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Subscribe for the Only Reliable Negro Paper in Colorado, "The Colorado Statesman" THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY THE WORLD WAR AND THE NEGRO Address at the Meeting of the Negro Organization Society, Portsmouth, Va., December 5, 1917. VOL. XXIV. THE WORLD AND Address at the Meet ganization Society December BY W. T. B. WILLIAMS. ALL the world is at war. War is the one subject dominating the thoughts of men. Perhaps that is why our president selected this topic for discussion before the Negro Organization Society. Nevertheless colored men are asking not infrequently. What has the Negro to do with the war? But whether the Negro wills it or not, the war has to do with him. As portions of the suffering population of the world and especially as citizens of a great republic, the Negroes of the United States in particular cannot escape either their burdens or their responsibilities. There are few if any people not seriously influenced by the war. And there are few whose future will be more affected by it than Negroes the world over. And there are no Negroes to whom the future is more significant than to the ten million in the United States. No group has already been more affected by the war than they. Their development is fraught with possibly more significance than that of the Negroes of any other country. Their economic, social, and civic attainments set the standard for the Negroes of the world. Instead, then, of the Negro's having no interest at stake in the war, he is most vitally concerned. In fact, the Negro and the Negro's country of Africa are no very remote causes of the war. The warring European nations hold large, rich African possessions. Germany, Great Britain, France, Belgium, and Italy, together with Spain and Portugal, have selfishly portioned out Africa among themselves. As Dr. DuBois says, "The world knows something of the gold and diamonds of South Africa, the cocoa of Angola and Nigeria, the rubber and ivory of the Congo, and of the palm oil of the West Coast." Accordingly Africa has been the spark to set Europe ablaze. Illustrations abound. Call to mind the fiery clashes between England and France at Fashoda; between Italy and Turkey in Tripoli; between England and Portugal in Delagoa Bay; between England, Germany, and the Dutch in South Africa; and between Germany and France at Adagir and Algeciras. "A place in the sun" often spells for Europe expansion in the African tropics and other zones of influence in Negro land. Whatever the immediate causes of the war may have been, in the background here, as usually elsewhere, stood the Negro, a silent, compelling influence. But the Negro was not long silent, or apart, once the fight had begun. He threw himself into the struggle with characteristic forgetfulness of himself and his wrongs. And we believe that he will come out of the maelstrom, as usual also, with right and advantage on his side. With the many questions that naturally arise as to the immediate causes of the war, and as to the rights of the many combatants, we have not the time now to concern ourselves. One thing appears to be true. The issue seems squarely drawn between autocracy on the one hand and democracy on the other. Over this issue it looks as if the world is willing to fight to the death. As in our great American struggle, the Negro is on both sides in the conflict. He is preponderatingly, however, on the side of the liberty of nations, as, in our Civil War, he was on the side of freedom for the individual. In the Civil War he played a determining part. Is it not significant that now the white man should find himself forced to call upon the black man, to whom he has so strenuously denied the rights and privileges of democracy, to help him save democracy for the world? Already in the World War the Negro helped to strike the staggering blow that saved Paris and France, and from which the invader has not yet entirely recovered. When the Allies called their native troops into action on the Western front, Germany attempted to set up the idea of a "white man's" war, and opposed the introduction of colored troops into the conflict in Europe, Germany, however, had no means of transporting to her own front her black battalions from East Africa and her other colonial possessions. She has not neglected to use native troops in Africa. It was found easy to cite abundance of precedents of black troops fighting on European soil. William of Orange, it was shown, used them in 1688. Richelieu employed them at La Rochelle, Maurice of Saxony at Fontenoy, and Napoleon at the siege of Gaeta, at Magenta, and in other places. Three thousand Negro troops served in the Franco-German War. In 1911 France was considering raising a million native troops from her colonial possessions. In the present struggle France has used many thousand black troops, among others, Senegalese, Somali, Algerians, and Moors. Negroes are fighting in the British and French armies alongside of British and French soldiers, and "with such courage and valor that they have won the recognition and respect of many of their superior officers." Since the United States has gone in the war, eighty thousand American Negroes have been called to the colors. And when further calls shall be made, many others will be ready to renew the cry, "We are coming, Father Abraham, two hundred thousand strong." So far, however, it is in the armies of France that the Negro has most distinguished himself. The reason is not far to seek. Negroes, like all other French colonialists, love France. They learned that France was in danger, and though they had never set foot upon European France before they rushed to the assistance of the DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12 1918 State Hist. & Nat Hist Soc State House able Negro Pa ADO E JOURNAL DENVER, COLORADO, SA mother country. France's hold upon her colonies is wonderful. Despite German intrigue, her hold upon her colonial empire of 4,300,000 square miles was not stirred a hair's breadth by the cataclysm of 1914. I will let the editor of the Vicksburg (Miss.) Evening Post give the reason. He says: "Fighting in the French army are thousands upon thousands of variously tinted men from all the races upon earth—yellow Tonkinese and Anamese, jet-black Senegalese, brown Kanakas, swarthy Moroccan, mulattoes from Martinique—fighting for France, giving their blood and life for France. . . . "No compulsion about it; they came voluntarily. France was in danger; they loved France. . . . "French colonists, all these are. It is the first time that what are called 'inferior peoples,' 'aborigines,' and 'subject races' have rushed instinctively to the defence of the power supposed to have subjugated them. "But 'inferior peoples!' In the French system there are no 'inferior peoples.' All the peoples of all the lands where the French flag waves are free, equal, and brothers. They are citizens of the French Republic exactly like all other citizens thereof. "That is why there is this extraordinary and touching response. The colonial policy of the French Republic has covered the name of France with imperishable glory. France has been not only kind and good to her aborigines. She has made them citizens, equal and free. Now, in her hour of need, they come to lay down their lives for her—France the broad-minded, France the democratic. "Liberty, equality, fraternity—the noblest motto nation ever had. Wonderful words and wonderful talisman. It is the inspiration back of that thought that makes France beloved of all souls everywhere that are free, and makes her safe now behind the strong arms of men of all the races that have been touched by her fire—Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." Mr. Laurence Jerrold, an Englishman long resident in France, author of "France: Her People and Her Spirit," reports seeing hundreds of African blacks in France in military hospitals for the maimed—Senegalese, Moroccans, blacks from West Africa, Guinea, and the Ivory Coast who had fought for France and sometimes like demons. Nearly all were volunteers. Lieut. Dinah Salifou, son of a Negro ex-kinglet of Soudan, fought for France and won the Legion of Honor. There were 20,000 Turcos, remarkable sharpshooters, available in 1914. And there are Negroes in the French Foreign Legion; among others, Eldridge Eastman of Barbadoes and James Slim of Jamaica. Dr. Chas. H. Roberts of New York spent several months in medical service in connection with the French armies. And Miss Ludia Karksdale, graduate nurse from Provident Hospital in Chicago, is a Red Cross nurse with the French Army in Belgium. She has charge of five hundred nurses and is known as "The Little Corporal." Gen. Maunoury's army that played so conspicuous a part in turning the tide in the battle of the Marne that saved Paris and France was composed largely of colonial troops from Africa. These are the brothers of Kipling's "Fuzzy-Wuzzy." "We've fought with many men across the seas. An' some of 'em was brave and some was not. The Paythan and the Zulu an' Bur- But Fuzzy was the finest o' the lot. 'E's a daisy, 'e's a duckey, 'e's a lamb, 'E's an inja-rubber idiot on the spree, 'E's the only thing that doesn't give a down. For a regiment of British Infantree, So 'ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, at your home in the Soudan: You're a pore benighted 'eaten but a first-class fightin' man; An' ere's to you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your 'ayrick head of 'air— You big black boundin' beggar—for you broke a British square!" Two hundred sixty-four personal citations for bravery have been won by Negro soldiers of a single Somali battalion since it landed in France in 1916. One hundred ninety of these were won in the furious battles of the Aisne and Verdun. Thus have Negroes shown their loyalty to France in her calamity, and so have they deported themselves on the fields of battle in her behalf. There are Negroes in the regular British army fighting shoulder to shoulder with white soldiers. And the separate Negro battalion recruited in Canada contains many Negroes from the United States. The Cape Colored Corps of South Africa, thanks to Kitchener and the English press, was organized and has been in action at Kibongo. Native troops have rendered England valuable service in other parts of Africa. TO BE CONTINUED IN NEXT ISSUE. REPUBLICAN NATIONAL DANCE OR MAKE MUSIC Washington, D. C.. Jan. 4. The status of the Race in the Republican party will be defined at St. Louis on Lincoln's birthday this year. On that day the Republican national committee will meet. The big questions are, how can Woodrow Wilson and the Democratic party be checked; how can congress be regained; and, what is to be done with the Lily Whites? The test case will come in the fight on Perry W. Howard elected Republican national committeeman from Mississippi, but opposed by lily whites and a few Race stool pigeons. Unless Howard is seated the party will loose thousands of loyal Race men. The big Race Republicans are now residents of the west, south and southwest. Things have changed for the better. The Race men who will be big figures in St. Louis are: R. R. Church of Memphis; E. H. Wright, Louis B. Anderson, G. W. Ellis and Major Jackson, Chicago; Ben Davis and Lincoln Johnson of Georgia; W. C. Hueston of Missouri; P. W. Howard, Chas. Banks, S. D. Redmond, Thos. Keyes and Louis Piernas of Mississippi; Walter L. Cohen of New Orleans—these with the Republican patriot, Roscoe Conkling Simmons. This is one time that the Republican national committee has got to either dance or make music. No camoflouging will do Race leaders now. RACENEWS Gathered From Various Sources RACENEWS Gathered From Various Sources Springfield, Mo.—The Rev. Arthur E. Rankin, pastor of Gibson Chapel Presbyterian church has been appointed chaplain in the national army and assigned to the 349th field artillery at Camp Dix, New Jersey. Wilberforce, Ohio, Jan. 4.—Col. and Mrs. Charles Young received an elegant silver service set, a Christmas gift, from members of the Tenth U. S. Cavalry, stationed in Arizona, of which regiment he was formerly commander. Louisville, Ky.—Leading colored citizens are making a hard fight to get the new Republican administration to appoint colored men on the police force. This city has never had a colored policeman and politicians of both parties have dopged the issue for years. "Today America is again making the fight for democracy and Hampton is making history as well as the Race which it serves. Eighty-three thousand Negroes are now in the national army, with many Hampton and Tuskegee men among the command officers." Washington, D. C.. Jan. 4. "Only white men will be taken," was the specific announcement made by Provost Marshal General Crowder of the United States war department in his call for 1,000 bricklayers to go to France. Over in France, however, they do not draw the color line, either in trades or professions, and over in France the French was department makes no discrimination because of color for service or promotion in the army. Boston, Mass.—Andrew J. Peters, former assistant secretary of the treasury, supported by democrats and independent republicans, defeated Mayor Jas. M. Curley for re-election by 9,000 votes. Mayor Curley had incurred the enmity of the Colored citizens by permitting "The Birth of a Nation" to be shown in Boston, and they put up a strong fight against him. There were five candidates in the field. Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 4.—Mme. C. J. Walker, originator of the Walker System of Hair Culture, and one of New York's wealthiest women, and widely known for her philanthropic spirit, has returned to her home NO 12 after a trip here. Mme. Walker with the help of Frank Smith, furniture dealer and decorator, purchased the furniture for her new home, which is located on the Hudson river and known as Irvington-on-the-Hudson. The orders she placed, it is said exceeded over $10,000, all high grade goods, and shipments are to be made immediately. The new residence occupies a four and one-half acre site in Irvington's most exclusive district, commanding a beautiful view of the Hudson. Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 1—As an example of what an industrious Negro may do for himself in the South, Arkansas points to Scott Bond, Madison, former slave, who now owns 6,000 acres of the most fertile cotton land in the state, several cotton gins, store houses, hundreds of head of livestock, and large mercantile establishments. Bond was born in Mississippi and moved to Arkansas at the close of the Civil war. For years he has been active in the National Negro Business league, tho reeently age has prevented him from taking the active part he did on the organization of the society. He has given $200 to the Red Cross and purchased $6,000 worth of liberty bonds. Massachusetts Man Is To Head Hampton. Hampton, Va., Jan. 4.—The appointment of Rev. James E. Gregg of Pittsfield, Mass., as principal of Hampton Institute to succeed the late Dr. H. B Frissel, was announced here. Dr. Gregg is 42 years, and was born in Hartford, Conn. He was graduated from Harvard Uuiversity and the Yale Divinity School, and for the last five years has been pastor of a Congregational church in Pittsfield. A statement issued by the trustees of the institute calls attention to the fact that its founder and first principal was General Samuel Chappman Armstrong, a leader of troops in the civil war, and adds: Take Pains. Genius has been defined as an infinite capacity for taking pains, and talent, which is a sort of second cousin of genius, has the same characteristics, observes an educator. One who will take pains enough will meet with a measure of success. And no one who belittles the need of patient, plodding work is likely to succeed, no matter what his endowments. FOREIGN Children of the public schools or Paris have sent circulars to the school children throughout France asking them to subscribe 1 cent each for the adoption of American war orphans. The new constitution of the British Labor Party, which will be voted on at the annual conference at Birmingham, beginning Jan. 23, will provide for the enrollment of women members. The Diario Illustrado at Santiago states that the United States has agreed to permit the exportation of gold to Chile so that a solution of Chile's monetary problem may be facilitated. The Australian cabinet, headed by William Morris Hughes, has resigned, according to a Reuter dispatch from Melbourne. Frank G. Tudor, labor leader, has been summoned to form a new ministry. The Chamber of Deputies resumed its sessions at Paris after the holiday recess. It was called to order by Jules Siegfried, a native Alsatian, who, in the absence of Baron Aje D. Mackau, was the eldest member present. A British torpedo boat destroyer has been torpedoed and sunk in the Mediterranean sea, according to an Admiralty announcement issued in London. All the officers of the destroyer were saved, but ten members of the crew were lost. Earl Reading, Lord Chief Justice, has been appointed British high commissioner in the United States. Besides taking over the work of the British Embassy in Washington, he will have charge of the work of the British War Mission and its establishments in New York and Washington. Territorial integrity of Austria and Germany must form the cornerstone of new peace negotiations, the official North German Gazette declared, according to dispatches received at Amsterdam. Premier Lloyd George's speech indicated that there was practically no change in Great Britain's war aims, the newspaper asserted. In thankking the Roman aristocracy for their Christmas and Near Year's greetings, Pope Benedict expressed his appreciation that the nobility had indorsed "our words with which we recently invited the peoples of the earth to return to God with the view of hastening the end of the frightful misfortune which has afflicted the world for more than three years." "The additional strength which the enemy can obtain from the events in Russia and Italy already have been largely discounted and the ultimate destruction of the enemy's field forces has been brought appreciably nearer," is the confident summing up by Field Marshal Haig, the British commander-in-chief in France and Belgium, of last year's work by the British army on the Western front. Emperor William has conferred the Order Pour le Merite on Submarine Commander Kophamel, on his return from a cruise to the Cape Verde Islands. During this cruise, Kophamel asserts, he sank an American destroyer and fourteen merchantmen, most of them bound from the United States for Italy or France. He is said to have brought back twenty-two tons of copper as booty. Princeton defeated Dartmouth at basketball at Princeton, N. J., 26 to 7. It is understood that there will be no salary cuts when the 1918 contracts with the New York Yankees are mailed out the latter part of this month. Great Island Ringing Bells, owned by William Zeigler, Jr., of New York, and handled by R. K. Armstrong of Barber, N. C., won the derby of the United States field trials, which was finished at Grand Junction, Tenn. Denver boys are starring at baseball in Cuba, Frank Grannell, member of the D. A. C. and well known as a semi-professional ballplayer in Colorado, is a member of the One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Company, Seventh Regiment, United States Marines, and in a game played on Christmas day the nine triumphed over a strong foe, 9 to 3. GENERAL Money in circulation in the United States Jan. 1 amounted to $5,120,424,000, or $48.76 per capita, compared with $5,085,270,000 one month ago. In the last year money in circulation has increased $080,000,000. H. C. Hoskier of South Orange, N. J., a member of the American Ambulance at French headquarters, has been decorated with the Legion of Honor in recognition of his work with the ambulance since 1915. Led, according to witnesses, by two civilians, fifteen to twenty American bluejackets entered the office of the Daily Call, a radical newspaper at Seattle, Wash., and almost completely wrecked the establishment. Winfield Scott Sims, inventor of the Sims-Dudley dynamite gun used by the Cuban insurgents and also by the Rough Riders in the battle of Santiago, died in a hospital at Newark, N. J., from a complication of diseases. Floods in Siam, worst since 1831, are devastating the country. Mobilization of 3,000,000 workers for agriculture, shipbuilding and war contract plants was intrusted to the United States employment service by the Department of Labor. Premier Lloyd George, according to the London Daily-Mail, has received a most cordial telegram from President Wilson and the American Government congratulating the premier on the speech he made expressing Great Britain's war aims. NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS 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 British casualties reported during the week ending Jan. 7 totaled 18,998. The Bolsheviks are definitely strengthening the front, Petrograd ad- vices say. Rome announces that snow and bad weather have reduced the fighting to a minimum. Last year 367 Norwegian vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 566,000 were sunk. The French General Lise, command- ing the artillery on the Italian front, has been killed in action. British patrols at several places forced crossings of the Piave river against the Teutonic allies. Further extension of the submarine barred zone is announced in a wireless statement sent out by the German government. Since the beginning of the war 215 Danish ships with a total tonnage of 224,000 have been sunk and 234 Danes have been killed. German troops which attempted to advance on the Verdun front after a bombardment were driven back by the French fire, it is announced officially from Paris. An official dispatch from Berlin announces that peace negotiations with Russia have been suspended. Great political disorders are reported in the German capital. The American steamship Harry Luckenbach was torpedoed and sunk with loss of life, according to word received by the owner of the vessel in New York. Eight of the crew are missing. The London War Office has issued a summary of the British captures and losses in the war during 1917. The total captures on all fronts numbered 114,544 prisoners and 781 guns. The losses numbered 28,379 prisoners and 166 guns. Although infantry operations in the major war theaters are of a minor character, signs are not wanting that big battles are in the process of making in Flanders, France and Italy. At various points in these three war zones intensive artillery duels are going on day and night. WESTERN Edward P. McManus, postmaster and former state senator, dropped dead in his office in the postoffice building at Keokuk, Ia. A petition signed by 2,000 voters asking for a local option election in the city of El Paso, Tex., was presented to the county commissioners. Miss Lotus Wiles, named in a confession by W. K. Stitt, former cashier of a bank at Viola, Ill., as his reason for misappropriating $7,000 of the bank's funds, was arrested at Peoria, Ill., as an accessory to his defalcation. Villista bandits, numbering 400, have captured Guanecivi, a village in the state of Durango, routing the Carranza garrison, looting the town and carrying off many young girls and women, according to information reaching American mining circles at El Paso, Tex. The bandits evacuated the village, going to Rio Florida, Chihuahua, the reports declared. WASHINGTON The selective service act was held constitutional by the Supreme Court. Director General McAdoo plans on saving $400,000,000 annually in Federal operation of the railroads. It was reported Monday that Secretary of State Lansing is to be sent to Europe as a permanent high war commissioner. For the sixth time investigation of Senator La Follette's alleged disloyal speech of last September at St. Paul was postponed by the Senate elections committee. Arguments of the Wyoming-Colorado water suits which were to come up before the United States Supreme Court went over on account of priority cases on the docket. At a moment made crucial to the allied cause by the developments In the peace negotiations between Germany and Russia, President Wilson proclaimed to the world, through the medium of a message to Congress, the peace terms and war aims of the United States and its allies. The United States must supply her allies with 100,000,000 bushels of wheat this year. This is the latest estimate of Herbert C. Hoover, based upon a new survey showing the food situation in Europe to be far more serious than first reports indicated. In the presence of a gathering representative of official Washington, Dr. Milenko Vesnitch, head of the Serbian War Mission to the United States, laid a wreath on the tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon, with a tribute to the patriarch of liberty from "a small and hardly known nation." WILSON ASKS FOR HALF BILLION FUND President Lays Before Congress His Recommendations for Carrying Out Railroad Plans. GUARANTEE DEMANDED Special Stress Laid on Justice Being Done to Roads and Their Stockholders. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington, Jan. 5.—President Wilson Friday laid before Congress, assembled in joint session, his recommendations for carrying out government operation of railroads. Bills to carry out the President's ideas already had been prepared under the supervision of the Department of Justice and immediately were introduced with plans for prompt consideration in both House and Senate. To provide for proper maintenance of the roads and their return to owners in the same order as the government takes them over, the President recommended legislation to authorize their upkeep and betterment during the period of federal operation. Legislation to this effect is all contained in the administration bills which would appropriate a $500,000,000 fund for government operation. Text of President's Address. The text of President Wilson's speech to Congress follows: speech to Congress gentlemen of the Congress: I have asked the privilege of addressing you in order to report that on the 28th of December last, during the recess of Congress, acting through the secretary of war, and under the authority conferred upon me by the act of Congress approved Aug. 29, 1916, I took possession and assumed control of the railway lines of the country and the systems of water transportation under their control. This step seemed to be imperatively necessary in the interest of the public welfare, in the presence of the great tasks of war with which we are now dealing. As our experience develops difficulties and makes it clear what they are, I have deemed my duty to remove these difficulties wherever I have the legal power to do so. To assume control of the vast railway systems of the country, I realize a very heavy responsibility, but to fail to do so in the existing circumstances would have been a much greater. I assumed the less responsibility rather than the weightier. Arteries of the Army. I am sure that I am speaking the mind of all thoughtful Americans when I say that it is our duty as the representatives of the nation to do everything that it is necessary to do to secure the complete mobilization of the whole resources of America by as rapid and effective a means as can be found. Transportation supplies all the arteries of mobilization. Unless it be under a single and unified direction, the whole process of the nation's action is embarrassed. It was in the true spirit of America and it was right that we should first try to effect the necessary unification under the voluntary action of those who were in charge of the great railway properties, and we did try it. The directors of the railroads responded to the need promptly and generously. Praises Executives The group of railway executives who were charged with the task of actual co-ordination and general direction performed their task with patriotic zeal and marked ability, as was to have been expected, and did, I believe, everything that it was possible for them to do in the circumstances. If I have taken the task out of their hands, it has not been because of any dereliction or failure on their part, but only because there were some things which the government can do and present management cannot. We shall continue to value most highly the advice and assistance of these gentlemen, and I am sure we shall not find them withholding it. It had become unmistakably plain that only under government administration can the entire equipment of the several systems of transportation be fully and unreservedly thrown into common service without injurious discrimination against particular properties and unembarrassed common use be made of all tracks, terminals, terminal facilities and equipment of every kind. No Big Shakeup. Only under that authority can new terminals be constructed and developed without regard to the requirements or limitations of particular roads. But under government administration all these things will be possible—not instantly, but as fast as practical difficulties, which cannot be merely conjured away, give way before the new management. The common administration will be carried out with as little disturbance of the present operating organizations and personnel of the railways as possible. Nothing will be altered or dis- DRAFT AGE MAY BE RAISED. Crowder Warns That Limit May Be Made 40 or 45 Years. Washington.—Increasing the draft age from 31 to 40 or 45 years is one of the "probabilities of the future," according to Provost Marshal Crowder in his comprehensive report to the secretary of war. The draft of the older men should be mainly for skilled war labor, but turbed which it is not necessary to disturb. We are serving the public interest and safeguarding the public safety, but we are also regardful of the interest of those by whom these great properties are owned and glad to avail ourselves of the experience and trained ability of those who have been managing them. Shipper Safeguarded. It is necessary that the transportation of troops and of war material, of food and of fuel, and of everything that is necessary for the full mobilization of the energies and resources of the country should be first considered, but it is clearly in the public interest also that the ordinary activities and the normal individual and commercial life of the country should be interfered with and dislocated as little as possible, and the public may rest assured that the interest and convenience of the private shipper will be as carefully served and safeguarded as it is possible to serve and safeguard it in the present extraordinary circumstances. While the present authority of the executive suffices for all purposes of administration, and while, of course, all private interests must for the present give way to the public necessity, it is, I am sure you will agree with me, right and necessary that the owners and creditors of the railways, the holders of their stocks and bonds, should receive from the government an unqualified guarantee that their properties will be maintained through out the period of federal control in as good repair and as complete equipment as at present, and that the several roads will receive under federal management such compensation as is equitable and just alike to their owners and to the general public. Three-Year Average Payment Basis. I would suggest the average net railway operating income of the three years ending June 30, 1917. I earnestly recommend that these guarantees be given by appropriate legislation and given as promptly as circumstances permit. I need not point out the essential justice of such guarantees and their great influence and significance as elements in the present financial and industrial situation of the country. Indeed, one of the strong arguments for assuming control of the railroads at this time is the financial argument. It is necessary that the value of railway securities should be justly and fairly protected and that the large financial operations every year necessary in connection with the maintenance, operation and development of the roads should, during the period of the war be wisely related to the financial operations of the government. Prosecution of War Primary Object. Prosecution of War Primary Object. Our first duty is, of course, to conserve the common interest and the common safety and to make certain that nothing stands in the way of the successful prosecution of the great war for liberty and justice, but it is an obligation of public conscience and of public honor that the private interests we disturb should be kept safe from unjust injury, and it is of the utmost consequence to the government itself that all great financial operations should be stabilized and co-ordinated with the financial operations of the government. No borrowing should run athwart the borrowings of the federal treasury and no fundamental values should anywhere be unnecessarily impaired. In the hands of small investors in the country, as well as in national banks, the insurance companies, in savings banks, in trust companies, in financial agencies of every kind, railway securities, the sum total of which runs up to some ten or eleven thousand millions, constitute a vital part of the structure of credit and the unquestionable stability of that structure must be maintained. McAdoo to Undertake Work. The secretary of war and I easily agreed that, in view of the many complex interests which must be safeguarded and harmonized, as well as because of his exceptional experience and ability in this new field of governmental action, the Hon. William G. McAdoo was the right man to assume direct administrative control of this new executive task. At our request he consented to assume the authority and duties of organizer and director general of the new railway administration. He has assumed those duties, and his work is in active progress. It is probably too much to expect that even under the unified railway administration which will now be possible sufficient economies can be effected in the operation of the railways to make it possible to add to their equipment and extend their operative facilities as much as the present extraordinary demands upon their use will render desirable without resorting to the national treasury for the funds. Urges Congress to Respond Promptly. Orges Congress to Respond 1 Promptly. If it is not possible it will, of course, be necessary to resort to Congress for grants of money for that purpose. The secretary of the treasury will advise with your committees with regard to this very practical aspect of the matter. For the present I suggest only the guarantees I have indicated and such appropriations as are necessary at the outset of this task. I take the liberty of expressing the hope that the Congress may grant these promptly and ungrudgingly. We are dealing with great matters, and will, I am sure, deal with them greatly. also to distribute the burdens of the war. There are plenty of young men for the first fighting, Crowder has shown, but he also points out there is a danger of "injuring the coming generation" by taking away too many of the "aggressively patriotic young men." Out of the 10,683,249 men between the ages of 31 and 45, Crowder estimates 3,525,472 are unmarried, and that 39 per cent. of the latter figure, or 1,389,388 would be accepted for service under the present regulations. Open Daily to 8:30 p. m. ONE OF THE MOST MARKET Fresh Oysters, Chitterling, Neck Bones, Sparec Fresh and Cured Meats of and F Our Price the Free Delivery PHONE 2048 LARIMER STREET Opposite Bolden Bros. C 924 NINETEENTH S OF THE MOST UP-TO-DATE AND SALE MARKETS IN THE CITY. Lers, Chitterlings, Pig Tails, Snouts, Ears, Skull Bones, Spare Ribs, Received Fresh Dried Cured Meats of All Kinds. Fresh Vegetables and Fancy Groceries. Our Prices Are Always the Lowest Free Delivery to All Parts of the City. PHONE CHAMPA 1641. IMER STREET DENVER Opposite the Three Rules. In Bros. Cafe & Lunch INNETEENTH STREET, DENVER, COLUMBIA 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. PHONE CHAMPA 1641. 2048 LARIMER STREET DENVER, COLO. Opposite the Three Rules. DINNER 11:30 to 2 p.m. ALL KIND BOLDEN BROAD Baths, I FIRST-O R. B. BOLDEN, Manager The Chambers Twentieth Is the DRUGS, CHEMICALS, WE SERVE Prescription Phone us and we will deli JAMES E. PHONE Weather TELEPHON Est PIONEER HA WE MAKE PRACTICE RENOVATORS, BLEACH Of Gents' and Ladies 1624 Cham PHONE MAIN 3028 JOHN Meats, Fancy a 1864 C ALL KINDS OF SANDWICHES DEN BROS. BARBER Baths, Electric Massage FIRST-CLASS SERVICE DEN, Manager 926 19th Champa Phar Twentieth and Champa, Is the place to get your CHEMICALS AND PATENT M WE SERVE DRINKS. Descriptions Our Special and we will deliver the goods to all parts MES E. THRALL, Ph PHONE MAIN 2425. atherhead Ha TELEPHONE MAIN 3203 BOLDEN BROS. BARBER SHOP Baths, Electric Massage FIRST-CLASS SERVICE R. B. BOLDEN, Manager 926 19th St., Denver The Champa Pharmacy Twentieth and Champa, Is the place to get your DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES WE SERVE DRINKS. Prescriptions Our Specialty. Phone us and we will deliver the goods to all parts of the city. JAMES E. THRALL, PROPR. PHONE MAIN 2425. Weatherhead Hat Co. TELEPHONE MAIN 3203 Established 1876 PIONEER HATTERS OF THE WEST WE MAKE OLD HATS NEW PRACTICAL HATTERS STATORS, BLEACHERS DYERS AND FRIES Gents' and Ladies', Hats of Every Descrip- 1624 Champa St., Denver, Colo. IN 3028 RES. PHONE JOHN K. RETTIG Fancy and Staple Grocery 1864 CURTIS STREET seventh. MARKET COMM E. SMITH, Manager, Res. Phone South I d Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty. Fresh and Cured Eastern Corn Fed Me Established 1876 PIONEER HATTERS OF THE WEST WE MAKE OLD HATS NEW PRACTICAL HATTERS RENOVATORS, BLEACHERS DYERS AND FINISHERS Of Gents' and Ladies'. Hats of Every Description 1624 Champa St., Denver, Colo. Meats, Fancy and Staple Groceries 1864 CURTIS STREET The MARK C. E. SMITH, M Wholesale and Retail Staple Hotels and Re Frees Eastern C The MARKET COMPANY C. E. SMITH, Manager, Res. Phone South 1608 Wholesale and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Oystera Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty. Fresh and Cured Eastern Corn Fed Meats Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry and Game. Telephones Main 4302,4303,4304,4305 622-636 15th Street Denver. --- Corner Nineteenth. Sundays Until 2:00 p. m. E AND SANITARY CITY. Snouts, Ears, Pigs Feet, Red Fresh Daily. Fresh Vegetables, Staple Lies. Always st of the City. 1641. DENVER, COLO. Rules. Lunch Room DENVER, COLORADO Short Orders at all Hours WICHES BER SHOP Mage VICE 926 19th St., Denver Pharmacy nampa, for your PATENT MEDICINES AND DRINKS. Specialty. to all parts of the city. LL, PROPR. 925. Red Hat Co. N 3203 6 THE WEST IS NEW ATTERS ERS AND FINISHERS Every Description ver, Colo. ES. PHONE GALLUP 942 ETTIG ample Groceries SEET! COMPANY phone South 1608 proceries, Fish and Oysters or Specialty. ed Meats Denver, Colorado Fruit Bowl HAT Denver, Cola WAR AIM OF U.S. WILSON OUTLINES AMERICA'S PEACE TERMS—NATION TO FIGHT TILL WORLD SAFE PRESIDENT LAYS DOWN SPECI- FIC CONDITIONS THAT MUST BE MET BEFORE WAR CAN END. ‘Wabbit Mawababer Union News tirvien delivered a restatement of war aims Ja agreement with the recgat declara: tion by the British premier, David Lloyd George. ‘The President present- ed a definite program for world peace | containing fourteen specific considera. tions. Text of President's Address. ‘The President spoke as follows: “Gentiemen of the Congress: “Once more, “as repeatedly before, the spokesmen of the central empires have indicated thelr desire to discuss the objects of the war and the possible basis of a general peace. Parieys have been in progress at Brest-Litovsk be- tween" Wussian Fepresentatives © and Topresentatives of the central powers to'which the attention of ait the bel- Horents has been invited for the pur- pose of ancortainini, whether It hay Be possible to extent these parley Into a° general, conference with regard to terms of, peace and settlement. the “tussian representatives pre- sented not only a perfectly” definite Statement of the principles upon which they "would. ‘be “willing, to” conclude peave, but also an equally definite pro- Bram’ of the eoncrete appileation of fiowe principles. {The representatives of the central powers, "on thelr” part, presented an Butling’ of settlement. which, if much Tues definite, “seemed “susceptible of Hoeral “interpretation until thelr spe= tific prograin of practical terms Was added? hat Brogrdin’ proposed mo con: Sessions at all either to soverelanty of Russia ‘or the preferences of the popu- lation’ with those, whose fortunes, It deat but meant ina word. that. the Sentral empires. wore to. Koop every foot or ‘territory tuelr armed. forces had occupied—cvery. province, every tly, svery point of Vantage—as a per favient, addition “to ‘thelr territories and. thelr power. “It is a reasonable conjecture that the ‘geheral “principles of settlement Which they at first ‘suegested, orixl- Rated with the more liberal statesmen of Germany ‘and Austria, the men who Rave begun to feel the force of thelr Own people's” thought and. purpose, Wille the eonerete terms of netual net: tlement came trom the military leaders Who. have no. thought. but to. keep What they hive wot. The negotiations Nave been broken ‘off, “The Busslan Pepresentatives “were sincere and. it cabnet, | They. cantor entertain ‘such roposils of conauest. and dominion. ProPhe whole ineldent 19, full_of sig alficatice, “It Is aiso full of perplexity. With whom are the Russlun represen: Muives’ dealing? “For whom’ are. the Fepresentatives of the central empires Speaking? “Are ‘they speaking ‘for the Majorities of thelr respective parila: Tents or for. the minority parties, that Ilitary, aad” imperialistic. minorlty Which “has. so far dominated. thelr Whole polley and controlied the affairs Of Turkey and of the Balkan ‘states Sehichs have felt gbilzed to become their associates In this war? “The Russian representatives have insisted, ‘very justly, very Wisely and Invthe true ‘spirit of democracy that the conferences, they. have. been’ hold= ing with ‘the Teutonic and. ‘Turkish Statesmen should be held within. open. fot closed doors, and ail'the world has Deon audience 'as was desired. To Whom ‘have we ‘been listening, then? To those who spenic the spirit and.in- tention of the resolutions of the Ger- Than Teichstagr of the Sth of July last, the spirit aud: intention. of ie. Liberal leaaefs and parties of Germany, oF to those who resist. and. defy that spirit And intention and insist upon conquest And subjugation? Or are we listening intact to both unreconclied aud. in Shen and hopeless contradiction? ‘Sthewe are. very serious and. pres nant questions: Upon the answer to them depends the peace of the world. SBut whatever the results of the parleys at Brest-Litovsk, whatever the Renfusions of counsel and. of purpose fn'the utterances of the spokesmen. of tho central empires, they have again Attempted to acquaint the world with| thelr Pobjects “in the war “and. have figain challenged thelr ndversartes, to say what thelr objects are and whit Sort “of settlement they would deem. just ana satisfactory. Bee et one ‘here is no good reason why that challenge should not be responded to Sith the utmost candor, “We. did. not Wait for tte Not once, but again ani Rguin we have iid our whole thought Sha purpose before ‘the ‘world. notin Senetat terms only, but each tle witht Ettticlent definition to take It clear Sriat sort of definitive “arms of set- peene must necessarily upring out of them. “Within the last week Lloyd Georse has upoken with admirable candor and Teadmirable spirit for the people and Eovernment of Great Britain, ‘There Is Fovernfusion of counsel among the ad- Rerserieg’ of ‘the. central powers, "mo Weuettninty of principle, no vagueness Or detail. “the only secrecy of counsel, the only lack bf “fearless frankness, the SEIy faire to make a definite wtate= Make of the objects of the war Tes Tt Germany and her allies. The ts= Bucs tiie and death nang upon these definitions. No statesman who has the least conesption of his responsiblity. ought for°sPtmoment to permit. himself to for ihuethig. tragical and appalling contuNing of blood. and treasure une Phe te sure beyond a peradventure Wat the ‘objects of te vital seritice that tre and parcel of the very life of acidity and. that the people for whom Revansaiea think ‘them night and tm- erative. as he does. : ot “There is, moreover, a volee ealling for these definitions of principle and for irean witch. is, it xeems to me Tore ehriiling cand.” more, compari: More ny of the many. moving voicns than anyon the troubled. alr. of. the Witla ia fitted. tis the voice of the rord is eeaple, Virhey are” prostrate Russian pee P ciples, it would. seem, Rfora tne grim. power of Germany. before the oor Montrose Doctor Dies Answering Call. Dee ae ey oie ae aie Rie lai Montrose Doctor Dies Answering Cell. Montrose.—Dr. J. Q. Allen, 63, cor oner of Montrose county, a Western slope pioneer of twenty-five years. was found dead at the wheel of his auto sixteen miles east of here on Cerro Summit hill. In a heavy bliz ard he was answering a quick call to Cimarron, The wife and three daughters survive. There was no warning of death and the doctor was apparently in the best of health. A special train was sent from here to bring in the body. and no pity. Power Apparently In Shattered. “hele power apparently is shattered and yet thelr soul Is not subservient, They will not yield either in principle or in action, ‘The conception of what is right, of what It ix humano and honorabie for them to accept, has been stated With a frankness, a largeness of View, a generosity of spirit and a uni- Versal human sympathy which must Challenge the “admiration of every friend of mankind; and they have re- fused to compound thelr Ideals oF, de- eert others that they themselves may be. sate, “They eall to us to say whether tt is that we desire, In what, If In anything our purpose and our spirit differ from theirs; and I belleve that the people of the United States would wish me to respond with utter simplicity anc frankness. Whether their present leaders believe it or not, it ix our Neartfelt desire and hope’ that some Way may be opened whereby we may he privileged to assist the people of Russia to attain thelr utmost hope of Liberty and ordered peace. “It will be our Wish and purpose that the processes of peace, when they are begun, shall be absolutely open and that they shall involve and permit henceforth ‘no. secret understandings: of any kind, ‘The day of conquest and dusgrandizement is gone by; so Is also the day of secret covenants entered Into inthe interest of particular gov ernments and likely at some unlooked- for moment to upset the peace of the world. “It Is this happy fact, now clear to the view of every public man whose thoughts do not stil inger in an age that Is dead and gone, which makes it possible for every nation whose pur- poses are consistent with justice and the peace of the world to avow now or atany other time the objects tt has In view. Demands That World Be Safe. “We entered this war because viola- tions of right had occurred which touched us to the quick und made the life of our own people impossible un~ less they were corrected and the world secured once for all against their re- currence, What we demand in tis war, therefore, is nothing peculiar to ourselves, It’ is that the world be made fit and safe to live In; and par- ticularly that it be made safe for every peace-loving nation which, like our own, wishes to live its own life, deter- ming its own institutions, be assured of justice and fair dealings by the other peoples of the world as against force and selfish aggression. “All the peoples of the world are in effect partners in this interest and for Our own part we see very clearly that unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us, ‘The program of the World's peace, therefore, is our program, and. that’ program, ‘the only possible ‘program, as we see ‘it, is this: “1. Open covenants of peace, ovenly arrived at, after which there shall be no. private international ‘understand Ings of any Kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and dn the pub- lie view. "2, Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial wa- ters, alike In peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants “3. ‘The removal, so far as possible, of economic barriers and the establish- ment of an equality of trade condi- tions among all the nations consenting to the peace and. associating them= selves for its maintenance. “jr Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest point consistent with domestic safety. Adjustment of Colonial Claims, “5. A free, open-minded and abso- lntely impartial adjustment of all colo- nial claims, based upon a strict ob- servance of the principle that in deter- mining all such questions of sov- ereignty the interests of the popula- ftions concerned must. have equal welght with the equitable claims of the government whose title Is to be determined. "6 ‘The evacuation of all Russian territory and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will se- Cure the best and freest cooperation of the other nations of the world in ob- taining for her an unhampered and un- embarrassed opportunity for the inde- pendent determination” of her own political development and national pol- ey and assure her of a sincere wel- come into the svciety of free nations under institutions of her own choos- ing; and, more than a welcome, as- sistance ‘also of every Kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sis ter nations In the months to come will De the acid test of thelr good will, of thelr comprehension of her needs’ as distinguished from their own interests and of their intelligent and unselfish sympathy. “7. Belgium, the whole world will agree, must be evacuated and restored without any attempt to limit the sov- éreignty which she enjoys in common. with ail other free nations. No other Single act will serve as this will serve to ‘restore confidence among the na- tions in the laws which they have themselves set and determined for the government of their relations with one another. Without this healing act, the whole structure and validity of inter- national law 1s forever Impaired, Alsuce-Lorraine Must Be Settled, | “8, All French territory should be freed and the invaded portions re- stored and the wrong done to France by Prussia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace-Lorraine, which has unsettled the peace of the world for nearly fifty yenrs, should be righted, in order that peace! may once more be made secure nthe Interest of all, “9. A readjustment of the frontiers of Italy should be effected along clear- ly recosnizable lines of nationality. “10, Phe peoples of Austria-Hungary whose place among the nations we wish to sce safeguarded and assured, Should be accorded the freest opportus nity of autonomous development, “lL Rumania, Montenegro and Ser- bia should be evacuated; occupled ter- ritories restored; Serbia’ accorded free And secure access to the sea; and the felations of the several Balkan states: to one another determined by. friendly counsel alonz historically established lines of allewiance and nationality, and international guarantees of the polit {eal nnd. cconomle Independence and territorial Integrity of the several Bal- Kan states should be entered Into, “12. ‘The ‘Turkish portions of the present Ottoman empire should be as- Sured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which aré now un- der Turkish tule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an ab- solutely unmolested opportunity of au- Lp arphcayt Aah ald abt pdt anergy algal al SA babes Mississippi Ratifies Dry Measure. Jackson, Miss—Fifteen minutes af. ter the subject was presented in Gov. ernor Bilbo’s message to- the State Legislature, both houses ratified the proposed prohibition amendment to the Federal Constitution. The Missis- sippi Assembly is the first to act on the proposed amendment. Chicago.—A call for a special na- tional convention of the Proaibition Party in Chicago March 5 was tasued by Virgil G. Hinshaw, chairman. ‘Giana Wnedéher Wntti the Eud. “In regard to these essential rectifi- cation of ‘wrong. and. assertions of Fight we feel ourselves to be Intimate partners of all the governments. and Peoples associated. tonether against the inperiaists, We cannot be sepa fated Ih Intorest or divided in purpuse. We stand together until the end, “vor such arrangements and’ cove- nants we are Willing to fight and. to Continue. to” Fight und” they are lchieved; but only because we wish the righé to prevail and desire a Just ind ‘stable peace uch is can be Re= Clred only by removinis the chief prov- Oeations to wat, which this proxram does ‘remove. “We have no jealousy of German greatness and there is nothing in this Program that impairs It. We grudsce Aoreno achievement. or ‘distinction of wcarning of of pacific enterprise such is have nade Her record very bright And ‘very enviable, We do not Wish to injure her or block fn! any way her jexitimate. in- fluence or power, We do not wish to fight- her ither’ with arms. or with hostife arrangements of trade, If she fs Willing to associate herself with us &nd the other peace-loving nations of the world In covenants of justice and law and falr dealing. Wer'wint her only to accept a, place of equality among the peoples of the Wworld-the new world In Which we how five-instead of a place of mas- tory. Neither do we presume to susest to her any alteration. or modification of her institutions. But it is necessary, we must frankly say, and necessary as a preliminary to aly intelligent. deal- ings with her on our part. that we should know whoin her dpokesmen Speak for when ‘they “speak. tous, Whether for the Reichstag majority oF forthe military party” And the imen Whose creed is Imperial domination, Ready to Put Strenxth to Tent. “We have spoken now, surely, in terms too concrete. to admit of any further doubt or question. An evident principle runs through the whole pro- Eram Ihave outlined. It isthe. prin= Eipte of Justice to All peoples and na. tionalities und thelr right to lve on equal terms of Iberty and efoty with one another, whether they” be strong or weak. Unies this principle be Made its foundation ‘no part of the structure of International Justice can stan “The people of the United States could act upon no other principle, and to the vindication of this principle they are ready. to devote thelr lives, thelr honor and everything that they pus seas, “Phe moral climax of this, the cul- minating and final war for human Mb- erty has come, and they are ready to put thelr strength, their own. hihest purpose, thelr own iutegrity and devo- Paw to the test FOUR ARRESTED IN NOLAN CASE. District Attorney Says New Evidence Connects Detective and Bartender With Theft. Denver.—New evidence, which, ac- cording to District Attorney Samuel W. Johnson of Adams county connects City Detective Frank H. Mulligan and John Evans, bartender of the Model roadhouse, closely with the robbery of Mrs. Irene Nolan on the morning of Jan, 2, was obtained by the district attorney and Sheriff George 3B. Rucker. Mulligan was arrested by Sheriff Rucker and furnished bond in the sum of $1,000. John and Sidney Evans were arrest- ed at the Model roadhouse by Sheriff Rucker and taken to Brighton, where they were locked up, pending the fur nishing of a bond of $1,000 each. Jacob Fineberg was _ arrested, charged with robbery in connection with the loss of the Nolan diamonds. He gave bond and was released, Mrs. Nolan left Denver to join her husband in Salt Lake City, Father Garret J. Burke, her escort who was deposed from his parish, is believed to be In Chicago at the home of a friend- ly priest. ‘Argentine Arranges. Credit in America Washington. — Argentine has ar- ranged for a credit in favor of the United States of $40,000,000, It is un- derstood that similar arrangements will be made in favor of other allied merchants and that the sum provided in the agreement can later be extend- ed. On the present volume of trade with Argentina this arrangement will save to the merchants of the United States almost $50,000,000 a year in exchange. The value of the dollar has fallen to 93 cents in Buenos Aires from a pre-war value of $1.07. Hindenburg-Ludendorff to Quit. London, Jan. 9.—It is reported that General von Ludendorff, as leader of the militant group in Germeny, has threatened the resignation of himself and Field Marshal von Hindenburg if further countenance is given to men of the type of Dr. von Kuehlmann and Count Czerin, the German and Austrian foreign ministers, Neutral observers declare that the gap be- tween the German parties caused >y the peace negotiations with Russia suddenly has become a chasm so wide that there is little hope of bridging it. jp EE AE SP SPSS TAPE eae Washington.—The Pope has sent autographed letters to the Emperors of Germany and Austria insisting on the cessation of massacres of defense- less women and children and protest- ing against the destruction of art treasures in air raids over Padua, ae- cording to official dispatches received from Rome, Wyoming Has 18,000 Cars. Cheyenne.—The rate at which auto- mobile licenses are being issued by the Wyoming secretary of state indicates that before the end of the present year there will be 18,000 automobiles in this state. ‘This will be one machine for each eleven inhabitants, Railroads File Demurrage Charges. Colorado railroads are complying with the demand for new demurrage schedules requireg by W. G. McAdoo, director general of railroads. The schedules are being filed through the Colorado Public Utilities Commission. Under the increased demurrage rates, the first forty-eight hours will be with- out charge, taen a charge of $3 for the first day will be asked. Rach succeeding day $1 additional will be added until $10 a day {1s reached, and then the charge will be $10 a day HOUSE PASSES SUFFRAGE BILL MORRISON'S FAMOUS JAZZ ORCHESTRA AND ENTERTAINERS GEO. MORRISON, MANAGER Music Furnished for all Occasions Phone Main 2707. Res. 2947 Stout St. DENVER, COLO. ADOPTED, 274 TO 136 CONGRESSMEN LEAVE SICK BEDS TO VOTE—HOUSE OF LORDS UPHOLDS SUFFRAGE. - I. GIBSON SMITH Art Dealer and Manufacturer of Artistic Screens, Dressing Tables, Mirrors and Novelties 1638 Tremont Street. PHONE MAIN 4843 DENVER, COLORADO. ‘Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington.—The Susan B, An- thony amendment to the federal con- stitution granting suffrage to women was approved by the House of Repre- sentatives Jan. 10 by a vote of 274 to 136. The suffragists had not a single vote to spare, although Speaker Clark, who did not vote, in accordance with custom, would have cast a vote in fa- vor of the amendment and sayed it from defeat had it lacked one vote of the required two-thirds majority, Two- thirds of those voting was 274, The Republicans were chiefly responsible for the yote that carried the resolu- tion proposing to submit to the stotes the suffrage amendment. ‘There were 165 Republicans voting for it and only 33 against. Despite President Wilson's advice to members to vote for the resolution, his fellow Democrats in the House were about evenly divided, 104 voting for, and 102 against the resolution. Mann, Sims and Barnhart were among the House members who left sick beds to vote for the amendment. London.—The House of Lords re- jected Lord Loreburn’s amendment to the representation of the People bill by which it was sought to exclude women from“the suffrage. The vote against the amendment was 134 to 69. ; FOR I ii Christmas Presents Jes I. Hansen Watches--Diamonds I hipetyinsies Jewelry ign ccuer Watchmaker and he ae Jeweler FRANK R. TAGGART Announces that he has removed his law offices to 621 and 622 Cooper Building. : Telephone Main 8036 U. S. ARMY READY FOR WAR. Least inet IO bret th tne ee Itch ach chelated ps Fit Equipped for Great Struggle. Washington.—America now has in France an army of “substantial” size ready for active service, Secretary Baker told the Senate War Investi- gating Committee, | Officers and men, he explained in ‘a statement of the mobilization ac- complishments, have been trained spe- ‘cially for modern warfare, independ- ent lines of communication and sup- ply are in process of construction and ‘great programs have been formulated for the production of new instruments ‘of war. Arms of the most modern and effec- tive kind, the secretary declared, have been provided for every soldier in ‘France and are available for every fighting man who can be sent to France in 1918. ‘An army of nearly a million and a half men, enlisted and selected with- out serious dislocation of the nation’s Industries, now is in the field or in training at home and abroad, he as- ‘serted. The subsistence of the army, he continued, has been above criti- cism, while its initial clothing supply, temporarily inadequate, now is sub- stantially complete. “No army of similar size in the his- tory of the world has ever been raised, equipped or trained so quickly. No such provision has ever been made for the comfort, health and general well being of an army, When You Want The Heads, Feet Tails, Snouts Neckbones or Chitlerings, or any other part of the hog except the squeal, go to 9 Ph Maii East’s Market ‘46: 2300-6 Larimer Street Y Makes the home feel comforta- Joye A ble Gt soo! days. Beag ries a eee the home and cuts your fuel bill. BAUUET TEENA Sarge “alsplay of Grates, And: irons, Fire Sets and Fire rn“ f i Screens awaits your inspection 4 Ss 4 here. The McElhinney Tile & Marble Co. PHONE MAIN 5599 427 SEVENTEENTH ST. Cheyenne Has Coldest Day. Cheyenne, Wyo.—Cheyenne’s cold- est day of the winter sent the mer- cury down to 18 degrees below zero Jan. 10. URGED TO ARRANGE PEACE. Bulgars Sign Single Pact With Rus sia and End War. Petrograd, Jan. 11—The German delegations in Petrograd are reported by the Evening Post to have got into touch with the Swedish legation here and to have expressed the desire that Sweden act as a go-between with Great Britain, France and Italy. ° ° Night and Day Mercantile Co. 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Plot. Washington—Through intercepted communication, and evidence found on a score or more of arrested aliens, government agents have discovered # concerted movement to reorganize German sabotage and anti-war propa: ganda in this country, ‘Three Dead, Eleven Hurt in Collision, * Austin, Tex—Three persons wer: killed and eleven injured in a rear end collision between two sections o! the Katy flyer at Granger. THE COLORADO STATESMAN LABOR MAILS IN FREE FRANCE COUNTRY PAINT SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three Months ..... 60 Year ... Months ... Months PAYABLE IN ADDITION used as second-class matter at the post office. D. D. RIVERS. 1824 Curtis Street, Phone Main 7 Using notices, ten lines or less, 10 cents per ten lines, 5 cents per line. Display ad. Remittances should be made by Express or Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Pay as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Discounts allowed on less than three months of all orders from parties unknown to us. 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With the foregoing facts before us, we take a hint and get ready to share in total membership in our lodges, of active work if they would think CONSOLIDATES, with three sister lodges, two Masonries with juvenile, a number of U. B. Rights of Tabor and many others comprise it to them would prove the necessity of a number of our small religious flocks. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. 1824 Curtis Street, Room 25. Phone Main 7417. When lines or less, 10 cents per line. Each one cents per line. Display advertising, 50 cents. Should be made by Express Money Order, Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps with the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1c are saved on less than three months' contract. From parties unknown to us. Further particulars to receive attention must be newsy, unless only upon one side of the paper, manyway not later than Wednesdays, and no manuscript returned, unless stamps are of a personating nature that are not to be withheld from the columns of this paper. CONSOLIDATION THE ORDER OF THE BARTYN HART, of the Episcopal denomination, the consolidation of many of the church economy during the present crisis was on and the church would be possibly faced therein. Following this announcement, two Methodist churches—the Hess Men's Elizabeth Street, and the Simpson Methodist Church—have consolidated, the forms of Church, it is plain, is beginning to take out its propaganda in a real businesslike was given of the consolidation of three Wednesday, resulting in a body numerical organization named the Inter-Church Council in its purpose, has been recently formed for good in the community. Beforegoing facts before us, will our Negro and get ready to share in the progressiveorship in our lodges, of which there are if they would think CONSOLIDATION. The sister lodges, two Masonic, two Odd Friend, a number of U. B. F.'s and Mystery and many others comprise the Negro would prove the necessity for a merger. Your small religious flocks. 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MARTYN HART, of the Episcopal denomination, strongly advocated the consolidation of many of the churches last Sunday evening as economy during the present crisis was being adopted in every organization and the church would be possibly better off if the same was practiced therein. Following this announcement comes the information that two Methodist churches—the Hess Memorial, Thirty-first Avenue and Elizabeth Street, and the Simpson Methodist, Thirty-fourth Avenue and High Street—have consolidated, the former merging with the latter. The Church, it is plain, is beginning to take on a business phase and work out its propaganda in a real businesslike form. Publication was given of the consolidation of three Pythian lodges (white) last Wednesday, resulting in a body numerically and financially stronger. An organization named the Inter-Church Council of Denver, interdenominational in its purpose, has been recently formed and already is becoming a power for good in the community. With the foregoing facts before us, will our Negro churches, lodges, etc., take a hint and get ready to share in the progressive order of things? The total membership in our lodges, of which there are several, could do effective work if they would think CONSOLIDATION. Three K. of P. lodges, with three sister lodges, two Masonic, two Odd Fellows and sister lodges with juvenile, a number of U. B. F.'s and Mysterious Ten, Elks, Knights of Tabor and many others comprise the Negro fraternal societies. A visit to them would prove the necessity for a merger. The same applies to a number of our small religious flocks. WILL SOME ONE MAKE A MOVE? EXECUTION OF SOLDIERS CAUSES In order, issued by President Wilson, pro- vided American soldiers, except in General P. sentences of the court-martial have been received with general satisfaction. We verdict of the court sentencing to death enty-fourth Infantry for rioting in Hous- view the death penalty in future cases is suddenly sure no injustice is done. We have never challenged or questioned the trial of the unfortunate Thirteen, but the commander-in-chief of the army, had been a chance for those lives. How after late than never," we are glad that in governmental circles that the order orders of the same company are sentences board will have an opportunity of hav- y lives. We realize how severe the m war, but civilian as well as soldier show never heinous the crime, and the Chief M itution, should have the final word. We cannot help those who have been sum- taste will be again carried out and the w honest result of the final review of thou- ng that real justice is always tempered. ACTION OF SOLDIERS CAUSES PRESIDENT WILSON led by President Wilson, prohibiting the executions of soldiers, except in General Pershing's forces in the court-martial have been reviewed by the high general satisfaction. While no fault lies in the court sentencing to death thirteen Negro soldiers for rioting in Houston, Texas, it is with penalty in future cases so that the War no injustice is done. Her challenged or questioned the righteousness of unfortunate Thirteen, but we thought if the in-chief of the army, had reviewed the nature for those lives. However, in thinking never," we are glad that this incident in fatal circles that the order results, and no company are sentenced to death, there have an opportunity of having the last say realize how severe the military penalty is as well as soldier should be given to the crime, and the Chief Magistrate, in order have the final word. We trust sincerely those who have been summarily dealt with again carried out and the whole American of the final review of those now under justice is always tempered with mercy. EXECUTION OF SOLDIERS CAUSES PRESIDENTIAL ORDER. An order, issued by President Wilson, prohibiting the execution of any more American soldiers, except in General Pershing's forces abroad before the sentences of the court-martial have been reviewed by the War Department was received with general satisfaction. While no fault has been found in the verdict of the court sentencing to death thirteen Negro troopers of the Twenty-fourth Infantry for rioting in Houston, Texas, it was felt advisable to review the death penalty in future cases so that the War Department may be doubly sure no injustice is done. We have never challenged or questioned the righteousness of the verdict in the trial of the unfortunate Thirteen, but we thought if the President, who is the commander-in-chief of the army, had reviewed the matter there might have been a chance for those lives. However, in thinking of the adage—"Better late than never," we are glad that this incident has caused such a stir in governmental circles that the order results, and now that five more troopers of the same company are sentenced to death, the President and his war board will have an opportunity of having the last say, which may save many lives. We realize how severe the military penalty is, especially during war, but civilian as well as soldier should be given the right of appeal however heinous the crime, and the Chief Magistrate, in accordance with our constitution, should have the final word. We trust sincerely, though this order cannot help those who have been summarily dealt with, that no action of haste will be again carried out and the whole American public will accept the honest result of the final review of those now under sentence of death, feeling that real justice is always tempered with mercy. THE NEGRO AND THE WORLD WAR WE are specially requesting our subscri- COLORADO STATESMAN to read at the front page of this issue, the same "ro," and to follow its continuation in suc- Williams of the editorial staff of THE SO- mends itself to every American who l new men as well as remove from the min- ills it has met out to a race not respi- ration to be gotten by the Negro popu- let forth by Mr. Williams must bring ab- y member of this race think of the fact realizes the part he has played in the w rally requesting our subscribers and other STATESMAN to read carefully the aage of this issue, the same entitled "The W allow its continuation in succeeding issue. the editorial staff of THE SOUTHERN WOR to every American who lives the spirit as remove from the mind, warped by a deter out to a race not responsible for its gotten by the Negro population from such er. Williams must bring about that UNIT this race think of the facts pertaining to art he has played in the world's gigantic WE are specially requesting our subscribers and other readers of the COLORADO STATESMAN to read carefully the article published on the front page of this issue, the same entitled "The World War and the Negro," and to follow its continuation in succeeding issue. Written by W. T. B. Williams of the editorial staff of THE SOUTHERN WORKMAN, the article commends itself to every American who lives the spirit of fairness to his fellow men as well as remove from the mind, warped by grim prejudice, all the ills it has meted out to a race not responsible for its appearance. The inspiration to be gotten by the Negro population from such logical arguments as set forth by Mr. Williams must bring about that UNITY, which will make every member of this race think of the facts pertaining to himself, and when he realizes the part he has played in the world's gigantic struggles for freedom, he is compelled to conclude that he must be active now as then, as the result of this conflict will help to shape his destiny. The writer, fully acquainted with facts pertaining to the Negro the world over, offers information which many persons of the other side are ignorant of, in matters relating to their achievements, their help to the white race wherever they live or whoever they serve, and proving the thinking powers of the Negro, he quotes their opinion prior to our entrance into the war and their action when the United States declared war—this attitude winning instantly the admiration of their white fellow-citizens. More of such noble-hearted, loyal, faithful citizens by their writings will bring about the desired end which will be welcomed by black and white alike, standing on the platform of unquestioned citizenship of a democracy that will merit the world's highest commendation. The following from the New York "Times" shows that the time has come when the cause of freedom and right for the people of this race will be established and we can only pray that it hastens: "Like a pathetic romance runs the story of our soldiers in black. Too little has been told about them by writers of American history. A better understanding between the races might have long ago materialized had a page or two here and there from the musty old government reports and official war records, long buried in the dustiest corners of big libraries, been inserted in the text books on American History, giving the Negro's part in the nation's wars." This has not been done, but thanks to The Southern Workman and Editor Williams, who in continuing to give such publications to the world, will contribute largely to a new formation of the minds of the human family. Loyalty Is First Duty of Every Citizen of United States Today demanded by the present crisis. Whatever, therefore, congress may decide should be unequivocally complied with by every patriotic citizen. The members of both houses of congress are the instruments of God in guiding us in our civic duties. It behooves all of us, therefore, to pray that the Lord of Hosts may inspire our national legislature and executive to frame such laws in the present crisis as will redound to the glory of our country, to righteousness of conduct, and to the future permanent peace of the nations of the world. Appearance of the American Soldier Has Always Impressed Observers Several foreign papers have remarked on the appearance of the American soldier, as a type so strongly set in its individuality that it has evoked interest in a world whose jaded vision can but picture men in khaki. What in him has gained such wide attention? It is the American look—that expression of intensified keenness, the look connoting eagerness, zest, and—best of all—still unsatisfied interest in the world. As far back as 1777, when Burgoyne with his Hessians surrendered to the colonial army after the battle of Saratoga, that same impression of the American expression was apparent. A Hessian prisoner wrote in his memoirs: "We passed through the American camp in which all the regiments stood under arms. Not one of them was uniformly clad; each had on the clothes which he wore in the fields, the church or the tavern. "They stood, however, like soldiers; well arranged and with a military air, in which there was but little to find fault. All the muskets had bayonets, and the sharpshooters had rifles. The men all stood so still we were filled with wonder. Not one of them made a single motion as if he would speak with his neighbor. Nay, more, all the lads that stood there in rank and file, kind nature had formed so trim, so slender, so nervous, that it was a pleasure to look at them, and we were all surprised at such a well-formed race." If the Hessian's ghost returned today, he would still find "the slim, nervous lads that stood in rank and file," with the same silent expression of courage and fire—but now clad in khaki in place of homespun. Through this internaturalization of all peoples has come a product yet unknown—the American soldier. For the butcher's boy, the millionaire's son, the clerk, the sport and the professor have joined the army. Children of United States Can Do Much to Reduce Food Wastage Children of United States Can Do Much to Reduce Food Wastage If every child and young person in the United States can be induced to reduce food wastage to the extent of six cents per day the total will amount to a saving of $2,000,000 annually. It is estimated that our European allies are short this year to the amount of 500,000,000 bushels of grain and 30,000,000 food-producing animals. Our own stocks of these materials are the lowest in recent times. The situation calls for a shipment of at least 1,250,000,000 bushels of our grain abroad. Now, those who have plenty of other things to eat can and must cut down on their allowance of these transportable food-stuffs. Now, how may we enlist all our young people in this tremendous food drive? What lines of conservation must be especially emphasized? Apparently there is only one practical and effective method of appeal to the child for his help in this movement, and that is to arouse the juvenile sense of fellowship and sympathy for his kind. Here we have a strong racial motive. The sympathy of children for adults is weak, but for those of their age and class it is strong. The lines of food conservation most to be emphasized are: First, the wheat products; second, the animal products, and third, the sugar. There must be a further reduction in the use of wheat, wheat flour, meats of all kinds, butter, fats and sugar. And a little reasoning will show how easily we can accomplish this task without going hungry. In no sense is an underfeeding of our children contemplated. That would be poor economy. There can be a change in the quality of that now carelessly used without any reduction in the body-building value. As a Matter of Wise Policy Suffrage Is Not to Be Denied to Women By FRANKLIN K. LANE, Secretary of the Interior I see no reason to fear woman suffrage. It has not worked disaster in California. To be sure, it is not a panacea for all political and social ills; nor can any other change in the political machinery of the state be a cure-all. Nations are not made wise nor virtuous by their laws. But this is an industrial world, and those who do the work, whether men or women, are not to be denied their opportunity for protection and advancement through the action of the state. As a matter of political philosophy suffrage cannot be put aside, and as a matter of wise policy it is not to be denied. No por Tomas! By JAMES CARDINAL GIBBONS In the present emergency it beho- uman citizen to do his duty and to up- the president and the legislative de- solemn obligations that confront us. The primary duty of a citizen in- try. This loyalty is manifested more words; by solemn service rather than lamination. It is exhibited by an al- served obedience to his country's call. Both houses of congress, with u- charged and sworn to frame those present crisis. Whatever, therefore, con- vocally complied with by every patric- houses of congress are the instrument-ic duties. It behooves all of us, there- is may inspire our national legislature in the present crisis as will redound to coussiness of conduct, and to the future of the world. Insurance of the American S- Always Impressed Obse In the present emergency it behooves every American citizen to do his duty and to uphold the hands of the president and the legislative department in the solemn obligations that confront us. The primary duty of a citizen is loyalty to country. This loyalty is manifested more by acts than by words; by solemn service rather than by empty declamation. It is exhibited by an absolute and unreserved obedience to his country's call. Both houses of congress, with the executive, are charged and sworn to frame those laws that are By GERTRUDE P. BISHOP sign papers have remarked on the a as a type so strongly set in its individ in a world whose jaded vision can bu PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN. E. 23rd Ave. and Washington Street— J. A. Thos-Hazell, S. T. B., Presbyter. Sermon topics Sunday, Jan. 13, 1918: 11 a. m.—"Church Humbugs." 5 p. m.—"A Prayer for the Church." We have entered the last quarter of the church year of the Presbyter- ian church. We appeal to the mem- borship to so regulate their business that the present church year may share equi-credit as compared with past achievements and standing in the Presbytery of Denver. The Presbytery of Denver convenes in regular stated meeting Tuesday, Jan. 15th, 9:30 a. m., Capitol Heights church, Thirteenth Ave. car to Fillmore, one block south. Conferences 11:45 to 12:30. "Evangelistic Work," Dr. F. E. Smiley presiding; 2:15 to 3:00 p. m., "In Honor of the Enlisted Men and Women of the Churches of the Presbytery," conducted by Dr. W. H. Wray Boyle. Permanent committees on "Church Election," "Freedmen," "American Bible and Tract Societies" will report. Luncheon 35 cents. Rev. Chas. G. Williams, Ph., D., moderator. Rev. W. Williams, stated clerk. Nine years ago the Rev. J. A. Thos. Hazell became Presbyter of the People's church. From the date of his incumbency the policy of the Presbyter and church has been to exercise a ministry to all the people within and without his immediate church circle, within the city limits and beyond the geographical zone of Denver. Special attention has been given to the development of the youth, whether in the church or otherwise. Rising musicians have been a positive result of such effort. Adults showing the least ability in vocal music have been laid hold of and in course of time become noteworthy characters before the Denver public. The choir of the church, assisted by others, have made lasting impressions before the largest white church of the city. Men and women outside of our own communion bear daily testimony of our contribution whereby their daily lives have been made happier and the burdens of life alleviated, especially where the "Bread and Butter" question was a live issue. In the furtherance of our original policy we hereby intimate that on Tuesday night, Jan. 29th, a testimonial will be given in the People's Presbyterian church on behalf of Miss Mabel Cole, a contralto songstress of much force, quality and ability—a student of one of the leading musical colleges of the city. Her teacher occupies a prominent place in one of the leading Presbyterian churches of this Presbytery. Miss Cole, though a communicant of the People's church is a valuable asset of the community. We appeal to the community to register its appreciation of this young lady by buying a ticket and attend the concert as scheduled for the above named date. FUNERAL NOTICES, DOUGLAS UND DERTAKING CO. Mrs. Cora Fisher, age 49, devoted wife of Jefferson Fisher, departed this life Saturday, January 5th at residence, 1064 Emerson street. Funeral service was held Tuesday,' January 8th at 2 p. m. from Shorter Chapel, Rev. C. A. Williams, pastor, officiated, Interment at Fairmount. Roy Hudson aged 32, beloved son of Mrs. Benj. Hudson, departed this life Sunday, January 6th, at residence, 711 Seventeenth avenue. Funeral services were held Wednesday, January 9th, 2 p. m., from Douglass Chapel. Rev. C. A. Williams officiated. Interment Riverside cemetery. Mrs. Charles Mulligan, age 45, late of Conway, Ark., departed this life Monday, January 7th. Funeral notice later. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. Eaton—The funeral of Thomas Eaton on late of 2940 High street, the beloved husband of Mrs. Fannie Eaton, who departed this life Wednesday, January 2, was held from Central Baptist Church Tuesday, January 8th. Cammel & Co. in charge. Jenkins—Samuel Jenkins, formerly of St. Louis, Mo., and late of 2516 Welton street, departed this life Monday, January 7th. Remains will be shipped to Tullahoma, Tenn. Cammel & Co. in charge. Bossy—Henry Bossy, late of 119 Twenty-third street. Remains at Cammel & Co.'s parlers awaiting location of relatives. CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank my many friends and neighbors who kindly assisted me during the illness and death of my beloved husband, Mr. Thos. Eaton, and I further desire to express my gratefulness to all who sent the many beautiful floral offerings. May God bless each one of you and may He keep you from all harm and danger. MRS. FANNIE EATON. 2940 High St. EATON COLORADO NEWS. The Beet campaign is about oven and the sugar factory is closing down for the season. Men have been working both night and day for the past three months. They will now have a little rest. Several of the young men went to Cheyenne Saturday night for the purpose of purchasing certain goods for their stomach's sake, and behold, their train was late and didn't arrive in Cheyenne until all trading places were closed. Therefore they returned Sunday morning very much disappointed. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harper within the past few weeks have lost eight of the finest shoats that were around here anywhere. The disease was not known by the owners. The Baptist Mission Sunday school is progressing nicely, good attendance each Sunday. William Dabney, supt. ```markdown ``` Western Newspaper Union News Service. STATE TAX TO BRING $4,066,000. Increase of $94,700,000 in Assessments Reported by State Treasurer. Denver.—After all, the dollar talks. So thinks Robert H. Higgins, state treasurer. He says the 1917 state levy is going to "talk" into the state treasury a tune that will represent $758,300 in the way of general revenues. The floating indebtedness of the commonwealth, anchored safely with legislative "buoys," Treasurer Higgins says, was $667,512 in outstanding warrants Dec. 1. Prosperity marks the beginning of a new year, judging from the strong close of 1917, in the opinion of the state treasurer, who has seen Colorado's property and land valuations climb the financial ladder. The 1917 assessment for tax purposes was placed at $1,305,700,000, an increase of $94,700,000 over 1916, when the valuation was placed at $1,211,000,000. There is due the commonwealth, therefore, for taxes an increase of $1,566,000 for 1917 returns. The 1917 taxes will aggregate $4,066,000, as against $2,500,000 for 1916. Following is the treasurer's annual statement covering the period from Dec. 1, 1916, to Nov. 30, 1917: Cash on hand Dec. 1, 1916, $2,389,231.44; total receipts, $6,639,569.26; total available, $9,028,800.70; total disbursements, $6,457,405.79, and cash on hand Nov. 30, 1917, $2,571,394.91. New Recruiting Order Issued. Major C. N. Barney, in charge of the Denver recruiting district, which includes Colorado and Wyoming, has issued the following information applicable to all men desiring to enlist: Army recruiting stations are now located at Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Trinidad, LaJunta, Grand Junction and Durango, in Colorado and at Sheridan and Casper in Wyoming. The following are eligible for voluntary enlistment in the army: Able-bodied men of good character who have reached their eighteenth birthdays, who are not subject to selective draft and who have not passed their forty-first birthdays. They must speak the English language, must not be subjects to Germany or any other country allied with Germany or by Greece. Married men are eligible under the same conditions as single men. Agree on State Inspection Standard. There will be no conflict between orders of the factory inspection department, the State Industrial Commission and accident insurance companies in the future, as a result of a meeting of representatives of the two state departments and the insurance companies. At this meeting, called by State Labor Commissioner W. L. Morrissey, resolutions were adopted which will leave an employer no longer in doubt regarding what measures he must take for the protection of his employés. To Reforest Mountain Park. The forest service will co-operate with the Denver municipal authorities next spring in the reforestation of certain barren and denuded acres within the Denver mountain park. Some 25,000 or more 3-year-old yellow pine and Douglas fir trees will be supplied by the forest service nursery at Monument for planting along Bear creek, over Lookout mountain, and at other points adjoining the auto highway through the park. Food Controllers to Meet. State and county food administrators of nine states are expected to attend the two days' conference of food officials during stock show week, according to an announcement made by Robert J. Grant, executive manager in the office of the Colorado division. The conference dates are Jan. 22 and 23. The states besides Colorado included Wyoming, Utah, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Texas, Montana, Idaho and Arizona. --- To Increase Colorado Hospital. That the government intends to increase the University of Colorado Base Hospital unit, organized in Denver as "Denver Red Cross Base Hospital, No. 29." from a unit of 500 beds to one of a thousand, is the belief of base hospital officers. Aarnum Is Made Supply Sergeant. Earl T. Barnum, Denver Sammy at Camp Travis, Tex., has been promoted to be supply sergeant, according to advices received by Denver recruiting officers. To Suspend Laws Governing Labor. The National Council of Defense at Washington wired Governor Gunter to consider the advisability of suspending Colorado laws applicable to the regulation of labor in industries which are working on war orders. The eight-hour law for women and the statute governing the work of children are the principal laws affected in this state. Permits granting such requests are to be issued by the governor, stating that a war emergency or the public welfare require such suspension. THE COLORADO STATESMAN Mr. and Mrs. D. B. W. May, 1424 East Twenty-fifth avenue, are the proud parents of a fine son born Monday, December 31st. Mother and son are doing nicely. OWL OIL COMPANY. Acknowledgment of receipt of circular letter from the Owl Company is herein made an One of the most interesting social events on the calendar is the annual entertainment to be given by the U. B. F. & S. M. T. at Fern hall, Thursday, Jan. 17th. Don't miss it. Admission 30 cents. Morrison's orchestra. Miss Hermione Jones arrived home December 25th from Jacksonville, Fla. Miss Jones was teaching music in one of the schools there, but on account of her health was obliged to give up her work and return to Denver. A grand time was had at Fern hall on Jan. 3rd, the occasion being the fourteenth anniversary of Pythian Lodge No. 11, K of P. The hall was thronged with members and friends who witnessed a unique program. Short and spicy addresses were made by Dr. J. H. P. Westbrook, Dr. S. A. Huff and others. It was an evening of mirth and one that will not soon be forgotten. Responding to an invitation extended by the Dumas Reading club, representatives from the Self-Improvement, Taka Art and Coterie clubs met and formed an organization to be known as the Literary Alliance. Meetings to be held every three months. The following were elected officers: President, Mrs. Herndon; vice-president, Mrs. J. R. Contee; secretary, Mrs. Gash; treasurer, Mrs. Cooper; critic, Mrs. Jenkins. Next meeting to be held in March. Don't fail to attend the entertainment to be given at Fern hall Thursday, Jan. 17th, by the U. B. F. & S. M. T. Good time and music by Morrison's orchestra. Admission 30 cents. BRILLIANT ENTERTAINMENT. Mrs. Charles Thomas of Kansas City, Mo., was the honor guest at an attractive luncheon last Saturday, presided over by her niece, Mrs. Albert Stevens of 1022 Nineteenth avenue. Invited to meet Mrs. Thomas were Mesdames Chas. Muse, Lee Blagburn, Frank Turner, Walter Vernell, Clark Craig, Chas. Jones and J. D. D. Rivers. The decorations were yellow chrysantheums, which harmonized with the beautiful gown of the guest of honor. Beautiful musical strains from the Victrola lent an additional enjoyment to the luncheon of fine appointments, and Mrs. Stevens was declared a matron of fine taste from the superior provision and service she offered her guests. "One of the happiest events of our lives," was the expression of the guests for the privilege extended them to meet the honor guest and the enjoyment of the hostess' hospitality. CHARLES A. TARBEL GETS NEW POSITION. Charles A. Tarbel, advertising and sales manager of the May Company, Denver's leading store for men's clothing, has been appointed retail sales manager of the Denver branch of the great Willys-Overland Automobile Company. A resident of the city for many years, Mr. Tarbel served the May Company for the past eight years, where his genial disposition and original business ideas won him a large circle of friends and business acquaintances. He is identified with the leading commercial associations, pleasure clubs, etc., in the city, and his policy in advertising his firm in every news journal that reaches all classes of the people, has made the May Company a store of attraction for the public. Having been associated with the press for a number of years in various capacities, Mr. Tarbel is qualified to bring great successes in whatever sphere he labors, and while he will be much missed by his associates in his former position, yet he carries their good wishes for a most successful career in his new job. THE COLORADO STATESMAN. ever mindful of his help, hopes a very bright future for this gentleman whose popularity is the result of his arduous toll in whatever he undertakes and which never falls short of success. We are sure he will give every satisfaction in his new appointment. Everybody bear in mind the big event at Fern hall next Thursday night, Jan. 17, by the U. B. F. & S. M. T. Admission 30 cents. Morrison's orchestra. OWL OIL COMPANY. Acknowledgment of receipt of a circular letter from the Owl Oil Company is herein made and it gives us pleasure to inform the public that every prospect of success is assured stockholders in this company. An opportunity is afforded for each stockholder to increase his or her shares, which can be secured at 5 cents per share, as the next transaction will be the payment of dividends. A better inducement could not be offered and we advise that this opportunity be not allowed to slip by. See O. W. Lovan, president and general sales agent, 504 Colorado Bldg. who will be pleased to give every information beneficial to stockholders. MRS. CORA FISHER WELL-BE LOVED CITIZEN, OBEYS THE SUMMONS. In the passing away of Mrs. Cora Fisher, who obeyed the summons to eternity last Saturday evening after 49 years of existence we have lost a citizen of much worth to our community and one whose life stood out as an example for good in the circle in which she moved. Quiet and unassuming with an amiable disposition that made her many friends, she lived in Denver for many years, having been reared by the late Mrs. Unity Hall from a very early age, coming from Kentucky, where she was born, being left an orphan through the death of her parents. An ardent church worker from her youth she was a faithful member of Shorter A. M. E. church and her services toward the upkeep of the work will not be easily forgotten. A friend of the COLORADO STATESMAN and a lover of her race, she was never slow in promoting the interests of her people, and in her contact with white citizens her actions won respect and commendation of the highest degree. Funeral services were held on Tuesday from Shorter church, attended by large numbers, among whom was a fair percentage of white persons. Floral offerings were beautiful and numerous, the Rev. Williams officiating. She leaves to mourn her death a loving husband, Jefferson Fisher, an uncle and aunt, Mr. Jordan White and Mrs. Fannie Woods, prominent residents of this city, and numerous friends and acquaintances in whose memory she will be ever present as "she is not dead, but sleepep." Interment at Fairmount Cemetery, Douglass Undertaing Co. in charge. Our deepest sympathy is extended Our deepest sympathy is extended to the bereaved husband and relatives. EAGLE OIL COMPANY. Eagle Oil Company has adopted the cry "On to Weld county," which is the latest development in the new oil field. Stock is still selling at 5 cents per share, but will surely advance three or four times within the next thirty days. The large acreage under lease to this company in the heart of the oil producing district is pronounced by geologists to be of the greatest importance and persons desiring stock should not hesitate. Call at 215-16 Ideal Building and get direct information on this oil boom. CAMPBELL CHAPEL AFRICAN M. E. CHURCH. Twenty-third and Lawrence Streets, A. M. Ward, Minister, 1218 Twenty-third Street. Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. Preaching, 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Class meeting, 12:45 p. m. Allen C. E. League, 6:30 p. m. Prayer and Class meeting, Wednesday, 8 p. m. Revival services are to begin in Campbell chapel on Sunday. Pastor A. M. Ward is to be assisted for two weeks by the Rev. S. R. Maguinez of Trinidad as evangelist and Rev. C. A. Williams of Shorter chapel. All Christians are invited to "Come over into Macedonia and help us." Praise service will begin at 7:30 each evening. Interesting services were held last Sunday. There were six accessions to the membership, including Mr. William Brown, son of Mrs. Minerva Brown, who is confined to his bed sick. The drama entitled "Fifty Years of Freedom, or From Cabin to Congress," written by Katherine Davis Tillman, noted author of color, was successfully rendered at Campbell chapel on Thursday evening. The play was given under the auspices of the Usher's club. Mrs. Lydia Seward-Ward was manager. Those who played the role of characters were Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Caldwell, Mrs. Engene Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Readie Stuart, Miss Ethel Fitzhugh, Mr. Alfred Keith, Mr. and Mrs. Browning Allen, Mrs. David W. Mallard, Mr. Wendell Allen, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Simpson, Mrs. Willie Hallie Howard, Mr. E. L. Lollard, Miss Stella Reid, Mr. Fred Britton, Mr. Roy Brown, Miles Taylor and Charles Banks. A large and representative audience crowded the church. WHERE AND IN WHAT QUALITY. The following article gives very clearly the information that the public is anxious to know and after carefully reviewing the facts below, THE COLORADO STATESMAN advises that everyone should endeavor to be particularly interested in this industry, which is attracting the world to a great extent. AS TO THE NECESSITY AND DE- MAND FOR OIL THERE IS NO ARGUMENT NECESSARY. The Greatest Question Is Where to Find It and in the Greatest Quantities. Seventeen states in the United States now produce oil in commercial quantities, namely, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, California, Indiana, Texas, Louisiana and Montana. These are divided up into seven fields, namely: The Appalachian field, embracing Pennsylvania, New York, portions of West Virginia and Kentucky, Lima-Indiana field, embracing Lima, O., and parts of Indiana. Illinois field, embracing Illinois. Mid-Continent field, embracing Kansas, Oklahoma, northern Texas and northern Louisiana. Gulf field, embracing coastal Texas and coastal Louisiana. Embracing southern California field, embracing southern California and the coast. Rocky Mountain field, embracing Wyoming, Colorado and Montana. Wyoming, Colorado and Montana. Oil was first discovered in Pennsylvania in 1767. Became a commercial product in the United States in 1859. Fifteen countries in the world produce oil, namely, United States, Russia, Mexico, Dutch East Indies, Rumania, India, Galicia, Japan, Peru, Trinidad, Germany, Argentine, Egypt, Italy and Canada. In 1916 the United States produced 300,767,158 barrels of crude oil, or nearly double that of all the rest of the world combined. The Mid-Continent field produced 136,934,939 barrels in 1916, or 45 per cent of all the oil produced in the United States, or 30 per cent of all the oil produced in the world. Of the 136,934,939 barrels produced in the Mid-Continent field in 1916 Oklahoma produced over 106,000,000 barrels, or nearly three times as much as all the other states in that field combined. Oil was first discovered in Oklahoma in 1900. Became a commercial product in 1902. Rogers county is one among the first fields opened up and wells brought in in 1904 at a depth of 260 feet to 400 feet are still producing oil. One plant of ten wells brought in in 1906 has averaged 15 barrels per day or $1½ barrels each, which makes 5,475 barrels per year or 60,225 barrels in eleven years, which at an average price of 60 cents per barrel makes $36,135 income in the eleven years. This was made on an investment of $5,000 to install the wells eleven years ago, or 722.7 per cent profit—not a bad investment. What would 100 barrels per day production at $2.00 per barrels amount to in eleven years? Figure it out. In considering an oil investment look up The Owl Oil Company, 504 Colorado Bldg., Denver, Colo. Stock now selling at 5 cents per share. NEGRO COMMERCIAL ASSOCIATION. A mass meeting will be held in the Zion Baptist Church, Twenty-fourth and Ogden, Friday evening, January 18th, at 8 o'clock. in the interest of the above association. Prominent business men of the city of Denver will address the meeting. All interested in the welfare of the race are urged to attend. Michaelson's Corner of 15th and Larimer Sts. OUR JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE Includes Women's Footwear at $3.95, Novelty boots worth $6 and $7. Men's Clothing, including Adler's Collegian make, 10 per cent off from present prices, which means 50 per cent less than you pay next winter. Get the habit of trading at Michaelson's and you will always save much money. The Challenge We believe we have one of the best oil invest- ments ever The Challenge We believe we have one of the best oil investments ever offered. We challenge your investigation. Write today for full information. We want you to thoroughly understand this oil offering before you buy stock in any company. FREE TO YOU Off maps, full information, References, etc. Bald Eagle Oil & Refining Co. 413-414 Denham Building DENVER, COLO. 15.00 Coat Sale The "OWL" Oil Company's Stock O. W. LOVAN President and General Sales Agent 504 COLORADO BLDG. DENVER, COLORADO OIL COMPANY O. W. President a 504 COLORA Two light housekeeping apartments, also two furnished rooms; house modern, all except furniture; one block from car line; good location. Mrs. Rhoda Browning, 3016 California St. FOR RENT — Neatly furnished rooms, permanent and transient, with privilege of kitchen and other con. The Owl Oil Co. is now three months old and in addition to its 360 acres in the Chelsea, Okla., field it has acquired 160 acres in the Electra field, Texas, a portion of the T. M. Kellas ranch in Wilbargar County. No less than ten Denver corporations have secured land in this field and it will be developed during the year. The Owl Company has now made arrangements for easing and expects to be able to bring in two wells in the Chelsea field during this month. This stock has now advanced to 5e a share and only a limited amount is to be sold at that price. When the Chelsea leases are sufficiently developed the price will be again advanced according to production, and one-half of all the production less the royalties will be placed in the bank as a dividend fund as the oil is produced and sold from each well. For a good, safe investment buy the Owl oil stock at 5e a share. Joslin DRY GOODS CO. The Owl Oil Co. is now tion to its 360 acres in the C quired 160 acres in the Elec the T. M. Kellas ranch in than ten Denver corporation field and it will be developed. The Owl Company has easing and expects to be able Chelsea field during this m. This stock has now adv a limited amount is to be s Chelsea leases are sufficient be again advanced accord half of all the production le in the bank as a dividend f sold from each well. For a good, safe invest 5e a share. W. LOV and General Sa RADO BLDG. DENVER, C veniences. Well heated. Curtis and Lawrence street cars pass the door; 2346 Curtis street. MRS. KATHERINE EDWARDS. FOR RENT—5-room frame house at 2360 Tremont Place. Apply at 1824 Curtis street. Room 25. Few Mendicants. Though the city of Panama is a cosmopolitan place, practically every race being represented in its 60,000 inhabitants, there are no beggars except a few blind men. AIMED TO MAKE POLAND DESERT German System Reckoned on Starvation of People to Promote Imperial Ends. VON KRIES REVEALED PLOT Country, After Population Had Been Systematically Done to Death, Was to Be Restocked by Settlers From Germany. The extent of human misery in Poland caused by the German occupation was as great as that in Belgium and France. The entire heartlessness which characterized the kaiser's high officers is well shown in a statement by Mr. Vernon Kellogg, prepared for a pamphlet issued by the committee on public information, which we copy. The systematic exploitation of human misery by the German authorities in Poland followed the general plan laid down by the kaiser's orders. In order to prove the identity of procedure it will be enough to present the detailed report prepared specially for a pamphlet issued by the committee on public information and written by Mr. Frederic C. Widecott. A fuller and in some ways more touching treatment is given in his article, "Devastated Poland," in the National Geographic Magazine for May, 1917. "September, 1917. "Poland—Russian Poland—its perishing. And the German high command, imbued with the Prussian system, is coolly reckoning on the necessities of a starving people to promote its imperial ends. "West Poland, which has been Prussian territory more than a hundred years, is a disappointment to Germany: its people obstinately remain Poles. This time they propose swifter measures. In two or three years, by grace of starvation and frightfulness, they calculate East Poland will be thoroughly made over into a German province. "In the great Hindenburg drive one year ago, the country was completely devastated by the retreating Russian army and the oncoming Germans. A million people were driven from their homes. Half of them perished by the roadside. For miles and miles, when I saw the country, the way was littered with mudsoaked garments and bones picked clean by the crows—though the larger bones had been gathered by the thrifty Germans to be ground into fertilizer. Deliberate Policy of Starvation. "Warsaw, which had not been destroyed—once a proud city of a million people—was utterly stricken. Poor folks by thousands lined the streets, leaning against the buildings, shivering in snow and rain, too weak to lift a hand, dying of cold and hunger. Though the rich gave all they had, and the poor shared their last crust, they were starving there in the streets in droves. "In the stricken city, the German governor of Warsaw issued a proclamation. All able-bodied Poles were bidden to go to Germany to work. If any refused, let no other Pole give him to eat, not so much as a mouthful, under penalty of German military law. "It was more than the mind could grasp. To the husband and father of broken families, the high command gave this decree: Leave your families to starve; if you stay, we shall see that you do starve—this to a high-struggle, sensitive, highly organized people, this from the authorities of a nation professing civilization and religion to millions of fellow Christians captive and starving. "General von Kries, the governor, was kind enough to explain. Candidly, they preferred not quite so much starvation; It might get on the nerves of the German soldiers. But, starvation being present, it must work for German purpose. Taking advantage of this wretchedness, the working men of Poland were to be removed; the country was to be restocked with Germans. It was country Germany needed—rich altuvial soil—better suited to German expansion than distant possessions. If the Poland that was had to perish, so much the better for Germany. To Make Poland German Province. "Remove the men, let the young and weak die, graft German stock on the women. See how simple it is: with a crafty smile. General von Kries concluded, 'By and by we must give back freedom to Poland. Very good; it will reappear as a German province.' "Slowly, I came to realize that this monstrous, incredible thing was the Prussian system, deliberately chosen by the circle around the all-highest, and knapped into the German people till it became part of their mind. "German people are material for building the state—of no other account. Link Up Telephone with Wireless Two experts of the electrical laboratory attached to the Japanese department of communications gave a demonstration recently of their invention for receiving over a telephone a message dispatched at sea by wireless. The names of the inventors are Noboru Marumo and Teljiro Horle; they have been working, says East and West News, for months on the idea. Its suggestion is due to an experiment by Dr. Ulich Torklata of the institute, who, by means of vacuum bulbs, suc- Other people are for Germany's will to work upon, Humanity, liberty, equality, the rights of others—all foolish talk. Democracy, an idle dream. The true Prussian lives only for this, that the German state may be mighty and great. "All the woes in the long count against Germany are part of the Prussian system. The invasion of Belgium, the deportations, the starving of subject people, the Armenian massacres, atrocities, frightfulness, sinking the Lusitania, the submarine horrors, the enslavement of women—all piece into the monstrous view. The rights of nations, the rights of men, the lives and liberties of all people are subordinate to the German aim of dominion ever all the world. "FREDERIC C. WALCOTT." Mr. Vernon Kellogg's statement is as follows: Saw Only Massacre and Ruin. Saw Only Massacre and Ruin. "It it was my privilege—and necessity—in connection with the work of the commission for relief in Belgium to spend several months at the great headquarters of the German armies in the west, and later to spend more months at Brussels as the commission's director for Belgium and occupied France. It was an enforced opportunity to see something of German practice in the treatment of a conquered people, part of whom (the French and the inhabitants of the Belgian provinces of East and West Flanders) were under the direct control of the German general staff and the several German armies of the west, and part, the inhabitants of the seven other Belgian provinces, under the quasi civil government of Governor General von Bissing. I did not enter the occupied territories until June, 1915, and so, of course, saw none of the actual invasion and overrunning of the land. I saw only the graves of the massacred and the ruins of their towns. But I saw through the long, hard months much too much for my peace of mind of how the Germans treated the unfortunate under their control after the occupation. "I could understand why certain towns and villages along the Meuse and along the lines of the French and English retreat were badly shot to pieces. There had been fighting in these towns and the artillery of first one side and then the other had worked their havoc among the houses of the inhabitants. But there were many towns in which there had been no fighting and yet all too many of these towns also were in ruins. It was not ruin by shells, but ruin by fire and explosions. These were the famous 'punished' towns. Either a citizen or perhaps two or three citizens had fired from a window on the invaders—or were alleged to have. Thereupon a block, or two or three blocks, or half the town was methodically and effectively burned or blown to pieces. There are many of these 'punished' towns in occupied France. And between these towns and along the roadways are innumerable isolated single farmhouses that are also in ruins. It is not claimed that there was any sniping from these farmhouses. They were just destroyed along the way—and by the way, one may say. When the roll of destroyed villages and destroyed farmhouses in occupied France is made known, the world will be shocked again by this evidence of German thoroughness. Found Neutrality Impossible "But the horrible methods of that deportation were such that we, although trying to hold steadfast to a rigorous neutrality, could not but protest. Mr. Gerard, our ambassador to Berlin, happened at the very time of this protest to make a visit to the great headquarters in the west and the matter was brought to the attention of certain high officers at headquarters on the very day of Mr. Gerard's visit and in his hearing. So that he added his own protest to that of Mr. Poland, our director at the time, and further deportations were stopped. But a terrible mischief had already been done Germany Must Be Civilized. "I went into Belgium and occupied France a neutral and I maintained while there a steadfastly neutral behavior. But I came out no neutral. I cannot conceive that any American enjoying an experience similar to mine could have come out a neutral. He would come out, as I came, with the ineradicable conviction that a people or a government which can do what the Germans did and are doing in Belgium and France today must not be allowed, if there is power on earth to prevent it, to do this a moment longer than can be helped. And they must not be allowed ever to do it again. "I went in also a hater of war, and I came out a more ardent hater of war. But, also, I came out with the ineradicable conviction, again, that the only way in which Germany under its present rule and in its present state of mind can be kept from doing what it has done is by force of arms. It cannot be prevented by appeal, concession or treaties. Hence, ardently as I hope that all war may cease, I hope that this war may not cease until Germany realizes that the civilized world simply will not allow such horrors as those for which Germany is responsible in Belgium and France to be any longer possible. "VERNON KELOGG." cessfully held wireless conversation with people upon another boat during a voyage form Kobe to Yokohama. That was the first authenticated case of wireless telephony; but the new invention is a step in advance, and therefore remarkable. Although before the outbreak of the war the output of British magnetos was not more than 100 a week since the war no fewer than 160,000 magnetos are said to have been produced in the islands. COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Service. COMING EVENTS. Jan. 14-19—Colorado Farmers' and Farm Owners' Congress at Agricultural College, Port Collins. Jan. 2 23—Conference of food offi- cials at Denver. Jan. 19-26—Live stock show at Denver. Jan. 19-28—Live stock show at Denver Jan. 29—Kansas Club banquet in Denver. Feb. 22-23—Annual Winter Sports Carnival at Steamboat Springs. Routt and Moffat counties have, during the past year, shipped out 30,000 cattle. High food prices in Denver probably will be one of the subjects for investigation by the grand jury. The county commissioners of Weld county have arranged for an agricultural agent for the coming year. Miss Helen Thomas is now the Western Union Telegraph manager at Florence, succeeding Mrs. Delbert Detter. The Scottish heart Burns on Jan. 25 and on that day there will be musical and social entertainments in various villages. A total of thirty-three men were recruited in the Denver army and navy stations Saturday. Of this number the army received twenty-five men. The official consolidation of three of Denver's Pythian lodges was celebrated with the election and installation of officers of the new organization. Frederick J. Stanton, 92, pioneer Denverite and past deputy grand master of the I. O. O. F., grand lodge of Colorado, collapsed on the sidewalk in Denver. The shaft of the Bull Domingo mine at Silver Cliff has been made ready for operation to a depth of 250 feet and the upper works repaired in readiness for mining. Delta county officers have as yet obtained no clue to the whereabouts of Bush, a rancher wanted for murdering his little son and cooking up the flesh in a lye kettle. Clark G. Mitchell of Denver was notified of his commission as a second lieutenant in the signal corps of the aviation service, and for the present will be stationed at Washington. Following the walkout of the elevator pilots in five large down-town buildings in Denver, a local union has been formed which will be known as the Elevator Conductor and Starters' Union. Robert J. Grant, executive manager in the Colorado division of the United States food administration, departed for Washington to attend the two days' conference of state food administrators. Company No. 1 of the state department of safety, consisting of fifty men, left Denver for Golden under command of Capt. W. S. Grove, where they will take up headquarters in the Golden armory. Word received from Little Rock, Ark., said that two Colorado men had been discharged for physical disability at Camp Pike. They are Oliver M. Osmas of Wray and Leslie J. Parker of Cripple Creek. Residents of Pueblo county during the past year received 30,518 shipments of liquor from outside states for which they paid in fees of twenty-five cents each, the sum of $7,629.50 to the county and state. Public opposition to the teaching of German in a parish school which the Trinity German Lutheran church has been conducting at Sterling caused the official board of the school to suspend its operation during the war. Indications are that in the coming year the Fort Collins postoffice will be rated by the Postoffice Department as an office of the first class. Receipts of the office for 1917 were well past the $40,000 mark, which is the dividing line. Plans are under way to hold a conference of state food administrators from the states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Kansas, Colorado, Texas, Idaho and New Mexico in Denver Jan. 22 and 23, during the stock show week. Developments Monday in the robery of Mrs. Irene Nolan, wife of Harry T. Nolan of Denver, at the Model roadhouse resort, resulted in the issuing of a warrant charging City Detective Frank H. Mulligan with grand larceny and his subsequent arrest on the charge by Sheriff George Rucker of Brighton. Judge William A. Hill, associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, has assumed the duties of chief justice, succeeding Judge S. Harrison White. He will serve in that capacity for one year until the expiration of his term. Judge White will continue in office one year longer as associate justice. Word was received by Harold Hudson of Denver that his nephew, Second Lieut. Leslie Sidney Hudson, 20 years old, of the Royal Flying corps, was accidently killed while flying at Dover, England, Oct. 27. Lieutenant Hudson had just completed his course in aviation. The body of Rex. Edwards, a Denver boy who enlisted from Casper, Wyo., last April in Company D, 405th telegraph battalion, arrived in Denver from Camp Lewis, Wash., accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Mattie Cole of Denver REGULATION ON FEED BRAN USED AS BASIS OF DETERMINING PRICES. Colorado Branch of Food Administration Announces Figures to Guide Mills of State. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Denver.—Price regulations on mill feeds were announced by the Colorado branch of the United States food administration. The bulk price a ton for feed in carloats at the mill is not to exceed 38 per cent of the average cost of a ton of wheat at the mill, and bran is used as a basis in determining prices. With the average price of wheat to the mill listed at $2.08, the price of bran from the mill cannot be more than $26.35 a ton, according to the food administration. This applies to bulk feeds. When sacked the actual cost of the containers may be added to the selling price. Wheat coming to one of the largest Denver mills was recently quoted at $2.02, which included 6 cents freight. The cost of wheat shall be the average cost as shown by the previous month's record in the mill, and shall include the 1 per cent administration fee paid by mills on all wheat ground, according to the instructions. Prices established for other wheat mill feeds are as follows: Shorts or standard middlings, $2 a ton above bran. Mixed feeds, $4 a ton above bran. Flour middlings, $9 a ton above bran. Percentages and prices are subject to change, it is understood, but no revision will be made without thirty days' notice. Millers of Colorado were notified of the new prices by the food administration. Flour Sales Limited to 50 Pounds. Flour in Denver and other cities and towns of the state will be sold to retailers in quantities not to exceed a 50-pound sack, according to word coming from Washington to the Colorado division of the food administration. Either a 25-pound or a 50-pound sack may be purchased by the customer, and where such purchase is made a daily practice, the food administration must be notified by the retailer. Hoarding will not be tolerated. Customers are to be restricted to the purchase of from two to five pounds of sugar at one time in cities and towns, while wholesale grocers have been instructed not to sell sugar in excess of 1,000 pounds to the retailer. In rural communities consumers may purchase as much as ninety-eight pounds of flour, and sugar not to exceed ten pounds. Record Price Paid for State Land. Irrigated land in Larimer county brought a record price of $147 an acre at the regular monthly sale of state land at the capitol. This price was paid for an eighty-acre ranch. Another tract of eighty acres in the same county was sold for $105 an acre. Bidding on these two tracts was spirited, as may be seen from the fact that the two tracts were offered at an upset minimum price of $60 and $45 respectively. Bidding for non-irrigated land also was lively in the extreme. One quarter section in Logan county brought $40. Thirty-six dollars was the price realized on another section in the same county and a parcel in El Pano county brought $30. Altogether, 10,000 acres were sold. 26.000 at Kearney Physically Fit. 26,000 at Kearney Physically Fit. Lieut. Col. W. C. Danks of Denver, who has returned from Camp Kearney, stated that during December the tuberculosis board at Camp Kearney discharged on an average ten men a day. He said it was a safe estimate that during the month 2,500 men had been discharged there who were suffering from tuberculosis or other physical ailments. He stated that at the camp there are 26,000 men, physically fit after a strenuous course of training, each eager to see real service in France. Farm Area to Be Increased. Through the co-operation of the Colorado State Board of Immigration, the State War Council and a large number of loyal American citizens, eager to do anything in their power toward winning the war, a plan is now being worked out which will result in the cultivation next year of perhaps 100,000 acres of land in Colorado that has never been cultivated. Stock Grazed on National Forests. Approximately 200,000 horses, cattle and sheep were grazed on the national forest reserves in the Colorado district during 1917. The receipts during this period were $300,573.43. Troops get Thousands of Sweaters. In a letter of thanks from Sergt. Frank J. Wills of the Three Hundred and Forty-ninth ambulance corps to Mrs. M. Kavanaugh of the Old Ladies' home, Denver, he says that thousands of knitted sweaters, helmets and scarfs have been distributed among the soldiers at Camp Dodge, la. Sergeant Wills and Mrs. Kavanaugh be came acquainted when her name was found in the sleeve of a sweater he received through the Red Cross. The Curtis Park Floral Company FLORAL DESIGNS PUT UP WHILE YOU WAIT CHOICE PLANTS AND CUT FLOWERS CONSTANTLY ON HAND GREENHOUSES: Thirty-Fou. and Curtis Streets TELEPHONE, MAIN 1511 DENVER, COLO The Good Weight Grocery W. T. FLETCHER AND J. W. WILLIAMS, Proprietors. RETAIL STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. CORN FED MEATS. MOTOR DELIVERY TO ANY PART OF THE CITY. 2549 Washington St. Denver, Colo. Baxter Bldg. J. W. WILLIAMS, Manager PHONE CHAMPA 3022. Sales Daily at 2 p.m. Offloe Furniture a Specialty. PRIVATE SALES AT ALL TIMES HAVE MOVED TO— 1723-39 GLENARM ST. PHONE MAIN 1675. THE BEST ICE CREAM AND CANDIES AT O.P. BAUR & CO. CATERERS AND CONFECTIONERS Phone: 168. 1512 Curtis Street, Denver, Cole. JOSEPH CARTER Express, Moving, and Storage COAL AND WOOD PROMPT DELIVERY. Phone Main 6544. 2415 WASHINGTON STREET. DON'T FORGET US When you need anything in the line of neat and attractive Printing. The Good Gro W. T. FLETCHER AND J. RETAIL STAPLE AND CORN FED MEATS. ANY PART OF THE C 2549 Washington S Baxter Bldg. PHONE CHAMPA 3022. Phone Main 6699 NIGHT AND CO B. CARRUT A Full Short Orders 919 NINETEENTH STREET ORIENTAL RESTAURANT Chop Suey, Noodles and Short Orders Miss M. Cowden Hair Dressing Parlor Shampoo, cutting and curling. Scalp treatment, hair tonics, hair straightening, manicuring. Stage wigs for rent; theatrical use and masquerades. Goods delivered out of the city. All shades of hair matched by sending sample of hair; also combings made up. Cheapest Switches 50 Cents 1223 21st St. Denver, Colo. Phone Champa 3977 DO IT NOW Subscribe for THIS PAPER AMERICAN PHASE OF WAR IN 1919 Will Not Commence Until Nation's Army Is Most Powerful in Field. TO FACE SIX MILLION MEN Strength of German Forces United States Must Meet and Overcome Can Be Closely Estimated. By JOHN LLOYD BALDERSTON. (Copyright, 1917, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) London.—The first phase of this war on the western front was the French phase. It lasted until five o'clock on the morning of July 1, 1916, when British Tommies went over the top on the Somme, relieved the pressure on Verdun, and commenced the second phase of the war, the British phase. Jules Cambon said in Paris recently that the third phase of the war, the American phase, began with the landing of American troops in France. But strictly speaking, the American phase will not commence until the American army is the most powerful in the field, ready to carry on to victory when the French and British have done their part. That will not come before the autumn of 1918. What will the American armies next year be up against in France? It is possible to answer that question, within a margin of error of not more than 10 or 15 per cent. To do so involves the use of figures. Figures are dry and tiresome—most figures—but not these. The blood-curdling and incredible adventures packed into all the dine novels and movies of the world would not equal those which have gone to make up these figures, figures whose genesis and compilation must be hidden under the mystic word, intelligence. Figures are Authorized. After the war, when the intelligence gives up its secrets, nobody in search of excitement will need to read fiction. Today, all that can be said is that details here given of the strength and composition of the enemy armies are authorized for publication. They are details whose main interest for America lies not in how they were compiled, but in the meaning they hold for the United States, the duty they point out. If the war goes on, and the allied armies continue killing Germans at the average rate maintained since August, 1914, there will be approximately 5,971,000 German soldiers left in November, 1918, when the British phase of the war will probably have closed and the American phase begun. Of these, 4,232,000 will be fighting men at the front. How this figure is arrived at will be made clear in the course of a detailed analysis of the German armies as they exist today. This analysis comes under three heads. (1) How many divisions have the Germans in the field? (2) How many reserves has Germany available to fill up the gaps in the divisions, the fighting units? (3) What is the rate of wastage of the German armies? The most important of the three, and the one concerning which the greatest accuracy is possible, is the enumeration, and incidentally the location, of the German divisions. There are today on all the fronts 231 German divisions. Of these 155 are at present stationed on the west front and 76 on the east front. German divisions vary enormously in value, and to a considerable extent in numbers. But it is now believed that the process of subtracting three regiments from each German division, one regiment from each of the division's three brigades, has been completed. This was commenced last winter, with the object of forming a large number of new divisions at the expense of the existing ones. Strength of Divisions Reduced. Strength of Divisions Reduced. Accordingly the strength of the average German division has been reduced, since the close of the battle of the Somme, by about one-fourth. Instead of the 20,000 men which formerly represented the full strength of a German division, each division now contains 16,000. This does not mean 16,000 bayonets; in modern warfare so many troops must be detailed for communication and other duties that not more than 9,000 men in a division of three brigades of three regiments each—now the standard German size—can man the trenches or attack at any one time. This reduction in strength was undertaken not, as was hastily assumed at the time, because Germany was running short of men, but because fresh divisions were wanted to over-run Roumania and take part in the great offensive this year on the west front that seems to have been perforce abandoned. The 231 existing German divisions, assuming that all are at full strength, account for 3,696,000 men. This does not take into account the central reserve in Germany from which gaps are filled, the great quantities of inferior landwehr and landsturm troops garrisoning occupied territories more than half as big as Germany, nor the young boys who have been or shortly will be called up for service. Reserve Strength More Uncertain. The second part of our analysis of the German armies, the problem of available reserves, cannot be solved with the accuracy possible in dealing with the fighting divisions. It is known that 750,000 boys reach the age of eighteen every year in Germany, and from prisoners captured and the medical records of the French and British armies in dealing with similar material the number of these boys who are incorporated in the enemy armies can be calculated almost exactly. But the question of the central reserve and of the number of troops on garrison duties in Belgium, France, Poland, Russia, Roumania and Serbia, is more difficult. It is impossible to go into details about the methods used in assessing these figures, which obviously are more involved, more tortuous and more mysterious in the case of troops in the interior of Germany or Belgium or Poland than with divisions somewhere near the firing line. The estimate of General de Lacroix in Paris, based upon official data, is that on June 1 there were, excluding the 3,698,000 men in the 231 existing German divisions, 1,739,000 other soldiers on duty in the rear. Most of these men are landwehr and landsturm troops regarded as utterly useless even for the firing line on the Russian front. They can never appear in the first line, no matter how desperate Germany's straights for men may become, but they perform invaluable service in releasing the whole fit manhood of the country for the front. 755.000 In Reserve. In addition to this force of older and less fit men, the Germans have in reserve to fill up the gaps in their fighting divisions some 755,000 men. Of these General de Lacroix estimates that there are 220,000 in depots at the front, ready to be drafted as needed into the divisions that are constantly being withdrawn in a battered condition from the active sectors. In depots in the interior are 355,000 more, while 180,000 are training in Germany but not yet ready to fight. Besides these men, there remain to be considered the 750,000 boys who reach the age of eighteen every year. Approximately 500,000, or two-thirds of these lads are drafted into the army. The German class of 1918—or the 500,000 soldiers who are nineteen this year—have already been put into line and are counted in the general totals of German soldiers given above. The class of 1919, the boys now eighteen, will yield 500,000 more troops, and only a few of them have yet been identified by the allied armies. It is believed that most of these lads will be made cannon fodder before November. In calculations regarding the German strength next winter and next year, they must all be included. The strength of the German army, then, is today roughly this: there are 3,606,000 combatants, with additional reserves of 750,000 men plus a re-enforcement of between 450,000 and 500,000 boys of eighteen all of whom will be available by next winter. And in addition to the fighting men there are about 1,739,000 older or unfit men on duties in the rear who will never be able to face the guns. The fighting men, including these boys not yet ready, total almost exactly 5,000,000, not including the landwehr and landsturm and other "etappen" or communication troops who, to the number of nearly two million, will never appear in the trenches. Losses Important Factor. The third factor in an analysis of the strength of the German armies is now reached. What are the German losses? To accept the German official lists for this part of the calculation will be to err, if anything, on the side of caution. There are military men in London and Paris who believe that these lists, allowing for unavoidable errors and delays, are accurate. There are others who are convinced that for two years the Germans have "doctored" the lists and deliberately minimized their losses. After examining a good deal of the evidence brought forward by both sides, I incline to the belief that the lists are accurate. The Germans have published lists for the first 33 months of the war, approximately up to May 1, which when totalled by allied statisticians have revealed a total loss of 4,356,700 men. Of these, 908,439 were killed in action, 69,688 died of sickness, 303,300 are prisoners or missing. In addition to these men admittedly out of the war, some 789,000 reported "severely wounded" are supposed to be totally disabled for further service. Of the remainder about 1,850,000 reported "wounded" and "wounded remaining with units" are classed by the allies as men who were able to go back to fight. Net Wastage Estimated. Accepting the German lists as accurate, the net wastage during 33 months of war to May 1, was about 2,500,760 men who will never fight again. This estimate is not based, in the simple fashion indicated above, upon the German reports of men as "severely wounded" and "wounded," but upon tons and tons of statistics and curves plotted upon charts by British and French intelligence officers. German bodies are the same as French and British, the weapons in use are the same on both sides, and years of fighting have enabled the allies not only to figure out to a remote decimal just what proportion of their own men who are hit will find their way back into the firing line, but to apply the same figure, with certainty of being about right, to the Germans. The average rate of German wastage from the beginning of the war to the first day of May this year is thus seen to have been about 76,000 men a month. This figure does not include men wounded and afterward able to go back, but only those Germs killed or totally incapacitated. mans killed or totally misrepresented. In attempting to determine what the American armies will have up against them when, late next year, they have attracted to themselves the bulk or at least the best of the enemy forces, the same rate of wastage may be assumed for the period between now and the end of the campaign next year, on say November 1. On November 1, 1918, if the average remains the same, the destruction of German man power proceeds at the rate of 76,000 a month, the number of Germans permanently put out of action will have increased by 1,362,000 since May 1 this year. Will Call Boys of Seventeen. Will Call Boys of Seventeen. On November 1, 1918, however, the class of 1920—the German boys now seventeen—but then between eighteen and nineteen—will have been incorporated in the enemy armies. It may be remarked in passing that the experience of all armies proves that to put boys of seventeen into training does not pay, from a military point of view; they are not strong enough to stand it. It is perfectly safe, then, to assume that Germany no matter how desperate will not call out her class of 1920 before next year. By November, 1918, these 500,000 boys must be added to the figures given above of the present strength of the German armies. From the total present combatant strength must be subtracted 1,368,000 men, the total losses Germany must expect to suffer by November, 1918, if she goes on with the war; to that strength must be added 500,000 for the class of 1920. The German armies, then, will have declined approximately 808,000 men, on November 1, 1918, from their strength on the first of last May. To Face 5.971.000 Men. This loss of strength will fall upon the combatant forces alone. The 1,739,000 old and unfit troops on duty in the rear will remain as they were. The 5,000,000 fighting men possessed by Germany today will have dwindled to 4,223,000. Add to these the 1,739,000 non-combatant troops and the figure of 5,971,000 men is attained, the total land strength of the German empire which it was said at the beginning of this story would be in the fields at the opening of the third, or American, phase of the war. Now this is frankly an estimate which must allow for a considerable margin of error. The figures of the number of divisions in the fields are officially correct; the number of German net casualties, accepting their own lists, is known to within a small fraction; but the chance of error comes in the calculation of reserve troops. I have shown these figures, however, to a high military authority who said, "I have gone over them carefully, and I think you are safely within a margin of error of 15 per cent; the only really incalculable point at which you had to guess was whether the rate of casualties for the next year and a half will be the same as it has been in the past." It may be assumed that while the American armies during the year 1918 will doubtless be able to take their fair share of the fighting, they will not be in sufficient numbers to do most of the work, as the British are doing it now, until the end of the year at least. American Phase in 1919. But at the beginning of the sixth summer campaign of the war, in the spring of 1919, there is no doubt that the "American phase" will have commenced in earnest. Neither the French nor British armies will then be in a position to carry out offensives on a large scale. They will not have the men. America will have them. The American troops and the allies will be faced, in the spring of 1919, by 4,000,000 German fighting men, not counting the old and unfit in the rear. All this may sound very improbable. It is possible, and I think probable, that the war will not go on to the bitter end. There is grave doubt whether a campaign of 1918 will be fought to a finish, whether the "American phase" of 1919 will ever arrive. For the sake of the world it is to be devoutly hoped that it will not. But the point is that Germany will not surrender until she knows she is beaten; and America must remember that Germany will be able to keep 4,000,000 men for the campaign of 1919. Germany will not yield unless America begins now and trains armies capable of smushing those 4,000,000 men. Not all the ships and money in the world will prevent this war from dragging on to an inglorious draw unless American soldiers in sufficient numbers are prepared to deal the finishing blow. That is the moral of these calculations, and indeed it is the reason why they are permitted publication. Strength of Teuton Allies. A general view of the present war resources of the central powers demands a consideration of the forces of Germany's allies as well as of the fatherland itself. In addition to the 231 German divisions, the Austrians have 83, the Bulgarians 13 and the Turks, nominally, about 52, some of which exist only upon the parchment scrolls of the Turkish war office. The west front is held entirely by 155 German divisions. These are divided almost equally between the British and French fronts. The lines opposite the British front are held by the group of armies under the command of Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria, while the German crown prince commands the French sector. These two army groups are now apparently entirely independent; no record exists of a division having been transferred from one to the other during the fighting this year. PEACE TERMS OF ALLIES DEFINED PREMIER LLOYD GEORGE DE CLARES SANCTITY OF TREATY MUST BE ESTABLISHED. TO LIMIT ARMAMENT TO LIMIT ARMAMENT RESTORATION OF BELGIUM, SERBIA, FRANCE, RUMANIA AND MONTENEGRO DEMANDED. Western Newspaper Union News Service. London.—The British prime minister, David Lloyd George, Jan. 5, set forth Great Britain's war aims more specifically and at greater length before the delegates of the Trades Union than he had ever done before. Having first declared that it was not a war of aggression against Germany or the German people, and that the breaking up of the German peoples or the disintegration of their state was not one of the objects for which the allies were fighting, he proceeded to mention the fundamental issues for which Britain and her allies were contending. First among these was the restoration of Belgium and reparation for the injuries inflicted. Next came the restoration of Serbia, Montenegro and the occupied parts of France, Italy, and Rumania. France must have Alsace-Lorraine and to this end, the premier said, the British nation would stand by the French democracy to the death. The question of Russia was touched upon, and Mr. Lloyd George said that Britain, as well as America, France and Italy would have been proud to fight by the side of the new Russian democracy. Rumania is to be protected, and the British and other allies are with Italy in her desire for complete union of the people of the Italian race and tongue. Of Austria-Hungary, he felt that while the breaking up of the dual kingdom was no part of the allied war aims, it was impossible to hope for the removal of causes of unrest in that part of Europe unless genuine self-government was granted the Austro-Hungarian nationalities. The Turkish empire, within the homelands of the Turkish race, with Constantinople as its capital, may be maintained. But the passage between the Mediterranean and Black sea must be internationalized and neutralized, and in the British view, Arabia, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Syria and Palestine are entitled to recognition of their separate national conditions. The matter of the German colonies, all of which are now in the hands of the allies, will be placed before a conference, whose decision, however, must consider the wishes and interests of the inhabitants—the future administration must be acceptable to the various tribes. The premier made brief reference to the violations of international law committed by Germany, with special emphasis on the sea, and the peace conference, he declared, must not lose sight of the outrages suffered by British and other seamen and the services they had rendered. "We are fighting for a just and lasting peace," declared the premier in conclusion. "Three conditions must be fulfilled: First, the sanctity of treaties must be re-established; secondly, territorial settlement must be based on the right of self-determination or the consent of the governed; lastly, the creation of an international organization to limit armaments and diminish the probability of war. He declared an independent Poland an urgent necessity for the stability of Western Europe. "To secure those conditions the British Empire is prepared to make even greater sacrifices." No British statesman since the beginning of the war has given such a detailed and explicit statement of Britain's war aims as contained in the premier's address, which was delivered before the man-power conference of the labor leaders in Westminster hall. Three hundred delegates were present and also Sir Auckland Geddes, minister of national service, and George H. Roberts, minister of labor. George N. Barnes, member of the war cabinet, presided. New Earthquakes Destroy Guatemala. Washington, Jan. 7. — Guatemala City has been completely destroyed by earthquake shocks Thursday and Friday which followed those late in December. Messages received by the State Department said the loss of life last week is estimated to be greater than that resulting from the earlier shocks. McAdoo Cuts Passenger Service. Washington.—To free locomotives and crews for the more important freight transportation, 20 per cent of the through passenger trains on the Eastern railroads, were discontinued by approval of Director General McAdoo. The running schedule of others will be reduced to lower speed to facilitate the movement of freight trains. This policy, announced by the director general, will be gradually extended to affect train service through the country TO BUY 50 RANGE BULLS COMMITTEE TO MAKE PURCHASES DURING STOCK SHOW. Garfield County Stock Growers Want Hereford and Short Horn Bulls to Improve Range Stock. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Fort Collins, Colo.-The stockgrowers of Garfield county will send a committee to Denver during the stock show to buy sixty registered range bulls. This committee will take one of the most unusual demands to the stock show in its history, and the call for this large number of pure-bred bulls is the result of co-operative action on the part of the farmers of Garfield county to improve their range stock. In this co-operation they have been encouraged and materially assisted by County Agent R. C. Alfred, who will accompany the committee to Denver to purchase the bulls. The committee will deal as an organization, it having been empowered by the stockgrowers to purchase Hereford and Shorthorn bulls to the number mentioned. They will hold a formal meeting in Denver, Jan. 21, and will meet breeders and dealers at that time. The committee will consist of Henry Hasley, Silt; Frank Sweet, Carbondale; Charles Shideler, Mamm Creek; Charles Mayer, Eagle; Frank Squier, Rifle; Fred Larson, Divide Creek; John Carlisle, Roan Creek, and Otto Hahnewald, Rulison. Draftee Left $10,000 Insurance. Pueblo.—Jose Salazar, who was drafted by the South Side board in Pueblo, and who died of pneumonia two weeks ago at Camp Kearney, Cal., left an insurance policy of $10,000 to his wife, Mrs. Marie Salazar, and their baby daughter three months old. The commanding officer at Camp Kearney wrote a letter to the South Side draft board asking that Mrs. Salazar be instructed to apply through Washington for the insurance that was due on the policy taken out by her husband. Mrs. Salazar did not know that her husband had taken out the policy until informed by the draft board. The policy was issued under the government war plan which enables a soldier to take out insurance at a very low premium rate. This is the first war insurance policy claim to be made by a relative of a soldier from Pueblo. Arrested for Beating Young Son. Denver.—Charged with beating his 5-year-old son at intervals for twelve hours, while he compelled his wife to sit by and witness the beatings, Ray Baird, of Denver, was arrested on a warrant from the district attorney's office. The beatings are said to have been of such severity that the boy fainted repeatedly. Mrs. Baird said her husband chastised their son for wandering about a block away from home, against his father's command. Prior to whipping him, she said, her husband had forced the boy to drink six glasses of water which made him Douglas: County Has Calf Club Castle Rock.—Registered Holstein heifers to cost from $275 to $300 each are to be supplied Douglas county boys and girls by the Castle Rock Bank Calf Club, the first one formed in the state in accordance with the Hoover appeal to bankers to encourage the formation of such clubs as a means to furthering the raising of livestock. County Agent V. R. Tucker has been sent to Wisconsin to buy the heifers, which will be distributed among the members of the club at actual cost. Democrats Pay Jackson Honor. Denver.—Tribute to the memory of Andrew Jackson was linked with the achievements of the national and state administrations in a world war crisis by more than 200 Democrats. The occasion was the 103rd anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, in which Gen. Jackson brought a turning point in the second great war for democracy. It was celebrated by a dinner and speechmaking. Woman Decorated for War Service. Denver.—Mrs. St. Clair Stobert, major in the Serbian army and the first woman to take command of a field hospital in war time, told of her remarkable experiences in Belgium and Serbia at the Central Christian Church. Her lecture was under the auspices of the National League for Women's service. Pulliam Appeals for Extra $1,000. Denver.—Lieut. Gov. James A. Pulliam entered an appeal from the decision of the District Court which held he was not entitled to the $1,000 voted him by the last Legislature for his services on the ground that the appropriation was not constitutional. Auto Route for Liguors Held Legal. Auto Route for Liquors Held Legal. Denver.—A Denver man may drive his automobile to Cheyenne, buy as many cases of liquor as his car will hold and return with them to Denver without coming into conflict with the Federal authorities. That, in substance, was the ruling made by Judge Robert E. Lewis in the United States District Court in the case of Simon Spiegelman and Joseph A. Miller of Cheyenne, who, with Everett L. Simpson of Denver, were charged with conspiracy to violate the Reed act. There is a difference between efficiency and effectiveness. Efficiency is doing in the best way something that makes oneself better off; effectiveness is doing in the best way something that makes other people better off. GOOD EATING. From stale bread cut six slices, remove the crusts and butter the bread. Put through a food chopper sufficient fresh coconut from which the brown skin has been pared to make a cupful and a half. Separate the whites and yolks of three eggs, beat the yolks with Salt and Pepper half a cupful of sugar, a half teaspoonful of vanilla and one pint of milk. Cut the bread in half-inch dice. Arrange half of it in a baking dish, sprinkling one quarter of the coconut through it. Pour over it half of the raw custard, add the remainder of the bread, another quarter of the coconut and the rest of the custard. Bake in a moderate oven until' set in the center. Spread the top with a layer of quince jelly, cover with the remainder of the coconut and over all heap the whites beaten to a stiff froth and sweetened with three tablespoonfuls of sugar. Sift sugar thickly over the top and brown in the oven. Pittsburgh Potatoes.—Wash and pare potatoes and cut in half-inch cubes. There should be one quart. Put in a stewpan with one small onion chopped fine, and cover with boiling salted water, cook five minutes, add three canned pimented drained and cut in strips, and cook five minutes; drain and put into a buttered baking dish. Melt four tablespoonfuls of drippings, add the same amount of flour, cook until well blended; then add two cupfuls of milk gradually, stirring constantly. Bring to the boiling point and add a half pound of good cheese, grated, with three-fourths of a teaspoonful of salt and an eighth of a teaspoonful of pepper. Pour this sauce over the potatoes and bake in the oven until brown. Puree of Pea-Pods.—Chop the pods from two quarts of fresh peas, add five cupfuls of cold water and put on to cook for an hour and a half, then rub through a coarse sieve. There should be three cupfuls of the puree. Add three cupfuls of milk, a tablespoonful of sugar and salt and pepper to taste. Thicken with two tablespoonfuls each of fat and flour. Let boil up and serve piping hot. The day is most fair, the cheery wind Haloos behind the hill. Where bends the wood as seemeth good, And the sappling to his will! FRUIT FOR THE TABLE. If there is any one thing that appeals to the eye and thus affords pleasure at the table, it is a well-arranged, well-laid, attractively set table. The centerpiece is the first thing that the eye lights upon, so it should be just as attractive as possible. The professional knows that he must appeal to the eye in order to sell his wares. It should be just as important that the ranged, well-laid, attractively set table. The centerpiece is the first thing that the eye lights upon so it should be just as attractive as possible. The professional knows that he must appeal to the eye in order to sell his wares. It should be just as important that the home caterer have the same methods of coaxing an often jaded appetite. This does not mean that great expense is necessary, for the simplest, least expensive arrangement may be beautiful. A very pretty centerpiece was used the other day, which almost anyone could repeat with small cost. An oblong wicker tray with a pretty feathery fern in a pot dressed with green paper was placed in the center of the tray, around it were arranged bunches of grapes, a few red apples and an orange or two for color. Fresh fruit, without which breakfast is an incomplete meal, is nine times out of ten served in the same manner day after day. If bananas are to be served for the meal, buy them attached to the original stem, then arrange a background of green, either of fern or a few leaves or even crumpled green paper and the transformation will surprise and delight the eye, making a tame banana seem something out of the ordinary. The old-fashioned epergne is a treasure any woman would covet, for it lends itself to so many attractive arrangements of fruit, leaves or flowers. The old-fashioned standard silver cake basket is another artistic treasure. A birchbark boat, or hollow log (which may be bought at a florist's) filled with golden oranges, with the duller tone of a few bananas and a bit of green for the color setting is a most charming centerpiece. The fruit itself served in this unusual way takes on a new flavor. There is such a wilderness of baskets to choose from for table baskets that almost any color or design may be found. A heap of white grapes surrounded with bright red polished apples, a most commonplace dish of fruit, is changed by its treatment into a study in colors. Nellie Maxwell We Need Bolivian Civilization. The Indians of the Bolivian jungles bind their arms and legs in childhood so that below the knee and below the elbow they are strictly sinew and bone and can walk through the thorny underbrush and never know it. Some sort of protection might come in handy in the evening rush on certain street car lines—Springfield Republican The MOST of the BEST for the Least ALWAYS --- at the at the at the A. 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P Sweaters That Delight the Youthful THE WINTER COAT As a badge of service, in these times when only service of some kind counts, the apron has come into its own. All women don the aprons that signify real work is to be done by their wearers, with a degree of satisfaction and pride which the handsomest evening gown cannot hope to rival. Aprons are classified by the materials used in them and by design and color into the various sorts of service aprons besides those that are made for wear at home in the occupations that demand service there. Chambray, gingham and percale furnish the goods for service aprons with other durable weaves in the list of available. Pique, cretonne and printed cottons lend their touches of white or bright colors in collars, cuffs and pockets and wide, old-fashioned rack-rack braid has been resurrected to take the place of honor as a finish on aprons for wear at home. Starting out with these, there are "bungalow" aprons, so cheery looking that one is tempted to acquire one and buy a bungalow to match it. One of these is shown in the picture. It is of striped percale with deep cuffs and collar of white plique. It does not open straight down the front but folds over from right to left, with the right side trimmed into a point. It fastens with a button at the left side, is provided with a capacious pocket and held in place by a flat belt of the per- Sweaters That D A sweater of some sort, in the wardrobe, has come to be taken as a matter of course, like shoes and stockings. Everybody, from baby to grandmother, is entitled to at least one of these first aids to comfort—and style. For they have advanced so far in the scheme of things to wear that their manufacturers can always be sure of a demand for them, and their task now is to present them in snappy styles. Sweaters are the delight of the youthful, and these wearers are the most critical and exacting of all their devotees. The hand-knit sweater-coat, in yellow, blue, rose, green, taupe and other colors, with collar and cuffs of white or gray, has a vogue that makes it bring a higher price than equally handsome machine-knit models. Colors popular for sweaters and sweter-coats are not in pale tints, but in light, beautiful shades. Blue, somewhat deeper in tone than the color that made itself so familiar as "Alice," and a light, soft yellow identified as "golden-rod," illustrate the strength of these colors as chosen for sweaters. All-white sweater coats and those in national blue enjoy a persistent popularity that passes along from season to season, with that of darker colors like navy, khaki, and dark cardinal reu. For the young girl arrived at the cale, which fastens in front with buttons and buttonholes. The belt slips through slashes in the apron and modestly hides its good work in supporting the garment. This trick of the belts is featured in other styles. The prettiest of bungalow aprons is of blue chambray with collar and cuffs of gay cretonne edged with white rickrack braid. Across the front a big pocket of cretonne looks like a knitting bag attached to the apron. It suggests that the wearer will always have her knitting or her sewing at hand. Aprons for "clerical service" in war work are made of dark gray chambray and are really plain one-piece dresses, that fasten with small pearl or bone buttons. Their sleeves are finished with a band at the wrist. For "conservation service," that is for one's own housework, aprons of blue chambray are shown with large chambray pockets and deep cuffs and collar of white plique. The apron is cut straight at the front and buttons over from right to left. The belt slips through slashes as in the apron illustrated. There is a "refreshment service" dress of blue and white striped chambray with white collars and cuffs. It is worn with a white serving apron wherever its owner is called upon to serve food to soldiers or in the interest of war work. light the Youthful flapper age an attractive sweater appears at the right of the group of two shown in the picture. This is a ribbed machine-knit sweater-coat in gray, bordered with dark red, which may be had in several color combinations. It fastens with buttons at the front, and they appear to have a knitted covering. The border at the bottom of this sweater holds it in rather snugly about the figure. A blue and white combination in a sweater-coat for the youthful, but grown-up girl, is made in Yale blue with white stripes. The collar is convertible and the sweater fastens with white bone buttons. The picture portrays every detail of these smart practical sweaters with perfect faithfulness. 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