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About The monitor. (Omaha, Neb.) 1915-1928 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1924)
"THEY’VE MADE GOOD”-COQLID(® j ^IL^A/eter ans’ (Tuskegee) Hospital No. 01 Capably Administered byNegro Personnel. ‘ 1. Panorama showing half a dozen of the twenty-seven permanent build ings. 2. Main Infirmary Building. 3. Front view of main building. 4. Bird’s-eye view principal and near by buildings with Tuskegee Insti tute in the dim background. 5. Dental Laboratory. 6. President Calvin Coolidge, Dr. Robert R. R. Moton, Asst. Sec. of Treasury Clifford, Asst. Sec. of Com merce Huston, and the Governor of Alabama. 7. X-Ray Laboratory. 8. Medical Officers’ Staff. 9. Nurses’ Staff. 10. Lt. Col. Joseph H. Ward, Command ing Medical Officer. 11. Part of the all colored personnel of three hundred. 11 ' — ■' 1 -1-- - ..-. .J ___ **Pho»o<iraphft hy C. M. Battey, Photograph Division of Tukegee Institute/* WHAT OTHER EDITORS SAT The Race Coming Back in Literature. Many years ago the Negro people in the United States had a large num ber of men and women doing literary work of a high order. Paul Laurence j Dunbar and Charles W. Chesnutt stood at the head of this splendid group. They wrote excellent books of prose and verse and they were valued contributors to the periodicals of the times. It looked as if we had come to stay in the literature of the nation, but they gradually dropped by the wayside and their places were taken by white Southern writers of history - and fiction, whose work was intended to be propagandists rather than cultural and informing; intended to degrade the free Negro at the ex pense of the slave Negro by magni fying the virtues of the latter and denying any virtues at all to the former. They accomplished an in famous work and it will long con tinue to rise up in the judgment to plague its authors. And now we are having a new crop of literary people of the Negro race who are making a place in book and magazine work, and who are giving I promise of doing much to undo the I the infamous work of Southern writ ers of fiction and verse in the preced ing generation. No people can get very far in their own estimation or that of their neighbors who do not write their own history, their own prose and verse, who do not have their own philosophers and scientists. We are getting these, but we are getting them gradually, slowly; the main thing being that we are getting them. The modem world is dominated very largely by ideas, and the more literary people we have with ideas who make a place so that they can impart their ideas to others, whose good opinion and influence are worth while, and no person nor race lives unto itself alone, the more useful and helpful do we be come to ourselves and to others.—The Negro World, New York. OMEGA PSI PHI HOLDS COLLEGE NIGHT (By the Associated Negro Press) Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 24.—The local graduate chapter of the Omega Psi Phi held the annual student meeting for all college men in the city Tuesday night at the fraternity house. H. H. Thomas acted as master of cere monies. GLEE CLUB LEADER TAKES OVER BIG CHOIR (By the Associated Negro Press) Washington, D. C.# Oct 24.—J. Henry Lewis, leader of the famous Amphion Glee Club was installed as leader of the Metropolitan A. M. E. church choir, the Rev. Chas. B. Stew* art, pastor, Saturday evening. The Amphion Glee Club will celebrate its 33rd anniversary November 80.