Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22
LORED CITIZENS
MASS MEETING
sRnd in Thousands to Call Of
ood Administrator Dunn to
.Fttend Mass Meeting in
' Halifax on Last Monday.
! Many SPEECHES
/ Made 4.
$4,000 IN WSS TAKEN

~ F. W. PuIlen, Principal Col
6fed Graded School of Enfield,
N. Co.
One of the largest gatherings
! f colored people ever assembled
b the historic town of Halifax,
lA there Monday, February IS,
9lS, in compliance with the re-
huest Of Food Administrator R.
: Dunn, Of Enfield. who had
fcalled a meeting of the represen-
Iative colored people of Enfield,
jth Prof. T. s. lnborden, of
J. Jos, X. Brick School, and
Sarranged for the meeting. Long
(efore the time set for opening
# the meeting the spacious
(iditorium of the Court House
as filled, and when Food Ad-
fistrator Dunn raped for
der at Has A, NJ. every foot of
,ace in the Court room that
all be occupied was taken by
vast crowd of Halifax
tnty's best colored citizenship,
: cept the small space within
Ie bar, reserved for the repre-
|htatives Of the Enfield Post
lid who were ON hand to sell
Var Saving Stamps, and other
White people.
Food Administrator Dunn,
sho is a lawyer of the first
Magnitude and an orator of rare
luality, after paying tribute to
Ie sterling qualities and sane
adership Of Prof. I. S. Inbor-
en, of the JOS. X. Brick School,
Srned the meeting over to Prof.
hborden to conduct.
Music was furnished by the
1os. X. Brick School band. Pray
Ter was offered by Rev. J. John
son.
! The State Food Administration
had promised to furnish a colored
speaker for the occasion but he |
failed to show up. There was,
3howeyer no lack of speech
| Imaking, Lawyer Dunn, Chair
!, [,npn of the Council of Defense,
all County Food Administrator,
s. bke, and cleared the minds of
4 colored people of the county
oS many wrong impressions.
@ rman propaganda was exposed |
stch as the tax OF ten or twenty |
fEe dollars per acre on tobacco,
atd others Of similar nature were
branded as German lies, in
tended to decrease production
and cause confusion. Miss Roddie,
pd Wilson, was introduced and
sboke on food saving. Prof. 7. S.
lIpborden fully explained the
Var saving and thrift stamps.
Mrs. Morris, Home 'Demonstra-
J 1r for Halifax County, made a
rong address in which she en-
the great Importance of
.ising more "hogs and hominy".
al At the suggestion of Mr.. Dunn
the white citizens paid the ex-
fenses of the band.
n At this point in the meeting an
! Opportunity was given those who
6shed to buy War Saving Stamps
" Id Thrift Stamps, and as fast
rGthey could be handed out they
lAere taken until the supply of
81 'stickers" were exhausted. The
&Qunt sold was about three
hundred dollars.
II order that everybody might
ea lthespeech ofMr. Humber, of
Estate Food Administration, it
delivered from the portico of
Court House. Twenty five
dred to three thousand color
|eople stood for an hour and
lned to a great speech on
Ariotism. The negro was given
. ~ credit for what he has done
the past, from the fall of
r. Spus Attucks on Boston Com
DIS, to the battle of San Juan
Cuba; together with being
at the assassination of Nc
hey and with Peary at the
H4th Pole.
fter the speech those who
kuTd went into the building
here the exercises for the day
kre completed.
T. County Superintendent of