The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-01-03

A Negro daily is to be launched at
Muskogee. Okla.
The notes of the National Negro
Press Association are being carried
in good form by a number of our
leading race papers. Good! This is
a field that our people know all too
little about.
The suspension Of The Advocate
and the Mountain Leader at Charles
ton, w. Va, is a sharp blow to the
race. The former was edited by j.
C. Gilmer and the latter by T. G.
Nutter. Both are men of high in
~tellectual quality and large influence,
and their papers were both credita-
BILE examples of modern journalism.
Unfortunately, this leaves West Vir-
.ginia's progressive capital without a
single racial spokesman.
A midwinter conference of the Ma
tional Negro Press Association is to
be held shortly in either Washington
or Philadelphia.
1AO NOAlRA 0SAOAA ANOoAO
Newspaper Directory is to be issued
in February, if Corresponding Score
tary Henry Allen Boyd a get the
remainder Of the data from delinquent
editors and managers, who have thus
far failed to answer the list of ques-
ftions asked by him. Those who have
not yet sent in their slips should do
so at once, addressing Mr.. Boyd at 447
4 Fourth avenue, North, Nashville,
Tenn. The Directory will be a val
liable production, and every Negro
manager and editor should cooperate
to the end that it may be as complete
as human ingenuity can make such
a volume, Mr.. Boyd is giving the
president the heartiest support and
is doing a monumental work for the
Association. He should be encour
aged. The officers of the Association
are urged to send their photos ant
sketches to Mr.. Boyd, that they may
be included in the Directory.
Denial is made that Auditor Ralph
w. Tyler is to join hands with W
Calvin Chase in the editorial manage
ment of the Washington Bee at thu
conclusion of the formers term IL
the federal service at Washington. l
is understood that Mr.. Tyler has beer
connected with the Bee for some con
siderable time as an editorial and de
partmental contributor. Chase ant
Tyler ought to make a strong comb
nation, both having had ample expe
rience in the journalistic arena.
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No article in recent years has at
tracted more general attention o
provoked a more profitable discussion
than DR.. Booker T. W%ashington's Of
fering on the Negro question in tn
November Century, pointing out i
plain terms that the Negro is not gel
ting a fair show in this country.
The Pittsburg Courier is four year
old. Messrs. c. w. Posey, H. 4
Richmond and r. l.. Vann, the activ
nag of the Courier, have den
onstrated that a irst-class Negro pa
per can live in the Smoky City," an
exert a helpful influence for the rae
it represents.
Attorney George w. Ellis, of Oh
cago, formerly secretary Of the Amel
lean Legation at Monrovia, Liberia, ]
a contributing editor on the Journs
of Race Development, published
connection with Clark Universit!
Worcester, Mass.
"Phil" Brown, who managed tn
publicity end of the Taft campaign 10
the Negro bureau, resumes his res
dence in Chicago, after spendin
Christmas at his home in Hopkins
Vile, Ky. Mr.. Brown is one of tn
most versatile newspaper writer's l
the country, regardless of race.
Real newspaper men are going slo'
in the use of "Prof.," Hon" ID. D.,
etc., and are Cutting out" the "Mr
Bishop and Mrs. Dr." foolishness /
speaking of the wives of men bearin
the titles mentioned.
The long editorial has gone to tn
scrap-pile, except among a few OPT
ion-moulders of the old school-tn
antediluvian period. This is the da
of the pointed paragraph.
The editor of the Washington Be
accuses the editor of tie New Yor
Age of being Ignorant"
]. Max Barber, the sometime edltC
of the Voice of the Negro, is no
practicing dentistry liz philadelphia
having graduated in that calling fro,
the University of Pennsylvania. Il
was married recently to Miss HIATT
B Taylor, a prominent factor in II
social life of the Quaker City.
Ohio claims to have furnished
bonaide successor to the late Pa
Laurence Dunbar in the the person
Dlliott Blaine Henderson, a risiT
Young versifer Of Springfield. +
has put out a very creditable volun
of poems, comprising fifty pages. OF
critic says that Henderson writes
a rich Negro dialect, Of which he
though northern-bred, seems to hay
grasped the real essence.
John Mitchell, Jr., editor OF u
Richmond Planet, and president
the Mechanics Savings Bank, hi
been elected a member Of the Roy
Society of Arts Of England, M
nr,A-IsY1 l. Az onIv nO1Ornd memhl