CORRESPONDENCE May 1952 Washington, D.C. 1952 May 3 230 PM Dr. Mary Church Terrell 1915 S St., N.W. Washington, D.C. Dear member of The East and West Association, The Washington Korean Fraternity will present a program of classical Korean songs and dances. This unusual and distinctive program will include Korea's foremost artists, Taekwon Cho and Chwagyong Kim. Mr. Cho, whose graceful, lithe movements have won him an unequalled reputation, has been unexcelled in the field of classical Korean dancing. Miss Kim, Korea's lilting songbird with an unsurpassable reputation in the field of classical Korean songs, added her fame in the USA through radio, television, and stage, and needs no further introduction. This is a show that cannot be missed by a person who is interested in Oriental culture. We urge you to take full advantage of this rare opportunity. Place: Pierce Hall, Unitarian Church, 16th and Columbia Road Time: 8 O'clock, Wednesday, May 7, 1952 Tickets: $1.50, will be on sale at the door. Sincerely yours, The Washington Korean Fraternity President, Chuman Chun 407 West 146 Street New York, New York 31 May 4, 1952 Dear Friend: The Jame Weldon Johnson Literary Guild and a group of personal friends of Mrs. Elizabeth Ross Haynes plan to pay tribute to Mrs. Haynes at a garden party-reception on Sunday, June 22 from 4 to 8 P.M. at the residence of Mrs. J. Marita Williams, 404 147th Street. Mrs. Haynes, the author of Unsung heroes, has just publish a biography of Major R. R. Wright, the title of which is, "A Black boy of Atlanta". As you know, the late Major R.R. Wright was founder and president of the Citizens and Southern Bank and Trust Company which is located in the City of Philadelphia, Penna. The Committee is very anxious to have you listed among the patrons for this occasion. Please return the enclosed card at once saying you will serve as a sponsor. Sincerely yours, J. Marita Williams Roberta Bosley Hubert Co-chairmen The James Weldon Johnson Literary Guild and Friends of the Community invite you to attend A GARDEN PARTY-RECEPTION in honor of Elizabeth Ross Haynes Outstanding Community Worker and Author of the Black Boy of Atlanta (Biography of The Famous Negro Banker, Major R. R. Wright) and Unsung Heroes at the residence of J. Marita Williams 404 West 147th STREET SUNDAY, JUNE 22, 1952 From 4 to 8 o'clock J Marita Williams and Roberta Bosley Hubert Co-Chairmen Phyllis Oliver President of James Weldon Johnson Literary Guild Program NORMAN ANAKER......Winner of the I.B.P.O.E Oratorical Contest Reading Creation by James Weldon Johnson ATTY> THOMAS B> DYETT......Depute Commissioner of Corrections DOROTHY HEIGHT.....National Y.W.C.A. Secretary DOROTHY R. HOMER......Librarian at Countee Cullen Branch Library JAMES H. HUBERT.....Member of Queen's Board of Education CLIFFORD L. MILLER.....Author "Wings Over Dark Waters" ATTY. RUTH WHITEHEAD WHALEY.....Secretary, Board of Estimates of New York City SADYE KNIGHT.....Soprano WILLIAM LAWRENCE, Accompanist Mrs. Haynes will present manuscript of a Black Boy of Atlanta to the james Weldon Johnson collection of art and letters located at Yale University. This collection was a gift to Yale University several years ago by Carl Van Bechten. SPONSORS Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Alexander James Egbert Allen Samuel A. Allen A.K.A. Tau Omega Chapter Gertrude E. Ayer Ruby Bailey Lura Beam I. Howard Bennett Jean Blackwell Ann V. Boyd Andrades Lindsay Brown Dr. Charlotte Hawkings Brown Eunice H. Carter Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert Mayne L. Chapman Dr. Perry W. Cheney Dr. Rufus Clement Helen Curtis Belle Davis Elba de Reyes Mrs. Kendall Emerson Alice Fairclough Dr. Charles S. Fairclough Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel L. Foster Mr. and Mr.s Freeman Katie Knox George Margaret H. Greene George Gregory W.C. Handy Theodore Hubert Ruth Handy Ann Arnold Hedgeman Milton Jackson Harold Jackman Olyve L. Jeter Mr.s Charles S. Johnson Hall Johnson Eliza Jordan Henry K. Kraft Mrs. William Lawrence Dr. J. Oscar Lee Dr. Henry Smith Leiper Harriet Wright Lemon Rev. Davie Licorish Evelyn C. McKay Dr. Benjamin Mays Mr. and Mrs. Clifford L. Miller Mrs. Alfred E. Mudge Andy Razaf Frances Kraft Reckling Mrs. Albert S. Reed Mrs. Emory Ross Minna K. Ross Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Fitzgerald Phillips Harry D. Roberson Ruth Logan Roberts Cecilia Cabaniss Saunders Rev. Marshall L. Shepard Mabel K. Staupers Ella P. Stewart Hope Stingarn Dr. Olivia P. Stokes Melva M. Stuart Maceo A. Thomas Dr. and Mrs. James W. Thornton Dr. Channing H. Tobias Dr. H. Coucill Trenholm Annie Laurie Tucker Dr. Mary Church Terrell Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt A. Tynes Carl Van Vechten Dr. Mary Fitzbutler Waring Dr. and Mrs. James C. Whitaker Atty. Ruth Whitehead Whaley Ella Bosley White Gladys White Fletcher Williams Sayde Williams MaBelle W. Williams Rev. M.L. Wilson Dr. Louis T. Wright Dr. Whittier H. Wright Nannie D. Wynne Hospitalized Veterans Music Service of the Musicians Emergency Fund, Inc. Steinway Hall 113 West 57th Street New York 19, N.Y. Circle 7-4108 Honorary Chairman Maj. Gen. William J. Donovan Honorary Vice-Chairmen Rear Adm. Luis De Florez Brig. Gen. David Sarnoff Chairman of the Board Fritz Kreisler President Mrs. Lytle Hull Treasurer Charles V. Hickox Artists Committee Licia Albanese Claudio Arrau Alexander Brailowsky Robert Casadesus Olga Coelho Samuel Dushkin Mischa Elman Eileen Farrell Zino Francescatti Carl Freidberg Myra Hess Vladimir Horowitz Jose Iturbi Jascha Heifetz Andre Kostelanetz Lotte Lehmann Martha Lipton George London Pierre Luboshutz Jeanette MacDonald Yehudi Menuhin Nathan Milstein Pierre Monteux Patrice Munsel Genia Nemenoff Elena Nikolaidi Eugene Ormandy Gregor Piatigorsky Ezio Pinza Lily Pons Leonard Rose Lanny Ross Fritz Reiner Artur Rubinstein Bidu Sayao Thomas Scherman Alexander Smallens Albert Spalding Rise Stevens Eleanor Steber Gladys Swarthout Blanche Thebom John Charles Thomas Lawrence Tibbett Bruno Walter May 5, 1952 Dear Friend: In the Veterans Hospitals today are thousands of boys, some shattered and broken, but most with the will to live and overcome the disabilities their sacrifices have brought them. These young men are the "Forgotten Men in Our Veterans Hospitals," as reported in the enclosed article reprinted from the Readers Digest. We desperately need additional public support in order to help these boys, many of whom have spent long months in the veterans hospitals shut away from their friends and families. More poignant than the misery of confinement is the sense of aloneness which comes to many who are virtually abandoned by those near and dear to them. Since 1945, working under the supervision of doctors in the Veterans Administration hospitals, we have had the opportunity of helping in the rehabilitation of thousands of these young men. Our professional staff of musicians go into the hospitals to give musi- cal instruction of every kind to those veterans who wish to take the courses and for whom this form of therapy has been recommended by their doctors. Over 15,000 veterans have participated in this program and more would have enjoyed its benefits had the funds been available. At present, more than 4,000 veterans suffering from tuberculosis, battle wounds, paraplegia and mental illness are on the waiting list for our service. Will you help today by sending us your gift to enable us to care for one or more of these veterans during the coming year. A gift of $180 will take care of the needs of one boy for a full year; $15 will enable us to help him for one month. What we can do for these boys who have suffered in the service of our country is little enough, but it is earnest of our belief that they are the sons and brothers of all of us, that their need is our common concern, and that we shall never forget them. Faithfully yours, Fritz Kreisler Fritz Kreisler 4 THE READER'S DIGEST niece or friends. A bar tender at Holyoke, Mass., comes with his wife twice weekly, like clock-work, to visit his son at the Northampton hospital. They bring him delicacies and reading matter, and take him on outings. "These visits," said the mother, "mean more to me than anything I do, or could do." A devoted sister make the long trip from Kansas to Northampton every six months. And for seven years an aged mother traveled by bus 150 miles, twice a month, to visit her son. --- The program of the Hospitalized Veterans Music Services has been developed to send trained musical instructors into the veterans hospitals to give music lessons, organize ward participation programs, plan concerts-all under the direction of the doctors in the Veterans Administration Hospitals. Through this use of music, physical and mental rehabilitation has been accelerated. Among the many tributes in recognition of this valuable service are the following: "It is one of the services given to veterans that brings them a touch of home and a service that we could not buy for any price." General Carl R. Gray, Jr. Administrator, Veterans Affairs Veteran Administration, Washington, D. C. "Your organization has been outstanding in presenting two types of music activities to the patients in Veterans Administration hospitals. Your work in bringing professional music instructors to our hospitals is one of the most valued parts of our music program. I sincerely hope you are able to continue this phase of your work as well as expanding it to other Veterans Administration hospitals. It is a program which our patients look forward to with great anticipation. I am particularly pleased to call attention to these fields of endeavor in which your organization has done such excellent work." General F. R. Kerr Assistant Administrator for Special Services Veterans Administration HOSPITALIZED VETERANS MUSIC SERVICE 113 WEST 57TH STREET • NEW YORK 19, N. Y. The Reader's Digest ----- Forgotten Men in Our Veterans' Hospitals By Holman Harvey TENS of thousand of men, heroes of our wars, are lying today on the white cots of veteran's hospitals all over this land, shamefully deserted by their families. On a tour of Veteran's Administration hospitals, I sat by the bedsides of scores of these forgotten men, I talked with indignant doctors, nurses, and hospital chaplains who know the story. I checked the official visitors' lists where the appalling neglect is a matter of record for anyone to read. Lying in a VA hospital in the South is a broken young son of our country who was decorated for extraordinary heroism at Anzio beachhead. He collapsed from exposure and was invalided home with tuberculosis. His fiancée phoned once, but never came to see him. Of his three brothers and three sisters and their wives and husbands, eight lived withing 30 miles of the hospital, four withing 60 miles. Not one has ever visited him during the six years of illness. Would it interest his former fiancée and his deserting family to hear that Lieutenant Corridan is winning his fight against tuberculosis- and neglect? Other soldiers can't take the neglects so well. Pfc. Joe Haisen, kept telephoning his absent family, without result. Recently he turned over quietly on his cot and died. I have the story from his roommate: "Joe didn't care any more ---- ALTHOUGH the cases here disclosed are based on firsthand data, names and minor details have been altered to protect the anonymity of men who contributed information in confidence in the belief that other veterans might benefit. 2 The Reader's Digest what happened to him. He had a wife and three kids, and two brothers. They never came to see him. Not once. He lay there brooding over them for months on end. On the last day, he raised up and said 'What the hell, Artie, am I such a bad guy?' Everybody here liked Joe. He could have got out of here, in time. How can a fellow's own family do this to him?" "Butch" Anders, a noncom with the U.S. Ninth Army at the Rhine, was shot ip, as he says, "to hell and gone." Three married brothers, and an only sister, his sole remaining relatives, have not been near him since he came home on a stretcher six years ago. "How do you feel about it, Sergeant?" "Pal, they've got their own lives to live, haven't they? Who's kicking?" (The hospital record: "Patient acutely despondent.") When visitors are expected at VA hospitals, the patients who are able to walk gather restlessly at the windows. They stand and watch the road, following each bus and car as it arrives. It is a rending sight to see. Later, at some of the beds, there will be warmth and gay chatting. Other men in the ward lie and look on for a while, then turn over to wonder where their families are today. Some turn over to cry. The most neglected of all veterans are the 51,000 men still in VA neuropsychiatric hospitals. Forty percent at one hospital had had no visit from a family member or friend for over a year. Many were even less fortunate. In these VA mental hospitals are many finely gifted men who broke under the shocks of war. Among them is Edward Clarkton, a casualty of World War I. He was a graduate of one of the great European art schools, and today the walls of his midwestern hospital are embellished with scores of magnificent murals which he has executed over the years of his illness. He is a man of courtly and delightful demeanor. One loyal sister visits him twice a year. Three married brothers and another sister never come. "Why, certainly," he said, "I should like to see them again. I often think of my boyhood when we were all together, and I wonder what they are doing now —but I simply don't hear." Seven relatives of Corporal Jack Craine haven't visited him in five years, although living on 40 miles away. Jack is a grade-A hero of Patton's Third Army, with many decorations. Since shrapnel got Jack he has been staging a comeback in an NP hospital — without family help. "The boys really get a kick out of having visitors," he said. "But I can't expect my folks to come 40 miles each way, can I now?" In another hospital Carter Macklin kept writing to 11 brothers and sisters without ever getting an answer, until he decided he'd just "stop breaking my arm over them." Carter will be discharged soon. His wounds are healed, but he will carry another scar— inflicted by his own blood kin. In a New England TB hospital, I talked with five young women. Very gay, they crowded into the small room in pajamas and dressing gowns — an Army nurse, a Marine girl and three WACs. Four of them had come back from overseas expecting to be married. "Our boy friends were the first to drop away," they said. "They don't even FORGOTTEN MEN IN OUR VETERANS' HOSPITALS 3 write us any more. Well—it's better to find out now than later." All five are due to recover. Fear of visiting a TB hospital is widespread. For those who wish to see a relative or friend, here are the facts: All entrance halls, reception rooms and corridors are continuously charged with powerful germicidal solutions. Into these public spaces, no patient is allowed unless tested negative. Each has undergone a rigid course in personal hygiene. None will offer to shake your hand, none will approach within two yards of you. VA physicians agree that the chance of contagion under these highly controlled conditions is less than is encountered daily on public conveyances. Many families have a genuine fear of visiting a neuro-psychiatric hospital. It is a survival of the old dread of "madhouses." For their benefit, here are the facts, confirmed by official statement and this writer's personal investigation: A small minority of patients are violent but only for limited periods of "active" distress. They are segregated in locked wards. But the great majority of CP patients are mild. To their open wards and visiting rooms no violent patient has access. Among them you will often find a gentleness of manner seldom met with in the outside world. Many are in pathetic need of family affection. Families may be encouraged to know that scores of Smith College girls volunteer to attend the regular NP patients' dances at Northampton, Mass. No unpleasant experience has ever resulted. Perhaps the most unforgivable neglect is on the part of families who regard it as a "family stain" to have a member in an NP hospital. Since visiting might disclose the fact, they stay discreetly away. Well, one of President Truman's top advisers has a son in a VA mental hospital, and visits him at every opportunity. Only petty people could feel otherwise. The neglect of the older men in VA hospitals is wounding to witness. These is a World War I man, now 54, who fell in the Battle of the Marne. He staked his son to a higher education. The son is today a professor of mathematics at a distinguished university. In the past seven years, he has neither visited nor written his father. A 71-year-old veteran of the Spanish- American War has a son who is today a successful businessman, and a married daughter. Both are within easy driving distance of his hospital. His daughter visited him once 13 years ago. His son has never come. Out of kindness, the hospital authorities have led him to believe that his children have returned to Ireland, his birthplace. Twenty-four years ago another World War I soldier who fought with the 301st Engineers in France received his last note from his family. No Christmas presents ever arrive. A Navy yeoman, now 48, has lived 21 years without a visit from two sisters who live in the same western state. A 53-year-old veteran of the 304th Cavalry had an only brother who has not been near him in 12 years. But there are heart-warming contrasts. One wounded vet is visited at least once a week by his wife, children, [ *[5-5-52]* ] EAST AND WEST ASSOCIATION Important Notice of Meeting for Members and Friends Dear members and friends: The Executive Council is very much pleased with the results of the winter series of meetings just ended. We have had a variety of programs, both cultural and intellectual, covering a series of countries of particularly timely importance, and which have evoked an enthusiastic response from all of you. We hope we can continue in this manner in the future. But we need your help. No, this is not an appeal for funds, but for something far more valuable. We need your constructive criticism and ideas as to how the programs should be arranged next year. What countries would you like to have studied? Do you thinks there should be more emphasis on cultural or on intellectual topics, or do you like the balance we have now? In particular, we need members for the Executive Council, who would like to share in the work of organizing programs, contacting people from different Embassies, and participating in general . We who are already on the Committee find this work very pleasant, that it consumes as much or as little time as we can spare, and brings us into contact with new and interesting friends. But whether you come to offer active assistance, or to register your views as to how the program series can be improved, or merely as an observer, we hope you will attend the general meeting of members and friends of the East and West Association. This meeting will take place at the Friends Meeting House, 2111 Florida Avenue (Decatur Place entrance), on Thursday, May 15, 1952, at 8:15 p.m. During the course of the meeting officers for next year will be elected. All interested persons are invited to attend, but only members will have the privilege of voting. We hope we can count on you. Sincerely yours, John P. Powelson Chairman, Executive Council May 5, 1952 May 5th '52 My dear Mrs. Terrell I think of you often. I have very fond memories of the days when I got to Washington often. We enjoyed the bridge games immensely in those days. May God bless you and keep you. You have served humanity well through the years, as did your brother. With love & sympathy. Carrie B Gandy May His great love abide with you And give you strength to bear the loss that you have suffered And keep you in his care Carrie B. Gandy FREEDOM RALLY INC. The New Dunbar Hotel Washington, D. C. May 6, 1952 Dear Friend: Enclosed is a copy of a press release concerning Freedom Rally which I hope you will read carefully. From it, you will note that Freedom Rally will close soon, after a last mass meeting to be held on June 1, 1952, at the Bible way Church. Between now and June 1, we are asking every friend of Freedom Rally to make a final effort to raise funds individually, and report such funds at the big mass meeting on June 1. A meeting of all Interested workers and Board members will be held on Saturday, May 17, at 3:00 P.M. at Freedom Rally Headquarters in the New Dunbar. Your attendance will not only be greatly appreciated but will permit you to make a great final contribution with your sug- gestions as to how we may best conclude the Freedom Rally fund-raising campaign. Please be present at this one big meeting. Kindly return this enclosed card. Very truly yours Enclosures S. E. Williams Rev. Smallwood E. Williams Chairman John B. Duncan John B. Duncan, Coordinator FREEDOM RALLY INC. The New Dunbar Hotel Washington, D. C. May 5, 1952 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Rev. Smallwood E. Williams, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Freedom Rally reported this week that on May 1, 1952 the Board of Directors of Freedom Rally reviewed the progress made since April 1951 in the various fields originally designated as fields which needed some financial attention for purposes of eliminating segregation and discrimination in the District of Columbia. These major fields included Recreation, Places of Public Accommodation, Public Housing and Education as well as housing and education of deaf Negro children, later added to the list. The Board of Directors agreed that funds to aid the needy in the successful prosecution of valid legal oases should be made available wherever the success of such legal cases would tend to eliminate generally segregation and discrimination in the District of Columbia. In April 1951, Freedom Rally opened an office at 1532 You Street, N. W. staffed with an Executive Secretary and an Assistant. After two months, the position of assistant was abolished in order to reduce costs of operation, as the Board had found that an expense of approximately $750.00 per month would be required for publications and printing, rent, supplies, equipment, renting of office furniture and the two salaries. Abolition of the office assistant and a curtailment of expenditures on supplies and equipment reduced these costs by approximately $300 per month. While the organization found it difficult to obtain adequate volunteer personnel and raise the necessary funds for the program, it nevertheless aided the prosecution of cases in the several fields, and at the same time sustained its operating costs and paid every one of its debts and obligations. Subsequently, in December 1951, Freedom Rally further reduced its operating costs by securing a suite of offices in The New Dunbar Hotel as a donation from the hotel management; and at the same time, the Board abolished the office of Executive Secretary, paid all of its bulls, and has since operated solely with volunteers. While this new idea of community organization was difficult to introduce to a previously unorganized total community, Freedom Rally has, nevertheless, been able not only to maintain itself, but to make important contributions in several fields. The Board of Freedom Rally now sees possibility of closing the financial campaign in June, after it makes further appropriations of approximately $2,500.00 in the field of education, after which time it will publish its financial report and open its books to public inspection. In reviewing the progress made generally in the city to date, the Board of Freedom Rally points with pride to the advancement of legal cases and claims a share of the credit for the progress made. Its analysis of the present status of legal cases and of general progress in the various fields is a follows: Places of Public Accommodation -- The Board donated $300.00 to the American Veterans Committee to assure the filing of one of the most important briefs in the Thompson Restaurant Case. The Board has been advised that this case will need no further financing in its probable course to the U.S. Supreme Court, as the D.C. Corporation Counsel is said to have reported that his office will, in the name of government, prosecute the case to the end, thus bearing the expenses therefor. The Board of Freedom Rally decided at its May meeting that on the basis of this report, no further financial aid should be granted in this field. Recreation -- With respect to this field, the Board of Freedom Rally concluded that the $1,000.00 donated to the N.A.A.C.P. in the Recreation Case enabled the N.A.A.C.P. to prosecute that case to the Supreme Court, particularly since the legal redress fund of the N.A.A.C.P. recently has been supplemented. The Board further pointed out that while Freedom Rally had originally agreed to help - 2 - in the payment of attorney fees, no attorney fees are being charged in these cases. The Deaf Children's Case - at its May meeting, the Board of Freedom Rally acted favorably on the request of the American Veterans Committee for $200.00 to cover the printing of briefs in the Deaf Children's Case which is now before the District Court. These funds are made available to eliminate segregation evidenced by the requirement that Negro deaf children attend schools for the deaf in neighboring states. Public Housing -- Also, at its May meeting, the Freedom Rally Board approved the reservation of $300.00 for the legal defense fund of N.A.A.C.P. to cover costs of filing briefs and printing the records in cases involving the elimination of segregation in the field of Public Housing. The Board was advised that here, again, no attorney fees will be necessary, thus reducing the probable costs to a bare minimum; and that no serious problem could seem to arise in connection with needed finances. The Board voted also to conclude its program in this field, leaving but one field that remains in need of funds, namely education. Education -- In this field, the Board recognized that the case already filed and now before the appellate courts is prosecuted by public spirited lawyers who are making no charge for their services, thus reducing costs to a minimum; and that no application for Freedom Rally funds has been necessary. It concluded that if that case is successful, a segregation will be eliminated from the public schools. The Board felt, however, that if the case were not successful, a new case would be necessary on a different basis and with a different approach, in which Rev. Williams has already invested over $600.00 and which will cost several thousand dollars to prosecute fully. The Board then concluded that between now and June 1, 1952, it would carry on its concluding program to raise approximately $2,500.00 with which to aid the prosecution of that case to the U.S. Supreme Court, if necessary. A mass meeting rally is scheduled for June 1 to be held at Bible Way Church when Freedom Rally will conclude its program. Following that meeting it will issue its public financial report of its bonded Treasurer and open its books to public inspection. Freedom Rally's organizer and Coordinator, John B. Duncan, said this week that he is well pleased with the aid that Freedom Rally has been able to give to needy cases in the five fields mentioned; and that he is particularly happy to learn that the large sums of money that he originally through would be necessary have been greatly reduced as a result of the willingness of lawyers to serve the public without charge. The public is invited to attend the mass meeting at Bible Way Church on Sunday, June 1, at 4:00 P.M. May 6, 1952 Dear Mrs. Terrell, I am glad you found Paul Blanshard's book thot - provoking - I'm still working on his second volume. The Florida three weeks turned out to be quite a tour. According to Mr. Brumbaugh it was just what he had hoped to get out of the vacation - We drove over 3,000 miles and visited a great many colleges and Universities. We had a delightful visit with our friends, the Aaron Browns at Albany State College. They are such fine intelligent people & frustrated like ourselves over the slow progress being made in many areas of the racial issues! On April 21st my father passed away - He had a stroke & went suddenly - It was a real blessing because I think seeing him bed fast & suffering would have broken my heart - He would have been 84 years in July. He was a teacher for 53 years and the tributes from his students have been wonderful - He was also a poet and I've been living with him again as I go over his writing - Illinois has finally given us a stretch of good weather and I hope it lasts thru the weekend, Our Board of Trustees is meeting on our Campus on Friday & Saturday and since they furnish the cash for this venture we must make a good impression. Dr. Gilky former dean at Rockafeller Chapel is speaking here on Founder's Day May 11 - after the service we have a pilgrimage to the cemetary where Frances Shimer is burried. Since Sunday is Mother's day we are encouraging parents to come to campus & we are setting up a Sat. picnic and outdoor play day for them in addition to staging sample class discussion groups which parents can visit - It looks now as tho our enrolment will increase next year and we hope we can be at capacity soon. Last night the Mt. Carroll Branch AAUW. met here at Sawyer House- We have one more meeting in June which will be a Luncheon some where near- We have 51 members in the Branch. I attended the Regional Conference in Grand Rapids which had over seven hundred attending - It was a very well planned & well executed conference- I suppose you are beginning to think in the direction of your summer cottage for a change and rest. I keep hoping you will get out to this part of the country to see us - I hope you can do that & see our college. Much love Ruth S Brumbaugh Mr. Thomas A. Church 1615 S St., N. W. Washington, D. C. Dear Friend: This is to inform you that dedication services for the new women's dormitories at Howard University, Phyllis Wheatley and Maria L. Baldwin Halls, will be held in the Harriet Tubman Court of the Women's Dormitories (4th and College Streets, N.W.) on Fridays, May 9, at 4:00 P.M. You are cordially invited to attend this service. The presentation of the buildings will be made by the Honorable Oscar R. Ewing, Administrator of the Federal Security Agency. The dedication address will be delivered by Dr. Althea K. Hottel, Dean of Women of the University of Pennsylvania. Other participants in the program include President Mordecai W. Johnson, Attorney George E. C. Hayes, Dr. Daniel G. Hill and the University Choir. In the event of rain, the services will be held in Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel. Cordially yours, OTTO McCLARRIN Acting Director of Public Relations HOWARD UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON 1, D. C. OFFICE OF DEAN OF STUDENTS May 7, 1952 Dear Mrs. Terrell: Enclosed pleased find complimentary tickets to the following affairs: Dinner meeting, Friday, May 9, 8:00 P.M. - 10:00 P.M. Luncheon meeting, Saturday, May 10, 12 noon - 1:30 P.M. Dinner meeting, Saturday, May 10, 6:30 P.M. - 8:30 P.M. We are looking forward to your attendance at our Conference of Student Personnel Workers and Student Leaders and hope that you will enjoy your visit with us immensely. Sincerely yours, Armour J. Blackburn Dean of Students Director of Conference Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1615 S Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. CONFERENCE STUDENT PERSONNEL WORKERS AND STUDENT LEADERS DINNER TICKET Saturday, May 10, 1952 - 6:30 p. m. BALDWIN HALL CAFETERIA - - - $2.25 Washington Area Office The National Conference of Christians & Jews, Inc. Founded 1928 For Peace (World Brotherhood) and Freedom 733 Southern Building, Washington 5, D.C. National 4620 Brotherhood Week February 17-24, 1952 Hon. Oscar L. Chapman Chairman for District of Columbia Honorary Co-Chairmen Mrs. Alben W. Barkley The Honorable John Russell Young The Honorable F. Joseph Donohue Brigadier General Bernard L. Robinson Area Co-Chairmen Dr. George R. Ellis Aaron Goldman The Honorable Wilbur LaRoe, Jr. Advertising Tom Griffin Armed Services Cooperation Chaplain William B. Estes Chaplain Paul G. Linaweaver Chaplain Alphonse B. Slivinsky Churches and Synagogues The Right Rev. Msgr. John K. Cartwright Dr. Edward L.R. Elson Rabbi David H. Panitz Community Organizations Lee D. Butler John B. Duncan Dinner Committee Edgar Morris Francis J. Kane Milton S. Kronheim, Sr. William E. Leahy Education Dr. Hobart M. Corning Reverend Ramon A. di Nardo Dr. Richard Kennan Government The Honorable Jesse M. Donaldson Labor Clem Preller Glen Watts Motion Picture George Crouch Orville Crouch Frank LaFalce Newspaper Benjamin M. McKelway Radio and Television Gene Juster Bryson Rash Veterans Colonel George E. Ijams Women's Activities Mrs. Bernard A Chandler Mrs. Raphael Tourover Mrs. John F. Victory Director Verna D. Lintel Public Relations Rick LaFalce May 9, 1952 Dear Miss Terrell: Because of your interest in and support of this work with which Joseph D. Kaufman is so vitally concerned, we believe you will be interested in the accompanying enclosures. The first is a reprint from the Congressional Record, Being an extension of the remarks of the Honorable Donald L. Jackson of California, on the occasion of the bestowal of the 1952 Brotherhood Week Award upon Mr. Kaufman. The second is an excerpt from the Minutes of the April 16th Meeting of our Steering Committee-a story of what your dollars are making possible in the furtherance of better intergroup understanding here in our Washington Area. Will you renew that support at this time and help us to continue and to expand our program. Sincerely, George R. Ellis Dr. George R. Ellis Aaron Goldman Aaron Goldman W. LaRoe, Jr. Wilbur LaRoe, Jr. CoChairman Encl. P. S. Your last contribution was in the amount of $25.00. Harry S. Truman, Honorary Chairman Eric Johnston, General Chairman National Co-Chairman-Thomas E. Braniff Benson Ford Roger Williams Strauss (Not printed at Government expense) Congressional Record Brotherhood Award to Joseph D. Kaufman Extension of Remarks of Hon. Donald L. Jackson of California In the House of Representatives Tuesday, March 4, 1952 Mr. Jackson of California. Mr. Speaker, I regret that my absence from Washington on official business of the Congress during the recent celebration of Brotherhood Week rendered it im- possible for me to pay a small measure of tribute to Mr. Joseph D. Kaufman of this city during that week and upon the occasion of his designation by the District chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews as the winner of the annual award. The selection of Mr. Kaufman to receive this high honor will win the appease of all who are truly dedicated to brotherhood. Perhaps no other citizen in the Nation's Capital so truly personifies the characteristics of brotherhood and fraternity. Certainly a great part of Mr. Kaufman's long and distinguished career has been dedicated to the high ideals and principles upon which this Nation is founded. He epitomizes the true spirit of brotherly love and unity so necessary today in a world in turmoil and conflict. Mr. George Kennedy, of the Washington Evening Star, summed up the high lights of Mr. Kaufman's career in a feature story which preceded the brotherhood award, and the story should be of interest to all who seek cooperative endeavor and friendship among all men of good will. Mr. Kennedy's story follows: Brotherhood Award To Be Given to Joseph D. Kaufman Tuesday--Testimonial To Honor Him for Years of District of Columbia Civic Work (By George Kennedy) Joseph D. Kaufman will receive the Brotherhood Award of the District chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews at a $25-a-plate testimonial dinner Tuesday at the Shoreham Hotel. Fifteen years ago Mr. Kaufman was one of the most active of this businessmen dedicated to service without whom no large community could operate. He was even better known as Radio Joe through the advertising of his men's clothing store facing Pennsylvania Avenue in the 1000 block of D Street NW. Then a heart ailment forced him to curtail his activity at his store, which accounted for only about half his income, and cut down on his appearances at civic rallies. Activity Slackened "I had to change from beating the drum and rattling the tambourine," he said recently in his Woodley Park Towers apartment. "Much of my activity today is at committee and board meetings." He looked tan and fit; just back from a Caribbean cruise. He had been practically sent out of town when his friends fears that his successful efforts in reviving the Belasco Theater as a service canteen might cause a relapse. Mr. Kaufman, who is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 160, is of an active nature. He is quick to jump from his chair to pass a cigarette or open refreshments. He has a way of answering questions with quotes: "Service is the rent we pay for room on earth," or "humanity is my interest-- conflict my destiny." Not All Cakes and Ale He says: "Brother, if you think it's all cakes and ale in getting things done that should be done--you're mistaken. You run into some real fundamental differences." His optimism and tendency to metaphor both bob up when he discusses the Christian- Jewish relations in this country. "The way to get tanned," he says, "is to get out in the sun. More people are getting out on the human relations beaches." "I think that education, not only in the schools but in industry where it is realized that bigotry can be one of the most expensive deterrents to operation--I think that education is having some success in teaching people to get along with those of a different background." He cited Henry Ford II's interest in becoming chairman of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. Started With Round Table The local chapter of the National Conference of Christians and Jews started about 1932 with round-table conferences between the late Right Reverend James E. Freeman, bishop of Washington; the Reverend Wilfred Parsons, of Catholic University; the late Rabbi Abram Simon; Joseph P. Tumulty; William Compton, who was then with George Washington University; and Mr. Kaufman. Mr. Kaufman was a founder of the Community Chist in 1929. He remembers an occasion when the State Department drive had halted at 88 percent of quota. He was called in to give the supervisors a pep talk. they must have thought it pretty good because he was called back to address the entire personnel of the Department. Secretary of State Hull was on the platform. Mr. Kaufman realized his situation. He was in there as a relief pitcher. The situation called for a fast ball, a change of pace, and a lot of control. He has a lot of quotations at his command and none are better than the Scriptures. Quotes St. Matthew He told them he realized that almost all of his audience was of the Christian faith. He gave them a verse from the Sermon on the Mount: "But seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all things shall be added unto you." The State Department drive went over the top. Two portraits in oil dominate his living room. They are his mother's grandparents, Seligman Luchs and his wife. The late Morton Luchs, of Shannon & Luchs, the real- estate firm, was a cousin. The original Joseph Kaufman, a baker, came here from German in 1849. His son, Marx, eventually opened a clothing store at Eighth and I Streets SE., in the Navy Yard section, where he sold Sunday clothes to workingmen. Marx had a younger brother, ave, in the store with him. In 1897 Dave opened a store of his own at 1005 D Street NW., now D. J. Kaufman, Inc. It prospered. He sent his son, Joseph, to Pennsylvania Military Academy at Chester, Pa. Recalls "Titanic" Sinking The Kaufman children were interested in social-settlement work. He remembers coming home from the Southwest Community House (now Barney House) with his sister Juanita in 1912 the night the extras were out on the sinking of the Titanic. The Juanita Kaufman Nye Council House at 530 Eighth Street SW. is named after his sister. Joseph Kaufman took over the store after World War I. He'd much rather talk about social service than about the store, although he is still president. It is run by his general manager, Oscar I. Dodek. But he was an enlivening influence on local trade when he was a merchant. He is credited with originating the first singing commercial, introducing the budget plan in Washington, and his store was the first to introduce seeing-eye, self-opening doors. Singing Commercial It was with some diffidence that he consented to play on the phonograph the record of the singing commercial that made him famous as Radio Joe. That was in the thirties, when he had a barrel in front of the store for deposit of tinfoil for patients at the Home for Incurables, and he used to serve free coffee, cigarettes, and cigars to customers who stopped in to pay their budget accounts. The commercial was sung to the air of Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms. It went: "Oh believe me if you want to buy some smart clothes, And you don't want to pay all in cash, You had better trot down to Radio Joe's, The budget he quickly will flash." His Memberships As for what they were--and are--the list of his committee memberships tells the story. He was public information chairman of the Community Chest and chairman of its metropolitan area committee. He was a board member of the Council of Social Agencies, which later became United Community Service. He was chairman of a committee for the National Symphony Orchestra and for the President's Cup Regatta. He is the National Capital area committee chairman for the United Services Organizations. He is a founder member of the Greater National Capital committee of the Washington Board of Trade. He is a former board member of Friendship House and of Goodwill Industries. He was organizing chairman of Foster Day Care and Counseling, now part of Family and Child Services, Inc. He is a former chairman for the Travelers' Aid Society. He is a board member of the Boys' Clubs of Washington. He is a former board member of Southeast House, a Negro social settlement. And he is a past president of the Woodmont Country Club. Some of Mr. Kaufman's activities undoubtedly have been overlooked in this accounting, but the list will give you an idea. 204324-42975 W. S. Government Printing Office: 1952 THAT YOUR CONTRIBUTION IS WORKING - In the Greater Washington Area . . . to promote better human relations among men of goodwill . . . is evidenced by the following excerpts from the Minutes of the April 16th, 1952 Meeting of our Steering Committee Reaching GOVERNMENT 48,143 pieces of literature Reaching SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, and other COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS. 17,933 pieces of literature PLEDGE CARDS, numbering 2,426, were distributed in the "Blood - For A Brother" campaign conducted in cooperation with The American Red Cross. As for FILMS - 164 Screenings reached 23,440 persons. In SCHOOLS OF GREATER WASHINGTON, an incomplete total of more than 944 meetings reached 64,530 students. So with COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS, as widely diversified as Business & Professional Women's Club, an Optimist Club, Women's National Democratic Club, a Masonic Lodge, a Seminar at Wilson Teachers' College, Kiwanis Club, and Federation of Civic Associations, 29 reported meetings reached 3,140 persons. CHURCHES and SYNAGOGUES, 8 reported meetings reached 535 persons. GOVERNMENT, the 8 meetings so far reported reached 4,375 persons All in all, we received reports of 1,153 meetings, reaching 96,020 persons. BUT, not all meetings were reported because the observance of Brotherhood Week has become so integral a part of our community pattern that schools, community organizations, churches and synagogues, plan it as part of their year-round program. The ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA SCHOOLS have a Brotherhood Week Chairman, in each school, who functions year-round and integrates intergroup understanding into all study areas. FAIRFAX-FALL CHURCH has just formed an outstanding Special Schools Committee. The EDUCATIONAL PLANNING COMMITTEE, of the District of Columbia (NCCJ) has lent its guidance and cooperation to the Third Institute on Human Relations and Inter- Annual Workshop In Intergroup Education of the Catholic University, June 30 - August 8, AS WELL AS to the very first HUMAN RELATIONS INSTITUTE to be sponsored by the United Community Services through its Community Organizations Section - with your Director as Program Chairman. As the ANNUAL BROTHERHOOD DINNER, Joseph D. Kaufman, pas Washington Area Cochairman, received our Brotherhood Award. Senator Brien McMahon spoke to the 468 assembled guests. IN SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES IN INDUSTRY IN CHURCHES AND SYNAGOGUES IN COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS Lighting Lamps THROUGH MASS COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH WORLD BROTHERHOOD The Program of THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS LIGHT THE LAMPS THAT WILL DISPEL THE DARKNESS OF BIGOTRY IN A BEWILDERED WORLD [First Column] The National Conference of Christians and Jews was founded in 1928. From the outset it has maintained a program to promote good will and understanding among Protestants, Catholics, and Jews. Realizing that the forces of bigotry and hate could be combatted successfully only through a program stressing the moral content of democracy, its founders proclaimed their intention to strive for the brotherhood of man under the Fatherhood of God. As the word, so the deed. The program, now tested and proved over the years, has put into motion a vital effort for better human relations. IN THE FIELD OF EDUCATION it works to keep prejudice out of our schools. It has pioneered in methods to reach all people who influence the growth of children - teachers, school administrators, parents, social workers, clergymen, etc. IN THE FIELD OF RELIGION, without minimizing the differences or compromising beliefs, it provides an instrument whereby ministers, priests and rabbis and their congregations can join in the crusade for brotherhood. IN OUR COMMUNITY LIFE it works with fraternal, civic, welfare, labor, veteran, farm, women's and youth organizations to help make democratic good will a pattern of American living in every neighborhood. IN OUR ECONOMIC LIFE it has developed an in-plant program to promote good human relations within plants and factories. TO REACH 160,000,000 AMERICANS in a nation-wide campaign against bigotry, it has enlisted the cooperation of newspapers, radio, television, motion pictures, advertising, magazines, books, pamphlets, speakers and recordings. [Second Column] SINCE 1934 it has sponsored the annual observance of Brotherhood Week. IT HAS DEVELOPED a structure of 62 offices in cities from coast to coast and has mustered a corps of trained personnel and technicians IT HAS BRIDGED THE OCEANS with a world wide educational program for good will. America is today leading the free world in a contest for survival against Communism. The ideals of brotherhood are competing with Kremlin slavery. The lamp lit in 1928 must be kept burning. IMPACT ON NATION NCCJ - arranged 65,000 programs last year for: 11,700 schools 890 colleges 8,500 churches and synagogues 2,200 women's clubs 1,650 service clubs 1,250 youth groups 525 national community organizations with 12,000,000 participants RADIO-TV: NCCJ programs are spot announcements resulted in more that 350,000,000 home impressions. MOTION PICTURES - Over 180,000 showings of Brotherhood Week newsreels and 30,000 showings of educational films reached 70,000,000 LEADERSHIP TRAINING - 9,300 institutes, work-shops and group leader conferences were conducted. LITERATURE - 2,800,000 pieces of literature were distributed. A PROGRAM OF ACTION FOR BROTHERHOOD AMONG PROTESTANTS, CATHOLICS AND JEWS SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES REACHING SCHOOLS DIRECTLY: More than 12,590 schools and colleges annually use NCCJ programs, films and printed materials. Millions of children and their teachers are being helped to learn the facts about the different groups that make up America. WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING COURSES FOR TEACHERS: Since 1941 a total of 91 summer workshops in intergroup education were attended by approximately 4,000 educators and community workers. INTERGROUP RELATIONS PROGRAM IN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS: A program of educations for good group relations was adopted by 18 school systems from coast to coast. TEXTBOOK IMPROVEMENT: After a five-year study conducted by the American Council on Education and financed by the National Conference, a guidebook was published to point out ways in which school textbooks could be written free of bias and contributing to democratic beliefs. CENTERS FOR HUMAN RELATIONS STUDIES IN UNIVERSITIES: These were established at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Columbia University and the University of Miami. INSTITUTES ON INTERGROUP RELATIONS: Thousands of teacher have attended NCCJ institutes and trained in getting the brotherhood idea over to children. MANUALS FOR EDUCATORS: 100,000 teachers use these books as a guide to teaching democratic human relations. COURSES IN TEACHER COLLEGES: 21 teacher colleges established courses to make our teacher training institutions more expert in the problems of intergroup education. CHURCHES AND SYNAGOGUES WORK WITH ARMED FORCES: A series of "Why We Fight" pamphlets, prepared by Protestant, Catholic and Jewish leaders under sponsorship of the NCCJ, has been distributed to the armed forces here and abroad. CLERGY CONFERENCES: The National Conference seeks to strengthen the moral and social health of the community through clergy conferences. COLLEGE YOUTH: NCCJ works with Newman Clubs, Hillel Foundations and Protestant Foundations on college campuses. SUNDAY SCHOOL AND YOUTH STUDY MATERIALS: Thousands of churches and synagogues are using program materials and ideas supplied by the National Conference. RELIGIOUS SCHOOL TEACHER INSTITUTE: Religious educators are trained in intergroup problems. SUMMER YOUTH CONFERENCES: Leaders are provided for youth conferences in various sections of the country to promote wholesome attitudes, mutual respect and friendships. RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE: Created by the National Conference to supply hundreds of religious publications, daily newspapers, magazines and radio stations with news and pictures of our religious groups. FAMILY LIFE EDUCATION: Children and youth are being reached in new ways through Family Life Education programs in the churches. NCCJ is helping churches and other groups which want to include an emphasis on intergroup education. BROTHERHOOD WEEK A national observance held each year teaching that all mankind is one family and seeking rededication to basic principles of justice and equal opportunity. THE TRIO IDEA Encouraging Protestants, Catholics and Jews to plan and work together as team-mates, in mutual respect and understanding, for the well being of themselves, the community and the nation. MASS COMMUNICATIONS PRESS: The idea of brotherhood is spread into every city and hamlet by newspaper stories, editorials, feature articles and cartoons. RADIO: Full length programs and spot announcements rally the listening audience at home. TELEVISION: This new medium of great influence has brought democratic messages on equal human rights into every home with a television set. MAGAZINES: Every type of publication-popular fiction, news, pictorial, business and industry-was helpful in promoting good will among all American groups. Their good will themes were read by all age levels. ADVERTISEMENTS: In cooperation with the "United America Campaign" of the Advertising Council, the selling skills of advertising are mobilized in the fight against group prejudice, with special stress on the vital relationship of the prejudice problem to our national security. MOTION PICTURES: More and more full length feature films and shorts bring the impact of a popular medium to the work of building loyalty to our democratic heritage. BOOKS: NCCJ issues each year a listing of "Books For Brotherhood", prepared by Protestant, Catholic and Jewish authorities to encourage the reading of books about better intergroup relations. PAMPHLETS: Millions of pamphlets and pieces of educational literature are distributed annually. SPEAKERS: Qualified speakers are provided, without charge, to business associations, veterans organizations, unions, P.T.A.'s, fraternal organizations,etc. RECORDINGS: Discs that spin songs, narrations and dramatic stories bearing on the cause of good will are distributed widely to radio stations ands civic organizations. INDUSTRY TEAMWORK ON THE JOB projects have been sponsored by the NCCJ in plants and factories. The projects bring together representatives of labor and management to learn the ways of living and working side by side without prejudice and misunderstanding. Hailed by labor and industrial leaders, these labor-management in-plant programs have been adopted by the American Smelting and Refining Co.; Bristol-Meyers Co.; General Cable Corp.; General Electric X-Ray Co.; F.C. Huyck & Sons; and Revere Copper and Brass Co. COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS FROM EARLY YOUTH TO OLD AGE, more than 70 per cent of America's population are members of fraternal, civic, labor, veteran, farm, women's and youth groups. These organizations make natural allies in the crusade for decency and fuller democracy. The National Conference, through its 62 offices around the country, serves as a clearing house of information and service for all national and local organizations which are concerned with promoting better intergroup relations. WORLD-WIDE SERVICES WORLD BROTHERHOOD: An organization, established in 1950 in Paris to bring Brotherhood programs to all free nations in Europe, now maintains divisional headquarters in Paris, Geneva, Frankfort, Toronto, Honolulu, Havana and New York. WORK WITH THE UNITED NATIONS: NCCJ gave fundamental leadership to the adoption of the Genocide Convention; it is a member of the U. S. National Commission for UNESCO; it maintains close relations with the UN, especially its Human Rights Commission. WORK WITH THE MILITARY GOVERNMENT IN GERMANY AND JAPAN: Experienced executives have been loaned to our Occupation Forces to aid in promoting democracy abroad. The National Conference of Christians and Jews is wholly supported by voluntary contributions from individuals, corporations, foundations, fraternal organizations and religious groups. WITH YOUR HELP AND YOUR CONTRIBUTION We shall continue to build Brotherhood for a stronger democracy ... and a better world. The National Conference of Christians and Jews is a civic organization of religiously motivated persons to promote justice, amity, understanding and co- operation among Protestants, Catholics and Jews. It does not aim at any sort of union or amalgamation of religious bodies or at modifying any of the distinctive beliefs of its members. It does not attempt to achieve its goal by weakening the loyalties and beliefs of those of any religion. It does not hold that "one religion is as good as another." WORLD BROTHERHOOD THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS NATIONAL OFFICERS Co-Chairmen Benson Ford Roger W. Straus Thomas E. Braniff Treasurer Herbert J. Osborne President General Director Everett B. Clinchy Sterling W. Brown Vice-President and Divisional Directors Hastings Harrison WM. Lindsay Young L.K. Bishop James M. Eagan Karl B. Justus 62 W. Rutland Sq. Boston 18 Mass. May 9th 1952. Mrs. Terrell dear; You can't imagine how much I enjoy having your likeness before me although from a newspaper it is you and a reminder of my days with you. From you I learned a lesson in human kindness. Don't ever think you've slipped my mind. Not as long as I have memory. That simply wouldn't do for you are some-one I can't forget I think too much of you. I pray for your health, comfort and happiness With love, Ada S. Howell United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary PAT MCCARRAN, NEV., CHAIRMAN HARLEY M. KILGORE, W. VA. JAMES O. EASTLAND, MISS. WARREN G. MAGNUSON, WASH. HERBERT P. O'CONOR, MD. ESTES KEFAUVER, TENN. WILLIS SMITH, N.C. ALEXANDER WILEY, WIS. WILLIAM LANGER, N. DAK. HOMER FERGUSON, MICH. WILLIAM E. JENNER, IND. ARTHUR V. WATKINS, UTAH ROBERT C. HENDRICKSON, N.J. J.G. SOURWINE, COUNSEL May 12, 1952 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell COORDINATING COMMITTEE FOR THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE D. C. ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAWS 1103 Trenton Place S. E. Washington 20, D.C. Dear Mrs. Terrell: Before leaving for North Dakota, Senator Langer asked that we acknowledge and thank you for your recent statement concerning H. R. 1758 and S. 258. The Senator also wanted us to express for him his very deep sympathy in the recent passing of Mr. Church. With kindest regards, I am Sincerely, Dorothy Ford Gwinn (Mrs.) Dorothy Ford Gwinn, Secretarial Assistant to Senator Langer DFG:ln Howard University Washington 1, D.C. Office of Dean of Students May 12, 1952 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1615 S Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. Dear Mrs. Terrell: I am returning to you your check for $2.25 which you sent to me for one dinner ticket. We were very happy to have you at our dinner and luncheon meetings as guest of the Conference. I hope that you enjoyed all of the Conference meetings that you were able to attend. Sincerely yours, Armour J. Blackburn Laf Dean of Students and Director of Conference AJB: laf Enclosure Washington.D.C. May 6 1952 The Munsey Trust Company Pay to the order of Dean Armour J. Blackburn $2.25 Two and 25/100 Dollars For Dinner Mary Church Terrell 1615 S St. N.W. 1902 Golden Jubilee Souvenir Year Book 1952 "The first fifty years... the record for posterity." Grand Temple Daughters of IBPOE of the World Office of Grand Daughter Secretary 1021-23 Maltby Avenue Norfolk 4, Virginia GRAND OFFICERS MRS. NETTIE C. JACKSON GRAND DAUGHTER RULER MISS BUENA V. KELLEY GRAND DAUGHTER SECRETARY MRS. ELIZABETH KIMBOUGH GRAND DAUGHTER TREASURER EDITORIAL STAFF WDITOR-IN-CHIEF MRS. VIVIAN C. 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MARGARET MINOR W. VA.: MRS. EMMA KEYS WASH.: MRS. NELLIE WILSON May 14, 1952 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1615 S Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. Dear Mrs. Terrell: This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Daughters of Elks. An elaborate program has been worked out for the remainder of our fiscal year, culminating in a Golden Jubilee Dinner at the Annual Convention in Atlantic City in August. The most important project, however, which the organization is attempting is the publication of our history in a Golden Jubilee Year Book. This history will recount the beginnings of the Temples of the Daughter Elks through the years, state by state and Temple by Temple,. It will be a valuable document both for the organization and for others, for it will be a record of the contribution which the largest Negro women's fraternal organization has been able to accomplish during the past half century. We would be very happy to have you participate in our project by sending a congratulatory message to be published in the Golden Jubilee Year Book. With many, many thanks and best wishes for your continued success. Sincerely yours Vivian C. Mason Vivian C. Mason Editor in Chief VCM:ebw Washington, D.C. May 14, 1952 Dear Members and Friends, The Club season nears its end and I am truly grateful to you for your continued support and confidence. Your piggy bank is full. Please send its contents, one dollar ($1.00) today to our financial secretary. I shall be most grateful to our Bulletin Friends especially because this will indicate the extent of your true appreciation of the Bulletin and the scholarship project. Our Spring Outing, a dinner and frolic, will be held on Saturday, May 31, 1952, beginning at 12:30 P.M., at the home of Mrs. Letitia Holmes, 2803 Second Street South, Arlington, Virginia. The tickets cost three dollars, one dollar of which will be donated to the scholarship fund. Games of all types will be enjoyed. Call Mrs. Jessie Thompkins, 1715 Varnum Street, N. W., TAylor 9450, Chair- man, or Miss Effie Simmons, 1317 R Street, N. W., NOrth 4156, Co-Chairman, for further details. Come and bring your friends. The regular meeting of the Executive Committee will be held on Tuesday, May 20, 1952, at 8:00 P.M. , at the residence of the president. A full attendance will be appreciated. Sincerely, Florence L. Toms, President THE COLLEGE ALUMNAE CLUB OF WASHINGTON, D. C. Monthly Bulletin Volume II, Number 8 May, 1952 President............................ Mrs. F. L. Toms Editor...................................Mrs. E. B. Smith Corresponding Secretary..Mrs. B. K. Williams May Meeting Date: Saturday, May 24, 1952 Time: 8:00 P. M. Place Y.W.C.A. Annex, 1719 13th Street, N.W. Program: Business Report of Finance Committee All members, active or inactive, are urged to be present. Appreciation is expressed to: 1. The participants in the library project for the Baker's Dozen. Seventy-three books were donated. 2. The eight-three members who have paid their 1951- 1952 dues. 3. To all who have cooperated in the "piggy bank" project. 4. To each one who will send her scholarship dollar to the financial secretary Mrs. Charlotte B. Gordon 1122 Girard Street, N. W. (D. C.) 5. To every officer and member of the College Alumnae Club who contributed in any way to its success for 1951-1952. The Club is happy to welcome to its membership, Mrs. Jennie Walburg. Receipts since last report from: Mrs. Harriette Allen Miss Faustina Brown Dr. Margaret Butcher Mrs. Mabel Matthews Mrs. Ella Moran Miss Bertha McNeil Scholarship Donations Mrs. Henrietta Boarfield Miss Grace Brown Mrs. Lillian Dodson Dr. Valarie Justiss Mrs. Lodee Johnson Miss Louise Madella Mrs. Beatrice Mitchell Page 2 The College Alumnae Club is always happy to know how interested are some of its earliest members in its success. A recent fund attests to that fact in a very real way. --------------------------------------------- The following officers were elected at the April meeting to serve for the year 1952-1953. Mrs. Florence L. Toms President Dr. Margaret J. Butcher Vice President Dr. Evangeline Queen Financial Secretary Mrs. Blanche K. Williams Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Henrietta Bearfield Recording Secretary Mrs. Jessie Thompkins Treasurer Mrs. Elsie B. Smith Journalist Miss Ethel McDowell Publicity Mrs. Lodee Johnson Historian Mrs. Gladys Edmonson) Mrs. Orra W. Spivey ) Elected members to the Mrs. Lillian Dodson ) Executive Committee ----------------------------------------- At the recent convention of the N>A>C>W>, Mrs. Willie Churchill of New York was elected director of the Northeast Section. ---------------------------------------- The National Association of College Women has announced that, according to the constitution, "Any member whose national dues remain unpaid for one year shall be dropped from membership in the National Association but may be re-instated by the payment of two dollars and the current year's fee." In order to prevent this extra fee, let each of us pay her dues, seven dollars ($7.00) at the October meeting. ------------------------------------------ Mrs. Florence Toms has been selected by the Friends Meeting of Washington to direct the Community Vacation School at All Souls Unitarian Church. This is an inter-faith, inter-racial project for children from kindergarten through sixth grade. Interested persons may consult Mrs. Toms. ------------------------------------------- Members will be glad to know that Mrs. Carlotta P. Lingo is much improved after her sever illness and soon will be again at her post of duty; and that Dr. Euphemia L. Haynes is improving from serious injuries received in a recent fall and will soon be able to resume her full program of work. ---------------------------------------- LEST WE FORGET! A club that plays together stays together. Let's play together on May 31, 1952. REV. DONALD HARRINGTON 40 East Thirty-Fifth Street New York 16, N.Y. MUrray 3-4780 May 14, 1952 Dear Miss Terrell: I am a little tired of emotional appeals for this and that. I want to know specifically --and in advance--just what the dollars I contributer to causes, however good, are going to accomplish. I think you want to know, too, before you contribute. As national chairman of the Workers Defense League, it is my duty to tell you what this one organization is doing. You know the broad field of its constructive activities and some of its many notable successes. I have asked the WDL office to prepare the enclosed summary because I believe you will like to show it or pass it along to a friend. (Copies are available if you can use them effectively to promote our work.) The dollars you give to the Workers Defense League will not only continue and develop this program but will do some very remarkable things for that last little item on the memo, "The individual." Let me outline just one case: H.K., permanently barred from the United States because of his idealistic opposition to some of our government's actions in World War 1, is dying of cancer in a foreign land. Many responsible persons have unsuccessfully sought his temporary entrance into this country for the emergency treatment that he can get only here. They have turned to the WDL for help. We believe that our experience with Immigration will accomplish the vital job of arranging H.K.'s entry. If your contribution speeds H.K.'s visa by one day, it will be money well spent. You-- as a participant in our work--know that it will do much more than that for the many others who look to the Workers Defense League for help. Please make this contribution, now-- as generously as you possibly can. Yours fiathfully, Donald Harrington ALMOST NOBODY LIKES DICTATORS - Franco - Stalin - Peron ALMOST EVERYBODY LIKES FAIR PLAY - Security Screening - Union Organization - Pacifists - Immigration - The Individual SUPPORT THE WORKERS DEFENSE LEAGUE 112 East 19th St. New York 3, N. Y. THE WORKERS DEFENSE LEAGUE Justice doesn't get done just because almost everybody likes justice. Somebody has to be on the job when injustice threatens. The Workers Defense League, dedicated to being that somebody in time of need, takes no narrow view of the wrongs it will combat. Look at its recent record! INTERNATIONAL FREEDOM The WDL organized the special Committee to Defend Franco's Labor Victims, which is doing something about it. Four of nine union men sentenced to death in recent military trials were saved by the Committee's organized protests. It promoted a jammed-to-overflow meeting at Freedom House, New York; it organized demonstrations at Franco's consulate and tourist bureau in New York and helped organize them in many other cities; it persuaded N.Y. Mayor Impellitteri to withdraw his invitation to the Mayor of Madrid to be New York's official guest; it has put the U. S. State Department on the defensive on proposed financial aid to this dictatorship; it is offering to supply international lawyers to defend Franco's other star-chamber victims, destined for his firing squads; it will continue this work until democracy is restored in Spain. The WDL organized the Commission of Inquiry into Forced Labor, whose documentation of the testimony for the American Federation of Labor and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, led to the establishment of the United Nations Committee on Forced Labor. But WDL is not just anti-Stalin; it is anti-Slavery. Through the Commission, it continues to amass proof of the extent of forced labor in all parts of the world. Only through such proofs can people and governments be aroused or shamed into doing something about it. The WDL said Peron is no good, so loud, in a documented statement of his crimes against the workers that the U. N. might yet do something about it. But Peron is not alone among Latin American dictators. The WDL, working with other organizations, submitted testimony against the government of six such countries and will continue to assemble the record and bring it to the attention of the public. AMERICAN JUSTICE The WDL doesn't like spies and saboteurs. But many innocent victims are caught up in the government's Security Screening and Loyalty programs. Seaman, industrial worker, government employe -- the WDL is his defender. It has successfully cleared over fifty worthy cases; more and more are turning to us for help. The WDL supplied thirteen volunteer defense attorneys in picket line cases during the recent strike of the new Prudential Insurance Workers Union. In the last year, it has challenged the importation of Mexican workers to break a Farm Workers strike in Southern California and an anti-labor injunction against the Dairy Workers in New Jersey. The WDL doesn't believe is disorderly conduct. Neither do pacifists. But when N.Y. pacifists decide that Easter Sunday is an appropriate time to tell their message to Fifth Avenue promenaders, through leaflets and hats bearing slogans, the police interfere, often arrest them and charge them with being disorderly. The WDL is on hand to defend them. The right to picket, leaflet-distribution, and peaceful demonstrations for all points of view must be constantly defended. The new Immigration Bill now in Congress has many vicious features. About the only good thing it does is wipe out the remnants of the Oriental Exclusion Act. At last, the Indonesians and the other South East Asiatics that the WDL has long defended will have an opportunity to seek legal entry in the United States. WDL will continue to aid them. Some of the WDL's most stirring cases cannot yet be publicized, because to publicize them would do harm. The individual in trouble because he is a worker or a member of a political or ethnic minority turns to us - often when others have failed. He must not turn in vain. Mary Church Terrell 1615 S St NW Washington DC Washington Chapter Americans for Democratic Action 1341 Connecticut Ave., N.W. DE 6010 The Civil Liberties Committee announces for the MAY MEMBERSHIP MEETING: Non-Disloyalty Oaths for Teachers DR. RALPH E. HIMSTEAD, General Secretary, American Association of University Professors Current Problems in the Loyalty Program EUGENE GRESSMAN, Washington Attorney Time: Thursday, May 22 at 8:15 p.m. Place: Pierce Hall, All Souls Church, 16th & Harvard, NW Chapter Business: (1) Nomination of candidates for 1952- 1953 officers & Executive Board (2) Report on National Convention NATIONAL SHARECROPPERS FUND, Inc. --- for the advancement of agricultural labor--- 40 EAST 49th STREET * Plaza 9 -1600 * NEW YORK 17, N. Y. May 16, 1952 Dear Friend: "...living in virtual slavery...many of them in unscreened shacks... underfed...poorly clothed...and mired in the most primitive depths of poverty." This is not about a D.P. camp in Europe. It is about sugar cane workers in Louisiana, U.S.A.! --quoted from a report sent to the National Farm Labor Union by its representative in the field. D.P.'s working on these sugar cane plantations found conditions in some instances worse than in the concentration camps! Look at the enclosed folder at the picture of a "school" where children of sugar cane workers go. Look at the picture of a "house" where one of these families live. These are not conditions to make America a strong and healthy country where democracy can grow and flourish. These conditions can be changed. The National Farm Labor Union already has a representative in Louisiana laying the ground-work for organizing these lowest-paid workers and helping them to gain a measure of decent living. They need help from us if they are to send adequate forces to the sugar cane area to eradicate these feudal conditions. The enclosed folder will tell you how the National Sharecroppers Fund and its friends are tackling the problems of southern sharecroppers, Mexican "wetbacks," migrant workers. May I urge you to contribute generously to the work of helping these people improve their conditions. Your gift will go a long way toward bringing hope and opportunity to millions of people on the bottom rung of America's agricultural ladder. Sincerely yours, Charles S. Johnson __________________________________ National Board __________________________________ EDUARD C. LINDEMAN CHARLES S. JOHNSON Chairman Vice-Chairman MRS. MARY McLEOD BETHUNE FRANK P. GRAHAM BETH BIDERMAN SIDNEY HERTZEBERG ALBERT SPRAGUE COOLIDGE MRS. RAYMOND V. INGERSOLL MAX DELSON JAMES LIPSIG I. CYRUS GORDON JAMES LOEB, Jr. ELIOT D. PRATT FAY BENNETT Secretary-Treasurer Executive Secretary FRANK McCALLISTER IRA DeA. REID FRANCIS J. McCONNELL NORMAN THOMAS EMANUEL MURAVCHIK ROWLAND WATTS EDWARD L. PARSONS HARRIET YOUNG ARTHUR RAPER CHARLES S. ZIMMERMAN A SUGAR CANE WORKER'S LIFE IS BITTER This is a "school" for the children of Louisiana sugar cane workers. Their fathers are paid 32 cents an hour when there is work- less than twenty dollars a week- for log, frueling hours of labor in the snake-infested waters of a canebrake swamp. The lives of these children and their parents are among the most degraded in America today. Under-clothed, under-fed, and under-educated. Can America democracy thrive on such foundations as these? Read what the National Farm Labor Union reports: "Conditions among these people are much worse than anything seen in the cotton plantation areas...there has been very little change in the status of sugar cane workers "A few have fairly good housing but many are living in the cabins once occupies by slaves. Some of these cabins show no signs of repair since slavery days. Without glass and without screens, the windows are holes sawed in the planking of the walls. No health, no real family life can be found in these one and two room shacks." Even the employers say conditions are bad! In 1951, a representative of one of America's largest sugar producers told the President's Commission on Migratory Labor that it was necessary to import increasing numbers of foreign contract workers because "more and more American workers refuse to work in the sugar fields." Not all American workers can refuse. This is the land they were raised in - these are the schools where they were taught - this is the work they know. With families to support somehow, this is the work they do. America's sweet-tooth is fed on their broken lives... Can we afford to pay this price for a pound of sugar? Conditions Can Be Changed -They have been changed in many places! Arkansas Cotton Pickers Eighteen years ago, cotton pickers in Arkansas were getting 50c a hundred pounds of cotton picked (one dollar a day, or maybe two if you were very fast and worked from sun-up to sun-down); last year many of them were paid three dollars a hundred. This was largely the work of the "union". The "union" is the National Farm Labor Union. It started in Arkansas, eighteen years ago, as the Southern Tenant Farmers Union. A small band of struggling men and women, Negro and white, working together to get a measure of honest return for their labor as sharecroppers. Paying dues of ten cents a month when they could afford it, it was - and is - supposedly mainly by more fortunate people in all walks of life. Louisiana Strawberry Growers Last year, a group of small strawberry farmers in Louisisana revolted against the fixed-price policy of the buyers' combine. (The grower got less than two-fifths of what you paid in your local supermarket!) They turned to the Union. This year, on February 24, 1952, a strike was called. No berries moved; for six days, peaceably, but determinedly, the union members walked the miles of picket lines and closed down the fields. They won! Equally as important, Negro and white workers learned to work together. As always, the Union tolerated no color line. Calafornia Asparagus Cutters, New Jersey Dairy Workers, Colorado Beet Pickers, migrants everywhere are turning to the National Farm Labor Union for help - now. They cannot wait for Presidential Commissions and Senatorial Committees to wheedle their legislative recommendations through a reluctant Congress. They must eat now, they must educate their children now, they must live now. They look to the Union for help. The Union looks to you. Just as eighteen years ago, the cotton pickers couldn't pay the dues to put the organizers in the fields, so today, these workers need the help of you who care. Not the Union alone... Not the sugar alone... Not the sharecroppers alone... Not the South alone... Responsible organizations everywhere, concerned about the problems of American agricultural labor, look to the NATIONAL SHARECROPPERS FUND for help in launching those germinal projects that lead to permanent improvement of the life of the farm worker. The NATIONAL SHARECROPPERS FUND - for fifteen years - has granted that help: To establish decent cooperative housing for farm labor in Mississippi. To build a workers headquarters in the San Joaquin Valley, California To carry on an interracial workers education program in Georgia To establish a clearing house of all interested organizations in Washington To investigate peonage throughout the South To improve the economic and social status of the Mexican wetbacks" and migrant workers TO CONTINUE THIS WORK NATIONAL SHARECROPPERS FUND NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT Leading Americans Say: A disgrace ... abominable ... "Wages, hours of labor and conditions of labor among migrants are often unspeakable. Housing is frequently a disgrace; the education of children is neglected; babies are born on trucks or on the bank of a ditch; child labor is rampant; health conditions are frequently abominable, spiritual care is almost impossible. This whole situation is a challenge to our nation to stop the tragic exploitation of human beings and recognize these workers as children of God." - Most Rev. Robert E. Lucey, S.T.D., Archbishop of San Antonio Tragic ... distressing ... "From the standpoint of human values in a democratic society, it is tragic that so many rural families still face severe handicaps in their working and living conditions, health services and educational opportunities . It is distressing particularly to think of the children who are starting life with inadequate diets, medical care, and schooling." - President Harry S. Truman The greatest immorality of all ... "The greatest immorality of all is the exploitation of men, women, and children - wetbacks, migrants, people in the field; these are 'the least of us.' One million migrant families are living on the verge of impossible living. This corruption of human bodies and human souls is caused by the desire for cheap labor. We cannot rest until we have done something about this evil situation." - Senator Hubert Humphrey National Sharecroppers Fund, Inc. 40 East 49th Street New York 17, N. Y. I enclose $_____ towards improving the living standards of farm workers. Name _____ Street _____ City _____ State ____ National Sharecroppers Fund, Inc. The National Sharecroppers Fund is a nonprofit organization which helps farm laborers to help themselves. The Fund grants financial aid to democratically controlled and interracial organizations of sharecroppers, tenant farmers, day laborers and migrant workers. The National Farm Labor Union is in the principal agency through which this work is carried out. Other organizations to which the Fund has contributed include the Georgia Workers Education Service, Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, Delmo Homes, Workers Defense League (southern section), Southern Regional Council, National Council on Agricultural Life and Labor. The Fund, through its educational program, seeks to create an informed public opinion on the social and economic problems of America's farm laborers, and to bring to the attention of the public the efforts which are being made by the people themselves to improve their condition. Through its aid to organizations working directly in the field, and through its educational program, the Fund has assisted in a number of important pioneering efforts in economic and social relations. It will continue to seek out and contribute to projects where the need and opportunity for service is pressing and unmet. Your contribution will help to carry on this work. National Sharecroppers Fund, Inc 40 East 49th Street, New York 17, N. Y. National Board Eduard C. Lindeman Chairman Charles S. Johnson Vice-Chairman Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune Beth Biderman Albert Sprague Coolidge Max Delson I. Cyrus Gordon Frank P. Graham Sidney Hertzberg Mrs. Raymond V. Ingersoll James Lipsig James Loeb, Jr. Eliot D. Pratt Secretary-Treasurer Fay Bennett Executive Secretary Frank McCallister Francis J. McConnell Emanuel Muravchik Edward L. Parsons Arthur Raper Ira DeA. Reid Norman Thomas Rowland Watts Harriet Young Charles S. Zimmerman 247 The Washington Post 1337-43 E. St. N. W. Washington 4. D. C. Eugene Meyer May 16, 1952 Dear Mrs. Terrell: Children today live in a confused world -- a world in a state of suspicion, anxiety and unrest. Even the wise and experienced cannot see far ahead. More than ever before in our history, it is important that young people should have steady support and guidance in the ways of stability and good citizenship. Both from a humane and economic point of view, no expenditure of money or care brings greater reward and profit than the work of an association which serves the needs of youth and the prevention of delinquency on a nationwide basis. Such an organization is the National Probation and Parole Association. Effective Juvenile Courts and probation often convert potential human liabilities to national and community assets. In this cause I ask your thought -- and its vital counterpart -- your generous contribution to the continuation of the services of this Association. Please make check payable to the National Probation and Parole Association and mail in the enclosed envelope. Sincerely Yours Eugene Meyer P.S.- Your former contribution was $1.00 The Rev. Kenneth Ripley Forbes 135 West Upsal Street Philadelphia 19. Penn'a May 27, 1952 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1651 S. Street. N.W. Washington. D.C. Dear Mrs. Terrell: Will you join with me and a number of prominent Americans in signing a circular letter which will be addressed to a few thousand church, labor, Negro and cultural leaders, requesting their endorsement of the enclosed letter to the President Harry S. Truman on the question of amnesty for the leaders of the Communist Party convicted under the Smith Act? The attached list of names is of the others who are receiving this request. Please advise me as promptly as possible, by mail or the telegraph, whether you are willing to join in sending this letter. Very truly yours, Kenneth Ripley Forbes Kenneth Ripley Forbes Roger Baldwin c/o American Civil Liberties Union New York City J. Pious Barbour, Editor The Baptist Voice Chester, Pa. John Clark, President International Union of Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers Denver, Colorado Bishop Benjamin D. Dagwell Portland, Oregon Prof. Albert Einstein Princeton, New Jersey Lillian Hellman New York City Ralph Helstein, President United Packinghouse Workers of America Chicago, Ill. Prof. Robert W. Hutchins c/o Ford Foundation Pasadena, California Rev. D.V. Jemison, President National Baptist Convention Selma, Alabama Mrs. Freda Kirchwey The Nation New York City Prof. Robert S. Lynd Sociology Dept. Columbia University New York City Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn Berkeley, California Arthur Miller Brooklyn, New York Rabbi Louis I. Newman New York City Dr. Ralph Barton Perry Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts Mr. Clarence Pickett c/o American Friends Service Committee Philadelphia, Pa. Elmer Rice Stamford, Connecticut Mr. Frank Rosenblum, Secy-Treas. Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America New York City Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver Cleveland, Ohio Bishop William J. Walls Chicago, Illinois Justice James Wolf Salt Lake City, Utah Thomas Mann Pacific Palisades California Bishop Francis J. McConnell San Francisco, California The Hon. Harry S. Truman The White House Washington, D.C. We address you, Mr. President, to urge your immediate and serious consideration of the effect on our country's political life of the treatment accorded the leaders of the Communist Party of the United States, convicted under the Smith Act. These men were convicted for agreeing to "teach and advocate" their political views. In the words of Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, "They were not charged with non-verbal acts of any kind designed to overthrow the Government. They were not even charged with saying or writing anything designed to overthrow the Government." While we may disagree with their political and economic philosophies, we ask that amnesty be granted the leaders of the Communist Party of the United States because we feel that their freedom is in the best interests of our country and people. We appeal to you, Mr. President, because you alone have the power to grant amnesty. The exercise of your executive power has many precedents in our country's history. On assuming office in 1800, Thomas Jefferson granted amnesty to all who had been convicted of violating the Alien and Sedition Laws of 1798. President Johnson granted amnesty even to those convicted of over opposition to the Federal Government in the Civil War of 1861-1865. President Harding freed the Socialist leader, Eugene Debs, and together with President Coolidge granted amnesty to others sent to jail for their written and spoken opposition to the first World War. We appeal to you for amnesty because the release of these Communist leaders would go far to combat the mounting attacks on the rights of non-Communists, which you have deplored in many public speeches against "McCarthyism." At the same time, their conviction was upheld by a Supreme Court which failed to review their trial, but passed only on the constitutionality of the Smith Act under which they were indicted. Two Justices registered their vigorous dissents. Two of the Justices in the majority admitted doubt as to the wisdom and efficacy of the Smith Act. Since the Supreme Court acted on June 4, 1951, growing numbers of Americans have expressed their agreement with the position taken by the November 1951 National Convention of the Congress of Industrial Organization that, "the Supreme Court's decision upholding the conviction of the Communist leaders was a grave blow to America's precious heritage of freedom of speech. Both at home and abroad, increasing multitudes of people- including non-Communists and anti-Communists - consider that the continued imprisonment of these political dissenters means that the Government of the United States fears the American people and is no longer strong enough to tolerate freedom of speech and political association. Finally, Mr. President, simple humanitarian considerations give added weight to our appeal for amnesty. These political prisoners have already been severely punished for their alleged violation of the Smith Act. Most of them are married men, the fathers of young children. The suffered inflicted on their families is incompatible with our traditional American concern for freedom, the rights and dignity of the individual, and the sanctity of the American home. In the spirit of the American Declaration of Independence and its principles of liberty and equality, whose 196th anniversary we observe on July 4, 1952, we respectfully urge that you grant amnesty to the imprisoned leaders of the Community Party of the United States and thereby give added meaning and added strength to our country's basic charter of freedom. Very truly yours, 5-27-'52 To: Mrs. Mary Church Terrell First President, N.A.C.W. From: D.C. Federation Planning Committee -- Enclosed you will find complimentary ticket to our Annual Conference. We will be highly honored to have you bring greetings and highlights of Anti-Discrimination Committee work. H. Corinne Lowry, Chr, De. 4361 FIFTH ANNUAL ONE DAY CONFERENCE WASHINGTON AND VICINITY FEDERATION OF WOMEN THEME: "BROADENING OUR VIEW IN '52" SATURDAY, June 7, 1952 Monument Hall Metropolitan Baptist Church 1225 R Street, Northwest Washington, D.C. Mrs. Jesse Gregory, President, Washington and Vicinity Federation of Women Mrs. H, Corinne Lowry, Conference Chairman PROGRAMME MORNING SESSION Presiding: Mrs. Jesse Gregory, President 9:00 to 9:45______________________________________________________________Registration 9:45 to 10:00___________________________________________________________________Music CALL TO WORSHIP 10:00 to 10:15__________________________________________________________ DEVOTIONS Miss Etta Versa Frye BUSINESS SESSION 10:15 to 11:15____________________________________________ REPORTS OF PRESIDENT INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKER Mrs. Lydia Norris, Sec. Burville Women's Club 11:15 to 11:45______________________________________________________Guest Speaker Attorney John B. Duncan President, Federation of Civic Associations of District of Columbia SUBJECT: "BROADENING OUR VIEW OF THE LOCAL SCENE" 11:45 to 11:50______________________________________________________________MUSIC 11:50 to 12:40________________________________REPORTS OF SPECIAL COMMITTEES LOCAL, REGIONAL, NATIONAL 12:40 TO 1:00________Art Exhibits______________________________ GET ACQUAINTED LUNCHEON SESSION 1:00 to 1:55 Presiding: Mrs. Elsie Sparks, Program Chairman President, Sarah Gray League LUNCHEON PRAYER_______________________________________________ Dr. Daniel Hill Dean of the Chapel, Howard University LUNCHEON INTRODUCTION OF GUEST SPEAKER ____ Miss Elizabeth Clark, President, Julia West Hamilton League GUEST SPEAKER_________________________________________ Mrs. Anna A. Hedgeman Assistant to the Administrator Federal Security Agency SUBJECT____________________________________________"Club Woman's View For '52" 2:50 to 3:00_________________________________________________________________Music 3:00 to 3:40____________________________________________SPOTLIGHTING UNUSUAL CONTRIBUTIONS THRU PERSONAL PARTICIPATION INTRODUCTIONS________________________________________Mrs. Mary E. C. Gregory Y. W. C. A.____________________________________________Dr. Bennetta B. Washington PROGRAMME CLUB WORK_______________________________________________ Mrs. Mignon Johnson HEALTH _____________________________________________________Miss Celestine Harris SOCIAL WORK ______________________________________________Miss Beatrice Catlett Mrs. Ethel James Williams RACE RELATIONS _______________________________________Mrs. Mary Church Terrell INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ______________________________Mrs. Marion Seymour ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY _______________________________________Mrs. Arena J. Bugg RECREATION ____________________________________________________Mrs. Alice Hunter 3:45 to 3:55 ____________________________________Remarks and Acknowledgements by Conference Chairman, Mrs. H. Corinne Lowry First Vice President, Tuesday Evening Club 4:00 to 4:05 _________________________________________________________________Music 4:05 to 4:10 _______________________________________________Introduction of Visitors CLOSING 4:10 to 4:15 _______________________________________________________________Mizpah Led by Chaplain, Mrs. Georgia Carter Chairman, Douglass Committee 1952 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Mrs. Mary E.C. Gregory, President Mrs. H. Corinne Lowry, Conference Chairman Mrs. Elsie Sparks, Program Chairman Miss Elizabeth Clarke, Co-Chairman Mrs. Lydia Norris, Conference Secretary LUNCHEON COMMITTEE _____________________ Mrs. Carrie M. Hackley, Chairman; Mrs. Ada Harris, Contacts: Mrs. Georgia Carter, Contacts; Mrs. Eudora Gilmore, Tickets; All Club Presidents. RESERVATIONS ____ Mrs. Jessie Stewart, Mrs. F.D. Couch, Mamie Dunlap HOSTESSES ____ Mrs. Madge Carey, Chairman; Co-Chairmen, All Club Presidents, Mrs. Mary Todd, Josephine Brooks, Contacts; Mrs. Lillie Watts, Elizabeth Thompson, Katherine Smith, Mardel Bundrant, Miss Lennie Smith, Miss Celestine Harris, Mrs. Carolyn Gray, Mrs. Isadora Letcher, Miss Elizabeth Clark, Miss Addie Haskins. DECORATIONS ____ Mrs. Mattie Randall and Mrs. Lucy Pollard (Contacts). MUSIC ____ Miss Marguerite Hall, Chairman; Co-Chairmen, Mrs. Pearl Smallwood and Miss Cecelia Jefferson. ART _____ Mrs. Arena J. Bugg and Mrs. Minnie Bigger, Co-Chairmen. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION — Miss Anna Green, Chairman; Co-Chairmen, Mrs. Marie Jefferson, Mrs. Bertha Cater, Mrs. Naomi Lewis, Miss Mayme Mehlinger, Miss Frances Clary (Juniors). TIME KEEPER — Mrs. Ella Queenan EXHIBITS — N. A. C. G.'s, Miss Mehlinger, Sup. in charge WASHINGTON AND VICINITY FEDERATION OF WOMEN FOR 1950-1952 PAST NATIONAL PRESIDENT Mrs. Mary Church Terrell PRESIDENT MRS. MARY E.C. GREGORY VICE PRESIDENTS Mrs. Ella Queenan, Southeast Mrs. Alma J. Scott Mrs. Arena J. Bugg, Recording Secretary Mr.s Eudora Gilmore, Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Bertha Carter, Acting Financial Secretary Mrs. Jennie B. Lee, Treasurer Mrs. Georgia Carter, Chaplain Mrs. Julia West Hamilton, Chairman Executive Board Miss Marguerite Hall, Secretary Executive Board Mrs. Carrie M. Hackley, Chairman Public Affairs Mrs. H. Corinne Lowry, Vocational Guidance - Women In Industry Mrs. Isadora Letcher, Scholarship Miss Mayme Mehlinger, National Association of Girls, Supervisor DEPARTMENT CHAIRMAN FREDERICK DOUGLAS COMMITTEE Mrs. Georgia Carter NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS BOARD Mrs. Julia West Hamilton INTER RACIAL — Miss Celestine Harris EDUCATION — Mrs. Adelaide Barnes PEACE — Mrs. Minnie Bigger LEGISLATION —Miss Marguerite Hall MOTHER - HOME - CHILD —Mrs. Mary Todd ARTS AND CRAFTS — Mrs. Arena J. Bugg PHYLLIS WHEATLEY — Mrs. Bertha Carter BUSINESS — Mrs. Marie Jefferson JOURNAL OF NEGRO EDUCATION BUREAU OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Howard University Washington 1, D. C. Dr. Mary Church Terrell, 1615 S Street, N. W. Washington, D.C. May 27, 1952 Dear Dr. Terrell, This comes to ask whether or not you would be interested in receiving a copy of the Proceedings of our conference on "The Courts and Racial Integration in Education" which was held here at the University during April 1952. Those Proceedings are now at the printer's and should be ready for distribution on or before July 1, 1952. They are being printed and published as the Twenty-first Yearbook issue of the JOURNAL OF NEGRO EDUCATION. If you are interested in obtaining a copy and are not regular subscriber to the Jounral please let us know not later than June 19, enclosing check in the sum of $2.50, and we will be glad to see that a copy is sent to you. We are only ordering copies for persons from whom we have received orders. 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Name__________________________________________ Address________________________________________ _________________________________________ Please send it to me at the following address a copy of the Summer 1952 YEARBOOK on "The Courts and Racial Integration in Education." I enclose herewith check (money order) in the sum of $2.50 to cover cost of the same. Name__________________________________________ Address________________________________________ _________________________________________ May 28, 1952 IT'S WORTH REPEATING DEAR MEMBER: PLEASE BE PRESENT FOR BOARD MEETING OF THE SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY HOUSE, MONDAY JUNE 2, 1952 at THE 12th ST., BRANCH Y.M.C.A, 1816 - 12th STREET N.W. Note* This meeting is very important. (Time 7:30 P.M.) Miss. Edith A. Lyons President Ernest S. Jenkyns Secretary SOUTHWEST COMMUNITY HOUSE REPORT OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, 12th St. Y.M.C.A., March 24, '52 Those Present: Pres. Lyons, Dir. Lewis, Rev. Edwards, Atty. Washington, Messrs. Hawkins, Jackson, Jenkyns, Snyder, minor, Dr. Peterson, Mrs. Lyle, Mrs. Gregory, Mr. Dorsey, and Rev. Bianchi. Those excused: Mrs. Kimbrough, and Mrs. Scott The meeting was called to order by the president. Invocation was pronounced by Rev. Edwards. Minutes of the last meeting were read, approved with minor corrections. Mr. Snyder presented a mimeograph of his House Committee's report which he read with appropriate explanatory remarks. Mr. Snyder circulated the report for discussion. Mr. Washington's motion with Mr. Jackson's second that we accept the report was carried. Mr. Snyder asked that the Board act on the suggestions from the Redevelopment Land Agency as outlined in the report. Atty. Washington moved that such action be taken and this to be done as comprehensively as possible by May 1. After a proper second the motion was carried. Mr. Snyder and Pres. Lyons urged the cooperation of all board members to prepare the data to be submitted to the R.L.A. Pres. Lyons and Mr. Snyder commended highly the House Committee and its work. Mr. Snyder suggested allocating the tasks necessary to preparing the report. Further discussion clarified the work and the procedures for achieving the same. It was suggested that the Executive Committee assemble and put the material in final form before the April meeting. Rev. Edwards recommended that the House Committee confer with the U.C.S. reasking R.L.A. for aid in our House Program. The date for receiving all data is Friday, April 18; the Executive meeting - Thursday, April 42 at Lenox School at 4 PM; the House Committee's conference with U.C.S. to come between April 18 and 24 at 1101 M. St., N.W. (the exact date to be ascertained by Dir. Lewis). Any suggestions from board members are urged for submission by April 18. Mrs. Lyle asked where the Nursery School would be located if all the activities of the agency are to be housed under one roof. Mr. Dorsey expressed opposition to having the Nursery School project subject to the influence from activities of larger children. Mrs. Lyle expressed concern about the over-all limitations of the proposed plans even if the Nursery School were eliminated from the premises. Mr. Snyder recommended that we consider not funds but program needs and then ascertain how much toward meeting the needs we can plan for in housing and equipment. Atty. Washington clarified that the present proposed plan certainly implied expansion in additional floors or over a larger area. Rev. Edwards recalled the board's attention to the need for determining need and projecting as much of it as possible with a view to later expansion in terms of the money available. The question of two buildings seems prohibitive as one building seems quite a task. To resolve the issue Mrs. Lyle and Mr. Snyder asked the board not to attempt to plan space but to plan the program and then adapt resources toward the program. Dir. Lewis reminded the board that the U.C.S. accepts Nursery Schools only until some other agency takes them out ot community houses. Atty. Washington suggested that the board decide in connection with this program whether of not we intend to keep the Nursery School in the program so that our planning will be realistic. Rev. Edwards and Dir. Lewis explained in more detail re Nursery procedures and standards. Dr. Peterson asked how S.W. House can give up its Nursery School. Rev. Edwards informed the body the U.C.S. is anxious the we give up the Nursery School with due notice to all concerned and with proper consideration for all employees. Pres. Lyons asked for a report of the Program Committee, Mr. Dorsey, Chairman. Mr. Dorsey reported with copies which he circulated that in his proposed program no consideration is given to the Nursery School. His proposal is along the lines of the decentralized program which proved highly successful in the George Bell School last year -- A similar request for the period from May 1 to June 13 from 3:30 to 9 PM. daily;for the entire period that schools are closed from 12 noon to 8 PM.; then revert to the 3:30 to 9PM. time when schools reopen in the Fall --this request is to be forwarded to the Supt. of Recreation Dept. to make the George Bell School facilities available to the S.W. House. Mr. Bartlett of the U.C.S. has been contacted and endorses the action and authorized using his name in the matter. The Recreation Dept. could not finance a program obviously but could provide custodial service and the assignment of a worker to work in the agency. Mr. Dorsey reported his proposal to be the type of program the House should have whether decentralized, centralized or at Bell School. Much discussion followed re dangers of using school facilities. Mr. Washington moved that the Chairman appoint a special committee to attempt to implement the plan to use Bell School so that all dangers foreseen can be eliminated. Rev. Edwards seconds the motion with commendation for the work of the committee. Pres. Lyons appointed the following as the committee: Dr. Peterson, Mr. Jenkyns, Mr. Jackson, and Mrs. Gregory. Mr. Dorsey informed the body that Mr. James White, Area Director of Recreation, is very ill. Mr. Snyder reported that Mr. Foster is ill in Doctors' Hospital. There were no reports from the Personnel nor the Public Relations Committees. Rev. Edwards reported for the Nominating Committee as follows: that a roster of board members with the membership expiration dates of each member be prepared. Rev. Edwards urged that our five vacancies be filled, if possible,with White business men, for that is our board's area of deficiency. DIRECTOR'S REPORT: Director Lewis reported in detail on activities to come; finances to date including a statement re absorption of the deficit. Mr. Dorsey 's motion, Dr. Peterson's second that the Director's report be approved was carried. Rev. Edwards' motion with Mr. Miner's second that if the board receives $25. it will be applied to the budget to avoid the necessity of revising the board's budget proposal was carried. Pres. Lyons reported that she, Dr. Peterson and Mrs. Lyle attended the U.C.S.' Board Members Institute . On Wednesday, March 19 Director Lewis reported instances of vandalism at the Nursery School. The motion to adjourn at 9:30 PM. was carried. Respectfully submitted: Ernest S. Jenkyns, Sec. Miss Edith A. Lyons, Pres. Southwest Community Hour Board of Directors SOUTHWEST HOUSE BOARD OF DIRECTORS REPORT OF THE REGULAR MEETING, 1725 1st St., S.W. (Syphax Nursery School), 4/28/52 Those Present: Pres, Lyons, Dir. Lewis; Nursey School Staff; Mesdames Coleman Kimbrough, Dr. Peterson, Mr. and Mrs. Synder, Rev. Edwards, Messers. Jenkyns, Jackson, Dorsey. Those Excused: Mr. Hawkins The meeting was called to order by Pres. Lyons. Invocation was pronounced by Rev. A.J. Edwards. Pres. Lyons expressed pleasure at meeting in the Nursery School and asked Director Lewis to present the staffof the Nursery School meeting with us;- Miss Saunders, Mrs. Ridgely, Mrs. Burke, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Gladden, Mrs. Wheeler, Mr. Washington and Mrs. Blackwell. Pres. Lyons complimented the splendid program of the Nursery School and commended highly the valuble pre-public school training which ours and other nurseries do so well. Minutes were read and approved as read. Director's report - Report was begun with the statistics of enrolled children, activities and finances by Director Lewis followed by various members of the Nursery School Staff presenting interesting reports of the splended work the school does. Following this Dir. Lewis gave a progress report on the Group Work Program which will begin in May. In addition other services of the staff and board members which benefit the House were announced. The report was concluded with recommendations. Pres. Lyons thanked the Dir. and staff for their reports. Rev. Edward's motion, Mr. Dorsey's second that the narrative part of the Director's report be approved with commendation to the Director and Staff - carried. Mr. Dorsey reported 2 sand boxes and sliding board as recommended were made and to be delivered this week. The question of paper towels was raised and turned over to the Director to act upon. The matter of finances for a coming outside conference of inestimable value for which at the moment there seems to be no finances. Director's recommendations:- 1. Group Work Program to begin at Bell School as soon as possible - the question on the motion to approve this recommendation disclosed that the D.C. Recreation Department would cooperate - motion carried 2. 1952 revised budget be presented to U.C.S. - motion carried. 3. Direction be given for employing workers for group work program -carried. 4. Motion and seconded that we fill 2 vacancies on our staff as of June 1 - carried. Rev. Edwards moved that remainder of agenda become the order of business for the remainder of the evening. Committee Reports:- House Committee - Mr. Snyder- R.L.A. has split its original redevelopment plans but felt that the change would not affect R.L.A.'s ability to help S.W.H. - U.C.S. seemed m ost favorable to the proposals made by the House Committee. Pres. Lyons thanked Mr. Snyder for his report. Pres. Lyons next read the letter of transmittal to Director Searles of R.L.A. in which the Board gives a background statement of S.W. House and asks help in a house program. The letter accompanies the necessary data to justify the request. Rev. Edward's motion was carried that on the competence of the Board's work and the editing of the pres. that the letter and data be forwarded. Mr. Dorsey reported further on the program. Nursery, Personnel, Nominating Committees had no reports. Mrs. Coleman, Fin. Chrm. reported - $4905.19 as of March 19, 1952. No Publicity report. Reverend Edwards opened question of someone attending the Federation of Settlements Convention. Mr. Dorsey's motion carried that Personnel Committee consider this matter for covering Director's absence since we see a financial way to do it. Mr. Dorsey's motion carried that we adjourn fort he social hour - 9:25 P.M. Respectfully submitted: Ernest B. Jenkyns, Sec. Miss Edith A. Lyons, Pres. Southwest Community House Board of Directors May 28, 1952 Shimer College Dear Mrs. Terrell, I have two bits of news that you will be interesed in. First, I've been asked to be the International Relations Chairman of the A.A.U.W. of the Illinois State Division. I will attend the Board Meeting at Allerton Park Ill - June 6 and 7. Second, Mr. Brumbaugh has been asked by the Southern Regional Accrediting Asso. to give 3 month of his time next year to working on Ed. problems of that area. We will have headquarters in Atlanta - The Shimer Board of Trustees gave thier consent to this arrangement and I hope it wont be too much strain on Mr. Brumbaugh - If we can make any contribution to Southern Education it will be worth any effort. The Board Meeting here was well attended & exciting in spite of the fact that it poured rain and was cold enough for red flannels - Dr. Gilkey was out to make the speech that opened our year of celebration - Founders Day May 11, 1952 to Founders Day May 11 1953. We have turned up a most interesting exhibit of treasures from the past hundred years. SHIMER COLLEGE SHIMER COLLEGE Dr. & Mrs Helmholtz were our guests yesterday He was with the Mayo Clinics & is a famous pediatrician. but is now retired - He was with Mr Brumbaugh in D.C. You remember on the planning Committee for the 1950 White House Conference on Children & Youth. She was one of our Branch AAUW standbys & took her turn staffing our first office on 17th St - you remember. They are just returned from South america & we took them to Dinner in our Dining Hall last eve & they met out students & later he spoke to our Faculty - Most interesting We have so many precious friends & we try to share them with out staff & students. These youngsters meet famous people with a surprising amount of grace, poise, & charm & like to be part of the family when guests arrive. This week our students are deep in Comprehensive Examinations. These papers are all taken to Chicago & read with the N. of C. papers. June 1 Pres. Carey Croneis from Beloit College will give our Commencement address. [It] These will be our first graduates under the new project & we are proud of each one of them. I enjoyed your last letter very much. My next to you may be from the deep south? Love, Ruth S. B [5-29-52] Dear Mrs. Terrill: We are sending you a complimentary ticket hoping you will be able to attend. The Committee J.J. Butcher, Com. Chas Thomas Camp UNITED SPANISH WAR VETERANS Present: a benefit performance of Solo Dramas by ADA BUTCHER At Metropolitan Bapt. Church, 1225 R St., N. W. THURSDAY, MAY 29TH, 1952 - 8:30 P. M. Contribution $1.00 Committee: P.D.C. Wm. S. French P.C. Louis Jackson P.D.C. John E. Smith P.C. Emmett Preston P.C. Joseph Carter P.C. Raphael Lopez P.C. Wm. P. Brooks James E. Long Wm. A. Parker, Com. Geo. Berry Camp Jesse J. Butcher, Com. Chas M. Thomas Camp P.C. John R. Anderson, Chr. [*comp*] UNITED SPANISH WAR VETERANS Present: a benefit performance of Solo Dramas by ADA BUTCHER At Metropolitan Bapt. Church, 1225 R St., N. W. THURSDAY, MAY 29TH, 1952 - 8:30 P. M. Contribution $1.00 Committee: P.D.C. Wm. S. French P.C. Louis Jackson P.D.C. John E. Smith P.C. Emmett Preston P.C. Joseph Carter P.C. Raphael Lopez P.C. Wm. P. Brooks James E. Long Wm. A. Parker, Com. Geo. Berry Camp Jesse J. Butcher, Com. Chas M. Thomas Camp P.C. John R. Anderson, Chr. [*comp*] Third Annual Donor Dinner National Council of Negro Women, Inc. Philadelphia Council 1605 Catherine Street Mary McCleod Bethune Founder, President-Emeritus Mary Wood Chairman Dorothy Ferebee, M.D. National President Dorothy Lymas President May 29, 1952 Dr. Mary Church Terrell 1615 S Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. Dear Dr. Terrell: On Saturday June 28th at 6:00 P.M. the National Council of Negro Women will hold their Third Annual Donor Dinner. We would like to have you as one of our special guests for the occasion. Mayor Joseph S. Clark has been invited to be our speaker. Since "Forging New Links of Understanding" is our theme for the year, we feel that the Mayor's role in the current awakening of Philadelphia made him the logical choice for this occasion. We hope that he will accept and this will be a banner day for the National Council. The place is to be announced. An early reply will be appreciated. Sincerely yours, Lenora Scott (Mrs.) Lenora Scott Program Chairman Mary E. Wood (Miss) Mary E. Wood [V.C.?] Chairman, Donor Dinner World Fellowship, Inc. Seeking Peace, Brotherhood and Plenty for All Mankind A "Forest-Farm-Lake-and-Mountain Paradise" Serving People of All Races, Faiths, Colors, Countries and Convictions Conway, New Hampshire (Post Office and Railway Station) (Two Telephones: Conway-Ring 21 or 22) Trustees (Resident Workers) Charles Frederick Weller Founder-President Eugenia Winston Weller Founder-Vice President The Two General Executives Mrs. Lillian W. Luttinger Manager Justine S. Hine Associate Manager Nancy Jane Weller Robin E. Montgomery Trustees (Widely Representative) Eugene L. Belisle, Massachusetts William S. Felton, New Hampshire Clarence V. Howell, New York Laurence C. Jones, Mississippi Rt. Rev. Paul Keen, Philadelphia Georgia Lloyd, Chicago Rev. and Mrs. Ramskrishna S. Modak, New York and India Sidney A. Teller, Chicago John Pratt Whitman, Massachusetts Harry Zvengrowski, New York World Fellowships of Faiths Sakuntala Rao Sastri, India, Honorary Secretary. 5/29/52 Dr. Mary Church Terrell 1615 S St. N.W. Washington, DC, Dear long-time Friend, Contributor, 1934-1945: Thieves stole our 2 radios, our typewriter and $150. worth of tools. - - - 13 feet of snow, during the winter, stressed the need of repairs to roofs and porches. - - -One or two rowboats must be bought and 2 old boats conditioned. - - -$500.00 must be paid for 2 new (bottled-gas) cook stoves in our Lodge and Farm House kitchens. Advertisements must be placed, repeatedly, in 14 publicatinos. - - - This (enclosed) new Folder and our new "Rates, Transportation and Activities" sheets have had to be printed. - - - 500 personal letters will have to be written answering inquirers and adjusting reservations. - - - Speakers are to be enlisted for our Every evening Forum in July and August. We are glad and grateful that a great Vision and Spirit sustain us. - - - We are prayerfully hopeful that (in this our 12th year here) we shall be led and enabled to make our best possible contributions to the World-wide Realization of Peace-Progress-and Plenty for ALL MANKIND. Will you - please - help up - now- as generously as possible? Very Earnestly Yours, Chas. F. Weller We hope you will visit us this summer and talk to one Evening Forum. It would be wonderful to see you again after all these years. - E.W. Weller Incorporated as a non-profit, international community center and world-wide movement, it welcomes friendly folks of ALL faiths, races, countries, colors and convictions. Started in 1918 as the League of Neighbors, it inaugurated, in 1933, its World Fellowship of Faiths. It has centered since 1941 in the 274 acres and 6 buildings of its New Hampshire World Fellowship Center, Inc. Any Contribution makes anyone a Member for a Year. Contributions may be deducted from Income Tax returns. ARTISAN PRODUCTION Reply to: P.O. BOX 1827, HOLLYWOOD 28, CALIFORNIA May 31, 1952 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1615 S Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. My dear Mrs. Terrell: I have not meant to neglect your kind letter and your questions concerning the color quality in your photograph on our Scroll of Negro History. It happens that for the past few months, I have been planning on a trip East, and I have been delayed up to now. However, I will arrive in Washington on June 7. I will be there in connection with some visual material I am planning on the life of Frederick Douglass. I would be most grateful if you would permit me to call on you. I am most anxious to meet you and to avail myself of the rich experiences I know you have had. Please expect a call from me shortly after my arrival. Most sincerely, Carlton Moss Carlton Moss ARTISAN PRODUCTIONS CM/lw Studie: 13353 FRIAR STREET, VAN NUYS, CALIFORNIA Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.