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THE FEDERATION JOURNAL
Fall—1961
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Picture shows Mrs. Edna B. Taylor of Southern Pines now in Ger
many. This is a picture of Girl Scout Leaders at a banquet.
Representatives of Elizabeth City Federated Clubs make presentation
to Albemarle Hospital. A drug cart, second to none and three pairs
of arm restraints were presented. Making the presentation were
Mrs. E. H. Mitchell, president of the organization, Mrs. P. G. Shan
non who represented the College Women’s Clubs and Mrs. E. M.
Spellman, president of the N. C. Federation.
“HOW TO KILL YOUR CLUB ”
1. Don’t attend meetings.
2. If you do, be sure to come late
and then get mad when the
ether members have already
started.
3. If the weather isn’t just to your
liking, don’t even think of
coming.
4. If you do attend meetings, find
fault with the officers and the
other members. And if things
are not run your way be sure
to get sore.
5. Never accept an office. It is
easier to criticize than to do
things.
6. Get sore if you are appointed
on committees. But if you are,
don’t go to committee meet
ings.
7. If asked by the chairman to
voice your opinion, tell him you
have nothing to say. Then,
after the meeting, tell all the
others how things should have
been done.
8. Hold back your dues as long as
possible—or, don’t pay at all.
9. Don’t bother about getting new
members—let the secretary do
that.
10. Do nothing but what is abso
lutely necessary. But when the
other members unselfishly and
willingly roll up their sleeves
and go to work for the sake of
the organization—for you—go
and howl that the club is being
run by a clique.
EDITORIALS
(Continued from Page 2)
2. Less than half of U.S. employ
ers will consider hiring a dropout.
Only workers with the background
for training are entrusted with the
$12,500 worth of equipment used by
the average production worker.
3. Once hired, the dropout is low
paid and has little chance for ad
vancement.
4. First to lose his job in a slump,
he is subject to recurrent unem
ployment.
5. Though many are talented,
dropouts find it hard without diplo
mas to qualify for training.
6. Applicants for unskilled jobs
are over-abundant; there is a short
age of qualified people in techni
cal, scientific, engineering and
many clerical fields.
7. 'These trends will increase in
the next decade. Skilled, trained
and educated workers will be in
good demand; even fewer jobs
than now will be available for the
unskilled and untrained.
8. Stay in school as long as pos
sible; a more satisfying life will
be your dividend.
What does it mean to communi
ties?
Wherever they are, the dropouts
are a ready source of delinquency
and crime. 'This conclusion already
is bolstered with so much evidence
as to be unarguable.
There are, in town and country,
some 900,000 boys and girls of the
ages 16 and 17 who are not enrolled
in school. Nearly half of them are
floaters. These are but two age
groups. The dropout total, 16 to 21,
is in the millions.
This is one major reason why
Mr. J. Edgar Hoover’s statistics
of juvenile crime—not delinquency
—continue to climb.
Alabama’s three recent race
riots, each ugly and violent, saw
teen-agers prominent in each. The
mob about a church in Montgom
ery, which would have killed a
number of Negroes inside but for
U.S. Attorney General Robert Ken
nedy’s intelligent decision to send
U.S. Marshals there, was almost
a teen-age mob.
Every community, large and
small, has them—the floaters, the
teen-agers who can’t get a job, or
who can’t hold one when they do. A
certain percentage of these deterio
rate into young toughs. Mr. Hoov
er, of the FBI, knows them very
weU.
The dropout rate is shocking.
The nation over, about 35 percent
of all who enroll in high school,
drop out before graduation.
In cities over 200,000, the drop
out rate between the 9th and 12th
grades is 40 percent.
In the rural and farming areas
the figure is even higher.
Send for the pamphlet.
Here is something communities,
individuals, and groups can do for
their country.
BOARD MEETING
(Continued from Page 9)
Some of the newly elected of
ficers were present and presented
with a special prayer for them
by Mrs. Satterwhite.
President Spellman made most
interesting remarks on her trip
to Albany, Ga., for the South
eastern Convention, report in this
issue.
The hospitality and comforts of
fered by Rocky Mt. clubs were
greatly appreciated by aU attend
ing.
From editors notes
National Group
Reception Set
On Wednesday, November 1,
1961 at 4:30 P.M. the National As
sociation of Colored Women’s Clubs
Inc., will be hostess at a diplo
matic reception honoring African
Ambassadors and their wives, the
Assistant Secretary of State for
African Affairs and other National
and International dignitaries.
The occasion is National Associa-
ation of Colored Women’s Clubs’
United Nations celebration and
serves to identify our association
with the leadership of these new
nations particularly their wives
and the women members of parlia
ment.
An engraved invitation is en
closed addressed to each state
president for her entire member
ship. Please notify each club of
your state. Have clubs notify Head
quarters of number attending.
Each state president is urged to
have local club presidents send one
dollar or more per member as a
personal gift for this outstanding
international event. Your gift will
register your individual or club
name on a scroll of sponsors to be
presented to the Ambassadors
Wives of the African Nations.
National Association of Colored
Women’s Clubs, Inc.
Rosa L. Gragg, President
Isadora Letcher, Chairman
GOOD LOOKING
By H. R. GRENVILLE
Beauty doesn’t come by chance
Or hinge upon a mood.
If you would be good-looking.
Keep looking for the good.
There’s nothing like good humor
And eagerness and truth
To give your lips a happy curve.
Your eyes the shine of youth.
Don’t fret about your wrinkles—
Erase them with a smile.
It isn’t sun: it’s shadows
That put marks upon a dial!