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[underline]N A C W  N E W S[/underline]

This is the last issue of the Bulletin which will be mailed. The next publication to reach you will be the January-February issue of National Notes; that is, if your subscription has been paid.

Vol. 36, No. 1 of [underline]National Notes[/underline] will be ready for mailing in mid-January if your subscriptions are mailed promptly. The National Association of Colored Women at its 50th Anniversary celebration voted to republish its magazine in six issues at $1.00 per year. Publication will depend upon membership response.

The January-February issue will be devoted to the Memory of Frederick Douglass. It will include poems written in honor of Douglass; contemporary and modern estimates of Douglass, and by people who knew him personally.

The National Association of Colored Women at its National convention last summer also voted to make Douglass' birthday a National project day. For that reason the January-February number of Notes will contain an excerpt from a play written by Georgia Douglass Johnson and based upon the life of Frederick Douglass and other historical facts.

A project in curbing Juvenile Delinquency has been set up by the Opportunity Club of Northwest Washington. Three clubs, including in its membership girls from 8 to 16, from 16 to 20, and young married women, have been set up under the general sponsorship of Opportunity Club under the specific guidance of Mrs. Carrie Hackley for group 1, Mrs. Osceola Pitts and Mrs. Mary Kennerson for group 2, an Mrs. Mary Whitfield for group 3. This close knit oprganization is going much to curb the youth problem in the 32 city squares in which Opportunity Club and Mrs. Harriet Gilmore is Secretary.

The price of the Records for the Sunday afternoon meeting at 19th Street Baptist Church, will be $15.00 per set of four records. These records reproduce the Sunday afternoon meeting held at the 19th Street Baptist Church during the Golden Jubilee Anniversary at Washington. The records for the radio talks given by the Past Presidents over Station W.W.D.C., also at Washington, are available at the same price - $15.00. Order for these two sets of records may be sent to National Headquarters.

Among National Association of Colored Women attending the 3rd biennial session of the United Council of Church Women held at Grand Rapids, Mich., was the National President, Mrs. Christine S. Smith, who states that the integration of women of color into the total program of the United Council of Church Women is moving more rapidly than could have been predicted five years ago.at its formation. Among other NACW Women attending the council were Mrs. H. M. Gibbs of Alabama, Mrs. Annette officer of Illinois, Mrs. Clarissa Clement of Kentucky, Mrs. Annie M. Wortham of Michigan, and Mrs. Jennie Brown Lee of Washington, D.C.