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THE CRISIS

ored by that University. Her success gains an extra significance when one considers that owing to her position it was possible for her to attend the University only on Saturdays. In spite of a very heavy schedule of school work and the fatigue engendered by the weekly double trip, Miss Cromwell persisted until she won her well-merited degree.

A CLERGYMAN FROM THE RANKS.
THE lat Rev. Joseph E. Smith was born in slavery in Virginia and sold more than once as a slave. The end of the Civil War found him at Newnan, Ga., eager for an education. After freedom he went to Atlanta, where he attended the Storrs school, after which he entered Atlanta University. He had the distinction of being in the first graduating class from the college and theological departments of the institution. After serving as pastor of a small church in Georgia he took up the pastorate in Chattanooga. A short time afterwards he, with another representative of the American Missionary Association, established a Congregational mission at Sierra Leone, Africa. He then returned to Chattanooga, where he served this people and the community for thirty-eight years. On the 26th, 27th and 28th of February 1917, his congregation and friends celebrated the thirty-eighth anniversary of his pastorate. This proved to be his last appearance in his own church, for, after a brief illness, he died March 9, 1917.

He was a trustee of Atlanta University, statistical secretary and treasurer of the Tennessee Association of Congregational Churches, a member of the American Missionary Association and of other organizations of national importance. He served for several years on the Chattanooga Board of Education.

A PROMINENT LAWYER.

LOUIS BERNARD ANDERSON, son of Moses E. and Elizabeth C. Anderson, was born in Petersburg, Va., April 7, 1871. He attended the public schools of Petersburg and was later a student at the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, Petersburg, Va. In 1897 he graduated from the Kent College of Law in Chicago. From 1898 to 1914 he was Assistant County Attorney in Cook County, and from 1915 to 1917 he has been assistant corporation counsel of the City of Chicago. On April 3, 1917, he was elected Republican Alderman from the Second Ward, succeeding former Alderman Oscar DePriest, and thus becoming the second colored man elected to the Chicago City Council. In 1916 he received the degree of LL.D. from Morris Brown University of Atlanta, Ga. He served for four years as captain and adjutant in the 8th Infantry, Illinois National Guard. He belongs to the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Elks, and is a charter member of the Appomattox Club. In 1897 he married Miss Julia E. Barr of Mattoon, Illinois.

A DISTINGUISHED MINISTER.

REV. C. M> TANNER, D. D., was born in the old office of the Christian Recorder, Pine street, Philadelphia, Pa. He is the younger son of Bishop B. T. Tanner of the A. M. E. Church and the brother of H. O. Tanner, the artist, and Dr. Hallie T. Johnson, the first woman who ever passed the Alabama state examination to practice medicine. Beginning his education at the old Institute for Colored Youth, under Prof. E. A. Bouchet, Fannie Jackson Coppin and Frazelia Campbell, he later finished at the Philadelphia Protestant Episcopal Seminary. This seminary is well known for its high scholastic standing and in all its history but few colored men have finished there. He was there trained under such teachers as Drs. Ezra P. Gould, Loring Batten, E. T. Bartlett and John Fulton. He has traveled extensively in the British Isles, continental Europe and the West Indies, and served his church for two years in the South African field. He has served the largest churches in his denomination, in Pittsburg and Atlanta, being the only man who ever remained five years at Big Bethel Church, with 2,800 members, in Atlanta, Ga. He was recently assigned pastor of the largest church in the A. M. E. denomination, Metropolitan, at Washington, D. C. He has written a number of books on the history and polity of his church, two of which, "The Probationers' Guide" and the "Manual," have been adopted by his church. He is at present making a study of the cause and occasion of the present Negro Emigration Movement. His book, called the Second Exodus, is nearing completion. He is a life trustee of Wilberforce and Morris Brown Universities.

THE HORIZON

THE WAR.

ACCORDING to the tabulation of the War Department for draft registration, 7,347,794 white men registered and 953,599 colored men.

Alonzo Myers, a policeman in Philadelphia, Pa., has been commissioned an army captain. He has served in Cuba and in the Philippines and was awarded a McKinley medal for bravery by Congress.

The colored auxiliary to the Red Cross in Birmingham, Ala., raised more than $5,000 during Red Cross Week.

The 15th Colored Infantry, N. Y. N. G., is stationed at Camp Whitman, N. Y., under Colonel Hayward. It has been recruited to full war strength with 200 more than the number required, and has been commended for "excellence in behavior, drilling and marksmanship."

Among the Army officers who sailed June 2 from Halifax was Colenel M. L. Henry of the 24th Colored Infantry.

It is reported that the 10th U. S. Cavalry is "somewhere in France" under direct command of Gen. Pershing.

Chaplain W. E. Gladden of the 25th Infantry has been retired with the rank of major.

Captain T. B. Campbell has been appointed a major by Adjt.-Gen Baldwin of Colorado and empowered to organize a colored battalion of infantry to be officered by Negroes.

The 8th Illinois colored regiment has been called to Houston, Tex., with other Illinois regiments, for national service.

Mr. Ralph E. Langston was appointed chairman of Exemption Board 148 in New York City.

Major Robert R. Jackson, for twenty-five years a member of the 9th Illinois colored regiment has been retired. He will remain a member of the Illinois State Legislature.

Savings accounts have been opened in Des Moines, Iowa, for 10 per cent of the colored men in training for officers, averaging over 50 per cent of their first pay checks.

MUSIC AND ART.

The Washington Artists' Association is a recently organized club of Washington, D. C., the purpose of which is "to study, foster, interpret and originate all forms of art." Mrs. C. F. Cook is president, E. C. Williams, vice-president, E. H. Lawson, secretary, and Miss Jessie Fauset, corresponding secretary.

At the Cornell University Summer Music School, Ithaca, N. Y., Dr. Dann, head of the music department, is teaching Negro spirituals.

An intresting movement has resulted in the Frederick Douglass Film Company which aims to improve the portrayal of Negro life on the state. By this means it is hoped a better sentiment will be awakened among white Americans and a new field offered for the development of colored talent. The company has recently produced The Scapegoat, an adaptation of the novel by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Its home office is 354 Pacific Avenue, Jersey City, N. J.

Charles Gilbert Spross, an American composer, has made an effective arrangement for mixed voices of his solo song, "Lindy."

Mr. N. Clark Smith, of Kansas City, has set to music a serenade by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The poem, "Goodnight," is an unpublished lyric which was given to Mr. Smith by the poet during his last illness.

EDUCATION.

MISS H. E. WILSON received the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan, instead of Master as was stated in our last Education Number.

Three gold medals were awarded to Miss Margaret Leedle, a pupil in the Catholic elementary school, Yonkers, N. Y.

Miss V. E. Bentley has received her senior diploma and teacher's certificate from the Chicago Musical College. She led a class of eighty-eight in harmony, receiving a mark of ninety-nine.

Miss M. Neale and George Winston graduated from the Freehold, N. J., High School, Miss Neale receiving first rank. They are the first colored graduates in the history of the town.

Miss Vivian Roberts was the only colored graduate to receive the degree of Bachelor of Arts among 173 graduates from Hunter College, of the city of New York.

Miss R. O. Marshall was valedictorian of her class at the 88th commencement of

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