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souls salvation as other great
truths of our religion. More than
that, | feel that l express the senti-
ment of those who have seen and
heard over here when l say that
were l in America to-day, priest as
I am, l should 90 my best to have
put to death any Boche in America
or any so-called American who
would apologize in any way for
what the Boche has done.
Proof Of
Boche Mutiia ton
All that you have heard in
America about them does not ap-
proximate the truth. There are
little children right here in France
with their little stumps of hands
there were some not far from ny
last camp-and young men with all
the fingers of their right hand cut
off. The other day British officer
and three Tommies told me that a
short time ago they went as an ad-
vance party into little village from
which the Boches had been driven
back and in large room there were
four young Canadians crucitied, one
on each wall of the room. Also,
when | was with the British they
told ne they (the Bpches) had been
taking young Belgian and French
girls into their front line trenches
and torturing them until their
screams made the Scotch and the
Canadians so crazed they would go
over into the machine gun nests
which the Boches had set up-using
the women's screams as decoy.
And l have it on the word of a
British officer that they have stood
lthe officers with guns levelled at
their men to keep them from going
over and being needlessly slaugh-
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glorifies France to-day is so abso-
lutely overwhelming in its power
and rests so strongly on the things
that do not die that Boche efficiency
may seem to prevail again and
agaln-but Boche efficiency is only
Boche vileness in action and in the
end must succumb. We can learn
SO much from France and her atti-
tude toward the Boche. One hears
almost no outward expression of
their hatred for the Boche-I fancy
they think to talk about it is to
waste energy which could be better
employed elsewhere But it is here,
and SO deep-seated that it is behind
everything they do.
l wonder if America will ever be
converted to such loathing O. the
Boche that it will make the sacrifice
that France and England are
making. | don't know whether they
have changed since I left America,
but there certainly were a lot of
pussy-footers then who would find
some good point in the Boche
or who made a distinction between
the militarists and the people. 1t
is one of the joys Of being over
here to be freed from dependence
upon the reports of commissions
concerning the vileness of the
Boche and get the facts at first
hand-and then when you get them,
if you are a normal human being,
they scar your soul and your re-
ligion is expanded to the inclusion
of contempt and loathing for them
that is beyond anything else you had
before, or else you lose your re-
ligion. Fortunately. mine has ex-
panded, and am willing to add a
clause of belief in the extinction
of the Boche and regard it as or
thodox and as necessary for my
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termed, Of debates in the Senate as
to whether pro-Boche society shall
have its charter withdrawn. What
does America mean by it?
Where is the blood in America?
God help us if this pussv-fo oting
goes on Why doesn't America kill
as the Boche has killed? 60 over t.
the first line hospital where I lust
have been and see what have seen
"a great big boy all torn and dis
figured by Boche shetland l help
him, guiding his hand as he writes
a goodby to his sweetheart; and he,
mind you, he tells her that God will
bring them together again. Or
again, young American, only
twenty-one, his side and arm all shot
away, getting me to write to his
mother, and almost the last thing
ne can say is Chaplain. she won
suffer; she'll be taken care of. be-
cause / took out my full insurance. 3"
Or hold the head of a young ambu-
lance driver, only nineteen, as he
sobs out his life, crying for his
mother as you and l cried for ours
when we were lonely-and then
talk about terms with the Boche-
rever, until we have taken an eve
TOR an eye and tooth for a tooth.
It is American blood that is flow
ing now, and God grant it may give
America some strength to realize
what we are up against. To talk of
terms until the Boche is exterml-
mated is to league with Satan for
corner in hell.
Privations, sacrifices? What can
YOU do at home TO compare with
what these men or ours are doing
over here-meatless days. wheatless
days, sugarless days, good women
knitting, benefits for the Red Cross,
or all your social diversions with
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Negro Holds
Rvcting Record

As the result Of the war many new
economic openings have been created
20 assist IN the adjustment of the prob
lens that would arise relative
to the negro. To meet this situation
a negro bureau Of economies Of the
War Department was created, and Or.
George L. Haynes, negro educator
OF Fisk University, was placed in charge
Of it, He is a graduate Of Yale Uni
versity and postgraduate of Co
lumbia University, from which he re
ceived the degree Of Doctor of Philoso-
ply.
Mrs. Harriet Barrett, colored
woman of Virginia, has been appointed
on the Committee Of War Camp Com
munities to make a study of conditions
as they relate to the welfare OF the
negro soldiers near the cantonments.
She is the president of the Virginia
State Federation OF Women's Clubs.
and is a graduate of Hampton lnst-
tute.
Negroes working in the large ship
yards Of the country have made fine
records, and recently Charles knight,
4 young colored man from Maryland
broke the worlds riveting record
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charitable object sandwiched in9
But you are home, you are warm
you are with your friends-but
mere, no one you have ever seen he
fore, all strangers, the damned
boche trying to get the hospital and
the bed on which lies what thew have
lett. And they are all Young
that's the wrench-and they are 90
ing out while the thing hangs in the
balance
And SO the honor of the American
soldier over here will be for US who
pave seen him fight, and 20 out. the
most glorious memory of our whole
experience Do let US all try to live
up to it, for over here it over
whelms You by showing up YOUR
own cheapness and unworthiness
Loathe the Boche; preach against
nm, work against him wherever he
IS, ostracize him socially and COM
mercially Take TO chances, even
though his reputation for LOYALTY
has been long-standing one. The
leopard cannot charge his spots.
neither can the Boche demon lose
his horns. I'm begging YOU now
as the Boches are trying to murder
US to help wake up any one up to the
tact that America must realize what
the world is facing over here. Can't
you see 1t? Can't America see It,
how everything is hanging in the
balance-and I know the weight
which shall cast it down is when
your loathing for the Boche will so
burn IN you as to make you count
nothing, consider nothing but his
determination. am so happy, oh.
so happy to be here in this great
hour, and thank God that He has
given me the right feeling toward
the Boche and I pray that every one
ID America will share it before LONG.
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Camp Community Auxiliaries Know
Loyalty and Shipbuilders Give Him
First Prize as Riveter

The Soldiers Comfort League, an
other war relief organization, is also
rendering service TO the colored SOL
diers
The first national war relief organi-
cation to be formed for the care OF the
negro soldiers was the Negro Circle
for Wa Relief. organized by Mrs.
Emily Bigelow Hapgood, who is the
only white woman in the organization
The headquarters are at 4se Fifth Ave
Hne. and units have been formed
throughout me country. The colorei
women Of the organization living II
this city formed an ambulance unit,
waged a campaign and secured s,,f
hclent funds to purchase an ambu-
lance, which has been turned over to
the government. The ambulance is
now IN France in active service. This
unit was formed December 6. 1917. and
has twenty members under the leader
ship Of Mrs. Dora Cole Norman. who
Planned the campaign and was largely
responsible for its success.
Another war relief organization
1mong negroes was the Welfare League
of the 367th Infantry. of which Charles
W. Anderson, ex-Collector of the Port.
and one of the most prominent colored
leaders of the country. was made pres
ident. Through the effort of M. An
derson this organization has done much
FOR the regiment, which prior 70 its
departure for France was stationed at
camp Upton. Colonel James A. Moss
was the colonel of this regiment, and
before Il sailed for France Mr.. Ander-
son was called to Camp linton and
made an honorary member OF the regi-
ment, which distinction is believed the
hrst TO be given a private citizen in
this country Another prominent mem
Der of the Welfare League Of The 3s7th
infantry is Dr. Gertrude Curtis. who
organized q Knitting unit of fortv mem
oers who knitted sweaters and other
things for the men Of the regiment
which were of great help to the men
during the winter
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Not Only Teaches Huns to Respect His
Bayonet but Makes Big Sacrifice
for Red Cross Work

the 36eth) was The first Of all the
militia regiments to reach Federal
strength. incidentally, it was one os
the hrst militia regiments to 20 over
seas, to get into the trenches and to
receive mention in the dispatches.
hen the draft law passed the War
Department planned to provide negro
ofTlcers, and an officers training school
tor colored officers was established AZ
Des Moines, Iowa. The course was the
same as at the other training camps.
and at the first commencement over
one thousand young negroes, gathered
from all sections of the country. wer.
commlss !oned, and shortly went 70
work to build the negro draftees into d
hghting force. Since then other train
ing camps for colored officers have been
held, and to-day there are close to ., 600
negroes wearing shoulder straps.
Ihe draft, Of course, brought the
full quota of colored boys. To-day
there are IN the army $4,000 negroes.
- -o'oVo are III regiments which
have been reported in action on the
Western front. With the entrance of
such large number of colored men
INTO the army the War Department re-
allied that there would arise profile ms
that would require peculiar tact and
Judgment in the handling. This led to
the appointment of negro in the de-
partment whose duty it is to adjust
these problems and to advise the Sec
retary in regard to the peculiar needs
of the colored people. This appoint
one of the best known of the younger
leaders of the race, who for fifteen
years has been connected with Tus-
kegee Institute as secretary.
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The Question Of
Colored Nurses

Mr.. Scott in addition to his duties
in the department has been active IT.
organizing the colored people of the
country for war work both at home
and abroad. He recently called a con-
ference of the colored leaders and
editors in Washington, where for three
days the problems of the negro inside
and out of the army were thoroughly
discussed. This meeting resulted in
the beginning of national movement.
The question of using colored nurses
In the Red Cross service has also been
adjusted by Mr.. Scott, after months of
discussion. They are now being &C
cepted for overseas service with col
ored troops. many have been enrolled
and few have already gone abroad.
In visiting the cantonments where the
colored soldiers are stationed Mr..
Scott has made thorough study of
conditions surrounding their moral,
spiritual and physical welfare and has
recomm ended many measures making
for their improvement.
The spirit that is being shown on
the part of the students in the higher
institutions for the education of the
negro may be seen from a statement
made by Private Ernest Pollard, of
the Utility Corps at Camp Merritt and
for eight years professor in Howard
University, in Washington. Professor
Pollard states that there are 400 stu
dents Of this university in the various
armies, and that at least five of its
professors are commissioned officers.
Lieutenant T. NJ. Gregory, of that in
stitution, is in the Intelligence Bureau,
in Washington.
DR.. Robert R. Motion, who succeeded
Booker T. Washington as the principal
Of the Tuskegee Institute, and one Of
the foremost of the negro leaders,
states that there are 900 students and
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tered when the women screamed, and
| cannot tell you what the soldiers
told me they found when they drove
the hell-tiends out of one of these
positions; it is too awful even to
think about IL. | also have it on
the word of one of the greatest
French% abbes that the Boches were
especially instructed to destroy con-
vents and kill Or outrage the nuns.
and he says that all through France
and Belgium are ruined converts
and that the nuns were given to the
soldiers to be outraged in the camps.
These are not isolated cases nor
abnormal conditions which prevailed
here and there where troops were
drunk or without any moral re-
straint. Go along the French ana
British front and the only conclu-
SION you arrive at is thai they are
just the ground principle of Boche
efficiency in action. I don't believe
there is one Of US here who would
rot be glad to be at home, but there
is not one of US here, l believe, who
does not want to see Bocheland dew
astated from one end to the other.
with Berlin blackened ruin-with
the Boche extermlnated, militarists
and all, before we come home.
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twice since left America-only
the early part of last week we had
a heavy snowstorm. SO far my
work has been with the Q. M. c.,
which is usually somewhat out of
the action over here and unlike the
young men who exercise their mill
tary office on swivel chairs in and
about Washington. But a splendid
lot Of officers and men are in the
q. M. c. over here, and the majority
Of them in my regiment longed to
be at the front and in the centre of
things-and a finer lot of men could
not be found anywhere. But it is
hard to get so near and yet so far,
so you can imagine my JOY when l
vas suddenly transferred to this
wonderful outfit of the regulars
a post that is as fine as anything
over here, and TO my mind the very
best.
The 5th Artillery is our oldest
military organization, Battery D of
the outfit having once been COM
manded by Alexander Hamilton,
and it was from one Of the guns of
this battery that the first shot Of
America was sent over to the vile
Boche in this war. Consequently,
| am proud-not too much so,
hope--to be the chaplain Of such a
regiment, and l think I am the hap
piest American in France.
France Still Has
Spirit of Victory
My trips over France and several
visits into Paris gave me good
chance to see things at first hand,
and the evidences Of the war are
apparent everywhere. France Is
"triste,' as they say, but France
can never be beaten--I am sure
of that now. The spirit that
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In Red Cross
And War Relief

The chairman OF this organization is
Mrs. Leila Walker Robinson. who IS
one of the wealthiest colored women
IN America. She has been active in
the Red Cross. and made the first con-
tributlon TO the Negro Circle for War
Relief. Other officers are Louis ".
George. the Rev. J. ". Rankins, secre-
tary of Foreign Missions of the A. II.
L. Church, and William Webb
he call for men and women to go
overseas has been splendidly answered
by negro men and women throughout
the country. Mrs. Helen N. Curtis,
wife of the late J. L. Curtis, Minister
Of this country TO Liberia. and Mrs.
A. W. Hunton. two colored women of
this city. were among the first to go
to France 70 work among the negro
troops. Over two hundred young
negroes have gone as Y NJ c. A work
ers. Max Yergan was the first of these
young colored men to go, and he was
assigned to work among the troops in
Africa and India
The colored Red Cross workers have
won signal praise. One OF the most ac-
tive was the 319th Chapter Of the Amer
lean Red Cross with headquarters in the
18th Infantry Arrory, and which was
the first group of colored workers to
become affiliated with the Red Cross.
1hey have a membership of about
four hundred. and have sent over
$4,000 surgical bandages to headquar-
ters and over 100 sweaters. Six of
their members have Just completed the
three months course given by the At
lantic Division for instructors, and
they were the hrst colored group TO
finish this course. Their names are
Bernice Austin, Henry Rudd. Virginia
Carel. Lucy Cole. Nettie Block and E.
Boyle Hollar The colored women
nave been active in all of the Red
Cross drives. and in the recent parade
under the direction of that organiza-
ton 1000 colored workers marched
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Delving Into
Economic Needs

another prominent negro war work
er Is John M. Langston. who IS the
chairman of Local Board l4o. which
has the largest number Of draft regis
trants in the world The National
League on Urban Conditions Among
Negroes, with headquarters at 23O5
Seventh Avenue, is addressing itself
TO the economic needs aud opportuni-
ties that are opening up as the result
OF The war, and is succeeding in placing
colored labor in many of the larre
plants that had been closed TO them
prior to the war. This league is also
stimulating interest in the Liberty
Loan and war thrift campaigns. The
director of the Ioctl urban league is J.
II. Hubert, young negro who has large
experience in social work and who is A
graduate Of Morehouse College and also
OF the New York School of Philan-
thropy.
The morale of the negro soldiers
gave much concern to the leaders Of
the negro race. and one of the matters
that struck them as being of grave i'm
7ortance was the matter of proper
reading for them. This led to the or
sanization of the Negro Books for
Negro Soldiers Movement, with head
quarters at 81 Bible House. and was
the result Of ar article written
by Henry F. Downing, the manager
Of the organization, calling attention
20 the need of the negro soldiers being
supplied with books written on negro
history by negro writer's The move
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IF the Civilians
Only Hold Out

There is French postcard which
shows two tired, weary poilus stand
ing knee deep in the mud of the
trenches. One says, IF they only
hold out. The other says, "W Who?9"
He answers, The civilians" And
it expresses exactly the feeling one
gets when we read the papers from
home and read of lengthy trials for
the pro Bochs. of suspects being in
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5th Field Artillery,
A E. F., France.
MY Dear Friend:
wi So many times have I in

MY Dear Friend:
wi SO many times have I in
tended writing you and al
ways something turns up to prevent
- out this afternoon the weather
80 bad, and other things, which
.aanot mention, make it impossible
4'' NE to be outside much-so
alaA DO my best before there are
l''eFruptlons. You may remember
@ias IN the end | left America with
'uI any notice at the last--just a
's" hours to finish in q wild
@samoie my preparations and my
e11pment. We had a long, tire
"ne Journey Of over two weeks
'ad full Of excitement-before we
Hneed 1t was early in January,
S'a when we landed we were cold
%aa tired, and | think we have been
'''o ever sincc-for | am still look
=, VIZ u dAlLiCldl DANNY sun
'"'he Of France. 1t must be a will
Inc wisp, for ia the last three
"''h'ns have been all over the
.'ah'ry' and so far have not come
~ With It. 1t has been my good
N'.one to be moved about a bit,
-"' during my journey have seen
saen Of all that is interesting over
here.
sor time I was located in the
@' American seaport Of which
,sA read 70 much in the papers in
.asr'ca There are really wonder
= " 'nihgs going on there-and the
ls@hIic scale on which things have
sh and are being done amaze,
~ =, and surely would dishearten the
~ noche could he ses it. One oi
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Grl67ths, chaplain avith the Fifth
Z. S. 4.
the Boche prisoners who was work.
ing about there said he thought
Bocheland would be quite disco ur~
aged If it saw Americas s prepara-
ton at this point. You see a good
many Boche prisoners at different
points over France clothed in
their grass green coats with white
Z. G. stamped on the back. 1t al
ways makes me want to add an /
except that it would be an insult to
the race of pigs,
Helping Out With
Song and Sermon
For time was stationed In one
Of the reception camps, and there |
saw all kinds Of troops and outfits
as they came in or went out. II
vas busy time, with much work to
do. My own regiment had a num-
Der of professional entertainers,
some Of whom had been on the
Keith circuit, and these l organized
on the way over and for a month or
more we furnished large part of
the entertainment for the Y. NJ
{. A. in that camp. We had an
early celebration Of the holy COM
nunion at a. m.-always splen-
didly attended-the Litany and in
tercession at 1890, with good
crowd, and at 8 p. m. I preached
and always at least 1900 men
crowded into all corners Of the hut
Then we moved to another part
Of the country, to more or less Of a
permanent place. Here we lived in
tcnts, and froze at night and thawed
out enough by the middle of the
day to move about. can remem-
Der Of being warm only once or
New-York tribune., 1918-08-25
By Cleveland C. Allen
Neoro Editor and Publicist

- FFICIAL reports have held the
status OF the American negro in
~ France at high point, from the
.,ssdv labor of the stevedores at the
,,rts 10 the courage OF the black bayo-
~. users. 20 which even the Hun has
Sorre unwilling testimony. But little
s,s been told OF the war work of the
,,c-o a. home, though the record is
one Of which he is and may we'll be
oroud. In raising money, in provid-
my the auxiliary organizations that
,are for the regiments, in camp, com
nunity and Red Cross work the Amer
ran negro has set high marks.
This has been in spite Of vigorous
Efforts made by the German propagan-
dists-perhaps more vigorous than
with any other one classic under
mine the neero's loyalty. Even before
America entered the war, and for some
time after. German agents were circu-
lating through the South and among
the negro communities in the Northern
cities, suggesting insurrection and
promising everything for separate
negro. state under German protection
10 farm and Ford for individual
negroes when the Kaiser won
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The Organization
OF War Relief

Shortly after the war came the or
ganization of various war relief as
sociations among the negroes. One
Of the first to be formed was the Wom-
ans Auxiliary of the 18th Infantry, to
aid relatives and families Of the men.
1t was organized by Miss Elizabeth
tarzier, the first colored woman to b.
appointed a school teacher in this city,
and IL has been praised by Governor
Whitman and Colonel William Hey
ward of the regiment Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevelt sent the auxiliary a
silk flag in recognition of its ser
r.ces.
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more thar $4,000 of bonds to the ne
groes of this city. At the recent session
Of the National Colored Womens Club,
which met in Denver. it WAS an
nounced through its president, Mrs.
Mary 3. Talbert, OF Buffalo, who was
the first colored woman to be graduated
from Oberlin College, that the coored
women OF America alone had sub
scribed s5,oOO,0OO for Liberty Loan
bonds.
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tioA Of shat city. The negroes Of
jacksonville. Fla, in one meeting in the
third drive subscribed s250,oo0, and it
is safe 20 say that the colored people
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Quick to Respond
To Var Call

When war was declared and the call
" the young manhood of the country
ssnt CUT The negro was quick to re-
pond- He did not wait for the draft
Cal The 18th New York Infantry now
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Of New York have subscribed in the
neighborhood of sl,o0O.G0O
The colored school children Of Pub
lie School 50, in West l34th Street. sold
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ster from George Alexander
Artillery Z. A.
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ment has been indorsed by some of
the most prominent men and women OF
both races throughout the country, as
we'll as by the American Library As
sociation.