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190 THE CRISIS entertainment, "An Hawaiian Idyll," an operetta in three acts. Mrs. Alice Dunbar-Nelson wrote the words, the arrangement of the musical numbers was made by Miss Etta A. Roache, and the costumes were designed under the direction of Miss Agatha F. Jones, all teachers in the school. An Hawaiian orchestra of native instruments was directed by Dr. Conwell Banton. Eric D. Brown, a Negro lad, thirteen years old, is a member of The High School Orchestra at Steubenville, Ohio, among twenty-five white members. He is an excellent saxaphone player. Two Negro youths are members of The High School Orchestra of Washington, Pennsylvania; Miss Monzella Walters, fifteen years, who plays the violin and is an accomplished pianist, and Fremont Brandy, sixteen years old, who plays the cornet. Mr. Nobel M. Johnson, a colored man, is appearing in various moving picture films, including Griffith's "Intolerance." The Quality Amusement Company, a white organization with stock companies of colored players, has been operating in New York, Washington, and Baltimore. It proposes to add to this circuit a $100,000 theatre in Philadelphia, and houses in Boston, Pittsburgh, Providence, and Norfolk. INDUSTRY BECAUSE of the great migration of southern Negroes to northern labor centers, the Federation of Labor has resolved to admit Negroes as members. Over 300 Negroes leaving the South have come to Peoria, Ill. One hundred and fifty of them have secured employment at the Keystone Structural Iron Works near South Bartonville. A. Krolik and Company, wholesale dry goods dealers in Detroit, Mich., have opened a factory with all Negro employees. A rest room, club room, and welfare departments have been provided for them, says Mr. Israel Cohen, factory superintendent. Negro workers of the Canal and Panama Railroad have taken steps toward the forming of a permanent organization of workingmen to be affiliated with a similar organization in Colon. Thirty-five colored men are employed as conductors and motormen on street cars in Toronto, Canada. The Central Michigan Coal Company, Detroit, has purchased a $500,000 factory in Marlborough for the manufacture of fertilizers, peat and other alkali products and plans to employ all Negro labor. EDUCATION A STUDY of Negro problems has been added to the course in sociology at Howard University. Prof. Kelly Miller is to teach the first semester and Dr. R. E. Parks, of Chicago University, the second. An association of teachers in colored schools in Pennsylvania and Delaware was formed recently at the Cheyney Training School for Teachers. This association aims to study and take action upon peculiar educational and social problems confronting the Negroes in these two states. Principal Leslie Pinckney Hill, of the Cheyney School, was elected president. Mr. George R. Dorsey is the first Negro is six years to be a member of the debating team of Ohio State University. Mr. Emmett J. Scott, Jr., ranked second in the senior class of Phillips Exeter Academy, in New Hampshire, and was awarded the Brancroft scholarship of $140, and a Phillips scholarship of $150. He is one of nine first honor men and one of the first ten men to be chosen for the Beta chapter of Cum Laude Society. His work in French and advanced German received honorable mention. Mr. Scott has been awarded $760 in scholarships during his three years at this institution. The $20,000 building erected for Morris College, in Sumter, S.C., has been named in honor of Mr. Henry McGowan, a colored farmer who donated $500 toward the fund. In Baltimore, Md., the ordinance of the Board of Estimate for 1917 provides increases in salaries amounting to $6,650 to instructors in four white high schools and those in the white Teachers' Training School; but no salary increase has been provided for teachers in the colored high school and the colored Teachers' Training School. This discrimination, however, has not been shown in the elementary school system. The Slater Public School, Birmingham, Ala., has an enrollment of 1435 pupils, an increase of 102 over last year's enrollment. Mr. P. M. Davis is the principal and the school employs twenty-three teachers. The State Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes at Orangeburg, South THE HORIZON 191 Carolina, will erect during February, March, and April, three buildings costing $150,000. Wilberforce University is planning to erect a science building as a memorial in honor of the late William Hayes Ward, editor of the Independent and a friend to Negroes. The proposed building is the cost $40,000 and contributions are asked for. Simon Guggenheim and his brother have contributed $10,000 as a Christmas gift toward the construction of an auditorium at Hampton Institute. Mr. Charles Burroughs is one of the lecturers in a series of public lectures arranged by the Department of Education of the City of New York. At the 135th Street Branch of the New York Public Library on January 11, Mr. Burroughs gave an explanatory narrative of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," illustrating its various characters by dramatic impersonations. Dr. E. P. Roberts, a prominent Negro physician, has been appointed by Mayor Mitchell as a member of the Board of Education of New York City. ATHLETICS MR. FRED POLLARD, the sensational football player of Brown University, has been chosen a member of Collier's All-American eleven by Walter Camp. Mr. Howard P. Drew, the colored sprinter, at present studying law at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, is again in training. Some time ago he suffered a breakdown but is again able to enter athletics. The Edward Waters College has won the championship in football for the district comprising the state of Florida and southern Georgia by defeating Florida Baptist Academy in a 12-6 score. The Des Moines College football squad has elected Richmond, their star Negro fullback, to the captaincy for 1917. Hampton Institute basketball team was victorious over the basketball team of the Armstrong Manual Training School, Washington, D.C., 29-19. The Alpha basketball team of New York has defeated Lincoln by a 38-20 score. Thanksgiving Day closed the football season for Atlanta University with a victory. The record was the best an Atlanta team has made in ten years. Atlanta University, 41; Clark, 0. Atlanta University, 6; Tuskegee, 0. Atlanta University, 7; Talladega, 0. Atlanta University, 10; Morehouse, 17. Atlanta University, 15; Morris Brown, 0. ECONOMICS NEGRO banks increased their Christmas savings accounts during the past year as follows: In Savannah, Ga.: The Wage Earners Savings Bank, 1330 accounts, $14,000 paid out; the Savannah Savings and Real Estate Corporation, 900 accounts, $5,017 paid out; The Mechanics Savings Bank, 133 accounts, $1,000 paid out. Richmond, Va.: The Mechanics Savings Bank, 7200 accounts, $60,000 paid out (as compared with $23,000 the previous year); The St. Luke's Penny Savings Bank, 750 accounts, $9,000 paid out. The Mutual Savings Bank in Portsmouth, Va., paid out $11,000. It has installed a savings system in the schools to encourage thrift among young people. SOCIAL PROGRESS THE Senate has rejected Senator Reed's amendment to the immigration bill excluding all natives of Africa, by a vote of 37-32. The West Indies exclusion amendment was lost, 26-28. Mr. Charles Sullivan Carr has been made storekeeper and manager of the Erie Railroad's camps at Cleveland, Ohio. This position has heretofore been held by white men. Mr. Matthew Harris, a Negro in Memphis, Tenn., whose home was dynamited by a posse because he defended a relative in it, has been awarded $22,500 compensation and $20,000 compensatory damages against former Sheriff John A. Reichman and his posse. A printed warning signed by the White Renters' League has been distributed by night riders in West Texas advising landlords to dismiss their Negro tenants and cotton pickers. At the suggestion that he meet a Negro boxer, Jess Willard, the champion white prize fighter, said: "I fought the best of the blacks and defeated him at Havana, and there and then I announced no black man would have a chance at the title again so far as I am concerned." The 296th anniversary of Afro-Americans in America was celebrated at Penn Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., during December.
