Correspondence F - undated [*The National Association of Colored Women's Club, Inc.*] [*Lethia C. Fleming, Chairman Executive Board*] [*Office: 2342 East 40th Street*] [*PHONE: HENDERSON 7537*] [*Cleveland, Ohio*] Dear Mrs. Terrell Am sending you clipping from our local newspaper today. Hope you will be here. Mrs. Chester C. Bolton, Wife of our Congressman is one of the speakers with you. Love as ever Lethia C. Fleming. OFFICERS Dr. Mary Fitzbutler Waring, President Mrs. Daisy E. Lampkin, Vice Pres. Mrs. Lethia Fleming, Chrm. Ex. Bd. Mrs. Julia West Hamilton, Treas. Miss Arsania Willians, Fin. Sec. Miss Marie Barker, Rec. Sec. Mrs. Wanda Bagnall, Rec. Sec. Mrs. Mary V. Parrish, Chaplian Mrs. S. Joe Brown, Parliamentarian Mrs. J. E. Johnson, Statistician Mrs. Mamye Josenberger, Sec. Ex. Bd. Mrs. Christine Smith, Sec. N. A. C. W. Board of Control Mrs. N. L. Napier, Douglass Home Mrs. Mary McLoed Bethune, Chrm. Headquarters, Washington, D. C. COPY 1216 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D. C. Mrs. L. C. Fleming, 2342 East 40th Street, Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Mrs. Fleming: I have just concluded interviews with Mr. C. B. Miller, Secretary of the Republican National Committee, and Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, Vice Chairman of the Committee. During these interviews I have been advised substantially as follows: The meeting at Kansas City is without official origin or official sanction. I say "official" having in mind the Republican National Committee and its subcommittees. Therefore the result of the meeting at Kansas City could have no especial significance with the National Committee and its activities for the reasons heretofore stated. You may be sure that you work during the past campaign speaks for itself and that if the National Committee had called such a meeting as that billed for Kansas City, you would have been advised of the fact. Mrs. Upton advises me that she knew nothing of the Kansas City meeting until she saw it in the newspapers. She was invited to speak but did not accept. Sincerely yours, FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY WASHINGTON Dear Mrs. Terrell: Striking increases in life expectancy have caused rapid growth in the number and proportion of older people in our population. The implications and problems arising from this vitally important trend have attracted growing attention among organizations and individuals concerned with the development of our country and its people. A number of these citizens and organizations have urged that the Federal government provide a forum for public and volunteer agencies to explore and develop policies and activities relating to the manifold problems of an aging population. Recently the President asked me to take appropriate steps towards this end. In view of this I wish to invite you to attend a National Conference on Aging to be held in Washington on August 13, 14, and 15. Your interest in the problem is well recognized and I know that you will make a significant contribution through your participation. Committees of interested persons from over the country are now at work planning the broad outlines of the Conference, assisted by our own staff members. Within each Conference Section they wish to have persons of varied interests and backgrounds and would particularly like to have you participate in Section V--Education for an Aging Population. If you would prefer another Section, however, please let me know. Insofar as possible, we shall place you in the Section of your choice. I regret to say that the Federal government is unable to pay the expenses of Conference delegates. I am hopeful, however, that you or your organization will consider the National need to be of sufficient importance to make worthwhile the expense of your participation. The Conference will be hold at the Hotel Shoreham, adjacent to beautiful Rock Creek Park in Washington. Rooms for Conference delegates have been set aside, and one will be reserved for you if you will mail the enclosed card. Won't you let me know within a few days that we can count on your help in this initial coordinated attack on the aging problem. Sincerely yours, Oscar R Ewing Administrator Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1615 S Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. ...................................... Dear Mrs. Terrell, You are cordially invited to attend a garden party to be held Sunday, June 26, at four o'clock, on the grounds of the "Davis" House (or inside, if it rains, 2410 Wyoming Avenue, N.W., by those members of the Washington Branch, American Association of University Woman, who support the memberships policy of the National Association. The place is three or four blocks west of the L4 bus stop near the corner of Connecticut and Wyoming Avenues. Sincerely yours, (Miss) Margaret Flory 1722 - 19th St., N.W Washington 9, D.C. ................................................. FAR EAST SPOTLIGHT A monthly report on U.S. Policy and Internal events in China, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Southeast Asia and India. 80 EAST 11th STREET, NEW YORK 3, N.Y. ORegon 3-7560 Mrs. Mary Church Terrell 1615 S Street, N.W. Washington, D. C. Dear Mrs. Terrell: The questions of friendship, trade and recognition of the new government of China are major topics of discussion in our country today. Far East Spotlight, an influential and authoritative monthly on the Far East, wishes to take this opportunity to hear frank opinions on this subject from outstanding and representative Americans. We would be grateful if you would fill in the enclosed questionnaire. The answers may be as brief or extensive as you care to make them. Finally, may we request that you favor us with an early reply. With many thanks for your cooperation, Sincerely, Susan M. Warren Associate Editor Hon. Hamilton Fish, House of Representatives My dear Mr. Fish, I have just read your letter to President Lowell, published in The World today. It is admirable in every particular. You have stated [the] and defended the situation of the colored student at Harvard in a way that few men can do it. As a graduate of Harvard, a soldier in the World's War, and as a member of Congress from the great state of New York an expression by you in favor of colored men means [everything] a great deal to them in all parts of our country. I hope others will follow your example and try to crush out in its birth the race issue at dear old Harvard. I am sure the colored people everywhere will read what you have said in the World in a spirit of the deepest graditude. As a graduate of Harvard College I do so. Yours faithfully, HEADQUARTERS FIRST NATIONAL SURVEY Famous Colored Americans ONSET, MASS. Greeting: Would you be interested and kind enough to submit to me the names and birth state of twenty-five or more American-born colored people of either sex who, in your opinion, are the all time outstanding individuals of our group, and why? The purpose of this questionnaire is to obtain the consensus of opinion of our own thinking people, and is to be used to perpetuate the memory of those selected, in a simple memorial, that I will announce at a later date. This survey is nation-wide. You will find enclosed a printed, self-addressed and stamped envelope to return your very appreciated reply, if you will. Thanking you, I am JAMES ARTHUR WHALEY, M. C. H. Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America CABLE ADDRESS "FEDCIL" INCORPORATED TELEPHONE GRAMERCY 5-3475 105 East 22nd Street New York, N. Y. Department of Race Relations EDGAR DEWITT JONES, PRESIDENT FRANK H. MANN, TREASURER SAMUEL MCCREA CAVERT GENERAL SECRETARY WILLIAM H. JERNAGIN, CHAIRMAN EVA HILLS EASTMAN, VICE-CHAIRMAN GEORGE E. HAYNES, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY KATHERINE GARDNER, ASSOCIATE SECRETARY To those interested in the passage of a federal anti-lynching law. The Gavagan Anti-Lynching bill which was approved by the House of Representatives on April 16 marks the successful passage of the first hurdle toward a federal anti-lynching law. All who have had a share in bringing this about should feel gratified. The House action, however, will go for naught unless the Senate passes a similar bill. It is proposed that all friends of anti-lynching legislation write or telegraph their Senators urging them to secure an early and definite date for debate and vote on the Wagner-Van Nuys anti-lynching bill ($1709), and expressing strong fears that the bill may again be defeated by the stubborn filibuster of a small minority. As you know this is a very important measure and we hope you will bring these proposals before as many people as possible. We should remember that Senators who filibustered against the bill in 1935 are still in the Senate as are many of the Northern Senators who gave in to that filibuster. Our friends in the South can tell their Senators that the Institute of Public Opinion's test vote in the South showed 65% in favor of a federal anti-lynching law. Northerners can tell their Senators that the country-wide poll showed a 70% favorable opinion. Letters should always ask a favorable vote for the bill and be phrased so as to bring a reply. Don't forget that your help is needed now. Yours for a lynchless America. Katherine Gardner Katherine Gardner G-f Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest 1411 Thirty-fifth Street, N. W. Washington D.C. April 29 - Dear Mrs. Terrell - I am sending the Phillis Wheatley Pageant a little testimonial which I trust you can use - I knew you did not want it long - Sincerely Marie Moore Forrest Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.