Colorado Statesman

RECOGNIZED BY THE RETAIL ASSOCIATION OF THE DENVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM OF THE FIRST CLASS THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY Mann May Be Elected Speaker Of Next House By Compromise VOL. XXIII. Mann Ma Elected Of Next By Com Washington, Jan. 2. — James R. Mann, following a contemplated compromise, may be speaker of the next House of Representatives, with a Progressive-Republican as the party's floor leader. There already is discussion of an arrangement of this kind. There is no Republican Isalah at hand to make infallible prophesy that the party will be able to organize the next House, but the chances today seem to favor such an outcome, and on this basis of strong hope party men, rather under cover as yet, are discussing effective compromises which may clear the way for united party action. It is known from talks with Progressive-Republicans and with Progressives who are willing to get back into the old party, if it proves its reformation, that a Progressive-Republican floor leader would be more to their liking than a Progressive Republican speaker. The floor leader in these days has more influence than the man in the chair, and this is due to the fight which progressives conducted when Joseph G. Cannon was speaker of the House of Representatives. If the advanced thinkers in the Republican party, and those who are opposed to Mr. Mann for reasons other than that he is an old liner, should unite in opposition to him, of course they could prevent his election to the speakership. Gardner for Floor Leader. It is perhaps possible that Representative Gardner, who is more or less of a progressive, may continue to insist that the Illinois man shall not be made speaker, but if Mr. Gardner could have a word to say about the floor leadership he might be willing that the other job be given to the man against whom he has laid his charge of "Prussianism." "If a Progressive-Republican should become the leader of the party in the House he would have much more influence in legislative and committee matters than would the speaker. The speakership is said to be the second most powerful office in the government of the United States, but it is not so powerful as it was before the days of what the Progressives sincerely believe to be reform in House procedure and in the manner of the placing of House authority. As things are today the speaker does not name the committees. This power to name them gave Mr. Cannon the larger part of his immense power. Under the rule of the Democrats in the House the majority members of the ways and means committee fix the committee memberships for the dominant party. The floor leader of a party ordinarily is chairman of the ways and means committee, and because a committee chairman has an immense amount of influence, it readily can be seen that to a large degree he can be the dictator of committee appointments. It can be seen readily, therefore, why the Republican faction which secures the floor leadership will secure more influence and authority for itself than the faction which secures the speakership. Now, of course, this leads right up against what some men here consider the stone wall in the case. Representative Joseph W. Fordney of the Saginaw, Mich., district is the ranking Republican member of the ways and means committee. Mr. Fordney believes in the highest kind of a tariff. It is doubtful if there is any Republican in Congress who would care to put the same strong wings on schedules, to insure their high soaring that Mr. Fordney would affix if he could. Compromise Discussed. So it may be that if compromise is to come there will of necessity be a hard fight to accomplish it, because Joseph W. Fordney must be reckoned with. Mr. Fordney is a fighter. He has shown it on dozens of occasions. He is a stalwart Republican, however, and it is possible that if the men of his own way of thinking should show him that the good of the party was at stake he might be willing to give way without going into the ring for a finish fight. One thing is so certain that it does not need any screws to keep it fixed. The Republicans, if they are to control the next House by a majority of one, plus three or four of the members who are neither Democrats nor Republicans, must settle their differences well in advance of the time of the organization of the House. There must be many conferences and a good deal of giving and taking on both sides. Out of it all may come harmony sufficiently developed to secure control of the House. How long peace would continue to brood, however, is a sharp question. POWER OF THE SOUTHERN VOTE ALARMS STATESMEN. Washington, D. C., Dec. 26.—In shaping national legislation one vote in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, or Virginia is worth as much as five votes cast in Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa, New Mexico or Idaho. The eight Southern States enumerated cast a total of 511,199 votes for the election of members to sit in the Sixty-fourth Congress. This makes an average of 7. State Hist & Nut Hist Bios State Houses OF THE DENVER CHAMBER ADO THE JOURNAL DENVER, COLORADO, SAT 745 votes to each district, the entire number of districts returning 64 Democrats, one Republican and one Progressive. For the seven Northern States mentioned, the total vote at the same time was 2,587,402, or an average of 39,203 votes for each district, returning 50 Republicans and 16 Democrats. Thus slightly over half a million Southern voters have 66 spokesmen in the House of Representatives, whereas it required more than two and a half million northern voters to secure equal representation. The inequality in voting power is the outcome of course, of a basis of total population forming the several Southern Congressional districts where the Negro is counted in, but his vote excluded. How long must this inequality continue? Are the North and the Republican party to supinely submit indefinitely to this condition of affairs? FIFTY-FOUR PERSONS LYNCHED LAST YEAR. Tuskegee Institute Keeps Record, Which Shows That Three Negro Women Were Among Victims. Tuskegee, Ala., Jan. 1.—Fifty-four persons were lynched in the United States in 1916, according to records of Tuskegee institute here, made public today. Fifty of the victims were Negroes and four white persons and included in the record are three Negro women. Sixty-seven persons were lynched in 1915, thirteen of whom were white men. In a statement presenting the reports, Robert Moton, president of the institute, said: "Fourteen, or more than one-fourth of the total lynchings, occurred in the state of Georgia. Of those put to death, forty-two or 77 per cent of the total, were charged with offenses other than assault. The charges for which whites were lynched were murder, three; suspected for cutting a woman, one (this a Mexican). "The charges for which Negroes were put to death were: Attempted assault, nine; killing officers of the law, ten; murder, seven; hog stealing and assisting another person to escape, six; wounding officers of the law, four; assault, three; insult, two. For each of the following offenses one person was put to death; Slapping boy, robbing store, brushing against girl on street, assisting his son, accused of assault, to escape; entering a house for robbery or some other purpose; defending her son who, in defense of his mother, killed a man; fatally wounding a man with whom he had quarreled; speaking against mob in act of putting a man to death; attacking a man and wife with club. "Lynchings occurred in the following states: Alabama, one; Arkansas, four; Florida, eight; Georgia, fourteen; Kansas, one; Kenutcky, two; Louisiana, two; Mississippi, one; Missouri, one; North Carolina, two; Oklahoma, four; South Carolina, two; Tennessee, three, and Texas, nine." Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. held their closing-year meeting at Shorter A. M. E. church last Sunday afternoon, and listened to an address by the Rev. Dr. David Utter, pastor of the First Unity church on the subject, "If I Were a Negro." Dr. Utter began his remarks by saying that if he were a Negro he would doubtless do as he is doing now. He admitted that as sentiment is at present in this country a white man had an advantage over the colored. He recommended education, honesty, a religious life and not too early marriages. He did not seem to be wholly at home with his subject, and expressed surprise when informed that colored people were discriminated against in the playhouses in this city, declaring it a disgrace to Denver. Rev. C. A. Williams, speaking in response to Dr. Utter, declared himself proud of his race, and said that after all the race had nothing to apologize for. A very pleasant open house reception was held on New Year's day from 3:30 to 8 o'clock. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Lightner, Mrs. Clinkscale, Mrs. Florence Smith, Mrs. Claire Smith, Mrs. Geraldine Campbell. It was one of the pleasantest receptions held for a long while. The crowning feature was a short concert rendered by the Peerless Entertainers, which was greatly enjoyed by everyone. Next Sunday afternoon memorial services will be held in honor of International Secretary William A. Hunton, who died two weeks ago in Brooklyn. The program will be very interesting, and everybody will be invited. The meeting will begin at 4 o'clock. New York, Dec. 24.—Announcement was made here tonight that Simon Guggenheim and his brothers had contributed $10,000 as a Christmas gift toward the construction of an auditorium at Hampton Institute. The auditorium is now being erected as a tribute to the devotion of the late Robert G. Ogden to the cause of education in the south. The gift of the Guggenheims was made through former President Taft, who is president of the board of trustees of Hampton and chairman of the Ogden Memorial committee. The new building with its equipment will cost $200,000. Tennessean Man Gets $42,500 Damages Memphis, Tenn. — Upholding the contention that a "a man's home is his castle and he has a right to defend it," which Judge John E. McCall emphasized in his charge, a jury in Federal Court here today awarded Matthew Harris, Colored, $22,500 compensation and $20,000 punitive damages in his suit against John A. Reichman, former sheriff of Shelby county, and members of a sheriff's posse. Harris, who sued for $100,000, was seriously injured when his home was dynamited in an attempt to dislodge him after he fired on the posse which was searching for one of his relatives. Harris testified that he was not aware of the identity of the posse men when he resisted their efforts to search his home. Riechman was exempted from the verdict for punitive damages, as it was shown that he was not actually a member of the posse. RACE NEWS Ottumwa, Ia., Dec. 26.—Mrs. Mary Talbot, a former slave, celebrated her 120th birthday anniversary here. Mrs. Talbot spends much of her time piecing quilts. She is a native of Kentucky. Chicago, Ill., Dec. 27.—Mrs. A. Georg and Mr. M. B. C. Mason won the prizes at the seventh annual essay contest at Bethel church on last Sunday. Mrs. George was awarded a diamond broach and Mr. Mason a diamond ring. They both represented St. Mark's Literary of which Aaron Nimrod is president. B. W. Fitts founder, presided, and 2,000 people were present. Fort Worth, Texas.—Night riders have appeared in west Texas warning landlords to dismiss their Colored tenants and Colored cotton-pickers. A printed warning to this effect was left under the door of every business house in Haskell last week, according to advices received here. The warning was signed "The White Renters' League." Many Colored laborers were taken into west Texas this fall to gather the large cotton crop and the printed warning states it is feared these men will not be allowed to remain. St. Louis, Mo.—A complaint, made by a Colored patron, of discrimination in one of the Harvey Houses, brought the following letters from Mr. Manger, who has charge of the St. Louis branch of the Harvey system at this time. In replying to Howard's letter, Mr. Manger stated: "It has always been my desire to give Colored people who patronize us, the same service for their money that we give any body else. I will appreciate it if you can find it convenient to call on me in person, in order that I may get a little more information first hand." Austin, Texas. After a week's illness, Dr. H. S. Lovinggood, president of Samuel Huston College, died Sunday night, December 17, at his home in this city. He has suffered from Bright's disease for the past two years, having a breakdown at that time while lecturing in Iowa. However, he stuck to his post of duty and was in actual direction of the work of the college until compelled to take to his bed a week ago. He was born in Walhalla, S. C., NO 21. 1864, and graduated from Clark University, Atlanta, Ga. After completing the college course he took a course in carpentry. For two years he edited the Atlanta Times, but sold it to become principal of a city school in Birmingham. After teaching at Wiley University, Marshall, Texas, for five years, he was selected in 1900 as president of Samuel Huston College. RACE DEBATE SPLITS JOINT CHURCH MEET. Baltimore, Jan. 1.—The joint commission on unification of the Methodist Episcopal church and the Methodist Episcopal church, South, in secret session, wrestled today with the most serious obstacle in the path of unity—the "colored brother" in the South. Two colored ministers are on the northern commission, and in the debate, one told the southern commissioners that if he was a white man he would not have the fear of Negro domination they have, when the ratio of whites to Negroes in the church is as 15 to 1. Most of the white commissioners, especially the bishops, are in favor of the Negroes having a separate church organization presided over by colored bishops. COLORED EX-MAYOR KING'S GUEST London, England.—Mr. John Archer, who was elected early in November, 1913, mayor of Battersea, England, a city of 200,000 inhabitants, received on New Year's Day at his palatial home. During the war ex-Mayor Archer has been to the "front" and gave his best energy and service to his country in aiding the soldiers who are fighting for the English flag. King George of England and all London have rejoiced over the spirit he has always exhibited under the Union Jack. When he was elected mayor of Battersea the incident welded the darker races closer than ever before. He was elected on his merit. He has lived here a number of years and made a wonderful impression throughout all England. King George is to visit during the holidays, all the hospitals and the ex-mayors will be his guests, and ex-Mayor Archer was among the first invited. He will be accompanied by his wife, who is a handsome brown-skin woman. LATEST NEWS EPITOMIZED OF MOST INTEREST Re ene ere French forces made counter attacks on the new position captured by the Germans on Dead Man Hill northwest of Verdun, In the Verdun sector east w the Chambrettes farm the Germans at- tempted a strong surprise attack against the French position, but were repulsed, according to Paris. The battle of the Somme is pictured as a sweeping triumph for the entente allied arms, in a detailed report by Gen, Sir Douglas Haig, which covers operations from July 1 to Nov. 18. Carranza forces met and defeated a ‘Villa command at Bustillos, fifty miles west of Chihuahua City, on the Mex- ican Northwestern railroad, Dec. 27, a Carranza official from Chihuahua City who arrived at Juares stated, Villa partisans at El Paso, Texas, announced Friday that forces operat- ing under the banner of Villa had oc- cupled Saltillo, the capital of the state of Coahuila, loeated between Torreon and Monterey. The report was denied by Carranza officials, Around Braila, oa both sides of the Danube, the invaders have further driven in the defenders of the terr- tory. Near Fokshany and thence south- east to the Danube, Petrograd reports the Russlans and Rumanians have taken up new positions without pres- sure from the Teutonic allies. The Teutonic allies have captured Rimnik-Sarat, thirty miles southwest of Bralla, Rumania’s ofl and grain center on the Danube, The guns of the Dobrudja army are hammering on the bridgehead of Matchin, on the east bank of the Danube opposite Braila. Previous to the fall of Rim- nik-Sarat the Teutonic allies defeated the Russians on a front of ten and a half miles southwest of the town, Germans continued on Tuesday to push back Russlans an‘ Rumanians at most points in Moldavia and Do: brudja. Russians hold positions and repulse attacks between Buzeu and Danube rivers. London Dally Mail condemns Salonik! expedition and urges his recall as futile, saying troops sent there might have turned tide on western front, Macedonia sit uation unchanged. Vigorous artillery duels in Austro-talian theater. Pa trol parties cause chief activity on western front, British _ repulsing strong patrol action near Vermelles. Western Thomas H. Campbell, Republican was inaugurated governor of Arizona Monday. New Orleans bank clearings for 1911 totalled $1,381,073,094, exceeding thos: of 1915 by $408,907,518. Fifty-four persons were lynched in the United States in 1916, according te records of Tuskegee institute at Tus kegee, Okla, Private Matthew E. Sawyer of Com pany F, First Arkansas infantry, diec at the base hospital at Deming, N. M. of pneumonia. Sawyer enlisted at Hope, Ark. Stanley B. Gifford, New York capt talist, with large holdings in sugar plantations in the lower Rio Grande valley, died at Brownsville, Tex., o! appendicitis, On a street crowded with theater goers, John Stearns, proprietor of 4 restaurant at Lincoln, Neb., shot and instantly killed Mrs, Nora Nelson, a dressmaker, and then shot himself, dying in a few moments. Washington B. C. DeBaca took the oath of office as governor of Ney Mexico Monday. Four eclipses of the sun and three of the moon, the greatest number pos sible in a single year, will occur in 2917, ‘The administration has refused to receive @ new ambassador from Tur key until the sublime porte releases several hundred Amricans from yirtual detention In Syria, Assalling the Federal Farm Loan Board for not locating a farm loan bank in Colorado or adjacent territory, Senator Shafroth introduced a pill to create a thirteenth farm loan bank district to include Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico and establish the bank in Denver, Belief that the neutral nations of the world should unite at once to force cessation of the European war by economic pressure was expressed by a high official representative of one of the neutral nations in Europe, who said that this view also was shared by at least some of the South *merican countries, Congress got back to business to Foreign A Vienna dispatch annouuces the death of Eduard Strauss, the composer of dance music. For the third time in two years the death of the monk Gregory Rasputin ‘was reported in London, Tho marriage of Earl Curzon of Kedleston and Mrs. Grace Elvina Dug- gan took place privately in London. ‘The Senate has rejected the nomina- tion of Chang Kuo-Kan, appointed minister of the interior by Premier ‘Tuan Chi-Jui of China. A total estimated population of 77,- 289,596 in Japan, Korea and Formosa and the Japznese half of Saghalien Isl- and, is announced officially, ‘The steamships Hero and Nystrand ‘td the three-masted bark Kprinmo, all flying the Norwegian flag, have ‘been sunk. The crews have been landed. Forty-six women were burned to death in a fire that destroyed St. Fer dinand de Halifax asylum, at St. Fer dinand de Halifax, Megantic county, Quebec, according to a report received at Montreal, ‘With Burope in a death grapple, the Mormon Church has chosen the oppor- tunity for proselyting on a scale which ant{-Mormon leaders and organizations assert to be the most far-reaching ever undertaken, in London. Carranza forces met and defeated a villa command at Bustillos, fifty miles west of Chihuahua City on the Mext- can Northwestern railroad on Dec. 2% @ Carranza official from Chihuahua City who arrived at Juarez stated. ‘The military commander of Moscow has closed that city to refugees, says the Overseas News Agency, which adds that the city is crowded with people from Rumania, Odessa, and all parts of southern Russia, Rumanian refugees, the agency says, will now be sent to Siberia. An assemblage of 1,500 Hungarian nobles witnessed the coronation of King Charles and Queen Zita at Buda- pest. It was the most brilliant in the history of the country. Not even the crowning of Francis Joseph presented such a spectacle of the kingdom's wealth. In reply to the proffer of Germany and her allies for a peace conference the entente allfes in a collective note declare that they “refuse to consider a proposal which is empty and insin- cere.” The note was handed to tho American ambassador, Willlam Graves Sharp, by Premier Briand, and was made public simultaneously in London and Paris. Sporting News Charlie White of Chicago knocked out Harry’ Donahue of Peoria, Ill, in the sixth round of a ten-round match ai Rochester, N. Y. Eliott H. Binzen of Fordham Uni- versity won the national indoor junior tennis championship by defeating Hen- ry B, O'Boyle of Georgetown Univers- ity in the finals in New York, 6-1, 7-5, 62, The football championship of the border was won at El Paso, Tex., by the Thirty-second Michigan National guard team from the team represent- ing the Eighth artillery by a score of 32 to 14. C. G. Williams, business manager of the Chicago Cubs, has written a letter to the Tucson Chamber of Commerce asking If arrangements can be made to have the Cubs spend two weeks in ‘Tucson, Ariz., on their southern train- ing tour. “The defeat of Pennsylvania will give the West great recognition in the football world back East,” was the comment by Coach R. C. Folwell of Pennsylvania on the 14-to-0 victory achieved over the Quakers by the University of Oregon, Johan Henry (“Honus”) Wagner, well-known Pittsburg National League infielder, and Miss Bessie Smith, daughter of John G. Smith, a former county detective, were married in Car- negie, Pa,, at the parsonage of the St. John’s Lutheran church. General Sidney J. Catts was inaugurated as governor of Florida, and in his address recommended a law for police inspec: tion of parochial schools, convents and nunneries. Gen, Edward Lewis Hayes, a cousin of President Rutherford B. Hayes and at one time governor of North Caro- lina, died at his home at Verona, N. J. He was 97 years old. A three-weeks’ bear drive based on peace talk was followed by a war market on the New York stock ex: change. ‘The first trading day of 1917 was one of bull activity growing out of the allies’ rejection of Germany's proposals, With the sounding of taps, followed by the rendition of “Auld Lang Syne” by Mme. Ernestine Schumann-Heink before a yast assemblage at the great outdoor organ, the Panama-California exposition passed into history after being opened continuously to the pub- le for two years. The murder of Grace Colbert Rob- erts, beautiful 22-year-old art model and “perfect woman” whose body, garbed in a suit of blue silk pajamas was found in her apartments, Fit: teenth and Poplar streets, in Philadel- phia, may involve a dozen or more men prominent in the business and social life of Philadelphia. ¢ While twelve alleged affinities of Edward R. Stock, salesman, looked on, Judge Thomas F. Graham at San Fran- cisco granted Stock’s wife, Mrs. Carrio Stock, a divorce, $2,000 cash and $40 a month for two years, REJECT GERMAN PEACE PROPOSAL REPARATION DEMANDED 2 er Vestern Newspaper Union News Service. Paris, Jan, 3—The text of the re- vly of the allied governments to the German peace proposals, given on Dec. 30, follows: “The allied governments of Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Montenegro, Portugal, Rumania, Rus- sia and Serbia, united for the defense of the Mberty of their peoples, and faithful to engagements taken not to lay down thelr arms separately, have resolved to reply collectively to the pretended propositions of peace which were addressed to them on behalf ot the enemy governments, through the Antermediary of the United States, ‘Switzerland and Holland. “Before making any reply the allied powers desire particularly to protest against the two essential assertions of the note of the enemy powers, that pretend to throw upon the allies re- sponsibility for the war and proclaim: the victory of the central powers. “The allied governments cannot ad- mit an affirmation doubly inexact and which suffers to render sterile all ten: tative negotiations. “The allted nations have sustained for thirty months a war they did ev- rything to avoid. They have shown by their acts their attachment to peace. That attachment is as strong today as ft was in 1914. “But it is not upon the word of Germany, after the violation of en- gagements, that the peace broken by her may be based.” “A mere suggestion, without a state- ment of terms, that negotiations should be opened, is not an offer of peace. The putting forward by the imperial government of a sham proposal lack- ing all substance and precision would appear to be less an offer of peace than a war maneuver. It is founded on calculated misinterpretation of the ‘character of the struggle in the past, the present and the future. “As for the past, the German note takes no account of the facts, dates and figures which establish that the war was desired, provoked and de- clared, by Germany and Austria-Hun- gary, “A. The Hague Conferencedit was a German delegate who refused all pro- posals for disarmament. In July, 1914, It was Austria-Hungary who, after having addressed to Serbia an unpre- cedented ultimatum, declared war upon her in spite of the satisfaction which had been accorded at once. “The central empires then rejected all attempts made by the entente to ‘bring about a pacific solution of a purely local conflict: Great Britain suggested a conference; France pro- posed an international commission: the emperor of Russia asked the Ger- man Emperor to go to arbitration, and Russia and Austria-Hungary came to an understanding on the eve of the conflict. But to all these efforts Ger- many gave neither answer nor effect. “Belgium was invaded by an em- pire which had guaranteed her nev- trality, and which had the assurance to proclaim that treaties were ‘scraps of paper’ and that ‘necessity knows no ny." “At the present moment these sham offers on the part of Germany rest on the ‘war map’ of Europe alone, which represents nothing more than a super- {ictal and passing phase of the situa- tfon and not the real strength of the belligerents. A peace concluded upon these terms would be only to the ad- Germany Gives U. S. Peace Terms. Washington, Jan. 3.—Germany is Washington, Jan. 3.—Germany is willing to conclude peace with the al- Hes on a basis of mutual reparation, restoration of all the small kingdoms involved in the war and adequate guarantees for the security of world peace, according to details reported to President Wilson, summarized as fol- lows: 1—Restoration of Belgium as an in- dependent sovereign state on condi: tion that neither its frontier nor Ant- werp shall be fortified. 2—Reparation for Belgium by Ger- many, reparation for Greace by the al- lies, and reparation for Germany and Austria by Russia to compensate for damages occasioned by the invasion of East Prussia and Galicia. 8—Restoration of Serbia and Monte- negro as one independent sovereign state under a ruling family other than the Karageorgevitch dynasty of Berbia, 4—Restoration of Rumania, provid- ed Rumania cedes to Hungary and Bulgaria a strip along her western boundary which, together with a strip trom northeastern Serbia, will consti- tute-a connecting link between the Power Wire Kills Aged Couple Tucson, Ariz.—Raymon Torres and his wife, both more than 80 years old, were killed by electrocution when they tried to go under a barbed wire fence to New Year services at the ancient Ban Xavier mission. A coroner's jury focided that an electric light power line had broken and fallen on the tence. Investigation led Sheriff Forbes to offer $250 reward for the apprehen- sion of persons who, he believes, tapped the live wire and attached it to the fence vantage to the aggressors who, after imagining that they would reach thelt goal in two months, discovered after two years that they could never at tain it. “As for the future, the disasters caused by the German declaration of war and the innumerable outrages committed by Germany and her allies against both belligerents and neutrals, demand penalties, reparation and guarantees, Germany avoids mention of any of these. “In reality these overtures made by the central powers are nothing more than a calculated atterapt to influence the future course of war and to end it by imposing a German peace, The ob- fect of these overtures is io create disssension in public opinion in the allied countries, But that public opin fon has, in spite of all the sacrifices endured by the allies, already given its answer with admirable firmness and has denounced the empty pretense of the declaration of the enemy powers. “They have the further object of stiffening public opinion in Germany and in the countries allied to her; one and all severely tried by their losses, worn out by economic pressure, and crushed by the supreme effort which has been imposed upon their inhabl tants, “Finally, these overtures attempt te justify in advance in the eyes of tha world a series of crimes, submarine warfare, deportations, forced labor and forced enlistment of the inhabitants against their own country and viola tions of neutrality. “Fully conscious of the gravity of this moment, but equally conscious of {ts requirements, the allied govera: ments, closely united to one another and in perfect sympathy with thelr peoples, refuse to consider a proposal which is empty and insincere. “Once again the allies declare that no peace is possible so long as they have not secured reparation for violat: ed rights and liberties, the recognition of the principle of nationalities and of the free existence of small states; 80 long as they have not brought about a settlement calculated to end at once and for all forces which have cons't tuted a perpetual menace to the na tions and to afford the only effective guarantee for the future security of the world. “In conclusion the allied powers think it necessary to put forwerd the following considerations, which show the special situation of Belgium after two and a half years of war: “In virtue of the international treat fes signed by five great European powers, of whom Germany was one, Belgium enjoyed before the war a special status, rendering her territory inviolable and placing her, under the guarantee of the powers, outside all European conflicts. She was, however, in spite of these treaties, the first to suffer the aggression of Germany. For this reason the Belgian government thinks it necessary to define the alms which Belgium has never ceased '0 pursue while fighting side by side with the entente powers for right and justice. “Belgium has always scrupulously fulfilled the duties which her neutral: ity Imposed upon her. She has taken up arms to defend her independence and her neutrality violated by Ger- many and to show that she remains faithful to her internationa! obliga- tions.” “On the 4th of August, 1914, in the Reichstag the German chancellor ad- mitted that this aggression constituted an Injustice contrary to the laws of nations, and pledged himself in the name of Germany to repair it. Dur- ing two and a half years this injustice has been cruelly aggravated by the pro- ceedings of the occupying forces,which have exhausted the resources of the country, ruined its industries, devas- tated its towns and villages, and have been responsible for innumerable mas- sacres, executions and imprisonments. “At this very moment, wiiile Ger- many is proclaiming peace and human- ity to the world she is deporting Bel- gian citizens by thousands and reiluc- ing them to slavery. “Belgium before the war asked ior nothing but to live in harmony with her neighbors. Her king and her gov- ernment have but one aim—th> re-es- tablishment of peace and justice. But they only desire peace which would as- sure their country legitimate repara- tion, guarantees and safeguards for the future.” Austro-Hungarian empire and Bul garla. This will solidify the territory dominated by the Teutonic empires Austro-Hungarian empire and Bul- garla. This will solidify the territory dominated by the Teutonic empires and remove an obstacle in the path of German progress toward the Persian gulf. 5—Partition of Albania between Greece and the combined state of Serbia and Montenegro, This 1s de- signed by Germany as compensation to Greece if she refuses to join the allies and to Serbia for the cessation of northeastern territory to Hungary and Bulgaria, 6—Erection of independent king: doms of Poland and Lithuania, 7—Bvacuation of northern France by Germany without indemnity. 8—Restoration to Germany of her colonies in Africa, Kiau Chau and the Pacific Islands. 9—Agreement of the powers upon world peace guarantees, including dis- armament, freedom of the seas and a league to enforce peace, to be con- sidered at a conference continuing the peace conference on territorial terms. Germany believes these are not only fair but extremely moderate terms. Germany, it is stated, is prepared to pay a large indemnity as reparation Seven Eclipses Slated for 1917. Washington.—Four eclipises of the Sun and three of the moon, the great- est number possible in a singie year, will occur in 1917, according to a memorandum issued by the naval ob- servatory. The last year in which seven eclipses came was early in the lust century, and the next will be 1935. On Jan. 8 there will be a total eclipse of the moon by the earth's shadow, visible throughout the United States, beginning at 12:50 a. m. and ending at 4:39 a.m., eastern time. | WL The i a \ : \ 5 Curtis 7 ee Park GS } f ” " i - A Floral nn.. Company ‘ ey FLORAL DESIGNS Su"w'st= AN CHDIGE PLANTS AND CUT FLOWERS SorsENES. “WR LE Teri ms The Champa Pharmacy Twenticth and Champa, Is the place to got your DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES ‘WH SERVE DRINES. Prescriptions Our Specialty. Phone us and we will delivor the goods to all parts of tho city, JAMES E. THRALL, PROPR. PHONE MAIN 2425. 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Scalp treatment, halr tonlos, &} halr straightening, manicuring. Stage wigs for rent; theatrical } use and masquerades. $3} Goods delivered out of the ¢{ city. All shades of halr matched =} by sending sample of hair; also $} combings made up. % Cheapest Switches 50 Cents % 1219 2st et. Denver, Colo. [ Dom NoW 32 | AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Francis Jackson Garrison, youngest son of William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist, died at his home in Newtonville, Mass., some days ago. He had been in failing health for some months. Mr. Garrison is survived by his only son, Wendell Holmes Garrison, who lived with him, and by his sister, Mrs. Henry Villard of New York. Named after Francis Jackson, the famous English abolitionist, Mr. Garrison took a keen and active interest from boyhood in the stupendous efforts his father was then making in behalf of freeing the Negroes. This close association with his father's busy life and work was Mr. Garrison's greatest pleasure in later life, and he continued his interest in the welfare of the race, being one of the most influential members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. One of the few surviving men who had had a wide acquaintance among the men associated with the abolition movement, Mr. Garrison was at the time of his death one of the greatest authorities on the subject. Besides making for himself one of the most important collections of antislavery literature and of the records and papers of his father, Mr. Garrison gave generously of this material to aid libraries to round out their literature on the subject. He collaborated with his brother, Wendell Phillips Garrison, in writing the biography of the abolitionist. "William Lloyd Garrison; the Story of His Life Told by His Children." Born in Boston October 29, 1848, he was educated at the famous Boston Latin school, graduating in 1865. While still a schoolboy he aided his father in the publication of the Liberator, the powerful organ of the abolitionist movement, and was present on the historic, evening at the end of 1865, when the elder Garrison, having written his valedictory, set in type the final paragraph with his own hands, and stood by as the forms for the last number of the Liberator were closed. Having completed his schooling, Mr. Garrison went abroad with his sister, Mrs. Henry Villard, and Mr. Villard. They were joined by the elder Garrison in Paris in May, 1867. The young man visited the International exposition with his father and accompanied him on his triumphal visit in France and then to England the following month, when eminent men and women of the two countries acclaimed the American who had done so much to win emancipation for Negro slaves. Returning with his father after an eventful summer spent in both France and England, Mr. Garrison arrived in Boston again on November 6 of the same year. Ten years later he accompanied his father upon another trip to England, this time in the interests of the health of the elder man. Although his friends in England had been advised that William Lloyd Garrison was not strong enough to attend receptions and other functions in his honor, they could not resist the opportunity to invite their friends to meet the abolitionist, to get him to tell about his early trials and later successes in the abolitionist movement, and to draw out his opinions on various moral and social questions. At all gatherings the son was an attentive listener and was continually surprised at the vigor and freshness with which his father recounted his early experiences. The trip started in May, 1877, and the two returned to New York by the end of the following August. Many Negroes of this city have turned their hand to writing. Prof. Richard T. Greener, former consul to Vladivostok and the first colored man to graduate from Harvard, and attorney George W. Ellis, F. R. G. S., 3262 Vernon avenue, have dealt extensively with the Negro problem. Maj. John Roy Lynch, 4352 Forrestville avenue, retired army paymaster, three times congressman from Mississippi and assistant auditor of the treasury, is another. W. H. Ferris, 3359 Wabash avenue, a Yale man, is the author of a most pretentious work on the race. The Defender, published by R. S. Abbott, at 3159 South State street, is said to have the largest circulation of papers of its kind in the United States. Eleven years ago Editor Abbott founded it on a capital of 25 cents, a lead pencil and scratchpad, backed by a degree from Hampton college and practical experience as a printer. Frank A. Young is business manager and Cary B. Lewis, who was given a start by Colonel Watterson in Louisville, is city editor. The Broad Ax, edited by Julius F. Taylor, 6413 Champlain avenue, and Among the islands named after animals there are the isle of Dogs and Whale island, Pewit island in Essex, England, and Crane and Gull islands, off the coast of Cornwall. Near Lundy island are Rat island and the Hen and Chickens. Transatlantic travelers, it may be added, are familiar with the Bull, Cow and Calf islands, near the English coast. Elephant island has lately been associated with Shackleton's exploring party. Cat island, in the West Indies, has been regarded as Columbus' original landing place. Having already made his connections with the publishing house of Houghton, Mifflin company, the younger Mr. Garrison returned to Boston to resume his duties. He married Mary Pratt in 1879, and she died three years later. In 1891 he married Theresa Holmes, who died in 1915. According to the census of 1910 there were in this country 218,972 Negro farmers owning their own homes. At that time 672,964 Negroes were tenants on the farms of others. The Negro is essentially an out-of-doors worker. He thrives best in God's fresh air and sunshine. Coop him up in the house and pulmonary disease attacks him quickly. As for the southern Negro, this is the lesson that should be learned before he allows the seductive offers of the northern labor seeker to pull him away from the climate and the work for which he is suited. The offer of better wages has already drawn more than 125,000 Negroes from the South. Despite the cold weather that approaches, the migration to the North continues. It is estimated that in six months more the number will reach a quarter of a million. Most of these Negroes are from the rural districts. They have never done a day's work in the house in their lives. They have only a limited idea of the labor they will be expected to do in their new home. From the contemplation of these Negroes who are going to the rigors of the North, it is interesting to turn to the case of the Harris county Negro whose story was contained in the news columns of the Post of Sunday. Working with his seven sons and 27 yoke of oxen for the lumber mills, this Negro managed to become the owner of 500 acres of Texas land. Among the products marketed this year are 19 bales of cotton, 1,000 bushels of sweet potatoes and 80 head of hogs. He and his family are well and they are content to stay in Texas. There will be no tempting them to leave the delightful climate of south Texas to spend a single winter in the zero temperatures of Illinois or New York. Any other Negro who will work and attend to business may do as well in the South as this Negro has done. There is no limitation on opportunity in this country. There is a premium upon application, upon hard work, upon the ability to save, and upon common sense properly applied. The southern Negro who will work on the farm may do well. He will have the respect and the friendship of the white men of his community. He will have their help and their encouragement, and he can be happy in the land of southern sunshine. — Houston (Tex.) Post. Korea's sacred mountain, Kongo-San or Diamond mountain, as it is more commonly called, includes, it is asserted, 12,000 granite peaks, rugged and grotesque in form and almost impossible of being scaled. English investigators have found that heating soil with steam pipes before planting seeds increases its food value, and that plants raised therein blossom earlier and produce more and better crops. The first electric lamps ever made in Argentina recently were turned out at a new plant. the Illinois Idea, by S. B. Turner, former member of the legislature, are the other two local weeklies. Among monthly magazines there are the Champion, the Half-Century, the Pullman Porter, the Fraternal Advocate and the Stroller. E. R. Robinson, 3236 Calumet avenue, inventor of a street car wheel and a joltless auto wheel, claims hundreds of thousands of dollars' damages from the street car companies for infringements on his patent. John T. Baker has invented a friction heater, an army kitchen and refrigerator and several other devices. J. P. Norwood, 3759 Wabash avenue, has a breadwrapping machine and a rotary toothbrush. Last but not least among the men of talent is Andrew ("Rube") Foster, 3242 Vernon avenue, manager of the American Giants, a formidable figure in "semipro" baseball and the highest paid colored manager in the world.—Chicago Daily News. The temperature of a new electric flatiron can be regulated to four different degrees. Because of the difficulty of getting good sand for road work the California highway commission has hit on the use at one point of what appears to be an inexhaustible source—the bottom of a river. Near San Luis Obispo a cable-way excavator takes sand from the bed of the Salinas river and delivers it to a screening plant, whence it is loaded on cars. It is expected that each winter the pits made by the previous season will be filled by freshets and the supply will be never ending. FIRE DESTROYS GEORGETOWN EDIFICE ERECTED BY MATZ. Concentrating Mill at Empire, Valued at $30,000, is Total Loss—Hospital Building Saved. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Georgetown, Colo. — The Catholic church here, erected by Bishop N. C. Matz when he was a priest in this city in 1879, was burned with the parsonage, entailing a loss of about $50,000. The fire was discovered soon after a locomotive had passed and is supposed to have caught from sparks. The parsonage was burned first, and all of its contents were consumed, including the valuable library of Father Boyle. The flames then leaped to the church, which was destroyed in spite of the good work of the fire department. All of the contents of the church were saved, including the bell. The last named is of 50 per cent silver, made during the time that this was a booming camp. The old hospital building, which has been unoccupied for some time, was saved. At about the same hour the Clear Creek concentrating mill at Empire, down the valley, took fire, presumably from sparks from the same engine, as it was near the tracks. The mill was valued at $30,000, and is a total loss. No one was in the place. No one was injured at either fire. Ploneer Golden Ranchman Dies. Greeley.—John A. Carner, a pioneer of 1849, died here at the home of his daughter, Mrs. William H. Barber. Mr. Carner left Jo Davis county, III., with an ox team in 1849, bound for the California gold fields. At South Pass, in Wyoming, the Indians destroyed the train. Mr. Carner being the only survivor. He came to Colorado in 1864, locating first near Golden in Jefferson county and then in Denver. He bought property along Broadway which made him fairly wealthy. Twelve years ago he came to this city to reside with his daughter. Government Orders Lion Hunt. Boulder.—A mountain lion hunt lasting ten days during which time a government hunter, A. G. McGloin, and a licensed park guide, Clifford Higby, will hunt the American lion with .250-3000 Savage rifles and four trained bloodhounds declared to be expert lion dogs, began in the Rocky Mountain National Park and Estes Park. The hunt will be conducted from Estes Park village. Unusually heavy snow for this time of the year has driven elk, deer, and mountain sheep down from the highest peaks and these animals are falling easy prey to the mountain lions. Pueblo Girl Takes Poison Pueblo.—Declaring that everything was dark and gloomy, and that 1917 held nothing in store for her, Miss Katherine M. Kemerling of Stella, Neb, residing with Mrs. Joe Migler, took a bichloride of mercury tablet and prepared for her death. She was found several minutes afterwards and taken to St. Mary's hospital, where it is said she will recover. Miss Kemerling left a note addressed: "Dear Jack: I hope that 1917 will bring you a good and faithful wife. Stella." McLennan Beaten, 630 to 55. Denver.—John R. Lawson defeated John McLennan for president of the United Mine Workers of Colorado by a vote of 630 to 55, according to the report of the tellers who canvassed the returns. E. L. Doyle was elected national board member. J. B. Caddidy defeated Mike Livoda for vice president, 409 to 265, and Felix Pogliano won over Laughlin Burns for secretary-treasurer, 445 to 223. The election was declared illegal. Addie Satterfield Buried at Longmont, Boulder.—Dennis Satterfield, held in jail here on a charge of murdering his young wife, Addie Satterfield, in Longmont, was taken to Longmont for the funeral of his wife, who was buried in the Longmont cemetery after services at the undertaking parlors of Coroner Rice. Hero of Plum Creek Massacre Dies. Denver.—James F. Thomas, a Colorado pioneer and a hero of the Plum creek Indian massacre, died, aged 62. He was born in Kirksville, Ohio, and came West when a child. Mexican Murdered at Lamar. Lamar.—Amado Gallardo, a Mexican laborer, was shot and instantly killed at his home on the edge of town. Juan Cega, another Mexican, who neighbors say did the shooting, escaped. Prisoner Perishes in Jail Fire. Antonito.—Eperfanio Valdez, a prisoner in the Antonito jail, lost his life when the jail was destroyed by fire. John Wilkes Booth Buried. Leadville.—John Wilkes Booth, last of the famous family of actors, was buried here. He was 68 years old, and was the grandson of Junius Brutus Booth, the great tragedian, and nephew of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth. He had been an actor for many years, but for thirty years had lived in Leadville. Mr. Booth believed that a fatal destiny hung over the name, and refused to discuss his early history or his family connections. Western Newspaper Union News Service. DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. Jan. 8-11—Ninth Annual Poultry Show at Brush. Jan. 11-13—Poultry Show at Cafon City. Jan. 20—Athletic Club boxing contests at Denver. Jan. 18-27—Annual Food Show at Denver. Jan. 20-27—Annual Western Stock Show at Denver. Feb. 4-24 Y. M. C. A Annual Convention at Colorado Springs. The Colorado Legislature convened Wednesday. Gasoline took a jump in price of one cent a gallon in Denver and retalled at 23 cents. Over $350,000 was paid out Jan. 2 for interest on $17,500,000 in savings to Denver people. James J. Chambers, 93, the oldest man in Denver, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. H. Ustik. Two men killed and one seriously injured is the record for New Year day accidents in Colorado Springs. The Daughters of Colorado gave a reception at the capitol on New Year's for the outgoing and incoming governors and their wives. Mrs. Daniel Williams of Golden, mother of Wayne Williams, state industrial commissioner, is seriously ill with double pneumonia. Sweeping changes in the game laws of the state will be urged upon the Legislature by the Northern Colorado Fish and Game Association. J. N. Pierce, prominent cattleman and rancher of Pueblo and Denver, died at the Mineral Springs hospital in Pueblo from uremic poisoning. Freight rates on coal from the Walsenburg and Trinidad districts will be reduced under an order just issued by the State Public Utilities Commission. The Denver City Council formally ratified the acceptance by the municipality of the $80,000 branch libraries, the gift of Andrew Carnegie to Denver: Denver high schools are to have a corps of cadets to be taught the rudiments of military exercises until the recently authorized Steever cadet system can be put into effect. The State Supreme Court reversed the death sentence of Nick Damas, charged with the murder on Feb. 13, 1915, of William Dick, a wealthy mine operator of Walsenburg. Complete reorganization of the Colorado State Board of Health has been recommended by the United States public health service, according to advises received from Washington. The Denver Negro Woman's Club purchased quarters for the Girl's Friendly Club and Day Nursery at 2357 Clarkson street. Dedicatory exercises were held New Year's day. Colorado women, fortified with equal suffrage rights, are going to demand a change in the state constitution in order that their sex may sit as jurors in trials where women or children are involved. Colorado flour mills produced 1,500,000 barrels of flour in 1916, a gain of 525,000 barrels over 1909, the year of the last census, according to estimates made by the federal reserve bank for the tenth district. Following closely upon the deaths of his two sons, who died within the last nine months, Lemuel J. Smith, one of the most prominent of the active politicians of the state, died at his home in Denver. Increased prestige and political power would be Germany's should the war end in a short time, according to Prof. D. Shaw Duncan, head of the department of political economy at the University of Denver. Wide interest is being attracted to the second annual food show of the Denver Manufacturers' Association, which will be held in the association's headquarters in the Civic and Commercial building from Jan. 18 to 27. The annual convention of the State Federation of the Colorado German-American National Alliance will be held Jan. 7 in Denver. The number of members which will be represented by delegates is about 42,000. At a meeting of the Denver County Metal Mining Association held in Denver officers were elected, a director of the state association chosen and delegates and alternates to the state convention, which meets in Denver, Jan. 9, were selected. After a running revolver battle in Denver with George Hilton, a grocer, whom he and a companion had held up in his store and robbed of $40, an unknown bandit leaped on a moving car at Seventeenth avenue and Pearl street and, holding the passengers and conductor at bay with his gun, rode five blocks to Lincoln street, where he jumped off and escaped. Five prisoners saw their way to liberty in the county jail in Boulder, while seven other prisoners, cowed into silence by one of the five at the point of a revolver, looked on. The prisoners escaped in an automobile, which is believed by officials there to have carried the men toward Denver. Between 6,000,000 and 7,000,000 acres of public land will be taken up in Colorado within six months under the provisions of the Ferris 640-aere homestead act, signed by President Wilson, according to statements made by government officials in Denver. DENVER, COLORADO OS. CAFE ROOM ver, Colorado 709 AND 711 SIXTEENTH STREET, DENVER, COL BOLDEN BROS. CA and LUNCH ROOM 924 19th Street, Denver, Colorado 924 19th Street, Denver, Colorado Short Orders at All Hours All Kinds of Sandwiches Bolden Bros. Barber Sh Baths, Electric Massage FIRST CLASS SERVICE R. B. BOLDEN, Mgr. 926 19th St. D For Christmas Presents Watchcs — Diamonds — Jewelry Repairing a Specialty 428 16TH STREET DENVER, COLO. Phone Main 3012. Jes I. Ham Manufacturing Watchmaker and Barber Shop Massage SERVICE 926 19th St. Denver S I. Hansen Manufacturing Bachmaker and Jeweler R. B. BOLDEN, Mgr. 926 19th St. Denver For Christmas Presents Watchches—Diamonds—Jewelry Repairing a Specialty 428 16TH STREET DENVER, COLO. Phone Main 3012. Jes I. Hansen Manufacturing Watchmaker and Jeweler HONE MAIN 3028 RES. PHONE GALLUP 942 JOHN K. RETTIG Meats, Fancy and Staple Groceries 1864 CURTIS STREET JOHN K. RETTIG Meats, Fancy and Staple Gro 1864 CURTIS STREET COMPANY Phone South 1608 Groceries, Fish and Oysters Our Specialty. Fed Meats Entry and Game. 303, 4304, 4305 The MARKET COMPANY C. E. SMITH, Manager, Res. Phone South 160 Wholesale and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty. Fresh and Cured Eastern Corn Fed Meal Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry and Game. Telephones Main 4302, 4303, 4304, 4305 622-636 15th Street Denver, C. E. SMITH, Manager, Res. Phone South 1608 Wholesale and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Oysters Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty. Fresh and Cured Eastern Corn Fed Meats Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry and Game. Denver, olorado W. F. PLAMBECK EXPERT WATCH MAKER 1715 CHAMPA STREET A full line of Watches, Clocks, Diamonds and Jewelry at lowest prices. Courteous treatment to all Weatherhead Hat Co TELEPHONE MAIN 3203 d Hat Co. IN 3203 Weatherhead Hat Co. TELEPHONE MAIN 3203 Established 1876 PIONEER HATTERS OF THE WEST WE MAKE OLD HATS NEW PRACTICAL HATTERS RENOVATORS, BLEACHERS DYERS AND FINIS Of Gents' and Ladies' Hats of Every Descriptio 1624 Champa St., Denver, Colo. MATTERS MATTERS AND FINISHERS OF Every Description Denver, Colo. at at home reacts in its benefits unceasing general profit. out of town it's life is ended. is a messenger of continuous e to the importance of keeping or it by judicious advertising. RENOVATORS, BLEACHERS DYERS AND FINISHERS Of Gents' and Ladies' Hats of Every Description 1624 Champa St., Denver, Colo. Kept with the home merchants it is a messenger of benefit. Business men should awake to the importance this dollar at home and make a bid for it by judicious Kept with the home merchants it is a messenger of continuous benefit. Business men should awake to the importance of keeping this dollar at home and make a bid for it by judicious advertising. we have conducted an exclusive Jewelry Store in Denver. Square dealing, conservatism and yet progressive merchandizing is our motto. ESTABLISHED 1879 Stark JEWELERS VINE DINNER 11:30 to 2 p.m. PHONE MAIN 3028 Corner Nineteenth. W. F. PLAMBECK EXPERT WATCH MAKER 1715 CHAMPA STREET A full line of Watches, Clocks, Diamonds and Jewelry at lowest prices. Courteous treatment to all ```markdown ``` A Dollar ESTABLISHED 1879 Stark JEWELERS Denver, Cola THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE FUNDING MEMBER OF THE YEAR LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY JOS. D. D. RIVERS.....Proprietor 1824 Curtis Street, Room 25. Phone Main 7417. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year ..... $ 2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three Months ..... .60 PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in the City of Denver, Colo. Reading notices, ten lines or less, 10 cents per line. Each additional line over ten lines, 5 cents per line. Display advertising 50 cents per inch. Communications to receive attention must be newsy, upon important subjects, plainly written only upon one side of the paper, must reach us Tuesdays, if possible, anyway not later than Wednesdays, and bear the signature of the author. No manuscript returned, unless stamps are sent for postage. All communications of a personating nature that are not complimentary will be withheld from the columns of this paper. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1c and 2c stamps taken. No discounts allowed on less than three months' contract. Cash must accompany all orders from parties unknown to us. Further particulars on application. RECOGNIZED BY THE RETAIL ASSOCIATION OF THE DENVER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM OF THE FIRST CLASS. BUSINESS IN 1917. BUSINESS IN 1917. Every daily and weekly newspaper in Colorado has published the wonderful strides we have made in the past year, and have certified their publication by quotations from individuals, general investors, merchants, and statistics from banking institutions, government agencies, etc. It can therefore be said that with the beginning of 1917 we have a starter. Being conversant with the methods and systematic forms of business men around and about us, and adopting many of their plans which have helped us to succeed in our line, we are compelled to address ourselves specially to the people of our race engaged in business in Denver and other parts of Colorado, as although there has been such an increase in 1916 and prosperity has been overwhelming for others, yet we are not sure that the Negro business men of this state as a whole can offer the same sentiment. On every hand we hear success in state, success in nation, yet we find men struggling day and night, in many cases, trying here a little and there a little to run their business on a successful scale and cannot succeed. Can the cause be determined? We say, "Yes!" A study and a complete study of BUSINESS like any of the Arts and Sciences form the necessary basis for success. Every merchant, whether in a minor or major degree keeps an account of his business which he regularly consults. He has what is termed his Financial Year, and he checks up from a cent to a dollar; in many cases, his particular action begins with his cents, as they make the dollars. Such a system (one of the many) puts him in the position or gives him the knowledge, how to invest; and his constant watching of the market quotations garrisons him with the right information how to deal with patrons and customers. We venture to offer that if the business men of our race in Denver and Colorado would but give these ideas the serious consideration they merit, that instead of one or two or a very small percentage of us being able to endorse the great success achieved, that a majority could safely be vouched for. While we are proud of our National Business League, yet we must begin on the ground floor, right here at home. Begin with January, 1917, to make a special study of what constitutes business and the real business man, and when we shall have accomplished that study and graduated, the Colorado Statesman will guarantee that the sum of our experience at the end of 1917 will be SUCCESS ON A LARGER, BETTER AND GRANDER SCALE. RELIGIOUS PROPRIETY. "Let your yea be yea and your nay be nay;" The expression from the Good Book which many of our leading religionists are so apt to ignore or conveniently forget, as to carry out this command, would interfere with their way of transacting the business of their church which takes the form of public property of both Christian and sinner alike. In our estimation we think that the temporal side of the church should be guided by its spiritual foundation stones which are utterly opposed to some of the things that our church folks engage in, and if the world is not satisfied with the "yea" or "nay," the risk of offending our Great Head should not be taken. Business Transacted On the Outside. Church people wonder at times how their church affairs get on the public's ears, and how they hear, on the street, information relating to the inner workings of their organization before they get official communication. Easily explained this is: The discussion of matters among officials in public places, street corners, etc.; the actual persecution of associate members or adherents behind their backs; the disposition of the finances agreeable to some and disagreeable to others—all of these offer sufficient mediums of information to the non-churchman or the person of secular taste, and generally those engaged in the debate or discussion have to go beyond the command by calling either on "heaven" or "earth" to prove or substantiate their side of the argument. Believing, as we do, that the cause of the church is too holy to be treated so lightly, those devoted to the work whether as leader or follower, should be more guarded, as while they are quick and hasty to judge others, and in their judgment denounce them as unfit for the Master's service, they should, like Paul of old, examine themselves, keeping steadfast in the faith, lest in the end they become castaways. Proper Place and Time. The desire to have fine buildings and beautiful church edifices, is the same among us as any other people, and care is taken to provide accommodation for meetings apart from the regular services; also in listening to the notices as they are read week in and week out, or placed on the bulletin board, we note the time of the various meetings, etc., as well as the purpose of such events, thereby assuring us of the fact that it is the prerogative and prescribed right of every member to take advantage of these times and places for conference on church matters and discussions pertaining to the welfare of the congregation and denomination. Tailoring establishments, barber shops, clubrooms and social gatherings are reported to be the substitutes for the authorized meeting place—the church premises, and if we would stop to think, there can be no greater example of RELIGIOUS IMPROPRIETY than the facts set forth herein. New Year's Resolution. It would therefore be appropriate and in keeping with New Year's customs, that we start out 1917 with a determination to raise the standard and improve the dignity of our church relations, habits, manners and customs, so that we can carry out the biblical injunction with that fearlessness characteristic of the body of people called CHRISTIANS. Highly Co-ordinated Industrial System Essential Aid to Genuine Preparedness By NEWTON D. BAKER, Secretary of War The method of selection of cadets for West Point has for years consisted of designation by the president, senators and representatives, with examination as a prerequisite to acceptance, but we are learning daily that a nation efficiently organized from a military point of view must of necessity be efficiently organized industrially. We are learning, also, that the ideal military preparation of any country is one which is readily expanded in an emergency so as to include great numbers of men in the industrial and commercial life of the nation who have had enough preliminary training to make them convertible by brief additional training into officers. Should the United States ever be called upon to meet a great military emergency, a large army would have to be sustained and supported by a highly co-ordinated industrial system. There should, therefore, be in the country at all times a great body of men trained as mechanics, whose places in such an emergency would be not in the ranks of the fighting forces, but at the lathes and forges from which the ammunition supply of the army must be drawn. I venture to believe that if the federal government were to establish in a number of places throughout the country schools preparatory to the Military academy at West Point and the Naval academy at Annapolis, in which the rudiments of a sound education, the elements of mechanical skill, the principles of business co-ordination and the beginnings of military science were taught, these schools would develop the natural aptitudes of the students in such a way as to supply those fittest by temperament and talent to pursue in the Military academy and the Naval academy the study of military science; and incidentally these schools would furnish a great body of men, returning to civil life, fitted by training either to respond in an emergency to a call to the colors or take their places as civil soldiers in the service of the government in those industries and undertakings fundamental to the successful conduct of military operations. Farmer Is Only Producer Who Does Not Fix the Price of What He Has to Sell By GOV. LYNN J. FRAZIER of North Dakota What the farmers of North Dakota have wanted for twenty years are state-controlled elevators, flour mills, packing plants, and a system of farm credits. Every partisan officeholder during that time has violated his pledges to the people and governed himself in the interests of the middleman minority. This year a sweeping revolution took place, and the country will have an opportunity to see what can be accomplished by the plain farmer in control of the government. The farmer is the only producer who reverses the natural order of things. The manufacturer figures interest on his money, labor and a profit, and then fixes his price. The farmer creates his product, and then asks the middleman what he will give for it, many times being compelled to accept a price which is less than the cost of production. The farmer buys at retail and sells at wholesale. The middleman makes more in handling farm produce than the farmer himself. The whole system is economically unsound, and it can be corrected for the benefit and to the profit of society as a whole. To illustrate a case in point, North Dakota had a large potato crop last fall. We were compelled to sell our crop at 80 cents a bushel, while speculators in Kansas City, Chicago and New York were receiving $2 a bushel from the consumer. The middleman says he must be paid for handling the crop, but does he handle it any more than the farmer who produced it? Military Service by Native Americans Would Teach Patriotism to Immigrants By EDGAR FAHS SMITH Provost of the University of Pennsylvania Every man born in this country should have a knowledge of military tactics and science. We have such a mixture of various races in this country—in fact, our country is called the melting pot of the world—that we need to show an example to these peoples of the loyalty and patriotism we wish inculcated in them. Then, too, there is the problem of discipline. A year of military training would serve to give our young men the discipline they need. It is not too much to ask of every man that he give one year of his life to the study of military tactics and to learn how to conduct himself in an emergency. The plan is substantially similar to that of the Germans, but does not require such length of service. We have established a course in the University of Pennsylvania which is part of the regular curriculum. We have an officer detailed from the United States army who is in charge of that course and is just as much of a professor as a professor of chemistry or any other subject. It is too far in the future to make a prediction as to whether or not military science will be included in the curriculum as a requisite for a degree. We cannot tell now whether it is wise or not. Our system now is a voluntary one, which feature is in line with the desires of the government. Government Railroad System in U. S. Would Become Big Political Machine In handling the "railroad problem" we are as far from its settlement as we ever were. There is no denying that there exists a general drift of opinion for public ownership of railroads. I do not hesitate to say it will be a sorry lay for this republic if it ever takes over the lines. Under our form of government we could not disassociate government-managed roads from politics, and a government railroad system would soon become one great political machine, which would not be responsive to the voters. If controlled by the government, the railroads would become a greater menace than they could ever possibly be under private ownership. --- 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. TWODOLLARSAYEAR THE GREAT ORGAN OF THE LABORING MASSES Es SIN DANIAN oo CTATECK -ANECOLORADU\27¢ STATESMAN | es rhe: 1 ed hl hes a ELS |p Mea ae 1A | pales as: a ek Aion erg Se Jose A - i Mit AANA PEE N pre] PS TS ee es Keep off the date February 8th. /new Ward Mission was held last Sut Shriners’ entertainment. Fern hall, day with splendid results. Rev, R. I Se Pope, our affable presiding elder, wa Mrs. S. H. Hobson is on the sick| At his best at all three of the service lin€ this’ Wook. and at the close of the morning ser fce received one member into th ae pra: church, At 3 p.m. the quarterly con Mrs. Mamie Love left for ee service was held, when Re: Springs, Ark., last Thursday to take) 4, M. Ward of Campbell chapel cam the baths for rheumatism. near over-running the capacity of ov sane room with members of his congreg: Miss Maud Adams of 2801 Curtis|tion, and there was a great shout | street is visiting with her mother in| the camp. We are also grateful to thi Denton, Tex. She will remain for the} Pastor and people for the gift of on Se dozen song books, a rug and the us of one dozen chairs, Our mission ha Seya cae in our preseding elder and Rev. War Arthur Walker left for Delta, Colo, ¢rionds true and tried. this week after visiting for four gra seh PA months with I. M. Miller, 2646 Call-] yew YEAR'S LOCAL FUNCTION. fornia street, Mrs. R. L. Phynix, who has been visiting her mother and other rela- tives in Topeka, Kan., will return home next week, The Hobson-Cole piano, violin and song recital Thursday night, January 25, at Pecple’s Presbyterian church. Adults, 15 cents; children, 10 cents. Trueman Russ and Miss Marie Groves of Colorado Springs, were quietly married Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock, at the home of the groom's parents, Mr, and Mrs. Robert Russ, of 2612 South Logan street. A few in- timate friends witnessed the cere- mony, A family reunion of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Walker, their daughters and sons-inlaw took place during the Christmas season, at 2436 Emerson street, the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Louis May. The real family Christ- mas spirit was evidenced by the sea son’s decorations and a dinner, to which all did ample justice. Mrs. Myrtle Holloway and Dr. J. H. P. Westbrook, our eminent town physi- cian, were guests of the occasion. Rey. John Albert Williams, rector of St. Philip the Deacon, Episcopal church of Omaha, Neb., arrived in the city last Saturday to attend the con- secration to the Hpiscopate of Rev. Irving Johnson on New Year's day at St. John’s Cathedral. Rey. Williams is one of the leading clergymen of the west and ig also known in the press world as editor of “The Monitor,” a very pleasing and newsy sheet. While here he was met and entertained by many of the former citizens of Omaha, with whom he was associated. Third of winter musicales at Peo- ple’s Presbyterian church, Thursday night, January 25, by Misses Cleo Hobson and Virgie Cole, supported by others, Admission, 15 and 10 cents, Dr. and Mrs, 'T, H, McClain of 822 ‘Thirty-second street entertained the musical class of Miss Belle d’Autre- mont Friday night of last week. It was a musical treat, the new begin- ners, as well as the more advanced pupils, showed marked skill in the ex- ecution of the key board. Choice re- freshments were served and the even- ing was most enjoyably spent by all present. CAMPBELL CHAPEL AFRICAN M. E, CHURCH. Twenty-third and Lawrence Streets, A. M. Ward Minister, Phone Main 5474. Sunday School 9:45 a. m., Virgil N. (Wolfskill, superintendent. Preaching 11 a. m., by pastor. Allen Christian Endeavor League meets at 6:30 p. m. Preaching at 7:30 p. m., by pastor. Prayer meeting Wednesday, 8 p. m. Class meeting Friday, 8 p. m., and Sunday at 12:45 o'clock, Interesting services were held on Sunday with large audiences. There were three accessions to the church at evening service and one came for ward for prayer. Holy communion will be celebrated at the Sunday evening service, All people are invited to our serv- tees. WARD MISSION. Larimer and Thirty-first streets. Rey. B. F. McCully, pastor. Our pastor will preach tomorrow at both the morning and evening serv ices, to which our friends are cor dially invited, Our Sunday school will be held at 3 p.m. The first quarterly meeting of the new Ward Mission was held last Sun day with splendid results. Rev. R. L. Pope, our affable presiding elder, was at his best at all three of the services, and at the close of the morning serv. ice received one member into the church, At 3 p.m, the quarterly com. munion service was held, when Rev. A. M. Ward of Campbell chapel came near over-running the capacity of our room with members of his congrega- tion, and there was a great shout in the camp. We are also grateful to this pastor and people for the gift of one dozen song books, a rug and the use of one dozen chairs, Our mission has in our preseding elder and Rey. Ward —triends true and tried. NEW YEAR'S LOCAL FUNCTION. One of the most delightful events of the week was a dinner of handsome appointments, of which Dr. and Mrs. ‘T. B, McClain were hosts, the same being held at their home, 822 Thirty- second street, on New Year's day. Among the guests that partook of an elaborate menu were matrons and belles who vied with one another in attractiveness of costume and beauty, while the masculine element, in their | conventional evening dress, formed a background which presented a spec tacle only to be surpassed by the more beautiful decoration of carnations that lent an appetizer through the fragrance that pervaded the rooms. An added feature in the form of music, coming from the strains of a piano during the course of the event, served a material purpose, and the guests de- clared with emphasis at the conclu- sion, that their genial hosts majn- tained their reputation of being among the best social entertainers in Colo- rado, Dr. McClain, who is the only dental practitioner of our race in Denver, is very popular and has a large practice on both sides, while his wife is one of the leading club and fraternity wo- men in the state, always ready and will- ing to render valuable service for the upbuilding of her people and the prog- ress of the community. MR. AND MRS. R. L. NORMAN EN TERTAIN. Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Norman enter- tained at a dinner party of elaborate proportions last Friday evening, at their beautiful residence on High street. Palms, ferns and carnations formed an appropriate decoration for their spacious living room, while a color scheme of red and green were car: ried out perfectly in the dining hall. Hlectric candelabra surrounding a large center piece of red carnations and ferns, made one of the most beau: tiful tables that any decorator could cee Covers were laid for twelve, and at the end of the seven courses there were an eyen dozen who felt a con siderable increase of avoirdupois for having eaten too freely of the season's delicacies, Wit and humor reigned su: preme, and every guest was in the mood for a large evening and the host and hostess may pride themselves up on the fact that they gave their guests an evening that will long linger ir their mind, After dinner whist an¢ five hundred were indulged in till the wee hours, when waiting machines de livered the guests to their various homes. ‘Those present were: Messrs. ané Mesdames P, J. Porter, W. B. Parks ‘A. G. Fallings; Mesdames Townsert and Smith; Messrs. J. W. Jackson, J Dempsey, Felix Woods and the hosts Song, violin and literary contribu. tions will feature the piano entertain- ment of Cleo Hobson and Virgie Cole at People’s Presbyterian church Thursday night, January 25. Admis. sion, 15 and 10 cents, respectively. PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN. East Twenty-third Ave. and Washing- ton Sts. J. A. Thos- Hazell, S. T. B., Pastor. Sermon topics Sunday, Jan. 7, 1917: 11 am—'"The Righteousness of Saints.” 4:30 p. m—‘“Prayer and Medita- tion.” 5 p. m—‘Celebration of the Lord's Supper.” ‘The program last Sabbath evening was all that ore might desire in the musical line. The contributions of Profs. G. Morrison, C. Norris, Mes: dames L. Madison and M. Morrison ‘Miss Mabel Cole were pronuncedly de- lightful, The Rev. A. B. Reynolds and wife were among the worshippers at this service. Brother Reynolds brought us very helpful and timely re- marks. There is a standing invitation to these distinguished friends as well as other members of the clergy in the city to our church, CF PES StS tht StS tt Sore + +S FETS ETE TS TET ET eT ere rer : Night and Day Cafe : 919 19th street, between Champa and Curtis. Merchants’ Lunch every day from 11:30 a. m. to 3:30 p. m,, 20e, Short orders at all hours. Give us a trial. Phone Main 6699. 3 BOB CARRUTH, Proprietor. Qrders taken over phone. Mesdames M. L. Cowna, Julia Cole and Lucy Hall, the committee to pre- pare the supper served to the mem- bers and friends last Sabbath even- ing, in a pre-eminently successful manner discharged the duties as: signed to them, The friends and members entertained, join with the Presbytery in charge of the church, to thank ‘these ladies for their serv- ices rendered. The Communion of the Lord’s Sup: per, being the first for the New Year, all members eligible for its reception are enjoined to partake of the same. The pre-communion sermon will bo our New Year's message to the church, Everybody is cordially in- vited. The engagements of the Christmas and New Year having been events of the past, the pastor welcomes the con: sideration of the lovers of good music of the community, and especially those who believe in the doctrine of encour- aging the youth and aspiring of the race, to patronize the Cleo Hobson- Virgie Cole musicale on ‘Thursday night, Jan, 25th, at 8:30 o'clock. Miss Cleo ‘has been used very generously in and outside of every church orgin- ization in this city. She has never failed to serve the various clubs when solicited, Miss Virgie Cole is making wonderful progress under the tuition of Miss Beatrice Thrashley. In addi- tion to her musical achievements she has enlisted herself most effectively to the missionary activities of the ani. FUNERAL NOTICES, Camme! and Company. The funeral services of Mrs. Esther E. Grant, the beloved mother of Dr R. S. Grant of Colorado Springs anc Mrs. F, F, Reynolds, Miss Josephine Grant and Mrs. Birdie Brooks, was held Friday, December 29, from the Cammel and Company parlors. Rev. J, A. Thos.Hazell officiated. The re mains were shipped to Nashville Tenn., accompanied by Dr, and Mrs. Grant. ‘The funeral services of Mrs. Bllen Walker, the beloved mother of Mrs Florence Parker, who died in Pueblo Colo., December 23, was held Friday, December 29, from the Cammel & Co. parlors. Rey. J. A. Thos.Hazell of ficiated. The remains were laid to rest at Riverside cemetery. FUNERAL NOTICE. Douglass Undertaking Company, </49 Welton Street. Infant of Mr. and Mrs. John Moss, 1659 Gilpin street, departed this life Wednesday, December 27. Interment at Riverside in family plot, Decem- ber 29. Benjamin Jackson Hudson, age 72, beloved husband of Rosa Hudson, father of Roy and Christella Hudson, departed this life January 1, 3 a.m., at residence, 711 Seventeenth avenue. Funeral services to be held Sunday 2 p.m, from the Douglass chapel, un- der auspices of Rocky Mountain Lodge No. 1, F. & A. M. Interment Riverside. Mrs, Hammie Johns, beloved wife of James Monroe Johns, sister of Mrs. N. Johnson of Little Rock, Ark. Passed away Tuesday, January 2, at residence, 1410 Grant street, Funeral ‘notice later. The remaing of Mr. Gilbert Ross, late of 2906 California street, who en- tered into life eternal in San Antonio, ‘Texas, was received Thursday by the Douglass Undertaking Company. No- tice of funeral later. A CARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank the many friends for their kind words of sympathy, beautiful flowers and other evidences of esteem and love during the recent illness and death of our dear mother. MRS, FLORIDA REYNOLDS, MISS JOSEPHINE §. GRANT, DR. R. S. GRANT, MRS. BIRDID A. BROOKS. IN MEMORIUM. In loving memory of our dear mother, Edith James Smithea, who passed away two years ago, Jan. 8, 1915. Earth seems quite another place Without the cheer of mother’s face, She suffered much with pains untold; We watched her night and day, Till God above, with tender love, Did take her pains away. Sleep on, dear mother, and take your rest, God called you home when he thought best. Our loss means pain, but yours meant gain, In Heaven we hope to meet again. —Her loving boys, Spencer, Chas. and Harry. BUY GOOD BOOKS. Negro Year Book, just off the press. A compendium of useful knowledge o! the Negro race. Life of Booker T. Washington with free picture, $1.25. Paul Lawrence Dunbars complete poems, cloth bound, $1.75. Postage 10c¢ extra on each book. For sale by The Colorado States: man, 1824 Curtis st., Room 25. Or J. H. Doniphan FEAEFEFEEEEE EE FEE PE EEEFEEEFEt SEEPS SE SHE tE+ Et Pte Ste + +S + StS+ ott ; DENVER MUD | | ene Se 9 Healing Poultice A DENVER Mun atures Surgical Dressing YS Tr EVERY CAN A TRAINED SOLDIER THE GE 0,2, Corban igor SALE corral Thousands of housewives depend upon DENVER MUD Pee | for-relief from Pneumonia, Chest Colds, Tonsilitis, | \ es 6 Bronchitis, Grippe, Sore Throat and Croup. It removes e the inflammation, reduces the swelling, starts a healthy C3 E circulation of the blood, and allows Nature to complete y the cure. : 25c AT ALL DRUG STORES EEF EEEFEEEF EEF EEE t ht EF E+ EFHEEE+ StS ttt St Se eeoeeed THE NEW PRIVATE DANCING | ———— SCHOOL, iy RIQATLIING NOWN ANN 17 CTC A NMNAY NOTHING DOWN AND 17 CTS. A DAY BUYS A PIANO. SALE NOW ON. THE PIANO EXCHANGE H. A. TRIGGS, Manager 211 Charles Block. Cor, 15th and Curtis Streets. Phone Champa 3742, CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR'S ball at Fern hall, under the auspices of the New Private Dancing School. Morrison's Full Orchestra. Admission Ladies free; gentlemen, 25 cents. R. L. PHYNIX, Manager. For Rent—A modern 5-room brick house at 1750 Humboldt street, 0 e e ° il Makes Millions We offer investors an opportunity to share in legitimate oil business in the POWDER RIVER FIELD, where we own 2,560 acres, which adjoins the Mid-West oil field of Salt Creek, who are producing 30,000 barrels daily, HONEST, EXPERIENCED, PROGRESSIVE MANAGEMENT. Will return your money within 33 days after investing, if not satisfied. Capitalization $500,000.00, par value $1.00. Per share 25 cents; 5 per cent discount for cash, Install- ment, 100 shares, $5.00 down and $5.00 per month. Wire reservation at once. Northwest Oil & Refining Company Office, 726 Eighteenth Street, TEL. CHAMPA 1829. DENVER, COLO. Mrs. Z. Hooper, nicely furnished rooms; strictly modern; prices reason: able. Rooms for light housekeeping for man and wife. 2443 Tremont Place, Denver, Colo, Mrs. J. J. Brown of 2538 Glenarm Place will serve chitterling every Sat urday night and Sunday dinner every Sunday from 1 to 2:30 p. m.. Your pa: tronage is solicited. Phone Main 3824. Furnished rooms and house for rent at 2358 Tremont Place. Inquire at 1824 Curtis street, Room 25. ‘Great Point In Game of Aife. To a certain point in life you are full of the consciousness of your am- bition, It seems a thing to be caught like a ball, by some unlearned skill, and you are so engrossed by the sen- sation of grasping at It that you miss the great point of the game. ‘That ts, to be concerned entirely with the man- ner of your play. When you acquire that relaxation, which so often comes disguised as disappointment, yon are veally just arriving at the full meas ure of your best abilities. You will then steadily approach the goal with out thinking of it. You will be satis: fied to know that ambition, fulfilled, ts ho more than a little improvement in skill each day, a little more experi- ence in the manner of seeking the goal. After this you will be ready for the discovery that the goal never really is veached or the game fully played out, but that it was ambition which kept prodding you to toss the ball. C. E, SMITH, Manager, Res. Phone South 1608 Wholesale and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Oysters, Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty. Fresh and Cured Eastern Corn Fed Meats Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry and Game. Telephones Main 4302, 4303, 4304, 4305 622-636 15th Street Denver, Colorado Claime to Have Cure for Cancer It is profoundly to be hoped that the claims of Dr. Charles H. Walker that cancer yields to treatment from sal- enixum prove true. Salenixum fs a pow- erful chemical, taken internally, and in capsules, is said to have relieved suffering in many cases and in others has effected an apparent cure. Cancer has claimed its victims by the thou- sands annually and advancing science has hitherto been unable to find a rem- edy to check its ravages. ia ft pet Sees ee eee ee . i ail Cie : x - 4 tee | bes we 4 ev = 4 je i cae aa) ) pee F pk i RO ee Her Idea About Golf. Many anecdotes are told of some of the curious ideas held about golf by people to whom it was a new and strange game before its modern pop- ularity had set in, One woman who had evidently had a near view of the game said; “It is played by two men. One is a gentleman and the other is a common man, The common man sticks a ball on a lump of dirt, and the gentleman knocks it off.” New Private Dancing School Every Monday and Thurs- day nights. Lessons and So- cial Lessons 25c. Fernhall, 2711 Welton St. Morrison’s Orchestra. R. L. Phynix Mgr Phone Main 2860 =THE PEARL BARBER SHOP 1021 19th Street First-Class Tonsorial Artists in attendance. Best line of Cigars and Tobacco. We solicit your patronage. First-Class work guaranteed. HARRY JONES, Prop. DENVER, COLO. Can be rented very reasonable by Societies, Lodges and Or- ganizations. The Hall is suitable for Entertainments, | Dances and Athletic Exhibitions. REFRESHMENTS SERVED. 2132 ARAPAHOE ST. PHONE MAIN 2449) Measuring the Mist, New and Unusual Job Recently Undertaken by Uncle Sam Unique in its character is the work carried on by Uncle Sam's weather bureau, at Point Fermin, in the Los Angeles harbor district, and on Mt. Wilson, in the matter of fog observations. To the casual reader the investigation of southern California fogs does not seem to entail much that is of practical benefit, yet the daily reports on these observations are of especial value to the aviators at the North island aviation field to the numerous motion picture companies operating in southern California, and to other industries that depend especially upon sunlight. It is possible that eventually these fog observations will also be of much value to agricultural interests. Measuring the height of the fog is of great importance to aviators, and has been found especially useful at the government field at North island. With the observations taken on Mt. Wilson, and those made at Point Fermin, it is possible to accurately gauge the thickness of the fog clouds, and in 80 per cent of the instances calculation can be made almost accurately as to the time when the fog will lift at any given spot. In the other instances, it is possible to determine this within an hour's time. Col. William A. Glassford, at the North island aviation field, has been making practical use of these daily reports for almost a year. Motion picture companies have found them of most practical benefit, as they are able to determine on foggy mornings just when they can count on the sun breaking through the drifts of grayness. There are other practical phases of this fog-measuring work that may eventually come into beneficial use for the farmer. It will be possible to determine accurately just what amount of moisture may be expected on lands of any particular elevation through fog condensations. This has been done, in some cases, and the forecasted results have been proved accurate. ```markdown ``` Uncle Sam Prohibits Misleading Guaranty on Packages. Under New Plan Familiar Statement Regarding Food and Drugs Act Cannot Be Used on Containers. The legend, so familiar in the past on food and drug packages, "Guaranteed by manufacturer under the food and drugs act, June 30, 1906, serial number 205,424," is disappearing from labels. A method for guaranteeing foods and drugs which will be less misleading to the public has been provided by Uncle Sam's officials in charge of the enforcement of the food and drugs act. Under the new plan manufacturers may guarantee their products on the invoice or bill of sale, or by certain other methods, but according to a food inspection decision which became effective on November 1, 1916, they may not make any statement regarding the guaranty or serial number on the label of packages of foods or drugs which enter interstate or foreign commerce. Originally it was provided in the rules and regulations that the manufacturer or wholesaler who desired to guarantee that his products complied with the food and drugs act might file a general guaranty with the department of agriculture to the effect that the foods or drugs he shipped into interstate commerce were not adulterated or misbranded within the meaning of that act. Upon the receipt of a properly executed guaranty the department assigned a serial number to the manufacturer or wholesaler who filed the guaranty. The manufacturer or wholesaler was authorized to use this number on his labels to indicate that the guaranty which he had filed with the department covered the products on which the number was used. After this method had been in operation for some time it was found that the guaranty legend on the label was misleading to the public. It was incorrectly assumed by consumers generally and some retail dealers that the guaranty legend on the label meant that a sample of the product had been examined by the United States department of agriculture, and that in effect the United States department of agriculture actually guaranteed the product. The food and drugs act provides that no dealer shall be prosecuted under the provisions of that act when he can establish a guaranty signed by the wholesaler, jobber, manufacturer, or other party residing in the United states, from whom he purchased articles of food and drugs. The object of this provision is to make the manufacturer or wholesaler or person who knows the composition of the food and drug products responsible for their compliance with the provisions of the law. In many cases a dealer does not know the composition of the products he sells, and cannot afford the expense of having an analysis made in order to determine it for himself. A provision, therefore, was inserted in the law to the effect that, if the dealer secured a guaranty from the manufacturer or wholesaler or other person from whom he purchases, the party making the guaranty would be responsible under the law, and the dealer would be relieved of responsibility. The guaranty was never intended to be, and never has been, in any sense a guaranty by the department of agriculture. Japanese Merchant Marine Grows. The United States commercial attack at Peking reports that tonnage of ships flying the Japanese flag has been increased from 125,000 to 155,000 since 1914 and now constitutes 55 per cent of the total carrying capacity of vessels plying between Asiatic and American ports. Japan has increased her home-built merchant tonnage from nothing to 2,158,000 since 1890. Compensation. She-- But, then, you know, it is an insult you don't have to swallow. LIFE-SAVERS TO FLY Uncle Sam's Coast Guard Plans to Use Airplanes. Will Be Able to Carry Lines to Wrecked Ships and Rescue Many Who Otherwise Might Perish. Uncle Sam's coast guards soon will be using airplanes to rescue passengers and sailors from ships wrecked along the coast of the United States. Authority for the adoption of these new life-saving methods already has been granted by congress. It is quite naturally the idea of officials that in the saving of human life and property from the elements, which is one of the principal functions of the coast guard, advantage should be taken of all new inventions and methods. Officials of the guard are of the opinion that aviation has advanced to such a stage that aircraft as now constructed and developed can be used advantageously in the activities of the coast guard. It has been pointed out by those who are interested in this new branch of the service that when a shipwreck occurs too far from the shore to be reached with the line-throwing gun, and the state of the sea makes it impossible to use the service boats, it is believed possible to carry a line to the wreck by means of an airplane, and thereby effect the rescue of persons who might otherwise perish. The finding of derelicts soon after they are first reported is of such vital importance that their ultimate recovery and removal from the paths of commerce oftimes depends entirely upon the rapidity with which they are definitely located, the experts say. The value of airplanes in this connection has passed beyond the realm of speculation, and there is now no doubt that the use of aircraft will greatly facilitate this important work of the coast guard, the supporters of the movement say. Anticipating that the coast guard must adopt this new method of life saving as soon as practicable, three junior officers have already been assigned to undergo training at naval aviation and private schools, in order to form the nucleus of a force trained for aviation purposes. Aside from the humanitarian possibilities of this proposition, it is pointed out that aviation facilities provided for the coast guard will be a valuable addition to naval aviation equipment in time of war. MUCH CHOCOLATE USED HERE Imports of Crude Cocoa During Past Year Reach Total of 243,232,000, Double Figures of 1910. That people of the United States have a growing fondness for chocolates and cocoa is indicated by Uncle Sam's figures on the imports of crude cocoa into the United States during the last fiscal year. According to statistics compiled by the department of commerce, a total of 243,232,000 pounds of crude cocoa were purchased abroad during the year, which is 50,000,000 pounds more than was bought in 1915 and double the imports of 1910. The value of the imports in 1916 was $34,144,000. This is not to be accounted for by decreased imports of manufactured cocoa and chocolate, because we are buying such products in about the usual quantities. Nor is it because we are shipping abroad larger quantities of prepared cocoa and chocolate. It is due solely to a growing taste for chocolate and cocoa, especially the former. An unusual feature of the growing trade is the fact that some of the producing countries are now shipping to the United States direct instead of through European middlemen. One instance in 1916 was a direct shipment of 25,000,000 pounds from British West Africa, imports from which country heretofore reached the United States via England. There were marked increases in shipments from Brazil, Portugal, and French Africa, and a sharp decline in those from the United Kingdom. Do not be troubled because you have not great virtue. God made a million spears of grass where he made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted not with forests but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor saint. — Henry Ward Beecher. For occasions it is pleasant to depart from the usual and enjoy some of the dishes that our cousins across the water use daily. Austrian Dessert Coffee.—Make a regular strong drip coffee, adding sugar and cream while hot, then set away to cool. Place on ice, and Coffee Cup.—To a pint of strong coffee strained through linen, add one third of a teaspoonful of almond flavoring and heat to the boiling point in a double boiler. Add two beaten egg yolks, two tablespoonfuls of cream and two tablespoonfuls of sugar. Stir until it thickens to a custard, remove and cool, pour into a serving pitcher with a pint of sweetened, ice cold whipped cream, a quart bottle of charged water and a pint of shaved ice. Serve by placing in tall glasses some shaved ice, then some of the coffee, then twice the quantity of charged water, and on top of this the cream. Fried Chicken.—Prepare a chicken as for frying, marinate for three hours in lemon juice and olive oil with herbs to season. Drain and place each piece in beaten egg, well seasoned with salt and pepper, then in crumbs; fry in deep fat. Drain and place on a serving platter and pour around it sauce made of half a pint each of milk, chicken or veal stock, thickened with the yolk of egg, seasoned with parsley and lemon juice and mixed with a dozen mushrooms quartered. Chocolate Schnitten.—Melt and strain one-fourth of a pound of butter and add, one at a time, four eggs, beating thoroughly as each egg is added. Add a half cupful of sugar to the butter and eggs, then add a half pound of softened chocolate, chopped raisins, almonds and currants to taste, then a cupful of sifted flour. Bake in a shallow greased pan in a slow oven until done. Celery in short lengths filled with highly seasoned cream cheese is a dainty relish to add to any menu. O helpless body of hickory tree, What do I burn in burning thee? Summers of sun, winters of snow, Springs full of sap's resistless flow O strong white body of hickory tree, How dare I burn all these in thee? —Helen Hunt Jackson. Dates as nutritious food are not well appreciated; they have more heat units pound for pound than beef and cost much less. Oatmeal Date Cookies. —Take two cupfuls of oatmeal, a cupful of shortening, two cupfuls of brown sugar, a half cupful of water and a teaspoonful of soda; flour to make a soft dough. Roll out as thin as possible and cut with a cooky cutter. Put two cookies together with this filling before baking: One pound of dates, chopped, two tablespoonfuls of sugar and a little hot water to mix, but do not cook. The oatmeal if browned in the oven will make much more appetizing cookies. Date Waffles.—Take a pint of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a half-teaspoonful of salt, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter and a cupful and a fourth of milk. Stir in three tablespoonfuls of cornmeal and the stiffly-beaten whites of two eggs, and a cupful of chopped dates. Spread with honey when serving. Potato Salad.—Boll eight potatoes in their skins, putting them into boiling salted water. Cook until they may be easily pierced with a fork, peel and cut into dice while hot. Add three tablespoonfuls of grated onion and a tablespoonful of chopped parsley. Make a French dressing in the proportion of three of oil and one of vinegar, (using tarragon vinegar), season with salt and peper. Pour a liberal quantity of the dressing over the potatoes and after mixing well let stand a few hours to thoroughly season. This salad is better made the day before using. Chestnut Salad.—Shell and blanch the nuts, boll until tender, drain and peel. Add an equal quantity of chopped celery and some bits of pimento; mix all together with mayonnaise dressing. Old-fashioned tarts are always a dainty enjoyed by all and they may be made from leftover pastry. Tomato Salad.—A thick slice of to-mota placed on lettuce, on top of each slice, finely chopped celery and green peppers with a blanched almond or two. Serve with a rich boiled dressing or with mayonnaise. Coconut Candy—Take a cupful of molasses, two-thirds of a cupful of milk, two tablespoonfuls of butter, all boiled until it hardens in water; then stir up a cupful of fresh grated coconut, if possible, although the dry grated coconut may be used. Nellie Maxwell MANY NEW LAWS ASKED BAN ON PRIZE FIGHTS AMONG PROPOSED MEASURES. Bill-Drafting Department Established By Attorney General-elect Receives Suggestions for Legislation. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver.—Requests for bills for a new school code for Colorado resigned to divorce school affairs from politics; for a teachers' tenure of office law, which in effect would place school teachers under civil service; for improvements in the present voter's law, and for a ban on prize fighting in the state have been submitted to the bill-drafting department established by Attorney General-elect Leslie E. Hubbard. The demands for a law against prize fighting, it is understood, probably will result in a bill creating a state boxing commission which would issue licenses and have sole supervision over the holding of boxing matches in Denver and all other cities in the state. The tenure of office bill is supported by the Elementary Teachers' Association of Colorado. It proposes to give tenure of office to all teachers who have been engaged in public school work for three years, with specific provision that after serving three years they cannot be removed except for cause. The object of this feature of the bill is to safeguard the teacher against removal for political reasons. The same bill would extend teachers' pension to all teachers engaged in the public schools of Colorado. After serving thirty-five years and reaching the age of 60 they would be retired on a pension of $50 per month for life. In this connection consideration is being given to the proposal of either providing for a compulsory saving fund to build up a teachers' pension fund or to make this a matter to be provided for by the state. The bill drafting department is giving attention to the drafting of a minimum wage law for women. Request has also been made for a law establishing a state sanatorium for tuberculosis patients to conduct research work and to provide for the housing of tubercular patients from other states for a limited period. As such patients would include residents of other states the plan contemplates a request for a federal appropriation of 1,000,000 acres of public land to be sold for the purposes of establishing an endowment fund. The department is also drafting a memorial to Congress asking for the establishment of a brigade army post at Fort Logan. Commission Decides Two Cases. A claim for compensation filed by Mrs. Ellen M. Dalton of Denver, whose husband died a short time ago, has been denied by the State Industrial Commission. Dalton, who was employed by a chemical company, died from pneumonia. Investigation by physicians showed that his illness had not resulted from any accident in the course of employment, so the commission ruled the widow was not entitled to compensation. Guy Johnson, who filed application with the commission for compensation for total disability because he injured his foot while in the employ of an electrical company, was given partial compensation of $8 a week for six week. Defectives May Get New Homes. The erection of four cottages, costing $175,000, for the State Home for Mental Defectives will be urged by the legislative committee in its report on state institutions to the Legislature, according to Senator Francis J. Knauss of Denver, chairman. The home, which is situated near Golden, is caring for eighty children. With additional sleeping quarters, the institution could accommodate at least 200 more. U. S. to Collect $2,000,000. The federal district of Colorado, consisting of the two states, Colorado and Wyoming, will net the government an approximate increase of $1,000,000 over the figures of last year, according to late estimates of the Denver United States internal revenue office. The total amount to be assessed from the two states will be about $2,000,000. The assessments are to be made on three kinds of taxes—income, individual and corporation. Light and Water Rule Suspended. The State Public Utilities Commission announced that it has suspended for ninety days Rule 14 of the rules regulating standards of service required of gas, electric light and water companies in Colorado. The rule, which was ordered to become effective Jan. 1, will now go into effect April 1. State Employés Paid on Time. For the first time in the history of Colorado, state officers and employees did not have to wait for their December pay until the new Legislature passes a short appropriation bill to cover back expenses. State Treasurer Allison. Stocker made arrangements whereby all vouchers issued by his office during January will be honored at face value. Heretofore, everyone in state employ was obliged to wait for December salaries until the appropriation bill could be passed in January. AUSTRIAN RECIPES. Austrian Dessert Coffee. — Make a regular strong drip coffee, adding sugar and cream while hot, then set away to cool. Place on ice, and serve in cups with a tea vanilla ice cream in each MORE GOOD DISHES. beer and cost much less. Oatmeal Date Cookies. —Take two cupfuls of oatmeal, a cupful of shortening, two cupfuls of brown sugar, a half cupful of water and a teaspoonful of soda; flour to make a soft dough. Roll out as thin as possible and cut with U. S. AIDING ALIENS Naturalization Bureau Is Made Great Humanizing Force. Accomplishes the Unusual, Incidental ly, by Producing Revenue for Uncle Sam Above Its Expenses. How one of Uncle Sam's routine governmental agencies has been transformed into a great humanizing force and at the same time has been placed upon a self-supporting basis—something unusual in governmental affairs—is told in the annual report of Commissioner Richard K. Campbell of the bureau of naturalization to the secretary of labor. This has been accomplished by linking together those state Americanizing agencies, the public schools of the entire country, with the department of labor, through its naturalization bureau in the definite and concerted action of helping our foreign friends qualify upon a higher standard of admission to American citizenship. In 1908 when a portion of this bureau's activities were conducted by another department, the cost ran more than $65,000 above the naturalization fees collected, but since all of the affairs looking to making citizens have been turned over to this bureau of the department of labor there has been an annual average of over $65,000 in fees in excess of all cost of maintenance. This bureau is not supported from the general taxes collected by the government. Indeed, the citizens of the United States do not bear one cent of the expense of this governmental agency. It is all paid by the foreigner who is admitted to citizenship. In other words, from the $5 paid by each foreigner for a good administration of the naturalization law, all of the expenses of his Americanization are paid and over $65,000, on an average, has been turned into Uncle Sam's pocketbook every year. Last year every superintendent of schools in every city and town of 2,500 population and over was appealed to by the naturalization bureau to join this nation-wide Americanization movement. Favorable responses came from every state in the union expressive of a desire to cooperate. Six hundred and thirteen cities and towns opened the doors of the public schools to the foreign-born friend in order that the names of all the candidates for citizenship and their wives might be sent to them by the bureau of naturalization. The helping hand was extended for the first time and is still held out with a beckoning wave to the millions who are seeking citizenship who came to this country with dreams of a betterment of their condition. During the past year there was filed 207,935 declarations of intention, 108,009 petitions for naturalization, and 93,911 certificates were issued by the courts. Add to these figures approximately 150,000, representing the wives of the candidates for citizenship, and the result is an imposing army of a half-million or more marching through the bureau of naturalization toward the goal of its ambition. China's Square-Holed Coins Melted for Metal China is losing its "cash," the characteristic coins with square holes in the center that have been the basis of all trade in the interior of China for many generations, Uncle Sam's consul general at Hongkong reports. The rise in the price of copper has rendered these brass coins, which usually contain about 89 per cent copper, more valuable as metal than as a medium of exchange. As a result the coins are being exported to Japan where they are melted and the refined copper shipped to the United States. The fact that a single Japanese firm is in the market for 3,000,000 piculs (200,000 short tons) indicates something of the enormous requirements of a vast population like that of China are in proportion, and the melting up of such coins disturbs the balance of supply and demand. TO STUDY CHINESE LANGUAGE Business Men Undertake Hard Job After Realizing Its Importance, Says Uncle Sam's Consul. The fact that there are 6,000 characters in common use in the Chinese language and many times that number altogether, including the characters not generally used in Chinese newspapers, has prevented American business men and others dealing with the Chinese from attempting to master the language. For a long time business men have considered it important when exploiting a market to have some knowledge of the language in any part of the world except China. There it has been regarded as an impossibility. This impression has been somewhat shaken recently, however, according to Uncle Sam's consult general at Hankow, China, and foreigners doing business in China are turning to a study of the difficult language. Classes have been organized under the auspices of the British chamber of commerce in Hankow and are open to students of the British, allied and neutral nations, MAKES$1,000,000 WORTH OF RADIUM Uncle Sam Turns Valuable Product Over to Hospitals for Treatment of Cancer. PATENTS GIVEN TO PEOPLE Methods Evolved by Bureau of Mines for Extracting Mineral From Ore Dedicated to Use of Public. Uncle Sam recently has completed the manufacture of radium that would have cost in the open market more than a million dollars. The greater part of it has been turned over to two great hospitals for use in the treatment of cancer. The work was done by the bureau of mines under an agreement with the National Radium institute, which supplied the necessary capital, amounting to $300,000, to develop a more economic method for the manufacture of radium from the carnotite ores of the West. The National Radium institute was organized for the purpose of studying the curative properties of radium and not for private gain. The institute supplied the carnotite-bearing landit and the plant and machinery and the bureau offered to develop the radium-making process, being influenced by the fact that there were 75,000 deaths each year in the United States from cancer. Altogether $8\frac{1}{2}$ grams of radium have been made for less than $40,000 a gram. The market selling price for radium has been from $100,000 to $120,000 a gram. The bureau of mines spent $25,000 in developing this process and will receive as its share of the co-operative agreement with the institute at least $100,000 worth of radium which will be used for scientific purposes. The methods of extracting radium that have been evolved have been patented for the benefit of the people and may be used freely by anyone within the United States. The manufacture of radium is but one of the notable achievements of the bureau of mines, shown in the annual report of the director, Van H. Manning. Big Saving in Gas. Mr. Manning declares that as a result of the introduction of the bureau's methods of drilling oil wells in the Blackwell field of Oklahoma, there has been saved more than $20,000,000 worth of natural gas. The plan of drilling included the use of a mud that seals off the natural gas and confines it in its original reservoir until market conditions justify its production. Oil operators in Kansas and other states are now following the plan of the bureau of mines. The report also states that through experiments with the Rittman furnace, in the new process for making gasoline, it is possible to make from the waste gas oil of California, worth two cents a gallon, gasoline at a cost of six cents a gallon. It further states that, "as a result of the work of the petroleum division, the Rittman cracking process for the manufacture of gasoline from kerosene or any other available fraction of petroleum is now a commercial success, and the bureau of mines is able to give to the public a commercial cracking process, free of royalty, which will make available for internal combustion engines large quantities of otherwise unavailable fractions of petroleum." According to Director Manning, the bureau of mines, acting in a consulting engineer capacity to the other federal bureaus in the District of Columbia in the purchase and use of coal, has saved for the government $50,000, and that if its efforts were extended to include the entire government service, the saving would conservatively be more than $375,000 annually. It is also suggested that the entire country could save millions of dollars by similar expert services. Better Furnaces Made Possible. The bureau during the last year has supplied engineers throughout the country with information that will enable them to design furnaces in a rational manner according to the character of the fuel to be used, resulting in great economies. "The studies during the past year in saving metal wastes in brass melting," says Director Manning, "have resulted in the development of an electric furnace which it is believed will be successful in the melting of brass. The bureau has built and operated such a furnace on a laboratory scale, and the results show marked promise. Arrangements have been made with a large central power station for the building and testing of a large commercial furnace of this type. The importance of developing an electric furnace for such purposes is patent to all when the present high price of crucibles is considered, and when it is understood that in normal times the metal losses in brass melting probably amount to as much as $3,000,000 per year and that in the past year of large production and high prices this loss has been probably nearer $10,000,000. In the interest of greater safety in the mines, the bureau has during the year approved seven types of electric miners' lamps, and these are rapidly replacing the dangerous open-flame lamp that in the past has caused so many serious explosions with great loss of life. FIGURES FOR 1916 COLORADO ATTAINED PEAK OF PROPERITY PAST YEAR. More Business Done in Every Line and Forecast Is for Another Season of Unexamplied Expansion. Total Metal Output ..... $53,580,000 Gold ..... 18,900,000 Silver ..... 5,040,000 Zinc ..... 16,640,000 Copper ..... 2,300,000 Lead ..... 4,700,000 Tungsten ..... 5,000,000 Vanadium ..... 1,000,000 Cripple Creek Metals ..... 14,485,673 Crops ..... 111,484,170 Beet Sugar ..... 36,739,050 Sugar Beets ..... 12,815,400 Live Stock Output ..... 97,728,000 Denver Bank Clearings ..... 689,256,050 Denver Bank Deposits ..... 119,850,740 Denver Manufacturing ..... 80,000,000 Denver Building Permits ..... 4,037,440 Coal Production, Tons ..... 10,184,103 1916. 1915. $53,580,000 $46,014,026 18,900,000 22,414,944 5,040,000 3,563,182 16,640,000 12,969,779 2,300,000 1,244,694 4,700,000 3,563,182 5,000,000 1,687,329 1,000,000 900,000 14,485,673 13,729,390 111,484,170 78,191,940 36,739,050 24,946,210 12,815,400 11,817,640 97,728,000 66,269,000 689,256,050 516,839,373 119,850,740 90,455,224 80,000,000 63,538,547 4,037,440 2,648,575 10,184,103 8,715,397 Denver.—Colorado opens its accounts for 1917 with the largest volume of business within the history of the state to the credit of 1916. More than $400,000,000 worth of transactions is the record of the year, and as the period ends the state stands upon the highest peak of its prosperity, with all underlying financial conditions thoroughly sound and a forecast of another season of expansion and growth before it. Colorado farmers made more money from practically every crop in 1916 than ever before in the history of the state, and this in spite of lower average yields. The government figures show a total value for the state's agricultural output of $111,484,170, an increase of $33,292,230 over 1915. High prices for practically every commodity produced by the farmers and orchardists of the state were the cause of this enormous increase in cash revenues. (4) In San Miguel's total $100,000 is allowed for radium bearing ore and $1,620,000 for ferro-vanadium concentrate. Colorado has just experienced its greatest year in mineral production. Reckoned in dollars and cents 1916 looms far ahead of the boom days of Cripple Creek and the other great mining camps and this despite a falling off in gold production. The actual value of the year's output is $53,580,000, or $7,565,974 more than for 1915. Thirty-one per cent, of all the beet sugar produced in the United States was "made in Colorado." A gross return of $36,739,050 is the record for the year and the farmers were paid nearly $13,000,000 for their efforts. The German monopoly of sugar beet seed production was broken and Colorado has shown that she can be entirely independent of Europe so far as this great yearly harvest is concerned. Colorado factories increased their payrolls last year by $3,000,000, giving 3,000 more persons employment than in 1915. The total value of Denver's manufacturing output is estimated at $80,000,000. Tungsten came into unexpected glory during the year. The war sent the price of this metal to unheard-of heights and increased the value of the total of production from $1,687,329 to $5,000,000. The Denver Union Stock Yards experienced a year that proved a record breaker. An increase of $12,000,000 in the value of all domestic animals in the state is recorded. Denver has become one of the nation's most important packing centers and the total value of the business has increased from $15,000,000 in 1915 to $25,000,000 in 1916. Silver, zinc, copper and lead showed extraordinary gains, while the increase in the production of tungsten is really staggering. If it is true that the automobile and prosperity go hand in hand, then Colorado must be well up in the vanguard of the procession of prosperous states, for there are 45,000 within her domain. With 3,000,000 acres of Colorado land already being cultivated under irrigation, the state has sufficient water to irrigate at least 2,000,000 more acres. The minimum waterpower available the year around is 1,600,000 horsepower and the maximum during six months of the year is more than 4,200,000. Less than 100,000 horsepower has been developed at the present time. Weld county ranks first among the counties of Colorado in agricultural products, estimated for 1916 at $14,000,000. It stands next in line to Denver in assessed valuation and in the number of automobiles owned there. With a population of 45,000 it reports 3,500 machine, or one machine to every three families. Beet Sugar Output for 1916. 1916 1915 Inc. or Dec. Number factories operated 14 14 None Acres harvested 192,650 169,883 *22,777 Average yield per acre (tons) 10.1 10.4 **.3 Tons beets produced 2,098,000 2,014,360 *83,640 Average sugar content (per cent) 14,125 14.9 **.775 Pounds sugar produced 532,450,000 556,007,100 **23,557,100 Money paid farmers $12,980,000 $11,620,550 *1,359,450 Money paid factory hands $3,170,000 $2,876,000 *294,000 Money paid farm labor $3,884,000 $3,084,000 *800,000 Money paid for supplies $3,050,000 $2,576,000 *294,000 Money paid for transportation $2,775,000 $2,615,000 *150,000 Number men employed in all factories. 5,460 5,035 *425 Average length of campaign (days)... 109 96 *12 *Increase. **Lecreuse. Never in the history of good roads or since the advent of the automobile as a commercial and social necessity in Colorado has so much improvement of highways been accomplished in twelve months as during the year just passed. Never before has the work of building good roads been extended over so vast an area of the state as during the year 1916. Every county in the state contributed something to the extension of permanent good roads. Colorado poultry brought $9,500,000 to breeders during the year, a gain of $1,500,000 over the year preceding. Do You Know That— ACCORDING TO STATEMENT OF JULIUS ANDRASSY, FORMER PREMIER OF HUNGARY. ALLIED NOTE OUTLINED The COLORADO STATESMAN PRESIDENT CALLS COL. HOUSE FOR CONFERENCE ON LATEST DEVELOPMENTS. Washington, Jan. 4.—Coincident with the receipt here of confidential advices giving the broad outlines of the entente reply to President Wilson's note proposing a discussion of peace terms, Col. E. M. House, the President's friend and adviser, arrived at the White House. The colonel's last visit was followed by the dispatch of the President's note. Colorado Metal Output. County— Gold. Silver. Copper. Lead. Spelter. Boulder (1) $ 481,299 $ 529,019 $ 78,012 $ 186,909 Chaffee 316,703 147,547 114,850 266,814 $ 638,322 Clear Creek 326,482 511,040 127,284 353,818 421,404 Custer 4,750 20,561 4,171 6,286 4,342 Dolores 4,296 32,276 111,509 28,992 1,811 Eagle 98,426 115,408 19,828 104,562 1,520,849 Gilpin (2) 439,045 63,712 111,474 1,201 Gunnison 60,197 16,988 3,000 14,630 239,069 Hinsdale 1,000 6,879 3,007 20,492 Lake 2,200,000 2,228,202 673,288 1,956,024 13,532,060 La Plata 42,918 18,084 741 981 Mineral 22,026 126,450 1,789 111,166 8,025 Ouray 189,000 213,639 147,718 79,428 581 Park 160,750 6,597 4,060 14,026 67,638 Pitkin 100 201,339 4,796 943,995 20,958 Sagauche 6,250 8,055 7,709 13,432 6,328 San Juan (3) 1,463,203 466,620 724,668 1,154,463 783,377 San Miguel (4) 3,021,268 1,047,706 229,972 535,556 218,418 Summit 858,750 65,843 2,750 82,121 1,124,458 Teller 12,004,695 58,695 ..... 1,675 30,000 Other counties 4,931 1,200 2,861 1,675 IS PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OF At the same time press dispatches from London told of a speech by Count Julius Andrassy, former premier of Hungary, stating that the central powers had given or would give President Wilson a statement of their peace terms, and that the entente allies could obtain them from him. Officials at the White House and the State Department would not discuss these developments further than to say definitely that no further move on the part of the American government would be determined until the entente reply was received. It was said that the President still has his mind open on the question. Commercial, Fraternal, Church, Book and Stationery Jobs A SPECIALTY Totals $21,703,089 $5,885,859 $2,375,487 $6,076,571 $18,617,432 Grand total $61,734,175 (1) In Boulder county's total is included 2,352 tons of tungsten concentrates, 60 per cent fine, valued at $5,357,732. It was not disclosed whether the administration considers that the unfavorable action of the entente has left the way open for the confidential exchange of terms between the opposing groups of nations. (2) Gilpin county's total contains an allowance of $100,000 for tungsten concentrate produced at the Rollinsville plant. (3) In the San Juan county total $100,000 is added for tungsten concentrate from the Yukon plant. In view of the delicate nature of the negotiations, extreme secrecy is being observed by the few officials in close touch with the situation. The following table shows the coal production of Colorado by counties for 1916: Counties— Total Tonnage Increase Decrease Archuleta None 1,255 Boulder 1,045,277 73,867 Delta 69,888 7,952 El Paso 308,686 10,805 Fremont 586,093 93,069 Garfield 134,083 8,876 Gunnison 509,433 68,469 Huerfano 1,797,258 199,430 Jackson 34,453 7,472 Jefferson 148,883 21,930 La Plata 109,665 7,727 Las Animas 4,168,183 1,182,522 Mesa 126,961 31,158 Moffat 200 230 Montrose 616 230 Montezuma 900 58 Pitkin 41,273 10,016 Rio Blanco 2,427 2,472 Routt 914,522 68,063 Weld 448,232 8,372 Both in Germany and entente circles pessimism over the outlook was expressed. The President, however, was understood to think that the moves already made will be helpful ultimately, regardless of the immediate consequences. 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. Teutons capture towns of Matolim and Jijila in northern Dobrudja. Invaders also are continuing to make gains in Moldavia and northern Wallachia. In center of the northern Wallachia lines the Russians and Rumanians are offering strong resistance at several points and, according to Petrograd, have defeated the Teutons southwest of Foscani. Period of comparative calm continues on all other fronts. Berlin reports French battleship Verite was torpedoed by a submarine near Malta, but Paris asserts the report is untrue. 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. House to Rush Anti-Strike Bill, Washington. — Railroad legislation desired by President Wilson to supplement the Adamson law is to be pressed in the House without waiting for action by the Senate. After a conference with the President and while the Senate committee was continuing its hearings on the subject Representative Adamson, chairman of the House commerce committee, announced that within a few days he would introduce and seek the passage of bills designed to prevent railroad employés from striking without giving sixty days' notice, and to empower the President to place tied up roads in the hands of military authorities in case of public necessity. Denver Union Stock Yards Receipts. | | 1916 | 1915 | | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Number | Value | Number | Value | | Cattle | 601,200 | $30,166,000 | 424,341 | $19,095,000 | | Hogs | 463,169 | 7,321,000 | 343,653 | 5,154,000 | | Sheep | 1,392,687 | 9,356,000 | 765,170 | 4,825,000 | | Horses | 52,683 | 6,585,000 | 71,870 | 7,195,000 | | | 2,509,739 | $53,428,000 | 1,605,034 | $36,269,000 | Live Stock Production in Colorado. | Gross Value | 1916 | 1915 | Increase | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | Total live stock in state | $132,660,000 | $118,934,000 | $13,726,000 | | Live stock marketed in Denver | 53,428,000 | 36,269,000 | 17,159,000 | | Feed lot output | 19,400,000 | 15,000,000 | 4,400,000 | | Packing house product | 24,900,000 | 15,000,000 | 9,900,000 | | Dairy product | 10,360,000 | 8,300,000 | 2,000,000 | | Wool crop | 4,769,520 | 2,520,000 | 2,249,520 | Give Us a Trial and We Will Give You Satisfaction PROPERTY VALUATIONS OF COLORADO COUNTIES. County— Valuation. Lake 12,006,800 Adams $ 22,836,894 La Plata 14,975,835 Alamosa 6,174,948 Larimer 36,968,343 Arapahoe 17,419,060 Las Animas 36,977,194 Archuleta 4,277,373 Lincoln 11,579,350 Baca 3,406,590 Logan 23,344,018 Bent 10,741,205 Mesa 26,536,803 Boulder 39,796,606 Mineral 1,413,580 Chaffee 11,285,708 Moffat 4,815,310 Cheyenne 8,505,900 Montezuma 5,685,457 Clear Creek 5,287,860 Montrose 14,465,480 Conejoe 8,555,600 Morgan 18,322,200 Costilla 5,261,002 Otero 26,630,563 Crowley 9,028,563 Ouray 5,216,451 Custer 2,573,085 Park 8,841,065 Delta 14,892,410 Phillips 7,285,655 Denver 307,430,404 Pitkin 5,795,170 Dolores 1,542,731 Prowers 16,807,975 Douglas 10,871,230 Pueblo 61,329,837 Eagle 6,812,355 Rio Blanco 5,113,205 Elbert 11,500,717 Rio Grande 9,206,110 El Paso 65,936,960 Routt 13,686,227 Fremont 17,840,490 Saguache 11,420,441 Garfield 18,110,365 San Juan 4,073,055 Gilpin 3,271,431 San Miguel 8,539,830 Grand 4,801,650 Sedgwick 5,935,908 Gunnison 14,404,258 Summit 5,977,147 Hinsdale 909,139 Teller 15,352,880 Huerfano 12,397,646 Washington 12,640,797 Jackson 4,955,720 Weld 74,804,905 Jefferson 22,299,940 Yuma 11,990,617 Kiowa 8,507,890 Kit Carson 12,323,340 Total $1,211,697,278 21ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETS Effects Temporary Organization, Then House Elects Boone Best Speaker. Denver. — Colorado's Twenty-first General Assembly convened Wednesday and W. H. Adams was elected president pro tem of the Senate by a vote of 18 to 14 cast for Senator Curran, Senator Candlish, Progressive Republican, of Lake county, voting with the Democrats. Prices as Reasonable as Those of Any Job Office in Denver Representative Crowley of Denver was elected temporary speaker of the House. The roll of members certified by the secretary of state was read, and the new members sworn in by Judge Gabbert, after which Boone Best of Kiowa was elected speaker of the House. Speaker Best then thanked the House for the honor conferred upon him, at the same time urging a short business-like session and early adjournment. The Colorado Statesman 1824 CURTIS STREET Room 25 Phone Main 7417 A list of Senate and House employés was then made. Carranza Consul Seized in Arms Plot. New York.—Juan T. Burns, Carranza consul general here, was arrested, charged with being concerned in a conspiracy to ship arms and ammunition to Vera Cruz in violation of President Wilson's embargo proclamation of October, 1915. Hawaiian Sugar Output Lowered. Washington.—Hawaii produced 53,237 tons less sugar in 1916 than in the previous year, despite an increased area planted to cane sugar. In Woman's Realm What Is Known as the Dressmakers' Dress Won Immediate Favor by Its Originality and Beauty—Smart Peplum Blouse of Satin Has Hat Bordered With a Fringe of Ostrich. The "dressmakers' dress," which is heralded as the incoming mode, cannot fail to win over admirers when it is presented in models as chic as that pictured. Nothing less than genius ever succeeded in making a one-piece dress of such originality and beauty, that is equal to doing the duty of a suit. Note that there is a double skirt, with the overskirt full and that the bodice opens over an embroidered vest. The vest and overskirt provide as much warmth as the coat in a coat suit. In the picture, the underskirt seems narrower than it really is. This effect is more a matter of straighter lines woman of fashion must have something that is not too warm, but warm enough, to meet the most unexpected wind that blows, and it is liable to be a "Northern" in Florida or a "Sou'wester" in colder climes. Here is a new peplum blouse of sash with a smart hat of the same material to keep it company. The peplum really deserves its name, with its skin reaching almost to the thigh. It fastens at one side, along the shoulder and under the arm, and like other new garments its first impression makes on wonder how the lady got into it. The wide velvet-hued collar is a remnant of winter fashions and the shoe S A I HERALDING THE INCOMING MODE. chan scant material. It is full enough for comfortable walking. The overskirt is laid in four plaits at each side of the front and in box plaits across the back. It is bordered at the front with six narrow folds of silk, and they give it a very slight flare at the bottom. The bodice is an affair for an expert dressmaker to describe, and the uninitiated fashion reporter can only marvel at it. It is draped away from the vest at the waistline and ornamented with folds of silk that extend themselves to the skirt. A tab of embroidery lends a line of bright color to the sedate tones of the cloth and silk folds and repeats the design (of which there is a glimpse) that covers the vest. The bodice appears to be in one piece, with the skirt at the back. Full straight sleeves are shirred in *at* the wrists and bordered with fur, and a soft muffler collar of fur protects the throat. Any of the soft wool fabrics might be used in a dress of this kind, and it is more than likely that we shall see it made in satin. The hat worn with it is a Russian b THE FILM OF "THE WOMAN IN THE HAT" BY JOHN BURTON. THE FASHION OF THE TIME NEWEST IN PEPLUM BLOUSES. Inspiration of satin embroidered with colored silks. This is the last word in rustumes. Hats have been matched up with nuff and neckpieces, with bags and frocks, and now it remains for them only to be matched up with blouses. For early spring, and between seasons or for the journey South the broideries, is an brighten up the tunes of broadcloarm bags are all. A Bit Narrow black the flounces intro-gowns. --- woman of fashion must have something that is not too warm, but warm enough, to meet the most unexpected wind that blows, and it is liable to be a "Northern" in Florida or a "Sou'wester" in colder climes. Here is a new plum blouse of satin with a smart hat of the same material to keep it company. The plum really deserves its name, with its skirt reaching almost to the thigh. It fastens at one side, along the shoulder and under the arm, and like other new garments its first impression makes one wonder how the lady got into it. The wide velvet-hued collar is a remnant of winter fashions and the short 1 sleeves are harbingers of a new order of things in sleeves for the coming spring. Both of them are finished with small satin-covered buttons. Soutache braid, which has already had a great vogue, decorates the lower part of the blouse and the peplum with a simple scroll pattern. The braid is sewed along one edge in the manner introduced by Paris milliners in the present season. It does not lie flat to the garment and it makes an altogether satisfactory decoration for tailored hats as well as other things. The short sleeves promise long gloves or some other covering for the forearms. The hat is bordered with a fringe of ostrich and is untrimmed. It might be embellished with a pattern in soutache braid with very good effect. Julia Bottomly Bags in Bright Colors. The arm bag, a gorgeous thing of silk, metal braid, laces and bead em- THE MUSICAL BY JOHN BURTON A MUSICAL BY JOHN BURTON A MUSICAL BY JOHN BURTON broideries, is an absolute necessity to brighten up the sober tailored costumes of broadcloth and velvet. These arm bags are all sizes and shapes. A Bit of Velvet. Narrow black velvet edges many of the flounces introduced on the skirts of gowns. Uncle Sam Is Considering Plans for Chicago-New York Service. TO MAKE TRIP IN 8 HOURS Regular Daily Schedule, With Three Stops Between Two Big Cities Proposed as First Step in Project. Uncle Sam, at some time in the not distant future, will be carrying mails between New York and Chicago by airplane. This is the belief of officials of the post office department who have discussed the present possibilities of aerial mail transportation with American representatives of the science of aerial navigation and are assured that New York-Chicago service is practicable. It is estimated that the trips can be made in from 6 to 14 hours, depending upon the wind and that the average running time for the 720 miles (air line) between the two largest American cities would be eight hours. Certain American promoters have proposed definite plans for the maintenance on a regular schedule of this air trunk-line for the mails. They point out that "the flights of Ruth Law and Victor Carlstrom were much more difficult and remarkable than the regular trips we are planning. They had no help along the route, whereas we would provide everything that can be thought of." One plan involves emergency stations every 22 miles, each equipped with powerful lights, two landing stations, and one relay station. The planes would leave the two termini at 6 p. m. and deliver the mail before 9 a. m. the following day. Under the most favorable conditions, the mail would reach destination by midnight. From 500 to 1,000 pounds of load or "cargo" would be carried. Leaving New York at dusk, the air mail carrier would follow the lights at the emergency stations to the first landing station which would be in the vicinity of Williamsport, Pa. There, at a flying field fully equipped with hangars, tools and spare parts, he would stop for oil and gas, and would then continue to the relay station near Niles, Ohio. Here another machine would finish the flight, landing once at the second landing, near Napoleon, Ohio. One extra machine with a pilot would be maintained at each landing station and three extra machines and pilots at the relay station. Powerful searchlights would mark the emergency stations and special lighting systems illuminate the flying fields at the landing and relay stations. By the use of searchlights of about 8,000 candle power equipped with acetylene gas tanks, it is stated that the pilots would be able to see the lights when several miles distant even in foggy weather and would be compelled to fly in darkness under the worst conditions only 10 or 12 minutes. American authorities agree that the development of airplane and Zeppelin navigation abroad incident to the war has been such as to promise very definitely the ultimate success of both types of machine as cross-country carriers. Heavy loads are carried, long flights made and the war planes are serviceable in practically all weather. The end of the war will release hundreds of aviators accustomed to face regular duty in good and bad weather and will bring about keen competition in applying to commerce the dearly-bought experience and knowledge gained in the war. It is foreseen that a 12-hour one, two or three-stop mail service by airplane between New York and Chicago, a two-hour non-stop run between New York and Boston, a three-hour non-stop service between Chicago and St. Louis, and even a 36-hour six-stop service between New York and San Francisco, are no longer the mere dreams of active imaginations. Airplanes to Precee Zeppelins. Exact information of the opportunities offered by the Zeppelins seem to be lacking in this country. It seems likely that the people of America will see the mails regularly carried by airplane before Zeppelins sail on schedule between the big cities of this country. The introduction as an established feature of postal facilities of such a high-speed mail service, limited necessarily as to weight, would raise the question of whether the service should be classed separately and charged for on a special basis. It would offer a medium of communication midway between the present special delivery letter and the telegram. The suggestion of an air trunk-line between the two largest cities of the United States does not mean that the department will not keep open the bidding for contract service upon distant, expensive and difficult routes, such as those in Alaska, to aircraft. The airplane undoubtedly now is a practicable facility for reducing the cost and improving this class of service and, when the special demands of the war cease, is virtually certain to outbid the steamship, stage, and dog-sled. "I feel like gambling," said the close-fisted party. "Jack, suppose you and Bob shake the bones to see who buys the cigars." Uncle Sam Has Greatest Statistical Office in World. Census Bureau Represents Development of a Century and a Quarter of Inquiry by Federal Government. Uncle Sam's census bureau at Washington is the greatest statistical office in the world, representing the outgrowth and development of a century and a quarter of periodical and, in recent years, continuous statistical inquiry on the part of the federal government. The United States was the first among the nations to make constitutional or legal provision for a regular periodical enumeration of its inhabitants, and the work has been perfected to a higher degree than in any other country in the world. "The Story of the Census, 1790 to 1916," an illustrated publication issued by the census bureau, tells the interesting history of this branch of the government from the first to the thirteenth census, with a statement of the details of the establishment of the permanent census bureau, mechanical tabulation and the value of the statistics. The first census, taken in 1790, related solely to population, but the field now embraces detailed inquiries along 17 distinct lines, made at decennial, quinquennial, biennial, annual, quarterly, and monthly intervals, in addition to various special inquiries ordered by the president or by congress. Among the new features introduced from time to time were the following: Third census, 1810, first collection of industrial statistics. Fourth census, 1820, first statistics of occupations. Fifth census, 1830, first statistics of the deaf and blind. Sixth census, 1840, first statistics of illiteracy, the insane and idiotic, mining, and agriculture. Seventh census, 1850, first mortality and social statistics. Ninth census, 1870, introduction of machine tabulation. Tenth census, 1880, change in method of enumeration by employing large body of enumerators under the direction of supervisors holding office only until the work is completed. Eleventh census, 1890, introduction of electric tabulation. Thirteenth census, 1910, first to be taken by the permanent census bureau, and differed from its predecessors in the manner in which the information obtained was compiled and presented to the public and in the method by which temporary clerks were appointed. Positions on the temporary clerical force were filled through open competitive civil service examinations held throughout the country by the United States civil service commission. Work Begun by Uncle Sam In 1882 Not Yet Half Done A task which Uncle Sam undertook in 1882 is now, after 34 years' work, less than half completed. This is the task of covering the 3,000,000 square miles of the United States with accurate topographic surveys. The standards of accuracy and refinement in topographic surveying have been constantly raised by the topographic engineers, with the view of meeting adequately every use to which the resulting maps can be put. The law provides for the sale of the United States geological survey maps at the cost of printing, a charge that is merely nominal when it is realized that the cost of an edition of the printed map may be only a small percentage of the cost of surveying the area it represents. The government itself is making a large and increasing use of these topographic maps, but the expenditure of public funds for these surveys is otherwise fully warranted only as the public uses the maps. To promote this use, the survey has recently given more attention to the wider distribution of the maps. Value of Product of Textile Mills in United States in 1914 Reaches Total of $701,300,933. The value of cotton goods manufactured in the United States in 1914 reached the great total of $701,300,933, according to Uncle Sam's figures, just compiled. This represented an increase of 11.6 per cent, as compared with 1909, when the value of the output was $628,391,813. The industry gave employment to 403,422 persons in 1914, an increase of 17.7 per cent in salaried employees and 3.8 per cent in wage earners during the five-year period. These employees received a total of $169,822,599 in wages and salaries in 1914, an average of approximately $420 for each employee. The figures show that the cotton manufacturing business of the country is concentrated in the hands of a comparatively few persons, as the number of proprietors and firm members engaged in the business in 1914 was only 480, while there were 1,328 establishments engaged in the industry. A. C. CENTER FRANK S. 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