·WAR
MAKE PROTEST
AT CONVENTION
BUT THERE WAS NO FRICTION AND NO
EVIDENCE OF TENSION, SAYS REPORT
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War M.O. thers convention at the I' lend Ihe banquet than 10 be seg­Hotel
Continental refused to ac- regated.
:..~~ ~~nc~~~:i~h~t ~~ ~~ I S.1;~ ~:;,;~ :::: ~; ~l~~:~
result the dinner was held with I Ohio. "II all 01 our boy. fought
I' scattered aboul the together for the same purpose,
room. There was no friction and why should Iheir mothers be
no eVidence of tension. scgrc,gated7" Applause follow-
Eight 'egro mothers, aU from ed Irs. Ashby's talk and the
out of town, were here for the I talks 01 the other 'egTo women. --­connnti"
n which opened on Other '('gro molhers attend·
~~~~~. and contmued through ;r;:n:~~laC~:~~~::1 \~~~e~r~~:
M~. C. J. Latham, white, N. Y.: "Irs. Juha B. Young, Sea
chairman 01 the Kansas City Ch!!, . Y.; Mrs. J. Morris HTS branch, asked at a sessIOn pre- Bloommgton, Ill; Irs. Helen I
ecdlllg the banquet for all 1'- Gussom,. Philadelphia: Mrs. J. =========================================
gro mothers to stand. When one KirkpatTlck, and Mrs. W. H.
of the egro women asked, Ballew, Louisville, Ky.
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''Why?:' Mrs. Latham rephed I 0 egro mothers from Kan­that
she wanted them all 10 eat sas City or Missouri were III at­at
the same table at the banqueL lendance.
Instead of accepting the lim The American War lothers
crowism, the Negro women im· was founded in 1917-18 in lndi -
mediately slated their objections (ConUnul "as rc('ent rl'QueH ~',;Jt the War ;'!l(' c"al'; l) marry. I, ' erne ;n-
Callo","av. well known bnnd- he and Payne app!'ar«i at the I from each oth r superflC1Ully ,!IlCW. but brot1lf~rhood. .·avy d('pa r ln,t:nt!} lilt thoP b~ ~t:lIH"s th£se.('r\'illnt.n:l.re I.e
Jeadt::r. \\3..Cj dceJan.'d inn .... Ln uf (:ntranec th ~ ~peci31 policeman I livf.: m hatmony and understand- "The SO\ let t.;nlOn," he sai~. nn marriages br-twccn colC'r('(l I·,thrrs ur prosIWCh,t.' j'Dthcrs or
the chart;, '$ l.r tesj.:i~ing arn.:':;;t nut only r •. fu~ed to allow the 1 Ir~." Dt.:an DIX(1n. i .. )under and ui3 sho\\ ing us brothcrhnod-3 men in the u1 n.. ~ r zerviC' . [,:1d (, I. 1fdrcn .. Ttc.sc me", "'wV soQbht
and intoxu-ntwn in Poltee Court men to enter the pl:lce. but. h<.: I ccnJw.:tor of the Arneri'dD )-um;:aD ~~irit that ''I.e hu\c bCt;n \\O.I('il vf t~! t L.r.tn·s \'. be-(' t"gltlllb1lu(' tho f ( hlidrpa
here last Friday. Tte ~ha:-gf....'S attacked Cab and h!Sfricnd an::l Y,-,uth Orchesl-a., told 19tOO'l, caching out for in a.ll('i\·iliza- Dr .. F. B. Beck Ilh~y have ~l \\.1 lJV(' '(>:is \ .. ·.s t ... 111"orablcnl;'rn~l'e ut ·c
wele the o""fromc or an affair I struck the bandlcadt_'c OVer tre Infe~r~~-~I fl . c"t~;~~t'::' f~~r t~~ "s.~J Nc\" Yorkers at a re<.:ec.t ~adi"l"i, ns. It is this brothcT"hoo ... l, t~is Promin(:~t dentist, who has made o~ S'.("&(~:~""V of War_Ro~: I t"'N l DrP~v~t~d fro . -=0.
-hj r Calloway ;bad WiUl a tot:" .. d t"';iili hIS -'V'r h-~ 1 ('':U::;lr!'" t~ ..... , r ', It "'t\on ror J:nrcn.~I!' 5-'.2 SqU3l"! GaJd~ "",;PetinJ ~~~, Whlt'h InlW!. be '1l:l1ntam- lcopt.:noo hlS O~_lCC at I!!ll v,'cst ~:t P: P.,t ~r: "' ... 11U S ~;,t.:u-y c..: I J'lJ'" J, a"i.onal A.' ..itlon Iv .. '
pohce!n3J1 ,,·h.m t,,, presented Callm·!sy to !>c ru.hed 10 .he f~r:>ly,." ·nn1lt:!rr:t "I ."t I, • \,>,,,. 1 l"unched the 194, cam- ~'