ACTIVITIES AMONG NEGROES
BY Delilah L. Beasley
A statement issued by the N. A. A. C. P. from New York July 17, said: "The sum of $29,66.64 has been contributed to date to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to aid in the Scottsboro case. "It was also revealed that exclusive postage, mimeographing, and multigraphing and stenographic services the association has expended to date $1806.17 with a payment now due for lawyers' fee of $2000. The payment of this sum this week, as provided for in the contract between the N. A. A. C. P. and attorneys will make total disbursements $3806.17 against receipts of $2966.94. Disbursements to date in include sums paid to Messrs. Fort, Beddow, and Ray Stephen, R. Rodney, and Milo Moody, attorneys in the case, cost of investigations made by members of the staff and expense of transcripts, telegrams, and long distance telephone tolls.
In this case, as in an others during its twenty-two years of existence, the association is meticulously accounting for all monies received and disbursed, and as has been its custom since its organization, its books will be examined by W. C. Heaton and company, certified public accountants of New York. Contributors to the association's Scottsboro defense fund to date are the following from California: W. W. Brown Pittsburgh, collections $22: Alma Holzschuh, Glendale, $3; Trojan club, Oakland, $14; Clifton X. Archer, Los Angeles, $3; Delilah L. Beasley, Oakland, $5; The West Fresno Forum, Fresno, collected $1850; Knaresborough Circle. No. 189, Oakland, $10: Santa Monica branch N. A. A. C. P. $22.38; Housewives Literary and Art club, Los Angeles, $10; San Diego, branch, $10. Since the issuing of this statement from New York, word has come to this writer that Dr. Hudson, president of Los Angeles branch raised $700 in a single concert for this defense fund and that William Stephens, Oakland businessman with his corp. of clerks, have raised $75, and sent to the national office, while the local branch sent $50.
Walter White, secretary of the N. A. A. C. P. Issued the following statement regarding the financial status of the Scottsboro cases:
“We are immensely grateful to our friends who have so generously come to our aid in helping to finance the Scottsboro cases. But more money is needed and needed right away if we are to save the lives of these boys. Attorneys' fees, hiring of investigators, paying of court stenographers and for the printing of briefs and other documents and other necessary expenditures including appeals, if necessary, to federal courts in the event the Alabama State Supreme court should uphold the verdict at Scottsboro, will cause these cases to cost in the neighborhood of $10,000. Response to our appeals for help has been excellent, but we trust that all those who want to aid will send remittances either through local business branches of the N. A. A. C. P. or directly to the national office 69 Fifth avenue, New York. All contributions regardless of their size will be promptly acknowledged and accounted for in accordance with the association's invariable custom."
MEDICAL CONVENTION
The recent convention held here by the California Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical association, has given to the citizens a revaluation of the professional Negro men and women practice in this state. There were several very valuable papers read before the convention that could not at the time be quoted in the dally articles appearing in the TRIBUNE. But because of their value short sketches are now given. In response to the welcome addressee delivered by Attorney H. L, Richardson, on behalf of the citizens of Oakland, and by Delilah L. Beasley, on behalf of the press, an address was delivered by Dr. Charles A. Jackson, eye ear and nose specialist who said in part:
“it is with the sincerest appreciation that I receive in behalf of the association . assembled, your most cordial welcome, not only on behalf of our state association, but also on behalf of the National Medical association. But even more than state and national, I accept it as a tribute to the great professions we represent, professions that have safe-guarded life and health for centuries, in the name of the art and science of medicine, the oldest and greatest healing sect in the history of mankind, for through the application of facts it has discovered in hygiene and diet connected with the continuous progress of the healing art, medicine has increased the span of life more than two fold. This was accomplished without any aid or contribution from any other healing sect."
"Treating the patient as well as the disease," the subject of a paper read before the convention by Dr. Wilbur C. Gordon, said in part: "There is a tendency toward the revival of clinical medicine, this revival is gratifying for, too long the x-ray, the microscope, and the test tube, have held sway and the patient has been forgotten altogether." At this point Dr. Gordon called attention to the modern tendency toward Nihilism, and deplored this Nihilistic tendency for the reason, 'that he is convinced that ignorance of the functions of the glands of Internal secretion accounts for this ignominious position since in his opinion the adrenals, thyroid, and para-thyroid, and pituitary glands sustain and regulate every physiological process in our bodies.
ADDRESSES GRADUATES
Recently in addressing the eight annual reception held in Red Bank, N, J., honoring Negro graduates from colleges, normal and high schools of Monmouth country, held under the auspices of public spirited citizens and the vicar of St. Thomas church. Dr. George B. Haynes, secretary of the Commission on Race Relations of the Federal Council of churches spoke to more than 100 Negro graduates and their parents and friends. The mayor delivered the welcome address. Haynes said In part:
"The negro during the past 60 years has had an opportunity to demonstrate that he could receive an education, and he has made the demonstration.”
He then gave a review of the educational advancement of the Negro adding: "much of the content of modern education came into use largely as a result of educational experiments made upon Negroes at Hampton Institute in Virginia, and spreading into other Institutions, and into the public school system. But in attempting to use developed powers as they leave the institutions of learning, however, Negroes find themselves face to face with serious color bars. With few exceptions the Negro doctor or the Negro nurse who has been educated in our institutions of learning finds the doors of most hospitals barred to him. Those who enter public service in most states and cities even in our federal government at Washington find discrimination practiced against them. A recent comprehensive study by Feldham brings out clearly that Negroes who knock at the door of industry and commerce find conditions which will require tremendous influence of understanding and good will to remove the industrial and community- barriers that restrict them In the work of the world.
"The economic field is not the only one in which Negroes who emerge from educational institutions into the hard school of life find racial barriers raised. In many communities even the doors of the churches squeak on their hinges when a dark face appears as a worshipper or possible communicant." In closing he said: "The greater part of the task in the local communities and in the nation is yet to be accomplished and that task confronts the church mainly."
WIN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP
The Bay Cities Tennis club with a membership of twenty-five played a game in San Pablo park on last Sunday morning at which time Richard Dempsey (an art student in Sacramento Junior college) won the championship playing against George Gatliff. On Labor Day a state-wide tennis tournament will be played (F. S. S. M.) in Mosswood park, Oakland. Los Angeles Tennis club holds the state championship with Mrs. Sallle Stewart, women’s single.
PRESIDENT TO SPEAK
The public will be welcomed to the lecture to be delivered Monday night, August 3 in Parks chapel by Mrs. Sallle Stewart, national president of National Association of Colored Women.
