The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1939-04-28

NEW ORLEANS, La. CT. A.
Young, secretary of the National
Negro Insurance Week Committee,
2107 Dryades street, has contact
ed ministers throughout the coun-
try urging that they inform their
congregations of the fifth annual
observance of National Negro In
surance Week, May 8-13. Texts
from Proverbs &c and Timothy
5:8 were submitted with outlines
for two different sermons. on in
surance.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. fC)- The
Birmingham Age-Herald on Tues
day, April 4, carried an editorial
on Marian Anderson entitled
Voice of Humanity" in which it
said in part. "It seemed as she
sang in Birmingham that the voice
of Marian Anderson was the voice
of all humanity. Humanity in ali
it's sorrows, terrors and conflicts.
Humanity in all its longings, dis
appointments and dreams. HUI
mainly in its triumph. But, most
of all, humanity in it's indissoluble
kinship and solidarity"
CHARLOTTE, N. C. (C)- The
eighth annual Ministers Institute
will be held at Johnson c. Smith
University May 2-5, as a part of
the extension program of the Theo-
logical Seminary of the University.
EVANSVILLE, Ind. Co. The
National Association of Colored
Women. Inc, Mrs Sallie Stewart,
executive secretary, has announced
Penny Drive for Saturday, May
81, to aid the work of the assoc
iation.
WASHINGTON CA resolu-
ton passed by the United Govern
ment Employees on the Marian An
derson concert at the Lincoln Me-
mortal said it "set a new. land
mark in American culture and de-
mocracy."
TAMPA, Fla. (C)-Rev. c. w.
Adams, 300 E. Frances avenue, has
sent out queries to Negro leaders
throughout the country on What
does the Negro really want" for
a class in sociology at the Univer-
sity of Tampa.
RICHMOND, Va. Co. G. L.
Townes, secretary of the National
Negro Insurance Association, 214
E. Clay street, has issued a bulle-
tin which says the active work OF
committees of the association fore
casts the most profitable conven-
ton in the history of the organiza-
ton at Los Angeles, Calf, July
1914.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (C)-Sup-
erintendent C. B. Glenn of the Biz
mingham Public Schools has desig-
mated Sunday, May 7, as A. II.
Parker Day, honoring Prof. A. H..
Parker, principal of Industrial
High. School. who has served in the
public school system here for fifty
years.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (C)-Ed-
itor Porcher l.. Taylor, of the Flo
rida Tattler, GA Broad street, who
is director of the Negro division,
School Boy Safety Patrol, is con-
Quoting a campaign to raise trans
portation expenses for the Patrol
Unit to visit Washington, D. C.
in May.
RICHMOND, Va. (C)-The A
merican Woodmen, Denver, Colo,
L. H. Lightner, Supreme Comman-
der, has been accepted as a mem
Der of the National Negro Insur-
ance Association, it was announced
by C. L. Townes. secretary, on
Saturday. The N.N.I.A. has
membership of fifty of the largest
Negro-owned and operated COM
panies of the country.
CHICAGO CA. Ellis Stew
art, secretary of the Supreme Lib
erty Life Insurance company and
a Kappa man, writing in the 25th
anniversary number of the Kappa
Journal on Insurance That Pays
Benefits, Plus" says Negro life in
surance companies have IAN en-
ployment roll of more than 5000
persons making living in whole
or in part for themselves and fam
lilies in the operation of these in
situations.