The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-06-27
The News in Il Nutshell

President Taft has been renomina-
ted. There is no reason to. believe
that he will not be reelected. .:
y, Twas triumph for Secretary
| tttlles, AS a political general the
late, Mark Hanna didn't have thing
on Mr., Hilles,
! Prof. Roscoe Conkling Bruce, as
Esistant superintendent of the public
schools Of this city, has been appoint
cd by the District Comm issioners as
a representative of the National Con-
sress of, Colored Educators, to be
| held in Washington September "a, IN
connection with the celebration of
, ltheA fiftiath anniversary of the
=, emancipation celebration. Prof Jesse
Lawson is the general head Of the
movement and Judge Robert H. Ter
rell is chairman of the executive COM
mittee.
Prof. l.. b. Moore, dean of the
Teachers College, Howard University,
delivered the commencement address
last week to the schools of Chester,
Pa. He ia, now at Hampton Insti-
, tute, where he preached the opening
sermon of the" Summer School, and
will deliver auseries OF special lee
lures to the assembly while there.
AT the recent graduation exercises
Of the Washington Conservatory of
Music, the grea4 institution which
Mrs. Harriet Gibbs Marshall has
built up here, eight students were pre-
sented with diplomas by Hon. H. B.
r.. Mcfarland, former commissioner
of the District of Columbia Follow
Tag the presentation, Mr.. Macfarland
addressed the graduates upon the
{ subject Of their chosen vocation. The
graduates were Rosa Anna Bell, Della
Anna Bundy, Grace Evangeline Gibbs,
Ethel Thelma 'Mischeaux, Jane Elsie
Ryder, Elsie Adele Brown, Jewel
Jenifer and Minnie Henrietta Gordon.
1t is now regarded as pretty GER
tain that William L. Houston, will be
elected Grand Secretary of the G. u.
Q. Of O. F.. by the 18th B. NJ. c., which
meets at Atlanta IN September. The
district delegation is solid for him
and he has pledges from a big major
ity of the men who will represent the
several states at the Atlanta conven-
ton. No better selection for this
Irresponsible office could be made.
MRS. Julia w. Shaw, director of
domestic science 81 the Armstrong
Manual Training School, will have
charge of the domestic science de-
partment at the summer school con-
Quoted next MONTH by the Institute
for Colored Youth lat Cheyney, Pa.
This splendid schoof lis presided over
tby that veteran educator. Prof
Hugh M. Browne. Mrs. Shaw is an
acknowledged, mistress Of the flne
points of domestic science and will
have a large class at Cheyney.
Charles c. Curtis, national organ
izer of the National Colored Personal
Liberty League, is serving as an as
sistant sergeant-at-arms this week at
the Democratic national convention
| IN Baltimore. He IS also taking an
active part in the conference Of COL
! ored democrats in session there. He
halls from Iowa ..- -
The 18th Street Branch Of the Y.
Nj. G.. A. is making a vigorous cam
| puaign for an increase in member
| ship. Full membership fees, emit
| thing men to the baths, gymnasium
and class instruction, amount to So
per annum. Limited membership costs
81. The ID living rooms are rapidly
filling up.
! THE nomination Of President Taft
will be accepted by the colored men
who fought valiantly for Roosevelt al
tChicago," remarked a staunch Roose
welt man to your correspondent Sun
day. IF we are to accomplish any.
enemy, we must be amenable to par
lty discipline and abide by the will
Of the majority"
! The nearness Of the completion o
the work on the Panama Canal ant
the decreasing size OF the appropria
tons will make impossible the APP
pointment of Negro lchaplain K
minister to the spiritual needs of tn
colored employees of the federal gov
eminent in the Canal Zone. as asket
for by the men on the ground an
urged by prominent cO1ored men il
this country. Register J. G. Maple
made a gallant fight for" the creation
Of the place, and made o convincing
presentation Of the case to the Wa
Department.
Bishop Thirhield has received ;