The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1942-06-27
Music Festival
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EVuSEI CSElVUs
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Remembrance Fund commit
tee, ably and graciously pre-
sided, skillfully fitting the art
lists into the long program as
they arrived. Misses Hortense
Smith and Virginia Tabb, for
mer GUARDIAN clerks and
expert mailers, Miss Myrtle
Worthy, clever GUARDIAN re-
porter and Miss Frederika
Walker, charming member OF
the church were the efficient
usherS and messengers. DR.. r.
A. Simmons and DR.. c. G.
Steward we're at the door.
Treasurer John S. r. Bourne
was on hand to report $500
Just received for the fund
from the Everett Citizens
League.
Highlighting the musical
program were four three to
four minute speeches by the
following: Mrs. Bertha Pasco
Young, member of the Trotter
Associates, Rest Haven Junior
Club, director Mass. Colored
Women's Democratic Division
and Board Member NAACP
who paid a glowing and elo-
quent tribute to the GUARD
IAN'S late editor, praised the
present editor for her courage
and perseverance and called
on the women Of New England
and Boston to rally to her sup
port as never before; Rev. S.
NJ. Riley, Jr., pastor of Fourth
Methodist church, NAACP
panca, extolled the GUARD
IAN as the one New England
publication that stood four
square on the race question,
could always be depended up
on, and asked the audience to
take out subscriptions four or
five years in advance; he re-
vealed himself as real Equal
rights timber who in the few
years he has been in Boston
has helped all race causes;
Hon. Christian A. Herter, for
mer speaker Of the House Of
Representatives, eloquently in
troduced by Monroe Mason,
told of his acquaintance with
Mr.. Trotter when he was
speaker of. the House Of Rep
resentatiYeS. He said the
GUARDIAN was more than a
newspaper. It was a herald of
a new era for my race and
your race when true brother
hood would be the only Solu-
ton of world ills He further
said that he envied Mr.. Trot-
ter in having made the Phi
Beta kappa Society at Haf-
ward for which he had failed
and his older son but his
Younger son had made the
grade for the family
Phi Beta Kappa takes in on
" the 8 highest ranking grad
yates. Mr.. Trotter stood 3rd IN
his Freshman year and never
fell below 6th); Mrs. Mary
E. Moore, well-known lecturer
and agitator who most inter
estingly told Of the Birth OF
a Nation" fight in which she
figured prominently alongside
Monroe Trotter, was arrested
with other picketers, and
tried; James C. Wolff, of the
Lands Division Of the Depart
ment of Justice who told OF
his long association with MIR.
Trotter in racial matters, OF
Booker T. Washington having
established a great school but
whose political advice to the
race had not served to better
their condition.
The following artists were
heard: Sheloh Khalrs Electric
Choir. xenophan Clark, leader,
whose spokesman gave the
GUARDIAN credit for their
great success; soprano solo,
Miss Elizabeth wheatley, Miss
Genevieve Robert. accompan-
ist: wallace Thompson, tenor,
same accompanist; Mrs. Helen
Holiday, soprano who came
from the Soldiers Centre at 10
and went back after her solo,
Ernest OBanyoun, accompan-
list: Matilda Birch Charleston,
soprano, Wallace Thompson,
substitute accompanies; Mar
ian McCree, contralto, ". A.
Rhodes. accompanies. Then
came the "black-out" at 1880
during which motion pictures
showing Monroe Trotter in