"Mary McLeod Bethune... former president of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, forged a seven-year dream into a living reality Thursday week at the Y.W.C.A, when a National Women's Council was formed. According to Mrs. Bethune, colored women are less articulate than they should be because they have lacked the effective organizing forces to attract attention to their position on public matters... "For seven years," she told the women who assembled at her call Thursday. "I have dreamed of the establishment of one central organization, a council of organized colored women, through which information concerning the activities and methods and aims of organized Negro womanhood might be disseminated and which might serve as a voice for the Negro people when needed.""