The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1915-04-03
HEALTH MEETING
HELD At HAMPTON
Good Work Of tho Negro Or
ganlz. tl0n Society.
HUNDREDS IN ATTENDANCE.


pissass-Major Motion Pays Tributs
30 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, vir.
ginia and held In the Hampton insti.
tute gymnasium on Sunday afternoon,
March a, in observance Of health
week. r.
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.
mudcaL literary, business, school Inn
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
eontributions to enterprises OUTSIDE
their immediate interests. .s.u.-.s ~ -.
The white and colored people Of vir.
ginia have already rendered the Negro
Organization society marvellous sup
port Common sympathy, said Presi-
dent Motion, 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 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 10
eradicate communicable diseases. vir.
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 I'm 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 as 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 a plan on foot for
the raising Of money to buy farm on
which the state will build n sanitarium
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
part Of colored people which aims to
secure cleanliness Of body. mind and
'oul Colonel Copeland said IN part:
Health is contagious Sound public
opinion Is the most contagious thing I'm
he world. Let there be clean sweep.
Sweep up and sweep out the cesspools
Ind the contagion Of unrighteousness."
Rev. DR.. Charles s. Morris. pastor Of
he Bank Street Baptist church. Nor,
'olk, Va, delivered powerful address
IN '@The Meaning of the Negro organi
'ation Society" The black man In
Africa had genius for dividing. he
aid. Through ceaseiess war he was
weakened and finally enslaved. Now
n America the Negroes are learning
low to work together to secure race
,rogress. The Negro. as shown in the
appalling figures for the Negro death
ate offered by DR.. w. e. Atkins Of |
Hampton, has genius for dying DR..
dorris urged the colored people to