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Subscribe for the Only Reliable Negro Paper in Colorado, "The Colorado Statesman" THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RAGE COUNTRY PARTY SOUTHERN WHITE FOLKS ARE FAST CHANGING COLOR VOL. XXIII. SOUTHERN FOLKS A CHANG (By T. Thomas Fortune.) Washington, D. C.—"A great astonishment" is gradually coming over the white people of the Southern States—the greatest that could come over a proud people who believe firmly that white is the only color that has any right to the protection of the laws and respect of the public opinion that makes the laws and the administrators of them. Christian scientists have a theory that if you believe a thing is so, it is so, and if you believe a thing is not so, it is not so; that is to say, if you are real sick, and believe you are real well, real well you are and not real sick. It is a real nice theory, but the white citizens of the South, and of some other spots on the Federal map, are working it over time on the color and race question. There is bound to be a reaction from this view of the matter, because there are two parties to it. Where there are two parties to anything, one party to it cannot always have his way. He will be called to account, but just how does not always appear clear to the aggrieved party. There is a way in which inequalities are evened, that we do not always perceive, operating in the affairs of persons and states. It is happening that way in this country, in the vital matters of race readjustments, not alone as to our own white and black people, but as to the large European mixed race population. We have been industriously intermixing with our citizenship, most of whom is a race cross, blend and amalgamation of African, Asiatic and European races and tribes, who have come out of all the tribulations of it, the mixed indurated race type they are but affect not to know it. The "great astonishment" that is coming over the white people of the South is this: Great numbers of them are becoming so tanned, so saffron colored, that they look much like our own "high browns," the Afro-American cross of white and black becoming "a confusion to them." Especially is this the ease in traveling by water. Conductors and pursers have a time of it deciding "who is who," without getting into trouble. Most of them have Negro spotters, who are supposed to know "who is who," invariably, but they often "fall down"—even they are not infallible, and often fail to detect "their own." What a dirty job the Negro spot- ters have! A person has to sink very low in his own estimation to earn his living as a Negro spotter. I had an interesting experience recently upon returning from Norfolk to Washington. I wanted to be sure of a berth and so went to the Norfolk office of the Washington Steamboat Company, on Ganby street, and asked for a ticket and stateroom. The man gave me a first class ticket and said I would have to get the stateroom of the purser on the boat. They have only a limited number of rooms for colored people in a segregated part of the boat. If you wait until you get on the boat you may be unable to get a room or berth and have to "sit up" all night. Several white persons about my color, which is far from white, bought tickets and got rooms while the man and I disputed about it, and I called his attention to the fact, but he refused to "retreat a single inch." He stood all the plain talk I gave him, and I do some plain talking when I am injured in my "best" feelings, but he kept the stateroom. When I got on the boat and it pulled out into the bay, a long string of white persons was lined up to the purser's window, and many colored persons were lounging about waiting for the white persons to be waited upon. That did not suit me. I got on the white line and broke the color of it. When it came my turn at the purser's window he asked my name and the price I wished to pay for a berth. He gave me a desirable room, and a porter, after asking me if I wanted him to do so, took my baggage to the room. After a while I went to Social Hall, and securing a good seat, "lit my smoke," and watched "the passing show" until 9 o'clock and turned in. Colored spotters eyed me and I eyed them, but they also eyed others—many others—some of the best blood of the South, who were no whiter than I, and few of them as good looking. In the cars and on the streets of Washington it is much the same—the white folks are generally becoming so much colored that there is no longer any uniformly white color among them. I can see as I scrutinize them that "a great astonishment" is gradually covering them. The magical power of God is compelling their sins to find them out. They need no pity as they have not pitied us. They have mixed with the Negro blood and spirit in core and they cannot escape.—New York Age. Mr. Fortune's experience has been ours for a number of years, and while we are not fortunate enough to wear an appearance as to puzzle the spotters of the Negro race as to whether our father or DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, JULY 28 1917 State Hist. & Nat Hist Soc, State House able Negro Paper ADO THE JOURNAL DENVER, COLORADO, SA grandfather is of Anglo-Saxon origin, we sometimes in our embarrassing moments find a little mirth in the inability to determine "who is who" and "what is what" by the mighty dominant white race and their "spotting agents." In Denver we have a few "high browns" and "attractive yellows," who have been holding their own for years, some living in palatial residences, some legally united, property owners in what they term exclusive sections, on resident lots "for whites only," and it is so amusing to see them enter the theaters and other places of amusement seated in the parquet and boxes without molestation because of the admixture brought about by this race that has and is changing color. That "a great astonishment" is gradually covering them is generally noticed as we know personally in one of the oldest and largest insurance companies of this country there are two of our NEGRO WHITES that have been filling very lucrative and prominent positions for over a decade, and having the features and everything that would count for the apparent proofs of racial identity (white) they remain undisturbed. The mother of one is of direct African descent, having jet black straight hair, with a soft black skin, his father being a German, the other, his mother a mulatto and his father white American. We can recall an incident which helps to prove the "great astonishment," the same being as follows: In the long drawn out controversy for years in the Episcopal church in America for the ordaining of Negro bishops (the same having no settlement up to the present) an Episcopal colored clergyman of Denver was asked to write a paper on the same question to be presented at a periodical conference of the body in Colorado. He wrote and read the paper which was freely discussed, as he gave every proof of the possession of the qualities by the Negro for the high office. After a number of clergymen had expressed themselves, one venerable divine of an experience of half a century in the ministry spoke very touchingly and closed the debate by saying, "Well, the Negroes should not have too much worry over this question, as in my opinion drawing deductions from general surroundings, within a few years there will be no darkskinned people in America, as the white race is losing its color by intermixing." We can remember an article from the pen of one of our eminent race writers, Dr. Williams, who headed his matter. "Give Us Back Our White Negroes," and he went on to show how that the white man was beginning to realize his merciless action towards the Negro in the gratification of his sensuous desires, by the fairness of his offspring, and then he resorted to the cruel role—adding insult to injury, by trying to divide and sub-divide the Negroes themselves into a variety of types and classes. Certainly they have claimed superiority, and if their code of moral ethics taught them "to sow the wind," then by all means let them "reap the whirl wind." We are proud that we are Negroes—real Negroes, pure Negroes, who from the ore to the refined metal retain all the qualities whereby we can be seen or known, and as soon as we can impress our white countrymen that the quality of color should not be strained so that there'll be no guessing as to what race we belong, we will also have a power, a voice and an action in this country that must be felt, heard and tolerated. "Who steals my purse steals trash; 'Tis something, nothing; But he that filches from me my good name, My color, etc." (From a parody on Shakespeare's "A Good Name.) LOUD TALK (From Philadelphia Tribune) We are continually annoyed or shamed by the tendency on the part of our people to discuss private matters and racial secrets in loub tones in public places. This is not confined to any special class of people, but is a general failing of the race. In bar-rooms tipsy colored men loudly discuss gambling, women and the shortcomings of other no account men like themselves. These same loungers, in far too many instances, discuss last Sunday's sermon, the preacher's frailties and their family business. In street cars, theatres, public meetings and on the highways our race enterprises, our leaders and our social evils are made topics of public news. As a consequence the bartender generally a low-grade white man, and the white people of all classes are led to believe that the white man is a superior of the high class colored man; that the highest ambition of the colored man is to drink booze, were loud clothes, smoke cigarettes, live in adultry and ape all the weaknesses of the white man for, that is where the colored man learned it all. The white man is ever ready to listen to these conversations, as they generally show the colored man up in a bad light, but sometimes they become so disgusting in their details that he gets nauseated. Keep your private affairs to yourself, discuss racial affairs calmly and soberly among those capable of comprehending and assisting in racial uplift. Do not discuss the moral lapses of your friends wives and daughters anywhere, especially when you have been criminally guilty of contributing to these delinquencies. Most white people believe that all colored people are morally bad, intellectually deficient and generally unworthy of respect and consideration. We are largely responsible for this belief. We have yet to learn that while "speech is silver, silver is golden." A jackass brays loudly, but he is neither intelligent nor valuable for he is the lowly burden bearer with highblooded stock. RACE NEWS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES Columbus, N. M., July 20. Every company of the Twenty-fourth United States infantry, stationed here, has taken up a large subscription on pay day for the benefit of the sufferers of the East St. Louis massacre. This is more than numbers of church people did throughout the country, who busied themselves passing resolutions. Washington, D. C.,—A head of a child, modeled by Miss Mary Howard Jackson, of this city, has been placed on exhibition in the lower loan room of the famous Corcoran Gallery of Art. "It is an admirable piece of work well constructed, nicely modeled and expressive, and it takes its place well among the works of this gallery by sculptors of more experience and greater reputation," says the Washington Star. Washington, D.C.—Orders designating the remaining regiments of the increased regular army show that no more colored regiments are to be formed. So, while opponents in Congress failed to have the present colored regiments disbanded, they succeeded in preventing the formation of new ones. The Negro's position in the United States with regard to the regular army is lower than what it was fifty years ago, when there were six colored regiments. Buffalo, N. Y.—Notices are posted for one thousand Colored men to work as section hands on the railroad between Buffalo and New York. A new canning factory is also soliciting colored help to can vegetables. Three thousand colored people have come into the city during the past month. The housing conditions are said to be a disgrace. Something should be done by those in authority to relieve the situation. New York, July 14—John H. Woodson, the only colored fireman in the Greater New York Fire Department, has been publicly awarded a gold medal of honor by Mayor Mitchel for bravery in rescuing a mother and child at a tenant house fire in Brooklyn last September. Mr. Woodson in his three years of service has made a fine record. Columbus. Ohio, July 20. —Report is going the rounds here NO 49 that Col. Young has been offered the chance to lead a new regiment that is being formed in this state, the nucleus of which will be the Ninth Battalion. Such a move will be met with much enthusiasm by members of the Race. Col. Young is the only officer in the regular army that is a graduate of West Point. The repeated attempts to break down the barriers which does not allow a man of African decent to go there has failed. Every other nation and class of citizens, even to the Chinaman, is given a cordial welcome there, but the man who risks his life for the flag and who in every war has been depended upon to turn defeat into victory. Bloomington, Ill., July 20. Capt. Leonard Lewis, with a detail of men, were in Bloomington Saturday and Sunday morning recruiting. Sergt. Washington went into one of John R. Thompson's restaurants and when the German cashier noticed the uniform he wore he promptly called the waiter and told him not to serve Washington. Capt. Lewis, who was on the outside, noticed some confusion and went in. His sergeant told him what the trouble was and Capt. Lewis made the German serve his men, with threat of military and civil arrest. A crowd of white people applauded the actions of the officers and later told him he should have shot up the place. Buffalo, N. Y.—For the first time in history, colored musicians, members of the local Union No. 533, A. F. of M., have succeeded in securing positions on the large steamers which ply Lake Erie and the Great Lakes during the summer months. The steamers Finaster, Juneretta and Octorara, which formerly employed white musicians, have entered into contract and employed colored musicians to furnish entertainment for their passengers. On the Octarara are Charles Wright, Henry Lewis, Charles Swayneana, Arthur Wallace, of the Wright's Society Orchestra. This boat goes to Duluth, Minn. On the Finaster are Fred Constance, Jessie Clifford, Fred Schuyler and Henry Elliott, and on the Juneretta are Silas Laws, D. L. Williams, H. E. Wheeler and William Jackson. The emolument is well worth while, and this proves to be one opening that the Negro was ready and is capable of filling. --- COLORADO STATESMAN CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD. DURING THE PAST WEEK RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY PEOPLE. Western Newspaper Union News Service. ABOUT THE WAR Siam declared war on Germany and Austria. The Mouth-Piece of the People of Colorado and the Entire West Russian army forced to retire by German pressure. Regiments taking part in Petrograd disturbances are disbanded. The artillery fire in northern Belgium is growing more intense. Kerensky names coalition cabinet and announces policy of blood and iron to save the Slav army. Twenty German airplanes, cut off in attempted raid on London, kill eleven persons with bombs on coast. The Germans have captured Halicza, Podhaytse and other towns in the drive through Galicia. The Russians evacuated Stanislau and fired the big powder magazine at Tarnopol. According to advices received at Copenhagen, Emperor Charles of Austria has visited the Galician front and spent a day with his advancing troops. The emperor was several times under fire. RELIABLE chronicle of their doings and progress; a faithful mirror of their wants, their hopes, their best aspirations. Slav troops disregard orders along the Sereth and fled to their own trenches under no pressure from the German forces, which have opened the eastern offensive from the Baltic to the Black sea. German losses since their counteroffensive was opened against the French on the Aisne river front were estimated by Paris military critics as from 80,000 to 100,000 men. These figures include killed, wounded and prisoners. Tarnopol, which was taken by the Russians since early in the war, has fallen into the hands of the kaiser in the violent drive on the eastern front. The German war office tells of new gains after furious assaults on the Slav lines. THE COLORADO STATESMAN The totals of the German official lists of killed and wounded since the war began are as follows: Killed or died of wounds, 1,032,800; died of sickness, 72,960; prisoners and missing, 591,906; wounded, 2,825,581. The naval and colonial casualties are not included. WESTERN Luther Burbank, the horticulture scientist, is seriously ill at his home at Santa Rosa, Cal. Federal troops are to remain in the Arizona strike district as long as necessary to maintain order. To commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the coming of the Mormons to Utah, "Pioneer day" was celebrated throughout the state with patriotic exercises. Unequaled as an advertising medium for the business of professional men and women. Twenty-eight persons were injured, two seriously, when a westbound Oregon Washington Railroad and Navigation Company freight train collided head on with a passenger train at Hindman, east of Baker, Ore. Five Slavonians, who said they were restaurant workers from Lowell, a suburb of Bisbee, deported with the I. W. W. ten days ago to Columbus, N. M., were taken from the westbound train by deputy sheriffs and police and placed in the Douglas jail over night. WASHINGTON President Wilson to insist on single food dictator. Sixty per cent of the Liberty loan is already paid into treasury. An excellent family journal speaking to and for many thousand colored citizens. Senator Lewis sees invitation to the United States to bring about peace in the speech of German chancellor. Tentative plans were completed for providing insurance and indemnifying officers and men of the army, navy and marine corps. Eight new regiments of cavalry, equipped and trained as artillery, will be added to the regular army as quickly as they can be organized. By executive order President Wilson prohibited the existence of disorderly resorts or saloons within five miles of any military camp. TWODOLLARSAYEAR Heavy increase in retail food prices in the United States within the last three years are shown in statistics compiled by the Department of Labor. Dr. William J. Mayo of Rochester, Minn., was assigned to active service with the rank of major in the medical corps and ordered to Washington for consultation. The House committee on mines and mining ordered a favorable report on the bill of Representative Taylor, relieving mine claim owners of all assessment work this year. The total of loans to the allies by this government within the last three months was raised to $1,563,000,000, with additional loans of $75,000,000 to Russia and $60,000,000 to France. FOREIGN The Peruvian cabinet resigned. Germany has stopped the export of coal to Holland. Disarming of workmen in certain Russian districts is taking place. American soldiers in France permitted to drink French champagne. United States officers taking course of training in French and British military schools. Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, the former chancellor, left Berlin for his estate in Hohenfinow. An ecumenical council of the Russo-Greek Orthodox church will meet at Moscow Assumption day, Aug. 28th. The Chilean ministry which has just abandoned office was formed July 14, replacing the cabinet resigned on July 7. An American steamer recently sank a large German submarine, according to a dispatch to the Paris Temps from Havre. A revolt has broken out in Ecuador, headed by Generals Marillo and Vinces. It is confined thus far to the province of Manavi. A reduction of 25 per cent in the price of bread at an early date was announced by Baron Rhondda, food controller in London. The Havana secret police are searching for Miss Ruth Armstrong, formerly of Youngstown, Ohio, who disappeared from Havana. The Paris City Council voted to give a free site in the rue Savorgnan de Brazza near the Eifel tower for a club house for American students in Paris. Filipinos are "doing their bit" with the American Sammies in France. All mess attendants are at the camp from "the islands" except one lone negro. Reports were current at Copenhagen that Admiral Kollschaltely, commanding the Russian Black sea fleet, will join the American fleet in European waters. Villa followers, to the number of 6,000, under command of Francisco Villa and Canute Reyes, are reported moving on Torreon from the north and the south along the Mexican Central railroad. The Council of Soldiers and Workmen's Delegates and Peasants of all Russia voted to grant the government of Premier Kerensky "unlimited powers" under the title "government of national safety," for the re-establishment of public order, both at the front and at home. SPORTING NEWS The old landmark, Tanforan race track, the scene of many notable turf events when horse racing thrived at San Francisco, Cal., will be converted soon into an instruction camp for 2,000 members of the United States naval reserve. GENERAL The $640,000,000 airplane bill became a law with President Wilson's signature. Six men were overcome by the heat in New York, July 23. The thermometer registered 86 degrees. Elihu Root will be awarded the first valor medal of the defense committee of the National Arts Club on his return to America, in recognition of his services as head of the mission to Russia. Nine persons were temporarily paralyzed from the waist down, according to advices reaching Santa Fé, N. M., when a lightning bolt struck in the midst of a camping party on the Pecos river. A 10 per cent increase in wages to about 3,000 persons, involving about $175,000 annually, has been granted by the Salt Lake route to clerks, station agents and other unorganized employés. President Wilson Tuesday asked Chairman Denman of the Shipping Board to resign, which he did, and accepted the resignation of Maj. Gen. Goethals as general manager of the emergency fleet corporation. An appeal for conservation of the country's oil supply by curtailment of pleasure riding in motors and by eliminating other sources of waste, while production is increased, has been issued by Chairman A. C. Bedford of the defense council's petroleum committee. Gen. Fernandez Espinosa, pursued as the leader of bandits who held up a passenger train at Wamoa station, Sinaloa, Mexico, and robbed a Wells Fargo express car of $20,000 and took $4,000 from the station, has been captured, with some of his men, according to word received at Nogales, Ariz. E. T. Meredith, editor of a farm journal at Des Moines, Iowa, is sponsor for a movement which would have men all over the country give their vacation periods to the country, doing some form of war work which would benefit the nation. COLORADO DAY AUG. FORTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF ADMISSION TO UNION. Governor, in Proclamation, Declares It Should Be Observed as Most Patriotic Day of State. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver.—Governor Gunter issued the following Colorado Day proclamation: The State of Colorado by legislative enactment, having set apart August the first of each year as a public holiday known as "Colorado Day," this forty-first anniversary of Colorado's admission to the Union of States, should be observed as the most patriotic day in the history of the "Centennial State." Let us make it a day to pay tribute to the young men of Colorado who on August 5th enter the service of their country; as well as the soldiers who saved the union in 1862 and those who in 1898 were the first to unfurl the stars and stripes upon a foreign shore that heralded peace and freedom to the Philippines. Now, Therefore, I, Julius C. Gunter, governor of the State of Colorado, believe it eminently proper that there should be a gigantic military and patriotic parade to provide the one and perhaps the last opportunity to look upon Colorado's splendid young men, as they pass in review, who have answered the nation's call and who may soon see service on the battle fronts across the sea; and, further, respectfully urge our citizens to display to the utmost degree possible the national, state and allies' flags. In Witness Whereof, I have set my hand and cause the great seal of state to be affixed, this twenty-fourth day of July, nineteen hundred and seventeen. JULIUS C. GUNTER, Governor of the State of Colorado. Attest: JAMES R. NOLAND, Secretary of State. Bills for State Police and Guards. Bills for State Police and Guards. Colorado is to be well protected when the Colorado National Guard is drafted into the federal service if the program of the House committee on military and Indian affairs is adopted by both houses. The committee, in lieu of other military bills, has prepared an act which provides for the creation of a state police consisting of six companies of twenty-five members each under a superintendent appointed by and responsible to the governor. This body will be on call on matters affecting the public peace and safety. The superintendent will receive a salary of $2,500, captain $1,800, lieutenant $1,500, sergeant $1,200 and the policemen $900 per year and expenses. In addition to the state constabulary a state guard, under command of the adjutant general, will be created. This guard, composed of 1,200 enlisted men, will be on call to guard and protect utilities, bridges, tunnels and so forth, but will not be subject to call into the federal service or to serve in bringing order out of industrial differences. Officers and men will be paid according to the National Guard schedule. Colorado's net quota for the selec- tive army is 4,753 it was announced by Provost Marshal Evans. The al- loyment of each county follows: Adams, 102; Alamost, 34; Arapahoe, 50; Archuleta, 26; Baca, 136; Bent, 104; Boulder, 74; Chaffee, 6; Cheyenne, 36; Clear Creek, 24; Conejos, 4; Costilla, 22; Crowley, 22; Custer, 20; Delta, 70; Denver, 353; Dolores, 13; Douglas, 30; Eagle, 41; Elbert, 69; El Paso county, 46; City of Colorado Springs, 39; Fremont, 35; Garfield, 45; Gilpin, 17; Grant, 44; Gunnison, 65; Hinsdale, 5; Huerfano, 98; Jackson, 23; Jefferson, 1; Klowa, 40; Kit Carson, 41; Lake, 156; La Plata, 89; Larimer, 95; Las Animas, 331; Lincoln, 68; Logan, 183; Mesa, 12; Mineral, 5; Moffat, 33; Monteuma, 34; Montrose, 92; Morgan, 64; Otero, 19; Ouray, 25; Park, 26; Phillips 42; Pitkin, 28; Prowers, 73; Pueblo county, 118; Pueblo county, City of Pueblo division 1, 167; division No. 2, 260; RI Blanco, 15; Rio Grande, 40; Routt, 59; Saguache, 38; San Juan, 43; San Miguel, 8; Sedgwick, 38; Summit, none; Teller, 62; Washington, 95; Weld county, division No. 1, 260 and division No. 2, 194; Yuma, 136. House Passes Administration Bills. The House adopted on second reading the two administration bills authorizing an increase in the flat tax paid by foreign and domestic corporations. The Andrew bill, S. B. No. 5, authorizing the payment of $60,000 expenses incurred in the mobilization of the National Guard in 1916, was also favorably considered upon second reading. State to Ask Liquor Fee. Of the bills introduced in the house, one by Representative Friend suggests an increase in the permit liquor fee from 25 cents to $1.50. Consider Bill for State Markets. Two important bills to be considered by the Legislature at the extra session were prepared by the attorney general at the request of James R. Noland, secretary of state. One of these measures calls for the establishment of state markets in any districts where food shark dealers are operating. The other is a revenue-producing law which, according to Noland's figures, will produce from a corporation license tax enough money to retire a $2,000,000 war bond issue within ten years. Western Newspaper Union News Service. COMING EVENTS. Aug. 2.—M. W. A. Log Rolling at Fort Collins. Aug. 6.-16.—State Federation of Labor meeting at Boulder. Aug. 28-30.—Annual Convention K. P. Grind Lodge, including Uniform Bank, Pylon, Sisters and Knights of Khorassan, at Colorado Springs. Sept. 4-7.—Frontier Days' celebration at Fort Morgan. Sept. 4-7.—Arkansas Valley Fair at Rocky Ford. Sept. 6-8.—Firemen's State Convention at Colorado Springs. Sept. 17-22.—Colorado State Fair at Pueblo. Miners at Silverton strike for higher wages. There are 17,000 acres in beans in Morgan county. The strike at the Denver stock yards has been settled. "Don't wait until the snow flies before storing your winter coal." The Sedgwick County Fair will be held in Julesburg in September. A big county fair will be held at Springfield the last week in September. Manzanola is unable to get enough pickers to care for its crop of cherries. Liberty bonds will be delivered to Denver purchasers within a short time. The Leadville strikers have agreed to mediation for adjustment of differences. Alleged peddlers of germ-infected court plaster fined $50 each in police court at Pueblo. Fifty men are wanted by the state farm labor committee for haying work in Saguache county. John H. Morrison, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Morrison of Greeley, entered the United States Naval Academy. Philadelphia wool buyers have completed contracts for the purchase of $322,000 worth of wool on the western slope. Pueblo will hold farewell reception to Second Regiment Infantry and present regimental flag by people of Trinidad on Aug. 4. Mrs. Alva Adams of Pueblo was informed that she had been appointed state chairman of the Woman's Liberty Loan committee. The company of cavalry recruited about Walsenburg by Capt. Edwards and Lieut. Levy has been taken to Camp Baldwin, Denver. The Workers for the Blind are going to have the time of their lives Colorado Day, Aug. 1st, as guests of the Denver Motor Club. The county commissioners of Weld county appointed Capt. J. A. Taylor of Greeley head of the home guard. His salary will be $150 a month. Kenneth S. Burkholder of Littleton left for Annapolis, where he will take the physical examination for entrance in the naval academy. Four other Colorado boys who have passed also made the trip East. A young lady, Miss Florence Kinnison, has been appointed deputy assessor at Alamosa. Among her accomplishments is that of being able to write with either right or left hand or with both at once. An interesting sidelight on the strike situation at Leadville is given in the statement that none of the 1,792 men on strike has asked any relief from the union, according to Albert Carpenter, president of the Miners' union. The canteen fund at Telluride for members of troop H continues to grow and there is now on deposit in a local bank $484.75 to the credit of the troopers from which they can draw for the various things they need. Colorado Springs' third contingent of young men to go to the training camps, composed of fifty-four members of the headquarters and supply section of the Colorado National Guard, has gone to the camp at Golden. Punsters may find material in the fact that No. 42 in the draft lottery conducted at Washington drew the Long and Short of it from Denver—James Lawrence Short of 852 Broadway and Edgar Phillips Long of 2536 Bellaire street. Edward Butts of Georgetown has received notice from the Navy Department at Washington that his device for protection of ships against torpedoes has been taken up by the consulting board, of which Mr. Edison is the head. Robert Leo Lewis, 19, found dead on the Santa Fé right of way after two engines and eight cars had passed over his body, was killed by a bolt of lightning, a jury summoned by Coroner Ray Taylor, declared at the inquest at Pueblo. Mrs. Margaret Bunnel, a widow 74 years old, is proud of the fact that she has successfully grown potatoes in one of the highest parts of Denver. Grand Junction is sending appeals to the San Juan country for a big force of harvesters who will be urgently needed from Aug. 20th to Sept. 10th. Attaches of the office of Adjit. Gen. Frank D. Baldwin will go to Pueblo to participate in a military funeral over the body of Col. Elwood W. Evans, U. S. A., who was found dead in a hotel bathroom in that city Tuesday morning. EXEMPTION RULES ARE MADE PUBLIC Directions for Registered Men Given Step by Step. ALL CLAIMS UNDER OATH Industrial Needs and Dependents Are Chief Basis on Which Draft May Be Avoided—Make Claims in Person. Washington.—Provost Marshal General Crowder has issued complete instructions for the men registered under the selective conscription law. So that everyone will understand just what is to be done, he gives the directions, step by step, as follows: 1. LOCAL BOARDS—in every county in the United States and for every city of over 30,000 there are one or more local exemption boards. Each of such boards is in charge of the registration cards of persons registered in the area, over which the board has jurisdiction, and has jurisdiction of all claims for exemption, except those based on industrial grounds. FIND OUT WHAT BOARD HAS YOUR CARD AND WHERE THE OFFICE OF THAT BOARD IS. 2. DISTRICT BOARDS—In every federal judicial district there are one or more district boards, having appellate jurisdiction over a number of local boards and having original jurisdiction of claims for exemption on industrial grounds. IF YOU INTEND TO MAKE A CLAIM ON INDUSTRIAL GROUNDS, INCLUDING AGRICULTURE, LEARN WHAT DISTRICT BOARD TO APPLY TO. Meaning of Numbers. 3. RED INK SERIAL NUMBERS—Every board has numbered the cards in its jurisdiction with red ink in a series running from 1 to the number representing the total number of cards in its jurisdiction. Lists showing the names of persons in the jurisdiction of each board and the red ink number of each are open to inspection at the office of each board. INSPECT THE LIST AND INFORM YOURSELF OF YOUR RED INK SERIAL NUMBER. 4. ORDER OF LIABILITY—These red ink numbers are to be drawn by lot to determine the order in which registered persons are to be called by the various local boards. As soon as the drawing is complete lists showing the order in which these red ink numbers are drawn will be published in the press, and will be posted at the office of each local board. GO TO YOUR LOCAL BOARD AND FIND OUT THE ORDER IN WHICH YOU STAND FOR CALL. 5. As soon as quotas are assigned to each state and each board, each board will call upon persons whose cards are in its jurisdiction instructing them to present themselves for examination. This call will be posted at the office of the local board and the papers will be requested to print it. A notice will also be mailed to you, but the posting of the list at the office of the board will be deemed sufficient notice to charge you with the duty of presenting yourself. The law therefore makes it your duty to inform yourself when you are called. The mailing is for your convenience, but if the letter never reaches you you cannot make that an excuse. Watch the lists at the office of your board and see when you are called for examination. 6. Physical examination—you must report for physical examination on the day named in your call. If you are found physically disqualified the board will give you a certificate which will explain to you what your further duties are. If you are found physically qualified and file a claim for exemption within seven days after your call you will be given ten days after filing your claim of exemption to file proof in support of your claim of exemption. See (VII) below. Watch for Your Name. If you are found physically qualified and file no claim for exemption, or if you do not appear for physical examination, your name will be posted to the district board as one who was called for military service and was not exempted or discharged. On the eighth day after call, or within two days thereafter, copies of the list of persons so posted to the district boards will be given to the press with a request for publication, will be posted in a place at the office of the local board accessible to the public view, and notice will be mailed to you at the address on your registration card. THEREFORE WATCH THE NOTICES POSTED IN THE OFFICE OF THE BOARD ABOUT TEN DAYS AFTER THE DAY YOU WERE CALLED AND MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE PROMPT RECEIPT OF MAIL. 7. EXEMPTION OR DISCHARGE —No claim or discharge on account of the industry in which you are engaged can be decided by a local board. (See Par. XV, below.) WHETHER YOU FILE A CLAIM OF EXEMPTION OR NOT, YOU MUST PRESENT YOURSELF FOR PHYSICAL EXAMINATION ON THE DAY NAMED IN THE NOTICE. From the day notice that you are called is mailed and posted you have seven days in which you may file a claim of exemption or discharge. The form for filing this claim is simple. If you wish to file such a claim— Go to the board and get Form 110 for exemption or Form 121 or discharge. If the board has not the printed forms ask to consult the form pamphlet and copy the form shown there. Fill out the proper form and file it with the board. Do this within seven days of the posting and mailing of notice to you to present yourself. The following are the only grounds for exemption: That you are an officer, legislative, executive or judicial of the United States, a state or territory, or the District of Columbia. That you are a regular or duly ordained minister of religion. That you were on May 18, 1917, a student preparing for the ministry in any recognized theological or divinity school. That you are in the military or naval service of the United States. That you are a subject of Germany, whether you have taken out papers or not. That you are a resident alien who has not taken out first papers. In addition to claims for exemption claims for discharge may be made on any of the following grounds, which are the only grounds for discharge by a local board: That you are a county or municipal officer. That you are a custom-house clerk. That you are employed by the United States in the transmission of mails. That you are an artificer or workman employed in an army, arsenal or navy, or the United States. That you are employed in the service of the United States (under certain conditions). See paragraph (e) of section 20, Regulations. That you are a licensed pilot regularly employed in the pursuit of your vocation. That you are a mariner actually employed in the sea service of any citizen or merchant within the United States. That you are a married man with a wife or child dependent on you for support. That you have aged or infirm parents dependent upon your labor for support. That you have a widowed mother de- That you are the father of a mother- less child under sixteen dependent upon your labor for support. That you are a brother of an orphan child or children under sixteen dependent on your labor for support. That you are a member of any well- recognized religious sect or organization organized and existent May 17, 1917, and whose then existing creed or principles forbade its members to participate in war in any form and whose religious convictions are against war or participation therein in accordance with the creed or principles of salsd religious organization. With such only early grounds for exemption or discharge by a local board. Another person can file a claim in your behalf, but must use different forms in filing the claim. 8. Proof of claims—Your claim of exemption or discharge must be filed within seven days of the day on which notice to you that you are called was posted and mailed. But after you have filed your claim for exemption or discharge you have ten days within which to file proof. The method of proving claims is very simple, but it is rather exact. If you follow the rules given below you will have done what is required of you: (a) Go to the local board and consult the regulations to find out the form number of the affidavits that you must submit for your particular claim. (b) Ask the board for the blank affidavits that are necessary in presenting your proof; if the board has not the forms, ask to consult the pamphlet of forms. (c) Have the affidavits properly accomplished and return them to the board within the time limit assigned you—ten days from the filing of your claim. Remember: (a) You must submit your proof in the prescribed form and the board has no authority to exempt or discharge you unless you submit all the affidavits required by regulations. (b) There will be no argument before the board and no proof other than the prescribed affidavits, unless the board calls for other proof, which it will do in only a limited number of cases. Action as to Claims. 9. WHEN CLAIMS ARE DECIDED —Every claim for discharge or exemption will be decided by the local board within three days after your affidavits have been filed. 10. CERTIFICATES OF EXEMPTION OR DISCHARGE—If your claim is allowed, a certificate of exemption or discharge will be issued to you. Remember: (a) This certificate may be recalled at any time. (b) If it is temporary or conditional it becomes of no effect when the time or the condition named is fulfilled. (c) You have been drawn for military service and when the condition that has postponed your posting to the colors ceases you may be recalled at any time. (d) Remember that your case may still be appealed to the district board by the government, and on this appeal your certificate may be withdrawn at once. When so withdrawn you stand precisely as though you had been selected for military service by the local board. 11. ADVERSE DECISIONS ON CLAIM—If your claim is disallowed by the local board your name will be certified and sent by the local board to the district board as one who has been called for military service and not exempted or discharged. Within two days thereafter, if practicable, a list of those so certified to the district board will be given to the press with a request for publication, will be posted in the offices of the local board accessible to the public view, and notice will be mailed to the address on the registration card. Therefore, if you have filed a claim for exemption and proof in support thereof watch the notices in the office of the local board, beginning about five days after you have filed your proof, to see what disposition was made of your case and make arrangements for the prompt receipt of mail. Carrying Up Appeals 12. HOW TO CLAIM APPEALS TO DISTRICT BOARDS -Claims of appeal may be made by a person within ten days after the day when notice has been posted and mailed that such person's name has been certified to the district board as one who has been called for service and not exempted or discharged. Therefore if you desire to appeal— (a) Go to the local board and get or copy form 153 or 154 for filing your claim of appeal. (b) Get or copy also form 151 or 152 for notifying the district board of appeal. (c) File your claim of appeal (153 or 154) with the local board. (d) Send your notice of appeal (form 151 or 152) to the district board. (e) Do this within ten days from the day when notice that your name was certified to the district board was posted and mailed. Remember: (a) You can only appeal the final order of the board exempting or discharging or refusing to exempt or discharge you. You cannot appeal other orders or actions of the local board. 13. PROVING YOUR APPEAL—You have five days after the district board receives your notice that you have filed a claim of appeal in which to file evidence additional to that filed by you in the local board, but all such evidence must consist of affidavits. Reception of Decisions. 14. DECISIONS ON APPEAL—The decision on your appeal must be made within five days of the closing of proof, and you will be notified by mail of the action of the board on your appeal. 15. CLAIMS FOR DISCHARGE ON INDUSTRIAL GROUNDS—Only the district board can receive claims for discharge on the ground that they are engaged in industry, including agriculture, found to be necessary to the maintenance of the military establishment, the effective operation of the military forces, or the maintenance of national interest during the emergency. Such claims must be filed with the district board on or before the fifth day after the mailing and posting of notice that you have been certified by the local board as one who has been called for service and not exempted or discharged. If you desire to file such a claim: (a) Get a copy at the local or district board of form 161 or 161a. (b) Fill the form out properly. (c) File it with the district board within five days after the mailing and posting of notice that your name has been certified from the local board to the district board. See section 44, regulations. 16. PROOF IN SUPPORT OF INDUSTRIAL CLAIM-Only affidavits can be used in filing proof before the industrial board of a claim for exemption on industrial grounds. All such affidavits must be filed within five days after the filing of the claim. Industrial Claim Rulings. 17. DECISIONS ON INDUSTRIAL CLAIM—Within five days after the closing of proof in any industrial claim the district board must decide the claim. If the decision of the district board is in favor of the claim the board will issue a certificate of discharge. If the decision is against the claim the district boards will so notify you. Remember that you have been called for military service and that the certificate of the district board is only conditional on your remaining in the kind of industrial service on account of which you were discharged. No such exemption shall continue when a cause therefor no longer exists and your certificate of discharge may be withdrawn or modified by the district board at any time that the district board shall determine that the circumstances require it. 18. APPEALS TO THE PRESIDENT—Only decisions of district boards on industrial claims for discharge can be appealed. If you desire to appeal the decision of the district boards to the president, you may do so within seven days of the date of mailing to you of the decision of the district board. To perfect your appeal: (a) Get or copy from the district or local board Form 163. (b) Fill out the form and file it with the district board. (c) Do this within seven days after the mailing of notice to you of the decision of the district board in your case. 19. HOW YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED—As soon as your case is finally disposed of, the adjutant general of your state will notify you by mail that you have been selected for military service. Your local boards will post a list of all persons selected for military service in a place at the office of the local boards accessible to public view. The local boards will also give lists of persons selected for military service to the press with the requests for publication. Notice that you have been selected for military service will not necessarily order you into service. The notice to report for military servi- ce is the government is ready to receive you. Naturally. "The last time I saw Jones he looked to be going down hill very fast." "Has he fallen in bad health?" "No; he was coasting on his wheel." The Main Point. TEUTONS TAKE FOUR TOWNS FRENCH ATTACK WINS GROUND LOST TO GERMANY DUR- ING AISNE RAID. WOMEN FIGHT BRAVELY RUSSIANS ORDER DEATH OF COWARDS.—MINISTER KERENSKY REPORTED INJURED. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Geneva, July 27.—A dispatch dated July 22 printed by the Budapest A Zest, records the first contact of Austrian troops with Russian women battalions. The fighting took place on the Brzezany front and the dispatch says the women fought with extraordinary bravery, counter-attacking fiercely. The same dispatch ascribes to Russian prisoners the statement that M. Kerensky, the Russian premier and minister of war and marine, was severely wounded in the arm near Brzezany. A Russian infantry regiment, says the dispatch, refused to fight and retreated, whereupon the Russian artillery turned their guns upon it. M. Kerensky, in an automobile, dashed in between the two forces and succeeded in stopping the slaughter but himself was wounded. London.—A dispatch to the Daily Mall from Petrograd says that Russian women have offered to train themselves as crews for battleships, and that Minister of the Navy Kerensky has accepted their offer. Berlin.—German troops have captured the Galician towns of Buczacs, Tlumacz, Ottynia and Delatyn, the war office announced. The Russians are also said to be in retreat in the direction of Czernowitz, the capital of Bukowina, the objective of the Teutons. The war office says the German artillery partly closed a breach made in their line by the Russians south of Smorgon. The heights west of Tarnopol and the Gnizna river sector as far as the Trembowla-Nusiatyn railroad were occupied. Two German vessels have been sunk in the North Sea by destroyers and two have been captured and taken to an English port. Death penalty is ordered for all traitors following the action of Gen. Korniloff in having an entire division of fleeing cowards blown to pieces by their own artillery. The French recaptured some of the ground lost to the Teutons in the Alsne raid which lasted all night. The Germans sustained heavy losses in the fighting. Terrific artillery duels are raging between the British and Germans over a forty-mile front, from the coast in Flanders to the river Lys. $7,000,000,000 WAR BUDGET ASKED. Big Defense Plan Submitted to Senate by Secretary McAdoo. Washington. — Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo submitted to Congress Secretary Baker's $5,250,000,000 estimate of emergency appropriations and other figures which brought the total up to $5,917,878,347. Estimates totaling another $1,000,000,000 or more are expected when the other departments report their needs, and in addition, Secretary McAdoo has indicated that before the year is out Congress will be asked for a $2,000,000,000 appropriation to increase the fund available for loans abroad. As soon as the departmental reports are in, the appropriation committees of Congress will go to work on an immediate budget which probably will total in the neighborhood of $7,000,000,000. The gross estimates include upward of $640,000,000 already appropriated for the aviation program. Denver to Have Reserve Bank. Kansas City.—The directors of the Federal Reserve Board voted to establish a branch in Denver. R. H. Malone of Denver was appointed director and manager. Other directors appointed by the board here are F. F. Struby, C. C. Parks and A. C. Foster, all of Denver. Three more directors for Denver will be named by the Federal Reserve Board. To Enter Berlin by Air Route. Washington.—Berlin will be entered by the air route and the United States is stacking up its resources behind the allies to furnish enough machines to make the conquest possible. This was the declaration of Brig. Gen. George O. Squier, commander of the signal corps. Mike Henry in Wyoming Since 1855. Mike Henry in Wyoming Since 1855. Cheyenne, Wyo.—The honor of being the oldest pioneer at the Frontier Days celebration here fell to Michael Henry, known to all Wyoming as "Mike." Henry is 85 years old and has been in Wyoming since 1855. Senator Thomas Returns to Denver. Washington.—Senator Thomas of Colorado left Thursday for Denver on six weeks' absence given by the Senate. He has been in poor health for some time. Western Beef Co. ONE OF THE MOST USED MARKETS Fresh and Cured Meats of All and Fancy Our Prices the Free Delivery to PHONE C 2048 LARIMER STREET Opposite th The Good Gro W. T. FLETCHER AND J RETAIL STAPLE AND CORN FED MEATS. ANY PART OF THE C 2549 Washington Baxter Bldg. 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Fresh Vegetables, Staple and Fancy Groceries. PHONE CHAMPA 1641. 2048 LARIMER STREET DENVER, COLO. Opposite the Three Rules. The Good Weight Grocery W. T. FLETCHER AND J. W. WILLIAMS, Proprietors. RETAIL STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. CORN FED MEATS. MOTOR DELIVERY TO ANY PART OF THE CITY. 2549 Washington St. Denver, Colo. Baxter Bldg. J. W. WILLIAMS, Manager PHONE CHAMPA 3022. J. R. DRESSOR WALLACE CLOW A. B. CLOW York 1327 South 315J South 4243J 1454 Welton St. Phone Main 871. DENVER, COLO. THINK Giant Bach-Benz Cleaners and Tailors Lankford and McCain, Proprietors STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS WORK Cleaning, Pressing, Dyeing and Remodelling JOIN OUR MONTHLY PRESSING CLUB-$1.50 506 Eighteenth Street Phone Main 7376 Ford THE UNIVERSAL CAR PARTS ACCE Unexcet Showing and demonstrat Try us; puts you un RUNABOUT, $345 F. O. B. Detroit ACCESSORIES Unexcelled Service and demonstrating Ford car puts you under no obligation ARE YOU GUILTY? A FARMER carrying an express package from a big mail-order house was accosted by a local dealer. "Why didn't you buy that bill of goods from me? I could have saved you the express, and besides you would have been patronizing a home store, which helps pay the taxes and builds up this locality." The farmer looked at the merchant a moment and then said: "Why don't you patronize your home paper and advertise? I read it and didn't know that you had the stuff I have here." MORAL—ADVERTISE --- --- Open Daily to 8:30 p. m. ```markdown ``` TO-DATE AND SANITARY IN THE CITY. Kinds. Fresh Vegetables, Staple Groceries. Are Always Lowest All Parts of the City. AMPA 1641. DENVER, COLO. Three Rules. Red Weight Grocery W. WILLIAMS, Proprietors. D FANCY GROCERIES. MOTOR DELIVERY TO CITY. St. Denver, Colo. J. W. WILLIAMS, Manage CE CLOW South 315J A. B. CLOW South 4243J Paper and Paint Co. Parts for High Colors, Paints and Varnishes. Glass, Interior and Exterior Decorators SE PAINTING Main 871. DENVER, COLO. INK Benz Cleaners Tailors McCain, Proprietors ST-CLASS WORK Wyeing and Remodelling PRESSING CLUB—$1.50 Phone Main 7376 ARNER CO. Phone Champa 223 SORIES TIRES Food Service wing Ford car a pleasure. or no obligation to buy. TOURING, $360 F. O. B. Detroit Patronize Our Advertisers They are all boosters and deserve your business. Spend Your Money with your home merchants. They help pay the taxes, keep up the schools, build roads, and make this a community worth while. You will find the advertising of the best ones in this paper. Sundays Until 2:00 p. m. THE COLORADO STATESMAN CAPITOL UNION OF YEAR NATIONAL PARTY SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 1824 Curtis Street, Room 25. Phone Main 7417. Reading notices, ten lines or less, 10 cents per line. Each additional line over ten lines, 5 cents per line. Display advertising, 50 cents per inch. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1c and 2c stamps taken. No discounts allowed on less than three months' contract. Cash must accompany all orders from parties unknown to us. Further particulars on application. Communications to receive attention must be newsy, upon important subjects, plainly written only upon one side of the paper, must reach us. Thedeside of polling and surveying later, Wednesday, the signature of the author. No manuscript returned, unless stamps are sent for postage. All communications of a personating nature that are not complimentary will be withheld from the columns of this paper. THE COST OF PLEASURE. NOTWITHSTANDING his unequal measure of hardships, the Negro has more fun, more pleasure, than any other race of people on earth. He doesn't have the same comforts that other people have—the conveniences and privileges of wealth and station—but he apes them or substitutes something else for them, and passes the imitation off with a joke, a laugh and a ready forgetfulness. Light-heartedness is a virtue up to a certain point, but there can be no doubt that it has its limitations, beyond which it becomes an evil and a menace to the welfare of the easy-going and self-indulgent victim. The spirit of the age in which we are living governs the welfare of all people within the world-radius of its irresistible and indiscriminating influence and those who disregard its demands and laugh away its seeming incongruities must pay the cost of their unnatural pleasures some day, no matter how far distant that day may be. But the Negro is not putting off his day of payment so far as his light heart and less-interested and jocund observers would lead him to believe. The Negro is living too much for pleasure and by pleasure and not enough for improvement by hard, patient and sober endeavor. Many of our most important institutions, devoted professionally and fundamentally to the most serious side of our welfare and being, depend upon the idle pleasure which they provide the public for an important part of the revenue necessary for their financial sustenance. Many individuals and aggregations of individuals among us make their living by catering to and encouraging, to the extreme, the already extravagant propensity of the race toward pleasurable pastime and irreparable wastefulness. The cost of it all is the lack of the inculcation of serious ideas and aspirations in the minds of our youth, who are to become the race of the future; the lack of that special and proper education which is necessary and must be acquired before the Negro can ever measure up to the spirit of the age and hold its own with other people. The dependence of the Negro, as a race, upon the white man, his business and his institutions, is becoming more and more out of date, and his independence and self-sustenance is becoming more and more required. The establishment and support of his own business institutions, his own newspapers, his own commercial, industrial and agricultural enterprises, is becoming more and more imperative and vital. He can reach these serious and all-important ends only through the sacrifice of his idle and inordinate indulgence in unlimited pleasures, and all true teachers of the race must soon begin to teach these facts. UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD OF MAN, WAR'S RESULT. THE FOLLOWING are quotations from the Rev. Charles Stelzle, who cannot be otherwise than a true ambassador of the Head of the Christian Religion and a thorough exponent of the world-democracy that our country has endorsed to the extent of being a participant in the great struggle for the removal of the yoke from certain classes of humanity and the complete liberty to be afforded all the peoples of the world: "This brotherhood will be founded upon the revolution which is sweeping through every country on the globe and which is working itself out through the war, from the effects of which no nation can escape. "Out of all this will come a purified world, seeing new ideals and holding truer aspirations. But if these are to be realized, there must be great and constant individual devotion to the cause of democracy and brotherhood. "There is a Scripture passage to the effect that RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTETH A NATION. This means JUSTICE, whatever else may be included in the definition. And don't let us forget that no nation can be righteous until its citizens are just. Nor can there be a world-democracy until there is in it at least the same standard of fair dealing. "Let it be understood by every one of us that there is no class or condition in society which is free from the personal obligation to give every other man the same square deal demanded by each of us for ourselves." We can hardly find words to extol this truly great man, who, from the fulness of his heart, backed by the careful and continuous observation of the pretended brotherhood of man and the mockery of universal democracy has come out so clearly and emphatically and given to America and other parts of the world the principle of true brotherhood, the same as ordered and designed by the Creator of human beings. Nor is this all, as his fearlessness in reminding our nation to practice what they preach is giving the oppressed of this nation a hope that, sooner or later, if we must rule, if we must be exalted, we must be purged and purified from petty hates and racial prejudices, which are agents of destruction to the well being, advancement and development of any nation. Negro fellow men! Rejoice with us as this war is daily producing mouth-pieces, representatives and active agents of the GOD OF FAIR PLAY, and the hopelessness, the dejection, that almost overwhelmed us gradually begin to vanish, as conscience-stricken men belonging to the dominant race, vested with a power, endeavoring for centuries to prove the inequality of created humanity, are coming out with expressions and opinions unclothed to tell the world of its requirements if it must accomplish a hopeful instead of a hopeless task in the democracy and fraternity of the world of mankind. Would the Reverend Charles Stelzle stir the hearts of our President and Cabinet, our Congressmen and Senators, and would the same echo and re-echo in the mind of the Southern Ironhand that even in our present peril seeks to play the deadly game by spreading his germ into other parts of this country, would he be able, we say, to assist in bringing about the reform he pleads for? If so, then let us pray for his longer life, so that his full and unbiased sentiments may hasten a practical turn in bringing about a full realization to America first of her needs in this intended world-triumph of the BROTHERHOOD OF MAN. Let us keep not only the eye but the heart and the memory on this practical Christian minister of the Gospel, who, in the order of Bishop Gallor and the Reverend Hale of the Southland feels the responsibility attached to true leadership and being unafraid will risk position, world-power, fame and even life itself for the bringing about of a new baptism—THE COMMON BROTHERHOOD OF MAN AND A TRUE CONCEPTION OF A UNIVERSALITY OF DEMOCRACY. Universal Military Service in Line With All the Nation's Traditions By CHARLES J. BONAPARTE, Former Attorney General of United States It is often asserted, and yet more frequently assumed, in the discussion of current events, that compulsory military service is something new and unheard of in the United States; something more or less at variance with the traditions of our early national life and with the practice and counsel of our country's fathers. This is not merely untrue; it is precisely the reverse of the truth. PETER B. Those who now advocate the enrollment as soldiers and sailors of all our citizens fit to bear arms are urging a return to principles universally accepted and applied during the first fifty years of our national history, as well as in our entire colonial period, and fully sanctioned by laws in force today and which have been in force, in substantially their present form, from the very foundation of our government. An American mother who says she didn't raise her little boy to be a soldier in the day of the nation's need, if she knows her country's past history and her country's present laws, must know also that she says, in effect, she didn't raise him to be an American citizen, in the full and honorable sense of the word; that she has taught him to shirk a part of the duties of a citizen, and precisely that part of those duties which all mankind have ever deemed it most disastrous to the state and most shameful and dishonorable to the man himself that he should shirk. Production of Farm Machinery and the Labor Supply Must Be Protected Production of Farm Machinery and the Labor Supply Must Be Protected The truth is that unless prompt action is taken by the government, our country is headed straight toward the same mistakes that have resulted in compelling our allies to appeal to us to save them from famine. Unless we protect the production of labor-saving farm machinery and the supply of skilled farm labor, we, too, must soon face a shrinkage of food supplies. Anybody can realize how calamitous that would be in the military as well as the economic sense. We are now confronted by shortages of raw material and factory labor that will begin to be manifest in shortages of certain lines of farm machinery this fall and will result in serious shortages in many vital lines next year. Stocks on hand in important kinds of tools and machines are smaller than in normal years, because of earlier scarcity of factory labor and a rapidly tightening scarcity of all raw materials. Present and prospective conditions as to both elements make it certain that the shortage of our output will soon be serious. For the last ten years farm labor has been more and more difficult to secure, and now, with an enormous increase in the demand for labor in munition factories, and the withdrawal of many young men from productive occupations, there is bound to be a shortage of farm labor such as this country has never known. We regard it as vital to keep on the farms the men now there who know the business, especially the men trained in the use of labor-saving machinery. It would be wasteful and foolish to let them go and afterward try to replace them with unskilled men. We seek no advantage for our industry over any other, but we realize that without this product and without sufficient labor the farmers of the United States cannot increase, or even maintain, their production of foodstuffs next year. These are the measures that we declare to be vital to the feeding of this nation and its allies next year: 1. That the manufacture of farm materials be given equal preference with the manufacture of war munitions as regards supplies of necessary raw materials. 2. That service to the country in farm machinery factories be considered of equal importance with service in munition-making plants, government or private. 3. That labor on the farms be considered as of equal importance with the production of war munitions. 4. That raw materials for farming machinery and the finished goods be given equal preference by the transportation agencies of the country with munitions of war. "It is not the aim of thrift nor the duty of men to acquire millions. Hoarding millions is avarice, not thrift." This bit of philosophy, uttered some time ago by Andrew Carnegie, can well be applied to American life at the present time. Lack of proper understanding of thrift has been responsible for a great harm in America recently. This has been due to false economy, but people are rapidly getting around to the viewpoint that hoarding and indiscriminate parsimony are a long way from real thrift. What we all must learn is to eliminate waste. There is a great deal of difference between waste and sensible spending. The most reprehensible form of waste, of course, at the present time is in the matter of food. Secretary Houston has said that if only a single ounce of edible food, on the average, is allowed to spoil or to be thrown away in each of our 20,000,000 homes, over 1,300,000 pounds of material would be wasted each day. This would be at the rate of 464,000 pounds of food a year. Think of the millions of acres of land and the thousands of people necessary to produce this vast amount of food! It would be a very good idea for every American home today to adopt the slogan, "Save an ounce of food a day." This is a little thing to do. It really requires no amount of self-sacrifice. On the other hand, we have all been eating a little too much Cutting down our rations a trifle will be good for our health. "Save an ounce of food a day." Let every American home do this and we will have gone a long way toward the solution of our food problem. STATE GRAND LODGE OF U. B. F. & S. M. T. OF COLORADO JURISDICTION CLOSES ITS TENTH ANNUAL SESSION WITH GREAT REPORTS OF FINANCIAL CONDITIONS FOR YEAR ENDING JULY 17, 1917. After the election of the following officers and representatives to the N. G. L. & N. G. T., the grand lodge adjourned to meet in La Junta, Colo., in July, 1918: The tenth annual session of the State Grand Lodge of United Brothers of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious. Tens, convened in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Wednesday, July 18th, 1917. Officers. E. V. Cammel, G. M.; Alvin L. Wright, D. G. M.; George P. Strong, G. S.; Sister Pearl Adkins, A. G. S.; Sister Betty Pratt, G. T.; Brother John Adams, G. Atty.; Brother Vance Green and Sisters W. Hall and J. E. Grant, grand trustees. The following officers and delegates were present and reported the most prosperous year of the existence of the Grand Lodge of the Colorado Jurisdiction. Grand officers: E. V. Cammel, grand master; L. J. Jones, D. G. M.; George P. Strong, G. S.; Pearl Adkins, asst. G. S.; Betty Pratt, G. T.; John Adams, grand atty.; Wilhelmina Hall, Suvilla Burnett, L. O. Tucker, Mary J. Bryant and Jessie E. Grant, grand trustees. Delegates to the N. G. L.: Brothers E. V. Cammel, L. J. Jones and A. L. Wright. Delegates to N. G. Temple: Sisters S. Burnett, A. L. Mason and Nannie Johnson. Delegates. Denver, Colo.-Alvin Wright, Sister L. Oliver, Sister M. Williams, Sister A. L. Mason, Sister Nannie Johnson, Sister S. Burnett, Sister Arula Cole. Colorado Springs, Colo.-Sister W. Hall, Sister M. Pratt. The grand medical examiner was left to be appointed by the grand master. Mr. E. V. Cammel, grand master of the U. B. F. & S. M. T., of the Colorado jurisdiction, and who just closed the most successful meeting of the grand lodge has ever witnessed since its organization, is Denver's most popular undertaker and has served the order of U. B. F. & S. M. T. for more than ten years, having been grand secretary from the organization of the body until July 20, 1913, when he was honored with the office of grand master, in which capacity he has Pueblo, Colo.—Brother G. P. Strong, Brother John Adams, Sister Jessie Boswel. La Junta, Colo.—Brother C. Carney, Sister J. E. Brantand, Sister Bettie Neeley. Trinidad, Colo.—Sister Hattie Sutton. Albuquerque, N. M.—Brother J. L. Clarke, Brother F. Burton, Brother Vance Green, Sister M. B. Green, Sister L. M. Greer and Sister Anderson. Immediately after the regular opening ceremony and the appointment of the various committees the reading and adoption of the new constitution was made a special order of business. The new constitution and by-laws provided the abolishment of the Mutual Aid Association and burial funds and provided the creation of the grand community fund which does not change the amount of benefits due a member or their beneficiary, but guarantees better protection to the members and the order and puts the order under the legal provisions of the laws of the State of Colorado and jurisdiction of states in which it exists, as a fraternal benefit association or order. JOHN H. HARRIS E. V. CAMMEL, Grand Master, U. B. F. and S. M. T. served with credit for the past four years, and was re-elected at the close of the tenth annual session at Albuquerque, N. M., Friday, July 20, 1917, by acclamation. The reports which appear elsewhere in this issue show the work of a constructive leader and efficient officers. The grand secretary and treasurer reported the following: Brought forward from 1916..$2,361.13 Taken in to July 18, 1917..1,733.94 Grand Master Cammel is now taking a three-weeks' vacation from the duties of the office and refering all matters of importance to the newly elected deputy grand master, Mr. A. L. Wright, at 1140 Lincoln street, city. Disbursements. Sept. 28, 1916, M. E. Clay benefi- ciary; Bro. M. Clay.....$ 175.00 Jan. 1, 1917, Caroline Duamos, beneficiary of Bro. Fred Barnes ..... 175.00 Feb. 23, 1917, Ora Braddon, beneficiary of Sister Clara Holmes ..... 75.00 April 11, 1917, beneficiary of Sister Alberta Deloney .. 175.00 June 21, 1917, G. W. Hall and Grace Hall, beneficiary of Brother G. D. Hall..... 175.00 A. E. H. Total death benefits ..... $ 775.00 Grand masters salary and in- dustrials Balance on hand and in treasury to date ..... $3,084.07 Total membership: Adults, 437; juveniles, 85; in good standing. In answer to a telegram received by Grand Master Cammel announcing the death of Dr. C. D. DeFrantz, asst. grand medical examiner at Denver, Colo., Brother John Adams, Sisters Nannia Johnson and Betty Pratt were appointed a committee, to wire condolence to the bereaved wife, Mrs. Mable De Frantz and family. ALVIN L. WRIGHT, D. G. M.; U. B. F. and S. M. T. Colorado Jurisdiction. Elected at his first attendance of the Grand Lodge, July 20. ALVIN L. WRIGHT, D. G. M.; U. B. F. and S. M. T. Colorado Jurisdiction. Elected at his first attendance of the Grand Lodge, July 20. North-West Oil & Refining Co. Drilling Has Started Active drilling on our Powder River holdings is under way. A vigorous development campaign has started. Producing wells and big profits will quickly follow. BIG PROFITS SUB-LEASING MAKE MONEY WITH US. We hold nearly 8,000 acres in Powder River Dome and Salt Creek Creek. With such large acreage we will make big profits from sub-leasing and lease selling, as well as producing. In fact, we have already closed some valuable sub-leasing con- drills. These sub-leeses must drill for water with a minimum time and must pay us one-eighth of oil they produce as royalties. Stock is now selling for 37% cents, but with drilling under water it will be $1 to advance. Next price will be $1.50 per cent advance. A good big well will cause the price to jump to $3. It will $4 over night. Don't worry about happen for then your chance will be gone forever. Better buy a block of Northwest now while you can stock it for a dollar's worth for 37% cents. Order Now or Write for Information 1026-G FOSTER BUILDING Cy os hk Ad La A en a NEO oe ao DANA HCTAT al ECOLORADG \9 76 STAI ESMA /THE-COL wie ys LEOW J — ier | —— aa ia | i eg [ine] leery rag: lk ot Z ar See sd, ohne TRIE Tas ea Ce Sere a pA, - _ x Ne CARY Re AAA pies = Ee Pee Agee r= e ka s Keep off the date August 15. Ma-jrado, watching the outcome of sonic Grand Lodge Entertainment. patriotic effort to raise a Colored a talion in Colorado, which will t “It is as hot as L,” is the expression | precedent for all the states since of the majority of people one meets] declaration of war against Germ these days. Governor Gunter, of all the ex tives of the country, is the only | Mrs, Matiie Wenlock arrived home| C& enough and broad enough to | the colored citizens an equal chi Sunday from Raton, N. M,, where sne in this war, and we as citizens sh spent several weeks, the guest of her tater. grasp and encourage our boys to ou for their future greatness, On-going to press news reached us| The COLORADO STATESMAD of the death of Louis May, son-in-law | for the Colored Battalion, and app of Victor Walker, of this city, who}to every young man of the rac died yesterday morning at 10 o'clock. | Walk up like a man and make his ——__—_—— for his race, state and country. Mrs, Ethel Edwards of Keyline, Se Wyo., was an interesting caller at| OR. D. C. DE FRANTS LAID T this office Monday. Mrs. Edwards Reet lives on a ranch with her husband, 1TH measured steps and 8 and reports conditions very bright for W the’ vewaine’ of 20m =D ‘a bountifol crop. Charles De Frantz were b< The Colorado Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, convened in Pueblo last Wednesday for a three-days’ session. Full particulars next week. Oscar Greer and wife of Needles, Cal, passed through the city this week, en route to Chicago and other points to spend their honeymoon. Mr. Greer is foreman of the Santa Fé oil ‘burners of the locomotive department. Misses Xenia and Neoma Orear of Lathrop, Mo., are the house guests of Mrs. Nellie M. Rice of 724 East Twen- ty-fourth avenue, They will visit all of the interesting points of the state before returning to Missouri, After a long and beautiful life cov- ering seventy-eight summers, Mrs. Elizabeth’ Crane, the mother of Mrs. R. L. Pope, fell asleep in death at her home in Pensacola, Fla., last Monday. Interment was at the family cemetery. Mrs. Pope, who has been at her bed- side since the first of December, 1s expected to return to the city next weal The Great Dancing Contest at Oid Colony Hall, last Thursday evening brought out an immense crowd to wit- ness the dancing contest between L. B. Robinson “The Texas Idle,” and Joe Maxey “Pride of Colorado.” The first prize was won by L. B. Robin: son; second prize, Joe Maxey, and third prize, Mr. Echles. The manager, Billy Knight, wishes to thank the large attendance for their patronage. COMPANY “A,” COLORADO COL- ORED BATTALION EXAMINED FOR MUSTER. Last Wednesday evening a large crowd of sympathizing and patriotic citizens of Denver gathered at the Colored Battalion Headquarters, 2615 Welton street, to lend cheer and en- couragement to the brave and valiant- hearted boys of our race who have voluntarily come forward to enlist in the defense of the country at this most critical crisis. Major Campbell issued an order for all men who had enlisted in the Col ored Battalion to appear at 8 p. m. ‘Wednesday evening for examination and muster. Seventy or more of the men responded to the call, and Major Jolly with several of his staff put the men through the physical test to de- termine their fitness for service at the front. The examination was very technical and thorough, and it is safe to say that the men who were for- tunate enough to pass the examination are able to stand up under the many trying ordeals that come in a soldier's experience. Major Campbell, in order to break the tension of the men who were lined up for the final test, like a true soldier, was the first to strip for the physical test, and when the examining surgeon called out “MAJOR CAMP- BELL ACCEPTED,” the boys felt easier, and eager to be next for the test. Out of the seventy or more men who were able to be present for the physical test, about fifty men passed good, The men who passed certainly were a specimen of fine-looking sol- diers and can congratulate them- selves upon their physical perfection. Major Campbell expects to finish the examination in the next day or two, when he is certain enough men will then have passed the test for muster. Immediately upon muster the men will draw pay and be sent into tem- porary training camp near Denver. Major Campbell has worked hard and constantly in getting the men into line for this Colored Battalion which means so much to our race and state, and he should receive a more hearty response from the men who are eligi ble for service and special encourage: ment from our citizens generally. The ‘eyes of the country are upon Colo- ; | OIL COMPANY’S STOCK Will Positively Go to Not Less Than 5 Cents August 1st We incorporated this company July 11, 1917, Owing to the delay in Nt eee erated ee core which wil mot begin until the. inst 1 Sen oe oa chelgee i tomaine until Grilling: commences, at Gar Gheliss Holdings are with: fll throug. Mr, (0. Wonk in mogelnes felaings are,wih: Fish, Erestdant’ of the Chateber Panaea) waite: weno haw himselt made a fortune On our Kansas lease—80 acres re ee le ob shee : <8ehtiie SAN Be"Gesn within gfe Mees ip letter of July sixty days. ice ino intel’ wall aver Aviad Ravine) nv meperiatinncten) | sini they mice coutinan ter olde cata ale eee te eiaeuntine? <'ver uteee veseacnees Fou know wuat Mapnaiied jn TeCBint® Petrmeun” Geared TaN BEA HaLye ation lore ares tearingy oakee aTeaeatunelie reme wanna toe per shave. srip/telll eausgusne tdceu! ouc/Cobiean’ leava-’ Gyiltcatane “Orin about the frat bE eho week BE ADVISED, BUY YOUR MILO STOCK NOW AT 2 CENTS. IT Is ANOTHER SURE WINNER. ADDRESS The Milo Oil C e Ho I Oo. 0. 'T, BOULTON, Prentdent F. R. KNIGHT, See'y. 504 Colorndo Bldg., DENVER, COLO. rado, watching the outcome of this patriotic effort to raise a Colored Bat- talion in Colorado, which will be a precedent for all the states since the declaration of war against Germany. Governor Gunter, of all the execu- tives of the country, is the only man big enough and broad enough to give the colored citizens an equal chance in this war, and we as citizens should grasp and encourage our boys to join for their future greatness, The COLORADO STATESMAN is for the Colored Battalion, and appeals to every young man of the race to walk up like a man and make history for his race, state and country. DR. D. C. DE FRANTZ LAID TO REST. ITH measured steps and slow, W the remains of Dr. David Charles De Frantz were borne from his late residence, 2734 Welton street, on Sunday afternoon, the 22d inst., to Zion Baptist Church by the eae of the Masonic fraternity, ‘being associated for a number of years with that body. A very large gathering at the church awaited the arrival of the cortege, giving evidence of the popularity of one of Kansas’ best sons and Colorado's highly re- spected citizen and medical profes- sional, ardent Young Men’s Christian Association worker, faithful fraternal society member and a staunch sup- porter and builder of the race of which he was proud. | On the rostrum were Rev. D. EB. Over, pastor of the church, and mas- ‘ter of ceremonies; associate minis- ters, Revs. A, M. and W. A. Ward, Williams, Thomas-Hazell, Pope, Reyn- olds, Sawyer, Dr. Randolph, Secretary Bell of the Colored Y. M. C. A., and Mr. J. S. Temple of the white Y. M. C. A., who represented the parent or- ganization in paying their last re- spects to the founder and late pres- ident of the local branch. A combined choir from the several churches of the city rendered selections which at one point forcibly reminded the audi- ence of death and at another time depicted the glorious hope in the res- urrection of the dead. Solos and duets by Madam Hicks-Le Noir, Misses Andrews and Cole; also Mr. Reid, had their pathetic touch, lend- ing a cheer, comfort and consolation to the bereavement of family, rela- tives and friends. To the sorrowing widow, little daughters, brothers and other rela- tives The Colorado Statesman offers its deepest sympathy, commending them to the care, keeping and con- solation of Him Who will be a father to the fatherless, a husband to the widow and an Arch-protector to those who stand in need. Interment at Fairmount. Automo- bile service. Cammel and Company in charge. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our sincere thanks for the many kindnesses shown us, and the floral offerings of our many kind friends in our late be- reavement of our husband and father, James Haskins. MRS. JAMES HASKINS, MRS. JOSEPHINE McKEETHER, MATTHEW McKEETHER. PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. Twenty-third avenue and Washjng- ton street, Pastor, J, A. Thomas- Hazell. 11 a, m.—“The Heinousness of Sin.” 5:30 p. m—“Woman's Missionary Program.” A most delightful time was spent last Sabbath afternoon at the People's Chureh in connection with the “Flow- er Service.” Mrs, J. Thomas, the su- perintendent, presided, The program was very satisfactorily rendered, The decoration was par excellent. Mrs. Goldie Hughes made the artificial flowers that were beautiful in their aspect, The same wer- sold at the bazaar and proceeds turned over to the Helping Hand Club, Miss Cleo Hobson is to be credited for the carv- ing of the letters of the arch. Every participant commendably acquitted himself. ‘Tomorrow afternoon the Woman's Missionary Society will render their quarterly program in lieu of the eve- ning services. Everybody is cordially invited. The membership is requested to pay into the treasury tomorrow $1.50 each for the liquidation of taxes. A united effort means getting the amount needed. MICHAELSON'S, THE STORE OF ACCOMMODATION. ‘The average Denver citizen or visit- or cannot help from stopping at Mi- chaelson’s store, Fifteenth and Lari- mer streets, as it is correctly named— “the Store Accommodating,” when the quality of the goods on sale and the prices that they are marked down are within reach of the smallest pocket- book, This firm with its staff of em- ployés of the utmost civility, offers to the public rare and special lines at bargains that defy competition, and the general stock is reduced in price to meet the increased summer pat- ronage. Remember, MICHAELSON and AC- COMMODATION are one and the same; therefore, call first before g0- ing elsewhere, and get the proof of their advertisement. IN MEMORIAM. in loving memory of our dear son and nephew, Elmer Bowman. Died July 22, 1916. Some may think he is forgotten, ‘The wound has been long healed; But they do not know the sorrow ‘That lies in our hearts concealed. Mother, Mrs. Eliza Burns. Aunt, Georgie Jones, DEATHS AND FUNERALS. BOYKIN, CLARENCE B. The re- mains of Mr, Clarence B. Boykin, late of 2566 Washington street, were shipped to Marinna, Ark., Tuesday for interment, accompanied by his wife, mother and mother-in-law. Cammel & Co, in charge. CAMPBELL CHAPEL, AFRICAN M. E. CHURCH. Twenty-third and Lawrence streets. Mrs. Victoria Clay Haley, national organizer of the National Association ‘of Colored Women’s Clubs, will be the speaker at Campbell Chapel at 8 p. m. Sunday, July 29, Mrs. Haley ts an earnest Christian worker at her home town in St. Louis. She is a fluent and interesting talker. For many years she was grand lecturer of the Order of Eastern Star. Come early and help us give her a rousing welcome. ‘The pastor will preach at 11 a.m. Because of the funeral of our friend and brother, Dr. C. David De Frantz, Sunday, the attendance at the quarterly meeting fell below par. Pre- siding Elder R. L. Pope preached morning and evening. Rey. G. Ster ling Sawyer delivered the communion sermon. FRANK R, TAGGART announces that he has removed hin law offices to 621 and 622 Cooper Bldg. Telephone Main 8036, I) 5 NI me ys oe Sa a ea pee > s (om iy a x [ | Ss rs _ ) + ie e f ) N ee, O ce mae SS HE magnitude of the great war in which we are now engaged, has neces- sitated unusual preparation. Mighty forces are marshalling, great stores of food and munitions are being gathered, and the energies of the nation are focused on problems incident to the war. At the very beginning of the war, the whole Bell System was placed at the disposal of the Government. No nation has entered the war with such a comprehensive and efficient telephone service. As our military establishment grows, the demands of the Government upon the Bell System are bound to increase and always they must take prece- dence over all others. Increased activity in commerce and industry as the result of larger de- mands for food and munitions from our allies and for our own use, means more need of telephone service by private business. But private business must always be subordinated to the Government service. Each individual American will co-operate in this patriotic service, and submit cheerfuly to inconvenience or delay in his telephone service, when he under- stands how vital it is that Government service shal take precedence over all else. The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company White Mush Sail $9.98 For —They have all the liveliness of summer time; smart _ mushroom shapes, as you can see by the picture. A white 2 grosgrain ribbon band and bow makes them very attrac- Ya tive. —But it’s clearance time in our Millinery Department, so Vo Vea 54 of these Sailors have been reduced from $4.50 and $5.00 | to $2.98. Second Floor—Joslin's - a ae Sport Skirts | Silk Petticoat —of Fine Cotton Gabardine $5 At $1.75 —Very good styles to wear with Sweater Splendid Values Conte DN come in attractive Khaki | _pyis js to announce a new showing of Mirmiey opaielfoedierly 98.50) Reduced. || Sy eae: sue eeeisaty price, $1.75- —Their attractive and rich colorings in —A few linen colored Skirts that women | changeable effects—their splendid quality and misses are buying to wear to the —commend them to those who are par- mountains are reduced to 89¢ EACH. corner Second Floor—-Joslin’s Fourth Floor—Jostin's Coats, Suits, Capes and Dresses Reduced to $15 —Some espeetally good-looking and very } —A few smart Capes, cloth and_silk, serviceable Suits of popular light and me- reduced to ..............++--- $15.00 dium weight cloths, reduced to..§15.00 | —Coats in quite a varied assortment— : Coats for motoring, Silk Coats, White —Dresses for afternoon and street wear Serge Coats and Coats of heavier fashion- reduced to .sssssssseeees++++-15.00 | able colored material—all reduced to. $15 Phone Z tg The Store Main 3270. Kor. Accommodating. > wow Pe ad We are asking our subscrib- ers not to take offense at the | bills we send them, as the debts are of long standing and the law compels us to file an accur- ate statement of our income. Your early settlement will be greatly appreciated. DIRECTORY. Oliver Royal House of S. M. 'T.—Mcets tnd Monday of each month at 2540 ‘Washington St. Pride of Denver ‘Tabernacle 521—Meets ‘Qnd and 4th Tuesday of each month ‘at 2540 Washington St. Dr. Spratlin’s office is now at his residence, 2230 Clarkson street, Phone York 123. FOR RENT—One house at 2358 Tre- mont Place, 320 and 322 Twenty- fourth street. Apply at 1824 Curtis street, room 25. Fern Hall, 2711 Welton, R. L. Phy- nix, Manager. Phone Main 2860, Yes, of Course. The young lady across the way says she see" a good deal in the paper about the harmful effects of coffee and she should think they'd Gnd some ‘way of removing the nicotine—Car- toons Macazine. Be Mcderate in All Things. Other things being equal it is the nan who leads the well-balanced life who lasts the longest, whose work to he end is uniformly the best. He who aeither overworks nor overplays, either overeuts, overdrinks, nor over- ‘leeps, who maintains a standard of ‘imple health diet in moderation, who offsets rnental work with physical ree- ‘eation, who is as honest with his own vody as he is with his own business. Vhen success comes to such a one his yhysical and mental condition is such hat he can enjoy in peace of mind and wntentment of body the fruits of his THE TREE An Effective Way to Train Roses. WORK IN FLOWER GARDEN By L. M. BENNINGTON. Seeds of the cannas, nasturtiums, cypress vine and other hard-wooded seeds are benefited by soaking in hot water for 12 hours before planting. When spraying the orchard, do not neglect to spray the roses, shrubs and small fruits. It will do them a world of good. Experiment with flower "novelties," but do not "bank" on them. Don't trust seeds to cold, wet soil—wait until the earth is dried and warmed by the sun. Be sure to start the late-blooming annuals in the house. For instance, the cosmos. Try a few of the summer-blooming bulbs and tubers this year—tuberous-rooted begonias, caladiums, dahlias, cannas, tuberoses, etc. They are satisfactory summer bloomers. The following plants will flourish on the shady side of the house: Ferns, pansies, sweet alyssum, wandering jew, alignonette, torenias, forget-me-nots, primroses, mimas, begonias, fuchsias, heliotropes, plumbagoes and godetias. These thrive in the sun: Verbenas, nasturtiums, phlox, petunias, nigellas, geraniums, candytuft, cypress vine, thunbergias, hyacinth beans, morning-glories, and in fact almost all of our bedding annuals. Have the sweet-pen bed two feet wide, and as long as wanted. Manure it heavily, and spade it deeply. Run two furrows down the center six inches apart and ten inches deep, and fill with leaf mold or well-rotted manure. Mix this with the surrounding soil, and then plant the peas one inch apart and five inches deep. Cover with soil and firm it well. If stocky cosmos is wanted, begin to pinch out the end of the stem when the seedling is five or six inches high, and so treat every shoot until the first of August. The first year a rosebed gives small returns. Cover the bare soil by planting pansies, phlox or verbenas between the bushes. Should the rose branch out freely, the annuals may be removed. Moon vines that have been raised and forced by the florist, must not be planted out before the very end of June—preferably early July. They need heat and plenty of water to do well. Those who contemplate a pit or cold frame for violets next winter, should at once procure strong, healthy plants from the florist. Set them in a spot which is shaded the greater part of the day, in light, rich soil. Carefully pick off all runners and flower buds, should they appear. This will throw all the strength of the plant into the flowering crown. Keep the soil stirred, and see ```markdown ``` that it gets a soaking twice a week, should the weather be very hot and dry. If you want really fine roses later on, do not neglect to fight the insects. A bath of whaleoil soap may secure you a fine crop of blooms. GROW VINES AROUND THE HOME. Try growing honeysuckle vine about the outhouses or porches. Its habit of growth admirably fits in for screening purposes. It does not grow rampantly enough to make constant pruning and clipping necessary to keep it within bounds, but it covers a screen of ordinary height with a thick mass of foliage that will be found entirely effective in hiding unsightliness or protecting the inmates of a home from the observation of passers-by. When in bloom it challenges the admiration of those who pass ordinary plants by without attention, and when out of bloom it is even much more attractive than the ordinary average vine, because of the density of its foliage and its graceful habit of growth. Before any plant can be grown with success the soil must be right. Heavy soils can be lightened by incorporating them with sand, loam, anything that will make them more porous. Wood and coal ashes will answer this purpose to some extent. Old mortar is excellent. And whatever you find available, and work it into the original soil until its heavy condition is relieved. At the same time add plenty of fertilizer of some kind and work this in, too. Use leather instead of cloth in tacking vines to the wall. Cloth will seldom last longer than a season. Then if the vine has not found some permanent sort of support for itself there is danger of its falling down, and once down it will be found almost impossible to put back in a satisfactory manner. As a basis for vine support, try wire netting. If possible fasten the netting to the cornice above and then to stakes in the ground below, drawing it as tight as possible. Where this is done there will be a space between the walls of the house and the vines through which the air can freely circulate. This will benefit the vine and will not injure the walls. Honeysuckle is only adapted to the lower story of a house. Taller growing vines are necessary where one wants the vine to extend to the roof. This matter of vines about the house is worthy of careful attention and once you have made up your mind what you want to grow—go ahead. Sweet Pear NO LAW GOVERNS DISPLAY OF FLAG War Department Provides Rules for Army, but Not for Guidance of Civilians. WOULD RESTRICT IT'S USE Adjutant General Urges That Emblem Be Suspended From Poles and Not Used for General Decorative Purposes. The adjutant general of the war department, in a statement with reference to the many inquiries which the department has received concerning the proper method of displaying, hanging and saluting the American flag, declares that there is no federal law now in force pertaining to this subject and that while the war department prescribes rules and regulations on the subject for use in the army, it has no authority to prescribe any rules for the guidance of civilians. Concerning the rules observed in the army, the adjutant general says: "It is the practice in the army, each day in the year, to holst the flag briskly by sunrise, irrespective of the condition of the weather, and to lower it slowly and ceremoniously at sunset, indicating the commencement and cessation of the activities of the day, and to display it at half-mast on Memorial day (May 30) from sunrise until noon, and at full staff from noon until sunset, and also on other days specially designated for that purpose by the proper authority, the flag always being holsted to the top of the staff before being lowered to the half-mast position. Use Should Be Restricted. "Considerable discussion has arisen throughout the country concerning the proper manner of hanging and displaying the flag for decorative purposes. As already stated, there is no federal law governing the subject, and individual opinion differs as to the procedure that should or should not be followed. It has been suggested that as far as possible the hanging of the flag should be restricted to suspending it from a flagpole, in the regular way, and not to displaying it otherwise; that for purposes of decoration only the national colors should be arranged in the form of bunting and not used in the form of the flag; that if it is nevertheless the desire to use the flag for decorative purposes it should always be hung flat whether on the inside or the outside of buildings, with the union to the north or east, so that there will be a general uniformity in the position of the union of each flag displayed; that the flag should rarely be displayed in a horizontal position or laid flat; that under no circumstances should it be hung where it can easily be contaminated or soiled, or be draped over chairs or benches to be used for seating purposes, and that no object or emblem of any kind should be placed above or upon it. This department sees no objection to flying the flag at night on civilian property provided it is not so flown for advertising purposes. "It is becoming the practice throughout the country, among civilians, to display the national flag on all patriotic occasions, especially on the following days: Lincoln's Birthday, Washington's Birthday, Mother's day., Memorial day, Flag day, Independence day, February 12, February 22, second Sunday in May, May 30, June 14, July 4. In certain localities other special days are observed in the same manner. "It seems to be appropriate that where several flags or emblems are displayed on a pole, or otherwise, the United States flag should always be hoisted first and hung or displayed at the top; that in any parade the United States flag should always have the place of honor, and that the flag should never be hung or displayed with the union down except as a signal of distress at sea. How Soldiers Salute Flag. Existing regulations governing the army provide *that when officers and enlisted men pass the national flag, not encased, they will render honors as follows: If in civilian dress and covered, they will uncover, holding the headdress opposite the left shoulder with the right hand; if uncovered, they will salute with the right hand. A flag unfurled and hung in a room in which officers or enlisted men of the army are present will be saluted by them the first time they may have occasion to pass it, but not thereafter. The hand salute is as follows: Raise the right hand smartly till the tip of the forefinger touches the lower part of the headdress above the right eye, thumb and fingers extended and joined, palm to left, forearm inclined to about 45 degrees, hand and wrist straight; at the same time look toward the person saluted; drop the arm smartly to the side. "Old or worn-out flags should not be used either for banners or for any secondary purposes. When a flag is in such a condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, it should not be cast aside nor used in any way that might be viewed as disrespectful to the national colors, but should be destroyed as a whole, privately, preferably by burning or by some other method lacking in any suggestion of irreverence or disrespect due the emblem representing our country." WOULD RAISE RABBITS WOULD RAISE RABBITS Uncle Sam's Food Experts Advocate New Industry. Greater Production Would Reduce Drain on Ordinary Supply of Country, It Is Urged. Rabbits, which have proved a valuable source of food in Europe during the present war, may well be raised more extensively in America by way of reducing the drain on the ordinary ment supply, according to biologists of Uncle Sam's department of agriculture. The business of growing rabbits, the specialists point out, can be carried on by youths and adults not engaged in military or other national service, or in regular industrial employment. The animals may be raised in back yards of cities and towns as well as on farms. The Belgian hare, says a statement by the United States department of agriculture, breeds rapidly, matures quickly, and produces a palatable and highly nutritious meat. The cost of production is less than that of any other meat, not excepting poultry. The supply can be greatly increased within a few months without requiring space that may be needed for the production of crops. Practical experience has demonstrated that rabbit meat can be produced in unlimited quantities at a cost of about six cents a pound; and by utilizing lawn cuttings and other vegetation that would otherwise be wasted, the cost can be made even lower. The Belgian and Flemish giant rabbits are recommended for meat production, as the ordinary tame rabbit is smaller and develops more slowly. Stock of Belgian hares may be bought from breeders in nearly all the states at $1 to $3 each. They may occasionally be had from pet stock dealers. Fancy pedigree stock is not required for meat production. Rabbitts are easily kept. They eat hay, grass, lawn cuttings, and green vegetation of many kinds. Females should be allowed to breed when eight or ten months old, and during the year should raise four litters of about six young each. Well fed, the young reach marketable size when three to four months old, and average from five to six pounds live weight. Newly Discovered Ruin Preserved by Uncle Sam Upon the recommendation of Secretary Lane, President Wilson, by proclamation, has added 80 acres to El Morro national monument in western central New Mexico. This was done to preserve a ruin recently discovered by a field agent of the department of the interior in the near vicinity of Inscription rock. This ruin may prove to have unusual historical value. The spot, doubtless on account of its spring of fine water, was a camping place for the Spanish explorers of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many of whom left records carved upon the face of Inscription rock. The newly found ruin is expected to throw further light upon these early explorations. --- IS MONUMENT TO EXPLORERS National Reservation Created to Commemorate First Visit by White Men to Great Northwest. Upon the recommendation of Secretary of the Interior Lane President Wilson has created by proclamation the Verendrye National Monument near Sanith, North Dakota. This reservation, which embraces two hundred and fifty acres, surrounds a lofty eminence locally known as Crowhigh Butte, the second in height in North Dakota to the well-known Sentinel Butte. It rises from the left bank of the Missouri river at Old Crossing, one of the most important fords of the Missouri, over which hunters, trappers and explorers have passed from the earliest times. The significance of this monument is that it marks the first recorded visit of white men to the vast territory which includes North Dakota. Verendrye, the celebrated French explorer, starting from the north shore of Lake Superior, passed westward and southwestward into the unknown regions of the great plains and Rocky Mountains about 1740. The records of the journeys made by him and his two sons are the subject of conflicting interpretations, but there is no question that the Verendrye party was the first to enter North Dakota and to look upon the Missouri at this point. This was the butte from which they gazed into the unknown lands west and south; and they were the first white men to cross the Missouri at the ford which afterward became the highway of exploration and early trade. This was sixty years before the Lewis and Clark expedition. The creation of the Verendryo National Monument follows the historical precedent set by the creation of the Cabrillo National Monument at the spot where the Spanish navigator Cabrillo first sighted the coast of California in 1542, and of the Sieur de Monts National Monument at the spot where Champlain first sighted the coast of Maine in 1609. NOTHING DOWN AND 17 CTS. A DAY BUYS A PIANO. SALE NOW ON. THE PIANO EXCHANGE H. A. TRIGGS, Manager 211 Charles Block. Cor. 15th and Curtis Streets. Phone Champa 3742. The Cha Twenty Is DRUGS, CHEMICAL WE S Prescript Phone us and we will JAMES P BOLDE and L 924 19th The Champa Pharmacy Twentieth and Champa, Is the place to get your DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES WE SERVE DRINKS. Prescriptions Our Specialty. Phone us and we will deliver the goods to all parts of the city. JAMES E. THRALL, PROPR. PHONE MAIN 2425. DINNER 11:30 to 2 p.m. All Kinds of Sandwiches Bolden Ba FI R. B. BOLDE Weathe TE PIONEER WE IN PRACT RENOVATORS, BL Of Gents' and 1624 Golden Bros. Barber Sh Baths, Electric Massage FIRST CLASS SERVICE R. BOLDEN, Mgr. 926 19th St. D atherhead Hat TELEPHONE MAIN 3203 Bolden Bros. Barber Shop Baths, Electric Massage FIRST CLASS SERVICE R. B. BOLDEN, Mgr. 926 19th St. Denver Weatherhead Hat Co. TELEPHONE MAIN 3203 Established 1876 PIONEER HATTERS OF THE WEST WE MAKE OLD HATS NEW PRACTICAL HATTERS CATORS, BLEACHERS DYERS AND FINI- Gents' and Ladies' Hats of Every Descripti- 1624 Champa St., Denver, Colo. IN 3028 RES. PHONE GA JOHN K. RETTIG Fancy and Staple Grocery 1864 CURTIS STREET eighteenth. MARKET COMPANY E. SMITH, Manager, Res. Phone South 1600 and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty. Fresh and Cured Eastern Corn Fed Meal Established 1876 PIONEER HATTERS OF THE WEST WE MAKE OLD HATS NEW PRACTICAL HATTERS RENOVATORS, BLEACHERS DYERS AND FINISHERS Of Gents' and Ladies' Hats of Every Description 1624 Champa St., Denver, Colo. Meats, Fancy Meats, Fancy and Staple Groceries 1864 CURTIS STREET The MAR C. E. SMITH, Wholesale and Retail St Hotels and Eastern The MARKET COMPANY C. E. SMITH, Manager, Res. Phone South 1608 Wholesale and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Oysters Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty. Fresh and Cured Eastern Corn Fed Meats Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry and Game. Telephones 622-636 15th Str Telephones Main 4302, 4303, 4304, 4305 15th Street Denver, Telephones Main 4302, 4303, 4304, 4305 622-636 15th Street Denver, olorado Phone from 0899 PHONE MAIN 3028 Corner Nineteenth. Short Orders at All Hours per Shop age CE 19th St. Denver Hat Co. 203 E WEST NEW TTERS AND FINISHERS Description Colo. PHONE GALLUP 943 TIG le Groceries COMPANY the South 1608 eries, Fish and Oysters Specialty. d Meats 4304, 4305 Denver, olorado VINE X Denver, Colo. 49 FOOD ITEMS ON LIST FOR SOLDIERS Uncle Sam Has Great Task in Buying Supplies for Million Men for Year. FROM BEEF TO SHOE STRINGS Quartermaster General Must Purchase Equipment and Look After Its Transportation, Storage and Supplies for a million men—a year's needs of everything from beef to shoe strings, and from cots to candy—is a measure of the task which Quartermaster General Sharpe's office has in providing for America's new armies. Nearly 200,000 tons of fresh beef (397,638,240 pounds) is one item, and besides that there is canned corned and canned roast beef, totaling nearly 8,000,000 pounds more, without including the canned corned beef hash, also among the items. All told, 343 different items of supplies appear in the quartermaster general's list of rations for issue and sale of clothing and of equipage. The figures given here are on the basis of supplying soldiers located in the United States, so give no help in computing additional needs of this country resulting from military participation in the war. Food in Great Quantities. Regular rations of Uclem Sam's soldiers call for a list of 49 items. In it are more than 29,600,000 pounds of coffee, four kinds of tea, and over 25,000 tons of granulated sugar; over 866,000 gallons of cucumber pickles; over 3,800,000 cans of black pepper and cinnamon, cloves, ginger and nutmeg, totaling 372,000 cans; over 480,700,000 pounds of potatoes; over 55,200,000 pounds of onions; over 300,000,000 pounds of flour, besides hard bread; nearly 1,000,000 gallons of cane sirup; lemon and vanilla flavoring extracts; over 8,200,000 pounds of lard, and over 7,300,000 pounds of butter; canned and dried fish, canned vegetables, evaporated apples and peaches, etc. The variety of fare possible in regular rations is increased by a list of items for sale to soldiers at cost. The sale list totals 165 items, largely foodstuffs, but including also shaving mugs, pencils, pins, pens, shoe polish, letter paper (22,320 quires), 48,360 pipes, 22,320 razors, toilet articles (among which are 148,800 cans of talcum powder and 3,720 bottles of toilet water), 11,160 spools of thread, etc. The foodstuffs in the sale list include canned mushrooms, a variety of canned fruits, vegetables, fish and meats, pickles, maple sirup, ginger ale, sauces, sausage, 305,000 pints of effervescent water, etc. Regular articles of clothing are 29 in number. These are figured on initial requirements and upkeep for the first nine months. Here are a few of the items: Belts, 2,000,000; coats, cotton, 2,400,000; coats, woolen, 1,270,000; service hats, 1,825,000; shoe laces, 7,200,000; overcoats, 1,675,000. Equipage include 90 articles. Among them are 130,500 axes, 3,450,000 blankets, 23,000 bugles, 1,900,000 cots, 1,440,250 tents of seven kinds, over 1,000,000 gross of buttons, 39,000,000 yards of cotton cloth, etc. Estimating quantities needed is only a step in the task of supplying an army. Things must be bought—quality tested, contracts made, prices determined, delivery—and then come the problems of transportations, storage and distribution. This shows a part of the country's great war work, on which thousands of people are daily working. LITTLE SALT IS IMPORTED Practically All of 45,720,860 Barrels Consumed in Country in 1916 Produced at Home. The domestic consumption of salt in 1916 was 45,720,860 barrels of 280 pounds each, an increase of more than 7,000,000 barrels over the consumption of 1915. According to statistics compiled under the direction of R. W. Stone of Uncle Sam's geological survey, the domestic production of salt in 1916 was 45,449,329 barrels, the imports were 871,962 barrels, and the exports 600,461 barrels. This was an increase of 15 per cent in the quantity produced. The total value of the salt was $13,645,947. Michigan, as usual, was the largest producer, and New York was a close second. The production, in barrels, by the leading states, was as follows: Michigan, 14,918,278; New York, 14,087,750; Ohio, 6,706,193; Kansas, 4,564,798; California, 1,124,236. Perhaps the most marked feature in the salt industry in 1916 was the great increase in quantity of brine sold as such or used by chemical works, the increase being 37 per cent and the total production over 18,000,000 barrels. The production of rock salt increased over 17 per cent and amounted to 9,973,950 barrels, valued at $2,665,270. On the other hand, the production of evaporated salt increased only 5 per cent, to 17,575,629 barrels, but the value was $10,149,412, an increase of nearly 15 per cent. Denmark supplies England with 60 per cent of her butter. Most all the so-called English and Irish bacon comes also from Denmark. ON TRAIL IN GLACIER Shelter Cabins Provided for Travelers in Big Park. Visitors, Instead of Camping in Open, Will Find Picturesque Log Houses Awaiting Them. Wanderers over the magnificently scenic trails of Glacier National park will find their travel eased by the new shelter cabins built by Uncle Sam's national park service. Instead of camping in the open, the hiker and trail rider will find at convenient intervals picturesque log cabins awaiting them. Here they will find shelter from storm and wind. The cabins are equipped with tables, chairs and a satisfactory cook stove provided with large pots and pans of the sort that is inconvenient to lug around. There will be two of these cabins on the celebrated Gunsight trail, the route over the Continental divide between Lake McDermott on the east and Lake McDonald on the west. One of these is located just south of Plegan pass, a natural resting and luncheon spot for travelers in both directions. The other is at the foot of Gunsight lake, with Gunsight pass outlined against the western sky. This site has a picturesque history. A chalet camp was originally built there several years ago by the company operating the east side hotels. Long after the close of the first season, and just before hibernating time, a big hungry grizzly bear, broke in and devoured everything eatable. He then proceeded to smash into bits everything in the chalet which was smashable. Not a piece of furniture was left undemolished. The next season the hotel company refitted the chalet and took care of the summer's business; but that following winter an enormous avalanche slipped down the eastern slopes of Mount Jackson and demolished the entire structure as completely as the grizzly had previously demolished its furniture. This discouraged the hotel company; the chalet was not rebuilt. But a resthouse was badly needed at this spot, so the department of the interior is replacing the chalet with a shelter cabin. Another of the shelter cabins will be found at Iceberg lake, that wonder spot so near to Lake McDermott. It will serve as the luncheon kitchen and resthouse for thousands who make the amazing one-day trip from McDermott to gaze upon its gigantic gorge, explore its mimic glacier, and revel in its berg-dotted lake. LOSE MILLIONS EVERY YEAR American Wool Growers Fail to Put Their Product in First-Class Condition for Market, It Is Said. American wool growers lose between six million and eight million dollars a year because they do not put their wool up for sale in first-class condition. They get that much less cash than the actual value of the wool. In other words, foreign wools, Australian particularly, bring in the American warehouses from one cent to three cents a pound more than the same grade of American wool because the latter is carelessly prepared for market. This difference is due to failure to classify the wool, and to defects from the use of improper sacks, twine, branding paints and various minor causes which lower value. Uncle Sam's department of agriculture is endeavoring to help the American wool grower to save this $6,000,000 a year and has formed some simple rules which the secretary of agriculture states no grower either on farm or range can afford to neglect to enhance the value and reputation of his clip. The extra work and expense which must be borne by the wool grower to secure this additional price, it is stated, are hardly worth considering. It is a matter of almost clean additional profit. It is a wrong supposition that the entire fleece goes into the production of a garment, so that the amount of finished cloth is equal to the amount of scoured wool. A number of tests reported by different mills show that for woolen goods from 4 to $ 4 \frac{1}{2} $ pounds of unwashed wool were required to make one pound of cloth. For worsted cloths from $ 2 \frac{1}{2} $ to $ 4 \frac{1}{2} $ pounds of wool were required for weaving one pound of cloth. Joins Marines Despite Lack of "Trigger Finger" Because the loss of the "trigger finger" had prevented his enlistment, Walter Cogswell Forse, aged nineteen, of Binghamton, N. Y., walked all the way from that city to Washington to make personal application to the major general commandant of the United States Marine corps. Forse carried a sign on his back which read: "From Binghamton, N. Y., to Washington, D. C., to join the U. S. Marines. It's Worth It." Upon his arrival in Washington young Forse proved that the loss of the index finger of his right hand was no handicap in the performance of military duty, and special authority was granted for his enlistment. So far as is known, he is the first man, similarly handicapped, to pass the military authorities. THE KITCHEN CABINET THE KITCHEN CABINET Beauty is not undervalued in the home life. Whatever brings the dweller into a finer life, what educates his eye, or hand or ear, whatever purifies or enlarges him, may well find a place there. The fountain of beauty is in the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. SANDWICH FILLINGS. Chop fine two large sardines, one cupful of boiled ham and two small cucumber pickles. Make a paste by adding a table-spoonful of mayonnaise. Spread on thinly sliced white bread, lightly buttered. Fruit Take a pint of finely chopped tur- key meat, one-half cupful of finely ground almonds, blanched, mix with cream or mayonnaise. Spread on brown bread that has been buttered. Chop the desired quantity of olives, mix with mayonnaise and spread on thin slices of buttered bread. Chop equal quantities of veal and tongue, moisten with the stock from the tongue and season well with salt, paprika, a bit of scraped onion and nutmeg. Spread on thinly sliced buttered bread. Add one cupful of finely ground ham to two cupfuls of chicken, also finely chopped. Add a piece of green pepper finely chopped, and mix with mayonnaise. Spread on buttered graham bread. Neufchatel cheese softened with a little cream makes a delicious filling. Use one-half the quantity of pecans finely minced, a few chopped olives, and spread on buttered brown bread. Soften a little cream cheese with cream and spread on buttered white bread cut in thin slices. Then cover the cheese with bits of chopped preserved ginger and candied lemon peel. Crisp lettuce leaves dipped in French dressing and served at once for sandwich filling are most dalny. Chop three hard-bolled eggs, season with onion juice, and softened butter, spread on buttered bread. Chop equal parts of pecans and celery and mix with mayonnaise which has been well seasoned with grated lemon peel. Spread on thin buttered slices of white bread. Mince canned pimentos with mayonnaise dressing and spread on white bread. Strawberry jam with cream cheese or chopped cherries with cream cheese makes an appetizing filling. Inefficiency in the home is as great a danger to the state as quackery in medicine. SOME GOOD OLD SOUTHERN RECIPES. Make a good big kettle of cornmeal mush, mold it in small breadpans and cut in slices to fry for breakfast. Any chopped meat may be stirred into the mush while warm, making a more substantial dish. Potted Plant Creole Tongue,—Boll a fresh beef tongue, and after skinning it' and trimming it carefully, add the following sauce: Into a double boiler put a glass of currant jelly and a cupful of orange juice, quarter of a cupful of lemon juice, a tablespoonful of butter, a quarter of a pound each of raisins, currants, citron, chopped almonds, all well blended, and soak in the fruit juice and pour over the tongue after it has become well heated. Coquilles of Chicken.—Stew cold chicken with mushrooms, cut up and all highly seasoned with butter, pepper, salt and a tablespoonful of rich cream for each ramekin. Put the chicken in the ramekins, sprinkle with buttered crumbs and bake; serve hot with green peas. Chilli Sauce.—Pare a dozen large tomatoes and peel two onions; add four medium sized peppers, all chopped. Stir and add two tablespoonfuls of salt, two of sugar, one tablespoonful of cinnamon and three cupfuls of vinegar. Boll for half an hour, stirring often. Bottle and seal. Lobster Creole.—Have ready a pint of lobster meat, fresh or canned. Heat a tablespoonful of butter, add a tablespoonful of chopped onion, one green pepper and a half cupful of rich tomato sauce. Cook for five minutes, then add a cupful of clear chicken broth, cook five minutes longer, then add the lobster and salt to taste. As soon as it is heated through, it is ready to serve. Cheese Omelet.—A cupful of cheese, a cupful of cream, two tablespoonfuls of melted butter and an egg beaten very light, seasoned with salt mixed quickly and put into a buttered baking dish to bake, makes a most dainty supper dish. Orange Salad.—Cut thick rounds of orange, rind and all, and place a thin slice of Southern onion of the same size, sandwich fashion, between two slices. Place on lettuce and serve with French dressing. Kidney Bean Salad.—Cook three-quarters of a pound of kidney beans until tender, drain well and when cold add a cupful of chopped celery, a cupful of sweet pickles, cut in cubes and three-fourths of a cupful of creamy dressing. And boiled dressing with the addition of whipped cream, stir in lightly and serve on lettuce leaves. Nerie Maxwell COLORADO DAY PARADE TWENTY THOUSAND MARCHERS TO BE IN LINE. Pay Tribute to Sons of State Who Are Soon to Unfurl Old Glory Somewhere in France. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver.—Twenty thousand marchers in line; eighteen bands of music; innumerable automobiles and floats. These will combine to make Denver's Colorado Day parade, Wednesday, Aug. 1st, the biggest and most spectacular affair of its kind that the Centennial State has known in all its years of existence. It will be a demonstration of the pride, love and esteem in which Colorado holds those many sons who are soon to answer the call of their country, "somewhere in France." It will be the last occasion probably that an opportunity will be given to pay tribute to the home boys and every effort is being made to make it a tribute that they will never forget. Five thousand men in khaki will have the place of honor at the head of the procession, where they will be acclaimed by the throngs which will crowd into Denver for Colorado's birthday anniversary. Behind them will march 5,000 other soldiers. They will not be in uniform, but they will be none the less heartily received. They will be Colorado's quota of the new army of selective conscription. Civic, fraternal, semi-military, veteran and other organizations will complete the other six divisions. They will act as an honorary escort for Colorado's fighting men to whom this year Colorado Day is dedicated. Arrangements to feed the 5,000 federal and state troops to be gathered in City Park Colorado Bay were completed at a meeting of the military and women's committees in charge of the affair at the court house. Through arrangements with the state and national military officials, it is expected to have every branch of the army service represented, together with every regiment of the state forces, in both the parade and patriotic services at the park. The soldiers will be the guests of the Sons of Colorado at the luncheon immediately following the morning procession. Tetanus Bacilli Found in Plaster. Pueblo.—William Latham, 45, and B. Patterson, 63, were arrested in Florence and brought to Pueblo to face charges of having sold in this city court plaster packages containing tetanus bacilli. Samples of the plaster they are said to have disposed of had been analyzed by the Pueblo city chemist and the poisonous substance discovered in quantities sufficient to have caused lockjaw. Latham and Patterson claim they bought the court plaster from wholesale druggists with no knowledge of the tetanus bacilli being in the article. Latham and Patterson will be held for several days pending further investigation. Mrs. Otto Allen was the only person who could identify Patterson as having sold court plaster. Strikers Agree to Mediation. Denver, July 25. — Announcement that the mine operators in the Leadville camp had agreed to arbitrate their differences with the miners and smeltermen is taken to indicate a speedy termination of the strike which involved 1,800 men and caused the shutting down of the thirty-seven producing mines in the district. Following a protracted session and the interchange of negotiations also came a termination of the strike at the Swift and Armour packing plants in Denver, involving 900 employés. Alleged Auto Thief Caught. Pueblo.—John A. Brown, 26, employed since September as an automobile mechanic here, was arrested after an all-day search by City Detective Charles Baty. He is charged with stealing $2,600 from the Adams Express Company while in their employ in Newark, N. J., and is said by officials to be a member of the organized band of automobile thieves and hold-ups who terrified New York City and New Jersey towns a year ago by their bold efforts. Big Crowd at Gunnison Show. Gunnison.—The Cattlemen's show at this place has proved bigger and better than ever this year and fully 5,000 attended each day, which consisted of bucking, racing, relay and novelty races, as well as ball games and many other sports. The weather was ideal. This show covered four days. Mystery Surrounds Man's Death. Pueblo.—The coroner is seeking to unravel the mystery which surrounds the death of Richard Leo Lewis, 18 employed as a section hand for the Santa Fe railroad. His body was found lying between the wheels of a heavy freight train in the yards here. Colonel Elwood Evans Found Dead Pueblo.-Col. Elwood Evans, commander of the famous negro regiment which took part in the battle of Carrizal, Mex., two years ago, and detailed by the War Department to superintend the inspection of all Colorado National Guard prior to federalization, was found dead in the bathroom of his apartment here. He died from apoplexy superinduced by heart disease. Col. Evans came to Pueblo to begin the first inspection of the Second regiment stationed at the fair grounds. The Curtis Park Floral Company FLORAL DESIGNS PUT UP WHILE YOU WAIT CHOICE PLANTS AND CUT FLOWERS CONSTANTLY ON HAND GREENHOUSES: Thirty-Fourth and Curtis Streets TELEPHONE, MAIN 1511 DENVER, COLO Sales Daily at 2 p.m. Office Furniture a Specialty. PRIVATE SALES AT ALL TIMES HAVE MOVED TO— 1723-39 GLENARM ST. PHONE MAIN 1875. THE BEST ICE CREAM AND CANDIES AT O.P. BAUR & CO. CATERERS AND CONFECTIONERS Phone: 168 1512 Curtis Street, Denver, Colo. JOSEPH CARTER Express, Moving, and Storage COAL AND WOOD PROMPT DELIVERY. 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At your service day out meals on orders. Rooms can be rent at very moderate prices. Services Guaranteed by the Mo Call and Be Convi SPACIOUS AND WELL-VENTILATED ROOMS Meals at all hours. At your service day and night. We also send out meals on orders. Rooms can be rented by day, week or month at very moderate prices. THE PEARL BARE THE PEARL BARBER SHOP 1021 19th Street First-Class Tonsorial Artists in attendance. licit your patronage. First-Class work guaranteed. Prop. DENVER, CO WAY SHOE REPAIRING We solicit your patronage. First-Class work guaranteed. THE NEW WAY SHOE REPA C. C. DENNIS, Prop. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Phone Main 3737. 1855 Champa St. Denver, Colo. HENRY SC WHOLESALE CIG Smoke Submarine, Ford, Judge Good, Ka CHARLES LAMB 308 KITTREDGE BUILDING CUT DOWN THE COST OF LIVING BY TRADING STORE THAT Follow the Many Frugal Shoppers son's, Corner 15th and L n Guaranteed. Main 3737. Denver, Colo. HENRY SCHOEN WHOLESALE CIGARS Line, Ford, Judge Good, Kaiserhoff or El Omica Cigars LAMB PHONE SOUTH 4405 W. E BUILDING DENVER, COLORADO DOWN THE COST OF BING BY TRADING AT THE STORE THAT UNDERSELLS Many Frugal Shoppers Who Go to Michael- n's, Corner 15th and Larimer Streets. Smoke Submarine, Ford, Judge Good, Kaiserhoff or El Omica Cigars CHARLES LAMB PHONE SOUTH 4405 W. 308 KITTREDGE BUILDING DENVER, COLORADO DOWN THE COST OF LIVING BY TRADING AT THE STORE THAT UNDERSELLS DOWN THE COST OF LIVING BY TRADING AT THE STORE THAT UNDERSELLS Follow the Many Frugal Shoppers Who Go to Michaelson's, Corner 15th and Larimer Streets. If you are from out-of-town, and come to Denver to do shopping, you can save the cost of your trip and you can save more. Just now Michaelson Bros. are closing out their low shoes and all their summer footwear, and there is a chance to buy footwear for the family at lower prices than your home dealer pays the maker. The Men's Suit Sale is on, and $7.50 will buy a good Kool Cloth Suit, Palm Beach and such other cool materials as mohair and pin stripe and so forth; $11 buys Men's and Young Men's All-Wool Suits that would cost the dealer today much more at wholesale. Boys' Wash Suits for 65c, Men's $1 Union Suits for 48c, Men's $3 Straw Hats for $1.35, and much more that should make this store your shopping place. The second floor is devoted to women's goods, Women's and Misses' Suits, Coats, Dresses, Waists—and sale or no sale, rest assured you can always save much money here. --- --- 0 A Fruit Bowl PHONE MAIN 5011 HARRY JONES, Prop. DENVER, COLORADO. AIR GROWER perful Hair Dressing and Grower LOOK! Hotel ET Furniture IMS We also send week or month oyes SON, Manager DENVER, COLO EN Omica Cigars H 4405 W. R, COLORADO THE ERSELLS to Michael- tits. stripe and so forth; $11 buys Men's and Young Men's All-Wool Suits that would cost the dealer today much more at wholesale. Boys' Wash Suits for 65c, Men's $1 Union Suits for 48c, Men's $3 Straw Hats for $1.35, and much more that should make this store your shopping place. The second floor is devoted to women's goods, Women's and Misses' Suits, Coats, Dresses, Waists—and sale or no sale, rest assured you can always save much money here. --- THINK DIFFERENT NOW I have lived in the State of Illinois for a great many years and have felt proud to live in a state where I have felt that all men are free and equal regardless of race or creed, but since such things as those happened in East St. Louis, myself and many others think different, while the good and intelligent people of Illinois sit still and as quiet as a sheep before its shearer, and a lamb before the slaughter, dumb and open not their mouths. Where are the white Christian ministers of Illinois and other places? Do they dare speak for humanity sake? Not that they have so much love for the Negro, but they should speak for the sake of Christianity, but no, they say as Piolate said of the Lord "We find no fault in Him but take Him away and do what you will." We have just read in the papers where the President appeals to the American people to enlist in this great war for humanity sake. If that be true, we wonder what the President thinks of the happenings in East St. Louis? Does he not regard those poor defenseless Americans as human? Well they are, and the very same kind that are guarding the President's home in Washington and all government buildings in the National Capitol. While the black soldiers are doing this, their wives, daughters and friends in East St. Louis should at least be protected by the authorities. Why send soldiers to protect the black man with orders not to shoot. I wonder if the black soldiers at Washington have the same orders—NO. These conditions can not and will not last always and some day the American white man will relish the wrongs that he has done to his truest and best friend—the American Negro. History repeats itself, and the Ruler of the Universe has said "Ethiopia shall stretch forth her hands," so I say to my black brothers don't get discouraged for behind the dark clouds the sun still shines. J. SPENCER Chicago, Ill. UNSKILLED LABORER EXAMINA- TION—BOTH MEN AND WOMEN. Date of examination, until August 8, 1917. Age, not less than 20 years and not more than 50 years of age. Duties of the men are those of a common laborer or workman and those of the women those of charmoman, such as sweeping, cleaning, dusting, etc. Applications may be filed at any time and should be filed before the time limit of August 8, 1917. Application blanks and further in- formation may be had of Charles L. Hincke, Local Secretary, U. S. Civil Service Board of Examiners, Denver Postoffice. Salary: Men, $50 per month; women $25 per month. Thanking you, if you will kindly run this through one of your issues. Respectfully, CHAS. L. HINCKE, Local Secretary. Proof of Nervous Condition. Proct of Nervous Condition. The most valuable study for ascertaining the condition of the nervous system lies, not in the voluntary so much as in the automatic or involuntary action of the nerves and muscles controlling vision. A blow on the eye makes it "see stars" because the nerves react upon the center of vision, and the force of the blow is like the stimulation of rays of light. The action and interaction of the nerves and muscles are the surest possible indications to the physician of the nervous condition of a patient, and through these he may often diagnose nervous diseases of great importance before they would otherwise be listinguishable. Curse of Modern Life To eat what you like, and all you like, may be a merry life, but it will be a short one. The curse of modern life is overfeeding.—Dr. Frank Crane. About Glue. Glue may be made waterproof by soaking it in water till it becomes liquid and then adding painters' oil. Keep it in a warm place till the remaining water has evaporated. "The Master Fortune Builder" That is Why Fortunes are Bei That is Why Fortunes are Being Made and Will Be Made in Oil Incorporated under the laws of the State of Colorado with an authorized capital of 10,000,000 shares. Fully paid and non-assessable. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS HENRY L. HOLKENBRINK, Denver, President. Vice President and Manager of the Guaranty Securities Co. HOWARD KLUGH, Vice President. President of State Mercantile Bank. H. A. CALVERT, Secretary. Prominent Denver Attorney. E. G. HECKENDORF, Treasurer. Business man; 30 years with large mercantile firm. JOHN W. McGEE, Geologist and Field Manager. 15 years in oil fields of Oklahoma. E. E. SARCHET, Director. Successful Corporation Attorney. The officers are bankers and business men of high standing and reputation for business honesty and integrity, and could not afford to be associated with any proposition that was not substantial. No salaries except to our Field Manager. MR. McGEE, our Geologist and Field Man homa, famous not only for its quality of its wells. CONTRACTS ARE LET FOR DIE DRILLER IS NOW MOVING ON OUR 5 SAS. FORTY-NINE PRODUCING WE Do You Realize that Stock May Soon Be Now 2 You can pay in five ins and Field Manager, located the fam- ily only for its big gushers but also s. LET FOR DRILLING OUR FIRST BAG ON OUR 597-ACRE TRACT IN DEDUCING WELLS WITHIN A RAIL e that the pon Be ... $2 2c. while allotr y in five installments or 5 per co MR. McGEE, our Geologist and Field Manager, located the famous Bald Hill Pool in Oklahoma, famous not only for its big gushers but also for the staying and lasting quality of its wells. CONTRACTS ARE LET FOR DRILLING OUR FIRST TWO WELLS. THE DRILLER IS NOW MOVING ON OUR 597-ACRE TRACT IN BURDON COUNTY, KANSAS. FORTY-NINE PRODUCING WELLS WITHIN A RADIUS OF EIGHT MILES. Now 2c. while the allotment lasts You can pay in five installments or 5 per cent off for cash. Cut This Coupon Out and Use It Today. SECURITIES FINANCE & INVESTMENT CO., 329 Foster Building, Denver, Colo. Enclosed find $.....to apply as (part) (whole) payment on.....shares of stock in THE CAPITOL PETROLEUM CO. Name..... Address... STORE CO GORHAM, REX OR HECLA WI CONDITIONS—Shortage of cars and shortage of mine NOW THE OTHER SIDE ating more hours; more train coal for training camps and viously furnished by European duction and increased demand are sure to go higher. It will tion of obtaining some kind of GORHAM, REX OR HECLA WI The Rocky M COAL ECLA WILL NOT SLACK NS—Shortage of men for all kinds of mine equipment. OTHER SIDE—More factories open; more trains running; the goverrns camps and ships and coal shipped by European countries. This means increased demand. You can guess the higher. It will not be a question of some kind of coal. ECLA WILL NOT SLACK Rocky Mountain STORE COAL NOW GORHAM, REX OR HECLA WILL NOT SLACK IN YOUR BASEMENT CONDITIONS—Shortage of men for all kinds of work, shortage of cars and shortage of mine equipment. NOW THE OTHER SIDE—More factories operating and operating more hours; more trains running; the government needs more coal for training camps and ships and coal shipped to markets previously furnished by European countries. This means decreased production and increased demand. You can guess the answer—Prices are sure to go higher. It will not be a question of prices, but a question of obtaining some kind of coal. GORHAM, REX OR HECLA WILL NOT SLACK IN YOUR BASEMENT Tabor Opera House --- OIL From Newspapers "$15-a-week stenographer made a fortune on $100." "Kansas City man invests $2,000 and sells part of his holdings for $5,000,000." "$100 invested in Pinol Oil Co. brought $10,800." "$100 invested in Imperial Oil Co. brought $4,500." "$100 invested in Lucile Oil Co. brought $16,500." "$100 invested in Central Oil Co. brought $45,000." Do you know that oil investments offer the greatest chance for wealth the people of the United States have ever had? Do you know that more people will be made independent and happy by investing in oil this year than ever before? Will you be one of them? We are offering you a chance. Main 4040 From the Navies of the world comes the cry for more Gasoline and Fuel Oil. From the vast army of business and pleasure automobiles comes the cry for more Gasoline. biles comes. From the Farmers of all countries comes the cry for more line and Motor Fuel to drive the Tractors. more Gasoline and Motor Fuel to drive the Truckers. From the Battling Armies of Europe comes the cry for more Gasoline. From our own dear Uncle Sam comes the cry for "More Gasoline." located the famous Bald Hill Pool in Okla- gushers but also for the staying and lasting ING OUR FIRST TWO WELLS. THE SURE TRACT IN BURDON COUNTY, KAN- WITHIN A RADIUS OF EIGHT MILES. e. $2.00 per Share while the allotment lasts ents or 5 per cent off for cash. Make All Remittances to The Securities Finance & Investment Company And Mail Same to Fred S. Burton, 1837 Arapahoe St., Denver, Colo. OAL NOW NOT SLACK IN YOUR BASEMENT en for all kinds of work, shortage ment. more factories operating and oper- ning; the government needs more and coal shipped to markets pre- tries. This means decreased pro- you can guess the answer—Prices e a question of prices, but a ques- OT SLACK IN YOUR BASEMENT mountain Fuel Co., --- --- Fortunes Waiting "There is now a greater consumption of oil than is being produced. Unless new producing fields are developed to increase the supply this year, we will face a shortage of over 50,000,000 barrels." — Francis S. Peabody to the Senate Committee, June 15, 1917. Ever, individual may "Do His Bit" by assisting in producing more oil, and at the same time perhaps make his fortune. That means you! There is a chance for everyone to share in this prosperity who will take it when it is offered to him. The most conservative Bankers and Business Men are awakening to the unique strength of the oil industry and the extraordinary prospects for large profits, and are investing whatever they can spare, be it much or little. Fiscal Agents 1010 16th St.