Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1935-04-26
Health Week
Opens AT Public
Meeting Sunday

The Twin City Health Week will
open Sunday, April %, in st. Paul,
and close in Minneapolis Sunday,
May 5, at the Phyllis Wheatley
House. Each city win prepare a
program to fit its own needs.
The Minneapolis Health commit
tee win this year depart from
former methods of filling each
night of the week with meetings,
which many people, for one rea-
son or another, are unable to at
tend; instead it viii give all its
efforts to filling Phyllis Wheatley
on Thursday night, May 2, with
the boys, men, women and girls of
this community. This combined
group will meet and hear DR..
Thomas T. Ryan discuss dental
topics; a representative Of DR..
Scholl CDR. MARTINI, will talk on
the care of the feet. Then, separat-
ing they will form three groups,
the men and boys will together re-
ceive valuable instruction and ad-
vice; the girls will hear q talk ON
personal hygiene from Miss Fran
ces McHie, while the women will
listen to a woman doctor in a group
to themselves.
In st. Paul, the opening meeting
of the Health Week Campaign will
be held at Pilgrim Baptist Church,
Sunday evening at o'clock. The
speaker viii be DR.. w. D. Brown,
Minneapolis Health Editor Of the
Minneapolis Spokesman and the st.
Paul Recorder. DIR. Brown is a
graduate of the University Of Min
nesota, and for brief period was
instructor at Meharry Medical Col
lege, Nashville, Tennessee, from
which position he returned TO Min
neapols to engage In general prac-
tice. DR.. Brown viii bring an in
structive health message. The eiti-
zens of both Minneapolis and st.
Paul are urged to attend this meet
ing. Reverend W. E. Guy and Rev.
erend L. W. Harris are co-operat-
ing with the Health Week Commit
tee to the extent that they are CIV
ing over their regular joint serv-
ices to the health program.
Announcements relative to the
activities of the Week will be made
by Chas. W. Washington, chairman
of the Twin City Health Commit
tee. Pilgrim choir will sing. DR..
V. D. Turner, chairman, st. Paul
Committee, will preside.
As a means of stimulating inter-
est on the part of young people in
the Health Week activities, two i'm
portant contests are being spon-
sored. Prizes will be awarded in
each city for the best Health Week
slogan submitted by a high school
student. The slogan must be ac-
companied by an essay of not more
than 200 words explaining why the
writer feels that his or her slogan
is good one. Mrs. Hazel Butler,
of the Halle Q. Brown Community
House, st. Paul, and Miss Louise
Bohanon of the Phyllis Wheatley
House, Minneapolis, will receive
essays for their respective cities.
The posters are to be submitted to
Miss Myrtle Wormley, Minneapolis,
and Miss Ruth Brown, st. Paul.
Better Lawns and Gardens: st.
Paul, Mrs. Mary Williams; Mime
apois, Mrs. Hattie Jones and Mrs.
R. z. Taylor. Publicity: st. Paul,
o. C. Hall; Minneapolis, Miss Nellie
Dodson, Rev. Carlyle Stewart.
Vital Statistics: st. Paul, Theodore
Allen. Clinic: Minneapolis, DR.. w.
d. Brown and DR.. Robt. w. Hatch.
Budget Pure Food Luncheon: st.
Paul, Mrs. Alberta Coram. Speak
ers' Bureau: Minneapolis, w. M.
Smith. Vaccination: st. Paul, Mrs.
Hattie Bell Smith. Special Lee
lures: st. Paul, Mrs. Birdie High;
MINNEAPOLIS, Miss Frances McHie.