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unemployed. Perhaps the best work accomplished has been in the courts where Mrs. Brooks has voluntarily served as Probation Officer, but with the consent and approval of the Judge, who has commended this service for boys very highly.

Mrs. Brooks has addressed many notable groups of white people in the interest of her work.

AN ARMY SERGEANT

MR. LEWIS BROADUS has been in the U.S. Army for twenty-six years and has served in Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippines.

In Cuba, he distinguished himself by recovering the horses of the mounted officers at a great personal risk, and also saved the lives of four men of the regiment. He received a certificate of merit from President Roosevelt in 1906 for saving the life of Sergeant J. M. Thompson of Fort Niobrara, Nebraska.

Mr. Broadus is now stationed at the State Armory at Hartford, Conn., by request of the Adjutant General of the State of Connecticut, to assist in the preparation of the ordnance returns.

A MINISTER.

The Reverend Clifford L. Miller has recently been made the pastor of the First Congregational Church, Talladega, Ala. Mr. Miller was born in Columbia, Tenn.  He is a graduate of Fisk University, 1904, and of Andover Seminary, 1907, taking up special work in 1908 at Harvard. In 1912 he made a trip to England and France and upon his return, in 1913, he accepted a unanimous invitation to the pastorate of Union Congregational Church, New Haven, Conn.

Mr. Miller comes of a family of preachers, all of his grandparents were active workers in the Baptist or Methodist churches, and a cousin was a bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal church.

THE RECTOR OF ALL SAINTS

REVEREND CASSIUS M. C. MASON was born in Baltimore, Md., October 17, 1844. From a youth he was active in parochial work. He was elected clerk of the vestry before he had attained his majority, and was subsequently elected a vestryman. In 1867, under his leadership as lay reader, with a number of the younger members of St. James Church, in Baltimore, he established St. Philip's Mission, which in 1873 became a part of Mt. Calvary Parish, and the name of the congregation changed to the "Chapel of St. Mary, the Virgin." In 1879, Father Mason went to St. Louis, Mo., where he accomplished much effective church work. This finally eventuated in the present All Saints Parish, of which he was the founder and the only rector. He received holy orders in the diocese of Missouri and at the time of his death was the senior priest of that diocese. After a ministry of thirty-five years at All Saints, the Rev. Mr. Mason died of pneumonia. Bishop Donald S. Tuttle, presiding bishop of the Episcopal church, together with his Coadjutor, Dean and twenty-four local rectors, officiated at his funeral.

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The Horizon

THE WAR.

COMPANY L of the 6th Massachusetts Infantry, a colored company, has been assigned to guard duty at Portsmouth, N.H.

Bishop John Hurst of the A.M.E. Church has already raised $300 for colored French orphans in accordance with the plans of The Colored American Society for the Relief of French War Orphans.

The second construction battalion consisting of Canadian colored men together with a good many American Negroes has arrived in England.

Nine colored men were among the crew of the Portuguese merchant ship, Argo, which was torpedoed and sunk while enroute from New Orleans, La., to London, England. Eight colored people were victims on the City of Memphis, an American ship sunk by submarines. Two Negroes were lost in the sinking of the British ship, Crispin.

Matthew Williams, a colored man, has offered himself nd 960 Negroes of Mobile, Ala., to the United States for infantry services; 590 volunteers for an officers reserve training camp have been secured:

Howard University --------------- 186
Hampton University -------------- 150
Virginia Union University ------- 112
Lincoln University --------------  60
Virginia N.&I. Institute --------  44
Morgan College, Baltimore -------  38

It is expected that reports from colleges and universities farther South will bring the number up to 1,000; three companies of colored volunteers have been organized in Birmingham, Ala., and a movement is on foot to form a colored regiment; Thomas E. Miller, former president of the State Negro College, has offered to organize 30,000 South Carolina Negroes for active service in the army and navy.

A patriotic parade of some 3,000 colored citizens was held in Columbus, Ohio. Similar parades and patriotic meetings have been held all over the country.

More than 600 Negroes of Chattanooga, Tenn., met and pledged their services to the government; in Augusta, Ga., 800 Negroes held a patriotic mass meeting; 3,000 colored citizens of Houston, Tex., met in the city auditorium as a patriotic demonstration and 12,000 marched in Austin.

Two Red Cross Divisions have been formed in Washington, D. C., among colored women. One is known as the Harriet Tubman branch, with Dr. Marie Lucas as president, and the other has been formed at Howard University through the efforts of Miss Hallie Queen.

The Governor of South Carolina has appointed a colored commission to have charges of a "more food" campaign.

The four colored regiments in the U. S. Army have been recruited to full war strength and no more enlistments are being received.

La Frantz Jones of the colored Howard High School, Wilmington, Del., has been assigned to League Island as assistant wireless operator.

The Maryland League for National Defense offered in March thirteen prizes for the best essays on Universal, Obligatory Military Service. The contest was national, and Mrs. Laura F. Wheatley, a colored student of Morgan College, Baltimore, won the third prize.  The judges were the editors of the Baltimore daily papers.

Dr. Ernest Lyon, ex-U. S. Minister to Liberia, addressed a meeting of colored women in the home of Mrs. George E. Frey, in Baltimore, Md., which resulted in the organization of The Women's Patriotic League of Maryland. Mrs. Frey was made president, Mrs. Mason A. Hawkins, vice-president, Mrs. Howard Payne, secretary, and Mrs. Howard Young, treasurer.

INDUSTRY.

THE migration of Negroes from the South to the North, East, and West continues. A careful compilation of records of railway agencies shows that the total movement of colored citizens from Albany, Ga., to northern and western states from June 1, 1916, to March 1, 1917, was approximately 4,500; figures compiled by T. Arnold Hill, of the Chicago Branch of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, from data of the railroads,

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