Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
COLORED WOMEN'S
SCHOOL ASKS AID
National Training Institution
Hopes to Raise $4,000
Y: Campaign.

den Of an overdue note and year-olc
deficit, the National Training Schoo
for Women. and Girls is in the midst
of a heroic self-helping campaign fol
funds.
BY April IL this institution, which
administers to the cultural and physi-
cal needs OF colored women and girls
hopes to have received every penny OF
financial campaign which opened a
week ago. If that goal Is attained the
Institution viii be in position to meet
the $4,000 note on the trades hall OF
the school and to meet the $4,000
deficit carried over from 1929-30.
The campaign will close Sunday
April IL, with meeting at the Wash
ington Auditorium, at which time an
elaborate program will be presented
Richard B. Harrison, who plays de
Lawd" in the popular play. Green
Pastures" will be guest speaker, while
the Mems and Women's Glee Clubs OF
Howard University will provide the
music.
Hit by Depression.
known as an institution for colored
who have helped themselves, the Ma
tional Training School for Women and
Girls is seeking contributions from
whatever source they may come. The
economic depression that has staggered
great business houses has struck even
more cruelty the colored families of the
United States and is the cause of the
schools present emergency.
In its efforts to cope with its prob
lens the school has placed its cam
paign under the direction of q prom
inent member of the colored race.
Representative Oscar De Priest Of Illi-
nois is general chairman of the Cam
paign Committee and John r. Hawkins
is treasurer. Other committee officers
include Mrs. Julia West Hamilton, vice
president; Morris Lewis, executive sec
rotary; Miss Ruth Jefferson, assistant
special secretary.
The campaign, 1t is pointed out, must
be successful because of the very work
at stake The institution is an operat-
ing evidence Of self help by race that
long has struggled for elevation in
every field. This evidence Is found in
a $500, 900 plant of acres and eight
buildings. As proof Of its success there
are graduates of the school in nearly
every State Of the Union, Africa, Haiti
and Porto Rico.
Sections Represented.
The faculty is from leading colleges
and universities, while the students are
ambitious colored girls from every sec
tion of the country. The courses in
clude standard junior and senior high
school grades and the institution also
embraces a junior college.
Presided over by Miss Mamie H.
Burroughs, the school always has pos
sessed highest aims. It has undertaken
to prepare girls as homemakers, offer
4v,rx oh hanAR
and hearts to develop the social and
aesthetic tastes" Of colored homes. Busi-
ness training also is provided to meet
the demand for more woman executives
in the colored business field. Then
there are courses which equip women
and girls for social service, through
which living standards are further
raised in the communities in which
these graduates live. The growing need
for colored musicians. particularly
pianists and organists in coloreo
churches, Is TO be handled more eff
GENTLY than OF present following the
installation Of the $4,000 organ which
the institution hopes to obtain.
School Cites Facts.
In its appeal for aid the school cites
four pertinent facts. These are
81. We have helped ourselves by lay
ing the foundation for splendid 1nsti-
tuition;
g. We need one large school for Ne
gro girls In this section Of the country.
At present there Is only one Of any size,
and that one rs In the far South;
g. The Negro population has shifted
to the North and middle West, and the
race, therefore, needs another school
for its girls at another strategic point;
a. Because of economic conditions,
mothers of girls Of high school grade,
particularly in the North, are compelled
to work out all day. This absence from
home leaves their daughters unprotected
and creates in thousands of homes a
serious social problem. Another large
school for girls, specializing in character
building. industrial arts, home maEing
and giving at the same time a good
background of a Christian education,
meets a definite moral, social and edu-
: cational need"
The school is operated by a self-per-
+. petuating board of trustees. While this
board has been composed of colored
men and women, plans are being made
to establish the board with q member
ship of nine white and nine colored
persons.
The Advisory Committee of the cam
paiRn Is composed Of John r. Hawkins,
chairman; Benjamin F. Arlington, E.
w. Bernstein, William /. Blake, Mrs. j.
G. Radford, Judge James A. Cobb, 8. II.
Dudley, D. L. Houston, William c. Hues-
ton, j. A. Jackson, Rev. w. II. Jerna-
gin, Herbert E. Jones, Mrs. Mary Mason,
Rev c. T. Murray Mrs. Gabriella Pei
ham. Mrs. Emma Hall Roberts, DR.. En-
NETT J. Scott, Rev. z. G. Smith, Mrs.
John E. Smith, J. Finley Wilson, DR..
Charles S. Wormley, Garnet G. Wilkin-
son and DR.. Carter @. Woodson.
Personnel Is Listed.
Mr.. Hawkins also is chairman Of the
soliciting organization. It's complete
personnel follows: NJ Grant Lucas, pub
lie schools; DR.. Eugene Mavritte, den
lists; Richard Brooks, mechanics; Mai
Campbell johnson, churches; Herbert E
Jones, fraternal societies; Roland
Walker, social clubs; B. v. Lawson,
Junior social clubs; Samuel w. Watson,
Oldest inhabitants: Capt }. b. Key,
firemen; George A. Parker, parent
teacher associations; Samuel 8. Fletcher
real estate dealers; Mrs. Julia West Ham,
uton. federated women's clubs; Tecum-
sch Bradshaw, insurance: DR.. Numa P
O. Adams. Howard University; Dr. Al
phonse j. Harris, Government employees;
Leon Anderson. postal employees; Mrs
Ella Garrison, Special Gifts Committee
Lauyeo Holmes. Red Caps Association.
Mrs. Rosetta Robinson, special homes
groups: Miss Charlotte Mays. Nurse;
Association; c. Tiffany Toliver, under
takers; Mrs. Rosetta Robinson. women's
social clubs; DR.. Clara 8. Taiiaferro
business women: Frank w. Adams
washington Bar Association; p, F.. But
Ter, tsxicab owners: Leon Williams
commercial houses S. w. Rutherford
fair sale day; Mrs. Jane Bradford, rum
mage sale: Robert Carroll. police: w. /
Blake, speakers bureau: Mrs. L. Brown
Brentwood, Md. william s. Smith
House and Senate once Buildings
Henry p. Briscoe, BARRIERS. and DR.. G