The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-02-05
Y. W. A. News


m. and Sunday. Jan. 81. 3 to 5
D. m. at Central YWCA, Brdwy.
and Taylor. Saturday afternoons
program is of great interest to all
''Y" members especially commit
tee members and persons interest
ed in YWCA work. On Saturday
there will be two periods desig-
mated as YWCA clines at which
time some 10 or 10 outstanding
persons in the association will ex-
plain the work of the organiza-
ton, administration, philosophy
and purpose of the YWCA. All
this will be tied up in "What We
Can Do In Times Like These, To
Make the ~ More Effective In
Our Community" Saturday, 4 to
5, a lecture by Mr.. Dan Prosser
on Why We Behave AS We Do.
From to 6 recreation and din
ner. 6 to 7 a forum on current
problems led by Miss Beatrice
Ceecande assisted by Miss Geneva
Turner and Mr.. Kenneth F. Smith,
resource persons. All persons in
terested In any current problems
are cordially invited to attend.
Sunday to $3.50 worship service
planned by Mrs. Emma Walker
and Mrs. Marie Smith. The plan
ming committee is quite pleased
over prospects of having DR.. w.
e. Warrington, Oregon State Col
lege. here to talk to our youth.
DR.. Warrington is famous for his
enthusiastic response with young
people. From $3.50 to 5, adults
will discuss the question - mo-
Utilization of women power. They
will summarize the work of the
conference. 1t is hoped that every
one will join in to help make this
one of the outstanding events of
the "Y" program. Responsible for
this splendid planning is the Ex-
ecutive committee, namely: Mes
danes Julia Blanchard Smith,
chairman of the committee of
management. Cecil Berry, vice
chm; Marie Smith, sec'y; Leota
Stone, asst. sec'y.; Ann Shepherd,
treas.
Due to inclement weather the
reception for the new Executive
| secretary, Miss Dura Rice, has
been set up TO Friday, Feb. 5,
hours 8 to 10 at Central "Y''.
Public is cordially invited. The
Trianon lubs Recognition cere-'
monial is also set up to Sunday,
Feb. z, 700 p. m. at Bethel A.
M. e. church.
OF the several editoarls we've
read in the local press on the
,, passing of DR. George Washington
Cetrver, including the one in the
Journal by DR.. Walker of the
First Baptist church, we deem the
following form the Shopping
News the most striking: = The
passing last week of George
Washington Carver does not write
fms to the service which that
great Negro scholar and gentle
man gave to America and to hui
manity. DR.. Carver was one of the !
great minds of his period, and the
works that he did are enduring |
witnesses to his justly deserved
fame.
George Washington Carver was
born slave. His one absorbing |
life interest was subsequently de-
voted to improving the lot and the
hopes and conditions of the poor
farming folk, colored or white,
who struggled under the agricul-
tural conditions of the South. He
became principally world-famed
for his discoveries of 800 new
uses for the lowly peanut, and $50
new uses for the sweet potato. |
From the peanut he produced
soaps and dyes, ink, creosote, syn
thetic milk - an endless list of
brilliant and startling discoveries.
The amazing fertility of DR..
Carver's mind was matched by the |
magnitude of his personal great
ness, founded upon that base of
all true greatness - humility. The
white-haired Negro scientist soft
ly declined commercial offers of |
salaries running as high as $780,
900 a year. He went on quietly !
with his work for others at Tus-
kegee Institute.
Wen an awed Senate commit
tee, amazed at the products of
Carver genius, inquired how he
discovered such things, DIR. Car
ver's answer was typical. by
praying first he said.
The one time slave, who rose
to become a scientific immortal,
had natural and unquenhcable
faith in devine wisdom and guild
ance. Faced with an unknown
laboratory problem, he started
with prayer. Not long thereafter,
the world would be blessed with
another contribution to human
life and welfare. It has been re
portad fbof fbo late nrroa+ Tho -, ~