country. I was a charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, organized nearly forty years ago. I am the first colored women who went to Europe to represent the women of our group at a large international organization. In 1904, I went to a convention of the International Congress of Women in Berlin, Germany and delivered my address on the Progress and Problems of Colored Women of the United States in three languages - German, French and English. Since then I have delivered an address at Zurich, Switzerland, as a delegate to the Women's international League for Peace and Freedom. I spoke in German there because people in that part of Switzerland speak that language. After that I delivered an address in London as a delegate to the World Fellowship of Faiths. That is a brief resume of a few efforts I have made. I will not trespass upon your time any longer. Please forgive me for being so bold as to write this letter. I shall be very grateful if you will send Mr. Van Vechten's letter to the correct address. Very truly yours, Mary Church Terrell COORDINATING COMMITTEE for the ENFORCEMENT of the D.C. ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS Chairman: Mrs. Mary Church Terrell February 13, 1950 Dear Friend: The test case of the old "lost" anti-discrimination law of 1872 brought by four distinguished Washingtonians, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Reverend W.H. Jernagin, D.D., Mrs. Geneva Brown of the Cafeteria Workers Union and Mr. David Scull of Friends Meetings, has received national attention and has placed the question of enforcing the old law against segregation squarely before the Commissioners for prompt decision. We know that you share our desire to press this issue forward now and not to permit the Commissioners to "study" the law back into oblivion. A plan of action has been prepared by the executive committee which waits upon your approval and cooperation. You are invited to send your representative to the SPECIAL ACTION meeting go the full Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.D. Anti-Discrimination Laws TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1950 12th St YMCA-Assembly Hall 1816 Twelfth St. N.W. at 8:15 P.M. You or your representative may come as an observer or as an official representative. Will you join us in our determination to bring these old laws back into active life in the District? Sincerely yours, Annie Stein Annie Stein, Secretary 1103 Trenton Place S.E. Jo-2-6932 ANTIOCH COLLEGE YELLOW SPRINGS OHIO February 16, 1950 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1615 S Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. Dear Mrs. Terrell: I recently wrote you in hopes you could see one of our students, Miss Geri deBremont. I'm sorry to say that I have since received word that she has been moved to New York with the company she is working for. Thinking that you still might be interested in talking with one of our students, I am asking Miss Deborah Stults to call you. She is working at the Labor Press Association in Washington, and I am writing her today to suggest she call you in the place of Miss deBremont. Very sincerely yours, Albert R. Neill Student Coordinator ARN-N [2-16-50] CARL VAN VECHTEN 101 CENTRAL PARK WEST New York CITY 23 TELEPHONE: ENDICOTT 2-8748 Dear Mrs Terrell, I was very much interested in your letter and the enclosures, but you are asking me to do something a little out of my line and which I cannot spare the time to do. There are dozens of reputable publishers who would suit your purpose and the thing to do is to write to several of them asking if they would like to see the book, or perhaps Dr Woodson could [yo] give you some advice or Mrs Porter at Howard. At any rate, I wish you the best of luck and remain yours sincerely, February 16, 1950 Carl Van Vechten THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 5201 LOUGHBORO ROAD, NW. WASHINGTON 16, D.C. EDGAR MORRIS, CHARIMAN FRED S. KOGOD, VICE CHAIRMAN A.J. DRISCOLL ROWLAND S. MARSHALL MRS. RADFORD MOSES DR. ETHEL L. NIXON REV. R. W. BROOKS DR. NORMAN GERSTENFELD MRS. THEODORE O. WEDEL February 23, 1950 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1615 S. STREET N.W. Washington, D.C. Dear Mrs. Terrell: With thankful hearts the girls of the National Training School join with the staff in the expressing their sincere appreciation to you for coming to us at Chapel on Monday, February 20, 1950. Your talk was very impressive and inspiring. I can assure you that every girl was overjoyed at having you with us at this time. It is through the efforts of thoughtful people like you that the lives of others are made happy. I hope that it may be possible for you to find time to come to us again. With every good wish that the year ahead will be fulled with happy days for you, I remain, Very sincerely yours, Mary E.C. Gregory Mary E. C. Gregory Superintendent Nena R. Elbert 928 French Street Wilmington, Delaware 23 February, 1950 Dearest Mrs. Terrell:- Thank you for your letter with all of the information on why not to use the word negro. Well, I wrote to the Editor and received a reply today and he brings in the NAACP. I remembered that you told me once about not ha ving the A ssociation named National Association for the Advancement of the Negro, so I mentioned your name in my reply. If you should like to write to them on the subject, I would be delighted for you to know A LL the answers. If you should write, address your letter as follows:- Letters to the Editor News-Journal Girard & Orange Streets, W ilmington, Delaware. and please send me a copy. Your letter was certainly interesting. I would love to see the portrait. My love to the family and our very best to you. two enclosures Love, as always Nena 928 French Street Wilmington, Delaware 21 February 1950 The Editor Wilmington Morning News, Wilmington, Delaware [*Dear Mrs T. - You could not think that I typed for a living at one time - eh?*] Dear Sir: On the morning the 6th of this month I noticed the excessive use of the word negro in an article on the Elbert Building Benefit of which I helped sponsor. This morning you were kind enough to give us space, mentioning the delivery of the television etc and that work "Negro" is used again. So I am taking the liberty of quoting the views of a very distinguished man on that hateful, disgusting, humiliating word. Mr. George W. Harris is quoted As you are a man of the press, I am passing this on to you for who could do more to banish this word than the NEWS. Signed NENA R. ELBERT (Mrs.) Samuel G. Elbert ----- MY REPLY TO HIS LETTER OF Feb. 21st - which I am enclosing for your perusal... 23 February 1950 Dear Mr. Editor: Thank you for your prompt reply to my letter of the 21st, in which you state that the white members of the community deserve no credit whatever for the success of the Elbert Building Benefit. I must correct this impression for both colored and white people of this community contributed most generously toward this fund and both groups attended the Benefit. I cannot speak for the NAACP branch in this city but Mrs. Mary Church Terrell of Washington, D.C., who was one of the organizers of the Association has told me many times that the name "National Association for the Advancement of COLORED PEOPLE" was selected because they did not want the word negro used. I am sending a copy of your letter to Mrs. Terrell, so you will no doubt hear from her. Respectfully yours NRE CC - Exec Editor, News-Journal LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Journal-Every Evening Wilmington Morning News The News-Journal Company Wilmington, Delaware Feb. 21, 1950 Mrs. Samuel G. Elbert 928 French Street Wilmington, Delaware Dear Mrs. Elbert: It has been the custom of the Morning News for many years never to use the word Negro in any story unless it is absolutely necessary or in cases which the use of the word reflects credit to the persons of that race living in Wilmington. In the story to which you refer we felt that failure to use the word negro would be confusing as readers might have assumed otherwise that this gift might have been donated by white members of the community who deserve no credit whatever for this very laudable enterprise. We have not used the word Negro in stories of crimes, accidents, etc., for many years except in cases where descriptions of missing persons are necessary to the story. As for our capitalization of the word--we changed our former practice in 1934 when members of the NAACP requested us to capitalize it as it stood for the name of a race and should be capitalized the same as Caucasian. I appreciate your letter very much and assure you that the News-Journal papers will continue to avoid any discrimination in their news columns as had been their practice in the past. Journal-Every Evening Wilmington Morning News The News-Journal Company Wilmington, Delaware 2 I hope you appreciate our stand and that you will agree with us that we are treating the matter as fairly as we can. Yours sincerely, W. Emerson Wilson W. Emerson Wilson City Editor Wilmington Morning News GENERAL EXECUTIVES Charles Frederick Weller Founder-President Eugenia Winston Weller Founder-Vice President Dr. Jay Holmes Smith Executive Vice President Maude Pickett Smith Managing Hostess Associates Eugene L. Belisle Education Activities Mr. & Mrs. Harry H. Zvengrowski Mr. & Mr.s H. D. 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It heralds a vital new chapter in our life and work. In vision, and in human usefulness, World Fellowship has greatly grown since its beginnings in 1918. Now, for 1950, inspiring, practicable plans and activities are underway- which, with your help, can make this New Year the very best in all of World Fellowship's 32 years of earnest endeavor in the cause of Peace and Brotherhood. Will you kindly help us, now, by sending us your generous contribution for 1950? Very heartily yours Jay Holmes Smith . Chas F. Weller. Maude Pickett Smith . Eugenia W. Weller (Your regular, generous contributions since 1934 have been deeply appreciated. We trust you will renew your membership for 1950 with a similar gift.) Contributors' names are printed in subsequent editions of this new letterhead (unless we are requested otherwise). "Any Contribution makes anyone a MEMBER for a year." (Contributions are deductible from Income Tax returns) Continuing, "CONTRIBUTORS, 1947-'49''.(Thus we gratefully credit the friends whose VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS enable World Fellowship to live and to advance in human service.) INDIANA Samuel Barskin Mr. & Mrs. Burt Cedars IOWA Rev. Seth W. Slaughter KANSAS Mrs. J. C. Lair Miss (Prof.) Rose R. Morgan MAINE Eleanor P. Sutton Mrs. Alice K. Whiteman MARYLAND Rev. Ida. A. Green Aaron Straus MASSACHUSETTS Mrs. F. D. Amsden Dr. Joseph I. Arnold Dr. Roger Babson Mr. & Mrs. Eugene L. Bellsie & Family Arthur J. Bibby Mr. Frank L. Boyden Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Brand Miss Rose Brass Mr. David Milton Cargill Allan H. & Mary. W. Clark Bertha W. Clark Adele M. Comer Miss Mary Rosamond Coolidge Prof. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana Rev. Wolcott Cutler Frances G. Curtis Mrs. Everett De Silva Mr. & Mrs. Newton Dillaway Mrs. Lily Dressler Rev. George Hibbert & Miss Helen Driver Mr. & Mrs. Norman A. Dubois Mrs. Elaine Goodale Eastman Miss Edith M. Fox Mr. & Mrs. George B. Franklin Baron Wm. Fray von Blomberg Herbert M. L. Giduz Rev. Erastus H. Green Miss Irma Griffith Mitchell M. Grosbayne Miss Olive R. Grover Mr. Henry Gruen Gerald W. Hallowell Marty Hartunian Mrs. Charles E. Hiller Dr. Myra C. Hole Ellen Kent Howard Mr. & Mrs. Edward Ingraham Mrs. Reba Isaacson Miss Bertha L. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Hans Julow Mr. & Mrs. lsrael Kagno Mrs. Josephine M. Kepnes Deicevare King Dr. Mary R. Lakeman Rev. & Mrs. John W. Laws Mr. & Mrs. R. G. Lopaus Mrs. J. Anderson Lord Elmer R. Lovely Miss Allena Luce Isador M. Madoff Martin A. Marek John H. Marshall Edith R. May Mrs. Mary C. McGary Mr. Wilfred E. Miz Alfrieda M. Mosher William C. Moulton Miss Marcia Nadell Miles Lee Nall Rev. & Mrs. Charles S. Nichols Leonard L. Nones Rev. George W. Owen, D.D. Mr. & Mrs. George Howard Parker Miss Amelia Peabody Mr. & Mrs. Hyman Pell Mr. H. S. Raven Charlies P. Raymond Joseph L. Richards Francis Behn Riggs George H. Robinson Mrs. Howard C. Robbins Mr. Joseph Rysman Mr. & Mrs. Myron Ryter Mrs. Nina T. Schweig Samuel Shamitz Miss Vida Dutton Scudder Rabbi Joseph S. Shubow Mrs. Florence B. Silverman Eric Parkman Smith Ralph B. Snyder Rev. Samuel C. Spalding Prof. Eric A. Starbuck Mildred E. Stearns F. R. Carnegie Steele Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes Miss Helen A. Sutton Mrs. Louis S. Swartz George Sylvester Miss Eunice E. Viles Rev. & Mrs. Charles Wellman Mrs. John B. Whiteman Mr. John Pratt Whitman Alfred H. Wilson Mrs. Benjamin C. Woodbury Rev. Norris E. Woodbury Amy Woods NEW YORK (Cont.) Miss Tracy D. Mygatt Mr. & Mrs. J. M. Newmark Mr. Murray Patlove Mr. & Mrs. A. D. Perskin Dr. William Pickens Mrs. Lila K. Piper Professor Raymond F. Piper Dr. Horatio M. Pollock Herbert Popper Miss Leonise Rawlins Mr. & Mrs. Edward Ressler Donald Fay Robinson Hellmut Rothschild Dr. Flora K. & Mr. Isaac Rubinstein Mr. & Mrs. Irving Ruckens Mr. Carl Ruwalski Mr. Leo H. Satz Kaleb Schalkowitz Rosa Schure Mrs. Beatrice Siegel Dr. S. A. Sidat Singh, M.D. Miss M. E. Steinhauser Dr. Kilton Stewart Mrs. Irving J. Stringham Judson Strong Joseph & Dinah Sturman Mrs. Lilly Taylor Rafael Perez Torres Louis Tyroler Mrs. A. H. Vixman Mr. & Mrs. William M. Wagner Mr. Milton Weissman Rev. & Mrs. Eliot White Theodore Wilentz Lt. Com. & Mrs. David Williams NEW YORK (Cont.) Harold P. Winchester William Worthy Mr. & Mrs. Oscar Zinner Harry, Molly, Peter & Stephen Zvengrowski NORTH CAROLINA Dr. & Mrs. W. W. Sloan Dr. Enid Severy Smith NORTH DAKOTA Mrs. Bertha Helmer Miss Isabel P. Snelgrove OHIO Mme. Emi de Bidoli Rev. Robert W., Mary & Richard Lawson Jerome & Mildred Rood Davis Rev. Harold P. Marley PENNSYLVANIA Mrs. Estelle M. Affelder Louis E. Backer Rabbi Philip David Bookstaber Rabbi D. A. Jessurun Cardozo Carl Herbster Edgar J. Kaufmann Herbert Langston Dr. H. M. Margolis M.D. Mrs. Esther N. Ostrow Paula Polek Benjamin Raphael Alexander P. Reed Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Reinkraut Rodeph Shalom Congregation (Chester G. Bandman, Secy.) Martin Sufrin PENNSYLVANIA (Cont.) Mrs. Margaret W. Thomforde Miss Ella Wertheimer Rabbi David H. Wice Irwin D. Wolf RHODE ISLAND Jerome Davis Miss Grace Randolph TEXAS Mrs. Clara D. Horn Prof. & Mrs. A. P. Winston VERMONT Mrs. Lula M. Collins Mrs. Alice A. Winston VIRGINIA Miss Blanche C Messier Mr. & Mrs. Morton Robins WASHINGTON, D. C. Ernest G. Dodge Anna Kalada Frederick J. Libby Mrs. Milton Mackenzie Mrs. Theresa H. Russell Miss Nellie S. Spencer Van Wilson WASHINGTON (State) Mrs. Walter D. Middleton WISCONSIN Herbert Bruncken Fred & Emma Jane Lothrop INDIA Sakuntula Rao Sastri SWEDEN Sir Sigfrid Edstrom MEXICO Max Shein MICHIGAN Henry S. Curtis Mrs. Peter Dolese Rev. Leo Charles Donnelly, M.D. Miss Helga Herz Mrs. & Mr. George L. Jackson Judge Ira W. Jayne Carl A. Ross Mrs. William A. Vawter, II MINNESOTA Alice B. Nicols Glenn Clark MISSISSIPPI Laurence C. Jones MISSOURI Percival Chubb Miss Marie A. Guengerich Dr. N. S. Hanoka NEBRASKA Farmers National Company NEW HAMPSHIRE Laurence E. Drew William S. Felton Miss C. Azella Hood Harry E. Kenney Lewis Lyons Mrs. Eleanor Mack Rev. & Mrs. Arthur Moore Silver Brothers Inc. Dr. Enid S. Smith Mrs. Tracy S. Voorhees Mr. & Mrs. Floyd T. Voris Charles F. Weller Eugenia W. Weller Rev. Norris E. Woodbury NEW JERSEY Stanislaw Adams Mrs. Hugh Beshers Harold S. Buttenheim Rabbi & Mrs. Solomon Foster Mrs. Maurice J. Gartenberg Mrs. Lillian Lieberger Mr. & Mrs. R. D. Marchant Dr. Albert R. Meinicoff Miss Mary E. Ray Joseph & Ruth Seligman Mrs. C. Shillard-Smith Bertha K. Streib Miss Jeanie D. Watson Andrew P. Wittel NEW YORK Rev. George A. Ackerly, D.D. Mrs. Stephanie Allen P. Max Apfelbaum Miss Celia Baren Miss H. Lucretia Bell Miss Adele Birnbaum Dr. Gabriele Bondi, M.D. Mrs. E. Brown Harold S. Buttenheim Mrs. Alfred Cachie Charles A. Chappell G. Allan & Doris Connor S. Allen Early, Jr. Rabbi David Max Eichhorn Mr. Victor Emspak Miss Ruth Farran Mr. & Mrs. Saul Feldman Mrs. Cora Fellows Martin M. Ferber Miss Anne Freedman Dr. & Mrs. Egon C. Frey Mr. & Mrs. Julio Pinto Gandia Mrs. Eleanor Perez Garcia Miss Lillian Gerber Mr. & Mrs. A. Gerstein Mr. & Mrs. Harry Gitter Miss Carolyn Green F. William & Pearl W. Godfring Dr. & Mrs. Eugene Gottlieb Miss Esther Green Mrs. B. Greiner Howard D. Grossman Miss Anne Guthrie Dr. Helen S. Harris Dr. Shelby M. Harrison Miss H. Harting Richard H. Heiman Albert B. Hines Rev. John Haynes Holmes Minna H. Jahn Mrs. Dorothy Bell Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Abraham Kaufman Gladys Kierstein Rt. Rev. & Mrs. Paul Keen Mr. & Mrs. Henry Knabel Mr. H. L. Kolberg Miss Rose Kosnitzky Dr. & Mrs. Joseph Lazarus Mrs. Elise C. Lippman Dr. & Mrs. Walter Lippman Mrs. Lillian Luttinger Dr. Ida M. Mellon Mr. & Mrs. Otto Mex Miss Anne Modest Mr. & Mrs. J. F. Montgomery Mrs. Dave Hennen Morris Mary T. Mullaney [Photograph] Gateway to New England's White Mountains. Artist John Pratt Whiteman, Forest Art Gallery, Tamworth, N. H. A Forest - Farm - Lake -and -Mountain Paradise An All Year VACATION CENTER For Friendly Folks of All Races, Faiths, Colors, Countries and Convictions A MOVEMENT for WORLD UNITY through Fellowship in Action WORLD FELLOWSHIP (Incorporated Not-for-Profit) Railway Station and Post Office Conway, New Hampshire (Phone: Madison 4 ring 4) [*Here you may swim daily — in this Lake-and-mountain Paradise*] WHAT WORLD FELLOWSHIP MEANS by DR. JAY HOLMES SMITH, Executive Vice President World Fellowship is a movement for world unity through fellowship in action. It promotes better understanding between persons of various races, faiths, colors, countries and convictions, particularly through friendly first-hand contacts. It believes that the confidence born of such understanding is essential to cooperation for peace and progress. [*Jay and Maude Smith with Clippy (and a young puppy, Peter, who is no longer with us.) World Fellowship is Open All the Year.*] World Fellowship stands for the vigorous pursuit of social justice for all peoples, in the conviction that this also is essential for world peace. This movement stems from two previous adventures in understanding: The League of Neighbors, started in 1918 and endorsed by President Wilson, sought to make foreign-born groups better known and appreciated by their neighbors. The World Fellowship of Faiths, in 1933 and '34, drew together competent representatives of ALL faiths, races and countries in 83 notable meetings, seeking solutions for man's present problems: war and antagonistic nationalisms, prejudice and hatred, ignorance, fear and poverty- amidst-plenty. (In World Fellowship, a 1,010 page, 6 by 9 inch book, the 242 coordinated and condensed addresses, delivered by 199 speakers, are now available for $2.50, postpaid, through World Fellowship, Inc.) Our New Hampshire World Fellowship Center was opened in May 1941. Our first World Government Convention, in August 1941, emphasized "World Government of, by and for ALL the world's people." We contribute to eventual world government by encouraging people of all countries, races, creeds and political or economic convictions to work together for social justice, in the spirit of equality and mutual appreciation. Our sense of world oneness is expressed concretely in our New Hampshire World fellowship home. From November 1948 through October 1949 some 450 people of many backgrounds stayed with us, for longer or shorter periods, chiefly during the summer months but some also for skiing. They enjoyed outdoor life and recreation, listened to inspiring talks and music, took part in informal discussions, singing, dancing and games, and mingled as friends with no dividing lines. Like America's Town Meetings and other free forums, World Fellowship in its summer program welcomes speakers of widely differing views. While maintaining its own non-partisan character, World Fellowship seeks especially to provide a hearing, with creative discussion, for those who dare to build bridges of understanding across the present chasms of intolerance and hostility which, violating the spirit of world fellowship, prevent the achievement of peace. [*Our Lodge fronting on Fellowship Road, one mile from our Farm House. (12 rooms, 2 large sleeping porches, 4 bath rooms, the all-surrounding porch 1/16 mile long—and a beautiful big Conference Hall.)*] [*Entrance to our "Lloyd Lodge" (named for Lola Maverick Lloyd, our first great friend of this World Fellowship Center.) The oak tree (right) bears a Memorial Marker for George Washington Carver. (One of the 134 Memorial Trees already "Saved-and-Named")*] ACCOMMODATIONS AND ACTIVITIES by MAUDE PICKETT SMITH, Managing Hostess The LODGE, set in a clearing in the forest, with a fine view of Mt. Chocorua, has an all-surrounding wide porch, our large conference room with a 9-ft. stone fireplace, two sleeping porches. Most rooms have adjoining baths. We eat on the screened porch, facing Mt. Chocorua, or in the dining room, according to the weather. In nearby groves are our 134 Memorial Trees, "saved and named" by friends and guests. [*Conference Room (18x36 ft.) in "Lloyd Lodge". Nine foot Fire Place. Four large, cushioned Settees. Big French Windows to Surrounding Porch. Floor of curly bird's-eye maple strips one inch wide. Library. Easy Chairs, Piano, Phonograph. (Daily informal Conference here.)*] Part of our 2,000 ft. Frontage on Lake Whitton (a mile long.) Our Landing Pier. 3 Row Boats, a Dividing Float and a Dressing Room shelter are maintained here. The FARM HOUSE and YOUTH HOSTEL between the forest and meadows, with a magnificent view of the Mt. Chocorua range, with a ball field, garden, trout stream, is a mile from the lodge. A large country kitchen and home-like dining room. 3 bath-rooms (2 with showers). The COTTAGE, a few steps from the Farm house, with a fireplace social rooms, some bedrooms facing the mountain. Three miles of such Forest paths (12 ft. wide) have been opened. Many more miles are to be cut through our vast unspoiled Forests. Already, 134 Memorial Trees bear Markers commemorating significant Events, Causes, Leaders or the Relatives and Friends of Donors (who contribute $10 or more to "Save-and-Name a Tree.)" A Home made Map of World Fellowship's One Mile of Rural Paradise (274 Acres - 6 Buildings - 2 Lakes - a Trout Stream - unspoiled Forests - uplifting Mountains.) (Drawing by Maude Pickett Smith)*] WHAT YOU MAY ENJOY DOING HERE by MAUDE PICKETT SMITH, Managing Hostess Relaxing — in a congenial, informal atmosphere, amid scenes of peace and beauty. Mountain Climbing — Mt. Chocorua in our "front yard"; the White Mountains just north and west of us. Swimming, boating, fishing — in our own Whitton Pond, a jewel of a mountain lake, a mile long, with row boats, islands, loons, blueberries. Also Lake Chocorua, a perfect beach, and a daily, free ride there. Hiking — along forest paths. Biking — on alluring roads. Sun-bathing — on lawn or lakeside. Games — ping pong, badminton, horseshoes, volley ball, soft ball, croquet, checkers, cards, chess, etc. Music — 3 pianos, 3 phonograph, 2 radios (considerately used.) Sings around indoor and outdoor fireplaces. Dancing — square dances in Lodge and Cottage social rooms. Camp fire marshmallow roasts, outdoor suppers. Gardening. Clearing trails. Small building projects. Excursions may be planned to nearby points of interest: Forest Art Gallery; Chinook Sledge Dog exhibitions; New England Country Auctions; Country Dances in nearby villages; Mt. Washington (Cog railway); Cranmore Mt. (Skimobile, summer and winter); Outdoor Concerts; "The Barnstormers"; Conway Movies; Pinkham, Crawford, Franconia Notches, Old Man of the Mountains, Lost River, etc.; Echo Lake, Diana's Baths; Steamer Rides on Lake Winnipesaukee. Column 1: WHERE NATURE AND HUMANITY MEET by EUGENIA WINSTON WELLER, Founder - Vice President "To him who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to gaze into the fair and open face of Nature And breathe a prayer, clear in the smile Of the blue firmament." (Shelley) You will like our World Fellowship Center if you love the out of doors, and loving it you will be happy here. You will thrill when you look down a long tree-lined vista from the Lodge or across a low-lying meadow at the Farmhouse toward our own Mount Chocorua, which some have called the most beautiful of the White Mountains. Sometimes Mt. Chocorua is only a waving outline against a cloudless sky. Sometimes it is a granite cliff with two rounding green velvet peaks on either side of it. Sometimes you can peer upward from below into green hollows and deep-shaded canyons picked out as with a torch-light by the rays of the noon-day sun. Sometimes the sinking sun unseen fills with color all the clouds that sail above. And there are times when a curtain of fog enshrouds it in darkness and mystery. Having seen our mountain in any of its phases, you will wish to climb to the top of it as many of our friends have done -- friends of all ages from those who have "counted their seven times" beyond "seven times ten" * to young Johnnie who after waiting through an impatient year to be allowed the privilege to climb to the topmost round when only "seven times one". But no! Johnnie *See Jean Ingelow's poem, "Seven times Seven" Caption: Side-corner view of "Lloyd Lodge" showing one of the two large Sleeping Porches. (12 rooms, 4 bath rooms; the porch 1/16th mile long.) Column 2: Caption: The Old Hill Road (World Fellowship Road) running a mile from "Lloyd Lodge" to the "Farm House - Cottage - Hostel Center." The Fellowship owns all the land on the left side of this road and about half of the land on the right side - offering site for tents and bungalows. ==================================== was not the youngest. There are some youngsters, almost babies still, who attained the summit Indian-fashion, "on Daddy's back". From that mountain top you can look down upon a forest-panorama framed in by mountains and dotted with meadows and lakes. One of these lakes is our very own Lake, known at Whitton Pond, our own along two thousand feet of shore and over some acres of island. You reach it by a wide path through the wood - an old path which we have restored by cutting away underbrush, felling trees that have sprung up in the course of long years of neglect, and bulding bridges over streams that are at some seasons dry arroyos and sometimes mountain torrents. The Pond - for "pond" here in N. E. means a lake which is fed from beneath by springs - is a clear body of water made beautiful by trees and rocks and scattered islands unspoiled by the hand of man. There are boats there and a pier and a float and even a shelter where you can pass the night if you choose. The islands bear memories of marshmallow roasts by moonlight and give promise of excursions made alluring by the romance and mystery that cluster always about an island. If you don't care for the wildness and remoteness of this lake or for the half mile of walk to it through the woods, "the carriage waits" every afternoon - the car- riage being our big truck provided with seats for the occasion - to take you two or three miles to Lake Chocorua. There you will find another lovely lake, with its namesake mountain as a back-drop and a sandy beach for swimming, just beside the highway where there is the buzz of life and the cultivated beauty of a forest-reserve. Or - nestling deep in a forest tangle, so deep that it was long lost and forgotten, reached only by a narrow path, lies our own "Haunted Pond". It is deep and dark and lonely as befits its name and the ground around its edge springs beneath your feet. Around it you find strange vegetation, like the pitcher-plant, found chiefly in our northeastern states and there but rarely. It is a green trap, pitcher-shape, which closes on the unwary insects that fall into its hairy throat and devours them. Geologists say our pond is a "pot-hole", scooped out by stones that bubbled and boiled at the based of a glacier which rested there and melted into a lake. If you still long for the joys of civilization, you can supplement these ventures into the wilds with a game of croquet or badminton or ping-pong. There are hints, too, that a softball field is in the making. For your quieter hours there are two kinds of checkers or anagrams and any card game you may choose. Column 3: You will like the place also if you love a good argument or a discussion of the evils that beset us in these hectic times. Almost any evening during the summer you are welcome - not urged - to sit with us in the cheerful conference room with its curled maple floor and hand-hewn rafters. You may hope for unsea- sonably cold weather to justify a fire in the big stone fire-place. You may listen sometimes to practiced speak- ers imported for the occasion, but more often to chance guests unheralded and unknown, of any race or color, who bring to the common pool their varied outlooks and wide-reaching experiences such sometimes as have cut deep into their souls. You will accept it without resentment, as part of the "dear togetherness" of the occasion if our faithful, failing old dog Clippy stalks through the room or is Dustard, most beautiful of cats and most loving, overcomes his shyness and establishes himself on some hospitable lap. If you like people - if you admire them in spite of their failures and love them in spite of their faults - you will find pleasure and inspiration among the brilliant and interesting people from many lands and from many backgrounds who are "friends of a day" at our Center. Out of their brief companionships here many have found lasting and heartening friendships. You will love the place if you care most of all for "the deep things of God." This is one of the periods in the world's history when with many people the word "religion" is in disrepute, perhaps because of the many crimes that have been committed in its name. But it is said that those who have followed the trails of human thought through the jungles of history have found that the faith in a Divine power persists and always strengthens after such lapses. World Fellowship stands not for any sect or denomination, but recognizes religion as "The Good Life Universal". If you value not religion as called by that name, but seek after those things which are the essence of every true religion, you will still find here an atmostphere in which you can "let the spiritual, unbidden and un- conscious, grow up through the common." Wisely and well said the Eastern bard: Fear is easy but love is hard. He is greatest and best who can Worship Allah by loving man. (Whittier) Caption: Our Farm House and attached Youth Hostel - 5 sunny rooms and 3 large dormitories, 3 bath rooms (2 with showers), 2 kitchens. - and "Clippy" our English Setter "Friend to Man." Mt. Chocorua in our front yard. (One mile to entrance to Piper Trail which leads in 3.8 miles to the summit.) Our Cottage--Farm House--Youth Hostel. WORLD FELLOWSHIP AND YOUTH HOSTEL VISITORS INVITED Photo by "Misha and Masha", Youth Hostelers. World Fellowship's Trees and Mountains beckon to you in Winter, too. WORLD FELLOWSHIP AND YOUTH HOSTEL VISITORS INVITED Eugenia Winston Weller (Founder--Vice President) Charles Frederick Weller (Founder--President) Our Fellowship Road in Winter. Looking towards Mt. Chocorua from the Old Hill Road between the Lodge and the Farm House--Cottage--Hostel Center. World Fellowship is Open All Year. FOR INFORMATION regarding Rates, Transportation, etc. please write to WORLD FELLOWSHIP Conway, N. H. (Phone: Madison 4 ring 4) THE FOUR GENERAL EXECUTIVES: CHARLES FREDERICK WELLER, Founder--President EUGENIA WINSTON WELLER, Founder--Vice President MAUDE PICKETT SMITH, Managing Hostess Our autos give free transportation, every afternoon, for Swimming--bathing in an ideal, sandy-bottomed beach in Lake Chocorua, 2 miles south of our Farm House. 1927 Summit Place, N. E. Washington 2, D. C. February 27, 1950 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1615- S- Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. Dear Madam: In regards to our telephone conversation on February 27 in reference to to you lecturering to the Young People's Department of The Metropolitan Baptist Church, 1225- R Street, Northwest March 19, 1950 at 7:00 o'clock p.m. Theme: "Freedoms Foundation - American Homes". I hope your reply will be a favorable one. Thanking you in advance. I remain Respectfully yours, Warner Patterson General Program Chairman Hu 8671 7681 National Committee To Free The Ingram Family National Office Hotel Theresa 125th STREET and 7th AVENUE ROOM 108 NEW YORK 27, N. Y. Provisional Officers: Chairman MARY CHURCH TERRELL National Vice Chairman ADA B. JACKSON National Executive Secretary THERESE L. ROBINSON National Administrative Secretary MAUDE WHITE KATZ National Treasurer Halois Moorehead Partial List of Sponsors Atlanta, Georgia Mrs. W. A. Scott Mrs. John Wesley Dobbs Winston-Salem, N. C. Mrs. Velma Hopkins Miss Moranda Smith Philadelphia, Pa. Mrs. Bettye L. Alleyne Mrs. Dorothy Lymas Temple Texas Mrs. F. M. Meredith Mrs. C. J. Fisher New York, New York Mrs. Estelle M. Osborne Mrs. Shirley Graham Dr. Gene Weltfish Mrs. Yolanda Wilkerson Mrs. Elinor Gimbel Miss Esther Letz Miss Florence Murray Detroit, Michigan Miss Erma Henderson Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Charlotta Bass Memphis, Tennessee Mrs. Rosa Brown Bracy Vicksburg, Mississippi Mrs. G. H. Jefferson Enfield, Connecticut Mrs. Eslanda Goode Robeson Augusta, Georgia Mrs. E. V. Wallace Washington, D. C. Miss Sally Peek Dean George A. Parker Lexington, Kentucky Mrs. Lucy Harth Smith February 28, 1950 My dear Mrs. Terrell: I am enclosing a copy of the new brochure. It is long overdue. However, it appears at a very appropriate time since the Human Rights commission will begin its session on Monday,March 27, at Lake Success. The previous information was that it would meet in May in Europe. We are sending a memorandum to our supporters throughout the country informing them of the meeting and suggesting what should be done. I think it would carry a lot of weight if pressure is directed to other members of the Human Rights Commission besides those of our own country. I have been without a secretary for several weeks.Now I have a person who comes in three hours a day. As soon as the rush work in connection with the Human Rights Commission is under way the financial statements for January and February will be sent out. I have been following your activities in the civil rights campaign in Washington.It is very inspiring. Wishing you the very best of health. Sincerely yours, Maude White Katz PS-I shall send you more brochures under seperate cover. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.