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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 HOW TO HELP WIN THE WAR Plans Outlined by the U. S. Food Administration Meeting With General Approval and People Everywhere Falling in Line VOL. XXIV. HOW TO WIN Plans Outlined by the U Meeting With Genera Everywhere I Washington, D. C.—"What can I do to assist in this great struggle into which our country has been forced?" is the question being asked by Negroes all over this country, for while there are thousands of them who have passed the age limit for army service, yet their loyalty, their love for country, and their patriotism force them to strive to do something. Through the weekly papers of the race throughout the country the United States food administration is attempting to answer this question and show each individual what can be done in this direction—how to help to win the war, for win we must. Our soldiers who are to do the fighting must be fed and clothed, and the feeding of the American soldiers is up to the United States. Not only must we feed our own, but we must feed the soldiers of the allies, and we are now trying to make the supply equal to the demand. The food shortage in Europe forces the peoples of Europe to look to us for foodstuffs, and we must supply it. To accomplish this, we must have the co-operation of every American citizen in the matter of conservation of food. It is hoped that every family, every man, woman and child of our race will enter into this work, and study well the information which is being sent to them by the food administration, free of charge. There is no doubt that food is the deciding factor in this war. Then let us furnish food and back it up with money and men—men who are true Americans, men who are not afraid to die, men who will fight for the right. Our country is reverently dedicating to the battle of free government the lives of some of our best young men. Not white men alone, nor black men alone, but men—young men of both races, white and black. With hearts full of love for freedom and democracy, and tears of love for their boys flowing down their cheeks, our mothers are giving to their country their sons. These young men, strong and vigorous, are willing to spill every drop of blood coursing through their veins, as did their fathers when called upon in every conflict in which our country has been engaged. When these young men are out on the battlefield or in the trenches, it becomes our duty to see that they are fed. Our allies must have more food than they can raise, and to them we must send more than we can really spare. Looking forward to doing this we must make a change in our daily habits, a change that can easily be made and must be made. It must be recognized that we are one solid America—not white Americans, nor black Americans, but all Americans. We have all been happy together, and now come the hardships of war. Can we suffer together, if need be? Can we go to the battle with a solid front? Within our race we must unite—unite our local, state and national organizations, for it is through these that we must carry to all of our people information about the national need of conservation of food. Our women must do their part. They must willingly give their signatures to the United States food administration pledge. If you are at the head of an organization, or even a member, whether it be local, state or federal, see to it that Prof. A. U. Craig, United States food administration, is put in touch with your organization at once and literature will be sent to it. Let us look at some of the things we can do in the direction outlined. We can help to win the war and to furnish the necessary food by changing our diet, by seeing to it that there is no waste in our kitchens, in our dining rooms and through our garbage cans. We must cut down on our dishes. That is, we must not have so many courses at our homes, and cook only what can be used at a meal, and if there be any left over, use it in another meal. Have fewer banquets and big spreads. There must be common economical living until after this war. Use less sugar, less wheat flour, less bacon and the like, and make your meals as far as possible from the things produced in your own garden, or in the community where you live. This will help, and the request is due to the increasing necessity of using our transportation system for supplies connected with the war. By this the usual transfer of foodstuffs between different sections of the country has been interrupted, and this puts upon every family the patriotic necessity of increasing as far as feasible the use of foodstuff produced locally. Use your local vegetables and fruits, those from nearby sources rather than those transported from long distances. Use what you have rather than buy something. Make what you have last as long as possible. We may have a surplus of perishable material as the result of our home gardens. Let us adjust our eating habits so as to utilize this present crop. The plans outlined by the food administration are meeting with general approval and people everywhere are falling in line. We must not be behind, for whatever concerns one concerns all. Make feeding yourself a study, keeping ever before you the men in the trenches and their needs. In this you are helping to win the war. The Kansas African Methodist Episcopal conference, in session in Coffeyville, Kan., September 28th, adopted the following resolutions: "We place on record our full confidence in Herbert Hoover and his associates and fully indorse the general program of food administration. "We pledge ourselves to co-operate to the fullest possible extent with the food administration by the reading of any and all bulletins or any other printed matter sent to us and to our people from our pulpits for the instruction of our people. "We pledge ourselves to preach spe- DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 1917 State Hist. & Nat Hist Soc State House Table Negro Paper ADO E JOURNAL DENVER, COLORADO, SA cial sermons from time to time on the conservation of food, and to keep our people posted as far as possible on the war conditions. "We give our approval and hearty indorsement to the appointment of Charles Stewart at the head of a publicity bureau in the food administration, and believe that he will at the head of the department for weekly papers give to our people full information and instructions, and will do his duty in keeping us informed." The conference was presided over by Bishop H. Blanton Parks, D.D., of Chicago. Texans Adds Another Page To Dark History Some of Best White Citizens of Harris County Lynch Bert Smith. Houston, Texas, Oct. 12. Eight hundred oil-field workers - whites, Mexicans, Germans and Italians - employed at Goose Creek, a suburb of this city, seized Bert Smith, a member of the Race, and brutally hung him to a tree and riddled his body with bullets and horribly mutilated it with sledge-hammers and butcher knives after cutting it down. Smith was accused of committing an outrage (?) on his employer's wife. Smith, who was employed as cook on the oil reservation, made complaint to the head of his camp concerning the indecent remarks that were recited to his sister and mother, who came to see him occasionally, and pointed out several men who had annoyed them. A crowd of white hyenas were standing nearby and heard Smith's complaint, and it is claimed that a henious crime against Smith and his relatives was hatched by this bunch. A week later Smith's sister was on her way from Houston to the camp at Goose Creek, and was seen approaching by three white brutes, who secluded themselves behind some shrubbery. When the girl passed they leaped out, gagged and bound her, and carried the body into the woods, and the three in turn committed outrages on her. After satisfying their beastly natures they stripped the girl of her blood-stained garments and hung them over her head on the limb of a tree. She was found late in the afternoon by several small boys who were out berry picking. The day following one of the men came near Smith and said, "Hey, nigger, did you see that ugly black wench they picked up in the woods yistidy?" and also uttered other horrible phrases concerning the outrage that would not look good in print. In the midst of these remarks Smith dealt this dirty white man a visious blow that felled him. The argument was closely watched by a number of oil drillers, who immediately attacked Smith and placed a rope around his neck, hammered his mouth in with a sledge and pierced his body with sharp instruments, and then forced a 10-year-old white lad who carried water around the camp to take a large butcher knife and unsex him. Smith who was still alive, uttered several prayers and begged that all his feelings be taken from him. He was dragged down the main thoroughfare near the camp houses and viewed by women, some of whom it is rumored, were expecting child-birth. It is also claimed that the treatment was of such an atrocious nature that the severe shock of it caused one of the women to give birth to a child while standing on the door-steps of her home. She was spirited away to a nearby town for medical aid. When the news reached Houston a sheriff's posse gathered and started for the scene. The lynchers had good time to suspend the body from a tree and make their way into quarters in order to patch up a miserable crime against Smith in order to deceive the law (?). They met the posse near the roadside and informed them that Smith had ravished a white woman, and threatened to kill her husband. In spite of this lie, fifteen were placed under arrest and placed under $2,000 bonds each.—Chicago Defender. NEGRO REGIMENT TAKES Bisbee, Ariz., Oct. 16.—Twelve hundred and ninety-eight enlisted men of Negro cavalry stationed at Fort Huachuca have subscribed $130,350 to the second Liberty loan, according to a statement made this afternoon by Captain Dixon of the regiment. This figure amounts to an average per capita subscription of $100.42. Four troops are on border patrol, and have not reported in full. HOWARD TO FURNISH U. S. ARMY WITH SHOE POLISH Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 12.—A. C. Howard, shoe polish king and formerly a Chicago business man, has recently been awarded the contract to furnish the United States army with shoe polish and various other requisites pertaining to the upkeep of footwear. Mr. Howard's manufacturing plant consists of two brick buildings of five floors each and an annex at 21-23 Fulton street. His exhibits won the first prize at the Paris exposition, 1900, and also at the Jamestown exposition, 1907. Mr. Howard has been advised to offer the public shares in his industry, and those interested should communicate with F. H. Gilbert, 21-23 Fulton street, Brooklyn. Mr. Howard has paid over $100,000 to race men and women since establishing his business. RACE NEWS Shreveport, La.—A record breaking price of $1.50 per hundred pounds, nearly three times the usual price in past seasons, is being paid by some planters in north Louisiana, particularly in the Monroe section, for cotton picking. Dr. Anson P. Phelphs Stokes, secretary of Yale University, has been chosen principal of Hampton Normal Agricultural Institute to succeed the late Dr. H. B. Frissell. This is a very important post and great care has been taken in the selection of a man to fill it. Hampton is to be congratulated on securing the services of Dr. Stokes, for he is a man of proven ability and will guide this institution along the successful path mapped out by his predecessor. Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 15. Six hundred seventy-eight Negroes who have been in training four months at Fort Des Moines officers' training camp, received their commissions in the national army today. One hundred sixty were commissioned captains, 320 first lieutenants, and 198 second lieutenants. These new officers will command the seventeenth division of the national army, which is composed entirely of Negroes. Among the men graduated today are non-commissioned officers of the various Negro regiments of the regular army, many of them veterans of the Spanish-American war. Hamilton, Ont., Can., Oct. 12. Manager Wall of the Temple Theatre and Manager Louden of the Grand theater, two horribly prejudiced southern business men of Hamilton, have openly declared they will not permit Colored people in the orchestra circle or balcony of their respective theaters. A short while ago Manager O'Neil, manager of Hamilton's million-dollar Royal Connaught hotel, stated that if a Race man came to his hotel, wished a room he was welcome. Every other place of business in the city caters to Race people, and these two arrogant so-called business men should be made to realize that this is Canada, and not the ignorant southland. Recently a very respectable lady and her child were refused admittance to the Temple, while low caste Germans, Austrians and Bulgarians are catered to willingly. Is it possible that red- NO 9 blooded Canadian Race men can stand this in their country, where they claim equality? NEGRO SELECTIVES WARMLY WELCOMED AT ATLANTA Atlanta, Georgia. Some parts of the South may be opposed to the Negro Soldier, but Atlanta located in the South, gave as warm and as cordial a welcome to the Negro draft men as it did to its White draft men when they began to arrive last week. The Atlanta Constitution calls attention on its first page to the arrangements made for the reception of the colored men, and to the camp activities for their enjoyment which are being organized. The Constitution says that these camp activities for colored men will vary in no way from those organized for the white selectmen. Every effort will be made to minimize friction and misunderstanding. JACK JOHNSON WOULD "DO BIT." American Army Headquarters in France, Oct. 4.—(Delayed.) —Jack Johnson, former heavyweight champion of the world, is eager to fight in the trenches, box for the Red Cross or do anything possible to help win the war for the United States and the allies. This word was received here today from Madrid, where the former champion is staying: "Maybe I am getting a little too old, but I ain't as old as Colonel Roosevelt, Hindenburg and others. I think I can still put away a few 'Fritzies.'" Johnson's white wife is reported to have left him. Despite reports that he is financially broke, Johnson dines daily and extravagantly at the Palace hotel, often accompanied, according to the report, by two or three Spanish beauties. He has given up his attempt to become a tooreador and announced that he is running an advertising agency with offices in Madrid and Barcelona. The exact source of his income is unknown. 91 NEGRO SOLDIERS TAKEN TO PRISON AT FORT BLISS Fort Bliss, Texas, Oct. 18.—Ninety-one Negro soldiers of the Twenty-fourth United States infantry were brought here today and placed in the prison stockade. Sixty-nine were held on charges of participating in the Houston, Texas, rioting, and twenty-two were held as witnesses. They were brought here from New Mexico under a heavy guard of troops. There are 143 in the stockade now under the same charges. NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS ```markdown ``` THE 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 Germans continue to force Russian retreat in region about Riga. The Mouth-Piece of the People of Colorado and the Entire West Dutch shipping to England stopped pending adjusting of differences between two nations. Five officers and fifty-one men were lost when the mercantile cruiser Champagne was sunk. Vice Admiral von Capelle, the German minister of marine, has resigned, according to the Frankfurter Zeitung. Two hundred and fifty lives were lost when the steamer Medie was torpedoed Sept. 23 in the western Mediterranean. Holland, in defiance of Britain's request to stop shipments to aid the Germans in Belgium, has stopped all shipments to England. The Baltic fleet has issued a statement that it may be expected to do its full duty in attempting to block the advance of the enemy. Violent artillery fighting has been resumed on the Bainsizza plateau, over which the Italians conducted their recent offensive operations. ARELIABLE chronicle of their doings and progress; a faithful mirror of their wants, their hopes, their best aspirations. A report that the British steamships Memphian, of 6,305 tons gross, and the Bostonian, 5,200 tons, formerly the Cambrian, had been sunk, reached New York. According to news from Berlin an undated dispatch received by the admiralty by wireless press, Germany is expected shortly to declare the coasts of the United States, Canada and Cuba war zones. Paris reports the repulse of several German attacks around Verdun. On the Alsine the artillery fighting was less intense, but the fighting on the right bank of the river Thearl was especially severe. The islands of Runo and Abro in the Gulf of Riga have been captured by the Germans. The landing forces on Oesel island have been reinforced and the Teutons have begun an offensive with the object of taking the Russian batteries at Serel. THE COLORADO STATESMAN Arensburg, the capital of Oesel island, was captured by the Germans, and airplanes joined in the Teuton campaign on the Riga coast. German warships attempted to go between Oesel and Dago islands, but when the Russian ships drew up to give battle the German vessels retired. WESTERN Bandits under Julio Acosta killed eight Mexican cowboys near Sauz station. At Marquette, Mich., convicts at the state prison subscribed for $3,450 worth of the Liberty Loan bonds. Unequaled as an advertising medium for the business of professional men and women. At Fort Dodge, Iowa, A. W. Paige, 35, shot and killed his former fiancee, Margaret E. Johnson, 32, a stenographer, and then killed himself. Twelve hundred and ninety-eight enlisted men of negro cavalry station at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., have subscribed $130,350 to the second Liberty Loan. Thousands of cattle and hogs perished in a fire which broke out in Kansas City stockyards Tuesday morning, destroying ten acres of cattle pens and hog houses. A sheriff's posse is on the trail of bandits, who held up a Western Pacific train en route from Salt Lake to Gold Hill, Nev., robbed the passengers and wounded Charles Barber of Salt Lake, who attempted resistance. WASHINGTON An excellent family journal speaking to and for many thousand colored citizens. Two deaths from disease among the American expeditionary forces were reported to the Navy Department by Gen. Pershing. With fourteen working days gone and only ten more to come, Liberty Bond sales were believed by treasury officials to have touched the $1,000, 900,000 mark. TWODOLLARSAYEAR In the face of a strike of coal miners in Illinois and threatened "strikes in Southwest districts, Fuel Administrator Garfield dispatched a vigorous telegram to labor leaders in districts affected emphatically declaring that "strikes must not occur." The government's latest offer of certificates of indebtedness of $300,000,000 at 4 per cent has been heavily oversubscribed. Six months in the workhouse, the heaviest sentence ever imposed on White House suffrage pickets, was imposed on four women by Judge Mullowney in Police Court. Hearings in the La Follette investigation were ended by the Wisconsin senator's refusal to prove his alleged disloyal statements at St. Paul until they were shown to be false by his accusers. FOREIGN The Finnish diet has been called to meet on Nov. 1. Germany has extended military service to men 47 years of age. Oct. 24th has been set aside as a special subscription day for Liberty Loan bonds in Havana. A demonstration in favor of neutrality was held at Buenos Aires, Germans and Spaniards participating. A military conference was held at main headquarters near Petrograd, at which Premier Kerensky presided. Mata Hari, the Dutch dancer and adventures, who two months ago was found guilty by a court-martial on a charge of espionage, was shot at Paris. British airmen in their recent attack on the Belgian town of Roulers caused the destruction of an arsenal in which was quartered a newly arrived German regiment. Two German torpedoboats were sunk and two damaged, and one Russian torpedoboat sunk in an engagement Sunday in Soela sound, north of Oesel island. One American was killed and a second seriously wounded by shell fire from a German submarine against their boats as they were leaving a torpedoed steamer, it was announced in London. The London Board of Trade figures for September show an increase of £8,859,000 in imports and a decrease of £23,000 in exports. Imports of grain increased £2,500,000 but meat and drink decreased £5,000,000. The Germans are removing the French, particularly the women, from Lille, Roubaix, Touroing, Croix and surrounding places to work for them. Only women without children and young girls are now being selected. The Russian provisional government has postponed the opening of the preliminary parliament from Oct. 19th to 20th. Premier Kerensky, who has recovered sufficiently from his recent indisposition to travel, has returned to Petrograd and will open the parliament. The Swedish foreign office has received the German reply to its inquiry regarding the action of Count Karl von Luxburg while he was German minister to Argentine, in sending messages through the Swedish legation regarding the "sinking without trace" of Argentinian vessels. SPORTING NEWS Tom Longboat, the famous Indian marathon runner, has been killed in action in France. Lee Morrissey and Young Gilbert battled six rounds to a draw for the championship of the intermountain country before the Manhattan Club at Salt Lake. Receipts for the six world's championship games total: Attendance, 186,654; receipts, $425,878; National Commission's share, $42,587.80; each club's share, $115,200.81; players' share, $152,888.58; the White Sox will divide $91,733.15; the Giants' players will divide $61,155.43. The Chicago Americans are the world's baseball champions of 1917. They scored their fourth and deciding victory over the New York Giants Monday afternoon, 4 to 2. Saturday they defeated the New York Giants, 8 to 5, after the Giants had won the two games played in New York, 2 to 0, and 5 to 0. The Sox won the first two games played in Chicago, 2 to 1 and 7 to 2. GENERAL Liberty loan bond sale coming in slow. Quick work is urged. A munitition factory near New York sounded an urgent call for 300 women laborers. At Marshfield, Mo., Claude Piersol was found guilty of kidnapping Lloyd Keet by a jury and sentenced to thirty-five years' imprisonment. Increases in wages which ultimately will amount to $8,000,000 a year were announced by the Curtiss Airplane Corporation of Buffalo, N. Y. With an estimated majority of 30,000 to 35,000 Iowa voters decided to prohibit the manufacture and sale of liquor in this state by constitutional amendment. Soldiers of the American expeditionary force cabled the Liberty Loan Committee of the Philadelphia district subscribing $50,000 to the second Liberty Loan. There are 19,345 elk in the three principal bands in Montana—Gardiner, Gallatin and Madison—according to the report of the federal government, received by State Game Warden DeHart. On account of the shortage of man power, due to war conditions, women soon will be installed as subway guards during the rush hours by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, it was announced in New York. Announcement by John Wanamaker that he and his son, Rodman Wanamaker, would each subscribe $1,250,000 to the second Liberty loan through the emergency aid, gave impetus to the women's carpaign in Philadelphia. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National Woman Suffrage Party, will lead the woman's parade in New York, planned for Oct. 27th, under the auspices of the New York state organization of the party. Women marching directly behind Mrs. Catt will bear the flags of the nations with which the United States is allied in the war. The war is costing the belligerent nations of the world at the rate of $160,000,000 a day—$6,500,000 an hour—and the United States is paying at least one-quarter of this sum. BIG INCREASE IN CROPS COLORADO WILL PRODUCE 1,230, 000 BARRELS OF APPLES. Predict Gain in Corn, Oats, Barley, Potatoes and Sugar Beets, in State—Wheat Yield Leans. Denver.—With Colorado's apple crop nearly 500,000 barrels greater this year than last year, despite a shortage in the entire country of over 8,500,000 barrels, the orchardists of the state are jubilant over the prospects for a fine return for their efforts. This information of the big apple crop is contained in the October crop report of the government, along with figures pertaining to Colorado and the nation. Potatoes in the state this year will amount to 9,140,000 bushels, against 6,900,000 bushels last year. A plentiful supply of this great staple is thus assured, especially with other figures from the nation at large showing an increase in the potato crop of 167,563,000 bushels. Crop conditions throughout the country on Oct. 1st were given as follows in the government report: Corn, 75.9 per cent of the normal; buckwheat, 74.8; white potatoes, 79; sweet potatoes, 93.2; flax, 51.3; rice, 79.7; tobacco, 87.8; suar beets, 89.7. Colorado's crops for this and last year are shown in the following table: SANTA FE ENGINE EXPLODES. Three Denver Men Killed and Two Hurt as Engine Blows Up. Denver.—Three men were instantly killed and two injured when a giant Mikado engine of the Santa Fé railroad, hauling a freight train south, blew up at the Orsa block house, twenty-seven miles south of Denver, Tuesday morning, throwing wreckage over a radius of 700 feet and causing big property damage. Lack of water in the boiler caused the terrific explosion, railroad men agree. Coming without warning, the explosion threw the thirty-ton boiler 150 feet ahead, dropping it into a ditch, a demolished heap of metal fit only for scrap iron. The engineer and brakeman were hurled back 250 feet, the crumpled bodies of the two men alighting within ten feet of each other, one between the tracks and the other at the side of the right of way. The Dead—Gus H. Clink, 38, engineer, Denver; F. F. Root, 30, fireman, Denver, and John Milnes, 39, brakeman. The Injured—Richard Bell, 30, fireman, of Walsenburg, compound fracture of arm, and J. J. Hertnecky, student fireman; arm broken. Big Peach Crop Moved and Sold. Denver.—The Colorado peach crop has been moved and the gross profit to Mesa, Delta and Montrose county orchardists is $1,366,980. These figures are furnished by the Public Utilities Commission of Colorado, which has worked diligently to arrange for the shipping of this most perishable crop. It is the first to be completely harvested and sold. From the Grand valley a total of 1,038 cars of peaches were shipped on all roads and 735 cars were hauled by the Denver & Rio Grande from the North Fork and Montrose districts. State Levy Fixed at 3.12 Mills. Denver.—Colorado citizens will pay taxes on a total assessed valuation of $1,309,788,903, at the rate of 3.12 mills, according to figures announced by the State Board of Equalization, consisting of the governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer and attorney general, which gat as a body to pass on the levies as fixed by the State Tax Commission. Man Killed as Tire Explodes. Paonia.—Jesse Chapman, 19, garageman, was killed when the tire of his automobile blew up and threw him over a seventy-five-foot embankment into an irrigation ditch below. The car turned over three times and landed on top of him, pinning him underneath. He is survived by his father, mother and four sisters. Denver Wins Water Bond Suit. Denver.—The United States Supreme Court sustained the Circuit Court of Appeals decision in favor of the city in the suit of the Denver Union Water Company attacking the validity of the $8,000,000 bond issue of the city for a municipal water plant. "Liberty Loan Day" Legal Holiday. Denver.—a proclamation making Oct. 24 "Liberty Loan Day," a legal holiday in Colorado, will be issued by Governor Gunter. Similar steps are being taken by the governors of all other states. Women Join in Liberty Parade. Denver.—The opening gun of Denver's Liberty Loan campaign was fired Monday night when former Congressman Claud Weaver of Oklahoma, in a burst of fervid oratory, defined the cause of the world war, reviewed the accomplishments of the national administration in preparing for the part this country is taking, and urged that it is not what a nation gains but what it gives that makes it great. Tuesday more than 2,500 women participated in the big Liberty Loan parade. Western Newspaper Union News Service. COMING EVENTS. Oct. 25-27—Annual Flower Show at Auditorium in Denver. Palisade fruit shipments, to date total 768 cars. Herd of elk in mountains near Rye growing larger. The Denver blind have decided to initiate their pension bill. Beet digging has started at many places on the western slope. Mesa Verde National Park had 2,169 visitors and tourists this season. Saguache county's contribution to the American Red Cross was $3,820. J. Vaught Sickman, Denver attorney, was run down and killed by autoist. Burglars stole $150 from a trunk in the home of J. W. Manis, of Denver. Sixteen messenger boys in Denver went out on strike, but later returned to work. Pueblo county farmers are taking keen interest in every move to regulate prices. Four persons were injured and as many machines smashed in two auto crashes in Denver. Nearly a million and a half raised in Denver on opening day of drive for Liberty Loan funds. The golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah D. Lago was celebrated in Pueblo. The foundation has been completed for the new church at Wetmore, to be built of concrete blocks. Samuel Newell, a farmer of near Ault, is being sued by his father, who is 85 years old, for $4,339.98. The barn on the C. G. Green ranch on Fourmile creek, near Glenwood Springs, was destroyed by fire. Colorado citizens will pay taxes on a total assessed valuation of $1,309,788,903, at the rate of 3.12 mills. The contract for building the new Hyle bridge over the Platte river east of Greeley will be awarded for $41,415.67. Colorado enlistments in the regular army since the recruiting campaign started April 1st, have reached a total of 2,021. The Denver Trades and Labor Assembly ovted to purchase a $500 Liberty bond at a meeting held in Denver Sunday. Colorado Springs' allotment of Liberty bonds, as nearly as can be determined without official notification, will be nearly $1,000,000. The $8,000,000 bonds voted by the city of Denver for the construction of a municipal water plant were declared valid by the United States Supreme Court. Lodge of Pythian Sisters was organized at Rocky Ford by Mrs. Nolan of Pueblo, grand excellent chief. About 60 persons were initiated in the new society. William R. (Buck) Seay, acquitted of murder in the West Side Court, where he was tried for taking the life of Edward C. Green, left Denver for Lebanon, Tenn., his old home. Funeral services for Harry B. Mulnix, son of Harry E. Mulnix, former state treasurer, who died after an illness of nearly a year, were held from the Elks' home in Denver. Three men were killed and two injured when the boiler of a freight locomotive on the Santa Fé railway exploded at Orsa, a small station near Castle Rock, forty miles south of Denver. Stockholders of the Dry Climate Tire Company who met at Arvada, placed themselves on record as favoring the plan for placing the affairs of the company in the hands of three trustees for five years. The food conservation committee that will map out plans for the pledge card drive in Denver county during the week beginning Oct. 28th, was selected by Ralph W. Smith, food administrator for Denver county. Mayor Speer of Denver has been asked to attend the annual convention in St. Louis of the American Civic Association, Oct. 22nd to 24th, and speak on municipal improvements and the need of keeping these improvements during the period of the war. W. E. Hough, 40 years old, a "hobo" who has all the earmarks of an I. W. W. agitator, is in the Windsor jail charged with firing eighteen tons of hay on the Dr. George Nelson ranch situated five blocks from the business center of Windsor and of attempting to fire the Nelson barn which is within 400 feet of the destroyed haystack. If a proclamation issued by Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, state superintendent of public instruction, succeeds in its purpose, all Colorado schools will observe each week a "Patriotic Hour." NEW ACT PUT INTO EFFECT AS « WAR MOVE BY PRESIDENT’S PROCLAMATION. Authority for Enforcement {s Delegat- ed to Several Government De- partments and to the War Trade Boards, ‘Western Newspaper Union News Service, Washington—President Wilsor Monday issued the regulations for the trading with the enemy act. ‘They constitute the most far-reaching con trol of every phase of intercourse be tween the United States and the rest of the world. They give legal force to every move of the United States in casting about Germany an economic barrier which will compel her intc submission, Not only do the new regulation: Provide for cutting off trade between the United States and Germany, but they do the fo"owing: Ct off trade with Germany's at es. Cut off trade with those who dc trade with either Germany or her al Hes. Provide custodians for all enemy property in the United States, Spcial Licenses To Be Required. Require special licenses for trade or intercourse with any enemy or al- ly of an enemy within the United States. Authorize the secretary of the treas. ury to investigate and supervise all foreign exchange and prevent its working to the advantage to the en- emy. Empower the secretary of the treas: ury to stop the taking from or into the United States of any communica. tion other than by mail, telegraph, cable or wireless Officially create a censorship board, consisting of representatives of the secretaries of war and of the navy, postmaster general, war trade board and committee on public information to censor mail, cable, radio and other means of communication. Authorize the Federal Trade Com- mission to keep secret any patents that may be developed for the interest of the United States and to provide for working in the United States un- der patents held by enemies or allies of the enemy. Right to Censor Foreign Papers. Vest in the postmaster general the authority to censor foreign language publications. Charge the secretary of state with control over the entry into and egress from the United States of enemies or allies of the enemy. Authorize the s2cretary of com- merce to hear appeals from refusals of custom officers to grant clearance papers to vessels. Charge the attorney general with the enforcement of the criminal sec- Uons of the trading with the enemy act. Empower the President to regulate imports as well as exports. ‘It is in the definition of “enemy” and “ally of enemy” that the regula- tions will be of importance to every citizen of the United States. In an official’ statement accompanying the regulations, this is said of the defin- itions: “It 1s highly important that every citizen of the United States should promptly familiarize himself with these definitions, for his own protec- tion and for the loyal support of the government in its efforts to wage the war to a successful conclusion.” Enemy Defined in Full Detail. ‘These are the definitions: “Any person, of no matter what na- tionality, who ‘resides within the ter- ritory of the German empire, or the territory of any of its allies, or the territory occupied by any of their mil- ftary forces, is expressly made an ‘en- emy’.or an ‘ally of the enemy.’” Thus those American citizens who have remained within these territor- U. S. Jury Indicts Liquor Runners. © Pueblo—A number of indictments were returned by the federal grand Pueblo.—A number of indictments were returned by the federal grand jury which has been in session here for more than a week past. Included in the number were several based on charges of violation of the Reed amendment prohibiting the shipment of liquor into a state where its sale is not allowed, one against Enos P. Schell of Denver for alleged embez- zlement at the Denver mint, and one against Walter Lang, a Ute Indlan, upon a charge of stealing a govern- ment check by forging his thumb- mark. Germany's Wheat Yield Below Normal. London.—The press association, from a reliable source, publishes an economic review of the condition of the central powers, in the course of which it says that as a resvit of a special investigation ordered by the German chancellor of the 1917 harvest It is estimated that the yield will be 40 per cent lower than in normal years for wheat and 45 per cent lower for rye, oats and barley. The total harvest of wheat and rye amounts td ee Onion Output Double 1916 Crop. Washington.— Enormous increases in production of fall onions, cabbage and beans over last year are shown In estimates announced by the Depart- ment of Agriculture. Fall enion pro- duction is forecast at 13,554,150 bush- els, compared with 7,832,700 last year. The acreage this year is 41,300 against 88,400 last year. Production of cab- bages is forecast at 691,920 tons, com- pared with 252,310 tons last year. The acreage is 73,200 against 40,800 last year. Almost double the ouantity of fos are nevertheless enemies for the purpose of these regulations, “Any person, no matter where resid ing or of what nationality, who 1s do ing business within these territortet is made an enemy or an ally of ay enemy. This, of course, applies wit) special force to the border neutrals and it 1s this definition that will giv great force to the embargo. “Any person who there 1s reason able or its allies is an enemy or as ally of an enemy, no matter where lo cated.” Not only is it made unlawful te trade with the persons and firms de fined above, but it {s unlawful to trad with: “Any person who there {8 reason cause to believe is acting for or ox ‘account of, for the benefit of an en emy or an ally of the enemy, whoeve! and wherever they may be.” It is pointed out in the Previtent’s order that in dealing with subjects o Germany who are residents of the Unit ed States it must be remembered that their nationality does not prevent or dinary commercial intercourse with ‘them. The test of their “enmity” ip this law is whether they are trading with or for the benefit of the father land. It is pointed out that they maj be interned under other provisions 0! w. President Defines Trading Minutely “Trading” {s defined minutely as: (A) To pay, satisfy, compromise, or give security for the payment or satisfaction of any debt or obligation (B) To draw, accept, pay, present for acceptance or payment, or indorse ‘any negotiable instrument or ehose in action, (CG) To enter into, carry on, com: ‘plete, or perform any contract, agree ment or obligation. (D) To buy, sell, loan, or extend credit, trade in, deal with, exchange, transmit, transfer, assign or other wise dispose of or receive any form of property. (B) To have any form of business or commercial communication or im tercourse with. To enforce and administer all of these provisions the President creates the War Trade Board. This board for good and sufficient reasons may It cense the trading prohibited generally. It thus will have absolute control of practically every phase of world trade in which Germany or her agents enter or may try to enter. ‘The War Trade Board is the same in personnel as the Exports Admin- istrative Board heretofore operating. Vance McCormick is chairman and represents the secretary of state; the secretary of the treasury has not ap- pointed his representative; Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor represents the Department of Agriculture; Thomas D. Jones rep- resents the secretary of commerce; Beaver White the food administration, and Frank C. Munson the shipping board. Town Burns; 1,000 Sheep Polsoned. Fairplay, Colo—Five hundred of a flock of 5,000 sheep belonging to Har old Chambers of Hartzell were dead in the peng Saturday morning when the herders entered to care for them. Dur. ing the day about 500 more died, and the evidence is that the animals were poisoned, Saturday night, after work- ing all day, the flock masters believed they had overcome the epidemic and will be able to save the others, Mr. Chambers believes that the sheep were poisoned. This is the third loss of the last two weeks, and has caused considerable uneasiness. Friday night Alma, a small mining town near here, was almost destroyed by fire. Two weeks ago the haystacks at a ranch near this city were burned by fire from a cigarette, and the owner be- leves the fire was started with intent to destroy his hay and farm buildings. These three losses are blamed upon a coterle of I. W. W. here, especially as the owner of the farm property be- lieves he has traced the destruction of his hay to one of them, Ireland May Be Chosen Cardinal. Rome.—Another American cardinal —possibly Archbishop Ireland—may be chosen at a consistory which the Agenzia Volta unofficially announces will probably be held late in Novem- ber or in December, 7,500,000 tons, compared to 13,000,000 tons in 1913. President Wilson Issues Proclamation. Washington.—The administration appealed to America in a presidential proclamation to make the second Lib- erty loan even a greater success than the first, which was oversubscribed more than 50 per cent, The presi- ‘dent's proclamation set aside Wednes- day, October 24th, as Liberty day, and asks that patriotic celebrations be held everywhere in the interest of the loan. A half-holiday {s to be granted to all seers of the federal government. WIL Feed Wheat to Livestock. Oklahoma City—Half a_ million bushels of wheat will be fed to live- stock in Oklahoma this fall, it 1s in- dicated by reports received by the State Council of Defense from twenty- three Western counties, In most of the counties an increased acreage of wheat planted is indicated, but no hope is held out that planting will be fur- ther stimulated by an increase of a few cents a bushel possible under néw marketing arrangements. beans is forecast, with a total of 16, 814,000 bushels in the five principal growing states—New York, Michigan, Colorado, New Mexico and California. Golden Company Retains Formula. Golden.—The right to make porce- lain, a suit involving millions and a secret formula, has been given the Herold China and Potters Company of Golden, in which the Coors are in- terested, in a iegal decision in the ‘United States District Court at Colum- bus. Obio. FLEET TRAPPED BY POWERFUL ARMADA AND SLAVS FORCED TO GIVE WAY. GERMANS REFUSE DIVER SERV- ICE AND THROW OFFICER INTO THE SEA. Wentern Newspaper Union News Service, Petrograd, Oct. 19.—A naval battle occurred in the Gulf of Riga between Russian and German battleships, the war office announced. The Russian battleship Slava was sunk. The Slava sank as the result of being hit several times beneath the water line, Nearly all the members of the crew were saved by Russian torpedo boats. Berlin—Ten thousand Russian pris- oners were taken in the German occu- pation of the Island of Oesel, the offi- cial statement announced. Fifty guns were seized and much other material. The Russian nayal forces in the Gulf of Riga have been trapped by the Ger- ‘mans, according to the announcement. ‘It says German nayal units are lying in the eastern portion of Kassar bay, ‘north of Oesel island, and are barring the passage westward, Copenhagen—The Norwegian for- ‘eign office reports that the Norwegian ‘steamship Barbro of 2,356 tons gross, and Hovde, 1,196 tons gross, have been sunk by German submarines. The Barbro was sent to the bottom of the Atlantic, two of her crew being killed, The Hovde was sunk in the Bay of Biscay. A boy was lost in the sinking of this vessel. The remainder of the crew was saved. Amsterdam.—A mutiny among Ger- man sailors at the Belgian port of Os- tend, who refused to go on board sub- marines, is reported by the Belgisch Dagblad. The newspaper says an of- ficer was thrown into the sea and that thirty mutineers were removed in handcuffs to Bruges. Washington. — Official diplomatic dispatches report mutinies in the Aus- trian navy and clashes between Aus- trian steamers and crews of the Ger- man submarine fleet based at Pola, in which officers on both sides have been killed, and which resulted in a dect- sion to change the base of the Ger- man flotilla. A Pacific Port—Officers of a Jap- anese steamer that arrived here from a European port said they saw a Brit- ish destroyer sink a German subma- rine in the Atlantic Aug. 16. The sub- marine had just made an attack on another Japanese freighter, which ar- rived recently with the story of its escape. Three Killed in Boiler Explosion. Cheyenne—Three men were killed when the boiler of the locomotive of a westbound freight train on the Union Pacific exploded a few miles west of Laramie, The dead are: Ed- ward H, Cummings, 35, married; en- gineer. David C. Kendall, 25, single, fireman. Alfred E, Waddell, brake- man, Laramie. McAdoo Boosts Bond Purchases. Denver.—The Liberty Loan cam- paign in Denver was given a tre- mendous impetus Friday with two speeches by Secretary of the Treasury William G. McAdoo. GENERAL WAGE RAISE ASKED. Twenty Per Cent Increase Asked by 200,000 Railroad Men in United States and Canada. Ottawa, Ont., Oct. 19.—Representa- tives of 200,000 organized railroad workers in the northeastern part, of the United States and ‘eastern Canada decided here to recommend to their unions that they demand from their employers wage increases of not less than 20 per cent. The workers in- volved are trainmen, conductors, bag- gagemen and yardmen, The vote in favor of the demand for increased pay was unanimous on the part of 104 chairmen of the Brotherhood of Rail- road Trainmen and the Order of Rail- way Conductors, who have been in ses- sion here for three days. New Mexico Bean Crop 70,000,000 Lbs. Santa Fé.—Reports from county agents to the State Council of Defense show that New Mexico will have a total bean crop this year of over 70,- 000,000 pounds. Union county leads with over 30,000,000. Army Men Invest Over $32,000,000, Washington, Oct. 19.—American sol- diers and the army civilian employés have purchased more than $32,000,000 of Liberty bonds. Of this amount, men in the sixteen National Army camps have subscribed $10,600,000 and those in the fifteen National Guard camps $9,200,000. The National Army soldiers have averaged $24.52 each, while the record of the national guardsmen is $33.36 per capita, and the average for the entire thirty-one camps is $29.97. WOMEN TO AID IN CAMPAIGN BE GINNING OCT, 28TH. County Committeemen to Visit Homes In Effort to Spread Plans for Conservation. Western Newspaper Union News Service, Denyer.—Mothers, sweethearts and wives of Colorado were named by the county committeemen on food conser vation to serve on a committee whose duties will be to visit every home in the state in an effort to bring about the conservation of food. A meeting of county committeemen, in which sixty counties of the state were represented, was held in com junction with the woman's executive committee in Denver for the purpose of formulating plans for the state widg food conservation campaign, ‘The weok beginning Oct. 2ist, set aside by the national food administra tlon for conducting the campaign was postponed a week, following a tele graph message from Herbert C. Hoov- er, stating that President Wilson had requested that the campaign be de layed on account of the issue and sale of the second Liberty bond issue. The President did not desire another na tlonal campaign to interfere with the work of selling the bonds. ‘The food campaign will not be start ed until Oct. 28th. Plans adopted pro vide for the appointment of a chair man for each county, and enough as sistants to reach every home in the state. Mothers, wives and sweet hearts of Colorado soldiers will be se lected to serve on these committees. Thefts Traced to Dead Officers. Julius H. Clark, chief bookkeeper in the office of half a score of state treasurers, who ended his life by send ing a bullet into his brain on a lonely ae in Arapahoe county in April, 1915, was short in his accounts not less than $50,000, according to a re port made by experts of the state au ditor’s office, who have been engaged fn an audit of Clark’s books during the last few weeks, The shortage may reach a still greater amount, as the experts have only examined the books for about half the time Clark was employed in the treasurer's office. Pardons Board Frees Two Men. The State Pardons Board paroled two men convicted of murder, denied clemency to six other convicts in the penitentiary, and continued two other cases until future meetings. Carmine Di Domin{co, sentenced from Gunnison county March 26, 1912, to twenty years for the murder of Pietro Delfonso at @ dance, was granted an immediate pardon. Clarence J. Spencer, negro, sentenced from Denver county June 24, 1910, to life imprisonment for the mur. der of his 14-months-old baby, is to be paroled within thirty days. Governor Abie Every Possible Aid. | Governor Gunter will call upon all the state departments when needed to ‘aid Thomas B. Stearns, national food administrator of Colorado, and the na tional coal administrator for Colorado when appointed, in line with the pol- fey of the Colorado Council of De fense to help the national officers for this state in every way possible, This co-operation will be closely linked up with the joint work at Washington between Food Administrator Hoover and Coal Administrator Garfield with the National Council of Defense. Federal Forests Big Food Producers. Government forests for the district embracing Colorado, Wyoming, and South Dakota have contributed a liber- al share toward the nation’s increased food production and conservation, Re ports to the Denver headquarters of the service from rangers of the three states show that 100,000 more sheep and 40,000 more cattle have used the government forests during 1917 than the normal number. The normal for this district is 1,500,000 sheep and 500,- 000 cattle. Urges Investment in Liberty Loan. A resolution urging every loyal Col orado citizen to invest in the Liberty Joan “to the utmost of his ability that Colorado may do her full share to re- fore peace and justice to the world” has been unanimously adopted by the Colorado Council of Defense. It de clares that Colorado must not ask its soldiers to give their lives “unless we at home are willing to make every necessary sacrifice so insignificant in comparison.” Uncle Sam Wants Skilled Men. * Because of the extremely small num. ber of men with trades applying for service with Uncle Sam, the Civil Ser- vice Commission has been instructed t make a special campaign to secure workmen for construction of vessels and aircratt, Estates Pay $297,623.87 In Ten Months Inheritance tax collections for the first ten months of the bfennial period total $297,623.87, according to a state- ment given out by the Attorney Gen- eral. Collections for the last two weeks in September amounted to $4, 493.97, representing thirteen estates. 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Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1c and 2c stamps taken. 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 Tuesdays, if possible, anyway not later than Wednesdays, and bear the signature of the author. No manuscript returned, unless stamps are sent for postage. All communications to a person other than the complimentary will be withheld from the columns of this paper. EMMETT J. SCOTT, TUSKEGEE SECRETARY, APPOINTED WAR ADVISOR. A CITIZEN well deserving of the position of Civilian Advisor to Secretary of War Baker is Emmett J. Scott, with whom we have been in direct contact for over twenty years. This recognition given to a worthy son of the race who in the capacities of private secretary to the late illustrious Booker T. Washington, secretary of Tuskegee Institute, and a champion of everything towards the uplifting of the Negro race, and the solution of the problem in this country, is a proof that at last the administration has hearkened to our appeals for fair play and participation in a representative form in the government of ourselves by qualified agents of us from the 12,000,000 of population. With the numerous incidents occurring since our entry in the war, we could not help from denouncing the course of action of some Americans in authority, who, failing to recognize true citizenship in the Negro element of our country, endeavored and succeeded in bringing their prejudices to operate against justice and fairness; but as time rolled on and the larger, wiser, broader officials could see that this struggle is not racial, is not confined to a master-class, but universal, and therefore consultation from leaders, studious and experienced minds of the different races and classes that compose our population is necessary to a victorious result, Secretary Baker, the Secretary of War, who has the gaze of the American people fixed on him as head of the War Department to help materially as far as in his power lies to bring our country to a successful issue in this great conflict, has in his appointment of three civilian advisors named a distinguished member of our race. We firmly believe that this is hailed with delight by all our people throut out this country, and even beyond the seas, where Mr. Scott has established an enviable reputation in his travels with the late Tuskegee head and celebrated leader, and we are confident that the support to be given the War Department will prove the wisdom of the Secretary by the ability, foresight and strict business methods that characterize the life of this appointee. Having shown marked ability in his help to the National Negro Business League in steering the organization to success, giving us some masterpieces in his sphere as an author for guidance in the development of the race, there is every reason to conclude that Emmett J. Scott will be an invaluable asset along with his associates in Washington, and the results from this well-merited recognition may be the means to the end of other deserving citizens in other spheres of usefulness. Various policies, numerous political parties, different minds, changeable spirits at this time and in this struggle find a unification of forces in the common melting pot—AMERICA, and the privilege of being represented in this focused action inspires us with greater hope. LESLIE'S ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY ON "THE NEGRO." "NEGRO! There is no class of people and no ethical question that will not feel the effects of the war. The Negroes of this country who go to France to fight or who replace workingmen who go as soldiers, will demand, and justly so, full American rights. The United States cannot stand before the world as the champion of freedom and democracy and continue to burn men alive or lynch them without fair trial. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People calls upon this country to "clear her conscience before she can fight for the world's good," by abolishing lynching and ceasing all oppression of Negroes. This is a national problem, more particularly one of the South. In Europe there are practically no race distinctions. A Negro can mix with white folks as an equal, just as a Spaniard, for example, does here. Even intermarriage is not regarded as miscegenation. The race problem here is a different matter, however, as even the more intelligent Negroes themselves will acknowledge. The Negro should be assured all the protection and rights that go with American citizenship, but in this is not involved intermarriage or social equality." The above article from the pen of John A. Sleicher, editor of Leslie's Newspaper, again proves our contention that however much the AMERICAN WHITE MAN likes to be fair and to say a word in favor of the treatment to us as citizens and against oppression or wrong doing, he has imbedded in the depth of his soul the CREATIVE INFERIORITY of the Negro, and he can not, therefore, conclude an oral expression or an article from his pen without the disjunctive BUT, and this is why it will take, and it must take, such a struggle as the world is passing thru to purge this haughty individual from his lofty position of falsity, and his fixed mental equator that he prescribes in his unchristian and unwholesome difference that he makes between man and his fellow man. What intelligent Negroes in this country will acknowledge that the problem of the race is different here to elsewhere? There is not a single work from any of our Negro authors, educationists or sociologists, that ventures to acknowledge much more to emphasize the vast difference as this editor would have us believe. Why try to place the proposition of the camel going thru the needle's eye? Why strain at a gnat and swallow a camel? Has the editor forgotten that every white American can trace his ancestry to some European or Asiatic source, and of his ancestors have solved the problem, hasn't he in this day and generation something to follow in the present solution? The harping on the INTERMARRIAGE AND SOCIAL EQUALITY topics is actually worn out, and the real thoughtful white man, when he carefully reflects upon the code of moral ethics? he gives to America—Black and White, he ought to be ashamed to use this hobby-horse in this enlightened Twentieth Century—"All rights for the Negro but not intermarriage or social equality." No wonder the Japanese, the Chinese, the Mexican feel their superiority over us, as they are entertained in marriage and otherwise socially, and therefore the white man's "into-my-arms" blessing is evidenced with them, in striking contrast with the "out-of-my-sight" curse with us. It surely would be a greater problem than the Negro's, if after the termination of hostilities a problem of the YELLOW RACE confronts America, and her guests at present become the dominating factor, where would their exclusiveness in marriage and social equality be? THE COLORADO STATESMAN, proud of its race, is not asking for special rights as one of the organs of the Negro, only pure and untarnished Americanism, and if there's LESLIE'S BUT in it, he can keep and use it for himself and friends, and his further sympathy may be better unsaid or unwritten. We anticipate a glorious victory for our country in this great universal conflict, and with the results we also hope such a purifying of humanity will have taken place that racial differences will be with the buried past and a proof of CREATIVE EQUALITY so fill the hearts of men that the common FRATERNITY OF HUMANITY will be established ending this racial separation. War Must Go On Until Liberties of the Future Are Guaranteed By Senator P. J. McCumber of North Dakota C. L. H. H. We cannot, we must not, emerge from this conflict until the great nations of the earth have entered into binding and solemn international obligation, signed and sealed by each of them, defining and proclaiming the inherent and inalienable rights of every nation, great and small—the right of each to live and work out its own destiny, free from the shadow of impending war or the danger of annihilation by some mighty military neighbor; and that no nation shall rob a weaker nation of its territory; that it shall not murder its people; that it shall not deprive another of its independence or infringe upon its sovereign rights. We must provide for a court in which every international dispute must be settled and obliging the world-family of nations to jointly enforce the decrees of such a court. and thereby forever prevent the recurrence of such a holacust of blood as now incarmines Europe. Unless this war is fought to such a finish, this conflict will have been worse than in vain. Unless we are prepared to fight it to this finish, we have committed a grievous crime against humanity and our own people in ever entering it. We are battling for the liberty and happiness of future generations. This generation is suffering that the next may live under the reign of peace and justice. If we allow this war to close leaving the situation just as it was before the war, then we can rest assured that the same causes will bring about the same result, and that our children must meet that which we were unable, through inability or lack of courage, to settle. That we must not do. Military Training Benefit to Youth in Time of Peace as Well as in War By William Wrigley, Jr., of Chicago As the world is constituted, and has been through thousands of years of strife, there is only one safe plan, and that is to follow the advice of Washington—in time of peace prepare for war. If we had done this a few years ago, we would have saved billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives. It is common knowledge in military circles that trained men, by knowing how to take care of themselves in camp and in the field, reduce the mortality and casualties at least two-thirds, and, what is even more vital, men of special training only can be used in modern warfare. Nationally we need a little foresight, a keener appreciation of the necessity for providing for future contingencies. We cut ice in the coldest sort of weather when nobody wants ice, for we know it will be demanded a few months later; so we prepare in midwinter for our comforts during the heated period of summer. The plan of universal military training as outlined in the Chamberlain bill would make available at all times millions of young men who have had sufficient military training to enable them to become excellent soldiers with a few weeks of additional training. This would safeguard the nation and prepare it against any contingency that would probably arise, and if one should never arise, the training and discipline would be the very best experience that any young man could have. It would make him stronger physically, more alert mentally, quicker to see and to act. Also, it would increase his earning capacity and give him a better chance to win success in his life work. Our boys appreciate this. I think the majority of them would be glad to take the training. Since the boys may at any time be called upon to defend our country and our flag, we owe it to them to provide them with a careful pretraining so that they may perform this important national function both efficiently and as safely as possible. All the Burden of Food Conservation Should Not Rest Upon the Housewife The average American man can do much toward stopping food waste and irrational eating. All the burden and blame does not rest on the housewife. Many wives are willing to make or buy conservation bread, but the husbands laugh and refuse to eat it. Many wives try to substitute vegetable protein for animal protein, but the husband demands meat. He likes to see plenty of food on the table and then to heap up the plates, expand his chest and say, "What a good fellow am I." Wouldn't it be better to ask for a second helping rather than have any waste at all? Does the average man know what he should eat? What is a balanced ration? Does he eat soup, roast, gravy, potatoes, beans macaroni, bread, butter, pie, cheese, crackers and coffee? Man must be educated on the food subject, but oftentimes his habits are ingrained and so the best the intelligent housewife can do is to begin with the children and teach them to eat just enough good, plain, wholesome food, to eat the right combinations and to refrain from spoiling good food so that it must be thrown away. "Business as Usual" Not Good Slogan for United States in This Great War The sooner the public gets over the idea that we want "business as usual," or can have "business as usual" during this great war, the better for all. We want to stop all unnecessary work and unnecessary expenditures short off, and concentrate on the immense volume of work which has to be done. Business men should get rid of any foolish fears that economy will bring on a general paralysis of industry or trade. The country should immediately awake to the fact that it has a great task in hand, and that it cannot carry on a war like this with one hand and continue to do all the business it did before with the other. 1,000 BARREL WELL Just reported brought in, makes the Lost Soldier Field one of the greatest ever discovered in this country. $350.000.00 Cash Paid for the Funk and Bair property proves the real value of our holdings, because Our Lost Soldier Leases join this property, which has just been sold for this fabulous price, on two sides—the north and the west. Well No.1 Is rapidly being driven to the known oil sands and our driller reports more oil showings as work progresses. The next 100 feet should see this one come in. Well No. 2 Is financed now and the site selected, and the machinery will be moved on to it and the drill started as soon as No. 1 is in. Is now spudded in on our 160-acre lease in 9-26-90, and will be pushed to completion as rapidly as money, brains and human energy can accomplish it. Our Big Muddy Lease Is hourly being proven and when you stop to consider the price of the stock of our neighbors—The Midwest, The Merritt, The Big Bear, The Equality and many others—you will agree that these conditions warrant an Advance Oct. 31 At midnight of $10.00 per 1,000 shares, and if Well No. 1 should prove as god as the 1,000-barrel well just reported, then a Would not be unreasonable. Our allotment of stock at Is rapidly being consumed. Stock fully paid and non-assessable. WIRE YOUR RESERVATIONS. SEND MONEY ORDER. THE DIAMOND OIL CO. 623-24 Cooper Bldg. Denver, Colo. JAMES HESSEL, Secretary, 623-624 Cooper Bldg, Denver, Colo. I want.....shares of Diamond Oil Co. stock, fully paid and non-assessable, at 2 cents per share. Here is $.....for same, paid in full. (If purchasing on the monthly payment plan, fill out the balance.) I agree to pay the balance in three payments, one in 30, one in 60 and one in 90 days, amounting to $.....each payment. Send stock certificate to Name..... Address..... Every Effort of This Company Is Directed Toward the Production of Oil With over 7,000 acres in eight of the best proven fields of Wyoming, and 200 acres in Montgomery County, Kansas, this company has now in the course of erection equipments on their Wind River and Salt Creek property, Bonanza and Big Hollow. Drilling will be commenced during present month and will constitute the developments of this company during the coming winter in Wyoming. We have two producing wells and well number three now being drilled on, own our rig and sufficient casing for four more wells and expect to bring these all in before the first of December on our Kansas property. This company is organized for the purpose of oil production and every effort is made for that end, not in the accumulation of lands to be held and sold later. Our whole aim is to provide dividends for our shareholders. A Limited Amount of Shares NOW OFFERED AT ... 15c THE HEATON OIL & REFINING COMPANY Denver 325-326 Commonwealth Bldg. Colorado SPECIAL SALES AND LECTURE ROOM, 1637 CURTIS STREET. MR. AYERS IN CHARGE. Michaelson's CORNER 15TH AND LARIMER STS. Our entire second floor is devoted to Ladies' and Misses' Ready to Wear Coats, Dresses, Suits and Children's Coats and Dresses And this is a guarantee to save you money—because you know this store is run under much smaller expenses and is satisfied with much smaller profit. Drop in, if only to convince yourself. THE COLORADO STATESMAN Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Graves, prominent citizens of Boulder, spent Monday in the city on business. The Statesman office was visited by this worthy and affable couple. by assembling and giving our soldier who are 'drafted a great GOOD HOPE TO SEE YOU AGAIN! a C speed and the best wishes for the responsible duty and the success to will attend their efforts. Never m Mrs. Hattie White, who has been residing in Los Angeles for several months, arrived in the city Monday. After visiting in the city a few days she departed for Topeka, her erstwhile home. A very pretty home wedding between Mr. Fred Watkins and Mrs. Sarah Jones Raines was solemnized by the Rev. A. M. Ward in the presence of many friends of the contracting parties at the residence of the bride, 2337 Glenarm place, Wednesday evening. The bride was attended by Miss Minnie O. Barber and Mr. Joseph Mackey was best man. Mr. Charles Blackwell, beloved husband of Mrs. Etta Blackwell of 4136 Wolff street, and brother of John and Emmet Blackwell, also of this city, died on Thursday, October 11th, at Chicago, Ill. He was once a resident of Denver and was a carpenter and contractor. Kansas City papers please copy. Don't forget the big Hallowe'en celebration which will be given at Fern Hall, Oct. 31st. Morgan Jackson's five-piece orchestra will furnish the music. Rev. J. D. Rice, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rice, of 2514 Washington street, and brother of Rice and Rice, confectioners, spent a few days here visiting his parents, relatives and friends. He is the present incumbent of Mount Olive M. E. church, Topeka, Kan., and reports progress among the people in general and success in his efforts in the upbuilding of the cause of Christianity. The reverend gentleman will be remembered for his help in the services of Scott M. E. church of this city, when he was in the theological seminary some years ago, his parents being ardent supporters of the work. He preached to fairly large congregations. Gordon at Scott church He preached to fairly large congregations last Sunday at Scott church. The Securities Finance and Investment Company announces a very successful campaign in placing the first issue of the stock of the Capitol Petroleum Company. Indications are that after the reports are all in the allotment will be greatly over-subscribed. The company is planning on big developments and the stockholders may expect to hear pleasing news from time to time. Don't forget the big Hallowe'en celebration which will be given at Fern Hall, Oct. 31st. Morgan Jackson's five-piece orchestra will furnish the music. Augustus Dyer, popular resident of this city for nearly thirty years, left last Tuesday for New York, to be in the service of Mrs. John Campion, widow of the late John Campion, wealthy mining man and vice president of the Denver National Bank. "Gus," as he is popularly called, has been in the service of the Campion family for twenty-two years as butler and valet, having traveled extensively with them, and now that Mrs. Campion resolves to reside in New York for the benefit of her children, who are being further educated, she feels that the role of agreeableness would be filled to have her old employee with her once more. Gus has been found faithful and true to his trust and we hope climatic conditions being favorable to him may result in such happy relations that Mrs. Dyer may soon join him in acquiring eastern experience. Mr. Dyer is a member of Shorter A. M. E. church for several years, being a staunch and liberal supporter of the same, also a member of Rocky Mountain Lodge of Masons, No. 4. He was well thought of in the community and will be very much missed. The Colorado Statesman wishes him The Colorado Statesman God speed and good luck. Colorado's seventy Negroes certified for military service under the conscription law will entrain for Camp Funston October 27th, Provost Marshal Evans announced today. Previous orders were to the effect that Negroes from this state would receive training at Camp Dodge, Iowa, the Negro camp. Denver will send fourteen Negroes and Pueblo's contingent is twenty-four, the remaining twenty-nine being from other counties in the state. Men and women, fathers and mothers, show your true patriotic spirit by assembling and giving our soldiers who are 'drafted a great GOODBY, HOPE TO SEE YOU AGAIN! a God speed and the best wishes for their responsible duty and the success that will attend their efforts. Never mind questioning the likes or dislikes of the war or the righteousness and unrighteousness—just do your little part when they are ready to entrain next Saturday, October 27th, by offering some gift that will prove your spirit, your whole soul accompanies them to the front. It would serve an admirable purpose if either Fern hall or Old Colony hall could be gotten for a few hours and short addresses by our ministers and laymen made and light refreshments served, and a distribution of books, pamphlets, newspapers and knickknacks given our soldiers out of our generosity. Think the matter over and line up. Attorney E. P. Blakemore has returned to the city after successfully winding up his business in Wichita, Kan. His former clients expressed their regrets to lose his valuable services and wished him every success in his new sphere, feeling Denver will have quite an acquisition to its legal fraternity. Office of the attorney is to be found Arapahoe building, rooms 39-40. Mrs. Blakemore hopes to be here within a few weeks. JOSLIN DRY GOODS COMPANY. "A GOOD PLACE TO TRADE." The ever-popular dry goods store that caters to every class of the community by having the goods in season to meet the requirementst of the public. In their advertisement in this issue, another emphatic declaration is made of the long-established custom of moderate prices for the choicest goods. Customers and patrons are asked to kindly accept our usual invitation once more. THE CALL! THE CRY!! THE RESPONSE!!! The Call: Awake to your sense of duty and foster race pride, race development, race success by remembering the paper that gives you all the news year in and year out. The Cry: We need every dollar you owe us, and the sending of bills do not add to your expense, but increases our burden. Will you come to our rescue by paying some portion if you cannot pay the whole at once? The Response: Mail to us, Box 116, Denver postoffice, or call at our office, 1824 Curtis Street, Room 25, between 8 a. m. and 5 p. m., or kindly receive our collector and do the needful for which accept our thanks. JOSEPH ABRAHAM HUBBARD LAID TO REST IN FAIRMOUNT The funeral service of Joseph Abra ham Hubbard was held in Shorter Chapel, African M. E. church, on Sunday at 2 o'clock in the presence of a large gathering of friends. There were many beautiful and varied floral tributes which evidenced the esteem in which the young man was held. Rev. C. A. Williams, pastor of the church, delivered the sermon. Mr. Oscar Smith, baritone soloist, rendered, with great effect, "Face to Face." Mrs. Ollie Elliott led in singing "Just Lean Upon the Arms of Jesus." The choir, under leadership of Mrs. Jennie Lenoir, sang favorite songs. Other ministers who took part were the Rev. A. M. Ward, Rev. D. E. Over, Rev. A. E. Reynolds and the Rev. G. Sterling Sawyer of Campbell chapel, African M. E., Zion Baptist, Bethlehem Baptist and Scott M. E. churches, respectively. The pallbearers were Messrs. Oglesvie Lawson, James Byrd, Hugh Smith, George Morrison, Charles McCain and Roger Smith. The interment was in Fairmount, where rest the bodies of the father, Rev James H. Hubbard, and three brothers. Those surviving are three sisters and one brother—Mesdames Ida Williamson, Esther Morris of Denver, Emma Gordon and the Rev. E. T. Hubbard of California. Mr. Hubbard was a musician of ability and had composed and published much music. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere thanks to our many friends and to the ministers of the different churches of the city for the beautiful floral offerings and kind sympathy extended during the sickness and death of our beloved brother. MRS. IDA J. WILLIAMSON. MRS. ESTHER H. MORRIS. FUNERAL NOTICE. Douglass Undertaking Company. PORTER—Cy Porter, age 28 years, residence 1818 Arapahoe street, departed this life Wednesday, October 17th. Funeral notice later. IN MEMORIAM. In loving memory of Captain Silas Johnson of Denver Fire Department, who after more than a quarter of a century's faithful service, passed away October 15. 1916. A true friend—one of nature's noble men. His gentle voice no more we hear Nor see his smiling face. J. H. DONIPHAN. The Joslin Dry Goods Co. "A Good Place to Trade" EVERYTHING new—a storeful of brand new autumn goods, and an accommodating, alert sales service to back up the goods. You'll find it so when you come to the store—It may be only a small item from the Notion Section that you want, or it may be a towel from the Linen Section, or it may be a luxurious fur coat or a rich Oriental rug, or just a small item from the Jewelry Section—whatever it is, you'll surely find it among all these bright new autumn stocks, and whether you want to buy or not, it will be shown to you with a smile. It's "A Good Place to Trade." "A Good Place to Trade." If you want a new piece of Neckwear, our new assortment at $1.00 will please you. Georgette Collars, satin and lace combined, Net Stocks, Tuxedo Rolls, Satin Collars-at the Joslin Neckwear Counter, choice $1. "A Good Place to Trade." If you want a pretty new rhinestone Brooch or Bar Pin, certainly you'll stop and see the new line in our Jewelry Section at $1.25—Rhinestone Rings at $3.00. "A Good Place to Trade." If you want a big, thick, thirsty Bath Towel, we are selling an especially good one in the Joslin Towel Section at 29c. "A Good Place to Trade." If you are going to a Halloween party, then this new Halloween Cloth will be what you will want for making your costume; comes in bright red, yellow, green and black, at 15c a yard. Phone Main 3270 TUKREY DINNER TURKEY Cab Rates. 2 pass .50c addi- pass .25c radius .50c lon'1 mle.25c Motto: "N sure." Cash Rates Pa $1.50 to Phone Main 6699 ean Auto Live CAB LANDULET AND 7-PASSENGER 1917 STAND: NIGHT AND DAY CAFE Taxicab Rates. Depot, 1 or 2 pass...50c Depot, each addi- tional pass...25c One mile radius...50c Each addition'1 mile.25c Phone Main 6699 Bean Auto TAXICAB LANDULET AND 7-PASS STAND: NIGHT AND DAY 919 Nineteenth St. When You The Heads, Feet The Neckbones or Chi any other part of the the squeal, go to East's Mark When You W Heads, Feet Tails, Sn kbones or Chitlerings other part of the hog ex squeal, go to It's Market Pho When You Want The Heads, Feet Tails, Snouts Neckbones or Chitlerings, or any other part of the hog except the squeal, go to 2300-6 Larimer Street --- THE Joslin DRY GOODS CO. Every Sunday from 12 to 6 p.m. at the Night & Day Cafe 919--19th St. Denver, Colorado "A Good Place to Trade." If you want a new Petticoat, ask to see our Heatherbloom Top Petticoat with silk taffeta flounce, a very popular seller. Price $3.95. Looks as Good as Silk—Wears Longer "A Good Place to Trade." If you want a good warm flannel Middy, come in heavy navy blue flannel with white braid trimming, sizes for women and misses, $3.98. "A Good Place to Trade" If you want to buy some Stationery for your own use or to send to your soldier boy, our white "Vernon" Linen in new shape, in a very attractive box, is selling special at the Joslin Stationery Counter at 25c a box. "A Good Place to Trade." If you want something to keep baby warm and cozy, ask to see our White Sets, with pink and blue embroidery, which consist of all-wool sweater, cap and bootees, at $2.95. Try Joslin's First OF THE SEASON GIVEN BY THE Special Moonlight Hoot Owl Dance. Ice Cream and Cake Free. Also well cooked Chitterlings Free. Come Early Dance Late. BILLY KNIGHT, Mgr TOM GROSS Floor Mgr Admission 25c HENRY SCHOEN Smoke Submarine, Ford, Judge Good, Kaiserhoff or El Omica Cigars CHARLES LAMB 308 KITTREDGE BUILDING PHONE SOUTH 4405 W. DENVER, COLORADO 4 and 5-room brick cottage for rent. Apply W. P. Gibson Realty Agency, 2603 Welton street. Main 5831. For Rent—A modern large front room, all modern conveniences for one or two gentlemen. Apply 1320 Fox St. The HOME BEAUTIFUL Flowers and Shrubbery Their Care and Cultivation Nasturtiums. The Result of Perfect Seeds. COLLECTING FLOWER SEEDS It is desirable to save one's seeds, not only as a matter of economy, but as a means of improving the variety. In a collection of annual plants, all from the same stock of seed, there will be considerable variety presented. Some may vary from the general stock in the size or color of the flower and others in the habit of the plant. These peculiarities are not certain to be reproduced, but the probability is that some of the seeds from such plants will show them; and by following a course of selection one can in a few years establish a variety that will come constantly true from seed. It has been found in practice that though a peculiarity may not show itself very strongly the first year, it will manifest itself the next year if the grower perseveres. It is well to mark those plants, the seeds of which are to be saved, while the plants are in full bloom, and not trust to memory. In a bed of plants from which seeds are to be saved, promiscuously, and when it is desirable to have all one color, those of a different shade from the required, must be pulled out as soon as they show themselves. Some seed pods open with a jerk as soon as ripe and scatter the contents for a distance. Some open by a hole or crack, and as the plant is swayed by the wind the seeds are gradually sifted out. In other cases there is no provision for the scattering of the seeds; but the fruit of seed vessels must decay before they are liberated. It is not necessary to wait until seeds are dead ripe before collecting them. A little experience teaches one to know the point at which it is safe to gather. Those seed vessels which in breaking scatter the seed, should be gathered just before they open, and be allowed to pop under some convenient cover. As soon as the seeds are gathered, put a label with them, and when they are thoroughly dry, clean and store them away. The manner of cleaning seed is varied, according to circumstances, sifting, gently winnowing, rubbing between the hands being resorted to according to the kind of seed. A series of small sizes of mesh will accomplish most of the work. WATER LILIES By L. M. BENNINGTON. No more interesting adjunct to a country estate from a pictorial standpoint can be imagined than a pond of water illies. So far as the planting goes, an easy method is to put the plants with soil in some shallow baskets and sink these to the bottom. Nymphae is a hardy illy and the culture of it is not a problem which presents grave difficulties. Before the baskets have rotted away the plants will have attached themselves to the bottom of the pond. Where there is a rich, muddy bottom to the pond a piece of pipe is fastened to a root and cast in where the water is between 20 inches and two feet deep. While illies thrive in cement tanks which have a foot of soil and the remainder for water, the natural ele- 20 ORCHID Cattleya Edwardi—A New Hybrid Orchid. ment for them is the mud of ponds and lakes. Lilies have certain enemies that have to be reckoned with. Rats, swans and aquatic birds often pull them to pieces. If you are planning a water garden as a means of raising lilies, select a place open to the sun renewed from rough winds by a protection of shrubs or small trees. In artificial pools, prepared soil made of mixing loam with a little sand and some of the rich deposit of leaves and mud found on the bottom of the pools. Try to keep the plants far enough apart to keep them distinct. Some lilies are easily increased from seed, some are sterile and others are slow in germinating. Weeds must be kept under. The beauty of lilies as they gracefully lie upon the surface of the water garden lends a particularly pretty pictorial note to the home garden. Iris Plant Iris in beds in the open as soon as the bulbs are received in the autumn. Protect the beds during the winter months and early in April cover them with glass so as to have the flowers ready for cutting in May. TRY CYCLAMEN Among winter-flowering plants there is nothing more beautiful than the bulbous greenhouse plant, the cyclamen. They come highly recommended for house culture, as they thrive well and bloom profusely in the average temperature of the living room. Their quantitly formed flowers and oddly marked foliage, and their variety of shades and wealth of coloring make them an agreeable adjunct to the list of house plants. BEST GRASS FOR DRY AREAS Brome grass is probably the best of the cultivated grasses to grow in dry areas. When established it will furnish grazing early in the season, not so early as winter rye, but earlier than the native grasses. It will also furnish grazing in the autumn proportionate to the amount of the precipitation. During the entire season, therefore, it should furnish more grazing than the native grasses. ```markdown ``` --- 一 MAY SEE FRANCE IN A FEW MONTHS MEN FROM ONE NATIONAL ARMY CAMP LIKELY TO BE SENT OVER BEFORE LONG. GREET REPORT WITH CHEERS Pershing's Regulars, Trained to Highest Pitch, Probably Will Get Into Action Soon, but in What Sector Has Not Been Revealed. By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington. — Military censorship has not forbidden the publication of a story from one of Uncle Sam's great training camps established for selective service men, to the effect that the chances are the thousands of young men gathered together for the first time in this particular cantonment will be sent to France before the winter is half over. This story, which reaches the public with the tacit approval of the war department, makes it seem certain that the prospects have brightened for the thorough equipment of all our young soldiers at a much earlier date than it was supposed would be the case. the camp concerning which the story of comparatively early departure to France was written is located in Maryland, but there is no reason to suppose that its personnel will be further advanced in their training than will be the case with the young men in the other training places scattered throughout the country. Therefore it would seem that the logical military conclusion is that Uncle Sam's men of the new National army are to go to France much earlier than it was thought would be the case. It is said that when the story of only four months' training on this side instead of the expected six months was spread through the camp, the young soldiers who had been in the service only a few days at best hailed the report with cheers. It still seems true that the spirit of the men of the new army apparently is just as high as that of the regulars and the National Guardsmen. Regulars May Be Fighting Soon. In this connection it can be said that there is a feeling in Washington today that Uncle Sam's regulars now in France probably will be found on the fighting line before the snow begins to bank up about the trenches. It was late in June when report was received on this side of the landing in France of the first large armed body of American troops. Our men in France under Generals Pershing and Sibert started their intensive training back of the lines about July 1. Therefore they now have had three months of seasoning, of bayonet exercises, of trench digging, of bomb throwing and of general instruction along all the lines which the methods of modern warfare travel. The men today are at the highest pitch of their speed and some military men here believe they soon must get action or, like athletes, they will "grow stale." It is the hard military logic of the thing which leads one to say that our soldiers probably will get active fighting service more quickly than most people thought would be the case. No military secret is disclosed when this is written, because the Germans have known that our troops are in France and they, being wise as other nations in a military sense, know that men cannot be kept going at top speed forever in a training way. They must be allowed to see some of the results of their work and so it is believed in Washington that before long we will read a story of an engagement in France in which our troops took part. Their Sector Not Revealed. Nobody on this side knows, and if he did he would not tell, on just what part of the line the American troops now in France will be given their first baptism of fire. The Germans unquestionably would like to know because if they were given en advance notice it is to be taken for granted they would be met by a check if not by actual defeat. The Germans would work for the moral effect as well as for the military effect of the thing. Army officers seemingly wish to have the American people understand that it is a terrible ordenal for troops who never have been under fire to plunge into a battlefield where the fire is certain to be terrific. It takes all the reserve forces that a man has to keep him steady under the conditions. Later when he is seasoned he reckles little, so army officers say, of danger and of the noise and tumult of the battle, but as the old saying goes in the American army, "it takes six months' training and two fights to make a regular." Effects of Lansing's Disclosures. The letters and telegrams in bunches of scores and hundreds which have been coming in to the various departments in Washington attest, so the recipients say, the belief of the people that the disclosures of the secretary of state concerning German intrigue within the borders of this country are bearing fruit in making the American people understand thoroughly that the war must be carried to the end of Hohenzollernism. In fact there are words in these letters and dispatches which make it seem that the country is aroused as never before to the necessity of driving the war to a conclusive end. The administration unquestionably is pleased over the determination which seems to have come to the people to take its view that this really is a war to make the world safe for democracy. The uproar in congress because of the charges made that some of the members were not above suspicion of having profited through their pro-German activities, has not yet died away. It was and probably always will be impossible to prove that any member of congress received money to pay him for what has been called an unpatriotic attitude, but it is easy enough to see as one goes over the record of the past what it was that led one congressman to give voice to his suspicions in the house. Their Fermer Attitude Blamed. Since the United States declared war on Germany the overwhelming majority of senate and house have been staunch in their expressions of anti-Germanism, but the activities of many of the members prior to the entry of the United States into the conflict made it appear that at that time they were sympathetic with Germany in its fight against the nations now the allies of the United States, and therefore it has been hard for some men to believe that those who stood for the German methods in this war can be whole-hearted in their conversion. Senators and representatives are human and a good many of them of course cannot by any kindness be called statesmen. The desire of nearly all of them certainly is to be entirely patriotic, but when patriotism in its pure essence seems to involve the possibility of defeat at the polls at the next election there are senators and representatives who yield to the temptation to hedge in their expressed opinions so that they can be certain to secure the votes in their districts of men of whatever opinion on the war. There are senators and representatives who have been straight for Americanism in the face of seeming danger of defeat when they stand for re-election, and as things have developed in Washington, it now appears that the man who thought of his country first and recked little or nothing of the voting that was to come is more certain to be re-elected than are the men who, as the language of the street hath it, "tried to play both ends against the middle." May Tell Their Names. There is a belief in Washington which amounts almost to conviction that in forthcoming additional disclosures concerning German intrigue in this country Secretary Lansing will give the names of persons in the capital against whom proof of activity in behalf of a foreign power has been secured. The recent publication of the details of plots hatched in the United States before this country declared war against Germany, and before Count von Bernstorff had received his dismissal papers, carried with it the names of some persons and organizations directly connected with the plotmaking. It has been believed in Washington, however, for a long time that Mr. Lansing has in his possession the names of persons in this city who are more than suspected of being carriers of tales and information to Count von Bernstorff at his residence on the Terrace overlooking Massachusetts avenue. One day the secretary of state went so far as to say to a group of men that among those to whom he was talking were several who he knew were acting as instant carriers of information concerning his daily conversations to the German embassy. Washington correspondents knew Secretary Lansing well enough to understand that, cautious as he is under all circumstances, he would not have said what he did unless he had good proof of the truth of his words. It was somewhat later than this that the secretary gave an intimation of the possession of material which, if made public, would convince the American people beyond any kind of a doubt that German agents were seeking to divide this country against itself to the advantage of the kaiser's cause. It is nothing new for Washington to realize that suspicion is directed against certain persons in this capital. There is realization today that perhaps the secretary of state has done a wise thing in spreading out his disclosures concerning German intrigue. He has timed each disclosure so that it would come coincidently with some attempt on the part of Germany to becloud the issues or to secure peace virtually on its own terms. The Von Bernstorff message with its request for a $50,000 fund to influence congress and the Von Igle disclosures came almost simultaneously with the answers of Germany and Austria to the pope's peace proposals. In the days that have elapsed since the disclosure was made there have come additional reasons to make it seem certain that the Von Bernstorff material was given publicity then because the moment was thought to be the right one in which to strike. The Von Bernstorf influences were felt in all ranks of Washington society. After his juniors had been sent away because of their discovered plottings against the good of this country, the ambassador remained here and so far as officialdom was concerned was in good standing because he had not been caught as his juniors had been in the active work of trouble making. During all this time there were men and women in Washington who kept up their intimacy with the German ambassador and who were openly and pronouncedly pro-German in their sentiments. "Do you think Biggins has great intellectual strength?" "He must have," replied Miss Cayenne. "He has himself on his mind all the time; and that is a great burden." Western Beef Co. Open Daily to 8:30 p. m. OF THE MOST UP-TO-DATE AND SAN MARKETS IN THE CITY. Cured Meats of All Kinds. Fresh Vegetable and Fancy Groceries. ONE OF THE MOST MARK Fresh and Cured Meats ONE OF THE MOST UP-TO-DATE AND SANITARY MARKETS IN THE CITY. Fresh and Cured Meats of All Kinds. Fresh Vegetables, Staple and Fancy Groceries. 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WHAT THE GERMANS DO TO HOSPITALS SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO Smoking mass of ruins of the French hospital of Vadelaincourt after it had been destroyed by German aviators with incendiary bombs. A number of helpless wounded soldiers and attendants were killed. HOW TO ADDRESS THE BOYS IN KHAKI Directions for Sending Mail to Men in Service of United States. WHERE CAMPS ARE LOCATED Distribution of Men in the National Guard and the National Army by States-Officers' Train- Washington.—Mail for soldiers on prospective officers in training should be addressed as follows: JOHN SMITH, Company X. — Regiment. Company X, Regiment, American Expeditionary Forces. JOHN SMITH, Company X, R. O. T. C. (Camp in which training) (Town and state; location camp) JOHN SMITH, Company X, —— Regiment, (Name N. G. Concentration Camp) (Town and State). JOHN SMITH, Company X, —— Regiment, (Name N. A. Concentration Camp) (Town and State). Mail for the expeditionary forces will be forwarded by the government with the above address, which will be all that is required in view of the en- forced policy of maintaining the secrecy of the camp location in France. The parenthesis above denoted may be filled in by the following schedule: NATIONAL ARMY CONCENTRA First Division—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut. Eastern Department. Camp Meade, Annapolis Junction, Md. Fourth Division—Southern Pennsylvania. Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va. Camp Letford, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia. Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. J. Third Division—New York State, Northern Pennsylvania. Camp Upton, Yapnank (L. L.), N. Y. Second Division—Metropolitan District of New York. Southeastern Department. Seventh Division—Georgia, Alabama, Florida. Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C. Sixth Division—Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina. Camp Pike, Little Rock, Ark. Twelfth Division—Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi. Central Department. Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich. Tenth Division—Michigan, Wisconsin. Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio. Eighth Division—Ohio, West Virginia. Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa. Thirteenth Division—Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota. Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky. Ninth Division—Indiana, Kentucky. Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kan. Fourteenth Division—Kansas, Missouri, Colorado. Camp Travis, Fort Sam Houston, Tex. Fifteenth Division—Texas, Arizona, New Mexico. Western Department. Camp Lewis, American Lake, Wash. Sixteenth Division — Washington, Montana, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, California, Nevada, Utah. NATIONAL GUARD CONCENTRATION CAMPS ADDRESS AND TROOPS AT STATION. Camp Beauregard, Alexandria, La. Eighteenth Division—Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas. Camp McClellan, Anniston, Ala. Eighth Division—New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia. Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga. Fifth Division—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island. Camp Cody, Deming, N. M. Thirteenth Division — Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota. Camp Sevler, Greenville, S. C. Ninth Division—Tennessee, North Carolina. Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss. Seventeenth Division—Indiana, Kentucky. Camp Logan, Houston, Tex. Twelfth Division—Illinois. Camp Wheeler, Macon, Ga. Tenth Division—Georgia, Alabama, Florida. Camp Kearney, Linda Vista, Cal. Nineteenth Division — California, HELP RAILROADS IN WAR SERVICE Co-operation of Shippers and Traveling Public Contributes to Efficiency. PASSENGER TRAFFIC IS CUT Thousands of Train Crews and Locomotives Thereby Released for Hauling Freight Needed by the Government. Chicago.—Reports just compiled for the railroads' war board indicate that the traveling public in general and the shippers in particular are giving the finest kind of co-operation to the railroads in handling the increased traffic that the war has produced. What this co-operation means may be gleaned from these facts: Since May 1 the railroads, alided by the loyalty and understanding of the public, have been able to reduce their passenger service by approximately 25,000,000 miles. This has released thousands of train crews and locomotives for use in the freight service and cleared thousands of miles of track, thereby facilitating the movement of coal, food products and supplies needed by the government. In addition to the foregoing saving of equipment and trackage, the shippers, big and small, have rallied so splendidly to the slogan. "Make one car do the work of two" that a saving of close to half a million freight cars has been accomplished. This saving of freight cars has enabled the railroads to move approximately 25 per cent more freight since war was declared than during the same period last year. Intensive Loading Helps. Intensive loading and a general increase in the size of the "trade units" used by the various industries has rendered possible the saving of car space. Cotton, for instance, which was formerly moved in units of fifty bales, now moves only in units of 65 and 75. As there are 18,000,000 bales to be moved by rail each season, the increase in the trade unit in this one commodity alone has produced a saving of anywhere from 83,000 to 125,000 cars. Sugar, on which the carload minimum from the South was formerly only 24.000 pounds per car, now moves only on a 60,000-pound carload minimum. The producers of manufactured food products, especially the canners, have also come to a realization of the value of intensive loading and are now loading virtually all of their cars to capacity. Coal, which has been loaded beyond capacity on most lines since the beginning of the war, is also moving freely now, although labor troubles in some parts of the country is tending to counteract the efforts of the railroads to meet the abnormal demand for fuel. During the past month the supply of cars on the "lake coal" lines has been increased 25 per cent and there has Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico. Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, Ala. Sixteenth Division—Ohio, West Virginia. Camp Fremont, Palo Alto, Cal. Twentieth Division — Washington, Oregon, Montann, Idaho, Wyoming, Part North Dakota. Camp Wadsworth, Spartanburg, S. C. Sixth Division—New York. Camp McArthur, Waco, Tex. Eleventh Division—Michigan, Wisconsin. Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, Tex. Fifteenth Division—Texas, Oklahoma. RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CAMPS (R. O. T. C.) Belvoir, Va. (vla Washington, D. C. and boat). Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, Ind. Deon Springs, Tex. (Exp., Boerne). Fort Logan H. Roots, Little Rock, Ark. (P. O., Argenta, Ark.) Madison Barracks, Sackett Harbor, N. Y. Fort McPherson, Georgia. (Exp. and Tel., Atlanta, Ga.) Fort Meyer, Virginia. (Exp., Washington, D. C.). Fort Niagara, Youngstown, N. Y. (Exp. Lewiston, N. Y.). Fort Oglethorpe, Dodge, Ga., (Exp. Rossville). Plattsburg Barracks, Plattsburg, N. Y. Fort Riley, Kansas. San Francisco, Presidio of, San Francisco, Cal. Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Fort Snelling, Minnesota (Exp., Mendota, Minn.). For convenience of our readers in addressing members of the aviation training units we append the following. The address in its entirety may be modeled on the form given in the first paragraph. AERO TRAINING STATIONS. Avla, Near Belleville, Ill.; Columbus, Ohio, Wilbur Wright Field; Dayton, Ohio; Essington, Pa.; Hampton, Va. Langley's Field; Mineola, (L.I.), N. Y., M. Ct. Mcleans, Mich., Selfridge Field; Pensacola, Fla. (P. O., Warrington); Rantoul, Ill., Chanute Field; San Antonio, Texas; San Diego, Cal., North Island. ARMY BALLOON SCHOOL. Fort Omaha, Neb. (P. O., Tel. and Exp., Omaha, Neb.). been some increase in the movement of bituminous coal to the lake ports, but it has not been proportionate to the increased supply of cars, as labor trouble has tended to decrease the mine production. Renewed Efforts Necessary. Renewed Efforts Necessary. Although excellent results have been achieved to date through the co-operation of the shippers, the traveling public and the railroads, it will be necessary for all concerned to exert renewed efforts, as the abnormal demands upon the railroads in the movement of both troops and supplies is constantly increasing, while the securing of new equipment is virtually impossible. From now on 2,500 cars a day will be required by the government to move food and supplies to the men in training at the National army, National Guard and other encampments, while the demand of the allies for cars to carry export goods to the seaports will be practically doubled. All of this additional traffic must be moved by the railroads, although they have only 3 per cent more equipment than they had at this time last year. QUEEN OF SPAIN AND SON Copyright Underwood & Underwood Queen Victoria of Spain has been spending a great deal of time at the summer resort of Sardinero with her children, who, like all youngsters of their age, heartily enjoyed the opportunity to romp on the sands, wade and swim in the water. The photo shows her with one of her sons, little Prince Gonzalo, on the sands. The young prince is dressed ready for a dip. This photo is the most recent taken of the queen and has just arrived in this country. The king of Spain is often mentioned as a possible peace maker. No Frills on Her Overalls. Logansport, Ind.-The first woman employee at the railroad shops to don overalls at her work is Miss Mary Johnson, who is employed in the oilroom. There are no frills on the overalls, as they are regular blue ones with white stripes. Miss Johnson says the overalls are more comfortable than dresses and that she will continue to wear them. LEADERS OF RED CROSS WORK TOUR CITIES OF WEST Meet Representatives of Local Chapters and the General Public. TELL HOW BIG FUND IS USED Washington.—At the request of the Red Cross war council, Henry P. Davison, chairman of the council, and Harry D. Gibson, general manager of the American Red Cross, have undertaken a tour through the West, in the course of which they will visit points at which division managers of the Red Cross have been stationed. The purpose of the trip is to meet with representatives of Red Cross chapters, also with those who have contributed to Red Cross funds and with the public generally. It is also the purpose of the war council to render an account of its stewardship, to interest the people in the work of the Red Cross and to let the public know just how the $100,000,000 war fund is being utilized. Beginning at St. Louis October 22, the schedule for the trip called for large meetings to be held successively at Denver, San Francisco, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago and Cleveland. Purpose of the Trip. In announcing the purpose of the trip, Mr. Davison authorized the following statement: "With the division of the United States into thirteen districts, each hended by a successful business man serving this country through the Red Cross during the war, the Red Cross organization in this country is now complete. Also special Red Cross missions, made up of competent and sympathetic American citizens have now arrived and are at work on behalf of the American_ Red Cross in France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Roumania and Serbia. "Collections to the war fund of the Red Cross up to October 1 amounted to $64,424,232.90, of which $6,269,566.57 has been refunded to chapters to provide for their own Red Cross activities. Up to that time the war council had appropriated from the war fund $25,090,870.41. The Red Cross membership has just become more than four million. Included in that membership are hundreds of thousands of American women who are knitting, making surgical dressings and comfort kits. The Red Cross war council is seeking to render an account of its stewardship to the American people in the most effective manner possible. It is giving frequent announcements of its activities and every fact concerning the work of the Red Cross is available to everybody. We now wish to go a step further and give a detailed account of our stewardship, as well as to advise with Red Cross workers and supporters throughout the country as to Red Cross policy and methods. We have felt that this could best be done by appearing face to face before audiences of representative citizens, telling the Red Cross story, answering questions, and ourselves gaining a more complete knowledge of public sentiment. Would Inform Public. "We are extremely anxious that the people at large should be fully informed as to the methods and policies adopted in handling the great fund with which the Red Cross war council has been intrusted and also that all policies and activities of the Red Cross should be in accord with a fully informed public sentiment. The purpose of this trip is not to solicit subscriptions or to take collections, although we expect to give to the American people the latest advice we have received as to conditions in France, Russia, Roumania, Italy and Serbia. "Our reports indicate that the American Red Cross has an opportunity to lend a helping hand and to carry a practical message of cheer to suffering humanity such as no philanthropic undertaking in the history of the world has ever bad before." Accompanying Mr. Davison and Mr. Gibson on this trip is Rev. Robert Davis of Englewood, N. J., who has just returned from France, having gone to Paris with the American Red Cross commission in May. The Last Free-Soiler Robert G. Elliott, "the last Free Stater," died recently at Lawrence, Kan. He was a member of the first Free State colony that went from New England to Kansas. He took with him a fine educational equipment, and he quickly became a leader of the Free State party in the bitter border strife of the '50s. He was the editor of the first Free State paper in Kansas, and a friend of Abraham Lincoln. His paper was twice burned out and his life was often threatened. He lived through many thrills of a dramatic age in which he played a leading part, to see the principles for which he struggled passf forever as a national issue. Patriots to the Bone. A couple of klites were walking down Tremont street when a man behind them remarked to his companion: "There go two good patrols. They are not only willing to bear arms for their country, but bare legs as well."—Boston Evening Transcript. Methodists Active In Rome. Elaborate plans for new buildings have been made for the American Methodist Missionary college at Rome, Italy. A site on Monte Mario already has been obtained. NEWS and GOSSIP of WASHINGTON Representatives Frequently Derelict in Duty WASHINGTON.—"Papa, the man down there said they were in committee of the whole, but that isn't all of them, is it?" "No, son. There are only forty-nine present, and there are 435 members." "Then why do they call it committee of the whole house?" In a short time the house of representatives has passed on at least three tremendously important pieces of legislation: The five-billion-dollar urgent deficiencies appropriation. The $176,000,000 war risk insurance bill. The $11,538,000,000 bond and certificate measure. At no time during discussion of the last-named bill were there more than 75 members on the floor of the house. Rarely during the insurance discussion did more than 60 show themselves. Washington, accustomed to anything in the way of congressional behavior, or misbehavior, has hardly raised an eyebrow at this queer, not to say naive, way of handling important national business. But the casual visitors with nothing better to do than to visit the house have frequently remarked on the situation. A faithful handful of representatives have been fairly regular in attendance, but by far the great majority have not shown themselves at the capitol in weeks. "Illness in the family" and "necessary business" must be responsible, as alleged, for absences, because it is an off-year for elections. Notable Gift to United States National Museum THE United States National museum at Washington has recently received and put on exhibition a notable collection of swords, uniforms and miscellaneous relics of Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan. These mementos Pro rege sapee, pro patria semper." Two swords in the collection were carried by McClellan in the Civil war, a dress sword and a service sword. The other swords in the collection commemorate his Mexican war service, one dress sword having been presented to him "by a number of gentlemen as a testimonial of their high admiration for his gallantry during the war with Mexico. First, at the siege of Vera Cruz; second, the battle of Cerro Gordo; third, battle of Contreras; fourth, battle of Churubusco; fifth, Chapultepec; sixth, capture of the City of Mexico." Another of the swords carried in the Mexican war is a service saber with a small piece of the hilt broken away. The donor of the collection writes: "A piece of the hilt of this sword was carried away by a bullet which slightly wounded General McClellan in the hand." Among the other relics of this great American general are several uniforms, spurs, field glasses, revolvers, powder flasks, and a number of more personal relics. Many Clerks Needed to Handle President's Mail PRESIDENT WILSON'S mail bag is the largest in the world. Thousands of letters arrive daily, and every one of any importance must have the individual attention of America's first citizen. Of course, the president is proper departments and placed on file until the matter can be taken up for consideration. Hundreds of the missives are purely formal, or contain impossible requests. These are immediately answered by the staff and signed by one of the president's assistant secretaries. Such communications as the president ought to see are clearly briefed—that is, a slip is planned at the top of each letter, and on this is a typewritten synopsis of its contents, telling who the writer is and what he has to present. Frequently the president is sufficiently interested by the brief to cause him to read the whole letter. Sometimes the communication is referred to a cabinet officer, in which case the slip is retained at the White House and filed. Washington Watches Daring Military Aviators DARING Italian military aviators, in two battle planes of lightning speed, and a giant bombing plane carrying ten passengers, gave official Washington a marvelous example of what the American aviation corps must do to living here two of the airplanes thrilled thousands of spectators with feats of the air, which filled the highest officers of the signal corps of the army with undisguised admiration. The exhibition ended with the flight of the great Caproni machine over the city, carrying a party of persons, and the "bombing" of the White House by one of the smaller machines with bouquets of flowers, dropped from a great height. Officers of the army and navy who witnessed the landing of the three machines and the wonderful aerial feats which they later indulged in, did not hesitate to say that the United States has yet a long way to go before it can equal the aviation corps of Europe. Many members of the house and senate were present, and they were visibly impressed with the efficiency of the Italian machines and the skill of their pilots. Right here papa, not being a parliamentarian, was stumped and had to admit it to the boy. Others in the house of representatives gallery wondered with the boy, who unconsciously had displayed a bit of delicious irony at the expense of the nation's lawmakers. No house session in the last month has seen more than one-fourth of the total membership present, and "committee of the whole" is rather more of a joke than anything else. In a short time the house of repre- tendently important pieces of legislation. The five-billion-dollar urgent deficits. The $176,000,000 war risk insurance. The $11,538,000,000 bond and certi- At no time during discussion of the 75 members on the floor of the house. did more than 60 show themselves. Washington, accustomed to anything or misbehavior, has hardly raised an e- way of handling important national b nothing better to do than to visit the l situation. A faithful handful of representa- tance, but by far the great major capitol in weeks. "Illness in the fam- responsible, as alleged, for absences, b Notable Gift to United THE United States National museum and put on exhibition a notable miscellaneous relics of Maj. Gen. Ge- Sword Pro rege saepe, pro patrla semper." Tried by McClellan in the Civil war, a d The other swords in the collection one dress sword having been presented a testimonial of their high admiration Mexico. First, at the siege of Vera C third, battle of Contreras; fourth, but sixth, capture of the City of Mexico." Another of the swords carried in with a small piece of the hilt broker writes: "A piece of the hilt of this which slightly wounded General McCle Among the other relics of this gr forms, spurs, field glasses, revolvers, personal relics. Many Clerks Needed to PRESIDENT WILSON's mall bag is of letters arrive daily, and every individual attention of America's first not able to read all his correspondence himself. This difficulty is overcome by a carefully developed system by which the contents of the White House mail bag of any importance are laid before Mr. Wilson each day. The work of selection falls upon a corps of confidential clerks, who open the letters and give them a first reading. Then they are carefully sorted. Many of them are simply recommendations for office. These, after courteous acknowledgment, are referred to the proper departments and placed on file consideration. Hundreds of the mississippi possible requests. These are immediate by one of the president's assistant secretary. Such communications as the preside that is, a slip is pinned at the top of an synopsis of its contents, telling who the Frequently the president is sufficiently read the whole letter. Sometimes the officer, in which case the slip is retainer Washington Watches DARING Italian military aviators, in and a giant bombing plane carryingington a marvelous example of what th P riving here two of the airplanes thrill of the air, which filled the highest officer, undisguised admiration. The exhibition ended with the flight the city, carrying a party of persons, a by one of the smaller machines with bow height. Officers of the army and navy which machines and the wonderful aerial feats hesitate to say that the United States be equal the aviation corps of Europe. Many members of the house and seibly impressed with the efficiency of their pilots. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS PRESENT- ABOUT 49 I 'SPOSE MOST OF 'EM ARE HOME FIXIN' THEIR FENCES resentatives has passed on at least three translation: felicies appropriation. rice bill. certificate measure. the last-named bill were there more than Rarely during the insurance discussion ing in the way of congressional behavior, eyebrow at this queer, not to say naive, business. But the casual visitors with house have frequently remarked on the atives have been fairly regular in at- tivity have not shown themselves at the tally" and "necessary business" must be because it is an off-year for elections. States National Museum in at Washington has recently received collection of swords, uniforms and george B. McClellan. These mementos were a gift to the museum from George B. McClellan of Princeton university. The swords, of which there are nine, are perhaps the most interesting feature of the collection. The most striking of these is a gold-mounted sword set with pearls presented to McClellan by a number of citizens of Boston in 1863, in recognition of his services during the Civil war. The scabbard is inscribed, "To Major General George B. McClellan, from many citizens of Boston, Feb. 5, 1863. Two swords in the collection were cardress sword and a service sword. We commemorate his Mexican war service, and to him "by a number of gentlemen as a for his gallantry during the war with cruz; second, the battle of Cerro Gordo; battle of Churubusco; fifth, Chapultepec; in the Mexican war is a service saber on away. The donor of the collection sword was carried away by a bullet bullet in the hand." Great American general are several unipowder flasks, and a number of more Handle President's Mail is the largest in the world. Thousands one of any importance must have the best citizen. Of course, the president is MAIL until the matter can be taken up for lives are purely formal, or contain imitely answered by the staff and signed pretaries. Student ought to see are clearly briefed—each letter, and on this is a typewritten writer is and what he has to present. Interested by the brief to cause him to communication is referred to a cabined at the White House and filed. Daring Military Aviators a two battle planes of lightning speed, ten passengers, gave official Wash- the American aviation corps must do to strike Germany through the alr. All three airplanes飞 without accident from Langley field, near Newport News, Va., to Washington in less than two hours. The distance was approximately 120 miles, and the average height maintained was 7,000 feet. In the great Caproni bombing machine, which has a wing spread of 85 feet and 625 horse-power engines, there were several government officials, who enjoyed the trip immensely, suffering no inconvenience whatever. After ar led thousands of spectators with feats ers of the signal corps of the army with right of the great Caproni machine over and the "bombing" of the White House bouquets of flowers, dropped from a great no witnessed the landing of the three tits which they later indulged in, did not has yet a long way to go before it can enate were present, and they were vis- the Italian machines and the skill of The lecture room was crowded last Sunday afternoon to hear the address of the Rev. Dr. D. E. Over on his recent trip to Atlanta. The address was preceded by a brief song service, the singing being good owing to the large number present. Dr. Over said that as a result of that visit two conclusions had forced themselves upon him. The first was that, after all, freedom was one of the greatest things in the world—that to be able to walk the streets like any other man is better than to own blocks of real estate and other forms of wealth. The second was that the Negroes of the South, especially the better classes who have wealth and could afford to live elsewhere, must be of a superior type, or else they could never have stood the oppression and prejudice of that section and made such remarkable progress under it. Dr. Over was greeted with prolonged applause at the conclusion of his address. The Rev. J. D. Rice, pastor of the M. E. church in Topeka, was also present and made very encouraging and helpful remarks. During the week we had very pleasant visits from Mr. Dennis, who has charge of the Y. M. C. A. work in San Francisco, and from Lieut. Charles Blackwood of Trinidad, who has just completed the course at Des Moines and who is now stationed with the Eighty-sixth division at Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill. Plans for the big membership campaign are well under way. Most of the captains have filled out their teams. The campaign will begin on Monday evening, November 5th, and close on the evening of the 12th. Next Sunday afternoon the Rev. R. L. Smith, pastor of the Christ M. E. church, will be the speaker. The meeting will begin at 4 o'clock and all men will be welcome. THE OIL BOOM. companies for over two months and from our impressions of the practical results achieved by investors in oil stocks we are still of the opinion that this is the right time and the best opportunity for the people of our face to share in this investment and STICK TO IT. Sharing in the investment cannot be otherwise than profitable, as the demand for gasoline and petroleum is so great that the usual output will fall very short of the requirement and therefore more well must be sunken which must result in oil becoming one of the greatest industries of the world. No one can doubt the fortunes that have been made in oil investments, as we have the proofs in the financial returns rewarding the efforts of our people in Oklahoma and Texas, and therefore the possibility of greater gains stands to reason in taking part in developing such a wonderful resource in our adjacent state which has made fortunes for many people within the past few years. The Heaton Oil and Refining Company, operating in Oklahoma, Wyoming and Colorado with a management whose competency, efficiency and honesty can stand the test of any examiner, as the officers, directors and principal stockholders are business men of long standing in Denver and known to us for many years, offers this special opportunity for the ordinary laboring man who feels it a necessity to provide for now and the future to enter this ROAD to SUCESS, as it is not a speculation, but a safe investment which returns enormous profits and makes him live the life of comparative ease as the other class that never hesitates to lay hold of such investments. We can therefore say to our fellow Negroes without any fear, those who have a little money to spare and those who can engage in a little sacrifice take advantage of such investments when they present themselves, as delay generally marks the danger point, and the people who are quick to see and ready to act are always the successful ones to feel the good and profitable results of their wise actions, as they receive the great and lasting benefits therefrom. On another page in this issue you will see the advertisement of The Heaton Oil and Refining Company, 333-335 Commonwealth Building, and the earlier you see them on business, strict business, the better it will be to man and woman, parent and child. MICHAELSON'S THE STORE OF BARGAINS Where everyone with a medium-sized or small pocketbook goes and leaves with that satisfaction which necessitates a return. Not being in the high-priced district, goods are marked at prices within the reach of all, and the pleasure of the store of bargains is generally reflected in the appreciation expressed by its numerous patrons. Follow the crowd, then, to Michaelson's, Fifteenth and Larimer, and get your money's worth in the shortest possible time. CAMPBELL CHAPEL AFRICAN A. M. E. CHURCH. Twenty-third and Lawrence Streets. A. M. Ward, minister, phone Main 5474; residence, 1218-23rd street. Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. Preaching, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Class meeting, 12:30 p. m. Allen Christian Endeavor League 6:30 p. m. Prayer and class meeting, Wednesday, & n m The public is crodially invited to worship with us at all meetings. Our first quarterly meeting for this conference year will be held in Campbell chapel throughout the day on Sunday. Presiding Elder R. L. Pope will preach at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m., and the Rev. C. A. Williams of Shorter chapel will deliver the holy communion sermon at 3 p. m., when all sister churches and their pastors are invited to worship with us. Overcoat Sale Will End Saturday --- SIX weeks of unseasonably warm weather, making it the most backward season in our thirty years' experience, combined with the great shipments of overcoats which are arriving daily, impel us to make these great price concessions. We all of us realize that cold and severe weather will come to stay any day now, but we cannot wait longer. Volume of business must be maintained regardless of any condition, so we make these price concessions which must convince every shrewd business man that NOW IS THE TIME to buy his winter overcoat. $20 = $22.50 Fancy Overcoats $14.50 $25 = $28 Fancy Overcoats $19.50 $30 = $35 Fancy Overcoats $23.50 $40 = $45 Fancy Overcoats $28.50 THE MAY CO. WHAT CAN WE DO? The most complete and compact comfort kit which has appeared so far is shown in the picture above. The officer or other fortunate possessor of an outfit so compact and practical can carry with him all that he needs to keep him fit and comfortable. It is an evolution; the result of much genuity, and several trials on the part of its designer, Mrs. Lillian Craig Clark of Chicago. It is made of heavy brown denim lined with a lightweight brown rubber sheeting, and cut in the form of a cross. The wings fold over and fasten with snap fasteners so that the kit makes a small parcel, easily carried by its handle of denim. When opened out it is only 27 inches long and 31 inches wide, but it provides 30 compartments for carrying everything needed in the way of toilet articles, stationery, bandages and other things. Its rubber lining protects the contents from moisture. Each of the wings provide space for pockets of denim, machine-stitched down into large or small sizes. At the What Well Womeni Will What Well Dressed Women Will Wear FASHION Our Work-a-Day Clothes. If it were not for those master designers who devote their talents to our work-a-day clothes, we might grow tired of the sensible and substantial fabrics that are suited to suits and one-piece frocks that must stand much wear. Taking the same materials year after year, they develop them so cleverly into exponents of new styles that we are strengthened in our allegiance to tried and familiar goods. Blue serge is a part of the play every season, and we are being continually convinced that nothing else could be quite as effective. And it is the same with broadcloth, twills, cheviots, and all the other old favorites. Any of them might be used for the one-piece frock, shown in the illustration, with success. It is modish and graceful and is made to stand much wear—a utility gown that will not grow tiresome. Nothing could be simpler than the bodice which achieves a smart distinction with its pointed overlap at the front, short peplum at the back and belt in two widths. The sleeves, otherwise plain, hold their own by buttoning over along the forearm with a row of flat bone buttons. The skirt is laid in side plaits at the center there are four pockets and six loops (made of strips of denim, doubled). These hold hair and clothes brushes, safety razor (in box), shaving stick and cream, comb, talcum powder, tooth powder and brush. The wings make place for many other things and some of the small pockets are fastened down with snap fasteners so that their contents cannot slip out. Besides the articles already named, this case carries paper, envelopes, postcards, pen and pencil, blotter, postage stamps, small French-English dictionary, pipe, tobacco, handkerchiefs, needles, thread, pins, small blunt-pointed scissors, unbreakable mirror, sheepskin roll for shoes, fine comb and a towel, and still there are compartments to spare for some other things, as bandages and medicine, which the individual may fill to suit himself. But when all are placed and the kit fastened, it is unbelievably small and compact—no trouble to carry. Christmas is not so far away; for men in the hospital units, officers or any one else this is a gift to make them enviwed by their fellows. Dressed Wear front and back, with a plain panel at each side, where an extra piece of drapery is introduced. This drapery has the appearance of an extension of the plaited front and is fastened at the sides with very large bone buttons, sewed to the skirt. A long, simulated buttonhole, by the side of each button, makes a smart, tailored finish. The belt and bodice are both fastened, with snap fasteners probably, under one of these large buttons. A white satin collar is worn with this dress, as with coats of tailored suits. Organdle collars of good lace are always good style. With these everyday dresses it is well to have several kinds of collars, since they must be depended upon to furnish a little variety in appearance, as neckties do for men. Julia Bottomly Bleach your discolored neck by applying a lotion made of four ounces each of bay rum and rosewater, with a teaspoonful of borax and the juice of half a lemon added. FRANK S. REED, Licensed Embalmer and Director Lady Assistant. Polite Service to all. Parlors, 2745 Welton Street. STAR HAIR GRO THE STAR HAIR GROWER A THE NEW WAY SHOP C. C. DENNIS, Satisfaction Guaranteed. Phone Main 3737. 1855 Champa St. Denver, Co THE Giant Bach- and Lankford and STRICTLY FI Cleaning, Pressing, JOIN OUR MONTHLY 506 Eighteenth Street MORRISON'S FAMO NEW WAY SHOE REPAIRING DENNIS, Prop. Collection Guaranteed. One Main 3737. A St. Denver, Colo. 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ONE OF THE MOST USE MARKETS Fresh Oysters, Chitterlings, Neck Bones, Spare R Fresh and Cured Meats of Al and Far OF THE MOST UP-TO-DATE AND SALF MARKETS IN THE CITY. ters, Chitterlings, Pig Tails, Snouts, Ears, Rock Bones, Spare Ribs, Received Fresh Dairy Cured Meats of All Kinds. Fresh Vegetable and Fancy Groceries. ONE OF THE MOST UP-TO-DATE AND SANITARY MARKETS IN THE CITY. Fresh Oysters, Chitterlings, Pig Tails, Snouts, Ears, Pigs Feet, Neck Bones, Spare Ribs, Received Fresh Daily. Fresh and Cured Meats of All Kinds. Fresh Vegetables, Staple and Fancy Groceries. Our Prices Are Always the Lowest Free Delivery to All Parts of the City. PHONE CHAMPA 1641. 2048 LARIMER STREET DENVER Opposite the Three Rules. PHONE CHAMPA 1641. IMER STREET DENVER Opposite the Three Rules. 2048 LARIMER STREET DENVER, COLO. Opposite the Three Rules. rector ervice et. DENVER, COLORADO. HAIR GROWER A Wonderful Hair Dressing and Grower EVANSTON, ILL. GREENBORO, N.C. NOTE—Persons living in the South can get their goods from the STAR HAIR GROWER MERP, P. O. BOX 812, GREENBORO, N.C. SHOE REPAIRING IS, Prop. eed. er, Colo. = THINK ch-Benz Cleaners and Tailors and McCain, Proprietors FIRST-CLASS WORK Pressing, Dyeing and Remodelling FIRSTLY PRESSING CLUB—$1.50 Phone Main 7376 FAMOUS JAZZ ORCHESTRA finished for all Occasions s. 2947 Stout St. DENVER, COLO. R. TAGGART that he has removed his to 621 and 622 Cooper n Beef Co. Sundays Until 2:00 p. m. Sundays Until 2:00 p. m. ST UP-TO-DATE AND SANITARY MARKETS IN THE CITY. Wings, Pig Tails, Snouts, Ears, Pigs Feet, Sare Ribs, Received Fresh Daily. Of All Kinds. Fresh Vegetables, Staple and Fancy Groceries. DONE CHAMPA 1641. EET DENVER, COLO. posite the Three Rules.