General Race News
NEGRO TROOPS IN BALKANS.
The European press is singing the
unstinted pra'ses of the famous
French “Seventy-fives,” Negro troops
brought from Africa to fight the
Germans in Belgium, but now trans
ferred to the Balkans to stop the
march of the Austro-Germans upon
the Serbs. These Africans have dis
tinguished themselves in battle every
time they have been called upon to
face the enemy, ar.d so brave are
they, and so effective are they in ac
tion, that the French have sent them
to the Balkan front to save the Ser
bians.
We prefer the report as given by
the International News Service to our
comment, and herewith quote in part:
“At 2 o’clock the first Bulgarian
shrapnel burst over the station. The
ground between Valandovo and
Strumnitza is stony and had been
made soggy by rain. Four regiments
of Bulgarian troops advanced across
this space in close formation, after
the German fashion. They were led
by bomb throwers and Macedonian
comitadji, or irregulars. Many of
the officers in the first line were Ger
mans.
“When a few hundred yards away
from the one end of the French line
there burst forth suddenly a hurri
cane of bullets. The Bulgarians were
mowed down in masses. The advanc
ing line was bent, checked and twist
ed.
“Then the French ‘Seventy-fives’
were turned loose and sent a storm
of shells into the Bulgarian ranks
with uninterrupted fury while ma
chine guns crackled in horrible con
cert.
“The Bulgarian advance was imme
diately arrested. Not one out of the
400 or 500 Bulgars who reached the
first French line escaped.”
Just what these Negroes are doing
for the French government, the Ne
groes of these United States have
done for this government, and many
victories won for the flag were Negro
victories. Does it not seem strange,
this loyalty of the black man every
where? Regardless of the flag he
serves, the soil he occupies, or the
enemy, his loyalty is one and the
same everywhere. His bravery makes
him a preferred soldier, and his loy
alty makes him trustworthy. If
France and her allies win the strug
gle, France and the allies will take
the glory. But the coming genera
tions will know that some of the glory
at least belongs to the sons of Africa.
Perhaps another war on this side
of the Atlantic is needed to awaken
this country to a full sense of its
indebtedness to the black man. We
hope the far-off arena, and the les
son coming to us therefrom, will
prove sufficient for our country and
our white brother. — The Pittsburg
Courier.
BURNED TO DEATH
WHILE TEACHING
Hannibal, Mo., Nov. 26.—Mr.
Henry Henly, son of Mrs. Anna A.
Henly, a teacher of domestic science
in the public schools here, was
burned to death while performing his
duty in the school at Jefferson City
Monday, November 13, by the ex
plosion of a can of oil. The body
was shipped to Sedalia, Mo., for in
terment.
WASHINGTON SCHOOL BURNED.
Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 19.—The
burning of the Booker T. Washington
school and many homes in that vicin
ity marks the new line of attack of
our formidable and murderous foe,
race prejudice. The site of the school
is Thirteenth and Myrtle street, and
an excellent one; the building was
modem and upon the cottage order,
and there were 250 children who at
tended. The East Side Improvement
company has endeavored without suc
cess to purchase this property, to
gether with other homes owned in the
neighborhood.
Mr. George Williams, who lives
near the school, coming home about
11 p. m., discovered a fire at the
school, and looking toward his home
he saw that it, too, was ablaze. Alarm
was given, but too late to save the
buildings that had been fired, it is
believed, by designing hands.
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APPOINTED ASSISTANT
MEDICAL DIRECTOR
Washington, D. C., Nov. 19.—Dr. A.
M. Curtis, Jr., second son of Dr. and
Mrs. A. M. Curtis of this city, has
been appointed assistant medical, di
rector to the Tuskegee Institute Hos
pital and Tarining school, and has
gone to Dr. Washington’s great school
to report for duty. Dr. Curtis is a
graduate of the medical department
of Howard University and served a
year as an interne at Freedmen’s hos
pital. He followed this up with post
graduate work at the city general
hospital at Kansas City, Mo., from
which place he was called to Tuske
gee. Dr. Curtis will assist Surgpon
in-Chief John A. Kenney.
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
IN THE CITY COUNCIL
Baltimore, Md., Nov. 19.—City
Councilman Harry S. Cummings, of
the Seventeenth ward, has just cele
brated the twenty-fifth anniversary
of his first election as a member of
the First Branch city council. Mr.
Cummings has served more than
half of the years since as a member
of that body, and last May was elect
ed for another term of four years.
Cambridge, Mass., has a colored
city councilman, Nehemiah Henry,
and Annapolis, Md., one, J. Albert
Adams.
WHY GO TO HAYTI?
A white coffin containing a dummy
body and an inscription which road,
“When you see this, run. If you don’t
see it, run anyhow,” was the man
ner in which a few white citizens of
Jennings, Okla., had to warn the
honest colored men to leave that com
munity. Most of them have gone to
Oklahoma City. Thus they are being
forced into the large cities for pro
tection. Another chance for the
American government to interfere
this side of Hayti.—National Baptist
Union Review.
ELECTED TO CITY COUNCIL.
Bridgeport, Ohio, Nov. 19.—The
colored people of this city have every
reason to feel proud of the fact that
at the election on November 2 Wil
liam Goode was elected to the city
council here by a large majority over
his white opponent.
JOSEPH CARR.
Among the men who are a cred't
to our community, although he lives
such a quiet and unostentatious life
that he is seldom heard from and is
little known outside of a warm circle
of friends, is Joseph Carr, whose cut
appears in this issue. A good face,
yes, and it portrays the man.
Joseph Carr is one of the best-read
men, along historical lines, of any
man in this city. You will notice that
we do not qualify the statement by
“colored,” or any other adjective. He
has been an intelligent and enthu
siastic student of history since boy
hood. And his fund of historical
knowledge is astonishingly large. His
study has been along comparative
lines; that is to say, with a view of
applying the lessons of the rise and
fall of nations, races and dynasties
to the Negro race, not only in Amer
ica, but throughout the world. He
has dug up some mighty interesting
facts, too, about the race, from his
wide reading, which makes him an
optimist of the optimists. It is to be
hoped that some day he will put these
facts which he can tell so interest
ingly to his friends in some perma
nent form. He lays no claim to lit
erary ability, but studies and studies
and makes notes of what he reads
simply because he loves to.
Joseph Carr was bom February 13,
’857, in Boston, Mass., and is the
second child and son of John and
Maria A. Carr, who had been slaves
and, although illiterate, were people
of character and ambition. Joseph
was sent to school, when four years
of age, at Cambridgeport, Mass., and
attended school until a little past sev
enteen, when he enlisted in the Unit
ed States army, January 7, 1870. He
was in the army for seventeen years,
serving respectively as corporal, ser
geant and post quartermaster ser
geant, also acting clerk and sergeant
major. He was honorably discharged
August 26, 1887, and came to Omaha
in September of the next year, where
■ie has since resided. For a number
of years he was janitor of the public
library. He studied law at the Oma
ha School of Law in 1897-9, and
passed the state bar at Lincoln June
17, 1899, and was admitted to prac
tice.
Mr. Carr is a taxpayer and has de
voted a good deal of his time to real
estate. He is a pleasant, affable gen
tleman, kindly and charitable, and al
ways anxious to interest young men
and women in good literature.
LYNCHED FOR FREE SPEECH.
Aberdeen, Miss., Nov. 19.—John
Taylor was lynched by a mob of
masked men for expressing an
opinion concerning a (white) wom
an’s wearing apparel. This is a new
angle to mob activity; it is not the
usual charge of “assault." The free
dom of speech can never be a viola
tion of law. At last the mob attacks
the right of free speech! What next?
MISSOURI METROPOLIS
TO BUILD Y. M. C. A.
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 26.—A cam
paign is under way to raise $125,000
I for a Y. M. C. A., and Mr. Julius
Rosenwald of Chicago has promised to
give $25,000 towards the building if
$125,000 can be raised otherwise.
Hopkins, a colored boy, is playing
a star game with the Barnholzers, a
| St. Paul team. Solon of 1915 Minne
sota fame, and McGovern, an All-r
American quarterback of 1909, are
! on the same team.
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