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RY 9, 1926.1ASKS SEDALIANSISAID BUILDINGDUNBAR PARKPATCProfessor C. C. HubbardT!Speaks at Meet of Pd 1Rotary Club PatrNo.ADVANTAGES OFroonJ. cPARK ARE CITED er ctorn:iDiscussion on Birds andCornBird Life Given byJohn HaymakerAn appeal to members of Rotaryand Sedalians in general for aid incharfirstyearT1drillschothe building of Dunbar Park inXorlh Sedalia for negro childrenof Sedalia as a step to aid in making better citizens of them wasmade before the meeting of Rotaryyesterday noon at the Ilotol Liber-tv, by Professor C. C. Hubbard,principal of Lincoln High School.Mr. Hubbard told of the gift ofMrs. Sarah E. Cotton of twenty-five acres of ground for the purposei of building the park, and that $800; Vicraised primarily through his ownefforts had boon put into the park.The speaker advocated a committee of white citizens and a committee of negro citizens to meet in the J§interest of public welfare.“We are not asking for admission iFto your park,’* Mr. Hubbard said, j . “although we have a perfect right r IIto go there under the rights of j Kcitizenship, but we are asking youto aid us in building a separate:place to which the nogroes can go. j B I am not asking for money but for;your ideas and support to devise (^arsome means of financing the park.” „Professor Hubbard pointed out tjjree that in the past negro boys andgirls had gone to Liberty park andwasgramthat occasionally differences had 1 arisen with the white boys and trust-girls and sometimes fights resulted Th( and sometimes the children playedtogether.velop‘‘It is all right, perhaps for ourreprechildren to go to the park, but ourter Iwold.adult population who should be per- fomitted to go to the park also to the; watch over their children do no go pthere and mingle with the crowds j-nowthat attend the band concerts and j torna,.enjoy the park,” Mr. Hubbard said. I jn! “Our adults do not go there. We j *do not encourage them to go to ^eing Liberty Park, not because they do! -ajjnot have the right. Under our eft-1 por izenship it would not be wrong. The ' tober right is theirs. J oug tBut as the Apostle Paul says,1 ^‘That which is right is not always seijjnexpedient,’ and we are not askingayou for our share in Liberty Parkbut to help us build a park of ourto relt;therolitors.his a
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Sedalia Capital

Sedalia, Missouri, US

Tue, Feb 09, 1926

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