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Subscribe for the Only Reliable Negro Paper in Colorado, "The Colorado Statesman" THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY RACE RELATIONS IN THE SOUTH VOL. XXIV. RACE REL IN TH (By Wm. Anthony Aery.) THE MOST significant event of the seventh Southern Sociological Congress, which met recently in Birmingham, was the holding of a section on Race Relations, presided over by Dr. James Hardy Dillard of Charlottesville, Va., president of the Jeanes and Slater Boards and a well-known Southern educator. Thoughtful white and colored leaders of the South discussed with rare frankness, sympathy and understanding their common problems. The white newspapers carried the details of the section on Race Relations, and made favorable editorial comment on the South's new attitude toward Negroes. Dr. Dillard said: "At each of the preceding five meetings members of the two races have met together in the South and spoken out in good-will their thoughts on matters of mutual concern. These meetings have had a healthy influence in strengthening the public sentiment in favor of good feeling and right dealing." Investment of Surplus. Monroe N. Work of Tuskegee Institute, editor of the "Negro Year Book," spoke on "The Relation of Negro Labor to the War and Migration." He said: "While some of the surplus money earned by colored people working on the erection of cantonments, aviation fields and the construction of ships, has been spent foolishly for automobiles and silk dresses, it is nevertheless true that the colored people in large numbers throughout the South have invested their surplus money in live stock, in lands and in other useful ways. "The colored people have spent a considerable amount of their surplus money for the education of their children. In connection with the Rosenwald rural school campaign, the colored people have raised, since June, 1914, $170,000. Negroes have also been investing their money in Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps. "Recently white people and black people in almost every section of the South have had meetings and have discussed frankly the causes of migration and the remedies for bettering conditions. "The new attitude, which the South has assumed toward labor is that labor is to receive better pay; be accorded more just treatment; be accorded better protection under the law; and be provided with better educational facilities. "The greatest cause for dissatisfaction which Negro labor now has in the South is not wages, but the treatment which the ordinary Negro receives from representatives of the law—policemen, constables, sheriffs and petty officers—men who are too free with their`pistols. "The natural desire of the Negro is to remain in the South. All he asks is that while other Negroes in France are battling that the world may be made safe for democracy, the South may be made safe for the most humble colored man or woman who toils for daily bread." Education the Remedy. Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute, speaking before a general session on "The Duty of Southern Labor During the War," said that the South's answer to the nation's call in her greatest crisis is the unstinted and loyal support of all the Negroes of the South, and, indeed, of the nation. He added: "The best means of bringing about a more sympathetic and helpful relationship between the two races in the South is through systematic training and practical education for both races. This means loyalty and efficiency. "All the dictates of justice and humanity would seem to indicate that we should be fair to the hewers of wood and the drawers of water, regardless of class, race or creed, not merely be because they may hew more wood or draw more water, but that they may be encouraged to look forward to that day when they, through efficiency and reliability, may be able to hew wood upon their own land and enjoy the fruits of their own labor." "The prosperity of the South is bound up with the improvement of the Negro. Just in proportion as he becomes more efficient, reliant and dependable, will the prosperity of the South be increased. It must be remembered that two-thirds of all the land in the South is cultivated by Negro labor. One-tenth of all the farm property in the South is owned by Negroes. "Many Negroes have told me that they would much rather live in the South than in the North, provided they could get from one-half to two-thirds the wages in the South which they receive in the North and be assured of adequate educational facilities and fair, just treatment. "I am laying especial emphasis upon the necessity of more education for the Negroes because the most successful, reliable and influential element in the Negro race, as in every other race, is the educated class—a class which has the greatest influence for caution and conservatism—a class that is most patient and persistent in its efforts to fit the whole Negro race for freedom and citizenship in the broadest and best sense." DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, MAY 4 1918 State Hist. & Nat Hist Bod. State House liable Negro Pa RADO THE JOURNAL DENVER, COLORADO, SA REPUBLICANS ELECT JOHN F. VIVIAN HEAD-OF STATE COMMITTEE, AND L. E. GIRARD, SECRETARY. AT a meeting held at the Brown Palace Hotel last Tuesday, John F. Vivian of Golden and L. E. Girard of Boulder were elected chairman and secretary, respectively, to succeed Philip B. Stewart, who resigned to devote his time to war work, and as Mr. Vivian's election created a vacancy in the secretaryship, Mr. Girard was chosen for the position. There was no opposition to the two candidates and this begins a new era in Republican action in Colorado which we hope is an evidence of the harmony that will steer us on to victory. Mr. John Vivian is well known to us and the community for many years as a man experienced in politics, and as a strong party leader will institute with his associates every activity for Republican success. As a man he is easily approached and always finds time to exchange ideas for the solution of weighty problems that are beneficial to the people. The COLORADO STATESMAN in wishing Mr. Vivian a successful career of usefulness to his party and the state of Colorado has the utmost confidence in him and knows that with the support of the secretary, the Lincoln Club and the entire party, Colorado will be restored to her Republican standing where she rightly belongs. A banquet given by the Lincoln Club in honor of the members of the Republican state central committee took place in the evening at the Brown, former Lieuenant Governor Harper being toastmaster. Many stirring speeches were made by veteran Republicans, and the resolution for a unified Republican party seemed firmer and stronger than ever. Now our ship is launched again, let us stand by the man at the helm, and see that he steers her clear of the shoals resulting in John F. Vivian going about his responsible duty with pleasure that will end in a successful campaign this fall. OGDEN NEWS. The old folks concert given at the Wall Avenue Baptist Church on Thursday, 25th, was quite a success. Mrs. H. L. Marque, Mrs. Joe Henry, Mrs. S. S. Norris, were in Salt Lake City Monday attending the executive board meeting of Federated Club of Colored Women of the state of Utah. Mrs. H. L. Marque is vice president. A new lavatory and rest room has been installed at the Pingree A. M. E. Church. Rev. Marque is very proud of same and especially grateful to the Elks lodge who rallied so nobly to his call for help. The church is doing nicely under Rev. Marque's leadership. Mrs. Myrtle Stewart is quite ill at her home in Los Angeles, Cal., and is expected to be brought to Ogden to the home of her parents, Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Richmond is in Salt Lake City visiting friends. The ladies of Ogden are organizing an Elks Temple to help Wasatch entertain. Mrs. Wm. Smith will leave for Idaho Falls May 1st to spend the summer with her mother, Mrs. Mattie Trusty. EATON, COLO., NEWS. Rev. and Mrs. J. T. Muse were at their post as usual Sunday. They were entertained by Mrs. Fred Jones. We hope to have a better attendance on their next trip. Mr. James Smith is still confined to his bed with la gripe. Little Herman Dabney, who has been sick the past two weeks, has recovered. Mr. Wm. Summerfield was an Eaton visitor last week, the guest of his brother Jeff. He contemplates locating here in the near future. FREE GARDEN INSTRUCTION. Booklets to Be Obtained at Garden Department. THE list of free water permits issued by the Denver Union Water Company for war gardens this season represent people from every walk in life and every nation on the globe. All class distinction or race prejudice is forgotten and the "brotherhood of man" is demonstrated more clearly than ever before. All class, color and race have joined hands to "plant all available ground," thus helping in the great struggle for true democracy and world-wide civilization. American, English, French, Italian, Belgian, Welch, Scotch, Norwegian, Dane, Swede, Portuguese, Canadian, Chinese, Negro, Irish, Jew, Japanese, Russian—real representatives from their own people—are tilling war gardens of their own. Is it any wonder that Denver gardens last year produced $8.12 for every inhabitant, while in the United States the yield was $4.27 per person? Denver's gardens this year placed side by side would extend from Denver to Trinidad and the water necessary for the gardens for one day alone would weigh 125,000,000 pounds. Another important angle to be viewed by Denver's gardeners is the saving of transportation. Should each person in Denver use one pound more of Denver garden products and one pound less of products grown out of Denver, they would release to the government $202\frac{1}{2}$ cars per month, or 2,430 cars in one year. These cars could carry 68,511,630 more meals to our boys at the front. The water company has established the garden department to give information—lectures to teach all branches of agriculture, booklets giving detailed instructions "Where, When and What to Plant." (These books can be obtained free at the garden department). Now, it is up to you to make the greatest success possible of your garden. RACENEWS Gathered From Various Sources Boston, Mass.—Asserting that the race problem was no longer consigned to the south, Rev. Dr. Edgar Blake of Chicago told the New England conference of the Methodist Episcopal church at Wednesday night's session that in less than eighteen months more than 800,000 Negroes have come north as against 900,000 in the twenty-five years previous. Washington, D. C.—Monday afternoon Dr. R. R. Moton, Hon. Emmett J. Scott, Dr. Ernest Lyon and Hon. William H. Lewis held a conference with President Wilson. One of the subjects discussed was the situation in Liberia, it is said, Another conference was held with Secretary of War Baker. DeSoto, Mo., April 8.—Two Negro judges and one Negro clerk were appointed in the 4th ward here during the city election last Tuesday. This is the first time that such has occured in the history of DeSoto. There was much objection among some of the whites to the appointment and they brought out a strong candidate to defeat the present councilman, Joseph Lorenz, who requested the city council to appoint Negroes. The Colored voters united and re-elected Lorenz. Leavenworth, Kan., April 20. —Private Robert Brownfield, formerly of Company I, 24th Infantry, died in prison here Thursday morning, April 18th, of pneumonia. Private Brownfield was serving a life sentence for the part he is said to have played in the recent shooting up of Houston, Texas, last August. It is claimed that he denied any connection with the actual shooting, but was forced to march to town with the other members of the regiment. His body will be interned here. Washington, D. C. -For the fifth time Robert H. Terrell has been confirmed by the Federal Senate to one of the Judges of the Municipal Court, in which capacity he has already served sixteen years and six months. He is one of the most popular and successful judges in the district, and whenever he has come up for re-appointment he has had the unanimous endorsement of his fellow judges and of all the lawyers who practice before his court. He was twice appointed by President Roosevelt, once by President Taft and twice by NO 28 President Wilson. He is the only Republican judge on the bench. It is a great honor to Judge Terrell and of marked advantage to the race at large to have so long and creditable a record of service. Washington, D. C. — The American Federation of Labor is to clearly define its position toward the Negro. Samuel Gompers, at an important conference held Monday, stated that he was in favor of admitting skilled and unskilled colored workmen into the union and that no discrimination will be made. At no time has the Federation been opposed to the admission of Negroes, Mr. Gompers stated. At Monday's conference, including Mr. Gompers, were Dr. Robert R. Moton, Emmett J. Scott, Thomas Jesse Jones, James A. Shillady, E. Kinckle Jones, Archibald Grimke, Fred R. Moore, Frank Morrison and James O'Connell. Newport News, Va.—Sarah Washington, an eleven-year-old colored girl, was shot and killed by a sentry near Tanner's Creek, Norfolk County, on the evening of April 15. The child was running along the road leading to the property owned by the government which it is planning to occupy, when she was ordered to halt. She became frightened and turned away, whereupon the soldier fired, killing her. It is said that officials of the War Department are investigating the matter, as a human life was taken, due to recklessness. Philadelphia, Pa. —The bank of Brown and Stevens now ranks second in size out of twenty-seven private banking institutions in Philadelphia, according to local banking officials. On January 16, 1916, Brown and Stevens opened for business with deposits for the day amounting to $728. Monday of this week the volume of business transacted by the institution amounted to $23,027. The deposits for Monday were $13,002.15 and the withdrawals by check $19,024.85. Brown and Stevens is the only private bank in the North conducted by Negroes. It has 2,500 depositors who are insured against loss by $50,000 on deposit at Harrisburg with the State Banking Department. E. C. Brown and Andrew F. Stevens are the owners of this thriving institution. FOREIGN Maj. Sidonio Paes has been elected president of Portugal by direct vote. Princess Marie Antoinette, mother of Empress Zita, has been ordered to leave Austria, Emperor William watched the battle for Kemmel hill on April 25, says tho correspondent at thé front of the Ber lin Lokal Anzeiger. Dr. Von Seydler, the Austrian pre- mer, has for the second time pre- sented his resignation, according to a dispatch from Zurich, After a long debate the Chamber of Parliament at Stockholm has re- jected a bill calling for woman sut- frage. The vote was 62 to 86. Three of King Albert's palaces in Belgium have been converted into German hospitals, according to reports received at Amsterdam from the fron- tier. - ‘The hanging of elght Mexicans who were caught working a mine belonging to Villa on the Fresno ranch, west of Chihuahua City, was confirmed by ar- rivals from the Chihuahua state cap!- tal. It was learned from a trustworthy source says a Zurich dispatch that Germany's submarine losses durmg the past six weeks were more than double the losses during January and February. The Catholic International Press agency announced a dispatch from Basel, says that Emperor Charles of Austria {s making a fresh peace ofter, appealing to Italy to consider it in her own interests, Edward Shortt, member of the House of Commons for Newcastle-on- ‘Tyne, has been appointed chief secre- tary for Ireland, to succeed Henry Edward Duke, who has held that post since August, 1916. - . The Prussian Congress of the National Liberal party, according to @ Berlin dispatch, has adopted a resolu- tion in favor of equal suffrage in Prussia within the limits prescribed by the government reform bill, ‘The vote was 419 to 117. A bill has been introduced in the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parlia- ment to regulate commerce with for eign countries, It provides for the centralization of imports in order to obtain ‘from abroad in exchange for home products such articles as are necessary to Holland. A party of fifty-seven American army Young Men's Christian associ- ation workers, under Arthur E. Hungerford, arrived in London. The ship on which they sailed was tor. pedoed and sunk in twelve minutes. All the passengers and but three of the crew were saved. The passen- gers were picked up in lifeboats and landed at British ports, © SPORT ‘The racing season in Denver is ex- pected to start during the last week in May. The Denver Riding and Driving club expects to get away to an early beginning of its season, and the horsemen are anxious to start the sport for the summer because they consider their horses are at least one month farther advanced than usual, That Col. J. C. Miller, owner of the Willard-Fulton championship bout, 1s seriously considering staging the Fourth of July titular match in Ogden was indicated in a telegram from Mil- ler to Otto Meek and H. W. Dunn Og: den stockmen, who made the promoter an offer recently. in the telegram Col. Miller said that he was ready to “talk business” with the local men, GENERAL An origisfil American Liberty bond, a bond of the old state of Massachu- setts Bay, dated Sept. 25, 1777, with a face value of £11, brought a subserip- tion for $250,000 to the third Liberty loan at a floonday rally in front of the subtreasury in New York. Five thousand switchboard em- ployés of the Chicago Telephone Com- pany have been granted a 10 per cent increase in wages, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the explorer, greatly weakened by a two months’ siege of typhoid fever, has arrived at Fort Yukon, Alaska, according to a telegram received in New York, A war message to the women of America from Mrs. Thomas J, Preston, formerly Mrs, Grover Cleveland, was made public in New York by the Na- tional Security League. “We can win if America can be held steadfast and unswerving, and the women of Amer- ica can hold her steadfast,” said Mrs. Preston. “Against all temptations to compromise, the women of America should stand firm and united.” Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD, DURING THE PAST WEEK RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY PEOPLE, Western Newspaper Union News Bervios. ABOUT THE WAR emnpenemtaatibmcay cgay yt wl ph SwgA Germans sacrificed trying to gain vant- age point, “We have occupied the fortress of Kars and captured 860 guns,” says & Purkish report from Constantinople. ‘The entente allied line has been ad- vanced between La Clytte and Kem- mel, The Franco-British forces also have made progress south of that region. ’ British casualty Usts published dur- ing April showed 1,083 officers killed, 4,841 wounded and 2,459 missing; 8,189 men killed; 35,304 wounded and 814 missing. Five countries are reported in the throes of revolt or threatened with epoch-making uprisings. They are Russia, Austria, Germany, Siberia and Finland, Losses of German submarines dur- ing the past six weeks have been more than double the rate in January and February, according to advices from Zurich. Cant. Ting Chia. Chen, military counsellor to the President of China, and also to the Chinese minister of war, said that China now is sending 40,000 troops to France to fight for the allies. Again on April 30 there was a pause in the battle of Flanders, where the ground everywhere was covered with gray-clad bodies of German dead, and the British and French were holding securely to all their positions. German cavalry has been observed at Esschen, according to reports re- ceived from Rozendaal. Esschen is a Belgian customs town on the Holland: Belgium, border, eighteen miles direct ly north of Antwerp. Rozendaal is five miles directly north of Esschen. The White Guards, or Finnish gov ernment forces, haye captured Viborg seventy-five miles northwest of Petro grad, after killing nearly the entiré force of 6,000 Red Guards, according to an official announcement. The reb els made a last desperate attempt te break through in the direction o Frederiksham, WESTERN Yuma, Ariz, felt an earthquake shock which lasted for a few seconds at 9:33 o'clock Tuesday night. An earthquake shock at El Centro Cal, in the Imperial valley at 9:35 p.m. Tuesday night lasted forty sec onds. The severity of the shock was not indicated. Mrs, Harriet Isabel Fisk, wealthy widow, was shot dead at her home in Hollywood, a suburb of Los Angeles, Cal, by her brother, Henry Charles Fisk, Jr., who then killed himself, “When your lover kneels to propose, step behind him and look at his shoes —if they are half-soled take .him,” was the advice Secretary of the Treas ury McAdoo left with Michigan maids as he swung eastward from Grand Rapids in finishing his Liberty loan speaking trip. ‘The sales at the annual April fur auction at St. Louis totaled $4,680,00( for the six days, beating the record by 25 per cent. WASHINGTON The Austrian situation as viewed in Rome indicates that the monarchy 4s losing authority. , Bills were introduced in the Senate providing for large increases in the American army, A bill designed to crush out the 1. W. W. has been approved by a Senate judiciary subcommittee, Liberty Joan subscriptions April 30 totaled $174,443,000, the record for any single day in the campaign. Czechs and Slovaks to the number of 10,000 took @ solemn oath at Prague on April 13 to fight to the end for the independence of Austria, according to diplomatic advices received in Wash- ington. A total output of 240,000 tons of new shipping for the month of April was reported to the Shipping Board by Commissioner of Navigation Cham- berlain. Two-thirds of the tonnage was constructed in the last halt of the month. The House passed the administra- tion bill authorizing government con- trol over the production of ores essen- tial in the manufacture of war ma- terials. Two American transports which were in collision at sea several days ago have returned safely to an At- antic port, the Navy Department an- mounced. Contracts for 1,025 freight and pas- senger locomotives, the largest single order ever placed in the history of American railways, were let by the Railroad Administration, A LETTER FROM THE | OWL OIL Co. eee a =P 8=6—l— en To Its Present aad Pros- pective Stockholders a In almost all of our advertising we have given the incorpor- ation of the company, which is $100,000 represented by 10,000,- 000 shares, par value le, and have stated that 2,500,000 shares were set aside for the purchase of the Chelsea leases and not to exceed 500,000 shares would be sold for the development of these leases; and that when any other stock was sold other leases or assets would be added to the company’s holdings. We are now prepared to state that we have secured a lease on the NEY, of Sec. 8, Twp. 24, R. 85, and on theSW1/ of Sec. 8, Twp. 24, R. 87, Carbon County, Wyoniing, this property being lo- cated in the Lost Soldier field. The first mentioned lease joins the south line of the land that has been withdrawn by the gov- ernment and the other is within half a mile of this south line. The Western Oil World of April 6th in its report on Wyo- ming states that in Section 10-26-90, which is at the extreme northwest end of the Lost Soldier. field, a well was brought in by the Blair Oil Company at 350 feet, running 800 barrels, and that other wells have been brought in at even less depth as about 1,000 barrels. The locators and some prominent geologists claim that the east end of this structure is identically the same as the west end in its formation and structure, and that the Shannon sand will be found at about the same depth-on the east end that it has been found on the west end. These leases, together with one in Sec. 10.and one in See. 12, Twp. 24, R. 86, adjoining the south line of the government with-_ drawal, have been secured without increasing the company’s out- standing stock one share. We are few negotiationg part of these leases with other companies for the purpose of drilling in Wyo- ming and Oklahoma, and if this transaction can be completed the TRG RA A Woes TAT nig ee a ee gta oar are POU eres 4 = = ra} a 5 : | a7 “e 0. W. LOVAN President of The Owl Oil Co., Whose Letter to Pres- ent and Prospective Stockholders of the Owl Oil Co., Is Herewith Given. in Wyoming, with a well-on one quarter and a well drilled in Oklahoma, without increasing its outstanding stock. This is in line with the policy of the company that has advertised all along that it was not a stock selling proposi- tion and was trying by economical management to put the company on a paying basis without reducing its treasury stock by more than 3,000,000 shares. And the company today has 7,475,000 shares in the treasury. - We also have a lease on 160 acres in the Electra field in Texas and a contract has been let to have this land drilled on a fifty-fifty basis. This again, if oil is produced, will increase the assets of the conipany without the increase of outstanding stock. 2 It is the aim of this company, if it can possibly be arranged, to secure some leases in Kansas along the same lines, and before many weeks we hope to be able to announce that we have not only holdings but producing wells in Okla. homa, Wyoming, Texas and Kansas, and that we will then still have over 7,000,000 shares of stock in the treasury. There are no salaried officers in this company and the legitimate expenses of operation have been held down to the minimum, and the-officers and ditectors bought for cash at par the stock they hold, except a small amount that was issued for labors performed by the officers, such as legal services and office work, And it is thoroughly understood that the only way the officers and management of the company can make money out of this company is by securing pro- duction that will pay; and if such produetion is obtained stockholders and officers will receive the same benefit in pro- portion to the amount of stoek they may own. 1,500,000 shares of the stock were sold in large blocks and this stock is held in a”pool, and we advise the stockhold- ers who own the remainder to hold their stock until thé company has been able to demonstrate whether or not the leases it has bought will prove produetive. We have every reason to believe that we will secure oil, and lots of it,-in Wyoming, as up to date the Lost Soldier field, with the possible exception of the Salt Creek field, has proved to be the most prolifie field in Wyoming, and it is also very shallow drilling, While our Oklahoma leases.will not produce such a large amount most of them are proven to have oil, and on account of the shallow drilling we are satisfied they can be made to pay a fair income on the cost of production; and there are great possibilities in the Texas lease. This letter is published for the benefit of the prospective stockholders of the Owl, and we trust that they will all hold their stock, as we are under contract to drill in Wyoming by June Ist, and have already made a’ contract on our Texas lease, and expect to begin drilling in a very short time on our Oklahoma leases. We hope also to be able to report a lease and drilling in Kansas before the summer is over, and there would then be only one more thing The Owl Com- pany would like to have, and that it a good producing oil field in Colorado. f We are still selling at 5e per share, which will continue so long as we do not exceed the 3,000,000 share limit that we have set or until such time as sufficient production has been brought in to maintain the drilling, O. W. LOVAN President and General Sales Agent 504 Denver, Colorado Building Colorado OUR MEN TRAINED BY RIFLE EXPERTS SOLDIERS IN TRAINING CAMPS TAUGHT HOW TO USE AND CARE FOR WEAPONS. BRITISH COMMUNAL KITCHENS They Prove Successful In Saving Food and Fuel — State Councils of Defense Will Advise War Risk Claimants. (From Committee on Public Information.) Washington.—The National army and many organizations of the National Guard having been equipped with the United States rifle, model of 1917 (modified Enfield), it became necessary to devise some plan whereby troops could be efficiently trained in the use of this weapon in short time. A statement authorized by the ordnance department tells how experts in shooting, many of them members of United States teams which won international shooting matches, were commissioned and sent to various camps to instruct officers and men in shooting and in the operation and care of the rifle. In one camp officers under instruction from these men gave a demonstration. In dismounting and assembling this rifle while blindfolded, the record time being 7 minutes for dismounting and 22 minutes for assembling. There are 86 parts to the rifle,chanics' classes, the mechanics being hanics' classes, the mechanics being trained to make repairs to rifles in the field. Frequently they will have to do their work at night, when they will not be allowed to use lights, and therefore they must be thoroughly trained in taking down the rifle and putting in new parts by sense of touch. Communal kitchens are being established throughout Great Britain and are proving successful in saving food and fuel, according to reports to the department of commerce. An article from a recent issue of an English newspaper is quoted: "The war has brought home to the public that the communal or national kitchen is a necessity and can be made a success. Within a comparatively short period there will probably be installed many hundreds of these establishments throughout the country. The national kitchen was originally intended to supply poor people with nourishing and attractively prepared food at low prices, but there is considerable prospect—certainty, in fact—that the more prosperous will form a fair proportion of the customers. "As an example of the outfit of a people's kitchen that at Hammersmith (London) may be taken as a model. This supplies about 6,000 customers a week, which probably represents 12,000 to 15,000 consumers, as a customer commonly purchases for his or her family." The council of national defense has urged the state councils to provide voluntary aid for dependents of men in the service in collecting allotments of pay and family allowances, arrears of pay, travel pay, extra pay, or other money due estates of deceased soldiers and sailors. Allotments and allowances under the war-risk insurance law are paid directly by the treasury department to the persons entitled thereto; claims for insurance taken out under the law should be addressed to bureau of war-risk insurance, treasury department, Washington, D. C.; claims for arrears of pay, extra pay and travel pay of deceased soldiers and sailors and all other claims should be addressed to auditor of the war department, Washington, D. C. Consul General Thackara, at Paris, cables: "A decree of April 5, published April 6, gives notice that all merchandise prohibited from importation by law of May 6, 1916, will be seized and sold for profit of the state unless a regular import authorization be presented within five days after arrival. For first 30 days after promulgation of this decree requests for derogations from its provision can be addressed to the minister of finance, in case particular circumstances justify an exception." Two per cent of the enlisted personnel of the divisions and detached units of the regular army, National Guard, and National army, excepting the coast artillery and various staff corps, will be designated to attend the fourth series of officers' training schools, which will open May 15. Admission has also been granted to some men who have had at least one year's military training under army officers at educational institutions which have earned government recognition. Night driving of motor-truck supply trains from the West to the seaboard has been started by the quartermaster's department as a step toward final training to fit men for service in France. According to the council of national defense, the experience gained in cross-country convoy work has made the truck companies able to travel entirely independent of the countryside. Camps are made at the regular hour, no matter where the company is located, except that open country is given preference over cities. Don't you ever stop to realize that no one is wholly indispensable in this world? Someone can take our places if we drop out. Why not accept all that is offered to us and get the most out of life we can? The fresh rhubarb is an always welcome spring fruit which may be served in various ways ```markdown ``` cupful of boiling water to a pound of the rhubarb; cook until tender. Soften one ounce of granulated gelatin in a third of a cupful of cold water. Strain the cooked rhubarb, pressing out all the juice and add enough boiling water to make three cupfuls. Mix three-fourths of a cupful of sugar with a half a teaspoonful of ginger, stir in the juice and gelatin, when the gelatin is dissolved add the grated rind and juice of a lemon and set the mixture to chill. When it begins to thicken fold in the beaten whites of three eggs. Mold. Serve with sweetened whipped cream. Head Cheese.—Boll three hocks of a pig until the meat falls from the bones, season as desired and drain and cool. Chop coarsely, add a chopped onion, pepper, salt and nutmeg, with the liquor, in which the hocks were cooked. Mold and when cold serve in slices. Belgian Hash.—Soak a half cupful of prunes and a half cupful of currants over night, add two finely chopped hocks of a pig cooked until the heat drops from the bones, add a half cupful of sugar, three-fourths of a cupful of vinegar and a fourth of a cupful of water, in which the fruit was soaked, half a grated nutmeg, and a dash of salt. Put into the oven and cook slowly until all of the moisture is absorbed. More sugar is liked by some, but for the uninitiated this will be sufficient, as sugar with meat is an innovation for the American palate. Cheese Balls.—Season cottage cheese with butter, red pepper and salt, make into small balls, roll them in chopped nuts and set aside to become firm. Serve with crackers. and a plain lettuce salad. Nuts in cottage cheese with onion juice and cream to soften, with paprika and salt to season, makes a most daunting salad. Slice a large onion into one teaspoonful of butter and let it smother. Add one cupful or cooked oatmeal and cook until the onion is tender. Add a scant pint of milk, and salt and pepper to taste. Strain, bring to the boiling point and serve hot with crackers. When making celery soup always use the leaves to stew with a few stalks, as there is much flavor in them. Dried and pulverized, they make excellent seasoning for soups or meats. Creole Rice.—Chop one large onion and a small slice of ham, very fine, put into a saucepan with one tablespoonful of butter and a cupful of cooked rice, a can of tomatoes, salt and pepper to taste. Mix well and put into a buttered baking dish to bake 15 minutes. Cover the top with buttered crumbs before putting into the oven. Raisin Pie de Luxe.—Stew together a cupful of raisins, a quarter of a cupful of currants (dried), in a pint of apricot juice. Add three tablespoonfuls of butter, two egg yolks, a tablespoonful of lemon juice, and sugar to taste; cook until well blended. Put info a shell previously baked and cover with the whites of two eggs beaten stiff with three tablespoonfuls of sugar. A tablespoonful or two of oil pickles chopped fine and used as a sandwich filling will be found most appetizing. Emergency Soup.—Take a can of salmon, drain off the oil and rub the fish through a sieve. Add $1\frac{1}{2}$ teaspoonfuls of salt to a quart of milk, stir in the fish and four tablespoonfuls of flour that has been blended with two tablespoonfuls of oil from the can; cook until smooth and serve with a dash of red pepper and a sprinkling of minced parsley on the top of each cup. Serve with toasted crackers. Add a small green pepper finely chopped to any salad dressing; it improves the flavor. Nellie Maxwell Steel Plates. "John," said Mrs. Jenkins, looking up from the evening paper, "you know how many dishes Kate has broken lately?" "Yes," said John, "what of it?" "Well," continued the lady, "there is something in the paper about the government and steel plates. I don't know just what they are, but I should think they might be indestructible." The Eternal Feminine. Tramp—Yes'm, I wuz nominated fer president once on de Socialist ticket. Suffragette—And was you elected? As early as the sixteenth century Brazil was producing sugar commercially. Optical glass equaling the product of European manufacturers, from whom only it formerly could be obtained, is now being produced for military use by the bureau of standards of the United States department of commerce and several privately owned factories. One shipment from the glass factory in Pittsburgh, for use by the navy department, contained 780 pounds of high-grade optical glass—enough to provide lenses for probably 750 blinoculars. Development in glass manufacturing in the United States has been similar to that of dye making. Before the war manufacturers or optical goods in this country were content to import all their glass from Europe, themselves doing only the grinding, polishing, and mounting. European glass factories, one of the three largest being located in England, one in France, and one in Germany were closely guarded to protect secrets of the trade sometimes a century old. It was considered impossible to produce efficient glass without formulas and factory processes developed by many years of experimentation. One of the problems facing the bureau of standards when, with optical companies in America, it started to replace with locally made products the supply of European optical glass which had been cut off by the war, was to provide suitable pots for melting. In one process of its manufacture the glass must be kept at temperatures as high as 2,000 degrees F., when it would rapidly dissolve a container made of iron, steel, or other metal. Pots now being used which satisfactorily withstand the heat and chemical actions of molten glass are made of clay found in the United States. In addition to the factory operated by the bureau of standards at Pittsburgh, several privately owned companies are now furnishing optical glass for military use in telescopes, binoculars, field glasses, periscopes, and other technical and scientific instruments The quartermaster corps, charged with the responsibility of feeding and clothing the soldiers, is rigidly inspecting the food purchased for the troops to see that only pure articles are supplied. As an indication of the amount of food that must be obtained, says a statement authorized by the quartermaster general 1,500,000 men consume daily 1,500,000 pounds of beef, 225,000 pounds of bacon, 210,000 pounds of ham, 135,000 cans of tomatoes, and 225,000 cans of jam—with other articles aggregating 6,750,000 pounds. These quantities of foodstuffs are subjected to thorough inspection, which begin at the source and continue until the food is actually consumed. Each depot of the quartermaster corps is a central subsistence business of its own, supplying the camps, cantonments, aviation fields, and other posts in its territory. The subsistence officers are held responsible for the quality of the goods they receive. Before the supplies reach the depots, however, they are passed upon by inspectors in the packing houses, canneries, and other sources of origin. The records at Washington show the capabilities, character, and standard of every establishment furnishing food for the army. The specifications which their products must meet are clear and exact. The inspection branch maintains a current file of unreliable dealers and unreliable products, insuring the elimination of dealers who, having been denied the right to supply some of the many depots of the army, make subsequent attempts to obtain contracts at other points. Relatives and friends of several soldiers in army camps have been victimized by swindlers who wired or wrote for funds under soldiers' names. In each instance it was requested that money be sent by wire waiving identification, or by mail to general delivery, the customary explanation being that the soldier had been discharged and would have no way of securing identification, nor of getting mail addressed to his company. The following is a typical telegram, sent to the father of a soldier in a southern camp: "Have been discharged. Coming home. Going to Atlanta through country tonight. Please wire me $60 at Atlanta so I may pay for uniform and come home direct. Wave identification as I am not known in Atlanta. Wire cash quick so I can get it tomorrow morning." Before being complied with, any request for money to be sent under such conditions should be verified by a letter or telegram to the commanding officer of the camp in which the man whose name is signed to the request is stationed. The United States government is looking for men who can take charge of branch offices of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, department of commerce, and men to act as assistants in these offices. Branches are located in the principal commercial cities. The salaries range from $1,800 to $3,000 for managers and from $1,200 to $1,800 for assistants. A noncompetitive examination will be held May 16 in various parts of the country. Applicants will be examined in export-trade technique, promotion of commerce, and economic geography, and credit will be given for knowledge of foreign languages. The examinations will be under the direction of the civil service. The minister of agriculture of Brazil has been authorized to establish modern experimental farms and agricultural colonies, especially for the education of orphans and abandoned children. SEASONABLE GOOD THINGS. Rhubarb Sponge. Clean and cut in half-inch pieces without peeling young, tender rhubarb, that which has a pink or rose skin preferred. Stew until tender, adding one-fourth And the plowman settles his share More deep in the grudging clod: For he saith, "The wheat is my care, And the rest is the will of God." FOOD FOR THE FAMILY. one cupful or cooked oatmeal and cook until the onion is tender. Add a scant plint of milk, and salt and pepper to taste. Strain, bring to the boiling point and serve hot with crackers. When making celery --- THE COLORADO STATESMAN FOCH NOW RUSHES MEN FROM POINT TO POINT WITH SLIGHTEST PERIL. ALLIES LINES WELDED ATTACK ON AMERICAN TROOPS RESULTED IN HEAVY LOSSES FOR TEUTONS. Western Newspaper Union News Service. London, May 3.—German losses in killed, wounded and missing (including captured), since March 21, are at least 900,000, according to the Graphic, which quotes "a high British authority." The Mouth-Piece of the People of Colorado and the Entire West French Army Headquarters, May 3. Under the German blows the allied armies seem to be welded together as never before. There now is no point of junction at which the Germans can thrust. The process of welding together the two armies is complete, but it will not stop there. Franco-British divisions will be moved about on a solidly knitted front at the wish of the allied high command as freely as German divisions. Already the German staff is most anxiously realizing that their reserves of fresh troops are not greater than those under Gen. Foch. Enemy forces are now engaged in trying out various portions of the southern front, in the apparent endeavor to find a weak spot. One such effort directed against American troops has already been chronicled. The enemy found an unyielding barrier and retired with nothing but heavy losses. Wednesday night there was a similar thrust at the French in the Thennes region, southwest of Hangard. The artillery promptly broke up this drive. RELIABLE chronicle of their doings and progress; a faithful mirror of their wants, their hopes, their best aspirations. The Germans must attack soon or acknowledge their defeat in their ambitious attempt utterly to crush the allied armies. Germany has lost heavily, but the emperor still has reserves to throw into the fighting. The defeat Monday on the Meteren-Voormezeele line southwest of Ypres has taught the Germans that the allies are prepared to stand their ground and there seems little inclination at the present moment to renew a conflict which threatens to be disastrous. The report that Czech soldiers, deserting from the Austrian army, now are fighting with the Italians, has been followed by a dispatch saying that Rumanians who had been captured by the Italians have asked permission to fight against the Austrians and that they are now on the firing line. THE COLORADO STATESMAN The British forces in Palestine have recaptured Es-Salt, a village from which they retired three weeks ago under pressure from a superior force of Turks and Germans. A Berlin report says that the fortress of Sebastopol has been occupied by the Germans. This was expected after the capture of Simferopol last week. Ukrainian peasant deputies are reported to have overthrown the government of that republic. This report follows closely a dispatch saying that many Ukrainian officials had been imprisoned by the Germans for conspiring against the military authorities of the central powers. The new regime has announced that it will carry out the provisions of the Brest-Litovsk treaty. Unequaled as an advertising medium for the business of professional men and women. ARM MILLION MORE AMERICANS Secretary Baker Outlines War Program to House Committee. Washington.—A colossal military program was submitted by Secretary of War Baker to the House committee on military affairs. Here are the principal features of the plan: An excellent family journal speaking to and for many thousand colored citizens. 1. Expenditures on the army aggregating $13,000,000,000 in the next fiscal year, more than twice the total of this year's outlay. 2. Manufacture of artillery on a stupendous scale involving the immediate erection of enormous plants, the whole outlay representing several billion dollars. 3. Drafting of at least 1,000,000 additional registrants and as many more as can be equipped and transported to France, with the prospects favorable to maintaining an army of 3,000,000 men in the field next year. TWODOLLARSAYEAR One Italian Ship Sunk During Week. Rome.—Only one sailing vessel over 100 tons was sunk by submarine or mine in the week ended April 27. THE GREAT ORGAN Japan Reaffirms Loyalty to Allies. Tokio.—Baron Goto, the new Japanese foreign minister, in a statement characterized as "insidious propaganda," the various rumors and reports that a change in Japan's foreign policy was impending. He said there was no foundation for such a suggestion and reaffirmed the loyalty to the allies. LABORING MASSES Shah Asks $100,000 Liberty Bonds. Washington.—The shah of Persia applied for $100,000 worth of Liberty bonds. THE COLORADO STATESMAN COLORADO HALL DE FREES HAZE GOVERNMENT PARTY 1824 Curtis Street, Room 25. Phone Main 7417. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in the City of Denver, Colo. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. 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. 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It seems hardly possible, but we have more trouble collecting our subscriptions, small though it be, from patrons who are able to pay, but because they are in lucrative jobs will hold you back for years, paying at their will or pleasure. They forget that the money to publish the paper must be found and paid or there will be no publication. Again, there are others who will not subscribe, but as soon as there is a special event published, that they happen to hear of, they will borrow their neighbors' copies who complain after they are gone or they want to buy all the copies of that issue, irrespective of your supplying your home and foreign subscribers. Then there are others who will launch into new enterprises, purchasing and paying cash for stocks and bonds, but will subject our collector to the most harsh treatment. We have lost more money by mailing letters every month to them, and if we cut them off we lose in its entirety. We have reached the point where we must get our money if our business is to run successfully, and if there is no improvement in the matter we will have to publish you in our "slacker column" and mark you off our books in the following: "Here's to the memory of a 'Newspaper Slacker.'" Call or write us. Main 7417. P. O. Box 116. MAJOR-GENERAL WOOD OUTSPOKEN FOR A UNITED AMERICA. AN AMERICA—the unity of all types, classes and kinds, whether native or foreign born, measuring up to the stature of true American manhood, and resolving on action the result of the common melting pot, will win the war, demonstrate our standard of democracy and prove to the world that once more the cause of liberty will be maintained and sustained by us whatever may be the cost.” These words, coming from the distinguished visitor, Major-General Leonard Wood, who as guest of the city last Saturday spoke at a luncheon given in his honor by the Mile High Club, and later at the city Auditorium, must sink deeply into our hearts at this time, as the former differences, whether great or small, between us, must give way to this test of our national pride, our national integrity and the part we must play in maintaining a civilization which is threatened with utter destruction. The Major General, who is recognized the country over as an authority on the various elements of the war and the gigantic task before us, is outspoken in his plea for that oneness of action that will exhibit a solidarity causing our enemy to feel that he is facing a people, a nation, determined to go on to the end, endeavoring to insure a peace for several years to come, only to be disturbed by other fanatical agents who will be quickly and easily suppressed. Having the nation’s welfare endearced to him, thinking of the service he has given to this country, also of his present activity in lending cheer, comfort and inspiration to those who are going to fight our battles, he fearlessly advocates UNIVERSAL TRAINING, not necessarily for a large standing army, but for the purpose of preparedness to meet the foe whenever he appears on the scene. Said the General: “With equality of opportunity and privilege goes equality of obligation,” and here is something of the greatest importance for the race to which the General belongs and the one with which we are identified to think of—EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND Privilege GOING HAND IN HAND WITH EQUALITY OF OBLIGATION—the same prescribed for all members of this great commonwealth, for all the people of this great republic, for all CITIZENS OF THIS LAND OF LIBERTY by our Constitution, yet it is so conveniently absent from the minds of the average member of the dominant race when things are normal, when comparative ease and luxury are theirs to enjoy, but when the stress, the abnormal conditions present themselves, then the co-equality is evidenced by an involuntary agency that finds it inexpedient to discriminate at this point in our country’s history. These are but faint reminders that as there are times in the history of our nation from its birth, during its growth and up to the present, when something compels the inclusion of us in the life and death struggle for our nation’s existence, we must rise to the occasion, cast aside the unfair and unjust treatment we have received from time to time, “take their measure,” as the General states, and by proving once more that we are living up to the OBLIGATION in its superlative degree, we will at last be the recipients of the great qualities of EQUAL PRIVILEGE and EQUAL OPPORTUNITY which constitute the levers on which the development of different types and species of humanity turns, resulting in a nation so solid, so united, that it presents a front invincible and impregnable that not all the powers of the enemy can prevail against it. THE COLORADO STATESMAN, on behalf of our citizens, thanks General Wood for his visit and his word in season, which will help us to gain the recognition we merit, as we are again alongside our white brethren paying THE PRICE OF BLOOD for the preservation of the Nation and the upholding of liberty for smaller nations. TREASURED GIFTS TO AID THE WAR Wedding Rings, Coffin Plates, Thimbles, Pins, Silverware, Among Donations. PROCEEDS TO HELP AIRMEN Work Under Supervision of Aviation Committee—Especially to Equip Boys Who Have Received Commissions. [From the Committee on Public Information, Washington, D. C.] If war has darkened the world with hate, it has also opened windows in the minds of millions of people whose outlook was once narrow, but whose imaginings now go on wings out over the nations of the earth. And this is especially true among the people of the United States. In New York the other day I visited a crowded little room upstairs at 259 Fifth avenue. The room was filled with mail packages and with boxes large and small of the trinkets and treasures sent here from homes all over the U. S. A., to be sold in order to help the lads who are going to fly "over there" in France. From the window looking down I could see long lines of shops where in the old days "before the war" poured endless crowds of shopers. I pictured Fifth avenue back through the years, and I thought of countless shopping streets in cities and towns all over the land where in generations gone by people have bought Christmas presents, wedding rings and birthday gifts. I thought of the numberless keepsakes that have been stored up in American homes and that have grown dear and intimate. Now, from these homes in New England and in New York and Chicago, in Denver, Seattle and San Francisco, and Galveston, Memphis and New Orleans these same small household treasures have come by thousands every week to this room. And the busy women of the committee sort them out, and some are sold and the rest are melted up and sold, and with the proceeds clothes and other comforts are bought for the men of the air service. Uncle Sam supplies uniforms to the men, but not to the officers. When a boy gets his commission he must at once set about getting clothes, and for those who cannot raise the price the aviation committee steps in. And also for those privates who are being rushed off to France each week, and who lack many extra things that will make life less arduous, the committee again acts as a kind of a foster mother. Equipment for an Officer. Here is the average equipment the committee supplies to an officer: 1 set of underwear. 1 leather helmet. 1 pair aviator's gloves. 1 trench cont. 1 pair leather breeches. 1 pair aviator's boots. 1 pair woolen socks. 1 pair aviator's goggles. 1 woolen set, sweater, helmet, socks, wristlets and gloves. The committee has made a splendid start. Formed only a few months ago as a part of the National Special Aid society, it has already collected and sold $32,000 worth of trinkets and has spent that amount on clothes. It is hard to keep up with the growing demands, for the word has gone out among the flyers, and they keep coming to this room. But as the demand is increasing, so is the supply, for the committee has sent its appeal out all over the country: "Send jewelry, silverware, gold, and odd bits—nothing is too small; nothing too large. From our store of trinkets and treasures let us give help to the wings of the United States. Gold and silver, solid or plate, donated to the committee are melted in the United States assay office and the proceeds used to help the aviators. Send old or new jewelry, watches, chains, table and toilet ware, vases, candlesticks, souvenir spoons, coins, cigarette cases, umbrella tops, eyeglass mountings, thimbles, dental gold and platinum. Any broken bits can be melted. Articles in perfect condition will be placed on sale. What will you give? Be patriotic. Open your heart and your treasure box." Long ago the treasures began to arrive. From New England and all through the East down to the old plantations; from New Orleans and Denver, from mining camps in the mountains and from lonely prairie farms, from Arizona ranches, from booming Oklahoma towns and from forest hamlets in the Northwest the trinkets have come pouring in. And some take the mind far back into years when the nation was thinking of far different things. Daniel Boone Family Relic. A set of fine old silver spoons from the family of Daniel Boone; a gold medal prize won by G. B. for elocution in B— college in 1894; gold wedding rings of every conceivable kind and size; rings with intimate words inside; rings with clasped hands; huge seal and signet rings; old-fashioned linked bracelets; brooches; goggles; grandfather's glasses; and silver plates from coffins (removed at the time of the funeral and set up over the parlor mantel); pins of all kinds; gold pencils; old earrings of jet and silver and gold, and all kinds of precious, stones; queer old pins, whole boxes of them; a necklace of rupees from India; treasures from China and Japan. Jotting these down at haphazard from the open box in front of me, I looked up and noticed a jeweler who comes in every day to look over the watches here. There were three soap boxes full of them—from curious tiny gold affairs to large solid old timepieces of steel—a regular "pocketful" of a watch. "Some of them," he said to me, "must have been made just after the flood." He pried into their works and grew absorbed. He is not the only purchaser. Dashing young movie actresses come here to rummage among the old bracelets and earrings to supplement their costumes for scenes of American days gone by. To go on with my inventory: Here was a set of large gold studs with a dog embossed on each, and next I took out a garnet ring and then a delicate fan of lace, point applique. From the wall near by hung a silver guitar. Underneath was a set of silver egg stands from an old lady in the West, who wrote that she had bought them in China. "Some of these rarer articles are sold to New York, merchants. But with the great mass of trinkets there is no time for that, for things come in by the hundreds a day. Over in a corner was another box of coffin plates, one dating back to 1864, when we had another war on our hands with a somewhat similar aim in vew. From a box nearby I took out scores of slender, delicate gold chains and lockets of gold and enamel. On the table was a small box full of tiny gold fillings, taken from teeth all over the land. In a corner stood a whole barrel of clocks. I looked into a box of gold spectacles, many of them with gold chains. And here was a silver thimble, worn thin, which came from an elderly lady out in North Dakota. She had put this tiny note inside: "I have used this thimble all my life, and I never thought anything would induce me fo part with it." Two Tiny Gold Wedding Rings. Around the room were pitchers and trays of brass and pewter and copper plate. There were heaps of silver knives, forks and spoons and a table of chinaware. There were three more boxes of thimbles. And carefully wrapped in paper were two tiny gold wedding rings sent in by a midgret couple on a vaudeville circuit somewhere out West. An old gentleman sent in a heavy watch chain. "I am so old now," he wrote, "that I guess that I can take a chance on not losing my watch in the years that are left." Here is another letter that came with a box of jewelry: "I am sending you today, under separate cover, my treasures and trinkets. For many years I was an actress, and this collection represents the gifts of my professional friends, who, I know, would be delighted if they could only know the final use these were put to. May they help to build an airship that will shine brighter than all the footlights combined that I have ever faced. Wishing you glorious success. We will win!" And here is another letter: "Please accept these little trifles, which have been the source of much pleasure to me in past years. Most of them have little romances attached to their being given; several of their givers have been called home, and as I look at the little trifling things I am able to send you I feel proud indeed to think I may do even this bit to help the wings of the United States." From long stooping over the boxes I kept looking up from time to time as the aviation boys came in to apply for equipment. Now there came three husky lads who were hoping to sail that week, and they seemed crazy to get off. One had come from Illinois, one from Arizona, and the other one from Vermont. I let my mind travel to their home towns and to the towns and villages and teeming cities all over the land, where the vision of the people has been blasted open as in a storm—to widen out and embrace the whole world. On the wall I saw a poster with airplanes like a flock of geese in black silhouette against a yellow sky, and I thought of the hopes and imaginings that would follow these lads from all over this land—from the people who have sent these things. Their minds will never be the same, for they have glimpsed a wilde, wilde world which is now swiftly changing. Dual Character in Men. Most men are two characters under the same hat. On the outside the one wears a mask of civility, good comradeship and progress. On the inside is the grouch, the scold, the pessimist. Often the opposite is true. The outer man is crusty, exacting and may even be repellent. His other self is the warm, true soul that longs for love and shows up best with a few chosen friends. In either case life is a constant contradiction. The men are real. Each has his followers and each has his special task in the world. The unfortunate thing is we don't always get men at their best and so lose much of the better vision that would help take little of the harshness from the old world.—Pennsylvania Grit. Helpful Suggestion. "John has decided that for the present we must hold our hogs," said the cousin from the farm. "But—ah!—" a trifle obfuscatedly returned the city cousin who was entertaining her. "Wouldn't it do quite as well to rock the animals in cradles or swing them in hammocks?"—Kansas City Star. THE DENVER DRY GOODS CO. Porch Furniture Well-chosen pieces of reliable furniture will transform the porch into a pleasant retreat of rest and comfort for the summer months. These special prices should prove an attractive inducement to home-keepers contemplating the purchase of furniture for the porch. Good furniture can be selected now at a modest outlay. Porch Swing $2.35 $2.35 for this $3.50 Swing, 4 feet long. Made of select solid oak in a brown finish; put together with bolts and screws; complete with wrought iron chains and hooks, only..... $2.35 ROCKING CHAIR $3.25 for this $4 "Old Hickory" Porch or Lawn Rocker. A strictly hand-made piece, built of seasoned hickory with a woven hickory bark seat. Ideal for open porches and lawns because it is not affected by the weather; only..... $3.25 Chairs to match at same price. Carson's Great A GLASS In view of the glass will at once be recog- opportunity. —made possible on ness. Consider your own the gifts you'll be pur —then figure how son's Great Annual May CLASSWAR view of the glass market situation it once be recognized as a remar- tunity. made possible only by real foreha consider your own wishes for glass gifts you'll be purchasing. then figure how this sale will help Carson's Great Annual May Sale GLASSWARE In view of the glass market situation this will at once be recognized as a remarkable opportunity. —made possible only by real forehandedness. Consider your own wishes for glass and the gifts you'll be purchasing. —then figure how this sale will help. Novelty Glassware Novelty colored and irrides variety of shapes and design vases, pansy and rose bowls large assortment at 1/4 The Entire Stoo including all cut, blown an and patterns for practical ing table, sideboard and kit this sale at 10% D In addition to these items prices in both blown and cu CAR 734 FIFTEEN colored and irridescent glass in consist of shapes and designs for flower vases, swirls and rose bowls and bulb bowls, chops and assortment at 1/4 off The Entire Stock of Glassware ing all cut, blown and pressed glass of all patterns for practical and decorative uses in table, sideboard and kitchen uses, will be off sale at 10% Discount ention to these items a good many very in both blown and cut glass for table use. CARSONS 734 FIFTEENTH STREET. Novelty colored and irridescent glass in considerable variety of shapes and designs for flower vases, sweet pea vases, pansy and rose bowls and bulb bowls, choice of a large assortment at The Entire Stock of Glassware including all cut, blown and pressed glass of all kinds and patterns for practical and decorative uses for dining table, sideboard and kitchen uses, will be offered in this sale at In addition to these items a good many very special prices in both blown and cut glass for table use. CARSONS Even though you are poor in pocket you may be rich in heart. Love, as well as the stock exchange, has its millionaires. But the difference to be noted is this, that the millionaire of the heart is the one who gives the most love, not the one who receives most. Spiritual wealth shall come by giving. --- $1.85 for this $2.50 Porch Rocker, built entirely of select rock maple, with shaped scat and broad runners, finished in the natural light maple; light in weight yet durable; only..... $1.85 annual May Sale WARE market situation this ized as a remarkable ly by real forehanded- wishes for glass and chasing. his sale will help. cent glass in considerable s for flower vases, sweet pea and bulb bowls, choice of a off k of Glassware and pressed glass of all kinds and decorative uses for din- chen uses, will be offered in Discount a good many very special glass for table use. SONS TH STREET. Soldiers' Superstition. Cavalrymen have a superstition of their own. A mounted man firmly believes that he will come through the deadliest charge unscathed if he carries on his person the tooth of a war horse; the only condition being that the horse itself has, at some time, been through a charge unhurt. | it-COLORADU\s-7 STATESMAN Gee ite i oe = [BE Areas eraa Dr ea oye =. |i Gast OS ie Ai ae cht ee) TAS ee SSM e puree? Clifford Thomas of 2443 Court Pl. of this firm, and our people need n¢ returned home last week and is suffer ony more from the harshnet ainolig thous on thwislok tist, jand unbusinebsltie treatment th —E | they get at the hands of white agent Charles Caldwell arrived this week We wish the new venture every su from Coal Creek and will remain in { Cems, and we welcome another bys definitely for the benefit of his | ness firm of our race, health. | ——_—_— ere. - WEBSTER SHOE SHINING Mr. F. S, Reed of the Douglass Un-; PARLOR, dertaking Co. spent several days in | a Dearfield this week. | The latest and most up-to-date 1 ee | the shoe shining business is opened « Mr. and Mrs. E, G, Holly, 956 Emer. | 1526 Welton street, opposite the O son street, are the proud parents of a pheum theater, by H. G. Webster, an fine son, born Friday, April 26. Both!new shoes keep their appearanc mother and baby are doing nicely. | while gjd ones are made new by th TA Saat er skill] of the polisher, Call and s¢ KEEP THE DATE, MAY 29, 1918.| this parlor and be convinced of Re ee Banaue Cae esiony aoe features and efficiency. Hall, opp FELLOWS ANNUAL THANK: Mrs, William Warren, wife of our popular townsman, of 2345 Franklin seet, is gradually improving after undergoing an operation at St. Luke's hospital. Miss Katherine Hubbard the young: er daughter of Mrs, Julia Hubbard, is seriously ill at St. Joseph's hospital. We wish her a speedy restoration to health. J. H. Mitchell of 2115 Champa street, who has been very sick with pneumonia, is able to be out and be- ginning to feel himself again. He speaks in the highest terms of his physician, Dr. Terry, of 1027 Twenty- first St. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pendley of 1815 Clarkson street are the proud parents of a beauti¥ul nine-pound girl, who saw the light of day last week. Mother and daughter are doing well. Miss Bessie La Belle of Chicago, formerly of Los Angeles, is visiting her sister, Mrs, Opal Morgan, 2356 Glenarm place. She is here to recu- perate from a nervous breakdown. “The Spirit of Freedom,” by Handy, Negro composer, sung and played by Y. M. C. A. Glee Club and their or- chestra Sunday, May 12, 8 p.m. Mrs. Laura Johnson and sister, Mrs. Palma Clark, of Waco, Texas, arrived in the city Monday, to remain. Mrs. Johnson has many friends in the city who will be glad to know of her ar- rival. Nellie May Morrison, the S-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Morri- son, 2426 Gilpin street, who passed away April 26th. Impressive funeral services were held Monday, 2 p. m., April’29, at the Douglass Undertaking Co, chapel. Rev. ©, A. Williams con- ducted the services. Remains were Jaid in its last resting place, Riverside cemetery. THE SMART SET CLUB Easter Ball which was postponed April 3rd, will be given May 16 at Fern Hall, 2711 Welton Street. Morgan Jackson's Full Orchestra. Admission 30c. Wm. Knight, manager. THE URDANK BICYCLE COM: PANY, 1719 Welton Street, offers to the public the best that can be gotten in EXPERT BICYCLE REPAIRING, also tires and sundries that can stand all kinds of wear and tear. The Colo: rado Statesman knowing the propri- etor, N. Urdank, for several years, feels assured that every satisfaction will be given the public, and their work is their advertisement. Call and be convinced. Remember, Urdank, ‘the bicycle man, AGENT FOR THE TRIBUNE BICYCLES. SALE ON EASY TERMS. Y. M. C. A. Glee Club, Zion Baptist Church,. Sunday evening, 8 o'clock, ‘May 12. Don’t fail to hear them. THE INDUSTRIAL REALTY co. announce their opening at 716 East Twenty-sixth Avenue, May 1, 1918. In wanting a house to rent, buy or sell. give them a trial. ‘The members of the new company are Walter Priteh- ett, Chas, Trotter and 8, A. Bondu- rant. Mr. Pritchett has been in the real estate business for several years, and some of the most beautiful homes in Denver owned by our people have been purchased through him, The very best bargains in real estate will be gotten for you, and when it comes to the square and honest dealing with our people the members of this firm, citizens of reputable standing and of many ‘years’ residence, with a popu- larity second to none, are sufficient in guaranteeing your investment. Miss Hermione Jones, well known in the community for her civility and cour- teous treatment, is in the employment ORIGINAL IN POOR CONDITION of this firm, and our people need not suffer ony more from the harshness and unbusinesslike treatment that they get at the hands of white agents. We wish the new venture every suc- cess, and we welcome another buysi- ness firm of our race. WEBSTER SHOE SHINING PARLOR, The latest and most up-to-date in the shoe shining business is opened at 1526 Welton street, opposite the Or- pheum theater, by H. G. Webster, and new shoes keep their appearance, while gJd ones are made new by the skill of the polisher, Call and see this parlor and be convinced of its modern features and efficiency. ODD FELLOWS ANNUAL THANKS- GIVING MAY 12, SHORTER CHURCH. All Odd Fellows in good ee standing are reminded to be in preparation for their Annual Thanksgiving Service, to be held at Shorter A, M. B, Church, Sun- day afternoon, May 12. The commit- tee is endeavoring to make this event eclipse. all previous services, and the public in the cordial invitatton ex- tended to them will have another op- portunity of realizing what the true principles of Odd Fellowship stand for. Y. M,C. A. Glee Club at Zion Bap- ‘tist Church, Sunday, May 12, 8 p. m. ‘Public cordially invited. * N. A. A. C. P. MEMBERSHIP DRIVE On Monday night at the Negro Women’s Club Home, the Denver Branch of the N, A. A. C, P. held a most successful meeting, making @ long stride towards the quota asked for by the National President, Mr. Moorefield Story. The keenest rivalry existed between the various captains as to whom would secure the largest number of members. And while Dr. Westbrook emerged victorious, Jas. Cooper gave him a hard race. The Y. M. C, A. Glee Club rendered some high class selections which were en- thusiastically received. Prof. Hewet- son Watson has proven a most capa- ble director, Father Brown read a message from Bishop Johnson who was unable to be present. Lawyer E. P. Blakemore, Mrs, Mabel Fallings and Madam Jessie Carter spoke very encouragingly. Y. M. ©. A. NOTES. The members of the Checker Club have been playing some interesting series within the past two weeks, and will soon be in shape to do some real, effective playing just as soon as they ‘have become better rated and really find out their full strength. At the present time Mason is in the lead, but it is doubtful whether that lead could have been still ‘maintained if he had been at the the last meet on Tuesday evening and sat before Granberry, who is really a terror. Many players are lined up for next Tuesday night, when a regular battle will be fought. In the absence of the Rev. P. J. Price, who was to have spoken at the meeting last Sunday afternoon, Dr. Westbrook, who was present, was. in- troduced and spoke on the member- ship drive of the National Association for the a Advancement of Colored People. Of those present more than half of them took their memberships in the organization. The Glee Club rendered music at the meeting of the N, A, A. C. P., which was held at the Colored Wom- en's Club home Monday evening, and was well received by the large num- ber present. The next. public appear- ance of the club will be at the Zion Baptist Church on Sunday evening of the 12th inst. An orchestra is now being formed in connection with the club which will be under the direction of Mr, Gatewood and Mr. Wm, H. Gra- ham, the famous composer. The Rey. John Vander Meulen, pas- tor of the Boulevard Congregational Church, will be the speaker at the meeting next Sunday afternoon. His subject will be “On the Square,” The meeting will begin at 4 o'clock and will last one hour. All will be wel- come. CARD OF THANKS. We cannot find words to express to our many friends our appreciation and deep gratitude for the kindness shown us in the illness and death of our mother and for the exceptionally beautiful floral offerings. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Barbee, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Lightner, Mr, and Mrs, Lynwood Troutman, Mrs. Bessie Jackson. Messrs, James Howard, Elmer and Thomas Troutman. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished or unfurnished rooms. Apply 2242 Og- den street. WANTED Good Colored Girl to go out city; wages $1.50 per day. Apply at this office. Colorado Statesman, Room 25, 1824 Curtis St. The Anniversary Sale —offers wonderful opportun- ities to save. Merchandise . like you'll find in this Sale will not be offered soon again at such LOW PRICES [wostines| THE OWL OIL COMPANY. Encouraging .'niormation ‘to Stock: holders. AVING responded successfully to H every governmental inquiry rel- ative to the stability of the com: pany, its general status, ete, O. W. Loven, its president, turns his atten- tion to the large body of stockholders and gives them information which sat- isfies them as to the security of their investmext offering, an assurance to prospective members of the OWL OIL COMPANY, which is unsurpassed by any of its competitors, With a geol ogist as his associate on the trip, Mr Lovan will leave in the near future for the Wyoming holdings of the com- pany, and in the advertisement con- spicuously appearing on the second page of this issue of the people's paper, detailed information as to the various properties and their production is given in so lucid a manner that it needs no presstre, no coercion or any compulsfon to secure purchasers of stock. ‘The interests of this company ex- tent over Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Wyoming, and their further desire is to have a good producing oil’ field in Colorado, the possibility of which may establish itself sooner than anticipat- ed with a persevering, energetic char- acter of indomitzble pluck and cour- ‘age in the person of its president. Stock is still being sold at 5 cents per share, there being a limited quan- tity left, which will be off the market as soon’ as a sufficient production to maintai drilling of wells is brought in, Therefore, the wise and judicious action of prospective stockholders will make them hurry up’ in obtaining their stocks ere the opportunity is lost. The Colorado Statesman in its recommendation of this Oil Company to the people of Denver and Colorado has every reason to beliove in the sincerity of its head, as also a safe in- vestment, and in indorsing the possi- bility of ‘a great success, invites you to call at Room 504 Colorado build- ing, where Mr. Lovan and his staff will be pleased to give you every nec- essary information, “Lay hold of a good thing while it lasts and that quickly,” is the motto of the success- ful people in life, so be guided there- pea NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. ‘The falsehood that has been circu: lated. maliciously through the city that Rey. D. E, Over is a stockholder or has any business interest in the fitm of Cammel & Co., undertakers, Is positively untrue and without foun: dation whatever, (Signed) FE, V, CAMMEL. Br, 8, A#Huff, Office Phone is York 2313. if not reached at office or Home, York 8374J. Call Atlas Drug Co., Main 875. —— SCOTT M. E. CHURCH. Twenty-Sixth Ave. and Clarkson St. Rev. T. 8. McMorris, D.D., Pastor. 10 a. m,, Sufiday school, 11 a, m, morning service with ser: mon. 7p. m, Young People’s Society Christian’ Endeavor. 8. p.m, evening service and com- munion. DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING CO. FUNERAL NOTICES. William Martin, brother Knight Pythias, woh departed this life April. 24th, Funeral services were held Sunday, April 28th, under auspices of Damon Lodge No. 5 at Campbell A. M. E. Chureh, Rey. A. M. Ward offi ciating. Remains were laid to rest in Fairmount cemetery. He leaves to mourn his loss a wife, sister, niece and a host of friends. Mrs. Josephine Mayberry, beloved wife of Jimes Mayberry, late of Jef ferson City, Mo. departed this life April 30th, at 2439 Ogden street. Re- mains were sent from the Douglass Undertoking Company to her home town for interment, accompanied by Mr. Mayberry and sister-in-law. Our Wiggins. Funeral notice later. Agents for Tribune Bicycles Byld ‘ives and URDANK CYCLE COMPANY ee Re Nearer Cee) ae ee ee Ee LS meen ee. ae re ae . : ‘The Disgrace of Democracy. Curtis M Harris Open Letter to Pres. Woodrow ° Wilson. = =H] out of the House of Bondage Agente Yor Race Adjustment. Edueation of the Negro Prior to | F 1860. Prof. Kelly Miller | succc rooks shouts ne in every Colored home. DENVER, COLO. “WMichadlsows. Eas Mee caren ents Adler = F Collegian fat Lougelan Clothes AY oa i err eee \ Phone Main 8036 Res, Phone York 5774W FRANK D. TAGGART Attorney at Law—Notary Public 205-206 Cooper Building Denver, Colorado OIL-O-GRAM FREE Covering activity Big Muddy Field, Wyoming, meritorious oil Companies map of Big Muddy Field mailed free on request. OIL-0-CRAM 414 Denham Bldg. Denver, Colo. | Classy Spring oe rd 3 | So = for Smart Dressers Just take a look at these new, high top, narrow toes we have (art cob mvorien pag: | ‘There is nothing any newer on the market, and there is Meinide aig apne SA we are back of every pair that goes out of our doors. A big line of all styles for men at $3.85; solid throughout. HENNING’S Family Shoe Store 820 and 922 Fitteenth Bt. 22-k. Gold Crowns, $5—Bridge Work DR. W. K. DAMERON ALBANY DENTAL PARLORS 17TH AND ARAPAHOE ‘Telephone Main 424 > Modern Painless Dental Work at Reasonable Prices Add to Funds That Will Forever End Germany’s Desired Iron-Hand Rule. DUTY OF EVERYBODY TO HELP Question Is Not Whether We Feel Like Subscribing, but Our People a Must Spend or Be Spent. By ALBERT BUSHNELL HART, Of the Vigilantes. | Prociaim liberty throughout a” © ie land unto all the inhabitants thereof— |so runs the legend on the Liberty bell, | which by a favorite tradition pealed out ‘to the world the tidings of the birth of [the United Sfutes of America on that ‘famous July 4, 1776. We thought that message had gone out once for all; that freedom In the United States was a rock of Gibraltar that could not be scaled nor penetrated nor moved. We have thought that the old days of na- tional sacrifice and anxiety were for- ever passed. What so strong, So per- manent, so vigorous, so dominant as government of the people in these United States? | If the American Revolution had been only bell ringing and the passage of resolutions, we should not now be the foremost republic of the world nor any other kind of a republic, The Declara- tion of Independence was a bold state- ment of liberty which had still to be made good, ‘The heroes of the Revo- lution knew how to watch as well as to pray, how to march as well as to resolute. The’ Declaration of Inde- pendence is a mighty force In the world because when the country called soldiers sprang into the ranks. Liberty had to be spelled out by such big capl- tal letters as Lexington, Illinois, Ben- nington, Eutaw, Rocky Mount, Trenton and Yorktown. We Are Better Fortified. ‘The hard fighting in the field won only half the battle. Our forefathers were able to “proclaim — liberty throughout the land” because they found the sinews of war. It was one thing to raise the flag, another to raise troops and still another to “raise the wind.” There was not a bank in the United States till the Revolution was nearly over and few were the people who had money enough to lend to any- body, yet that 3,000,000, of whom a fourth were slaves who could have no property, somehow induced the peopte of the country to turn in their small surplus of provisions, clothing and military supplies and take for it the obligations of the government, which toward the end of the dark period of the Revolution seemed little likely ever to be paid. They furnished about $65,- 000,000 in taxes, contributions and sup- plies and at the end of the war the na- tional debts incurred in behalf of the Revolution were, including arrears of interest, $70,000,000, which was then about $20 a head on the population, man, woman and child, whites, In- dians and negroes, seamen, farmers, plantation slaves as they ran. é Must Spend or Be Spent. ° Make no mistake; this is not a ques- tion of whether we feel like subscrlb- ing to a loan any more than a question of whether we feel like receiving news of a break on the war front and the capture or retreat of the American troops, The nation {s compelled to choose either to spend or to be spent. There 1s only one possible way to end the war to the honor and safety of the United States and that is to fight for it. Our sons fight in the army, our daughters fight In the Red Cross, we elders must fight with safe deposit boxes and mortgage deeds and sheets of securities. In the days when the French were in the habit of recruiting troops in Swit- zerland, there was a saying, “No money, no Swiss!” Nowadays It ts, “No money, no Yank!” for unless you subscribe to the loan your son cannot be trained or equipped or fed or trans- ported over seas or carried to the front or protected by a barrage of ar- tillery fire or put where he can attack the enemy. Remember the Liberty Bell. ‘The battle 1s going on from day to day in the national banks and the sav- ings banks and the trust companies and the treasuries of the fraternities and the clubs and the churches and the restaurants just as much as in northern France or Belgium. No one soldier can win at the front nor a hun- | dred thousand together. It would take ‘a million, but if every one of that mil- lon hangs back, there !s no army, no war, nothing but shame and nitsery for the nation. Just so, you cannot save your country all alone by your subscription to the third Liberty loan; but you can unite with a million oth- ers. Do your duty and expect and urge others to do theirs. ‘That makes a vie~ ‘torlous army of people pouring In thelr rattling dollars as the boys at the front huzl hand grenades. “All the inhabitants thereof.” that is what the Liberty bell aroused. Not the soldier only, not merely the Red Cross, the ¥. M. C. A. and the other noble co-workers and co-fighters with the troops. You plain farmer, you sere | 3 WARD AUCTION : COMPANY Bales Dally at 2 p.m. Office Fur pe: PRIVATE SALES AT ALL TIMES HAVE oven 997 1723-39 GLENARM ST. SE BONE MO UNEisiee =: ee, a See REN Ta $ THE BEST ICH CREAM AND > CANDIES AT 3 : ? 0.P.BAUR@CO. t . z CATERERS AND 3 = Se 3 = CONFECTIONERS 3 z we 3 z > Phone: 168 3 . 3 J 1512 Curtis Street, Denver, Colo. 3 Sreerertetertereesersereee Express, Moving, and Storage COAL AND WOOD PROMPT DELIVERY. 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HE Merchants who advertise in this paper will give you best values for your money. ~ HAIG'S RETREAT Io Storm of Shell Fire Described by Illinois Officer, HUN SLAUGHTER WAS GREAT First Lieutenant Pettit of Ottawa, in Letter to His Father Gives Details of Battle in Which British Fought at Great Odds. The thrilling story of the Haig re- treat In the terrific brittle In Picaly ts most Interestingly detailed by First Lieutenant Roswell 'T, Pettit, M. O- R. C., of Ottawa, M.. In a letter to his father, Dr. J. W. Peitit of the Ottawa tuberculosis colony. and published in the Chieago Tribune. For nine days the American officer was in the thick- est of the fighting,-and during the re- treat of the British Fifth army from before St. Quentin. fis account of the battle thrills with the stress of the hereulean conflict, ns it was detailed immediately after he had passed through the terrible experience and be- fore his impressions had been dulled by time. His letter: Lieutenant Pettit's Letter. March 30, Dear Father: Now that the show ts over for me for the time being, and T have time to breathe and sleep and eat and write, Tl try and tell you about the battle. Before you receive this you will haxe had the whole story from the papers, but T know you will be Interested In knowing what I did in the affatr. Of course, the things L saw were but an infinitesimal part of a gigantic whole and it would he impossible for me to give a correct description of the battle. And as I write this, T do ft with no knowledge whatever of what has been going on even a few miles from mé. T have not seen a paper in elght days; I have received no matl,and the only Information we have received has been by word of month, and most of what We hear must be wild rumors, For ex- ample: ‘The Freneh have advanced 20 miles at Verdun, the Ameri- cans have taken Ostend, and are on their way to Zeebruzge, and a great naval battle has been fought in the North sea. All [know fs that on this part of the front the Germans attacked us in over- whelming numbers, in places ten divi- sions to our one; that they suffered terrible» losses, bnt finally broke through our lines of defense, one after another, and fighting for the most part. a rear guard netign, we have retired about 15 miles a a straight line, For a week before the battle started we had been expecting it; we were ready to move on 30 minutes’ no- flee. I had been out with combatant As well as medical officers on touts of reconnaissance, definite methods of avacuation of the wounded had been worked out, and our plans of counter- attack been made. After four or five ays of waiting, the storm finally broke. The Boche opened upon us at 5 a. m., March 21, with the heaviest barrage I have ever heard. “Stand to,” was sounded, we turned ont dressed, and had all our equipment packed In 30. minutes. ‘Then we sat down and waited for orders to inoye. The bar- rage kept up continuously, sometimes heavier and then of less intensity, sometimes it seemed to be to the north, of us and then suddenly it switched ta the south. Our balloons were up as soon as It was light and the airplanes were buz- zing over our heads. The graynd mist gradually cleared and the ‘Germans put a hail of shrapnel on our camp and we all took cover, but three men were hit. Why It Is fellow always feels safer with a roof over bis head sen if he knows bullets and shrapnel ‘and pieces of -shelh will go through boards and corrugated tron “Just like paper. Ordered to Move. Our orders to move finally came and we marched off-to the brigade assem- bly point several miles away. ‘This as- sembly point was in a little bunch of trees about the size of Allen park and behind and separated from a larger wood In front. In the larger wood there was a battery of heavy artillery ‘and shells were dropping in there two or three to a minute, and It was heavy stuff, too. Sometimes they overshdt the hig wood and shells were Iunding in the open around the little wood where my brigade had its assembly point. As Wwe approached our little copse we rould make all this out from some dis- tance away and It: wasn't a pleasant sensation to feel that we were march- Ing straight into It. All the battalions arrived and in that little copse there must have heen at lenst two thousand men. What a Money ts Life. Money ts no more the “root of evil” than are the good things that it rep- resents whether these twke the form of persons service, labor, or the ma- terial products of labor. Money means. work, {t means production, it means. the things that have been made by men’s brains and bands. It not only stafids for the things we eat, the clothes we wear, and the houses we live in, but it stands for works of art and for the services of the artists. “It means the services of the entertaining among us, and after walting) there tor three hours, expecting to be blown to bits any second, we finally moved for- ward, Just as we left the copse, from behind us, up over a ridge, came a stream of galloping horses. “It's the cavalry,” someone shouted, but soon I made out mbers and field guns. They galldped past us, going Ike mad, took up a position to our right, swung Into position, unlimbered, and in two minutes were blazing away. It was a thrilling sight. Torn by Shells. In going forward we went around the end of the larger wood In front of us, over ground that was torn to bits by the heavy shell fire that had just preceded, aver another edge, across a valley, and under the crést of a hill. And here we found the tanks going over the top ofthe bill to take up their position, At this point we were still about a mile from the front line. At this place I opened up an aid post under the crest of the hill to take care of what wounded came in while we were getting into position, I looked back across the valley we had just traversed, Shrapnel was bursting In the air, shells were whizzing overhead, and our guns behind me were belching forth the fire. ‘The nose was deafening. A railroad ran through the valley and an engine pulling a couple of flat curs was going by. A couple of sol- diers were sitting on the rear truck swinging thelr feet. A shell burst on the track and only missed the last car about fifteen’ yards, Neither man was hit and the train went blithely on. By this time {t was getting along | toward evening, the sun was sinking in the west, and finally went down a ‘great ball of fre. At the time, I re- member, I noticed its color, It was blood red and had a sinister look, Was it my Imagination, or might It have been a premonition? At any rate, I shall never forget the color of ¢he sun ais it set that night at the end of the first day of probably one of the great- est buttles In history. It certainly didn’t look good to me. ‘The drumming of the guns contin- ued, twilight gradually deepened into night, the signalers stopped thelr wig- wagging and took up their flash sig- nals, a fog dropped down on us and put the lights out of business, and when we left to go forward under the cover of darkness they were busy put- ting out their telephone lines—signal- ers and runners don’t have ah easy time, Shell Dump Goes Up. Behind us a-shel! lunded in an am- munition dump and ft went up with a roar; then the rifle ammunition started going off like a great bunch of fire- crackers, and great tongues of flame Ut up the sky. It Is reported that the Germans had | broken through our line and we were to counter-attack in the morning. We xot into positions without a single casualty. I opened an aid post in an, old dugout and settled down to sleep until morving. You may think it fun- ny that one could sleep under such conditions, but I had been up since 5:0, had tramped about six or seven miles, had had a rather trying day ‘and was dog tired. So [settled down on the rough plank floor and was soon asleep. 1 inust have been asleep a couple of hours when a runner came from headquar- ters and told us we were to move off immediately. | looked at my wateh and “it was 1:80 a. m, on the second day. We went back tothe railroad, fol- lowed It around to a position some six “miles to the north of us, landing there about 4 in the morning and flopped down on the Hoor of some abandoned ‘huts to wait further orders. Our or- ders came slong about 9 o'clock, We “marched up across the open prairie, the sun shining, and it was really hot. - dust‘like some of the warm Mays we ‘get the last of Maren at home. In xoing forward It was necessary for us to march seventy-five yards in front of thrge batteries of field guns. ‘There are six guns to a battery. They shoot an eighteen-pound shell and while we were there each gun was shooting twice to the minute. You crn Imagine the racket when I tell you that the discharge of one gun ean be henrd about four miles. Th addi- tion the Boche was trying to knock out this battery and he was dropping his six Inch shells a Uttle too élose for comfort. Nearly in a Trap. ‘Then I made a lovely mistake. 1 was to establish an aid post near bat tallon headquarters and went blithely. on when I met a company commander and asked him where to go. “Back there about a quarter of a mile," he replied. “This ts the front center company. If you keep on in the direction you are goingyyou are going up over that ridge and Fritz will writer In the form of books. It means. the pleasure-giving efforts of the mu- sician in the opera or concert. It means musical instruments for the home, edueational opportunities in the schools, publicity In the press, Inspl- ration In the church, fun and emo- tlonal relaxation in the theater, police protection on our streets and justice in our courts. Money means cleanll- ness, good appearrnce, elf-respect. Money .s the source of gooa just as It may p» the source of evi, but in either ease only because of what it ae hours, It was warm and bright. J could look out of my shelter and see our support lines digging themselves In several hundred yards away. ‘The ennnon fire ceased, the machine guns settled down to an occasional’ fitful burst and It was midday of a beautiful spring day, A couple of partridge few over me. What did they know or care about all this noise and racket arid men getting up In line and killing each other? Along about three o'clock things be- gan to liven up again. In the mean- time headquarters had been establish- ed In a sunken road with banks about fifteen feet high on efther stde (later this cut was half filled with dead). My ald post was in a dugout near by vnd gradually things got hotter and hotter. Our men had dug themselves in and were popping away with thelr rifles. The fleld batteries behind us were putting up a barrage, airplanes were circling overhead, both ours and ‘the Germans’, The Germans put up @ counter-barrage, the machine guns were going like mad, I was standing with the colonel on a little rise of ground above the sunken road when the Germans broke through about a mile to the north of us. They could be plainly seen pouring over the ridge in close formation. Tanks Get Into Action. Then the tanks came up, and you should have seen them run! Just ke rabbits! The tanks retired; the Boches reformed and came at It again. They tell me that at certain places our men withstood fifteen suc- cessive attacks and that the Germans went down in thousands, One Welsh: man told me that his gun accounted for 75 in three minutes during one wave. Machine-gun bullets were nipping around me, the shell fire was getting hotter, and even though It was n won- derful sight to watch I decided “dis- cretion was the better part of valor,” or something like that, and got down In_my dugout. I was_sitting there smoking a clg- arette when my orderly came down) and said T was being relieved and was, to go back and work with the ambu- lance. Fifteen hours Inter the man that relieved me was captured, But Tam getting ahead of my story. | T went back to the advanced dress: | ing station through the hottest shell fire I ever experienced. More than once I went down on my face when a shell burst and the pleces went whiz- zing over my head. I spent the night in a mined village where the advanced dressing station was located, and all night they shelled it to blazes. It was remarkable how few casualties .we had. About eleven o'clock the morning of the third day a shell blew in the side of our post, but luckily no one was hurt, We stuck to it until about four in the afternoon, when we saw our mef retiring over a ridge in front of us, keeping up a continuous machine gun and rifle fire, and we beat it back to another village and opened anoth- er post. The Begrimed Lord. About ten o'clock on the morning of 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 satis- factory 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. 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The line broke on the right: we were surrounded, and at the last we were fighting back and back, Only thirty of us got “away.” So we knew the Boche had broken through to our right and our left, and it was a question of how long ft wontd be before we, too, were surrounded, but we wanted to stick {t out as long ns we could, But not more than an hour tater a medical officer rushed in frou one of the battalions and between gasps for breath told us the Germans were on the edge of the village, had shot him through the sleeve with 2 machine gun bullet Cuckily that was all), and for us to beat it. ‘The ninth day, sitting around the fire in our mess after the best dinner we had had In days, the commanding officer handed me some papers and sald, “Here 1s something that will In- terest you, Pettit. I want to say we shall be sorry to lose you.” And this Is what it was: “Lieut. Roswell T. Pettit, M. R. C.. ts relleved from duty with the British army and will proceed to the A. E. F., where he will report for duty.” T leave for Paris in the morning. ‘This has been a long tale, but the hal? of it hasn't been told. 1 hope I haven't strung it ont too much. T have just been Informed that all my kit had to be burned to prevent It falling into the hands of the enemy. I shall probably want you to send me some things from home, but will see what I can get here first. Your son, ROSWELL. _ MORRISON'S FAMOUS JAZZ ORCHESTRA AND ENTERTAINERS GEO. MORRISON, MANAGER Music Furnished for all Occasions "Phone Main 2707, Res. 2947 Stout St. DENVER, COLO. When You Want The Heads, Feet Tails, Snouts Neckbones or Chitlerings, or any other part of the hog except the squeal go to’ ' ? Ph Mai East’s Market sc" 2300-6 Larimer Street ‘Taxicab Rates. Motto: “Not slow but pot, 2 pass, .50 jure.” Canh onl Bepot “each "addi. mie Gare one: nhe vaatia: 2 {800 Rates Per Hour, Bach addition’ mie/250 $1.50 to $2.50. Phone Main 6699 B Auto Li HEATED TAXICAB. TAXICAB LANDULET AND 7-PASSENGER 1918 LATE MODEL CARS. STAND: NIGHT AND DAY CAFE 919 Nineteenth St. Denver, Colorado stands for, And so, 98 somebody's great-grandfather used to say, “If money Is the root of a evil, give us plenty of the root!"—Physfeal Cul- ture. How the Gats Went. Little Frank had an amusing, way of Imitating the mewing of cats, so one night, when there was company at din- ner his father asked bim how the cats wen: “Op their feet,” was tbe unexpected reply. 3 ° The Housewife and the War eee Se PLAN YOUR MEALS FOR A WEEK f fl Pee = ll eT roe iiieetecen SE ee RS eee —— | fe Se S fae \ a hee mo agp * ae ¢. 4 B piste Ey Rae ic eee ‘ — eae giv CS H —— Sante — Rens ag | =e =a 60 | See ee ae NE 4 ~~ Ri tial ; = A Be 2 a °€ Paige pe ae eee — a = a With Her Meals Scheduled, the Housewife’s Saturday Market Basket Can Bring Food for a Week, Except Some Perishables. PLANNING MENUS WEEK IN ADVANCE Satisfactory Answer to Question “What Shall | Have for Dinner?” MAKE FEWER MARKET TRIPS Definite Schedule Will Be Great Help In Avoiding Waste—Meals Sug- gested to Meet Food Adminis- tration’s Requirements. It will pay you, Mrs. Housekeeper, to sit down for an hour each week and spend the time in planning’ your week's menus In advance. Especially at this time when all are striving to conserve food, you will find a definite schedule a great help in avoiding waste. ~ Here are some menus for a week from a woman who believes in a work- ing schedule for her household. The meals are carefully planned to meet, first of all, the food administration's requirements, using substitutes for wheat, ment, fat, and sugar, and they show also how a little careful plan- ning can save the time and labor of the busy housewife. Features of the menus are the brendless meals and “quick breads” (muffins, etc.) made from other grains to save wheat, and the use of meat substitutes and savory Aishes which call for little meat. ‘Thé meals suggested are all simple and are planned to meet the needs of a family of four, consisting of two ‘adults and two children, None of the menus are inflexible but could easily be varied to meet changing conditions. You can use these as guides in plan- ning your family meals. The recipes for most of the dishes given in the accompanying menus are published in the United States Food Leaflets of the United States depart- ment of agriculture and the food ad- A WEEK’S MEALS FOR FOUR SUNDAY. Luncheon or Supper. Cheese sandwiches c ‘Stured dates Hot cocoa. MONDAY. Luncheon or Supper. Cold chicken loat Corn pone and butter Hot cocoa Marmalade TUESDAY. F Luncheon or Supper. Creamed peanuts and rice Baked apples Be Oatment ‘cookies "Tea or milk G WEDNESDAY. Luncheon or Supper. Cream of tomato soup Toasted corn. muffins ‘Oatmeal pudding cc THURSDAY. Luncheon or Supper. Split pea soup and Crackers Baked bananas with raisin sauce Ccenmenl cookies FRIDAY. Luncheon or Supper. Kidney bean stew Soule butter Bene mille Bt SATURDAY. Luncheon or Supper. Smoked fish with tomato ‘sauce Baked pornre Butter Cs pris. sauce Bcotch'ont'crackers . Breakfast. Btewed dried apricots “Coan palis Hot wheat and oatmeal, Tolls and butter Conve for aduita Mii Yor ‘children Breakfast. Stewed prunes Hominy pute with mile Bariox biscuit and marmalade Coftee or malic Breakfast. Rhubarb sauce Creamed eggs on toasted niment, bread Coffee or mile Breakfast. Baked appies Creamed dried beet Comment murine Sottes or mall Breakfast. Corn fakes. with canned Beaghen And top all ‘Pica ‘weet iver Barley muting Eones or mille Breakfast. + Homigy grits with mile Boee-tooked exe Toasted vicwry read Gisttee or mille Breakfast. Baked apples Oatmeal ‘ornbread feo or mille ministration. This woman works her schedule to save time, fuel, and iabor. On Saturday she baked her oatmeal bread to last for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. ‘The rolls for Sunday were therefore ready to be reheated Sunday morning. The hen for the chicken ‘loaf was cooked tn the fireless cooker Saturday in one cooking compartment while a quantity of apricots was cook- Ing In the other compartment. ‘The codfish balls were made Saturday night, thus utilizing some mashed po- tatoes left from dinner. Twice the quantity of hominy grits required were cooked in the double boiler for Monday breakfast and util ized with the apricots left from Sun- day to make the apricot-hominy, scal- lop. In‘the same way enough apples were baked for two meals. Corn sirup was used to sweeten the baked apples and stewed fruit in place of sugar. ‘The stock from boiling the chicken served as the basis for chicken sowp ‘Tuesday, and the small quantities of left-over vegetables used for the vege table salad Friday. Instead of stopping each day to ank- wer the question, “What shall I cook today?” answer it at one time for the whole week. Try the plan and see how much easier your work becomes. Matrons for Rest Rooms. In rest rooms employing matrons many activities can be carried on which otherwise would not be possible. ‘The matron not only sees that the rose room {s kept in a clean, sanitary condition at all times, but she may provide for a sleeping child or a sys- tem for providing hot lunches at noon for women and children, She may care for packages. which otherwise might have to be carried from place to place, In some rest rooms the matron takes charge of the woman's exchange, which usually {s supervised by a committee from the women's clubs, Egg yolks, which are rich in fat and which are often left over from cake making, may be used to enrich soups or may be combined with milk to make custards. which resemble cream {n com- position and can be used as cream, as ‘on Geasesth. Dinner, Chicken loaf with gravy Buttered carrots ‘Steamed rice Celery’ Oatmeal bread fhamemade) uit gelatin Dinner. Hot ple of mutton and barley cold slaw Stuffed potatoes Apricot hominy scallop Dinner. , Chicken soup ‘Bean loaf. ‘Tomato sauce Butter Green onions and lettuee Baked potato Chocolate tapioca Dinner. Pot roast of beef Browned potatoes and Pioilled boots Buttered cnrrote Cornstarch mold served ‘with canned sliced peaches Dinner. Pot roast of beet (reheatea) Mashed potntoes ‘Baked onions Lettuce and cottage ‘cheete. anlad je scallol Coffee, tea or mille Dinner. Scalloped fish stewe tomntoen 0 toes Mixed vegetable salad Steamed. “raisin pudding with sauce Dinner. > Shepherd's ple with potato crust Canneacorn “ Radisher Green beans Corn and wheat rolls Butter” Canned fruit "rea or milc- CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS. with a statutory offense against the IT-year-old sister of his wife, has been found guilty, and faces a penitentiary sentence, Benton eloped with Ora Peterson from a small town near Colo- rado Springs. They came to Denver and were married, They were arrest- ed a few days later on a charge of passing worthless checks. While in the matron’s quarters at the city jail Mrs, Peterson attempted suicide. Her young sister, hearing of her plight, sold her saddle pony and brought the proceeds of the sale to Denver in or- der to help, Mrs, Peterson, in the meantime, had been taken to the county hospital, It was while she was recovering that Benton is said to have committed his offense. America’s output of potash in 1916 4s placed by the United State Geologi- cal Survey at 10,000 short tons, valued at $350 per ton, or $3,600,000 for the year. And now comes A. E. Carlton, president of railroad, sugar, banking, mining and ore reduction compantes and also a member of the board of trustees of the Colorado School of | Mines, with an assurance—sent out from Colorado Springs-—that the Gor | den Cyele Mining and Retluction Com- | pany, after careful experiments at | Colorado City, is prepared to produce yearly an amount of clean potash which will exceed America’s total pro- ductién in the second year of the war. Joseph W. Boyd of Denver was placed in the awkward matrimonial predicament of having two wives whea District Judge Robert G. Strong in the Arapahoe County Court at Littleton rendered the decision that the decree of divorce obtained by Boyd from his | first wife, Mrs, Nello May Boyd, in |1911 was procured on forged signa- | tures of Mrs. Boyd and was conse- | quently held for naught and annulled. | ‘This case has been pending before the Littleton courts for seven years, | “Louis Seeley, who was arrested in | Denver by Patrelman Genty, in the | presence of Chief gf Police Armstrong, | R. L, Buler of Boulder, sheriff; W. W. | Stretcher, undersheriff of Boulder; George Pomeroy, deputy district at- | torney of Boulder county, and United States Postal Inspector C. L. Booth, made a confession in which he says he killed Fred E. Bill, postmaster at Crescent the night of Feb. 16. Several promotions, with corre- [sponding inereases in salary, were an- nounced by State Auditor Charles H. Leckenby, following the departure of Willard D. Peck, chief public ex- aminer, who has enlisted in the United States army. Those advanced were James Kirwan, Roy Parr and Herbert B. Gee. Auditor Leckenby also appointed Mrs. Peck a member of his force of examiners. An early-day killing in the Leadville mining camp and one of the most in- teresting criminal trials in the history of Colorado were recalled by the death of Mrs, Adaline H. Havens at her home in Denver. Mrs. Havens was the widow of Gilbert L. Havens. It was over the jumping of one of Mr. Haven’s claims in Leadville that a man named Arbuckle was killed by Jim Bush in 1880. United States internal revenue agents, searching the farm of John Obrecht, Brighton road farmer, arrest- ed for operating the largest illegal still ever discovered in Colorado, un- earthed 5,000 pounds of flour, 1,000 pounds of corn and 500 pounds of sugar stored beneath the eaves of the farm ‘house—the greatest amount of hhoarded food yet found in Colorado. Following recommendations by Lieut. Col. H. 8. Graves, chief forester of the United States forest service, after an investigation made while in Denver, the expenditure this year of $19,000 on a road to be constructed to Mount Evans by the federal government in conjunction with the city and county of Denver has been approved by the secretary of agriculture. An auto truck carrying convicts of the road gang back to camp upset in the Poudre cafion, when the steering gear broke. Seven of the men were bruised and hurt, and two were badly injured. Major W. J. Cameron, sent by Col. R. C. Marshall, Jr. chief of the quartermaster’s ' building staff at Washington, arrived in Denver to be- gin the construction of the $1,700,000 recuperation camp, John D. Ryan, appointed director of aircraft production, resided in Denver three years before going to Montana, where he had acquired copper inter- ests, Bertha Chamberlain, aged 7, was burned to death in a coal shed within half a block of the Salida fire depart- ment. /: Western Beef Co. Bas BEER het alee eres Open Daily to 8:30 Sundays Until 2:00 p. m. p- m. tae Et pee a he 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 ‘ie City. PHONE CHAMPA 1641. , 2048 LARIMER STREET DENVER, COLO.- Opposite the Three Rules. I ithy News Notes From All Parts of ‘Western Newspaper Union News Service. COMING EVENTS. May 14-18—Colorado Sunday, School Association annual convention at Denver. Jub/Ns-15 —Meoting, National Assocta- tion of Golored Women in Denver, Sept. #8-28—Colorado State Fair sat PRAMS. Ty eed! A bean elevator is to be built at Rocky Ford. Bean elevators may be erected at Holly, Las Animas and Trinidad. ‘There were 5,862 permits for liquor issued by the Denver county clerk in March, and there was $2,029.00 pald in for the permits. Liberty bonds to the value of $188, 550 have been subscribed for in the ‘Third Liberty Loan campaign by Den- ver postoffice employés, Charles Schermer and Stanley Kol: man of Cripple Creek and Joseph Schrieber of Victor were arrested on a charge of sedious utterences. Women’s committees to increase food production and conservation have now been organized by twenty- five women’s county councils of de- fense, Fifty Denver women have already adopted cots in the new recuperation hospital which is to be erected near Aurora, There are to be 1,000 cots in the new hospital, Members of organized labor have begun a drive on Washington officials through petitions and letters for the establishment of an army cantonment at Fort Logan barracks. Charles H. Shaw, for thirty years president of a pneumatic tool company, died at his home in Denver, aged 80 years. Mr, Shaw was a member of Denver lodge No. 5, F. & A. M Benjamin B. Brown, 69, for twenty years president of the Western Nation- al bank of Pueblo, died at a Pueblo hospital. Brown had just returned from Illinois, where he went for the benefit of his health. General instructions concernipg en- listment for the fourth officers’ train- ing school May 15 to Sept. 1 were given out by Adj. Gen, Frank D. Bald- win, following receipt of word from the militia bureau of the War Depart- ment. Leslie Fraser, aged 2 years, son of James Fraser, a feeder, was drowned in a cistern at his home five miles east of Fort Collins. His mother, who jumped into the cistem after him when she saw him fall, was badly in- jured. The first work in the construction of the government's $1,000,000 Colo- rado recuperation camp was the loca- tion of the main flagstaff, exactly in the center of the 640 acres. The sec- ond bit of Work was starting the plow- ing for the administration building. Frank Mulligan, former Denver de- tective, sentenced to from five to seven years in the penitentiary for participation in the Nolan diamond robbery, asked the Supreme Court for ‘a supersedeas, so he may be released on bail while his case is pending be- fore the court for final decision. All efforts of the administrators of the Maj, William Cooke Daniels es- tate to communicate with two of the chief beneficiaries have been unavail- ing since the document was presented for probate in the County Court in Denver. ‘The widow, Mrs, Cicely Ban- ner Cooke Daniels, when last heard from, was residing at the Grand hotel, Bernehoff, Berne, Switzerland. By the terms of the will, she inherits one- half of the estate, and Miss Florence Martin, who inherited one-quarter of it, is supposed to be with her, aiding in the conduct of an army hospital. ‘The government has a lot of pinto beans for- seed, stored at Denver, Greeley and Trinidad, that can be had ‘at 9 cents per pound in 100-pound lots, Seven hundred young American sol- diers, as husky an aggregation as has ever been seen in Denver, arrived ‘from Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, paraded in four companies up Seven: teenth street for a few blocks, and then boarded a train of twenty-two’ coaches bound for Camp Lewis, Wash. ‘A two-days state war conference 4s to be held in Denver on Tuesday, May 7, and Wednesday, May 8, under the auspices of the national and state councils of defense. Dr. J. A. B. Scherer and George B. Chandler of the Council of Natfonal Defense, Dr. Guy Stanton Ford of the committee on pub- lic information and Lieut. Paul Peri- gord of the French army will be the speakers from Washington. There will be a big mass meeting in the Den- ‘yer Auditorium Tuesday night. On Wednesday there will be divisional conferences of the chairmen of the county councils of defense, women state and county leaders of war work and of chairmen of speakers’ bureaus. ‘The critical necessity for immediate action to remedy the sugar shortage has roused beet growers of northern ee Oe wee eae ae ene Bolden Bros. Cafe & Lunch Reom 924 NINETEENTH STREET, DENVER, COLORADO DINNER _ pe Short Orders 11:30 to2 p.m. Tyee at all Hours : ALL KINDS rowers BOLDEN BROS. BARBER SHOP Baths, Electric Massage FIRST-CLASS SERVICE R. B, BOLDEN, Manager 926 19th St., Denver The @hampa Pharmacy Twenticth and Champa, Is the place to get your DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES 4 WHE SERVE — DRINES. Prescriptions Our Specialty. Phone us and we will deliver the goods to all parts of tho city, - JAMES E. THRALL, PROPR. PHONE MAIN 2426. Weatherhead Hat Co. TELEPHONE MAIN 3203 Established 1876 i PIONEER HATTERS OF THE WEST WE MAKE OLD HATS NEW ° PRACTICAL HATTERS RENOVATORS, BLEACHERS DYERS AND FINISHERS Of Gents’ and Ladies’ Hats of Every Description 1624 Champa S8t., Denver, Colo. PHONE MAIN 3028 % RES. PHONE GALLUP 943 JOHN K. RETTIG Meats, Fancy and Staple Groceries Se 1864 CURTIS STREET eeceed. The MARKET COMPANY 0. E. SMITH, Manager, Res. Phone South 1608 Sean and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Oystere Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty. Fresh and Cured Eastern Corn Fed Meats Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry and Game. Telephones Main 4302, 4303, 4304, 4305 622-636 15th Street Denver, Colorado What Well Dressed Women Will Wear A ON BEING CORRECTLY SUITED. The vagaries of spring suits are many—as suits go. Heretofore it has been left to afternoon and other dresses to give us unlimited variety to choose from while the tailored suit appeared true to form, in a few very well defined styles. This season the tailored suit is indulging many fancies of its own. There are suits with very short conts, suits with Eton Jackets, many suits with waistcoats and a good many eccentricities in coats. Skirts are nearly always p'ain, but a few exceptions to this rule appear in skirts to be worn with costs that are high at the back—an echo of the bustle dress of lust winter. Other feature that can be gath sentative show shoes continue to pared to high shag. The fact a lengthened a littence. The very than the modern more practical. shoes are of clo kid. As fine ki leather that is there is no reas shoe should not conscience. But attractive and ju With this variety in styles to choose from, it becomes easy to be correctly and becomingly suited. The waistcont, which is the most interesting feature in the new suit styles, is made in as many ways as suits themselves and is becoming to almost everybody, but if it proves unbecoming or unpractical we can center attention on other new features in the styles, as the uneven length of coats at the bottom and the abundance of braid trimming. Two very conservative suits shown in the picture will appeal to the woman whose taste cannot be diverted from plain and practical ideas in tailored clothes. At the right there is blue serge—which we have always with us, whatever else may come and go—trimmed with silk braid and butts. The coat is longer in the front Women's Shoes SUMMER STYLES IN SHOES. and sides than at the back, being cut with a point in front and at each side in deference to present-day style. The suit at the left has only one feature that distinguishes it as distinctly of this season, and that is the manner in which it is left open at the front to the waistline. It is of belge gaberdine and has a military suggestion in its pockets with flap and belt fastened with a small buckle. It will be noticed that collars on the new suits are usually high in the back and this one follows this rule. Below there is a small sketch of a jersey-suit with a real waistcont—which leads to the confession that there is much camouflage in this matter of waistconts—they are usually merely front and nothing more. Just a glance over the displays of footwear for summer brings home the fact that women have taken more than kindly to colored shoes. In fact it appears that color in footwear promises to become a permanent thing, as in gloves—and that the same colors are to be used. Many shades of tan and gray, often in combination with white, russet and white shoes, if counted would sum up as many pairs as there are in thick shoes. Other features of the new styles, that can be gathered from any representative showing, reveal that high shoes continue to be very high as compared to high shoes of a few seasons ago. The fact that skirts have been lengthened a little has made no difference. The very high shoe is more trim than the moderately high shoe and more practical. The uppers in these shoes are of cloth just as often as of kid. As fine kid is not the sort of leather that is needed in the army there is no reason why the very high shoe should not be worn with a clear conscience. But cloth tops are just as attractive and just as desirable as the kid and maybe a little easier to keep clean. Oxfords and slippers will divide honors with high shoes for street and sports wear this summer. In all of them toes are somewhat pointed but not to the length of discomfort. Considerable decoration in perforations appears on all styles of shoes as may be gathered from the group pictured here which includes a high walking shoe, oxfords and a dress slipper. The high shoes are in black kid with common-sense Cuban heel. Wherever a seam is required for joining the different parts of the shoe, there perforations occur. And the toes have a small pattern that is purely decorative. The oxfords are in tan leather, finished in much the same way as the high boots and the slippers are in black and gray—very smart for wear with afternoon frocks and light summer dresses. Julia Bottomley 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 hem stitching 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. Lovely dresser sets have filet trimming in butterfly pattern, and to match these there are guestroom towels trimmed with the butterfly flet. WASHINGTON GOSSIP World of "Make-Believe" Affected by the War WASHINGTON.—There is an alley with a gutter down the middle and bushes shooting above the fences that wall it in. All along are gates that open into back yards. And, always, little children romp in and out in play. The other morning, after a night rain had washed the cobbles and filled the gutter brim up with fresh water and put gold-green leaves on the bushes, it seemed an extra nice alley to a woman who was making a short cut through it—but people do make such ridiculous mistakes. For it wasn't an alley at all. Three boys who were floating toy boats down the gutter explained: "This is the Atlantic ocean and this is the American navy. My destroyer is going to send that sub to the bottom and Billy's ship is laying alongside to rescue the crew. You see that woman standing before that stone wall with her arms tied and a handkerchief over her eyes? Well, she's a spy. If you wait a minute till the firing squad comes up you can see her shot, if you want to." The woman spy, who must have been every day of four years old and who masked her inquiries in a pink gingham slip and bob curls, posed smilingly against the fence, with one eye peeking over her bandage. Up marched the squad, led by a drummer, knee high to that grasshopper which lends itself so accommodatingly to occasions like this. Each soldier wore khaki or a sailor suit or an Indian costume, and all were armed with real toy guns. They lined up, took alm and the victim, terrorized by the grim make-believe of childhood, which is one of the most real things in this world, yelled out as the officer lifted a handkerchief and the squad shouted, "Bang." But she played the game like a little sport and fell according to schedule. What a way-off, old-fashioned and uneventful world it used to be when children floated ships of clover down the stream—and hatched snakes out of horsehairs—and rode tobacco sticks—and played Jack straws—and worshiped stiff china dolls with black curls painted on. Just the Adventures of Three Women and a Baby SHE was dressed to kill—in the sense that she was armed with every weapon that money could forge for the fighting of that battle which woman always loses when her enemy is Time. And she was looking over at another table in the same cafe. What she saw was a lump of pink fat, blue eyes, a lot of dimples and exactly two teeth—the combination perched on a high chair beside a girl-mother who was going through an "afternoon tea" that began with three fried and was to end with jelly frappe. The baby obviously objected to oysters allied to frappe, for he pounded the table with pudgy fists. And for good measure, he yelled and yelled, and— All the time, the woman in the fine clothes and make-up watched the baby with that hungry look that—you can't put it in words, but the next time you see a baby in a car, say, watch the passengers, men and women, and somewhere in that crowd you will catch the expression. But you couldn't spell it to save your life. The woman looked at the baby that way, and right in the middle of its pounding and kicking and yelling, by some luck—maybe it wasn't just luck, either, but never mind that—by some luck, the baby caught the woman's glance, stopped crying, held out its arms and began to coo. It was a clear case of hypnotism. The woman gathered up her belongings with subconscious conventionality, paid her bill and then went straight to the baby and took him in her arms. The mother was frankly gratified that a woman of such worldly influence should be playing nurse to her child, until—until another woman at another table—an ominously virtuous woman whose milk of human kindness seemed to have curled came over and whispered a remark. The mother took her baby from the woman, and the woman, understandingly, went out of that cafe mad enough to bite nails. That was all there was to it unless—unless some day—somewhere—a vitiously good meddler and an overprudent mother who snatched her baby from the arms of a middle-aged Deillah should be called to account by an accusing Judge, who, himself, loved little children when he walked the earth—a long time ago. Capital Claims Priority in Women Taxpayers Capital Claims Priority in Women Taxpayers THAT Washington has more women taxpayers in proportion to its population than any other city in the United States reports of the income tax bureau will abundantly prove. If you don't believe it a trip to the Legal building, Eighth and G streets, where women taxpayers stand in line all day to make their income tax returns, would convince you. "Never knew women could be so quiet," said a mere man, as he stood there looking at the women in line. "Why, you could hear a pin drop." "You'd be quiet, too, if you had to keep your mind on one of these blanks," spoke up a woman taxpayer. "Net contributions, net deductions, and subdeductions. The most tangled up, mussy thing I've ever handled. "Knitting compared to filling out an income tax return is like holding the baby when he's all dressed up and nowhere to go compared to walking him up and down the floor when he has the colic." A wo, in, smiling, came over to the scene of battle. "Oh, I'm all through. It's just not so bad after all. There's a nice man who gives you a seat and tells you just what to put down, and you can ask questions about the parts you don't understand. "Oh, you're third. Don't let any one get ahead of you. Good-by. It only takes five minutes." Washington Small Boy Just Now Much Disturbed Washington Small Boy Just Now Much Disturbed THAT the public schools of the District of Columbia should be kept open for twelve months every year was the statement of Ernest L. Thurston, superintendent of schools. Confirmed in this belief by the experiences of school officials of other cities, who have found that keeping the schools open for educational purposes has resulted in speeding up educational work and bettering the standards of both pupils and teachers, Mr. Thurston strongly urged that the District schools be put under the quarterly system, with small vacations between the quarters. This system will speed up educational processes in Washington. Last year about 1,200 pupils were accommodated in grade schools open during the summer scattered throughout the city. Two high schools were open during the summer period of about six weeks. An appropriation estimate now before congress as part of the regular District appropriations bill carries provision for money to permit many of the District high and grade schools to remain open during the summer months. At Eveleth, Minnesota, the all-year school has grown out of a summer school that has been successfully conducted for the past six or seven years. The superintendent reports that a year ago, when special efforts were made to increase the enrollment of the summer school to over 600 pupils, it was decided to go over definitely to an all-year organization, consisting of four terms, spring, summer, fall and winter, three school months in each term. play. The other morning, after a night rain had washed the cobbles and filled the gutter brim up with fresh water and put gold-green leaves on the bushes, it seemed an extra nice alley to a woman who was making a short cut through it but people do make such ridiculous mistakes. For it wasn't an alley at all. Three boys who were floating toy boats down the gutter explained: "This is the Atlantic ocean and this is the American navy. My de- WAH And serve them both right. If you don't believe it a trip to the Legal building, Eighth and G streets, where women taxpayers stand in line all day to make their income tax returns, would convince you. "Never knew women could be so quiet," said a mere man, as he stood there looking at the women in line. "Why, you could hear a pin drop." "You'd be quiet, too, if you had to keep your mind on one of these blanks," spoke up a woman taxpayer. "Net contributions, net deductions, and mussy thing I've ever handled. PUBLIC SCHOOLS SHOULD BE KEEP OPEN 12 MONTHS TO EVERY YEAR AW! C FRANK S. REED, Licensed Embalmer and Director The V. V. Hair Goods and Millinery Store The V. V. Hair Goods and Millinery Store A Hats Made, Trimmed or Remodeled to Order Mrs. G. W. Anderson, Prop. Phone 8698 Toilet Articles 2727 WELTON DENVER, COLO. DAYTON BICYCLES DAYTON BICYCLES 5-YEAR GUARANTEE. EASY TERMS IF DESIRED. 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