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134 THE CRISIS

permanent policy by the United States." 

This superintendent of education for the state of Louisiana says that the Negro school fund of the state was more than half a million dollars, while there was only $300,000 spent for Negroes, proving that the school boards throughout the state used for white schools over $200,000 which belonged to Negroes. Many local superintendents have reported that parish boards are not giving to the Negro schools as much money as Negro taxpayers were paying into the parish for Negro school purposes.


THE WAR.

Fifty Negro soldiers at Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C., have been assigned to general police work with the sanitary trains of the division.

Negro troops, supported by allied tanks, which did great execution, delivered a brilliant counter attack on the western front and recaptured the crest running southwest of Marqueglise, between Perte Farm and Loges Farm.

Negro women in Little Rock, Ark., in an eight-day campaign, raised $2,400 for emergency war relief work among Negro girls of the city.

Schools for the training of Negro officers were opened May 15 at Camps Meade, Md., for artillery, and Fort Dodge, Iowa, for infantry.

Out of twelve men recommended from Dartmouth College for the Fourth Officers' Training Camp, ranked in order of meritorious record, Lester B. Granger, a colored senior, was third on the list.

The Red Cross Parade in New York City was led by the colored 350th Field Artillery Band from Camp Dix, N.J., under the leadership of J. Tim Brymn.

The A. and T. College at Greensboro, N.C., has a Service Flag with 61 stars, representing 1 captain, 4 lieutenants, and 56 students.

Twenty-two former sergeants of the Tenth United States Cavalry are attending the aviation school at Ft. Wayne, Mich.

At Fernandina, Fla., a parade and celebration was held in honor of the Negro draftees. The colored people have a Red Cross auxiliary.

The heirs of J. B. Huffman, a colored soldier who was drafted from Bagdad, Ky., and died recently at Camp Taylor, are entitled to $10,000 from the United States Government as soon they can be found.

Colored people of Portland, Oregon, are estimated to have bought $25,000 worth of Liberty Bonds.

At Scranton, Pa., it is reported that the colored auxiliary of the Red Cross has raised over $3,000.

L. A. Hayden, a colored man, has been made a Second Lieutenant in the Aviation Corps of the British Army, where his stabilizer is being used.

C. H. Douglass, colored proprietor of a theatre in Macon, Ga., purchased $12,000 worth of Liberty Bonds. His wife took subscriptions for $8,000 worth.

The Berean Building and Loan Association, of which the Rev. Matthew Anderson is president, bought $5,000 worth of Liberty Bonds.

Private R. Gilbert, a colored man in the Canadian Army, has sent home a German iron cross which was given him by a German officer when he captured him single handed.

Colored people of Kansas City, Mo., subscribed over $200,000 to the third Liberty Loan.

Sixteen colored officers have received commissions from the training school at Camp Meade, Md.

A "Service of Intercession for the Blessings of God from the United States and their Allies and especially for His Protection and Guidance to the American Negro" was held at All Saints Episcopal Church, St. Louis, by the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P.

Twelve colored men from Camp Lee have gone to the officers' training camp at Camp Dodge, Iowa.

The manager of Wareham Theatre, who discriminated against a colored non-commissioned officer at Manhattan, Kan., was prosecuted at General Ballou's request and fined ten dollars and costs.

M. Blaize Diagne, a full-blooded Negro who represents the Senegal in the French Chamber, has visited West Africa as Chief of France Commission. His suite consisted of several white officials of the French government and a black French military officer. At his departure from Gambia an address was delivered to him in part as follows:

Sir: - We, representing the natives and residents of the Colony of the Gambia of Negro blood, take this opportunity of your visit to our shores, of publicly tending to you our heartfelt congratulations on the high honor conferred on you by the French Republic, as Deputy of the Colony