The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-03-24

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tional population would give the Unit.
ed States nearly million soldiers
right off the bat!
Other northern states have colored
militia, though none in such creditable
proportion as Illinois. There are four
companies in Ohio, constituting two
battalions, with headquarters In Co.
lumbus, and one company in the Dis
trict of Columbia. 1t seems odd that
Pennsylvania, from the beginning the
most encouraging northern home OF
the freedman, has not yet made a mil.
itiaman of him: neither has New
York.
There is naturally first-class COZ
ored militia company in Massachu-
setts-company l. of the Sixth regi.
ment. All the remaining eleven com.
panies are white. II memory has not
gone awry this is the historic organi.
cation that was stoned in Baltimore
en- route for Washington early in
1861, 'the first blood of the war"
Now the lovely city at the head of
Chesapeake bay, whence sprang the
soul-thrilling but larynx straining
'Star-Spangled Banner" and in 1851
disloyal but beautiful Maryland, My
Maryland" has all excellent company
Of colored state infantry!
At the recent civilian training. of
brief but invaluable experience. at
Fort Sheridan. Col. John R. Marshall.
head of the colored Eighth regiment
Illinois infantry. was one of the regu.
lar students at this useful and inter.
esting adult military Kindergarten. If
the outlined immediate increase of the
regular army to $4,000 materializes
Colonel Marshall has no doubt that
enlistment of colored men will be in
full and effective proportion
twenty-five Negro societies, repre-
senting about 5000 members reported
through their chairman, J. Rosamond
Johnson, to the Shakespeare celebra.
ton. that they would join in the cele-
bration of the Shakespearean ter
centenary at New York There will be
a group festival at the Manhattan
Casino. the last week in April This
will be under the auspices of eight
prominent Negro societies: Ye
Friends of Shakespeare. the Beaux
Arts Dramatic club, ST. Marks Lyceum,
ST Philips Mems Guild, the Round
Table of the Colored Branch of the
Y. NJ. Ga, the Ebenezer Literary and
Dramatic association, the Douglas So
clay Center, and the Music School Set
tAment for Colored People. There
Mill be scenes from "Othello." The
Merchant OF Venice" and Loves La
boris Lost" A chorus of 200 mixed
voices recruited from the Music School
Settlement, will sing, and an orchestra
of Negro musicians drawn from the
New Amsterdam Musical association.
the Cfef club. and the Temple club,
will play the incidental music for
"Othello," written for Beerbohm Trees
London production of the play by COL
eridge-Taylor, the colored composer.
American manufacturers of musical
instruments, with an annual output
valued at about slO0,OO0.O0O, export
only 100000 worth annually to for
eign countries. American pianos are
chiefly exported to Canada, where
they constitute about 80 per cent of
the total imports of that class, to
Great Britain, for reshipment to other
parts Of the world, and to Central
and South America. Our player pianos
are sent in about equal numbers to
Australia, England, Italy and Argen-
tina, and in much larger quantities to
Canada.