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Subscribe for the Only Reliable Negro Paper in Colorado, "The Colorado Statesman" THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY RACE NEWS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES VOL. XXIII. RACE GATHERED FROM Jamestown, N. Y., April 10.—An attempt to pass an ordinance throught the Common Council for the segregation of colored people, failed utterly. The Corporation Counsel informed the advocates that he doubted both the wisdom and legality of such an act and it was dropped. West Chester, Pa., April 10. Employment agents of the Remington Arms Company have been scouting in this place for Colored men willing to take a chance at the big plant at Eddystone and quite a number of them were secured and are now taking the special train to the plant daily. It is expected that fifty at least of the men will be at work within a short time. They are mostly laboring men and are in the yards principally. Washington, D. C.—Representative Dyer, of Missouri, had read at the clerk's desk in the House, Monday, a statement refuting the charge that Negroes may be organized in disloyalty to the Government. Representative Huddleston, of Alabama, followed the reading with a speech in which he testified to the loyalty of the Negroes, saying "they are brave and loyal, and when the call comes there will be no more loyal responce than from the Negro districts of the Southern States." Lagos, West Africa, March 31. For the first time in the history of the Catholic church, in vicinity, a black man has been ordained to Catholic orders. Paul Ododoecie Emeecete, a native of Nigesis, having been admitted to the minor orders of the priesthood Sunday, January 14 of this year. The Right Rev. Bishop Terrien officiated in the presence of a large congregation, consisting of Catholiics. Protestant and Pagans. Fort Worth, Texas.—There are about forty Negroes in Texas receiving pensions as ex-Confederate soldiers, according to C. C. Cummings, historian, at a recent meeting of the R. E. Lee Camp of Confederate Veterans. Mr. Cummings read a letter from the Pension Board at Austin confirming his statement. The letter stated that the Negroes in question were free at the time of the Civil War and had enlisted voluntarily. De Ridder, La., April 11.—According to the latest report of state Hist. & Nat Hist Soc. State House reliable Negro RADOC THE JOURNAL DENVER, COLORA Negro Army T THE FOLLOWING pat- for Negro soldiers w Tenth Cavalry, to Ha Negro hegira, it is announced that a host of Negroes will leave this section of the country for the north this spring. The movement is very active new, to take advantage of the great northern drive May 15, 1917. Though it has developed that several hundred will leave from this city in the course of eight or ten days. This town being a concentrating point, covering a radius of 75 or 100 miles around. It has been indicated according to reliable reports that some of the saw-mill plants have discharged a number of their employers owing to their activity in the movement. I want to first that after making the round chuca, Arizona, the strip papers to various troops the "Gazette" is too reader to me is how you k The thing that str Mme. E. Azalia Hackley is to turn temporarily from prima donna soprano, lecture-recital and folk-song festival roles to that of a promoter of pageants. She is to arrange for one in Washington at Convention Hall April 10, in which a number of beautiful queens will be featured and there will be novel effects in costumes and music. The functions will be under the general supervision of Miss Marie A. D. Madre, president of the District of Columbia Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. Mme. Hackley gave a similar entertainment April 4 in Philadelphia, and later on will direct three more in the West. Mme. Hackley,s health is greatly improved and her friends will be delighted to know that she is her own charming self again. PRESIDENT WILSON'S LATEST ORDER Washington, D. C., April 10. Orders from the War Department were received here today by the army recruiting officers, raising the age limit for new recruits to forty years. It also was specified that recruits who can speak English, but cannot read or write, shall be accepted, and that Negroes shall be recited for the infantry and cavalry. WANTED—1,000 NEGRO MEN AND BOYS TO LEARN TO BE EXPERT AUTOMOBILE MECHANICS AND CHAUFFEURS. POSITIONS WAITING. SPECIAL COURSE IN DRIVING FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. FOR FULL INFORMATION AS TO TERMS, ETC., ADDRESS AFRO - AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE TRAINING SCHOOL, 1420-22-24-26 WOODLAND AVE., KANSAS CITY, MO. THE LARGEST AUTOMOBILE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NEGROES IN THE WORLD. DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, APRIL 21 1917 Negro Army Officer Favors Training Camp THE FOLLOWING patriotic letter on the question of separate training for Negro soldiers was written by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Young, Tenth Cavalry, to Harry C. Smith, editor of "The Cleveland Gazette: I want to first thank you for the copies of the "Gazette," which after making the rounds of the border, found me here at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, the station of the Tenih cavalry. I distributed the papers to various troops of the regiment as far as they would go, for the "Gazette" is too readable to hide away or throw aside. The wonder to me is how you keep up, the gait throughout the years. The thing that struck me most in your issue of March 10th was the controversy over Dr. Spingarn's plan for training colored officers for colored regiments in event of war. May I say I think you both are right? You are always contending for absolute right, absolute justice, absolute and unqualified equality of opportunity. These things in this matter-of-fact old world are ideals, limits to be striven for. From the editor's viewpoint I can see how you stand by your guns; but, my dear friend, I have learned that no one in this world has all he wants, not even the President of the United States (to whom may God give good guidance in this hour of our country's peril), let alone the poor and lonely ones of work-a-day. We must all in actual practice at times stoop to conquer—not cringing, but with our eyes upon a star. I admit that a whole loaf is better than a half; but the half beats none at all. Then we Negroes must have a part, a glorious one, in the destiny of this country—our country, the one where our fathers wrought mightily in spite of handicaps the most stupendous; the one whose soil is red with their blood freely spilled for American liberties and freedom in every war. Shall we now, in the face of the danger that seems looming largely before us, play the baby act and refuse to our country a citizen's bounden duty? Every generous instinct of your heart will tell you no. Two wrongs never make a right. Let us train and prepare ourselves in every way for the eventualities that appear to be heading our way. And the Almighty hand that unerringly guides and directs the destinies of peoples and races will bring us to the haven where we would be—i. e., where as the "crisis" people say, we shall be "physically free from peonage, mentally free from ignorance, politically free from disfranchisement and socially free from insult." Dr. Spingarn is right in practice, you see, as you are in theory. We are going to need leaders for the colored regiments. It does not matter how they are made, so that we have them in the hour of need. You are wrong when you say that the four colored regiments can furnish what we need. They can furnish and will, and must furnish what they can; and they will be good ones, but these will not be a drop in the bucket for what is up the sleeve of the future, I fear. Let us do nothing to divide our people in this hour of our country's trials, neither let our work be negative or reactionary, but constructive. This plan of Dr. Spingarn's is constructive, and I hope it will meet with the best of results. When the storm is past we can take up the idealism of the cause. Besides what colored officers the National Guard and regular army ought to give us, let us not forget the number of graduates from Wilberforce University who have had military training under United States army officers, beginning with our deceased friend of revered memory, the brilliant Lieutenant John H. Alexander, and running for twenty-three years up to the present instructor, Captain Davis. Then I have observed the commendable efficiency of the Washington High School cadets and those from the Armstrong Manual Training School, all of which should furnish good officers for the work of war. May there be in this case no Achilles sulking in his tent. Such actions "cool our friends and heat our enemies," do no good and are not in the line of strict loyalty to the flag. Yours for the country, My Dear Harry Smith: Ft. Huachuca, Ariz., March 23, 1917. Thank you for the copies of the "Gazette," which heads of the border found me here at Fort Huachuca of the Tenth cavalry. I distributed the maps of the regiment as far as they would go, for readable to hide away or throw aside. The work keep up, the gait throughout the years. Uck me most in your issue of March 10th war. Dr. Spingarn's plan for training colored officers in event of war. Do you both are right? You are always content with absolute justice, absolute and unqualified. These things in this matter-of-fact old world are striven for. From the editor's viewpoint, bad by your guns; but, my dear friend, I have this world has all he wants, not even the Presidents (to whom may God give good guidance in Mary's peril), let alone the poor and lonely ones, just all in actual practice at times stoop to contempt with our eyes upon a star. I admit that a man a half; but the half beats none at all. Must Do Duty Bravely. must have a part, a glorious one, in the design of our country, the one where our fathers wrought handicaps the most stupendous; the one whose blood freely spilled for American liberties and for the face of the danger that seems looming in the baby act and refuse to our country a city. Every generous instinct of your heart will tell you make a right. Let us train and prepare our or the eventualities that appear to be heading nightly hand that unerringly guides and directs us and races will bring us to the haven where there as the "crisis" people say, we shall be peonage, mentally free from ignorance, politicachievement and socially free from insult." Right in practice, you see, as you are in theory, leaders for the colored regiments. It does not fade, so that we have them in the hour of need, you say that the four colored regiments can. They can furnish and will, and must furnish they will be good ones, but these will not be a what is up the sleeve of the future, I fear. For a United Race. to divide our people in this hour of our coun- sell, our work be negative or reactionary, but con- sideringarn's is constructive, and I hope it will meet its. When the storm is past we can take up ease. Aided officers the National Guard and regular military, let us not forget the number of graduates of university who have had military training under officers, beginning with our deceased friend of Mr. Brilliant Lieutenant John H. Alexander, and three years up to the present instructor, Captain saved the commendable efficiency of the Wash- fordets and those from the Armstrong Manual of which should furnish good officers for the this case no Achilles sulking in his tent. Such birds and heat our enemies," do no good and are not loyalty to the flag. Yours for the country, CHARLES YOUNG DANIELS' NEWSPAPER SCORES NEGRO PLOT. German Scheme Is Declared to Be a Failure. The following editorial from "The Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer," of which Secretary of the Navy Daniels is president, reflects the attitude of the South toward the attempt by the Germans to stir up unrest among the Negroes: "LOYALTY AND THE NEGRO." HISTORY fails to recall more affecting examples of loyalty than those developed in Southern civilization by the general feeling of the Negro toward the whites, and only the devilish cunning of the German, bent on havoc here as in Europe, would scheme the marshalling of blacks against the whites. From every section of the South, almost, come confirmation of the belief that the attempts have been made and are still being made. The mass of information leaves scant doubt but that the insidious efforts, the temptations of mysterious promises of power and position, have failed generally. But there have been in the history of every nation, traitors who could be persuaded to act against the common weal, and it is not unlikely that isolated cases of Negro disloyalty, unless the better class of the Negroes in the South, the intelligent leadership who have the influence, wield it for the solidarity of Americans, white and black, in the common defence. "Many of the leading Negro educators in the South and others of the race occupying places of responsibility have indicated their belief in complete Negro loyalty. The statement of James E. Shepard, president of the National Training School at Durham, is among the strongest. He declares: "The statements circulated by various newspapers that the Southern Negro is not loyal to the flag or that he could be incited to rebellion or to perform an act of treason does an injustice to a race of people who have fought in every war of the United States under the flag. No alien nation can ever incite him to an insurrection. He forgets his wrongs and limitations and even his rights when duty calls. No truer American can be found anywhere than among the Negroes of the South. They only wait the call to action, and it will be theirs not to reason why; simply theirs to do and die." "It is for such men as Shepard, school teachers, professional men, ministers of the Gospel, to dispel from the minds of those who may have received the poison of German influence all distorted aims or treason-born ambitions. From NO 35 every Negro pulpit in North Carolina tomorrow should ring clear-cut calls for the cleanest patriotism. "The Negro will respond. Through no choice of his own this is his country. He has proved his loyalty in a thousand different ways, and it challenges the stretches of imagination to believe that he will now turn against the flag that gave him freedom and against the men who have labored to give him schools and colleges and churches—all to improve his condition in life and make his work more profitable and his lot happier. "The Negroes of Raleigh last night spoke in no uncertain terms. Their pledge to a cause of the nation was not a quibble. It could not have been stronger and was equalled only by their denunciation of the suspicion of their disloyalty as a most foul aspersion of the Negro race in America." THE SOJOURNER TRUTH HOUSE On a pleasant side street in the Harlem District of New York City, opposite the Colored Music School Settlement, stands a small three-storied house, No. 15 West 131st Street, that is flooded with sunshine all day long and dedicated to the bringing of light into young lives that have had but a scant supply of it. Should we enter during the morning hours we should usually find the house empty and quiet, for its inmates are attending a near-by public school, but after three o'clock it becomes a beehive of activity. Twelve little colored girls between ten and sixteen years of age are at various household tasks, cooking, cleaning, sewing washing and ironing or singing and playing games, according to the time of our visit, but in any case, doing something, under the wise supervision of the colored superintendent and matron, that will fit them, by developing their embryonic moral and spiritual natures, to meet later the struggle of life. During the short time (ten months) that it has been running, the House having a capacity of twelve girls, thirty-six have been accommodated; eight have been placed out in exceptionally good homes and are doing well; eleven have been returned to their families with prospects of better oversight and brighter future; while others have been passed on to such institutions as seemed best able to cope with their peculiar needs. The influence of gentle and just discipline does not stop with the girls, but reaches out, wherever possible, to parents and other relatives, often arousing in them a dormant natural pride in and affection for, the child, and leading to improvement in family conditions. Southern Workman. LATEST NEWS EPITOMIZED FROM TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS THAT COVER THE WEEK'S EVENTS. OF MOST INTEREST KEEPING THE READER POSTED ON MOST IMPORTANT CURRENT TOPICS. Western Newspaper Union News Service. About the War Turks driven back farther by British in Mesopotamia. Defense League at Namiquipa defeats band of Villistas. British and French air pilots drop many bombs on German city of Freiburg. Teutons repulsed in attack on allied position in Cerna region of Macedonia. Seventeen "British, French and American" airplanes destroyed by Germans. British report further progress in offensive north of St. Quentin and in the region of Lens. Germans launch powerful attack in heavy force along Bapaume-Cambrai road and gain foothold in Lagnicourt. Vice Admiral Browning of British navy and Rear Admiral DeGrasse of the French navy confer with American officials. British troops entered Lens and St. Quentin in face of desperate resistance of Germans. British capture Lievin and Cite St. Pierre. Northwest of St. Quentin the British advanced on a line between Hargi-court and Metz-En-Couture, capturing two woods, the Sart farm and the village of Gouencourt. German casualties as reported in the German official casualty lists during the month of March total 54,803 men, according to a statement made public in London, bringing the total up to more than 4,000,000. Conflicting statements come from Berlin and Paris concerning the success of the new French offensive between Soissons and Rhelms. Germany claims attacks have been repulsed at every hand and says 2,100 French have been captured. Paris estimates German losses in killed, wounded and captured at 100,000, a staggering total for two days of warfare. French battle line extended well into the Champagne region. First-line German positions on front 9 1-3 miles long taken. Germans launch series of ferocious counter attacks to regain lost ground, but all have been repulsed, 2,500 men having been captured by the French in one group. Western Work resumed in all coal mines in Missouri district. Mrs. Ida Callery, prominent woman lawyer, died at Pittsburg, Kan. Homer Hamilton Knoll of Chino, Cal., seriously wounded in fighting in France. Slight fire in smokeless powder plant at Carney's Point, N. J., does small damage. Prohibition of the use of grain in the manufacture of alcoholic beverages by act of Congress was urged in a resolution offered in the Assembly of the California Legislature. A heifer for every country and suburban boy and girl in Cook county was the slogan adopted by the delegation of bankers, educators and food experts in conference at the State Food Commission's office in Chicago. Washington Volunteer system preferred in army plans. President Wilson issued long proclamation against treason. Gen. Wood was chosen to represent United States army in international conference. The whole nation was called upon for war service in a formal proclamation issued by President Wilson. The Navy Department confirmed the Charlestown navy yard report that an enemy submarine fired a torpedo at the U. S. S. Smith. Interstate Commerce Commission sets Friday, April 20, as the date of the first hearing on the proposed general increase in freight rates. All wireless telegraph stations not operated by the government were ordered dismantled during the war by direction of the secretary of the navy. Secretaries Lansing, Baker and Daniels and George Creel, who compose the new government publicity bureau created by President Wilson, held their first meeting to map out a course of action. The war finance bill providing for issuance of $7,000,000,000 in securities—the largest single war budget in any nation's history—was passed unanimously by the Senate. President Wilson issued a proclamation warning citizens and alien residents of the United States against commission of treasonable acts against the United States. The White House is about to join the increased food movement by planting a garden of its own, in which the President may wield a hoe when he finds a spare moment. Foreign Gen. Kuropatkin, noted Russian army leader, is arrested. Mexican editor launches violent attack on Americans. Pro-German propaganda apparently is spreading in Mexico. Russians see peace and overthrow of Kaiser in Berlin strikes. Villa reports fortune in gold and silver bullion hidden in mountains. Carranza's message to Mexican Congress advises neutrality in war with Germany. Peace and spring weather are what the Austrian and Hungarian people most desire. British admiral declares United States should send hundreds of small craft to fight submarines. A report received at Zurich declared that Turkey and Bulgaria have formally broken off relations with the United States. Gen. Michael V. Alexieff has been definitely appointed commander-in-chief of the Russian armies. He was appointed acting commander-in-chief a few weeks ago. The Central and South America countries which have been represented in Mexico by Germans, in many cases are rapidly getting rld of German-born representatives. Fifty thousand Brazilians cheered enthusiastically an inflammatory prowar speech by Brazil's idol of the people—Senator Ruy Barbosa—declaring that war with Germany is "inevitable." An official announcement by the Berlin war office says eleven persons have been killed, twenty-nine injured and considerable damage done to the university building by an air attack on Freiburg. A semi-official statement has been issued in Vienna declaring that Austria desires peace, with the Russian people and that there is no real obstacle to this aim, according to a Zurich dispatch to the Radio agency. The reaffirmation by Germany and Austria of their willingness to consider the Russian provisional government's peace proposal is regarded as highly significant at Berlin but the Germans refuse to permit themselves an excessively sanguine view of the situation. German officials' promises of government reforms without any steps in fulfillment have resulted in formation of a new anti-government party, Berlin dispatches announced. The new group, an offshoot from the regular German Socialist party, is to be known as the Independent Socialist Democratic party. Its platform is democratizing of the German government. Sporting News Mackenney, William Jewell pitcher, struck out twenty-five batsmen and allowed only one hit in a game at Liberty, Mo., with Tarkio College. William Jewell won, 3 to 1. Kid Leopold and Jack Bratton fought a hard fifteen-round draw at the N. A. C. in Denver. In the semi-windup Roy Rice and Patsy Brannigan fought a six-round draw. A bill recommended by Governor Whitman to repeal laws legalizing boxing in New York state failed of passage in the Assembly. The vote was 74 ayes to 16 noes, thus lacking two affirmative votes on the required constitutional majority Miss Olga Dorfner established a new American women's swimming record for the 100-yard dash at a water carnival at Philadelphia. Her time, 1:07 3-5, was one and one-fifth seconds faster than the former mark set by Miss Dorfner at San Francisco last year. General Nationwide plot uncovered to destroy railroads and equipment. Japanese government denies German submarine is operating in the Pacific. Arizona governor ousts manager of state fair and offers grounds to government. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, 73, famous French actress, is seriously ill in a hospital in New York. That another aeroplane has been sighted flying over the Portsmouth, N. H., Navy Department by National guardsmen was reported in Boston. Consul Wesley Frost at Queenstown, whose name has figured in more than 100 reports of submarine outrages, was advanced a grade in the consular service as a reward for his work. The need of fuel oil for the navy is involved in proceedings between United States Commissioner Hitchcock at New York in which the government seeks to recover $35,000,000 worth of California oil lands. The British tank steamship Narragansett, a ship of 9,190 tons and one of the largest carriers of bulk oil ever built, has been torpeded and sunk somewhere off the Irish coast, according to word brought to New York by officers on a British ship. A group of twenty-five California and New York delegates, headed by Judge Ryckman of Los Angeles, bolted the national single tax conference at Atlantic City, N. J., and refused to join in the organization of a new national political party to be known as the National Great Adventure for Single Tax party. William J. Wallace of Newark, N. J., was elected president of the new organization. Hetty Green declared to have been a non-resident of New York at time of death so state loses a transfer tax of over million dollars. COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Service. COMING EVENTS. May 17-20—Convention Colorado Sunday School Association at Colorado Springs. June 20—Christian Endorsement Con June 24-22 - Christian Endeavor Convention at Salida. Aug. 1—National Convention of Afri- can Race at Denver can Race at Denver. Sept. 17-22—Colorado State Fair at Pueblo. The population of Craig has trebled during the past four years. Henry M. Morse, last member of first Pueblo city council, is dead. Denver police department ordered to take guns from all alien enemies. Cerlia Carranza was held for the death of Ignacio Garcia by a coroner's jury in Pueblo. Sons of American Revolution to hold patriotic gathering on "Lexington day" at Pueblo More than $100,000 was paid to the farmers of the Greeley district for last year's bean crop. Thirty-six young men have signed up as members of the Minnequa Heights unit of the Pueblo Reserve corps. Ves Petre demonstrated his ability with the lariat when he roped a white pelican on the prairies south of Fowler. Two new trustees for Colorado college are announced—Oliver H. Shoup, who succeeds W. S. Jackson, and Benjamin Griffith. Field hospital corps No. 1, Colorado National guard, has opened a recruiting office in Denver, with Major E. W. Lazell in charge. The people of Trinidad and Las Animas county are rallying to the President's call for men both for the army and for the agricultural fields. The first man in Colorado to be commissioned in the engineer officers' reserve corps of the United States army is Charles Larsen of Denver. An eight-foot vein carrying 25 per cent lead and running from 15 to 30 ounces a ton in silver has been opened in the Keystone at Aspen. The bank accounts of foreigners living in the United States will not be disturbed by the state of war now existing between the United States and Germany. Red potatoes took a jump in Denver and sold for $5.90 a hundred pounds, or at the rate of four pounds for a quarter. The former price was $5.50 per hundred. Members of the Colorado branch of the German-American alliance will form a branch of the American Red Cross Society, it was voted at a meeting in Denver. Free classes in French for soldiers, who may eventually have to talk shop with their new allies on the western front, are planned by Mme. Lucile Desmartin of Denver. Intrastate tourist rates will go into effect on the railroads in Coloradc May 19th. These include reduced rates to summer resort centers and for hunting and fishing parties. The United States forest service is anticipating a rush of "summer home steaders" and is expecting to lease numerous sites for cottages in the seventeen national forests in Colorado. Among building projects at Gunnison now in contemplation are additional buildings at the State Normal school, a new county high school building, a new hotel and several residences. Miss Mae Everitt, a graduate of the training school of the Longmont hospital, has enlisted in the United States army nurse corps and is to be stationed after May 1 at the Presidio. San Francisco. Colorado's National guard offers service in practically every branch of modern war work, with the exception of aviation. Artillery, cavalry, infantry, crack machine gun corps—all are needing red-blooded men. Emios Garcia is in St. Mary's hospital suffering from a severe wound in his left side and Juan Ariandas was wounded in his left arm, the injuries being inflicted by a fellow-countryman in a Mexican pool hall at Pueblo. Gardening on an extensive scale is to be undertaken on vacant property in the Dundee district by residents of that section of Pueblo, with a view of combating the high cost of living and adding to the food supplies for next winter. Mayor Ray H. Kiteley has formed a war council among the business men and farmers of Longmont that will cooperate with him to secure the greatest efficiency in local affairs during the coming summer and bring the greatest possible results from doing their part in the war crisis for home, state and nation. The two-story concrete plant of the Raymond Packing and Provision Company at East Fifty-sixth avenue and Race street, about a half mile south of Riverside, was destroyed by fire of supposed incendiary origin, the estimated damage being $10,000. Great quantitles of meats were burned. The military department at the Colorado Agricultural College at Fort Collins is in receipt of an order from the central department, Chicago, doing away with written and practical examinations in qualifying for positions with the United States reserves. COLORADO CROP REPORT WHEAT AVERAGE OF STATE ABOVE THAT OF NATION. Report Shows 85 Per Cent of Normal, Compared With 63.4 Per Cent for United States. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver.—A summary of the April crop report for Colorado, as compiled by the bureau of crop estimates (and transmitted through the weather bureau), United States Department of Agriculture, is as follows: Wheat. State—Condition April 1 this year, 85 per cent of the normal; ten-year average condition figures for April 1, 92 per cent. Rye. State—Condition April 1 this year, 86 per cent; ten-year average April 1 condition, 91 per cent. Hogs. State—Losses from disease past year, 2.8 per cent; ten-year average, 3 per cent. Cattle. State—Wheat, $1.62 and 90 cents per bushel. Corn, $1.04 and 62 cents. Oats, 73 cents and 53 cents. Potatoes, $2.09 and 89 cents. Hay, $14.20 and 9.60 per ton. Eggs, 25 cents and 18 cents per dozen. United States—Wheat, $1.80 and 98.6 cents per bushel. Corn, $1.13 and 70.3 cents. Oats, 62 cents and 42 cent. Potatoes, $2.35 and 97.6 cents. Hay, $13.05 and $11.78 per ton. Cotton, 18 cents and 11.5 per cents per pound. Eggs, 26 cents and 17.9 per dozen. Wayside Resort Ordered Closed. Littleton.—The Wayside Inn of Petersburg, with its remarkable history of the last ten years, has closed its doors to the pleasure-seeking public and its proprietors, W. H. Smith and Clarence Cox, face a possible $1,000 fine and a jail sentence. The two men were found guilty in the County Court at Littleton of maintaining a disorderly house. Judge George W. Dunn, before whom the case was tried suspended sentence for ten days, asked for by the defendants' counsel, in which to file a motion for a new trial. Major John M. Burke Is Dead. Denver.—Major John M. Burke, 74, for fifty years inseparable friend of the late Col. William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill"), and the best-known press agent in the world, died at the home of friends in Washington of pneumonia. He had many friends in all parts of Europe and America. Major Burke was almost as famous and was as picturesque as Buffalo Bill himself, for whom he had a profound admiration. He met Cody in the late '60s, during the Indian War, and the intimate friendship started then. Arrest Niwot Bank Robber in Oregon. Boulder.—George Ryan, who was arrested with George Wilson for blowing up the safe of the Niwot State bank on the night of Dec. 20th, last year, securing about $500 in money and the same amount in postage stamps, and who on Jan. 2d of this year led a jail break here resulting in the escape of seven prisoners, has been captured at Hermiston, Ore., according to word received here from the sheriff of Umatilla county. Two Lose Lives in Cabin Fire Leadville.—A fire which destroyed small cabin near here and which was supposed to have been inconsequential, proved to have caused the deaths of Belle Crowley and Tony Guzman, both of this city, the remains of whose bodies were found in the ruins. Another man and woman who were in the cabin at the time made their escape. Plant Seeds on Arbor Day. Denver,—Gov. Gunter's Arbor Day proclamation naming April 20 for that ceremony was an innovation in that it was the first of the long line of similar state documents to urge the planting of seeds in addition to trees and shrubs. It calls on the citizenry to aid in the campaign for more food. Husband Kills Rival and Self. Denver.—With blood streaming from a bullet wound in her cheek, Mrs. Christine Laczek, clad in a nightgown and carrying her year-old baby in her arms, fled from her husband, Max, through the streets of Globeville. Laczek had just shot Sava Alashenko, whom he found with his wife in the home of Alex. Henelz. He then shot himself in the right temple. Alashenko and Laczek died at the county hospital a few hours later. Mrs. Laczek's condition is not critical NOTHING DOWN AND 17 CTS. A DAY BUYS A PIANO. SALE NOW ON. THE PIANO EXCHANGE H. A. TRIGGS, Manager 211 Charles Block. 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CAFE ROOM ver, Colorado Short Orders at All Hours Barber Shop Massage SERVICE 926 19th St. Denver d Hat Co. IN 3203 1876 OF THE WEST HATS NEW HATTERS VERS AND FINISHERS Of Every Description Denver, Colo. RES. PHONE GALLUP 943 ETTIG taple Groceries STREET Denver, Colo. VINE ```markdown ``` A WOMAN WITH A TRAY PRESIDENT WILSON ISSUES AN APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY Executive in Personal Message Urges United Action in War for Liberty. FARMERS HOLD NATION'S FATE Asks Them to Make Every Possible Effort to Supply Abundant Food for Ourselfes, Our Army and Navy and for the Nations Whom We Are Now Allied With. Washington, April 17.—President Wilson on Sunday night addressed a personal appeal to his fellow countrymen and called upon every American citizen—man, woman and child—to join together to make the nation a unit for the preservation of its ideals and for triumph of democracy in the world war. "The supreme test of the nation has come," says the address. "We must all speak, act and serve together." Text of Address. The address follows: "My fellow countrymen: "The entrance of our own beloved country into the grim and terrible war for democracy and human rights which has shaken the world creates so many problems of national life and action which call for immediate consideration and settlement that I hope you will permit me to address to you a few words of earnest counsel and appeal with regard to them. "We are rapidly putting our navy upon an effective war footing and are about to create and equip a great army, but these are the simplest parts of the great task to which we have addressed ourselves. "There is not a single selfish element, so far as I can see, in the cause we are fighting for. We are fighting for what we believe and wish to be the rights of mankind and for the future peace and security of the world. "These, then, are the things we must do and do well, besides fighting—the things without which mere fighting would be fruitless: "We must supply abundant food for ourselves and for our armies and our seamen not only, but also for a large part of the nations with whom we have now made common cause, in whose support and by whose sides we shall be fighting. Must Supply Ships. "We must supply ships by the hundreds out of our shipyards to carry to the other side of the sea, submarines or no submarines, what will every day be needed there, and abundant materials out of our fields and our mines and our factories with which not only to clothe and equip our own forces on land and sea but also to clothe and support our people for whom the gallant fellows under arms can no longer work, to help clothe and equip the armies with which we are co-operating in Europe, and to keep the looms and manufactories there in raw materials; coal to keep the fires going in ships at sea and in the furnaces across the sea; steel out of which to make arms and ammunition both here and there; rails for worn-out railroads back of the fighting fronts; locomotives and rolling stock to take the place of those every day going to pieces; mules, horses, cattle for labor and for military service; everything with which the people of England and France and Italy and Russia have usually supplied themselves, but cannot now afford the men, the materials or the machinery to make. Need Greater Efficiency. "It is evident to every thinking man that our industries, in farms, in shippards, in the mines, in the factories, must be made more prolific and more efficient than ever, and that they must be more economically managed and better adapted to the particular requirements of our task than they have been; and what I want to say is that the men and the women who devote their thought and their energy to these things will be serving the country and conducting the fight for peace and freedom just as truly and just as effectively as the men on the battlefield or in the trenches. Appeal to Farmers. "Thousands, nay, hundreds of thousands of men otherwise liable to military service, will of right and of necessity be excused from that service and assigned to the fundamental, sustaining work of the fields and factories, and mines, and they will be as much part of the great patriotic forces of the nation as the men under fire. "I take the liberty, therefore, of FRENCH CHURCHES IN RUINS Tombs Are Rifled and Sacred Things Are Defiled by the German Troops. London.—The correspondent of the Times with the British army in France telegraphs the following description of the desecration of a French church by the Germans before they retreated: "Though the Germans left in a hurry, they had time enough to wreak their hatred on the church, to rifle the addressing this word to the farmers of the country and to all who work on the farms: The supreme need of our own nation and of the nations with which we are co-operating is an abundance of supplies, and especially of foodstuffs. The importance of an adequate food supply, especially for the present year, is superlative. "Without abundant food, alike for the armies and the peoples now at war, the whole great enterprise upon which we have embarked will break down and fall. Hold Fate of Nations. "The world's food reserves are low. Not only during the present emergency but for some time after pence shall have come both our own people and a large proportion of the people of Europe must rely on the harvests in America. "Upon the farmers of this country, therefore, in large measure, rests the fate of the war and the fate of the nations. May the nation not count upon them to omit no step that will increase the production of their land or that will bring about the most effectual co-operation in the sale and distribution of their products? "The time is short. It is of the most imperative importance that everything possible be done and done immediately to make sure of large harvests. I call upon young men and old alike and upon the able-bodied boys of the land to accept and act upon this duty—to turn in hosts to the farms and make certain that no pains and no labor is lacking in this great matter. "I particularly appeal to the farmers of the South to plant abundant food-stuffs as well as cotton. Trade to Be Unhampered. "The course of trade shall be as unhampered as it is possible to make it, and there shall be no unwarranted manipulation of the nation's food supply by those who handle it on its way to the consumer. "This let me say to the middlemen of every sort, whether they are handling our foodstuffs or our raw materials of manufacture or the products of our mills and factories: The eyes of the country will be especially upon you. This is your opportunity for signal service, efficient and disinterested. The country expects you, as it expects all others, to forego unusual profits, to organize and expedite shipments of supplies of every kind, but especially of food, with an eye to the service you are rendering and in the spirit of those who enlist in the ranks, for their people, not for themselves. "I shall confidently expect you to deserve and win the confidence of people of every sort and station. Efficiency on Railroads. "To the men who run the railways of the country, whether they be managers or operative employees, let me say that the railways are the arteries of the nation's life, and that upon them rests the immense responsibility of seeing to it that those arteries suffer no obstruction of any kind, no inefficiency or slackened power. "To the merchant let me suggest the motto, 'Small profits and quick service,' and to the shipbuilder the thought that the life of the war depends upon him. The food and the war supplies must be carried across the seas no matter how many ships are sent to the bottom. The places of those that go down must be supplied at once. "To the miner let me say that he stands where the farmer does: The work of the world waits on him. If he slackens or fails, armies and statesmen are helpless. He also is enlisted in the great Service army. Every Garden Helps. "Let me suggest also that every one who creates or cultivates a garden helps, and helps greatly, to solve the problem of the feeding of the nations; and that every housewife who practices strict economy puts herself in the ranks of those who serve the nation. "This is the time for America to correct her unpardonable fault of wastefulness and extravagance. Let every man and every woman assume the duty of careful, provident use and expenditure as a public duty, as a dictate of patriotism which no one can now expect ever to be excused or forgiven for ignoring. "In the hope that this statement of the needs of the nation and of the world in this hour of supreme crisis may stimulate those to whom it comes and remind all who need reminder of the solemn duties of a time such as the world has never seen before, I beg that all editors and publishers everywhere will give as prominent publication and as wide circulation as possible to this appeal. Supreme Test Has Come. "I venture to suggest also to all advertising agencies that they would perhaps render a very substantial and timely service to the country if they would give it widespread repetition. And I hope that clergymen will not think the theme of it an unworthy or inappropriate subject of comment and homily from their pulpits. "The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all speak, act and serve together." tombs. Slabs had been lifted bodily from the graves, not by an explosion but by human hands. The graves are empty. What was the ghoulish motive? Was it for the sake of the lead in which the bodies were incased? It may have been, or else mere spite against all sacred things which found full vent in the wreckage of the church. Churches reduced to ruins by gunfire are a plitable sight, but one to which we become accustomed here. 250,000 GERMANS ROUTED BY FRENCH FRESH TROOPS HURLED IN VAIN AGAINST INFURIATED ALLIED LEGIONS. PUSH EAST OF RHEIMS GERMANS MASS ARMY FOR DRIVE ON PETROGRAD, TO CUT OFF CAPITAL FROM ARMY. Western Newspaper Union News Service. French Headquarters in France, April 20.—Some of the most terrific and bloodiest fighting in the course of the war enabled the French to increase their bag of prisoners to more than 17,000 on the third day of the battle, while the total of the field and heavy cannon which they captured reached nearly eighty, not counting many others buried in the mud. Along nearly every point of the long line stretching from St. Quentin far to the eastward of Rheims, the French pushed forward and occupied positions from which a further advance was promised. More than 250,000 fresh German troops were brought up to resist the French assault. Nothing seemed able to stay them, even though the elements were strongly against them. It snowed, hailed or rained from dawn till night. That section of von Hindenburg's "granite wall" which runs from Soissons to Rheims has been shaken to its foundation by the terrible blows of Gen. Nivelle. Petrograd, April 20.—German preparations to attack the northern front, supported by a German fleet, reports of which appear to be well founded, bear out the war office warning, recently issued, that the enemy means to march on Petrograd. The preparations consist of the massing of troops on the Dvinsk Riga front and the concentration of troops, warships and shallow-draft ships in Baltic sea ports. A portion of the German fleet is reported to have moved from Kiel to Libau. CATHOLICS PLEDGE LOYALTY. Support for War Promised President by Cardinal Gibbons. Washington, April 20.—One of the most far-reaching and momentous episodes of the European war took place here when Cardinal Gibbons and a committee of the dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church in America waited, by special arrangement, upon President Wilson and presented to him an address, signed by Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop Hanna of San Francisco and Archbishop Glennon of St. Louis, pledging to the President in the most unqualified terms the complete adhesion, support, co-operation, loyalty and service of the Catholic men, hospitals, institutions, nuns and nurses to the United States. Mrs. John W. Springer Is Dead. Denver.—Mrs. Isabelle Patterson Springer, divorced wife of John W. Springer, a woman who had lived in the lap of fortune, who had rare beauty, hosts of friends, all that made life pleasant, whose charm brought death to two men and sent another to the penitentiary for life, who left Denver six years ago on the heels of the tragic scandal, possessed of money and all the prospects of a gay life that the world holds out to a beautiful woman, died in a paupers' hospital, on Blackwell's Island, New York City. "Wake-Up-America" Day. New York.-The patriotic spirit of New York was stirred by reminders of the battle of Lexington and the beginning of the American fight for independence. Nearly 200,000 persons took active part in parades and meetings and other demonstrations throughout the city to celebrate the one hundred and forty-second anniversary of the beginning of the revolution and to stimulate recruiting in the army and navy. Bandits Take $1,500. Murder Woman. Bandits Take $1,500, Murder Woman. Trinidad—The body of Mrs. Sueta Panof was found in her residence at Berwind by neighbors who were attracted to the home by cries of her baby. She had been strangled, and a money belt in which she is known to have carried $1,500 was missing. Cancel All Night Liquor Licenses. Cancel All Night Liquor Licenses. New York.—Mayor Mitchel announced after a conference with hotel and restaurant managers that allnight liquor licenses will be canceled for the duration of the war, beginning May 1. Thereafter all bars must be closed at 1 o'clock. $2.42 Paid for Wheat in Chicago. Chicago, April 20.—Notable advances marked the first half hour of trading in wheat futures yesterday. May rose 7¾ c to $2.40 and July 1¾ c to $2.05½. Later, the May option jumped to $2.42¾ and July to $2.07. There was a complete recovery of prices from the slump occasioned by the removal of duty on Canadian wheat. Purchase of canned goods for summer delivery pushed up the price of the new crop, not yet planted, in some instances 100 per cent. TILLERS OF THE SOIL SHOULD BE AIDED IN EVERY WAY THIS YEAR. Former Governor Ammons Starts a Movement to Lend Money to Farmers So They May Get Seed Planted. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver.-Elias M. Ammons, former governor of Colorado, is a farmer. Perhaps no man in the state has a better appreciation of the farmer's small needs and how comparatively simple it is for "city folks" to extend him a hand. "In the present war crisis, as never before, the friendship existing between the merchant and professional man and the tillers of the soil must be utilized," said Governor Ammons in discussing plans for increasing the planted acreage of Colorado. "The wherewithal to feed a team, to purchase a few bushels of seed, to break up a few extra acres, if extended to the farmer at the present time will mean incalculable good and may turn the scale in the coming season from famine to plenty. There are thousands of business men in Denver, who know farmers. Why should not every one of them get in touch with his friend in the country? Ask him what he needs. You would be surprised to know what a boost it would be to many a farmer of the state right now to nave $50, $75 or $100 shoved into his horny hand and told to use it in putting in crops—to get his teams in better shape for the coming plowing and cultivation ordeal, to effect some necessary machinery repairs, to hire an extra man or two during the planting season. In the long run it means doing a bit for Uncle Sam. "Every pound of grain, every bushel of potatoes, every ton of forage, that can be brought from the ground in the coming growing season will be needed in the conduct of the serious operations that are ahead for the American nation." Never in a man's lifetime will there be more splendid opportunity to render a patriotic service," said former governor Ammons, "and, what is more, in 99 cases out of 100 the bread cast upon the waters will return. Never again, in my estimation, will there be surer returns on farm labor and crops sown than in the present year. Tell your farmer friend to use the money you extend to him to the best advantage, and pay you back when he makes his harvest. The entire world is running short of food. The eyes of the whole universe are upon the farmer." Gov. Names Water Commissioners. Gov. Nathan named as water missioners the following persons to fill vacancies in the districts mentioned: District 1, D. W. McSween, Brush; 2, J. P. Higgins, Brighton; 3, Howard H. Kelly, Loveland; 5, J. A. Lee, Hygiene; 7, William M. Elliott, Golden; 8, Louis Bertolett, Littleton; 9, H. S. Rainwater, Mount Morrison; 10, W. F. Starsmore, Colorado Springs; 12, D. S. Jones, Cahon City; 13, H. W. Hendershott, Westcliffe; 14, Joe Burgess, Pueblo; 23, Frank E. Lilley, Jefferson, Park County; 24, A. I. Maloney, San Luis; 38, Charles M. White, Glenwood Springs; 40, Charles H. Luellen, Delta; 45, J. L. Herwick, Grand Valley; 48, R. E. Moan, Gleneyrie; 62, W. O. Brewer, Cimarron; 68, John W. Martin, Ridgway; 42, George M. Saunders, Mesa; 64, John M. Shea, Atwood Fish and Game Law Signed. The amendments to the game and fish laws whereby Colorado is put squarely within the federal regulations, which bar spring shooting of wild fowl, and otherwise change existing regulations as to open seasons for game, large and small, feathered and furred and finned, became the law when the governor signed House bill 258. Other measures to become laws were those protecting the laborer against giving his time on false representations, and changing the name of the state insane asylum at Pueblo to the "Colorado State Hospital." Aliens Must Surrender Ammunition. Acting upon orders from Washington, Department of Justice officials notified chiefs of police and sheriffs in this district to issue orders to their men to notify all "allen enemies" to surrender their arms to the police within twenty-four hours. If the orders are not complied with, the department will confiscate the weapons. Corporal Cotter Made Lieutenant. Clarence E. Cotter, corporal in Company B. First separate battalion, Colorado National Guard, who has just returned from the border, has been notified by the War Department that he has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Artillery. Women Form to Aid Guards. Every mother's son in the Colorado National Guard is to have a tender eye on him who will see that nothing is lacking to make his life as pleasant and comfortable as a soldier's life can be. The mothers, sisters, wives and sweethearts of members of the Guard will form a state body which will have a branch in every town of Colorado. The chief business of the organization will be to look after the welfare of the state troops. The guardsmen who have no women-folk will become its "adopted sons." Western Beef Co. Open Daily to 8:30 p. m. F THE MOST UP-TO-DATE AND SANITARY MARKETS IN THE CITY. Cured Meats of All Kinds. Fresh Vegetables, Staple and Fancy Groceries. ONE OF THE MOST USE MARKETS Fresh and Cured Meats of All and Far ONE OF THE MOST UP-TO-DATE AND SANITARY MARKETS IN THE CITY. Fresh and Cured Meats of All Kinds. Fresh Vegetables, Staple and Fancy Groceries. Our Prices Are Always the Lowest Free Delivery to All Parts of the City. 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Best Accomodations and Up-to-date Furniture P. P. PERSON, Manager. spent at home reacts in its benefits with unceasing general profit. Sent out of town it's life is ended. fia aR RAEN Copy aD LUCA ea ape ae paeasy = sa RE iaapecnaios THE-COLORADONSZAK STATESMAN CHILAULUKE 3¢ LOMAN ee Tae ceaeee fra a eel? ter ie seep So [PO mit area Cer tA A Ber AG rae 4 die leis A (BAG emg ee sf Mie As | Baan b Saeed et a een eS ed = a - a a ee Ree backhoe iy aya Reading notices, ten lines or less, 10 cents per line. Each additional line over a oe, eet ne eet ne pte cee Sr i Gea Re ers Papen rernes reer oct Decency Son aerate ocean eae aa ae Sarvatoa an soos dcalaza sisi diaFat He poatuCa bein GIGI ENIAC io dlsedans allawad oo esa than Tha GaURENS GuSEE GAGn SRE SR eee een ea at oan een ees arene car art etieeeteree st erat ENLISTMENT OF NEGROES FOR ARMY SERVICE. RDERS from the War Department include the recruiting of Negro-Amer- O icans for regular service in the infantry and cavalry branches of the army, and the opportunity is now offered to all loyal methbers of the race to demonstrate, as in the spirit of their fathers, their devoted service to their flag and country. With the reformation that is sweeping the world today—the overthrow of dynasties whoSe autocracy has merited the hate of the people and the scorn of other nations, the possible crushing defeat of Racial antipathy at the termination of present hostilities, and the severing of the tentacles of the monster RACE PREJUDICE in our own land—who knows but that a large percentage of recruits of our race at this time, with the resolution to lay on the altar of sacrifice their life blood, may insure our freedom from that mental serfdom which hinders us from uniting our actions as other races, making us victims of conditions over which we have no control. The Colorado Statesman encourages the men of color in this state, as well as the Union, to come forward and enlist under the BANNER OF THE STARS AND STRIPES at this perilous time, as the reward will not merely be to the sphere of the military, but to a portion of a population that must hold its own and be given every vestige of civil right in a few years to come. . COLORADO AND THE FOOD SITUATION. CCORDING to a statement issued by the Secretary of the United States A Department of Agriculture, the world food shortage should be met by American farmers, which means an efficient production resulting in @ great increase of food crops, and Coloradogshould prepare to do her part in this particular. ‘The statement goes on to show that the importance to the Nation of a generously adequate food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized in view of the economic problems which may as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war. Every effort should be made to produce more crops than are needed for our own requirements. Many millions of people across the seas, as well as our own people, must rely in large part upon the products of our fields and ranges. This situation will continue to exist even though hostilities should end unexpectedly soon, since European production can not be restored immediately to its normal basis. Recognition of the fact that the world at large, as well as our own consumers, must rely more strongly on American farmers this year than ever before should encourage them to strive to the utmost to meet these urgent needs, No Time for Lagging. . Quick action is necessary, as the statement from the Agricultural De- partment is as plain and reasonable as one could desire, and the theory that used to be launched by some propagandists as to over-production in our country must give way to such instructions which are founded on the facts that confront us today in the food markets of the world, Some are in- clined to doubt that a food shortage exists entirely forgetful of the almost three years’ duration of the war, when our export trade reached abnormal proportions and many of our farmers had not engaged in planting to that extent to meet the extraordinary demand. In Colorado our farmers should carry out the suggestions from Washington beginning now, as any attempt to delay will interfere with the output as a whole, which is necessary to meet present and future requirements, In the Government lands, in the State of Colorado, where many farmers are homesteading, and numbers of Negro farmers have already started to plant everything that the soil can produce, as well as the raising of chickens and small stocks, and under the guidance of scientific instructors are not 1os- ing any time in taking advantage of the government's advice. In the city of Denver a number of persons are availing themselves of the opportunity of cultivating and planting the vacant lots offered by the City Authorities, the ‘Tramway Company and other corporations, which will help to reduce the stress relative to the present high cost of living—these proving that we are not slow to assist ourselves and our government in alleviating any threatened distress, Waste No Food. After stating that about $700,000,000 worth of food is wasted, the Sec- retary of Agriculture in appealing to the nation, says: - “For partial, im- mediate relief, every individual and community should consider earnestly the matter of food conservation and the limitation of waste. As a nation we seem to have a disdain of economizing. In many homes there is a strong feeling that it is ‘only decent’ to provide more food than will be eaten and that it is demeaning to reckon closely. The experts of the Department of Agri- culture report to me that the dietary studies made by them point to an annual food waste as aforestated. Of course, the waste in families of very limited means is slight, but in the families of moderate and ample means the waste is considerable. Even if the estimate were reduced by half, the waste would still be enormous. The food waste in the household resuits in large measure from bad cooking, from improper care and handling, and, in well-to-do families, from serving an undué number of courses and an oyer- abundant supply and failing to save and utilize the food not consumed. As ‘an instance of improper handling, it is discovered that in the preparation of potatoes 20 per cent of the edible portion in many cases is discarded.” ‘This being the opinion of men who have given careful study to the food question, ought to weigh considerably with us, and we in Colorado should profit by the invaluable hints that play a great part in helping to solve the food problem, Golorade Will Therefore Accept the following suggestions from the Agricultureal Department: Feed your own family first. Don’t feed high-priced human food to hogs or chickens. « Don't pour into the sewer nourishing food in the shape of milk, skim milk, sweet or sour, soup, gravy or melted fat, or water in which cereals or vegetables have been cooked. Keep good food out of your garbage pail and kitchen sink, DEMONSTRATE THRIFT IN YOUR HOME. Make saving rather than spending your social standard. Surely the acceptance of such instructions by the people of a state—the people of the country will bring about wonder- ful results that will combat successfully with the food problem that now faces the world. : World Wastes In Useless Ways Enough Force To Do Its Work Many Times Over By DR. EDWINF. BOWERS If we took as much interest in preserving our energy as we do in pre- ‘serving cur clothes we would be far less interesting as medical “cases.” And if we were as saving of nervous and physical wear and tear as many ‘of us are of dollars and cents we would be much more profitable to our- selves and much legs so to doctors ard undertakers. We waste, in a thousand useless ways, sufficient dynamic and physical force to do the work of the world many tirpes over. We apply efficiency to abcut everything under the sun except ourselves. ‘The alert chap who tells the gang just how they should lay brick, swing shovels, drive spikes or what not does so between nervous bites on a wad of chewing gum, twitching figdets at his watch chain or some other energy-dissipating device. ‘The well-meaning friend who tells us “that everything will come out all right” frequently does so to the accompaniment of a tattoo of foot tap- ping or a plucking at anything within reach. Unconsciously she so irri- ‘tates us that we woutd like to throw something at her head. ‘The nervous, high-strang mother who is eternally admonishing the youngsters not to do whatever they are doing—or about to do—is wasting her precious balance in the bank of health faster than two women could manufacture it. And the fussy, worrying individual, who has no more idea of repose +han has a Japanese waltzing mouse, is a source of anxiety to himself and a full-fledged cause of annoyance and irritation to everyone who is penal- ized by having to associate with him. Continued Peace and Growth of Luxury Have Made United States Effeminate By REAR ADMIRAL BRADLEY A. FISKE, U. S. N., Retired ‘The principal cause of military and naval backwardness in the United States is that ever since our Civil war, which closed fifty years ago, a period of peace has continued which was broken for a short time only by the events of the Spanish war. The result has been that the brain power of the country as a whole has been diverted from military affairs to a Hegre beyond that which is safe; to a degree like that in which it was diverted in every wealthy nation in history, shortly before that nation fell. ‘ Tt was so diverted from military affairs in Assyria, Egypt, the cities of Greece, and in Rome; it was diverted from naval affairs in Holland before Holland succumbed to Great Britain ; it was so diverted in France, and devoted to the pleasures that made Paris the mistress of fashion, before the armies of France went down like tin soldiers before the real soldiers of Prussia in 1870. The cause of the diverting of attention and effort from military things is not mental so much as moral; not folly so much as eff-minacy. Tt is because of a natural yielding to the pleasures of the senses and the appetites; to the pleasures of soft beds, beautiful houses and gently rolling automobiles; to physical indolence, sweet music, silk stockings and kid gloves; to fashionable society, golf and French novels; in a word— ‘to luxury. --Yet it is at bottom the pursuit of Inxury, and the resulting strife for foreign trade, that has been the principal cause of modern wars. Conservation of the Country’s Forests Needed to Insure Adequate Paper Supply By CARL VROOMAN, Awsistant Secretary of Agriculture At the present moment we are using daily 6,000 tons of newspaper and this is increasing at the rate of 10 per cent a year. We need about seyen million cords of pulp a year for all our paper products, and at pres- ent only two-thirds of this supply is grown in our own forests. We import a third of our newsprint pulpwood from Canada, and between 15 and 20 pas cent of the pulpwood used for our other paper products, from Europe. Since the war this latter source has been cut off. In order to render the United States independent of outside sources for paper we mast first of all climinate as much as is feasible of the waste in logging. ‘Then we must re-use old paper, and develop woods hitherto unused to any considerable extent. Both publie and private enterprise must take the lead in the intelli- gent reforestation of private lands. We must provide for the development of privately owned timber lands by compelling fire protection and thus checking annual losses amounting to millions of dollars. Moreover, the public must recognize the benefits to the community afforded by the refor- estation of private lands and the burdens imposed on their owner in deferring incomes from them. The community should substitute for all other forms of taxation what is known as the yield of harvest tax on forest lands, which are managed so as to meet their public obligations. There are plenty of “paper resources” in the United States. The trouble is that they are undeveloped, unorganized and unnationalized. Women Well Qualified'to Aid Men In || Solving of Many Municipal Problems By LEWELLYN F. BAKER, Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University Unhealthy housing conditions, bad sewage disposal, contaminated wa- ter supplies, impure foods, including bad milk, child labor, juvenile crime, overcrowding, poor ventilation, dirty streets, contagious diseases, smoke ‘nuisances, alcoholism and dther drug habits, may be mentioned as among some of the problems about which women should have a vote. Formerly the woman in her home kept the house clean, saw that the food was wholesome, made sure that the slops were emptied, took precau- tions against fire and tried to educate her children and to protect them from contagious disease and immoral influences. Today this housekeeping is no longer a matter of the home alone, ‘but also one of the city, and in this civic housekeeping women can do some of the work better than men. In these municipal affairs of education, justice, charity, art, science and hygiene, women should share the management with men. The work will iraprove as soon as they do | STATESMAN ee R ; The Mouth-Piece } of the People of R : Colorado and the ; Entire West R pane R A RELIABLE chronicle : of their doings and progress; a faithful mirror 3 of their wants, their hopes, : their best aspirations. R ——s THE R | COLORADO R | . STATESMAN ~ Ct se : ) Unequaled as an advertising | medium for the business — } of professional men and | women. 7 , | ha : An excellent family journal — } speaking to and for many | , thousand colored citizens. | a a a oe ar ee ee } TWO DOLLARSA YEAR | | . | Miss Rosa Hooper left Saturday night for Chicago. R. O. Johnson who is now living in Cheyenne was in the city this week on a business trip. Mrs. W. H. Fugitte, 1348 Fox street, who was quite ill the first of the week is improving. comers." Ross says he has some n strokes that will "put the ball the every time." Time will tell. The "Y" will conduct the program of the Epworth League at Trin Church next Sunday evening at o'clock. Quite a program has be prepared, and all are invited to down who will. The Rev. Dr. D. H. Fouse, pass of the First Reformed Church w Mrs. Wm. Price of 2337 Clarkson street, who has been suffering with tonsilitis, is improving. Mrs. Edith Moore left for Colorado Springs to attend the funeral of her sister, who died in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and whose remains were shipped last Wednesday to the Springs. K. L. Lankford and H. L. McCain, proprietors of the Giant Bach-Benz Tailoring Co., have purchased a new automobile which will facilitate them in quick and prompt deliveries in the business. G. W. Halsey, employé of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad, has returned to Denver from Leadville where he resided temporarily. His many friends are glad to see him looking a picture of good health. Messrs. Earnest T. DeHolland and Curtis Williams, in the employment of the Burlington railroad, are running between here and Chicago. They express themselves highly pleased with Denver and her hospitality. John Shelbun and Clarence Holmes, Sr., well known Denver citizens, are making the trip to various points between Salt Lake and California on the private car of Mr. Charles Boetcher, president of the Denver and Salt Lake railroad. FIFTY COLORED MEN from Texas arrived in the city Thurs day night to accept employment at the Colorado & Southern Freight Office HENNING'S FOR SHOES So popular is this shoe store for best shoes and popular prices, that the public, in spite of the increased prices of household articles and wearing apparel, still patronize the firm of Henning in more than an ordinary manner. Special attention to customers and new patrons is the basis of success, and the sale of spring shoes at very moderate prices will help to establish the value of having such a firm in our city, defying competition in quality and price. Visit early and secure a bargain. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. The funeral of Mrs. Sarah E. Robinson, the mother of Mrs. Ella Walker, late of 2226 Arapahoe street, who departed this life at her home Saturday, April 14th, was held from Antioch Baptist church, Tuesday, the 17th, at 2 p.m. Cammel Co. in charge. Interment, Riverside, Rev. Murphy officiating. The funeral of Mr. Jaywardiane S. Ramiah, the beloved husband of Mrs. Edith Baker Ramiah, who departed this life at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Baker, 2337 Glenarm street, Saturday, April 14th, at 3:30 p. m., was held from Zion Baptist Church, Tuesday, April 17th, at 2:30 p. m., Rev. D. E. Over officiating, assisted by Rev. Bell of the Y. M. C. A. Interment, Fairmount, Cammel & Co. in charge. The funeral of Mrs. Emma Pryor, who departed this life at a local hospital, Sunday, April 15th, was held from the Cammel & Co. Chapel, Wednesday, April 18th, Rev. A. M. Ward officiating, Cammel & Co. in charge, Interment, Riverside. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Forty boys stood by a few evenings ago and saw a team of boys from the Central "Y" defeat our boys at pocket billiards by a score of two to one. The Central boys defeated our boys in all the different combinations by practically the same score. The Central boys were a decent and courteous group, and made a favorable impression on all who met them. The croquet season was opened last Saturday afternoon. The first real contest was played between King and Bell, the score being and even one 4 to 4. The men's court is now being prepared, and will soon be ready, then some real croquet will be played. Sims is dying to meet King, and Lightner says he is ready for 'all --- comers." Ross says he has some new strokes that will "put the ball there every time." Time will tell. The "Y" will conduct the program of the Epworth League at Trinity Church next Sunday evening at 6 o'clock. Quite a program has been prepared, and all are invited to go down who will. The Rev. Dr. D. H. Fouse, pastor of the First Reformed Church, will be the speaker at the men's meeting next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. Special music will be rendered by Mr. Bassett of Colorado Springs. All will be welcome. CAMPBELL CHAPEL, AFRICAN M E. CHURCH-23D and Lawrence. A. M. Ward, Minister. Phone Main 5474. Res. 1218 23d St. Sunday School, 9:45 a. m., Virgil N. Wolfskill, supt. Preaching 11 a. m., and 8 p. m. Class meeting 12:30 p. m. Allen Christian Endeavor League 7 p. m., Charles Hegwood, president. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, 8 p. m. Class meeting Friday, 8 p. m. The public is invited to attend any or all of our services. Interesting services were held last Sunday. The pastor occupied the pulpit in the morning and there was one addition to the membership. The special program by the choir was enjoyed by a large audience in the evening. The third quarterly meeting of this conference year will be held by Presiding Elder R. L. Pope on Sunday. Presiding Elder Pope will preach at 11 a. m. and at 8 p. m. The Rev. A. Wayman Ward will deliver the sermon at the celebration of the Holy Communion at 3 p. m., when our sister churches, Shorter Chapel, Rev. C. A. Williams, pastor, Scott's M. E. Church, Rev. G. Sterling Sawyer, pastor, and others will worship with us. Mr. Dennis M. Hudson and Miss Alice Eugene Payne were united in holy wedlock in the presence of relatives and close friends of the bride and groom on the evening of April 12th. The Rev. A. M. Ward officiated. Miss Lee, cousin to the bride, played the wedding march. It was a quiet but very pretty affair. Campbell Chapel will present Miss Ruby C. Pettiford, noted reader and impersonator, in recital on May 22nd at the church. USEFULNESS OF THE COLORADO STATESMAN. 980 Marion St., Denver, Colo. April 17, 1917. Mr. J. D. D. Rivers, Dear Sir—The Woman's Election Committee wishes to thank you for your very fine editorial on the school question. We see that you understand the situation perfectly and that you realize that concerted action must be taken against the miserable politics which at present rules our public schools. The three candidates indorsed by the Civic and Commercial Association have no personal gain in view in their election to the School Board. They simply want as do we all, efficient, clean schools for our children. Thanking you again for your co-operation, I remain, Yours sincerely, JENNIE H. BAKER, Sec. The above letter, received by us Wednesday of this week, is another acknowledgment of the position of the Colorado Statesman and what it stands for. There are times when in defense of our race and the prosecution of wrongs perpetrated by the white citizens of our community, we are thought to be harsh in our denunciation of such wrongs, and some narrow-minds try to institute actions destructive to our success and the life of the paper; but, with our determination to be an advocate for right at all times and under all circumstances, we are grateful to individuals, organizations or any other sources that acknowledge our help to the people irrespective of class, creed or color. When it comes to public service, where success or failure affects the people in general, there is no time for differences as to color or class, and the school question of Denver, Colorado, MUST be looked upon from the standpoint of a WHOLE and not a PART. It is, therefore, with that spirit, that we advise the electors of the City and County of Denver to be specially interested in this school election and prove by their vote on Monday, May 7th, that men elected for the government of our schools must be of a type that insures the confidence of the people and whose interest in the welfare of our educational system, being undivided, will HENRY SCHOEN Smoke Submarine, Ford, Judge Good, Kaiserhoff or El Omica Cigars PHONE SOUTH 4405 W 308 KITTREDGE BUILDING DENVER, COLORADO merit the success attendant with such efforts. We thank this lady and her Association for their appreciation of our article, which encourages us to continue our work in any good cause. (EDITOR.) THE PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN. E. 23rd Ave. and Washington Street. Pastor: J. A. Thos-Hazell, S. T. B. Sermon topics: Sunday, April 22—11 a. m., "At Ease in Zion"; 5 p. m., "Other Resurrections than Jesus." The choir rendered their post-Easter recital last Sabbath evening to the musical satisfaction of those present. Messrs. C. Clark and W. Gatewood and Miss Dimple Gatewood were very effective indeed. The selection of Mr. Gatewood being a violin solo. The choruses were very pleasingly rendered. Visiting clergymen being Rev. Young of Topeka, Kan., at present evangelist at Scotts M. E.; Rev. Sawyers of Scotts, and Rev. O. J. McLeod of the Union Church at Dearfield. The annual meeting of the Presbytery of Denver last Tuesday at the South Broadway Church was very largely attended. The Rev. Chas, Mead of Trinity M. E. Church preached the retiring moderator's sermon for Dr. Penny Martin. Dr. Chas. G. Williams, father of the People's Church, was unanimously elected moderator for the years 1917-18. Rev. J. A. Thos-Hazell won his second victory in the fight for the abolishing of the Freedmen's Board when a communication sent down to the other Presbyteries of the church from Pittsburg, the seat of the Freedmen's Board, to not sustain the contention of the promoters and agitators of the merging of the Freedmen's and Home Missions' Boards. The Presbytery having unanimously approved the proposed merger refused to act on the overture from the Presbytery of Pittsburg. The fight for Christian democracy will be waged on the floor of the next General Assembly at Dallas, Texas, the third Thursday of May. The pastor announces the class for the instruction of candidates for church membership is now open in the People's Church. Interested persons take note. By order of the session a special meeting of the congregation is hereby summoned to take place Monday night 8 o'clock in the chapel. Objects: 1. Report from the Presbytery. 2. Publicly announcing names dropped from the church roster for wilful direliction of duties and forsaking the means of grace. 3. The adoption of plans for the future conduct of the work. 4. Announcing the contributors' names for Easter offering. GRAND LODGE K. OF P. OF VIRGINIA WINS SUIT. The Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, at Washington, handed down a decision Friday, April 13th, Justice McCoy presiding, in which it was decided that the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Virginia, was wrongfully expelled from the Supreme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, N. A., S. A., E., A., A. & A. This is the culmination favorably to the Grand Lodge, K. of P., of Virginia, of a suit instituted by that body against the Supreme Lodge to restrain that tribunal from enforcing the proclamation of the Supreme Chancellor suspending the Grand Lodge of Virginia and all the members in the subordinate lodges in that grand jurisdiction from the Order. At the session of the Supreme Lodge at Baltimore, the action of the Supreme Chancellor was sustained and a resolution adopted expelling the Grand Lodge, K. of P. of Virginia from the Order. A restraining order was obtained from Mr. Justice Ashley M. Gould of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, forbidding the Supreme Chancellor from enforcing his own proclamation or the decree of the Supreme Lodge. At the session of the Supreme Lodge at Columbus, O., the injunction or restraining order was not obeyed and the Grand Lodge, K. of P. of Virginia, through counsel and with the concerted action of the Supreme Representatives, John Mitchell Jr., Thomas M. Crump, E. R. Jefferson and T. H. Wyatt instituted contempt proceedings in the Supreme Court at Washington against S. W. Green, Dr. E. E. Underwood, R. R. Jackson, for violating the restraining order. The original suit and the contempt proceedings were consolidated at the hearing by mutual consent of counsel and the result is announced that Virginia has won its contention in the cause at issue. Fern Hall, 2711 Welton, R. L. Phy nix, Manager. Phone Main 2860. NOTICE. All cards of thanks, funeral notices, resolutions and in memoriams must be paid for IN ADVANCE, or will be withheld from the columns of this paper. High Cost of Living THE "high cost of living" will be a mild name or a very modified term in expressing the great increase or the high prices that will be attached to our food products during this war period, and the people of Colorado must busy themselves at once in moving the heads of our state and city government to action that will hinder the corporations that control the market from obtaining the great profits that they generally make in perilous times like these. In previous conflicts, wealth of vast proportions has been acquired from the masses—they being powerless to do anything to combat with the steady increase in the price of foodstuffs, and now that a recurrence threatens, strong representations should be made to the Governor, the Mayor and any other authority for a proper adjustment which will be more beneficial than distressing to the public. Of course the saying, "the people will stand for anything," has lost its force, and if we have representatives possessing the welfare of the community at heart, there ought to be good reason to believe that the present is an opportunity for them to prove their worth and honest intentions. The President has issued his warning against unfair treatment of the American people in this particular by those who seize such unfortunate times in the history of a country to multiply their millions by draining our last financial resources, unmindful of our inability to exist, and as the necessity arises for federal action, so should it be for state. The cry "shortage of crop" can be stopped right in Colorado, if certain advantages will be afforded the farmer in the way of monetary assistance from the loan funds, etc.; and if there is an increase in the development of products, prices should not reach an abnormal degree. It would serve a very valuable purpose, then, if any commission appointed by the Governor or the Mayor would get down to work right away and probe the workings of these merchants who are not satisfied with a fair margin of profit, but who will oppress us to the greatest to fill their coffers and satisfy their greed of gain. We hope our authorities will expedite and save us from this wretched vampire—HIGH COST OF LIVING. TO SOLDIERS. Your attention is directed to the fact that a number of the recently issued life insurance policies require the payment of an additional war premium and permission from the insurance companies before engaging in DENVER MILITARY OR NAVAL SERVICE. It is the desire of the Insurance Department of Colorado to be of service in this regard, and I suggest that everyone enlisting for military or naval service send their insurance policies to this department for inspection. These should be sent in as early as possible, and will be handled promptly and without expense to the policyholders. C. W. FAIRCHILD, Commissioner of Insurance, State Capitol, Denver. YOUNG MEN MARRIED SINCE WAR BEGAN WILL NOT BE EX- EMPT FROM SERVICE. Washington. April 19. — The hundreds of young men who rushed to the marriage license bureaus when it was learned that married men were to be exempted from military duty are to have their pains for nothing. The war department today ruled that all men who have been married since the declaration that a state of war existed will be liable to military duty just as single men are. The ruling came from the department after receipt of reports from all parts of the United States said that men were undoubtedly rushing into marriage in order to escape military duty. 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—Nicely furnished rooms, strictly modern; prices reasonable. Rooms for light housekeeping for man and wife. 2434 Tremont Place, Denver. Phone Main 1289 g y ys Hearts of All King Baby Sways the Hearts of All Third Floor—Lewis' This is Baby Week, and everyone who enters the store Lewis' is irresistibly drawn to the Baby Shop he awaits King Baby to greet you in true royal fash- For the amusement of the kiddies, a miniature themas been built. "Fancy dancing" is the first and thing on the program. The performance lasts all moon and from time to time fresh dancers are inced. Delightful things in the way of new spring togs for children fill the baby shop. King Baby—representative from Babyland—is here person and will present every child with a souvenir visit. Gladden the children's hearts and bring them to the Shop. And remember the troop of performers Saturday for other climes and will not return for us. Sunshiny Days---the Time to Baby Out for a Ride This is Baby Week, and everyone who enters the good store Lewis' is irresistibly drawn to the Baby Shop where awaits King Baby to greet you in true royal fashion. For the amusement of the kiddies, a miniature theater has been built. "Fancy dancing" is the first and last thing on the program. The performance lasts all afternoon and from time to time fresh dancers are introduced. Delightful things in the way of new spring togs for little children fill the baby shop. King Baby—representative from Babyland—is here in person and will present every child with a souvenir of his visit. Gladden the children's hearts and bring them to the Baby Shop. And remember the troop of performers leaves Saturday for other climes and will not return for months. Warm, Sunshiny Days----the Time to Take Baby Out for a Ride Warm, Sunshiny Days----the Time to Take Baby Out for a Ride Basement—Lewis' but baby in a new buggy and take him for a ride in bright, Colorado sunshine. Our assortment of baby vehicles has never been complete than it is now. There are plenty of reed es, sulkies and park cars awaiting your choosing. in and see them. F. Lewis & Son NEW YORK PARIS The C.W. Lyman Co. Where Style and Elegance in Mi nery Reigns Supreme We are now retailing at wholesale prices in a large wholesale house. 12,000 square feet of floor space filled with everything beautiful in millinery. New York Model Hats Sport Hats Auto Hats Put baby in a new buggy and take him for a ride in the bright, Colorado sunshine. Our assortment of baby vehicles has never been more complete than it is now. There are plenty of reed buggies, sulkies and park cars awaiting your choosing. Come in and see them. PARIS NEW YORK Where Style and Elegance in Minery Reigns Supreme We are now retailing at wholesale prices in our large wholesale house. 12,000 square feet of floor space filled with everything beautiful in millinery. Everything in Materials for the Home Milliner. Untrimmed Hats, Flowers, Faney Beaded ornaments in Japanese, Chinese and Indian signs. Untrimmed Hats, Flowers, Faney Beaded Ornaments in Japanese, Chinese and Indian Designs. Just Around the Corner From the Tower on Arapahoe St. ichaelson's Corner Fifteenth and Larimer Streets Men's Shoe Stock REGENT SHOE STORE SIXTEENTH STREET---NEAR WELTON endous Discount! Sale Now On! OF THE REGENT SHOE STORE 617-619 SIXTEENTH STREET---NEAR WELTON At a Tremendous Discount! Sale Now On! VINE Plant Grapevines. PLANT GRAPEVINES FOR BEAUTY PLANT GRAPEVINES FOR BEAUTY To me the wild grapevine produces the sweetest odor of any plant in existence. The wild grape is a handy vine, growing with scarcely any attention. It can be made to cover a side fence as a dense hedge, or trained over a trellis or up shade trees. Young plants may be secured in almost any wood or along bushy fence rows. They are transplanted in late fall or winter. Grapevines of every description are attractive, however. The blue grape with its wealth of luscious fruit should find a place on the home grounds. FOR THE AMATEUR GROWER Flowers should have a friable, very fertile soil in which to grow. They often make a brave display in rather poor soil, but they appreciate good care. Do not plant flower plants too close together. Verbenas should be at least 18 inches apart; petunias the same; phlox a foot; pansies 10 inches; zinias 18 inches; marigold 2 feet; poppies 10 inches. If flowers are too close in the bed they will not make thrifty growth nor will the flowers be as large and plentiful. Keep flower beds out of the center of the lawn. They show with better effect if used as borders for walks and around the sides of the lawn. Do you want a soft, thick turf on your lawn? If so, mow often with a lawn mower and let the clippings lie where they fall. They will soon settle in the grass and after awhile they will make a cushiony soft coat, which keeps the soil from drying out too much, and fertilizes it as they decay. If the lawn is a little bumpy, fill the depressions a little at a time with a fine garden soil. Put half an inch of soil on at a time, and let the grass grow through it before putting on any more. In this way a lawn can be made smooth in the course of a season or two without being torn up and lying bare for months. Do not plant shade trees too near the house. Give the air a chance to circulate round and through the house. Set the trees so as to shade windows during the hottest hours, if you want them shaded, but never close enough Tulips Holland Flower Box With Tulip and Hyacinth Bulbs. By LIMA R. ROSE. to prevent the air from entering the windows freely. It is a mistaken idea that ivy vines keep the house damp. They keep it dry, as the little suckers, which cling to the walls, suck the moisture from the walls instead of attracting it to them. As soon as the potted plant fills the pot in which it is planted with roots, give them a larger pot or prune it down and prune the roots so as to make fewer of them. Unless this is done the plant soon becomes pot-bound and begins to deteriorate. Geraniums grow very easy from seeds, as do coleuses. Plant the seed in very fine soil in a box, covering the box with glass, or, better yet, muslin stretched over a frame. Give the little plants plenty of air as soon as they begin to throw out the third leaf. Many interesting varieties may be grown in this way. I like to see flowers about a house and doorway. I do not remember to have ever seen an anarchist wearing a buttonhole bouquet or a very bad citizen whose house and yard contained flowers. Balsams show to best advantage when they are pruned to one straight stem. Pinch off every side branch, and the single stalk left will be completely covered with a mass of bloom. All flowers keep in bloom much longer, and the flowers are larger, if not allowed to form seeds. Pinch off every flower as soon as it begins to fade. This is especially true of sweet peas and pansies. HOW ABOUT A SMALL WATER GARDEN? A miniature water garden is practical and will prove most interesting, needing less attention than a flower bed of the same size. Have a sugar or vinegar barrel cut in two, or use a wooden tub. Sink this in the soil. Make a potting box about 12 inches square and fill with rich mud from a pond, or use half-inch loam, adding to the mud or loam about one-third of well-rotted manure. Plant the nymphaea root in this and place in the tub; fill with water until it is two or three inches deep over the root. When the growth commences and the leaves appear, water may be added from time to time until the tub is full. Never change the water, simply replace that which evaporates. SEES PROGRESS IN VOCATIONAL STUDY Uncle Sam's Bureau of Education Summarizes Important Feature of Year. NEED OF CO-OPERATION SEEN Growing Tendency to Recognize Problem as One Requiring Careful Investigation—Federal Act Excites Interest. Uncle Sam's bureau of education sees substantial progress made during the year 1916 in the development of vocational education in the United States. The bureau has issued the following condensed summary of the most significant features which have been noted as indicating the directions in which progress is taking place, as shown by the annual report of the commissioner of education: In place of the conception of vocational education as a comparatively simple matter which prevailed a few years ago, there is an evident tendency to see in it a very complex problem, for the solution of which there must be much patient investigation and the cordial co-operation of all possible educational and social agencies. There appears to be a growing recognition of the fact that vocational education will not of itself solve all the problems of life or of vocation, but that it must take its part as an essential part of a complete plan of education that provides for all legitimate interests and activities of the individual. There has been almost unprecedented interest in the proposed federal aid for vocational education; it is doubtful if any other educational bill before congress ever attracted an equal amount of popular attention. The serious objections urged against vocational education have been stated in somewhat more definite and tangible form, and the answers to these objections suggested. There has been noticeably less interest in the unit-versus-dual-control controversy, the preponderance of opinion appearing to be against the organization of special independent boards for the control of vocational education. Day Continuation Schools. In the states which have organized departments for the promotion of vocational education on a state-wide basis, the greatest progress noted during the year appears to have been in the development of the day continuation school for young employed workers. Recognition of the importance of proper machinery for insuring a supply of adequately trained teachers, including an effective plan of certification, is gradually making itself felt, though there still remains much ground to be traversed. The emphasis on language work in vocational schools, and the high grade of results of such work as exhibited in numerous school papers and magazines, written, edited and printed by students, afford ample evidence that the cultural possibilities of vocational education are not being neglected, and that the necessity of a thorough grounding in the fundamentals of education is clearly recognized. In the vocational guidance field the important progress of the year has been a further development of interest on the part of the public school, and the resulting beginning of modification of school methods and courses of study. In convention deliberations and in magazine articles there has been increasing emphasis on the significance of art in industry, and the great importance of more adequate attention to this matter in all plans for education. Careful Studies First Made. Within the past year or two there have been several notable instances of the employment of a trained director, with instructions to make a careful study of conditions before buildings or courses of study are planned—in contrast with what has been a rather common practice in other types of school in the past, namely, to erect and equip the building and then seek a principal. The extension of the survey idea to the field of state-wide investigations, in which the bureau of education has done pioneer work, has for the first time been applied to a state-wide vocational education survey in Indiana, where a study has been inaugurated by a group of agencies working in cooperation. There has been much discussion, as well as actual development, in the field of so-called prevocational education. There has been a notable development of new types of work in the manual training shops, in the effort to meet the demand for courses that shall be more practical and that shall have more real value in preparing the way for specific industrial education. There has been a noticeable tendency in the direction of a more sympathetic and sane appraisal of the values of the manual arts in the public school on the part of the partisans of so-called real vocational education. Government scientists in the Philippines are studying a shrub that grows prolifically in the belief that camphor may be produced from it. The "Medal of Honor." The highest award of merit attainable by any American military or naval man is the "Medal of Honor," which corresponds in importance to the "Iron Cross" of Germany and the "Victoria Cross" of Great Britain. The "Medal of Honor" is given to very few persons and only in cases of extraordinary valor. One of the latest recipients of this badge of honor is Sergeant Major Roswell Winans, U. S. Marine corps, to whom it was awarded for extraordinary heroism displayed in a battle with rebels in Santo Domingo. Winans/ operated a machine gun against the enemy, only 150 yards away, in the face of a heavy fire to which he was fully exposed. When a jam put the gun temporarily out of commission he stood up and coolly repaired it, maintaining his perilous position and resumed firing until the bandits deserted their trenches. Marine corps officials say Winans' prompt action saved the lives of many of his companions. BIG GAIN IN FUEL BRIQUETS Uncle Sam's Figures Show Production in 1916 Was Increased 33 Per Cent Over Previous Year. The production of fuel briquets in the United States in 1916 was 295-155 net tons, valued at $1,445,662, an increase compared with 1915 of 73,618 tons, or 33 per cent in quantity and $409,946, or 40 per cent, in value, according to Uncle Sam's figures. The production in 1916 was the greatest recorded, exceeding that of 1916, the previous high record, by 44,520 tons. This increase in the production of fuel briquets in 1916 is attributed by C. E. Lesher of the United States geological survey to the improvement in trade conditions arising from the unusual demand for coal, and to a greater general appreciation of the value of briquets for use as household fuel. During the last two years the product of many of the plants has been so much improved that it gives off less of the heavy, turry smoke that domestic consumers have found so objectionable. Youth Fears "Slackers Will Get the Best Girls Many and varied are the arguments advanced for universal military service in the United States. For example one Harvard student warned that such service should be inaugurated "to prevent unpatriotic fellows from landing all the choice girls while the patriotic men are serving their country." The boys, the student said, who are long on piano playing and short on response to calls from their country will get girls because they stay at home—girls who otherwise might wish to marry those who went out. Hidden Waters. Owing to many causes the amount of water held in the rocks or other materials that compose the earth varies greatly. The amount absorbed depends on the porosity of the material, the slope of the surface and the size and abundance of joint cracks, fissures and cavities. The amount of water in drift or surface material is dependent to some extent on the nature of the underlying rock, and the amount that finds its way into the solid rocks is dependent on the thickness of the overlying deposits. The amount of water contained in the crust of the earth—to a depth of three miles—has been estimated by different writers with widely different results. A recent estimate is given by Mr. Fuller of the United States geological survey, department of the interior, who concludes that the total amount of free water in the crust of the earth would make a layer 100 feet thick over the entire surface of the earth. Other writers have estimated the amount as very much greater. 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Six of the ten members of the committee are shown in this photograph, which was taken at a conference held by the committee with manufacturers of aerial craft. They are, seated, left to right: Dr. S. W. Stratton of the bureau of standards, secretary; Dr. Joseph S. Ames, Rear Admiral David W. Taylor and Dr. Charles D. Walcott of the Smithsonian Institution, chairman. Standing just back of Admiral Taylor is Lieut. J. H. Towers, U. S. N. Sidney D. Walden, a member of the committee, is in the second row, standing back of Doctor Ames. CHINA IS AWAKENING Great Development Predicted by Uncle Sam's Experts. Four Hundred Million People at Beginning of Vast Industrial Growth, It Is Asserted. One of the most interesting of the many studies made for business men and manufacturers of the country by Uncle Sam's "business getter," the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, has been completed by experts in looking about for a market for American hardware in the far East. Those who made this study are calling the attention of the manufacturers of the country to the fact that in China alone there are 400,000,000 people who are merely at the beginning of a vast industrial development. It is estimated by the experts who took up this work that at present probably as much as 90 per cent of China's vast population may be classified as agricultural. In that country, therefore, intensive agriculture is the universal practice. In connection with this intensive cultivation it was found that primitive methods are followed, and that modern agricultural tools and implements are still virtually unknown. This should prove, it is thought by the bureau, to be a very fruitful field for the American manufacturers of this commodity, especially as it is stated by those who looked into the situation that the conditions will more nearly approach those obtaining in farming sections of the United States. From a modern industrial standpoint China is still in its infancy. Its industries may be considered, say the investigators, as confined to those of the household variety. China's position in the industrial world is very well indicated by the fact that as yet the government has enacted no factory laws, because there are so few factories. The fact, it is pointed out, that China's entire import trade at present is no more than $400,000,000 a year, far less than that of some countries having only one-tenth of its population, should not be used as a criterion of the trade possibilities of the country. What should engage the attention of our American manufacturers, the experts say, especially those of hardware materials, is the future prospects that China offers through the marvelous development that will inevitably take place during the next few decades in its industrial, mining and manufacturing activities. These experts of the bureau, who have made other studies of many foreign lands, say that, in their opinion, China is on the eve of an immense industrial development, that will produce demands of whose extent it is now impossible to form any conception. TO ENLIST 25,000 DOCTORS Auxiliary Medical Committee for National Defense Seeks This Number for Reserve Forces. Twenty-five thousand medical reserve officers is the goal of a recruiting campaign inaugurated by the auxiliary medical committee for national defense. "Twenty-five thousand is not too many to begin with," says Surgeon General William C. Gorgas. The basis of this estimate is ten surgeons for every 1,000 men. A committee of ten physicians has been appointed to study the plans followed in England and France, under which the practice of doctors who enter military or naval service is taken over in their absence by physicians who remain in civil life and returned intact when the army and navy surgeons are mustered out of service. WEAKENS THE NATION WEAKENS THE NATION High Infant Mortality Seen as Dangerous by Uncle Sam. Conditions Which Make Infant Death Rate Big Affect Health of Survivors, It Is Declared. How the strength of the nation is being impaired by the conditions which make babies sicken and die, and what some 2,000 communities have done to awaken interest in the conservation of the youngest citizens are briefly reviewed in a new bulletin on baby-week campaigns which has been issued by the Children's bureau of Uncle Sam's department of labor. Approximately one in ten of all the babies born in the United States dies before completing twelve months of life, and the Children's bureau says: "It was once thought that a high infant death rate indicated a greater degree of vigor in the survivors. Now it is agreed that the conditions which destroy so many of the youngest lives of the community must also result in crippling and malming many others and must react unfavorably upon the health of the entire community." Two thousand and one hundred communities have reported to the Children's bureau the details of a baby day or a baby week by which they called attention to the need of protecting pamphlets. Ingenious devices for exhibits, new methods of distributing pamphlets on baby care, ways in which information on local conditions was secured and published and other interesting features from these local reports are described in the bulletin as suggestive for those who are planning a similar campaign. BUG HAS "TOBACCO HABIT" Uncle Sam's Experts Study Insect Which Is Responsible for Familiar Holes in Cigars and Cigarettes. Every smoker of cigars and ready-made cigarettes knows that often one of these things will not draw because of a puncture that has been made in the wrapper by some insect that evinces a marked fondness for tobacco. That insect not only chews tobacco, but actually eats it, and, more than that, it feeds exclusively on tobacco, and because of its activity one might be justified in assuming that its health is good. This destructive insect is generally known as the cigarette beetle, and his official name is lasioderma serricorne. A good many of the characteristics of this beetle are treated of in a bulletin issued by Uncle Sam's department of agriculture under the caption, "The Principal Insects Affecting the Tobacco Plant." This beetle has become of considerable trouble and loss to wholesale and retail tobacco dealers within recent years, and the report is that it is multiplying in factories, warehouses, tobacco barns and stores. In injury is done by this beetle to leaf tobacco before it is made up into cigars. Tobacco has a long list of insect enemies that attack the young, the growing and the mature plant. The list as compiled by the entomologists and tobacco experts of the department of agriculture includes the tobacco beetle, the white speck northern tobacco worm, also known as the horn worm; southern tobacco worm, the bud worms, the suck fly, the tobacco leaf miner or spit worm, cutworms, cabbage plusia, the tobacco thrips, the white fly of tobacco, tree crickets, the mealy bug, tobacco louse, tobacco slugs, the cigarette beetle and the drug-store beetle. ORIGINAL IN POOR CONDITION THE KITCHEN CABINET People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.-Goldsmith. SEASONABLE DISHES. Variety is the aim of most cooks, together with economy and palatability; we have three very important points to consider. The following dishes may prove suggestive: Bread Flaked Fish and Vegetable Hash. Take equal parts of cold boiled potatoes, beets, carrots and turnips finely chopped. Season to taste with paprika, celery salt and a quarter of a cupful of cream, season with a teaspoonful of worcestershire sauce and turn into a heated frying pan which has been greased with a tablespoonful of bacon fat. Stir the hash rapidly until well heated, roll and let brown, turn on to a hot platter as an omelet. Eggs Scrambled With Dried Beef.—Cover six slices of dried beef with boiling water, let stand ten minutes, and drain; if not too salty this is not necessary; shred in small pieces. Beat two eggs slightly, add three tablespoonfuls of milk, and the beef. Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan, add the egg mixture and stir until of a creamy consistency. Baked Rice With Cheese.—Put a cupful of rice into a quart of boiling water with $1\frac{1}{2}$ teaspoonfuls of salt, cook for an hour or until soft. Melt three tablespoonfuls of butter, add three of flour, and when smooth add two cupfuls of hot milk; cook until smooth and thick, then add one cupful of finely cut cheese and mix lightly with the rice. Put into a buttered baking dish and cover with buttered crumbs. Brown and serve piping hot. Pear Salad.—Place halves of canned pears on head lettuce served with the following: Two tablespoonfuls of olive oil, one teaspoonful of vinegar, salt, pepper and a bit of French mustard to taste. Roquefort cheese may be added, a tablespoonful or two mixed with the dressing, and the pears may be cut in strips and served on crisp watercress. Vesuvius Eggs. — Toast slices of bread cut three-quarters of an inch thick. Butter them after trimming in squares. Heap high on each the stiffly beaten white of an egg and slip an unbroken yolk into the depression. Put into a hot oven and cook until the egg is set. Garnish with parsley and serve. Nut Sauce.—Melt one tablespoonful of butter, add one tablespoonful of browned flour, one and one-half cupfuls of milk, salt, pepper and a teaspoonful of lemon juice, then add a fourth of a cupful of finely-crushed nut meats. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but it is just as well to be provided with both. GOOD THINGS FOR THE TABLE Watercress is found in so many springs that it should be more widely it should be more widely used. As a spring tonic it has no equal in the vegetable line, served with French dressing or eaten with a sprinkling of salt with a lamb chop, it is an ideal salad and garnish. used. As a spring tonic it has no equal in the vegetable line, served with French dressing on eaten with a sprinkling of salt with a lamb chop, it is an ideal salad and garnish. Cream of Watercress Soup—Pick over and wash two quarts, or four bunches, of cress, boll it in a quart of water for five minutes, drain and save the water. Pound the cress with two tablespoonfuls of butter. In a saucepan mix four tablespoonfuls of flour and three of butter, when well blended add the cress water and two quarts of veal broth, cook 15 minutes. Skim, add the cress, strain, and return to a saucepan and thicken with the yolks of four eggs beaten with a cupful of thin cream. Pour very hot into a tureen and serve with croutons. Curry of Chicken.—Melt two tablespoonfuls of butter, add one teaspoonful of finely chopped onions and half a chopped apple. Fry them together, then add a tablespoonful of grated coconut, one quarter of a spoonful of English mustard, one tablespoonful each of curry and flour. Mix all together and cook two minutes, then moisten with a cupful of chicken stock. When boiling add the meat of half a fowl torn in shreds and let simmer for ten minutes, add three tablespoonfuls of cream and season with salt and pepper. Serve with fresh boiled rice. Crispettes.—Beat two eggs and stir into them a cupful of white and brown sugar mixed, add four tablespoonfuls of flour, a pinch of salt and a teaspoonful of vanilla. Beat thoroughly, add a cupful of walnuts chopped fine. Drop the dough by teaspoonfuls into buttered pans, allowing three inches, for the cakes to spread. Serve with fruit for dessert or with afternoon tea. They should be baked until crisp and brown. Ginger Mousse.—Dissolve a tablespoonful of gelatin in a fourth of a cupful of water, add a pinch of salt and three-fourths of a cupful of granulated sugar. Stir into this a pint of whipped cream flavored with two tablespoonfuls of the ginger, sirup and one tablespoonful of lemon juice. Add one cupful of Canton ginger (chopped) just before freezing. Nellie Maxwell $STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1916 AND COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY. UNION HEALTH AND ACCIDENT COMPANY of Denver, Colorado. Assets—$167,629.19. Liabilities—$153,223.23. Capital—$100,000.00. Surplus—$54,105.96. $STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRU- under the laws of Colorado, whose principal office is located at Denver, has authorized the laws of this State applicable to said company and the company is hereby authorized to transact business as an insurance company in accord with the laws of incorporation within the State of Colorado, subject to the provisions and requirements of the law, until the last day of February. In the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen. In Testimony Whereof, I. E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of insurance, has authorized the laws to unto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at the City of Denver, this first day of March, A. D. 1917. [Seal.] Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO. Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1516 AND ORGANIZATIONAL CATE OF AUTHORITY. CENTRAL BUSINESS MEN'S ASSOCIATION of Chicago, Illinois. STATE OF COLORADO INFORMATION BOARD CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRU- RIL 2015. Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is Hereby Certified, That the office is located at Chicago, has complied with the requirements of the State of Colorado and applicable to said company and the company is hereby authorized to transact business as an insurance company in accordance with its Charter or Articles of Incorporation within the State of Colorado. Once the provisions and requirements of the law, until the last day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen, the testimony Whereof, I. E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at the City of Denver, this first day of March, A. D. 1917. [Seal.] E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1916 AND COPY CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY. THE BANKERS' INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY of Denver, Colorado. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRU- RUARY 2015 Office of Commissioners of Insurance. It is Herby Certified, That the BANKER'S INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of Congress, the principal office is located at Denver. has complied with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to said company and the company is hereby authorized to transact business as an insurance company in accordance with the Charter to Articles of Incorporation within the State Colorado, subject to the provisions and requirements of the law, until the last day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight. In Testimony Whereof, I, E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal in office, at the City of Denver, this first of March, D. A. 1917. [Seal.] E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF PRESENT FOR 1916 AND COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY. THE CAPITOL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY of Denver, Colorado. STATE OF COLORADO Insurance Department. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBU-ARY 28TH, 1918. Office of the State of Colorado. The State Insurance. It is Hereby Certified. That THE CAPITOL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of Colorado, whose principal office is located at Denver, has authorized the State to make the laws of this State applicable to said company and the company is hereby authorized to transact business as an insurance company in accord- with its Charter or Articles of Incorporation within the State Colorado, subject to the provisions and requirements of the law, until the last day of February, in the year of our Lourone thousand nine hundred and eighteen. In Testimony Whereof, I. E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand-and affixed my seal at the City of A.D. 1917, first day of March, A.D. 1917. [Seal.] E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1916 AND CATEGORIZE OF AUTHORITY STATE OF COLORADO. Insurance Department. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBRU office is located at New York, which has compiled with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to said company and the company is an insurance company, in accordance with its Charter or Articles of Incorporation within the State of Colorado, subject to the provisions and day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen. Estimony Whereof, I. E. R. HARPER, Commissioner, of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at the City of Denver, this first day of March, P. R. E. HARPER. IN POOR CO John W. 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Each issue of this paper gives to you just what you will consider The Right Kind of Reading Matter STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1918 AND OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY. UNITED STATES GUARANTEE COMP PANY OF New York, N. Y. STATE OF COLORADO. Insurance Department. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FEBURO 1917. Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is Hereby Certified, That the UNITED STATES GUARANTEE COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of New York, whose principal office is located at New York, has complied with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to the county, the company is hereby authorized to transact business as an insurance company in accordance with its Charter or Articles of Incorporation within the State of Colorado, subject to the provisions and laws of the law with last day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen. [Petition Whereof, I. E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at the City of Denver, this first day of March. 1917. [Seal, E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance.] STATE OF COLORADO. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1916 AND COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY. MISSOURI STATE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY of St. Louis, Missouri. Address $1,465,855.00. Liabilities—$12,056,486.03. Capital—$1,000,000.00. Surplus—$1,086,527.77. STATE OF COLORADO, the state of Missouri. CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY FOR THE YEAR ENDING FERU- ARY 28TH, 1918. Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is Hereby Certified. That the MISSOURI STATE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY is authorized under the laws of Missouri, whose principal office is located at St. Louis, has compiled with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to sale company and the company is as an insurance company in accord- ance with its Charter or Articles of Incorporation within the State of Colorado, subject to the provisions and requirements of the law, until the last day of February, in the year of our lord, thousand nine hundred and eighteen. In Testimony Whereof, I. E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at the City of Denver, this first day of March, A. D. 1917. [Seal.] E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance. J. R. DRESSOR WALLA York 1327J Sou The Colorado Wall Ager STATE OF COLORADO Insurance Department. SYNOPSIS OF STATEMENT FOR 1910 AND COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY. MERCHANTS LIFE AND CASUALTY COMPANY of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Assets—$246,398,40. STATE OF COLORADO. Insurance Department. CERTIFICATE OF ADMINISTRATION FOR THE YEAR ENDING FERU- ARY 28TH, 1918. Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is Herby Certified. That the New York City Insurance Co. MERCHANTS LIFE AND CASUALTY COMPANY, a corporation organized under laws of Minnesota, a principal office is located at Minneapolis, has complied with the requirements of the laws of this State applicable to and subject to the laws of Minnesota, hereby authorized to transact business as an insurance company in accordance with its Charter or Articles of Incorporation within the State of Minnesota, and requirements of the law, until the last day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen. *Statimony Whereof, I. E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at the City of Denver, this first of March, of the [Seal], E. R. HARPER, Commissioner of Insurance. NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS' ANNUAL MORTGAGE Denver, Colorado, April 7, 1917. To the Stockholders of the Western To the Stockholders of the Western Loan and Investment Association: You are invited to the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Western Loan and Investment Association will be held on Tuesday, May 15, 1917, at the hour of 8 o'clock p.m. M.L.C. of the Newspaper Union building, 1824 Curtis street, Denver, Colorado, for the election of officers and directors of said agency and all other business which may properly come before said Association. JOSEPH D.D. RIVERS, President. Spend Your Money with your home merchants. They help pay the taxes, keep up the schools, build roads, and make this a community worth while. You will find the advertising of the best ones in this paper. J. R. CONTEE, Pres. and Mgr. Phone Main 6123—Day or Night. Residence Phone York 7992 AR HAIR GIR A Wonderful Hair Dress THE STAR HAIR GROWER THE STAR HAIR GROWER A On the F We have been in line f 3,000 pairs of Women's fi $4.00 and $5.00 he Firing On the Firing Line! Shoes for Thirty Days We finally landed the deal, and will place them on sale Monday morning at our regular price— $2.50 ```markdown ``` WAY SHOE REPAIRING NNIS, Prop. guaranteed. THE NEW WAY SHO C. C. DENNIS, THE NEW WAY SHOE REPAIRING THE BL JAMES M. & M. CO. PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES GLASS PAINTING, GRAINING, GLAZING, PAPER HANGING, DECORATING AND HARD WOOD FINISHING. WALL PAPER 1517-23 ARAPAHOE ST. DENVER ARTISTS MATERIALS rector service et. DENVER, COLORADO. HAIR GROWER A Wonderful Hair Dressing and Grower A Wonderful Hair Dressing and Grower. One Thousand Agents Wanted. Good Money Made. We want Agents in every city and village to sell THE STAR HAIR GROW and be convinced that you can be used with or without straightening irons Sells for 25 cents per box—One 25-cent box will prove its value. Any person that will use a 25-cent box will be convinced. No matter what has failed to grow your hair, just give THE STAR HAIR GROWER a trial and be convinced. Send 25 cents for a full size box and we will send you a full supply that you can begin work at once; also agent's terms. Send all money by Money Order to EVANSTON, ILL. GREENSBORO, N.C. NOTE—Persons living in the South can get their goods three days earlier if they will order from THE STAR HAIR GROWER MPR. P. O. BOX 812, GREENSBORO, N.C. Firing Line! ine for n's fine 5.00 Days Don't miss this opportunity to get you a pair of the latest styles and best values we have ever offered. AND YOU SAVE A DOLLAR Henning's $2.50 Shoe Store 820 and 822 15th St., Denver SHOE REPAIRING S, Prop. What Well Dressed Women Will Wear New Features in Taffeta Brocks. Just a glance at the chic two-piece frock of taffeta, shown in the picture above, might lead to the conclusion that there is nothing unusual about it. It conforms to the straight silhouette and the vaguely defined waistline that are characteristic of the smartest frocks. But the practiced eyes of the critic of clothes will never dismiss this dress with a glance. It abounds with well-executed new touches that arrest the attention and the design succeeds in placing itself as one of the most unusual and satisfactory of the season's showings. It is made of chiffon taffeta with sleeves of georgette which is a familiar enough combination, practical and cool. Added to these fabrics, satin furnishes the collar and cuffs and emplacements on the sash ends. The skirt is plain, with the fullness about the waist gathered in at the sides and the back. It is belted with a broad girdle at the front and two narrow ones across the back. They button at the side. The belt is of the taffeta and the skirt is practical for wear with thin blouses in the warmest weather. The jacket is designed to have the effect of smart slip-over coats and J Collars of Various Sorts. Our varied collars are of many sorts and inspirations, and we can trace them to widely separated places and times. If one has beauty, or the right style, oddities in collars may be worn, but they are not for everybody. The Chinese collar and the Medici fashion are only for the few who can carry them off. But the cape collar and the sailor collar seem to fit in with every style, and they have been presented in mending variety of designs. Along with round, turnover collars and jabots they keep the makers of neckwear busy. Collars and collar-and-cuff sets of organdie find themselves important items in the make-up of midsummer frocks and blouses. Whether of silk or cotton, but more especially when made of silk, these dresses are hardly considered complete without the introduction of organdie at throat and waist. Blouses of other cotton fabrics rely upon the crispness of organdie to complete their daintiness and appropriate collars and cuffs of it. Two of the new collars are shown in the accompanying picture. One of them is trimmed into points at the back and finished at the edge with a very narrow edge of cluny. Tatting or fine crochet edgings make the prettiest sort of trimming for collars of this kind. Each point is weighted with a pair of small prudent balls in crochet and a medallion of lace about the size of a half-dollar is set in the material above each point. Home-made medallions and edgings and handwork in blouses with a shallow split at the front of the neck. Here it is finished with three pearl buttons at each side and three loops of silk cord simulating a fastening. The real fastening is accomplished by buttons and buttonholes at the left side along the underarm seam. This mode of fastening makes it necessary to set the sleeves in a light underbodice. The sleeves are full and their fullness is gathered into deep, pointed cuffs of taffeta at the wrist. The turn-back cuffs of wash satin are detachable like the collar, and they are trimmed in points to correspond with the cuffs of taffeta. Corresponding points at the front of the collar improve its shape and make an adequate position for the button fastening which is placed there. The girdle is a doubled strip of silk long enough to loop over and fall in sash ends at the front. The pointed ends of the sash are emphasized and brought into harmony with the jacket by a finish of the wash satin. Almost any of the season's fashionable shades might be chosen for this dress with the wash satin in white, sand or chamois color. As pictured, it is in blue and white. 1 making the collars add much to their elegance. A very deep cape collar with wide hemstitched hem is shown in the second picture. It is narrow at the front, but falls to the waistline at the back. In each corner, eyelet work is introduced in the three small circles grouped together. The advantage of organdie in collars is its sheeriness and crispness and the success with which it stands laundering. It is better for jabots than cheap laces, but perhaps not quite so pretty as fine nets. Julia Bottomley Scalp Tonic. When the scalp is hard and tight and the hair brittle and lusterless, one of the most valuable aids in restoring the healthy tone of the scalp is made by blending carefully beef marrow with a tablespoonful of good olive oil. This tonic will not be found any more greasy or objectionable than any similar preparation containing oils or grease. 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