Evening star., 1938-10-30
lynn. Ca SESSIONS
WILL OPEN FRIDAY
50th Anniversary of Work
Among CoIored Will Be
Celebrated Here.

yive hundred men, white and COL
ored. will gather here at the end of
the week for = three-day conference
celebrating the 50th anniversary of
Y. M. c. A. activity among colored
men and boys. The sessions will open
Friday in Andrew Rankin Memorial
Chapel. Howard University.
The conference will consider ways
Of projecting Y. M. c. A. work into
the South. A recent survey showed
that although IS per cent of Americas
1.2l7,S74 colored young people live in
the South. there are few associations
for the colored in that region.
Another leading objective Of the
conference is the completion of the
semi-centennial fund of $l25,000 for
national services to Negro associations
in city and student fields. The fund,
Of which nearly 100000 has been
already pledged. would make possible
the addition Of secretary for student
associations, secretary for boys group
work in the South and a secretary for
national boys work and service.
Wallace and Motion to Speak.
Secretary Wallace and DR.. Robert
H. Motion, chairman of the Committee
on Service to Colored Men and Boys
OF the National Council. Y. NJ c. A.,
will be the principal speakers during
the conference. Session will open at
IL Am. Friday and Dr. Mordecai w.
johnson, president of Howard Univer-
sity. will give the welcome.
DR.. Howard w. Long, assistant su-
perintendent Of school OF the District,
will make the address at the first
afternoon session. Ralph w. Bullock,
National Council of the Y M. C. A.,
will report on a study by the asso-
citation, and j. E. Sproul of the Y. M.
c. A. National Council will lead a
discussion period.
DR.. Motion will address the evening
session and there will be three dis
cussion groups on these questions:
The financial support of the Y. M.
c. A., under the leadership of c.
Sylvester jackson, chairman of the
Committee of Management, Y. M. C. A.,
Harrisburg, Pa; the program services
Of the Y. M. C. A., under the leader
ship of Joseph H. B. Evans. member
Of the Committee of Management,
Twelfth street branch, Y. M. c. A.,
Washington, and the community out
reach of the Y. M. c. A., under the
leadership of Walker L. Savoy, men,
Der Of the Committee of Manage
ment, Twelfth street branch.
Three More Discussions.
Saturday morning will be devoted
to three more discussions: Functional
Christianity. under the leadership of
the Rev. William Lloyd lines, St.
James Presbyterian Church, New York
City: the Y. M. c. A. in non-equip-
ment areas, under the leadership of
DR.. Elwood B. Downing, chairman of
the Committee of Management, Hun.
ton Branch Y. M. c. A., Roanoke, Va,
and personnel policies and practices,
under the leadership of w. H. Wort
ham, member of the Personnel Serv-
ices Committee, National Council, Y.
M c. A., New York City.
John E. Maley, general secretary of
the Y. NJ c. A. National Council, and
Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune, director
OF the Division of Of Negro Affairs,
National Youth Administration, are
the scheduled speakers for Saturday
afternoon.
Secretary Wallace is the chief speak,
er Saturday night. DR.. Peyton F.. An
derson, chairman of the Management
Committee. Harlem Branch, Y. M. c.
A.. New York City, will make an ad-
dress after a dinner beginning at $50
pm. Saturday for Y. NJ c. A. .of1icials
at the Twelfth street branch. Mr..
Wallace speaks later on a program
with DR.. Leslie Pinckney Hill. presi-
dent Of Cheyney Teachers College,
Cheyney, ILL.,
Reception to Be Held.
The Phyllis Wheatley Y. w. c. A..
Dol Rhode Island avenue NV, will
hold . reception for the delegates to
the conference Saturday from 10 pm.
to 1880 pm.
The program for Sunday opens with
breakfast meetings. at am The
Executive Committee of the Chesa-
peake Summer School Association will
meet at Twelfth Street Branch at 10
am. The closing session begins at
2:30 pm, with a radio presentation
dramatizing the history of the Y. M.
G. AS activity among colored persons
DR.. Garnet c. Wilkinson, first as
sistant superintendent of District
schools, will preside at this closing
session and DR.. Claiming H. Tobias,
senior secretary of the colored work
department of the Y. NJ c. A. National
Council. and Dean Benjamin E. Mays,
School OF Religion, Howard University,