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houses and shelters for all sorts of animals.
The miners' union admits Negro members; consequently when a large number of colored miners were brought from Alabama to Leechburg, Pa., as strikebreakers they refused to work when learning that a strike was in progress. 
The Utah Construction Company, which is double tracking portions of the Union Pacific Railroad, is importing 3,000 southern Negro laborers into Wyoming
In the Canal Zone 100 of the 800 Negroes employed at the Cristobal dry dock have struck for higher wages.

Social Progress
A new Civil Rights bill to protect colored people against discrimination has been passed by the New Jersey Legislature. It was found, however, that after the bill was passed that all damages recovered must go to the overseer of the poor and not to the plaintiff.
The proposed Jim Crow car law in Missouri is said to have been killed.
At Marlin, Tex., six colored business men were recently burned out by a fire. The loss was $20,000.
The Dickson Colored Orphanage at Gilmer, Tex., spent $16,404 last year. Fifty-one children were placed in homes, leaving 149 in the institution. 
The colored Elks have a membership of 20,000 in 200 lodges, with $250,000 in property. They have spent $15,000 in the last few years to protect themselves against litigation by the white order.
Charles Edward Russell, the well known writer, spoke at Broad Street Theatre, Philadelphia, on race prejudices. He especially praised France because "the narrow, blind hatred of race is unknown there."
Mr. D. A. Lee, of Boynton, Okla., is building a large and well equipped open air theatre for the colored people. 
National Negro Health Week was observed in many communities throughout the United States April 22d to 28th.
The Southern California Negro Baptists have opened an old folks home at the Abila Station.
A new hospital has been opened at Winchester, Ky. The Negro Department is on the first floor and consistent of a men's ward, a women's ward and one private room. The Colored Women's Hospital Club furnished these rooms. 
A tuberculosis camp for Negroes will be established in Richland County, S.C.
The Colored Civic Association of Waco, Tex., is distributing garden flower seeds and maintaining a demonstration garden at the colored high school.
Efforts to better the housing of Negroes are. being made in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Pa.; Detroit, Mich., and Trenton, N.J. 
A playground for colored children with a swimming pool will be opened at the Lincoln School, Joplin, Mo.
The formal opening of the Booker T. Washington social center has taken place in Peoria, Ill.
The first community conference of the Women's Co-operative League, Baltimore, Md., took place recently. Special criticism was made of the segregation ordinance, the unsatisfactory public school buildings and the lack of provision for the care and training of delinquent and feeble-minded colored children. The conference expressed appreciation for the new modern school building in East Baltimore and the proposals for sanitary housing. It suggested the establishment of a music school settlement.
There are sixty colored churches in Chicago with 31,870 members. The largest, Olivet Baptist Church, has 3,500 members, followed by Bethel A. M. E., Church with 3,000 members.
There are 348 colored employees in the United States, state and city civil service of Chicago.
Knoxville is to have a $10,000 colored library as a gift from Andrew Carnegie.
Thirty-three colored women organized and incorporated at Little Rock, Ark., in October, 1915, have been supporting a colored probation officer, Mrs M. M. Jefferies. The Phelps-Stokes Fund pays $200 toward her salary. 
The colored people of Tacoma are joining with other people to raise money for a Lincoln statue in the Lincoln High School. Sixty dollars was raised at one concert.
Pasters of twenty-four colored churches in New York joined in an appeal for the "Big Brother" movement. A public meeting was also held in St. James Church.
April 15th was observed as Memorial Day by Baptists throughout the country for 

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the purpose of making a nationwide donation to the memory of the late Joanna P. Moore. 
By the law passed at the last Congress Porto Ricans are new citizens of the United States.
The Odd Fellows Temple of Wilmington, Del., has been remodeled and newly equipped. 
The Texas Legislature has appropriated $200,000 for a Negro insane asylum at Rusk.
Mr. J. D. Schmidlapp, of Cincinnati, is head of a modern homes company, with a capital of $500,000. He has 220 Negro families in his homes and says that the investment is a safe one. Mr. Schmidlapp has recently been in Baltimore advising concerning a similar movement there.

War

Considerable currency has been given to alleged plots among Southern colored people by German propagandists. The rumors were promptly pronounced false by Negro leaders in position to know. 
The Military Training Camp, inaugurated by Dr. J. E. Spingarn of New York, is now assured of success. Genderal Wood's demand that at least two hundred and fifty enroll before he organized the camp has been more than met. On April 5th, two hundred and eighty-one applications had been received. Of these eighty-one are under-graduates of Howard University, forty-six of Hampton, three of fisk. Every business and profession is represented, including law, medicine, the ministry, dentistry, high-school and college teaching (including one president!), government service banking, journalism, etc. It is a fine body of men, as fine as any body in the country regardless of race, creed or color. Nearly all have had college training, and many have military experience of some sort. At least ten pastors of prosperous churches are among those anxious to serve their country. A number of physicians have enrolled in order to get the necessary military preparation to serve as surgeons in the army.
As we go to press the exact details of the camp have not yet been settled. The sudden exigencies of war may change all the plans for military training camps this summer, but unless this happens, the camp is assured. The authorities at General Wood's headquarters are considering place, date, and other details. It is likely that the camp will be held from June 5th to July 2nd, at some fort or army post along the eastern seaboard between New York and Washington. Any man between nineteen and forty-five who has had a high-school, normal school or college education is eligible for admission. The cost will be entirely defrayed by the government, but men must pay their fare to the camp and leave a deposit for the use of their uniform. Both fare and deposit will be returned at the end of the camp, and transportation home furnished free. All applications should be sent to Dr. Spingarn at 9 West 73rd Street, New York.
A meeting to pledge loyalty and support of the President in the war has been held in Chicago.
Southern members of Congress are trying to have the Negro excluded from the Universal Service Bill. The bill was introduced by Kahn of Califronia and provides that Negroes shall be called to arms in the same manner as white citizens but trained in separate units.
Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Intitute, has written President Wilson, saying: "Notwithstanding the difficulties which my race faces in many parts of this country, some of which I called to your attention in my previous letter, I am writing to assure you that you and the nation can county absolutely on the loyalty of the mass of the Negroes to our country and its people, North and South; and as in previous wars, you will find the Negro people rallying almost to a man to our flag."
Negroes of Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennslyvania, New Jersey and North Carolina are said to have organized a colored citizens patriotic league to arouse the colored citizens to national defense. 
At a mass meeting held in Asheville, N. C., colored people subscribed funds sufficient to support fifty Belgium babies for three months.
The colored women of Nashville, Tenn., have offered their services to the governor to aid in knitting and sewing for wounded soldiers.
The United States War Department has formally accepted the Fifteenth Infantry,