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THE FEDERATION JOURNAL
April, 1954
Criterion Bridge Club
Members meeting at the home of the president are shown in this picture.
Reading from left to right: Mesdames A. M. McCullough, Sec’y-; O. H. Leake; F. S.
Russell; B. C. Martin; A. Boger, President; G. G. Gilreath, Vice-Pres. Standing, A.
Rhinehardt; C. Raper; D. Monroe; R. Waddell; C. Brevard; T. C. Carter and I.
Harris. Not shown in the picture, Mrs. L. Simpson.
In 1934 an enthusiastic group of ladies
met at the home of Mrs. Lorene Goins
Payne on Hobson Street to organize a
club. Present for this meeting were Mes
dames Della Ross, Eula Amaker, Evelyn
McRae, Gladys Gilbreath and Mary Park
er. We decided to devote our social hour
to the pleasure of playing bridge, and we
resolved that each year our club would
promote some worthwhile civic project.
How fascinating it was to all the mem
bers starting to play bridge! Why? Be
cause no one in the club knew anything
about playing the game. But each meet
ing night for two or three months our
hostesses would invite an experienced
bridge player to give us instructions.
What fun we had! The results are that
we are all good bridge players now.
Our first big civic project was the giv
ing of twenty half pints of milk each day
to the needy children in the city schools,
alternating the schools year by year. This
was a six year project. After this, we
participated in many other interesting
and helpful projects.
One year we adopted a girl at the Kins
ton Training School, sent her gifts on
holidays and wrote letters of encourage
ment to her. To the Oxford Orphanage
we often sent a cash donation, and we
have occasionally made contributions to
the children’s ward at the State San-
itorium. We participated in all the civic
projects in our city, such as the Red
Cross, Christmas Seal, Community Chest,
and we contributed freely to other good
causes.
We purchased an instrument for the
Leonard Street School Band, gave a cash
donation toward the cost of the High
School Band uniforms. We sponsor Girl
Scout Troop Number 8, Intermediates;
and we send one girl to summer camp. To
the sick members of our club, we make
donations; and to the immediate family
of a deceased member, we send a floral
design and condolences.
We have a roster of eighteen members,
and new members are voted upon by sec
ret ballot. We like our meetings to be
pleasant and enjoyable. To do this we
must have people who like and respect
one another.
The Criterion Club joined the City Fed
eration of clubs when the organization
was first set up, and we joined the State
Federation the same year. The State or
ganization has been a wonderful source
of information to the club, and we look
forward each year to the privilege of
sending a delegate. When the conven
tion is held in a place near enough to
High Point, several of our members spend
at least one day attending the meetings.
The name of our club is in itself an
inspiration to us. “Criterion” means a
rule or test by which anything is tried in
forming a correct judgment respecting it;
a high standard. The major purpose of this
club, then, is to set up, respect and fol
low the high standards of noble living.
WATCH THOSE WHO WALK
STRAIGHT
DO YOU “LIMP?”
There is an old Buddhist legend that
tells of a certain beautiful royal horse
that was found to be lame. He had a most
curious and awkward motion in one of
his legs.
When King Sama, the owner of the
horse, heard of this lameness, he sent
skilled horse-surgeons to the royal sta
ples to examine the animal and report.
They reported that the horse was sound
in wind and limb. He was not truly lame,
but he limped. They could not tell why.
Then King Sama despatched a sage to
the stables. The wise man returned and
said:
“Sir, I have discovered why your horse
limps.”
“Why?”
“He has a companion who limps.”
“Who is that?”
“His groom, who walks lame. The horse
has imitated him.”
“Get another groom,” said the king.
This was done, and it was not long be
fore the horse walked fair and straight
and evenly.
Now, whenever I notice a boy whose
speech is coarse and whose bearing is
unmanly and who has caught these poor
tricks of manner from his so-called
friends, I say to myself, “He limps and I
know why he limps.” — Told by F. J.
~;ould, in “Worth While People.”
BURLINGTON TO WORK
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ing some of the problems confronting teen
rge boys in our cities. It would be diffi-
:ult to find a better undertaking than the
3oys’ Club effort that was initiated sev
eral years ago by twenty-one interested
citizens of Newport News, Virginia, who
■ponsored a drive for $40,000 and suc
ceeded in erecting a splendid building
where hundreds of boys at various times
3njoy facilities for athletics, engage in
arts and crafts, participate in whole-
>ome amusements, and where under per
sonal counseling they are led to avoid the
dangerous pitfalls that seriously endan
ger the path of youth.
The John Avery Boys’ Club in Dur
ham now fifteen years old, is a monu
ment to the spirit of thoughtful Durham
leaders whose remarkable foresight and
daring persistence marked out a path
way in North Carolina that other leaders
throughout the state may well follow.
The Wilmington Commimity Club, too,
is an attestation to the great service that
clubs are rendering the state as extra
ordinary curbs to delinquency. May many
more places light their torches at these
altars!
From the fourteen members of the Cri
terion Club we say to you, “Welcome to
High Point, North Carolina Federation
of Negro Women’s Clubs!”