The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1918-11-29
COLORED AMERICAN
In WAR WORK
More Colored Chaplains Assigned
for Army Service.

Of the class OF ptember-Dctober AZ
the Army Chaplalns' framing School,
Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville, ky,
have been appointed and assigned ~
follows: American ExpeditiDalary
Force (overseas seivice), Matthew w.
Clair, Jr., and Lewis a. McGee; John
W.. L. Bowen, .ir., 10th Depot Brl-
gade, Camp Taylor, KY; Frank W
Brown, l5oth depot Brigade, Camp
Lee, Va, ellis A. Christian, l65th
Depot Brigade, Camp Travis, Texas;
Eugene H. Hamilton and Frederick
ii. L. Mcdonald, Ilth Division, Camp
Meade, Md; A. Huntington Hatwood,
Camp Taylor, KY, and Max fergen,
Camp Lee, Va. These are included IN
the total Of sixty coIored chaplains
announced as now in the service Of
the United States Army in this coon-
try and overseas.
Pleasant Conditions at Camp Lee.
Conditions at Camp Lee, Peters
burg, Virginia, are quite satisfactory
to the ten thousand colored soldiers
now stationed there, according to q
statement made by Rev. Arthur g. 6.
Randall, representative Of the ( MI.
G. A. work at that point. The 18th
Infantry replacement battalion at
Camp Lee has four colored captains,
and there is also the i55th Depot Rri-
gade, both of which are rendering ex-
cellent service Officers and men are
treated with uniform courtesy andre
spect by their commanders. There
are two colored clapiains, Max Yer
gan and j. II. Brown, spiritual lead
ers Of broad sympathies, and they ex~
ert a most wholesome influence upon
the morale Of the men. A commodi-
Gus hostess house il in process Of
erection and will fill long-felt want.
Ia Petersburg, the War Camp Cons
munity Service has established a finely
equipped soldiers club, with all mod
ern improvements, including audience
room, library, shower baths, pool and
billiard tables, writing room, and pro-
vision for every kind Of social recre-
alton. This work is directed by James
Sanders, assisted BY Mr.. McGorkle, q
graduate Of Hampton The T. w. q.
Al. has like center for women, con-
veniently located on prominent thor
oughfare, where soldiers are made to
feel "at home.n Miss jackson is head
worker, and has congenial assistant
Prof j. NJ Candy, who is a special
assistant in the War Camp Commun-
ity Service activities among the col
ored people of the South, is very help
ful in planning programs, and the
musical exercises arranged BY him
are enjoyed as much by the white cit
liens as by the eolored soldiers from
Camp Lee, for whom they are pri-
marily designed. The Y. M. G. A. is
a lively center, and Secretary Ran
dali is always ION the job, 7 encour-
aging the soldier boys to improve
themselves mentally, assisting them
in their letter writing and taking the
lead in their athletic diversions.
Abraham Lincoln Club Organized
In Cuba.
The colored people of Havana, Cuba,
have organized an abraham Lincoln
Club" for war work Sergeant Fl.
Thomas is president; Clifford G. Han
cock, director, and Henry II. Sellers,
treasurer Ex-sergeant John R. Thorn
as, formerly of the 10th United States
Cavalry, now confidential messenger
to President Mario G. Menocal of the
Republic of Cuba, is the founder of
the organization. At Blanco s, the
club has handsome quarters, with
large audience room, palm garden on
roof, with clear sweep for the breez-
dancing floor and provision for all
kinds of recreation. Connected with
the club is ladies' auxiliary, an en-
ployment agency, physical culture de-
partment, and classes for instruction
in Spanish and English, and a club
hospital is in contemplation. Presi-
dent Menocal is chairman of the board
Of trustees. The membership is up
ward OF two hundred.
AT meeting of the employees of
the National Baptist Publishing House,
Nashville, Tenn, held in the chapel of
the plant, the office staff subscribed
for $4,000 worth of Fourth Liberty
Bonds. Henry Allen Boyd adressed
the meeting and made very clear the
war aims of the Government IN their
especial application to colored Amer
leans. He also held successful meet
ing at Columbia, Tenn, to push the
sale Of liberty bonds.
During the recent campaign for the
Fourth Liberty Loan in Dallas and
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