Evening star., 1936-04-12
NEGRO HOUSING
PARLEY PLANNED
Mrs. Roosevelt Heads
Speakers List - Many
Problems to Be Discussed.

A two-day educational conference
on better housing among Negroes, In
which Mrs. Roosevelt and District
and Federal advisers on housing
problems will take part. opens next
Saturday at Miner Teachers College,
Georgia avenue and Euclid street.
. Sponsored by the Washington Com
nittee on Housing, with which vir-
tually every colored organization in
terested in housing is cooperating.
the conference is expected to serve
educational purposes solely. Mrs.
Roosevelt is honorary chairman of
the Washington Committee and Maj.
Campbell c. johnson is chairman OF
the Conference Committee.
A General Committee on Arrange
ments, headed by Mrs. Selemer S.
Thompson, is composed of about so
of the leading colored citizens of the
District.
Mrs. Roosevelt, who has been ac-
tive in national as we'll as local
housing problems, will address the
conference Sunday, at its only eve
ming session.
The purpose of the conference
primarily is to study better housing
among Negroes from the social, eco
nomic and health points Of view. IL
was initiated in the hope that the
discussions would serve to awaken
the mass of the colored people to
the significance of improved housing
conditions.
DIR. Rutland to Speak.
DR.. George c. Ruhland, District
health officer, who has taken a lead
in the campaign to combat tubercu-
losis in the District, will address the
conference Saturday afternoon. With
Washington having the second high
est death rate from tuberculosis, he
will discuss the relation of slums and
public health.
Commissioner Melvin G. Hazen will
welcome the delegates at the opening
session, which will be a luncheon
meeting at noon. Maj. Johnson will
introduce the presiding officer, Clar-
ence Phelps Dodge, chairman of the
WASHINGTON Committee on Housing
DR.. Robert C. Weaver will speak on
The Significance of Housing" He
is the Interior Departments admins
traitor and adviser on Negro affairs.
Minimum standards of housing will
be the subject of the afternoon ses-
sion. Besides Dr. Rutland, other
speakers will be Hilyard r. Robinson,
chairman of the Committee on Archl-
tects for Langston terrace, Washing
tons low-cost housing project for
colored families; George w. Beasiey'
president of the Federation OF Civic
Associations, and DR.. Roscoe C. Brown,
United States Public Health Service
Director of National Negro Health week
Sunday Afternoon Session.
At the Sunday afternoon session
Judge James A. Cobb, member OF
the Washington Committee on Hous-
ing, will preside Mrs. Clara Burrlll
Bruce of New York. resident manager
of Dunbar Apartments, will speak on
the cultural importance OF good
housekeeping. DR.. Ansen Phelps
Stokes will be discussion leader.
the 1amllyS part III DeIIeT AouSllls
will be the subject of John Ihlder,
executive officer of the District Alley
Dwelling Authority.
The concluding evening session will
be devoted to general discussion.
Besides Mrs. Roosevelt, President
Eugene A. Clark of Miner Teachers
College will speak. and reports of the
afternoon session will be read. These
reports will be printed later to serve
in a general educational campaign.
The Womens Glee Club of Howard
University will sing.
- A feature of the conference will be
an exhibition of housing models, in
cluding the model for Langston ter
race No visit will be made to its site
on Benning road, however.