The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-05-08
Soror Whitby
Speaks At Public
Meeting Friday
Mayor Greeted Great
Lakes Conference

The thirteenth annual AKA
Regional conference opened on
Friday, April 80. at the Lucy Thur
man branch YWC.A. on high
note which was sustained through
out the three-day sessions OF the
IS chapters in the states OF the
region--Ohio, West Virginia. West
ern Pennsylvania. and Michigan
81 were represented by delegates.
as compared with the Is chapters
out o. Is represented at the confer
ence last year This indication OF
the sincere interest OF the chapters
was gratifying to the hostess chap
tiers who planned this years pro-
gram around the theme. "Direc:
War Services-Complete Victory
Postwar Reconstruction. and with
fewer social activities than usual.
as the conference planners felt that
all the time possible should be spent
IN discussion OF the most effective
manner in which progressive
women can make themselves felt in
the present world crisis.
Supreme Basileus Beulah Whitby,
Of Detroit. main speaker for the
evening. was preceded by very
VIII planned and executed pro-
gram The meeting. presided over
by Soror Angel Lambert. was
opened with a Flag Salute" con-
Quoted by Lieut. Helen Cox. OF
Alpha NJ Omega chapter. Rendi-
ton OF sorority songs by the Beta
Mu Choral Group was next on the
program. This group is composed
OF members Of the Wayne univer-
si,y undergraduate chapter Greet
ings by Mayor Edward J. Jeffries
we're followed by messages OF well
come from each OF the Greek letter
organizations in the city. TO which
Regional Director Laura Lovelace.
OF Cincinnati, graciously responded
The Non.Partison Council pro-
gram. one OF the major national
projects OF AKA. was highlighted
by First Anti-Supreme Bssileus
Louise Mcdonald OF New York.
Soror Norma Z. Boyd. OF Washing
ton. national director OF the Nom
Partisan Council could not leave
Washington to attend the regional
at this time. ~ al efforts possible
are being made to defeat Bill S-66.
Wsdsworth-Alston bill designed for
the shifting OF population for work
purposes. To promote and encour-
age fair legislation in Washington
as il affects Negroes. to secure
higher pay and better working con-
ditions for Negro women. TO assure
adequate and eqt al housing for Ne
groes. and TO fight generally to
break down discriminatory bar
ricrs. are the aims and purposes OF
the Non-Partissn Council
BaSileus Beulah Brewer, OF the
local Alpha Rho Omega chapter.
introduced the main speaker. SUI
prcme Basileus Bculah Whitby. In
the course of her lecture. "Founda-
tons for Tomorrow" Mrs Whitby
reviewed and analysed the Bev-
eridge Report OF England and the
National Resource Planning Braids
Report OF America. She hinged
her remarks on the Four Freedoms
as Sc. forth in the Atlantic Charter:
% freedom from want. ~ freedom
from fear. 81 freedom OF speech.
and -. freedom Of religion She
Said that we must not plan 10 re-
build the postwar world on tho
pre-wsr bass, but that We must
plan to build NEW world. Free
dom from wart is only one phase
VI the social reconstruction that
must take place in building this
new world. social action must so
forward and social security in the
postwar world must be assured,
she stated. Az her closing remarks
she used these words from the
Bible. gripping each membc: Of The
audience and making m >rc indclible
the thoughts which preceded them.
Therefore. whosoever heareth these
sayings OF mine and doeth them.
Will liken him unto wise man
which built his house upon rock:
and the rains descended, and the
floods came. and tho winds blew.
and beat upon that house; and IL
fell not: for If MAS founded upon
rock"
The Saturday morning sessions
convened at $50 am. Reports OF
activities OF chapters in the region
consumed most of the morning
period. From the reports came a
clearer knowledge OF the variety
and magnitude OF defense sctivi-
tics engaged In by sorors all over
the region Among those mentioned
we're: Sorors Beulah Whitby. execu-
tive secretary of welfare work in
Detroit. together with all her other
civic activity: DR.. Rose Butler
Brown. Bluefield. w. Va. chairman
Of Mercer county salvage campaign
and member OF the National COM
mittec for USO centers: l.. Pearl
Mitchell. Cleveland, Ohio. Inter-
racial Womanpowcr committee, an
experimental committee upon which
Soror Mitchell is one OF the two
Negroes serving. II is organized 10
integrate all women in a program
that will further the prosecution Of
the war aims as effectively as pos
siblc: Matte d. Jackson. Great
Lakes Regional national chairman
OF the Non-Psrtisan Council. from
Cincinnati, Ohio; Geraldine Bledsoe
supervisor of minority placement in
the United States Employment
Service She is on loan 10 the FAIR
Employment Practices committee TO
arrange for hearings in Detroit dur
ing May; Arnett Burwell. area di-
rector OF the Disaster committee,
Med cal Department. ~ Detroit;
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