The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1921-10-22
URBAN LEAGUE
ANNOUNCES
PROGRAM

The National Urban League on So
cial Conditions Among Negroes will
hold its Annual Conference in Chicago
beginning Wednesday morning, Octo-
Der 10Th The general topics for dis
cussion are Unemployment, Inter-ra-
cial Cooperation, and Industrial Rela-
tions. Many prominent social workers,
white and colored will deliver adj
dresses. Among them may be menu
toned Professor Graham Taylor, Mr..
Willoughby q. Walling, Chairman of
the Chicago Unemployment Confer
! ence, Miss Anne Davis, Director of
Vocational Guidance Chicago Public
Schools, and Miss Madge Headley of
the Zoning Commission. Among the
out-of-town speakers are Mr.. Charles
+. Powlison, General Secretary, Ma
tional Child Welfare Association, Mr..
Phil II. Brown OF the Department OF
Labor, Charles s. Johnson, formerly
Chicago Commission on Race Rela-
tons, now Director of Investigations
OF the National Urban League, and
Monroe n. Work. Editor of the Negro
Year Book, Tuskegee, Alabama
Secretaries of the 80 local leagues
in various parts OF the country are
expected to be in attendance The day
sessions will be at $50 A. NJ and 200
P. NJ. at the Vincennes Hotel, 36th
Street and Vincennes Avenue. The
evening sessions will be held as fol-
lows:
Wednesday, October l9th-8:15 P.
NJ. Wendell Phillips High School
Speakers: Edgar a. Bancroft, Chair
man, Chicago Commission on Race Re
lations; Miss s. P. Breckenridge of
the University of Chicago; Eugene
Kinckle Jones, Executive Secretary,
National Urban League; Colonel
Franklin A. Denison, presiding.
Thursday October 20th-815 P. NJ.
Original Providence Baptist Church,
Leavitt and Walnut Streets
Speakers: ]. r. E. Lee. Extension
Secretary National Urban League,
Kansas City, Mo; Miss Mary Nc
Dowell University of Chicago Settle
ment; Horace ]. Bridges, Leader,
Chicago Ethical Society and President
of the Chicago Urban League; DR..
George c. Hall.
Friday, October 21st-SI5 P. NJ.
Lincoln Center, 700 lakewood Boule
ward.
Speakers, Professor Kelly Miller,
c.; Plato Durham, Emory College,
Wood, Chairman National Urban
League, New York City.
Music by Professor ]. Wesley Jones'
Metropolitan Church Choir.
All sessions will be public, and there
will be exhibits at the Hotel on health,
child welfare, and the work OF the
Urban League.
Eugene Kinckle Jones, Executive
Secretary of the National Urban
League arrived in Chicago, Tuesday
night. Mr.. Jones told the Whip re-
porter that he anticipated very help
full conference, MANY of the speak
ers,' he said, ARE men OF national
prominence, and their experience i'll
dealing with the social problems of
the day make them worthy of the
attention of the intelligent public as
we'll as OF the delegates TO the Confer
ence." Most of the secretaries OF the
80 local branches, and some of their
staff will be here. Mr.. George w.
Buckner, Miss Mae Cox, and Miss
Uxenia Scott of St. Louis, Monroe
N. Work of Tuskegee, Jas. H. Hubert
of New York and Robert Ely of
Brooklyn are also in the city. The
Pittsburgh delegation includes John I.
Clark, Grover Nelson, Macon Lennon,
William Young, Foster Jones, John S.
Morton, and ]. Z. Banks Mr. Jones
is especially anxious to have persons
interested in social service to attend
the day sessions at the Nincennes Ho-
tel, as well as the evening sessions.