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Le Petit Journal

ADMINISTRATION
61, RUE LAVAYETTE.,61,
Les Manuscrits ne sont pas rendus
On s'abonne sans pais [[?]] lous les buroux de poste

15 CENT.
29me Année

SUPPL´EMENT ILLUSTR´E
DIMANCHE 1ST JUIN 1919

15 CENT.
Numéro 1.484

ABONNEMENTS

SIX [[?]] [[?]]
France et Colonies...8 fr. 8[[?]]
Etranger...8 fr. 10[[?]]

LE DRAPEAU DES TIRAILLEURS S´EN´EGALAIS
déjà décoré de la Légion d'honneur, vient de recevoir la fourragère aux couleurs dó la Médaille militaire et la Croix de guerre à quatre palmes.

Dans les médaillons : le général Faidherbe, organisateur de premiers betaillons sénégalais – M. Diagne député du Sénégal, commissaire general des effectif [[?]] oui [[?]] up grand nombre de volontaires nour la guerré – Deux chef illustres des troupes sénégalaises les r´n´raux Mangin et [[?]]

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A Page of the Paris Petit Journal showing the flag of the Senegalese Sharpshooters decorated; in the corner three white Colonial Generals and Blaise Diagne, Commissioner of Colonial Troops.

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The Horizon
VINCENT SAUNDERS

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EDUCATION

JULIUS ROSENWALD is offering through the General Education Board six scholarships to qualified Negro graduates of Medical schools of the United states for advance study in medical sciences. Expenses and support up to $1,200 will be provided. The appointments will be made in 1920 by a committee of which Dr. William H. Welch, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, is chairman. Applications may be made to Secretary Abraham Flexner, 61 North Broadway, New York City.

¶ Piney Woods School, an institution for Negroes at Braxton, Miss., has received a legacy of $1,000 from a Mr. Olson of Minnesota. The school now owns free from debt 1,414 acres of land and six large building, the entire value of which is upward of $75,000. It has enrolled 300 students and 18 teachers; a private telephone system, a brass band, its own railroad station, a post office, with a colored postmistress, are among its equipment, with $6,000 invested in city bonds, which is the beginning of an endowment fund. Professor Lawrence C. Jones is the principal.

¶The School Board of Lake Charles, La., has voted to build two new schools for the colored people. The two buildings will cost $125,000; in one building industrial education will be featured.

¶ The State of Georgia has appropriated $20,000 for the years 1920 and 1921 to the Georgia Normal and Agricultural College.

¶ The installation of John W. Davis as president of West Virginia Collegiate Institute has taken place. Mr. Davis is a graduate of Morehouse College and the University of Chicago, and for the past two years has been executive secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Washington D. C. Two new teachers for the institution were announced–A. A. Taylor, a graduate of University of Michigan, at the head of the Department of Mathematics, and Walker Bacon, a graduate of Syracuse University, director of physical training and athletic coach. The enrollment is 250, the largest in the history of the school.

¶ Tuskegee Institute has enrolled 1,200 students, an increase of 500 over the enrollment at this time last year. W. T. B. Williams, Field Agent for the Jeanes and Slater Boards, has transferred his headquarters from Hampton Institute to Tuskegee Institute, where he will, also, act in an advisory capacity to Principal Moton on educational matters. The business manager is now G. W. A. Johnson, succeeding E. T. Atwell, who resigned to enter War Camp Community Service; J. E. Whitfield has been appointed acting Director of the Agricultural Department, succeeding F. M. Cardoza, who resigned on account of his health; James L. Whiting is in charge of vocational work. The R. O. T. C. is in charge of Major William Wolcott; disabled colored soldiers are being trained, under the direction of Captain G. Kely. Albion L. Holsey is secretary to Principal Moton.

¶ The trustees of Morgan College, Baltimore, Md., have agreed to buy the forty acres of the Morton estate, on Hillen Road. They have in mind a school for training teachers for rural school work, especially in agriculture. Contractors are at work on a new dormitory and Carnegie Hall, a three story and basement structure, 52x75 feet.

¶ The Maryland State Board of Education has given its approval for the establishment of the Central Colored Industrial School, at Belair, which will start this fall with three teachers and a capacity for seventy-five pupils.

¶ The Rev. Dr. Charles S. Morris, of Norfolk, the widely-known Negro preacher, has accepted the presidency of Boydton, Va., Institute.

¶ The total number of colored pupils enrolled in the Washington public schools ofr the fall session is 12,120; including the vocational students the number is over 17,000.

¶ A drive for $500,000is being made by Lincoln University, a Negro institution at Chester, Pa., for the extension of its work. Alumni and friends in New York City have pledged $10,000.

¶ In Richmond, Va., school savings system there are 3,509 colored depositors, as against 3,281 white depositors.

INDUSTRY

THE Crossett, ARk., Lumber company is employing 500 Negro men and women. It maintains a nine months school, with five teachers, and a Y. M. C. A. building is soon to be erected, of which Charles E. Johnson, formerly Army Y. M. C. A. secretary, will be in charge.

¶ At the meeting of the American Labor Party, Hartford, Conn., Mrs. Mary Seymour made the statement that colored women workers in tobacco fields in the South are being paid wages as low as $2.10-$4.90 a week. A unanimous vote of "condemnation of the exploitation of colored women in tobacco fields" was passed and a committee of three appointed to confer with the Central Labor Union on the subject.

¶ The British Guiana Industrial Trading Company, Ltd., organized and incorporated by Negroes in British Guiana, is carrying on

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