Cayton's weekly. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, 1918-01-19
WAR AND THE NEGRO
(The Freeman)


Southern Workman is one of the several
good articles seen in publications touching
on the Negro in the present war.
Mr.. Williams is well known in this COM
munity having been principal of one of the
largest schools of the city for Colored pu-
pills The Southern Workman is most ex-
cellent publication, staid, purposeful and in
forming. an output of the well known
Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute,
Of Hampton, Virginia. The writer was care
full in his survey of the field for facts con-
corning the Negro, and to the end that he
presented fine array that is both interest
ing and informing.
The paper is valuable contribution to
the literature of the kind, being on the or
der Of that now written for the best maya
zines. And this is to be expected of Mr.
Williams, who is scholarly and finished
Following are some Of the interesting
facts cleaned from the article:
ct was found easy to cite abundance of
presidents Of black troops fighting on
European soil. William of Orange, it was
shown, used them at La Rochelle, Maurice
of Saxony at Fontenoy, and Napoleon at the
seige of Gaeta, at Magenta, and in other
places.
'Three thousand Negro troops served in
the Franco German War. In 1911 France
Il
troops from her colnial possessions
''In the present struggle France has used
many thousand black troops, among others
Senegalese, Somali, Algerians, and Moors
Negroes are fighting in the British and
French armies alongside of British and
French soldiers, and with such courage
and valor that they hav ewOn the recog-
milton and respect of many of their superior
officers. Since the United States has gone
into the war. eighty thousand American Ne
groes have been called to the colors''
Mr.. Laurence Jerrold. an Englishman long
resident in France, author of ''France: Her
People and Her Spirt' reports seeing
hundreds of African blacks in France in
military hospitals for the hummelshine,
galesee, Moroccans. blacks from West At
RIGA. Guinea. and the Ivory Coast who had
fought for France and sometimes like de-
mons Lieut.. Dinah Salifou. son of Negro
eX-kinget of SOudan, fought for France and
won the Legion of Honor. There were 10000
Turcos, remarkable sharpshooters, available
in 1914. And there are Negroes in the
French Foreign Legion among others, Ed
ridge Eastman of Barbados and James Slim
of Jamaica. DR.. Charles H. Roberts of New
York spent several months in medical serv-
ice in connection with the French armies
And Miss Ludia Barksdale, graduate nurse
ii'lH loNluCIC 11OSpludl LII CulCdSO, is Il
Red Cross nurse with the French army in
Belgium. She has charge of five hundred
nurses
There are Negroes in the regular British
army fighting shoulder to shoulder with
white soldiers. The separate Negro battal-
ION recruited in Canada contains many Ne
groes from the United States The Cape
Colony Corps Of South Africa was organ
lied and has been in action at Kibonco.
Maunoury's army that played so con-
splcuous part in turning the tide in the
battle OF the Marine that saved Paris and
France was composed largely of colonial
troops from Africa These are the brothers
OF Kipling's Fuzzy Wuzzy
"We've fought with many men across the
seas,
An some of 'em was brave and some was
not.
The Paythan and the Zulu an Burmese:
ut Fuzzy was the finest o. the lot
.E's daisy. 'e's ducke.y, 'es lamb