Colorado Statesman

THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RAGE COUNTRY PARTY SAYS THE NAVY DEPARTMENT IS NOT FAIR TO COLORED RACE VOL. XXIII. (The Washington Post.) Editor Post: The present serious aspect of German-American affairs, in connection with the fact that just now the national patriotism is being reconsecrated through anniversary memorial services for the dead heroes of the Maine, is pregnant both with fact and suggestion to the thoughtful American mind. Readers of the Post will recall how its columns were made to reflect the attitude of the different groups of our citizens and the personal opinion of the individual on the momentous crisis thrust upon the nation through the dreadful tragedy in Habana harbor nineteen years ago. These letters were eloquently forceful in the expression of a unanimity of loyal purpose and the pledge of a support that knew no reservation. One of the letters embodying this thought in behalf of the colored race, written by this writer, was published in the Post of February 17, 1898. Now, as then, and indeed as was the case in our first great international conflict, when Crispus Attucks gave up his life on Boston Common, the colored man has been fatefully in evidence and has borne with conceded heroism the part allotted him in defending the prestige of the flag and protecting the liberties of his country-men. In the light of events which have emphasized the colored man's devotion to the ideals and institutions of his country and in spite of a civic status that is manifestly inequitable, it must now be realized that any question of his loyalty can only come from the grossly ignorant or the willfully vicious. What more positive evidence of his anxious readiness for patriotic service than not so long ago was shown in his prompt rally to the colors when the various colored units of the militia were fully recruited and ready for service on the border before all others. But if the state is to derive the largest returns of service it can little afford to be invidious in the distribution of its work from the standpoint alone of class or caste. Yet notwithstanding denials by high officials, this is actually the procedure of our great navy department with reference to the enlistment of colored men in that branch of service. At present, and for a long time past, the recruiting of colored men for the navy has been rigorously confined to the servant or mess man branch, and under the present system it is humanly impossible for a colored man, even though he were, endowed with the genius of Houdini, to break the bands of these restrictions. There is no regulation to this effect, and the matter of discrimination is specifically denied, and yet, when not so long ago a number of young and vigorous colored men applied to a seacoast recruiting station for enlistment, the report of their worth and qualifications was duly sent forward and instructions asked. The fact that all of these young men finally elected to choose some other calling than the sea seems significant. Now, is it wise or necessary to pur- sue such a policy as has been indicated? Is our country stronger, or better prepared by restricting this class of its defense material? The heroism of the world has frequently been symbolized and enriched through the worthy performance of some black American. Think of Carrizal, just a few short months ago. Remember, too, that on that fateful morning at Manila Bay many of the shots that carried death and destruction to the Spanish fleet were directed by John Jordan, a black gunner, now relegated to the scrapheap through enforced retirement (though only 48) under a relentless process of elimination of the colored man. The demand is imperative, if our great country is to realize her splendid possibilities, that narrow prejudice be at once and forever swallowed up in that ever-broadening ocean of a real and true democracy. Such a democracy as impelled that stalwart and original Democrat, General Jackson, as early as a century ago, to realize the inevitable trend, and in these words call to the colors the colored men of Louisiana: "Through a mistaken policy you have heretofore been deprived of a participation in the glorious struggle for national rights in which our country is engaged. This no longer shall exist." Then, after the war, with duty done, and nobly, most nobly done, what more competent or generous testimony to their worth when he wrote: "To the men of color, soldiers: From the shores of Mobile I called you to arms. I invited you to share in the perils and to divide the glory of your white countrymen. I expected much from you. But you surpass my hopes." Surely it is not too much to expect that our glorious country will refuse to perpetuate so backward a step as the present system of the navy department suggests in regard to the enlistment of colored men, but rather in the spirit reflected in the words of General Jackson more than 100 years ago, let us stimulate a true and pure Americanism that shall know no caste nor favored class. JNO. H. PAYNTER. Decatur, Ala., March 2.—Hon. H. A. Cashin, lawyer and thorough Race man, spoke here and his hearers were astonished with his deliberations and outspoken truths. He spoke on the "Negro Migration," and, unlike the other speakers, he told his hearers that one never misses the water till the well goes dry. He told his people to go north, that the white man in the south did not and would not respect them. Thousands shook his hand when he said not to sell your farms and pay money to unscrupulous persons styling themselves as labor agents, but to go there and see what they could do. Members of the Race were glad to know that they had one member of the Race who would stand up for his own people. WILL AFRICANS EVER GOVERN THEMSELVES? Wilson S. Naylor. Will the blacks of Africa ever be self-governing? Possibly the answer may be best approached by indirection. Two thousand years ago the armies of Rome sent captives home from the island of Britain. "Don't take one of them," wrote the great Cicero to his friend Atticus, "they are not fit for use." Today descendants of the ancient Britons have built a government greater in both extent and sound qualities of government than that of Rome. Five hundred years later a man of wider vision than Cicero, when told that the white slaves from the same island were called Angels, said, "Good, they have faces of angels; and such should be made joint heirs with the angels in heaven." Thus it happened that Gregory, Pope of Rome, sent Augustine to civilize the Britons. Work like Augustine's went on and after his time, changed the brutal and degraded, wild and savage Briton into the self-governing ruler of today. The stories of the peoples of Europe and Asia hark back through the centuries to many of the same customs and practices found in Africa today; human sacrifices, blood revenge, slavery, polygamy, excessive cruelties in war, infanticide, witchcraft, tribal government, local gods, a world of shades after this life, crude conceptions of escape from sin, as by scapegoats to cock, sacred harvests; these and more show that when passing through similar stages of development peoples of widely different races exhibit similar social, religious and governmental characteristics. The application is apparent. The African is a child yet in his gocart. Give him time; there is a hand that guides. Give him as much time, after the leading strings of civilization are in his hands, as the Briton has had; give him a thousand years, yet five hundred years, and from all precedent of the rise of all nations, from the cassest barbarism, who has reason to say that the African will not run with even pace the race of self-government? Native government in various parts of Africa will compare favorably with the governments of the primitive peoples of the Anglo-Saxon and Slav lands two thousand five hundred years ago. And where there is a people that within one generation from barbarism had produced men of more solid qualities than Cowther, born in African bush, rescued from slavery and educated in England, honored with the doctorate from Oxford University, and ministered to his own people as Bishop of Niger; or Khama, King of the Bechuanas, born in barbarism, converted to Christianity, who ruled his people with firmness of a Roman and the consideration of a Christian father, or Booker T. Washington, constructive educator, astute financier, wise executive and yet—just "up from slavery." Certainly this is not a categorical answer as to whether the African will ever govern himself, but who could have given a better answer to a similar question concerning any other race at a similar stage of development? If it be asked why progress has gone out into the rest of the world and left Africa-remaining stagnant in barbarism, it needs only to answer that the same question could have been said of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans in succession, of other peoples yet in their swaddling clothes, who later came to succeed these once proud civilizations in the leadership of the world. Nor will it pass muster to say that the African is unimprovable like some aborigines. The Africans show no signs of becoming a vanishing race, suicide can never be attributed to him. He is industrious when put under the proper stimulus. Native African commerce is one of the marvels of the past century, when the crude facilities and the insignificant inducements of variegated beads and callco are considered. The native African is coming to his own through industry, education and religion under the tutelage of the white man, just as every race has risen, slower or faster, through industry, education and religion. When he will arrive at self-government is a question of time and not of distinctive racial characteristics. The more we inquire into the habits and customs of our distant Anglo-Saxon ancestry the more we are convinced that most of the African customs and characteristics of today are not distinctive, but are simply human, and belong to the low stage of human development. Voice of Missions. Los Angeles, Cal.—Cleveland Buchanan, a graduate of Tuskegee, has been appointed criminal investigator in the office of the District Attorney of Los Angeles County, California. BOULDER NOTES. The Hann Jubilee Singers appeared to a big crowd and to great advantage on Monday night at the Empress theater under the auspices of Allen chapel, the church that does big things. Many of the music lovers declared the concert to be the best of its kind ever given in Boulder. The company was the guests of Rev. and Mrs. A. W. Ward during their stay in the city. A special concert was given for the high school pupils in the afternoon. Miss Ida Harris is able to be around in the house. Mrs. Martha Hall is improved from her attack of rheumatism. Allen chapel with the co-operation of the Second Baptist church, began a ten days' series of revivalistic meetings on Wednesday evening. The services of this week are conducted by the local pastor. Rev. A. M. Ward of Denver will speak on Monday and Tuesday nights of the coming week, and Rev. C. A. Williams will speak on Wednesday and Thursday nights. Presiding Elder Pope takes charge on Friday and concludes with the quarterly meeting on Sunday, March 18. Several Denver visitors are expected on that day. Plans are on foot for the building of a new church by the Second Baptist congregation on their present property. The Mite Missionary Society holds a special program on Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock to raise funds for the National Preachers' Home at Colorado Springs. Mrs. Walters, the grandmother of the Misses Caves, arrived in Boulder last week from Cripple Creek. She will make her home here. Lee Morrison brought his Denver orchestra to town to fill an engagement last week. Mr. Fleming spent a few days in the city with his wife and daughter this week. He attended the Hann recital on Monday. The Mutual Literary Society has postponed meetings for one week on account of revival services at the church. Mrs. Caleb Reeves and Mrs. Janet Ward were hostesses at dinner for the Hann Jubilee Singers on Monday afternoon. Boulder friends extend kindest sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. Rivers of The Colorado Statesman, in their recent bereavement. RACE NEWS Jersey City, N. J., March 2. Harold A. Coleman, 26 Harmon street, has been promoted to dining car conductor by the Lehigh Valley Railroad. was stationed at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, at the naval station, Culebra, Porto Rico, and the League Island naval station at Philadelphia, where he had Tallulah, Ga—J. W. White, who has been writing and lecturing against the exodus, in order to get the white people's sympathy, has told them that he has received letters threatening mob violence. Instead of his people wanting to mob him, as he claims they are not going to hear him speak and are tearing up his lectures. He has gone so far as to write ministers in the South to preach on "Stand Still and See Salvation," and they have answered him. They are going to preach on "Bound for the Promised Land." The members of the Baptist Church of which he is pastor are leaving the church because of Rev. White's stand on the exodus question. Dublin, Ga.—That Negroes are being enlisted rapidly in the army of England, in Canada, was the statement of Congressman-elect W. W. Larson, who returned this morning from a business trip to Canada. "At Windsor," said Judge Larson, "I was surprised to see a large sprinkling of Negro soldiers among the recruits who were being prepared for services in Europe. I mentioned it to the man with whom I was transacting business and he told me that several hundred colored troops from the southland had been enlisted recently at Windsor and would be sent to Europe with the other troops. He told me they were all from my section of the country. "To my surprise also, I found them scattered among the white men promiscuously, and not in separate companies. Both whites and blacks seemed to be on good terms with each other and as chummy as soldiers generally get. Philadelphia, Pa.—John C. Jordan, who lives at 1326 South Mole street, this city, was retired recently from the United States Navy, after thirty years' service, having attained the rank of chief gunner's mate. He entered the service on June 17, 1887, at Washington, D. C. He completed the course at the Gunnery School, Washington, in 1893, and was the first Negro to do so. Mr. Jordan was on the Olympia, Dewey's flagship, at the battle of Manila Bay in 1898, and later NO 29. was stationed at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, at the naval station, Culebra, Porto Rico, and the League Island naval station at Philadelphia, where he had charge of the rifle range at the time of his retirement. He has been awarded six medals from the government for Fidelity, Zeal and Obedience, and on his retirement received a letter from the Navy Department stating that he was a "valuable man in uplifting of the navy" and that "it regrets very much to see you retire from active life in the navy." RECREATION FOR NEGROES The offering of proper recreation to young people presents one of the greatest problems in America today, and especially is this true of the Negro race. The Juvenile Protective Association of Chicago, after making a study of the colored people, reported that while they were only one-fortieth of the population, yet one-eighth of the boys and young men, and one-third of the girls and young women confined in the county jail were colored. While there are many influences that help in bringing about this condition, the lack of proper recreation is the principal factor. Our parents lacked that appreciation for play which recognizes its powerful influence for good. To them it meant valuable time spent away from work, and indulgence in degrading pastimes. Now, we all realize that work is a privilege, and that work well done, with pride in the doing, is a source of inestimable joy. But all work and no play leads to dullness and discontent. It is for this reason, primarily, that our young people are leaving the rural districts. With little expense the children in school can be taught various kinds of athletic and social games; folk dances can and should be utilized; track and field meets can be held. May festivals can be arranged where children from various schools can meet for folk dances and drills, and have one day of pleasure and profit on some beautiful lawn. For the great mass who are not in school our churches could organize Sunday-school athletic leagues, dramatic clubs, and reading circles for boys and girls. They could plan and supervise most of the recreation for our younger brothers and sisters. LATEST NEWS EPITOMIZED FROM TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS THAT COVER THE WEEK'S EVENTS. OF MOST INTEREST OF MOST INTEREST KEEPING THE READER POSTED ON MOST IMPORTANT CURRENT TOPICS. Western Newspaper Union News Service. ABOUT THE WAR The Cabinet decided that China should join the United States in breaking off relations with Germany. Sentries were under orders to shoot to kill any aviator flying over the fortifications of the San Francisco port. Between the Oise and the Avre British fire shattered German organi- zations northwest of Mounlin-Sous- Toutvent and demolished casemates and shelters north of Autreches. Two German submarines that recently returned to their base sank fifteen steamers and seven sailing vessels, aggregating 64,500 tons gross, the admiralty announced at Berlin. British headquarters in France reports: "Monday morning the enemy attacked a position east of Bouchavesnes gained by us, but were repulsed with loss, leaving some prisoners in our hands." In the Val Putna, Berlin records the Russians made five fruitless attacks against Austro-German positions on the heights north of the valley. Petrograd says the fighting continues north of the Jacobeni-Kimpolung high road, Rumanian detachments were forced to withdraw, Petrograd says, from a height north of the river Zaval. British headquarters in France report: "During February we captured 2,133 German prisoners, including thirty-six officers. The following villages also were either captured or surrendered to us by the withdrawal of the Germans: Ligny, Thilloy, Lebarque, Warlencourt, Pys, Miraumont, Petit Miraumont, Grandcourt, Puisieux-Au-Mont, Serre and Gommecourt." Austria's reply to the American request for a clearer definition of her attitude in the submarine situation while supporting Germany's "ruthless" sea war was stated officially in Washington to leave the door, open for further negotiations, delaying temporarily at least the break which has been regarded as inevitable since the severance of relations between the United States and Germany. WESTERN Chicago is swept with the worst scarlet fever epidemic in years. A blizzard, with snow three feet deep, was reported in Nebraska Tuesday. Arkansas joined the woman suffrage column when the governor signed the bill giving women the right to vote at all primary elections in that state. The third annual report of the Midwest Refining Company indicates an unusually prosperous year in 1916 with increases in refinery capacity, in oil production and the extension of fields of operations in Wyoming. Five Chinese were killed outright, two were fatally injured and three were wounded in tong wars which were waged almost simultaneously in San Francisco, Oakland, Stockton and San Jose, Cal., and Seattle, Wash. WASHINGTON President Wilson took the oath of office for his second term in his room at the Capitol. Senator Thomas S. Martin, Virginia, will succeed ex-Senator Kern, Indiana, as Democratic floor leader. More than 1,400 nominations sent to the Senate during the session by President Wilson failed of confirmation. The Senate agreed to a House resolution postponing the effective date on the Reed "bone dry" amendment until July 1. Werner Horne, alleged German army officer, charged with responsibility for a plot to blow up the Canadian Pacific railroad bridge crossing the Canadian border at Vanceboro, Me., must stand trial. Lieut. Hans Berg's heroic trip across the Atlantic with the British steamer Appam, captured by the German raider Moewe, proved futile when the Supreme Court awarded the vessel to her English owners. Modification of the Senate rules, urged by President Wilson, to prevent future filibusters like the one that killed the armed neutrality bill, virtually was agreed upon by a conference committee of ten senators. Renomination of Dr. Cary T. Grayson as medical director in the navy with rank of rear admiral, who failed of confirmation in the Senate during the last session after a prolonged fight, was sent to the Senate by President Wilson. The Senate adopted the House resolution providing for a bond issue of $150,000,000 to expedite construction of naval vessels. Reargument was ordered by the Supreme Court on the litigation between Wyoming and Colorado, over respective irrigation rights. FOREIGN The death is announced of Manuel de Arriaga, ex-president of Portugal. The Reichstag has adjourned until March 20, according to a Berlin dispatch to Reuter's by way of Amsterdam. Major Elvin R. Helberg, American military attache at Rome, was killed in a fall from his horse while visiting the Austro-Italian front. Eight lives were lost when the Coquahalla hotel at Hope, B. C., eighty miles east of Vancouver, burned. The building was an old frame structure. The French government has summoned Germany to reply without delay to the propositions for reciprocal treatment of prisoners of war made by France. Kaiser Wilhelm has issued a proclamation to the German empire announcing that the railway systems are now under military control, according to advises from Berlin. President Menocal sent a message to Congress requesting authority to suspend the constitutional guarantees and asking for appropriations necessary to quell the rebellion. Bulgaria considers she must adopt in whole the attitude of her ally, Germany, and break with America, according to dispatches reaching London from semi-official Bulgarian press agencies. The trial of the four persons charged with conspiring to murder Premier David Lloyd George and Arthur Henderson, labor member of the war council, began in London at the old Bailey before Justice Law. It is reported from Madrid by the Havas agency that Wilhelm Boelke, brother of Capt. Boelke who was killed on the western front after destroying forty French and British air planes, has just been appointed German consul at Cartagena, Spain. The German government's plan for involving Mexico and Japan in war with the United States, in event of hostilities between Germany and America, was defended in an address before the Reichstag by the foreign secretary, Dr. Alfred Zimmermann, as quoted in a Reuter dispatch from Amsterdam. That part of Belgium in Germany's hands has been divided into three provinces, with the cities of Brussels, Namur and St. Apus, designated as capitals, according to Berlin advises German governors have been appointed for each of these districts, the scheme of government being the same as that in German-occupied Poland. SPORTING NEWS Bryan Downey won from Jack Britton of Chicago in a, slow twelve-round bout at Columbus, Ohio. The Kansas Agricultural College team defeated the University of Missouri at basketball at Columbia, Mo. 26 to 22, in a Missouri Valley conference game. *At the end of the twenty-third hour of the six-day bike race at San Francisco, eight teams had covered 420.5 miles, which is 4.2 miles better than the world's record. Jack Dillon has accepted an offer from Denver to fight Les Darcy in that city within thirty days. The purse amounts to $20,000, according to word received from Jack Kanner, promoter of the National Athletic Club of Denver. Denver has been designated a national tennis center, and in the future will have an important part in the nation-wide campaign undertaken by the United States National Lawn Tennis Association to further the development of young tennis players. Earl Cooper won the "George Washington sweepstakes" automobile race at Ascot speedway at Los Angeles, covering the 100 miles in 1 hour, 27 minutes and 46 seconds, an average speed of 68.35 miles an hour, a record for the course, which is a class B speedway. GENERAL Four men were reported missing following an explosion which wrecked the enameling department of the branch plant of the Ford Motor Car Company in Cincinnati. Theodore Roosevelt has declined an invitation of representatives of the Congress of Forums to debate the subject of preparedness in New York with William Jennings Bryan. An appeal "to the rich and well-to-do of New York city to buy carefully, to eat moderately and not to waste any food," was issued by Mayor Mitchel's food supply committee in the hope, it was announced, of reducing prices to consumers generally. Dr. C. Hanador Chakiaberty, Hindoo physician, and Dr. Ernest Sckunner, 34, described as a German, were arrested in New York on charges of conspiring to get up on a military expedition against a foreign country on friendly relations with the United States. The police say the men confessed that they had plotted under the direction of Wolf von Igel to invade India by way of China. Ten men from the coast cutter Yamacraw, it was determined, went to death in a raging storm off Ocean City, Md., in a futile effort to save the crew of the oil steamer Louisiana, aground on a sandbar. After listening to an address by Theodore Roosevelt, the citizens of Oyster Bay at a mass meeting decided to "adopt" a Belgian village of 2,400 children. The plan will call for a contribution of $2,400 a month. New England was in the grasp of one of the most severe snow storms of the winter on the 5th Western Newspaper Union News Service. DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. March 20 — Auto Show at Denver. Sept. 17-22 — Colorado State Fair at Pueblo. The new Denver Union station is now a completed structure. Western Colorado sheep clips are reported selling at 36½ cents. The new German Congregational church at Fort Morgan has been formally dedicated. Robert F. Weitbrec gave his thirteenth annual breakfast to the thirteen members of the "13" Club. One hundred and four Missourians attended the seventh annual banquet of the Missouri Society of Colorado in Denver. Double funeral services were held in Denver for Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Fanning, killed in a railroad wreck at Mount Union, Pa. The Senate passed the House concurrent resolution providing for the adjournment sine die of the Legislature on March 24. One hundred and fifty business men of Arvada and farmers of the vicinity attended a "booster" meeting given by the Arvada Community Club. The Denver Civic and Commercial Association intends to do all in its power to find employment for the Colorado guardsmen mustered out at Fort D. A. Russell. All previous records for high prices for hogs on the Denver market were broken at the stocky yards on the 6th, when a carload of choice porkers, fed and marketed from Rocky Ford, sold at $14.35. According to a ruling made by Police Magistrate Rice of Denver against Harvey Bell, charged with violation of the prohibition law, it is just as unlawful to buy liquor from the bootleggers as it is to sell it. News that his son, Second Lieut. Jack V. Prestidge of Denver, who distinguished himself in the European war, has been disabled by wounds received in battle has been received by Frank Prestidge of Denver. A resolution condemning "in the strongest terms" the act of the twelve filibustering senators which defeated President Wilson's attempt to arm ships was introduced in the State Senate by Senator's Knauss and Dodge. Denver postal savings March 1 showed an increase of nearly $80,000 over that of March 1 a year ago, bringing the total amount now on deposit to more than $500,000, being the largest in the history of the Denver post-office. The Senate forced out of committee and on the floor of the Senate the bill by Senators Fincher and Candlish providing for an investigation of the smelting industry in this state and appropriating $25,000 for the expenses of the committee. Denver hospitals will continue to have potatoes on their menus. At the county hospital and other institutions it was said that no changes were contemplated in the menus, although the increase in prices of food was having a big effect on the expenses. Governor Gunter refused to grant an extradition for the return to Wisner, Neb., of Ernest Hawk, who is charged by the Nebraska authorities with child stealing. Hawk is 30 years old, and the offense, it is alleged, grew out of his marriage to Annie Frerichs, 14. Glenn Duffield, former Denver chief of police, must pay Mrs. Ida Wright a judgment of $5,300. The judgment also runs against Thomas M. F. Hamilton and Percy L. Clemens, city patrolmen. A jury in Judge Mullins' division of the Denver District Court returned the verdict. The four young men named in the two sets of informations filed as a result of the investigation into the so-called "revel ring" in Denver will endeavor, to prove none of the girls involved are under the Juvenile Court age limit, according to one of the attorneys for the defense. The general attitude of the United States with reference to the submarine and other international questions growing out of the European war carries the united indorsement and support of the Pan-American nations, according to Senator Enrique Coronel Zegarra of Peru, who is visiting in Denver. Bear creek, Denver's prize mountain park trout stream, is well on the road to becoming not only the most heavily fished trout stream in the state, but city and state officials who have been stocking the stream with thousands of trout, predict that it will soon rank among the finest for its size in the country. George Warren Densmore, new member of the State Industrial Commission, returned to Denver, after having persuaded striking coal miners near Trinidad at the Starkville mine to go back to work for the thirty-day period provided for by law. He expects to get the trouble settled amicably by that time. Under a proclamation issued by President Wilson, 3,133 acres of land in the Arapaho national forest in central Colorado will be open to settle ment in small tracts. WELCOMEGUARDSHOME COLORADO TROOPS REACH DENVER FROM THE BORDER. One Hundred and Thirty-three Members of Battery B and Forty-seven of Battery C Return. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver.—Mothers, fathers, sweet-hearts, relatives and friends of the members of Batteries B and C, Colorado National Guard, jammed the union depot and wept and hurrabed with joy at noon Feb. 28, when the train of eighteen cars, bringing home from the Mexican border Colorado's artillery quota of the border Guard, steamed into the station on their way to demobilization at Fort Russell, Wyoming. In spite of the strict surveillance at the gates, passes which were at a premium were freely used, and from the first minute the Colorado soldiers rolled into the union station, the jubilee was on. The waiting committeemen, friends and relatives of the soldiers on the outside platforms cheered with a volume that drowned out the thundering of the engine, as the uniformed figures appeared at the windows and on the platform. And the boys cheered back. Off came hundreds of hats, and the glad-to-get-back smile was wide. One hundred and thirty-three members of Battery B returned on the train. Of that number seventy-five were from Denver. Capt. G. A. Blanchard and First Lieut. W. H. H. Cranmer came with the battery. First Lieut. Canton O'Donnell, Second Lieut. E A. Hart and Second Lieut. Hackstaff did not return, being detained at the border as witnesses in a hearing. Forty-seven members of Battery C were also in the home-coming contingent. The others were mustered out at the border. The officers of Battery C who returned were Capt. Victor C. Hungerford, First Lieut. Daniel W. Knowlton, First Lieut. William H. Shade, Second Lieut. Horace Lunt and Second Lieut. Goudy. The staff officers who arrived with the troops were Major W. S. Sharp, Capt. H. C. Nickerson, First Lieut. Lewis Carpenter and Second Lieut. H. A. Slayton. Under the command of Major Sharp and Battery Capts. G. A. Blanchard and V. C. Hungerford the batteries were immediately lined up after disembarking and marched into the main waiting room, where their border songs drew round after round of applause from the crowd. A contingent from the University of Denver responded to the songs. At the auditorium the soldiers were welcomed by the Mothers' Club of Battery B, who served a dinner that made the camp rations sink into oblivion. For the state, Governor Gunter gave the boys a greeting, while Manager W. F. R. Mills spoke for the city. Counties Ask Funds for Roads. Counties Ask Funds for Roads. Denver.—Necessity for an appropriation of $25,000 by the state for the Fall river road, in Grand county, to complete the circle route of scenic highways through the Rocky Mountain National park, was urged upon the State Highway Commission by the commissioners of Grand county, who in turn agreed to raise $9,000. Other counties which presented needs for 1917 road work included: Gunnison county, $20,000; Grand county, $4,065 for the Blue River road, Willow Creek road and Berthoud pass; Prowers county, $14,500, on condition of raising $9,500; Lincoln county, $10,000, conditional on the county raising $5,000; La Plata county, $13,000; San Juan county, $17,500; El Paso county, $30,000 for general improvements and to complete Ute pass highway; Rio Grande county, $5,000; Alamosa county, $8,000 on the basis of $2 to $1; Fremont county, $50,000, of which $15,000 is for the Arkansas River road and $35,000 for the Cripple Creek road; Bent county, $8,000 on the basis of $2 to $1; Kit Carson county, $12,000; Cheyenne county, $8,000; Weld county, $28,000 for repairs and $25,000 for a bridge over the Platte at Kersey; Saguache county, $12,000 for the Gunbarrel highway, and Jefferson, Gilpin and Boulder counties, sufficient money to complete the Nederland highway between Denver and Rawlinsville. War Veteran Dies In Ambulance. Canon City—John Shaw, Sr., aged 76, well known citizen of Ash street, Lincoln Park, Civil war veteran, and father-in-law of Mayor D. N. Cooper of Canon City, died in the ambulance while being conveyed from his home to the hospital here to be treated for acute stomach trouble. Boy Has Scalp Torn Off. Fort Collins.—Russell Paige, 11, the son of F. E. Palge, a farmer living near here, had his scalp torn off when he tried to go under a buggy on his nled after sliding down the roof of a potato cellar. Surgeons stitched the scalp back on. State Land Title Gives Ore Rights. Denver.—The Supreme Court handed down thirty-three decisions Monday morning, the most important of which was a ruling that the purchaser of state lands acquires title to everything in the land from the surface to the center of the earth and that the State Land Board under the present laws cannot reserve the mineral, oil and stone rights. The decision was in the case of N. S. 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Cheated and bulldozed to within a fraction of an inch of its very life, this little republic may yet give a favorable answer to the question: Can the Negro stand alone? Liberia owes its independence to the fact that it is the only protege of the United States in Africa, says the Kansas City Times. Just as Americans seldom think of their country as an Asiatic power by reason of its hold on the Philippines, or as a Caribbean power by its control of Panama, Nicaragua, Haiti, Santo Domingo, the Danish West Indies, Porto Rico, and various naval bases, so are they not cognizant that the United States is sharing responsibility in Africa with the European nations. Freed American slaves constituted Liberia an independent republic in 1847. The first settlement on the everlasting green shores of West Africa had been made 25 years before, in the administration of President Monroe, after whom the capital, Monrovia, is named. By the treaty of 1862 the United States undertook to preserve the constitutional form of government and its independent existence. Control Only Coast. According to Herbert Adams Gibbons, in his recent book, "The New Map of Africa" (the Century company), there are about twelve thousand Negroes of American descent in Liberia, and about fifty thousand of the population of almost two million can be said to be civilized. The wild tribes who sold their lands to the American Colonization society retired into the hinterland, leaving a strip of 25 miles wide along the coast to the settlers, who numbered, besides the original freed slaves, other Africans rescued from slave traders by United States warships and freedmen emigrating after the Civil war. The nation is about half the size of Kansas. Affection for everything that bears the American name characterizes the colonists. The language is English, and in spirit and customs they have been guided by American tradition. The flag is the Stars and Stripes, modified, the homes of the wealthier citizens, are modeled after the Southern mansions, where their ancestors served. The people of Monrovia and of Herper, the capital of the Maryland settlement, act and dress very like the better class of Negroes in Louisville or Atlanta. While they are neatly but flashily dressed, their neighbors, the aborigines, merely put on an extra cloth when they come to town. There is less boisterousness, profanity and indecency than in American, and one traveler said that he saw no one drunk in a month. The Sundays are of the New England variety, and there are no saloons or cabarets. Teach Trades to Children. "Everything is reminiscent of home," one returned traveler writes: "The flags on the houses, the names of the streets. Every college is founded by American benevolence. I wandered through the cemetery, and on every tombstone I read 'Born in Virginia,' 'A Native of South Carolina,' and so on. "After a painstaking effort to get at the bottom of things I am convinced that the government is to be commended for having kept its head above water in spite of poverty, and that the future is secure if the Liberians could only have the assurance that the in- In the Southern cities the white people are taking more and more interest in the welfare of the Negroes, looking particularly into their condition of living, their school training and health. More and more people are coming to know that conditions which degrade the Negroes socially and morally and make them easy prey to malignant diseases are disastrous as well to the whites. More and more the economic status of the Negroes is attracting the attention of leaders of Southern thought, and people are coming to know that the prosperity and wellbeing of the South depends in a large measure upon doing those things that will increase the Negro's efficiency, stir his ambition, raise his living standard, and establish his rights before the law. Our Northern contemporaries frequently find occasion to criticize the attitude of the real South toward the Negroes. Much of this criticism is unjust, but it would help in the solution of the problem if great journals like the Blade would occasionally ascertain what the race problem really is and how earnestly the The silk cocoon harvest of 1916 in France, as estimated by the Lyon union of silk merchants, is 6,147,100 pounds, as compared with 3,808,100 pounds in 1915, an increase of 61.42 per cent. With care there is timber enough in the United States to last 444 years, according to a government expert. A blade of witchgrass exhibited by F. L. Yeaton of Belgrade, Me., measured 6 feet 10 inches in length. tegrity and independence of their land is assured. There will be no difficulty about reforms if the threats of partition could be offset by one little promise that the mother country would see them through as in the case of China and Cuba." All things considered, Liberia has not been a failure, from the point of view of civilization. The colonists and their descendants have not reverted to savagery and black superstition. As a matter of fact, they are fairly educated, with more than a hundred government schools, a national college, and 87 mission schools maintained by American benevolence. These schools are turning from scholastic teaching to industrial training. Never a Revolution. The people have far outdone Haiti and Santo Domingo, and under worse difficulties. Information about Liberia is not to be trusted, if it comes from European sources. News of rioting which is occasionally cabled to American newspapers has been found without foundation. There is no turbulent element; there never has been a revolution, the British consul general to the contrary. Traders and missionaries go everywhere in safety. Shortly before the opening of this century the republic fell into precarious financial condition. Humbugged by foreign loans and pressed by European powers with colonies adjacent, the only experiment in democracy in Africa was threatened. An attack on a German subject in 1898 brought a gunboat to Monrovia with a demand for $13,000 indemnity. The threat of force was met by the president's statement that the matter was one for the local courts to decide. He showed great ability and courage in resisting the demands of the German consular official, who suggested a protectorate. Reports of rioting sent another German cruiser to "protect German interests," in 1912. But on the whole relations with Germany have been fairly friendly, when the actions of France and England are taken into consideration. France, the neighbor on the north and east, has robbed Liberia of vast territory known as the Ivory Coast, and has lopped off further parts on the north. "A Negro living near Montgomery made five more bales of cotton per horse last year than he did in 1915," said J. P. Forney of Montgomery, in an interview at Washington. "And he did this in the face of the boll weevil. He is an intelligent Negro and had 250 acres in cotton last season. He studied out a simple method and after two years' tryout is convinced it is a winner. His plan is to run the weevils out of the fields, not to kill them. "This Negro, whose name is McDuffie, takes crude oil, tar and camphor gum, puts them all in a pot and boils them. There is sufficient oil in the mixture to make it liquid. He dips a crocus sack in the pot, then squeezes it as dry as he thinks necessary. If too wet the mixture will kill the young cotton plants. "The wet sacks are fastened to the plow beam, and each week the crop is plowed and dragged over with these sacks, both sides of the cotton getting a touch of the fumes of the mixture. This method costs 15 cents an acre. " If it is a success, and it seems it is, this Negro has solved a great problem and deserves national credit." best influences of Southern civilization are endeavoring to solve it in a spirit of justice, religion, true friendship and humanity.—Exchange. The last two years have seen American motion-picture films rise rapidly in popularity and practically supersede all other imported films in Japan. Italian pictures are about the only other foreign products commonly exhibited in Japan, but they are steadily losing ground in competition with the productions of American studios. Small cakes and cookies may easily be decorated by using a specially designed rolling pin. This roller is six-sided, each side containing three dies. Eighteen small, square cakes are rolled and decorated by one revolution of the rolling pin. Within the lid of a new pancake dish are contained a sirup cup and a butter plate. There are 672 volcanoes in the world, of which 270 are described as active. The difference in longitude between Washington, D. C., and Paris, is 5 hours, 17 minutes and 36.653 seconds, according to the United States naval observatory. Of English invention is a trumpet to be attached to a telephone receiver so its sounds can be magnified and heard without holding it to the ear. The Philadelphia Sunday Breakfast association last year gave 52,792 free meals to poor men. PLOTS OF TEUTON SPIES REVEALED MILLIONS REPORTED SPENT IN EFFORTS TO COERCE MEXICO INTO WAR ON U.S. BRITISH NEAR BAGDAD U-BOATS AND MINES GET 23 SHIPS AND 2,528 REACH BRITISH PORTS IN A WEEK. Western Newspaper Union News Service. New York, March 8.—Germany threatened Gen. Carranza with the "most formidable revolution he had ever known," if he refused to make war on the United States in accordance with Foreign Secretary Zimmermann's proposals for a German-Mexican-Japanese alliance. That fact, together with other startling developments, were disclosed by federal authorities in the investigation that followed the arrest of Dr. Ernest Matthis Sckunner, a German, and Dr. Chandra Chabiaberty, a Bengalee, for formulating an "East Indian plot." Information obtained by federal authorities from papers seized in the office of Wolf von Igel at the time of the Welland Canal plot exposures, together with other bits of evidence, enabled federal authorities here, they said, to announce these disclosures: That Robert Fay, lieutenant in the German army, who escaped from the federal prison in Atlanta while serving a term for plotting to destroy allied munition ships, went to Mexico where he is now hiding. That $3,000,000 has been spent by the German government in fomenting spy plots in the United States within the last few months. That "thousands" of German spies are now engaged in different parts of the country in formulating and furthering conspiracies. That the spy system is headed by an agent of the kaiser's government referred to as the "master spy" who still is at large. Berlin, in spite of many arrests and numerous spoiled plots, is apparently satisfied with the results accomplished. London.—Official reports issued in London and Petrograd show that the allies are striking powerful and successful blows at the forces of Turkey in northwestern Asia. The British forces which recaptured the city of Kut-El-Amara are pursuing the defeated enemy and the reports issued show they are less than thirty miles from the "sacred city" of Bagdad. The town of Lajj, which they reached Monday, is twenty-eight miles from Bagdad. Since the capture of Kut on Feb. 26, the British have advanced eighty miles. London.—An official statement of the 7th says that twenty-three merchant vessels were sunk by mine or submarine in the week ended March 4. Of these, fourteen were of 1,600 tons gross or over, and nine were under 1,600 tons. In the same period three British fishing vessels were sunk. Twelve British merchant vessels were unsuccessfully attacked by submarines during the week. The number of merchant vessels of all nationalities of more than 100 tons net arriving at United Kingdom ports during the week was 2,528. The number sailing was 2,477. These figures are exclusive of fishing and local craft. More Troops Start Home March 15. San Antonio, Tex., March 8.—Orders were received by Southern Department headquarters "to speed up" the return movement of state troops from the border so that all organizations will be home for muster out by April 1. State troops on the border approximate 30,000 men. New dates for departure include: First squadron Colorado cavalry at Brownsville, March 15; Colorado field hospital No.1 at Douglas, March 15, and B company, Colorado signal corps, at El Paso March 15. Cuban Regulars Capture Gomez Havana.—Announcement was made at the President's palace that a message had been received there stating that José Miguel Gomez, former President of Cuba, had been captured with his entire staff by Col. Collazo, commander of the government troops. More than 3,000 men took part in the engagement, and, although full details have not yet been received, it is known that the rebels lost, besides 300 prisoners, over 100 killed and a great many wounded. Hog Prices Set New U. S. Record. Pittsburg, Pa., March 8.—Hogs reached the highest price ever recorded in the United States when they were quoted on the live stock market at $15.00@15.10. Live stock men said that unless unexpected shipments arrive within a few days the price will go to $17.00. During the Civil War hogs sold at $14.00. Hogs sold in Chicago for $15.00; the same price was reached in East St. Louis, Kansas City top was $14.75. Omaha and St. Joseph $14.80 APPEALS TO PEOPLE IN CRISIS CAUSED BY FILIBUSTER OF TWELVE IN SENATE. President Declares Situation at Close of Sixty-Fourth Congress to Be Unparalleled In History of Modern Governmént. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington, March 5.—President Wilson Sunday night issued the following statement, addressed "to the Nation": The termination of the last session of the Sixty-fourth Congress by constitutional limitation discloses a situation unparalleled in the history of the country, perhaps unparalleled in the history of any modern government. In the presence of civil brawn with more subtle and far-reaching possibilities of national danger than any other government has known within the whole history of its international relations, the Congress has been unable to act either to safeguard the rights of senators or to elementary rights of its citizens. More than five hundred of the five hundred and thirty-one members of the two houses were ready and anxious to act; the House of Representatives had acted, by an overwhelming majority, but the Senate was unable to act, because a little group of senators had determined that it should not. The Senate has no rules by which debate can be limited or brought to an end; no rules by which dilatory tactics of any kind can be prevented. A single member can stand in the way of action that the executive may be durance. The result, in this case, is a complete paralysis alike of the legislative and of the executive branches of the government. This inability of the Senate to act has rendered some of the most necessary legislation of the session impossible. The most pressing and most evident. The bill which would have permitted such combinations of capital and of organization in the export and import trade of the country, as the circumstances as the circumstances of the organization made imperative—a bill which the business judgment of the whole country approved and demanded—has failed. The opposition of one or two senators has made it impossible to increase the membership of the Interstate Commerce Commission or to give it the all-organization necessary for its efficiency. The conservation bill, which should have released for immediate use the mineral resources which are still locked up in the public lands, now that their release is more imperatively necessary, will have made the unused water power of the country immediately available for industry, have both failed, though they have been under consideration throughout the sessions of two Congresses and have been twice passed by the House of Representation. The appropriations for the army have failed, along with the appropriations for the civil establishment of the government, the appropriations for the military academy at West Point, and the governmental delay in the has proved impossible to extend the powers of the shipping board to meet the special needs of the new situation into which our commerce has been forced or to increase the gold reserve of our national banking system to meet the unusual circumstances of the It would not cure the difficulty to call the Sixty-fifth Congress in extraordinary session. The paralysis of the Senate would remain. The purpose and the spirit of Congress in this session is more definitely defined in thought and purpose at this moment. I venture to say, than it has been within the memory of any man now in its membership. There is not only the most united patriotic purpose, in thought and in view, are perfectly clear and definite. But the Senate cannot act unless its leaders can obtain unanimous consent. Its majority is powerless, helpless. In the midst of a crisis of extraordinary peril when the defense of the nation can make the nation safe or shield it from war itself by the aggression of others, action is impossible. Although as a matter of fact the nation and the representative of the state and the executive with unprecedented unanimity of spirit, the impression made abroad will of course, be that it is not so, and that other governments may act as they please without fear that this government can do anything at all. We cannot explain. The explanation is incred- The Senate of the United States is the only legislative body in the world which cannot act when its majority is ready for action. A little group of wilful men representing no opinion but their own have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. The remedy? There is but one remedy. The remedy is that the rules of the Senate shall be so altered that it can act. The country can be riled over and be punished. Uphold that the Senate can be relied upon to supply the means of action and save the country from disaster. WOODROW WILSON. China Votes to Break With Naziers Peking, March 5.—The cabinet decided that China should join the United States in breaking off relations with Germany. This decision was submitted to the President, who refused to approve the cabinet's action, saying such power rested entirely with him. Premier Tuan Chi Jui immediately resigned and left for Tien Tsin, accompanied by several other members of the cabinet. The resignation of the entire cabinet is expected. Parliament virtually is unanimous in favor of the opinion of the cabinet. The leaders of all the political parties are adversely criticising the President's position. The vice president of the republic supports the action of the cabinet. Wilson Sworn In as President. Washington, March 5.—With preparations complete for the formal inauguration today, Woodrow Wilson was sworn in as twenty-ninth President of the United States at 12:04 p. m. Sunday. He will take the oath again today. Chief Justice White of the United States Supreme Court administered the oath which started the President on his second term of four years. The ceremony took place in the President's room at the capital and was marked by its simplicity. The Curtis Park Floral Company FLORAL DESIGNS PUT UP WHILE YOU WAIT CHOICE PLANTS AND CUT FLOWERS CONSTANTLY ON HAND GREENHOUSES: Thirty-Fourth and Curtis Streets TELEPHONE, MAIN 1511 DENVER, COLO Twentieth and Champa, Is the place to get your DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES WE SERVE DRINKS. Prescriptions Our Specialty. Phone us and we will deliver the goods to all parts of the city. JAMES E. THRALL, PROPR. PHONE MAIN 2425. When You Want The Heads, Feet, Tails, Snouts, Neckbones or Chiterlings, or any other part of the hog except the squeal, go to JOSEPH CARTER Express, Moving, and Storage COAL AND WOOD PROMPT DELIVERY. Phone Main 6544. 2415 WASHINGTON STREET. TELEPHONE YORK 6668. 2300-6 Larimer Street Phone Main 1461 ORIENTAL RESTAURANT Chop Suey, Noodles and Short Orders Phone Main 4896 1848 Arapahoe 乐洋轩 Miss M. Cowden Hair Dressing Parlor Shampoo, cutting and curling. Scalp treatment, hair tonics, hair straightening, manicuring. Stage wigs for rent; theatrical use and masquerades. Goods delivered out of the city. All shades of hair matched by sending sample of hair; also combings made up. Cheapest Switches 50 Cents 1219 21st St. Denver, Colo. DO IT NOW Subscribe for THIS PAPER THE COLORADO STATESMAN Mrs. Virgil Graves of Boulder was in the city this week on a business trip. Lincoln Cook, Burlington, Iowa, spent two days in the city this week with Burlington railway officials. Keep off the date of EASTER Monday, April 9th. Masonic entertainment at East Turner Hall. DEATHS. INGRAM—Baby Ingram, age 3 day infant daughter of L. C. & Mrs. gram, died at a local hospital, February 24, 1917. Interment., Riverside February 27, 1917. In charge of Camel & Co. The funeral services held over the remains of Mrs. Sarah Carrie at Zion All-Star Negro recital; People's Presbyterian; Thursday night, March 22. Admission 25 cents. George Gross received a message this week of the death of his cousin, Dr. Arthur Gray of Washington, D. C. Miss Minnie Sanderline was operated on for appendicitis at the County hospital last Saturday, from which she is improving slowly. Presiding Elder R. L. Pope left the city Wednesday for Casper and other points in Wyoming on his monthly itinerary. Frank Moss had a check of $28.00 forged on him last Saturday by a white man. Knowing the party who forged the check he received the money back. W. H. Triplett, with Supt. A. F. Vickroy, of the U. P. railroad, left Wednesday night for El Paso, New Orleans, Memphis, Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City. He will return about April 1st. Twenty-five cents admits you to the program of all Negro compositions at People's Presbyterian church Thursday night, March 22. FORMER DENVERITES DOING GOOD BUSINESS IN LOS ANGELES, CAL. News has just been received by us that Messrs. John R. Jackson and Charles F. West, former Denver residents who left for the Pacific Coast some years ago, are doing quite a business in the SHOE AND GENTS' FURNISHING line. Mr. West was a chauffeur for some years for the leading business men of Denver. The Colorado Statesman congratulates these men on their success and wish them improved business for this and succeeding years. Oxdansen and Folk Dance given by Pride of Denver Tabernacle 521 at Old Colony Hall, Thursday, March 29. Willie Knight, manager. Morrison's orchestra. Admission, 25 cents. OUR WOMEN AND THEIR PERSEVERANCE. Not content with the preliminary results from their efforts in founding the NEGRO GIRLS' FRIENDLY CLUB HOME and a DAY NURSERY for our children, the Woman's Club Association has succeeded in their application for admission to the Denver Federated Charities, which was announced last Wednesday. This recognition by this public institution ought to give the men and women of our race a strong impetus to assist these women who through their association have resolved to pay off the balance of $1,500 on the home, 2357 Clarkson street, recently purchased, which will establish the proof of our ability to support worthy causes as well as demonstrate to our friends and well-wishers on the other side, our motto of SELF-HELP. A special offering in our churches even once every three months, and a generous donation from our professional and business men, besides others, would help immensely not only to pay off the debt on the home, but aid materially in its upkeep. Let us give proper and immediate aid to our women who in their perseverance are only paving the way for the intellectual, moral, religious and social uplift of a race that needs and merits "a look in at the open door." A community choir, under auspices of People's Presbyterian church choir, renders the last of winter musicales of distinctively Negro compositions Thursday night, March 22, at People's church. Twenty-five cents. We are compelled to notify subscribers who are in arrears for a year and more, that unless some payment of their indebtedness is made be tween now and March 1, 1917, they will be struck off our mailing list after this issue. You need the news. We need the money to give you the news. Let the action be mutual by your paying up. Fern Hall, 2711 Welton, R. L. Phynix. Manager. Phone Main 2860. DENVER POLICE HEADS DETERMINED ON MODEL FORCE. N our issue of the 24th ult, we published an article referring to the police authorities of the city and the closing of the colored clubs for alleged authorities of the city and the closing of the colored clubs for alleged breach of the municipal law and, as we stated, the police, having satisfied themselves that our club managers were going beyond the boundaries of the law, we could only impress them with the necessity and the wisdom of obeying the law. This time the public has to receive the announcement of the determination of the heads of the police department to keep up the integrity and efficiency of the force by dismissing a number of officers for conduct unbecoming them in their position of responsibility whereby they are empowered to bring law-breakers to justice as well as protect the lives and property of citizens. Men who have seen service for several years and were always credited as doing honor to the department and themselves by their vigilant and vigorous actions to suppress crime; men who in the trying position of traffic officers, keeping a level head, presence of mind and other attributes which have materially benefited the thousands of pedestrians that daily depend on them for safety, have fallen victims to the judgment of their superiors as the cases against them were proven, and being dishonorably discharged, have blotted from the records the years of faithful service to the city and people. Who can then be so ioolhardy to talk about compromising the heads of our police force, or, as some do, charge them with prejudice, when the long broom has entered their ranks and is sweeping their rooms with a cleanliness resulting in attraction and commendation from the new reformed institutions as well as the long established organizations that are increasing in championing the cause of right and breaking down the barriers of might? It must not be taken that the city of Denver is pioneer in this movement (as some citizens are taking this opportunity to heap the most vituperative sentiments on the whole force), for there are cities with records where officials as well as ordinary officers were not only dismissed, but were disgraced, by paying penalties given them at the instance of the regular courts for participating in crime. The whole incident, though very regrettable, proves that Manager of Safety Dewey C. Bailey and his chief of police, Hamilton Armstrong, are determined to have a body of men who can and will command respect as officers of the law, and whom they are willing to place confidence in for assisting to make the DENVER POLICE FORCE a model that will receive the indorsement of our own citizens and then the people of other cities. We are really "taking the beam out of our eye first." ORIGINAL IN POOR CONDITION DEATHS. INGRAM—Baby Ingram, age 3 days, infant daughter of L. C. & Mrs. Ingram, died at a local hospital, February 24, 1917. Interment, Riverside, February 27, 1917. In charge of Cammel & Co. The funeral services held over the remains of Mrs. Sarah Carrie at Zion Baptist church, Wednesday afternoon, were largely attended and admirably attested the high esteem in which the deceased was held in Denver. Mrs. Carrie's friends were legions and the beautiful bank of floral offerings were a rare tribute to her worth. Practically every club in the city was represented, and many lovely individual offerings. Mrs. Carrie is survived by a sorrowing husband, three sons and six grandchildren, all of whom were present at the funeral save two. Cammel Undertaking Company in charge. DEATH OF LOUIS MORGAN Word was received in the city this week of the death of Louis Morgan at St. Paul, Minn., where he has been residing for several years. Mr. Morgan was well known and highly respected here, where he was a resident for many years. He is survived by a mother, Mrs. Mary Morgan, No. 127 Columbine street; a sister, Lucy, and two brothers, Eli and George, the former for thirty years has been head porter at the Daniels & Fisher Stores Company, and a sister, Mrs. Holt, Topeka, Kan.; a son, Leonard Morgan, of Chicago, and several nieces and nephews. He has hosts of friends to mourn his death. The Statesman extends its deepest sympathy to the bereaved ones. Oxdansen and Folk Dance given by Pride of Denver Tabernacle 521 at Old Colony Hall, Thursday, March 29. Willie Knight, manager. Morrison's orchestra. Admission, 25 cents. IN MEMORIAM. In tenderest loving memory of Lawrence D. George, who departed this life March 10, 1916. We miss you from our home. We miss you from our place. A shadow o'er our life is cast. We miss the sunshine of your face. We miss your kind and willing hands; your fond and earnest care. Our home is dark without you for we miss you everywhere. MRS. LAWRENCE GEORGE. L. EARL GEORGE. MR. AND MRS. L. A. HARRIS. IN MEMORIAM. In loving remembrance of our dear husband and father, who departed this life three years ago, March 9, 1914. Sleep on, dear father, blessed is thy sleep. Under the cold, cold sod so deep; Long may thy soul rest in peace, Tho' thy smiling face no more we see, But we shall see you in the great beyond Where we shall part no more. MRS. A. J. REASE AND CHILDREN. People's Presbyterian, East Twenty-third avenue and Washington street; pastor, J. A. Thos-Hazell, S.T.B.; sermon topics: Sunday, March 11th, 11 a. m. "The Forgiveness of Sin;" 5 p. m. "Judas and the Others." The class of candidates for membership continues to grow. Last Sabbath there were two applicants. Tuesday night week the session passed on three others. The opportunity is still open for others. Remember the confirmation services will take place Sunday week at 5 p. m. The ordinance of baptism will be administered in connection with the morning services tomorrow. We desire to remind the members and friends of the special pulpit deliverances every Wednesday night and Sabbath. The Presbyterial year 1916-17 ends March 31st. Remittances to the various agencies of the church for benevolence will take place Monday, the 26th inst. The members are kindly urged to wind up all contributions to the church not later than Sunday, the 25th inst. On that Sabbath the communion of the Lord's Supper will be celebrated. Special services will be observed Palm Sunday at 5 p. m. The music will be appropriate, the sermon fitting, the church tastily decorated. Everybody is invited to worship with us at the 5 o'clock service on that occasion. The Moderator of the Presbyterian church, U. S. A., Dr. Jno Marquis, L.L.D., in connection with the banquet at the Auditorium Hotel last Monday night, delivered one of the most heart searching messages on the Future of the American Church that has been our privilege to hear. Elders Lou Hughes and W. S. Evans, with the pastor, represented the People's church. Rev. A. C. Jackson, pastor of the Second Baptist church, Boulder, was the guest of Rev. J. A. Thos-Hazell. Coal in the Arctic. A very promising source of coal is Bear island, in the Arctic ocean, a few hundred miles from Spitzbergen, but which has a great advantage of the latter place, also a source of coal, inasmuch as shipments may be made at any time of the year. This is owing to its location on the edge of the Gulf stream drift, but as the current meets a cold one from the polar regions, the island is under a fog almost constantly. The Norwegian government intends establishing a wireless service and a meteorological station on this island. Its rock shores are inhabited by a great variety of seafowl. The Average Way. One trouble with the country is the way so many of our young men feel that there's no chance to get to the top in this era of combination, consolation and big business, and so contentedly settle down to do as little work as possible.—Ohio State Journal. DIRECTORY Pride of Denver Tabernacle 521—Meets 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month at 2540 Washington St. Oliver Royal House of S. M. T.—Meets 2nd Monday of each month at 2540 Washington St. FOR RENT. FOR RENT—A 5-room frame house, 320 24th St. Apply at 1824 Curtis St. Room 25. FOR RENT—5-room modern brick, close in; also 3 partly furnished front rooms. Apply at this office, 1824 Curtis St. Room 25. Key 1837 Ogden St. Anderson, Agent. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms, strictly modern; prices reasonable. Room for light housekeeping for man and wife. 2443 Tremont Place, Denver. Cor. 17th and Curtis, Tel. Main 7416, Up Stairs Suite 3, 4 and 5. Res. 822 32d St., Tel. Main 8397. Dr. Thomas E. McClain, Dentist PYORRHEA SPECIALIST. Sundays and Nights by Appointment. Office Hrs. 9 a.m. to 12 m. 2 to 6 p.m. DENVER, COLO. Saturday Is the Last Day of Clearance Sale © WC19 New $15 to $18 Spring Suits at $11 $15 to $22 Fancy Winter Suits and Overcoats Blue Serges Included Electric Fans For Winter. Electric Fans For Winter. Why is it that the first sign of cool weather the electric fan is relegated to the cellar, the attic, or the storeroom, as the case may be? Simply because the mission of the electric fan is misunderstood, observes the Scientific American. It is looked upon as a device for cooling the air during warm weather, when as a matter of fact it merely stirs the air. If ever there was an efficient way of warming a room during the coldest winter's day it is to place an electric fan near a radiator so that its breeze passes through the heating colls. This results in creating a current of warm air throughout the room; and instead of the heat of the room being confined to the immediate neighborhood of the radiator, it is distributed to the furthest corners of the room. Why not try it? Where It Started. Shortly after the coroner's jury brought in its verdict, one of Adam's neighbors slipped into the office of the Eden Daily News and cornered the editor. "Now for goodness' sake don't put anything about this little affair in the paper," he said. "Cain always has been a good boy, and this little occurrence will not amount to much. Anyway he's had his lesson. The family will patch it up, if you give it a chance. Adam has been a pretty respectable person most of his life, and my wife says that Eve is sick over it. Now, for the sake of the family, please keep it out, of the paper."—Emporia Gazette Reparation. We should make more Haste to Right our Neighbor than we do to wrong him, and instead of being Vindictive we should leave him to be judge of his own satisfaction. True Honor will pay treble damages rather than justice one wrong by another. In such controversies, it is but too common to say. Both are to blame, to excuse their own Unconcernedness, which is a base Neutrality. Others will cry. They are both alike; thereby involving the Injured with the Guilty, to mince the Matter for the Faulty, or cover their own Injustice to the wronged Party. Fear and gain are great Perverters of Mankind, and where either prevail, the judgment is violated.—William Penn. Easily Off. Customer—"Gee, this is a rotten or gar!" "Well, don't complain. You've only got one of them—I've got ten thousand of the darn things." "Lil- Remember This To remove rings from the finger swollen by their tightness. Dip the finger in ice cold soapsuds New Use for Seaweed. Seaweed is made into a composition to take the place of bone for handler of cutlery. Daily Thought. Thought once awakened does not again slumber.—Carlyle. THE KITCHEN CABINET To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.—Thomas Carlyle. CAKE FILLINGS. There are so many hundreds of cake fillings that it seems strange that the average cook will use a few so frequently to the exclusion of the other nine hundred and ninety-nine. Muffin Tin Whipped cream for a filling is a general favorite, and may be varied by adding fresh chopped fruit like pineapple, bananas or strawberries, or any well-drained canned fruit, not too juicy to spoil the consistency of the cream. A boiled frosting with nuts and raisins or figs and dates or shredded pineapple; in fact almost any fruit or nuts may be added to boiled frosting, giving a variety. Prune Filling.—Boll together a cupful of sugar and a quarter of a cupful of the juice from stewed prunes, pour this sirup boiling hot at the soft ball stage over a white of an egg that has been beaten stiff, when it begins to stiffen and a half cupful of stewed prunes, drained and pitted, then cut in small bits. Beat until cold, add a few pecans and when thick spread over the cake. A chocolate cake with an orange filling is a combination well enjoyed. The filling may be made in the form of a cream with the rind and juice for flavor or it may be made as follows: Rub two cubes of loaf sugar over an orange to extract all the oil, then dissolve the sugar in the juice of a lemon. Add enough confectioner's sugar to make a thick iceing, cover the cake with thin slices of orange and put on the filling. The cake may be garnished with slices of glaced orange or candy orange slices. Delicious Pineapple Filling.—Take four tablespoonfuls of pineapple juice, a cupful of sugar, boll until it hairs and then pour boiling hot over the well beaten white of an egg. Drain the pineapple until all the juice is removed and stir this into the boiled frosting, beating all the while. Sour Cream Filling.—Cook together a cupful each of brown sugar and sour cream, when thick stir in a cupful of hickorynuts and spread on a sheet of cake or use as filling for a layer cake. This is especially delicious. Mayonnaise.—Beat the yolk of one egg with a teaspoonful of cold water, add one-half teaspoonful of salt, paprika and mustard to taste, add a cupful of olive oil, a little at a time, beating well, add two tablespoonfuls each of lemon juice and vinegar, alternating with the oil. Mayonnaise is flat and insipid unless properly seasoned. All sorts of seasonings used in French dressing may be added to it. If there is one thing in existence more miserable than another, it most unquestionably is the being compelled to rise by candle light.-Dickens. SOME FAVORITE RECIPES We do not all enjoy the same dishes, but perhaps there will be a few in this all enjoy the same dishes, there will be a few in this column which you will find new and like to try. ```markdown ``` Carrot Pudding. Take a cupful each of grated carrots, potatoes, brown sugar, chopped suet, stoned raisins and currants, two cupfuls of flour, a teaspoonful of mixed spices, half a teaspoonful each of nutmeg and salt, a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in two tablespoonfuls of boiling water; nix well and add a cupful of cherries, pineapple or peaches and steam three hours. Serve with any desired sauce. Khaki Pudding—Peel, core and slice six apples; put them into a saucepan with four tablespoonfuls of sugar, two of butter and two of candied lemon peel, or the grated rind; add a quarter of a cupful of water and cook until smooth; put through a sieve and add three egg yolks. Line a deep pudding dish with pastry, put in the apples and bake until the eggs are set. Beat the whites of the eggs until stiff, then add three tablespoonfuls of sugar, place on top of the pudding, decorate with candied peel and brown in the oven until a pale yellow. Date Pudding.—Take a cupful of sour milk, two-thirds of a cupful of sugar and molasses, mixed together, a tablespoonful of felted butter, a pinch of salt and a teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in a little warm water; then add a pound of stoned and chopped dates, and two cupfuls of graham flour. Steam for two hours, then dry off in the oven for a few minutes. This may be resteamed several times. Serve with a hard sauce. Yankee Float—Scald a quart of milk. Mix together three egg yolks, a cupful of sugar, and vanilla and nutmeg to flavor. Cook a tablespoonful of cornstarch, mixed with two tablespoonfuls of cold milk; cook in the hot milk until well cooked, then mix all together and pour into a serving dish. Beat the whites of the eggs very stiff, drop by spoonfuls on top of boiling water to cook; then lift carefully and place on top of the pudding. Serve very cold. Cold boiled fish mixed with salad dressing and served on lettuce makes a fine salad. PRESIDENT AGAIN IS INAUGURATED Woodrow Wilson Inducted Into Office of Chief Executive for Second Time. CEREMONY AT THE CAPITOL Proceedings Marked by Unuaual Solemity and Show of Patriotism—Marshall Takes Oath as Vice President—Parade Is Imposing. By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington, March 5.—Today, with all due ceremony and solemnity, Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall were inaugurated president and vice president of the United States respectively, for the second time. For several nights prior to the inauguration, Washington was a flood of light. Thousands of American citizens came to the capital of their nation from all over the United States to witness the ceremonies attending the inauguration. The situation of the country in reference to its foreign relations added more than a touch of seriousness and a distinct flavor of patriotism to the entire proceedings. Washington is a city of flags at all times, but it became ten times a city of large one lay before the ceremonies of inauguration. President Wilson drove from the White House to the capitol with his wife at his side. In the carriage with him were two members of the congressional committee which had general charge of the ceremonies, and of which Senator Overman of North Carolina is chairman. Vice President Marshall, with Mrs Marshall in the carriage with him, was escorted in like manner to the capitol. Big Crowds, Many Flags. Big Crowds, Many Places. From an early hour the sidewalks were crowded with persons waiting to see the president and "the first lady of the land" pass along the avenue to the place of the oath-taking. All the windows commanding a view of Pennsylvania avenue also were crowded Woodrow Wilson with onlookers. The red, white and blue was everywhere in evidence. The only foreign flags to be seen in Washington were those flying from the flagpoles of the foreign embassies and legations which, even though they are located in the city of Washington, are recognized as being foreign territory. Vice President Marshall was resworn into office before the inauguration of the president. The exercises took place in the senate chamber. The legislative day of March 3, so far as the senate was concerned, had been continued by recesses until the hour of 12 noon of the calendar day March 5. The president pro tempore of the senate presided at the ceremonies preceding the administering of the oath to the vice president-elect. The president of the United States, the members of the cabinet, the foreign ambassadors and other notable guests occupied seats in the senate chamber. At twelve o'clock the president pro tempore administered the oath of office prescribed by law to the vice president-elect. Immediately following the taking of the oath of office by Mr. Marshall, the newly elected senators of the United States were sworn into office. Then the vice president made this announcement: "The sergeant-at-arms of the senate will carry out the order of the senate for the inauguration of the president of the United States." The president-elect, accompanied by the chief justice of the United States, the joint committee on arrangements, the associate justices of the Supreme Court, the foreign ambassadors and ministers plenipotentiary, the members of the senate, preceded by the vice president and secretary of the senate, INTERESTING FACTS Gold has been discovered at Specimen Reef, Long Plains, Tasmania. A company will be formed to exploit the new fields. Construction has been started in China on a light railway to connect Swatow and Changlin, by way of Chenghai. The cars will be small, as they will be pushed by men. In the front of a large London building there was recently found a pigeon's best made of helpline the holdover memoirs of the house of representatives, preceded by the officers of the house who have just relinquished office by virtue of the expiration of their terms, and other distinguished guests made their way to the inaugural stand. Inauguration of the President. The procession, hended by the president-elect, wound through the east senate door, the main corridors of the senate and through the rotunda of the capitol to the place set for the oath-taking. On reaching the inaugural stand, Woodrow Wilson took a place directly in front of Edward D. White, the chief justice of the United States, and the chief clerk of the Supreme court, James D. Maher. The sergeant-at-arms of the senate and the congressional committee on arrangements were immediately on the left of the president. The vice president, the associate justices of the Supreme Court and the members of the senate sat upon his right. When all were assembled Chief Justice White, having in his right hand the open Bible upon which the hands of many former presidents have rested, advanced to Woodrow Wilson and administered to him this oath, which is imposed by the Constitution of the United States: "You do solemnly swear that you will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States and will to the best of your ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Woodrow Wilson said in a firm voice, "I do." and he became for the second time president of the United States of America. Then the president delivered his inaugural address and on its conclusion he made his way with Mrs. Wilson to his carriage and was driven slowly to the White House at the head of the procession formed in honor of the inaugural ceremonies. Luncheon Deferred for Parade. In years past the presidential party always has entered the White House for luncheon prior to the review of the parade from the stand in front of the executive mansion. This invariably in the past caused such a delay that it was decided this year to do away with the luncheon feature. President Wilson with Mrs. Wilson, the Vice President and Mrs. Marshall, and two members of his cabinet went immediately to the little inclosed structure, much like a sentry box, which had been built in the middle of the great grandstand in front of the White House and from which the chief executive viewed the paraders. It was the gravity of the situation in connection with our foreign affairs which gave to the inaugural ceremonies their serious tone and patriotic features. The parade of the day was largely military in its nature, although there were in the procession many bodies which' in a sense might be said to represent the spirit of industrial preparedness of the United States for any eventuality which might come. Make-up of the Procession. At the forefront of the parade as it left the capitol were, of course, the president and the vice president of the United States with their guards of honor. Major General Hugh L. Scott, U. S. army, was the grand marshal of the occasion. George R. Linkins was the marshal of the civic organizations which took part in the marching ceremonies. Immediately preceding the carriages of the presidential and vice presidential parties and of Col. Robert N. Harper, inaugural chairman, was the famous United States Marine band. The president had as his guard of honor the squadron of the Second United States cavalry. The Vice President and Mrs. Marshall were escorted by the Black Horse troop of the Culver Military academy, Indiana, the state of which the vice president and his wife are natives The West Point cadets and the Annapolis cadets took part in the procession. In addition to these young soldier and sailor organizations there was as large a representation of the forces of the United States as properly could be spared from post and garrison duty. In addition there were troops from Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, and some other states of the Union representing the National Guard. A patriotic and picturesque feature of the ceremonies attending the inauguration was supplied by the rapidly thinning ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic. In years past the soldiers of the war between the states have made the entire length of the line of march, but this year the distance which they tramped was shortened. They added to the picture of the parade as they moved by the presidential reviewing stand with their old flags above them. At night Washington was aglow with fireworks and with the combined effects of gas and electric light illuminations. In addition searchlights showed the heavens here and there, and one great shaft of light illuminated the apex of the Washington monument while another lighted up and brought into bold relief the dome of the capitol. American chair cane is in demand in Panama. American magnetos shou'd make large sales in Brazil, as shipments of these supplies from Europe have ceased. Merchants in Cochin China are in the market for American shoes. Oxford styles and high shoes' retail at $ upward. Citric, tartaric and sulphuric acids are to be manufactured at Messina Sicily. Sicilian fruit growers are financing the venture. NATIONAL EQUALITY CREED OF AMERICA PRESIDENT CALLS FOR A UNITED NATION TO UPHOLD JUSTICE IN WAR-MAD WORLD. U. S. Must Stand for Peace With Honor and Free of Greed or Intrigue, Declares Wilson in Inaugural Address. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington, March 6.—Facing, to use his own words, not retrospect, but the thought and purpose of the present and immediate future, Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, Monday subscribed in public to the oath as his own successor. With a new consecration to the nation's service the President, touching on the international crisis, declared there could now be no turning back from the tragical events of the last thirty months which have brought upon Americans a new responsibility as citizens of the world. The President declared anew that America must stand for peace, stability of free peoples, national equality in matters of right, that the seas must be free to all and that the family of nations shall not support any governments not derived from the consent of the governed. Sounding a solemn warning against any faction or intrigue to break the harmony or embarrass the spirit of the American people, the President called for an America "united in feeling, in purpose and in its vision of duty, of opportunity and of service." The inaugural address was as follows: My Fellow Citizens:—The four years which have elapsed since last I stood in the office of the crown with counsel and action of the most vital interest and consequences. Perhaps no equal period in our history has been so fruitful of important reform in our economic and industrial life or so full and purpose of our political action. We have sought very thoughtfully to set our house in order, correct the grosser errors and abuses of our industrial life, liberate and quicken the energy and lift our politics to a broader view of the people's essential interests. It is a record of singular variety and singular distinction. But I shall not attempt to review it. It speaks for us and bears us lessening influence as the years go by. This is not the time for retrospect. It is time, rather, to speak of our thoughts and purposes concerning the present and the immediate future. We must address our unconscious and action with such unusual concentration and success upon the great problems of domestic legislation to which we addressed ourselves four years ago, other matters have more and more forced themselves on us, and we are living outside our own life as a nation and over which we had no control, but which, despite our wish to keep free of them, have drawn us more and more irresistibly into their own current and influence. We have affected the life of the whole world. They have shaken men everywhere with a passion and an apprehension they never knew before. It has been hard to preserve calm counsel, and the thought of our own people swayed this way and that under their influence. Deeply Wronged Upon Seas. It is in this spirit and with this thought that we have grown more and more aware, more more, more certain the part of those who wish to wield the part of those who mean to vindicate and fortify peace. We have been armed and committed to our good claim to a certain minimum of right and of freedom of action. We stand firm in armed neutrality since we have been able to can demonstrate what it is we insist upon and cannot forego. We may even WILSON AND MARSHALL. Washington.—Woodrow Wilson is the tenth President to be elected for a second term. The other nine were: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant, Cleveland and McKinley. Thomas Riley Marshall is the first Vice President to be inaugurated a second time since the present system of party conventions came into use. Actually he is the fourth man to hold the office a second time. John Adams was twice elected Vice President to serve with George Washington; Daniel D. Tompkins served through two terms with President Monroe; John C. Calhoun was twice elected Vice President on a ticket with John Quincy Adams and served until his resignation near the end of his second term in 1832. March 4 has fallen on Sunday three times in an inauguration year. Presi RETAINS ALL CABINET MEMBERS. Washington.—President Wilson renamed his present Cabinet, as follows: Secretary of State—Robert Lansing of New York. Secretary of the Treasury—William Gibbs McAdoof of New York. Secretary of War—Newton D. Baker of Ohio. be drawn on, by circumstances, not by our own purpose or desire, to a more active assertion of our rights as we see them and a more immediate association with the great struggle itself, and to our own purpose. They are too clear to be obscured. They are too deeply rooted in the principles of our national life to be altered. We desire neither conquest nor advantage. We wish nothing that can be had only at the cost of another people. Now Citizens of the World. We have always professed unselfish purpose and we covet the opportunity to prove that our professions are sinful and that we are at home to clarify our own politics and give new vitality to the industrial processes of our own life, and we shall do them as time and opportunity serve; but we realize that the great things that we do with the whole world for a stage and in cooperation with the wide and universal forces of mankind and we are making our spirits ready for those things. They are now in the immediate wake of the way itself and will set civilization up again. We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the thirty months of vital turmoil through which we have faced have been the result of the world. There can be no turning back. Our own fortunes as a nation are involved, whether we would have it so or not. Our own we are not the less Americans on that account. We shall be the more American if we but remain true to the principles in which we have been bred. They are not the principles or a province or of a single continent. We have been and boasted all along that they were the principles of a liberated mankind. America's National Creed. These, therefore, are the things we shall stand for, whether in war or in peace. That all nations are equally interested in the peace of the world and in the political stability of free peoples and equally responsible for their maintenance. That the essential principle of peace is the mutual equality of nations in all matters of right or privilege; That peace cannot securely or justly be maintained by any power; That governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed and that no other powers should be supported by the common thought, purpose or power of the family; That the seas should be equally free and safe for the use of all peoples, under rules set up by common agreement and consent and that, so far as practicable, they should be accessible for international use; That national armaments should be limited to the necessities of national order and domestic safety; That the community of interest and power of the world peace must henceforth depend imposes upon each nation the duty of seeing to it that all influences proceeding from its own citizens meant to encourage or assist revolution in other states should be maintained and effectually suppressed and prevented. I need not argue these principles to you, my fellow countrymen; they are your own, part and parcel of your own life, and you are not afraid of fairs. They spring up native amongst us. Upon this platform of purpose and of action we can stand together. **Nation Must Stand a Unit.** And we should stand together. We are being forged into a new unity amidst the fires now ablaze through the world. In their ardent heat we shall, in God's providence, division, purified of the errant humors of party and of private interest and shall stand forth in the days to come with a new dignity of national pride that the dedication is in his own heart, the high purpose of the nation in his own mind, ruler of his own will and desire. And here and have taken the high and solemn oath to which you have been audience because the people of the United States have chosen me for this august delegation of power and has solemnly vowed that our judgment named me their leaders in affairs. I know now what the task means. I realize to the full the responsibility which it involves. I pray God I may be given the wisdom and the prudence to do my duty in the true spirit. I am not an ant and can succeed only as they sustain and guide me by their confidence and their counsel. The thing I shall count upon, the thing without which neither counsel on action will be held in the feeling of America, an American utility in the purpose and in vision of duty, of opportunity and of service. We are to beware of all men who would turn the tasks and necessities of the nation to the building up of private power; beware that no faction or disloyal intrigue break the harmony or embarrass the spirit of our people by the curse of government we keep pure and incorrupt in all its parts. United alike in the conception of our duty, and in the high resolve to persevere, we must dedicate ourselves to the great task to which we must set our hand. For myself I beg your tolerance, your countenance and your united aid. The shadow that now lie dark upon our path will be the light all about us; we walk with the light all about us if we are but true to ourselves—to ourselves as we have wished to be known in the thought of all those who love liberty and justice and the right exalted. dent Monroe, acting on the advice of Chief Justice Marshall, set a precedent and took the oath Monday, March 5. Gen. Zachary Taylor followed this precedent when he was inaugurated in 1849. March 4 again fell on a Sunday and he postponed taking the oath until the following Monday. President Hayes, however, took precautions against any opportunity for charge of irregularity. The final vote of the tribunal which gave to him the high office and thus ended the Tilden-Hayes controversy was announced Saturday, March 3, 1877. Mr. Hayes at once took the oath in the red room of the White House. Gen. Grant and other notables were present. The oath was administered by Chief Justice Waite. Berlin Press Denounces Zimmermann. Berlin.—While some of the German papers have received the news of the German-American intrigue with comparative indifference, others have vigorously denounced the policy of Foreign Secretary Zimmermann, and among the latter is the Tages Zeitung. Attorney General—Thomas W. Gregory of Texas. Postmaster General—Albert Sidney Burleson of Texas. Secretary of Labor—William Beauchamp Wilson of Pennsylvania. LATE CONGRESS NOTABLE FOR ITS ACTS FOR NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS Provided for Great Increases in Navy and for Enlargement and Reorganization of Army—Ship Purchase, Child Labor and Other Momentous Laws Also Passed. Washington, March 5.—Although the sixty-fourth congress, now expired, enacted a number of very important economic laws, it was notable chiefly for its response to the popular demand for national preparedness, inspired by the European war and the danger of conflict with Germany. The ship purchase bill established a government shipping board to supervise shipping matters generally. I appropriated $50,000,000 to be obtained from the sale of Panama cana bonds for the purchase or construction of ships to be leased to private individuals in an effort to restore the Although ample provision has been made for fortifications, and authority has been granted by congress to more than double the standing army of the country, the metamorphosis of the United States from a commercial to a fighting nation has been wrought by the naval increases authorized. The congress now expired has authorized naval armaments destined to make Uncle Sam eventually the peer of any nation on earth in sea power, excepting, perhaps, Great Britain. In the two sessions comprising the Sixty-fourth congress there have been authorized and appropriated for no less than 118 war craft. Nor is this all. The first session adopted a three-year-building program, the construction of which should be undertaken prior to July 1, 1918. This program included this allotment of fighting ships: Ten battleships, six battle cruisers, ten scout cruisers, 50 torpedo boat destroyers, nine fleet submarines, 58 coast submarines, one experimental submarine (Neff system), three fuel ships, one repair ship, one transport, one hospital ship, two destroyer tenders, one fleet submarine tender, two ammunition ships, two gunboats. Naval Vessels Appropriated For. By the act which adopted this building program congress appropriated for four battleships, four battle cruisers, four scout cruisers, 20 destroyers, 30 submarines, and one each of these craft: Experimental submarine, fuel ship, hospital ship, ammunition ship and gunboat. During the second session provision was made for three battleships, one battle cruiser, three scout cruisers, 15 destroyers, one destroyer tender, one submarine tender and 18 submarines. If the Sixty-fifth congress adopts the three-year program the remainder of the units for the reorganized battle fleet will be appropriated for next year. Staggering sums have been required to meet these demands, the naval appropriation for the second session of the expired congress alone amounting to almost a round half-billion dollars. So great have been these expenditures that the ordinary sources of revenue are not sufficient and a special revenue measure had to be passed. Representative Kitchin, majority leader and chairman of the house ways and means committee, a small-navy man, in drafting the revenue measure and pressing it to passage through the house charged full responsibility for the measure to the advocates of preparedness. Increase of the Army. Increases of the regular army and its reorganizations under the national defense act were less striking than the naval increases. But the regular army was increased from an authorized peace strength of 100,000 to an authorized peace strength of 216,000, capable of expansion in war time to 256,000. After prolonged agitation for preparedness both on land and sea, the consensus of the military experts was that the United States with its enormous length of coast line must rely on its fleet to defend its shores. In the discussions that preparedness agitation in congress provoked it was again and again demonstrated that the temper of the American people is absolutely against a big standing army. Former Secretary Garrison formulated and laid before congress with President Wilson's approval a scheme for a Continental army to be recruited and trained under the universal military training principle. Representative Hay of Virginia, then chairman of the powerful house military committee, opposed the Continental army idea and substituted for it in the national defense act, the federalization of the National Guard. Mr. Hay won President Wilson over to his way of thinking—the Federalized National Guard became the second line of the land defenses and Secretary Garrison resigned from the cabinet. Other Notable Acts. Although preparedness was the keynote of legislation, the Sixty-fourth congress found time also to enact a ship purchase bill, the Adamson eight-hour railroad law, a child labor law, a measure to forbid the immigration of illiterate aliens, a rural credits bill, a vocational educational bill and an act reorganizing the government of Porto Rico and extending citizenship to the islanders. CONDENSATIONS Wong Chee, Chinese highbinder, was wearing a heavy shirt of mail when arrested. The shirt welghed 25 pounds and was made of closely woven steel links, double-meshed. Guatemala's annual corn production amounts to 6,000,000 quintals of 104.4 pounds each. This suffices for domestic consumption only, as corn is the most important food in that country. Beans rank next in importance as a national food. The ship purchase bill established a government shipping board to supervise shipping matters generally. It appropriated $50,000,000 to be obtained from the sale of Panama canal bonds for the purchase or construction of ships to be leased to private individuals in an effort to restore the American merchant marine. The Adamson eight-hour railroad law was enacted on the eve of adjournment of the first session of the last congress. The enactment of the measure prevented a nationwide railroad strike. It, however, has never become effective. Between the time of its enactment and the time for the commencement of its operation, January 1 last, the constitutionality of the measure was challenged by the railroads, and the whole matter is now pending in the Supreme court. Supplemental railroad legislation proposed by President Wilson in his annual message last December, failed of enactment. This legislation would have provided for the prevention of strikes by compulsory legislation. It was heartily opposed by all of the bodies of organized labor which had previously sought the eight-hour railroad law. Child Labor and Immigration. The child labor law barred from interstate commerce all products of children under sixteen years of age in mines or of children under fourteen in factories. The passage of the immigration bill with its literacy test was accomplished over President Wilson's second veto. The literacy feature had been a subject of controversy between the executive and legislative branches of the government for the past twenty years. Presidents Taft and Cleveland both veered immigration measures because they carried the literacy feature, which all three presidents thought was not a proper measure of the fitness of aliens for admission to the United States. The federal farm-loan act, commonly called the rural-credits bill, created 12 federal land banks with $750,000 capital each. The bill provides a system whereby loans may be made to farmers for productive purposes through national farm-loan associations. It will meet more particularly the needs of agriculturists in the West and South. Under the vocational educational act the federal government on a gradually increasing scale covers every stale ap propriation dollar for dollar for secondary school instruction in agriculture and the mechanical and industrial arts. on the eve of adjournment congress passed the post-office appropriation bill, with an amendment making "bone dry" all states having prohibitory laws. This measure was introduced in the senate by Senator Reed of Misspurl. Its unexpected enactment had the effect of absolutely prohibiting the shipment in interstate commerce of intoxicants into states or territories which forbid the manufacture or sale of liquor. It also closes the malls to all liquor advertising, including newspaper advertising. Neither can letters soliciting liquor orders be carried in the malls. Sixteen Senators Retire. Sixteen senators have now discarded their togas and prefixed their titles with "ex." This disturbance of personnel reduces but does not upset the Democratic control of the upper house. The Democratic majority of 16 is cut to 12, leaving out of consideration such senators and senators-elect as La Follette, Hiram Johnson, Polindexter and Norris, officially classed as Republicans but not always voting according to classification. Among the nationally known senators now retired to private life are Clarence D. Clark of Wyoming, who has served in the senate continuously since January 23, 1895; Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota, one of the original Progressives; Luke Lea of Tennessee, now only thirty-seven years old, known as the "Baby Senator"; James E. Martinez of New Jersey, who acquired fame early in his senatorial career by his stanch defense of applejack as a beverage, and John W. Kern of Indiana, who has been Democratic leader of the senate. "Needing no introduction" among the new senators are Hiram Johnson of California, Frank -B. Kellogg, "trust buster," of Minnesota, and Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania. Unlike the rest of the senators-elect, "their reputations are made," all they need to do is to "live up to 'em." Thomas Jefferson's dinner, on the day when he signed the Declaration of Independence, was carried in a basket which is now in the possession of J. A. McDonald of Lee county, Virginia. The completion of the Burrinjuck dam in New South Wales will finish the irrigation project in that section. Two rivers, formerly subject to floods and running dry, are held up by the dam so that a constant supply of water is assured. Seven thousand farms will be benefited by this improvement. Uncle Sam's Experts See Great Improvement in Foreign Trade Conditions. LESS TALK AND MORE ACTION United States Is Now Buying Raw Material Abroad and Manufacturing It Here for Re-Export to Europe. The outstanding feature in the foreign trade situation, up to this time, of the United States, has been the increasing stability of our export activities, according to Uncle Sam's experts in the bureau of commerce. During the first year of the European war, they point out, great emphasis was placed upon the opportunities of the merchants and manufacturers of this country to engage in foreign trade. In this agitation, however, it is said, there was much that was unstable and vague, much that smacked of loose thinking and glittering generalities. Recently, however, a distinct change has taken place. There has been less unproductive talk and fewer dinners have been devoted to the subject. More capital has been put into actual, tangible development, more salesmen have been sent out, longer credit terms have been extended and on more careful basis. Interest in foreign trade has not been confined to manufacturers and merchants, but has been shared by banks, universities, colleges, students and the general public. These are the conclusions that Uncle Sam's experts have reached who are continually making a careful study of this one matter. Third in Exports Before War. Not only, they say, have there been changes in our general attitude toward foreign trade, but there have appeared certain fundamental changes in our foreign trade situation. Prior to the European war the United States was the third exporting nation of the world. England and Germany exceeded this country in the volume of their exports and also in the total volume of their foreign trade. It is evident, therefore, that the United States, contrary to the prevailing impression, did play a significant role in the international trade of the world. Ours was not only a considerable part, but it had, for a number of years before the beginning of the European war, been a rapidly increasing part in international trade. It should be observed, however, the experts state, that raw materials, foodstuffs, and unfinished products played by far the most important part in our exports, and that manufactured goods, on the other hand, played a very considerable part in our imports. The situation, during the past year, however, has shown a genuinely striking change. Our total foreign trade, and especially our exports, has increased at a great rate. The United States has had a foreign trade greater than any other country during any year. There has also been a marked shifting in the character of our foreign trade. Most important of all, perhaps, is the great increase in our exportations of manufactured goods and the decrease in our importations of such goods. Now Import Raw Materials. Now Import Raw Materials. The experts point out that there is no reason for anxiety over our imports. The increase has been unprecedented, but it has been of a most satisfactory character. For instance, it is stated, the group of crude materials imported during the past year for use in manufacturing showed an increase of $311,000,000, and the bulk of these crude materials do not compete with products of home industries. For the most part, it is pointed out, they are materials that are not produced in sufficient quantities to meet the demands of our domestic manufacturers. Before the beginning of the war a considerable quantity of these materials were used in Europe to manufacture finished goods for sale to us. Conditions have so changed that we not only find it profitable to do this manufacturing ourselves, but actually have engaged in manufacturing some of the material for re-export to Europe. MORE SUGAR IS CONSUMED Amount Used in United States Has Increased Far More Rapidly Than the Production. The people of the United States have a growing fondness for sweet things, Uncle Sam says. This is shown by the fact that the increase in the consumption of sugar in the United States has been far greater than the increase in population. The total consumption of sugar in this country for the decade ending with the fiscal year 1912-13 was 42.9 per cent greater than the consumption for the preceding decade, while the population for the same period increased only 21 per cent. The country is not only using more sugar, but it is producing a larger portion of its total supply. During the decade ending with 1912-13, as compared with the decade ending with 1902-3, the percentage of the total supply produced at home increased 36.6 per cent, and the supply from noncontiguous possessions 64.4 per cent, while, on the other hand, the percentage imported from foreign countries decreased 20.9 per cent. NUTMEG STATE LEADS HOUSE FOR GOVERNOR Connecticut Still Holds Record for Inventive Genius. Uncle Sam's Figures Show That One Out of Every 1,002 Inhabitants Secured Patent in 1916. Uncle Sam's official figures show that Connecticut continues to lead the union in the number of its inventors. That keen Yankee inventive talent, which gave to Connecticut the nickname of "the wooden nutmeg state," secures to the little New England state primacy in every annual report of the commissioner of patents as the state where there are more inventors than in any other state of the Union. This record is borne out in the annual report for the year 1916, just filed with congress by Thomas Ewing, commissioner of patents. During the year 1,112 patents were granted to Connecticut inventors, or one to every 1,002 inhabitants. The other extreme is represented by the state of Mississippi. During the year only 111 patents were granted to Mississippiians, or one to every 16,190 inhabitants. For the territory of Alaska four patents were issued, one for every 16,089 inhabitants. The Philippines made the lowest record for inventive genius among the outlying possessions. Only six patents were issued during the year to persons in the Philippines, or one for every 1,272,571 inhabitants. There is a wide disparity of inventive talent in the different states, it appears from the report. For example, the proportion of inventions to population in some of the states during the year follows: Indiana—One for every 2,723 inhabitants. Ohio—One for every 1,593 inhabitants. Kentucky—One for every 1,760 inhabitants. Colorado—One for every 1,760 inhabitants. Florida—One for every 4,082 inhabitants. Montana—One for every 1,969 inhabitants. Nebraska—One for every 3,129 inhabitants. Washington state—One for every 1,464 inhabitants. Idaho—One for every 3,134 inhabitants. Pennsylvania—One for every 1,985 inhabitants. Michigan—One for every 1,839 inhabitants. This Agent Will Sell It No Matter What It Is Looking for a business opportunity? The following announcements by Uncle Sam's department of commerce seem to offer sufficient variety to suit the most fastidious taste: "A firm in British East Africa is in the market for red felt fezzes with black tassels, packed one-half dozen in a box and 12 or 24 boxes to the case. "A man in Argentina desires to secure an agency for the sale of clothing, beverages, groceries, canned goods, shoes, leather articles, electric lamps, ranch supplies, office and house furniture, building materials, fence wire, stoves and life insurance. Correspondence may be in French, German or Spanish." ```markdown ``` KINDERGARTEN WORK GROWS Survey Made by Uncle Sam Shows Rapid Extension of This Feature * of Public Schools. Approximately 570 kindergartens were opened last year in public schools that never had them before, according to a recently completed survey by Uncle Sam's bureau of education. "This means one extra year of education for about 25,000 children," the bureau reports, "and as the boys and girls of this country average only a little over five years in school, the value of this additional training cannot be overestimated. "A number of schools have shown increases which are noteworthy. California stands out particularly for having reported 91 additional kindergartens in 25 different cities and towns. Montana has also made a stride forward by changing, in one year, its record of six kindergartens in one city to 31 kindergartens in six cities. "Passadena, Cal., with a population of 30,000, conducts 15 kindergartens. It has had a kindergarten connected with each of its elementary schools for years, and is thoroughly committed to this department of education, believing it to be the most important single phase in all elementary work." Kansas City, Mo., having a population of 248,000, conducts 77 kindergartens, opening additional ones just as fast as there is a demand for them. "Many of the kindergartens opened for the first time in 1916 were secured as a result of petitions signed by parents. It is estimated that at least $100,000 was spent by school boards last year for classes started in this way. This has proved such a successful method of extending the movement that in a number of states, including Kansas, Maine, New York, Oregon, Utah and Texas, bills have been introduced in the state legislatures providing for the establishment of kindergartens on petition of parents." INCREASE TAX LEVY TO CARE FOR ADDED EXPENSE. Crowley Primary Ballot Change and Senate Irrigation Memorial Are Adopted. Denver.—Establishment of a permanent board of capitol managers, the five members of which are to serve eight years, and the erection of a governor's mansion and two additional buildings of state in the immediate vicinity of the capitol are affairs which the legislators have been asked to favorably consider as administration measures. Immediate purchase of the three corner lots, on one of which is a three story building, for approximately $150,000, is proposed in the amendments to the bills. It is proposed to erect the governor's mansion at West Fourteenth avenue and Sherman street, opposite the Colorado state museum, recently completed. The appointment of Hiram E. Hilts to the State Industrial Commission leaves a vacancy on the board of capitol managers which, under the proposed arrangements, would give Governor Gunter the authority to name his successor. Provision is made that every two years one of the present four members shall retire, according to previous length of service. Properly to make provision for the mansion and the new state buildings, the committee has further amended certain bills increasing the present tax levy of .07 mill available for capitol building purposes to .16 of a mill for the years 1917 to 1921, inclusive. The present levy brings approximately $84,000 a year. The increased tax would bring $185,000. Of that sum, $95,000 would go toward the maintenance of the present buildings, and the other $90,000 for new state buildings. After 1921, the mill levy would be .1. The powers of the board of capitol managers is to be extended to control of the new buildings. Compensation for guardsmen who suffered permanent disabilities in the labor troubles in southern Colorado, is provided for in the bill by Representatives Ardourel and Baer, which was passed with only three dissenting votes. Voters on entering polling places in the primaries must declare their political faith and vote that ballot and no other, if the bill by Representatives Barlow and Anderson, which passed the House, meets approval in the Senate. Senator McWilliams' memorial to Congress and Secretary of the Interior Lane, requesting the establishment by the reclamation service of one or more irrigation projects in Routt, Moffat and Rio Blanco counties to make productive thousands of acres of land, was unmanfully adopted. Issuance of negotiable coupon bonds to fund a floating indebtedness in the form of a valid judgment against an incorporated town is authorized in the bill by Representatives Kramer and Roth. In the passage of the bill to apportion county road taxes, introduced by Representatives Banks and Scott, supporters of the measure declare cities and incorporated towns will no longer go "bankrupt" paying for improvements elsewhere in the county. Pheasants destroying crops or grain may be trapped or killed upon permission from the State Game Department, according to the Friend bill. The measure provides that owners or tenants of land may protect the crops on their own land in this manner. The House passed Senator Dunklelee's bill appropriating $5,000 for maintenance of the industrial workshop for the blind, and Senator West's authorizing the board of capitol managers to refund the $150,000 borrowed from the state highway department in 1891. The governor has signed the land appraisal bill and the measure preventing burlesque and parody of the national anthem. Will Build Up Guard Forces. In his welcome speech to the returning Colorado guardsmen at the luncheon at the Denver Auditorium, Governor Gunter declared it was the intention of the state administration to build up a local national guard organization that should be the equal of any in the country, and, with the men who returned as a nucleus, he thought it would not be a difficult task. He said he appreciated the men's service to the country and to Colorado and that their manliness and character entitled them to be members of an efficient military organization. Insurance Commissioner Resigns. E. R. Harper, state insurance commissioner, formally handed in his resignation to Governor Gunter. M. D. McEniry, chief of the field division of the United States land office, estimates that 2,500,000 acres of land has been taken up in Colorado since Jan. 1 under the new 640-acre homestead grazing act. Board Planning to Classify Lands. The State Land Board soon will begin classifying 3,300,000 acres of state land under the Fincaer bill, which became law on being signed by Governor Gunier. Do You Know That- TWELVE SENATORS BLOCK MEASURE FOR PROTECTION OF U. S. CITIZENS AT SEA. 64TH GONGRESS ENDS The COLORADO STATESMAN PRESIDENT SIGNS $685,000,000 BILLS PASSED BY SENATE AND HOUSE. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington, March 5.—The Sixty-fourth Congress expired at noon Sunday without a vote having been reached in the Senate on the armed neutrality bill. Just as the hands of the clock pointed to the noon hour Senator Hitchcock read a portion of President Wilson's address asking for armed neutrality law and declared the President's request had been defeated by twelve men in the most reprehensible filibuster in the history of a civilized government. IS PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OF The administration bills which failed of passage when Congress adjourned sine die at noon are: President Wilson's bill authorizing American ships to arm to repel German submarines; empowering the executive to supply arms, ammunition and gunners and to employ "other instrumentalities and methods" to protect Americans and American vessels on the high seas. The army bill carrying $337,000,000 for the enlargement, further equipment and support of the land forces of the nation during the next fiscal year. The espionage bills to prevent the communication of information to the enemy, to establish a strict censorship and otherwise to regulate the conduct of citizens in time of war. The sundry civil appropriation bill carrying millions of dollars for miscellaneous departmental purposes, including many large items for coast defense and other phases of preparedness for war. 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. The general deficiency appropriation bill authorizing emergency expenditures requested by the administration within the last few days. The White House has intimated that an extra session might be called in June. Approve $685,000,000 Bill for Navy. The navy appropriation bill providing a fund of $535,000,000 for new warships, submarines, submarine chasers, patrol boats and guns, ammunition and other equipment, was sent to the President after a conference report had been approved by both Senate and House. Conferences had agreed to reduce the number of extra submarines from fifty to twenty, making the total number provided for thirty-eight. The Senate conferences yielded the provision for enlarging the Charleston, N. C., drydock, which Senator Tillman had fought hard to obtain. 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. The Senate also adopted the House resolution providing for a bond issue of $150,000,000 to expedite construction of naval vessels. That completed approval of the administration's naval program. Although the bill authorizing the President to arm American ships and otherwise protect Americans on the high seas would have passed the Senate by an overwhelming majority this legislation, a modified form of which was passed by the House on Thursday, was killed by a filibuster conducted by a small group of Republican and Democratic senators. Give Us a Trial and We Will Give You Satisfaction As a last resort the large majority of the Republican and Democratic senators favoring the bill drew up a manifesto to the country and to the world stating that the armed ship bill has been passed by the House by almost a unanimous vote and that more than two-thirds of the Senate favored conferring full power upon the President to deal with the German submarine menace by measures short of war. President Wilson went to the capitol at 9:30 o'clock and signed the naval appropriation and other bills passed in the final hours of Congress. Administration leaders said the President also signed the bill making the "bone dry" clause in the postal bill effective July 1. Prices as Reasonable as Those of Any Job Office in Denver Zimmermann, Admits Mexican Plots. Washington.-German Foreign Minister Zimmermann's frank admission that Germany did seek to ally Japan and Mexico with her' to war against the United States caused no surprise to American officials though it may be said they did not expect so full and free an acknowledgment of the exposure. British Drive Back Enemies. London.—The British troops in their forward movement in the Ancre area in France have made another advance east of Gommecourt along a two-mile front of about two-thirds of a mile, according to the official report from headquarters. Nearly 200 prisoners were captured. Room 25 Phone Main 7417 Five Negroes Shot in Eaton. Eaton—Five negroes were shot here when Amos Shepherd and Claude Bright engaged in a pistol duel. THE STAR HAIR GROWER Lankford and McCain, Proprietors STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS WORK Cleaning, Pressing, Dyeing and Remodelling JOIN OUR MONTHLY PRESSING CLUB-$1.50 6 Eighteenth Street Phone Main 7376 THE PEARL BARBER SHOP First-Class Tonsorial Artists in attendance. 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One of these new claimants for consideration is illustrated here. It has the distinction of originality, and it is very good looking. The skirt is box-plaited all around; the narrow plaits lying edge to edge about the waist line. It is about two inches longer than the skirts of last season, but it may be In the Realm of Georgette crepe and crepe de chine reign together in the realm of blouse fashions, the most favored of all materials for the lovely new spring models. Crepe de chine demonstrates that it may be used for equal effectiveness for both tailored and costume blouses, but georgette is a medium that designers revel in for developing all the dresser bodices. In tailored and sports styles crepe de chine has a rival in silk jersey. Just a glance at blouses of any kind reveals the fact that light colors are shouldering white in point of popularity. Among voile blouses white predominates, but in organdie there is a more than liberal sprinkling of yellow, rose and blue models. Color is the rule in georgette blouses. A wonderfully pretty model is shown in the picture made of plain navy blue georgette, combined with a broad stripe in navy and white. This is broken by a narrow figured stripe in paisley colorings. A panel of the plain navy, widening toward the bottom, is let in at the back and front. A convertible collar and deep, turnback cuffs of the navy georgette are decorated with white silk machine stitching and French knots. Three shorter and still hold its own as good style, for women are very reluctant to lengthen the tailored skirt. In the coat, which is half length, a box-plaited skirt is set on to a plain body with a heavy covered cord. Braided buttons set close together fasten it at the front, extending from the throat to a point below the bust line. The narrow, plain girdle of the material, looped at the front, plays its part in the adjustment of the coat to the figure. The sleeves are long and the collar very wide and quite plain. Beautiful braiding in the conventional palm-leaf pattern is put on in braid of contrasting color. This is a novel feature in the suit and is important as any other item in its make-up. The success of this model will depend upon its perfect adjustment to the figure. It has everything to recommend it. Blouse Fashions rows of the stitching extend up each side of the fronts. Small black ball buttons, with white markings on top, fasten the blouse. Embroidery in colored silk and beads, hemmistitching and French knots are the hallmarks of elegance on the best blouses. Sand color with coral satin, sand with vivid green, and again with natter blue are combinations with geor gette that are irresistibly lovely. Julie Bottomly The vogue of the rest gown continues and a practical little model is slipped over the head minus any fastenings—a pretty little lacing down the front holding it in place, and forming a charming finish at the same time—while a girdle passed around the waist secures the graceful folds of drapery beneath the arms. Once on it seems surprising that there is actually no fastening, save the loose twist in front to that aforesaid girdle. Velvetetee and wool-back satin are both delightful fabrics for such a gown Revival Meeting's Come and Hear the Pastor Discuss the Following Subjects: Sunday Morning, March 11th..... "The Church's Obligation" Sunday Evening, March 11th..... "A Worldly Life" Monday Night, March 12th..... "Saved for Service" Tuesday Night, March 13th..... "The Guilt and Power of Sin" Wednesday Night, March 14th..... "The Wages of Sin" Thursday Night, March 15th..... "The Lamb of God" Friday Night, March 16th..... "Repentance" Sunday Morning, March 18th..... "Influence—Example" Sunday Afternoon, March 18th (Men's Meeting) "Manhood for Christ" Sunday Night, March 18th..... "The Faith that Saves" Monday Night, March 19th..... "The Great Decision" Tuesday Night, March 20th..... "Accepting and Confessing Christ" Wednesday Night, March 21st..... "God's Power to Save" Thursday Night, March 22nd..... "The Joy of Salvation" Friday Night, March 23rd..... "The Call of the Other World" Sunday Morning, March 25th..... "Opportunity—Responsibility" Sunday Afternoon, March 25th..... "A Whole Life for Christ" (Young People's Rally) Sunday Night, March 25th..... "The Fruits of Indecision" Spacious and well Meals at all hours. At your se send out meals on orders. Roo or month at very moderate price Services Guaranteed by Call and be Jucious and well Ventilated Rooms, all hours. At your service day and night. We also meals on orders. Rooms can be rented by day, week at very moderate prices. Vices Guaranteed by the Most Civil Employes. Call and be Convinced. Spacious and well Ventilated Rooms, Meals at all hours. At your service day and night. We also send out meals on orders. Rooms can be rented by day, week or month at very moderate prices. Services Guaranteed by the Most Civil Employes. Call and be Convinced. Phone Main 5011. P. P. PERSON, Manager. Mme. T. D. PERKINS SCIENTIFIC SCALP SPECIALIST e. T. D. PERKINS CLIENTIFIC SCALP SPECIALIST Mme. T. D. PERKINS SCIENTIFIC SCALP SPECIALIST 4630 W. 35th Avenue, Denver, Colo. Madam T. D. Perkins, of Denver, study of the scalp, is now interesting of the hair and scalp. No matter how matchless scalp preparations and savoring, beautifying and growing the physical alliment to prevent. Her to all others have failed. Have you w like her own, write her to-day. B write your name and address very p unless you mean business. THIS TEXT COPYR WOMEN, STOP, WA If a Woman have long hair, it Every Woman Can Have T. D. Perkins, of Denver, Colo., who has spent many years in scalp, is now interesting women all over the globe in the care and scalp. No matter how dark your skin is, Madam Perkins' scalp preparations and scientific method of treatment for cultitifying and growing the hair will grow your hair if there is no moment to prevent. Her treatments have been successful where have failed. Have you written her? If not, and you want hair on, write her to-day. Be sure to enclose a 4-cent stamp and name and address very plain if you expect a reply. Don't write mean business. THIS TELLS THE STORY COPYRIGHTED-1910. EN, STOP, WAIT, LISTEN, READ! Woman have long hair, it is a Glory to Her: 1 Cor., 11-15. Every Woman Can Have that Glory If She Wishes It. Madam T. D. Perkins, of Denver, Colo., who has spent many years in study of the scalp, is now interesting women all over the globe in the care of the hair and scalp. No matter how dark your skin is, Madam Perkins' matchless scalp preparations and scientific method of treatment for cultivating, beautifying and growing the hair will grow your hair if there is no physical ailment to prevent. Her treatments have been successful where all others have failed. Have you written her? If not, and you want hair like her own, write her to-day. Be sure to enclose a 4-cent stamp and write your name and address very plain if you expect a reply. Don't write unless you mean business. THIS TELLS THE STORY COPYRIGHTED-1910. A Madam Perkins Before Treatment ends, removes dandruff and scalp so matter how short; soft, no matter he straight from the bulbs, no matter he wonderful improvement. Do not war. I give treatments all over the United I send booklet concerning the care taking my treatments when a 4-agents. I need a personal history of condition. All mail promptly answered when the only woman of the race growing the real length my hair was when I let if you mean business. You can me. None like them made in the Preparation, Madam Perkins, sole age. uses dandruff and scalp scurf, causes the hair to grow burgly, short; soft, no matter how harsh; thick, no matter how thin; in the bulbs, no matter how kinky. First treatment will show improvement. Do not wait if you are interested in your hair. Patients all over the United States by mail. Write me at once, let concerning the care of the hair, and testimonials of those treatments when a 4-cent stamp is enclosed. I do not have need a personal history of your hair and scalp and your physical promptly answered when a 4-cent stamp is enclosed. I am man of the race growing hair to-day who can show the public my hair was when I first began treating it. Send for book-ean business. You can secure these preparations only from like them made in the world. The T. D. P. Scientific Scalp Madam Perkins, sole agent. ends, removes dandruff and scalp scurf, causes the hair to grow long, no matter how short; soft, no matter how harsh; thick, no matter how thin; straight from the bulbs, no matter how kinky. First treatment will show wonderful improvement. Do not wait if you are interested in your hair. I give treatments all over the United States by mail. Write me at once. I send booklet concerning the care of the hair, and testimonials of those taking my treatments when a 4-cent stamp is enclosed. I do not have agents. I need a personal history of your hair and scalp and your physical condition. All mail promptly answered when a 4-cent stamp is enclosed. I am the only woman of the race growing hair to-day who can show the public the real length my hair was when I first began treating it. Send for booklet if you mean business. You can secure those preparations only from me. None like them made in the world. The T. D. P. Scientific Scalp Preparation, Madam Perkins, sole agent. Some little folks were playing "keeping house." Robert was papa, Jane mamma. After much difficulty in managing so large a brood, Papa Robert finally burst out with: "Say, there are too many children in the family—one of you will have to be the dog!" ```markdown ``` Fruit Bowl Phone Main 5011. This is for you, but soft, long, beau not be put on the Do you want this write for particular kins, the Scientific Denver, Colo., who world with her won hair. My own hair is ment. With these grow 17 inches in mained one length years. What I did doing for hundreds do for you with my Scalp Preparations. 2130 Arapahoe Street. Best Accomodations and Up-to-date Furniture P. P. PERSON, Manager. No more ironed hair, tiful hair that need dresser on retiring, kind of hair? If so, to Madam T. D. Per scalp Specialist of is astonishing the derful art of growing my best advertise-treatments my hair two years. It had re-(four inches) for 15 for my hair I am of others, and will Matchless Scientific My treatment stops ing A New York judge says that when a wife takes money from her husband's pocket he is entitled to a 50 per cent drawback. Of course he is, but what does that prove? Does he get it? One at a time, gentlemen; one at a time.—Washington Herald.