Colorado Statesman
Saturday, May 26, 1917
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THE COLORADO STATESMAN
THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST.
LABOR SHALL BE FREE
RACE COUNTRY PARTY
Roscoe C. Simmon's Address At Hampton Banquet
VOL. XXIII.
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The following address was delivered by Roscoe Simmons on the 14th inst.
in the Red Room of the La Salle Hotel,
Chicago. The occasion was a patriotic
banquet of the Greater Hampton
Movement:
Mr. Simmons proceeded in his usual masterful way:
"No question need be asked as to the Negro in a day like this. But the Negro, through Hampton and Tuskegee, an through his millions of loyal sons, has a question to ask of the American white man.
"The nation must mobilize. The nation must prepare. The nation must conserve. We hear that from the orators and hear it from the daily prints. How shall we gather our forces together? That is the word upon the lips of the statesman upon whose shoulders is the burden of this war, and in whose hand is the destiny of this the grandest place man could ever call home since the earliest beginnings of civilization.
Proud of Race.
"I am a Negro. I AM AN AMERICAN. In time of peace I am content with the name Negro. I am not only content, but proud of it. It is the name of that people selected by freedom herself to prove the corner of the only temple of liberty ever built to the finish. (Cheers.)"
"But in time of war I cease to be a Negro, and become an American, and ask for the chance to show again that courage and devotion I have always shown in war and in peace, in slavery and in freedom. Have I ever faltered?
"I would rather be an American Negro, trusting my case to the growing justice of the American white man (prolonged applause); I would rather be an American Negro, eating bread of hope and drinking waters, from the spring of faith, waving above me the Stars and Stripes, than feast from plates of gold in the palace of a king."
What Do We Say?
"I love my country. I speak for a race that loves this country, its past with slavery, its present, and its mighty future. We know no other land; we know no other flag. No hyphen is in our name. We speak but one tongue. We have but one word. That word is for all. It is, black or white, at home or abroad, king of emperor, you are standing against us when you stand against the Stars and Stripes.
"Our faith is planted in God and in the American white man, the grandest apostle of humanity the world ever saw. The American white man built Hampton, erected Tuskegee; the American white man went to fields of war and overturned the auction block
of slavery. The American white man stood on the Declaration of Independence and tore a crown from a king's brow, wrote the Constitution of the United States, and then, remembering the God of nations, went to the field and amended that Constitution in order to include me and mine in the common brotherhood.
"Hampton instructs its students to think on these things. The answer of the Negro to that instruction is, we have never been disloyal to the flag; we have never deserted our benefactors; we have kept the faith, and now war delivers the challenge of barbarism to the doors of this republic, look around and see us standing by your side, saying: 'Here we are; send us on the errand of reply to the foe.'
The Great Mistake.
"The only mistake the American white man has permitted in the great government built up here as the challenge to the ancients who believed that the people could not direct their affairs, is in excluding 12,000,000 people from any voice in the halls of state. Not only for the Negro, but for my country and its future, I am bold enough to ask you to consider that fact in moments of less hurry and less anxiety. This is not the time for any to press grievances.
"The American Negro is more concerned now with standing with you, in field and shop, and on the tented grounds of battle; in standing with hoe and plow to feed with life his own soldiers and those left behind, or with gun and deadly aim to feed with death the soldiers of a distant throne.
"If there are those who by word or deed seek to rob the nation of the rewarded service of the Negro, the duty of the American white man is to stay the word and shatter the deed. The Negro and white in chains fought to make the nation. In chains he fought to save the nation. Now he asks to be permitted to defend the nation.
Cabins—But!
"Poverty may be our lot. Books may be mysteries to many among us. Cabins may be our homes, but we would have you remember that no disloyalty is in our record, no traitors have belonged to our Race, no hands among us have tried to tear the Stars from the flag, and no Negro in vengeance or maddened ambition ever struck down a President.
"What else can we do to prove our Americanism? Whatever you tell us to do we shall do. Wherever you lead us we shall follow; your country is our country, and your God our God.
All I am, all I am to be, all my Race is, all my Race is to be, came and will come by your side, under the American flag. The founder of Hamp-
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ton, the child of one race, and the founder of two—faith,' he said to the receding Indian; 'hope,' he said to the advancing Negro—fought under that flag in war, and under that flag in peace he anointed Booker T. Washington and made him an evangel of peace, an ambassador of good will.
At the Door.
"‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock,' said the Master. And so I stand, and those with me. Open and I will speak their desire, and say, put the uniform on me, give me the gun, lead me to the field, show me the enemy.
"Old Glory was about my form when they led me from darkness to light, and I'll protect it now."—Chicago Defender.
Third Spingran Medal Awarded To Harry T. Burleigh
Washington, D. C., May 16.—The third Spingarn medal was awarded here last night to Harry T. Burleigh, the distinguished composer of songs, at a meeting in the First Congregational Church, held under the auspices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Moorfield Storey of Boston, the nation al president of the association; presided; the presentation being made by Hon. Wesley L. Jones, United States senator from Washington.
The Spingarn medal is awarded annually to the man or woman of African descent and of American citizenship who shall have made the highest achievement during the preceding year in any field of elevated or honorable human endeavor; the candidate being chosen by a committee of award which includes Bishop John Hurst of Baltimore, Hon. William Howard Taft, John Hope, president of Morehouse College, Atlanta; Dr. James H. Dillard, the director of the Slater and Jeannes funds, and Oswald Garrison Villard of the New York Evening Post. Their choice is not limited to any one field, whether that be intellectual, spiritual, physical, scientific, commercial, educational or any other; so the winning of the Spingarn medal has come to be the greatest distinction which can be conferred upon an American Negro. The medal is of gold of the value of one hundred dollars, and is donated by Dr. Joel E. Spingarn, the chairman of the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, formerly professor of comparative literature in Columbia University, at present in training for his major's commission at Madison Barracks, N. Y.
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Harry T. Burleigh, the winner of the medal for 1916, is a composer whose songs have for two or three seasons past been sung by a list of prominent singers which would make any composer's mouth water, from John McCormack to Kitty Cheatham. One song, "Deep River," has probably appeared on more concert programs during the past season more times than the work of any other contemporaneous composer; and across the ocean Burleigh's "The Young Warrior," with words by the Negro poet, James Weldon Johnson, translated into Italian and orchestrated by the great Zandonai, has become a sort of patriotic anthem of the present war. Mr. Burleigh's compositions include about a hundred songs, a few festival anthems for church chorus, and a volume of
plantation melodies which he compiled in the effort to save them from falling into oblivion. The small group of songs by which he is best known include "Deep River," "The Grey Wolf," to words by Arthur Symons; a superb setting of Walt Whitman's "Ethiopia Saluting the Colors," "The Soldier," and "Jean."
"The Five Songs of Lawrence Hope," writes a critic in the Boston Transcript of March 10, "probably represent Mr. Burleigh's best work. Here are haunting melodies, accompaniments rich in detail, yet not overwritten, striking bits of delineation, and much skill in the wedding of music to words."
Regarding "The Soldier," A. Walter Kramer in Musical America wrote: "Wars produce a mass of inconsequential literary and music stuff. The present European conflict is no exception. . . . But I think that this Burleigh setting of Rupert Brooke's inspired lines will be among the immortal art-products of the Great War when the record is made."
And these creative achievements have necessarily been snatched from a life of routine musical toil by which Mr. Burleigh has earned his daily bread. Since 894 he has been soloist at St. George's Church, one of New York's most aristocratic congregations, and for seventeen years he has sung at the Temple Emanuel as well.
These achievements become doubly significant when one realizes how Mr. Burleigh has worked his way forward almost without aid, handicapped by color as well as poverty. It is related how Mr. Burleigh as a boy in Erie, Pa., contracted pneumonia from standing in the snow outside the drawing-room window of Mrs. Elizabeth Russell, where his family was in service, in order to hear Rafael Joseffy play; and was given a chance to open the door for the guests when later Teresa Carreño played at the Russell home in consequence. Working there as a stenographer until he was 26, in 1892, he came to New York and out of 500 applicants was given a scholarship in the National Conservatory of Music, where he studied for four years. By teaching during his last year there, together with assisting the secretary, the mother of the well known American composer, E. A. Mac Dowell, he was able to liquidate his indebtedness to the founder of the institution. During one summer he worked at a hotel in Saratoga in order to make enough to carry him through until the following Christmas. But when in 1894 the young musician, standing upon the threshold of his career, secured the position of soloist at St. George's in competition with sixty other applicants, his path became much easier. His talent for interpretation of his own folk songs became widely known and he was in demand to sing in concerts and in the musical programs of the leading mansions of fashionable New York and elsewhere. The achievements last year which won Mr. Burleight the Spingarn medal are but the mature fruitage of a long life of consecrated labor.
This is the third year the medal has been awarded. The first was presented to Dr. E. E. Just of Howard University for original researches in biology, Governor Whitman making the presentation in New York. Last year the governor of Massachusetts presented the second medal in Boston to Lieut. Col. Charles Young of the Tenth Cavalry, U. S. Army, for his services in reorganizing the constabulary of Liberia.
RACE NEWS
Spring City. Pa., May 15. The glass works in this city is substituting colored girls for the white boys employed formerly. They are paying as hlgh as two dollars per day where the boys formerly employed received seventy-five cents per day.
Baltimore, Md., May 14. The will of Jas. L. Hitchens, wealthy furniture mover, which was contested has been settled in the Orphan's Court. The bulk of the estate said to be worth $100,000 goes to an adopted white son. The contest was instituted by a supposed widow (white) and the brothers of Hitchens, (colored).
Atlanta, Ga., May 16.—The Superior Court of Fulton County, after two years of juggling has declared that colored Shriners have no legal right to exist. They are enjoined from using rituals and wearing pins of the same design as those used by the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine throughout the United States. The colored Shriners are determined to fight the case to the U. S. Supreme Court.
Washington, May 19.—A training camp for Negro officers will be established at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, where 1,200 candidates for commissions in Negro regiments of the new army will be trained. A draft of 250 men will be taken from the colored regiments of the regular army, selected from the noncommissioned officers and privates who have shown quilifications fitting them for command and assigned to the camp. The remainder will come from Negro regiments of the national guard and from graduates of educational institutions for Negroes.
Nashville, Tenn.—The leading Negro Business College in the world, according to the latest bulletin, has passed the experimental stage, owning equipment to the value of $14,000. At present there is enrolled at the school 105 young Negro men and women who are preparing themselves for practical and useful business careers. The business college was founded by Prof. George W. Henderson, a young Memphis Negro, who is possessed of unusual literary attainments. He holds eleven different diplomas, including a college degree
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from Roger Williams University, at Nashville, Tenn. Prof. Henderson is considered the champion shorthand writer and typist of the Negro race and is also an expert in accountancy and commercial law. In addition he has won recognition as a writer and essayist, being termed the "Black Herbert Kaufman."
New York, N. Y., May 18. When Roscoe Conkling Simmons, noted orator and patriot, appeared before the famous Union League Club Thursday night, May 10th, that was the first time any colored man ever appeared before that illustrious body. Charles E. Hughns is president of the Union League Club. Col. Simmong spoke on "My Country and My Flag" and his eloquence stirred the ancient Republicans as no speech has done in recent years.
FIRST IN MANY LINES
The following compilation of curious facts has been going the rounds of the press, being credited to the Tennessee Valley News: It is interesting to note who were the first Negroes to accomplish certain feats in America. For instance: Macon Allen was the first Negro to be admitted to the American Bar, receiving this honor in 1845, Estevanico, "Little Steven," a Negro was the discoverer of Arizona, and one of the first persons to cross the American continent. The first martyr in the Boston massacre. March 5, 1770 was the Negro soldier, Crispus Attucks. Dr. A. T. Augustus was appointed surgeon of the Seventeenth Regiment, United States Colored Volunteers. He is said to have been the first colored man commissioned in the medical department of the United States Army.
Bean Johnson, of Albany, Ga., enjoys the distinction of putting the first bale of cotton on the market in the State, and by this feat he has acquired the title of the "First bale man." About 1754, Benjamin Banneker, a noted Negro astronomer with imperfect tools constructed a clock, which told the time and struck the hour. This was the first clock constructed in America. Henry Blair, of Maryland was the first Negro to receive a patent on an invention. This invention was a corn harvester.
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The Mouth-Piece of the People of Colorado and the Entire West
A French torpedo boat was sunk by a mine in the Adriatic May 15.
American marines have been ordered to proceed to France.
The Germans used burning liquid in a futile attack northwest of Rheims.
America's second section of fighting men went to the front from Paris.
Furious fighting on Isonzo front yields small gains, both to Italians and Austrians.
Volunteer now in the regular army or national guard service or be drafted after June 5th.
"Our troops successfully raided the enemies' trenches east of Vermelles," says the war office statement from London.
The Italians on the Isonzo front captured one of the crests of Mount Vodice, the key to the Austrian defenses north of Gorizia.
The repulse of the British attacks near Bullecourt and Croisille, and of French attacks near Nauroy, is reported in Berlin's official statement. The Russian provisional government announced that it unitedly rejects a separate peace but aims at a general peace without annexations or indemnities.
ARELIABLE chronicle of their doings and progress; a faithful mirror of their wants, their hopes, their best aspirations.
Germans launched offensive on Russians at Mitau but were stopped by heavy gunfire. Russians also drive back Teuton attacks east of Koveika in Rumania.
With the fall of Bullecourt, the capture of the chemical works, the occupation of Roeux and the general evening up of the British line, the first phase in the new British offensive in France is over.
A regiment of veteran United States marines equipped as regular infantry will go to France as part of Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing's command. There will be approximately 2,600 men in the regiment, probably the largest numerically that will be engaged on the western front.
THE COLORADO STATESMAN
Colorado and Wyoming recruits for the United States army have passed the 1,000 mark since April 1st, totaling 1,047 men. Tabulation completed under the direction of Maj. C. N. Barney from April 1st to May 15th, show that in proportion to the assigned quota, Wyoming ranks seventh and Colorado sixteenth of all the states contributing to Uncle Sam's service.
WESTERN
J. Ogden Armour subscribed for $1,000,000 worth of the Liberty Loan bonds.
Armed resistance to conscription is conspiracy alleged in portion of Texas.
Many Americans in Washington reported crossing border into Canada to escape conscription.
Unequaled as an advertising medium for the business of professional men and women.
Antonio Armenta, miner, shot and killed Juan Callanes, also a miner, and, heavily armed, started to "shoot up" the Rosemont mining district near Tucson, Ariz.
A new venire of 200 men was called at El Paso, Tex., in the trial of William B. Sands, charged with the murder of Sergt. Owen Bierne, Twenty-third United States infantry, Sept. 23, 1916.
A mob at Macon road, near Memphis, Tenn., avenged the murder of a white girl by burning to death her negro murderer, Eli Persons, and helping to capture two other negroes implicated in Person's confession.
WASHINGTON
An excellent family journal speaking to and for many thousand colored citizens.
Southern representatives defeated proposed tax on raw cotton.
The Italian war commission, headed by Prince Udine, first cousin of King Victor Emmanuel, arrived in Washington.
Measures to force down anthracite prices will be taken, the Federal Trade Commission announced, if producers and dealers do not adhere to their recent promise to cease extortionate practices.
TWODOLLARSAYEAR
With six engineering schools turning out aviation cadets and 3,500 aeroplanes promised by the manufacturers for the first year, the United States soon expects to be sending a steady stream of American fliers to France.
The most extensive publicity campaign ever conducted in this country is under way to place before the people the necessity of purchasing Liberty loan bonds.
Contracts for thirty-eight vessels, twenty-six wooden and twelve steel, have been let by the Emergency Fleet Corporation in the shipping board's shipbuilding program.
Senator Thomas, Colorado, Monday doffed his wig—the first harbinger of summer, in the Senate. Senators King, Utah, and Wadsworth, New York, donned ice cream suits.
Kaiser's plan for gigantic empire unfolded.
Bavarian scientist advises Germans to eat grasses.
Wideapread German conspiracy discovered in Costa Rica.
The scarcity of bread and potatoes caused an outbreak of rioting at Lisbon.
Manifestations in which violent incidents occurred are reported from Saragossa.
Ireland to be given opportunity to settle for herself question of form of government.
Chinese Six companies offer to import 500,000 coolie farm laborers for United States.
French seize heights near Moronvilliers in Champagne district, seizing many prisoners.
A great public manifestation in favor of the entente allies has been set for May 27 at Madrid.
Several hundred persons attended a service in memory of Joseph H. Chote of New York, at St. Margaret's Church, Westminster.
Establishment of a camp for military training of Americans in China has been proposed at Shanghai, according to advices from Tokio.
Advices from what is considered a reliable source in Lisbon state that ten persons were killed and fifty wounded during the recent food riots there.
If Spain and Sweden become embroiled in the war it is estimated that they can contribute approximately 2,000,000 soldiers and sailors to the allied cause.
A German airplane dropped bombs on the railroad station at Kishinev, capital of the province of Bessarabia. A soldier and two children were killed and five workmen injured.
The chief justice of the Supreme Court at Havana administered to Gen. Mario G. Menocal the oath of office for his second term as President of the republic of Cuba.
The French steamship Colbert, carrying French military passengers, was torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean April 30th by a Teuton submarine. Fifty-one persons lost their lives.
The German consul at Stockholm is reported in news dispatches to have visited the Swedish foreign minister and expressed deepest regret at the sinking of the Swedish steamers Vesterland, Viken and Aspen.
The disappearance recently from Petrograd of many young women of aristocratic families resulted in an investigation which uncovered a widespread plot to lure women and girls into "white slavery" after they had been robbed.
**SPORTING NEWS**
**Standing of Western League Clubs.**
CLUBS. Won. Lost. Pet. Pet. Ounala. 20 8 7.44 Des Moines 17 9 6.64 Lincoln 16 11 .593 Sioux City 16 12 .556 Denver 11 13 .458 Joseph 9 17 .346 Joplin 9 17 .346 Wichita 9 20 .310
Earl Gaddock of Anita, Iowa, defeated Julius Reif of Hoisington, Kan., in straight falls at Wichita, Kan.
The Wyoming state trap shooting tournament, originally scheduled to be held at Casper, on June 7th to 10th, has been transferred to Douglas on the same dates.
Ninety thousand dollars are offered on the program announced at Lexington for the forty-fifth annual meeting of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders' Association, Oct. 1st to 13th.
The success of the Denver Trap Club's plan to hold nation-wide Buffalo Bill shoots to raise money for the Col. W. W. Cody memorial on Lookout mountain is assured, according to Capt. A. H. Hardy, one of the Denver club's members.
GENERAL
Italian mission arrives safely in United States.
Members of British mission abandon proposed visit to Middle West.
Roosevelt released all men who had volunteered to serve with him in France.
Preacher prays that Germany shall not have one hour of peace while Emperor William is on throne.
Governor Philipp vetoed the Evjue bill for a statewide referendum for the liquor question set for next April in Wisconsin.
Capt. Franz von Rintelen and David Lamar were each sentenced to a year in the Mercer county penitentiary, Trenton, N. J., for attempting to foment strikes in munition plants.
Welcomed by a great throng of citizens who crowded the Union Depot to greet him, Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo arrived in Denver Tuesday afternoon on his epochmaking Buy-a-Bond trip through the West.
Art Smith, aviator, has joined the anti-vice crusade at Osaka, Japan. When he made a flight over Osaka recently he dropped 3,500 circulars bearing an argument against the proposed establishment of a licensed quarter in that city.
From 10,000 to 15,000 persons are homeless at Atlanta, Ga., as a result of Monday's fire that swept approximately seventy-five blocks of residence property, causing a loss of $3,500,000, it was estimated. Preparations have been made to feed 5,000 homeless.
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U. S. TROOPS TO GO TO FRANCE; DRAFT SIGNED
Major General Pershing Directed by President to Command Division in France.
BARS T. R. VOLUNTEER ARMY
Executive Sets June 5 as the Date of Registration for Men Between Ages of 21 and 31—National Guard to Be Mobilized in August.
Washington, May 21.—President Wilson signed the conscription bill after rejecting that section of the measure which would permit Col. Theodore Roosevelt to organize volunteer divisions.
The president signed the army bill just after dinner at 8 p. m. on Friday, without formality, and set June 5 as the date of registration for all men between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one for military service.
President Issues Proclamation.
President Wilson's proclamation, putting into effect the selective draft provision of the war army bill, signed last night, follows in part:
"A proclamation by the president of the United States:
"Whereas, Congress has enacted and the president has on the 15th day of May, one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, approved a law which contains the following provisions:
"Section 5. That all male persons between the ages of Twenty-one and thirty, both inclusive, shall be subject registration in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the president; and upon proclamation by the president or other public notice given by him or by his direction, stating the time and place of such registration, it shall be the duty of all persons of the designated ages, except officers and enlisted men of the regular army, the navy and the National Guard and naval militia while in the service of the United States, to present themselves for and submit to registration under the provisions of this act, and every such person shall be deemed to have notice of the requirements of this act upon the publication of said proclamation or other notice as aforesaid given by the president or by his direction: and any person who shall willfully fail or refuse to present himself for registration or to submit thereto as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year, and shall thereupon be duly registered; provided, that in the call of the docket precedence shall be given, in courts trying the same, to the trial of criminal proceedings under this act: Provided further, that persons shall be subject to registration as herein provided who shall have attained their twenty-first birthday and who shall not have attained their thirty-first birthday on or before the day set for registration, and all persons so registered shall be and remain subject to draft into the forces hereby authorized, unless exempted or excused therefrom as in this act provided.
Registration on June 5.
"Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States, do call upon the governor of each of the several states and territories, the board of commissioners of the District of Columbia and all officers and agents of the several states and territories, of the District of Columbia and of the counties and municipalities therein to perform certain duties in the execution of the foregoing law, which duties will be communicated to them directly in regulations of even date herewith.
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"And I do further proclaim and give notice to all persons subject to registration in the several states and in the District of Columbia in accordance with the above law that the time and place of such registration shall be between 7 a. m. and 9 p. m. on the fifth day of June, 1917, at the registration place in the precinct wherein they have their permanent homes. Those who shall have attained their twenty-first birthday and who shall not have attained their thirty-first birthday on or before the day here named are required to register, excepting only officers and enlisted men of the regular army, the navy, the marine corps and the National Guard and Naval Militia while in the service of the United States, and officers in the officers' reserve corps and enlisted men in the enlisted reserve corps while in active service. In the territories of Alaska, Hawaii and Porto
Body of Thomas Lyons Found in Ravine Near Suburb of El Paso,
Tex.-Robbery Motive.
El Paso, Tex.-The body of Thomas Lyons, millionaire cattleman of Silver City, N. M., was found in a ravine in a suburb of El Paso. His head was crushed and he had been robbed. He had arrived from Dening, N. M., during the night. Lyons came here from Rochester, N. Y.
Rico a day for registration will be named in a later proclamation.
All Must Co-operate.
"The power against which we are arrayed has sought to impose its will upon the world by force. To this end it has increased armament until it has changed the face of war. In the sense in which we have been wont to think of armies there are no armies in this struggle. There are entire nations armed. Thus, the men who remain to till the soil and man the factories are no less a part of the army that is in France than the men beneath the battle flags. It must be so with us. It is not an army that we must shape and train for war; it is a nation. To this end our people must draw close in one compact front against a common foe. But this cannot be if each man pursues a private purpose. All must pursue one purpose.
"The nation needs all men, but it needs each man, not in the field that will most pleasure him, but in the endeavor that will best serve the common good.
"It is in no sense a conscription of the unwilling — it is rather selection from a nation which has volunteered in mass.
"The day here named is the time upon which all shall present themselves for assignment to their tasks.
"It is essential that the day be approached in thoughtful apprehension of its significance and that we accord to it the honor and the meaning that it deserves. Our industrial need prescribes that it be not made a technical holiday, but the stern sacrifice that is before us urges that it be carried in all our hearts as a great day of patriotic devotion and obligation when the duty shall lie upon every man, whether he is himself to be registered or not, to see to it that the name of every male person of the designated ages is written on these lists of honor.
President Wilson directed that an expeditionary force of approximately a division of regular troops, under command of Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing, proceed to France at as early a date as practicable. General Pershing and staff will precede the troops. A division contains approximately 28,000 men. It is understood that at least 20,000 will be infantry. The war bill was carefully gone over during the day by Brigadier General Crowder, judge advocate general and provost marshal general. It was announced that all existing regiments of the guard will be called into service by August 5, and officials estimate that with from a month to six weeks' intensive training these troops will be ready to go forward for final preparation behind the fighting lines in Europe for the fighting that is before them.
President's Statement.
The president issued the following statement at the White House: "I shall not avail myself, at any rate, at the present stage of the war, of the authorization conferred by the acc to organize volunteer divisions. "To do so would seriously interfere with the carrying out of the chief and most immediately important purpose contemplated by this legislation: "The prompt creation and early use of an effective army would contribute practically nothing to the effective strength of the armies now engaged against Germany.
"No Time for Compliments."
"I understand that the section of this act which authorizes the creation of volunteer divisions in addition to the draft was added with a view to providing an independent command for Mr. Roosevelt and giving the military authorities an opportunity to use his fine vigor and enthusiasm recruiting the forces now at the western front.
"It would be very agreeable to me to pay Mr. Roosevelt this compliment and the allies the compliment of sending to their aid one of our most distinguished public men, an ex-president, who has rendered many conspicuous public services and proved his gallantry in many striking ways.
Seeks Advice From Both Sides.
"The business now in hand is dramatic, practical and of scientific definiteness and precision.
"I shall act with regard to it at every step and in every particular under expert and professional advice, from both sides of the water.
"The first troops sent to France will be taken from the present force of the regular army and will be under the command of trained soldiers only.
"The issues involved are too immense for me to take into consideration anything whatever except the best, most effective, most immediate means of military action. What these means are I know from the mouths of men who have seen war as it is conducted, who have no illusions and to whom the whole grim matter is a matter of business. I shall center my attention upon those matters and let everything else wait. I should be deeply to blame should I do otherwise, whatever the argument of policy or of personal gratification of advantage."
$200,000,000 Worth of Certificates of Indebtedness to Be Taken Up by Banks.
Washington.—The treasury department announced a third offering of $200,000,000 worth of treasury certificates of Indebtedness. Treasury officials expect the issue to be subscribed by the banks and trust companies of the nation within the next two or three days.
COLORADO STATE NEWS
June 5-6—Meeting Woman's Home Misi-
June 16—Annual Strawberry, Festival
and Carnival at Glenwood Springs.
June 21-22—Christian Endeavor Con-
Aug. 1—National Convention of African
Race at Denver.
Sept. 17-22—Colorado State Fair at Pueblo.
Floods threaten many Colorado ranches and cities.
Fred D. Stackhouse will be the next city auditor of Denver.
A lodge of Yeomen is being organized at Monte Vista.
Wholesale milk price increased by 10 per cent in Denver.
Refinery employés at Florence get change in working hours.
The San Juan creamery at Durango is now manufacturing cheese.
Two horses were killed near Bayfield during an electrical storm.
A Pueblo hotel man was fined $300 on a charge of gambling and selling liquor.
The heavy snow at Leadville on Sunday caused a two-story brick building to collapse.
Figuring on ratio of recruits to population, Breckenridge claims to be the most patriotic town in the West.
Two Denver boys, Donald C. Hardin and Fred W. Marlow, have been appointed to West Point Military Academy.
The Gold Foil at the foot of Carson trail, near Lake City, is to be worked this summer by G. D. Jordan and Rube Johnson.
An attempt to ford the north fork of the Cache la Poudre river near Fort Collins cost Eugene Benton, aged 17, his life.
The campaign for more silos and a better use of silos in the great dryland region of eastern Colorado is now well under way.
Sam Rose, about 25 years old, who has been employed as bellboy at a Denver hotel for the last year, was accidentally killed.
Greatly increased summer coal production is assured by the granting of a new through rate from the northern fields of Pueblo.
Committee appointed at Craig to plan for building of elevator and storage houses by issue of cooperative shares at $100 each.
Governor Gunter has appointed Dr. E. C. Webb of Cañon City to the position of penitentiary physician as the successor of Dr. R. E. Holmes.
Registration for war service, set by President Wilson for June 5th, is to be a day of dedication and of patriotic servor in Denver and other Colorado cities.
John R. Champion, widely known among mining men of Colorado, and until recently superintendent of the Yak tunnel at Leadville, died at his Arvada home.
Mrs. Elizabeth Wiggin, 50, died at the county hospital in Denver of injuries suffered when she was struck by an automobile at Broadway and Colfax avenue.
Miss Josephine Tobin, a former Breckenridge girl, was instantly killed in Chicago, when an automobile in which she was riding was struck by a Rock Island train.
Liberty loan headquarters, where loyal Coloradoans may do their share toward shouldering the burden of the $2,000,000,000 war bonds, opened at 828 Equitable building in Denver.
Twenty Japanese women members of the Denver Buddist church pledged their loyalty to their adopted country when they formed an auxiliary to the Denver chapter of the Red Cross society.
With six sons, six daughters and twenty-four grandchildren present, in addition to about thirty-nine other relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Weinberger celebrated their golden wedding anniversary.
Three thousand men and women rose and sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" to the martial strains of a military band following an inspiring address by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt at the Auditorium in Denver.
J. L. Williams, a miner at Mount Harris, near Steamboat Springs, arrested by revenue agents on a charge of conducting a moonshine brewery, has been bound over to the next Federal Grand Jury sitting in Denver, on a $300 bond.
In response to orders issued by Governor J. C. Gunter, Adj. Gen. Frank D. Baldwin assigned a company, or perhaps a battalion, of the Colorado National Guard to guard bridges, depots, telegraph and telephone stations and public buildings.
Operating officials of the Denver & Rio Grande, the Colorado & Southern and the Denver & Salt Lake railroad have under consideration demands of machinists, shopmen, electricians, pipefitters and other men employed in shops for an increase in wages.
Thomas Patterson Campbell, older son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Crawford Campbell and grandson of the late Senator Thomas M. Patterson, will leave Denver May 31st to join the third Dartmouth base hospital unit which sails June 2d for service in France.
ADD 2,200 TO GUARDS
ADD 2,200 TO GUARDS
NEW ORDER INCREASES NUMBER FOR STATE SERVICE.
Colorado Now Has Two Full Battalions and Third Virtually Recruited to Peace Strength.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.—The order from the War Department increasing the strength of the Colorado National Guard will add approximately 2,200 men to the state service. One regiment, plus one battalion of infantry, constituting four new battalions, will comprise nearly 1,800 men. The state now has two full battalions of infantry in federal service, and a third has virtually been recruited to peace strength.
One battalion, less one battery of riefd artillery (three batteries to a lattailon), will add more than 200 additional men. Battery B of Denver is the only fully equipped field artillery unit in the state. Batteries A of Fort Collins and C of Colorado Springs have given up their equipment and both are below peace strength.
One battalion, less two companies of engineers (four companies to a battalion), will add another 200 and more, when completed to war strength, to the Colorado guard. The two present engineering companies are A of Golden, composed of School of Mines students, and B of Boulder, made up of University of Colorado students.
John Evans began the active duties of provost marshal of Colorado. He was assigned to the rooms of the speaker of the House of Representatives, where he will have charge of the administration of the registration for selective service for Colorado troops. He will be a subordinate both of the State Military Board and the War Department. His work will include the notification of all the sheriffs in Colorado of their duties in regard to the registration of citizens for war service.
Cripple Creek Output Gaining Rapidly. Denver.—With $90,000 in the bank and seven sets of leasers shipping ore the United Gold Mines Company, operating in the high-grade zone of the Cripple Creek district, will this month increase shipments of ore 50 per cent in excess of the excellent record for April, which included fifty-five cars containing 1,600 tons. The average value of this ore was $34.19 per ton, making a settlement total for the month of $54,704. Royalties paid by the leasers were a little in excess of $12,000.
Northern Colorado Swept by Flood. Greeley. — Northern Colorado is threatened with one of the most serious floods experienced in years. Up to Monday but one death, that of Eugene Benton, a Fort Collins boy, had been reported, but the family of C. H. Allyn, on the Seventy ranch, fifty miles southeast of here, is marooned in the ranch house, and efforts are being made to rescue the members. The Platte river at that point still is rising. The Cache la Poudre, St. Vrain, Big Thompson and Platte rivers all are out of their banks
Autoists Form Band to End Thefts.
Boulder.—Mysterious letters appearing here announced the formation of the "Madcaps," a band of twelve automobile owners of the city, organized to do away with wholesale stealing of machines through summary punishment of thieves who are apprehended and who escape sentence in the courts. Twenty-six cars have been stolen since a prosecution for such an offense was recorded, the letters state.
Sunnyside Mine Buildings Burn.
Silverton.—The warehouse, track sheds, blacksmith shop and other surface buildings at the Sunnyside mine, near Eureka, were destroyed by fire. The tools in the machine shop, power drill sharpening equipment and air lines are a complete loss. The damage of $50,000 is covered by insurance.
Sheriff Indicted and Removed. Silverton. — Sixty-one indictments were returned by the grand jury in the District Court here, some of which were against the sheriff of the county, James Pearson. The judge then removed Mr. Pearson from his position.
Judge Goddard, 79, Is Dead. Denver.—Luther M. Goddard, former Colorado Supreme Court justice, died at his home at 2658 Humboldt street Sunday. His death was the result of a stroke of apoplexy. He was 79 years old.
Denver Official Shot to Death. Denver.—Edward Green, city highway commissioner who was shot by his deputy, William R. ("Buck") Seay, in the office of Park Commissioner W. F. R. Mills in city hall, died at the county hospital.
Boulder Teachers' Salaries Increased.
Boulder.—Ten per cent increase in the salaries of all Boulder teachers was voted at the special meeting of the school board. The raise in salaries will affect about seventy-five teachers.
Durango Railway Agent Kills Official.
Durango.—John E. Graves, Denver & Rio Grande station agent here, shot and instantly killed M. A. Pheney, assistant superintendent of the Fourth division of the Rio Grande.
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Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1c and 2c stamps taken.
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SELECTIVE SERVICE REGISTRATION CARD.
MANY of our subscribers in Denver and the state have requested information from us as to the reason for the special quotation on the registration card: "If person is of African descent, tear off this corner," and we must confess our inability to give any other reply than the literal meaning. They ask further, why persons of African descent should be designated and not Indian, Mexican, Japanese, Chinese or any other?
We would be glad if the representatives of the War Department in Colorado would give us some definite information, as our people, relying upon the President's message to the people of the U. S. A., in which he speaks of United America—not a class or specially qualified America, but an America as ONE, in his address to Congress on our entering the war—will act in good faith. If the President's words must be taken seriously, and in the rejection of ex-President Roosevelt and his volunteer corps, there seems to be definiteness with President Wilson, when he said: "It would be very agreeable to me to pay Mr. Roosevelt and the allies the compliment of sending to their aid one of our most distinguished public men, an ex-president who has rendered many conspicuous public services and proved his gallantry in many striking ways. Politically, too, it would no doubt have a very fine effect and make a profound impression. But this is not the time for ANY ACTION NOT CALCULATED TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE IMMEDIATE SUCCESS OF THE WAR."
Our fellow citizens are asking whether Mr. Wilson has seen the registration card, and if he has, whether he feels the people of African descent constitute an action that will not contribute to the immediate success of the war.
France and Britain have been using persons of African descent from the time they entered the war, nearly three years ago. Kindly give us the desired information which we will gladly publish and avoid any misconstruction by these particular American-African descendants.
LAWLESSNESS INCREASES IN SOUTH.
HOWEVER loyal, however patriotic, however much in the order of the Roman Centerion servant of old, as the famous Roscoe Conkling Simmons, Negro orator of Bedouin-like habits expressed in his speech at Chicago before a body of white men, he was making his great patriotic display, "Whatever you tell us to do we shall do, wherever you lead us we shall follow," the Colorado Statesman will not cease to lift its voice against lawlessness and mob rule, the damnable vampires that prey on the vitals of any nation, until it is stamped out of this country that champions obedience to law and order by adopting the principles of the Magna Charta. Not less than four lynchings (to say nothing of what is unknown) during this month, occurring in Shreveport, Louisana, Fulton Kentucky, and Memphis, Tennessee, have been added to this shameful act of white citizens in the Southland, and whether the victims be guilty or not, under the constitutional law they are subjected to a trial by jury as any other criminal.
No wonder the nations that our government charge with savagery, barbarism and atrocities of the most terrible form throw in our faces the gentle retaliation—LOOK AFTER YOUR LYNCH LAWS AND FIND A REMEDY. Says Roscoe Simmons, "this is not the time for any to press grievances," and not having many Negro leaders to press our grievances we cannot do like the Irish or the Russian, but those of us who have escaped the mob in the South can only continue in fervent prayer that the exodus of our people from the South may so rapidly increase that the mob and their supporters will not find another Negro in the years to come, on whom to vent their barbarous and blood-thirsty passions.
"Ethiopia will stretch out her hands and cry for deliverance," and may the great Creator hasten that time if it takes a European war and more, as we are taught that we wear His image and likeness like any other member of the human race.
A telegram protesting against the lynching of Eli Persons on Tuesday last was sent to the President by the National Equal Rights League.
Referring to a report that the mob intended also to lynch two more Negro suspects, the telegram said:
"We call upon you, as the head of the Federal Government, to make every effort to stay this further blot on the civilization and humanity of this Christian nation. Our laws forbid the burning alive of rats in a trap. We implore you, while saying much for justice and humanity for foreign nations, to speak out for justice to 12,000,000 colored American citizens and to stop stirring of resentments. America is rivaling Germany and Turkey in barbaric atrocities. Will you do something?" The telegram was signed by Allen W. Whaley, William D. Brigham and William Monroe Trotter.
LARGER HUMAN LIBERTY
WHEN the Rev. Charles Mead of Trinity Methodist Church addressed an audience on Monday last in the Empress Theater on "The Larger and Broader Human Liberty, the Cause of America's Entry Into the War," he struck the keynote or fundamental of this nation which brought her into power meriting that recognition of the nations of the world as to make them feel the seriousness of her decision to assist in overthrowing autocracy and to bring about universal democracy, with a peace to the world that will not be so easily interfered with or hampered for the years to come. Said the speaker, a man of deep intellectuality, possessing great oratorical powers and wonderful moral suasion.
"A false conception of real human liberty leads to destruction, while a true conception leads to power of the individual, power of the nation, and this is the inception of this republic when she overthrew British sovereignty in 1776, won the wars of 1812-14 to insure her stability, determined on the preservation of the Union in the internal trouble of 1861-65, when a deprivation of HUMAN LIBERTY in the enslavement of millions of her citizens formed a growing menace of gigantic proportions to the foundations of democracy already established, hearkened to the cry of suffering Cuba in 1898, when after unsuccessful attempts to remove Spanish yoke by peaceable negotiations, war had to be declared resulting in the defeat of Spain and the achievement of the great victory of HUMAN FREEDOM, and now, today a foe, threatening the very pillars of our democracy, not ours alone, but the world's, with its intent of compelling the acceptance of its dominating autocratic influence, surely," continued the Rev. Mead, "America, jealous of her priceless treasure being a strong and ardent supporter of a democracy so dearly bought, could not allow this arch-enemy to trample underfoot what she has maintained for all these years."
No one who had the privilege of hearing this exponent of American ideals and principles could be otherwise than touched with a deep sense of patriotism at this perilous moment in our history, and for this reason the heads of our government must be careful in guarding against anything that may mean a semblance of un-American action. We join this reverend gentleman who has made a great impression on us, and is making a greater impression on the public as a true Christian character, having the moral courage to tell us the nation's platform, in pleading for A LARGER AND BROADER HUMAN LIBERTY, but the Colorado Statesman comes a little nearer and pleads for that liberty to be extended practically to 12,000,000 of citizens at home, who through the gloud of their fathers on the altar of sacrifice, have pledged themselves for country and right, and who are capable of enjoying this liberty and freedom that only the oppressed can really and truly appreciate. More men like Rev. Charles Mead in our community will help us to have the right conception of HUMAN LIBERTY and possibly help to hasten the time when CHARITY will extend her help at HOME, as it does ABROAD.
Both Patriotism and Prudence Call for the Practice of Thrift Now
Both Patriotism and Prudence Call for the Practice of Thrift Now
By S. W. STRAUS
President of the American Society for Thrift
As time advances and demands, in ever-increasing amount, are made on the resources of the country in order to supply the needs of the military situation, we shall see greater and still greater need for thrift.
Let us hope that conditions here will never duplicate those abroad. No matter what the situation may become with us, we will find the practices of thrift of particular value. The following appeal for thrift in England can be taken as the theme for some solemn thinking in this country:
"Ten shillings saved, say on feasting, equals eight cartridges. Bottle of champagne equals 400 cartridges. Lady's new hat equals four steel helmets. New dress equals four service rifles. Diamond tiara equals one fieldgun. Motorcar equals airplane. Piano equals 100 shells. Lapdog equals 20 shells."
The department of agriculture has been quick to recognize the necessity of thrift in the present emergency and has not only sent out many suggestions, but is helping in concrete ways to increase the nation's food supply.
If we should send 5,000,000 soldiers and nurses to the front, there would still be more than 95,000,000 citizens left in civil life. Let them be organized into a mighty army of thrift, 95,000,000 strong! Can you imagine the tremendous strength of this republic if every man, woman and child set about the task of eliminating waste? Bear in mind always that it is only through thrift that the nation will be able to get the last ounce of strength at its command. Let us remember, also, that voluntary thrift will possibly make unnecessary compulsory thrift. It is easier to begin giving up unnecessary things now and get used to it, than to be compelled to give up actual comforts later on. Both patriotism and prudence should actuate us to practice thrift immediately.
In view of the added need of thrift, it is pleasing to note that the 250,000 schoolchildren of Philadelphia are being taught thrift in a very practical way. They are taking advantage of the shortage of paper, and are gathering up all the old papers and magazines that have hitherto been wasted, and are bringing them to school. On a given day each week these papers are sold. This is not a new idea, and it has been written about a number of times, but there is no better way of giving the children a concrete example of conservation and thrift. All the studying the children could do would not produce the results that really doing the thing themselves would. Waste paper from the classrooms alone of the Philadelphia public schools has brought in about $20,000 a year.
Effort to Purchase Friendship of Other Nations Is Futile Policy
Effort to Purchase Friendship of Other Nations Is Futile Policy
Among the mistakes natural to a government that has been at peace as long as has that of the United States, none is more fatal toward world respect than the effort to purchase the friendship of other nations by cash, or equivalent, consideration.
Governments, like individuals, are respected not because of what they have, but because of what they are. Governments that are strong, honest, intelligent and honorable are respected automatically, just as are citizens possessing the same qualities.
Friendship and respect are not purchasable commodities. If they were, they'd be on sale, like eggs or buttonhooks or small pea beans, and a man could drop into the nearest department store and say, "Send me up sixteen friends, mostly blondes, and a couple of yards of respect that won'travel or crock."
We of the United States must learn that we can't buy the friendship and respect of other nations. We must earn it. And we can't earn it vicariously. We must earn it by the strength of our characters, the loftiness of our aims, the cleanness of our souls, and the fineness of our national honor.
To do otherwise is to emulate the sap-headed son of wealth who thinks, by buying wine for everybody, he is accumulating friends. People may drink the wine. But they do so while saying to themselves, "The poor sucker! I wonder what asinine trick he'll try next."
Men and women are liked and respected because they are honest, honorable, fearless and clean. Nations are liked for the same qualities.
Whereby, if the United States wants the friendship and respect of other nations, let it appeal to those other nations on the basis, and the only basis, that makes friendship and respect possible.
Giving of Adequate Physical Training to Children, Duty of Nation
Giving of Adequate Physical Training to Children, Duty of Nation
By CHARLES W. ELIOT
Former President of Harvard University
This country needs a citizens' army and navy of a thoroughly democratic sort, trained under conditions which would interfere as little as possible with the industries of the country. But it is of the utmost consequence that up to the twentieth year whatever training may be given to the boys and girls, which would be available later for the young soldiers and sailors, should also be equally available in the industries and homes of the country. The giving of adequate physical training to all children is a national interest, both in peace and in war; and it is therefore justifiable that the national government should spend part of the income it raises by taxation in contributing to and making sure of that physical training. This is precisely what the Swiss Federation does. It makes small contributions to the training which the cantons and municipalities supply in all Swiss schools; and then it maintains a body of inspectors to make sure that the work is really done. I submit that that would be a valuable new function for the department of the interior through its bureau of education.
With this function there will be associated another of national importance—aid to practical training in agriculture, personal hygiene, public health, diet, and the household arts—in all American schools of every grade, with national inspection of the work done. All this instruction is in the interest of the entire nation, without distinction of section, race or religion; and it ought not to be left to the discretion of the states and municipalities without government supervision. It is a strong case of "each for all and all for each."
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SUITS for spring, suits for summer, suits for early autumn, all are included in this our greatest sale. Here every man and young man in Denver can find the exact model and coloring to fulfill his individual desires, and all at a very material saving. This is the clothing opportunity of the season. We purchased for cash, surplus stocks of three of America's leading makers of hand-tailored clothes---H. Kamber & Company, the Boulevard Tailors and Strause & Bros., makers of "High Art" clothing, and are distributing them on the same basis that we bought them.
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THE COLORADO COLORED BATTALION is coming in for much enthusiasm, as men who served in the Spanish-American War are very interested and they help the roll of enlistment by the encouragement and inspiration of
Keep off the date of June 21st. Damon Lodge No. 5 K. of P. entertainment at Fern Hall.
George W. Davis of 1350 Fox street is numbered among the sick this week.
L. C. Connell, who has been confined to his home for the past eight months, is able to be out.
Mrs. Ella M. Jones who has been in Omana for the past three years returned home last Saturday.
Mrs. Wesley Lyons left last Wednesday evening for Tuskegee, Ala., to attend her son's graduation from Tuskegee Institute.
Miss Helena Morrison of 2559 Glenarm Place is recovering from a sprained ankle received from a fall last week.
F. T. BRUCE of 2231 Glenarm place one of our oldest and popular residents of the city, is slowly improving from his present illness. Mr. Bruce is an employé of the state capitol, having served the government for a number of years and is at present in the auditor's office.
Curtis Harris, popular funeral director with Cammel & Co., returned to the city a few days ago after visiting points in Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. He will shortly leave for Estes Park, his summer resort for several years.
Walter Sanford left for Estes Park last Thursday to be employed with Manager Alfred Lamborn of the Stanley Hotels. Sanford was formerly with the Douglas Undertaking Co., whom he gave every satisfaction during his term of service.
Corporal William White Camp No. 4, U. S. Spanish War Veterans, extends a cordial invitation to everyone to attend their annual dance, Wednesday night, May 30, 1917, Denver Auditorium. Admission, 50 cents. Good music, good order, our motto.
Campbell Pryor of 2530 Lafayette street, employe of the Denver Dental College, is improving from a severe accident in which his left hand was badly crushed, resulting in his nearly losing three of the fingers. His friends and well wishers hope a speedy recovery and his early return to duty.
Ray Maxwell, recently appointed to the police force, is doing patrol duty between Twenty-second and Thirty-third streets, Arapahoe to Champa streets, inclusive. Being one of our reliable young men and having passed a creditable examination we feel sure he will establish a good record, maintain a good prestige and merit the commendation of his chief and associate officers.
R. A. Spencer of 2450 Tremont Place is making good at the Colorado Building, where he is employed as janitor, according to the opinion of Albert Williams, who is the head of the employés. Such comments are gratifying and go a far way in removing wrong impressions entertained by those inexperienced in good and efficient Negro labor.
Harry Hayden of 2953 Glenarm Place, popular resident of several years, was struck by an automobile electric at the corner of Sixteenth and Welton streets last Wednesday. The chauffeur went on without stopping. He did not know Mr. Hayden was an employee of the State Capitol until the matter was reported to the secretary of state, and A. Lilyward of 2014 Emerson was summoned to appear before that government official. Fortunately Harry was only bruised and shaken up.
Fern Hall, 2711 Welton, R. L. Phynix, Manager. Phone Main 2860.
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THE COLORADO COLORED BATTALION is coming in for much enthusiasm, as men who served in the Spanish-American War are very interested and they help the roll of enlistment by the encouragement and inspiration offered to young*men. Enrollment lists are to be found in the possession of the following persons: Thomas Martin, Fire House, Twenty-sixth avenue and Glenarm place, Champa 2336; W. H. Vernell, 1869 Marion, York 6111 W; Rufus Bolden, 926 Nineteenth street, Main 4052; G. C. Sample, 1834 Arapahoe street, Champa 2571; William Robinson, 1421 Gilpin street, York 1334 W; E. R. Page, 2710 Welton street, Main 3759; Harry Jones, 1021 Nineteenth street; E. F. Canley, 2100 Arapahoe street, Main 2701; J. R. Hanger, 1233 Nineteenth street; John Waldron, 919 East Twenty-third avenue; W. H. Lee, 3741 Williams, Main 7030; Orva McCormack, 2602 Gilpin street, York 4748 J; Thomas Jones, 3357 Delgany street; Victor Walker, chairman of enrollment committee, 1837 Arapahoe street, Main 5097.
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Pastor—J. A. Thos.-Hazell, S.T.B.
Sermon topics Sunday, May 27th—11 a. m., "Christ's Other Self"; 5:30 p. m., "Confirmation."
In spite of the inclement weather last Sabbath, the services were carried out as scheduled. Mr. Gatewood very effectively rendered his solos in connection with both services. The recitative selections of "Who Shall Ascend Into the Hill of the Lord?" by Misses Galena Andrews, Mabel Cole and Mr. Wilfred Brickler were pathetically engaged in. The choruses were abnormal in their expressions. Both sermons were appropriate to the occasion.
The services tomorrow promise to be up to the standard. Special music and sermon to commemorate "Penticost."
At the confirmation services at 5:30 p. m. Miss Julia Wilson will be publicly received by letter from the Twenty-third Avenue Presbyterian Church to the People's. Miss Wilson was teacher of Booker T. Washington and wife at Hampton Institute and Mr. Jos. D. D. Rivers. After a number of years she established a school at Baxter Springs, Kan., for colored children. She contributed largely to the educational and evangelical needs of the colored people. As late as November, 1915, she ministered out of the largeness of her soul to the physical needs of Paul Brickous, one of her scholars whom she had not seen for twenty years. At his death Miss Wilson bore all the expenses in connection with this young man's funeral and erected a tombstone on the grave at Riverside cemetery. Her identifying herself with the People's Church brings with her her one desire to help the work and cooperate with our members. The session welcomes her most cordially. May others of her kind follow her example.
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Twenty-third and Lawrence Streets.
A. M. Ward, Minister.
Phone Main 5474. Residence 1218 23d
Sunday school, 9:45 a. m., V. N
Wolfskill, superintendent.
Preaching, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.
Class meeting, 12:30 p. m.
Allen C. E. League meeting, 7 p. m.
Charles Heywood, president.
Prayer meeting, Wednesday, 8 p. m
Class meeting, Friday, 8 p. m.
Interesting services were held last Sunday. Rev. C. M. Miller delivered a forceful sermon at 11 a. m., and the pastor preached at 8 p. m.
Miss Rubie C. Pettiford of Sabina, Ohio, who made her first appearance to a Denver audience in Campbell Chapel, A. M. E. Church, on Tuesday evening, delighted a large and representative audience with each number of her excellent renditions. In most of her numbers she responded to hearty encores.
Just another week and the financial battle will be on at Campbell Chapel. The next big event will be the trolley ride on Monday, May 28, leaving 23rd and Larimer streets at 8:30 p. m.
The Spanish American War Veterans will assemble in Campbell Chapel for their annual sermon on Sunday, May 27th.
On Tuesday evening the Morrison Musical under Cumpany C, given at the church, and on Decoration day Mrs. Ben Givens and the navy forces will serve dinner in the dining room of the church from noon to 9:30 p. m.
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MEMBERS OF THE WAR COUNCIL.
NAMES OF PERSONS ENLISTED.
The above organization was formed on Monday, May 12th, at the State Capitol by a number of influential citizens whose names appear below as members of a Council of War and enlistments for practical service:
MEMBERS OF THE WAR COUNCIL
Major Thomas Campbell
Rev. D. E. Over
Rev. H. B. Brown
Rev. A. M. Ward
Rev. J. Thos. Hazell
Rev. R. L. Pope
Rev. C. A. Williams
Rev. E. S. Sawyer
Rev. A. E. Reynolds
Rev. J. P. Price
Rev. E. E. Henderson
Rev. Th. J. Bell
Dr. P. E. Spratlin
Dr. J. H. P. West-brook
Dr. R. H. Randolph
Dr. T. E. McClain
Dr. C. D. DeFrantz
Editor Jos. D. D. Rivers
Atty. W. B. Town-son
MESSRS.
O. T. Jackson
T. S. Rector
E. F. Canty
V. B. Walker
N. W. Walker
A. R. Walker
Wm. Robinson
Thomas Martin
List open for additional members.
Names of Persons Enlisted. 4
Anderson, L.B. Reynolds, Jesse
Anderson, S. H. Smith, Elmer L. B.
Bradley, Tyler H. Smith, Earl B.
Bryant, Marc B. Blackwell, Em-
beason, Isaac Flemming, Ellis F.
Butler, A. R. Hamlet, Wendell
Chambers, Thos. Johnson, S. H.
Green, Frank Jackson, Arthur
Hawthorne, J. W. Lacy, Robt W. B.
Jones, Gole, Otis Robinson, Moses
Maxwell, Roy L. Snowden, Corne-
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Amosco Tasker, Chas W.
Payne, Robt A. Walksico, Pablo
Reynolds, V. W. Winters, James
Russell, J. E. W. Williams, T. L.
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San Francisco, Cal., May 23.—Negroes of California are actively recruiting a regiment. One battalion already has been signed up and it is said that no difficulty is anticipated in forming two more. W. A. Hayne, formerly of the Tenth United States cavalry, in which he served ten years successively as private, corporal, sergeant and sergeant major, is organizing the regiment. Every man in the regiment with the exception of the colonel and lieutenant colonel will be a Negro. Among the men already signed are many who have seen service in Negro regiments.
LOS ANGELES NEWS.
The fourth annual recital of the Wilkins School of Music, which was held on the 15th inst., proved to be one of the most enjoyable musical treats of the season. A large audience greeted the audience.
A temporary Y. M. G. A. building is being erected at Ninth and Hemlock streets. Plans are on foot to erect a structure to cost $80,000, including equipment.
It is always a pleasure to be entertained at the famous Cadillac Cafe, but on May 11th, Mr. N. B. Murray put on a banquet in honor of Mr. John Winston of Chicago. It is needless to say that the menu was the best the market affords, to which a score of gentlemen did ample justice.
Miss Leanetta Harrison of 1674 East Fiftieth Place, entertained a few friends on the 18th inst. Whist, sandwiched with vocal and instrumental music, made a program that was very much enjoyed. The house was very tastefully decorated with a variety of flowers, as was also the dining table, which groaned under a sumptuous menu, which was very much relished by the guests. A late hour found the crowd dispersing after voting Miss Harrison an ideal entertainer.
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A recent issue of the New Age of Los Angeles, Cal., had the following to say of Miss Naida Portia McCullough, formerly of Denver:
"A high tribute, not only to the rare talent and training, but to her general good scholarship and excellent deportment, was paid Miss Naida Portia McCullough Wednesday night at Trinity Auditorium. Miss McCullough was accorded the unusual honor of appearing twice on the Commencement program of Los Angeles High School on the occasion of the graduating of the Winter
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Class of '17. Miss McCullough accompanied the chorus in a number and appeared independently at the piano with Chopin's "Valse Brilliante." Miss Naida is one of the two charming daughters of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. McCullough of West Thirty-seventh street.
Y. M. C. A. NOTES.
Rehearsals of the "Messiah" by the new choral club under the direction of Mrs. C. D. De Frantz are progressing nicely. More than fifty were at the rehearsal last Thursday evening. The new books have now come and have been distributed, and the most of the principal solos have been assigned. From now on rapid progress is expected to be mode. Rehearsals will be held every Thursday evening at the Y. M. C. A. building until further notice. The Saturday Morning Bible-Story Club of younger boys is doing well. It now has twenty-two members, and more are joining at each meeting. Theodore Anderson is president of the club. Refreshments are served after each lesson, and a short march is made, after which games are played.
In the absence of Secretary Bell, who has gone to fill an engagement in Boulder, the Rev. G. Sterling Sawyer, pastor of Scott M. E. Church, presided at the men's meeting last Sunday afternoon. The address was delivered by the Rev. A. E. Reynolds, pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, and president of the Ministerial Alliance. It was greatly enjoyed by the persons present. Miss M. M. Hanna of Kansas City presided at the piano.
A flag presentation and a patriotic service will be held next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The program will be interesting. Mrs. A. F. Bond will present the flag, which will be accepted in an address by Mr. T. S. Rector on behalf of the committee of management and the association. Mrs. Grace Wordsworth, whose husband commanded a battalion of colored troops during the Civil war, will speak on "Reminiscences." The principal address will be delivered by Mr. Geo W. Gross on "The Place We Hope This Flag to Fill in the Hearts of Our Young Men." Music of a patriotic nature will be rendered. Miss Vere Ward will be at the piano. Everybody is cordially invited.
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MEMORIAL DAY
HERE has not in the world's history been so splendid and continuing a testimonial of a nation's gratitude as the United States has paid to its citizen soldiers; but it has not measured up to their deserts. The last and most impressive of all tributes is that which comes from the heart, bespoken by the faltering voice, the moistening eye, the quickening pulse. It is the human testimony to the fact that as a nation we have not forgot—the pledge, on this privileged day of a glorious anniversary, that we will never forget—the promise that the future shall bring forth sons and daughters capable and willing to sustain with equal sacrifices the structure of human liberty and national security that these veterans raised.
Looking upon the spectacle, the nation will be moved to renew its assurance that, after all, there are things in this world worth fighting for, even dying for; that there are worse fates than to give one's life for a cause worthy the giving. There will be a new and resolute determination that if need shall come, as come it may, this nation again will rise to its obligation and its duty, inspired by the example of these men who preserved for us the institutions that have been made sacred by their sacrifices.
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MEN WHO FIRED LAST SHOTS OF THE WAR AFTERWARD MET
COLUMBUS (Ohio) man claims to have fired the last shot of the war of Secession—David, N. Osor, the
son—David N. Ossy, the Columbus Dispatch states. He was a member of Company F, Ninth Ohio cavalry. On the morning of April 17, 1865, that command was near Durham Station, N. C. It was keeping close watch on Gen. Joe Wheeler's cavalry, which was on the opposite side of an extensive swamp. Part of the Union cavalry was ordered to dismount and wade across the swamp to distract the Confederates, while the rest constructed a corduroy bridge. They used their carbines so vigorously that the Confederates surmised that a very considerable force was coming at them, and the road builders got along fine with their bridge.
Near the other edge of the swamp Osyor says a Confederate bullet just clipped his sergeant's chevron and the skin on his arm. Looking for the source of the bullet, he spied the long barrel of a gun and the gray legs of a Confederate soldier in the forks of a tree in front of him, and he fired at them. He saw the legs withdrawn and the owner of them crawl slowly away.
Just then a flag of truce came in sight and the Union men were ordered to cease firing. The occurrence, Osyor said, did not impress him at the time, but that flag of truce was really the sign of the end of the Civil war, for the general surrender came soon and the troops were sent home.
A strange part of the story is that long after the war Osyor met at Birmingham, Ala., a man named Amos Thompson, who was lrime—said he had been wounded in the Confederate service and, comparing notes, they established to the satisfaction of both that Thompson was the man who was in the tree on the edge of the Durham swamp back in 1865, had shot at Osyor and been shot in turn by him. Osyor's bullet struck Thompson in the knee and made him a cripple for life. They agreed that they had fired the very last shot on each side in the Civil war.
Duty Before Men of Today.
In an address at the Homewood cemetery, Pittsburgh, Rev. J. E. Norcross of the Shady Avenue Baptist church said: "We are living in the best period of the world's history. In spite of war and rumors of war humanity is advancing. The rise and fall of nations form stages in the evolution of the race. National crises are not mere happenings; they are the meeting places of broken laws. God waits for nations to move, but God moves while we wait. Nations, as well as individuals, reap their harvests. Much will be required of us. To falter will be beckoned cowardice. Our strength will be equal to omnipotence if we are aligned with God. It is our specific mission to help America fulfill her unique destiny."
TRIBUTE TO GRANT AS IMMORTAL SOLDIER AND STATESMAN
THE FOLLOWING poem in tribute to Gen. U. S. Grant by Dr. Thomas Calver was read by the author at the exercises celebrating Grant's birthday at the Metropolitan M. E. church, C street and John Marshall place, Washington.
GRANT.
When history uplifts her scroll
Within the beams of Glory's blaze,
Few names are seen upon the roll
Reflecting fully all the rays;
P
The stain of selfish thirst for fame,
Undue ambition's fatal blight,
The itching palm's enclosing shame
Too often dim the golden light.
But when the shining name appears
Of one whose strength was truth
and worth;
Who no ambition knew, nor fears,
Save for the country of his birth;
Who had no thought of selfish ends,
But fought to win his country's
fight
And change her foes to loyal friends—
That name shows full effulgence
bright.
The youthful soldier's laurels green;
The citizen's plain, useful ways;
The victor's glad, yet modest mien,
When honored with a nation's
praise;
The manly heart that could but feel
Compassion for a fallen foe;
The statesman's patriotic zeal—
All on his name their glory throw.
"Unknown"
GO forth where the far-flung prairies lie—
Where, neath the blue of a bending sky,
Bright roses beam, and beckon and say—
Take of our bounties this beaut'ous day,
Scatter them—scatter them deep—
Scatter them o'er where heroes sleep.
Go to the hills where the laurel grows—
Where soft winds sigh—where the tempest blows,
Gather the choicest gifts of God
That spring from the rich and rugged sod;
Scatter them—scatter them deep—
Scatter them o'er where heroes sleep.
Go to the tomb where the chieftain lies,
Where, carved in rock, of heroic days
A story is told—of vict'ries won—
Honors achieved—of duties well done;
Then softly approach that spot pressed down,
Where the stone lies low, the name "Unknown"—
"Unknown"—unknown in the sight of God?
He knoweth who sleeps beneath the sod.
'Twas a mother's boy—a brave, loving lad
Who knew no glory save his Nation's good;
Earth's bosom holds him in sacred embrace.
Nor does nor storms shall his glory efface.
PHIL KEARNEY EVER AT FRONT OF THE BATTLE
Federal Leader Who Fell at Chantilly
Left a Memory That Survivors
of Conflicts of the Civil
War Delight in Hon-
oring.
O THE soldierly legend is still
on its journey,—
Twas the day when Jameson, flerce Berry, and Birney,
Against twenty thousand he rallied the field.
Where the red volleys poured, where the clamor rose highest,
Where the dead lay in clumps through the dwarf oak and pine,
Where the aim from the thicket was surest and highest—
No charge like Phil Kearny's along the whole line.
When the battle went ill, and the bravest were solemn,
Near the dark Seven Pines, where we still held our ground,
His sword waved us on and we answered the sign;
Loud our cheer as we rushed, but his laugh rang the louder,
"There's the devil's own fun, boys,
along the whole line!"
How he strode his brown steed! How we saw his blade brighten
In the one hand still left—and the reins in his teeth!
He laughed like a boy when the hollidays heighten,
But a soldier's glance shot from his visor beneath.
Up came the reserves to the melee infernal,
Asking where to go in—through the clearing or pine?
"Oh, anywhere! Forward! 'Tis all the same, Colonel;
You'll find lovely fighting along the whole line!"
Oh, evil the black shroud of night at Chantilly,
That hid him from sight of his brave men and tried!
Foul, foul sped the bullet that clipped the white lily,
The flower of our knighthood, the whole army's pride!
Yet we dream that he still—in that shadowy region
Where the dead form their ranks at the wan drummer's sign—
Rides on, as of old, down the length of his legion,
And the word still is "Forward!" along the whole line.
—Edmund Clarence Stedman.
"Columbia"
ITALIANS DRIVE TOWARD TRIESTE
CAPTURE 9,000 AUSTRIANS IN ADVANCE ALONG TEN-MILE FIRING LINE.
FRENCH CAPTURE 8,600
BRITISH MILITARY TRANSPORT
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Rome, May 15.—Following ten hours' terrific bombardment Italian attacking forces broke through strongly-organized Austrian lines in the Carso, captured Jaimand and took 9,000 prisoners.
The war office statement announcing the victory said 130 aeroplanes participated in the fighting, and that fire from ten British artillery batteries aided. The breach in the enemy lines was effected along the sector from Castagnavizza to the sea and likewise in the area south of the Boscomala road around Passi, Boscomalo and Locati. Around Gorizia, the statement said, a strong point on the slopes of San Marco had been captured and progress made around Monte Santo and Vodice.
The front from Castagnavizza to the sea covers nearly fourteen miles from a point a little to the north of Gorizia due south to the Gulf of Panzano.
Paris.—Eight thousand six hundred German prisoners have been taken by French troops since May 1 in their offensive between Soissons and Aubervie, the official statement asserted, detailing further heavy losses inflicted on the enemy in repulse of violent attack on the Vauclerc plateau.
The Vauclerc attack was a bloody check to the Germans. Their troops were literally thrown back to the starting point of the counter-thrust. Prisoners captured were identified as belonging to four different German divisions, indicating that the enemy attack was by a force of not less than 60,000 men.
Lon'on.—The British transport Transylvania was torpedoed on May 4, with the loss of 413 persons, in the Mediterranean. The following official statement was given out: "The British transport Transylvania, with troops aboard in the Mediterranean on May 4, resulting in the following losses: Twenty-nine officers and 373 of other ranks, also the ship's captain, Lieut. S. Brenell, and one officer and nine men of the crew."
U. S. WAITS ONLY WORD "GO."
Vice President Declares America Well Prepared to Get Into War.
Cleveland, Ohio. — Vice President Thomas R. Marshall, here to attend the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the Scottish Rite Masons of the Northern jurisdiction, valley of Cleveland, declared America is well prepared now to get into the war. "All we are waiting for is the final word to go. Then watch us," the vice president said. "When we get forcibly into the fight," he continued, "we shall stay in it until at the conference of nations there shall be written a guarantee that the right of every people on earth to manage and control others shall be gone forever and we are assured posterity shall not have to suffer from German power as we have suffered."
INDICT NINETEEN HIGHGRADER6.
U. S. Grand Jury at Cheyenne Holds Accused Men in Cripple Creek Case.
Cheyenne, Wyo.—A United States grand jury, after listening to evidence for nine days, indicted nineteen men in connection with "highgrading" in the Cripple Creek district, Colo., which is alleged to have netted several hundred thousand dollars. Seven of the indictments were suppressed, because the defendants are not in custody.
Indictments against the following were made public: John Muehlhauen, Charles E. Reed, Charles Daniel, Daniel McLeod, Victor Peterson, Carl Muehlhausen, Mark T. Snodgrass and John Cusack of Cheyenne; Dennis F. Sullivan and George J. Heber of Denver; Antonio Cuaz, alias James Blondo, alias Joe Nex, of San Francisco; Frank Cochrane, alias William Green, of Victor, Colo.
In addition to an indictment against each man charging "highgrading" all were indicted for conspiracy. Bail of $5,000 or $10,000 was fixed and several of the defendants have given bond.
Pershing Confers With President.
Washington—Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing, who will command the division of regular army veterans which is to be sent to France "at the earliest practicable moment," called at the White House and paid his respects to President Wilson. As commander-in-chief of the army and navy Mr. Wilson undoubtedly gave Gen. Pershing final instructions regarding the part the American contingent is to play in the great world war in Europe.
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By EDWARD B. CLARK.
Washington.—There will be rapid recruiting of nine regiments of army engineers for immediate service in France. The men composing the regiments will be trained railroad employees under the command of a colonel of the regular army. They will find their way clear to do high service in Europe. Recruits who volunteer for this engineering work need not fear that their life is to be a humdum when they get into France. They may be doing work to which they are accustomed, but they will do it under new conditions and occasionally under those of fire. The railway men will see real service in France, and they will do their shell dodging on occasion with the men of the fighting line.
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British railway men regularly enlisted in the army today have charge of a large part of the rail lines of communication in northern France. As early as March, 1915, the lines from Boulogne running to Amiens and from there north were almost wholly under the control of the British. The traveler in France heard English spoken along the routes of way through mile after mile of the embattled country.
Will Relieve French Engineers. Farther east and back of the lines, and up to them from Paris to the Moselle river, the railroads were under the management of Frenchmen. It is understood that the American engineers will relieve the French of a large part of their work and thereby will release some thousands of men for other service.
When the Germans advanced to the Petit and the Grand Morin rivers southeast to Paris, and there were struck by the forces of the British and French and hurled backward in retreat, the railway men of the islands and of France instantly began the work of road construction on the routes leading northward, following in the immediate rear of the advancing English and French. If the labor of the railroad men had been lacking the retreat of the Germans would not have been so rapid nor would the British and the French have been able to continue their advance.
The Americans frequently will be under shell fire. They will get plenty of the excitement of war, and intending volunteers need not fear that they are going over to France to lead a life ordinary in every way except that it will run through its hours in a new environment. The American engineers not only will hear the sound of the guns of battle, but they are likely to feel some of their effects. It will be a real army life for the American railway men, and there can be no American to doubt that they will meet the new conditions and do their work and their fighting like Americans.
General Crowder's Big Task.
President Wilson took the judge advocate general of the United States Army, Enoch H. Crowder, to make of him a provost marshal general. A man of fine legal attainments and of force of character and soldierlike qualities was needed for the big job confronting the country. The administration stood by the principle of selective conscription, and it must abide by the judgment of the people upon its success or its failure. General Crowder will direct the great work.
Heavy responsibility today rests on the shoulders of the provost marshal general. To him has come the great labor of raising armies for the United States to fight for the principle of democracy and the downfall of despotism.
There is no office in the city of Washington today which is so studiously busy as that of the provost marshal general. General Crowder picked his subordinates. They came from various branches of the service and are known as men of discrimination, tact and executive ability, and as soldiers unafraid to do their duty. It can be said today that the machinery for the registration day operations is ready. It was planned, adjusted and made ready for use by the judge advocate general before announcement was made that he was to be the provost marshal general.
Age Limit Increased Work.
The work of the office has been increased largely, as has that of the registration boards in the different states by the extension of the age limit of the men to be chosen for service. It was the earnest wish of all army officers that the outside age for service should be twenty-seven years. Opinion as to the wisdom of fixing the age at twenty-seven is based not on the extra amount of work necessary if the limit were extended, but upon the plain
military sense of forming an army of men a little under and a little over the majority age. In everything that the provost marshal general has made public concerning the plans of office he has emphasized the fact that it is the intention of the law that as little hardships as possible shall be worked upon the country. The law in effect is self-executing, and nothing except misunderstanding on the part of officials and of the people themselves will interfere to prevent the harmonious working out of the plan as it has been formulated.
Questions by the thousands have been asked of the war department, by the people since the selective conscription act first was proposed. All these questions have been turned over for answer to the office of the provost marshal general. Personal replies in every case have been impossible. An attempt has been made to make answer through the press.
No Favoritism to Be Shown.
The first anxiety of the people of the United States seemed to concern itself with the possibility that some mother's son was to escape, while another mother's son was to be made to serve. Some mothers' sons will escape while others will serve, but there will be no favoritism shown in the matter.
All of the men between the age limit fixed will not be needed for the service. Many of them will be exempt because of the nature of their employment, or because they have persons dependent upon them for their livelihood. When the names of all those who are liable to service are known, the selections will be made by lot. One mother's son may be more fortunate in the lottery than another mother's son, but later the other mother's son may be obliged to go.
Enoch H. Crowder, provost marshal general of the United States, is a graduate of the United States Military academy of the year 1881. He was born in Missouri, and was appointed to West Point from that state. Early in his service he was a cavalry officer and a distinguished one. He studied law and entered the judge advocate general's department of the army. He was made judge advocate general in 1911.
Results of War Conferences.
What has been accomplished as a result of the conferences between the British and the American officials? The answer briefly might be "Everything has been accomplished." Money matters, material matters and men matters have been arranged to the joint satisfaction of Britishers and Americans and in this joint partnership of satisfactory agreements must be included the French commissioners.
The only secrecy, so far as the country knows, which has been maintained in connection with the visit of the British mission concerns itself naturally with army and navy projects. It seems to be assured, however, that the military members of the British commission are convinced that America will enter into the war after a manner entirely to the liking of the military authorities of Great Britain and France.
So far as naval matters are concerned, it is pretty well known that a plan of co-operation has been agreed upon by American, French and British sea experts. What this plan will prove to be the American people will know only when operations begin. It includes, of course, first and foremost, a working plan to make further operations of the German submarines abortive.
There is a feeling of confidence in official circles in Washington, which is so marked that the laity is affected by it, that plans for what may be called grand strategy at sea have been formulated by the British, French and American officers of high service.
The American people know all about the money arrangements which have been made to the eminent satisfaction and deep gratitude of the visiting commissions. Money makes armies and navies go just as surely as the proverb assures us that it makes the mare go.
Must Hurry Shipbuilding.
The shipping problem is still a vexing one, not because the planning has gone away, but because of the unavoidable delay in getting the ships built. The Americans have taken over the German ships and this will help to some extent, but some definite scheme of speeding up construction is the one thing lacking to make the situation what the visitors and the homefolk would like it to be.
The British and the French visitors fulfilled to the outermost limit their promise that they would give advice based on their own experience, if such advice were asked. It was asked, and today the officials of the state, war, navy, treasury, commerce and labor departments of the United States government have before them all, the lessons learned by England and by France since the war started.
An Englishman said a day or two ago: "The commission has been brutally frank in disclosing to the American authorities the mistakes, blunders and almost criminal acts of stupidity which were made or committed by British officialdom during the first year of the present war."
Already there are evidences in the departments of the government that American soldier, sailor and layman officials are profiting by the plain British tale of the errors of omission and commission made by the British government almost daily for months of the present conflict.
Very Pleasant.
Patience—I was sitting on a bench in the park and a strange man came along and sat down beside me.
Patrice—Wasn't you frightened?
"Why, no! He kissed me!"
A handful of dust—it is death, it is birth,
It is naught—it is all since the first day of earth,
It is fame, it is fortune, and laughter and joy.
And it looks all the mystery lost in the years,
A handful of dust.
GOOD THINGS FOR THE HOME TABLE.
Where there are proper facilities for keeping foods from one day to another, much time and labor may be saved by making a little more than is necessary for the meal for which it is intended. Rice may be served in several ways so that a larger quantity may be cooked at one time.
Baking Pan
Stuffed Egg Salad.—Cook four eggs until hard and after shelling cut lengthwise into halves; remove the yolks and beat to a paste; add a tablespoonful of chili sauce, two tablespoonfuls of minced chicken and a teaspoonful of melted butter. When blended fill into the egg whites and arrange on a bed of crisp heart leaves of lettuce, pouring over a thick boiled dressing; garnish with capers and slices of pickled beets.
Palatable Steak Ends.—Crop the tough end of a porterhouse steak rather coarsely; cook it in a little butter with a sprinkling of pepper and salt; add two tablespoonfuls of milk, dredge with browned flour, toss it in a fourth of a cupful of cream and serve with baked potatoes.
Peanut Butter.—Shell and blow off the brown skins from the nuts; rubbing them between two coarse towels will help the process. Dust them with salt and grind at once; pack into glass jars or tumblers, cover and keep in a cool place. Four tablespoonfuls of butter is added to each pound of nuts by some, who consider it an improvement.
Rice Spoon Bread.—Take a cupful of corn, two tablespoonfuls of butter, a cupful of boiled rice and two-thirds of a cupful of boiled water, a cupful of milk, two beaten eggs, one and a fourth teaspoonfuls of salt, and a teaspoonful of baking powder. Bent well and bake in hot custard cups well greased.
Hermits.—Soak a cupful of seedless raisins overnight, then drain. Beat half a cupful of butter to a cream and add gradually one cupful of brown sugar, one teaspoonful of milk, one tablespoonful of molasses, two eggs beaten light, the raisins and two cupfuls of flour, a teaspoonful of cinnamon, half a teaspoonful of mace, two and a half teaspoonfuls of baking powder, all well sifted. Drop from a spoon and bake in a moderate oven. More flour should be added, if the cakes spread in baking.
The man who drops into a ruck
And makes a sorry mess of life.
If he's unmarried blames his luck.
And if he's married blames his wife.
SUGGESTIONS FOR HOUSEWIFE.
Every spot of ground available should be put into things for the ta-
ble this year, as we are constantly told to conserve every resource in these times of stress and high prices. The weekly news letter published by the United States department of agriculture has an article by D. F. Hous-
ble this year, as we are constantly told to conserve every resource in these times of stress and high prices. The weekly news letter published by the United States department of agriculture has an article by D. F. Houston the secretary of agriculture in which he says: "Both for economic and patriotic reasons the American farmer should strive this year for the highest standard of efficiency in the production and conservation of food. But production accomplished by wasteful methods does not make for efficiency, and careful thought therefore should be given to the steps that need to be taken.
Every vegetable not used for the table should be canned for winter use, so that nothing be wasted. Even on city lots a small hotbed may raise a large quantity of table vegetables, and a bed four feet square will raise herbs enough to supply the market with sage, mint, and various savory herbs, for some time. Vacant lots all over our cities are lying unused which should be put to work raising food for future needs. Different soils grow different crops successfully. The soy bean is a crop which is easily grown on poor soil and the bean is a most nutritious one, which at much less cost takes the place of the navy bean. It seems to need a little longer soaking and parboiling to soften the coat, but otherwise it is cooked and served as the navy bean. Our food experts tell us that the nourishment is equally as good as that of the navy bean.
Skim milk has lost very little of its protein and may be used in the place of whole milk in numberless dishes at a great saving in cost. For the use in bread biscuits cakes, milk toast, cream soups, vegetable chowders and various other dishes which will occur to the thinking housewife, skim milk may take the place of whole milk. When one is making a fruit or spice cake stewed prune juice may be used for the wetting and some of the fruit With a few nuts, making a most daintly flavored cake.
COLORADO TODO HERBIT
Do You Know That—
MORE MEN THAN ASKED FOR
WILL GO TO THE FRONT.
Governor Cunter Declares Every Resource of the State Will Be at Government's Service.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Governor Lays Out War Program.
Colorado is ahead of other states, and even of the government, in its preparedness plans, says Governor Cunter. He have a few of the things that are planned to be done during the summer:
The COLORADO STATESMAN
Furnish 5,000 men for patriotic duty.
Form army of 50,000 boys and men too old for service to guard homes, raise crops and otherwise assist the state. In smaller towns close all business and work on farms, 5 a.m., that all may work on farms, and transact business only between 5 and 8 at night. This to include the banks.
IS PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS OF
Furnish far more than the state's quota of foodstuffs. Furnish far more than her quota of minerals needed for war material. Denver.—Colorado will do more than her bit in the war. It will be done voluntarily and gladly, and because she wants to do it, not because it is demanded or expected.
JOB PRINTING
Colorado's share of the army to be raised will be one out of every hundred or 20,000 of the 2,000,000 men required by the army. Counting the National Guard, she has almost reached half this number now and a total of more than 109,000 men will be ready under the selective conscription system. This is more than four times the number the state would be compelled to furnish.
Commercial, Fraternal, Church, Book and Stationery Jobs A SPECIALTY
Of the army of women that must conserve food, take the place of men in industry, or go to the front as nurses, Colorado will furnish 5,000. This will be one-twentieth of the amount the nation is expecting to serve, or ten times Colorado's share. This state is six weeks ahead of any other state and three weeks ahead of the government itself in its preparedness plans, according to Harry Cornell, director of organization for the ways and means committee of the governor's war council.
Aside from the men of military age who will register, plans are being made for an army of 50,000 to consist of boys from 14 to 21 years of age and men from 31 to 55 years of age. The duties of this army will be to guard the homes, raise the crops and otherwise assist the government and state in such ways as the President and the governor shall decide they are needed.
Ball and Concert Programs, Bill and Letter Heads, Calling Cards, Wedding Cards, Envelopes and Everything in the Printing Line Turned Out in the Neatest and Best Style Promptly on Short Notice.
Each man in the state under 21 and over 31 years will be given a bronze badge which he is to wear in his lapel as a sign that he has enrolled in the industrial army. He will have a registration card on file and will have to take an oath to support the state and the nation.
Colorado will harvest a record crop this year. Wheat and beets will be as plentiful as ever. The mean crop will be many times larger than ever before, both pimentos and navy. Last year the state had 38,000 acres of beans. This year there will be 165,000 acres under cultivation in nine counties already reported. Record crops here are necessary to feed the fighters and supply home consumers. Prices will not go up, but are expected to go down inside of a year.
We Have Supplied Our Office with New Job Press & Type of Up-to-Date Style and Our Work Will Be on a Par with the Very Best.
Colorado's tithe of the expense of this war will also be more than her share. Estimating the cost on a per capita basis, Colorado's share of the expense would be $70,000,000. She will assume twice her share, it is believed. Just what the state's share of the liberty loan will be is problematic, but the governor believes it will be close to $25,000,000. The tax on the incomes in the state and the special taxes on luxuries, cosmetics, telegrams, letters, theater tickets, etc., will bring the total close to $140,000,000 within the time it will take to finish the war.
Give Us a Trial and We Will Give You Satisfaction
"Every resource of the state," said Governor J. C. Gunter, "will be at the government's service. The lives of our people, our mineral wealth, our crops, our money, our live stock and everything the country needs will be ready when called for and frequently offered in advance."
Prices as Reasonable as Those of Any Job Office in Denver
Labor Survey Committee Appointed.
William C. Thornton, president of the Denver Trades Assembly, has been named by the governor as chairman of a body to be known as the labor survey, committee for national and state war service, and John R. Lawson has been named a member. The committee will look after all questions pertaining to industry, but its principal duty during the present crisis will be to determine which workers should continue their usual occupations instead of going to the front in order that labor conditions may not be disorganized.
Forest Service Helps on Roads.
An agreement is being drafted between the State Highway Commission and the Forestry Service by which approximately $120,000 will be released immediately for construction work on four scenic highways of Colorado. The plans include the extension of roads over Monarch pass, in southern Chaffee county, a new highway connecting Decker Springs, in Platte canon, with Sedalia; the Rabbit Ear pass, and a Durango-Silverton highway.
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The "service suit" is made of khaki, and it is good to look at, with convenience and grace and stability to appeal to the good sense of the out-of-doors woman. And just as soon as the out-of-doors woman sees it, she is captivated—and all is over except delivering the parcel. For camping, fishing, golfing, tennis, gardening, beekeeping and farming, it is destined to become the conventional suit.
The new garment is cut along lines that are correct for women, and is no more masculine than a party frock is. It is made trouser fashion, with the full trousers plaited to a shapely blouse; it is well tailored and fastens with bone buttons across the back.
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Since duty calls women to the garden to work, clothes have been designed to meet the emergency. Sunbonnets, aprons, "overettes" and "service suits" have made their entry to meet with a whole-hearted welcome. These clothes proclaim that their wearers have enlisted to do their bit in the army of producers.
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