Colorado Statesman

THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RAGE COUNTRY PARTY COLORADO, WYOMING, MONTANA, IDAHO AND NEW MEXICO Washington, Lincoln Douglass FEBRUARY'S GIFT TO THE NATION, BY JONATHAN COVER. VOL. XXII. Washing Lincoln FEBRUARY'S GIFT TO THE CO The month of February is pre- eminently the birth month of great Americans. The rank and title to first and second place is conceded, with no dissent worthy of notice, respectively to Washington, the Founder and to Lincoln, the Sav- ior of the Republic; To Washington, the Patriot and to Lincoln, the Protector. The former laid broad and deep the foundations of the Republic; the latter gave the Nation a new birth and started it afresh on its upward way, that the torch of enlightenment might dissolve the gloom in which the minds of men were shrouded. Their fame is just; their place in history secure and their names will long endure an inspiration and priceless legacy for the generations that will fill the ranks of the Americans of today. But what name shall we place beside these peerless ones? Who may claim so great a distinction? The field is large indeed and the contenders, many and worthy, are fully qualified by lineage, tradition and accomplishment. The best blood of the proud and lordly Saxon, Pilgrim too and sturdy, Huguenot has coursed and tingled in their veins for many centuries. Generation has vied with generation in an exciting dash, that each might conquer some wilderness unexplored; achieve some higher notch of place and power or control some larger sphere of usefulness and honor. To complete the triumvirate of the First, Three Americans, not one of these proud and distinguished sons may justly aspire. The one we nominate claims no ancestral tree, for he came forth from among the lowliest and most despised of mankind and for him the commonest attributes of humanity were denied. He took his chance with plantation stock to supply the bare necessities of his daily needs and on and on, thru want and suffering and scorn relentless, he forced his way, self taught in books and morals. Onward and ever upward he pressed his way along the crowded path that leads to fame and gained the table lands of place and power where the Nations great held sway. Thus it is, that in the space reserved to complete the galaxy of Americas' best and noblest, we write the name of Douglass. In this splendid alliance we may read the story of the Republic, for in their naked grandeur, with no descriptive phrase, they must remain so long as the Nation endures the unchallenged symbols of Independence, Union and Freedom. The stalwart figure of Frederick Douglass stands in the foremost rank of the many noble men of America, who have lived and died and contributed by thought and deed to the everlasting glory of the Republic. He would have been noble in any country and any age, but was conspicuously so by reason of the times in which he lived. At whatever stage of his career we may choose to view him, the intelligent mind experiences a sense of elevation, a moral looking up, that is both a pleasure and inspiration. The half-fed, bare foot boy with cheerful spirit, teaching himself to read and write with indomitable courage and strong will, is no less admirable than the forceful man, indifferent to bodily harm, defiant of the mob and eloquently employing his remarkable talents for the oppressed of mankind. The hardships endured; the opposition met and disposed of; the difficulties overcome; the accomplishment of seeming impossibilities; the heights won with honor and kept with distinction, are all a part of the remarkable life-story of Frederick Douglass. Of the many engaging attributes of this great character, perhaps the most striking was the unquestioning belief in the integrity of his manhood and its rights. This too, that in all circumstances and whenever possible he extended the protection and benefit of his influence to even the most humble of his people and to the very end was foremost in advocacy of the largest civic privilege and the oroadest human rights. "No compromise" was so plainly photographed on his leonine brow that wrong, injustice and the thousand meanesses which fasten themselves to human character, were hastily thrust out of sight at his approach. Could the influences that aided the cause of Emancipation be accurately estimated, a double measure of credit would probably be accorded Frederick Douglass. This too, without in any sense withholding a just acknowledgment to all others. The most crucial epoch of Amer- DENVER COLORADO SATURDAY. MARCH 4. 1916 State Hist & Nut Hist Webs State Hist ADO E JOURNAL G, MONTAN DENVER COLORADO SA ican history, is the one also that is richest in opportunity, of all the trying periods of our National life. The decade immediately preceding the Civil War, being the period in which the clash of contending opinions was most violent and unyielding, is perhaps the most interesting of the century. About the cause of Freedom for the slaves, within the shadow of which all else was hopelessly obscured, there was gathered the best material of the age, the flower of the highest culture and patriotism in the land. Men of refined and lofty ideals battled against wrong and injustice with all their strength and reaped their reward in the final overthrow of the system, whose influence was baneful alike to humanity and a common country. These were indeed men fashioned in heroic mold, whose noble championing of the most oppressed of mankind has given to history the brightest of its many golden pages and enriched with the names of Garrison, Sumner and Phillips, the emblazoned scroll of the worlds immortals. Among all of these, without consideration or distinction of race, Frederick Douglass stands easily foremost; a stalwart figure of heroic stature, an unfinching and irresistible personality. The lessons of his life are many and must ever prove an inspiration and benediction to the generations of his people yet to come. REACHERS AND POLITICSP We have repeatedly called attention to preachers dabbling in politics and still they continue to do so. Certain preachers going about tendering their services for small amounts to candidates are bringing the race in bad repute and it should be stopped. They can't consistently offer their services to candidates without their motives being impunged. We had our attention called to a prominent local minister, holding a prominent local minister holding a prominent charge that offered his services and those of his "200"? members for the sum of $20 00. That's pretty cheap "Rev." and you haven't done the race any good by the offer. — East Tennessee News. HIGH SCHOOL BOY For the most excellent speciment of craftsmanship done by a student in vocational schools, shown in an exhibit at the National Arts club, East 14th street, under the auspices of the National Society of Craftsmen, the Hardinge prize of $10 was awarded to Hannibal Lloyd Davis 39 West 133d street, who graduated from Stuyvesant high school at the end of the mid-winter term, February 1. Young Davis exhibited a design forged from wrought iron, a branch of oak leaves and acorns. -New York Age. TUSKEGEE'S NEW HEAD (From the Atlanta Constitution.) It is as fortunate for Tuskegee Institute and its future as it is gratifying to those who are really interested in the work it is doing for the Negro Race, that the man chosen to succeed the late Booker T. Washington as head of it believes, as he did, that the best friends of the Negro are the intelligent and broad-minded white people of the South. Major Robert R. Moton—he gained his title through actual service with the Hampton Institute Cadets—the new Principal of Tuskegee, is a full-blooded Negro, a thorough Black, and he is proud of the fact. He comes to Tuskegee from Hampton Institute where he served under Dr. Frissell, the white principal of the Institute, and an educator of national distinction. While somewhat widely separated in their respective fields, Major Motion and Booker Washington were friends and associates to the extent at least that the former acquired an understanding of the ideals and aims of the late head of Tuskegee, and has both stated and shown a determination to carry them out. There is every indication that he is not only capable, but possesses those qualities and characteristics which will have access of the institution than capacity; much if not more to do with the success of the Institute than capacity. Speaking of his selection, George Gordon Battle, a well-known New York lawyer and Democrat, and former Assistant District Attorney, says, in a letter to the New York Evening Post: "As a man of Southern birth, who is deeply interested in the future of the Negro in the South, I am much gratified at the selection of Major Robert R. Moton to take charge of the Tuskegee Institute as the successor of the lamented Booker T. Washington. Booker T. Washington was nowhere more highly esteemed and respected than among the white people of his community. Undoubtedly he has done more than any man of either race to inspire hope of an ultimate and happy solution of this great problem (the Negro problem). Major Moton's views are all formed along the lines of his great preceptor and I hope and believe that he will be equal to the task of carrying forward a work which has been so nobly begun, and that Tuskegee Institute, Hampton Institute, the Manassas Industrial School and other like institutions through the South, will continue to be, not only centers of education and improvement for the colored race, but also growing and continuing sources of that mutual good-will and respect which will enable the two races to pursue their separate, but friendly and honorable, destinies." Mr. Battle's statement is a clean and accurate expression of that sentiment among the white people of the South which has proven helpful to the advancement of the Negro Race, particularly along those lines which will be most useful to its members. RACE NEWS Baltimore, Md.—Jt is generally believed that the bill for "Jim Crow" cars in Baltimore, introduced in the State Legislature a few months ago, will fail of passage. It is regarded as a bell-ringer," and, as there is no seeming favorable sentiment for such a law, its passage is doubtful. Maj. R. R. Moton, principal-elect of Tuskegee Institute, accompanied by Mrs. Moton, sailed Thursday of this week on the steamer Tivives of the United Fruit Company for Kingston, Jamaica, where he will take a much needed rest. The new head of Tuskegee expects to return to New York about the middle of March. New Castle, Pa. Andrew Wells, 1717 Pennsylvania avenue, has been appointed on the police force in this city. He is the first Negro to receive an appointment as a policeman. He was endorsed for the position by many of the most prominent people of the city of both races. Solon S. Chivis, recently of the Coast Guard Service, has been promoted by order of Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo and transferred to the appointment division at an increased salary. Mr. Chivis, who is from Arkansas, is the ninth colored man to be promoted in the treasury department since the opening of the new year. Washington, D. C.—Richard Wells, a Negro, who lives at 1633 O street, and who was born in Prince George's County, Maryland in 1836, enjoys the distinction of being the only man alive who waited on President Lincoln when he headed the nation. Wells was Lincoln's coachman. He served in the Civil War on the side of the Union, and when he returned to Washington he was given employment by Lincoln. Wells served many of the foreign legations in Washington and was known for years as "the dean of the diplomatic door tenders," having served the Mexican Legation twenty-four years in that capacity. Austin, Tex.—Chief Justice Key of the Court of Civil Appeals, has handed down an opinion deciding against the State in its suit against the Galveston-Harrisburg and San Antonio railroad, charged with violating the State's jim crow law by allowing four Negroes to ride in a sleeping car from Los Angeles to NO 29 San Antonio. The justice ruled that the train was an interstate carrier and the State had no jurisdiction over the passengers; also, that the State failed to show whether there were cars with separate compartments for Negroes, which is all that the law requires. The Missouri Supreme Court has handed down a decision in the Turpin-Powers contest for the office of constable in the Fourth district. A colored man, proprietor of the Booker T. Washington Theatre, was the first and only Negro to hold an elective office in the state of Missouri. He was elected constable in 1910 and was the Republican candidate for re-election in November, 1914. Powers, a white Democrat, received the election certificate. A contest was instituted by Turpin, who was declared elected in a circuit court decision in August, 1915. The case was taken to the Supreme Court by powers, and the decision rendered sustains the ruling of the lower court that Turpin was entitled to the office. He will assume the duties in a few days and receive pay for the entire term of four years. He will appoint two colored deputies. Washington, Feb. 20.—The House Committee on Judiciary has before it a bill introduced by Representative Sisson, of Mississippi, declaring that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution were ratified without due authority and should therefore be repealed. This Mississippi Congressman in his measures raises the old question as to the legality of the vote by which these amendments were made a part of the organic law of this country. He holds, as have many Southern statesman for 40 years, that Article 5 of the Constitution was violated when the two amendments were declared adopted. The objection to the amendments on the part of the Southerners, of course, arises out of the fact that they give the Negro the right to vote. The decision of the United States Supreme Court nullifying the "grandfather clause" of various State constitutions has resulted in the renewed effort to repeal the amendments to the Federal Constitution. Booby Bird a Coward. Booby bird a Coward. The booby, a Bahama bird, is so spiritless that when attacked by other birds it does not fight, but gives up the fish it has caught without resistance. CONDENSATION OF FRESH NEWS THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT, CRISP PARAGRAPHS. STORY OF THE WEEK SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND FOREIGN LANDS. Western Newspaper Union News Service. ABOUT THE WAR The Russians captured important city of Kermanshah in Persia. The Russians are making headway against the Turks in Asia Minor. The German submarine policy went into effect at midnight on Feb. 29. Berlin reports that 16,755 men and 228 officers have been captured so far in the Verdun fighting. In the Dvinsk region of Russia the Slavs have driven the kaiser's forces back and advanced their line. The German losses during the first four days of the battle around Verdun are estimated at 150,000. French artillery, massed to cover sections where the Germans are most active, is tearing great holes in the Teuton ranks. The British report a victory over desert tribesmen in which the brother of the Turkish minister of war was killed. British casualties in all the war area, as published during the month of February, showed a total of 739 officers and 17,847 men. Germany has directed a sharp note to Portugal protesting against the seizure of German steamers in the Tagus river and at St. Vincent. President Wilson has written to the House Rules Committee urging prompt action on the resolutions in connection with the U-boat policy of the United States. The kalser has now 750,000 men in the division that is driving on Verdun. Reports indicate that Germans are constantly making small gains, but at a terrific cost in lives. The British steamer Westburn has been captured by a German commerce raider. When taken into port the vessel had aboard 206 prisoners taken from various vessels sunk by the raiders. More than 300,000 German soldiers are plunging against Verdun with orders to take the fortress or die trying. The German commanders seem to be willing to make any sacrifice in life to win the position. Revised figures shows that 122 persons, including fifty-five passengers, are missing and probably lost in the sinking of the Peninsular and Oriental liner Maloja. The bodies of forty-seven have been landed at Dover. WESTERN WESTERN At Castle Rock, Colo., the four miners charged with the murder of Major P. P. Lester in 1914, were acquitted by a jury. Concerted action throughout the West for the development of permanent federal highways linking all the National parks is the purpose of a proposed conference to be held in Yellowstone Park this summer. A. E. Minium, former president of the International Asbestos Mills and Power Company of Wyoming, was fined $350 in Denver by Federal Judge Robert E. Lewis on his plea of guilty to the use of the mails to defraud shareholders. Three hundred or more guests were made ill, probably by ice cream, at a Methodist banquet Feb. 22, it became known at San Francisco, following an official report of the incident to the Methodist Ministers' Association by the Rev. Samuel. Quickmire. The desire of Mrs. Laura Hilton, 17, to testify against her husband, Robert T. Hilton, at his trial for murder for the killing of her friend, Wilur Gatlin, in Cheyenne. Wyo., probably will be defeated. At the preliminary hearing Hilton's counsel objected under the law which forbids the admission of a wife's testimony against her husband. WASHINGTON Confirmation of reports that Gen. Felix Diaz had left the United States for Mexico to start a new revolution was received at the Department of Justice from several different quarters. A favorable report of the administration's bill to repeal the free sugar clause of the tariff law, which would become operative May 1, was authorized by unanimous vote of the House ways and means committee. Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, Secretary of War ad interim, attended Tuesday's Cabinent meeting and the White House historians said it was the first time since the Civil War that an army officer had sat at the cabinet table. The Senate unanimously ratified the treaty with Hayti under which the United States assumes a protectorate over the turbulent island republic, taking over control of its finances and police, guaranteeing its territorial integrity and undertaking to develop its resources. FOREIGN The Wilson liner Dido has been sunk, according to the Central News of London. Eight German steamers in the harbor at St. Vincent have been seized by order of the Portuguese government. A royal decree at Madrid authorized the issue on March 1 of 3 per cent bonds to the amount of 100,000,000 pesetas (about $20,000,000). With only one dissenting vote, the Luxembourg chamber of deputies adopted a vote of confidence in the new ministry. It was announced in the House of Commons at London that the Italian government had requisitioned thirty-four of the thirty-seven German steamers interned in Italian ports. Sixty thousand tons of canned pineapples will be shipped to the mainland by the growers of Hawai'i this year, it was announced at Honolulu. Great Britain's personal national expenditure for the current year will reach the gigantic total of £1,509,000,000, according to a statement by Reginald McKenna, chancellor of the exchequer. More than 1,000 are believed to have been lost in the sinking of the French auxiliary cruiser Province, formerly in service as a transatlantic liner, in the middle Mediterranean according to a Paris report. Petrograd newspapers announce that a banking syndicate has informed the minister of finance, Pierre Bark, that it will subscribe 1,000,000,000 rubles at the rate of 93 to the projected new loan of 2,000,000,000 rubles. That the liner Maloja, sunk off Dover with a loss of more than 250 lives, was torpedoed and did not strike a mine, was the sensational testimony offered at the coroner's inquest by Chief Officer Forbes at Dover, England. Fifteen thousand British soldiers in a training camp in Sydney, Australia, mutinied Feb. 15, according to word brought to Honolulu by the liner Sonoma and before order was restored one soldier was killed and six were injured. On the occasion of the last Zeppelin raid over England two government factories and two ammunition factories at Birmingham and one ammunition factory near Bradford were destroyed by bombs, the Overseas News agency says. SPORTING NEWS The Boston Nationals were insured for a total of $500,000 against accident of any nature, except such as may occur on the baseball field. Billy Miske of St. Paul was given a decision over Dick Gilbert, the Denver heavyweight, at the end of fifteen rounds before the National Club in Denver. Willie Hoppe, world's billiard champion, figures to clean up $75,000 this year. He has toured the country in exhibitions with Yamada, the Jap, and soon will go with Yamada to Honolulu. The Wisconsin State Boxing Commission ruled that Battling Nelson was "too far gone" to box Ad Wolgast, to whom he lost the lightweight championship. They had been matched to box at Appleton April 12. The first international match of the national amateur billiard championship tournament in New York resulted in the defeat of Jacob Klinger of Austria, who holds the class B championship of Europe, by Edward W. Gardner of the Arion Society of New York. The score was 400 to 355. GENERAL Henry James, the novelist, died in London. Two proposed ordinances providing for the segregation of negroes in St. Louis were submitted at a referendum. The Mississippi Senate finally passed the House Bill which would bar liquor advertisements from the state. Two women were killed and 100 persons injured in an explosion of dynamite at Maplewood, Mo. Twenty of the injured are seriously hurt. Securities of the value of about $25,000 were obtained by the robbers who rifled mail pouches on a postoffice automobile truck while en route on a ferry between Jersey City and New York. The entente allies have massed from 500,000 to 1,000,000 fresh troops at Bordeaux to be ready for emergencies, according to passengers who arrived in New York from France, aboard the steamship Rochambeau. A survey of the present Congress has convinced suffrage advocates that there is no hope of obtaining from it action favorable to national woman suffrage, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, said at a conference of suffrage workers at Boston. A new corporation with an authorized capital of $450,000,000 and bond issues aggregating $400,000,000 will be formed to take over the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Company, according to official announcement made in New York. Gen, Felix Diaz landed in the state of Vera Cruz and was joined there by several thousand troops, it was announced in New Orleans. Diaz, it was said, is marching to his home state of Oaxaca to lead 10,000 troops in his campaign against Villa and Carranza. COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Service. DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. March 9-11.—Meeting Western Colorado Teachers' Association at Grand Junction. March 20-April 2. -Colo rado Retail and Industrial Exposition at Denver April 13—Democratic State Convention at Pueblo. May First Congressional District Populous Convention at Colorado Springs. May 2.—Republican State and Third and Fourth Congressional District Convention at Pueblo. A rotary club has been formed at Colorado Springs. The Maccabees are reviving their lodge at Frederick. A five-day Chautauqua meeting will be held at Ouray early in July. On the year's extra day, seven divorces were granted in Denver. Five leap year marriage licenses were issued in Denver on Feb. 29. Denver Charter petitions have over 6,600 names, enough to call an election. The funeral of M. D. Thatcher, Colorado's richest citizen, was the largest ever held in Pueblo. Since the middle of February the price of speller in the Colorado camps has advanced $32 per ton. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Phipps, Jr., of Denver. This is the second girl for the family. An election will be held at Frederick March 27, to determine whether the several schools of District 76 shall be merged. Grand Junction is preparing for the meeting of the Western Colorado Teachers' Association in that city, March 10-12. Charles Hazen was made defendant in an information charging white slavery preferred by Miss Ora De Lee of Denver. Mrs. Maricl Simonson, wife of a widely known cattleman of Hugo, died in Denver in St. Anthony's hospital from the effects of an operation two weeks ago. The dropping of a spoon in the home of A. M. Johnson, in Denver, caused their daughter, Miss Gertrude, to make an investigation that resulted in the rout of a burglar. Frank Peterson, who was convicted of assault to kill his wife, Stella Peterson, was sentenced by Judge Wright in Denver to serve one year in the county jail, the limit of the law. John P. Broderick, for more than a quarter of a century an employé of the Denver postoffice, and for many years Superintendent of Finance, died at the family home, at the age of 63. Denver went on record Feb. 29 with a crop of leap year babies that total an even dozen. These babies will give their mothers the joy of providing birthday parties only once in every four years. Reinzi Dickens probably will stand trial in the District Court in Boulder county for the alleged murder of his aged father, W. H. Dickens, who was shot at his home in Longmont on the night of Nov. 30. The work of restocking Colorado with elk, which was begun in 1913, by a shipment of seventy-five to the Durango, Sopris and Colorado National forests, is being carried forward on a larger scale than ever before. Bond was fixed at $12,000 for Dr. Noble O. Hamilton, charged with the murder of Mrs. Ada Williams, who died as the result of an alleged illegal operation, by Judge Wright in the West Side Court in Denver. Denver building operations boomed in February and the total permits for structures issued at the city hall exceeded in total figures any month in 1915. In all building permits for business houses and homes totaled $472,380. A posthumous child, who will be one of the heirs to an estate that is valued at between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000, was born in Denver to Mrs. Rose Martin Cosgriff, widow of the late Thomas A. Cosgriff, Colorado and Wyoming capitalist. Mr. Cosgriff died Oct. 14 last, after a brief illness of typhoid fever. The baby, which is a boy, has been named Thomas A., Jr. The following dividends of record were paid by Cripple Creek mining companies in February: Portland Gold Mining Company, $90,000, a quarterly dividend of 3 cents a share; Vindicator Consolidated G. M. Company, $45,000, quarterly dividend of 3 cents; Golden Cycle Mining and Reduction Company, $30,000, monthly dividend of 2 cents a share. The dividends of the close corporations are not made public. According to word received by friends in Colorado Springs, Eleanor Palnter of that city, who has been starring in "Princess Pat" in New York, is suffering from a nervous breakdown and is now in a sanitarium in White Plains, N. Y. Official recognition has been given the San Luis Central Railroad Company as the one railroad in Colorado which may have headlightless locomotives and switches without lights. Recognition of this right was given in an order issued by the State Public Utilities Commission. MINE STRIKE CASE ENDS MINE STRIKE CASE ENDS FOUR MEN ACCUSED OF LESTER KILLING FREED. Trial Was First Action Taken Upon Seventy-Two Indictments in Connection With Lester's Death. Castle Rock,—A verdict of not guilty was returned by a jury in the case of four former strikers, charged with murder in connection with the killing April 29, 1914, cf Maj. P. P. Lester, during coal strike disorders near Walsenburg. The defendants, Enoch Muir, Mickie Salvage, Arthur Quinn and Fred Garcia, received the verdict without emotion. Judge J. H. Denison, before the verdict was returnee, cautioned the spectators to refrain from any demonstration, and not a word was spoken after the jury had returned its verdict and filed from the room. The court attendants and spectators immediately left, and outside a demonstration, in which the defendants were cheered, took place. The trial of the four men, which began early in January, was the first action of the kind taken upon seventy-two indictments returned in connection with Lester's death. No Funds, No Ballot, at Sheridan. Sheridan.—In the interests of public economy a unique system of town government has been proposed by leading citizens of Sheridan. They are going to try to do away with elections entirely, choosing their officials by a compromise between the parties. Prohibition wiped out the revenues of the town. The public treasury was founded on seven saloons, four in Fort Logan and three in Petersburg. Loss of the license money made the budget an empty and a futile thing. This spring a mayor and three aldermen are to be selected. When the town council met to appoint poll judges, they found there were no funds to carry on the election. Golden Mayor Dies at Age of 80. Golden.—Oscar Webb Garrison died suddenly at his home here. Mr. Garrison was 80 years old and had lived in Golden for twenty-five years. He was until recently editor of the Golden Globe and had served one term as mayor of the city. Mr. Garrison was born at Mechlenburg, N. Y., Aug. 31, 1836. He later moved to Cedar Falls, Iowa, was admitted to the bar and practiced for several years. In 1892 he came to Golden. He was prominent in politics for many years. He is survived by a widow, four sons and one daughter. Union Men Have Right to Strike. Castle Rock.—Organized workmen in Colorado have a legal right to go on strike, said Judge John H. Denison, in instructing the jury in the case of four former strikers on trial here since Jan. 3 on the charge of murder growing out of the killing of Maj. P. P. Lester of the Colorado National Guard in the battle of the "hogback." Judge Denison instructed the jury not to consider alleged evidence relating to the looting of stores and mining property by the strikers. Box Car Robbers Sentenced. Colorado Springs.—Vernon Eaton and Louis Shaw, box car thieves and ex-convicts, who kept the police from Denver to Pueblo on a three weeks' chase recently and were finally caught at Dodge City, Kan., were sentenced to from five to seven years each in the penitentiary. A feature of the hunt for the men was a ceaseless vigil by police and railroad detectives concealed near the cave where their loot was hidden. Boulder.—The case of Rienzi Dickens, charged with the murder of his father, W. H. Dickens of Longmont, on the night of Nov. 30, was continued for trial at the April term of the District Court. Oscar Cook Executed. Denver.—Oscar Cook. condemned slayer of Patrolman William McPherson and Andrew Lloyd, Valverde saillonkeeper, was hanged at the Cañon City penitentiary early Saturday morning. Six Hundred Leadville Men Strike. Leadville. — The Arkansas Valley smelter plant of the American Smelting and Refining Company closed Saturday when 600 employés went on a strike. Court Stay's Bulger Execution. Denver.—The Supreme Court has again acted in James C. Bulger's case, extending the time for his execution to the week beginning May 21. Two Miners Slain Near Walsenburg Walsenburg. — A. Estanizoa, 28, and Joe Rames, 30, Mexicans, were murdered while at work in the Jackson mine eight miles west of Walsenburg. The bodies were found in the east entry of the mine. A miner's pick had been driven into Rames' head and the head and neck were terribly mashed. Estanizoa's head was crushed and his face was covered with bruises. The bodies were found thirty-five feet apart with a loaded coal car between them. 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TERS' CLUB CONNECTION FREE CHECK ROOM ock from Union Depot. Barber. DENVER, COLORADO. RES. PHONE GALLUP 942 ETTIG taple Groceries STREET Denver, Colo. COMPANY Phone South 1608 y Groceries, Fish and Oysters. Our Specialty. ured Fed Meats D, PRESSED, REPAIRED, ED AT THE Tailors aners Prices are Reasonable. Pressed.....75 .....75 .....05 .....05 CALL MAIN 8519 A CALL MAIN 8519 AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS In the death of this man (Booker T. Washington) not only his own race but the nation sustained a severe loss. Born a slave, with no advantages except his own native ability, he rose from obscurity to the highest eminence of American citizenship. An educator of the highest rank, an author of repute, an orator of distinction, an American who conferred honor and dignity upon the republic. I had the privilege of knowing Doctor Washington and felt instructed and encouraged by the lucidity of his statements, the breadth and liberality of his convictions and the optimistic uplift that he gave to me when speaking of the down-trodden and persecuted Jews of other countries. He sald to me one day with a great deal of feeling, and without any spirit of egotism: "If it has been possible under the guidance of Divine Providence for me to be of helpfulness to my own people, under conditions of the most adverse character, how much more is to be expected from your people, who have had at least the advantages of the philosophy and teachings of the great seers and sages of Israel." These words sank deep, and they convey a meaning far beyond the words themselves. I have known as intimate friends many of the Negro citizens of the republic, who developed into living factors in the curriculum of American citizenship, but none equaled Doctor Washington, for he was thoroughly sane on all subjects. His highest ambition and great desire was to be helpful in shaping not only the destiny of his own race, but by and through their elevation the destiny of all races. It was a grand thought and one that will live after him. In recognizing these attributes and traits of character I am doing but scant justice to one who will stand preeminent in the annals of our country. My own coreligionists in some parts of the world, themselves the victims of insane and unnatural prejudice, ought in all conscience to appreciate the virtues and accomplishments and nonsectarian spirit of so eminent an American as the late Doctor Washington. His example conveys an inspiration and his memory I am confident will be cherished in after ages by not only the men of his own race, but by men of all races, and it affords me great pleasure to know that my friends Jacob H. Schiff of New York city and Julius Rosenwald of Chicago appreciated the great services rendered by Doctor Washington in aiding him financially and morally in his lifework of education.-Simon Wolf, in the Washington Star. The daily press recently reported the killing by a policeman of a colored boy who was caught stealing eggs. This boy was not the one who was wounded several weeks ago. The other boy's name was William Hurd. This boy was Robert Heard. Hurd is still in the bridewell. Both boys come of good families. Their mothers and fathers are hard-working, honest people, who sent their children to school until they were old enough to work and help maintain themselves. But race prejudice and the child labor laws tempt them to idleness and crime, writes Ida Wells-Barnett in the Chicago Daily News. Such boys are victims of the economic conditions of this great city which will not give colored boys a chance to earn an honest living and President Wilson's proclamation, be speaking national interest in the exposition to commemorate 50 years' achievements of the Negro race, held at Richmond, Va., was as follows: "A national exposition in commemoration of the achievements of the Negro race during the last 50 years will be held in Richmond, Va. The occasion has been recognized as of national importance by congress through an appropriation of $55,000 to aid in its promotion and consummation. This sum is being expended, by the terms of the appropriation, under the direction of the governor of Virginia. The exposition is under the auspices of the Negro Historical and Industrial association. The action of congress in this matter indicates very happily the desire of the nation, as well as of the people of Virginia, to encourage the Negro in his efforts to solve his industrial problems. "The National Negro exposition is designed to demonstrate his progress in the last 50 years and to emphasize his opportunities. As president of the United States, I bespeak the active interest of the nation in the exposition and trust that every facility will be George Fleming Moore, grand commander of Masons, declares that the prospect of peace is lessened by the fact that no ruler of a warring country belongs to the Masonic fraternity. Frederick the Great of Prussia, Washington, Lafayette and Wellington were all Free Masons. Someone who has realized the danger in touching an electric fan while it is in motion has patented one with a guard equipped with a handle with which to move it. will shoot them down on sight for petty thievery. Hundreds of them congregate in the reading room of the Negro Fellowship league and their story is almost always the same. They answer scores of ads only to be told "no Negro boys are wanted." They are driven from the playgrounds. They are hounded by the police and tempted by their needs as well as their restless energy which has no safety valve of its own and society refuses to provide one. This is the third such shooting in a month and there have been and are numberless beatings in the police stations such as Barney Bertsche tells of in his story in the Daily News. Negro boys are thus the most neglected group of this whole big city. For five years we have been trying to maintain one place in which they are welcome at all times. We have hoped to be able to enlist the help of the good people of Chicago to enlarge the scope of this work and put within their reach the same opportunities that are given to the other race groups at the Hull House and other splendid centers. But because we have no money with which to put our work on a business basis and comply with certain hard and fast rules of the Association of Commerce we are unable to get money enough even to pay the rent which will keep this one small "open door" for our boys. Meanwhile there is no organized, systematic effort to administer the ounce of prevention, and colored boys are being shot down by the police or herded in John Worthy school, or the bridewell, or the Pontiac reformatory. Mrs. W. E. Brown, chairman of the children's department of the National Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, and a teacher in the city public schools, returned from a two weeks' visit in the South, where she made a study of educational and social conditions among the colored people as related to the welfare of children, says the Indianapolis News. Mrs. Brown visited Nashville, Clarksville, Atlanta and Tuskegee. She was the guest of Roger Williams university in Nashville. Mrs. Brown reports that the colored children have favorable educational advantages in the South and the race is prosperous and aggressive. There is one colored public school in Clarksville with one thousand children, without compulsory educational laws and no slum districts, good homes and prosperous colored business enterprises. The public schools in Atlanta do not provide seating capacity for the children, as a result of which the city has become a center for educational institutions fostered largely by northern philanthropy. In the vicinity of Tuskegee the children even in the rural districts were observed working under most favorable conditions, while the Tuskegee institute is doing a great work for more than 1,600 students. Mrs. Brown was the guest of the club women in Clarksville and Atlanta, where she made several addresses in the interest of social improvement. She addressed an educational meeting in Tuskegee and spoke in chapel before the entire student body. She was entertained there by Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Roberts. Mr. Roberts was formerly a teacher in the city schools here and is now head of the academic department of Tuskegee. extended to the leaders, whose earnest work has made the undertaking possible.* The first number of the Journal of Negro History bears the marks of scholarship and the range of the articles and the nature of the object that it had in view in the publishing of this journal gives it a place at the start in the interest of students and all persons who are interested in the tremendous social vitality of the American Negro and his relation to American society. The premier number of the Journal contains articles of the most fascinating order and among these are "The Negroes of Cincinnati Prior to the Civil War;" "The Passing Tradition and the African Civilization;" "The Mind of the American Negro as Reflected in His Proverbs;" "The Story of Mary Louise Moore and Fannie M. Richards." Negro history has promise of exposition that will furnish wide illumination upon the great race problem of the country and will assure the preservation of many interesting aspects of Negro life and relations. China has oil and salt wells more than 2,000 feet deep that have been drilled through solid rock by hand with the most primitive implements. Argentina is experimenting with camels brought from the Canary islands for agricultural purposes in regions unsuited to horses or oxen. "A house is not based upon the ground, but upon a woman," is a popular proverb in Montenegro, echoed heartily by others of the Serbian race. BIG SLIDE HURLS TRAIN INTORIVER THREE COACHES CRUSHED BY ICE WHEN AVALANCHE TEARS DOWN CANON. C.H.MATTHEWSMISSING SCENE OF SLIDE ON D. & R. G. TWENTY-FIVE MILES EAST OF MONTROSE. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver, March 2.—One man probably was swept to death and his body buried beneath tons of snow, ice and débris by a snowslide, which crashed down a mountain side in the Black Cañon, cut in two a westbound D. & R. G. train and carried the smoker, baggage and mall coaches to the bottom of the Gunnison river, at 12:20 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. C. H. Matthews, express messenger for the Wells-Fargo Express Company, is among the missing. He resided in Denver and has a wife and child. His body is believed to be at the bottom of the Gunnison river beneath the wreckage of the baggage coach which is covered with the débris carried down by the slide. By the aid of torches rescue parties were digging through the snow to reach his body last night. Slow progress was made, due to the fury of the storm which is raging in the narrow canon. Other passengers on the train, probably those in the smoking car, suffered more or less injury, according to information received at the local offices of the railroad. How many were hurt or how seriously they were injured could not be ascertained. The storm is increasing the danger of other slides which constantly menace the lives of the rescusers and other trains passing through the canon. Black Cañon is a narrow, dark cut in the mountains between Gunnison and Montrose. The scene of the slide is twenty-five miles east of Montrose. The Gunnison river washes the railroad embankment through the cañon. The wrecked train was a narrow gauge running from Salida to Ouray. FRENCH BREAK VERDUN DRIVE. Paris, March 2.—The German Emperor has departed from the Verdun front and returned to Germany, according to dispatches received here. It is said the Emperor is bitterly disappointed by the failure of the drive to crush the French defense and take Verdun. Stories told by prisoners indicate that the Kaiser's bitterness is increased because of the fact that he ordered the offensive against the advice of his best generals. In the meantime the survivors of the terrific assault are resting in captured positions under cover of their big guns. It is estimated that the positions gained by the Germans cost them in killed or wounded nearly two-thirds of the 750,000 men engaged. The survivors are exhausted, and French officers say that were it not that they are unwilling to send their men into the face of the German cannon they could easily expel the victors from their captured trenches. To the northeastern part of the stronghold the chief effort of the Germans seems to be directed to the rescue of the Brandenburgers, who remain cooped up in the ruined case ments of Fort Douaumont. Leadville Strikers Face Arrest. Leadville.—The 400 foreign strikers at the Leadville smelter of the American Smelting and Refining Company will be arrested if they do not return to work, following the reading of a manifesto to them by E. E. McLaughlin, chairman of the State Industrial Commission. They will be arrested for violating the provision of the state industrial law that requires employés to give thirty days' notice to the Industrial Commission before they go on a strike, according to state of 'icials. Suspend German Negotiations. Washington. — President Wilson Wednesday announced suspension of negotiations with Germany until members of Congress, by vote on the resolution to warn Americans from armed ships, place themselves on record as to his policy. Avalanche Sweeps Thirteen to Death. Berlin—Dispatches from Innsbruck say that thirteen persons were killed by an avalanche in Stelvio Pass on the borders of Tyrol and Italy. Undersea War Scare Passes. London. March 2.—The first hours after the opening of the new German undersea war were marked by nervous fear in shipping circles. Then came the news that the British steamer Thornaby had been sent to the bottom. British admiralty reports gave no inkling of the cause of the disaster, but it was generally believed to have been a German U-boat. Instead of intensifying the fear here the loss of the Thornaby seemed to alleviate it. HALF HOUR BULLETINS ORDERED AT STATIONS BY STATE UTILITIES COMMISSION. Crossing Safety Devices Must Be Submitted for Approval—Street Cars to Stop at Grade Tracks. Denver. — Three orders, one of which directs all railroads operating in the state to remove immediately from their rights-of-way all obstructions, other than buildings, and to maintain efficiently and keep in good operating condition all safety devices, were handed down by the State Public Utilities Commission. Half hour bulletins were ordered posted on train movement at telegraph stations. In the order effecting crossings, which becomes effective March 1, the commission instructs railroads to submit all crossing safety devices for the approval of the commission before installing them. A second order, effective March 1, directs street railways to stop all cars at grade crossings while the motorman or conductor ascertains whether a safe clearance may be had across the tracks of another railroad. The third order instructs all steam railroads in the state to maintain bulletin boards at conspicuous places in passenger stations so the public may be adequately provided with information concerning the arrival and departure of trains. A further provision of the last order directs that at stations where telegraphic or telephonic dispatches concerning the movement of trains are received it shall be the duty of the railroad company to post notice of the arrival or departure of trains one hour in advance. Should trains be ahead of time or behind, the order provides the notices shall be posted every thirty minutes giving the time of train movements as nearly as possible. Thatcher Estate Pay $250,000 Tax. Thatcher Estate Pay $250,000 Tax. The largest inheritance tax in the history of the state, with one possible exception, is expected to be paid by the estate of the late Mahlon D. Thatcher, according to speculation on the matter already being indulged in at the state capitol. Mr. Thatcher, who died at his home in Pueblo, was generally considered as Colorado's wealthiest citizen, his wealth being estimated as high as $15,000,000. Speculation as to the value of the estate and the amount of inheritance tax has placed the latter as high as $200,000 and even $250,000. If such a tax were paid it would bring the total amount of inheritance taxes collected by the state inheritance tax department under the present administration of that office above the $1,000,000 mark. The largest inheritance tax ever paid in Colorado was $360,000 on the $6,000,000 estate of Winfield Scott Stratton of Colorado Springs. Tests to Be Made in March: The dates for civil service examinations have been set for March 21 and 22 at the Denver postoffice. The tests are as follows: For marine engine and boiler draftsman (male) at salaries ranging from $3.52 to $5.52 per day; teacher of freehand drawing at $720 per year; ship draftsman (male) at $3.28 to $7.04 per day; map colorist, $720 a year; teacher of domestic art (female), $720 a year; marine engine and boiler draftsman, navy department (male), $3.28 to $7.04 per day; fish pathologist (male), $2.500 a year, and cook, $500 a year. Wellington Promised New Station. The hearing brought before the State Public Utilities Commission by the Wellington Commercial Club against the Colorado & Southern railroad for better freight service and improved depot facilities has been satisfactorily settled without a formal sitting of the commission. The railroad has filed plans with the commission for a new depot and increased trackage and has submitted a new schedule for freight service. Plans for a new depot at Mineral Hot Springs have been filed with the commission by the Denver & Rio Grande. Commission Exonerates Official The State Industrial Commission completely exonerated Albert E. Oliver, superintendent of Monarch Mine No. 2 at Louisville, of charge made against him by coal miners that he had compelled the men to pay him for obtaining work. Sam Miller was the chief complainant against the superintendent. The commission heard evidence from a number of witnesses, including Greeks, Bulgarians and Armenians. Wilson Estate Pays $17,743 Tax. An inheritance tax of $17,743 was paid the state by the administrator of the estate of James M. Wilson of Denver, who died March 12, 1915. Federal Judge Robert E. Lewis refused the petition of the Gas Securities Company for an injunction restraining the Nile Irrigation district from continuing a case against it in the State Court at Fort Morgan while the present Irrigation is pending in the Federal Court. The two cases involve the payment of $65,000 worth of coupons on bonds issued by the Nile district. Judge Lewis ruled that a suit in a State Court may be prosecuted coincidently with a suit in the Federal Court involving the same issues. 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Senator Gore of Oklahoma is impressed with a statement which he was informed had been told certain congressmen by the President which intimated "that it might not be ungrateful and might result in advancing civilization by bringing about the end of the European war by mid-summer," in reference to war between the United States and Germany. Senator Thomas of Colorado has written to the Democratic Club of Colorado advising them to whip Congressman Hilliard and Keating in line—they having bolted from the Democratic caucus on replacing the duty on sugar. The ardent followers of the Republican party ought to take cognizance of these sailings and strengthen their position on the solid earth. It's easy to go up, but what about the sudden drop—a dashing to pieces. THE COLORADO SMELTER STRIKERS The American Smelting and Refining Company of Leadville, Colorado, is having its inning at the bat with the four hundred foreign strikers who walked out of the plant last week. The men, who are Austrians, Hungarians and natives of the Balkan states, refuse to work so as to prevent the production of lead, copper and zinc, which will be sold to the allies, who are enemies to their country in the present war. The state industrial commission through its chairman, E. E. McLaughlin, read a manifesto to the strikers informing them they would be arrested if they refused to comply with the law of thirty day's notice to the commission before going on strike. Governor Carlson terms their action "a brazen and insolent defiance of the law," pointing out that the workmen defied the law with full knowledge of it after explanation to them by their consul. The governor hinted that if necessary the state militia will be called to assist the county authorities to enforce the law. Now, we have often given our opinion on these strikes, especially among foreigners, and have urged the necessity of offering employment to workmen who are qualified and who claim and respect the country's protection. It has been proven, "that the cheapest generally becomes the dearest," and if these firms and companies will continue to entertain this class of workmen in preference to home labor they will always be served with such doses. We have had a terrible experience in Colorado two years ago, with this striking element and the militia is not anxious for a recurrence, therefore if there's any pacific way out of it the same would be very welcome by the people of the state. ANOTHER FRUIT OF THE WILSON ADMINISTRATION The seed sown at the beginning and during the Wilson administration has borne another fruit—this time being the segregation of the Negro population of St. Louis regarding residence in blocks chiefly occupied by white citizens. At a city election, held on Tuesday, Feb. 29, segregation ordinances were carried by a majority of 34,344, the vote being 52,220 for and 17,876 against. One of the ordinances provides that a Negro may not become a resident in a block occupied entirely by those of opposite color. The other imposes the same restrictions in blocks containing 75 per cent white or the like percentage of Negro residents. It was not so long ago we read an article from the pen of a Mr. Lewis of Washington, where, in comparing the action of congressmen, senators, cabinet officers, etc., in their making of laws of proscription against the Negro population of this country instead of striving to develop the resources of the nation, bringing about betterment of conditions among the people, and setting themselves right on international complications, he said: "They were rolling a sugar-hogshead over an ant, and the ant was the Negro." It is no wonder that outsiders view our law-makers as a HUGE JOKE; it is not at all surprising that during this bloody struggle among the European nations that hardly any respect is accredited the notes from America; it is not astonishing to find our defenses inadequate to meet emergencies (as the discovery now shows), when our representatives at Washington have spent their time in legislating against the portion of Americans who accidentally became dark as the other white in preference to enacting laws for the uplift and progress of a nation. When ambassadors and other representatives of foreign nations throw in our teeth "the minding of our own business, and the working out of our people's salvation." When we attempt to correct Russia for her former treatment of the Jews, or Turkey to her Christians, we cannot help from bowing our heads in shame, as the civilization we pride in is only for a part of our citizens. SEGREATION in its widest sense and in its superlative form, seems to be the slogan of the present administration, and as the seed is sown at the seat of government, so in the process of its germination it will find fertility among cities and places as St. Louis. Information comes to us that the real estate men are partially responsible for these ordinances, and if so, we hope it may result in another proof of "the ill wind, etc.," and in the near future give "Special America" a taste of the gall that her sons are compelled to drink at the hands who ought to have no better or greater heritage as we are all nothing more, nothing less than black and white emigrants if we reflect for a moment. It is time then that the Negroes of this country reslove to go on record as a whole to change the course of this stream, and not only with cities, but the government must be made to take notice of our position that if true democracy is to be the guiding star of this land then statehood rights must cease to contravene our federal laws, and the constitution of the United States of America must either govern as an instrument of righteousness and justness or come out before the world in the real light of despotism, which will make this great republic a hot bed of anarchy and discontent, tending to paralyze such actions as the St. Louis ordinances. The test of the true, the loyal, the patriotic American is fast approaching. Let them keep up the segregation of Americans in the cities, backed up by the White House, and work such hardships until unbearable them 12,000,000 hearts pulsating as one will compel a reform that will not only shake the pillars of this country and nation, but arouse the sympathy of all dark-skinned races to champion their cause universally and prove the scriptural truth: "Of one blood are all men, make to dwell on the face of the earth." Manly Discipline for American Youth By W. J. PRINTEN, Evanston, Ill. Because we have begun to realize that a good many of the offenses of youth are not criminal but perverted outbursts of normal youth, some of us have gone to the extreme of disbelieving in criminal impulse. Our reliance has been environment. Give the boy the right environment and he will not go wrong. That fitted into our easy optimism. It does not fit into the facts. Some of the worst criminals of history have sprung from favorable worldly circumstances. They were not poor, underfed, oppressed, unfriended or uneducated. None of these considerations offers much consolation to victims, nor does it relieve society of the need of defending its members from criminal acts. We are now in a transition period between the old primitive system and some new system which will distinguish in treatment between congenital criminals, criminals produced by vicious social conditions and offenders that are really not criminals at all. Our machinery is patched up, unbalanced, half finished. We condone brutal degenerates on the environment theory. We thrust normal boys who are victims of bad environment or normal adolescence into jail on petty offenses. We create courts and probation systems without the necessary means of carrying out the objects for which we create them. In short, we undo with one hand what we do with the other. The people of this country, and especially the reformers, need to learn the lesson of patience and even to endure the pain of thorough thinking. We need to realize that good intentions do not condone stupid measures. Basically the problem of youth in the city streets is that of youth at the country club and on the boulevards. It is the problem of undisciplined and misdirected energy. American youth needs more than anything else a manly discipline, and one of the chief reasons for the adoption of universal military training is this need for inculcating generally the self-respecting virtue of obedience to something higher and better than ourselves. Good Stenographers Always in Demand By Mrs. W. D. Webster, Birmingham, Ala. The demand for good stenographers is gradually growing greater as the year progresses, and many young men and women of business experience are constantly on the alert to bet- ter their positions. Perhaps no phase of business requires more discretion and tact than that of securing suitable help for the different persons and concerns so as to insure satisfaction to all parties concerned. Efficiency on the part of the applicant for any kind of business position is the prime requisite; and the temperament of the employer and employee must be such that a reasonable degree of co-operation may be brought about without constant clashes if any position is to prove permanent and agreeable. Speed and accuracy on the part of the operator, however, are, of course, essentials which cannot be overlooked, for the wheels of all business machinery must be well oiled if the desired results are to be obtained each day. Too much attention and care cannot be given to the matter of choosing the person who is to assist in handling the correspondence of any person or concern if the maximum degree of business efficiency is to be assured. Both operator and employer should be reasonably well satisfied. Strides in Science of Crystallography By H. T. HUGHES, Chicago Why does moisture in congealing upon an upright or vertical surface such as a window pane form curved lines while it forms angular lines upon a flat or horizontal surface such as the surface of a pond. It is true that as the cold intensifies the delicate, fern-like lines in a window become more solid and heavy, but still they never really become angular. There seems to be some connection between the lines of plants and trees and those of frost growths on windows. Both are upright growths, so it would seem that vertical growths crystallize when affected by gravitation, while horizontal forms crystallize according to the unhampered laws of crystallization, such as minerals exhibit. What would result were a surface to be inclined from 0 degree, or 360 degrees, to 22½ degrees, 45 degrees or 67½ degrees, I could not say, but I do know what happens when the surfaces are 0 degree, or 360 degrees, and 90 degrees, and that is a change from curves to angles. Could this problem be solved I doubt not but that the science of crystallography would make great strides toward solving some of the mysteries of nature. Woman's Method of Dress Unhealthful By DR. B. J. WYATT, Grafton, Ohio Women dress so near to nature today to keep pace with style, and, though many claim it, I disagree that immodesty prompts style. Rather, it is to fascinate some one man or men that this element usually reigns supreme. And in order to effect this fascination one can't wear high collars, long skirts and nonsilk stockings. For a girl attired thusly, walking with one of our latter-day dressers, would receive no masculine attention whatever, while her companion would be showered with it. In passing, allow me to remark that the present-day woman's method of dress is very unhealthful. Statistics prove the average woman's life is nine years.shy of her "stronger brother's" life. And yet, as I have pointed out, who is really to blame? Why, those same "stronger brothers." And who is going to make the premier move toward righting matters, or will they pass into eternity, always unrighted? Man's Hardest Problem Is Fighting Satan By REV. DR. S. J. SKEVINGTON, Pastor of Belden Avenue Baptist Church, Chicago Fighting the devil is the hardest fight man ever fought. The fight to do right and be right, when rich reward tempts to the wrong; the fight to tell the truth and be true, when golden gain is held out for the false; the fight to be pure when burning lust craves unholy delights and the false fragrance of the foul is in the nostrils; the fight to be noble when every instinct of the soul feels the lure of the gains of the selfish choice and course; the fight to be like the Man of Galilee when the world, the flesh and the devil combine to woo and win you, to constrain and compel you into conformity with the spirit of ungodliness. Fighting the devil is real fighting. Man's only hope is in God. Manly Discipline for American Youth Strides in Science of Crystallography By H. T. HUGHES, Chicago Man's Hardest Problem Is Fighting Satan By REV. DR. S. J. SKEVINGTON. Pastor of Belden Avenue Baptist Church. Chicago --- THE COLORADO STATESMAN --- The Mouth-Piece of the People of Colorado and the Entire West --- A RELIABLE chronicle of their doings and progress; a faithful mirror of their wants, their hopes, their best aspirations. THE COLORADO STATESMAN Unequaled as an advertising medium for the business of professional men and women. An excellent family journal speaking to and for many thousand colored citizens. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR THE GREAT ORGAN OF THE LABORING MASSES THE COLORADO STATESMAN DE TEXAS CABIN SHALL BE FREE COUNTRY PARTY THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE PEOPLE'S BUREAU OF INFORMATION 1824 CURTIS STREET Room 25. DENVER, COLORADO Phone: Main 7417. Mr. James Hall of Boulder spent several days in the city last week visiting his relatives. Mrs. Grant Jones has returned from Kansas points where she visited with relatives and friends. Winter is certainly sitting in lap of spring, judging from the brand of weather we are having this week. Mrs. William Hall who spent several weeks in Fort Worth and other Texas towns has returned to the city looking much improved. Mr. and Mrs. Chester A. Dishman who were recently wedded in Topeka are now located at 2707 Downing avenue. J. C. Porter our popular letter carrier is taking his annual vacation. Mr. Porter's health has not been the best to the regret of his host of friends. Mr. David Jordan, age 23, who departed this life on January 4, 1916. Remains was shipped to Mytrlewood, Ala., Feb. 28, 1916, by the Douglas Undertaking Company. We are glad to announce Dr. J. H. P. Westbrook on the road to recovery after an operation for appendicitis. We wish him a speedy restoration to health and a resumption of his practice. Mrs. Pauline Hickman received the sad news of the death of her sister, Miss Amanda Johnson, who has been a resident of Kansas City, Mo., for a number of years. The Statesman proffers sympathy to the bereaved ones. Miss Mary G. Evans, the brilliant and likeable evangelist, who was in our city at Shorter's A. M. E. sometime ago, is now in Kansas City, Mo. Miss Evans spent several weeks at Rev. Jesse Peck's church at Topeka, Kas., where she met with praiseworthy success, the church being crowded nightly. There were many converts. EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING. All members of the Executive Board of the Colored Citizens' League are requested to attend a meeting on Tuesday, 7th inst., 8 p. m., at 1025 Twenty-first street. Business of importance will be transacted. ODD FELLOWS HONOR PETER OGDEN. A fairly large and appreciative audience responded to the invitation of the Denver Odd Fellows in their commemoration of Peter Ogden, the founder of the colored branch of this order in America. The exercises were held at the People's Presbyterian church last Wednesday evening, when the lodges and their auxillaries proved their loyalty to the Grand United order of Odd Fellows and paid honor to the noble and illustrious character Peter Ogden. The program was carried out successfully, and the beautiful reminiscences of the life and work of this organizer and builder set forth by the speakers made every member present feel doubly proud of his attachment to the order. Long may this institution exist to carry out the great and purposeful act of man towards his fellow man in the bonds of friendship, love and truth, which comprise not only the ideals of an organization, but the pillars and cornerstones of a nation and people at large. Wait for the Masons' entertainment Easter Monday at East Turner Hall. ```markdown ``` ANNUAL DANCE OF SELF-IM PROVEMENT CLUB. A Great Success. The long-looked for annual dance of the Self-Improvement club, one of the leading women's organizations in this city, came off on Tuesday evening last at Fern hall, 2711 Welton street, and according to the sentiments freely expressed by the guests never was there a greater event in the life of the club than this of 1916. The decoration of the hall under the skilful guidance of a committee of the club, presented an aspect which actually transported one into fairy-land, while the magnificent display of evening gowns specially designed for the occasion, vying with the conventional evening dress suits of the gentlemen, reminded one of the splendor of ancient Rome or the grandeur of the French and Spanish courts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The program of dances, consisting of the latest popular airs, etc., gave ample opportunity for an exhibition of the modern and up-to-date steps and glides, and Morrison's orchestra, in their usual generousness of extras, catered delightfully to the gay lovers of terpsichore as they tripped over the specially prepared floor. The pleasure afforded the guests by the Self-Improvement club was indeed unsurpassed and the consensus of opinion merited a retention of the club's position of first place among the social functions of the various organizations of the city. It is of much importance and interest, as well as with pleasure, to mention that many of the gowns worn at this event were specially designed by Madam N. J. Skillern, our leading colored modiste of the west, the same adding an exquisite appearance to the wearers of her original creations. This club is surely crowned with laurel. Y. M. C. A. NOTES The social which was held on the evening of Washington's birthday was a very pleasant event and was attended by quite a large number. It was rendered additionally pleasant by the presence of the wives and lady friends of the different members. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Sprague and Mrs. Parks. The committee appointed some time ago to arrange for the membership campaign to be held in the spring, beginning April 10th and continuing through the 20th, held a meeting last Friday evening. The plan is to have fully a dozen teams of about five members each, together with two teams of boys, and to make a thorough and systematic canvas of the men of the city. Another meeting was held on Friday evening, March 3rd, at 8 o'clock. The public meeting, the second of the kind, held at Campbell A. M. E. Church last Sunday afternoon, was full of interest and very helpful. About two hundred were present. The music was led by the junior choir of the church, under the direction of Mrs. Craig. The address was delivered by Rev. Guy E. Konkel, pastor of the Christ M. E. Church, who spoke on "The Christian Life." Seldom has a stronger and more helpful address been heard. Next Sunday afternoon the meetings will be held as usual at the Y. M. C. A. building. Meeting for boys at 2:30 o'clock and for men at 4. All are invited. A PUBLIC MEETING CALLED. This meeting is called to stir up interest in a proposed national gathering to be held in Denver June, 1916, to protest against the treatment of the Negroes in the country and to offer a remedy for the evil. The local preliminary meeting will be held at Scotts M. E. church and is called for 8 p. m. Thursday, March 9th. Every one is invited, an excellent program is arranged. Among the speakers will be Secretary of State Ramer, Elder A. M. Ward will preside MRS. ANNIE E. HAMILTON, CAPT. THOS. CAMPBELL, J. R. HANGER, J. N. WALKER, W. A. JONES, S. H. HOBSON, J. J. MANUEL, Committee on Arrangements. NEGRO YEAR BOOK Should be in the home of every Negro. It contains the achievements, the industries and activities of the race. Every phase of the economic life of the Negro is discussed. It is a compendium of useful knowledge, a ready reference book of 450 pages. Order one today. Copies for sale at the Statesman office, 1824 Curtis street. Room 25. J. H, DONIPHAN, General Agent. 1721 Marion St. und om Membership—Mrs. L. M. Froman. Religious Work—Mrs. C. M. White. Social—Mrs. Alice Travers. Program—Mrs. Samuel Bondurant. Recreation—Mrs. Helen Johnson. House—Mrs. Gertrude Ross. Social Service—Miss Beatrice Thrashley. Glee Club—Miss Jennie Hicks. 2835 STOUT STREET. Phone Main 6191. Treating the Scalp for All Diseases, Such as Dandruff, Eczema, Tetter and itch. The Dearfield Lunch Room field oom Mrs. L. C. BARNES, Proprietor season Try Our 40c Chicken Dinners. Open from 6:00 a. m.—12 p. m. THE ALLIANCE MEETING. Sunday afternoon, February 27, the People's Sunday Alliance held its first successful meeting for some time. The program was excellent and every participant was present and on time to perform his part. But aside from the excellent program was the spirit of the meeting. The fact that there was such responsiveness to the call for the gathering of that historical forum of the people was encouraging. It evidenced the fact that Truth planted may not spring up, blossom and bear fruit at once, but the seed will in time germinate. There were two addresses, one by Rev. J. A. Thos-Hazell, who seemed to have recovered his old-time public spirit, and spoke in no uncertain terms in the practice both within and without the church of speaking of the Fatherhood of God with recognizing man as his brother in action. The other address was made by Col. Morgan, whose analysis of the cause of the present war was highly thought provoking, and, to some of us, novel. Incidentally, race bigotry and prejudicial customs were flayed, and the perpetrators mercilessly arraigned. To appreciate his frankness and hardihood you would need to have heard him. At the close of his address he introduced resolutions on just laws and the just administration of existing laws, which resolutions were adopted. The music for the occasion was exceptionally good. Madame Minnie Hayes, who is too well known to further comment upon, and Mr. W. A. Moore, rendered instrumental duets (for they were kind enough to come back when encoed), which demonstrated the kind of entertainment they furnish to the white man who appreciates their talents. Little Misses Thyra and E evangeline Morrison, each of whom sang, accompanied by the "Majestic Trio," were an inspiration. It was indeed a pleasure to be present and hear them, and they deported themselves with credit to the musical possibilities of the race. The attendance was so large and the interest so manifest that the Board decided to hold another meeting on March 26. SHORTER CHAPEL'S NOTES Rev. Robert L. Pope, B. D., Pastor. The Holy Communion will be observed tomorrow at the evening service. Let the membership be on hand to share the blessings accruing from this sacrament. Campbell Chapel will hold its quarterly communion service tomorrow at 3 p. m. and our pastor will deliver the sermon. It is hoped that officers and members of Shorter will be well represented at this service. Rev. Thomas J. Bell, Secretary of the Y. M. C. A., preached a most remarkable sermon last Sunday morning before a large and representative audience. So effectively did he reach his hearers and so well pleased were they with the message that invitations to "come again" came thick and fast. In the evening (last Sunday) the Y. W. C. A. turned out in a body and held a jubilee service, emphasizing the fiftieth anniversary of the organization. In a brief and pointed address Mrs. A. M. Ward gave a graphic account of the local association and the pastor delivered a special sermon emphasizing the work of this organization. Notwithstanding the choir had filled an extra engagement at Scott M. E. in the afternoon, the members were present on this occasion to make their contribution to its success. The Excelsior Dramatic Club will render "The Sad Lodge Grove" at Shorter Chapel Thursday evening, March 16th, for the benefit of Club No. 6, Mrs. Unity Hall, captain; Mrs. Josie E. Andrew, director. Don't miss it. The Mite Missionary Society is jubilant over the success of Thursday evening's musical. Many thanks for the participants and to Miss Marle Smith, who won the prize for selling tickets. Bishop J. Albert Johnson, resident Bishop of South Africa, will preach at Shorter Chapel Sunday morning, March 26th, and will deliver his celebrated illustrated lecture on South Africa Monday evening, March 27. Our Ushers' Club was guest of honor at a sumptuous six-course dinner Monday evening last, given by Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Mason, 2352 Humbolt street. Mr. Mason has recently taken unto himself a handsome young wife and the club took advantage of this occasion to leave a token of their appreciation. A handsome rug was left. FOR RENT—3 houses at 2360 Tremont Place; 320 and 322 24th street. Call at the Colorado Statesmen office. 1824 Curtis street. Room 25. Strictly home cooking Dinner and theater parties Served on short notice Prices moderate All delicacies of the season THE YOUNG WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION. The Young Women's Christian Association Association Club, composed of women and girls of color held its first vesper service in its building, 318 Twenty-fifty street on Sunday at 4 p. m. Mrs. Wm. Shaw Ward, chairman of the West Central Field Committee was the thoroughly interesting and able speaker. Mrs. A. M. Ward filled the chair. There was congregational singing of the Jubilee songs with Miss McCullough as accompanist. The latter also rendered two solos entitled "Just for Today" and "Let the Little Ones Come Into Me." On Sunday evening a very interesting Y. W. C. A. service was held in Shorter A. M. E. Church. Rev. R. L. Pope delivered an able sermon from Lev. 25-10: Ye Shall Hallow the Fiftieth Year." Mrs. Lydia Smith Ward gave an address upon the "Fifty Years of the Y. W. C. A. in the United States and Its Progress Among Our Women in Denver." The choir under direction of Mrs. Hicks furnished the music. Do You Know That— The COLORADO STATESMAN IS PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OF The members' meeting was well attended on Monday evening and plans were completed for the club members' attendance at the big meeting at the Central Presbyterian Church Friday evening which will mark the close of the fiftieth birthday celebration which has been in progress for two weeks in this city. The Y. W. C. A. schedule of weekly meetings is as follows: Monday—Members' meeting, 8 to 9 p. m. Class in First Aid, 9 to 9:45. Thursday—Bible class, 7 to 8 p. m. Sewing and dressmaking, 8 to 9 p. m. Class in Everyday English, 9 to 9:30. Saturday—Physical culture, 8 to 9 p. m. Mrs. C. M. White, chairman Religious Work Committee will conduct the vesper service at 4 p. m. on Sunday. The officers are: President, Mrs. Lydin Smith Ward; vice president, Miss Beatrice Thrashley; secretary, Mrs. Helen Johnson and Miss Hermie Jones; treasurer, Miss Isabelle Chapman. The chairmen of the committees are as follows: Ball and Concert Programs, Bill and Letter Heads, Calling Cards, Wedding Cards, Envelopes and Everything in the Printing Line Turned Out in the Neatest and Best Style Promptly on Short Notice. CAMMEL & CO. Mr. Walter Smith departed this life February 19 at his home, 3122 Downing avenue. Funeral was held Sunday, February 27, from Bethlehem church at 2 p. m. Rev. A. E. Reynolds officiated. Interment Riverside. Mrs. Rachal Scruggs departed this life February 29 at her home, 1301 Fox street. Funeral was held Friday at 2 p. m. from Zion Baptist church. Rev. D. E. Over officiated. Interment Fairmont. PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN. We Have Supplied Our Office with New Job Press & Type of Up-to-Date Style and Our Work Will Be on a Par with the Very Best. E. 23d Avenue and Washington Sttret. Pastor, J. A. Thos, Hazell, S. T. B. Sermon Topics, Sunday, March 5th, 11 a. m., "The Church Then and Now;" 5 p. m., "Life Eternal." The Bethlehem Tent will give an entertainment March 9th, at Fern Hall by the children aged from 6 to 12 years. Morrison's Orchestra. Ad- mission 25c. Mrs. J. J. Brown, man- ager. IF IT IS IN THE HAIR LINE, SEE ME MRS. WILLIAM G. CAMPBELL GUARANTEED TO CURE. Sole Agents for All Remedies of the Johnson Mfg. Co., Boston, Mass. PRICES REASONABLE. Prices as Reasonable as Those of Any Job Office in Denver 1023 Twenty-first St. Denver, Colo. Fruit Bowl Room 25 Phone Main 7417 HOW UNI SAM MAKES HIS MONEY ABOUT NINE MILLION DOLLARS IN CURRENCY IS PRODUCED EVERY DAY AT THE GREAT NEWPLANTOFTHE BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING AT WASHINGTON By EDWARD B. CLARK. N ONE building during the year ending June 30, 1915, Uncle Sam made thirty and a half billion dollars. This money factory is called the bureau of engraving and printing. Uncle Sam is the head of the corporation which is actively engaged in the production of wealth, and he has with him as other members of the one hundred million nephews and I This governmental factory produces paper money, bonds, revenue, postage and custom stamps, checks, drafts and all the important documents printed from engraved plates. The director of the bureau of engraving and printing is Joseph E. Ralph. He might be called the foreman of the greatest money-making shop in the United States of America and perhaps in the world. From Director Ralph's own words we learn something specific about the activities of this big shop of the capital city: "The daily output of United States notes, gold and silver certificates and national bank notes, is two and one-quarter million notes, having a face value of nine million dollars and weighing over three and a half tons. If laid out flat they would cover nine acres, and if placed end to end the daily output would make a chain two hundred and fifty miles long. Each day forty million postage stamps are manufactured, which would cover approximately seven acres, or make a chain of stamps six hundred and twenty miles long. The value of each day's stamp output is nearly seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Six hundred employees are engaged in stamp manufacture. Fifty-one different kinds of postage stamps, in denominations from one cent to five dollars, are made for the United States and its insular possessions. They are printed in fifteen distinctive colors. "Another important part of the bureau's work is internal revenue stamps, through which an annual income of over five hundred million dollars is collected for Uncle Sam. These stamps are of larger size than postage stamps, and while the daily output is only twenty million stamps, they would cover twenty acres if spread out in single sheets, and they weigh six and a half tons. More than three hundred different varieties are issued." In Uncle Sam's workshop is made all the paper money for the United States government. This means that every man who has a dollar bill in his hand, or who is lucky enough to have a bill of larger denomination, may know of a certainty that its origin was in a factory situated at the corner of Fourteenth and C streets, S. W., in the city of Washington, D. C. And speaking of counterfeits, there is a thing of marked interest which might be said. The bureau of engraving and printing was organized under an act of July 11, 1882. From that day to this the government has done its own work. It has employed the most skillful engravers that it can find and it is a matter of pride today to this government that never in the history of the bureau has one of its employees been engaged in the work of counterfeiting. It is true that counterfeiting goes on occasionally in different places throughout the United States, but in the hundreds of arrests which have been made of men and women engaged in the work, not one ever had been in the employment of the government, and not one was found to be in collusion with any of Uncle Sam's workmen. Concerning the matter of engraving, Director Ralph of the bureau has had this to say: "The engraving division is the corner stone of the bureau and the bulwark of our securities. In this division every form of security has its origin, and the most artistic and skilled engravers that the world produces are employed here. "Steel engraving is the perfection of art as applied to securities; it differs from painting and sculpturing, inasmuch as the engraver who carves his work on steel plates must deliberately study the effect, of each infinitesimal line. Free hand, with a diamond-pointed tool, known as a graver, aided by a powerful magnifying glass, he carves away, conscious that one false cut or slip of his tool, or miscalculation of depth or width of line will destroy the artistic merit of his creation, and weeks or months of labor will have been in train. NCLE PRINTING DIVISION REST ROOM EXAMINING DIVISION "In no other form of printing can the beautiful soft and yet strong effects in black and white be obtained as in steel engraving. The introduction of cheap mechanical process work has superseded the beautiful creations of our master engraver commercially, and now we find the art limited to the engraving of securities as applied in the government's bureau of engraving and printing." In the engraving division of the big shop the work is so divided and classified that the engravers individually become skilled in some particular branch of the art. Therefore, it is that they are classified as portrait, script, square letter and ornamental engravers. When the classification and division have been made each workman is made to confine himself to his own specialty, and so it is that he becomes extraordinarily expert. The result of this system is that not only better execution is secured, but a much greater amount is turned out in a given time, and what, of course, is of much greater importance, increased safety for Uncle Sam's belongings is obtained. Everything which is issued from the engraving department of Uncle Sam's bureau combines evidences of the individual skill and characteristics of a number of men. Inasmuch as the 'handiwork of several men appears upon each plate, it readily can be understood how difficult a thing it is for any one engraver to make a perfect reproduction of one of these plates. The combination of different styles of workmanship, all excellent, on a single plate makes counterfeiting one of the most difficult things possible. In the halls of the bureau specimens of the work are to be seen and examples of the money are shown in different stages of the progress of the work. No one is allowed to see the engravers at their work. It is absolutely necessary that the plates should be guarded against theft, and so it is that they are under watch all through daylight hours, and at night they are safely placed within great vaults. One curious thing is to be noted, the government never prints from the original plate. A duplicate of it is made and this is used for the printing. If this were not done and something should happen to the plate first made, its place would have to be taken by a new one, and even if the skill of the engraver should produce one almost exactly like the original, it would at best be only a copy of it, and anything that was printed from the new plate would in a way be a counterfeit, provided, of course, the original plate had been used for printing purposes. Visitors to the bureau are shown the printing of the notes. There are six or seven hundred employees engaged in this work. The paper is a silk-fibered material and the process of its manufacture is safeguarded, because it must be kept as a trade secret. Anyone who is found with paper of this kind in his possession, or an imitation of it, is a violator of the law. All of the printing is done on hand presses. A man with a woman assistant are at each press. There are four notes to each sheet, and each pressman turns out about five hundred sheets a day printed on one side only. A most careful count is kept of the sheets. The counting is done by several persons, and after it is done the notes are sent to numbering machines, where blue ink is used to mark the series letter and each note's number. Every day in the year except Sunday a steel conveyance goes from the bureau of engraving and printing to the treasury department, carrying as its precious freight about one million dollars in paper money. It is in the treasury department that the sheets of four notes each are recounted by five different persons. After this is done the red seal of the register of the treasury is stamped upon them. Then a cutting machine separates each sheet into four notes. Then one thousand sheets become four thousand bills and then the money once more is counted by several experts. Money which is worn by use is sent back to the treasury department for redemption. Now, of course, for every bill which is received a new bill of like denomination must be issued. So it is that several more counts must be made in order to guard against the peradventure of an error. The counters invariably are women, as they are believed to be much more accurate at the work than men. About a million dollars a day is received by the treasury for redemption purposes. In one of the rooms of the treasury there is what is called a macerater in which canceled bills are destroyed. The macerater is a great big potlike receptacle made of steel. In its interior are knives set closely together. They revolve through water, which wets the bills, and grind them into fine pulp. About a million dollars a day is thus destroyed, but, of course, it must be understood that another million takes its place. ar in which canceled bills are destroyed, the water is a great big potlike receptacle steel. In its interior are knives set closer. They revolve through water, which bills, and grind them into fine pulp, million dollars a day is thus destroyed, worse, it must be understood that another uses its place. Leau of engraving and printing, to which return from the treasury department, is a mature. It has been occupied only since of 1914. The officials made every effort building on lines which would improve the of the employees and increase their standards. The hygienic conditions are at. Uncle Sam has found that where the are right employees give in return their local efforts, and, therefore, the money spent to make proper their surroundings well spent. Director Ralph says plainly employees in the old building were come work under hygienic conditions "that final and such as should not have been by the government." Further he says: private corporation operated and mainplant under like conditions the attention morities no doubt would have been called in a view to having these conditions perhaps to the extent of closing up the building the government has provided for live lunchrooms. It has furnished the fixtures, kitchen utensils, heat, light while the employees have organized as into a co-operative society, assessing a nominal sum as a membership fee a fund necessary to commence business, which has its officers and appoints a board to tend the conduct of the business, purnecessary food and cook it, and serve it employees at cost. As a special emergency hospital in the engraving and printing, with separate men and women. It is finely equipped experienced physician is on duty at all that injured or sick employees may reediate attention. Of course, this treat the nature of first aid, the afflicted ones as quickly as possible either to their to the city hospitals. Sam makes a lot of money. He doesn't salaries to either the men or the women him make it. The salary figures are not be called comfortable, perhaps, and more. So it is that some hundreds of only in Washington handle more money millionaire sees in a year, and yet they are and to use any of it for themselves. Fathowever, breeds contempt, and it is said government's employees who finger for day day never have any itching desire to or hands upon wealth and attempt to with it. The bureau of engraving and printing, to which we will return from the treasury department, is a new structure. It has been occupied only since the spring of 1914. The officials made every effort to erect a building on lines which would improve the welfare of the employees and increase their efficiency standards. The hygienic conditions are of the best. Uncle Sam has found that where the conditions are right employees give in return their best physical efforts, and, therefore, the money which is spent to make proper their surroundings is money well spent. Director Ralph says plainly that the employees in the old building were compelled to work under hygienic conditions "that were criminal and such as should not have been permitted by the government." Further he says: "Had a private corporation operated and maintained its plant under like conditions the attention of the authorities no doubt would have been called to it with a view to having these conditions changed, perhaps to the extent of closing up the factory." In the building the government has provided for co-operative lunchrooms. It has furnished the necessary fixtures, kitchen utensils, heat, light and fuel, while the employees have organized themselves into a co-operative society, assessing each member a nominal sum as a membership fee to create a fund necessary to commence business. The society has its officers and appoints a board to superintend the conduct of the business, purchase the necessary food and cook it, and serve it to the employees at cost. There is a special emergency hospital in the bureau of engraving and printing, with separate wards for men and women. It is finely equipped and an experienced physician is on duty at all times, so that injured or sick employees may receive immediate attention. Of course, this treatment is in the nature of first aid, the afflicted ones being sent as quickly as possible either to their homes or to the city hospitals. Uncle Sam makes a lot of money. He doesn't pay high salaries to either the men or the women who help him make it. The salary figures are what might be called comfortable, perhaps, and nothing more. So it is that some hundreds of people daily in Washington handle more money than a millionaire sees in a year, and yet they are not allowed to use any of it for themselves. Familiarity, however, breeds contempt, and it is said that the government's employees who finger fortunes every day never have any itching desire to close their hands upon wealth and attempt to make way with it. AS TO FEEDING BABIES cussion at a recent meeting of the New ademy of Medicine on severe diarrhea ity of the stomach, Dr Abraham Jacobi cause of it was excessive feeding of fats erged physicians to stop prescribing milk he himself never used it, because he con- bies got enough of it in their milk foods, did milk should not be given without bar- meal water. In a discussion at a recent meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine on severe diarrhea with acidity of the stomach, Dr Abraham Jacobi said one cause of it was excessive feeding of fats. He also urged physicians to stop prescribing milk sugar. He himself never used it, because he considered babies got enough of it in their milk foods. And he said milk should not be given without barley or oatmeal water. Why Leave a Good Thing? Edward B. Clark says the American farmer is taking to scientific methods avidly and that within a decade the farm population problem will have solved itself. Values are growing constantly. Children are showing remarkable interest in raising superior vegetables, fruits, dairy products and live stock. Federal and State action helps the cause. IN Washington, D. C., the answer to a certain question is made by asking another question. To the query, "Why should the farmers and the boys stay on the farm?" the answer comes, "Why should they want to leave a good thing?" There is war in Europe, and therefore it may be held by the entirely thoughtless that the farming prosperity in the United States to which attention has just been called by the department of agriculture's statisticians, is merely a thing of the year, and that a slump will come, and that as a consequence there will be simply one bright spot to offset several black spots. There is a good deal of nonsense in this view of the case. It is not always wise to take what may be called a boom year and to use it either as a basis of comparison or as a towering landmark to which some hole in the ground of the past is to be compared, with the dismal prophecy that other holes in the ground are sure to be dug by fortune in the future. This sort of thing tends to discourage the men who believe that hilltops are to remain the general features of picture landscapes. Values Grow Constantly. The year just past has been a great one. The aggregate production of all crops is estimated to be seven per cent larger than the preceding year. The American farmer has profited, but it should not be understood that because attention is called to a particularly marked growth that development and increasing prosperity are only matters of a twelvemonth that is past. Let us see what has happened in the country in the last few years. Complete government statistics, because the census is taken only once in ten years, are not available for the last two or three years, but the word is that the progress of the preceding decade has been maintained. Here are some figures which mean something: In the year 1900 the value of farm property in the United States, including land, machinery, houses and all other things pertaining to agricultural production was $20,439,901,164. In ten years these values had more than doubled, reaching in 1910 the astonishing figures of $40,991,449,090. Farmers Better Off. Now it might be held by some persons that these figures simply would mean that the farm had multiplied tremendously and that the increased valuation would be spread over an enormous territory occupied by new farms and that therefore the individual farmer was in no wise better off. Well, let us see about this. In the year 1900 there were in the United States 5,737,372 farms. In the year 1910 there were 6,361,502 farms. A glance at the figures will show that while the farm property values more than doubled, the increase in the number of farms, comparatively speaking of course, were small. To have kept things down at the old basis of values, the number of farms should have doubled, while the values were doubling. In the year 1900 the average value of all property per farm was $3,563. In 1910 the average value of all property per farm was $6,444. These figures perhaps almost better than anything else can show the advance of prosperity in the agricultural regions of the United States. Other figures, however, are available. In the year 1900 the average value of farm land per acre was $15.57. In the year 1900 the average value of land per acre was $22.40, more than a doubling up in land wealth. An 83 Per Cent Increase. The census bureau of the United states furnishes other figures which have to do with crop values. In the year 1899 the value of all crops in the United States was $2,998,704,412. In the year 1909, that is just a decade later, the value of the crop was $5,487,161,223, an increase of 83 per cent in ten years. For the same ten years we find an increase of another kind. In 1899 the average value of crops per farm was a trifle more than $500, while in 1909 it reached the value of $863. A curious thing is noted in Washington concerning the thoughtlessness of some men in gauging the proceeds of industry on the individual farm, or if you will, on farms in the aggregate. Some men who think of farming ignore utterly the actual land value to the man who owns his farm. They say "So and So made so much last year, but the sum is not big." To the amount made must be added about five per cent on the value of the land. A city man who owns his own house deducts the rent that otherwise he would have to pay from his yearly expenses, and so, of course, it must be with the man in the country. Mortgages Are Disappearing. The farmer who owns land to the value of $10,000 must add $500 a year to his farming profits. If he did not own the land he would have to pay that amount at least for its use. Into this, of course, must be figured the selling value of the property. If land is valuable it also is valuable when it is turned into cash. It seems ridiculous, but these things frequently are overlooked by the average layman when he is inquiring into prosperity conditions on the farm. Statistics show that mortgages are disappearing from the farming communities, that outward evidences of prosperity are appearing as mortgages disappear, as the land becomes more productive, as the result of the energies of the state and federal departments of agriculture become more manifest, and as the farmer applies more modern methods to his work. The children at college, the automobiles which are displacing the buggies of the olden time, the improving, slowly improving as yet it is true, conditions in the rural schools, the marked improvement and extension of the country roads and a dozen of other things show not only increasing prosperity in the country, but the means of increased comfort and happiness. Many Farm Opportunities. The opportunities on the farm are growing daily in number and attractiveness. Already there have been for a year or two evidences that the leave-the-farm movement has been checked, and there are further evidences that later it will be stopped and that the return movement will set in. There is a reason for the objection of Agricultural department officials to the cry of "Back to the Farm." They have made it "Stay on the Farm." They know that if the young men stay by the land that with things as they are, they will be everlastingly glad of it within a few years, and that as farm life grows more attractive and prosperous the back-to-the-farm movement will take care of itself, for men go where lies the lure of comfort and prosperity Under the Smith-Lever act the United States government aids the states in co-operative demonstration work on the farms. The total amount set aside for this work for the years 1915-16 is $4,782,000, of which $1,080,000 is from federal Smith-Lever funds, $925,000 from appropriations to the United States department of agriculture for farmers' co-operative demonstration work, and $110,000 from other bureaus in the department. These amounts make the total from federal sources of $2,115,000. State and Federal Aid. Of the funds contributed from sources within the states $600,000 is from state Smith-Lever funds made up mainly of direct appropriations of the state legislatures. In addition to funds used under the Smith-Lever act, $628,000 is appropriated by the state legislature for extension work, $225,000 by colleges from funds under their immediate control, $921,000 by county authorities and $292,000 from miscellaneous sources. It is said in Washington by the officials that the interest in the co-operative agricultural extension work is nothing short of remarkable. At the outset there was some little objection to the appearance of instructors in the field. The thought in a few cases by individual farmers was that it was presumptuous for the scientific fellows to come along and attempt to teach them their work. This feeling never was widespread, and it has virtually disappeared. Children Much Interested. The boys and girls of the country have shown an admiration and a wonderful interest in the instructive work of the agents of the departments. The canning clubs, the corn clubs and other clubs which have been established have added to the prosperous conditions of the farm, but as yet there is only a beginning. The promise is great for the future. The interest that has been aroused in the young and the increasing assurance of success makes the boys and girls desirous of staying where they see success is certain. In the agricultural colleges the result of federal and state action in the work of increasing prosperity on the farms of the country is manifest. Young men and young women are taking courses, the men as instructors in the actual farm work and the women as instructors in household economics. Prosperity is increasing on the farms in the United States. Under recently quickened government aid and general interest in the subject, and under the improved conditions of country life, it seems certain that the pace of prosperity is to be greatly accelerated. Stay on the farm. For Efficient Farming Efficiency is as necessary on the farm as in the factory, the shop or the store. To be efficient in farming involves a certain amount of preparedness just as to be efficient in war involves careful and scientific preparation. It behooves every young man who expects to secure his living from the soil to prepare himself for his life work just as thoroughly as his circumstances will permit. He may do this by studying at home and by observing the methods of successful farmers. The HOME BEAUTIFUL Flowers and Shrubbery Their Care and Cultivation THE RIVER An Attractive Sunken Garden. FIRST WORK FOR THE GARDEN By E. VAN BENTHUYSEN. To get both pleasure and profit from a garden one does not need a large variety of flowers and vegetables. I do the planting and much of the work on a plot of about one acre. The products include asters, dahlias, strawberries, tomatoes, celery, lettuce, string beans, etc. March is none too soon to commence shaping one's plans for the garden. A good catalogue from some reliable seedman is necessary. The winter months are the time to study and plan out your scheme of garden. My experience has been that it is a mistake to try too many varieties of vegetables. Of peas, tomatoes and cabbage, select two varieties, one early, the other late. Of all the other vegetables I find one variety suffices. Order your seeds early, for by the middle of March one can begin operations by sowing tomato, cabbage and celery seeds in boxes filled with earth. Cigar boxes make a good receptacle for starting plants. They are deep enough and a good size to stand on the window sill. Two hundred plants can be started in one box. The early cabbage and tomato should be planted first. If you are going to try celery it should be among the first started. Do not cover the seed too deep. Follow the direction on the package as to depth. Do not get discouraged about results, as celery seed germinates very slowly. Keep the top of the earth always moist, and do not look for plants until the third week. When they do show, give plenty of light, so that they will not be spindling. This also applies to cabbage and tomatoes. All of them will grow long, thread-like stems, which will be too weak to support themselves, unless given plenty of sunlight. The celery plants can remain in the cigar box much longer than any of the other plants that I have suggested for house planting. They grow slowly. The tomatoes and cabbage will soon need larger quarters. As soon as the fourth leaf is under way, they should be planted into flats. Mine are about two feet square and three inches deep. I nailed them up myself, and any other woman with a 1 nothing Adds to the Attractiveness of the Home Place Like Thrifty Vines. few boards, a saw and a hammer, can do as much. Once made, they will be good for several seasons. Do not fill with earth to the top. By the time the plants are transplanted in the flats there will be many days when they can be placed outside for a few hours. This should be done whenever possible. Bulbs plunged in ashes should be ready to bring to the window by this time. HOME GROUNDS BEAUTIFUL By L. M. BENNINGTON. Nothing adds to the attractiveness of the home place more than thrifty vines, and for most places perennial vines are best. For temporary screens annual vines will do. Start the seeds indoor early and transplant frequently in order to make the plants stalky, and as soon as the ground gets warm they may be set out where they are to remain. Many of these will grow but little at top for the first year, but will be making root growth and be getting ready to make top progress afterwards. Some of the shrubs and perennials, and even the biennials may give a scant bloom the first year, and some may wait for the first flowering for the third year. Seeds of most of the desirable ornamental vines, shrubs, biennials and perennials germinate readily, while others are slow in sprouting, but if planted in good soil and allowed time the reward is sure. We should inform ourselves on these subjects as much as possible before undertaking the work. February and March is a good time to get our window boxes ready. In these boxes may be planted the seeds, together with many bulbous and tuberous-rooted varieties of plants. Many of our best seedmen sell trial orders very cheap, hoping to thus keep a customer by sending out good seeds and plants. Get your trial order from a reliable firm and study the catalogues, especially the directions on how to prepare the soil and the depth to plant the seeds. Do not try to do anything about the garden in a happy-go-lucky way. Give time and thought to the planting. The result justifies your most intelligent care. WASHINGTON GOSSIP WASHINGTON.—A wireless detective that will tell where radio messages come from has been invented and developed by Frederick Kolster, a wireless expert in the bureau of standards. The completion of this device is tion by reducing interference and atmospherics; to use by the war department in the field service, as the receiving apparatus is portable. It can be carried readily in a light vehicle, or even by a single observer, to use by the coast guard service to receive distress signals and locate the direction from which they come. The bureau of navigation of the department of commerce can use it to locate amateur or other stations that are not observing the radio regulations or are otherwise interfering with radio-transmission of the government or legitimate commercial business. The standards bureau has been engaged on an investigation of the subject for some time and has developed an instrument which is simple and practical and very efficient in operation. The apparatus indicates the direction of the source at the same time that the messages are being received, and, though very sensitive to radiations in a given direction, is less affected by atmospheric disturbances and interfering radiations from other directions than an ordinary receiving apparatus. John Says Senators Are Not Liberal With Tips John Says Senators Are Not Liberal With Tips UNITED STATES senators, all of whom receive a generous salary from Uncle Sam, and many of whom are millionaires, are by no means remarkable as givers of tips. That is the opinion of John Hickman, colored, head ality that distinguishes him at once from his colored brothers occupying many positions of lesser importance in the legislative center of the nation's activities. The barber shop of which John Hickman has charge is just around the corner from the senate chamber in the main corridor of the capitol. The door is kept closed, and every effort is made to steer the common, ordinary folk away from the tonsorial parlor provided solely for the trimming of senatorial hair and the trimming of famous beards. But when the ordinary folk do intrude and ask for a shave, massage or hair cut, the end barber assumes the role of bouncer and leads them quietly to the door. "There is another barber shop downstairs," he says, and you are left wondering just why your money is valueless in this particular shop. The answer is in the big rack containing nearly one hundred shaving mugs, each bearing the name of a senator, and provided with its own particular shaving brush. They are the names of the honorary roll of the members of the senate qualified to use the services of the barber shop. John Hickman, the chief exponent of authority in the shop, is assisted by three junior barbers under his direction. They are especially selected for the shop from the best apprentice training afforded in city barber shops. Work is not rushing, as a rule, and during the last year or so Mr. Hickman has given his attention mainly to directing the work of the other barbers. His hand is still keen for the trade, however, and he can make the razor glide over the senatorial face for a "once over" just as smoothly as any of his assistants. He is an adept at honing razors, and on his trusty old hone, now worn half through, he can flop the blade and feel the edge just as well as when he was younger. Washington Has Largest Body of Girl Scouts Washington Has Largest Body of Girl Scouts WHILE all Washington has been digging deep into its coffers and pouring forth its shekels for the Boy Scouts' organization, the Girl Scouts modestly has sought a welcome as they made their formal bow to their home active members in good standing, while fully another hundred are organizing and preparing for their tenderfoot examinations. There are altogether 15 active troops, all under the leadership and instruction of earnest, conscientious women of experience and ability, who have chosen the medium of captaincies in this organization through which to render their best service to the community at large and the little groups of girls under them. Scoutcraft for girls follows much the same lines as it does for boys, save that the activities are modified to suit their sex and many things are in cluded that belong essentially to a woman's sphere in life. United States "Exposes" Its Own Wireless Plant AFTER the United States department of commerce spent much money and weeks of time investigating an alleged secret German wireless station in Maine, the amazing discovery has been made that the entire outfit was erected the extent of $2,000, for this amount, it is declared, was spent by the assistants of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice in the investigation of this same "mysterious wireless plant." And the "discoveries" of the embassy's detectives that the Portland station bore evidence of being a German concern were made the basis of complaints to the secretary of state. "Red tape" and "lack of harmony between departments" are the explanations of the most extraordinary situation in many ways that has been uncovered in government business for years. And, though a naval lieutenant, after being placed in charge of the station, urged that it be made known that the enterprise was backed by the navy department, because it was looked upon with great suspicion by radio officials in the department of commerce, this advice was none too politely turned down by his superiors, and the officer was told to "mind his own business." The instrument is adapted to use on merchant and naval ships to obtain the direction from any lighthouses or lightships that may be equipped with fog-signaling apparatus; to obtain the direction of one ship from another at sea; to communicate between ships or ships and shore stations irrespective of direc- tion by reducing interference and atm ment in the field service, as the recei carried readily in a light vehicle, or evi coast guard service to receive distress which they come. The bureau of navigation of the o locate amateur or other stations that a or are otherwise interfering with rad legitimate commercial business. The standards bureau has been en ject for some time and has developed practical and very efficient in operatic tion of the source at the same time o and, though very sensitive to radiation by atmospheric disturbances and inter- than an ordinary receiving apparatus. John Says Senators Are UNITED STATES senators, all of w Uncle Sam, and many of whom are able as givers of tips. That is the op BATH ality that distinguishes him at once many positions of lesser importance in activities. The barber shop of which John H corner from the senate chamber in the door is kept closed, and every effort is folk away from the tonsorial parlor senatorial hair and the trimming of folk do intrude and ask for a shave, assumes the role of bouncer and leads "There is another barber shop d wondering just why your money is vazy. The answer is in the big rack c mugs, each bearing the name of a s ticular shaving brush. They are the members of the senate qualified to use. John Hickman, the chief exponent three junior barbers under his direct the shop from the best apprentice t Work is not rushing, as a rule, and d has given his attention mainly to direct. His hand is still keen for the trade glide over the senatorial face-for a "on assistants. He is an adept at honing worn half through, he can flop the bi when he was younger. Washington Has Larges WHILE all Washington has been dig forth its shekels for the Boy Scotly has sought a welcome as they city under the chaperonage of their new president, Mrs. Henry T. Rainey; their vice president, Mrs. Colin Livingstone, and the executive board. Though but an infant of two years' growth, of which so little is generally known, this sturdy little band of Girl Scouts has already earned its place among the important institutions of the national capital, since it leads the United States in membership, there being at present 230 girls under enrollment as active members in good standing, while and preparing for their tenderfoot exam. There are altogether 15 active instruction of earnest, conscientious have chosen the medium of captainch to render their best service to the cof of girls under them. Scoutcraft for girls follows much that the activities are modified to su cluded that belong essentially to a worl United States "Exposes" AFTER the United States department weeks of time investigating an all Maine, the amazing discovery has been Walt Disney the extent of $2,000, for this amount assistants of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice in teious wireless plant." And the "dis that the Portland station bore evident made the basis of complaints to the s "Red tape" and "lack of harmony nations of the most extraordinary sit uncovered in government business for a after being placed in charge of the state the enterprise was backed by the nav upon with great suspicion by radio off this advice was none too politely tun officer was told to "mind his own busi AH! phospherics; to use by the war depart-iving apparatus is portable. It can be seen by a single observer, to use by the signals and locate the direction from department of commerce can use it to are not observing the radio regulations no-transmission of the government or engaged on an investigation of the sub- an instrument which is simple and on. The apparatus indicates the direc- that the messages are being received, us in a given direction, is less affected offering radiations from other directions Be Not Liberal With Tips whom receive a generous salary from millionaires, are by no means remark- inion of John Hickman, colored, head barber of the senate, who came into the service of the capitol's most exclusive barber shop before the civil service commission was thought of in connection with the appointment of jobs. Hickman is now seventy years old and completes fifty years of continuous service in the senate barber shop in 1916. He is one of the old school of "colored gentlemen" that existed everywhere "befo' de wah," and has a dignity of bearing and person- from his colored brothers occupying in the legislative center of the nation's Mickman has charge is just around the the main corridor of the capitol. The he is made to steer the common, ordinary he provided solely for the trimming of famous beards. But when the ordinary he massage or hair cut, the end barber is them quietly to the door. "downstairs," he says, and you are left lueless in this particular shop. containing nearly one hundred shaving anator, and provided with its own par names of the honorary roll of the the services of the barber shop. of authority in the shop, is assisted by dion. They are especially selected for training afforded in city barber shops, burring the last year or so Mr. Mickman taking the work of the other barbers. he, however, and he can make the razor ce over" just as smoothly as any of his razors, and on his trusty old hone, now made and feel the edge just as well as Best Body of Girl Scouts ugging deep into its coffers and pouring outs' organization, the Girl Scouts mod made their formal bow to their home THOSE BOY SCOUTS WON'T HAVE NOTHIN' ON US be fully another hundred are organizing instrations, troops, all under the leadership and women of experience and ability, who uses in this organization through which community at large and the little groups the same lines as it does for boys, save it their sex and many things are in man's sphere in life. Its Own Wireless Plant It of commerce spent much money and regeed secret German wireless station in made that the entire outfit was erected and put in working order under the direct supervision of experts of the United States navy. The Biblical precept that the right hand should not know what the left hand doeth, it is declared, has been followed to the letter by certain high officials in the government departments. for the story is confirmed by a man connected with the federal radio service. Incidentally, it is known that the British embassy has been "stung" to but, it is declared, was spent by the the investigation of this same "mys- scoveries" of the embassy's detectives face of being a German concern were secretary of state. between departments" are the expla- culation in many ways that has been years. 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DAY OR NIGHT TAFFETA, PANNIER DRAPERY THE FASHION WEEK 1 The frock for afternoon wear shown here is one of many made of taffeta that have been designed for the fast-coming spring and summer seasons. No other silk is quite so well adapted to the full, spreading skirts and to pannier draperies. The "body" and crispness of taffeta insure the required full effects in skirts without a burdensome quantity of material, and make a sufficient support for pannier draperies. These properties cause it to be used in bands on softer materials, such as net, crepe, chiffon, and the like, and, coupled with its attractiveness, promise to make it a dominant style feature as long as the present fashions endure. While one of the simplest of the pannier inspirations, and very conservative as to width of skirt, the pretty gown pictured betrays its allegiance to the dictates of the move in every particular. The fullness of the skirt is let in, in plaits at the sides and in scant gatherings across the front and back, the pannier draperies are cut separately and set on. SUPPLYING MOT No one knows better than the motorist just what she demands in headwear—except the people whose business lies in supplying her demands. Motor hats look simple, but they exact much of the designers, whose difficult task lies in making them comfortable, durable, attractive and in line with the changing styles. Their manufacture has grown to a business of great importance, and specialists in this particular line of millinery leave nothing unloved that will make for the success of their product. A rapidly and constantly increasing demand rewards them. The two motor hats shown here are selected from a collection of many that have been designed for the counting season. Most of them are made by combining pliable millinery braids with silk, but the collection includes others made entirely of silk or other fabrics. Among the latter those of the smart new stripes in Jersey cloth are gay and novel. The most important factor in the success of a motor hat is its fit. This has been assured in the two hats pictured, by the insertion of the head band of elastic cord that holds the hat close to the head. This clever bit of management has been patented. The hat at the left has a gracefully shaped brim covered with tan-colored braid and a soft crown of green silk. A band, made of the braid and bound with silk is fastened to the crown, apparently with small ornaments made of cord covered with silk. --- and the normal waist line snarply defined by a close-fitting girdle of the material. Wide shoulders, a skirt longer than those of the season just past, and sleeves of crepe, like the gown in color, are all characteristics of the spring and summer styles. The simple turnover collar of organdie and the open throat lead us to think twice about the rumor that elaborate collars are about to pass into the realm of memories. But the rumor has still to be verified, and collars will not pass without regret. Many of the new gowns have a small V-shaped opening at the throat and a high-standing collar of silk at the back of the neck, with a frill of lace set in, veiling the neck most becomingly. A detail of finishing that harmonizes with the style of the model shown here appears in the very simple design in embroidery at the front of the girdle. There is very little of it, but it serves to introduce a bit of additional color, inasmuch as two colors besides that of the gown are used in it. This model is shown in blue, olive green brown, and amethyst. TORISTS' WANTS It projects at the front in a rounded end. A green chiffon veil is worn with the hat, for motoring. Without it this model will serve the purpose of the motorist for outing or street wear, as required. The hat at the right is made entirely of silk, with soft crown and machine-stitched brim. It is shown in a variety of colors and trimmed with silk-covered cords, with ornamental ends, tied in loops at the left side. It is designed to answer for street wear, with a moderately wide and shapely brim that is a real protection to the eyes. Julia Bottomley While clothes are an important factor in one's appearance, it is not the only one to be considered. So many busy housekeepers neglect to pay sufficient attention to their own personal appearance. We are not all born beauties, neither are we born homely, unless the case be abnormal. A clean healthy woman who carries herself erect and dresses herself properly is never homely, while on the other hand a slovenly, sickly, cranky person is never pretty. 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