The Denver star., 1915-04-03
HEALTH MEETING
HELD AT HAMPTON
Good WoIk Of The Negro Or
ganiz ton soc4s,y.
HUNDREDS IN ATTENDANCE
prominent Speakers Of Both Races
Emphasize Need Of Better Hous.ne
Conditions as Protection Against
Diysass-Majer aioton Pays Tribute
70 Our Secret Societies.

Di,s.ss-Majsr aseton Pays Tribute
u Our Secret Societies.
Hampton. ya.-Nearly 500 coloreu
people OF the lower Virginia peninsula.
exclusive of the 800 Hampton students.
attended the mass meeting called by
the Negro Organization Society OF vir
ginia and held in the Hampton insti
tute gymnasium on Sunday afternoon
March 2l. in observance of health
week.
Health and education in relation to
pie were frankly discussed by leaders
in the colored organizations of Eliza
beth City county religious. fraternal
musical. literary. business. school i'm
men who believe in cooperation for
better homes. better schools. better
farms and better health.
President Il. Z. Motion said that. al
people are commonly ridiculed. they
nevertheless express u cropping Of the
Negro race toward real cooperation.
The secret societies. aside from help
contributions to enterprises outside
their immediate interests.
The white and colored people of Vir-
ginia have already rendered the Negro
| ,f1a int
port. Com;pon sympathy said Presi-.
dent Notion. has come with better un-
derstandinG of the common interests of
the race. and working for the co-opera-
ton Of mankind has been taking the
place OF racial antagonism.
Miss Agnes n. Randolph. southern
white woman of Richmond. Va. who
tuberculosis association OF Virginia. re-
ferred to the hard fight which the
state board of health is making Il"
eradicate communicable diseases. Vir
ginin II very active in lighting typhoid.
malarix. hook worm and other Giisesses
which cause needless Illness aud pre-
mature death Miss Randolph declar-
ed that there ara today in Virginia o.
600 consumptive~. or this number 16.-
600 are colored. While inadequate
provision is made BY the state for
white consumptives, no provision out
side OF the penitentiary and insane
asylum has az vet been made for col
ored victims Of the white plague.
Ignorance aud poverty go hand In
glove with Tuberculosis" said Miss
Randolph. while the white race in
Virginia has more opportunities Of
lighting consumption, there = still 4
vast need of educating the public and
thus preventing the spread Of this dis
ease. which claims throughout the
world a victim every minute Of the
day and night. Housing" she added.
Influences the spread OF consumption.
Children must be taught the deadli-
ness OF the germ and the value Of
cleanliness. good food and plenty of
pure air. There Is a plan on foot for
the raising of money to buy . farm on
which the state will build sanitnrium
for colored consumptives."
Colonel W. S. Copeland. an innuen-
tial white editor Of Newport News.
Va, declared that all decent people
stand on the common platform Of one
standard namely. personal purity.
Hence the best white people are favor
ably disposed to any movement on the
part Of colored people which aims to
secure cleanliness Of body. mind and
soul Colonel Copeland said III part
Health is contngioua Sound public
opinion is the most contagious thing In
the world. Let there be a clean sweep.
Sweep up and sweep out the cesspools
and the contagion Of unrighteousness. y
Rev. DR.. Charles s. Morris. pastor Of
the Bank Street Baptist church. Nor.
folk. Va. delivered powerful address
on The Meaning Of the Negro Orgnni-
sation Society" The black man In
Africa had genius for dividing, be
said. Through ceaseless war he was
weakened aud finally enslaved Now
In America the Negroes are learning
how to work together to secure race
progress. The Negro, As shown In the
appalling figures for the Negro death
rate offered by Dr.. W. e. Atkins Of
Hampton. has genius for dying. DR..
Morris urged the c0lored people to
spend their energy in learning how to
live. He declared chat people having
% much native physical stamina need
not die
The race. said DIR. Morris, needs to
have Information concernin9 diseases
and the proper cars Of the body. We
need to know more about the dangers
of intemperance. excessee. impure air.
irregular habits Of eating and resting.
Dr. Morris made a strong plea for bet
ter homes and for better mothers, who
viii build and protect homes He
showed that Negroes In the cities die
IN large numbers. They are destroyed
for iack Of knowledge. He referred to