Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1923-12-22
BANQUET RETIRING PRESIDENT
COLUMBUS URBAN LEAGUE
preston News service)

day evening. December 7th, at the Sec-
ond Baptist Church when the Column !
bus Urban League and the Blue
Triangle Branch Of the Y. w. C. A. |
rendered farewell reception to Rev.
and Mrs. Irving Maurer.
Rev. Maurer is the successor to the
late DR.. Washington GLADDEN.. pastor
of the First Congregational Church.
and has been the president of the Col.
umbus Urban League since this organi
cation was founded in 1917. Mrs. Mau,
er has beeLCnairman of the COMMIT. ,
tee on Colcred Work of the Young Wo
mems Christian Association for somr
time. DR.. Maurer resigned the post
ton of president Of the Urban League
because of having accepted the prcsi
iency of Beloit College in Wisconsin
The representatives, white and color
ed citizens of Columbus met in the
lnterracial banquet to give an expires
sion OF their appreciation to these
people who served the community in
various capacities and because of their
uncompromising attitude for justice
ond right for the Negro. Words OF tr;-
butte were expressed by: Prof. c. q.
North OF Ohio State University, Master
OF Ceremonies: Rabbi Jacob Tarshish:
Atty. Timothy Hogan; Miss Olga Jones
President Ut the Board Of Directo.s
OF the Z. w. G. A: Miss Emma T. Par
sons. General Secretary Y. w. C. A:
A. w. Hardy Executive Secretary
Spring Street Branch Y. M. O. A.;
DR.. w. A. Method, Chairman Commit
tee OF Management Y M. C. A.: Mr..
| charles YDurber. Representing the
Mayor; Rev. A. J. Allen and Rev. J. Is.
| Plus, Representing the Ministers; Mrs.
Myron 8. Seibert: Judge e. b. Kink
cad; DR.. w. J. Woodlin, Board OF d.
rectors of the Urban League: Mr..
James H. Robinson Executive Seer O.
tary Negro Civic Welfare Association
J Cincinnati Ohio; DIR. Gilbert 8. Cox.
President Of the Columbus Urban Leay
ne; Miss ANGELA Turpeau, Execute We
Secretary the Blue Triangle Branch Y
w. c. A.: Mr.. NJ B. Allen Exccu
tive Secretary the Columbus Urban
eague and music rendered by the
Coolridge Taylor Quartette.
The Urban League presented to DR..
Maurer Loving Cup and the Bile
| triangle Branch Of the Y. w. C. A. pre-
sented Mrs Maurer a beautiful silver
| vase. Mr.. Maurer reiterated the follow
| ing statement which was made at the
Optimist Club last week and clos ed
with the poem that he dedicated TO the
Negroes of Columbus: Because of its
position a sort of border state of The
North and South" Ohio and Columbus
must inevitably contribute to the so
luton Of the Negro problem. This con
trlputlon will come, not through soci-
ology learned from books: not from alb
stract studies, but from our common
every day life. This contribution will
determine whether America can devei
op common life and community peace
or whether all the blood of the Civ.
War was spilled for an idle dream. 1t
makes me proud to see in my six wears
here how free Columbus has been
from racial trouble. Chicago st. Louis
Omaha and Springfield have had their
disasters from this source but we
nave had none. We are all hurt when
we near the upstart, brainless Negre
taiH. and we are foolish when we sal
that every Negro is perfect. The race
mas It's fools and its crapks as we have:
the Negro Is human But we shou!u
learn more Of the Negro to treat HIM
Justly. Go to the Second Baptist
Church or to the other fine Negro in.
situations in the city. See Yale grad.
yates, graduates of other universities
trying to build up for the race a trafi,t
ION OF which 1t can be proud.
The intelligent, courageous Negroes
do not regard it as the millennium
when a Negro can marry a white girl
nr white man can marry a colorec
girl. That is not their object. They
want to find their own culture, a cuI- |
ture peculiar to their gifts So the IDEA
isn't to do something for the Negro:
it Is to let the Negro do something FOR
himself. Columbus is proud that so lit
tie OF its population is foreign born
and the pride isn't unjust. Yet a fine
case can be made out for the imm:- |
grant. 1t can be shown that IL the i'm
migrant faces the right community
spirit he makes fine asset. If he IS
exposed to true Americanism, he be-
comes true American. The time NAV
come with rapid Industrial develop |
ment when Columbus will have n
greater foreign-born population ana
will need it.
1t is then not for the city to lament |
but to decided if Columbus has enough
OF the American spirit. and the neigh. |
oorly spirit to try and put these imrnl |
grants in touch with the best in coI1- |
munity life
God grant that Columbus will never |
be so warped that 1t will lose rs appre |
.cAtion of, the national ideals OF every |
country In the world; that 1t will fail |
to take as it should take, the best of !
all these ideals, and make of them the |
greatest ideal of history and the great |
est culture and civilization"
Above all, let no one ever interpret
Americanism to exclude that apprecia i
zion OF other idealg or the goodness OF |
other strains"
Letters Of appreciation were received |
from Eugene Kinckle Jones of the Nat |
lonal Urban League; T. Arnold, Hill Of |
the Chicago Urban League: A. l.. Eos |
ter Executive Secretary of the Canton
Urban League; e. A. Carter Of the Min /
neapolis Urban I,eague;; Mrs. Joseph
A. jeffrey who is wintering at the |
Santa Barbara California VIM. r. Con
nors Of the Cleveland Welfare AssocIat
ION; Mayor James A. Thomas OF Column
bus. Ohio.
The poem Dedicated to the Negroes
OF Columbus Ohio: M
Once n young man lived among us.