The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1928-08-02
Club Women Open
National Meeting
In Washington

WASHINGTON, d. c., July 80
Delegates representing constitu-
ence of 250,000 in "a states are in
the National Capital today for the
sixteenth biennial convention of the
National Association of Colored
Women. The meeting of the histori-
cal body, which was organized here
32 years ago Ly Mrs. Mary Church
Terrell. was called TO order Friday
morning with an assembly in Rankin
Chapel Howard University. DR.. Nor
decai W. Johnson delivered the wei
come address.
Among the events which are cX-
pected to make the convention one
of the most important in the his
tory of the organization will be the
dedication of n national headQuarter
at Twelfth and o. streets northwest; (;
exercises at the Tomb of the Un-
known Soldier and the grave of Col.
Chas. ID. Young; the annual address
of the retiring president, Mrs. Mary
Mcleod Bethune of Daytona, Fla,
and meeting at the home of Fred
erick Douglass, Anacostia, the home
of the noted leader has been main
tained as a shrine more than 20
years principally through the asso-
ciation.)
Election of officers on Tuesday Of
the convention week is expected to
be spirited. The contest for the
presidency, since Mrs. Bethunc is not
expected to come up for third
term, has narrowed down to a single
candidate Mrs. Sallie w. Stewart, of
Evansville, Ind, president of the
Douglass Home Fund, who is eX-
pected to meet with little opposition.
But the contest for the vice presi-
dency, as stepping stone to the
presidency, is expected to afford the
excitement.
Charlotte Hawkins Brown. found
er of the Palmer Memorial Institute,
Sedalia, n e., will be opposed by
jamie Porter Barrett. principal of
the girls school at Peaks Turnout
Va, chairman Of the executive board.
There will also be a vacancy in the
office of the recording secretary,
caused by the expiration of the term
of Mrs. w. T. B. Williams, of Tus.
kcgee.
Mrs. Rcbecca Styles Taylor, OF
Savannah, Georgia, the executive
Secretary of the Association said
"Many men and women do not real
ize what a wonderful machine the
National Association, with its five re.
gional federations and ~ state fed,
erations, has perfected for uplift
work. "
"People ask what has the Nation
al Association done. We have re-
deemed the Frederick Douglas.
Home, something that the men coulC
not do. we have $4,000 towards ;
$4,000 scholarship fund; we have
set up national headquarters IL
Washington, ID, c.; we have a month
ly organ called National Notes"
"The prime work of the Nationa
| Association of Colored Women il
that they are trying to get the bene
! fit of municipal funds, so that the!
can relieve conditions among theii
| own people. We are working will
| the Associated Charities and are put
ting in girls for Travellers Aids. w,
are putting in women as police mat
rons and as matrons in Women
penitentiary camps. All over tn
country our women are forging thei
way into the municipal government
of the different cities and states
Ours is not q city program. 1t is
national program.
eve are political organization
We are after political things; bu
we are non partisan just as ther
are Mary Church Terrell clubs, ther
will soon be Mrs. Julia West Ham
ilton clubs. We are going out int
the world for things for our group.