The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1915-04-03
HEALTH Meeting
HELD At HAMPTON.
Good Work Of the Negro Or
ganlz,: ton Society.
HUNDREDS IN ATTENDANCE

10 Our Secret Societies.
Hampton, va.-Nearly 800 colored
people Of the lower Virginia peninsula.
exclusive Of the 900 Hampton students,
attended the mass meeting called by
the Negro Organization Society Of Viz
ginia and held In the Hampton insti-
tute gymnasium on Sunday afternoon,
March n, in observance Of health
week. 49,.
Health and education in relation to
tho welfare Of white and colored peo-
pie were frankly discussed by leaders
In the colored organizations Of Eliza
beth City county (religious, fraternal.
musical, literary, business, school i'm
provement) and by other men and wo
men who believe In cooperation for
better homes, better schools, better
farms and better health.
President r. r. Motion said that, al
though secret societies among colored
people are commonly ridiculed, they
nevertheless express cropping Of the
Negro race toward real cooperation.
The secret societies, aside from help
ing their own members, make liberal
contributions to enterprises outside
their immediate interests- ,s,-,e-..-saa ..,--s.
The white and colored people of Viz.
ginia have already rendered the Negro
Organization society marvellous sup
port Common sympathy, said Presi-
dent Motion, has come with better I'M
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 d. Randolph, southern
white woman Of Richmond. Va, who
is the executive secretary Of the Anti,
tuberculosis association of Virginia, re-
ferred to the hard fight which the
state board Of health is making TO
eradicate communicable diseases Wiz
ginia is very active in fighting typhoid.
malaria. hookworm and other diseases
which cause needless illness and pre-
mature death. Miss Randolph declar-
ed that there are today In Virginia 25,-
600 consumptIves. OF this number 49,
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 yet been made for col
ored victims Of the white plague.
Ignorance and poverty go hand in
glove with tuberculosis" said Miss
Randolph while the white race in
Virginia has more opportunities Of
fighting consumption, there is still a
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 q plan on foot for
the raising Of money to buy a farm on
Tor colored consumptives"
Colonel W. 8. Copeland. an influen-
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
cart Of colored people which aims to
secure cleanliness Of body. mind and
soul Colonel Copeland said in part:
Health Is contagious. Sound public
opinion is the most contagious thing in
the world. Let there be clean sweep.
Sweep up and sweep out the cesspools
and the contagion of unrighteousness"
Rev. DR.. Charles s. Morris. pastor Of
the Bank Street Baptist church. Nor
folk, Va, delivered a powerful address
on THE Meaning of the Negro Organi
sation Society," The black man In
Africa had genius for dividing. he
said. Through ceaseless war he was
weakened and 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 a genius for dying. DR..
Morris urged the colored people to
sDend their energy in learning how tO