The Washington bee., 1909-08-21
PARAGRAPHIC NEWS
Miss Gonevia B. Maxfeld
BY

TAFT said. 1T is not platitHdes and
professions of sympathy that colored
Americans and the Republic need at
this crisis, but loyalty to true Ameri-
/ can principles and enforcement OF
the laws"
Colonel Mangin proposes a French
Negro army of about 100000 men,
and invites colored Americans to join.
This is a new field open for military
honors, and where perhaps, honor
and merit will be given where 1t IS
J due.
The Clayton-Williams University,
which was founded by Rev. DrHar-
vey Johnson, one of the most ardent
and race-loving ministers of the Bap-
ist denomination, will be one of the
best schools of its kind, standing as
! ii does for the broadest and best
training for Negro youths. 1t is fos-
tered entirely by the Baptists Of
Maryland.
Bishop w. B. Derrick has given
IWilberforce University a beautiful,
as we'll as useful fountain in memory
of his deceased wife, Mrs. Lillian
Derrick. 1t is erected on the cam
pus OF the University.
Bishop Anderson delivered the
principal address at the corner stone
| laying for the Methodist Memorial
Home for the Aged, at Warren In
diana.
For the first time woman has
been appointed Superintendent Of the
Chicago schools. Mrs. Ella Flagg
Young ucceeds Edwin G. Cooley and
takes entire charge of the Chicago
school system.
! One million dollars has been trans
ferred from white to colored banks
during the past three years. It :
said they cid not do this for spite
work or race prejudice, but felt the
need OF making work for their pos
terity.
Professor Kelly Miller, of Howard
University, is to deliver an address
at Montgomery, Alabama, September
no.
The Reformer urges Colored Amer
leans to stick to the farms If they
want progress and happiness. The
open-air life at this stage OF race pro-
eress. is best conserved in the coun-
try. City life at this stage OF raoe
progress is greatly against the poor
and under race" We agree with
the Reformer.
Zeke Moore, while in the Federal
penitentiary at Leavenworth, became
the richest colored man in the South
west; his 100 acres of land became
worth 100000, as oil was found on
it.
The Thirteenth Annual Conven-
ton of the Western Press AssoCla-
ton will convene in Kansas, August
p and p. All Negro editors, cor
respondents, journalists, publishers
and co-workers in this country are
invited to attend.
The supplement to the New York
Age. containing the Bishops and the
General Officers of the African
Methodist Episcopal Zion Church,
was nicely gotten up and does credit
to the management.
1t has been announced that Pierre
Paul Deners, American Consul TO
Bahai has resigned, also Henry Clay
Smith. Consul at Santos, Brazil.
These two positions were formerly
held by colored men.
The total cost of buildings erected
in the principal cities of the United
States in 1908, was $546,467,39o, ac-
cording to the Geological Survey.
A design for a monument to the
women of the Lost Cause "is COM
pleted. 1t is the work of Miss Belle
Kinney, of Nashville, Tennessee. 1t
is said that probably all the states
which left the Union in the Civil
War, will adopt the design The
Daughters of the Confederacy and
Sons of Confederate Veterans viii
erect these monuments in every state
capital in Dixie.
OF the sixty-three chaplains in the
United States Army, four are color
ed. w. T. Anderson, of Cleveland,
and George w. Prioleau, of Dayton