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THE HORIZON 135

of Senegal and Chief of a Commission to French West Africa an honor which, we fully believe, you have very well earned. 

One of the blessings which we believe will come to the world through this Great War will be a just estimate and due recognition of the worth and merit of all, irrespective of race or colour.

That you, a Negro of the Wolof tribe, should lead the van in this respect, is to us us a matter of great thankfulness to God, and affords us much impetus in our efforts to do our best in whatever sphere we may be, fully believing that as the day has come for such recognition from the French Republic, it will also come from the British Empire, to which we are glad and proud to belong. 

The United States Government is sending three thousand or more Negro soldiers for special technical training in electricity, telegraphy and various mechanical arts to a number of colored institutions, including Howard, Hampton, Tuskegee, Florida A. & M. College and Atlanta.

At Charleston, W. Va., Five hundred colored people paraded recently at the inauguration of the Red Cross Campaign. One of the banners said: "The World Safe for Democracy, This Country Safe For Us."

The third Liberty Loan committee of Jacksonville, Fla. (white) presented to the colored people of Jacksonville an honor flag for having gone over the top in the Liberty Loan drive. In the Three Liberty Loan drives the colored people have subscribed more than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. The exercises were held at the armory, and, although that is a public building, this is the first time that colored people have been allowed to enter it. James W. Johnson of the N.A.A.C.P. was one of the speakers.

A parade was held on Flag Day, June 14, by the colored citizens of Wilmington, Del. All industries and organizations were represented, including schools and churches. The N. A. A. C. P. helped to finance the movement.

A special committee of colored speakers to assist the Committee on Public Information of the U. S. War Department, has been appointed through Emmett J. Scott.

The colored Branch of the American Red Cross at Charleston, S.C., has raised nearly a thousand dollars and forwarded some six hundred articles to the Atlanta headquarters. It has over four hundred members and recently held a silent parade in costume.

The Petit Pariseen says: "For six days four battalions of African Zouaves held back five German divisions, one of which was from the Imperial Guard."

Solomon Saunders, a colored horsedealer of Minneapolis, Minn., has sold his stables and given the proceeds to the Red Cross.

Liberty Bonds have been purchased by colored people as follows: In Richmond, Va., $37,550; at Tuskegee, Ala., by one graduate, $20,000; at Augusta, Ga., $40,000; at one industrial plant near Baltimore, $30,000 at Philadelphia, through Brown and Stevens, bankers, $400,000; at Jacksonville, Fla., $51,850; at Atchison, Kan., $8,000; at Madison, Ky., one colored farmer, $4,000; at Baltimore, Md., one colored boy, $300; at Albany, Ga., $11,000; at Washington, D.C., $100,000; at Little Rock, Ark., $32,000 of the third loan, making $112,000 for the three loans by one organization, the Mosaic Templars; at Dallas County, Tex., $50,000; at Millettsville, S.C., one colored farmer, $1,000; at Memphis, Tenn., by the two colored banks, $30,700.


MUSIC AND ART

MISS M. GIBSON, Radcliffe, '18, has won in two more song competitions, one for this year's Baccalaureate Hymn, and the other for the college song.

Novello & Company, London, have announced two new publications from Coleridge-Taylor's "Hiawatha," "The Death of Minnehaha," for pianoforte solo, arranged by John Pointer, and "Onaway, Awake Beloved," for military band, arranged by Percy E. Fletcher.

Mr. Ernest H. Hays, a talented musician who graduated in the 1916 New England Conservatory Organ Class, is saxophonist in the band of the 351st Field Artillery at Camp Meade, Md. The band was heard at Dunbar High School on May 18, under the direction of Mr. Dorsey Rhodes, formerly of the Tenth Cavalry.

An important departure in the music field was that of a Music Festival given on May 3 and 4 at Washington, D.C., by the Department of Music of the Dunbar High School. It is proposed To make the Festival Concerts an annual feature.

A rhythmic ballet was staged and costumed by Carribel Cole and her fifty pupils at the Howard Theatre, Washington, D. C.

Among the successful musicales given for the benefit of the colored soldiers was that of May 12 at Framingham, Mass., at Plymouth Congregational Church. The recital was arranged by Mrs. Meta Warrick-Fuller.