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Vol. 2, No. 26 - "** 'I jJ Minneapolis, Minnesota, Friday, February 7, 1936 p»w HVM CENT*
Phyllis Wheatley Celebrates Eleven
Years of Social Service
• The real red letter day at Phyllis
Wheatley is its annual meeting
looked forward to by its friends in
both Minneapolis and St Paul. It
will be sponsored this ye*r, as
usual, by the Phyllis Auxiliary,
Mrs. Frances Duncan, president,
and will be celebrated by a din
ner and program at the House,
Tuesday, February 11, at 6:80 p. m.
Other Years
In former annual meetings it has
been possible to send outside the
city for a speaker, with a special
message. In later years, owing to
changed economic conditions, it has
been found advisable to substitute
for this feature presentations from
the work actually carried on in
the House. This change has fitted
exactly to the moods of its patrons
and the affairs have gone forward
to the perfect satisfaction of the
hundreds who crowd the big gym
at the House to capacity.
Eleventh Annual
This year marks the 11th mile
stone in its history and Miss W.
Gertrude Brown, head resident, is
expected to report no lessening of
its activities and a decided increase
in the value of the service it has
offered the people of this commu
nity.
Mails are not always de
pendable. If you do not receive
your card of invitation, phone
Cherry 8098. Phyllis Wheatley
does not want a single friend
overlooked and you are ex-
The program, chief feature of
the entertainment accompanying
the dinner, will be one of those
eharming skits by one of the dra
matic groups directed by Miss M.
Louise Bohanon, dramatic depart
ment head.
Music
The evening’s musical numbers
will be given by a newly formed
chorus developed from the WPA
sewing unit, employed at the house
and trained by Mrs. Blanche 0.
Mason, head- of the department of
music.
Service at the dinner, an always
important factor in the annual din
ner, will be in charge of members
from the 20th Century Club and
waiters from the Curtis Hotel.
Menu
The menu will be prepared under
the critical eye of Mrs. Mayme
Battles and the guests will be wel
comed by groups selected from the
staff and auxiliary.
Invitations are already in the
mails and those who are intending
to come are urged to make prompt
reservation by mail, phone or in
person. This will enable the man
agement to exercise its usual care
•in looking after its guests. The
small price of 50c per plate has
not been changed this year.
After three consecutive victories
the Border Basketball Team ran
into an unexpected tartar in the
Fremont Congregational outfit on
the Jordan Junior High floor, and
went down to defeat by the nar
row margin of two points. The
game ended 29-27, with the home
boys still fighting with their last
ounce of energy to overcome that
two point lead.
The race entry in the fight for
the North Side Championship was
forced to play the greater part of
th' game with the starting line
up intact, because no substitutes
were available. During the last
few minutes, Stafford Lott was
forced to leave the game on per
sonal fouls, leaving only four men
to finish the game. The Border
boys tired soon after the second
,half opened and saw their lead of
20-14 wilt into nothing, never io
be regained.
Don Strawder again paced the
team in scoring with six field
goals, followed by Captain Lott,
with eight points. The entire team
is awaiting to avenge their defeat
Monday night at the hands of Fre
mont Congregational. Next Mon
day Jordan Junior High will again
be the scene of the tussle between
Border and St, Mark's Lutheran
church. The remaining four games
will be played at Phyllis Wheat
ley House, at 9 p. m.
Baby Competition
Wins Attention
Many and valuable will be the
prizes given in the Negro baby
show* to be held the evening of
March 7, at the city auditorium.
The first and grand prise is a Kel
vinator, with its special water and
milk cooler equipment, ice cream
cabinets, etc. The baby show com
mittee plans to display it as soon
as arrangements can be made.
However, the Kelvinators are al
ways on display in the show rooms
of the Minneapolis General Elec
tric Company. This major prize
will be awarded the parents or
guardians of baby show entrants,
who realise the largest amount of
sales of the baby show tickets.
These tickets are being sold now
and all mothers are urged to regis
ter their babies and take part in
the contest. All have an equal
chance and there is no cost. All
mothers with their registered
babies will be admitted free to the
show. The age of babies eligible
to enter the contest is from birth
to five years.
Registrations are being taken at
the home of M. W. Judy, telephone
Locust 9059.
Prizes will be awarded children
of junior and senior ages for the
most beautiful girls and the most
beautiful boys. Awards will be
made to the youngest baby, cuttest
tot, best twins and triplets. The
most popular mother will come in
for her share.
Health awards will be given out
based on physician’s reports and
two five dollar prizes will be do
nated by a Chiropodist who will
examine all of the babies’ feet at
the show. He will make his awards
to the two most perfect set of
feet
Following is a few of the prizes
that have already been donated by
merchants:
Gainsley-Graves Co., 916 Nicollet
Ave., jewelry for baby.
De Guile Academy of Beauty,
808 Nicollet Ave., beauty work.
(Door prize.)
New Hennepin Studio, 803 Hen
nepin Ave., six frees, photos.
Max A. Kohen, 13 S. Sth St.,
jewelry.
Hasty Tasty Shop, 830 Mar
quette, bakery goods.
Harry Felsenberg, 8 S. 4th St,
glassware set
Egekvist Bakery, 113 S. 6th St,
bakery goods.
Century Fruit Market, 832 Mar
quette Ave., assorted vegetables.
J. C. Famechon Co., 145 N. 12th
St., potatoes.
Schmidler Food Market, 610 N.
7th St., groceries.
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MASS MEETING
The Twin City Ministers’ Alliance will sponsor a
mass meeting at the St. James A. M. E. Church, Cen
tral at Dale, St. Paul, Sunday, February 9th, at 3:30
p. m.
The meeting will give information of and plan for
participation in the National Negro Congress in Chi
cago, February 14th.
Miss W. Gertrude Brown of Phyllis Wheatley, and
Rev. W. E. Wadlington of Bethesda Baptist Church,
Minneapolis, will speak. The importance of this meet
ing cannot be over-estimated.
Prepare to come, to advise, to help.
Rev. L, W. Harris, President.
Above is a reading of “Silver Lining,”
a play to be presented at the first Studio
Formal of the season. Members in the
group comprise the Senior Dramatic Class
of the Hallie Q. Brown House. Reading
from left to right: Tully Hickman, Doro
thea Harris, Richard Stokes, Louise Har-
St. Thomas Gets
New Minister
A public reception will be given
Sunday, February 16, from 3 to 7
p. m. in the guild room of the
church for the
purpose of get
ting acquainted
with the new rec
tor and family.
The new pastor
of St. Thomas
Episcopal church
comes to Minne
apolis with his
family, a wife
and two small
Children and will
begin his work Bar. J. H. Thompson
here Sunday, February 9. The
public is always welcome at St.
Thomas.
Civic Club Urges
Members Meet
The St. Paul Community and
Civic Club met Monday night, Feb
ruary 3, at Pioneer. Defying the
cold, most of them were present,
and the discussion of business went
forward.
The next meeting will be held
Monday night, February 10. It is
urged that all members will make
this meeting, as the immediate
business is of utmost importance
THESE FIRMS
ARE UNFAIR!
Minneapolis Brewing Co.
Schmidt’s Brewing Co.
Hamm’s Brewing Co.
Gluck’s Brewing Co.
YOERG BREWING CO.
No Negroes are among the
employed personnel of any of
these breweries. Don’t spend
your money with firms that
practice race discrimination in
the selection of their employees.
Rev. Damon P. Young, Secretary.
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History of Hallie Q. Brown Disclosed In
Pageant at Annual Dinner
“The Spirit of Community Serv
ice,” is the title given the pageant
which will so ably tell the story of
the activities of the Hallie Q.
Brown Community House on the
night of the 7th Annual Dinner
Meeting to be held Friday, Febru
ary 14th, at 7p. m. The pageant
was written by Miss Laura Jeffrey
and directed by Mrs. Louise Wood
ford, two of the workers at Hallie
Q. Brown House. In the cast are
twenty-five people.
To some people seven years is
a very short while, to others it is
a long time, but to those people
who know social work and its many
obstacles, especially from the
standpoint of recreation and health
work, it is amazing to note the
many accomplishments of Hallie Q.
Brown House in the short period
of seven years. Over this period
the house has gained for itself city
wide recognition, co-operation of
private and public agencies, and
new friends among influential citi-
Cameo Social Club To Give Dance
Rook Ganz and His Cotton Club Band
Monday, February 10, from
9:30 p. m. on, the Cameo Social
Club will give a Pre-Lenten Dance
at the Hallie Q. Brown Community
House, Kent and Aurora Aves., in
St Paul. Rook Ganz and his Cot
ton Club Band will furnish the
Urban League Plans Week of
Interracial Cooperation
The Inter-racial Committees in
the Twin Cities have made exten
sive plans for the observance of
Inter-racial Week. From the ninth
to the sixteenth some phases of the
program will be in progress. The
ultimate objective during the week
is to direct the thinking of the peo
ple of our communities towards the
Negro’s problems as well as to the
cultural contributions which the
group has made to American civili
sation.
Duniway and Steiner Speak in
St Paul
The Inter-racial Committee of
St. Paul will inaugurate the Week’s
activities with a mass meeting at
Hallie Q. Brown Community House
Sunday, 9, at 4 p. m.
Professor C. A. Duniway of the
History Department, Carleton Col
lege, will speak on the subject,
“The Democratic Lincoln.” Music
by Pilgrim Baptist Choir. Thurs-
grave, Jack Neal, Beneta Edwards, George
Brooks, Hazel Butler, Louise Woodford,
Mary Lyles, Boyde Patrick, Jerry Har
grave, Leia Mundell; sitting in front row
left to right: Mrs. Gladys Harris, director
of group, Ruth Brown, Charlotine Moore,
Reginald Harris.
zens of both the Negro and white
races. It has been able to gain
and maintain the respect of the
Community Chest and its officials,
and has made for itself a perma
nent place in the social work
scheme of St. Paul.
The Hallie Q. Brown House has
become a necessity in the life of
the hundreds of boys, girls, men
and women who use the facilities
offered at the institution.
The Annual Dinners have always
been great social events for the
community because they offer the
one occasion during the year when
so many of the citizens get an op
portunity to sit down to break
bread in a friendly manner with a
common interest for the good of
the entire citizenry.
Miss I. Myrtle Carden, who is
director of the Community, has
lowered the cost of the banquet to
35 cents in order to make it conve
nient for everyone to have dinner
at Hallie Q. Brown House on Val-
Will Play
music, as only they can. This is
the first time that this band has
been secured in St. Paul for an en
gagement this year. The commit
tee has worked hard to make this
the best dance of the season. Ad
mission is 40c. (Adv.)
day, February 13, at 7:15 p. m., a
mass meeting will be held at Peo
ple’s Church, St Paul, sponsored
jointly by the Forum Committee of
People’s Church and the Inter
racial Committee. Dr. Edward A.
Steiner, Grinnell College, lowa,
will be the speaker, music by the
St. Paul WPA Orchestra. Friday,
February 14, 7 p. m., the Commit
tee is urging attendance at the an
nual meeting of the Hallie Q.
Brown Community House. Dr. John
G. Rockwell, State Commissioner
of Education, will speak.
The Inter-racial Committee of
the Urban League is the principal
sponsor of Inter-racial Week ac
tivities in Minneapolis. The Com
mittee has received the endorse
ment and co-operation of the Min
neapolis Church Federation, Y. W.
C. A., Minneapolis Association of
Maas Meeting, Westminster
Church, Minneapolis
(Continued on Page Three)
. -V
WORK IN RACE
RELATIONS
It was in 1920 that two (2) rep
resentatives were sent from the
Southern Methodist Women’s
Board of Home Missions to visit
the biennial session of the National
Federation of Colored Women’s
Clubs at Tuskegee, Ala. As a re
sult of this contact there was held
in the fall of that year at Mem
phis, Tenn., a meeting of invited
delegates from the white churches
of the South, to which four lead
ing Negro women were asked to
bring a statement of what they felt
to be done to correct racial preju
dice and improve relations between
the races. The significance of that
meeting was profound. For the
first time white and Negro women
together discussed race problems
in terms of their common responsi
bility as Christians, and went away
with the feeling that they had seen
the dawn of a new day in race re
lations.
In the fifteen years which have
passed since that meeting in Mem
phis, the inter-racial movement
among church women has spread
from that small group of Southern
women to all of the denominations
which are a part of the Federal
Council of Churches.
Among the projects sponsored
and carried out by the church
women’s group throughout the
country are the holding of inter
racial conferences in local commu
nities, the building up of inter
racial committees, the promotion of
Race Relations Sunday, studies of
local conditions, notably one on
hospitalization and health oppor
tunities for Negroes; the publica
tion of an inter-racial news letter
and programs for use in women's
societies, co-operation in the anti
lynching campaign, especially in
pushing the passage of the Costi
gan-Wagner anti-lynching bill, etc.
The Federal Council of Churches
in America now sponsor the Race
Relation Program in every city
where there is a local chapter.
The Y. W. C. A., Urban League,
and Hallie Q. Brown House have
united for the last four years in
the observance of Race Relations
Sunday. Each year a program is
held at either the Y. W. C. A. or
Hallie Q. Brown House, at which
time a speaker is selected to give
an address to an inter-racial audi
ence on some subject pertaining to
better race relations. Sunday,
February 9, at 4 p. m., Prof. C. H.
Duniway of Carleton College in
Northfield, Minnesota, will speak
on the subject of “The Democracy
of Lincoln." The meeting is to be
held at the Hallie Q. Brown House.
Pilgrim Baptist Church Choir, un
der the direction of Mr. A. V. Hall,
will render the music. The public
is urged to attend this meeting.
During the week there will be
other interesting features of Raee
Relations week. Thursday, Febru
ary 13, Dr. Steiner of Grinnell Col
lege, lowa, an outstanding author
ity on race relations, will speak at
the People’s Forum at the People’s
Church in St Paul, at Bp. m. Dr.
Steiner is particularly well pre
pared to talk on the subject of
Race Relations, having been an im
migrant himself. He is the author
of a book, “On the Trail of the
Immigrant,” which is used in many
classes of sociology as a text book.
The public is urged to attend this
meeting for which there is no
charge.