The Michigan chronicle. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1936-current, 1943-02-20
MAYM|E DAVIS
LECTURES ON
HOME: FRONT
N a m e S Responsibilities
For Serving Cause
At Home

Also Fight Who Serve on the Home
Front" Mrs. Mamie E, Davis, Negro
history speaker presented by Elliot
iorisn Business Women's club
named 10 responsibilities those
fighting on the home front should
consider.
Mrs. Davis was the speaker on
the winter lecture series held Sum
day at YMC.A. She was presented
by the business women's group in
the twelfth annual celebration OF
Negro History Week
She is the dlvision-regiona!
supervisor OF Negro work for Gen.
trail and Western United States for
the YWCA and USO organizations
Speaker Said:
Emphasizing and explaining her
topic. They Also Fight Who Serve
OIL the Home Front" Mrs. Davis
SAID. among other things that be.
tween now and 1914 five million
women will be needed in the war
effort. some as nurses. others ~
educational instructors and for
other worthy causes. especially In
war work on the home front
Ten responsibilities for those
lighting on the home front were
amed as:
Cd Activity in Office OF Civilian
Defense groups, such as air raid
wardens. auxiliary -firemen and
policemen. nurses and full partici-
patton 10 the OCD program.
90 Participation in Red Cross
program as first aid teachers and
ambulance drivers
80 Marriages and the relation
ship involving young girls and soon
- be drafted young men. the prob
lem OF delayed marriages and the
problem Of short acquaintance mar
-iages OF our youths.
tp Housing and migration OF
workers 10 overcrowded -reas. the
unwillingness for communities 10
accept these new workers into their
homes and activities.
CD Employment. We should aid
any group such as NAAC.P. which
IS fighting discrimination in en-
ployment.
t6) Home care for aged and In
firm who are being released from
institutions TO make room for the
casualties OF this war.
% Cooperation with the ration
ing program, in knowing the value
OF the various points and the &C.
ceptance OF the rationing program
without grumbling.
~ Youths. who are victims OF thi.
war We should help them &c
realize there is something worth
lighting for Nurseries for young
children and day care for those left
behind by war working families is
important" she said. The delin-
quency OF teen age boys ard girls
especially young girls who are at
,racied by uniforms 10 their boy
friends in service.
80 Recreation and relaxation for
war workers. Especially for some
women who have double duties, on
the war job and at their respective
homes They need relaxation rather
than S;imulantS But what they
Iced mos, IS rest, quiet and perhaps
10 take in q movie"
Explains USO Program
And l01 the USO, which is made
up Of SIX national groups who ask
volunteers 20 donate their service
10 put on a program for the benef,
Of war workers ard soldiers.
The speaker then explained the
various numbers OF uSO organiza.
tons throughout III nation. their
various programs and objectives for
The entertainment recreation and
amusement Of our servicemen.
With ell these 10 responsibilities
| think" the speaker concluded
that We can say here is a secret
plan and God is using our hand for
the purpose OF that secret plan.