Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-11-08
Negro Nurses For
Negro School, 1881
Program

According to reports coming from
the Office OF VIM. randolph Johnson,
Executive Secretary OF the Negro Or
ganization Society OF Virginia, next
week, beginning Wednesday, Novem-
Ger II, ana continuing through the
18th, the Society will celebrate its
18th Birthday at Old Historical Will
namsburg.
1t is expected that the largest del
egation in the history of the Society
Will attend. The Negro Organization
Society was founded eighteen years
ago by DR.. R. K. Motion, the late Ma
Jor Allen Washington, DIR. M. E. Da-
Wis, of Portsmouth; DR.. L. L. Down
ing, of Roanoke, S.nd Lawyer Z. c.
Walker and one or two others inser-
ested in Negro welfare. The Society
took as it's project, Better Schools,
Better Health, Better Homes and
Better Farms" for Negroes through
out the Stae of Virginia. Through
the efforts of this society thousands
of dollars have been raised for edu-
cational purposes. In cooperation
with the State and United States
Health Departments the message OF
Better Health" has been left at the
door of every rural family in Viz
GINA. Negroes have been encour-
aged and inspired a long way on the
Improvement of their homes and
farms.
Great emphasis is being laid upon
health just now and the Society Is
undertaking an expansive program
Of putting on Negro nurses IN every
county in Virginia for the benefit OF
Negro boys and girls. This program
promises to get under way early in
the New Year. Already there Is a
nurse working in five counties in the
Tidewater section training mid-wives
and helping in homes where she Is
needed where a newborn baby has
arrived. By the combined forces OF
the State Department of Health, The
Rosenwald Fund and the Negro Or
ganization, this nurse is being sup
ported. The school nurses will be
carried the same way.
The Organization Society is ap-
pealing to men and women every
where to help in this project, in or
der that we may carry on IN larger
and greater way the work so well be-
gun by the founders.
Annual memberships, Individuals,
S1.OO; School Leagues and Social
clubs, $500; Sunday Schools, $500:
Churches, Fraternal Organizations,
Countrywide Leagues, $500. A large
number of these, according to Mr.
Johnson, the Society has on its ros-
ter. 1t is reported that he mem
oership of every organization in the
state, religious, fraternal, business
and the like will be sought for mem
bership. The object OF the Organ.
cation Society is democratic, in that
it seeks to improve conditions among
all the people.
Fees will be received at the Office
of the Executive Secretary, 51S IL
N. Fourth STREET, and your presence /:
solicited to be with the Society wher
it celebrates its 18th Anniversary.
Among it's noted speakers will bt
the Mayor of Williamsburg, the Rev
| L. w. Wales, President j. Alvin Rus
| sell, of St. Paul's Church; DR.. j. A
C. Chandler, President of William
and Mary College; Mr.. w. D. Ores
ham, Supervisor of Negro Education
DR.. j. M. Candy, President Virginia
State College; Hon. Frank Bane
Commissioner of Public Welfare, ane
DR.. R. r. Motion, Principal of Tuske
gee Institute. DR.. J.. H. Blackwell
we'll known physician of Richmond
will make one of the main talks OF
health problems of Richmond ant
surrounding communities. Other
f, outstanding physicians are on pro
gram, including DR.. M. E. Norris, O
Kilmarnock, Va.