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Subscribe for the Only Reliable Negro Paper in Colorado, "The Colorado Statesman" THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RAGE COUNTRY PARTY ARMSTRONG AND WORLD FREEDOM BY WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. (President of Hampton's Board of Trustees.) VOL. XXIV. ARMSTRONG WORLD BY WILLIAM I. (President of Hampton) (Southern Workman.) HALF a century ago Samuel C. Armstrong, born and infused with the Christian missionary spirit, founded this great institution. Shakespare makes Mark Anthong say: "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is often interred with their bones." Of course this is not true; General Armstrong's life and death and what has followed refute it utterly. Twenty-five years ago he laid down his task to those who were to follow. Today is the day we celebrate in his name. He left us Hampton and the Hampton spirit. It is not that he founded a school whose buildings have survived him, as those which William of Wickham built. It is not that he founded a school whose organization and purpose survive him, or one like Harvard, Yale and Cornell, with his name. Hampton does not bear his name, and yet he lives here in the work of his hands, his heart and his brain, as no other founder of an institution of learning ever did. Go to the University of Virginia and you will find something resembling it in the spirit of Jefferson, who lives there still, but not in the warmth of the spirit of Hampton—something which Armstrong breathed into this school of learning, something that here continues as a living fire. It was the free spirit of free service that Armstrong taught. He taught a race the spirit of progress from slavery to self-respect, from enforced service to voluntary service, in the duty of the citizen and the obligation to the community and the neighborhood. He founded it in free, intelligent skill, and hard, continuous labor. He taught the obligations of freedom. He taught the unending pleasure and satisfaction of work well done and of duty performed. From the platform of yonder gymnasium I heard President Eliot of Harvard University say that it was Armstrong who laid the foundations in this country of the great system of vocational training; and Hampton today is the best exponent in this country of the practical benefit to be derived from that kind of system. It was suggested to him by the helpless ignorance of an enslaved and suddenly emancipated race. He enforced the necessity for the love of intelligent labor as dignifying all who engaged in it; and it is, in spite of the objections of those who contend otherwise—it is the solution of the race problem, because with that everything else in life that is worthy to attain, that is useful to attain can be achieved. He launched the struggle of a race to deserve freedom, to vindicate its citizenship, to justify equality of opportunity. It is given to few men to win by their own efforts, unaided by circumstances, opposed by prejudice, injustice and contemptuous criticism, the victory which was Armstrong's. His name will go down in history with Lincoln's as a great benefactor of the Negro race. A quarter of a century has not dimmed the lustre of his name or work. He lives forever in his continuing benefaction and in the hearts of the race he saved. And now, today, we mourn his successor, Hollis Burke Frissell—a contrast to General Armstrong and yet essential in carrying on the work of his leader. Recognizing the primary and fundamental value of the Armstrong spirit, he kept himself, in his modesty, in the shadow of Armstrong's great name. Not a brilliant preacher, not distinguished as a teacher, he was wonderful as an executive, wonderful in winning the loyalty and enthusiasm of his Hampton men and women, in retaining and enlarging the number of Hampton's supporters, and in making its value and excellence known to the white men of the South, who must cooperate to make this great work a success. He was Christlike in his spirit and in his way of winning the great influence he wielded. Broad, catholic, sweet and reasonable, farseeing and firm of conviction, sympathetic but stimulating, with a vision of increased usefulness for Hampton, he supplemented General Armstrong's work as no other could have done. He lived and was the Hampton spirit, which General Armstrong breathed into this place and this environment. He felt and fanned the religious fervor and faith that are indispensable to Hampton and its men and women if they attain the goal General Armstrong taught. Happy an institution and a race who have had two such leaders as Armstrong and Frissell. Their successor—straightforward, effective, earnest, religious, broad, and feeling the joy of service and full of the greatness of the task he assumes—we may be confident will prove to be a worthy follower of the great men who have gone before. And now, my friends, what would these men—these two men—have done in the presence of the crisis that faces Hampton and faces the country, faces the country and the world, and Hampton sympathetically with the country and with the world? Against our will, against our prayers, we are in this great war. In 1776 this country fought for the independence of the United States—the freedom of a nation. In 1861 to 1865 it fought and lost lives and treasure without number, for the integrity of the Union and the freedom of a race. And today, for three years, and for how many years in the future we know not, we fight for the freedom of the world. As we look back upon the course which our country has taken in respect to this war, there is no step in which we have not followed the path of righteousness. In the outset we conformed to international law as a neutral nation. We permitted our merchants and manufacturers to furnish supplies of all kinds to the belligerents at the risk of losing them as contraband upon the high seas. Germany had avowed that to be the rue of international law and had pursued it in our war with Spain and in England's war with the Boers. Not for a hundred years has there been any doubt as to the correctness of that as the at- DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, MARCH 16 1918 state Hist. & Nat Hist Soc. State House ifiable Negro Paper RADO THE JOURNAL DENVER, COLORADO, SA titude of a neutral nation. More than that, it was virtuously right in this: had not the nations, peace-loving and unprepared as most peace-loving nations are, the right to resort to neutral countries and neutral merchants and neutral manufacturers to prepare themselves suddenly against a war of aggression by a nation that looks forward to war as its normal future and is always prepared, then a nation seeking war domination of the world would have an overwhelming advantage over such peace-loving nations Therefore the President and Congress were right in keeping open to peace-loving nations the opportunity, when forced into a war by a nation loving war and lusting for power, the means of preparing themselves against such unjust aggression. Then Germany sank, without warning, to the depths of the sea a vessel carrying 3,000 innocent souls, and carried to their death 114 American citizens—men, women and children, babes in arms. We protested, and Germany's answer was that the vessel was armed—a lie that enabled her to continue the correspondence for one full year. Then we said, when she sank the Sussex under similar circumstances, with American citizens on board, "We shall sever relations with you unless you discontinue." She discontinued for a time for the purpose of getting ready for a more ruthless warfare by continuing to make the submarines needed to carry it on. Then, in January last, she notified us that she intended to continue this ruthless warfare and to sink, without warning, every vessel, commercial or otherwise, neutral or otherwise, that came into a zone 900 miles north and south and 300 miles east and west of the high seas off Great Britain, France, and the Mediterranean. Then we severed relations, as we said we would, and we returned to the bosom of his master that philanthropist and eminent Christian statesman—Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff! They sank at once four American sailing vessels and sent to their death twenty-five American sailors, and then we declared that war existed. No other path was open to us. Our rights had not only been invaded, the rights of our citizens had not only been violated, but in a way that left us nothing but the duty of offering the sword of vindication. In the field of international law, the rules of war concerning the treatment of commercial vessels at sea are as definite as the law in Virginia with respect to promissory notes and real estate. A belligerent may seize the vessel and the cargo of his enemy on the high seas and may sink it. He may seize a neutral vessel and a cargo violating the rules of war, but for a century the rule has been that in doing so, if he chooses to do so, he must put the crew, the officers, and the passengers of the captured vessel in a place of complete safety. Therefore, when Germany sank the vessels she did sink, whether of the enemy or our own as neutrals, knowing that a sinking without warning involved the death of a large part of the company of the vessel sunk, she was guilty of deliberately taking the lives of citizens of other countries without warning and without right. Now, when a man kills another without right, he is guilty of murder. There is no other name that describes the crime of a nation which does the same thing. But it is said that those who went ought to have known the risk. Well, suppose they did. How does that change the crime of Germany? Continued on Page 4. JOHN JOHNSTON NOT TO GO BACK TO W. VA. Boston, Mass., March 2, 1918. The great victory of Attorney Wm. Lewis, senior counsel, and the National Equal Rights League, which began and fathered the whole fight, and of all the rest on Thursday of this week was permanently chronicled Friday morning by the Boston Post of March 1st, 1918, as follows: "John Johnson will not be surrendered to the federal authorities of West Virginia. "The Negro, whom Governor McCall last November refused to extradite on the demand of Governor Cornwall, yesterday afternoon won a second victory. In a crowded courtroom at the Federal building United States Commissioner Hayes declared that 'probable cause' to believe that Johnson had violated the Mann white slave act had not been shown, and he was forthwith ordered released. This was later modified and, pending the appeal by the government to the district court on one ruling of Commissioner Hayes during the hearing, Johnson will remain on his present bail of $2500. But federal officials themselves practically admit that the case is ended." Wm. H. Lewis, Esq., of the N. A. A. C. P., J. W. Schenck, Esq., C. L. Raysor, Esq., of the Equal Rights League with ex-U. S. Commissioner R. W. Hale, volunteer in charge. The National Equal Rights League instituted the fight. OGDEN NEWS. The Embry A. M. E. church, under the leadership of Rev. H. L. Marque and his faithful companion, are making rapid progress. The Negro Uplift league, one of the most progressive organizations of its kind in the west, met at the Embry A. M. E. church on the evening of March 4 to discuss some of the great issues confronting the race. Rev. J. H. Billingsley, pastor of the Wall Avenue Baptist church, who, with the aid of his many friends, have just erected a beautiful edifice and planning to burn the mortgage on Easter Sunday. Mr. Robert Merritt, one of our retired financiers, is planning on an eastern trip. He may return with his bride. Bobby is a good example of conservatism to the young race. The members of the Waiters' club will miss a benefactor in the person of their president, Wm. Weakley, who is soon to answer the bugle's call. Anything you cannot find in the current events ASK BILL SMITH, the walking encyclopedia. An elaborate Easter program is being arranged by the Embry Sunday school under the leadership of Mrs. Marque, assisted by Miss Cleota Young. Mrs. Wm. Smith will spend Easter with her husband, Bill, in Ogden. Mr. Sam Poole and Mr. Bell Were in Ogden last week saying hello to old friends. The Elks lodge presents a promising future under the leadership of Mr. Frank Turner, the exalted ruler. Washington, D. C.—Seventy thousand colored troops will be called within a short time, it was announced Monday. This will furnish draft call for the States. The colored men, principally from Southern States, were not called earlier because the camps have not been selected. RACENEWS Gathered From Various Sources RACENEWS Gathered From Various Sources Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barnett, president of the Negro Fellowship League, announces that Attorney Barnett is pushing an appeal to the Supreme Court for the hearing of the Joe Campbell case. Campbell is scheduled to hang on Friday, April 12, for a crime which he contends that he is innocent.—Defender. Washington, D. C.—The Howard service flag was dedicated Saturday evening last at Rankin Memorial Chapel. Dean George William Cook made an eloquent address in praise of the 168 Howard men who willingly offered their services to the nation. His address was highly appreciated by the audience and student body. Washington, March 8. —From information received it is not improbable that Col. Charles Young, retired, may soon be restored to active duty and placed in charge of one of the Race regiments. It is currently rumored here that the decision to restore him to active duty has been reached in the War Department. His restoration to active service would (it is claimed by people) arouse the greatest enthusiasm among the Race throughout the country and go far towards righting the injustice done when he was retired just at the time when he was eligible for promotion to brigadier general. Atlantic City, N. J.—Resolutions urging that Congress appropriate funds for the education of the Negro child in the South were adopted at the session of the National Education Association, which is composed of white educators from every section of the country. The association was moved to take this step after earnest appeals had been made by Negro educators, asking that the Federal Government provide better common school education for the colored youth in the Southern States. Among the colored educators to speak during the session were Prof. Kelly Miller of Howard University on "The Status of Negro Education"; W. T. B. Williams, field agent for the Jeanes and Slater funds; Isaac Fisher of Fisk University, and Frank P. Chisolm, Financial secretary of Tuskegee Institute. St. Louis, Mo.. March 7.—The idea that from the training in self-sacrifice and devotion to an ideal which the war is giving will come a spirit which shall NO 21 revolutionize the world and breathe a new spirit into the word democracy was expounded by Dr. William C. Bitting, pastor of the Second Baptist Church, in his address at the dinner which closed, Saturday, the MidWest Agencies of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., at the Hotel Statler. Port Wentworth, Ga.—The managers of the big sugar refinery at Port Wentworth have decided to open several classes of their work to colored women, provided these women prove their ability to stick regularly on the job and show themselves capable of doing the tasks which may be assigned for them. The work is light, sanitary and desirable in every way and includes sweeping, sewing and stenciling. The management desires only a very reliable grade of women to apply, because it is their policy to encourage their workers to remain with the company permanently. Promotions and increase in wages are given on the basis of efficiency and regularity and length of service. A bonus is also given to those who remain continually on the job for shorter periods of time. This will prove an effective inducement for regular work. Marshall, Texas. March 10. Coon skins are bringing wealth to the Negroes of east Texas. The hunting of these animals is now a commercial pursuit instead of being merely a sport. The skins are now selling for $2.50 to $3 each, instead of 25 to 35 cents, as they were only a few years ago. Coon hunting is so profitable that many farmers are unable to keep their Negro laborers. It is not unusual for a Negro to trap or kill as many as ten coons in a single night. Altho trapping is the favorite method of capturing the animals, the coon dog is still used extensively. The swamps around Caddo lake and extending into Louisiana are overrun with coon. Their habitat extends throut all the wooded portion of east Texas. Hundreds of Negroes and many white men have established camps in the more likely localities. The skins are assembled at the railroad shipping points, where they find a ready market. ESTES PARK NEWS. This will be a big season at the Park this summer, and the Stanley Hotel will give a good many colored men positions as waiters, bellmen and porters. The hotel expects to open up the early part of June for the season. Curtis M. Harris hopes to be able to be at his post this season, as he is improving nicely at this writing. MESSAGE TO SOVIETS BY PRESIDENT WILSON PLEDGES AID TO RESTORE RUSSIA. Full Sovereignty and Independence by American Assistance in Driving Out Teutonic Invaders. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington, March 12.—On the eve of the gathering at Moscow of the Russian congress of soviets, which is to pass judgment on the German-made peace accepted by the Bolshevik at Brest-Litovsk, President Wilson sent a message of sympathy to the Russian people through the congress, with a pledge that the United States will avail itself of every opportunity to aid them in driving out autocracy and restoring Russia to her place in the world with complete sovereignty and independence. The United States now recognizes no government in Russia, but the President cabled his message to the American consul at Moscow for delivery to the congress, which is made up of soldiers' and workmen's representatives and speaks for at least a considerable part of the Russian people. Thus, in his first formal word to Russia since the revolution-torn country, under the leadership of the Bolshiki deserted the allied cause, the President indicates the purpose of the United States to disregard the hard terms upon which the German and Austrian war lords have promised peace to the Russians, and to demand an accounting upon a very different basis when victory at last shall be achieved by America and the allies. "May I not take advantage of the meeting of the congress of the Soviets to express the sincere sympathy which the people of the United States feel for the Russian people at this moment, when the German power has been thrust in to interrupt and turn back the whole struggle for freedom and substitute the wishes of Germany for the purpose of the people of Russia. Although the government of the United States is, unhappily, not now in a position to render the direct and effective aid it would wish to render, I beg to assure the people of Russia through the congress that it will avail itself of every opportunity to secure for Russia once more complete sovereignty and independence in her own affairs and full restoration to her great role in the life of Europe and the modern world. The whole heart of the people of the United States is with the people of Russia in the attempt to free themselves forever from autocratic government and become the masters of their own life. "WOODROW WILSON." QUIT MEATLESS DAYS SOON. Declares Secretary of American National Live Stock Association. East Las Vegas, N. M., March 14. Meatless days soon are to be abolished, says T. W. Tomlinson of Denver, secretary of the American National Livestock Association, here to address the annual convention of the cattle and horse growers. He is just back from Washington, where he spent a month in consultation with the food director, Mr. Hoover, and other officials. Mr. Tomlinson said: "When Mr. Hoover asked the people to stop eating meats on certain days, they stopped. The result is there is sufficient meat in the country today for the public to resume their daily consumption and at the same time take care of the boys in France. There is sufficient transportation of meats to France to keep the boys well supplied throughout the war." Accusation Causes Turmoil. Brighton, Colo.—In a turmoil that halted the trial of Philip Cohen, Judge John A. Perry of Denver, acting as substitute for Judge Harry S. Class of Brighton, washed his hands of the case after a scathing arraignment of the chief counsel for Cohen, who had filed an affidavit attacking the judge's religious faith, charging him with prejudice and alleging that Cohen could not obtain a fair and impartial trial before him. Grain in Farmers' Hands March 1. Washington.—Grain in farmers' hands on March 1 as announced by the Department of Agriculture was: Corn—1,292,905,000 bushels, or 40.9 per cent of the 1917 crop; wheat, 111,272,000 bushels, or 17.1 per cent; oats, 595,195,000 bushels, or 37.5 per cent; barley, 43,404,000 bushels, or 20.8 per cent. Yaqui Indians Kill Mexicans. Juarez.—Delayed news of a revolt among the Yaqui Indians in the federal army of Sonora was received here. The revolt occurred at La Mesa, Sonora, when 700 Indian troops joined the Yaquis, who are on the warpath in that state. Fourteen Mexican officers who attempted to stop the revolt were killed. House Commends Work of Navy. Washington.—The directions and activities of the navy in the war drew the highest praise from the House committee which recently completed an investigation of naval affairs. The navy's work, for the twelve months past, it was declared, presents a record of remarkable achievement. Baker Welcomed in France. Paris.—The French newspapers give great prominence to the visit to Paris of Newton D. Baker, American secretary of war. GERMOBERLIN BALTIC SEA PETROGRAD POLAND VIEMNA AUSTRIA HUNGARY UKRAINE ODESSA MOUMANIT CONSTANTINOPOL DEACA CONSTANTINOPOL MYRNA TREBIZON BATUM BARU GALEPPO MEDIEFRANCE CAIRO QUERUSALEM BRITISH ARMIES BAGDAD PERSIA TEHERAN AFGHANISTAN INDIA MALATO BALUCHISTAN DELHIO MUSCAT The map presented herewith shows plainly how the collapse of Russia has brought on anew the menace of pan-Germanism and the conquest of middle and eastern Europe, Asia Minor, India, and even northwestern China. The line of arrows shows the route which the Germans now claim is open to them. The collapse of Russia has given them the north coast of the Black sea. It puts them into a position either to sweep around the Black sea or to cross it to Bataoun (or Batum) and thence to the gates of India. The route by which Germany first sought the entry into India is shown by the dotted line. This route apparently failed with the British successes SECOND DRAFT TO CALL 800,000 AMERICAN TROOPS WILL TAKE OVER VAST FRONT DURING THE PRESENT YEAR. 95,000 TOGOMARCH29 FARMERS WORKING ON CROPS WILL BE PUT IN DEFERRED CLASS UNTIL HARVEST. Washington. — Ninety-five thousand more men were ordered by the War Department to prepare for induction into training camps. The movement will start March 29 and continue five days. It includes men remaining from the first draft and those liable to call in the second. The calls will be in part dependent on pending legislation in Congress. As now arranged the draft is considered by Gen. Crowder as "selective," and is working the least possible disruption to industry and agriculture. The apportionment by states follows: Alabama, 2,634; Arizona, 148; Arkansas, 1,541; California, 1,745; Colorado, 323; Connecticut, 903; Delaware, 308; District of Columbia, 102; Florida, 2,506; Georgia, 5,925; Idaho, 242; Illinois, 1,961; Indiana, 2,977; Kansas, 587; Kentucky, 1,651; Louisiana, 3,573; Maine, 340; Maryland, 382; Massachusetts, 2,069; Michigan, 5,558; Mississippi, 2,220; Missouri, 1,170; Montana, 521; Nebraska, 459; Nevada, 72; New Hampshire, 212; New Jersey, 4,275; New Mexico, 127; New York, 12,288; Rhode Island, 301; South Carolina, 343; South Dakota, 226; Tennessee, 2,753; Texas, 3,943; Utah, 247; Vermont, 156; Virginia, 2,178; Washington, 638; West Virginia, 1,514; Wisconsin, 2,214; Wyoming, 134. Eight hundred thousand men, the so-called "second draft," will be the national quota to be fed into the military mill in small groups from week to week or month to month as needed, according to official announcement. This vast number will be divided into state quotas and with certain exceptions it will be drawn from Class 1 to make replacements in existing units, and to furnish the needed supporting regiments for the present army. Ten thousand young men—skilled artisans—some of whom may not be in Class 1, have been asked of the states already by Provost Marshal General Crowder, and 10,000 other young men will be summoned this summer, to go to technical training schools for special fitting. Agriculturists will be given deferred rating. U-Boats Sink Eighteen British Vessels. London.—The admiralty reports the loss by mine or submarine of eighteen British merchantmen in the week ending March 12, and one fishing vessel. Of these, fifteen were 1,600 tons or over and three under that tonnage. Washington.—A shell explosion on the U. S. S. Von Steuben, which killed three men, was announced by the Navy Department. The shell exploded while being fire in Mesopotamia. The British after their first disaster at Kut-el-Amara returned to their attack, captured Kut and then Bagdad, and their lines now stand firmly across the route north of Bagdad. The Russian lines for a long time stretched south and southeast from the anatolian coast of the Black sea, adding an additional menace, but they since have retired before the Turks. Meanwhile the British forces which started their operations from Egypt and the Suez have continued their advance across the Holy Land until they now are within striking distance of Aleppa, where a further advance by them would cut the Constantnople Bagdad railroad. HUNS CAPTURE ODESSA HUNS CAPTURE ODESSA OPENS ROAD TO AFGHANISTAN AND PERSIA. Great Russian Port on Black Sea Is Key to Vast Fields of Grain and Other Supplies. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Berlin, via London.—German troops have entered Odessa. This official announcement was made Wednesday night. Odessa is the greatest Russian port on the Black sea and the center of a great agricultural section, the products of which are desired to feed the hungry peoples of the central empires. The German advance through Moldavia and Bessarabia has been virtually unopposed. Odessa is the fourth city of Russia in population, was founded by Catherine II in 1794. Its population numbers about 450,000, nearly one-third of whom are Jews. Normally there were several thousand German residents. Among many other important institutions it contains the Imperial New Russian university, founded in 1865. With Odessa safely in their hands, the Teutons will have access to vast stores of wheat which can be transported overland or by sea to points where it can be readily shipped into Austria and Germany. But the capture of Odessa will mean something more—an advance over the route to Persia and Afghanistan and possibly India, which is to be followed now that the British have severed the famous Berlin and Bagdad route to the east. Odessa's situation near the great waterways of the Dnieper and the Dnister makes it the natural outlet fo. the exports of the southwestern provinces. Despite the German peace, forced upon Russia, and the announcement of the Austrian premier in the Relchsstrath that Austria would take no part in the German invasion into Muscovy, both German and Austrian columns have continued military operations, not only toward Petrograd, but also toward Odessa. Kiev was taken from the Bolshevik, and the Teutonic drive continued south. Rumania Persecuted by Boches Washington.—At the mercy of her conquerors, Rumania is being subjected to most drastic persecution, American Minister Vopicka at Jassy reported to the State Department. Notwithstanding that the terms of peace have been signed Rumania's boundaries are being altered under the clause providing for specification of the frontier. Members of the American and allied special missions to Rumania left Jassy for Odessa under assurances of safe conduct from the king of Rumania. They had been held for quarantine. Garfield's Widow Dies at Pasadena. Los Angeles.—Mrs. Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, widow of James A. Garfield, twentieth President of the United States, died at her winter home in South Pasadena from pneumonia. Mrs. Garfield would have been 86 years old April 19. Archibald Roosevelt Wounded. New York.—Archibald Roosevelt, a son of Theodore Roosevelt, has been wounded in action with the American forces in France. ```markdown ``` THE COLORADO STATESMAN FOUR GERMAN MACHINES SHOT DOWN DURING ATTACK ON FRENCH CAPITAL U. S. TROOPS IN RAIDS BRITISH CAPTURE THREE MA CHINE GUNS AND 37 PRISONERS AT YPRES. Western Newspaper Union News Service. London, March 14.—Attacking over an eleven-mile front on the coastal sector in Palestine, East Anglian, South Anglian and Indian troops have advanced to an average depth of three miles, according to an official statement issued by the war office. The Mouth-Piece of the People of Colorado and the Entire West With the American Army in France. —The American forces northwest of Toul carried out an important raid on the German lines Monday night. The artillery preparation lasted forty-five minutes and the Americans entered the German defenses as far as the second line. They found a number of German dead from shell fire, and some of those who were retreating were shot down. Paris.—A German attack in the Champagne was repulsed Wednesday, according to the war office announcement. The Germans suffered heavy losses. London.—English troops carried out a successful raid against a German strong point southeast of Polygon wood (Ypres sector), says Field Marshal Haig's report from British headquarters. ARELIABLE chronicle of their doings and progress; a faithful mirror of their wants, their hopes, their best aspirations. "In addition to the losses inflicted on the enemy, thirty-seven prisoners and three machine guns were captured. Our casualties were very slight. "A raid which the enemy attempted southeast of Armentieres was repulsed with loss." Rome.—Lively artillery actions at various points along the Italian front are reported in the official statement from the war office. Paris, March 13.—An American detachment in the Woevre region has successfully carried out a surprise attack on the German trenches south of Richecourt, says the French official communication. THE COLORADO STATESMAN American troops east of Luneville again raided German positions, and another party entered German trenches along the Toul. Thirty-four persons were killed and seventy-nine others were injured in Paris and its suburbs as a result of Monday night's German air raid. In addition to the bomb victims, sixty-six persons were suffocated through crowding in a panic into a metropolitan railway entrance to take refuge from the raiders. These were for the most part women and children. Of the bomb victims, twenty-nine were killed and fifty injured in Paris and five killed and twenty-nine injured in the suburbs. The Germans lost four aidplanes in the raid. Nine squadrons took part in the attack. British aviators have dropped a ton of bombs on the town of Coblenz, capital of the Rhine province of Prussia. Hostile airships attacked the Yorkshire coast Tuesday night. Unequaled as an advertising medium for the business of professional men and women. London, March 13.—A large German raiding party attacking positions of the Portuguese troops near Laventle was caught by machine gun fire from the front and on both flanks and suffered heavy casualties, according to the British official communication. Numerous dead and wounded Germans were left in No Man's Land when the main body took flight. London.—The unarmed Irish schooner Nanny Wignall was torpeded and sunk by a submarine. The submarine shelled survivors who were picking up their comrades from the sea. An excellent family journal speaking to and for many thousand colored citizens. Reed Asks Hoover for Accounting. Washington.—Charges of gross extravagance in the management of the affairs of the food administration were made in the Senate by Senator Reed of Missouri, who demanded that Food Administrator Hoover give an accounting of the department's finances. The charges were made after the Missouri senator had asked that the appropriation of $1,750,000 for the food and fuel administration be eliminated from the urgent deficiency bill. TWODOLLARSAYEAR War Session of Arizona Legislature. Phoenix, Ariz.—Governor Hunt announced the calling of a special session of the Arizona Legislature at a date to be later fixed, probably in June. Germans "Doom" 400 British Cities. Amsterdam.—The destruction of 400 English towns by German aeroplanes is demanded by the Berlin Tages Zeitung "as a reprisal" for the action of the allies in confiscating 400 German merchant ships. Wilson Plans War Speech April 6. Washington.—President Wilson is planning to make a great war speech April 6, the first anniversary of the American declaration of a state of war with Germany. Pithy News Notes From All Parts of Colorado numbers 60 members, Architects have prepared plans for a Congregational church at Red- vale, The Milner Bank and ‘rust Com- pany at Steamboat Springs has been closed. ‘The Longmont sugar factory closed the most successful run in its history, lasting 101 days, Mrs. Spencer Penrose will finance the erection of a Catholic church at Colorado Springs. Two Denver firms nave co-operated to build a new factory to produce a huge order of tents. ‘Members of the Reformed Presbyter. jan church at Greeley will erect a $10,000 church building. Charles H. Williams, widely known milling man, owner of a plant at Brighton, died in Denver. Japanese farmers in the neighbor- hood of Rocky Ford have formed a cantaloupe growers’ association. ‘The city council of Fort Morgan has completed arrangements to install a modern fire fighting equipment. The effect of an order received by the federal food administrator is to bar potatoes as a substitute for wheat flour. Two Puebloans, accepted for the aviation service, left Pueblo for the aviation training camp at San An- tonio, Tex. The New York Company has com- pleted a 250-ton capacity mill for the treatment of ores at Climax near Breckenridge. During the past season 600 carloads of canned goods, or 54,000,000 pounds of vegetables were shipped from the Brighton and Fort Lupton canneries. Miss Hattle E. Richardson, Denver public school teacher, has been ap- pointed a trustee and secretary-treas- urer of the Colorado Audubon society. ‘The reduction in coal prices in Colo- rado, announced from Washington, comes as the direct result of an in- vestigation into coal prices in this state. ‘The State Woman's Council of De- fense has urged all county women’s councils to have a certain time each week set apart for work in the thrift campaign. April 6, the first anniversary of the declaration of war with Germany, has been designated Dedication Day by the speakers’ committee of the State Couneil of Defense. ‘A jury in the Denver District Court acquitted Deputy Sheriff Allison on the charge of murdering Mrs, Mar- garet Manning in the office of James M. Gingrich in a creamery. A jury at Brighton found Frank H. Mulligan guilty of complicity in the holdup and robbery of Mrs, Harry T. Nolan and the Rev. Father Garret J. Burke in the Model road house, Jan, 2. Dr. C. R. Van Hise, president of the University of Wisconsin, will soon make a tour of the Pacific Coast, speaking on behalf of the third Liberty Loan, He will be in Denver March 28. Dean Milo S. Ketchum of the en- gineering school at the State Univer- sity at Boulder, has been appointed as- sistant government director of the con- struction of United States munitions plants. Unpatriotic evidences have been re- ported in fourteen towns out of seven- ty-two from which the speakers com: mittee of the State Council of Defense has received replies in connection with its work. ‘The government crop reporting bu- reau reports the stocks of graim on Colorado farms on March 1 as follows: Corn, 3,724,000 bushels; wheat, 2,843,- 000 bushels; oats, 3,563,000 bushels, and barley, 1,497,000 bushels. Clarence T. Gibbens, 35. years old, of Pueblo, was killed and his wife and Corporal C, S. Jones, in charge of the United States Army recruiting sta- tion in Pueblo, and Mrs. Jones were injured when an auto in which they were riding struck deep sand on a re- cently graded stretch of road, turned over on the Cafion City-Colorado Springs road in Dead Man's Cafion. ‘The fact that enlistment by boys in the U. S. Boys’ Working Reserve for farm work is purely voluntary and is asked of the boys merely as a pat- riotic duty is being emphasized by J. §. Jaffa, Colorado director of the re- serve, By enrolling, the boys will be merely placing themselves in readl- ness to do work for food production, if Colorado farmers ask for their help. Miss Flora B. Stout, who has spent ten years as a missionary to Japan, CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS. See, eee hes eee. Sen even League of the State Council of De- fense, Only pupils in primary grades can participate, ‘The assay must not be longer than 268 words, the length of Lincoln's Gettysburg address, ‘The first prize will be a bronze tablet of the Gettysburg address, the second, $5.00 worth of War Savings Stamps and the third a silk United States flag. The winners in each county will receive a certificate of merit. The awards will be announced April 19, Lexington Day. Dr. B. C. Clark, for twenty years a prominent dentist at Grand Junction, was found dead in his office, his head resting on an open Bible. A revolver was clasped in his hands. Clark’s death followed a sensational trial which resulted in James Levett of Hoisington, Kan., being awarded $7,- 500 damages on allegations that Clark alienated Mrs, Levett’s affection. Friends say Clark has been despond- ent since the verdict. Only $20 of the $40,000 thefts of Julius Clark from the office of the state treasurer of Colorado could be traced to the regime of Michael A. Leddy, according to the finding of a jury that heard the case in Judge Butler's division of the District Court. The state asked for a judgment against H. J. Leddy, as administrator of the Leddy estate, for $9,700; but only the $20 will be granted. ‘The Colorado land board had no trouble in selling the 10,000 acres of- fered at the monthly sale. Top prices prevailed and in nearly every instance the sale price exceeded the appraisal figure. In Adams county 320 acres were sold for $15 an acre, which is $9 an acre in excess of the appraisal price. The board will hold a special sale at the capitol March 18. More than 4,000 persons in the au- ditorium in Denver heard Charles Dun- can, general secretary of the Work- ers’ Union and a member of Parlia- ment, and William Mosses, secretary of the Pattern Makers’ Union and a member of the labor supply depart- ment of England, speak on the war and labor conditions in England. Indications of Colorado's greatest silver output since the early days is being written into the records in the office of the secretary of state, James R. Noland. In the last three months fully 1,000 companies were in arrears, but now are being reinstated, in anticl- pation of $1-an-ounce silver, There is agitation also in copper. ‘The next sixty days will be of vital importance to the food situation of the United States, according to Miss Inga M. K, Allison of the State Agricultural College, who gave a report of the food situation at the regular meeting of the woman's council of defense of Colo- rado, which met in the senate chamber of the statehouse, Dr. G. H. Oliver, city veterinarian, and Ellen Prandegast, a nurse, were seriously injured when Dr. Oliver's automobile was struck at West Third avenue and Santa Fe drive by a Colo- rado & Southern freight train that was backing into Denver. Homer Darrow, 71 years old, a drum- mer with an Ohio regiment during the Civil War and a veteran of the battle of Shiloh, died at his home in Denyer on the fifty-third anniversary of his marriage. Death followed an illness of five months. A. L. Moss, 52 years old, former county commissioner of Conejos and Alamosa counties, died at the hospital at Alamosa, He was a wealthy cat- tleman and old timer, and is survived by his widow, a son of 9 years and one grandson. Business men of Colorado Springs are advocating the extension of tim- ber operation at the sawmill in the Black Forest district to include the manufacture of boxing and crate ma- terials to supply Colorado markets. ‘The Rocky Mountain National park will be among the first to be official- ly opened by the government this year, according to an announcement by Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior. The park will be opened May 1 and continue open until Nov. 1, Mesa Verde park will be opened June 1 and continue open until Sept. 30. By a recent vote of the Supreme Tribe of Ben Hur, a fraternal organ- ization, permission was granted to members to enter the naval or mill- tary service of the United States witn out invalidating their insurance. A broken wrist and severe bruises and cuts about the .body were sus- tained by Lieut. Walter E. Plettner of Denver when he fell 500 feet in an aeroplane at Kelley field near San ’ U.S. AND ENGLAND VU. EIGHTY DUTCH VESSELS IN AMERICAN PORTS WILL BE TAKEN OVER BY ALLIES, CONSOLIDATION OF TRENCHES FIRST PERMANENT ADVANCE OF PERSHING MEN. ‘Western Newspaper Union News Service. Washington, March 15.—A million tons of Dutch ships, now held in ports the world over, through Holland's fear of Germany's threat to sink them if they ventured out, will be brought into the service of the United States and Great Britain on March 18, Unless The Netherlands government braves the menace of Gertnany’s pressure and voluntarily accepts an agreement un- der which the ships would be put in trade, the United States and Great Britain will take them over under in- ternational law, availing themselves of a sovereign right which Germany herself has hitherto exercised under the same authority. Formal notice has been presented to The Hague by the American and British diplomatic representatives of the allied govern- ments’ intention. As a result The Netherlands minis- ter, August Philips, acting under in- structions of his government, made a final and personal appeal to President Wilson to at least modify the decision. London, March 15.—Increased raid- ing and artillery activity in the Ypres sector and on the front north of Ar mentieres is reported in the official statement from the war office. Aus- tralian troops carried out successful raids south of Ypres and captured a number of prisoners. Near Armen- tieres Portuguese troops drove back an enemy attack. With the American Army in France, March 15.—American troops in the Luneville sector have occupied and are holding enemy trenches northeast of Badonvillers, which they- forced the Germans to abandon through re- cent raids and concentrated artillery fire. ‘The trenches have been consol- idated with ours. ‘This, though a small forward movement, marks the first permanent advance by the Amer- fcan army in France. The consolida- tion of the trenches enables the Amer- fcans and French to operate from higher ground than heretofore. The Germans made only feeble attempts to retake the position, but each time were repulsed. A Cohen Trial Begins at Brighton. Brighton, Colo.—The trial of Philip Cohen, charged with the robbery of Mrs. Irene Nolan at the Model road house Jan, 2 and alleged companion of ‘Prank Mulligan, former Denver detec- tive convicted on the same charge last week, began in Brighton when a jury was completed Thursday. Aviator Drops 4,000 Feet to Death. San Antonio, Tex.—Howard Hola- day, Denver, a flying cadet at Kelly field, was killed when his airplane fell 4,000 feet. He was returning from a cross-country flight. His mother is Mrs, Howard W. Holaday of Denver. President Asks Boys to Enroll, Washington. — President — Wilson called on all American boys of 16 years and over, not nermanently employed, to enroll in the United States boys’ working reserve. ENGLISH AIRMEN VICTORS. Account for Seventy-nine Enemy Planes in First Ten Days’ Fight- Ina In March, London, March 15.—The British air- men have been doing marvelous work recently. The first ten days of March, as a whole, have been among the best yet recorded for the service. During that period, in addition to a vast amount of reconnoitering and photo- graphing, the Britishers destroyed thirty-nine German airplanes and brought down forty others out of con- trol, despite the fact that the first two or three days of the month were so stormy that aerial activity was vir- tually impossible. Against this great total fifteen British machines are re- ported missing. The hospital ship Guilford Castle was attacked unsuccessfully by a sub- marine in the Bristol channel on March 10, it was announced officially. ‘Two torpedoes were fired at the Guil- ford Castle, the first missing and the second hitting the vessel's bow, Al- though badly damaged she was able to reach port. Esther Cleveland Becomes Bride. London.—Esther Cleveland, daugh- ter of the late Grover Cleveland, Pres- Ident of the United States, was mar- tied in Westminster Abbey to Capt. W. 6. B, Bosanquet, D. S. O., of the Cold- stream guards and son of Sir Albert Bosanquet. Millionaire Pill Man Dead at 96. Thomasville, Ga.—Frederick Ayer, millionaire medicine manufacturer and financier of Boston, Mass., died here. ‘He was 96 years old. | ew m) Ma “ A ah : ra SE ey 4 Kaas Wa / The aie pic Bt om ye Curtis apie — ob OSD OO ae ae Park © AU ARN ee ‘at NG ZG, Floral REG Company Quay FLORAL DESIGNS {ou Wi": SSN CHOIGE PLANTS AND GUT FLOWERS S%°°%A8 35% GREENHOUSES: Thirty-Fourth and Curtis Streets \ MR. SIMPKINS PAYS HIS INCOME TAX Civil War and had died bravely on the field of action, Mr, Simpkins’ throat ached now for two reasons: First, he reverenced and adored the memory of his father; secondly, his age and his eyes and his-game leg wouldn't let him go to war himself, And as he observed the martial bearing and uncompromis- ing gnze of Colonel Simpkins he saw, in Imagination, the khaki-clad Inds of the new generation marching forth and crossing three thousand miles of sea to fight, maybe die, for liberty. Mr, Simpkins peered around to make sure that neither Bess nor Jolin (who were at the teasing nges of sixteen and seventeen) were where they could see him, then he straightened and threw his right arm up for a salute. But his gouty shoulder twinged, and he groaned. He couldn't even salute, “Damn!” said Mr. Simpkins, and with his other hand flercely twirled his white mustachios. He turned and limped into the I- ‘brary and sat down creakily before the mahogany desk on which were lying the blanks for his income tax state- ment, blanks which he had rather grumpily got from the Internal Reve- nue officer only that day after Junch- eon on his way home from the club. Mr, Simpkins’ income for 1917 had aiounted to Just about $15,000, and he had been rather snappy on the sub- Ject of taxes ever since he had discov- ered that the more income a man has the greater the percentage of It he pays in taxes, He could think of sev- eral men who, like himself, were mar- ried and had two children, and yet, although their incomes were nearly half of his, they would pay only a small fraction of the amount he pald. He gloomily drew the blank nearer and began filling tn the information that it asked for. ‘As Mr. Simpkins’ Income was $15,000 he had to figure out the amounts pay- able on each of the successive smaller classes of incomes in order to arrive at the total due from himself. He passed over the first-class who must pay taxes, that fs, single men making over 1,000, His calculation for mar- ried men then showed up as follows: First, they pay 2 per cent, (under the 1916 Inw) on all income over $4,000, deducting $200 for each of their children under eighteen years. In Mr. Simpkins’ case this was $212, which he put down in the “payable” column. He saw next that, under the 1917 law, married men pay an additional 2 per cent. on all over $2,000—with the same allowance for children. ‘This added $252 to his “payable” column, He then observed that for every $2,500 jump In his income over $5,000 he had to pay a Surtax, the percentage growing larger with each jump. ‘This was $250 more added to his burden. And on top of all this came an “Ex- ‘cess Profits” tax of 8 per cent. on all “occupation” income over $6,000, mak- Ang $720 more, _ ‘The total, then, he must pay was four- teen hundred and thirty-four dollars. “Whew!” exclaimed Mr. Simpkins angrily. “There's young Henry Wil- kins, who married Jake Johnson's girl, he makes $2,000 and he doesn’t pay a cent of taxes. I guess this is his war as well as mine!” Thinking of young Henry Wilkins, he remembered that Mrs, Wilkins went every afternoon to make bandages for sthe Red Cross and that Henry, who was a lawyer, was alding the Local Draft Board with its questionnaires. “Well,” he admitted to himself, “that makes a difference.” He thought next of Judge Willough- by, whose Income was about $3,000. “He only pays $20,” commented Mr. Simpkins, not quite so angrily this time; and then a thought struck him and he sat up rigidly in his chair. Judge Willoughby's son had been drowned on the Tuseania when {t was submarined with the loss of two hun- dred soldiers. “Judge Willoughby gave his son to America,” muttered Mr. Simpkins. He leaned forward suddenly and put his face in his hands, For a long time Mr, Simpkins sat very still in that position, ‘There was no sound in the library except the ticking of the tall clock and an occa- sional trill of laughter from the chil- dren skylarking upstairs. The square of light on the carpet gradually with- drew Itself through the window, and first twilight and then darkness settled in about the quiet, white haired, some- times Irascible old man, , Mr, Simpkins was thinking things which he would never afterward speak of, he was thinking things that were too sacred ever to be put into wore But some Inkling of his thoughts may be found In his rejoinder to Mrs. | Simpkins when that placid lady came in and turned on the lights, and asked him whether he was ready for dinner. Phone Main 6699 Private Booths for Ladies ska NIGHT AND DAY CAFE HANS QAM AND COLD DRINK PARLOR LOMAS) B, GARRUTH and J. GREGORY, Proprietors BS YAS is A Full Line of Fresh Fish in Season Wed Oysters and Lobsters OSA Short Orders At All Hours Rest Room for Ladies 919 NINETEENTH STREET DENVER, COLORADO MORRISON'S FAMOUS JAZZ ORCHESTRA AND ENTERTAINERS GEO. MORRISON, MANAGER Music Furnished for all Occasions Phone Main 2707. Res. 2947 Stout St. DENVER, COLO. 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Depot, euch "addi: peaks tlonal ‘pass ......25¢ One mnie raatia,*):500 Rates Per Hour. Bach addition’! mid!25e $1.50 to $2.50. Phone Main 6699 B A t i i HEATED TAXICAB, TAXICAB LANDULET AND 7-PASSENGER 1918 LATE * | MODEL CARS. STAND: NIGHT AND DAY CAFE 919 Nineteenth St. Denver, Colorado THE COLORADO STATESMAN CABOR SHALL BE FREE. TRACE COUNTRY PARTY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One Year ..... $2.00 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three Months ..... .60 Reading notices, ten lines or less, 10 cents per line. Each additional line over ten lines, 5 cents per line. Display advertising, 50 cents per inch. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1c and 2c stamps taken. No discounts allowed on less than three months' contract. Cash must accompany all orders from parties unknown to us. Further particulars on application. Communications to receive attention must be newsy, upon important subjects, plainly written only upon one side of the paper, must reach us Tuesday of the author. No manuscript returned, unless stamps are sent for postage days, if possible. If postage is not sent, the signature. All communications of a personating nature that are not complimentary will be withheld from the columns of this paper. THE LENTEN SEASON. IT IS gratifying to note how the doctrine of Christianity is laying hold of the hearts of mankind and how the church is carrying out the command of the GOOD MAN who once lived on earth, is going into every nook of the country, state and city, offering its proclamation, "Love one another, do unto others as ye would have them do unto you." The Noon-Day Services being held at the Tahor Opera House for the past two weeks and extending to next week are having record attendances. Men in the higher walks of life—professionals, bankers, corporation heads., mingle with their less fortunate brethren in audiences listening to the words of truth as they protrude from the lips of men who having had beautiful experiences of the relationship of God to man are desirous to open the door of the Ark of Safety and bid us enter and taste "The Master's Store." These services beginning at 12:05 p. m. and continuing to 12:40 p. m. furnish inspiration for successful combat with the various problems that now confront us; and as the Rev. Craig Stewart of Evanston, Ill. (who is the speaker this week) expresses, they guide us with DISCIPLINE, mould our CHARACTER and fill us with OBEDIENCE AND LOVE for God and the human family. This, the second Lenten Season that finds us yet in war, is more impressive than those of former years, as not only the celebration of the feast for 40 days is enjoying our thoughts, but the pledge at this time being "the keeping Lent until our nation shall be victorious in the struggle which she has entered to restore peace to the world and help in the construction of such confidence among the nations of the world as to cause wars to cease is made by us. Taking this season of the Church seriously, we should reconsecrate ourselves to His service, the reward of which will be given in a manifold form the same being found in the pleasure afforded us by serving and fulfilling the saying "that inasmuch as you do unto the least of these, you do it unto me." The superiority of man's spirit and better nature will therefore exhibit itself in this LENTEN SEASON OF 1918. HAMPTON INSTITUTE AND WORLD FREEDOM. ON OUR FRONT PAGE of this issue there appears an article, "Arm-strong of Hampton and World Freedom," and because "Arm-strong" and "Hampton," to our minds, are synonymous, we freely and gladly offer a comment on ex-President Taft's address delivered at Hampton in celebration of Founder's Day, January 27, 1918, with the hope of reasserting our position and the further establishment of the interest of the people of our race in this gigantic task which the nation has undertaken to free the world from the yoke of AUTOCRACY. The article will be continued next week, and we are asking our readers to follow carefully the facts presented to us by this American, William Howard Taft, who stands conspicuously in our nation as a man of exceptional depth of intellectuality, rare learning, profound scholarship, an able jurist, a recognized authority on international jurisprudence, and we cannot but conclude first the righteousness of our entry in the war and the necessity for absolute support to the government if our arms must be victorious, if the world must be made safe in the future against the machinations of a government and people; and, secondly, the eradication of the faintest doubt as to whether we should play a part in individually and collectively as a contributory agency to a successful termination of hostilities, demonstrating the patriotic devotion of our fathers, exhibiting the fervor of American spirit permeating us, and proving our appreciation of what institutions as Hampton and their benefactors have done for us, compelling a recognition constitutionally and otherwise of the unadulterated Americanism in us which is gradually breaking down the barriers of racial demarkation, giving us a full taste of that FREEDOM which we are endeavoring to establish among those peoples of the world who are still foreign to its beauty and its grandeur. What is our government? And here Mr. Taft gives the following answer, convincing, impressive and converting: "A government is a corporation of which WE are all members, to which we render the duty of support, of service—military and civil—the payment of taxes, help of every kind; and we receive from that corporation, as a quid pro quo protection—protection as between ourselves, preservation of the rights of one as against another, and protection of the rights of each as against the invasion of a foreign country." Who would attempt after such a definition, so clearly and logically placed, after measuring up to the American stature of citizenship, to hesitate or withhold the help necessary to this, our present cause? Who, realizing that this world's calamity, causing our government to arouse itself from its dormant condition, from its passive methods, from its lethargic way of treating internal actions that were sapping the very vitals of the nation by dividend "the kingdom against itself." from a racial standpoint, would not in admiration of the reforms that are being brought about, the promulgation of the doctrine of unanimity of aim and purpose of all Americans, come forward and help to foster this mission of which we will be also beneficiaries, breathing for all time the purity of the atmosphere of WORLD FREEDOM? Truly this is not an address to the students of Hampton alone, but to the millions of Americans of dark appearance—members of our race, who possibly, mystified by the inconsistency in the dispensing of the law, by and through some unfair agents among us; misled by the artifice of politicians who deprive us of the constitutional privilege of exercising the power of the franchise either by laws or their numerical strength; baffled by the commercialism heaped upon us by keeping us at maximum fever heat on the color-worry situation, have not the interest particular in this present world struggle, and therefore such an address must lend inspiration as the frequent use of the term WE furnishes us with the proof that our government at last realizes that the FLAG of our country, the PRINCIPLE of our nation, the GUARANTEE of our good faith and fulfilment of our contract with the world of nations must necessarily be ALL FOR ONE AND ONE FOR ALL. This devoted American has rightly put it in his argument that nothing should prevent our whole and true support to the government, when he fires a bombshell into the ranks of the politicians, and the profiteers and everyone who is after the selfish game, expressing himself thus: "We are neither Republicans nor Democrats now. We are AMERICANS in supporting the President in this righteous war." Another point which we are glad to entertain, and in emphasizing it to our race, we say not Black, White nor Copper-colored American, but the heart that beats with love for its own fireside whose fires will be inextinguishable while the DEMOCRACY of the world and the FREEDOM of its people for which we are fighting will supply the fuel necessary for its upkeep. Next issue will contain the remaining portion of this address which we are sure ought to remove any scintilla of doubt as to THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF AMERICA IN THE WAR. Armstrong And World Freedom Continued From Page I. Suppose John Smith meets John Robinson on the street and shoots him through the heart and he is haled into court under indictment and then he pleads: "I am not guilty. John Robinson knew, because I wrote him a letter and told him that if he come down into the street in front of his house I would shoot him. I am not guilty; he is—of contributory negligence, that he came down in the street and met the bullet, the presence of which ought to have been anticipated." How would that plea sound in a court of justice? So, having violated the rights of our citizens, and therefore our rights, what was our duty? What is a government? A. government is a corporation of which we are all members, to which we render the duty of support, of service—military and civil, the payment of taxes, help of every kind; and we receive from that corporation, as a quid pro quo protection—protection as between ourselves, preservation of the rights of each as against the invasion of a foreign country. On the high seas, on the deck of an American vessel and under the American flag, a man is as much within the jurisdiction of the United States as if he stood on the shores of Virginia; and when a nation—a foreign nation—invades those rights by sending him to the bottom and killing him, there is no other course for the United States to take but to vindicate those rights, to demand reparation for violating them, an to see to it that in the future the rights of other citizens are not similarly violated. No other path was open to us. Germany not only admitted that she had killed our citizens under circumstances that, of course, we must call murder, but she announced that she intended to murder other citizens—anyone who might assert his right to use the common highway of nations and go into that part of the high seas which Germany, without right and with an assertion of world domination, had fenced off against the other nations. If this had been Venezuela, we would have sent a message demanding reparation and security against further violation; and every man, woman and child in the United States, Senator La Follette, pacifists, conscientious objectors, and unconscionious objectors would have approved the action. What is the difference between that case and this? None in principle, only in fact; and that fact is that Germany is the greatest military power in the world and Venezuela is not. Therefore those who oppose war in this instance, who object to the drawing of the sword to which Germany forces us if we would defend those rights, would put us in this situation: that we are in favor of the utmost sacrifice to protect our rights and those of our citizens against a nation if she is little enough and weak enough so that we can whip her with one hand, but if she is a great military nation, resistance to whose aggression requires war and sacrifice, then we will waive those rights because they are technical only. That appeals to no one with a sense of duty as an individual or as a government. President Wilson was criticized for the long delay in asserting those rights. That question we pretermit; it is past. We are neither Republicans nor Democrats now. We are Americans in supporting the President in this righteous war. So we find ourselves in a war for a cause for which in no scintilla, need we apologize, need we defend, need we explain. We are in the war because we could not help it. We are in the war from no jingo spirit. We are in the war from a sense of duty as a country and from our sense of duty as a nation of the world. What were our traditions in the Revolution? What those in the Civil War? What was the position we won in the world? A nation upholding justice. What if now we flinch and do not meet the issue! (Continued Next Week.) Aircraft Standardized. It is less than a score of years since the first heavier-than-air machine successfully carried a passenger into the air. It is less than 15 years since the art of controlling such a craft was imparted by the inventor to another, yet today aircraft have been standardized and factories turn them out with the ease that motorcar builders produce their product. Clever Youngster. A little fellow whose father is connected with a railroad has picked up many railroad phrases. One day while waiting with his metter in a large station the youngster rode about on his little cart. Suddenly a man blocked the little rider's way. The latter, lustily shouting "low bridge," passed safely between the man's legs. CHEYENNE, WYO., NEWS. Mrs. Pauline Shelven, who underwent an operation at the St. John's hospital about three weeks ago, is out and doing nicely. Mr. C. A. Ward, cook on the B. & M. railroad private car, with headquarters at Sterling, Colo., spent a few days with his family this week. Mrs. T. Brown has been quite sick with pleurisy the past week, but is better at this writing. Mrs. H. Fluker received a letter from her only brother a few days ago, of whom she had lost all trace of for over twenty years—Allen Moore of Pueblo, Colo.; former home in Alabama. Deacon L. W. Rawlings and family, who left here a few months ago to take up residence in Pittsburg, Pa., writes that all is well; plenty of work and good wages, but houses to rent are hard to find. At Casper, Wyo., March 7, L. D. Bochea, who admitted having entered the wool warehouse and having stolen $85 worth of pelts, was sentenced from two to three years' term in the penitentiary at Rawlins. Cecil Semounds, a Negro, who was caught while attempting to burglarize the Kemball home, was also sent to Rawlins for a three to five years' term. If one of these men deserved a longer term than the other which one should it have been? This is on the order of a case at Columbus, S. C. Davenport, colored, stole a bicycle and was sentenced to three years at hard labor. Gould, white, stole an automobile and was sentenced to thirty days in the county jail, both tried by the same judge and on the same day. Mr. C. Marries will soon be getting out on his homestead, having put in the winter in Cheyenne, employed at the U. P. railroad shops. Mr. Marries is a progressive young man, coming to Wyoming little over a year ago, from Alabama. He raised a splendid crop of cabbage, onions, potatoes, etc., last year. Girls, he is not a bad looking man, either. Mrs. H. Fluker received a letter from her husband telling her to sell their property and get ready to come to him in Pittsburgh. The Second Baptist church mission circle met at the residence of Mrs. M. C. Vandorf last week. A real good attendance was reported. The circle will give a social at the church Tuesday evening, March 19. The Second Baptist church has reorganized its choir—Deacon McCombs, president; Mrs. Jennie Hackney, organist. Dr. C. O. Smith preached an excellent sermon Sunday night, subject, "Love." Many deep and interesting thoughts were brought out. The A. M. E. church is reported as having splendid services all day Sunday, Rev. N. H. Jeltz in charge. The Sunday school is doing excellent and having real good attendance. Steward H. C. Jefferson, superintendent. Mrs. William Smith, 623 West Nineteenth street, having an ingrowing toe nail, performed an operation on the toe, but didn't make a very good job of it, therefore causing considerable pain for a few days. She has pretty good nerves, but I don't think she will try it again. Say! it is too bad to dress with the expectation of matrimony and be appointed. Oh! well, let him go; he is dry meat, anyway. EATON NEWS Mr. Editor:—"The great supper," found in the 14th chapter of St. Luke was the subject from which Rev. J. T. Muse preached Sunday p. m. A large audience enjoyed his able discourse. We were all pleased to have Mrs. Muse with us again Sunday. We are preparing to have the grandest program in the history of the Baptist mission. Some of the best talent in Cheyenne, Wyo., are expected to take part in the program and worship with us on that day. Rev. and Mrs. Muse were entertained at dinner Sunday by Mrs. Fred Harper. Mr. L. R. Kirkpatrick of Denver passed through Eaton Monday en route to Boise City, Idaho, where he expects to locate. His wife accompanied him this far and stopped over two days, the guest of Mrs. Maud Johnson. Quite a jolly crowd autoed two miles in the country last week and spent a pleasant evening with Mr. and Mrs. West. Shrinking From Death. Is it quite fair to dub a man a coward because he is "afraid to die?" Death, the prospect of it, even when it lies many years ahead, makes many of us quake. What, then, of the death that the air, full of whining bullets, shells, bombs, grenades, holds? "Alj that a man hath will he give for his life" is very true, and to shrink from death is but human and natural.—London Tit-Bits. The Heart Is Very Busy. Your heart is a very busy organ. While you breathe once, it beats four times, says Popular Science Monthly. At each bent it sends four pounds of blood through your veins and arteries. The weight of the circulating blood is 29 pounds. When you run, your legs and the other parts of your body need more blood, so your heart must pump faster. Loss Seen to Our Military Forces Because of Alcohol and High Living By SAMUEL G. DIXON, M. D. Commissioner of Health of Pennsylvania indulge in high living and alcohol, which condition is always bad, particularly in cases of pneumonia. Alcohol combusts in the human system and does so at the expense of other valuable foodstuffs, and therefore should not be considered a foodstuff under the circumstances. It interferes with treatment, using the patients' strength, when this strength is most needed in resisting the disease. Overeating and drinking are bound to increase the death rate from pneumonia. It is the duty of each one to take good care of his health so as to enable him to fight against this serious, exhaustive disease prevalent in winter. During the last several months, not only in military but in civil life, we have lost by death a large number of citizens by pneumonia and other diseases, where the patients' condition was due to the fact that they were overfed and overalcoholed. It is to be hoped that this word of warning will, particularly at this time when this terrible world's war calls for our best efforts, help us to restrain ourselves, and that our citizens in civil life will join in assisting the military authorities in carrying out their discipline, by refraining from furnishing alcohol to those who are in the service. People of United States Must All Belong to the Party of Victory People of United States Must All Belong to the Party of Victory By LIEUTENANT PAUL PERIGORD of the French Army America is in need of a united, loyal people. You are the hope and energy of mankind. You are the United States, but you are not as yet the united people of the United States. We know in France we are all soldiers of righteousness. There is only one party and that is the party of victory. All must belong to it as long as the war lasts. There is the duty of self-sacrifice. You haven't practiced it much vet. I heard a man actually boasting because he had invested in two Liberty bonds at 4 per cent—a good business investment. Don't tell me that you have not a boy to send—are they not all your boys? As democracies we are still willing to believe in the redemption of the German people. We must not hate them—we must be greater and broader than Prussian aristocracy. Americans of German descent should be the first to enlist because they would be fighting against what their forefathers fled from. German people in the United States should be first to help free their kinsmen from autocracy and militarism. If America had failed to enter this war she would have been dishonored forever. The Stars and Stripes—the symbol of justice and freedom not only for the United States but for all nations—would have been handed down to the next generation defiled, stained and dishonored. Now it can still remain the purest and most beautiful flag in the world, and Americans can sing of the "home of the brave and the land of the free" truthfully. Farmer's Success in Big Drive Will Depend on His Ability to Think Now come the golden hours of the year. The winter days present the farmer's opportunity to do his planning for the seasons of planting, cultivating and harvesting, and for these anxious days when the young stock is born, as well as when it is fed and developed and marketed. Upon the kind of thinking which the farmer does in the winter a good deal of success of his operations in the spring and summer and fall depends. To stimulate and help him in his thinking and planning he has the winter meetings, conventions and short courses with their lectures and demonstrations. And he has the aid of his favorite farm papers, with their biggest issues of the year. Never was the demand for clearer thinking more urgent upon the American farmer. On it may depend the outcome of the world's last war. Plan now, to the smallest detail, your work for next year. Make it your biggest and best year. In your planning do not be bashful in calling for help whenever help may be found. Advocate of Universal Training for American Youth Tells of Methods By. MAJOR J. I. McMULLEN, of the United States Army The Kansas men in training at Camp Funston are loyal—right up to snuff in every particular. They are the best men, taking them as a whole, I have ever seen. I believe the American youth should have universal training. It would make them better farmers and better citizens in general. It is impossible to get the system in home training that young men would get in a system of universal training. To send untrained soldiers to the trenches is a crime. They are a hindrance to themselves and to others. We have to train the men right up to the minute. It is just sort of a hand-to-hand struggle after all. The fighting has gone back to the old system of three hundred years ago for the most part. The men have to be taught I don't know how many ways of bayoneting a man. We have to teach them blood-curdling things—they have to be taught to defend themselves. Men are taught how to handle a machine gun in order to get a maximum amount of slaughter. A. B. Getting the great number of men together from various parts of the country to military camps is a most difficult duty. The violent change of climate and the exchange, in many cases, to outdoor life from indoor life, without proper clothing and under unusual living accommodations, as well as the influx of new men, without isolation camps where they might be kept under observation until any contagious disease has had time to develop, are sources of danger to the men who are already in the service. Unfortunately, the recruits, under the excitement of the new life, are tempted to By GLENN HAYES, Editor of Better Farming Attorney E. P. Blackmore, who has been quite sick, is able to be out. Wm. R. Rhodes is improving slowly from his severe attack of rheumatism. Mr. E. Lawson of 1360 Hazel court, who has been ill several weeks, is improving. PETER R. FOSSETT PASSES AW "In the midst of life we are in dea—the reminder that presents it with clock-like regularity, yet the most mindful event comes with a new which seems unexplainable, creating fear in human nature which is o overcome by those whose faith is Egbert Williams is gradually improving after an operating at Mercy hospital. We wish our young and esteemed townsman a speedy recovery. Mrs. Janie M. Pope of 1818 East 32d street was thrown from a street car last Wednesday night but we are glad to state she escaped being injured. Oliver W. Stevens, valet of Henry D. Schoonmaker, a very wealthy ranchman of Alcova, Wyo., was in the city this week en route home from California. He was a very pleasant caller at our office, Monday. George Parsons of 2643 Marion st. has accepted the position of sales agent for the Newcomb Realty Company, one of the oldest and most reliable real estate firms in the West. Mr. Parsons is a resident of Denver for several years and has filled various positions. OIL-O-GRAM, the name of an oil journal that is just issued, has reached our office. It is neatly gotten up, beautifully arranged, and contains information on the oil industry that the public should know. We hope it will be a very valuable acquisition to the journalistic field and as a medium of supplying news for the edification of the community will get indorsement. The Cosmopolitan Oil and Gas Company (incorporated under the laws of Colorado) is the name of a new enterprise recently launched in which some of our enterprising young men are interested. Its authorized capital is $50,000, full paid and non-assessable. The officers are John Shelburn, president; Fred S. Burton, vice president; Robert Carruth, secretary-treasurer; John P. Bennett, Jr., attorney, Directors, John Shelburn, Fred S. Burton, Robert Carruth. Mr. Carruth of 919 19th st., is also fiscal agent. Edward Allison, popularly known as private detective and deputy sheriff, was acquitted of the charge of murder in the case of Mrs. Manning, who was killed in the office of Gingrich, an owner of a creamery in the city. The district attorney endeavored to prove his case but the jury thought otherwise, and after a very sensational trial of a few days brought in a verdict of not guilty. Mr. Allison being a resident of Denver for many years and having a large circle of friends aroused particular interest and much sympathy in the community and we are very glad that he was honorably acquitted by a body of his countrymen. Prof. George Morrison and his famous Jazz orchestra are maintaining the reputation as the most popular orchestra this side of the Mississippi. Their engagement at the Rotary Club Annual Dinner at the Denver Athletic Club recently brought them more laurels and both white and colored citizens compete to obtain the services of this musical combination which is second to none. Messrs. Montgomery, Caldwell, Kelly, Moore and the professional pianiste. Mrs. Jessie Zackery are some of the members of the Morrison Orchestra who help the leader to keep on "making good." OVER THE TOP TO NO MAN'S LAND We are making preparations to handle the crowd Wednesday, March 19th, at that grand Masked Ball given by the Smart Set Club. Admission 30c. Fern Hall. DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING CO. Funeral Notice. Dorothy May Smith, infant of Mr. and Mrs. Robt. O. Smith, residence 243 Fillmore street, departed this life Monday, March 11th, results pneumonia. Services were held Tuesday, March 12, 2 p. m., from residence. Rev. Chas. Lightner officiated. Interment, Fairmount, cemetery. Sir Knight Robt. Ellis, who departed this life March 5th. Funeral services to be held Sunday, March 17, 2:30 p.m., from Shorters A. M. E. Church, under auspices of St. James Temple No.457, Rev. C. A. Williams officiating. Interment, Riverside cemetery. WANTED Respectable working woman or girl for a good home, perfectly modern; terms reasonable. Man and wife would be accepted. Two car lines. For information apply at this office. Main 7417. PETER R. FOSSETT PASSES AWAY "In the midst of life we are in death"—the reminder that presents itself with clock-like regularity, yet the even mindful event comes with a newness which seems unexplainable, creating a fear in human nature which is only overcome by those whose faith is firm in the protecting care of Him Who guides even thru the dark valley of death. And thus Peter R. Fossett, well known citizen of Denver and resident for twenty-three years, passed away last Monday to the Great Beyond, and is now living we hope in the land where the spirits of just men are made perfect. Born in Charlotteville, Virginia, fifty-three years ago, he afterwards same West where he made his home, permanently residing, until his death. He was a well respected citizen, hard working and painstaking in whatever he undertook to perform. He was a member of the Zion Baptist Church. He leaves to mourn his loss a wife, mother, two sisters, three brothers in Virginia, Washington and Chicago. His body will lay in state at Cammel & Co. all day tomorrow, and funeral services will be held from Zion Baptist Church Monday, March 18, 2 p. m. The Colorado Statesman offers its condolence to the bereaved relatives. MR. WILLIAM ASHFORD IS DEAD. Mr. William Ashford, Jr., who was shot by C. V. Loy, February 28, at the Albany hotel, died Wednesday at 5 p. m. at the St. John's hospital. The funeral was held at the A. M. E. church, Thursday at 3 p. m. Rev. N. H. Jeltz officiated. Young Ashford was of good parents and a bright young man. His father is a prominent Thomas street barber. Mrs. Ashford, the boy's mother, died about two years ago. THE ATLAS DRUG COMPANY. THIS drug store located at 2701 Welton Street in the center of the Five Points District has undergone complete renovation and according to the class of goods, manner of service and special catering to the public for the several years of its business life has merited the name, THE DRUG STORE FOR ALL THE PEOPLE. Shelves replete with drugs and toilet articles the choicest, freshest and purest, attract the attention of the passer-by, and maintain the reputation that the firm has established among its patrons and customers for a period extending over a quarter of a century. The civility of the clerks (white and colored) is a pronounced feature of this Company and from our personal knowledge of the good that has been done in the community, THE COLORADO STATESMAN bespeaks a greater patronage and a more successful trade for the future. NOTICE. 777—St. James Temple—777. No. 457. Attention, Sir Knights! You are hereby notified to meet at our hall at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 17, 1918, to attend the funeral of our late brother, Sir Knight Robert Ellis. By Order of A. H. HALL, C. M. Attested: A. E. REYNOLDS. Recorder Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Plans are now being made for our next big membership social, which will be held on Friday evening, the 22d inst. It is our aim to hold it at Fern hall, so that we can fully carry out the complete and unique program which has been prepared. This program will include contests of different kinds between new and old members—such as checkers, singing, speaking, wrestling, plano playing, Indian clubs and other things. It is intended to make it the best ever held. Another record-breaking crowd attended the meeting last Sunday afternoon to hear the discussion of the subject, "Can the Denver Negro Improve His Condition Morally, Economically and in General." Dr. Paul Sprattlin was the first speaker, being followed by Counsellor Blakemore, who responded in the absence of Dr. Westbrook. These two speakers emphasized our duty towards each other, claiming that other things counted for little if this great principle was ignored. The Rev. C. A. Williams' address was a very strong one. He showed the need of an appreciation of the fact that the social needs of the individual must be considered as well as the spiritual and material. The Glee Club had a short rehearsal after the meeting. Next Sunday afternoon an "Efficiency Program" will be rendered, the like of which has never been held in the city. The speakers will all be men who have been in their present jobs ten years or more. The general subject will be, "How I Have Held My Job So Long." A special effort is being made to get as many young men out as possible. The program will begin at 4 o'clock sharp, and all will be welcome. Covering activity Big Muddy Field, yoming meritorious oil Field, malling of Big Muddy Field malled free on request. OIL-O-GRAM 414 Denham Bldg., Denver, Colo. PEOPLE'S PRESBYTERIAN. East Twenty-third Avenue and Washington Street. Presbyter: J. A. Thos-Hazell, S.T.B. Sermon topics: Sunday, March 17th. 11 a. m., "The Beatitude of Meekness." 5 p. m., "The Benediction to the Hungry and Thirsty After Righteousness." gry and Thirsty After Righteousness. The public is hereby notified of the following special services at the People's Church. Sunday week being Palm Sunday at 5 p. m. the presbyter will deliver his usual Palm Sunday discourse. An extraordinary strong musical program will be a feature. The church will be decorated by Mme. Goldie Hughes and her associates in a becoming manner for the occasion. During Holy Week it is hoped that a number of the presbyters of the Presbytery of Denver will be able to serve the congregation every night to Thursday. Friday night a well-trained choir under the instruction of Miss Dimple Gatewood and her father, Mr. W. A. Gatewood, will memorialize the death of Jesus Christ on the Cross by the rendition of the appropriate cantata "The Crucifixion," by Sir John Stainer. These voices are the picked of the city. The program will commend itself to every worshiper on that occasion. The services will begin promptly at 8:30 o'clock. There will be no paid admission. Every worshiper will be expected to make his contribution be it little or much at the door. This contribution will help pay the expenses for the printed program. On Easter day there will be three services: 6 a. m. when Easter carols will be sung and the communion of the Lord's Supper celebrated. 11 a. m., regular services with special music and sermon. 5 p. m., special musical program. CAMPBELL CHAPEL, AFRICAN M E, CHURCH. Twenty-third and Lawrence streets. A. M. Ward, minister, 1218 Twenty-third street. Phone Main 5474. The official board of Campbell chapel voted unanimously to launch a campaign for new recruits beginning April 7 and lasting through the third quarterly meeting Sunday. April 21, at its largely attended meeting Tuesday night. The Rev. Samuel R. Magninez of Trinidad is to be the special recruiting officer. All members and friends are asked to join heartily in this move to get soldiers to volunteer for Christ. There was great rejoicing in our camp over Mr. Benjamin F. Givens, who accepted Christ and joined our church Sunday morning. He was baptized at the evening service Sunday. We were also glad to welcome Brother Irving, who comes to us from Louisiana, and Sister Gladys Powell of Tulsa, Okla. The Y. W. C. A. Quartette entertained with pleasing musical selections a large audience on Sunday night at Campbell chapel. Extensive preparations are in progress for Easter exercises by the Sunday school children and by the senior choir for Sunday afternoon and evening programs, respectively. CHURCH OF THE HOLY RE- DEEMER. Twenty-second Ave. and Humboldt St Rev. Henry B. Brown, B.D., Vicar. Fifth Sunday in Lent: Fifth Sunday in Beat: 7 a. m.—Holy Eucharist. 11:15 a. m.—Choral Sollemn Eucharist with sermon. 7:45 p. m.—Choral Solemn Evensong. Rev. Robert B. Bell, M.A., special preacher. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 4:4:30 p. m., devotional exercises. Fridays, 8 p. m., Litany and lecture on Creeds. An aimless Lent is as worthless as an aimless life. Have a plan—determine what you can and will do. Then persevere. The benefits of Lent are only limited by your disposition. You may make it a blessing or you may destroy its influence upon your life. It rests with you. THE LAST GRAND MASK BALL of the season will be given by the Smart Set Club at Fern Hall, Tuesday, March 19. This club, with Billy Knight as its manager, will again delight the public with their special refined entertainment and from the prestige established in the community should score another successful event. Everything free after admission of 30 cents. NOTICE. The Fraternal Order of Ancient Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem, cordially invites the public to attend their anniversary Monday evening, March 14, 1918. All members are specially requested to be present. Refreshments and intellectual treat to all. Elks' Hall, Washington Street. LULA DRAIN, M. E., Queen. LELA REYNOLDS, M. E., Scribes Anything you have in the line of wearing apparel for sale. See Davis & Sample, second-hand dealers, 1834 Arapahoe street. Work for the Highest Ends. All work should be for the highest ends. Making a living is merely incidental. "But I must live;" was the excuse of a man who preyed upon his fellows by his sharp practices. And he deserved the retort of a listener: "Excuse me; I do not see the necessity." We should work for better standards and purer ideals, for happier homes and better living. The humblest task into which we put a high purpose contributes to this end. No day is commonplace in which we work for that which is noble and best. Apron Sale —You will find a splendid assortment of bright, fresh, new Aprons—Bungalow Aprons, Kitchen Aprons, Fancy Sewing Aprons, Red Cross Uniform Aprons and Pretty Afternoon Aprons. —The Apron pictured is a panel front, bungalow style, belted model, and comes in solid colors and fancy plaids, at.....$1.50 —Another splendid new Apron that is becoming very popular comes in slipover style in light striped patterns, piped in solid colors, at.....$1.25 —The new Afternoon Aprons are very attractive and dressy. They are made up of pretty ginghams and percales, in dainty stripes and checks; some trimmed in same, some trimmed in solid colors: With bib .....$1.00 Without bib .....85¢ —One special lot of light percale Bungalow Aprons in two different models, button front or back, are priced at.....69¢ - 81 Bungalow Aprons of cheeked gingham, fitted style, sizes 36 to 44; are priced at less than the cost of the material in them..... A great many women use them for House Dresses. Both are extra good values for $1.25. Come in sizes 19 to 28 models for figures of average build. FOURTH FLOOR LYMAN'S MILLINERY STORE. For everything up-to-date with the finest assortment of millinery for the Spring season, the Lyman Store with its goods of unequalled quality offers to its patrons and the public a line of goods suitable to every taste at prices defying competition. A visit will convince that what we say will be endorsed by you. Hours: 11 to 12 a. m. Phone 3 to 5 p. m. York 6191J And by Appointment DR. S. A. HUFF Physician and Surgeon 2538 Washington (5 Points) Res. 1032 E, 24th Ave York 7432R DENVER, COLO FOR RENT—5-room frame house at 2360 Tremont Place. Apply at 1824 Curtis street. Room 25. NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING. Notice is hereby given that the deferred annual meeting of the stockholders of The Letter Company will be held at the place of business of the Company, No. 2549 Washington Street, Denver, Colorado, on Friday, January 16, 2015, for the purpose of transacting the following business and passing upon the following amendments to the Articles of Incorporation to-wit. The Articles of Incorporation to be of Directors for the ensuing year. (2) To amend the Articles of Incorporation by increasing the number of stockholders of The Letter Company. Directions from tucson (3) To change name and objects of the company so as to authorize the Company to carry on a general mercantile business; and (4) To change the par value of the capital stock of the Company from $10 per share to $5 per share. THE FLECHER AND WILLIAMS GROCERY CO. By WALTER H. PRITCHETTE. (Corporate Seal) Secretary. GRAND SPRING OPENING Michaelson's. 15th and LARIMER STREETS Calling attention to the new department on the second floor, women's wear, where you will find every late conceit in women's spring suits, silk dresses, waists, blouses, furnishings, a truly splendid line, at about $1 less than elsewhere prices. BOYS DUBBLEBILT SUITS Are the most economical—they cost $8.75—but the makers show their confidence by guaranteeing the suits for six months, keeping them in repair, and instructing us to clean them and press them as often as consistently necessary during that period. All other departments equipped to serve you most satisfactorily, With your Easter requirements. —Five beautiful styles, checks, plaids and plain color, ginghams and chambrays for girls, 3 to 6 years old; each.....$1.19 Joslin DRY GOODS CO. THIRD FLOOR MARCH FE 19 27 Smart 3 Last Gran Ball of th 5--Handsor FREE CHITTERLINGS FREE CAKE AN MORGAN JACKSON'S SIX EVERYBODY WELCOME ADMISSION CH FERN HA 27th & Welton Quart Set Co Last Grand Masked Ball of the Season -Handsome Prizes- BITTERLINGS FREE ICE FREE CAKE AND SANDWICHES IN JACKSON'S SIX-PIECE JAZZ ORCHE BODY WELCOME—A GOOD TIME AT MISSION . . . MARCH 19 FERN HALL 27th & Welton Sts. Smart Set Club Last Grand Masked Ball of the Season FREE CHITTERLINGS FREE ICE CREAM FREE CAKE AND SANDWICHES MORGAN JACKSON'S SIX-PIECE JAZZ ORCHESTRA EVERYBODY WELCOME—A GOOD TIME ASSURED WM. KNIGHT, Manager The O.W.L. 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Everything in Materials for the Home Milliner Untrimmed Hats, Flowers, Fancy Beaded C ments in Japanese, Chinese and Indian Des Lyman's Just Around the Corner From the Tower Arapahoe Street Intrimmed Hats, Flowers, Fancy Beaded Or ents in Japanese, Chinese and Indian Des Lyman's Just Around the Corner From the Tower Arapahoe Street Untrimmed Hats, Flowers, Fancy Beaded Ornaments in Japanese, Chinese and Indian Designs. Just Around the Corner From the Tower on Arapahoe Street For Rent—Neatly furnished and un-furnished rooms, permanent and transient; privilege of kitchen and other convenience; terms reasonable; Curtis and Lawrence street, car passes the door; 2346 Curtis street. Mrs. Katherine Edwards. Phone Main 8036 Res. Phone N FRANK D. TAGG Attorney at Law—Not 621-622 Cooper Bu Denver, Colorm --- THIRD FLOOR BURN HALL & Welton Sts. Bet Club Masked Season e Prizes--5 FREE ICE CREAM SANDWICHES PIECE JAZZ ORCHESTRA A GOOD TIME ASSURED 30c yman Co. and Elegance eign Supreme at wholesale prices in floor space filled with illinery. Model Hats Auto Hats ers, Fancy Beaded Orna- se and Indian Designs. an's From the Tower on Street Phone Main 8036 Res. Phone York 5774W FRANK D. TAGGART Attorney at Law—Notary Public 621-622 Cooper Building Denver, Colorado --- ABRI DH HARDEN Les falluelles 147 officiers Conductus par un oeuvre militaire D. 25 Octobre 1917 1 2 Photo by Western Newspaper Union 3 1—The Siberian situation as the outgrowth of the Russian debacle is now holding the attention of those following the world war. This picture shows some of the Japanese troops who may soon be sent to Siberia. 2—Officers in command of an American trench in the Lorraine sector on the western front. 3—Dugout where the first American officer, Lieutenant Harden of the Signal corps, was wounded by a German shell; the dugout is decorated with American and French colors. NEWS REVIEW OF THE PAST WEEK Russia Makes Humiliating Peace But Kaiser's Soldiers Continue Invasion. AMERICANS REPEL RAIDERS Pershing's Troops, Now Occupying Eight-Mile Front, Hurl Back Strong Forces of Germans—Fight Like Veterans. Extreme chaos has continued to mark the Russian situation, the only thing that has seemed really clear being that Germany is determined to take advantage of the utter collapse of Russia to seize such territory and supplies as she desires. The bolshevik envoys presented the humiliating spectacle of signing a peace treaty without discussion, fearing as they announced, that negotiations would only result in the imposition of more obnoxious terms. But even after the Russian peace delegates had thus debased themselves the Germans continued their invasion of Russian territory. Whether the masses of the Russian people will accept the humiliating peace terms agreed to by the bolshevik delegates is a question that only time can settle. The bolshevik government abandoned Petrograd as the German troops advanced upon that city and moved the administrative offices to Moscow, which city, it was announced, would be made the Russian capital. Leon Trotzky, the bolshevik foreign minister, indicated that he and his associates are concerned with the future of the revolution, rather than the future of Russia as a national entity. He announced that the bolshevik leaders are prepared to withdraw even as far as to the Ural mountains rather than submit to the defeat of the revolution. The haste of the Russian envoys in signing a treaty of peace with Germany was explained on the ground that the terms proposed by the Teutonic envoys were growing more onerous hourly. At the last minute the Germans demanded three great trans-Caucasian provinces—Karabad, Kars and Batoum—presumably for their Turkish ally, and they got them, of course. The Russian envoys shut their eyes and signed the document as it was pushed across the table by the Hun envoys. --- With Russia in thorough subjection, so far as the bolshevik government was concerned, the central powers turned their attention to Roumania, and, as was to be expected, they forced that country to sign a preliminary peace treaty which is little less humiliating than that forced upon the Russians. Under the terms of this treaty Roumania cedes the province of Dobrudja, as far as the Danube, to the central powers, agrees to evacuate all occupied Austro-Hungarian territory, promises to demobilize its army and agrees to "support with all its strength the transport of troops of the central powers through Moldavia and Bessarabia to Odessa." The submission by Roumania to any terms imposed by the central powers was expected, as that country, abandoned by Russia, and entirely cut off from all possible aid from the allied powers, was absolutely at the mercy of the Teutonic powers. A peace treaty between Russia and Finland has also been signed. --- While Germany was working its will in Russia and Roumania, the diplomatic situation growing out of the proposal of Japan to intervene in Siberia for the purpose of protecting the vast stores of supplies paid for with money furnished by the allies, occupied the attention of the United States and the entente governments. It was indicated that there was some divergence of opinion between President Wilson and the leaders in England, France and Italy, as to the wisdom of giving Japan a free hand in this connection. American troops in the front line trenches in France have had their real baptism of fire. They have taken part in several engagements with the enemy, one of which approached the dignity of a real battle. The Americans have repulsed several raids made by the Germans and inflicted heavy losses upon the enemy. The most pretentious engagement was that which resulted from a strong German attack upon the American lines in the Toul sector. A large force of German "shock" troops, trained especially for this operation, attacked the American line after heavy artillery fire had practically leveled the American trenches. The American troops, undismayed by the terrific bombardment, stood their ground and engaged in a hand-to-hand struggle with the German raiders in the trenches. The Germans were driven back into No Man's Land, leaving three prisoners and many dead in the American trenches. The Americans pursued the fleeing Germans and inflicted further losses as the enemy retreated to their own lines. The Americans suffered severe casualties, the dead including three officers and seventeen men, but the American lines were maintained at all points and the raid was declared a complete failure. Many cases of individual heroism on the part of the Americans were reported and several officers and men were decorated by the French premier for bravery. Other raids upon the American lines in the Chemin des Dames sector and in Lorraine were also repulsed with severe losses to the enemy. In all these engagements the American troops have shown that, despite their inexperience in the new type of warfare, they are now perfectly at home in the trenches and are able to hold their own against the enemy. --- The increasingly large part which Pershing's troops are taking in the fighting on the west front is indicated by the announcement that the Americans are now holding something over eight miles of trenches on the battle front. This front is liable to extension at any time to the regular trench allotment for an army corps. The present American sector is understood to be a divisional frontage, which means that at least three divisions of American troops are there to give the necessary support for the front lines. The growing activity of the American troops is further shown by the daily casualty lists which are now coming from General Pershing. Announcement has been made that the third American Liberty loan will be offered soon. The campaign for subscriptions will open on April 6, the first anniversary of the entry of the United States into the war, and will continue for three or four weeks. The amount of the loan, the interest rate and other features have not been made public but the fact that further legislation will be sought from congress in anticipation of the loan indicates that the amount of the issue will be more than $3,600,000,000, the remainder of authorized but unissued bonds. The campaign work for the new loan has already been started throughout the country and every district will have been thoroughly organized before the drive begins. --- Several steps have been taken by the United States government to further co-ordinate and centralize the work of war preparation. The two outstanding developments along this line were the appointment of Bernard M. Baruch of New York as chairman of the war industries board with greatly enlarged powers, and the assumption by Maj. Gen. Peyton C. March of his duties as acting chief of staff. Mr. Baruch, according to the president's own announcement, made in his letter of appointment, will have greater powers even than it was proposed by certain members of congress to confer upon a minister of munitions. He will be, in fact, a practical dictator over industrial problems relating to the war and will have, among other things, the last word in determining priority of supplies for the government whenever there is competitive or other conflict of interest among departments. The power placed in the hands of Mr. Baruch as chairman of the board is indicated by the direction of the president that the ultimate decision of all questions, except the determination of prices, shall rest always with the chairman, the other members of the board acting in an advisory and co-operative capacity. Under this plan, the president seems to have provided for the centralization of power to an even greater degree than has been proposed by those demanding some action of this kind. The death of John Redmond, the Irish national leader, removes the leading champion of home rule for Ireland and one of the most striking figures that English politics has produced in the past quarter of a century. For more than twenty-five years Redmond had fought for home rule in Ireland and during the greater part of that time, he was the recognized leader of Ireland's "struggle for liberty." His determined fight in parliament for home rule earned for him the sobriquet of "stormy petrel of the house." In paying tribute to the memory of Redmond in the house of commons, Sir Edward Carson, Ulster leader and long-time opponent of Redmond, made this significant statement: "Indeed, we were not very far apart in our attempts at a settlement of the Irish question." Redmond was well-known in the United States, having visited this country in 1908 and again in 1910. In the case of General March, the new acting chief of staff, the idea of centralization of power is also to be carried out. It is announced that General March will have full power to reorganize the general staff with a view of giving it the highest efficiency in its work of directing the strictly military end of the war. He has been given the power to select his own assistants. One of General March's first acts was to establish the "open door" policy. He arranged to see newspaper correspondents once every day and indicated that he will endeavor to relax the censorship to such an extent that Americans may learn more about what their soldiers are doing in France. The appointment of General March to this position has won wide approval as, in his work as chief of all the American artillery forces in France, he has been in close touch with General Pershing and is intimately familiar with all conditions abroad. --- Speculation as to Germany's well-advertised offensive on the western front has continued, with opinion divided as to whether such an offensive really will be launched. In some quarters it is believed that Germany is so fully occupied with developments in Russia and is so intent upon accomplishing her designs in the east that she will not undertake an offensive in the west but will be content to maintain a defensive attitude. Those taking this view believe that Germany's idea is that a deadlock on the west front will force the allies to agree to a peace by negotiation and that under such circumstances she will be able to attain all her imperialistic designs in the east. On the other hand, further concentration of troops on the western front is taken by some authorities as indicating that Germany really intends to launch a determined offensive in France. General Maurice, chief director of military operations at the British war office, declares that the enemy is now ready to strike on the western front at any moment suitable to his purpose. He declares that the allies remain superior in guns, rifles and aircraft, but that the margin of advantage in these particulars is steadily diminishing and an equalization of strength is being approached. More frequent and more pretentious raids undertaken by both sides along the entire western front are regarded as forerunners of an offensive. The raids are made to feel out the enemy, to find, if possible, the weak spots in his lines. The many German raids are believed to have been made necessary by the air superiority of the allies along the greater part of the western front. Unable to gain the information they need through their airmen, the Germans have been forced to resort to raids in order to learn the strength of the opposing forces at various points on the front. SUGAR SUPPLY IS ASSURED PACKERS FOOD PRODUCTS MANUFACTUR ERS ADVISED THEY WILL BE ABLE TO OBTAIN NECESS ARY REQUIREMENTS. EQUIPMENT OF WAR PLANES Each Aircraft Needs Extra Material and Staff of Skilled Men—Removal of Officers From Medical Reserve Corps. Washington.—Manufacturers of essential food products have been advised by the food administration that they will be able to obtain their full requirements of sugar for manufacturing purposes during the coming year. This applies particularly to packers of fruit, condensed milk, such vegetables for the preservation of which sugar may be necessary, as well as to the housewives, for usage in preserving purposes. As soon as the car shortage is relieved, according to the food administration statement, supplies of sugar will be available for these purposes. Shipments from Cuba are steadily increasing. All canners have been advised to hold for war purposes such quantities of canned corn, peas, tomatoes, string beans, and salmon as they may have on hand. Such quantities as are not wanted will be released within a few days after receipt of reports showing stocks on hand, which must be submitted to the food administration before March 15. After three years of warfare the total number of airplanes able to take the air at any one time on either side of the western front has not been over 2,500. Each plane in the air requires a force of 46 men, two replacement planes on the ground, and one training plane for every pilot who eventually reaches the front, with an extra engine for each plane. The life of a plane is not more than two months, and the engine must be overhauled after each 75 hours. Now that American battle planes are going overseas, the great problem is to secure the thousands of skilled mechanics, enginemen, motor repair men, wood and metal workers needed to keep the planes in perfect condition. This engineering and mechanical force at the airdromes, the flying fields, and repair depots, both here and behind the lines in France, is a vital industrial link in the chain to air supremacy. From the declaration of war to February 23, the surgeon general of the army has removed 1,050 officers of the Medical Reserve corps. In the following table the reason assigned for discharge does not isolate under "inaptitude for the service" all those whose dismissal was in considerable degree due to inefficiency or incompetency, since these reasons had weight in many cases otherwise classified. Discharged for physical disability, 411; inaptitude for the service, 154; to join other branches, 306; domestic difficulties, 59; resignation, 88; needed by communities, hospitals, schools, 82. During the same period there have been 2,265 promotions, including some officers promoted more than once. Plans have been announced for the organization of "Junior Four-Minute Men" in every school in the country. According to the division of Four-Minute Men of the committee of public information, bulletins especially prepared for school children will be sent during the third Liberty loan campaign for distribution by superintendents to all schools in the United States. Addresses will be prepared from the material in these bulletins just as regular Four-Minute speakers in motion-picture houses prepare their own speeches from bulletins supplied by the government. In each school the children submitting the best speeches are to deliver them in public. According to plans the boy or girl awarded first prize is to get a certificate from the United States government as a Junior Four-Minute Man. Packages containing dutiable gifts sent to members of the expeditionary forces temporarily serving in England will be delivered free of duty, provided the contents contain bona fide gifts, the quantity is not beyond the personal requirements of the addressee, and that the parcels are addressed for delivery to the regimental address of the recipient. A navy base hospital with a capacity of 500 beds has reached the war zone. It will take care of navy personnel, both ashore and afloat, and if accommodations exist will also be available for army and allied sick and wounded. All persons or firms engaged in importing, manufacturing, storing, or distributing fertilizers of fertilizer ingredients must secure licenses on or before March 20. Application must be made to the Law Department, License Division, United States food administration, Washington, D. C. It is reported from Germany that wood is being largely used in place of celluloid, ivory, and other substances for the manufacture of combs. Excellent toilet combs are made from thinly cut birch and beechwood. A memorandum made public by the war department concerning the use of armed guards about industrial plants contains the following: "The soldier in training who has offered his life for the defense of country should not sacrifice his effectiveness by performing police duty in the protection of property back of the lines. This is the duty of the citizen at home. "The theater for operations for armed soldiers is the battlefield of Europe. Each civilian should aid his country by acting as a guard for the detection and prevention of intrigue, deceit, and all the familiar stealthy operations of the enemy, in our midst. Each soldier unnecessarily detailed as a guard in this country aids and abets the enemy in Europe. "Often a guard may be needed for the safety of a factory. When it is, it should be supplied by the owner of the factory, by the municipality, or by the state. "These measures apply not only to manufacturing plants, but are equally applicable to shipyards, grain elevators, and stores of supplies." The necessity for thorough and continuous training of troops in gas defense is shown by a statement proved by captured German documents: The Germans at a certain position on the western front knew the British were planning to deliver a gas attack on a German division equipped with masks, but poorly trained in their use. In spite of the fact that they had several days to drill before conditions were suitable for the British attack, when it was finally made hundreds of German casualties resulted. Many kinds of gases are used in modern warfare. Some merely affect the eyes temporarily, and are more inconvenient than serious. Other gases are terrible in their effect unless proper protection is available. They are employed in clouds, or in shells, bombs, and hand greenades. It is the work of the field training section of the gas defense service to bring home to the American soldier the importance of his gas mask, to thoroughly drill him in its use and to inspire confidence in its efficiency. According to an announcement by the war trade board a special license has been issued covering shipments made by persons in the United States to, and for the personal use of, individuals serving in the United States army or navy or the American Red Cross abroad. This license does not permit shipments by persons in this country to American prisoners of war, but has been issued to facilitate small personal shipments to soldiers and sailors and Red Cross workers by doing away with the necessity of securing an individual export license in each case. Shipments by mail under this license must be made in accordance with the regulations of the post office department. If it becomes necessary later to limit this license to certain specified commodities notice will be given through the press. The United States rifle, model of 1917, commonly called the modified Enfield, has now been tested in the service of the army a sufficient time to warrant the assertion that it more than justifies the claims made for it, according to a statement authorized by the secretary of war. The new rifle takes a 30-caliber cartridge, which has the advantage over the British Enfield of being rimless. It has been found that unless rim cartridges are fed through the magazine uniformly with the rim of the top cartridge ahead of the rim of the one immediately below, jams are likely to occur. The model of 1917 has an over-all length of 46.3 inches; a total weight including oiler and thong case and bayonet of ten pounds and five ounces. The breech mechanism is of the bolt type. In the new school opened at Rochester, N. Y., to train photographers for the Signal corps, the primary training will cover four weeks along highly specialized developments brought out in the war. At its close the successful graduates will be sent on for a month's advanced training, after which they will be organized into units and sent overseas. Men with the highest grades will be given still further training for commissions as photographic intelligence officers, first at a school and then in actual flights at the flying fields. During the month of January $11, 787,517 were paid out to farmers of the United States by the federal land banks on long-time first-mortgage loans, according to a statement by the federal loan board. On February 1 the total amount of money paid out to farmers since the establishment of the federal land banks was $50,782,432, covering 24,020 loans closed. The total amount of loans applied for up to February 1 was $260,556,891, representing 112,146 applications. Near beer and temperance drinks coming within the designation of malt liquor are included in the President's proclamation limiting brewers of beer to 70 per cent of the amounts of grains and other food materials that were used last year. Massachusetts and Michigan chapters of the Daughters of the Revolution are establishing "mending rooms" in cantonments. These departments are opened for hospitals, where hundreds of garments are mended each week. Sales Daily at 2 p.m. Office 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, Colo. JOSEPH CARTER Express, Moving, and Storage COAL AND WOOD PROMPT DELIVERY. 2415 WASHINGTON STREET. Phone Champa 113 1848 Arapahoe 乐泽轩 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 Don't Take It For Granted that just because you are in business, everybody is aware of the fact. Your goods may be the finest in the market but they will remain on your shelves unless the people are told about them. ADVERTISE if you want to move your merchandise. Reach the buyers in their homes through the columns of THIS PAPER and on every dollar expended you'll reap a handsome dividend. THE Merchants who advertise in this paper will give you best values for your money. The Housewife and the War (Special Information Service, United States Department of Agriculture.) HOMEMADE BREAD RAISER HELPS ON BAKING DAY. ```markdown ``` Converted Dry Goods Box, Warmed by Oil Lamp or Electric Light, Provides Proper Temperature for Bread Raising. SUGAR: PRODUCE MORE AND SUBSTITUTE, ADVISE SPECIALISTS. SUGAR: PRODUCE MORE AND SUBSTITUTE, ADVISE SPECIALISTS. Satisfactory substitutes for sugar may be used to a much larger extent, says a paragraph in the department of agriculture's agricultural production program for 1918, which will be of interest to the housewife. While urging maintenance of the acreage of sugar cane and sugar beets and increases where these crops are well established or are necessary to sound agricultural practice, the program states that an extensive increase in 1918 is not possible because of the time required to grow seed cane stock and because of the limited amount of beet seed available. The larger use of sorghum, corn and cane sirup, maple sugar and sirup, and honey is urged. The maple sirup and sugar production can and should be increased in those areas in which maple trees are growing in sufficient numbers to warrant the expenditure of the necessary time and labor. Maple sirup and sugar are produced in 19 states, the annual output exceeding 14,000,000 pounds of sugar and 4,000,000 gallons of sirup. Those figures can be increased. The production of sorghum sirup in 1917 exceeded that in 1916 by nearly 4,000,000 gallons. Sorghum sirup may be produced in nearly every state in the Union, and an increased production of sorghum sirup will enable the public still further to conserve the sugar supply in the most available form for transportation to our soldiers. BREAD BOX HELP TO HOUSEKEEPER Device Is Easily Constructed and Removes Uncertainty of Baking. ASBESTOS BEST FOR LINING Thermometer Enables Baker to Obtain Desired Temperature—Specialists Advise Production of More Sugar Crops. War kitchens must be efficient. Comveniences will help make them so. A home-made sponge box or bread raiser will help make the bread better. It enables the housekeeper to keep her sponge or dough at the right temperature so that it will rise in less time. A sponge box or bread-raiser, therefore, takes much of the uncertainty out of bread-baking. It can be made from an ordinary dry goods packing box. Placing the Shelves. A box 26 by 20 by 20 inches is a convenient size. About 10 inches from the bottom of the box a shelf made of slats or strips of wood rests on cleats fastened to the sides of the box. A second shelf is placed four inches above the lower one. The shelves can be removed when cleaning the box. Below the lower shelf a sheet of galvanized iron slightly wider than the shelf is inserted. It is curved in order to make it slip in and stay in place securely. This prevents scorching of the lower shelf when a lamp is placed below, and also helps to distribute the heat more evenly. The door is hinged and fastened with a thumb-latch or hook and staple. Several small holes are bored in the lower and upper parts of the sides and in the top of the box to promote circulation of air. A cork which has been bored through the center to admit a straight thermometer is inserted in one of the holes in the top of the box. A Fahrenheit chemical thermometer that registers as high as 100 degrees can be used. Such a thermometer may be ordered through a hardware dealer or directly from an instrument dealer. Make Safe From Fire. To avoid all danger of fire, the box should be lined with asbestos or tin when a kerosene lamp is used for heating the box. If an electric light is used, the lining is not necessary. A 16-candlepower light will heat the box nicely. A small and inexpensive night lamp is placed in the bottom of the box and a shallow pan of water is placed on the lower shelf so that the air in the box will be kept moist. The bowl of sponge or pans of dough are placed on the upper shelf. The temperature of the box should be kept as near 86 degrees Fahrenheit as possible (80 to 88 degrees Fahrenheit) when bread is being made in the quick way. If a sponge is set overnight 65 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit is the better temperature until the dough is made in the morning, after which the temperature may be increased to 86 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature in the box may be varied by raising or lowering the flame of the lamp or by using warm or cold water in the shallow pan. Filter Peanut Oil at Home. Unrefined peanut oil can be prepared for household use by filtering through ordinary filter paper obtainable at drug stores. A Georgia woman, the wife of an oil miller, had been paying her grocer nearly $2 a gallon for cooking oil while her husband sold his unrefined oil to a refinery for about $1.20 a gallon. She sent a small sample of the oil from her husband's mill to the bureau of chemistry of the United States department of agriculture with the request that, if possible, she be told of a method by which it could be made suitable for household use. The filter paper method was suggested. In a letter which came to the department later the success of the method was described as "surpassing my best expectations." Sour Cream Salad Dressing. Potatoes can be used to advantage in many ways in the school lunch. Potato salad is one way. The attractiveness of the salad depends largely on the dressing used. A good dressing can be made as follows: $ \frac{1}{4} $ teaspoonful salt- $ \frac{1}{2} $ teaspoonful sugar. tard. 1 egg. $ \frac{1}{4} $ teaspoonful salt- $ \frac{1}{4} $ cupful vinegar. $ \frac{1}{4} $ teaspoonful pap- 1 cupful sour cream. rika. Beat the egg until very light, add the other ingredients, and cook in a double boiler, stirring constantly until thickened. Remove from the fire and beat well. If this dressing is cooked properly, it will have, when cool, a thick, smooth consistency. If it is overcooked, so that there is a tendency to separate, it should be strained before cooling. Oatmeal Cookies for Lunches Oatmeal cookies, a toothsome and wholesome sweet for the school lunch, may be made of one egg, one-third cupful granulated sugar, one cupful rolled oats, two teaspoonfuls melted fat, one-fourth teaspoonful salt. Beat the egg, add sugar gradually, and stir in other ingredients. Drop a spoonful at a time on a well-greased tin and bake in a moderate oven. Milk Is Good as Meat. If milk is 10 cents a quart it is as cheap a protein food as sirloin steak at 22.9 cents a pound or eggs at 27.9 cents a dozen. At 12 cents a quart it is as cheap as sirloin steak selling at 27.4 cents a pound or eggs at 33.5 cents a dozen. To supply energy at equal cost when milk is 10 cents a quart, sirloin steak must not be more than 14.2 cents a pound, and eggs not more than 13.3 cents a dozen. FEDERAL INCOME TAX IN BRIEF The Requirements Boiled Down for Busy Folks. Returns must be filed on or before April 1, 1918. Tax due may be paid now or on or before June 15, 1918. If you were single and your net income for 1917 was $1,000 or more you must file a return. If you were married and living with wife (or husband) and had a net income of $2,000 or more for 1917 you must file a return. Husband's and wife's income must be considered jointly, plus income of minor children. Income of a minor or incompetent, derived from a separate estate, must be reported by his legal representative. Severe penalties are provided for those who neglect or evade the law. For false or fraudulent return there is a penalty not exceeding $2,000 fine or year's imprisonment, or both, plus 100 per cent. of tax. For failure to make return on or before April 1, 1918, fine is from $20 to $1,000, plus 50 per cent. of tax due. Returns must be filed with the Collector of Internal Revenue of district in which you live. An agent may file return for a person who is ill, absent from the country or otherwise incapacitated. Each return must be signed and sworn or affirmed by person executing it. Single persons are allowed $1,000 exemption in computing normal tax. A married person living with wife (or husband) is allowed $2,000 exemption, plus $200 for each dependent child under 18. A head of family, though single, is allowed $2,000 exemption if actually supporting one or more relatives. Returns must show the entire amount of earnings, gains and profits received during the year. Officials and employees are not taxable on the salaries or wages received from a state, county, city or town in the United States. Interest on state and municipal bonds issued within the U. S. is exempt from federal income tax and should be omitted. Interest on United States government bonds is also exempt, except on individual holdings of Liberty Fours in excess of $5,000 par value. Dividends are not subject to normal tax, but must be reported and included in net income. Gifts and legacies are not income and should not be included on the return of the beneficiary. Life insurance received as a beneficiary or as premiums paid back at maturity or surrender of policy is not income. Payments received for real or personal property sold is not income, but the profit realized thereon is income for the year of sale. Amounts received in payment of notes or mortgages is not income, but the interest on such notes or mortgages is taxable income. From the entire gross income certain allowances are made in arriving at the net income. Necessary expenses actually paid in the conduct of business, trade or profession may be claimed. A farmer can claim payments for labor, seed, fertilizer, stock feed, repairs on buildings, except his dwelling; repairs of fences and farm machinery, materials and small tools for immediate use. The amount of rent paid for a farm may also be claimed as a tenant farmer's expense. Payments for live stock are allowable if bought for resale. But if bought for breeding purposes cattle are an investment, not an expense, and cannot be allowed. A storekeeper can claim amounts paid for advertising, clerk hire, telephone, water, light and fuel, also drayage and freight bills and cost of operating and repairing wagons and trucks. A physician can claim cost of his professional supplies, rent, office help, telephone, expense of team or automobile used in making professional calls and expenses attending medical conventions. A dentist can claim similar items, except team or auto expense, which are not necessary in his profession. Expenses that are personal or connected in any way with the support or well being of a person or family are not allowable. The costs of machines, instruments, vehicles or implements that are more or less permanent in character are not allowable as an expense. They are investments. Interest paid on a mortgage or other personal indebtedness is allowable on a personal return. All taxes paid within the year can be taken out on a federal return, except federal income taxes, inheritance taxes and assessments for local improvements. Losses sustained in business or through fire, storm or shipwreck or by theft, except when compensated by insurance or otherwise. Wear and tear of rented buildings or machinery used in business may be claimed. You can also claim the amount paid to the Red Cross and to other charitable, religious or educational organization to the extent of 15 per cent. of your net income. The KITCHEN CABINET Give us to go blithely on our business all this day, bring us to our resting place, keep it secure and content and unhonored, and hold it dear. And the gift of sleep.—R. L. Stevenson. MORE GOOD EATING. Chicken is one of the foods we may eat without fear of breaking the food pledge. Potted Chicken. —Cut up a well-dressed chicken and fry in hot pork fat made from frying three slices of sait pork. Roll the chicken in well-seasoned flour and fry until well Potted chicken. Cut up a well-dressed chicken and fry in hot pork fat made from frying three slices of salt pork. Roll the chicken in well-seasoned flour and fry until well browned, then add boiling water to cover, with one carrot, one onion, one head of celery, a small potato, all cut in small cubes. Cook until the meat is tender, then add a half can of peas just before serving. Baked Fish With Sour Cream.—Cut raw fish into serving-sized pieces and place them side by side in a shallow baking dish. For each pound of fish allow a tablespoonful of butter, a slice of onion, a bay leaf and a third of a cupful of soor cream. Baste the fish with the sauce while cooking, adding hot water if the sauce becomes too thick. Remove the fish to a platter, add a dash of lemon juice or vinegar, with salt and pepper to taste, and strain it over the fish. Canned asparagus, heated and served on points of toast with melted butter and parmesan cheese grated over the top, makes a most tasty dish. Punski, a Russian Dish.—Fry fresh mushrooms rolled in seasoned flour in butter. Pour sour cream over some finely chopped chicken or veal. Cut circles of pastry from pie crust, place a spoonful of the mixture on a piece of the pastry, cover with another piece and pinch the edges together. Brush with egg and milk and bake in a hot oven. Serve with mushroom or tomato sauce. Eggless Cake.—Take three cupfuls of boiling water, one package of raisins, one and a half tablespoonfuls of butter and two cupfuls of brown sugar, put all into a dish and boil eight minutes. Cool and add three cupfuls of flour, one tablespoonful of baking powder and a little salt. Mix, beat well and bake in a slow oven one hour. This makes two loaves. In making corn bread, substitute a tablespoonful of molasses for every egg required in the recipe; it will make a most palatable Johnny cake. It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs bark at strangers.—Seneca. SAVORY SAUCES. A well seasoned sauce adds much to an otherwise very ordinary dish. Oyster Cocktail Sauce.—Take three tablespoonfuls of tomato catsup, one tablespoonful of horseradish sauce, a teaspoonful of worcestershire well mixed and served in lemon Sauce.—Take three tablespoonfuls of tomato catsup, one tablespoonful of horseradish sauce, a teaspoonful of w o r e s t e r sh i r e well mixed and served in lemon cups in a dish of crushed ice with oysters. Snappy French Dressing.—Take two tablespoonfuls of olive oil, a tablespoonful of tarragon vinegar, a dash of paprika, a quarter of a teaspoonful each of mustard and salt; mix well and serve in the heart leaves of lettuce; sprinkle over a teaspoonful of w o r e s t e r sh i r e sauce and a tablespoonful of finely chopped onion and a generous sprinkling of red pepper. Roquefort Cheese Dressing.—Take a quarter of a pound of roquefort, two cupfuls of French dressing, using one and a half cupfuls of oil and a half cupful of vinegar, seasoning well with salt and red pepper, with a teaspoonful of powdered sugar. Russian Dressing.—Beat two eggs, add red pepper and half a teaspoonful of salt, a teaspoonful of finely minced parsley, two teaspoonfuls each of chopped green and red pepper, a half cupful of tarragon vinegar. Mix well and add two cupfuls each of chill sauce and mayonnaise. Mignonette Sauce.—Chop three small onions, add seven tablespoonfuls of crushed whole peppers (not ground pepper), add three cupfuls of tarragon vinegar, put into a jar well covered and let stand for two days, when it will be ready to use. The sauce may be strained when ready to serve. Very tasteful sauce for oysters. Emergency Salad Dressing.—Use any left-over yolks or whites—both are better, and the more of the yolk the richer will be the dressing. Beat and measure and take an equal measure of mild vinegar—strong vinegar may be diluted with water; put over hot water to cook, stirring constantly with an eggbeater. When thick, set away in a covered jar. When wanted for use, take out a few tablespoonfuls, season with salt, pepper, onion juice, vinegar, cream, or olive oil, depending upon the kind of salad one is serving. Nellie Maxwell Taking a Nap. Nan was sitting on one of the smallest first-grade chairs with her legs crossed. After a while she extended them gingerly and excalmed to the teacher: "Oh, my feet have gone to bed." Western Beef Co. Open Daily to 8:30 p. m. ONE OF THE MOST MARK Fresh Oysters, Chitterl Neck Bones, Sp Fresh and Cured Meats and OF THE MOST UP-TO-DATE AND SALE MARKETS IN THE CITY. Lers, Chitterlings, Pig Tails, Snouts, Ears, Rock Bones, Spare Ribs, Received Fresh Dairy, Cured Meats of All Kinds. Fresh' Vegetables and Fancy Groceries. ONE OF THE MOST UP-TO-DATE AND SANITARY MARKETS IN THE CITY. Fresh Oysters, Chitterlings, Pig Tails, Snouts, Ears, Pigs Feet, Neck Bones, Spare Ribs, Received Fresh Daily. Fresh and Cured Meats of All Kinds. Fresh' Vegetables, Staple and Fancy Groceries. Our Prices Are Always the Lowest Free Delivery to All Parts of the City. PHC 2048 LARIMER STREET Oppo Bolden Bros. 924 NINETEENTH PHONE CHAMPA 1641. MER STREET DENVER Opposite the Three Rules. In Bros. Cafe & Lunch NINETEENTH STREET, DENVER, COLO PHONE CHAMPA 1641. 2048 LARIMER STREET DENVER, COLO. Opposite the Three Rules. Bolden Bros. Cafe & Lunch Room 924 NINETEENTH STREET, DENVER, COLORADO DINNER 11:30 to 2 p.m. ALL KIN BOLDEN BR Baths FIRST R. B. BOLDEN, Manage The Char Twenty Is the DRUGS, CHEMICAL WE SEE Prescription Phone us and we will do JAMES E. PHONE Weather TELE PIONEER H WE MAKE PRACTICE RENOVATORS, BLEED Of Gents' and Lads 1624 Cha ALL KINDS OF SANDWICHES DEN BROS. BARBER Baths, Electric Massage FIRST-CLASS SERVICE DEN, Manager 926 19th S Champa Pharma 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 o MES E. THRALL, PRO PHONE MAIN 2425. atherhead Haf TELEPHONE MAIN 3203 BOLDEN BROS. BARBER SHOP Baths, Electric Massage FIRST-CLASS SERVICE R. B. BOLDEN, Manager 926 19th St., Denver 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 MOTORS, BLEACHERS DYERS AND FIN ents' and Ladies' Hats of Every Descrip 1624 Champa St., Denver, Colo. RENOVATORS, BLEACHERS DYERS AND FINISHERS Of Gents' and Ladies' Hats of Every Description 1624 Champa St., Denver, Colo. JOHN K. RETTIGER Fancy and Staple Gro 1864 CURTIS STREET eenth. MARKET COMP E. SMITH, Manager, Res. Phone South 16 Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty. Fresh and Cured Eastern Corn Fed Me JOHN Meats, Fancy 1864 Meats, Fancy and Staple Groceries 1864 CURTIS STREET The MARK C. E. SMITH, M Wholesale and Retail Staple Hotels and Eastern The MARKET COMPANY C. E. SMITH, Manager, Res. Phone South 1608 Wholesale and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Oysters Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty. Fresh and Cured Eastern Corn Fed Meats Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry and Game. Telephones 622-636 15th Street Telephones Main 4302, 4303, 4304, 4305 5th Street Denver. Telephones Main 4302, 4303, 4304, 4305 622-636 15th Street Denver, Colorado PHONE MAIN 3028 Corner Nineteenth. Sundays Until 2:00 p. m. DATE AND SANITARY THE CITY. Is, Snouts, Ears, Pigs Feet, Received Fresh Daily. Fresh Vegetables, Staple Occles. A 1641. DENVER, COLO. ee Rules. & Lunch Room DENVER, COLORADO Short Orders at all Hours BARBER SHOP Massage SERVICE 926 19th St., Denver Pharmacy Champa, get your PATENT MEDICINE DRINKS. Our Specialty. foods to all parts of the city. ALL, PROPR. 2425. Bad Hat Co. MAIN 3203 1876 OF THE WEST HATS NEW HATTERS BVERS AND FINISHERS of Every Description Denver, Colo. RES. PHONE GALLUP 943 ETTIG taple Groceries TREET COMPANY Phone South 1608 Groceries, Fish and Oysters Our Specialty. Fed Meats 303, 4304, 4305 Denver, Colorado ```markdown ``` Fruit Bowl ```markdown ``` Denver, Cola "The Great Saraband Event" AT Manitou Hall, 1747 Arap., St., MONDAY, APRIL 1st, When Mr. Boone, the Famous Jazz Soloist will Sing all the Latest Songs. This Entertainment will be a Cheerful Revue COMMITTEE-E. C. Tumlin, Henry McCain, Robert Davis; Dr. T. E. McClain, Dr. J. H. P. Westbrook, Wiltiam Russ, Chairman. SATISFIED CUSTOMERS Means that those who come back to us again and again to buy after they've made their first purchase at our store always receive satisfactory service. They know that whatever we sell them is thoroughly reliable. They know we do not ask more than fair profit on our sales. They know they can rely on our advice—truth is our stand-by. They know that carefulness, honesty, courteousy, cleanliness and promptness characterize us. THE ATLAS DRUG COMPANY 2701 WELTON STREET PHONE MAIN 875 Grand Easter Reception and Dance FERN HALL 27th and Welton Dances, this Dance and Recei and costly public entertain The public has patronized by entertainment given by theason, which in turn promises. TURE—Morgan Jackson's S Palms, Easter Lilies; flowers Free ice cream and lunch Co. Of all Easter Dances, this Day the most elaborate and costly put the City of Denver. The public has of approval on every entertainment the past dancing season, which in tion the event of events. SPECIAL FEATURE—Morgan chestra. Decorations—Palms, Easter L decorated lavishly. Free ice crea Jess Smith Catering Co. Of all Easter Dances, this Dance and Reception promises to be the most elaborate and costly public entertainment ever given in the City of Denver. The public has patronized and put their stamp of approval on every entertainment given by the SMART SET CLUB the past dancing season, which in turn promises to make this reception the event of events. SPECIAL FEATURE—Morgan Jackson's Seven-Piece Jazz Orchestra. Decorations—Palms, Easter Lilies; flowers for every lady; hall decorated lavishly. Free ice cream and luncheon served by Mrs. Jess Smith Catering Co. RECEPTION COMMITTEE WILLIAM KNIGHT HULLETT MAXWELL TRUMAN RUSS ADMISSION, 30 CENTS The Right Kind Reading Matt The home news; the town; the gossip of the first kind of read more important, m that given by the t outside world. It you should buy. E to you just what y The Re Distinguishing Woods RIGHT MAXWELL ISS CENTS THOMAS C McALBERN HARRY G BILLY KNIGHT Right Kind of Matter the news; the doings of the gossip of our own c kind of reading matter important, more interest even by the paper or re world. It is the fir should buy. Each issue c just what you will c The Right Reading WILLIAM KNIGHT THOMAS GROSS HULLETT MAXWELL McALBERT BANKS TRUMAN RUSS HARRY GREEN ADMISSION, 30 CENTS BILLY KNIGHT, FLOOR MGR The Right Kind of Reading Matter The home news; the doings of the people in this town; the gossip of our own community, that's the first kind of reading matter you want. It is more important, more interesting to you than that given by the paper or magazine from the outside world. It is the first reading matter you should buy. Each issue of this paper gives to you just what you will consider The Right Kind of Reading Matter Distinguishing Woods. The number of woods commonly used in the construction and furnishing of dwellings is limited. Some woods can be distinguished by their color alone, but in others the color is not distinct enough to permit of accurate description; therefore, the structure is also taken into consideration. Hardwoods can be distinguished from the softwoods by the presence of numerous larger cells or pores, scattered more or less abundantly throughout the annual ring, but not constituting the entire bulk of the wood. These pores should be looked for only on a smoothly cut end surface, and they may not be visible without a hand lens. --- --- Poppy APRIL 3, 1918 ance and Reception promises to be public entertainment ever given in as patronized and put their stamp at given by the SMART SET CLUB turn promises to make this recep- an Jackson's Seven-Piece Jazz Or Lilies; flowers for every lady; hall am and luncheon served by Mrs. THOMAS GROSS McALBERT BANKS HARRY GREEN HILLY KNIGHT, FLOOR MGR. kind of matter the doings of the people in this our own community, that's reading matter you want. It is more interesting to you than paper or magazine from the it is the first reading matter Each issue of this paper gives you will consider The Right Kind of reading Matter Mothers and Children. No one can tell us exactly the things it is best to do with children. But if we begin to watch and think, read when we can and exchange experiences with other mothers, many suggestions will be found to meet our needs. Take a glimpse backward into your own childhood and many ideas will occur to you in that way. And through it all we will find that the children are helping to bring us up, too. Courage and joy prolong life, and we can well afford to stand and wait, feeling sure that if our motives have been right, and we can find something to love even in the hard things of life, our little ones will see and know, and will "rise up and call us blessed."—Exchange --- FOR EARLY SPRING Attractive Gown Created for Favorite Parisian Actress. Original Model Was of Beige Gaberdine and Embroideries Worked in Self-Colored Silks and Wools. The second sketch shows one of Premet's latest spring models. This little gown was created for a favorite Parisian actress, who is going to Monte Carlo to give some "war charity" performances. The material of the original model, writes Idalia de Villiers, was beige gaberdine and the embroideries were worked in self-colored silks and wools. The smart collar was made of beaver fur, and the cuffs matched. This dress would look quite as well with collar and cuffs of velvet, or of the dress material embroidered. At the same time it must be recorded that small fur collars are appearing on many of the new spring dresses and it is whispered that when the hot summer days are with us again we shall be bringing out such "summer furs" as beaver, fitch, dyed rabbit and mole. This fashion of applying small pieces of fur to summer dresses is not A A Premet Model of Beige Gaberdine With Self-Colored Silk and Wool Embroidery. A Little Collar of Beaver. Black Satin Turban. at all extravagant. Fur lasts a long time and a well-cut collar may be worn with very many different dresses—those intended for evening use as well as day frocks. Both Premet and Doeullet are showing long straight lines this spring. Indeed this applies to most of our leading dressmakers, but chez Doeullet it is specially in evidence. Some of his best measures a bare yard and a half at the hem of the skirt and the tunics are so long, and cut so straight, that the general effect is wonderfully youthful. Doenullet remains faithful to the large and picturesque collar which he so successfully introduced two or three seasons ago. In some cases these collars are covered with short-haired fur. In others they are made of some supple material, such as suede, glove kid, chamois leather, etc., and richly embroidered. Neckwear Colors. The fad for rose-colored neckwear and for that of French blue is being seriously menaced by the advance of certain collars and cuffs made of canary-colored satin and organdle. One thing about the yellow neckwear is that it goes very well indeed with blue serge frocks, those of blue crepe charmeuse or black satin. The yellow is now so deep in tone as to be trying, and its sunlight tinge is apt to be becoming more than all white. The vogue for high necks has brought about the introduction of gimps made of white satin in front and with net backs. These gimps have the necks variously finished with turn-over collars or with chokers that terminate in the jabot suggestion. For the most part they are sleeveless and are to be worn in lieu of waistcoats or with the open frock of more or less dressy pretension. New Linens for the Housekeeper. The new linens for household use show a great deal more lace trimming than has been the fashion in some time, and the favored lace seems to be filet. Handsome towels of linen damask have strips of filet above the hem and above the filet a delicate hand-embroidered pattern. Tea cloths show a filet edge with a line of hemstitching an inch above, and a filet square in one corner with hand embroidery trailing about it. An interesting card table cover is of white linen with a filet border and filet squares at each corner showing the card symbols, heart, diamond, club and spade, each worked delicately into the filet mesh. SURPLICE JACKET A NEW ONE Coat Is Already in America, but France Is Sending Over Various Applications of the One Idea. Cheruit is showing short jackets with fronts cut into long ends that cross below the bust, slip through slashes in the underarm seams and come out again to tie at the back. This coat is already in America, according to a fashion writer, but France is sending over, later, a dozen or more applications of the one idea. There are short zouave jackets with ends that do not go through any slashes in the underarm seams, but frankly form a girdle and tie in a flat bow at the back of the waist. If this jacket is of dark blue serge or gaberdine, as it frequently is, it has these ends tipped with bright scarlet broadcloth or Angora cloth, to match the short, military collar taken from the English uniform. Angora cloth is used by France on the best coat suits. A piece of a timeworn sweater, for instance, would provide an attractive accessory on a new suit under the ruling of this law. Girdles are made of this Angora cloth, as well as cuffs, and some short coats are edged with a band of it. In green, scarlet and blue, it is exceedingly popular. Writing of sweaters, the newest one brought from France is made from baby ribbon in bright colors. It is the top notch conservation sweater. Not an inch of worsted is used. France has launched it as the successful novelty of the season, and it bids fair to catch the popular American taste, just as did those knitted silk sweaters and caps that were launched by Chanel in Deauville the summer before the war. QUESTION OF THE BRASSIERE Difficult to Determine Whether the Apparel Should Be Included Under Corset or Lingerie Head. It is hard to know whether brassieres ought to be included under the general head of corsets or lingerie. It is true that they carry out and accentuate the best lines of the corset, and an intelligent corset saleswoman can always recommend a special brassiere to go with any style corset that you may choose. Filet lace is used lavishly in some of the new brassieres. They are indeed far different than those of heavy linen—rather bulky and clumsy in appearance, however satisfactory in effect—that were introduced into the market when brassieres first came into fashion. It is now possible to get brassieres for evening wear, no matter how low the decolletage may be. Some are made with a deep V at the back, straps of lace over the shoulder and a round or V line at the front. Others are made without any shoulder straps, but are so cleverly cut that they give the necessary support to the figure. WAISTCOATS SURE OF FAVOR Garment Promises to Be Much Worn This Spring, Adding to the Wardrobe of Smart Women. Walstcoats are surely to be much worn this spring and an important accessory in the smart woman's wardrobes, since the neckwear counters in most shops show them in most tempting cut and color. The fact is, notes a fashion writer, owing to the wool shortage that makes necessary a curtailing of the amount of fabric in the woolen suit for spring, the Eton coat and other types of short coat are coming in with a vengeance. And the waistcoat that extends below the coat in front will help to piece out this stubby little coat. Clever women will find an excellent way of remodeling last year's suit by shortening the coat—or having a tailor do so for them—and brightening it and rejuvenating it by adding a waistcoat LARGE HAT FOR SPRING UNIOLIWOOD & UNIOLIWOOD If this model is a sample of the next season's trend in hats, it is pretty certain that conservation of materials is not going to apply to hats. The designers don't care how large they make their creations, and if all their results will turn out as pretty as this charming hat, few will wish to curtail them. Though designed for spring, this exquisite hat is just the thing for those who intend to spend the rest of the winter far below the Mason-Dixon line. It is of black and white voile, with a brim of black straw. Dresses. Jersey dresses are more generally called for in the early spring orders than is usual with this material, says the Dry Goods Economist. Taffeta is wanted, and big business is being done on dresses made in this fabric. Taffeta combined with sheer silk crepe also pointed crepe or chiffon, is meeting with success. DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING CO. INCORPORATED AND BONDED NOTARY PUBLIC eet. DENVER, COLORADO. E ENTERPRISE for You to Feel at Home THE NOISE OF THE CITY Wild Hotel BARD F. MOSELEY, MANAGER at and Wabash Avenue CHICAGO ILL. elevated, Indiana Avenue or Cars take you within a block of the hotel. to Principal Theatres ave hot, and cold running phone, electric lights, steam elevator service day and night MS WITH OUTSIDE EXPOSURE DAY : $1.00 TO $3.00 EEK : $3.50 TO $12.00 ROMS WITH PRIVATE BATHS 4676 and 4677; Automatic 74-302 SHOE REPAIRING IS, Prop. eed. ver, Colo. R HAIR GROWER A RACE ENTERPRISE Just the Place for You to Feel at Home AWAY FROM THE NOISE OF THE CITY Idlewild Hotel ```markdown ``` 33rd Street and Wabash Avenue CHICAGO ILL. South Side Elevated, Indiana Avenue or State St. Cars take you within a block of the hotel. 20 Minutes to Principal Theatres All rooms have hot, and cold running water, Telephone, electric lights, steam heat and elevator service day and night RATES PER DAY - : $1.00 TO $3.00 RATES PER WEEK - $3.50 TO $12.00 20 ROOMS WITH PRIVATE BATHS PHONES: Douglas 4676 and 4677; Automatic 74-302 THE NEW WAY SHOE REPAIRING C. C. DENNIS, Prop. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Phone Main 3737. 1855 Champa St. Denver, Colo. THE STAR HAIR GROWER A Wonderful Hair Dressing and Grower A Wonderful Hair Dressing and Grower. One Thousand Agents Wanted. Good Money Made. We want Agents in every city and village to sell THE STAR HAIR GROWER. This is a wonderful preparation. Can be used with or without lightening irons. Sells for 25 cents per box—will prove its value. Any person that will use a 25-cent box will be convinced. No matter what has failed to grow your hair, just give THE STAR HAIR GROWER a trial and box. If convinced, send 25 cents for a full size box. If not, send be an agent, send $1 and we will send you an supply that you can begin work at once; also send terms. Send all money by Money Order to. --- FRANK S. REED, Licensed Embalmer and Director Lady Assistant. Polite Service to all. Parlors, 2745 Welton Street. 1 A RACE HALL Just the Place for AWAY FROM THE Idlewil BEAUREGARD F. 33rd Street and CHICAGO South Side Elevate State St. Cars block of 20 Minutes to H All rooms have h water, Telephone heat and elevator ALL ROOMS WI RATES PER DAY RATES PER WEEK 20 ROOMS WI PHONES: Douglas 4676 THE NEW WAY SHOB C. C. DENNIS, Satisfaction Guaranteed. Phone Main 3737. 1855 Champa St. Denver, Col THE STAR H A --- I REDUCTION OF THE HIGH COST OF LIVING Slightly worn Clothes and Shoes bought and sold. See us first and you are sure to be satisfied. Latest in Suits from $5.00 up. Shoes at prices to meet the smallest pocketbook. G. W DAVIS and G. C. SAMPLE Second-Hand Dealers 1834 ARAPAHOE STREET. 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