Activities Among Negroes
The Linden branch Y. W. C. A.'s membership drive closed October 23 at the fifth annual turkey dinner, attended by 150 persons. Two hundred new members were enrolled. An address on membership was delivered by Miss Margaret Williamson of the city department of Y. W. C. A. national staff.
"Recognition service" for members was held at the vesper hour on Sunday and was largely attended. Miss Ruth Moore, the executive secretary, is working for a larger Y. W. C. A.
The Girls' Reserve, under the leadership of the new secretary, Miss Perry, held a Hallowe'en party Friday. They are planning the annual mother and daughter banquet
Miss Marie Jeffers celebrated her birthday this week with a Hallowe’en party to twelve of her college friends.
The California state body of Native Daughters, which was organized last May in San Francisco by colored women, now has chapters as far south as Bakersfield, and as far north as Marysville. The motto is "Loyalty to California." The Oakland chapter has been named in memory of the late Pauline Powell Burns.
The constitution and by-laws of the Oakland chapter were adopted by the state body. The state parliamentarian, Mrs. Hettie B. Tilghman of Berkeley, assisted in the drafting of the code.
The National Notes, published by the National Association of Colored Women, in this October issue contains an entire page from the California State Journal of the California Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. The editor, Mrs. Myrtle Foster-Cook, as an introduction has headed the page. "Get Acquainted With California Women-You Will Meet Them Next Year."
Among the articles quoted is a prayer written in the form of a poem by Mrs. Maggie Judge, state chaplain and past president of the Mothers' Charity Club of Oakland. Mrs. Margaret Mabson of San Francisco, superintendent of mothers' work, has an article on the work done during the year by these clubs throughout the state. The Alameda, Oakland and Berkeley high school girls' club gave a summary of the clubs.
In an article on "The Growth of the Negro Theater," Tric Walmond in the Theater Magazine says: "When I think of negroes writing plays, which I feel sure some day will measure up to the standard exacted by the New York stage, I immediately think of Eloise Bibb Thompson of Los Angeles, a former student of Thomas Uzzell, and undoubtedly the most competent craftsman of the race."
Mrs. Thompson has written several dramas, including "Caught," produced at the Gamut Club; "A Friend of Democracy," submitted by Charles Wakefield Cadman, to members of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York to be put into libretto forni, and "Cooped Up." produced in 1924 at the Lafayette theater, New York city."
In Washington, D. C., this week conference of Y, W. C. A. colored workers has been held to consider the appeal sent to this country by Max Yergan, pioneer organizer of Y. M. C. A. work in South Africa. He has asked for $20,000, with which to build a clubhouse hotel at Fort Hare College, Alice Cape province, South Africa. During the last four years Max Yergan has organized 26 associations in the native wilderness.
Benjamine J. Davis, editor and political leader, has been selected by the Republican Central Committee of Georgia to succeed the late Henry Lincoln-Johnson. He was elected by a vote of 43 to 23.
George Foster Peabody and Dr. R. R. Moton of Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, were the principal speakers last week at the dedication of the Colored Y. M. C. A. building in Columbus, Ga. This building has just been remodeled and enlarged at a cost of $15,000. These improvements provide increased dormitory facilities, enlarged gymnasium, an auditorium and a modern sanitary cafe.
An additional secretary, C. E. Farley, has been employed to work exclusively among the soldiers of the 24th Infantry stationed at Fort Benning.
Activities Among Negroes 01 Nov 1925, Sun Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) Newspapers.com
