The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1913-03-21
With the Fourth Estate

DuA CM ASIdIC
carrying at their editorial masthead
the card: Members of the National
Negro Press Association" giving the
organization dignity and force, prov
ing that 1t is 4 reality. not a myth.
Seventh-Critics have been turned
into friends, and enemies have been
converted into earnest co-workers fol
the good of the calling.
These are just q few of the definite
things that have been accomplished,
or which are web on the way toward
fruition. The President and his co,
horts are well pleased with the out.
look, which they regard as exceeding
ly bright. The brethren not yet en-.
rolled should communicate at once
with Henry Allen Boyd, 447 Fourth
avenue, North, Nashville, Tenn. He
is the alert corresponding secretary
Of the Association-the "drive-wheel
Of the organization.
The National Negro Press Associa.
ton was originally formed at Louis
vile, KY, in August, 1909. and ha,
since met in New York City, Little
Rock, Ark, and Chicago, with an ex.
ecutive committee session at Phila.
delphia. Mr.. NJ. NJ. Lewey, the schol
arly editor of the Florida Sentinel
served as president with marked dis.
tinction during the years OF 1910 and
1911 to August, 1912.
WHAT THE PRESS GANG" is
DOING.
The American Baptist, Louisville
KY, edited by the veteran William
H. Steward, has entered upon its
thirty-ffth year. It is one of the
races most thoughtful and influential
opinion-moulders.
The Colored Albanian, with Rev
r. G. Judkins as guide. passed it,
sixth milestone last month.
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Misses Frma Whittier and Regina
Holland get no a newsy society de
partment for the Pittsburg Courier.
$50
Miss Cenevs B. Maxfeld. of the
Washington Bee. Is one of the best
general na~ragraphers and society news
eotherors in the newspaper fold. She
has . harnv krack of c~ondersing AZ
Immense amornt of information in
a n~"tshell, and knows what new:
really is.
The new Discipline Of the A. NJ r
Church has made its ~annearanre from
thu nress OF the A. M. f. Sunday
School Union at Nashville, Tenn
This is the first time in the historl
Of the church that the Discipline ha'
been printed by one of its own pub
fishing hoUsee-a fact verified by eye
witnesses. who watched the progress
of the work. step by steu. as tn,
vorpg NEGROES ~ the office set II,
the type, read the proof, %correctet
7 the errors, made IN the forms an,
ran it off on the proes Thew GOV
the woTkmen in the binderv, foldin'
the sheets, sewing the books on
new machine bought for the purpose
saw the backs put on. AID the erishet
product arranged on the shelves q
the establishments office. The cred
for this remarkable and rrpracodarta
achievement belongs wholly to MI
Ira T. Bryant, the brilliant voun.
manager of the Sunday-School Union
who has succeeded in rorsir0 dr.
bones in the publishing donartmer
of the Church of Allen, and |carrvir
all before him. Not only did he src
coed in getting out the niscipl'ne i
fine, up-to-date style, but proved t
his brethren that the book could h
sold cheaper and at a pro6t than
had formerly been sold. Mr.. Bryan
is a revelation to the doubters in tn
church, and there will be "sOmethin
doing" to his advantage when h
makes his report to the next Genera
Conference.
Caucasian publications are ~rod"o"
learning that the word Negro" shout
be spelled with a capital N. The On
look and the Century have fallen /
line with this advanced view, an
other high-class magazines and new,
paDers are quietly following suit. On
race papers must continue to hamme
away On this issue and back I'm thei
editorials with personal interview
with the publishers themselves. Muc
good can bo accomplished by mission
airy work in a diplomatic manner.
S&%
B. J.. Davis, editor of the Atlant
Independent, has been in Cuba recuI
Grating from a nervous breakdown
due to overwork. Ho has been wrlt
ing some interesting stories of his e.
%periences in the West Indies.
The Union CITY News has bee
launched by N. w. Harllee at Unto
City, Texas, q colored town, owne
and operated bv colored people.
A recent SUNDAY issue of the Oh
cago American carries an illustrate
mage article by DR.. Booker T. Wasl
inoton, showing the progress of tn
Negro race in the past fifty years.
The GAINESVILLE (Ohio) Advocat
nuh''shed nv Kennedy and Needhau
g.. IL II .,.Ao 1,,z4