Colorado Statesman

THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY Condition In West Indies O'Conner de Cordova, former High Official of the West Indies tells of Negroes who get consideration. Negroes occupy positions of prominence. VOL. XVIII. Condition We O'Conner de Cordova, former Indies tells of Negroes who groes occupy position Taking issue with an article recently appearing in the New York Herald, in which Miss Mary W. Ovington is quoted as having said that she once heard a young Negro university graduate declare that "a Negro is a man only in Europe," and expressing the belief that the unfriendly attitude of some whites in this country toward the Negro is based on a foolish and narrow prejudice, Attorney O'Connor de Cordova, 362 Riverside Drive, gave out the following statement to the New York Age: "In an article published in the magazine section of the Sunday Herald of December 10, under the heading "Negroes' Opportunities in New York," Miss Mary White Ovington, quoting a young Negro university graduate said, 'A Negro is a man only in Europe,' I wish to join issue on this statement. "Until the spring of 1907 I lived in the Island of Jamaica, a British colony of the West Indies. I am a white man, a lawyer by profession and for over eleven years, that is from 1895 to April, 1907, I occupied an important office in the service of the government. My official appointment brought me in intimate association with all classes of the community and I wish to advise all those who think that a Negro is a man only in Europe to go to the West Indies and see for themselves how very much of a man the Negro is there. "Let it be understood that I use the expression 'Negro' as it is accepted in this country—that is, I include in the term men of color, not black men only. In all walks of life in the West Indies we find Negroes occupying positions of honor, importance, prominence and trust. "We find them prominent among the legal profession. Some have been recognized to the extent that they have occupied, and some still occupy judicial offices. Others being practitioners at the bar have been created king's counsel, an enviable position among members of the bar, and the present incumbent of the office of assistant attorney-general is himself a man of color. His position in the medical profession is quite as creditable. There are many colored doctors in the island who number among their patients some of the most refined white women of the community ane what more intimate and delicate relations can possible exist than those of doctor and patient? The church has among its officials as archdeacons and rectors men of color who are revered and respected by all classes of the community. In other professions and in all walks of life we find colored men coming to the front and being accorded the recognition to which as men they are entitled. Among the justices of the peace a large number are colored men while in some districts the Custos Rotutorium, who is the head of the magistracy, is a colored man. "The commercial community has in its ranks colored men whose integrity and merit have been recognized by all with whom they have traded. In the legislature and town council are to be found colored men taking active part in the government of the island and even in the privy council the colored man has found his place. "Of the members of the order branch of the legal profession—for let me say the two branches of the profession exist there as in England—two have within the last twenty years occupied the office of Crown Solicitor, a legal office next in importance only to that of the attorney-general, while one of gentlemen, on more than one occasion acted as attorney-general during the absence from the colony of that officer. "It is a fact that in the general run of the profession there are many men of color who enjoy extensive and very lucrative practice advising the white inhabitants of the colony on difficult and delicate questions. So much for the place of the Negro in the legal profession. "Finally, the colored man and woman occupy as creditable a status socially as in other walks of life. They entertain the English, and native white population and are themselves in turn entertained on terms of social equality. "Having stated all these facts and being prepared to substantiate them by giving scores, aye, hundreds of names in proof of all that has been stated, I wish to ask, Is it a fact that 'A Negro is a man DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20 1912. only in Europe? The answer comes quick and direct in the negative. And what is the result of all this recognition of the colored man? He has been placed in the position to which he is by nature entitled and in such circumstances he is as creditable a citizen as his white brother of the corresponding walk of life." GENERAL CLAYTON A FRIEND OF THE NEGED GENERAL CLAYTON A FRIEND OF THE NEGED LITTLE ROCK, JAN. 8. 12. Special to COLORADO STATESMAN. The Negroes of the Southwest section regard General Powell Clayton, Arkansas member of the Republican National Executive Committee, as perhaps the strongest friend they have in all matters touching their political rights. For 45 years and more, General Clayton and members of his family have stood for the full manhood rights of the Negro. He has worked during all this time with such leaders of the Negro race as J. E. Bush and others of that character in this locality. His voice in behalf of the Negro has rang out clearly, and there has never been any equivocation in his position with reference to these rights. At a recent meeting of the Republican National Executive Committee, General Clayton opposed the change in the rule of apportionment and based his objection primarily upon the injustice which would be inflicted upon the Negroes, not only in the South, but of the entire country by having the seal of approval placed upon their disfranchisement by Democratic legislators. He scored the "rank injustice of supplementing Democratic disfranchisement of American citizens in the South by corresponding disfranchisements in our conventions." Continuing, General Clayton said: "In this connetion, I am able to show in round numbers, based upon the census of 1910, the Negro population in some of our northern and doubtful states, namely: Massachusetts, 28,000; Connecticut, 15,000; New York 134,000; New Jersey, 90,000; Pennsylvania, 194,000; Ohio, 111,000; Indiana, 160,000; Illinois, 109,000; Missouri, 157,000; Kansas, 55,000; Maryland, 232,000; total about 1,295,000. "The colored people of these and other states would be more than human if they did not resent at the polls such rank injustice, which, together with what their brothers in the South are enduring would seem to justify them in making terms with the party into whose keeping their rights seem already to have been relegated. "The efforts to change the rule of apportionment do not appear to have originated with the Republi- can masses, nor even with the local conventions that appoint delegates, but with the delegates themselves. "I am glad to see from newspaper announcements that Senator Bourne or some of his friends, who may be delegates, contemplate the revival of this question in the next national convention, in which case I hope the question will be thoroughly thrashed out and not confined to any five minute rule, such as prevailed in the last, so that it may be finally settled, and whatever harm, if any, may have resulted from the close vote upon the proposition in the last convention may be completely removed." Although General Clayton is himself heartily sincere, he is at the same time somewhat handicaped by his efforts to secure exact justice by the support of such men as Cecil Lyon of Texas, E. C. Duncan of North Carolina, and John G. Capers of South Carolina, all of whom are known as "Lily Whites" absolutely opposed to according the Negro even the right to appear in Republican conventions. Many Negroes would like to see General Clayton's policies win, and would at the same time like to see destroyed the political power and influence of these rank Negro haters. ALBUQUERQUE NEWS. The Mt. Olive Baptist church, one of the most prosperous churches in the Southwest has not succeeded in calling a pastor since the resignation of Rev. J. J. Bellamy several weeks ago. The church is still without a pastor. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Austin was completely destroyed by fire last Sunday night. The fire first discovered by Mr. Austin, but it had gained too much start to put it out, and all the furniture as well as their clothing was lost. The house was partly covered by insurance. Mrs. C. H. Roberts has opened a Dancing school at Redmen's hall. Lessons will be given every Friday evening with good music. Mrs. Roberts will conduct the school personally, which insures the patrons, that good service will be delivered. Admission 25 cents. Rev. J. Jackson, pastor of the A. M. E. church, is doing nicely with his charge in all the departments, and will no doubt have a good report at the winding up of his pastorial year. Mrs. Jackson, his wife is well liked by the ladies of the church. Roswell and Blackdom are the only two places that we know of at this time, in the State which have inaugurated colored schools, and it is a very bad system underwhich they are supported. The poor col- RACE NEWS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES Advices from Madrid state that the Spanish government has decided upon the formation of an army of 16,000 blacks to be officered by Spaniards to take part in the Moroccan campaign. Atlantic City, N. J., January 10 —Isaac H. Nutter, the only colored member of the county bar, has been appointed by Mayor Bacharach a member of the advisory cabinet of ten prominent citizens. He is a native of Maryland, and was educated at Morgan College, Baltimore, and toe Howard University Law School. Through the efforts of the H. H. Garnet Republican Club, William F. Abbott has been appointed keeper of the Raymond Street jail, Brooklyn. It is the first time a colored man has ever held the position. Mr. Abbott has been an active member of the H. H. Garnet Republican Club of Brooklyn for many years, and has been prominent in politics in the Tenth Assembly District. He is to soon succeed A. D. Rice ao president of the H. H. Garnett Republican Club. A high court in the Union of South Africa recently construed the Cape Town school board act of 1905 to mean that a child who has a mixture of European and African blood is excluded from the schools maintained for the whites. The chief justice in announcing the decision said that it was regret- ored children who attend these schools have to suffer from the irregularity of this system. Think of it, in this progressive age, with all of the modern school facilities, and the many hard studies that children of school age have to study, and for 25 or 30 colored school children to be crowded into one little room to be taught from the first grade to the eighth grade with only one colored school teacher. We know it is an impossibility for the teacher as well as an impossibility for the children to be properly educated by such methods as exists in these cities. We can hardly understand why some colored people in this city and state endorse separate schools for Negroes, when it is evident that our children will not be given equal opportunities with the whites for an education. The sacrificing the future of children is too great just to give one job of school teaching to one colored school teacher. NO 19 able that there should be a social chasm between the races, but it undoubtedly existed and affected legislature throughout South Africa. As the whites crowd into Africa and set up their governments it becomes more apparent that Americans, instead of developing race prejudice in an intolerant form, have struggled to overcome it and to temper its rigors with humanity. COLORED MAN LEFT BIG ESTATE Urbana, Ill., Jan. 4.—George W. Smith, colored, farmer of the vicinity of Broadlands, who died last week, leaves an estate valued at $116,000 of which $110,000 is real estate. His will just admitted to probate, first directs that the personal property be sold and the proceeds used in payments of eighty acres of land recently purchased, the remainder, if any to be divided among the heirs, the widow receiving one-third and the seven children the residue. The children are: Mary E. Smith A. A. Gaines, Anna S. Neal and John M. Smith, all of Brodlands; Fred M. Smith, of Omaha, Neb.; Salona E. Sexton, St. Louis, Mo.; Charles A. Smith, of Longview. Proceeds from the farm are to be used for paying the indebtedness on the southeast quarter of section 17, Raymond township, recently purchased. The widow shall retain the homestead and after the adove described 80 acres shall have been paid off for she shall have one-third of the net proceeds arising from the land. It is directed that John Smith, son, shall live with his mother and care for her while she lives. At her death he shall be rewarded with an additional share to be determined by the executor. Four hundred thirty-seven acres of land near Broadlands with the newly purchased 80-acre tract is bequeathed to the children to be divided equally, the express provision being made that the realty shall not be sold until ten years after the widow's death. Another provision is that, in the division of the land, each child shall have that portion of the real estate which lies nearest his or her place or residence, and that John Smith shall receive that portion which includes the home place. All of the children are graduates of the University of Illinois. BRILLIANT DINNER AT ARLINGTON Booker T. Washington Guest of Honor at Famous Hostelry PROMINENT MEN PRESENT INFORMAL TALKS MADE DURING THE EVENING THAT WERE VERY INTERESTING AND INSTRUCTIVE. Washington, D. C.—The recent visit of Dr. Booker T. Washington to this city was the occasion for a brilliant dinner party given in his honor at the Arlington hotel, one of the most famous hostelries in the country. The dinner was served in that portion of the hotel known as the "Charles Sumner House," the name it has borne since days of that great statesman and champion of the rights of the black man. It was here that Sumner lived during the session of congress, and it was here that he died. It was peculiarly fitting then that those in charge of this function in honor of Dr. Washington should have selected this particular place. There were no set speeches at the dinner, but the brief, informal talks that seemed to have found their inspiration in the atmosphere, sentiments and association of the historic building were intensely interesting and instructive. The trustees of the Anna T. James fund of $1,000,000 for the education of the rural negro population of the south were the other guests of the occasion. They were in the city to attend the annual meeting of the board, which has always been held at the White House since Mr. Taft has been president. The dinner party was arranged by a committee of which the Hon. William L. Lewis, assistant attorney general, was the chairman, and its spendid success in all of its features is due to the energy and effective work which he put in the affair. The decorations of the dining hall were beautiful, and an orchestra played throughout the dinner. Those at the Dinner. Those present to honor Dr. Washington were: Hon. J. C. Napler, Maj. R. R. Moton of Hampton, Robert L. Smith of Texas, Prof. H. T. Kealing of Kansas, Prof. E. C. Willam, Dr. M. O. Dumas, Dr. J. R. Wilder, Dr. W. A. Warfield, Hon. James W. Johnson of New York, Hon. Charles W. Anderson of New York, Wilford Smith of New York, Dr. C. Sumner Wormley, Robert J. Harlan, W. Calvin Chase, Dr. Samuel G. Elbert of Wilmington, Del. Dr. John R. Francis, Prof. Kelly Miller, Prof. R. C. Bruce, Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback, Yyatt Archer, Dr. A. S. Gray, Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson, Hon. Cyrus Field Adams, Lieut. T. R. Clark, Dr. George W. Cabaniss, Prof. George W. Cook, Dr. W. C. McNielh, Hon. John C. Dancy, Dr. E. D. Williston, Dr. A. M. Curtis, Hon. Whitefield McKinley, Prof. L. B. Moore, Ocea Taylor, George Harris of New York, Hon. James A. Cobb, Capt. Walter Cohen of New Orleans, Judge Robert H. Terrell, Hon. Ralph W. Tylter, Prof. W. Bruce Evans, H. C. Tyson, Hon. William H. Lewis, Prof. W. J. Hale of Tennessee, Fred R. Moore of New York, Prof. A. T. Glenn and Prof, Ernst Just. Later in the evening Dr. Washington was the guest of honor at a large banquet given by the Odd Fellows of this city. No man ever received a more enthusiastic welcome than he did. When he entered the hall where the function was held and again when he arose to speak. The genuliness and good spirit of his reception surely must have touched him deeply. Past Grand Master William L. Houston presided at the banquet and introduced Dr. Washington in an able and eloquent speech. HE FELT IT. "Football," cried the old gentleman in the Red Lion smoke room, "is a sin and a disgrace. Football," he continued, thumping the table with his fist, "is an abomination and a blot on civilization. The very name of football," he shouted, sweeping two glasses and a pint pot off the board in his excitement—"the very name of football is enough to make a decent, respectable man go and hang himself out of pure disgust!" "The gentleman seems to feel rather deeply on the subject," said a commercial traveler, who had been listening to his remarks. "He do," assented one of the natives. "Has he lost something at a match?" inquired the commercial traveler. "He 'ave so. 'Ad a relative killed at one," replied the other oracularly. "What relative was it?" asked the querist. "Is wife's first husband," was the response. A SWIFT ONE. "Now, if I were only an ostrich," began the man at the breakfast table, as he picked up one of his wife's biscuits, "then—." "Yes," interrupted the patient better half, "then I might get a few feathers for that old hat I've worn for three winters."—Chicago News. THE FORMER ATLANTA MINISTER WRITES OF GOOD WORK OF INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE. Atlanta, Ga.—R. D. Stinson, principal of the Atlanta Normal and Industrial Institute, a training school for negroes, has received a letter of high commendation from Dr. James W. Lee, the well-known Methodist minister, who was located for several years in Atlanta. Dr. Lee says that he has been delighted to know that Stinson is making a success of the work, and praises the "fair and outspoken" position which he has taken in regard to the race problem. In view of his sensible views along these lines, says Dr. Lee, he is not surprised that Atlanta citizens have been ready to co-operate in the establishing of the training school. Just What Negro Needs. The education which the institute offers is just what the negroes need, says Dr. Lee. The importance of industrial education being emphasized. Such education not only teaches the negro to think, but it goes further and shows him how to relate what he learns to practical living. Dr. Lee's letter continues as follows: "The disposition to look upon industrial training as not being quite up to the style of our mental faculties is a delusion. If one's mental faculties are not trained to give out through the hand as much learning as he takes in through the head, then his place is in the clouds and not down in the midst of the hard, workaday affairs of this earth. Ever since the war the poor negro has been deluded and misled and victimized by foolish leaders. "It is generally understood that the sanest and wisest leader the God of history has ever raised up to show the negroes out of the wilderness of ignorance and superstition and impotence is Booker T. Washington. You are fashioning your institution, in some degree, after the type of his. By teaching industrial education, including domestic science and all other forms of activity which call into play the use of the hand, you are preparing the way to give employment to thousands of the negro girls and women in the large southern cities, and in so far as you show them how to employ their hands in useful work, you are giving them the means of building up a pure and honest home life. "You are showing the negro, too, the importance of cultivating the friendship of the white people at his door with whom he is in daily association, and in so far as the white people are aiding you thus to train the negroes of the state, they are opening the way for their own well being while advancing, at the same time, the well-being of the negroes. White People Must Share "The time has come for the rich white people of the south to share largely in the support and oversight of the negroes' institutions that send out teachers, preachers, and workers that are to shape the thought and conduct of the negro citizens. Those who have insight and intelligence among the white people in the south know very well that they cannot get along without the contributions which the negro makes to the commercial well-being of the country, and as the two races are necessarily put into association with one another in the practical affairs of every day life, it becomes of the utmost importance that the white people see to it that the negroes have every advantage that looks to the cultivation of their practical activities along such lines as make of them good citizens. "I am glad to learn that such men as Mr. Clark Howell, Captain English, Mr. S. M. Inman, Mr. J. A. McCord, Mr. W. Woods White, Mr. W. O. Foote, Mr. S. A. Johnson, Mr. H. S. Jackson, Mr. A. V. Gude and others are actively sustaining you in the great work you are trying to do. Atlanta is the greatest city in the south and desired to grow with the passing years, and there is no center in all Dixie where such a school as you are trying to establish will do so much good. I trust such friends as have money and insight and leadership will be constantly added to the list of those who are willing to help you. Every dollar invested in your institution will come back to the people and back to the general prosperity of the country, multiplied a thousand-fold." ECLIPSING EDISON The inventor appeared at his home one day with a number of homing pigeons. "Why this bunch?" queried his wife, "My dear," he replied, "I feel sure that they will make our fortunes. By closely observing their habits and methods I shall make an invention which will bring us millions and provide mankind with something of which it stands in dire need. Yes, my dear, I shall give up for the nonce my effort to find a cure for seasickness and a cheap substitute for ivory billiard balls." "What do you propose to invent?" inquired his wife. "Something that will cause my name to be blessed in every home in this land," he replied, "a homing umbrella! Think of it—no more permanent borrowing by unscrupulous friends—no more—" But she had resumed her housework. Philadelphia Ledger. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS A recent issue of the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser calls attention to a speech made by Gov. Emmet O'Neal before the conference of the A. M. E. church recently in session at Montgomery, Ala. It is interesting to use to note how these colored people in the south get on with leading officials. Seldom on never does one read of the governor of a northern state attending any of the conferences of our people, nor do we read of any of them offering words of advice which will help to encourage colored people to better living. As a rule, northern governors are never to be found around colored people except when they are seeking their votes. The report of this incident in the far south, however, is so interesting that we are publishing it herewith just as it appears in the Advertiser: "The fourth day's session of the A.M. E. conference, which is in session at the Madison Avenue church, was a gala day for negro Methodists of the state. The principal feature of the day being an address by Gov. Emmet O'Neal, who had been invited to speak before the conference. "At high noon all available space in the auditorium was filled by negroes who had turned out to do honor to the chief magistrate of Alabama. A committee headed by Rev. R. L. Pope, the pastor of the church, met the governor in front of the church and escorted him to the platform. Dr. W. H. Mixon of Selma, Ala., made the address in presenting him to Rt. Rev. H. B. Parks, the presiding bishop, who introduced the governor to the conference. A Chautauqua salute was given, amid long applause. Governor O'Neal assured the conference of his sympathy for and interest in the negro ministry. He said: "No class counts for so much in the uplift and advancement of your people as does the negro ministry. It is for the interest of the white man as well as the black man to have the negro educated in the sciences and handicrafts of our civilization. To allow the negro to remain among us ignorant and vile may prove to be a weight about our necks to drag us down." While in New York some weeks ago, I was interviewed by the New York Journal. In answer to the question, was the negro's uncontrollable thirst for strong drink responsible for the failure of prohibition in the south, I said emphatically, no. I was born and reared among negroes and for twenty-five years I practiced at the bar in Lauderdale county, yet I do not recall two negroes who were confirmed drunkards. I can never forget the loyalty of your race during the Civil war. History does not recount another instance where a servant race exhibited such loyalty to the master as has been exhibited by the American negro. I can never forget you. And so long as I occupy the governor's chair I shall do all in my power to see that even-handed justice is meted out to every citizen of this commonwealth, be he rich or poor, black or white." "Bishop Parks replied to the governor's address. "At the close of the reply a resolution of thanks was offered the governor." When strong men like Governor O'Neal are willing to speak out openly in praise of the loyalty of negroes and in determined assurance of his intention to mete out even-handed justice to blacks and whites alike they are entitled to our thanks. For one, The Age intends to give proper report to all such incidents. It is the kind of thing for which we publish this newspaper—New York Age. A New Orleans paper takes great pains to point out the desirability of giving the negro a square deal, and refers to many disabilities under which the negro labors in the south and nation. Some injustice may be expected under the circumstances. When it comes to the courts it is better that the negro stay out of them. The sooner the negro learns how to attend to his business and to avoid clashes with any and everybody the sooner he will learn the lesson which present unfavorable conditions are designed to teach. The point is not to be concerned too much about the privileges that are denied and to be concerned about the right use of those which are retained.—Durham (N. C.) Reformer. "Have you ever thought of it—that great Son of Palestine was a carpenter's son," said Dr. E. G. Hirsch of Chicago, in an address at Tuskegee Institute. "He did not have a classical education, but he learned the lesson of life in his father's carpenter shop; he did not go to academies, but he heard his divine father's call. Whatever message he had, he clothed it in the phraseology, not of the counting-room, and not of the drawing-room, but into the impressive vocabulary of the farmer and the artisan. In practicing and learning to practice the religion of labor, you become Christianized, in the spirit of the great teacher, and Judalized in the spirit of the great Jewish prophets." There is no occasion for alarm on the part of the white people of this state because the negro population shows a slightly larger rate of increase. They still outnumber the colored people about eighteen to one, thus making the fear of "negro domination" groundless. The negroes, however, cannot view the increase of their number with as little concern, for the reason that it has come about very largely through migration from other states of a type of undesirables, of men brought here to labor in the industrial centers, who too frequently mistake license for liberty. Coming as they mostly do from Virginia, North Carolina and Kentucky where wages are lower, school terms are shorter and the attitude of the whites toward them is more hostile than in this state, they are endangering the civil and political privileges not only of themselves, but of the entire race in West Virginia. This state of affairs has come about through the development of coal mining and the consequent demand for labor. In but few instances have the law-abiding, property-owning negroes of other states responded. Those who have heeded the call are, for the most part, the unattached, ignorant, happy-loquy element who are the best patrons of the saloonkeeper and form the reserve force from which the population of the penitentiary is recruited. This being the situation those negroes in the state who have any regard for their civil and political status must "view with alarm" this influx and hope that it will either be diverted or that those who come hereafter may be of a higher type; otherwise, the movement for Jim Crow cars and disfranchisement will grow apace.—Charleston (S. C.) Advocate. The People's Investment and Savings bank of Birmingham, Ala., Dr. W. L. Lauderdale, president, closed its doors, says the Birmingham American. In explanation of the trouble, Dr. Lauderdale has issued the following statement: "By a special call of the board of directors of the People's Investment and Savings bank by President W. L. Lauderdale, after a brief discussion pertaining to the affairs of the bank and its best interest, since its robbery which disturbed the confidence of its depositors, the board did not deem it wise, nor for the best interest of all parties concerned, to continue its present operations, and in view of this fact a resolution was passed calling on Hon. A. E. Walker, superintendent of banks of Alabama, to take the affairs of the bank in hand and liquidate its indebtedness to secure the best interest of the depositors of the bank. "The president and board further feel that in their judgment the bank has sufficient assets to pay its depositors in full." Thomas L. Masson, editor of Life, recently delivered a lecture on "Newspapers" before the students of the Glen Ridge (N. J.) high school. The speaker explained that there are three vocabularies in common use. These he classified as the social vocabulary, literary vocabulary and the vocabulary of names or persons. The first, he said, is used in every-day "chit chat," and and the second in the schools, but the third, he declared, to be of the most importance. Well-read people, he declared, have an acquaintance almost personal with many personages they have never met. Three sources are open, Mr. Masson declared, from which this same vocabulary may be obtained. These are the daily newspaper, the weekly newspaper and the monthly reviews. The first, he asserted, are so hurriedly edited as to be often incorrect; the second, having more time, are usually more accurate, while the third class contains the substance of the news in the best forms.-South Life Magazine. Among the many race enterprises of Memphis we note the following: Thirty-five groceries and meat markets, 6 undertaker shops, 3 cateries, 6 blacksmith and horseshoeing shops, 10 shoemakers, 4 harness and saddle makers, 2 old folks' homes, 2 infirmaries, 1 hospital, 2 newspapers and 2 church organs, 50 boarding houses and 12 restaurants, 4 drug stores, 2 banks, 6 barber shops, 4 pressing clubs, 7 printing plants, 1 shoe store, 1 gents' furnishing store, 1 photo studio, a park theater, 4 jewelry shops, 12 coal and wood companies, 1 supply house and 1 swimming pool. Memphis has also to her credit 12 lawyers, 30 physicians, 4 editors, 60 preachers, 110 school teachers, 80 carpenters and woodworkers, 120 brickmasons, 80 hodocarriers and mail carriers, 60 dressmakers and hairdressers; colored population, 52,000; real estate owned by them, $3,000,000. This is not in any sense a bad showing.—Memphis News. 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COLORADO President Taft Presides at Session of Jeanes Fund Board KEALING MADE MEMBER HEAD OF QUINDARO UNIVERSITY SELECTED TO FILL VACANCY CAUSED BY DEATH OF BISHOP GRANT. Washington, D. C.—At the White House an important meeting of the Jeanes Fund board was held, at which President Taft, who is a member of the board, presided by courtesy. The report of Prof. James H. Dillard showed that the fund expended in the past year in the interest of negro education in the south was over $40,000, and in conjunction with the Slater Fund board there are busily engaged in 2,500 communities in the south giving advice relative to how negro children can be educated along practical lines, two field agents and 106 supervising teachers. Prof. H. T. Kealing, president of Western university, Quindale, Kan. was elected a member of the board, succeeding the late Bishop Abram Grant. Prof. Kealing's election met with the favor of all the other members, as he is highly conversant with negro rural life. The colored members on the board are Dr. Booker T. Washington, Hon. J. C. Napler, register of the treasury; Maj. R. R. Moton of Hampton institute; Hon. R. L. Smith of Waco, Tex., and Prof. H. T. Kealing. The Jeanes Fund board and the Slater Fund board are working harmoniously together to uplift negro life in the rural communities of the south, and the result has been gratifying. Prof. Dillard, as general agent, has $3,000,000 under his supervision to expend for educational purposes in the rural districts of the south, $2,000,000 of which has been set aside by the Slater fund and $1,000,000 by the Jeanes Fund board. The two boards combined expended $200,000 during the past year for negro education. It was reported at the session that the directors of the Phelps-Stokes fund had set aside a scholarship of $12,500 each at the University of Georgia and the University of North Carolina, to be awarded yearly to the successful student from each institution, who must be in sympathy with negro education and who shall be sent out in the rural communities to study negro life and education in all its phases for one year and write a treatise on his findings. NO USE FOR MOLLY. "The late Admiral Schley, as his own splendid career showed, didn't believe in automatons," said a Washington veteran, according to the Star. "He didn't believe in the subordinate who let his boss do all the thinking for him. "I once heard Admiral Schley talking to a young Annapolis student. He told the student that unreasoning and unquestioning obedience to orders was, if the orders were wrong, a foolish thing. He said the navy had no more use for men of that stamp than the Widow Black had for her maid, Molly. "The widow, he explained, told Molly one evening that if anyone called she was only at home to Mr. Munn. Then she retired to her room and took a little nap. On towards ten she awoke, and, ringing for Molly, she asks: "'Did anyone call?" "'Oh, yes, ma'am,' said Molly; 'Mrs, Blank called, and Miss Dash, and the pastor.' "'And you told them what I told you to?" 'Yes, ma'am. I said you was only home to Mr. Munn.'" A SYMPATHETIC BURGLAR. "I woke up suddenly the other night and thought I heard a burglar in the room. I sat up in bed and that awoke my wife." "What did she do?" "She accused me, as usual, of having a burglar bug. Said I'd never hear a real burglar if I lived 1,000 years. I said I'd bet I would. She said she'd bet I wouldn't. And just then a shadowy form rose from behind the dresser and a hoarse voice exclaimed: 'He wins, ma'm.'" "Did you catch him?" "Catch him? I didn't try. I just laid there and laughed and heard him slam the door and run down the street. And say, my wife was so mad she didn't speak to me for a whole day. But I'll bet one thing." "What is it?" "I'll bet that burglar was a married man."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. WHAT THE LESSON TAUGHT. The Sunday school teacher was tell- ing her class about the wicked child- ren mocking the good prophet and how two she bears came out of the mountains and "ate up" over 40 of the wicked children. "Now, boys," she concluded, "what lesson does it teach us?" "I know," said one youngster; "it teaches us how many children a she bear can hold." WORTHY SCHOOL HAS PLAN TO RAISE MONEY VIRGINIA NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE ASKS $20,000 APPROPRIATION FROM THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Every citizen of Petersburg will wish godspice to the members of the board of visitors of the Virginia Normal and Industrial institute in their efforts to induce the general assembly to grant an extra appropriation of $20,000 for additional buildings at the institution. The money which will be asked for is urgently needed, and it is difficult to see how such a sum could be appropriated to a purpose more entirely worthy. The citizens of Petersburg and Chesterfield and Dinwiddie and Prince George, who may be termed the neighbors of this school, can testify to the excellent manner in which it is conducted so far as the conduct of the pupils is concerned, and the official reports of representatives of the state government attest the fine manner in which it is run from a business point of view, and the high character of work being done for the pupils. The joint auditing committee of the general assembly which visited the institutions, reported after a careful examination of the methods of keeping accounts and an inspection of the buildings and grounds, that the accounts were in a perfectly satisfactory condition, and that there was a remarkable absence of wilful defacement of property such as was apparent at all other state institutions. The committee said on this subject: "At this institution there is an entire absence of any wilful defacement or injury of property, such as seen from top to bottom and from one end to the other of the great educational institutions. As this institution is officered by negroes and used by negro students, this particular fact might well be studied by those in charge of other places. The wilful abuse of the property of the state at other great educational institutions, it seems, might be stopped." Thus the committee reported that the negro institution of education set an example to the white schools of the state. The work being done for the negro boys and girls of the state by the Virginia Normal and Industrial institute is of a character to commend itself without reserve. The girls are taught plain English, needlework, cooking, canning, preserving, house cleaning, washing, ironing, gardening, etc., while the boys are taught farming, dairying, poultry raising, and the use of tools. Girls are also given training in farming. The students last year produced an income of $2,410.20 from the farm. The school is the only state educational institution in which students pay a sum larger than the amount appropriated by the state. The sum received from the state last year was $21,000, including the regular appropriation of $20,000 and the fund for the support of a summer school for teachers, amounting to $1,000, while the students paid for board and tuition a sum amounting to $28,450.38. The board of visitors, composed of T. O. Sandy, rector; Dr. R. E. Blackwell, president of the Randolph-Macon college; Judge Asa D. Watkins of Farmville and John D. Watkins, Esq., of this city, is planning to make a strong effort this winter to induce the legislature to grant an extra appropriation of $20,000 to be used to erect homes for the teachers in the school and an additional dormitory for students. Last year 203 applicants had to be refused admission because of lack of facilities and this year 314 had to be denied entrance for the same reason. The parents of these negro youths are unable to gain for their children the training which they desire and which the white people of the state want them to have, although full payment of the charges therefor is offered. The school is doing a work, in training negro boys and girls to earn their living with their hands, that commends itself to every thinking white man of Virginia, whether or not he be specially friendly to the race. Everything which makes the negro a better and more useful citizen deserves the encouragement of the whites who have to live by his side. The whites of Virginia have acted with rare generosity in the matter of educating the negro in the public schools, and in so doing they have done well. The legislature will display both generosity and wisdom if it heed this pressing plea for help for the negroes in a work in which they are helping themselves in a manner that compels admiration.—The Daily Index-Appeal. CONSIDERABLE INFLUENCE. Ex-Gov. Joe Brown of Georgia only weighs a hundred pounds, but he is powerful. By deeds you shall know him. The Atlanta Constitution says "his voice was clear and firm, and reached every part of the theater." Said he: "When I was chosen in the primary of 1908 the price of turpentine, one of South Georgia's chief products, was 37 cents per gallon, and in June, 1911, it was $1.07 per gallon. "It is also pleasing to note that the two winters covered by my administration were the only ones during the past forty years within which the price of cotton did not go below 10 cents per pound. Not everybody can do that.—Collier's Weekly" Newport Cafe and Lu Furnished Rooms SHORT ORDERS AT reet. THE MARCH LIQU COMPANY 1841-45 Arapahoe Street. MONARCH LIQUOR COMPANY IMPORTED & D. D. W. REEVES, Manager FULL LINE Five Point 272 PHONE CHAMPA 471. Remember I Save Put The Cincinnatti Fur FURNACES CLEANED, FL W LAWN CUTT BEST WORK JAS. TERRY. W. P. JO Manager. WELL LINE OF CIGARS AND TOBAC Points Barber 2727 WELTON STREET. PA 471. ber I Save You One Dollar on Your Put This Dollar in the Bank. Patti Furnace and House NED, FLOORS WAXED, KALSOMI WASHING CELLARS. N CUTTING, CEMENT PATCH W ORK QUICK 1209 E. Thirteenth Ave. STREET P IMPORTED & DOMESTIC WINES & LIQUORS D. W. REEVES, Manager. W. P. JONES, Proprietor. FULL LINE OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO. Remember I Save You One Dollar on Your Furnace. Put This Dollar in the Bank. The Cincinnati Furnace and House Cleaning Co. FURNACES CLEANED, FLOORS WAXED, KALSOMINING AND WHITE WASHING CELLARS. LAWN CUTTING, CEMENT PATCH WORK. BEST WORK QUICK SERVICE JAS. TERRY. 1209 E. Thirteenth Ave. Phone York 4328. Eureka GAS CO We Will Save You Money Contract All kinds jobbing. S specialty . . W. O. 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Finest Goods in the City. 2758-2760 Downing Avenue Phone York 320 In Connection There Are Also Nicely Rooms And the Old Reliable Newport Thirst Parlors TELEPHONE CHAMPA 1231 2029 CHAMPA STREET Private Dining Room. Phone, Main 7413. The Newport Annex Cafe and Lunch Room Richard Frazier and Tom Lewis, Props. THE CH LIQUOR MPANY THE MONARCH LIQUOR CO. DOMESTIC WINES & LIQUORS W. P. JONES, Proprietor. OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO. ts Barber Shop HWELTON STREET. DENVER, COLO. You One Dollar on Your Furnace. This Dollar in the Bank. Ennace and House Cleaning Co. ERS WAXED, KALSOMINING AND WHITE, WASHING CELLARS. G, CEMENT PATCH WORK. QUICK SERVICE 9 E. Thirteenth Ave. Phone York 4328. COAL 4.00 Per Ton E $5.00 PER TON If You Leave Your Order Before Coal prices Go Up. HOKLAS & CO. ors and Builders of carpenter work and orc and office work a Phone Main 1925 DENVER, COLO. 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Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1-cent and 2-cent stamps taken. Display advertising, 50 cents per square. A square contains ten agate lines. Reading notices, ten lines or less, 10 cents per line. Each additional line over ten lines, 5 cents per line. No discounts allowed on less than three months' contract. Cash must accompany all orders from parties unknown to us. Further particulars on application. COLORED CORPORATIONS. colored men to organize and co-obtain, and one which seems to the colored man's capacity for in which such corporate eminent understood by all colored men, as it ought to be. The more upon the general informer who direct them than upon the object to which they devote their undertakings are just as easy and ports, if they are not carefully, such failure acts as a public cult to overcome. of the financial liabilities of a act. No stock company or holders except out of its hold in treasury over the no profits as long as there standing which overbalance stock of new companies is sold must necessarily bring a low price a working capital, and stock on which dividends are intended business, its clear holdings and market, without any fictitious part of the directorate or anybody to stockholders out of more resources subject to unpaid liabie corporation down hill to cease the financial affairs and no could not undertake to conduct risk with their own personal know keen business perception, stable business combinations and reputations for honesty and seriand difficult matters concern encouraged to lead the large high corporate enterprises. The ambition of colored men to organize and conduct corporate enterprises is a laudable ambition, and one which seems to be making substantial headway, in proof of the colored man's capacity for concentrated business effort; but the manner in which such corporate enterprises should be conducted is not as clearly understood by all colored men who make the effort, or by many who aid them, as it ought to be. The success of all efforts of this character depends more upon the general information and comprehensive ability of the men who direct them than upon the favorable nature and promising prospects of object to which they devote their efforts. The failure of these corporate undertakings are just as easy and just as certain as the failure of individual efforts, if they are not carefully, legally and intelligently conducted, and every such failure acts as a public discouragement, the effects of which are difficult to overcome. Absolute ignorance of the financial liabilities of a corporate concern characterized this conduct. No stock company can legally pay dividends to its stockholders except out of its surplus funds, which represent its profits held in treasury over and above its liabilities. There can be no profits as long as there are unpaid mortgages or other liabilities outstanding which overbalance the clear holdings and treasury cash. The stock of new companies is sold merely on the strength of its prospects, and must necessarily bring a low price, the receipts therefrom being intended as a working capital, and stock does not reach its par value, or the value upon which dividends are intended to be declared, until the successes of the business, its clear holdings and future prospects, give it that value in the open market, without any fictitious procedure or other false manipulation on the part of the directorate or anybody else. Directors who declare and pay dividends to stockholders out of monies received from stockholders or from other sources subject to unpaid liabilities, are merely plunderers who running the corporation down hill to certain destruction. Men who have no capacity for the financial affairs and no conception of the legal details of business should not undertake to conduct corporate enterprises. They run great enough risk with their own personal affairs. But men who, in their own affairs, show keen business perception with powers to negotiate and promote profitable business combinations and commercial or industrial deals, who have reputations for honesty and sense enough to seek legal advice upon important and difficult matters concerning proposed procedure, should be trusted and encouraged to lead the larger efforts which are to be consummated through corporate enterprises. THE TASK. out of a task depends largely upon work without a definite aim. Use of time is waste of life, and if just ended very few of us are attained during its passing. Which we desired to accomplish, now what we wanted to do, ot The accomplishment of a task depends largely upon our comprehension of its requirements. To work without a definite aim is almost certain to be a waste of time. Waste of time is waste of life, and waste of life means loss of reward. The year just ended very few of us can point to the permanent benefits we have attained during its passing. Perhaps very few of us marked out the task which we desired to accomplish when the year began. Possibly we did not know what we wanted to do, other than to live and enjoy the passing days. But the aimless and easy enjoyment of the passing day is the thing that makes a wreck of life, whether it be the life of the individual, the community or the race, and long and hard is the struggle to redeem the waste when realization of the error finally forces itself upon the understanding. The Negro is endowed with a proverbial light-heartedness that makes him impervious to the destructive ravages of time and the disdain of the world, so far as his physical well being is concerned, but it brings him no mental or material improvement and the years come and go, finding him and leaving him in the same relative position, the last among the peoples of the earth. The desire to live and enjoy the passing day is the unbanished morive, and the simple serenity of that form of racial existence gives him no view of the greatness of life or the immensity of its possibilities. It is the realization of this condition that is to give the black man a better comprehension of the necessary task that life is holding for him, and to bring him to the determination to assume the task is the rightful duty and purpose of those who would be his leaders. To teach him to drift with the times is not enough, for this world is a world of competitive striving. To drift with the world is but to assume the cast-off garments of those who have worked and gone on ahead, and to be content with a second-hand wardrobe is never to know the value of a new one. And every successful race in the world has found that it had to learn to make its own garments to fit its own people. Development along the lines of natural racial tendencies is the only permanent and rational development possible for any race of people. The American Negro's hope for the complete adoption and assimilation of the white man's ideals is a futile hope, unless it shall be accompanied with the Negro's acceptance of the inevitable consequence of racial obliteration. Genuine racial development means no such thing. It means rather his development within and about himself. It means community development, beginning with the acquisition of land: It is not an unwise thing therefore, to say that life in the great cities of America cannot tend materially to the permanent development of the Negro, no matter how successful a few individual Negroes may become by the improvement of fortunate opportunities in those cities. The masses of the race will remain poor and despised unless they develop the virgin land and build or acquire their own towns or cities. The Negro community is an absolute necessity, if the Negro, as a race, is to become a factor in the business and commercial life of the nation and of the world. And if the American Negro would hasten his own development, the sooner that he realizes that he owes an ineffaceable duty to the land of his origin, greater than the Irish-American owes to Ireland, the sooner will he realize the natural zenith of his aims and comprehend the fullness of the task that the world holds out to him. Y youthful ideal of a husband has not met with its counterpart in my choice of a husband, therefore I shall draw the curtain against the narration of its shattered fragments. He shines within his own sphere, not mine. In later life I am capable only of looking backward over experience's tried path in order to mold an ideal upon a pedestal founded on shifting sand, for age forbids my desire for another mate even if I were free to select such a one. Although my husband has proven unworthy of my ideal my interest in life's environments is still active. My intent is to delve into subjects tending to the uplifting of humanity. This statement appeals to me: "I have never married, but I have reached the age where I can cultivate any man I like without unkind things being said (one of the compensations of age), and I find nothing more interesting in life than companionable men." It sounds with a golden ring of freedom from the trammeled path of womankind in general. A woman who has the fortitude to give public expression to her convictions, without fear of adverse criticism, has reached the acme of life's perspective, as her stable mind perceives it, and not with the deflected vision of a warped mentality. Women as a rule are filled with an over-abundance of fear as to others' comments if she gives vent to her innermost opinions, especially in reference to sociability or the association of the sexes. Even though a husband be of the sensible type and free from the demon jealousy, if the wife dare to step aside from the beaten path of Puritan ideas and manifest an inclination to welcome the companionship of intelligent men, aside from her husband, and even if they be his friends also, she is the target for innumerable flings of censure, especially by her own sex. With only a few exceptions I have always found their respect toward me with a gentlemanly attitude, and in appreciation of said consideration by them and conjunction with my husband's unusual sensibleness and absence of evil thoughts, I am glad to repeat the same sentiments expressed by my co-writer. However, I contend that advanced age is not an essential to be obtained before a woman of firm character may enjoy the companionship of men with impunity. Woman's weapon of defense in the presence of men in all walks of life, is based upon her own mode of conducting herself and not upon the actions of men. aspect only. The man who uses up his nervous force must pay for this in hard, cold dollars sooner or later. This is why it behooves the much talked of tired business man to watch his nervous resources as he would his watch or his pocketbook in a crowd. Americans waste their nervous energy in a mad rush to accomplish great things at infinitesimal time expenditure. There is no gainsaying the preciousness of time, but of infinitely more value is the all too finite nervous force—the steam which propels the individual engine. and cats are devoted and industrious mothers of families. Moreover, there are just as many men as women who find pleasure in petting and caring for animals; and normal, properly brought up children are almost invariably fond of them. The discipline of learning to treat with kind consideration the household creatures whose comfort is so entirely dependent upon the thoughtfulness of their "big brothers," is as valuable a training in character as a child can well receive; and the child who has never known the fun of romping with a jolly four-footed playmate in a spirit of mutual good fellowship has missed one of the keen delights of child life. I hope that this paper handkerchief does not become a law, as it never would be used by sensible people. M my interest in life is to delve into subjects tendi ment appeals to me: "I have never married, bIVATE any man I like without pensations of age), and I find panionable men." It sounds with a golden of womankind in general. A expression to her convictions, the acme of life's perspective with the deflected vision of a Women as a rule are f others' comments if she gives reference to sociability or the band be of the sensible type a dare to step aside from the b inclination to welcome the c her husband, and even if they merable flings of censure, est With only a few excepti their respect toward me with and in appreciation of said conjunction with my husband and absence of evil thoughts, same sentiments expressed by I contend that advanced age obtained before a woman of the companionship of men wi Woman's weapon of de men in all walks of life, is b of conducting herself and not That Poor Old Tired Business Man By ANNA MARBLE aspect only. The man who in hard, cold dollars sooner c This is why it behoove watch his nervous resources crowd. Americans waste their great things at infinitesimal There is no gainsaying the value is the all too finite nervidual engine. Strong Appeal for Keeping Animal Pets By L. JARDINE, Omaha, Neb. and cats are devoted and there are just as many men caring for animals; and nor invariably fond of them. The discipline of learnih hold creatures whose comfort fulness of their "big brother a child can well receive; a of romping with a jolly four fellowship has missed one of Too Much Talk About Use of Paper By HERBERT SCHRECKE not become a law, as it neve Old Age is Not Essential to Company of Men By CLAIRE WRIGHT total of a husband has not of a husband, therefore harration of its shatter on sphere, not mine. Life I am capable only married path in order to me on shifting sand, for a seven if I were free to my husband has provided life's environments inending to the uplifting bed, but I have reached out unkind things being find nothing more intending the golden ring of freedom. A woman who has two sons, without fear of adversive, as her stable man of a warped mentality, were filled with an overdrives vent to her innermost the association of the scape and free from the one beaten path of Purin the companionship of them they be his friends also, especially by her ownceptions I have always with a gentlemanly attitude consideration by the husband's unusual sensibilities, I am glad to repeat by my co-writer. His image is not an essential of firm character may be with impunity. And defense in the present is based upon her own not upon the actions of a husband has not met with its counterpart husband, therefore I shall draw the curtainion of its shattered fragments. He shines here, not mine. I am capable only of looking backward over path in order to mold an ideal upon a pedesifting sand, for age forbids my desire for if I were free to select such a one. My husband has proven unworthy of my ideal's environments is still active. My intent to the uplifting of humanity. This state- I have reached the age where I can cultiunkind things being said (one of the com-mething more interesting in life than com- ring of freedom from the trammeled path woman who has the fortitude to give public without fear of adverse criticism, has reached, as her stable mind perceives it, and not warped mentality. led with an over-abundance of fear as to event to her innermost opinions, especially in association of the sexes. Even though a husd free from the demon jealousy, if the wife eaten path of Puritan ideas and manifest an empanionship of intelligent men, aside from be his friends also, she is the target for innu-ecially by her own sex. ans I have always found that men maintain a gentlemanly attitude. When will the human dray horse learn to conserve his strength for the added burden of old age? Many a man who is a momentary miser may be a spendthrift of nervous force. The happy medium is, of course, the mean to be most desired—it was Aristotle who preached the desirability hundreds of years ago—but, of the two extravagances, the over-expenditure of nerves must be deplored more greatly than extravagance in mere money matters. Practically speaking, nervous waste is money waste, to look at the commercial who uses up his nervou er or later. moves the much talked pieces as he would his wa eir nervous energy in al time expenditure. ing the preciousness of nervous force—the ste cases up his nervous force must pay for this later. In the much talked of tired business man to she would his watch or his pocketbook in a nervous energy in a mad rush to accomplish time expenditure. The preciousness of time, but of infinitely more force—the steam which propels the indi- Why is it necessary to assume, as most of those discussing the matter seem to do, that only childless women keep pets? The fact is that some people love animals and others do not, and whether or not one has children has nothing to do with it. I should say that the woman whose patience and charity are wide enough to include even the lower orders of the Creator's great family, would be the one least likely to shirk the duty of motherhood, and best fitted for its fulfillment. It happens that in my own acquaintance the women who are most fond of dogs and industrious mother women as women who fin normal, properly broug warning to treat with kid comfort is so entirely de- pthers," is as valuable ; and the child who four-footed playmate e of the keen delights industrious mothers of families. Moreover, as women who find pleasure in petting and, properly brought up children are almost going to treat with kind consideration the house is so entirely dependent upon the thoughts," is as valuable a training in character as the child who has never known the fun-footed playmate in a spirit of mutual good the keen delights of child life. The fact that we must use paper towels in public places is no reason that we should use paper handkerchiefs. I think that this talk about using paper is going too far. Who is going to be made to use a paper handkerchief? I have always wiped my hands on a towel before and have never had a disease from using it, but now I use one of my handkerchiefs for drying my face and hands rather than use a paper towel and have chapped hands. I hope that this paper handkerchief does never would be used by sensible people. I hope that this paper handkerchief does would be used by sensible people. M. THE WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR- EIGN COUNTRIES. IN LATE DISPATCHES DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS OF THE AGE. Western Newspaper Union News Service. WESTERN. That the ravages of spinal meningitis in Texas have been checked is the statement of the State Board of Health. Assemblyman John E. Mullally, member of the last California Legislature, was shot and killed by three robbers in his saloon in San Francisco. Mrs. Rachael Sparlin, seventy-six and blind, of Baxter, Kan., burned to death in her cottage when coal fell from her clay pipe and set her dress afire. According to a cattleman from Forest City, S. D. several thousand cattle are gathered at Swift Bird creek and hundreds are dying from starvation and cold. Three are known to be dead and ten more or less seriously injured in a Missouri Pacific wreck, which occurred at a bridge a mile west of Norton Lyndon, Kans. D. H. Arnold, a ranchman living seven miles northeast of Hillrose, Colo., was probably fatally shot while pursuing a stranger whom he caught prowling about his ranch. Women of Greeley, Colo., who are members of the Graphic Club, at a meeting of the organization recently laid plans for women's club rooms, a Y. W. C. A., more lights and a new water system. Charges of misappropriation of funds of the old Southern Colorado Light and Power Company against Receiver Frank P. Read of Denver are contained in a bill of exceptions filed in Trinidad in the District Court by the St. Louis Union Trust Company. After traveling through five states to find a place where they might wed legally, Miss Anna Sietama of Woonsocket, S. D., and Sistee Seitsma of Forestburg, S. D., were married in La Crosse, Wis. The pair are first cousins and because of that fact were unable to marry in South Dakota or the neighboring states of North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa. With a sheriff on one side and a jailer on the other, Mrs. Alberta Gentry, charged with complicity in the murder of her husband, Thomas J. Gentry, braved the gaze of 3,000 persons to be present at her husband's funeral at Oklahoma City. The services were held at the First Christian church. Mrs. Gentry refused an opportunity to take a last look at the body, thereby disappointing many who fought to get inside the fashionable church. By order of the secretary of the treasury, Chief Harry M. Moffatt of the United States Secret Service office, has seized at the First National bank of Oakland, Cal., a valuable painting entitled "Barrels of Money." The seizure was made for the reason that the painting represented $4,000,000 in United States currency, piled up in barrels. It is against the federal regulations to paint, photograph, or make or exhibit any representation of the currency or coins of the United States. The painting is from the brush of Y. Dubreull, a noted French artist. Denver will, before the end of this year, be the distributing point on J. J. Hill's Seattle-to-the-Gulf route. One million dollars was recently appropriated by the Burlington road to build the twenty-nine-mile link between Greeley and Hudson, Colo. The work will be done within six months. Freight and passengers from the Northwest over the new line will reach the old main Burlington line at Hudson, twenty-six miles from Denver, and thence be brought to Denver. The other link missing in the new toad is between Thermopolis and Powder River, Wyo., a distance of sixty-six miles. Part of this is now built. All the grading has been done and it only remains to lay the rails. This will complete Hill's Seattle-to-Galveston line. FOREIGN Reports are current of a blizzard in Newfoundland that is said to be the worst the colony has even known. In some districts the snow is thirty-five feet deep. Traffic is at a standstill and telegraph systems are demoralized. The bethrothal of Victoria Louise, daughter of the Emperor of Germany, to Grand Duke Adolph Frederick of Mecklenburg-Strelitz has been announced. Besides destroying or capturing all the vessels flying the Turkish flag in the Red sea, which they came across in the course of their cruises, the Italian cruisers Calabria, Puglia, and Piemonte, with the accompanying flotilla of destroyers, recently bombarded a number of Turkish military camps along the coasts of the Yemen province. SPORT. Bassano, Canada, is making a bid for the world's championship fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Flynn of Pueblo. Tally John of Butte was given the decision over "Kid" Davis of Salt Lake, at the end of a fast six-round boute at Butte. They are featherweights. Fred Stokesbury, who pitched for the Cheyenne Indians last season, has been signed for 1912 by the Great Fills team of the Union League, winners of the Utah-Montana-Idaho championship last season. Des Moines will be back on the base ball map this year and in the Western League. After two years, in which little interest has been taken in the national game, Des Moines fans promise to wake up and make this a banner year. Reports of the contest between Bombardier Wells, the British heavyweight champion, who is to come to America soon, and Fred Storbeck, the South African whom Wells defeated in eleven rounds, do not show Wells in any more favorable light than he was six months ago when he was being groomed for a match with Jack Johnson. WASHINGTON. The President has nominated Joseph H. Harrison for postmaster at Denver to succeed Postmaster Sours. A caucus of the House Democrats on the iron and steel tariff schedule is likely in the very near future. Huntington Wilson, assistant secretary of state, is to succeed Robert Bacon as ambassador to France. The House committee on rules has begun consideration of proposed investigations into the so-called money, shipping and harvester trusts. The committee probably will suggest the appointment of a special committee to conduct a joint investigation of the trio of industrial concerns. After Postmaster General Hitchcock had been in conference with President Taft for more than an hour, an authoritative statement was made at the White House that there had been no friction between the President and the postmaster general over the latter's recommendation that the government acquire and operate all telegraph lines as an adjunct of the postal system. The House judiciary committee ordered favorably reported the Henry resolution changing the date of the presidential inauguration from March 4 to the last Thursday in April and the terms of representation in Congress to begin the second Tuesday in January instead of March 4. These change would be effective April, 1917, and January, 1918, respectively. The resolution would provide for extension of the term of the President and vice president elected in 1912 to the last Thursday of April, 1917. GENERAL With 240,000,000 gallons of purified water in the reservoirs the St. Louis water crisis has passed. The late Associate Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court of the United States, left an estate of $13,000. Four trainmen are dead and two perhaps fatally injured as the result of a head-on collision at Long Run, Ky. An issue of $20,000,000 5 per cent gold bonds has been sold to a New York banking house, by the Rock Island Railway Company. The price of Elgin creamery butter has reached 47 cents per pound in Chicago, the highest price in that city's history, and promises to go to 60 cents. the storm-swept Atlantic coast is pilling up a record of shipwrecks and suffering that promises to eclipse the havoc of all previous rigorous and severe winters on the Eastern seaboard. During the last fortnight—and the end is not yet in sight—the revenue cutters patrolling the coast have been called into greater activity than ever before in their history. Four hundred and eighty-eight ocean passenger steamships in the United States have complied with the wireless ship act, according to the report of the commissioner of navigation. One hundred and forty-two other vessels in this country have voluntarily equipped with wireless. The total number of merchant vessels in the world equipped with wireless is now 1,013. Division of opinion as to the policy to be pursued by the bituminous and ahnacite coal miners' unions of the country in attempting to enforce a demand for higher wages appeared among the leaders of the United Mine Workers of America when the annual convention opened in Indianapolis. The question to be brought before the convention is whether individual districts of the miners' union shall sign new wage contracts with mine owners as they can be negotiated, or whether the miners as a national organization shall refuse to sign any contracts until the operators of all the districts have agreed to the miners' terms. When an express train on the New York division of the Pennsylvania railroad crashed into a light station wagon at a grade crossing in Toresdale, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia, five women and one man were killed. The constitutionality of the employers' liability law passed by Congress in 1903 has been upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in all cases before it. The court also decided that state courts may enforce that act when local laws are appropriate. THE COLORADO STATESMAN Mr. Moses Cook is threatened with pneumonia. The little son of Pipeman Oglesby is having trouble with his eyes. Mrs. Hattie Smith, 3147 Humboldt, is again confined to her bed. Mrs. B. F. Givens has been suffering with rheumatism. George Parker arrived in the city last Sunday from Lake, Colo. Clarence Wilson, Everett Reynolds and Mrs. Lizzie Carter are on the sick list. Mr. A. W. Collier is suffering with blood poison and it is feared will lose his right hand. Mrs. Patton left last Sunday night to join her husband in Kansas City, Mo. Mrs. Francis Turner of 1863 Curtis street, who has been very near death's dor, is slowly recovering. The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gentry, 2927 Larimer tsreet, who has been very ill, is sitting up. Mrs. J. Thompson, 2054 Arapahoe street, is confined to the house with a slight cold. I. H. Harper has been appointed by the chairman of the Lincoln Banquet Committee to assist at the main door of the banquet hall. Mrs. Robert Roy, is slightly indisposed from the effects of an anesthetic administered to assist in repairing her masticatory department. Mrs. E. M. Reeves of 957 South Clarkson street, who has been suffering with an injured foot, is now much better. Mr. Jno. McCoy, who is here for his health, has removed to 1954 Pearl street. He will gladly welcome the coming of all Masonic brethren. Officer Peter Carr has gone East after W. A. Rice, the defaulting keeper of records and seals of Damon Lodge No. 5, K. of P. The Sewing circle of Shorter's A. M. E. church met at Mrs. A. von Dickersohn's Thursday afternoon. The society is one of the oldest in the church. The reception tendered the new pastor, Rev. A. D. Williams, and the retiring pastor, Rev. Rainey, by the Central Baptist Church, an last Wednesday evening, was well attended and enjoyed by all present. Mr. Theodore Marshall of 2938 Welton street took seriously ill last Monday; but was able to be removed to the home of his parents in Pueblo last Thursday, where we hope he will soon regain his health. Josh Holbert died last Saturday at the county hospital. Funeral took place at the Lawhorn Undertaking parlors, Monday, January 15th, Rev. Williams officiating. Interment at Riverside. W. A. Rice, formerly of this city, has been arrested in East St. Louis as a fugitive from justice. He is charged with swindling money from Damon Lodge No. 5, K. of P., and will be brought back here to face the charge. The Union revival service, Zion Baptist and Shorter's A. M. E. Church, have united their spiritual forces to whip old Satan. It is a land and water battle. The Baptist acting as the navy and the Methodist as the army, truly Satan is up against it. The funeral of Rev. Augustus Lewis Thomas, who died in Kansas City last week was held at Central Baptist Church Monday, January 15th. The funeral was conducted by Rev. A. E. Reynolds. Interment at Fairmount cemetery. A. M. Lawhorn in charge. --- Jerry Chisolm, chef on the private car of A. D. Parker, vice president of the Colorado & Southern railroad, arrived in Denver last Wednesday night from a trip through Texas. Mr. Chisolm is giving excellent service on his car and is complimented highly by officials of the road. The Johnson-Noel Company, 1005 16th street, is the finest gents furnishing store in the city. The politest of attendants, best of goods, most reasonable of prices, up-to-date in every particular. Give them a call. Once a customer, always a customer. If you wish classy goods, give them a call. You will not regret it. Joseph Harris, for whom the colored people have contributed money to have his case appealed to the Supreme Court, has written a long letter to the Colorado Statesman asking for information concerning the disposition of the money, and the amount contributed. The letter was turned over to the president of the People's Sunday Alliance for action. The remains of Dennis E. Henry, who died in Cheyenne, Wyo., January 11th, were shipped to Denver for burial. His funeral will take place Sunday at 1 o'clock from Campbell Church. He was a member of Damon Lodge No. 5, K. of P., of this city, and Star Lodge Masons at Cheyenne, Wyo. The Douglass Undertaking Company in charge. The annual dinner and dance given last Thursday evening at Dania hall by the Bon Vivant Club was one of the most elaborate affairs of the season. Dania hall never looked pretier than in its stately decorations, consisting of the club colors, blue and white. The table was decorated with trailing ferns and cut flowers. Dancing followed the dinner and was continued till a late hour. The ball given by the Ninth Cavalry Band at East Turner Hall was a great success, and was certainly the best attended affairs given there for some time. Its patrons consisted of many of our prominent citizens, some of whom attended simply to encourage the boys. The concert that preceded the ball was simply grand, and demonstrated the truthfulness of the saying, that the Ninth Cavalry Band ranks among the best. Come again, boys. SCOTTS NOTES Miss Jessie Pierson won the prize at the Widows and Widowers Leap Year entertainment last Monday evening. Mrs. Anna B. Dawson deserves much credit for the way she entertained the young people by these very successful novelty, entertainments. Refreshments were served after the program. Mr. and Mrs. F. D. McPherson were the leaders in a surprise given for Mrs. Dora E. Wallace last Monday evening at the parsonage. Every thing good to eat were served in abundance to the large gathering of young and old people. The Leap Year entertainment and surprise were combined into one grand program after the awarding of the prize in the church. When all went away they expressed themselves as being glad that they attended the Leap Year entertainment. Mrs. Wallace and the children left Tuesday evening on the Rock Island for Selma, Ala. A ten days prayer and preaching service began last Wednesday evening with a sermon by the pastor. These meetings will continue Monday. You are invited to attend. The Rev. C. W. Holmes will preach the Freedman's Aid Anniversary sermon the second Sunday in February. A special program will be prepared in honor of Abraham Lincoln's birthday, which occurs about the time of this important anniversary. We wish to thank the many friends who contributed so largely and who gave so many little delicacies for Mrs. Wallace and the children's trip to Selma. These many courtesies and gifts came unsought and this is what makes it more appreciable. Mrs. M. E. Forney is out again circulating among her many friends. Mrs. Forney is just recovering from a severe illness. Miss Florstein Dooley has organized a Junior choir, which sang Sunday morning. The little Juniors covered themselves with glory. Evangelistic services will be held Sunday morning and Sunday evening. We invite men and women without a church home to visit us and we will do you good. The Rev. J. J. Harrison left Tuesday evening over the Rock Island for his home in LaFayette, Ala. The Rev. Harrison preached five times during his short stay in our city. His messages of power will be long remembered. He will likely transfer to the Lincoln Conference in the near future. Mrs. W. H. Hicks, the president of the choir, has been a little indisposed. A neat sum was raised by her leadership last Wednesday evening for the second payment of our beautiful choir chairs. Mrs. Hicks comes from a working church. NOTED COLORED HORSEMEN IN DENVER. Thomas Bass of Mexico, Mo., is in the city attending the Western Stock show. Mr. Bass is known, as one of the best horsemen in the country, and as a testimonial of the same he has many medals as proof. In the three and five gaited combination horses, first to harness and then to saddle. Mr. Bass' Sunshine, named and schooled by himself, was given the blue ribbon, last Thursday evening. The following article appeared in Friday morning's Republican: Seemed University Class Rather Than High School. In his element at last, Tom Bass was the first competitor to show in the class for high schooled horses. The Bell, his mount, possessed the merits and qualifications of a university graduate, it seemed, instead of a mere high school graduate. With the one forefoot on the ground, The Bell backed in circles while the crowd cheered, and then waltzed and two-stepped to the ragtime airs, which the orchestra was smashing out. Nelson Rowland on Sanford Chieftain, the horse he recently sold to Harry C. James for Hiss Edna James, took the tsage next. The Lexington, Ky., trainer followed his predecessor, putting flowing tailed mount through the same stunts. Harry Wilkes, Sergt. Howard's black goldling, Dock; Sergt. Woodfort's bay, Dimple; Sergt. Johnson's bay, and Midget; Farmer Butler's bay, were also shown. All of the animals were put through their paces, and to the delight of the crowd. The blue ribbon was given to Bass and The Bell, and Doc Dimple and Midget, the army horses educated by troopers of the Ninth cavalry, finished in the order named. Sanford Chieftain was unplaced. Answering an encore, Tom Bass cake-walked The Bell while the band played "Steamboat Bill." TRAMPS. There are so many kinds of tramps that one gets confused at hearing the word, tramp spoken. For instance, there is the church tramp, that is one not only visits every church, but who actually joins them all and obeys the rules of none, and when he finds that there are no more churches for him to join, he sits down and finds fault with all of them. Then comes the secret order tramp. If he is a high flyer the way he can travel as for his degrees, why he passed through them like a dose of salts and he, too, is soon gone, where to nobody knows. The entire country seems to be infested with the tramp; there are many kinds of tramps, however, but few specimen comes under the general observation of the public and they would not be so prominently noticed were it not for the positions they occupy. Take the clergical, first he storms, but as soon as he finds out that the task is a hard one he, too, folds his tent and glides away, and as for the others as soon as their stars begin to grow dim they, too, fade away, and are no more. THE PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Sermon Topics, Sunday, Jan. 21st. 11 a. m.—Sermon by Rev. J. P. Hutchinson. 4:14 p. m.—Y. P. S. C. , "Worthwhile Ambitions." 5 p. m.—"Unavoidable Responsibilities." The public is hereby notified, at a congregational meeting of the People's church last Sunday morning, the hour of evening service was changed from 7:30 to 8 p.m. to begin Sunday, Jan. 21, until further notice. The Rev. Dr. Hutchinson, field secretary of the general assembly's committee on Sabbath observance will occupy the pulpit at the morning service, and the pastor will preach at 5 o'clock. The presence of all members and friends is solicited. At the winter meeting of Presbytery last Tuesday at Central Presbyterian church, Dr. R. M. Donaldson, field secretary of the Board of Home Missions for the Rocky Mountain District of seven states, was commissioned as envoy to represent the People's church to the authorities at New York, and Dr. R. F. Coyle and Elder O. A. Erdman of the First Avenue church as negotiators with the Board of Chruch Erection in St. Louis. WERE STARS 75 We're not singing in the chorus in the Overcoat business. We feature them as "Headliners" this season. Our trade connections and our facilities are such that we can claim, in all good faith, to give better values than any other shop in this city. You will readily convince yourself by comparison. A 1-4 Off On Suits and Overcoats should certainly be an inducement that you can't afford to let pass. GREAT REDUCTIONS IN ALL OTHER LINES. THE Johnson-Noel Co 1005 SIXTEENTH STREET FRIENDS ALL WANT IT. Mrs. D. B. Simmons of Silex, Ark, writes: "I tried one bottle of Ford's Hair Pomade and found it to be the best preparation I have ever used. It stopped my hair from falling out and breaking off and my hair is now as soft as it can be and is longer than it has been for a long time. My friends all want it. Ford's Hair Pomade, the old, reliable dressing for stubborn, curly hair makes harsh hair more pliable, glossy and easy to comb. Try it and Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion, for the complexion. For sale by druggists, accept no other, see that it is Ford's and manufactured by the Ozonized Ox Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. THE STOCK SHOW. Is drawing a record crowd this year. 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ALL WORK GUARANTEED. 903 15th St., Denver, Colo. A. W. Lewis Attorney and Counselor at Law 1941 Arapahoe St. DENVER, COLORADO 1023 Eighteenth St. TAFT ON ECONOMY AND EFFICIENCY President Sends Another Special Message to Congress. PLANS FOR BETTER SERVICE Results of Commission's Inquiry Into Methods of Saving Money and Getting Better Work From Government Employes. Washington, Jan. 17. — President Taft submitted to congress today another message, this time on economy and efficiency in the government service. The message in part is as follows: To the Senate and House of Representatives: I submit for the information of the congress this report of progress made in the inquiry into the efficiency and economy of the methods of transacting public business. Efficiency and economy in the government service have been demanded with increasing insistence for a generation. Real economy is the result of efficient organization. By perfecting the organization the same benefits may be obtained at less expense. A reduction in the total of the annual appropriations is not in itself a proof of economy, since it is often accompanied by a decrease in efficiency. The needs of the nation may demand a large increase of expenditure, yet to keep the total appropriations within the expected revenue is necessary to the maintenance of public credit. Upon the president must rest a large share of the responsibility for the demands made upon the treasury for the current administration of the executive branch of the government. Upon the congress must rest responsibility for those grants of public funds which are made for other purposes. Reason for the Inquiry. Recognizing my share of responsibility for efficient and economical administration, I have endeavored during the past two years, with the assistance of heads of departments, to secure the best results. As one of the means to this end I requested a grant from congress to make my efforts more effective. An appropriation of $100,000 was made June 25, 1910, "to enable the president to inquire into the methods of transacting the public business of the executive departments and other government establishments and to recommend to congress such legislation as may be necessary to carry into effect changes found to be desirable that cannot be accomplished by executive action alone." I have been given this fund to enable me to take action and to make specific recommendations with respect to the details of transacting the business of an organization whose activities are almost as varied as those of the entire business world. The operations of the government affect the interest of every person living within the jurisdiction of the United States. Its organization embraces stations and centers of work located in every city and in many local subdivisions of the country. Its gross expenditures amount to nearly $1,000,000,000 annually. Including the personnel of the military and naval establishments, more than 400,000 persons are required to do the work imposed by law upon the executive branch of the government. Plan of the Work. In accordance with my instructions, the commission on economy and efficiency, which I organized to aid me in the inquiry, has directed its efforts primarily to the formulation of concrete recommendations looking to the betterment of the fundamental conditions under which governmental operations must be carried on. With a basis thus laid, it has proceeded to the prosecution of detailed studies of individual services and classes of work. and of particular practices and methods, pushing these studies as far, and covering as many points and services, as the resources and time at its disposal have permitted. In approaching its task it has divided the work into five fields of inquiry having to do respectively with organization, personnel, business methods, accounting and reporting, and the budget. Organization. I have stated that the congress, the president, and the administrative officers are attempting to discharge the duties with which they are intrusted without full information as to the agencies through which the work of the government is being performed. To provide more complete information on this point the commission has submitted to me a report on the organization of the government as it existed July 1, 1911. This report, which is transmitted herewith, shows in great detail, by means of outlines, not only the departments, commissions, bureaus and offices through which the government performs its varied activities, but also the sections, shops, field stations, etc., constituting the subordinate divisions through which the work is actually done. It shows for the services at Washington each such final unit as a laboratory, library, shop and administrative subdivision; and for the services outside of Washington each station and point at which any activity of the government is carried on. Comprehensive Plan of Organization. With this outline as a basis, the commission has entered upon the preparation of three series of reports. The first series deals with the manner in which the services of the government should be grouped in departments. This is a matter of fundamental importance. It is only after a satisfactory solution of this problem that many important measures of reform become possible. Only by grouping services according to their character can substantial progress be made in eliminating duplication of work and plant and proper working relations be established between services engaged in similar activities. Until the head of a department is called upon to deal exclusively with matters falling in but one or a very few distinct fields, effective supervision and control is impossible. As long as the same department embraces services so diverse in character as those of life saving and the management of public finances, standardization of accounting methods and of other business practices is exceedingly difficult of attainment. So dependent are other reforms upon the proper grouping of services that I have instructed the commission to indicate in its report the changes which should be made in the existing organization and to proceed in the same way as would far-seeing architects or engineers in planning for the improvement and development of a great city. My desire is to secure and to furnish to the congress a scheme of organization that can be used as a basis of discussion and action for years to come. In the past services have been created one by one as exigencies have seemed to demand, with little or no reference to any scheme of organization of the government as a whole. I am convinced that the time has come when the government should take stock of its activities and agencies and formulate a comprehensive plan with reference to which future changes may be made. The report of the commission is being prepared with this idea in mind. When completed it will be transmitted to congress. The recommendations will be of such a character that they can be acted upon one by one if they commend themselves to the congress and as action in regard to any one of them is deemed to be urgent. Report on Particular Services. The second and third series of reports deal, respectively, with the organization and activities of particular services, and the form of organization for the performance of particular business operations. One of the reports of the second series is upon the revenue cutter service, which costs the government over two and a half million dollars each year. In the opinion of the commission its varied activities can be performed with equal, or greater, advantage by other services. The commission, therefore, recommends that it be abolished. It is estimated that by so doing a saving of not less than $1,000,000 a year can be made. Another report illustrating the second series recommends that the lighthouse and life saving services be administered by a single bureau, instead of as at present by two bureaus located in different departments. These services have much in common. Geographically, they are similarly located; administratively, they have many of the same problems. It is estimated that consolidation would result in a saving of not less than $100,006 annually. General Technical Services. A third series of reports is being prepared on those branches of the organization which are technical in character and which exist for the service of the government as a whole—branches which have to do with such matters as public printing, heating, lighting, the making of repairs, the providing of transportation, and the compilation of statistics where mechanical equipment is essential. Abolition of Local Offices. Abolition of Local Offices. Perhaps the part of the organization in which the greatest economy in public expenditure is possible is to be found in the numerous local offices of the government. In some instances the establishment and the discontinuance of these local offices are matters of administrative discretion. In other instances they are established by permanent law in such a manner that their discontinuance is beyond the power of the president or that of any executive officer. In a number of services these laws were passed nearly a century ago. Changes in economic conditions have taken place which have had the effect of rendering certain offices not only useless, but even worse than useless in that their very existence needlessly swells expenditures and complicates the administrative system. The attention of congress has been called repeatedly to these conditions. In some instances the congress has approved recommendations for the abolition of useless positions. In other cases not only do the recommendations of the executive that useless positions be abolished remain unheeded, but laws are passed to establish new offices at places where they are not needed. The responsibility for the maintenance of these conditions must naturally be divided between the congress and the executive. But that the executive has performed his duty when he has called the attention of the congress to the matter must also be admitted. Realizing my responsibility in the premises, I have directed the commission to prepare a report setting forth the positions in the local services of the government which may be discontinued with advantage, the saving which would result from such action and the changes in law which are necessary to carry into effect changes in organization found to be desirable. On the coming in of the report, such offices as may be found useless and can be abolished will be so treated by executive order. In my recent message to the congress I urged consideration of the necessity of placing in the classified service all of the local officers under the departments of the treasury, the interior, postoffice, and commerce and labor. Classification of Local Officers The importance of the existence of a competent and reasonably permanent civil service was not appreciated until the last quarter of the last century. At that time examinations were instituted as a means of ascertaining whether candidates for appointment possessed the requisite qualifications for government positions. Since then it has come to be universally admitted that entrance to almost every subordinate position in the public service should be dependent upon the proof in some appropriate way of the ability of the appointee. As yet, however, little if any attempt has been made by law to secure, either for the higher administrative positions in the service at Washington or for local offices, the qualifications which the incumbents of these positions must have if the business of the government is to be conducted in the most efficient and economical manner. Furthermore, in the case of many of the local officers the law positively provides that the term of office shall be of four years' duration. The next step which must be taken is to require of heads of bureaus in the departments at Washington, and of most of the local officers under the departments, qualifications of capacity similar to those now required of certain heads of bureaus and of local officers. The extension of the merit system to these officers and a needed readjustment of salaries will have important effects in securing greater economy and efficiency. In the first place, the possession by the incumbents of these positions of requisite qualifications must in itself promote efficiency. In the second place, the removal of local officers from the realm of political patronage in many cases would reduce the pay roll of the field services. At the present time the incumbents of many of these positions leave the actual performance of many of their duties to deputies and assistants. The government often pays two persons for doing work that could easily be done by one. What is the loss to the government cannot be stated, but that it is very large cannot be denied, when it is remembered how numerous are the local officers in the postal, customs, internal revenue, public lands, and other field services of the government. In the third place, so long as local officers are within the sphere of political patronage it is difficult to consider the question of the establishment or discontinuance of local offices apart from the effect upon local political situations. Finally, the view that these various offices are to be filled as a result of political considerations has for its consequence the necessity that the president and members of congress devote to matters of patronage time which they should devote to questions of policy and administration. The greatest economy and efficiency, and the benefits which may accrue from the president's devoting his time to the work which is most worth while, may be assured only by treating all the distinctly administrative officers in the departments at Washington and in the field in the same way as inferior officers have been treated. The time has come when all these officers should be placed in the classified service. The time has also come when those provisions of law which give to these officers a fixed term of years should be repealed. So long as a fixed term is provided by the law the question of reappointment of an officer, no matter how efficiently he may have performed his duties, will inevitably be raised periodically. So long as ap pointments to these offices must be confirmed by the senate, and so long as appointments to them be made every four years, just so long will it be impossible to provide a force of employees with a reasonably permanent tenure who are qualified by reason of education and training to do the best work. Superannuation. Attention has been directed in recent years to the need of a suitable plan of retiring the superannuated employees in the executive civil service. In the belief that it is desirable that any steps toward the establishment of such a plan shall be taken with caution, I instructed the commission to make an inquiry first into the conditions at Washington. This inquiry has been directed to the ascertainment of the extent to which superannuation now exists and to the consideration of the availability of the various plans which either have been proposed for adoption in this country or have actually been adopted in other countries. I shall submit, in the near future, for the consideration of the congress a plan for the retirement of aged employees in the civil service which will safeguard the interests of the government and at the same time make reasonable provision for the needs of those who have given the best part of their lives to the service of the state. Efficiency of Personnel. Efficiency of Personnel. I have caused inquiry to be made into the character of the appointees from the point of view of efficiency and competence which has resulted from present methods of appointment; into the present relation of compensation to the character of work done; into the existing methods of promotion and the bearing of ef- efficiency records in the various departments; and into the conditions of work in government offices. This inquiry will help to determine to what extent conditions of work are uniform in the different departments and how far uniformity in such conditions will tend to improve the service. I have felt that satisfaction with the conditions in which they worked was a necessary prerequisite to an efficient personnel, and that satisfaction was not to be expected where conditions in one department were less favorable than in another. This inquiry has not been completed. When it has been ascertained that evils exist which can be remedied through the exercise of the powers now vested in the president, I shall endeavor to remedy those evils. Where that is not the case, I shall present for the consideration of the congress plans which, I believe, will be followed by great improvement in the service. Business Methods. In every case where technical processes have been studied it has been demonstrated beyond question that large economies may be effected. The subjects first approached were those which lie close to each administrator, viz, office practices. An illustration of the possibilities within this field may be found in the results of the inquiry into the methods of handling and filing correspondence. Every office in the government has reported its methods to the commission. These reports brought to light the fact that present methods were quite in the reverse of uniform. Some offices follow the practice of briefing all correspondence; some do not. Some have flat files; others fold all papers before filling. Some use press copies; others retain only carbon copies. Unnecessary Cost of Handling and Filing Correspondence. The reports also show not only a very wide range in the methods of doing this comparatively simple part of the government business, but an extraordinary range in cost. For the handling of incoming mail the averages of cost by departments vary from $5.84 to $84.40 per 1,000. For the handling of outgoing mail the averages by departments vary from $5.94 to $69.89 per 1,000. This does not include the cost of preparation, but is confined merely to the physical side of the work. The variations between individual offices is many times greater than that shown for averages by departments. It is at once evident either that it is costing some of the offices too little or that others are being run at an unwarranted expense. Nor are these variations explained by differences in character of work. For example, there are two departments which handle practically the same kind of business and in very large volume. The average cost of handling incoming mail to one was found to be over six times as great as the cost of handling incoming mail to the other. Excluding the cost of preparation, the average cost per 1,000 for outgoing mail to one was nearly 50 per cent. greater than that for the other. It has been found that differences of average cost by departments closely follow differences in method and that the greatest cost is found in the department where the method is most involved. Another fact is of interest, viz., that in the two departments above referred to, which show the lowest averages, orders have been issued which will lead to large saving without impairing efficiency. It cannot be said what the saving ultimately will be when the attention of officers in all of the departments has been focused on present methods with a view to changing them in such manner as to reduce cost to the lowest point compatible with efficient service. It, however, must be a considerable percentage of nearly $5,000,000, the total estimated cost of handling this part of the government business at Washington. Results have already been obtained which are noteworthy. Mention has been made of the orders issued by two departments. Of these the order of one is most revolutionary in character, since it requires flat filing, where before all correspondence was folded; the doing away with letterpress copies; and the discontinuance of indorsements on slips, one of the most expensive processes and one which in the other department has been carried to very great length. Need for Labor-Saving Office Devices. Need for Labor-Saving Office Devices. The use of labor-saving office devices in the service has been made the subject of special inquiry. An impression prevails that the government is not making use of mechanical devices for economizing labor to the same extent as are efficiently managed private enterprises. A study has been made of the extent to which devices of this character are now being employed in the several branches of the government and the opportunities that exist for their more general use. In order to secure information as to the various kinds of labor-saving devices that are in existence and as to their adaptability to government work, an exhibition of labor-saving office appliances was held in Washington from July 6 to 15, 1911. One hundred and ten manufacturers and dealers participated, and more than 10,000 officers and employees visited the exhibition. There is no doubt that the exhibition served the purpose of bringing to the attention of officers devices which can be employed by them with advantage. The holding of this exhibition was, however, but a step preparatory to the contemplated investigation. Unnecessary Cost of Copy Work. The efforts of the commission resulted also in the adoption by several bureaus or departments of improved methods of doing copying. The amount of copy work heretofore done by hand each year in the many offices is estimated to aggregate several hundred thousand dollars. The commission exhibited, at its offices, appliances that were thought to be especially adapted to this kind of government work. Following these demonstrations methods of copying were introduced which have brought about a saving of over 75 per cent. in offices where used for six months. This change in one small cross-section of office practice will more than offset the whole cost of my inquiry. Waste In the Distribution of Public Documents Going outside the office, one of the business processes which have been investigated is the distribution of departmental documents. This is a subject with which both the congress and administration heads are familiar. The prevailing practice in handling departmental publications is to have them manufactured at the government printing office; each job when completed is delivered to the department; here the books or pamphlets are wrapped and addressed; they are then sent to the postoffice; there they are assorted and prepared for shipment through the mails; from the postoffice they are sent to the railroad station, which is only a few steps from the government printing office, whence they started. The results of this laborious and circuitous method is to make the use of the best mechanical equipment impracticable and to waste each year not less than a quarter of a million dollars of government funds in useless handling, to say nothing of the indirect loss due to lack of proper co-ordination. Wasteful Use of Properties and Equipment The use of equipment is a matter which also has been investigated. Up to the present time this investigation has been in the main confined to the subject of electric lighting. The government pays over $600,000 per year for electric current; it has made large capital outlays for wiring and fixtures. With the increasing demands in many buildings the present equipment is taxed to its limit and if the present methods are continued much of this wiring must be done over; in many places employees are working at a great physical disadvantage, due to inadequate and improper lighting, and thereby with reduced efficiency. In every place where the inquiry has been conducted it appears that there is large waste; that without the cost of rewiring, simply by giving proper attention to location of lights and the use of proper lamps and reflectors, the light efficiency at points where needed may be much increased and the cost of current reduced from 30 to 60 per cent. Other inquiries into the use which is being made of properties and equipment are contemplated which promise even larger results. Unnecessary Cost of Insurance. It is the policy of the government not to insure public property against fire and other losses. Question has been raised whether the government might not apply the same principle to other forms of risk, including insurance of the fidelity of officials and employees. A report is now in preparation on the subject which will show opportunities for large savings. I believe that the present expense for insuring the faithful execution of contracts, which, though paid by the contractor, is more than covered in the added price to the government, can be largely reduced without taking away any element of security. Lack of Specifications. The importance of establishing and maintaining standard specifications is found not only in the possibility of very materially reducing the direct cost of government trading, but also in insuring to the service materials, supplies and equipment which are better adapted to its purposes. One of the results of indefiniteness of specifications is to impose contract conditions which make it extra hazardous for persons to enter into contractual relations. This not only deprives the government of the advantage of broad competition, but causes it to pay an added margin in price to vendors who must carry the risk. Excessive Cost of Travel. One of the first steps taken toward constructive work was the reclassification of the expenditures for the year 1910 by objects. The foundation was thus made for the investigation of government trading practices. While it was recognized that this large field could not be covered within a year except at enormous cost, the subjects of "Transportation of persons" and "Subsistence while in travel status" were taken as concrete examples. The annual cost of travel to the government was found to be about $12,000,000. It was also found that the government employees were traveling in practically every way that was open to the public; it was further found that although the government was the largest user of transportation, it was buying railroad tickets on a less favorable basis than would be possible if the subject of traveling expenditures were systematically handled from the point of view of the government as a whole. The form of ticket most often used between such points as New York, Philadelphia and Washington was the single-trip, first-class ticket. In two departments definite tests have been made in the use of mileage books and in each practically the same result has been reported, viz., an erage saving of a little over one-half of one cent per mile. Better Methods for Purchasing. Better methods for purchasing. Through a long period of years and by numerous laws and orders there has grown up a procedure governing public advertising and contracting that is more burdensome and expensive in some cases than is necessary. the procedure is not uniform in the various departments; it is not uniform in many cases for the different services in the same department. To make uniform the requirements so far as practicable will be in the interest of economy and efficiency and bring about that simplicity that will secure the largest opportunity for contractors to bid for government work, and will secure for the government the most favorable prices obtained by any purchaser. The Budget. The United States is the only great nation whose government is operated without a budget. This fact seems to be more striking when it is considered that budgets and budget procedures are the outgrowth of Democratic doctrines and have had an important part in the development of modern constitutional rights. The American commonwealth has suffered much from irresponsibility on the part of its governing agencies. The constitutional purpose of a budget is to make government responsive to public opinion and responsible for its acts. The Budget as an Annual Program. A budget should be the means for getting before the legislative branch, before the press, and before the people a definite annual program of business to be financed; it should be in the nature of a prospectus both of revenues and expenditures; it should comprehend every relation of the government to the people, whether with reference to the raising of revenues or the rendering of service. In many foreign countries the annual budget program is discussed with special reference to the revenue to be raised, the thought being that the raising of revenue bears more direct relation to welfare than does government expenditure. Around questions of source of revenue political parties have been organized, and on such questions voters in the United States have taken sides since the first revenue law was proposed. Public-Welfare Questions. The principal government objects in which the people of the United States are interested include: The national defense; the protection of persons and property; the promotion of friendly relations and the protection of American interests abroad; the regulation of commerce and industry; the promotion of agriculture, fisheries, forestry and mining; the promotion of manufacturing, commerce, and banking; the promotion of transportation and communication; the postal service, including postal savings and parcels post; the care for and utilization of the public domain; the promotion of education, art, science and recreation; the promotion of the public health; the care and education of the Indians and other wards of the nation. These are public-welfare questions in which I assume every citizen has a vital interest. I believe that every member of congress, as an official representative of the people, each editor, as a non-official representative of public opinion, each citizen, as a beneficiary of the trust imposed on officers of the government, should be able readily to ascertain how much has been spent for each of these purposes; how much has been appropriated for the current year; how much the administration is asking for each of these purposes for the next fiscal year. Furthermore, each person interested should have laid before him a clear, well-digested statement showing in detail whether moneys appropriated have been economically spent and whether each division or office has been efficiently run. This is the information which should be available each year in the form of a budget and in detail accounts and reports supporting the budget. Continuance of the Commission. Continuance of the Commission. I ask the continuance of this commission on economy and efficiency because of the excellent beginning which has been made toward the reorganization of the machinery of this government on business principles. I ask it because its work is entirely non-partisan in character and ought to apply to every citizen who wishes to give effectiveness to popular government, in which we feel a just pride. The work further commends itself for the reason that the cost of organization and work has been carefully considered at every point. Three months were taken in consideration of plans before the inquiry was begun; six months were then spent in preliminary investigations before the commission was organized; before March 3, 1911, when I asked for a continuation of the original appropriation for the current year, only $12,000 had been spent. The expenditure for the inquiry during the present fiscal year is at the rate of $130,000. The mass of information which must be collected, digested and summarized pertaining to each subject of inquiry is enormous. From the results obtained it is evident that every dollar which is spent in the prosecution of the inquiry in the future will result in manifold savings. Every economy which has been or will be effected through changes in organization or method will inure to the benefit of the government and of the people in increasing measure through the years which follow. It is clearly the part of wisdom to provide for the coming year means at least equal to those available during the current year, and in my opinion the appropriation should be increased to $200,000, and an additional amount of $50,000 should be provided for the publication of those results, which will be of continuing value to officers of the government and to the people. W. M. H. TAFT. The White House, January 17, 1912. 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Fort Collins.—Marion Cooksie, who admitted the theft of $70 from the Empress theater, was sentenced to an indeterminate term in the reformatory at Buena Vista. Fruit Men Combine Palisade.—Consolidation of the Grand Valley Fruit Growers' Association of Grand Junction and the Western Slope Fruit Growers' Association of Palisade will probably take place within a few days. It will be amply financed and plans to extend operations. New Factory for Grand Junction. Grand Junction — A Massachusetts manufacturing firm has written Mayor Todd and the city commissioners asking permission to establish a factory here for baby carriages and high chairs. Permission will be granted. Prominent Attorney Dies. Boulder. — Hon. Richard Henry Whitely, aged fifty, a graduate of the first class at the University of Colorado, and one of the leading attorneys of Colorado, died at his home here as the direct result of a fall recently when he struck his head on a sharp piece of ice, fracturing his skull. New Road to Durango. Durango.—The building of the Southern Pacific extension from a point on that line south of Clifton, Ariz., to the coal beds in the San Juan basin, near Durango, where the Harriman interests control coal deposits estimated to be worth $30,000,000, is reported to be the next important step in railroad building in the West. Cattle Situation Relieved. Las Animas.—The cattle situation in southeastern Colorado is now well on its way to being cleared up. The cattle are moving rapidly across the state line into Kansas, where provision is being made for them. Five thousand tons of baled hay has been located and the Denver & Rio Grande have granted a low rate of freight which will mean prompt action and immediate relief for the cattle. Irrigation Tangle Settled. Pueblo.—After a year of legal controversy the affairs of the Pueblo-Rocky Ford Irrigation Company are to be straightened out and adjustment of suits aggregating $800,000 now pending effected. Legal difficulties which have hampered the company for the last year can be satisfactorily settled, it is said, and the many suits and counter suits filed are to be withdrawn, with the result that the company, which proposes to irrigate 50,000 acres of land southeast of here, may proceed with its enterprise. To Make Paper From Pulp. Hudson.—For the purpose of extracting juice from sugar cane, sugar beets, fruit and vegetables, in order to obtain the pulp to be used for making paper, a $50,000 dehydrating plant is to be built here. The manufacture of sugar will be of secondary importance. G. Bort has donated the site for the factory and Clarence Ireland, a director of the Henrylyn Irriation district, has pledged 1,000 acres of land on which to grow the 10,000 tons of beets necessary. Within a few days the Denver-Hudson Dehydrating Company is to be incorporated with a capital of $10,000,000. The Hudson plant is to be a branch of the paper mill in Denver, recently leased by C. C. Chapin and George Larmed of Boston. The factory will be built this year and give employment to 100 men ten months in the year. Cattle Rustling Must Stop. Grand Junction.—The failure to secure a conviction in either of two cattle rustling cases tried early last fall, in which the Mesa County Stockmen's Association employed skilled detectives, and the increasing loss to cattlemen from thieves has caused the executive board of the organization to take steps toward protection which are as drastic as those in vogue in western Colorado before there were courts. On each range a cowboy who is known to be a dead shot will be placed. He will have the safety of the herds in his hand and will parrol his territory as a policeman does his beat. He will be paid by the stockmen, but will have a commission from the sheriff. He is under orders from his employers to shoot on sight any cattle thief whom he catches separating cattle from the herds, and the stockmen have received assurances from the district attorney that efforts to prevent rustling will not be inferred with. Hundred Cattle Starving. Denver — Superintendent E. K. Whitehead of the State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection, has received a letter from an officer of the board located at Sugar City, informing him that a herd of about 100 cattle are suffering in that vicinity from cold, hunger and the recent operation of branding them. He says the animals, for purposes of identification, have had portions of their ears cut off in addition to the application of an unusually large brand. LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS. Small Happenings Occurring Over the State Worth While. Western Newspaper Union News Service. The Second Baptist church has just been organized at Colorado Springs. H. Madenick was found guilty of bootlegging at Loveland and fined $200 and costs. The Ridgway Electric Company spent $10,000 in improving its system last year. Range stock in eastern Colorado are dying of thirst on account of water freezing. Victor's new auto fire truck has been given a tryout and found satisfactory. Dr. L. S. Cornell, a prominent physician of Berthoud, died recently of penumonia. As a result of mistaking strychnine for cough syrup, Oliver M. Hill, of Meeker, is dead. The Lamar High school defeated the Wiley team in a game of basket ball by a score of 22 to 8. Great preparations are being made for the Farmers' Institute to be held at Loveland January 26th. Grand Junction and Paradox have a proposition before the state to construct a sixty-mile highway. Thirty persons who have lived in Denver twenty-five years or more, have died so far this month. The County Commissioners of Ouray county are seriously contemplating establishing a county farm. Harold F. Henwood will be placed on trial in Denver for the killing of Tony Von Phul, February 12. Mrs. Fred Kummer, formerly of Johnstown, died at Keota, following the birth of her eleventh child. Joseph Magnettia, an employee of the Colorado and Southern at Silver Plume, was suddenly stricken blind. Newell W. Banks, champion checker player of the United States, will visit Denver the latter part of January. The $35,000 Methodist church at Trinidad was recently dedicated, Bishop Quayle of Oklahoma City presiding. Reports say there are 2,600 head of cattle starving to death in the snowbound region near Craig, Moffat county. As a result of the recent severe cold weather, gray, or lobo, wolves are unusually active in the vicinity of Meeker. Arrangements have been completed for a ten-round bout between Louis Newman of Denver and Eddie Johnson of Alamosa. C. C. Doyle, who confessed to operating a lottery, was fined $100 and sixty days in jail, by the District Court in Denver. More than half of the $10,000 necessary to keep in operation certain branches of the Agricultural college has been promised. Placerville station is credited with shipping the second largest number of cattle of any station in the state of Colorado last year. J. Maddicks and Jesse Mumm, two convicts, are at large in the Fort Collins section and the authorities are trying to run them down. A book showing the roads and drives in the Pike's Peak region has been issued by the Good Roads Association of El Paso county. Judge Lewis in the Federal Court has issued an order enjoining Otero county from collecting taxes assessed against the Santa Fe railroad. For the first time in several weeks Lyons has water for domestic purposes and fire protection, the pipes having frozen during the recent cold spell. Either Pueblo or Grand Junction will bring suit in the Supreme Court to decide the legality of the commission form of government for Colorado cities. It is stated that the Pueblo Western League Baseball franchise is about to be transferred to Frank Isbell of Wichita, who will open a down-town ball park. Ranchmen in the vicinity of Salida met in that city recently and organized a company to operate a creamery. Officers were elected and arrangements made to purchase machinery and equipment. B. M. Dyson, 25 years old, believed to be the cleverest swindler in the country, and whose operations are believed to have netted him thousands of dollars, has been arrested by the police in Denver. Commercial clubs in northeastern Weld county advocate that thirty townships be cut off and made into a new county. It is said the income in the proposed new county will be sufficient to pay the expenses. The establishment of a co-operative creamery at Gill, to be controlled by farmers, has been made almost certain. Cream from 500 cows has been pledged. The creamery will cost $5,000 and will probably be in operation within sixty days. The largest single shipment of potatoes from the Greeley district this season was twenty-three cars, which went to Kansas and Oklahoma, and was valued at $8,000. The second fire within a month occurred at Lakeside park, Denver, destroying the skating rink and damaging the derby, entailing a loss of $75,000. Gov. Shafroth has appointed Edward C. Stimson of Denver as a member of the Board of Control of the Colorado State Industrial School for girls. NEW LEASING PLAN PROPOSED CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES OF THE WEST PROVIDED FOR. TAYLOR BILL FAVORABLE SECRETARY OF INTERIOR AUTHORIZED TO EXTEND TIME ON DESERT ENTRIES. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington.—The first meeting of the Senate public lands committee, under the chairmanship of Senator Smoot of Utah, was devoted to a discussion of a general land leasing plan submitted by Senator Newlands of Nevada, the ranking Democratic member of the committee. Senator Newlands' plan is similar to that of Gifford Pinchot and Senator La Follette, and provides for conservation of natural resources of the West by proposing to retain all land containing coal, oil, iron, phosphates and all water power in the ownership of the federal government and providing for leasing these lands under conditions which Senator Newlands says "will at once prevent monopolistic control and yet provide for their development at fair prices to consumers." Newlands' plan provides that seventy-five per cent. of the revenue from the leased lands shall be paid to the state where the lands are located. The committee took no action on the Newlands plan and it will be discussed further at the next meeting of the committee. It is believed the Democratic members of the committee will vote to adopt the Newlands plan, but unless it receives some Republican support it will not be adopted. Senator Guggenheim obtained authority from the public lands committee, of which he is a member, to report favorably the Taylor bill, which has passed the House, authorizing the secretary of the interior to grant further extension of time within which to make proof on desert land entries in Weld and Larimer counties. The bill provides that any desert land entryman in the counties named may be granted a further extension of time of not more than three years in which to make final proof provided he shall show by his corroborated affidavit that because of unavoidable delay in the construction of irrigation works intended to convey water to the land embraced in his entry, he is, without fault on his part, unable to make proof of the reclamation and cultivation of his entry within the time required by law. Harry E. Wadsworth, superintendent of the Wind River Indian School Wyoming, was promoted by the Commissioner of Indian affairs to the superintendency of the Chemawa Indian School at Salem, Oregon. The Chemawa school is one of the largest in the Indian service and carries a salary of $300 a year more than the Wind River school. The vacancy caused by Wadsworth's promotion will be filled by the selection of a civil service eligible. Senator Warren was notified by the Commissioner of the General Land Office that 3,329 acres of land under the Carey act project of the Sahara Ditch Company has been approved for patent. The lands form part of the Sahara Ditch Company project in Johnson county, Wyoming. Prizes Are Awarded. Denver.—Reflecting the sympathies of the spectators as clearly as an image in a pool of water, the judges in the National Western Stock show awarded the blue ribbons in every event to the entrants who had earned the loudest plaudits from the audience. In every class the prizes wer awarded to those whom the huge stands cheered loudest, and there was never a dissenting voice to the awards. Alaskan Children Are Blind Washington.—Bishop P. T. Rowe, of Alaska, for sixteen years an Episcopal missionary, recommended to the Senate committee on territories the appointment of a commission to look after the public health in Alaska. Many children there are blind, according to the bishop. Fight for Bantam Belt. Los Angeles.—Johnny Coulon and Frankie Conley will fight twenty rounds for the bantam championship Feb. 3 at Vernon. New California Gold Field. Fresno.—Much excitement has resulted from gold discoveries at Dunlap, in the Sierra Nevada mountains, in this county. Miners are rushing to the new fields and a tent city has sprung up. Rich "pockets" found by prospectors started the rush. Burns and Britton to Fight. Oakland, Cal.—Frankie Burns of San Francisco and Jack Britton of Chicago have been matched for a ten-round fight here. 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We have supplied our office with job press and type of up-to-date style and our work will be on a par with the Very Best Give Us a Trial and We Will Give You Satisfaction PRICES AS REASONABLE AS THOSE OF ANY JOB OFFICE IN DENVER THE Colorado Statesman 1824 Curtis Street Room 25 --- THE HAT A is sold these days, made up by manufacturers into fancy forms (that is, into decorations differing from the simple plume) as in the regular ostrich plumes which we have known so long. Nothing is or will be, more beautiful than the full, soft, slightly-curled ostrich plume, known as the French plume, and when one is buying good ostrich, with a view to using it for some time, the French plume is the best investment. But when one is looking more for novelty than for long service, unequaled decorations are to be found in the displays of fancy ostrich. Besides the new forms, the wreaths and pompons, spirals, crowns and clusters, fancy ostrich gives the manufacturer wonderful opportunities in color combinations and in shadings. We shall continue to have novelties made of ostrich stock, because of these advantages and because so much stock not otherwise available will work up into effective fancy pieces. Three examples are shown here of hats trimmed with fancy ostrich pieces. As a rule each piece is a complete trimming for a shape and simplifies things for the trimmer. The big black velvet hat, with REVIVE THE OLD FASHIONS Designers Go Back to Medieval Times for Ideas that Give an Individual Note. Long clinging robes of velvet, cut on straight lines, which were fashionable in earlier centuries, are to be seen again in dresses for the daytime as well as evening. Dresses of this type, with entire absence of waistline, appeal strongly to women who like the individual note in dress. Some of the straight dresses recall modes which were fashionable in France in the fourteenth century. The yokes, cut out in something like a V in front and on the shoulders, are made of bands covered with embroidery, and the dresses moulded to the figure in severe style from neck to hem have sleeves to the elbows, repeating the embroidered bands at the neck. Such a gown was seen in a fashionable New York show room last week. Made of clear yellow velvet, the dress was hemmed with skunk and embroidered in deep tones of gold with a dash of turquoise blue introduced in the worsted girdle of deep gold, which gave a distinctive note to the dress. In the same show room there was a similar gown in Jacobean tapestry which had a tablier veiling of clear terra-cotta ninon down the front and back. One of the latest gowns from Paris was suggestive of an old fashion revived, and was carried out in a lovely shade of hyacinth blue satin completely velled with ninon of the same color. This overdress was tucked and puffed in the quaintest way, and each ruching was edged with brilliants. Above the knees from a puffing of ninon there fell an edging of pearl. Fancy Towels. Buy linen bird's-eye towelling by the piece and make from this either eight towels with hemstitched ends or nine with scalloped ends. Of course the handwork on the towels adds to their beauty and value and these could not be bought for less than $1 each. Those with scalloped ends could have single eyelets or groups of them in each scallop. The initial can be surrounded with the eyelets. Those with hemstitched hems should have the simple initial. slightly drooping brim, shows what may be called a tall shaft of white ostrich which reminds one of the work of the frost more than anything else. If a small fountain were suddenly clutched by the cold and made solid in the fraction of a second we might expect some such white and fragile mass of feathery ends. Against the rich black of velvet in the hat, it makes a superb show, startling and new, but also elegant. A bell-shaped hat of sealskin shows a bouquet of short full ostrich tips in white. There are just a dozen of these beauties in the cluster. Nothing could be made more simple, but even so the hat is unsurpassed as a work of milliner's art. The shape is perfect and the decoration exactly in harmony. A less pretentious hat of gray felt shows a plain flat collar of velvet and a swirl of shaded ostrich, in which there are glimpses of cerise. The ostrich fibers are long and curled at the ends. Different tones of gray are beautifully combined with cerise, which appears to be veiled by them. Less gray and more cerise appear as the eye climbs the spiral and there is a point of the vivid color at the end. This is a fine model for a suit hat. TWEED COSTUME. A A very useful country costume this in dark green tweed. The well-gored skirt is cut a comfortable length for walking, and is just over two yards round; the seams are all wrapped and stitched on the right side. The neat little Norfolk coat is lined throughout with twilled coat lining, so is quite warm for winter wear; it is single-breasted and fastens with horn buttons. Stitched tweed hat to match the dress, trimmed with a feather mount. Materials required: $5\frac{1}{2}$ yards 46 inches wide, $4\frac{1}{2}$ yards 22 inches wide for lining coat. MANY DELICIOUS TIDBITS UN KNOWN TO AVERAGE HOSTESS. Possible to Meet the Variations of Individual Tastes Without Turning Affair Into Formal Reception—Some Dishes Worth Trying. There are many tidbits delicious for serving with the social 5 o'clock cup which are unknown to the average hostess. Unless one/keeps well abreast of the times accompaniments are apt to be limited to shop-bought wafers of a conventional order, or cakes frequently over-sweet. Without robbing the occasion of its principal charm by making a formal reception of it and serving an elaborate repast, it is possible to discover new things and to meet the variations of individual taste. For instance, the daltony finger rolls may be split lengthwise and the soft crumb in one half removed. The hollow thus formed is to be filled with cream cheese softened with a little whipped cream. Put the two halves together and tie with bebe ribbon or tinsel cord. Or some finely chopped walnuts may be stirred into the cheese, which is to serve as filling, with or without the addition of minced olives. Again, the following mixture, which is just a trifle elaborate, will appeal to many palates: One roll of cream cheese, a teaspoonful of pimentos, chopped fine, and a full tablespoonful of mayonnaise. The olives should be chopped by hand. Mix and use as above. Another good form of sandwich, made this time of conventional slices of bread, requires four heaping tablespoonfuls of minced chicken and three of mayonnaise. A cream dressing can be substituted for the one of oil. Spread the mixture on three squares of whole wheat bread and cover with smaller pieces. Or, chop fine some blanched almonds, toasted but not salted, grind them in the meat chopper or crush in a mortar and spread between delicate squares of buttered bread. For a single sandwich, that is, having but one slice of bread in its composition, this combination of ingredients is considered choice: Over a dozen large plump olives pour boiling water, allowing them to stand a few minutes, then drain and put on the ice. Now chop fine enough pimentos to form a teaspoonful of the mince. Chop the olives, add the pimentos with one tablespoonful of fine cracker crumbs. Crush all the mayonnaise and spread on shapes cut from thin, rather stale bread. Again, to many callers tea, ideally served, always means a hot biscuit of some sort and unsalted butter. For all such, small hot "soda biscuit," toasted English muffins, and even dalynt bites of the nature of popovers are welcome. The truly English crumpet is obtainable of late years in all our large cities. Toasted and served very hot with quantities of good butter, it becomes so delectable that we sympathize with the man in "Pickwick Papers" who preferred dissolution to cutting down his crumpet supply. Scones, hot and buttered, are another favorite accompaniment. These, unlike the crumpet, can be easily made at home. To prepare them nicely use this rule: A quart of flour, a teaspoonful of salt, and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder mixed together. Sift well, chop into the flour and blend well a heaping tablespoonful of butter. Now add enough cold milk to make a soft dough. Turn out on a pastry board, handling as little as possible, and cut with a small cutter. Put them upon a hot griddle, and when one side has browned, turn. Split with fingers or fork—never cut them—and butter well. Stuffed Prunes. Let choice prunes soak over night in cold water. Steam until tender, slit down on one side and remove the stone from each. Grate edam or other cheese, add a little fine-chopped red pepper or a dash of paprika and enough mayonnaise dressing to mix the cheese to a soft and smooth consistency. Fill the open spaces in the center of the prunes with the cheese mixture. Serve with toasted crackers and lettuce salad over which French dressing has been poured. Neufchatel cheese may be used, also French dressing in place of mayonnaise. You can stuff the prunes with half a walnut instead of cheese, and after pressing together roll in granulated sugar. Keeping a Dinner. When it is necessary to keep the dinner warm for the belated diner, the cook will find a good substitute for the brain-marble used in all first-class restaurants for keeping food warm, by taking a deep baking pan, fill it half full of hot water and set into it covered bowls containing the various articles of food that are to be kept hot, says the New Idea Woman's Magazine. Set the pan in a moderately hot oven and the belated dinner will be pleased with the fresh taste of his dinner. Directions for Icing Fruit Beat the white of an egg, not to a foam, but enough to break it up. Dip into it bunches of grapes, cherries or currants and roll them over until they are covered with the egg. Then roll them in pulverized sugar. Lay them on a flat sieve to dry. A. M. LA Undert A first-class Mortuary establishment time of death of loved ones. Prices be LAWRENCE JONES, LOUIS HUBBARD, F PARLORS 1925 Arap A first-class Mortuary establishment. 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