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Subscribe for the Only Reliable People's Paper in Colorado "The Colorado Statesman" THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY DANIELS FAVORS A MONUMENT TO COMMEMORATE THE PART NEGRO SOLDIERS AND SAIL ORS TOOK IN THE WAR. VOL. XXVI. WASHINGTON, D. C.—In behalf of the movement for the erection of a monument in this city to commemorate the part Negro soldiers and sailors took in the war Secretary of the Navy Daniels, making an address at Liberty Hut, said: "One night a zealous gentleman in the intelligence service came to my home greatly alarmed, because he had obtained undoubted evidence that Prussian spies were offering large sums of money and hoped to organize a Negro division of treasonable men to practice sabotage. When I found that Prussian enemies were relying upon organized Negro assistance, I calmed his fears by assuring him that, though here and there he might find a traitor among the American Negroes, he might give himself no trouble, for I knew that the Negroes could neither be cajoled nor threatened nor bought to enter a conspiracy to injure this country. "Full investigation proved that I was right. Later, when the call came to take up arms, more than 200,000 Negroes went across the sea to fight, not a few of them to seal their devotion with their blood and many to win decorations for their fine fighting qualities and faithful services. "This was not the first time American Colored soldiers have fought trained Prussian troops and given a good account of themselves. A Hessian officer who fought against the revolutionary soldiers wrote: "The Negro can take the fields instead of his master, and therefore no regiment is to be seen in which there are not Negroes in abundance, and among them are able-bodied, strong, brave fellows.' The Rev. Dr. Harris of New Hampshire, a soldier in the Revolution, writing of their fighting, said: 'Three times they were attacked with most desperate fury by well-disciplined and veteran troops, and three times did they successfully repel the assault and thus preserve our army from capture.' "The spirit of America with reference to brave Colored soldiers has been expressed in many communities, North and South, but perhaps its best expression was given in the welcome tendered, by the city of Albany, N. Y., when Gov. Smith, former Gov. Glenn, Mayor Watt and other citizens staged a welcome to Sergt. Henry Johnson, called by the Times-Union Albany's heroic soldier.' When the United States entered the war, Sergt. Johnson went across among the first, was decorated by the French and honored by America for having killed four Germans and wounded twenty-eight more. "It is fitting that here at Washington a suitable memorial of the devotion of Colored troops should be erected. In South Carolina a former slave owner has erected a monument to Colored men who were faithful in the days that tested fealty. In North Carolina a Confederate soldier has built a textile mill and named it for a Colored man who was true and worthy. "As token of a country's recognition of the courage of Negroes of this and other wars, the people of every part of this republic will join in hastening passage of the bill for a suitable mon- ument. It will be an incentive to the youth of the race to emulate the virtues of the men whose deeds it will commemorate." Speakers of the evening were Secretary of War Baker, Secretary of the Navy Daniels, Ex-Gov. Glynn of New York, Dr. John Van Schaik, president of the District board of education; Associate Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford of the Supreme Court; Col. Chas. Young, Rev. Henry Collis, state commissioner of Illinois; Rev. R. K. Christian of Kentucky, Attorney Robert I. Miller, Prof. J. R. Hawkins and Julia Mason Layton, Miss Virginia Williams of the War Camp Community Service sang. James B. Howard, secretary of the National Memorial Association, presented the plans of the organization for securing the proposed monument. F. D. Lee, president of the memorial association, presided. Secretary Baker proclaimed that the Negro made good as a soldier on the Western front in the world war. "When I visited France I found the Colored man doing his share of the work from the embarkation port to the first line trenches," the Secretary of War said. "Up in the zone where death was spread about I found the black man and the white man fallen side by side." LOUISVILLE WOMAN PLEDGE RACE SQUARE DEAL Louisville, Ky., Dec. 31.—At a joint conference of the National Consumers' League, the American Committee of the Kentucky branch of the Woman's Council of National Defense, and the Kentucky Conference of Social Work, held at Louisville recently, was a very important session, devoted to race relationships. This is reported to have been the first meeting ever held in Kentucky where leaders of both races came together before a large audience of both races to talk over important matters of common interest. The spirit of the meeting was encouraging in every way. At the close of the session the following resolutions were adopted: "We favor the establishing of district sanitarium with state aid for the care and treatment of all persons, both white and Colored, in Kentucky, who suffer from tuberculosis. "We urge all the people of our Southland, both white and Colored, to co-operate with the view of bringing about a better understanding between the races and to this end provide adequate educational facilities for Negro youth. "To adopt measures that will insure the Negroes' health. "To recognize the good and the higher qualities of the Negro through press and otherwise. "To guarantee justice and a recognition of his rights before law and to stand for the equal enforcement of law on both sides. "To labor for industrial justice for the Negro. "To endeavor in every reasonable way to give the Negro a man's chance and help him work out his own salvation as an American citizen." DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1920 State Hist. & Nat Hist Soc. State House able People's Pa RADO THE JOURNAL DENVER, COLORADO, SA ARRESTED FOR EMBARKING IN DISTILLERY BUSINESS Officers Find Five Stills, Cleverly Camouflaged, With Daily Capacity of 400 Gallons of Moonshine. Richmond, Va., Dec. 31.—Two Negroes are in jail here and warrants are out for four others, accused of operating a large illicit distillery a mile and a half from the city limits. Officers, making a raid, found five stills, with a capacity of 400 gallons daily, and several thousand gallons of mash ready for conversion into moonshine. The stills were located in a ravine, and were camouflaged with tree tops and piles of wood. CHURCHES RAISE $400,000 IN CENTENARY DRIVE New Orleans First Southern City to Jump Beyond Required Average. New Orleans, La., Jan. 2.—Within the past eight months the New Orleans area in the Methodist centenary drive for $112,000,000 has gone beyond its quota by raising $157,000. The area is in charge of Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, who has been detached from his work as a field secretary of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension of the M. E. church, and takes in the Texas, West Texas, Alabama, Upper Mississippi and Louisiana conferences. The conferences raised $38,000 the previous year for general benevolences. Dr. J. C. Sherrill, in charge of the churches in the Chattanooga district, has raised $30,000 and Rev. J. W. Moultrie, in charge of the Atlanta district, has secured $80,000. With the collections in other conferences added, the sum raised by our churches totals $400,000. The drive continues five years. RACE OWNED LINER ARRIVES AT COLON Colon, Dec. 29.—The Black Star liner, Yarmouth, manned by a Negro crew with the exception of the first officer, and carrying six colored passengers, arrived here from Kingston, Jamaica. The boat, which is the property of the first steamship company to be owned entirely by Negroes, was given an enthusiastic reception by thousands of people here. FIRST COLORED WOMAN LAWYER FOUND IN CITY OF BOSTON. Boston, Mass., Dec. 31.—In the state of Massachusetts women were first admitted to enter the three great professions of medicine, law and the ministry, as well as many other lines of professional and business life. Among the young business and professional women of Boston and New England who have come to the front is Miss Victoria Blackwell, stenographer and advertising specialist who has had the honor to be appointed a notary public by Governor Calvin Coolidge. Miss Blackwell, so far as known, is the first young woman of the race to receive such an appointment in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She is a graduate of the Center high school. '03, Norwalk, Conn., and Zryant & Stratton, Commercial College, '05, Boston, Mass. Miss Blackwell, whose education was acquired almost wholly by personal effort, private study and contact with the business world, stands today in the forefront of representative colored American women, because she has by energy and clear-sighted business capacity succeeded in building up a large and profitable business in the field of stenography and typewriting among many of the best firms in Greater Boston. She merits especial commendation for her success in a field where she is the first of her race in Boston to establish a public service and win recognition by strict attention to the fundamental principles which constitute a sound business. BLACKS OF WEST INDIES CAUSE ENGLISH WORRY London, England.—Labor disturbances in the British Islands of Trinidad and Tobago, in the West Indies, leading the rioting during which men were landed from the British warship Caleutta, and resulted in several casualties, are reported in official dispatches to the colonial office here. Special dispatches picture the trouble in Trinidad as a rising of the Negroes there in which the government buildings at Uort of Spain, the principal town of the island, were stormed and held for three days. Returned soldiers were implicated in the disturbance, it is stated. Today's advices announce that Port of Spain is quiet, but that the country districts are still disturbed. PROF. CARVER'S PEANUT MILK SUPERIOR TO COW'S. Washington, D. C., Dec. 31. The nutrition experts of the Department of Agriculture await with interest the publication of the method whereby Prof. G. W. Carver, Colored, of Tuskegee Institute, claims to have produced from peanuts a milk that is a good substitute for cow's milk. They say that this may very well be true, inasmuch as the peanut contains all the requisite elements, including "protein" of a superior and highly digestible kind. Milk is a "perfect food," one could live on it for a long time. The same is at least measurably true of peanuts. Already we have peanut butter, the production of which nowadays is enormous. Why not peanut milk? It is merely a question of finding out how to make it. Prof. Carver claims to have solved the problem. He says that his peanut milk is exceedingly wholesome and can be made at a cost much less than that of cow's milk, which it closely resembles. At present he is continuing his experiments to determine the keeping and cooking qualities of his product. Cow's milk is 88 per cent water, 4 per cent fat, $4\frac{1}{2}$ per cent sugar and $3\frac{1}{2}$ per cent protein. Prof. Carver's task has been not only to make a milk from peanuts, but to reproduce as nearly as possible these proportions of the essential ingredients. Prof. Carver, who is a graduate of the University of Iowa, was considered by the secretary of agriculture under the McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft administration as one of the greatest agricultural chemist in the country. CLERKS TO BE CHANGED. Washington, D. C., Jan. 2.—If rules and regulations run true to form, a number of government employés will be superannuated during the early part of the year. The cry seems to be from the various heads of the departments for an infusion of new blood. This will mean that a number of men and women who gave their lives in the government service will be abandoned to the merciless condition of a new economic age. RACE NEWS Gathered From Various Sources New York, Jan. 6.—Two large national denominations of colored people, comprising a membership of nearly 4,000,000—approximately 80 per cent of all the Negro Christians in the United States—have taken steps to co-operate with the Interchurch World Movement in the mammoth financial drive of next spring, it was announced here today. These two denominations, the National Baptist Convention and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church have set out to raise $11,000,000 during the drive, and machinery has been set up to carry on the campaign with the Interchurch World Movement. The colored Baptists, who are to raise $10,000,000, have appointed a campaign commission, which has opened up headquarters in Chicago, with branch offices in Philadelphia and Atlanta. The executive personnel of the campaign commission includes the following leaders in Negro Christianity, known throughout the country: Dr. L. A. Thomas, Evanston, Ill., Director-General; Dr. George E. Stevens, St. Louis, Chairman; Dr. T. O. Fuller, Memphis, Tenn., Secretary; Dr. P. James Bryant, Atlanta, Ga., Treasurer; Dr. E. C. Morris, Helena, Ark., President of the Convention. LIVED 6 GENERATIONS IN ONE HOUSEHOLD Parkersburg, W. Va. — William Peyton, a Negro, one of the oldest men in the United States died recently at Little Hocking, O., near Parkersburg, at the age of one hundred and twenty-eight years. In his youth Peyton was the slave of a Virginia family by the name of Creel, which later moved into West Virginia. As a slave and as a freed man he served this family through six generations, it is said. Peyton was in full possession of his faculties until within a few weeks of his death. MEDICAL MISSIONARY NEEDED IN AFRICA Baltimore, Md.-Bishop W. W. Beckett told the African Methodist Ministers' Meeting Monday that he did not intend returning to South Africa until the denomination sent medical missionaries there, especially those versant with the language of the natives. "One medical missionary who knows the language is worth 100 missionaries without that qualification," he said. Bishop Johnson, speaking of candidates for the bishopric, told the ministers that in getting behind a candidate they should take in consideration that a man who is a big success in one thing may be a closal failure in another. The Revs. A. L. Gaines and W. Sampson are avowed candidates for the episcopacy. OFFER $100 IN PRIZES TO COLORED STUDENTS THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, announces an offer of $100 in prizes for the best essay by a student at a colored institution of learning on the subject "The Economic NO.13. Element in Lynching and Mob Violence." The first prize is of $50 and the second and third of $30 and $20 respectively. Essays are limited to 5,000 words and must be at the office of the association not later than May 1, 1920. The prizes are offered "to enlist the interest and co-operation of colored students in dealing with the problems of race relations in the United States." Letters have been sent to the presidents of colored institutions of learning throughout the United States, asking them to acquaint their students with the terms of the offer. The names of the successful contestants will be announced at the spring meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. COLONEL YOUNG GIVES SOUND ADVICE Support Only Those Candidates Who Pledge Themselves to Fair Play—Says Congress Should Grant Race Liberty Instead of Erecting Monument to Fallen Soldier. New York, N. Y., Dec. 31.—Colonel Charles Young, highest ranking Negro officer in the United States army, urged the people of his race, at a meeting in St. Mark's church, under the auspices of the National Urban League, not to vote for anyone at the coming election who had not promised the Negroes equality of opportunity. Coloney Young, who is en route to Liberia, where he is to serve as military attache to the American embassy, spoke on "The Place of the Negro in the Present Reconstruction." He said that congress, instead of erecting a monument to the Negroes who fell in the war, could give a far more lasting memorial by granting the people of his race the liberty for which some of them had given their lives. TWO MILLION COLORED AMERICANS FOR FRANCE The Petit Parisian, Prominent French Newspaper, Editorially Calls Attention to Dissatisfaction of Race With Treatment in United States and Urges That They Be Invited to Help Build Up France. Paris, France, Dec. 31.—The Petit Parisian, the foremost journal published in France, recently said editorially: "With 3,000,000 men lost in the war, France is poor in man power. We need 2,000,000 men to help in the reconstruction of France. The only country that can supply that man power is the American colored people. The colored Americans are very much dissatisfied, and there is much unrest among them on account of the way they are treated by white Americans. In some parts of America black men are lynched every day. In France they are treated the same as any other Frenchman. In our hotels and all other places there is no discrimination. Let the French appeal for 2,000,000 colored Americans to help build up France." FOREIGN Jan' 17th was fixed as the date for the election of a president of the French republic by the French cabinet. In a remarkable interview published in Paris, Marshal Foch says he was divinely inspired to defeat the Germans and that the allied victory was willed by God. Maxim Litvinoff, Russian soviet representative at Copenhagen, predicted in an interview with the Social Demokraten that peace between the Bolshevik and the allies is imminent. An unsuccessful attempt has been made to assassinate General Denikine head of the government in Southern Russia, according to advices received by the Berlingse Tidende. One of Denikine's aides was killed. By accepting the board of trade's declaration that the president living wage should be estimated at £3 and 17 shillings weekly, the Austrian government will add £2,500,000 annually to its pay roll for state employees. New paper money to the extent of 1,400,000,000 marks, was placed in circulation during the holiday week, according to a statement just made by the Imperial bank. Germany's printed money now totals more than 47,724,000,000 marks. Norman Rose, the American swimmer, won the 220-yard championship sprint in an athletic meet at Melbourne, Australia. Spencer and Osterictor, Americans, won the six-day bicycle race with a purse of £300. Fourteen teams competed. The French crown jewels, which had been deposited in a bank at Bordeaux at the end of 1914, when the Germans' advance threatened the capital, are to be taken to Paris and again exhibited at the Louvre. They include the "regent" diamond, which is worth more than 15,000,000 francs ($3,000,000.) Street fighting in Irkutsk, in the anti-Kolchak revolution, is reported in a Tokio cable to the Nippu Jiji, Japanese newspaper at Honolulu. Vladivostok workers have voted to strike in a demonstration of dissatisfaction over the Kolchak rule causing suspension of transiberian traffic south of Nicholisk. A French aviatrix has arrived at Rabat, Morocco, from Paris by air, having made the flight in two days. This is the first case of a woman flying from France to Morocco. Her route was via Toulon, Barcelona, Valencia, Alicante, Granada, Malaga and Tangier. The distance was about 1,150 miles. Ygnacio Bonillas, ambassador to the U. S., will relinquish his post and return to Mexico City Jan. 25th to become a candidate in the presidential elections, according to information from "reliable soruces" published in Mexico City. The same sources are quoted as stating that Jose Diego Fernandez, at present in charge of the foreign office, will succeed Senor Bonillas as ambassador. GENERAL Damage estimated at $150,000 was caused at Memphis by fire which destroyed the refinery of Swift & Co., with its contents. The will of Thomas E. Wilder, leather merchant of Chicago, disclosed that he had bequeathed thirty-one employés $1,000 each. The bequests were made as rewards for faithful service. One of the swiftest murder trials in New York state ended when a jury in Brooklyn, after ten minutes' deliberation, found Frank J. Kelly, negro, guilty of murder in the first degree for slaying Catherine Dunn, a maid in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sperry Clark on Dec. 13th last. Governor Lowden of Illinois intimated broadly that unless he were given positive assurances there would be no more public hangings in Illinois, he would reprieve the prisoner and continue reprieving him until private execution was assured. This is his answer to the defiant attitude of prison officials who hanged Raffaele Durrago in the presence of 200 other prisoners as a moral lesson. Five thousand dollars worth of Liberty bonds was taken by bandits who tunneled their way into the vault of the Lone Jack State Bank at Lone Jack, Mo. An announcement important to the oil industry of the country was made at Baltimore by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company. The company claims to have perfected an oil engine for ocean-going steamships that will consume the commonest kinds of oil. It was believed by engineers the invention will revolutionize shipping. Gold production in the United States during 1919 was less by $10,157,000 than the 1918 output, according to the stafement issued by the bureau of the mint. In 1919 there were 2,829,395 fine ounces of gold valued at $58,488,800 produced in the country. California led in gold production with 840,758 ounces, Colorado was next with 470,-998 ounces, and Alaska third with 437,-131. Silver production in 1919 amounted to 55,285,196 ounces, valued at $61,-966,412, representing a reduction of 12,524,943 ounces compared with the 1918 output. Montana led with 14,-940,527 ounces, Utah second with 11,-906,152, and Nevada third with 7,312,-454. The federal woman suffrage amendment has been ratified by the Rhode Island legislature. The ratification resolution passed the House by a vote of 89 to 3, and a few minutes later was adopted by the Senate with one dissenting vote. Rhode Island is the twenty-third state to ratify the "suff" amendment. An explosion occurred in the Laughlin mine of the American Sweet and Tin Plate Company at Martin's Ferry at Wheeling, W. Va. Eighteen men were said to have been trapped in the workings, but had later escaped. NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD. DURING THE PAST WEEK RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY WESTERN Otto Walker won the 100-mile motorcycle race held at Ascot speedway at Los Angeles, making the distance in one hour, seventeen minutes and forty-two seconds. Ralph Hepburn was second and L. E. Parkhurst third. Profiteering in sugar purchased in Utah and shipped to Eastern states is being investigated by the United States district attorney's office in San Francisco, according to a statement made by him. Prosecution will be instituted in a number of cases, he said. Three indictments against Thomas J. Mooney, two against Israel Weinberg and two against Mrs. Rena Mooney, wife of Mooney, were dismissed at San Francisco. All were on charges of murder growing out of the bomb explosion during the preparedness day parade in July, 1916. A decrease of $8,063,762, or 26 per cent in the output of the metal mines of California in 1919 is shown by preliminary figures made public by the geological survey. Gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc produced in 1919 was valued at $23,124,045, as compared with $31,187,807 the year before. A New Year gift of $1,000,000 to Throop College of Technology, conditional upon an equal amount being raised from other sources, was announced by President James A. B. Scherrer. The name of the donor was withheld. The donation was said to be the largest individual one ever made to an institution in Southern California. Pulling a stroke of forty-two to the minute, a crew from the United States cruiser Birmingham easily defeated a crew from the scout cruiser Salem in a race of one and one-half miles for twelve-oared cutters on San Diego bay. It is reported that more than $14,000 changed hands on the event. The time was announced as 11 minutes and 45 seconds. Jackson Barnett, richest of Uncle Sam's Indian wards, can now buy an automobile and employ a chauffeur, in addition to donating $200,000 to the Baptist Church. Cato Sells of Washington, commissioner of Indian affairs, arrived in Fort Worth, Texas from Barnett's home at Henrietta and said that he had authorized these expenditures for the Indian. Miss Maud Cleveland of Berkeley, Calif., a graduate and member of the faculty of the University of California, was awarded the distinguished service medal today at the American Women's club for "conspicuous service" while serving as head of the Red Cross home communications department of the American expeditionary forces. Miss Cleveland recently had charge at Brest of the war brides who married American soldiers and were brought to the embarkation port preparatory to sailing for the United States. WASHINGTON The report of traffic handled on the western front during the war by the signal corps made public at Washington shows that 310,665 enemy radio messages were intercepted and 176,913 radio bearings taken on enemy stations. A $4,000,000,000 balance of trade in favor of the United States was the estimate for the year 1919 announced by Secretary of Commerce Alexander. Some of the changes in railroad operation adopted during the period of government control will be continued after the roads are returned to private operation on March 1. The Supreme Court declared constitutional sections of the Volstead prohibition enforcement act prohibiting the manufacture and sale of "beer, wine or other intoxicating malt or vicious liquors" containing one-half of one per cent or more of alcohol. Beer containing 2.75 per cent of alcohol is illegal under the war-time prohibition act, the Supreme Court decided. There will be no summary action by the House to eject Victor Berger, elected from the Fifth Wisconsin district after being barred from the House last because of alleged disloyalty, Representative Mann of Illinois announced he would object to summary action and would demand that the Berger case be given committee consideration in order to protect the rights of the voters of Wisconsin. The first move of the American government to aid financially in the reconstruction of Europe came when the war finance corporation announced it had practically consummated four loans aggregating $17,000,000 to manufacturing exporters. The Criminal Court at Puebla, Mexico denied the petition of William O. Jenkins that his bond be nullified and that he be returned to the penitentiary. In handling down the decision the judge explained that, according to Mexican law, an order granting liberty on bad cannot be revoked. COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Service. COMING EVENTS. Denver—Colorado Metal Mining Association meet Jan. 20, 21 and 22, 1920. Denver—Colorado Editorial Association meet Jan. 19, 20, 21, 1920. Denver—Live Stock Show, January 17 to 24, 1920. The Holly Sugar Corporation will spend $100,000 on the Grand Junction plant, work to start with the close of sugar campaign this month. Grand county roads will be improved with the expenditure of $175,000 federal and state funds during 1920, according to a report from the recent highway commission meeting. About 17,000 acres of broom corn was grown in Colorado in 1919, compared with 30,000 acres in 1918. The decrease in acreage was due largely to dissatisfaction on the part of growers with the prices obtained for the 1918 crop. Alloy plants and mining properties in Colorado valued at approximately $4,000,000 changed hands' when the holdings of the Primos Chemical Company were purchased by Charles M. Schwab, according to officials of the Primos company in Denver. Another road project has been submitted by the state to the federal bureau of roads. It is known as project No. 95 and calls for the construction of six miles of sand and clay surface highways between Eads and Kit Carson at an estimated cost of $24,420. Over 400,000 pieces of Denver and Colorado literature, booklets, pamphlets and postcards were distributed during 1919 through the main office and Union station offices in Denver and branch offices in Colorado Springs, Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis and Los Angeles. Receipts of gold and silver bullion at the Denver mint in 1919 totaled $19,613,289.13, according to announcement by Thomas Annear, superintendent of the mint. The bullion included $17,773,288.08 of gold and $1,840,001.05 of silver. The receipts for 1919 are $7,111,000 less than in 1918. Colorado spent on its own account, in round figures, $1,500,000 for good roads during the year just closed. The exact amount, as shown by voucher records in the office of State Auditor Arthur M. Stong, was $1,477,245.88. This is by far the largest expenditure the state has ever made in a single year for highway construction. Colorado is one of the greatest playgrounds of the nation. In 1919 more than a million people spent their vacations in the national forests of the state. Automobiles to the number of 185,000 also toured the forest highways during the summer season. So vast are these playgrounds to the people that it is impossible to go into the Rockies without entering a national forest. The Colorado apple crop was one of the largest the state has produced in spite of the severe damage caused the crop by the frost on and about June 1. The agricultural production is estimated at 3,418,000 bushels, compared with 2,511,100 bushels in 1918 and 3,559,094 bushels reported by the census in 1909, which was one of the best fruit years Colorado has ever enjoyed, especially for apples. The State Inheritance Tax Department closed the year with the remarkable record of having turned $885,039.10 into the state treasury since Dec. 1, 1918, the beginning of the 1919-20 biennial period. This showing breaks all previous records for the department and is more than double what state officials had estimated early in the year would be received from this source. Reports of county assessors give 967,382 acres of winter wheat for the state in 1919, and 358,351 acres of spring wheat. With 10 per cent added the areas devoted to these two crops are found to be 1,064,000 acres and 355,000 acres respectively. Reports of threshermen indicate that the average yield of winter wheat per acre was 11.2 bushels, and that of spring wheat 14.5 bushels. The higher yield of spring wheat is due to the fact that about 46 per cent of spring wheat was irrigated while somewhat less than 12 per cent of the winter wheat was grown under irrigation. Boulder county increased its output of silver from 157,000 ounces in 1918 to 203,000 ounces in 1919 from the Yellow Pine at Sugar Loaf, the White Raven at Ward, and from the mines at Caribou. The mines in Gilpin county were not active, and the closing of the Argo mill and its associated Tremont (Gunnell) mine at the end of the Argo adit, reduced the production greatly. This county produced $83,000 in gold and 72,000 ounces of silver. The Becky Sharp mine produced considerable gold ore, and the Gilpin Eureka shipped amalgam bullion and concentrates. A total of 3,036 building permits were issued during 1919, for $6,779,880 worth of work, showing an increase of 161 per cent over the 1,960 permits issued in 1918 for $2,595,890 worth of building and repairs, according to Chief City Building Inspector Frank M. Ladd of Denver. The fourteenth annual roundup of the Delta County Livestock Association was held in Delta. The sessions were occupied mainly by discussions of livestock topics and business affairs. Robert F. Rockwell of Paonia, state representative, was re-elected president. COLORADO NEWS NOTES. The mine output of gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc in Colorado for eleven months of 1919 and the estimated output for December, according to data compiled by Charles W. Henderson of the United States Geological Survey, Department of the Interior, amounted to $9,882,000 in gold, 5,630,000 ounces of silver, 35,650,000 pounds of lead, 3,400,000 pounds of copper, and 52,300,000 pounds of zinc, having a total value of $22,522,000 as compared with $12,751,718 in gold, 7,063,554 ounces of silver, 65,960,790 pounds of lead, 6,277,323 pounds of copper, and 98,133,901 pounds of zinc, having a total value of $34,160,172 in 1918. This estimate snows a decrease of $2,860,000 in gold, 1,430,000 ounces of silver, 32,160,000 pounds of lead, 2,877,000 pounds of copper, and 36,824,000 pounds of zinc. Even at the increased value of silver of $1.11 (average) as compared with $1 in 1918, the value of the silver produced in 1919 was $6,249,000 as compared with $7,063,554 in 1918, and with the lower average prices for lead, copper and zinc there were respectively decreases of $2,651,000, $915,000 and $4,398,000. There will be no free admissions to the National Western Stock and Horse Shows which open at Denver on January 17th. Even stockmen exhibitors and their employés will have to pay. However a liberal rate is made of $2.50 for a season ticket good at all times. This year the stock show cut loose from the stock yard management, rents its buildings and is standing on its own base. It must be made to pay. Heretofore there has been a liberal distribution of "paper" but that is all cut off this year. Secretary Johnson announces that there will be no profiteering regarding anything at the show. The general admission is 50 cents, the same as always. The largest increase ever made in a single year is seen in the receipts from the national forests for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, which were greater by $783,484 than in the previous twelve months. The receipts totaled $4,368,414, says Chief Forester H. S. Graves in his annual report just made public. To this total the grazing business contributed more than $2,600,000 and the receipts from timber were somewhat more than $1,500,000. Drainage projects to reclaim about 18,000 acres of rich land in the San Luis valley, adjacent to Alamosa, are either now under way or have been arranged for and will be completed probably by the end of this year. One of the most important of these, the La Jara district, which will reclaim about 6,000 acres, is now under construction by William O'Gara, Denver contractor. Mr. O'Gara has undertaken to have the system completed by Dec. 1, 1920. The Guadaloupe mine, near Ouray, has cut a large vein of ore and since July it has shipped $15,000 worth of ore. For several years this property has been worked by leasers, who drove a tunnel 100 feet in their effort to find ore. Last summer they threw up the lease and the Guadaloupe company resumed work. It had continued the tunnel fifteen feet when this large body of ore was struck. Reports of county assessor show 226,185 acres of oats in the state in 1919, which, with 10 per cent added for incompleteness, gives a total of 249,000 acres, compared with a corrected figure of 251,000 acres in 1918. The average yield per acre, as determined from reports of threshermen and from other sources, was 26.2 bushels, compared with a corrected figure of 30 bushels for last year. A twelve-mile stretch of road from the southern border of Colorado to Santa Fe will be graded and put in shape for tourist travel early this spring, it was decided at a meeting at Antonito of the Antonito Commercial Club. Representatives of the Alamosa and Monte Vista commercial clubs attended the meeting and pledged their support to the movement. It is estimated that 1,500 birds and head of pet stock will be on exhibition at the chicken show this year that is held in connection with the National Western Stock Show. It is the eleventh annual poultry show, and W. C. Schuman again is in charge. The judges will be George M Wells of Wisconsin and E. M. Brauch of Missouri. C. S. Gibson of Detroit, Mich., will judge the pet stock. Entries close on Jan. 13 and there have been notifications from all Western states from Missouri to California. All leading breeds are represented, the Mediterranean division of Leghorns taking about 50 per cent. Colorado's national forests are sixteen in number, with a total area of more than 13,260,000 acres. They cover for the most part the high mountainous country of the Rockies. Within these forests are some forty of the peaks of the state which exceed 14,000 feet in elevation and more than 350 peaks over 10,000 feet. It is these mountainous ranges of the national forests that have earned for Colorado its title, "The Switzerland of America." Illustrated lectures on various phases of forestry and national forest work may now be borrowed by Colorado and Wyoming schools equipped with stereoptican lantern outfits, from the forest service at Denver, Colorado. These lectures are especially adapted for use in manual training, junior high and high schools in connection with regular school courses. The big Jenkins & Akers garage at Bayfield was destroyed by fire, with a loss on building and stored cars of $32,000. The building had just been completed and occupied. WESTERN BEEF CO. Fresh Oysters, Chitterlings, Pigs Bones, Spare Ribs Fresh and Cured Meats of All K Fancy Our Prices Are Free Delivery to A Phone C 2048 LARIMER STREET Opposite th Bolden Bath Baths, Mass FIRST-CLA Wings, Pig Talls, Snouts, Ears, Pigs Feet, Neck Spare Ribs Received Fresh Daily. Uses of All Kinds.. Fresh Vegetables, Staple and Fancy Groceries. Is Are Always the Lowest Delivery to All Parts of the City. Phone Champa 1641. 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. Opposite the Three Rules. In Barber Shop Hairs, Electric Massages FIRST-CLASS SERVICE You Want Mails, Snouts, Neckbones or Chiterlings, or of the hog except the squeal, go to T'S MARKET et Phone Main 1481 AMPA PHARMACY ENTIETH AND CHAMPA, is the place to get your MEDICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES WE SERVE DRINKS. IMPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY. will deliver the goods to all parts of the city. JAMES E. THRALL, Propr. PHONE MAIN 2425. FAMOUS JAZZ ORCHESTRA AND ENTERTAINERS MORRISON, MANAGER finished for all Occasions es. 2947 Stout St. DENVER, COLO. AS DRUG COMPANY TREATMENT—RIGHT PRICES Readers in Prescription High's Black and White Toilet Articles EET MAIN 875 R HAIR GROWER When Y The Heads, Feet, Tails, Snout any other part of the ho EAST'S The Heads, Feet, Tails, Snouts, Neckbones or Chiterlings, or any other part of the hog except the squeal, go to THE CHAMPION TWENTIETH Is the place DRUGS, CHEMICALS A WE SERVE PRESCRIPTIONS Phone us and we will deliver to JAMES E. T. PHONE MORRISON'S FAMOUS AND ENTRE GEO. MORRIS Music Furnished Phone Main 2707. Res. 2947 S THE ATLAS DE COURTEOUS TREATM Leaders in Full Line of Plough's Black 2701 WELTON STREET THE CHAMPA PHARMACY TWENTIETH AND CHAMPA, Is the place to get your DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES WE SERVE DRINKS. PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY. Phone us and we will deliver the goods to all parts of the city. JAMES E. THRALL, Propr. PHONE MAIN 2425. GEO. MORRISON, MANAGER Music Furnished for all Occasions Phone Main 2707. Res. 2947 Stout St. DENVER, COLO. THE ATLAS DRUG COMPANY COURTEOUS TREATMENT—RIGHT PRICES Leaders in Prescription Full Line of Plough's Black and White Toilet Articles 2701 WELTON STREET MAIN 875 THE STAR HAIR GROWER THE STAR HAIR GROWER A Wonderful Hair Dressing and Grower A Wonderful Hair Dressing and Grower. One Thousand Agents Wanted. Good Money Made. We want Agents in every city and village to sell THE STAR HAIR GROWER. This is a wonderful preparation. Can be used with or without straightening irons. Sells for 25 cents per box—One 25-cent box will prove its value. A lly person that will use a 25-cent box will be convinced. No matter what has failed to grow your hair, just give THE STAR HAIR GROWER a trial and be convinced. Send 25 cents for a full size box. If you wish to be an agent, send $1 and we will send you a full supply that you can begin work at once; also agent's terms. Send all money by Money Order to THE STAR HAIR GROWER, Mfr. GREENSBORO, N. C. BOX 812 We Are Always Ready to serve you with good printing. No matter what the nature of the job may be we are ready to do it at a price that will be Satisfactory --- Open Daily to 830 p. m. Sundays Until 2:00 p. m. R. B. BOLDEN, Proprietor 2300-6 Larimer Street A ```markdown ``` One of the Most Up-to-Date and Sanitary Markets in the City. DENVER, COLO. 926 19th St., Denver Some Time You will be in need of printing of some kind. Whether it be letterheads, statements wedding invitations or public sale bills, remember we can turn out the work at the lowest cost consistent with good work. NATIONAL WESTERN STOCK SHOW January 18 to 24,1920 Greatest Show Ever Held in the West Show Every Night at 8 o'clock Tues Thursday, Friday and Sa at 2 O'Clock Reserved Seats 50c, 75c and $ Don't Miss It ORK 4561 INDUSTRIALREALTY RENTALS, INVESTMENTS AND EMPLOYMENTS Avenue DENVER, EMPA 2077 DAY Gammel Undertaking HOME FUNERAL PARLORS 2418 WELTON STREET Oo: Service, Efficiency and Modern Condition. For our patrons as we would for ourselves. GAMEL President and Manager. We can save you time, worry and money. Part licensed embalmers, lady attendant and funeral THERE IS STRENGTH. Incorporated for the State of Colorado; are preparing to establish in connection with their present business. Various branch offices which they are establishing where the population will warrant. The yes. For full particulars, call or write— GAMEL President. 2418 Welton Street, Horse Show Every Night at 8 o'Clock Matinees Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 2 O'Clock Reserved Seats 50c, 75c and $1.00 Don't Miss It! Our motto: Service, Efficiency and Modern Conditions throughout. We care for our patrons as we would for ourselves. E. V. CAMMEL, President and Manager. Consult us; we can save you time and money. The company licensed embalmers, lady attendant and funeral director. IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH. Incorporated for $15,000, under the laws of the State of Colorado; are preparing to establish a manufacturing plant in connection with the present demand; supply the various brand names which they are establishing in each Warehouse; and the population will warrant. They have some stock on sale yet. For full particulars, call or write—E. V. CAMMEL, President. 2418 Welton Street, Denver, Colo. 1910 For quick and first-class Auto Service call up T. G. Granberry, whose stand is now at the Golden-West Café, 2741 Welton street, Phone Champa 5960 and Champa 5431. His rates are reasonable and the best of service will be given. Open and closed cars on the stand at all hours. and first-class Auto Service call up T. G. G. the Golden-West Café, 2741 Welton street. pa 5431. His rates are reasonable and the Open and closed cars on the stand at all ho RONIC GROVCHE VERE GO LONG DAR- MULE! SEE DEM HEY! DIS YERE AINT NO PLACE T' STOP JUPITER! IT'S GWINE T' RAIN! GO LONG DAR- MULE! SEE DEM SPRINKLES BEGINNIN'? YO' ALL WANTA GIT WET? DOGGED EF YO' AINT DE STOPPINEST MULE AH EVAH SEE! YO' OL FOOL YO! COME LONG! KX!-KX!-KX! GO LONG! YO' OL' DEBBIL! ELSE AH MIGHT LOOSEN MAH TEMPAH AN' SMITE YO' IN DE FACE! KX-KX-KX-! BERRY WELL, SUN! AH KIN DE EZ STUBBUN EZ YO' AN AH DON' MOVE FRUM DIS YERE SPOT TILL YO' DO! HEE-HAW! HAW-HAW! U. S. Feature Service Inc. K. T. C. HANDRIK 43-49 Chas, Trotter Telephone York 4561 INDUST SALES, RENTAL 716 East 26 Avenue PHONE CHAMPA 20772 The Camp Our motto: Service We care for our P E. V. CAMMEL, P. Consult us; we can Two expert license. IN UNION THERE the laws of the State facturing plant in co supply the various bri city in the State when stock on sale you For E. V. CAMMEL, Presid For quick and first and is now at the Gold 1660 and Champa 5431. will be given. Open an: at 8 o'Clock and Saturday and $1.00 s It! ALTYCO. AND EMPLOYMENT DENVER, COLORADO DAY OR NIGHT Staking Co. MARKERS UP In Conditions throughout, yourselves. and money. ident and funeral director. organized for $15,000, under going to establish a manu- ent business, in order to ensure establishing in each arrant. They have some Boston Street, Denver, Colo. up T. G. Granberry, wh alton street, Phone Chan ble and the best of serv ed at all hours. CHES by DAR- E DEM Admission 50 Cents R. L. Norman Notice is also hereby given that in the matter of said estate Anna M. Ma. Martinez, a former judge, said deceased, has filed in said Court her duly verified petition, asking for a judicial ascertainment and determinate and setting forth that the names, postoffice addresses and relationship of all other persons who are or claim to be said estate are known to the petitioner, are as follows, to-w: Anna M. Mason, 1815 Clarkson, Denver, Colo. Accordingly, notice is also hereby given that upon said 12th day of January, the hearings may be continued, the Court will proceed to receive and hear proofs concerning the heirs of such deceased, and will, upon the proofs submitted, determine who are the heirs of such deceased person and the descent of the lands, tenements and hereditaments of such deceased, at which hearing all persons may be heirs at law of such deceased may appear and present their proofs. ANNA M. MASON. Administratrix. BIG SALE In the women's department. Suits, Coats, Dresses, Furs and Millinery—a general clean-up—neither cost nor profit given any further consideration in our efforts to empty the shelves, cases and counters of the remaining fall and winter stocks. 15TH AND LARIMER STS A HISTORY of the American Negro in the World War A HISTORY of the American Negro in the World War By EMMETT J. SCOTT. That this book should commend itself to every member of his race that has pride in the achievements of the men who went forward to die for their country's cause, as well as the women who contributed largely to victory, goes without saying, and, having the exclusive agency in Denver for this valuable work, we desire to inform the public that we have a supply on hand at our office, 1824 Curtis street, Room 25, in the morocco binding, at the very moderate cost of $3.75 each, or cloth binding at $2.90. Already many orders have been filled, and persons who are anxious to get hold of this authentic war history by Emmett J. Scott, special assistant to Secretary of War Baker, can avail themselves now of this opportunity, which will not last long, as there's a great demand. The matter, the pictorial effects and the Great Peace Treaty forming the appendix, make this historical compilation of the service of our race in the late world struggle the best that can be published, and Denver's homes cannot help from having this added attraction in the literary uplift of the present and future generations. STEEL STRIKE ORDERED OFF NATIONAL COMMITTEE VOTES TO END STRIKE IN STEEL MILLS. WORKERS BACK TO MILLS AFTER ALL-DAY SESSION DECISION IS REACHED BY COMMITTEE. Western Newspaper Union News Service. Pittsburg, Jan. 9.—The strike in the steel mills and furnaces, called Sept. 22, and which at its inception involved 367,000 men, has been officially called off here by the national committee, after an all-day meeting. Announcement that the national committee had decided to proceed no further was contained in a telegram sent to the headquarters of the American Federation of Labor in Washington, to the heads of all international unions interested, and to the organizers and field men in all strike districts. "The steel corporation," the telegram said, "with the active assistance of the press, the courts, the federal troops, state police and many public officials, have denied steel workers their rights of free speech, free assembly and the right to organize, and by this arbitrary and ruthless misuse of power have brought about a condition which has compelled the national committee for organizing iron and steel workers to vote today that the active strike phase of the steel campaign is now at an end. A vigorous campaign of education and reorganization will be immediately begun and will not cease until industrial justice in the steel industry has been achieved. All steel workers now are at liberty to return to work, pending preparation for the next big organization movement." The telegram was signed by John Fitzpatrick, chairman; D. J. Davis, vice president of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers; Edward J. Evans, International Union of Electrical Workers; William Hannon, International Union of Machinists, and William Z. Foster, secretary of the committee. The offices of the committee here will be maintained for about a month, while the business of the strike is being wound up, and the commissary department will continue to look after needy former strikers and their families until the men have obtained employment. When this work is done, Mr. Foster said, offices for the organization of the steel trades will be opened here. Plans for this work, Mr. Foster added, have already been formed and include meetings in steel towns, publication of a bulletin with a circulation of 150,000 weekly, and personal canvass among the men. Mr. Foster later announced his resignation as secretary-treasurer of the strike committee, and said he would be succeeded by J. G. Brown of Everett, Wash., former-president of the Timber Workers' International Union, and one of his chief assistants during the steel strike. Brown is to assume office Feb. 1. Spokane, Wash.—William H. (Lon Star) Dietz, former coach of the Washington State College football team, and of the Mare Island marines team pleaded guilty in United States District Court to a charge of falsifying his draft questionnaire. Dietz was sentenced to serve thirty days in the county jail. Holland May Not Give Up Kaiser. Washington.—The Netherlands government will firmly, but in a dignified and courteous manner, refuse to comply with the demand of the allies for the surrender of William Hohenzollern, former German emperor, according to intimations obtained from the best informed diplomatic quarters here. The content of the Dutch reply will be largely determined by the character of the allied communication, but Holland's laws, it was declared, will absolutely determine the issue, and these make no provisions for the extradition of Count William. Railway Loss $60,000,000. Washington.—Railroads during November, 1919, were operated at a loss of approximately $80,000,000 to the government, according to statistics given out by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The net profits for the month were $20,242,530, against $90,152,379 for November, 1918. The decrease is attributed to the cost strike which necessitated a curtailment in railroad service. Volcanic Eruption Follows Quake. Mexico City.—A violent volcanic eruption has been caused by the recent earthquake near Cordoba, where the de San Miguel, a small and apparently extinct volcano, has been burst in twain. The new crater is throwing off smoke, ashes and flame, while lava is flooding the nearby territory in stream more than 200 yards wide, resulting in not less than 200 deaths. D patches from Vera Cruz say ever nearby eminence in this district has been leveled. STYLE HEADQUARTERS Where Society Brand Clothes are sold ©A.D&C Society Brand Clothes than you can dress otherwise at the same cost. It is the brand that gives you most good looks, and longest good looks, for your iron men. We have styles and colorings that begin at A-old and go to Z-old. And the price you choose to pay will get you the fullest 100-cents-on-the-dollar value in all clothesdom. Fecundity of Fish. The most prolific fish is the cod, the yield of which averages about 45,000,000 eggs each season. Many other kinds of fish are exceedingly prolific. More than 36,000 eggs have been counted in a herring, 38,000 in a smelt, 1,000,000 in a sole, 1,120,000 in a gonch, 3,000,000 in a sturgeon, 546,000 in a mackerel, and 1,357,000 in a flounder. Denver, Colo. Who Leads the Crickets? An individual cricket chirps with no great regularity when it is by itself, and its chirping is intermittent, especially in the daytime. At night, however, when great numbers of crickets are chirping, the regularity is astonishing; one bears all the crickets in a field chirping synchronously, keeping time as if led by the wand of a conductor. AH THE COLORADO\ #7 Zk STATESMAN | BBs) BA) 56 ea el Gear ee bears aged Texel <9) 4 gS piers Tae La Deg Afi = a oo B A Tine Atak oN AGA ies yrau2 p ot a RR) AE AN bi w= PORES it a ew (Sit, D0. DC RIVWNS, co oc sicec es Loe einen egal oss se sun deoremetetan FO. Mex 16 Phowe Malm 7417 1824 Curtin Ntreet, Reem 35. Fe SE Ss SRE rer Dens eee eee eee ee SUBSCRIPTION RATES, peat de ie A RE A ee Six Months ODER ras eee Sorte 200 ee Three. Month Bie Corecess cere ae MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE. wh i Sei eee ee Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in the City of Denver, Colo. Batered as hencnit-clage myatter” AU spenpaetnetioe: 19the Ib Ob Denyse Reading notices, ten lines oF less, 15 centa per line, Each additional tine over ten lines, 10 cents per line. Display advertiaing 16 cents per Inch for firat Jusertion and'80 cent per inch for each additional insertion. Cee a ee PE see eee aaa Seen et Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money racr, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the ame as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only lc and 2c stamps taken. No discounts allowed on lesa than three months’ contract, Cash must accom- pany all orders from partion unknown to us, Further particulars on application. pasty all orders trom uartieeiun kee mau umes mnninen,Dertioulers. of SBP} eSSCh: Communications to receive attention must be newsy, upon Important sub- Jects, plainly written only upon one aide of the paper, must reach Us Tuesdays, tepossibie, anyway not Inter than Wednesdays, and bear the signature of the tuthor. No manuscript. returned, unlona stamps are sent for postage. All MeN nicatlone NE a peronating’ nature that are not complimentary will be withheld from the columns of this paper. peel PR Co IR Sh el cod TS eS “T have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the senti- ments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.’—Abraham Lincoln: HOW TO BE MADE PROFITABLE. E CAN profit by the present labor disturbances in our social, religious, W finanelll and political avenues. Socially—by having a better knowledge of the race at home and abroad; by entertaining the highest respect for one another, the utter denouncement of crime, cultivating a taste of admira- tion for deserving members who are still the champions and believers of race progressiveness which must be universally recognized, Religiously—by put ting a stop to our denominational wranglings, respecting one another fyr being possessed of religion starting from the same source and aiming at the same goal, and leaving the Crest of the universe to decide as to our fit- ness or unfitness to shure his promised rewards, Financially—by combin- ing our interests, however small, and entering the hall of business with our united front, passing through the aisles of competition, acquire that business experience that will make us be favorably considered by the monetary agents that actually appear to dominate our very existence owing to the compulsory methods that they prescribe for us. Politically—by taking an active part In the politics of the country of which we are citizens, realizing that the time has come when we must help ourselves in unmistakably declaring our rights ‘and privileges as Americans, pure and simple, with no other qualification than that provided by the constitution of the United States of America, ‘That among our race must be raised up political students who, unlike the corrupt and selfish politician, will be proud of being members of this democracy, by not ylelding to influences that will remove the very foundation stones of the nation, undaunted by evil dissuasion, will spend the last dollar. empty: the brain cells, drain the blood vessels in the hall of justice to Justify our cause and win for us that respect and attention which only the FRANCHISE can command. THE OLD AND THE NEW. Ss MANY things of vital interest have transpired in the past year affect- ing directly und indirectly the people throughout the world that histor- re Nill place 1910 In a category all Dy itself. ‘The greatest boon to mankind it brought was the close of the titanie war, which stopped the whole- sale murder of millions of human beings, the wreeking of whole countries. It brought us a plan, and a willingness by the big powers to adopt it, to bring bout universal peace forever. While all the covenants of the League of Nations have not been agreed to, the differences in opinion are being rapidly adjusted and the start has been made at least. ‘As to our own group, despite the fact that lynching mobs have been more active and dastardly than in previous years; “Jim Crow” lnws still in force ‘on southern railroads, with the government in charge; race clashes have o¢- curred in several northern cities; movements put on foot to segregate us in residential sections; that we are denied the ballot and adequate sehool facili- ties in sections of the country, and that our dark skins give—so the white American thinks—him license to insult our women and browbeat our men, we have forged steadily ahead. Much is said of the “new Negro;” we haven't such a critter, just the ‘same old tinted Individual roused into self consciousness, awakened to his own possibilities, with stiffened backbone, with new ambitions, new desires, new hopes for the future, An Individual that dus proven that somewhere on this earth men and women are judged by their worth and not by their com- plexion. Our soldier boys found these places; it aroused them from thelr lethargy, and they returned home with a spirit so contagious the other ninety and nine got it. ‘The yesterdays with us are passed; we are looking forward to the tomorrows. More avenues of employment have been opened to us in the past two years than in the preceding fifty years, We have convinced the North that We are an asset, not a Hability, as the South tried to make them believe. We demonstrated onr 100 per cent Americanism on the battlefields. We have never given our government cause to believe we were antagonistic. ‘The labor unions have Invited us into their camp, We have prospered financially, and now we are entering the new year with the full determination of secur- ing by lnwful means every right and privilege the constitution of these United States guarantees other citizens, ‘The thinking white people, for divers rea- sons, are wont to style us “the new Negro.” ‘Phe word “new” implies that there has been no past, but we have had a past and they have figured largely in it. We may be able to forgive, but not forget. And so “new” is a mis- homer; the better word is “awakened.” Nineteen hundred and nineteen has wiven us much for which we are thankful; we are expecting more of 1920.— Chicago Defender. Y Pe enenenenenenpcenenenecenenenenenentntntntngntntntntntuttntetntntntntntntntnttntntenenetetetn ted ‘The regular monthly meeting of the Denver Colored Civic Association will be held Tuesday eve at 8:15 p. m, Jan, 18, 1920, at Odd Fellows hall, 1832 ‘Arapahoe street. We insist that you be present at this meeting, as the final arrangements for the big Lincoln-Donglas celebration and banquet to be held Feb, 12, 1920, will be reported by the chairman of the committee for final action by the association, If you have been named as a chairman of any committee, please notify the secretary of your acceptance or refusal to act. We are being delayed by not hearing from you promptly, Bring along any worthy friend or citizen. . Respectfully, THOS, CAMPBELL, Pres. W. R. CHAPMAN, Secy. Favors a National Budget System; All Sense of Values Has Departed. By CARTER GLASS, Former Secretary of the Treasury. { Sy (7 a wg See 1 am heartily in favor of a budget system. With- out effective control over governmental expenditures and limitation of them to the government's income we shall bring down upon our heads the splendid structure which our fathers have built and which we have pre- served. The very success (which you will pardon me if 1 call brilliant) with which the treasury has financed the stupendous requirements imposed upon America by the great war may become a menace. All sense of values seems to have departed from among us. The depart- ments, bureaus and boards, all inspired by a Jaudable enthusiasm for their work, but some by a less laudable instinct to magnify its importance and incidentally their own, bombard the committees of congress with projects, some more or less meritorious, some of no merit whatever, but all con- ceived in sublime indifference to the fact that the great business of gov- ernment is being run at a loss and that each one of these projects increases the deficit of the government, and consequently the burden to be thrown upon the great body of people, whether the deficit be met by increasing taxes or by floating additional loans. ‘The congress votes with a lavish hand stupendous sums conceived in a magnificent spirit of generosity with a view to the enhancement of the prestige of the nation, or for the benefit of this or that element in the community. his it does upon the advice of the committee of congress charged with the business of caring for such special interests. Then, ‘speaking through the great committee on appropriations, it pursues @ ‘policy of restriction with relation to the expenditures of some of the de- ‘partments of the government which makes it impossible for those depart- ments to conduct the vast affairs imposed upon them with efficiency and ae Lesson of Air Race: “Flying Pastor Fore- runner of Flying Disaster.” By BRIG. GEN. WILLIAM MITCHELL, Army Air Service The recent transcontinental air derby plainly demonstrates that the isolation of the United States with respect to Asia and Europe is com- pletely broken down. The airline distance covered is 5,402 miles, in less than 50 hours of actual flying time. It is as far as from Constantinople to New York; from Berlin to Denver; from Tokyo to San Francisco, and twice the dis- tance from Europe to America. From a military aspect there is no longer any doubt that a complete control of the air by any nation means military control of the world. From the standpoint of distances, Asia is only divided from America by 21 miles of water across the Bering strait, while the greatest distance that has to be covered over water between the American continent and Europe is scarcely over 300 miles, if the route through Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the islands north of Great Britain, to Great Britain, itself, is fol- lowed. The rapidity with which the airdromes were established in this test shows that they can be established with equal rapidity for long stretches by any other nation. A rigid dirigible airship can carry ten tons of cargo, besides its crew, fuel for a long trip, and armament for its defense—ten tons of material will keep a thousand airplanes working for one day. If an Asiatic or European country desires to attack America, a system of airdromes could be established, successively, a defense organized against land or sea elements, and the airplanes concentrated on them successfully, while their supply'could be insured by the great rigid dirigibles working with their own countries. ‘This is not only possible, but almost a sure accompaniment of the ‘next war and will be resorted to by the nation gaining control of the air. ‘This manner of procedure will practically negative navies, so far as their ability to deal the first blow is concerned. / All the great nations of the world are now applying themselves strenu- oudly to the development of an air service. America, which has the best natural advantages in the world, is probably the last of the great nations at the present time in hier actual development of air power—military or commercial, Forecast of Supremacy of Chicago as Financial Metropolis of Nation By J. C. WOODHULL, Formerly of War Trade Board Chicago has tributary to it the domain of an empire. The area drained by the Mississippi river and its tributaries, with its navigable lakes and rivers, unlimited water power, fertile soil, inexhaustible mineral de- posits and forest growth, coupled with the enterprise and energy of its people, has developed this region into the largest productive area of raw materials in the world. ‘A summary shows that more than half of the population of the United States lives in this great valley. It contains 70 per cent of the farm acreage of the nation, 75 per cent of its manufacturing industries, and the combined railroad systems in mileage and value represent 70 per cent of all its similar property. It produces 75 per cent of the wheat, 80 per cent of the hogs, 75 per cent of the cattle, 50 per cent of the sheep, 50 per cent of the wool, 70 per cent of the cotton, 70 per cent of the oil, 90 per cent of the iron ore, 60 per cent of the lumber, and 60 per cent of the bituminous coal. - ‘The commanding position of Chicago, the financial center of this aggregation of potential wealth and boundless possibilities, determines its destiny as the future headquarters of the export business of the United States, Asa result of the war a famine of raw materials and manufac- tured products prevails the world over, and the supply available for export in any considerable quantity is to be found only in the main pro- ducing territory of the United States, the basin of the Mississippi valley. ‘Phere exists no other equal area whose production exceeds this, and with such a constant inflow of wealth, can there be any question as to the supresuacy of Chicago as the future financial metropolis of the United States? | ———$ THE COLORADO STATESMAN The Mouth-Piece of the People of Colorado and the Entire West A RELIABLE chronicle of their doings and progress; a faithful mirror of their wants, their hopes, their best aspirations. : THE — i : ~ COLORADO | | : ‘ : - STATESMAN | ee ee | ‘ 7 : Unequaled as an advertising | medium for the business | of professional men and ; women. | ‘ : —- 2 : An excellent family journal speaking to and for many | thousand colored citizens. ce ae Ss Rl Sera Ie TEE Cs aN | TWO DOLLARSA YEAR : =o : ‘ THE GREAT ORGAN | + OF THE —— | : LABORING MASSES | Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jackson of Trinidad, are visitors in the city. Mrs. J. W. Phillips of 235 West Asbusy avenue, has been confined to her bed for several days with tonsilitis and la-grippe. W. H. Rodgers, formerly of Denver, left Thursday night for his home in Los Angeles, California. WILLIAM WARREN, well known resident of Denver, who has spent many years in this city and state, still holding his own and gaining plaudits of his employers at the University Club, Seventeenth avenue and Sherman street, where he occupies a position of head waiter. Wm. War has quite an experience in the "wing" line, which is recognized as a profession, as managers and stewards. Everybody is going to the big Farm Dance at Fern Hall Monday, January 12, given by the Smart Set Boys. Three handsome prizes. Mrs. D. B. Holly, Mrs. E. A. Danforth, Miss Odessah McCullough left for Dearfield, Colorado, Sunday, after having spent a pleasant two weeks in this city. Mrs. George F. Parsons of 2643 Marion street, had as her guests Christmas week, her sister, Mrs. William Bass and daughter Dorothy, and Agnes of Colorado Springs. Mrs. J. W. Clark assisted by Misses Odessa and Oressa McCullough, entertained at an informal party last Friday evening, given in honor of her nephew, Mr. Leon M. Cottee of Benso, Indiana. Mrs. J. P. McCullough and daughter, Misses Odessa and Oressa McCullough, were hostesses at a dinner party last Saturday evening given in honor of Mrs. D. B. Holly who was visiting from Dearfield, Colorado. Mr. Henry Brady, well known in Republican politics for many years, was appointed baliff in the West Side Criminal Court by the District Judges on Tuesday, to succeed Mr. George Kelley, who has held the position for many years. Frank W. Howbert, prominent mining man and former internal revenue collector here, was appointed jury commissioner Tuesday, January 6th. He succeeds Patrick Riordan, who held the position for about six years. The district and county judges made the selection. Howard Denton is improving gradually from his accident of a few weeks ago in which he suffered a broken ankle. His many friends are glad to see him advanced to crutches and hope he will soon be completely restored to his former health. We observe that our genial friend Attorney E. P. Blakemore and wife, accompanied by Mrs. S. E. Cory and Mrs. J. R. Contee, has toured several time to Aurora, visiting the service boys who are there and tendering them refreshments in the hopes of cheering them on the way to recovery. Mrs. Robert Mitchell, one of our leading and popular dressmakers, of 2744 Marion street, is numbered among the sick ones, having been confined to bed with a cold and rheumatism since last week. She is under the skillful treatment of her physician who hopes to restore her to health within a short time. We wish her a speedy recovery. The white Flemish Giant Buck, "Teddy Roosevelt," owned by Georges Parsons of 2643 Marion street, won first prize in the junior class at the Federation of National Flemish Giant Breeders, which met in Colorado Springs December 8 to 13, and will be entered in the Western Stock Show which convenes in Denver January 18 to 24. Miss Frances Russ and Mrs. George Parker, entertained several of their friends last Friday night at the beautiful home of Mrs. Parker's mother in Barnum, at a progressive Whist party. The first prize was won by Mrs. Ledger Jones and the booby prize by Mr. Ridgeway. The house was beautifully decorated with Christmas decorations. Miss Russ and Mrs. Parker proved themselves ideal hostesses. One of the most enjoyable events of the holidays was the celebration of the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. C. Thomas at their beautiful home, 2337 Glenarm Place. The house was decorated with huge bouquets of white and red carnations, where many friends wish them many more years of happiness. The presents were numerous and costly, among them a beautiful set of silver knives, forks and spoons from Mrs. Thomas' brother. WILLIAM WARREN, well known resident of Denver, who has spent many years in this city and state, is still holding his own and gaining the plaudits of his employers at the University Club, Seventeenth avenue and Sherman street, where he occupies the position of head waiter. Wm. Warren has quite an experience in the "waiting" line, which is recognized as a real profession, as managers and stewards of hotels and clubs have verified the fact that "waiting" must be studied as any other art or science if satisfaction is to be guaranteed the public. With competent assistants as he now has, Mr. Warren is able to cater to the most critical guest and with Clay LeNoir chief houseman and head of the bellmen, quite a commendation is given our men for their services as they pay strict attention to duty. Tom Williams, head waiter of he exclusive Denyer Club, was well remembered along with his staff from their faithful services during the year 1919, with substanial awards. Mr. Williams, who has served this club faithfully for several years, and who has had the pleasure of giving his services to Chief Executives of States, as well as Federal Officials, Army and Naval Officers, always tries to make it possible for the employment of many of our people, and with his valuable assistants, William Spriggs and Robert Lewis, he still maintains a reputation of giving the best services under all conditions and whenever called upon. The management continues its praise of Mr. Williams and his staff for their valued services. American Legion Members and all ex-service men—ATTENTION! Tuesday, January 13, Gen. Pershing will arrive in Denver at 2:30 p. m. You are urgently requested to be at the Union Station at 2 o'clock to welcome him to the city and take you places in line of march. Wallace Simpson Post Members are requested to turn out to a man because we have second place in line, directly behind the general, and having such a prominent place it is hoped that the post will make a good showing. All employers will let you off from work if you se request it, for arrangements have been made with them by the committee selected out of the central committee to arrange and have full charge of welcoming the general to the city. He has requested that a special meeting be held for ex-service men only, to hear a message he has for them. This meeting will be held immediately after the parade at the Auditorium. Frederick W. Perkins, Commander, and a member of the committee in charge of welcoming Gen. Pershing. REV. D. E. OVER GOES TO COURT. The Zion Baptist Church troubles were taken into court and on Wednesday afternoon late, Rev. Over and his supporters, John Little, C. M. Hughes, U. H. Baker and Walter Pritchett secured a temporary restraining order prohibiting Luther Walton, Fred Perkins, A. A. Waller, Calvin Clark, A. W. Robinson, T. C. McKenzie, Jesse Brown and Harry Johnson from holding a meeting at the church which was scheduled for Wednesday evening. A final hearing in the matter will come up in the District Court Monday, January 12th. DOUGLAS UNDERTAKING CO. FUNERAL NOTICE. James Gregory, 34 years old, husband of Mrs. Julia Gregory, brother of Mrs. Robert Carruth, M. G. Thompson and J. B. Robinson, departed this life January 7th, at the residence, 2344 Court Place. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p. m. from Douglas Chapel, under the auspices of Damon Lodge No. 5, K. of P. Interment in Fairmont cemetery. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. The Cammel Undertaking Company. ROSE—Baby Rose, the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. L. Rose of 2552 Clarkson street, departed this life December 27. Interment, Riverside, December 29. ALLEN—Bary Allen, the infant son of Rev. and Mrs. Allen, departed this life December 27. Interment, Riverside, December 29. REMARKS—Cecil Remarks, the five months' old son of Mr. and Mrs. Remarks, departed this life at the home of the parents, 1418 Twenty-seventh street, December 28. Funeral services wehe held at the residence Tuesday, December 30. Interment, Riverside. REPUBLICAN HEADS RESOLVE ON HARMONY Last Thursday marked another great event in Republican politics when Chairman Will H. Hays of the National Committee arrived in Denver, accompanied by a number of representative members of the Republican ranks from different states. A program consisting of addresses in which an appeal for hormany among Republicans was made by Mr. Hays, was carried out successfully at a meeting at the Brown Palace hotel, and the enthusiasm displayed by Dr. Hubert N. Work, chairman of the central committee and all present, seemed to have added new life and vigor to Republicans of the state and nation. It was unanimously decided to hold the state convention at Pueblo on the afternoon of May 6th, at 2 o'clock when four delegates at large will be elected for the national convention in Chicago on June 8th, and a national committeeman selected to succeed Dr. Work, Chairman Hays in a wonderful magnetic action drew his hearers to him in his stirring address for the rescue of the nation, which can only be accomplished by the Republican party, and following this up with his impressiveness of unity among all factions for the success of the party that awaits it in the national election of 1920. Several hints of prospective candidates for president also governor of Colorado were made, but nothing definite was decided on. This event should lend an inspiration to all Republicans to show their unity of action now that it is absolutely necessary to restore the country to its normal condition. SHORTER CHAPEL NOTES 11:00 a. m.—"The How of Answered Prayer." 7:30 p. m.—Sacred Cantata, "Saviour and King." The Watch meeting service was well attended. After the class meeting Rev. Thomas spoke briefly from the parable of "The Fruitless Fig Tree." Five united with the church namely Mrs. Mildred Steele, Mrs. Grace Helm, Mrs. Roby, Mrs. Freeman, Houston, Texas; Mr. Julius Miller, Mobile, Alabama. With the passing of the old year the old account of $1,000.00 was canceled. The Christian Endeavors are jubilant over the enjoyable time had in keeping open house on New Year's day. The services on the first Sabbath of the New Year were well attended, the celebration of the Lord's supper was observed at both the morning and evening hours. Mr. Alley Webb of Fort Smith, Ark., was unrolled as a member. Mr. Fred Neil of Kansas City, was a welcome visitor. The past week was observed as a week of prayer and much good has resulted from the earnest endeavors of the pastor and members. The public will be given another opportunity to hear the choir render the sacred cantata, "Saviour and King" at the evening hour. Y. M. C. A. NOTES Eleven weeks ago the Y. M. C. A. went out for five hundred men and boys to strengthen its membership and give the board of directors of the Denver Y. M. C. A., William E. Sweet president, an argument for strong and effective when they go before the public for $75,000 to insure the Rosenwald $25,000 and thus bring about the erection of the $100,000 building for the colored men and boys of Denver. Tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon, in a monster meeting to be held at Shorter Church, the committee of management will inform the public to what degree they have succeeded in the effort to secure the 500 members. For at that time the great drive will be brought to a close officially, and will pass into glorious history. The number of members secured, therefore, will not be given in these notes, but the entire number will be given at the great-meeting tomorrow afternoon. The program will be short and snappy, and will be open to the entire public. It is hoped that every man and woman in Denver will be there, and every boy and girl. Next week the entire list of members who have come into the association during the big drive will be published in the Denver Star and the Colorado Statesman, so that the entire world may see and know their names. This report must go to the press not later than Wednesday morning, the 14th inst. Every one is therefore urged to get his membership in before that time. Every one wants to see the name of his friend in the list, every wife the name of her husband, every sister the name of her big brother or little brother, every father and mother the name of their son. Let every one theoreget busy and see to it that they are brought in tomorrow afternoon. The meeting will begin promptly at 4 o'clock. SCOTT'S OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO IN THE WORLD WAR. THE COLORADO STATESMAN, EXCLUSIVE AGENTS, Room 25, 1824 Curtis St., Denver, Colo. P. O. Box 116. January Sales at the Denver Now in Progress Second The Annual J LINENS, MUSLINS, S First The Annual J FALL AND WINTER SHOES First beginning Mon The Denver's Gro MUSLIN UND Second beginning Mon The Denver's Gro WHITE GOODS, LACE First price saving in all of these J shoppers plan to DENVER Five Po The Annual January Clearance of FALL AND WINTER SHOES for all members of the family. First Floor Beginning Monday, January 12 The Denver's Great January Sale of MUSLIN UNDERGARMENTS Second Floor Beginning Monday, January 19 The price saving in all of these January Sales is so important that shrewd shoppers plan to secure the benefit. THE DENVER DRY GOODS CO. The Five Points Meat Co. PHONE CHAMPA 6486 A Full Line of Prices You Loin Steaks, per pound. Round Steaks, per pound. Shoulder Steak, per pound. Rib and Plate Boiling Be Pot Roasts, per pound. Pork Roast, per pound. Pork Chops. Fresh Ham, half or whole Lamb Chops, per pound. Lamb Shoulders, per pound. Lamb Legs, per pound. Mutton Chops, per pound. Mutton Shoulders, per Pure Lard, per pound. No. 10 Pail Pure Lard. No. 5 Pail Pure Lard. Compound, per pound. See Our Line of The Fi Line of Fresh Meats Prices You Cannot Be per pound.....25¢ ch, per pound.....25¢ ak, per pound.....17½¢ Boiling Beef, per pound.12½¢ per pound.....15¢ to 17½¢ per pound.....22½¢ to 27½¢ 2 pounds for 75¢ half or whole, per pound.....28¢ per pound.....25¢ pers, per pound.....15¢ per pound.....20¢ s, per pound.....15¢ folders, per pound.....12½¢ per pound.....35¢ Pure Lard.....$3.15 Pure Lard.....$1.65 per pound.....30¢ Line of Fresh Fish Are Five Pounds B. L. LIEV 2650 WELT BLUE LINE Champa 762 or Res. Cham A Full Line of Fresh Meats of the Very Best Quality at Prices You Cannot Beat in the City of Denver The Five Points Meat Co. B. L. LIEVSAY, PROP. 2650 WELTON STREET. BLUE Phone Champa 76 Phone Champa 762 or Res. 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DENVER DRY GOO ve Points M The Annual January Sale of LINENS, MUSLINS, SHEETS AND BEDDING The Denver's Great January Sale of WHITE GOODS, LACES AND EMBROIDERIES First Floor 2650 WELTON STREET Fresh Meats of the Very You Cannot Beat in the City 25¢ 17½¢ 15¢ to 17½¢ 22½¢ to 27½¢ 2 pounds for 75¢ e, per pound...28¢ 25¢ 15¢ 20¢ 15¢ 12½¢ 35¢ $3.15 $1.65 30¢ High Grade Sugar Cane Boiled Ham, Sliced, Salt Side, per pound Baby Veal Steak, per Hamburger Steak, per Mixed Sausage, per Pork Sausage, Link, Wieners, per pound Bologna, per pound Veal Loaf, per pound Head Cheese, per pound Beef Livers, per pound Calf's Liver, per pound Hog Liver, per pound Tongues, per pound Brains, Two Sets... Spare Ribs, (limited) of Fresh Fish—Fresh Daily Are Right Five Points M B. L. LIEVSAY, PROP. 2650 WELTON STREET. LINE 2 or Res. 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Office, Rooms 39 and 40 Arapahoe Bldg., 1622 Arapa- hoe Street. Phone Champa 5450. First M. E. Church. Baltimore has the distinction of be- ing the home of the first American Methodist church. Guarantees Positions to Graduates NEWS and GOSSIP of WASHINGTON U. S. Damages More Than Offset German Claims WASHINGTON.—America's claims against Germany growing out of the sinking of the Lusitania and other vessels by submarines, and on account of other war damages, will more than offset the amount which will be due more than once the officials asserted there was little likelihood that the United States would be called upon to make any payment to the commission. Three vessels were war vessels—German commerce raiders—which took refuge in American ports before the United States entered the war and were interned, and their value will not be included with that of the vessels which were purely peaceful merchant craft. Gridiron Club Unscrambles Scrambled Railroads Gridiron Club Unscrambles Scrambled Railroads AT THE Gridiron club dinner the other night the railroad skit dealt with "unscrambling the railroads." The actors represented former Director General McAdoo, Director General Hines and an investor in the railroads. McAdoo—Now we have the roads scrambled. This completes my part of the trick. I shall now pass the buck—I mean the hat—to my friend, Mr. Hines, who will, in his magic way, with a few passes produce the beautiful rabbit known as Government Operation and Control, and return the hat undamaged to my friend, Mr. Investor. (Investor groans.) Hines (looks at the hat and glares at McAdoo)—I am deeply indebted to Mr. McAdoo for his trust and confidence. I wish he had finished the trick. He hates the limelight and likes to retire while the retiring is good. But to the trick, gentlemen. Let me first cover the hat for aesthetic and olfactory reasons. It is a little messy. (Covers hat with handkerchief, seizes wand.) I now make these mysterious passes—so—saying the catabolic words—hocus—pocus—1920—brotherhoods—as taught me by Mr. McAdoo. Then I quickly raise the cloth and here we have (starts back, looking nervous.) Ah, I see, Mr. McAdoo forgot something. Let me add the Plumb plan. (Drops three plums and breaks another egg. Investor groans and tears his hair.) Hines—Now we have it. Hocus—pocus—1920—presto. (Takes up handkerchief, looks—starts back, rushes to McAdoo, saying: "My God, Mac, I can't do the trick.") McAdoo and Hines—Take it up to congress. They'll fix it for you. (Both sink arms and go off.) Imagine Congress With No Congressional Record Imagine Congress With No Congressional Record CONOCLASTIC Senator Thomas of Colorado! Incredible as it may seem he actually talked the other day of the possibility of stopping the publication of the Congressional Record. Senator Jones, being prodded by New Mexican paper wherever they can at almost any price that is asked for it, in order to secure enough paper to publish the Congressional Record daily. Then the vice president said: "The vice president will be very glad to ask the senate, if the senator desires him to do so, whether the publication of the Congressional Record shall not be suspended during the famine in print paper." Then Senator Thomas capped the climax by saying: "Mr. President, I was going to suggest that the senator from Utah does not go far enough. I think it would be a very good idea to quit printing the Record altogether. My impression is that that would be one way in which we could curtail the output of senatorial oratory; in fact, I do not know of any other way in which it can be done." Congress without the Congressional Record! The congressman without a chance to revise and extend and print and circulate his little speech for home consumption! Perish the thought! Chicago Waterway Projects Not Entirely Satisfactory THE rest of the country may love Chicago to distraction, but apparently it does not care much for its commercial waterway projects. Objection to the issuing of a permit to the state of Illinois for the construction of what is American and by Canadian cities. The protest also declared that treaty relations with Great Britain are at issue and "it is questionable if we are not bound to submit these matters to the international joint commission created under the treaty between Great Britain and the United States concerning boundary waters, proclaimed May 13, 1910." Chicago and its commercial projects came in for harsh criticism during a discussion of the proposed improvement of the St. Lawrence river for ocean traffic before the national rivers and harbors congress. Development of the St. Lawrence project as urged by the western speakers would make Chicago an ocean port, opening the way for the loading of seepa sea vessels at Chicago and their passage through the lakes and out into the Atlantic through the Welland canal and the St. Lawrence river. from the United States on account of the 100 German steamers seized in American ports when the United States entered the war, shipping board officials declared. Under the peace treaty, the value of the vessels, estimated by board officials at from $130,000,000 to $140,000,-900, will be credited to Germany on internities awarded by the allied reparations commission, but as the American claims before the commission will more than offset the value of the ships, officials asserted there was little likelihood called upon to make any payment to the c Three vessels were war vessels—Germa refuge in American ports before the United Interned, and their value will not be include were purely peaceful merchant craft. Gridiron Club Unscrambles AT THE Gridiron club dinner the other r "unscrambling the railroads." The ac General McAdoo, Director General Hines a TAKE IT UP TO CONGRESS WHAT A MESS! W. L. an awful mess, accompanied by a more than McAdoo—Now we have the roads scram the trick. I shall now pass the buck—I r hines, who will, in his magic way, with a rabbit known as Government Operation and damaged to my friend, Mr. Investor. (Inve Hines (looks at the hat and glares at Mr. McAdoo for his trust and confidence. He hates the limelight and likes to retire v the trick, gentlemen. Let me first cover the reasons. It is a little messy. (Covers hatt I now make these mysterious passes—so—pocus—1920-brotherhoods—as taught me raise the cloth and here we have—(starts b Mr. McAdoo forgot something. Let me add plums and breaks another egg. Investor gr Hines—Now we have it. Hocus—pocus kerchief, looks—starts back, rushes to McAdo the trick.") McAdoo—That's your affair—not mine. Investor. Mr. hat, my hat! Investor—My hat—my hat! McAdoo and Hines—Take it up to cong link arms and go off.) Imagine Congress With No CONOCLASTIC Senator Thomas of Colors actually talked the other day of the pos of the Congressional Record. Senator Jone newspapers short of print paper, in- troduced a bill providing for an in- crease of postal rates by five times the present rate on daily papers exceeding 24 pages in size. Senator Smoot of Utah then said he thought the time had arrived to stop publishing in the Congressional Record articles, telegrams and ad- addresses sent to senators. Every page of the Record costs the government nearly $60. It had men now scouring the country daily in order to pick up paper wherever they can at almost any pr secure enough paper to publish the Cong Then the vice president said: "The vice the senate, if the senator desires him to do Congressional Record shall not be suspended Then Senator Thomas capped the clim was going to suggest that the senator from think it would be a very good idea to quit p impression is that that would be one way in of senatorial oratory; in fact, I do not know be done." Congress without the Congressional Re chance to revise and extend and print and consumption! Perish the thought! Chicago Waterway Projects M THE rest of the country may love Chicago does not care much for its commercial the issuing of a permit to the state of Illinois WHY SHOULD WE LET THIS CHILD GROW UP—? OCEAN TRADE American and by Canadian cities. The relations with Great Britain are at issue and bound to submit these matters to the inter under the treaty between Great Britain a boundary waters, proclaimed May 13, 1910. Chicago and its commercial projects can discussion of the proposed improvement of traffic before the national rivers and harbor Development of the St. Lawrence projects would make Chicago an ocean port, of deep-sea vessels at Chicago and their pass the Atlantic through the Welland canal and THERE'LL BE SOME- THING TO PAY ALSO. shood that the United States would be the commission. German commerce raiders—which took united States entered the war and were included with that of the vessels which les Scrambled Railroads other night the railroad skit dealt with the actors represented former Director lines and an investor in the railroads. McAdoo—The late Mr. Morgan said that you cannot unscramble scrambled eggs. He was wrong. By the exercise of a little magic, to which we modestly lay claim, we shall illustrate how the railroads of the United States may be scrambled and then unscrambled again. Can anyone lend me a silk hat? I shall return it promptly and entirely undamaged. (Mr. Investor steps forward with silk hat. Exceedingly realistic business by McAdoo of filling the hat with more than vigorous stirring process.) scrambled. This completes my part of —I mean the hat—to my friend, Mr. with a few passes produce the beautiful on and Control, and return the hat un-(Investor groans.) is at McAdoo)—I am deeply indebted to once. I wish he had finished the trick, entire while the retiring is good. But to over the hat for anesthetic and olfactory hat with handkerchief, seizes wand.)—saying the catallistic words—hocus at me by Mr. McAdoo. Then I quicklyarts back, looking nervous.) Ah, I see, me add the Plumb plan. (Drops three for groans and tears his hair.) pocus—1920—presto. (Takes up hand-McAdoo, saying: "My God, Mac, I can't online. congress. They'll fix it for you. (Both No Congressional Record Colorado! Incredible as it may seem he the possibility of stopping the publication Jones, being prodded by New Mexican -!-!- AN' NOW I ASK LEAVE TO PRINT IN TH' RECORD WHAT I HAVEN'T TIME 7 SAY— my price that is asked for it, in order to Congressional Record daily. The vice president will be very glad to ask to do so, whether the publication of the extended during the famine in print paper." He climax by saying: "Mr. President, I from Utah does not go far enough. I quit printing the Record altogether. My way in which we could curtail the output know of any other way in which it can real Record! The congressman without a and circulate his little speech for home It s Not Entirely Satisfactory Chicago to distraction, but apparently it special waterway projects. Objection to Illinois for the construction of what is known as the "Illinois waterway" to connect the great lakes with the Mississippi river has been filed with Secretary Baker and the chief of the army engineers by Edward T. Cahill. He acts for Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York, charging that Chicago now takes water through the drainage canal to such an extent that Lakes Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario have been lowered so much that extra harbor facilities had to be built by other The protest also declared that treaty clause and "it is questionable if we are not an international joint commission created atain and the United States concerning 1910." Its came in for harsh criticism during a cut of the St. Lawrence river for ocean carbars congress. A project as urged by the western speak-ort, opening the way for the loading of passage through the lakes and out into inal and the St. Lawrence river. THE STATUE SPEAKS: I, a statue of Justice, sit with me From my palace I look over Belgium But my heart is bitter, my heart Weary with shame and woe. Here in the chamber of Justice, Came Filth and ribald Destructive They wrote on my walls of pure On my robe—yes—on my face Insults too evil for utterance That eternity cannot erase. And my handmaidens fair, who surrendered the same disgrace. They pillaged my treasures of beast They left not one thing undefiled. Then in the Palace of Justice they smiled. I sit with their insults upon me and I rule o'er the land of destruction has run. I, a statue of Justice disfigures a monument to the Hun. (Copyright, 1926, West) BELGIUM SKETCHES TREASURE From my palace I look over Belgium, loosed from the grip of the foe. But my heart is bitter, my shoulders bent, Weary with shame and woe. Here in the chamber of Justice, sacred to rule of right. Then in the Palace of Justice they gazed on their work and they smiled. I sit with their insults upon me and shrink from the light of the sun; I rule o'er the land of destruction where the blood of my children Copyright, 1920, Western Newspaper Union* By Katharine Eggleston Roberts. (Copyright, 1920, Western Newspaper Union) He was a very little Belgian whose round blue eyes stared from a face too thin and white. There among the ruins he was digging. He paused and regarded me curiously as I stepped over the crumbling remainder of what once had been the wall of the house. "For what are you searching?" I asked. "Treasures. You find them lots of times—all sorts of things. It's fun to dig." He smiled genially and picked up his converted pick, a sharpened piece of iron with a cross-bar near the top. "I found this over there where there used to be a cemetery. He began to dig again in his "sand pile." "Where is your home?" I wondered aloud. He waved a free hand at the walls. "Here. If you want to see my grandmother she's over there," and he pointed more definitely toward the back of the house. Apparently our interview was closed. I went through a little passage, cleared among the fallen masonry, past a space where moss grew over the debris of a parlor. To my knock at the half-open door a tired voice answered: "Come in." It was the voice of an old woman who sat knitting in a low straight chair. She carefully pushed the yarn to the back of her needles, adjusted her worm, black shawl and, with the painful stiffness of age, came to meet me. "Coffee?" she asked and motioned me to a round red-and-white-clothed table near the window. As she moved about preparing the coffee there was something dimly familiar about her. "A long time ago I knew some people here in this town." I remarked: "What has become of Madame Dupon?" The woman came over quickly and peered into my face. "You—oh, let me think—so much of the past is blotted out. You are—" and then Madame Dupon remembered me. I sipped my coffee and watched her old fingers make the needles fly. "Yes, we were here during the war." She glanced out of the window at the little boy. "Jacques and I went through it together. This is what is left." Her nod indicated the loose brick walls and the scanty collection of furniture—some old chairs, an oak cupboard, the table, and, in the further corner, a narrow bed. "My daughter had a fine home here but it's all gone. Everything is gone now—but Jacques." She sighed. "It is all so terrible—everywhere about here. When did the Germans reach this town?" I didn't know how to express the sympathy I felt. Words seemed so useless. "They came the twentieth of October. When we heard they were coming we shut ourselves in our homes. My daughter and her husband and Jacques and I were hiding there in the cellar when the Germans set fire to our house. We ran upstairs and I hurried to take Jacques outdoors, but Pierre and Elise did not follow." As she stopped talking and looked back over the five hard years, the lines deepened and drew about her mouth. She caught her breath. "No they didn't follow," she repeated sadly. "Suddenly I saw them on the balcony outside their room on the second floor. They had gone to try to save some things and the fire had trapped them. "There they stood, and through the door behind them flared the leaping flames. The timbers cracked and snapped in the house and the walls began to sway. Jacques clung to me and cried for his mother. Poor little fellow, he didn't even know why he was so frightened. Thank God he was too young to know what was happening. Pierre called that they were going to jump—it was the only chance. He lifted Elise to lower her over the rolling my head bowed low. um, loosed from the grip of the foe. shoulders bent, merced to rule of right, son, the bastard children of Might. marble, ce and by my chair. uty, they gazed on their work and they and shrink from the light of the sun; in where the blood of my children red, Eastern Newspaper Union and I—I couldn't see it so I closed my eyes and prayed. I waited until I could bear it no longer and then I looked back. Pierre stood on the balcony with Elise in his arms. She had fainted. . . . . ." "Yes? I prompted gently for Madame Dupon was silent. "I don't know how long it lasted. It seemed an eternity. The flames were eating at the walls behind them and now and then a tongue licked at them through the doorway. Pierre could not jump with Elise in his arms; he could not leave her there to die alone; he was distraught. He gazed down at little Jacques and I thought he was coming. But to tear himself from his wife—to give her to the fire—no it was impossible! He clasped her close to him and buried his face in her hair. That was all that I saw." The expression was gone from her voice when she continued the story in a droning monotone. "I don't remember much after that. I know that all of us who had lived there walked and Photo by Western Newspaper Union The Old "Coffee" Woman. walked. Some dropped on the road, and when the Germans couldn't make them get up, they kicked them aside and we went on. I had to carry Jacques and he grew very heavy. Finally, when I could go no further, I lay down at the side of the way and cuddled Jacques under me so that they wouldn't see him and take him from me." "Oh, look! Look!" Jacques came running into the room just as she finished speaking. His yellow curls were tousled, his blue eyes shining with excitement, "See what I've found—look!" He shouted and held a dirty hand out toward his grandmother. "It was muddy but I rubbed it and it shines!" The old woman turned the dull gold ring over and over. "Don't you like it?" Jacques' lips quivered with disappointment. "Like it, like it? Yes boy, yes—Oh yes. Where did you find it?" "Out there with some little white stone-things in the ground. Isn't it nice?" "There's another one there like it. Your father wore one too. See if you can find it, won't you, Jacques?" the old woman begged the child, "another just like it." "Another!" he cried, turning to me and the laughter danced in his face. "I told you I'd find my treasure!" he boasted and skipped out into the sunlight. The eyes of the old woman clung to her daughter's ring, but they were dry, tragically dry, for she had not more tears. "Yes," she murmured, "yes Jacques has found his treasure." --- A. HASER, Prop. 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The suit at the right has a few buttons and a little braid, but these are used with consummate taste. The braid appears in a lattice-work ap- WHITE GO The heads of well regulated households take inventory of the wardrobes of their families in January, with a view to replenishing undermuslins. This is the time also to go over the household linen chest and maintain its standard of sheets, pillow cases, towels, etc. Early in January the white goods sales are featured in dry goods stores along with showings and sales of undermuslins. Styles change less in undermuslings than in other apparel, although there are usually new and interesting developments on trial in the January sales. The limit of sheerness has been reached and there is a reaction away from it and away from silks. They have become too popular and too showy to suit the fastidious. A return to fine cottons and handwork is a step in advance, which evidences the cultivation of good taste in people who have money to spend and are learning how to spend it. Batiste in good qualities is the favored fabric for underthings. Although it is fine and dalty it stands up well under the strain of wear and rubbing. Like other clothes the most economical practice is to have a supply large enough so that the same gar --- plique on the front and back of the coat, which is a vague-fitting belted model, conservative and graceful. Buttons are set along the top of the pockets and on the narrow belt at the back. It is a suit for any cline or any season. The suit at the left differs only by having more buttons set in two long rows at the back, with bands of braid joining them. They form a narrow panel that is turned under, in most unexpected fashion, at the bottom. It is little, unusual touches of this kind that give clothes distinction. Designers who determined to use braid evidently made up their minds to think up new ways of applying it. These are only two of several briditrimmed models that have compelled admiration for their originality and ingenuity. OODS SALE ments do not have to be laundered very often. New chemise and nightdresses, blouses, petticoats and corset covers made of it do not differ much from those of last year. A pretty nightdress, shown in the picture is a good model to copy, and other garments can be made with the same design in decoration. Very narrow crossbar tucking, fine val lace edging, set together with beautiful, painstaking exactness, account for its trimming. A novel management of the tucks reveals them in groups instead of single tucks in the cross bars. The lace is set in in scallops and a little fine embroidery finds place on the scallops. Morning jackets, negligees and breakfast caps come in for consideration at this season, also the holidays brought out the usual number of pretty caps of silk or ribbon and lace or net. A few of them are made with wire support like the glorified Dutch bonnet shown in the picture which requires lace, silk and a little ruching, together with the ingenuity of a good copyist to make it. Julia Bottomly HELPS TO LOWER COST OF FOODS OPERATION OF TRIAL MOTOR TRUCK ROUTES BY GOVERN- MENT IS SUCCESSFUL. REPORT ON THE EXPERIMENT Post Office Authorities in Charge Believe the Service of Especial Benefit in Bringing About the Reduction of Prices. By JAMES P. HORNADAY. Washington.—The government's experiments in the operation of motor-vehicle truck routes, which have been carried on for the last eighteen months, have convinced the postoffice authorities in charge of the experiments that this new branch of the postal service is here to stay. It will be for congress to say whether the service shall be extended during the next fiscal year. The postmaster general has recommended that congress make provision for the establishment of a large number of new routes. In authorizing experimental routes congress directed the post office department to take careful note of the operations of all routes established so that it might be prepared to advise the legislative body as to whether the service was worth while. It gave the postmaster general authority to spend $300,000 within the year. The department's report dealing with the experiments covers the three months from July 1 to September 30 this year. During those three months the department operated motor-vehicle trucks that covered a total of 63,740 miles and carried a total of 707,756 pounds, equivalent to 353 tons of mail matter or approximately 117 tons per month, more than one and a half tons per day per route; and the trucks designated for country motor express routes covered a total distance of 248,883 miles and carried a total of 180,219 pounds, equivalent to 90 tons of mail matter, or one and one-fourth tons per day per route. Summary of the Findings. The department in its report advises congress that under the operation of the two classes of routes the advantage of the service is not confined altogether to the postal revenues, but is of especial benefit to the postal patrons, in that foodstuffs transported over the routes are delivered to the postal patrons at a cost considerably below the prevailing minimum market prices. Summarized, the verdict of the post office department with respect to the new service is as follows: First—That the increased use of the postal facilities, already provided, as well as the further extension of this character of service is desirable, particularly in reaching territory within 200 miles of large markets, where inadequate or no facilities of conveyance by rail or water exist, if there is to be an actual relief afforded the public from the prevailing high cost of living, or still higher prices even than those which now are considered exorbitant prevented. Second—That It is fundamental that without food we cannot live, and that high-priced food results in high prices for labor engaged in the production of food itself and commodities and merchandise essential to the production of food. Third—That the cycle of high prices is complete and follows natural economic law. Fourth—That when the farmer-producer pays high prices for labor, for fertilizer, and for farm machinery, the cost of foodstuffs increases in proportion and the workman in the factory, the steel mill, and the railroad, or in a mercantile establishment, when compelled to pay higher prices for food, naturally is entitled to increased compensation to meet the same. This, in turn, increases the cost of the articles necessary to production on the farm and thus the cost of living mounts higher and higher. Conserves Labor and Man Power. Fifth—That through the maximum use of the facilities of conveyance provided by the postal service, the food producer would not have to suspend production to engage in conveyance, and thus labor or man power would be conserved for food production. Where numerous employees of food producers are now engaged in the transportation and distribution of foodstuffs in small quantities, one employee of the postal service with adequate equipment could provide the conveyance now supplied by them, and thus labor or man power could be conserved for food production. Sixth—That inasmuch as the present organization of the postal service has been extended to the door of practically all food producers, and is available as an instrumentality of distribution to the door of all consumers, it is evident that the conveyance of food in the postal service could be made a vital factor in the introduction of efficiency in the movement of food from producer to consumer, and, to that end, the department recommends that this service be given every possible moral and financial encouragement and that every endeavor be made to increase the use of and enlarge the equipment now available in the postal service for transportation and distribution of foodstuffs. Red Cross Work Abroad. While the work of the American Red Cross from this time on will be chiefly done in the United States, that organization is not yet ready to abandon the foreign field. Its foreign plans have just been made public. The scheme of organization is briefly this: A central office in Paris to determine and direct the general policy for the whole territory—Serbia alone excepted—to approve the budgers, assign the personnel and distribute the supplies. Then the organization is to have its commissioners and their staffs in European countries where there is permanent work yet to be done. In countries like Poland, threatened with famine and pestilence, this work, which the organization hoped to give up as early as last July, is growing rapidly. In Czechoslovakia the work of the organization is practically completed, as it is in Italy, with the exception of the home service for the families of the Italian-born soldiers, of whom there are more than 30,000. The organization has withdrawn from England and from Switzerland. It still has temporary missions scattered about, such as that for the American troops in Archangel and the one to care for Russian prisoners in Germany, and more recently, at the request of the supreme economic council sitting in Paris, it took a trainload of supplies into Vienna and Budapest. Still Busy in Europe. So long as the Paris office is maintained the organization will send preliminary inquiries here and there. One such inquiry into southern Russia, made not long ago, was followed by three shipments of supplies and another representative of the organization has just returned from the Ukraine. The American Red Cross is not operating directly in Armenia. This means that it does not have any personal representatives there, but it is doing its share in relieving the conditions in that section. The American Red Cross is taking a leading share in building up the organization of the International League of Red Cross Societies, which it believes will carry into all the world the Red Cross spirit and the knack of getting things done, despite all difficulties. The organization is still in close touch with an American relief organization (Mr. Hoover's organization) and with all peoples and governments everywhere. It still has in the foreign service, including Siberia, over 1,200 American men and women, and its budget for this year comes to about eighteen millions. It was brought out at the annual meeting of the organization here the other day that with all activity the organization is really only touching the surface of the needs throughout the world. Little Hope for "Wets." The public man who believes that the United States will ever take a backward step with respect to prohibition of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages is hard to find. The decision of the Supreme court the other day, upholding the wartime prohibition legislation, has done much to confirm the prevailing view that prohibition is here to stay. Men who know the history of their country point with some pride to the fact that the people of the United States have never taken a backward step on any moral question. The so-called liquor question is generally regarded as a moral question and for this reason, if for no other, many public men say, the people may be counted on to hold all the ground that has been gained. The failure of the senate to ratify the treaty of peace with Germany and the decision of the Supreme court on wartime prohibition have made it extremely doubtful whether the wartime ban will be lifted even for a limited period of time. The amendment to the federal constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicants, also the legislation recently enacted by congress for the enforcement of the constitutional amendment will become effective January 17. Even if the treaty of peace with Germany should be ratified the first week in January, which is extremely improbable, there would still be a question as to whether the president would have authority to declare wartime prohibition null and void, for the United States would still be at war with Austria and Bulgaria, technically speaking. So it seems reasonably certain that there is to be no gap between wartime prohibition and prohibition through constitutional amendment. Position of the President. It is evident that up until the day the constitutional amendment shafi become effective the president of the United States will be importuned to lift the ban. His desk for weeks has been piled high with petitions, asking him to give the interests that hold large stocks of liquors enough time to dispose of their holdings. But the president's attitude all along has been that he could not come to the relief of the men and concerns that were petitioning him so long as the peace treaty remained unratified by the scate. The fight against prohibition will go on. The wet interests are attacking the legality of the constitutional amendment in the courts and within the next few months they will get a decision from the Supreme court. It would be unwise, as well as foolish, to attempt to predict what the Supreme court will say with respect to the constitutional amendment, but since it upheld the legality of wartime prohibition the supporters of the constitutional amendment have no doubt, so they say, that the court will hold that the amendment was properly adopted. The United States consumes nearly as much habit-forming drugs as China. 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