The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-25
-ur coLoRED AMERICAN IN WAR
WORK.
rha Reserve Ohicers' Training Corps
and Military Instructors.


and Military Instructors.
Washington, D. c., April 24.-Follow.
;no the rehabilitation of the Students
Amy Training Corps shortly after the
Goning of the armistice, the war de.
rartment, to stimulate the patriotic
spirit of young men in the colleges and
,chools of the land and to fit them fol
eAfcient service in defense Of the ma,
finn. formulated plans for the establish.
meut of a Reserve Officers Training
Corps. Under this system the students
a the various educational institutions
who are able to meet the required stand
ards, mentally, physically and tempera-
mentally, are trained to become officers
IN the army, prepared to take their
places in the active military service,
should necessity arise. Watchful of the
welfare of the colored young man and
anxious that the colored schools Of the
country should be given a proper op-
portunity to share in this advance work
of preparedness, DR.. Emmett J. Scott,
special assistant to the Secretary Of
War, took up the matter with the COM
mittee on education and special train
ing of the war department., in charge of
the training and instruction branch of
the war plans divisions, general staff,
ing colored schools of the country have
been selected as centers for the estab-
lishment of units Of the Reserve Off
eers' Training Corps.
Herewith is given complete list of
the schools selected up to April l, 1919,
together with roster of the officers
designated as military instructors there
in. All of the instruction, for the pres
ent, is in infantry movements.
Howard University, Washington, D.
|C Major Milton T. Dean and First
Lieutenant Campbell G. Johnson
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial In
stitute, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. Cap
tain Russell Smith, First Lieut.. James
| C. Pinkston and Second Lieut.. Harry J.
Mack.
Wilberforce University, Wilberforce,
Ohio. First Lieut.. Percival R. Pijer.
Negro A. and T. College, Greensboro,
In. G. Second Lieut.. Horace G. Wilder.
South Carolina A. and M. College,
Orangeburg, S. @. First Lieut.. Samuel
Hull.
Hampton "A. and I. Institute, Hamp-
|Sa, va. First Lieut.. Leonard L. Nc
Leod.
Virginia N. and I. Institute, Peters
burg, Va. Second Lieut.. Ernest G..
| Johnson.
Prairie View N. and I. College, Prai-
ne View, Texas. First Lieut.. Walter a.
Giles
Tennessee Agri and Industrial School,
Nashville, Tenn. First Lieut. Grant
Stuart. ....
West Virginia Collegiate Institute,
Institute, w. Va. First Lieut.. John Il.
Purnel1
Branch Normal School, Pine Bluff,
Ark. First Lieut.. Elijah 81. Goodwin.
strai ght College, New Orleans, La.
Captain Charles G. Cooper.
WAR HISTORY.
William Edgar Easton, author, lee
turer and publicist, Of Los Angeles,
California, has been designated by the
California Historical Survey Commits
sion as chairman of subcommittee OF
the California War History Committee
to gather and preserve material and IN.
formation regarding the activities OF
the colored race in California in connec-
ton with their part in helping to wan
the war. He has formed committee
consisting Of all pastors, editors ana
secretaries of civic bodies doing war
work and they will aid in making the
volumes to be published by the Survey
Commission a comprehensive and a,l-
thentic reservoir Of reference on all
matters pertaining to the war work OF
the colored Americans Of California
NEW HOSTESS HOUSE.
The new colored Hostess House and
the Knights Of Columbus building IN
the colored area at Camp Zachary Iay.
lor, Louisville, KY, are being utilized
to the fullest extent in providing enter.
tainment and social diversion for the
colored troops in camp. Every Friday
night the War Camp Community Service
club gives dance at one Of these build
lngs, and these entertainments are
largely attended by the colored enlisted
men,
A group Of patriotic young women
dozen or more in number-sailed fo'
france a few days ago to do canteen
work in the camps where colored SOL
dlers are stationed. They went undel
the direction of the War Work Councl
Of the Y. M. G. A.
Assurance has been given the wa
Department. by the National Y. W. Y
a. that the colored Hostess House a.
camp Pike will be continued through
out the period Of Rehabilitation. Thls
as regarded as very fitting recognlttloi
Of the energetic service Of the coloree
people in the vicinity Of Little Rock
arkansas, who have shown the larges'