Evening star., 1935-08-24
NEGROES -SL|GHTED
by SECURITY ACT,
.ELKS' GROUP TOLD
Provision for Domestics Is
Lacking, Says CoIored
Woman Attorney.
INEQUALITIES LIST
TO BE SUBMITTED
Educational and Economic Con-
gress Session Discusses Diff.
culties of Women.

Strong criticism Of the new social
security act as diScriminative against
Negroes was developing further today
at an educational and economic con-
gress sponsored by the colored Elks
organization.
DR.. Sadie Mossell Alexander, colored
attorney, from Philadelphia, told last
nights congress session in the Garnet
Patterson Junior High School the act
was unfair to her race because it
lacked provision for domestics. She
estimated 90 per cent of all employed
Negroes were domestics.
A Committee on Findings, headed
by Judge William C. Hueston, assist
ant Post Office Department solicitor
during the Hoover administration,
was to report today on alleged in
equalities Of the act and recommend
the appointment of a commission to
work for inclusion of domestics In the
benefits accorded by the pension plan.
Difficulties Of Women.
The economic difficulties of colored
WIZ hC4 C4c-AutOOly AAdIl4c, 1IOuOC-
hold servants, etc-were the subject
of discussions conducted this morning
at the congress third session. Pro-
posing possible remedies for discrim-
ination against colored women, race
leaders reviewed opportunities for fe-
male employment and mentioned sew
eral types of special aid supplied by
relief agencies.
The forum was led by Mrs. Blanche
Armwood Washington, formerly a
county superintendent of public in.
struction in Florida. Topics included
Opportunities for Negro Women in
Organized Labor" Opportunities
Offered by F. E r. A. for Training
and Employment Of Colored Women"
Nursery Schools-A Help to Women
in Industry" National Youth Ad-
ministration"
Miss Mamie Burroughs, president
Of the National Training School for
Negro Girls. told last nights meeting
that unless the women OF the world
give to the race the highest type of
man and womanhood, it will be i'm
possible for it to carry on its work. "
Development Of Races.
Asserting that women had a deeper
sense Of spiritual values than men
and, therefore, were more responsible
for race progress. Miss Burroughs de-
clared races were not built upon
wealth and power" but were "devel-
oped by the fireside and in the educa-
tional institution"
''If the Negro race is to live in the
civilization Of this time the women
will have to produce men and women
who are to be educated in the eco
nomic and social order" Miss Bur-
roughs said.
Other speakers, including J. Finley
Wilson, grand exalted ruler of Negro
Elks. and Perry w. Howard, Repub-
lican national committeeman from
Mississippi, protested alleged discrim-
ination against Negroes by bus COM
panies and hotels and scored the dis
franchisement of race members in
some Southern States. Wilson said
the nation cannot survive" If Negroes
are barred from the polls.
The Congress planned to petition the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
include in its bus regulations provisions
guaranteeing equal treatment to col
ored passengers. Negro bus travellers
are subjected to discomfort and refused
proper accommodations, the conference
was told.
Baccalaureate Exercises.
Baccalaureate exercises for college
students supported by Elks' scholar
ships who graduated this year will be
held at the Metropolitan A. M. Z
Church at IL am. tomorrow. Rev
Charles Wesley is to deliver the bac-
calaureate sermon, while Rev. George
Avant, Elks' grand chaplain, will pre-
side. The program includes music by
the Elks' Grand Temple Chorus.
A meeting of the Elks' Scholarship
Alumni Association, Judge Huestor
presiding, will be held at 9 am. Mon
day at the Metropolitan Baptist
Church.
The educational and economic con-
ference is a preliminary to the Thirty
sixth Annual Negro Elks' Convention
which begins tomorrow with bathing
beauty contest at Cars Beach, memo
rial services at the grave Of Henry
Lincoln johnson, a band concert anc