Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-03-16
THE WAR

at Philadelphia. lie was unable to be pres
ent but sent letter which said:
In our training camp at Des Moines,
representative young cOlOred men presented
themselves for training. They devoted them
selves with zeal to the task, and they are
now imparting to the men under their
charge the military lessons which they
themselves learned, but more than this,
they are teaching to their fellow-men the
principle for which America is in this war
those vital principles of democracy which
are the foundation of the hopes of free
people.
Brig-Gen. Blanding declares that the
370th Infantry formerly the Eighth ILL
nois, ARE as fine set of soldires as ever
hope to command Their work along mil
itary lines as well as their personal conduct
has been beyond reproach. Forty-nine pri-
Yates and non-commissioned officers have
been given commissions.
Forty one cOlored cadets from the Tenth
Cavalry and Twenty-fourth Infantry will
be trained at Camp Stanley, San Antonio,
Texas. Thirty other cadets are expected.
Thirty one cOlored cadets are among the
934 students Of the Officers Training School
opened at Camp Upton, L. I. They are from
the 367th Infantry, the 351st Machine Gun
Battalion, and other units.
Three or more colored cadets are among
those assigned to the Officers Training
School at Camp Grant, Ill.
Forty -eight colored cadets have been Sc
lected at Camp Logan, Tex, for training
as officers.
At Camp Stewart, Newport News. Va,
are First Separate Maryland Infantry
with $50 men and officers. They now
form Company I, of the 372d Infantry the
Ninth Separate Battalion of the District
of Columbia, with thirteen colored officers
Company L Of the Massachusetts, Sixth
Infantry. which is fully equipped; the
colored Separate Company G of Nashville,
Tenn, now form Company K of the 372d
At Camp Meade, Maryland all the non
commissioned officers are colored and have
been promoted from the ranks. COM
manding officer has said that the colored
troops have put the white troops to shame
by their splendid spirit. These troops will
form the 351st Field Artillery.
There are no cOlored commissioned Off
GERS at Camp Gordon, Atlanta Ca There
are six colored Y M G. A. men and several
non-commissioned officers. Only twenty-five
per cent of the colored men are illiterate.
The officers declare that the colored troops
are the most apt men in the camp. Blk
amining and Exemption Boards have sent
up numbers of colored men who never
should have been passed
At Camp Funston, Kan, there is build
ing for coored Catholic soldiers, but open
to all men, 1t has library and amuse-
ments. William H. James is in charge.
Robert A. J. Shaw has been made Judge
Advocate at Camp Logan, Tex, where the
former Eighth Illinois is stationed.
One hundred Negroes are in second
Officers Training Camp opened at San
Juan, Porto Rico.
In an examination of thirty-seven men
drafted for the Army at Charleston, w.
Va, Sherman Green, a colored man, was
pronounced physically the best man. The
percentage Of illiteracy among the colored
recruits was less than among the whites.
B. w. Kirk, of Chicago, ILL.,, has been
promoted to first class mechanic in the
u. S. Navy.
John b. Green, military attache to the
American Legation, Monrovia, Liberia, has
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