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2 Walter Damgosch’s Or chestra Renders “Ne gro Symphony.” Washington, Nov/ 2,—lndica tive of a tendency to remove from Antonin Dvorak's E. Minor Sym phony (New World) of its negroid motif. The Post prints a critique of Walter Damrosch’s recent in terpretation of that classic here, and says it “was characterized by its adherence to the old Bohemian melodies, regardless of the fact that it teems with Nero and Indi an tunes. There is a heterogene ous combination of the “allegro con fucco" that bespeaks the rest lessness and seething business of the new nation.” This point of view would be hardly arrestive, except that it re dacts the temper of the times td ejeminate everything negroid diren from the gentler arts, and in this regard it is quite a heroic thrust at the very history of the great composition. The patent vanda lism is so pronounced that it is e nough to make Dvorak restless in kis. grave. It will be remember/ ed that the famous master chose for the motif of his E. Minor clas sie the wonderful Negro planta tion ‘’"hymn, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” and loved to refer to it among his friends, including Will Marion Cook, Henry Thatcher Burleigh, Theodore Drury and Dr. C. Sammer Wormley, as “The Ne gro Symphony.” When Demrosch rendered it on a notable program in the audito rium of Central High School in this city last week, none of the colored votaries of music in the national capital was present to hear it THB ATHENS REPUBLIQUE Remember The “Colored” BoysJJf 'lB ' Patiotic Meeting Proposed tit at J cruel Baptist Inst. Saturday, Nov. 10th, will be cel ebrated as Armistice Day (the e leventh falling on Sunday.) Far beyond than a million men of our race vouchsafed their all in the great universal struggle, obeying the call of the president, that the world might be safe for Democra cy. They boarded the ships with songs in their mouths and sailed a way to a land unheard of by many of them in obedience to the man | dates of our government. Great promises regarding equality before the law and consideration in oth er departments of life were made them as they bade farewell to their loved ones, many of them never to return again. If the dominant race has failed to keep its pledges to these men ; if they have accorded to them ev en less consideration than they did before the war, let us—-their own flesh and blood —show these men all the honor due to blood-stained warriors who returned from the battle fields with palms of victory in theirhands. Let us enbourage them to take, in all things, the manly stand that they took on the battle fields. Let us refer often to the srcrifice thtt they made that our children will grow up with an immortal reverence of their ar dour. Let us give them every op portunity that the race can afford to make them worthy and respect ed citizens, and thus help many a one of them who is stolid, ship wrecked forlorn—to take a new lease upon life. It has been proposed that a pa r triotic meeting be held at Jeruel Baptist Institute Saturday night, November 10, 1923 to do honor to these valiant men. The public should turn out in large numbers to this meeting. EMILY. P. LINCOLN: BUILDER In the death of Mrs. Emily P. West, the Indians of New York have lost the earthly presence of a faithful friend of many years.» For more than twenty years Mrs. J Lincoln superintendent of the Thomas Indian School at Iroquois, N. Y., having succeeded her hps band George Ivory Lincoln, who died in the service of the school more than a score of years ago. When matron of the school, Mrs. Lincoln labored with her / husband in the seemingly impos sible task of completely replacing the old wooden buildings nf the institution with modern, sanitary, brick structures. The adminis tration building had scarcely Completed when Mr. Lincoln died. The task of finishing the work was then placed upon Mrs. Lincoln’s t shoulders by the Governor of the State, who was not slow in recog nizing her unusual ability as an executive. With mother sympathy, Nfrs. Lincoln instituted a new system of discipline, the honor of the pupil being relied upon instead of the rigid rules enforced by fear cf the rod. The children were taught to love the school; it was their home and not a place of confinement. The lawn, the orchard, the fields, the brook and fishing pond were all theirs, and the two hundred Iroquios boys and girls reveled in a new freedom. Her monument stands, not on- Novetnber 3, 192 3