The Negro At
War Work
Washington, D. C., Oct. 3.—War de
partment officials state that since the
^ officers’ reserve training camp at Fort
•"Fes Moines, out of which came 639
Colored commissioned officers, and
prior to the establishment of the
training schools at Camps Taylor and
Pike, 114 Colored men were commis
sioned as officers in infantry, eleven
in cavalry and thirty-five in field ar
tillery; 107 officers in infantry came
out of the recent class at Camp Pike
and thirty-three in field artillery came
V out of Camp Taylor last month. The
foregoing summary gives a total of
941 Colored officers graduating from
the officers’ training schools,and these
figures are exclusive of those commis
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sioned in the medical reserve corps
and in special branches of the service,
both over here and abroad, and the
count does not embrace the officers of
the national guard and those in the
regular army.
The war college at Washington ad
vises that there have been registered
207 white labor companies, 200 of
which were sent overseas before their
organization was entirely complete.
This is positive evidence that these
labor battalions are not confined ex
clusively to Colored membership, as
has been intimated in some quarters.
A Colored Woman’s Volunteer Serv
ice league of Newark, N. J., has been
organized as a branch of the mayor’s
committee of the woman’s committee
of the Council of National Defense,
and has opened headquarters at 249
Mulberry street, where Colored sol
diers may be made ‘‘at home” and en
tertainment provided for them. A suit
able building is to be secured for the
establishment of a canteen for the
benefit of the soldiers. Some of the
officers of this voluntary service
league are: President. Mrs. Amore!
Cook; secretaries, Mrs. L. M. Holmes,
Mrs. M. K. Burrell, Mrs. E. E. Hilton
and Mrs. Emma Wormiey; treasurer,
Mrs. Louise Hilton.
Mr. J. E. Blanton, in co-operation
with the war department commission
on training camp activities, is doing
efefctive work in various camps in or
ganizing “liberty choruses” among the
Colored soldiers and in instructing
them in the technique of plantation
melodies, folksong singing and the
standard “spirituals." He is intro
ducing with great success Natalie
Cuitis Burlin’s newly conceived and
most happily harmonized folksong, “A
Hymn of Freedom,” which is set for
singing to the tune of “Ride On, Jesus,
Ride On.”
Opportunities for the entrance of |
competent Colored men in the veteri
nary corps are now open. Information
relative to this branch of the service
may be had by addressing Major Itay
J. Stanclift, assistant director of the |
veterinary' corps, Washington, D. C.
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New barracks are being built at I
Howard university and Atlanta uni-1
versity for the accommodation of the i
young men who are coming in from j
all sections of the country to take the j
military training along with their ara- j
domic studies and for the vocational
classes that will come from draftees
who will be assigned there by local
boards or army camp officials. The
opportunities offered young Colored
men through the committee on educa
tion and special training are being
seized with eagerness, and so rapidly
has the demand for this type of edu
cation grown, and so potent are the
results noted, that the government’s
policy of thus turning out specially
trained men for its manifold needs is
meeting with universal aprpoval and
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Our Grocery Dept.
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suit. The most quality for your money in the city. If you
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is to be continued indefinitely. By next
July it is estimated that 20,000 young
Colored men will have received this
training in some of its forms.
Charles Harris, leader of the Com
motnnwealth band of Baltimore, Md.,
has been appointed assistant band
leafier and will soon go to France with
one of the Colored organizations.
After six months he will be made a
second lieutenant.
High officials in France are said to
be exceedingly fond of the “jazz”
music furnished by the Colored bands.
General Petain recently visited a sec
tor in which there are American
troops and had “the time of his life”
listening to a Colored bafld playing
the popular “jazz” music, with some
Negro dance stunts in keeping with
the spirit of the melodies. He warmly
congratulated the Colored leader upon
the excellence of the work of his or
ganization and thanked him for the
enjoyable entertainment that had been
given him.
Colored men, serving as privates,
who have abilities alonb any specia;
line will find it to their advantage to
acquaint their company commanders
with the nature of their qualifications,
and this may lead to congenial assign
ments in keeping with their mental or
technical attainments. There is always
something for a man to do who is of
proved ability or special equipment.
There are now' forty-one Colored
chaplains in the United States army.
It is expected that Colored chaplains
will be provided for service at Camp
Lee at an early date.
Colored members of the Committee
of One Hundred, who are authorized
to present the war aims of the govern
ment, are getting into touch with the
State Councils of Defense in their re
spective localities and are thus lend
ing themselves effectively to the pro
grams marked out for the particular
needs of the several states.
HAS SPECIAL EMBALMER
George Miller, formerly with W. T.
Tucker, of Oklahoma, City, for ten
years as a practical emhalmer, is now
with the J. H. Russell & Co. under
taking firm, this city. Phones: Day
call Red 3203; nights calls, Webster
3718.
CARD OF THANKS
Mrs. Litisia Ross wishes to express
her appreciation to their many friends
who sent floral offerings and condo
lences at the death of her son, Elmer
Carter.—Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Patton,
Mrs. Luticia Ross.
NOTICE
All boy scouts of Troop 23 are re
questor! to meet at Mt. Moriah Baptist
church, Sunday, October 6. at 2:30 p.
m. FLOYD MAXEY,
Scout Scribe.
Mr. Walter Irvin, whose three broth
ers, Lanson, George and Jasper, have
been called in the national army, has
received a card from Lanson that he
arrived safely overseas.
Mrs. Lizzie Britten has received
word that her son, James W. Britten,
has arrived safely overseas. He left
camp August 5 and is with the medical
corps.
39,808 COLORED MEN
CALLED TO SERVICE
Washington, Sept. 28.—Draft calls
announced by Provost Marshal Gen
eral Crowder will send 181,838 men
qualified for general military service
to army camps before October 1C.
All states have quotas to fill. Of
the total 142,000 will be white regis
trants, who will entrain between Oc
tober 7 anil 11. The remainder will
be Colored, who will move in two
groups, 29,01(5 entraining between
September 25 and 27 and 10,752 on
October 16.
\LBFRT W. JEFFEPIS,
Republican Candidate (or
Congress.
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