For it’s better to burst in attempting to grow

Than to have no ambition at all.

—Berton Braley in Life.


NEWS ITEMS

The National Association of Colored Women will hold their biennial meeting at Baltimore, August 6 to 11.


The National Meeting of Colored Odd Fellows, that is known as the B. M. C., will be held at Washington, September 11 to 16.


The Boyd faction of the National Baptist Convention will hold its convention September 6th at the Second Baptist Church of Kansas City.