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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 THE OLD YEAR PASSETH OUT AND THE NEW YEAR IS USHERED IN VOL. XXVII. IT IS an old, familiar saying, "Time and tide wait for no man." The year 1920, which has come to a close, and the year 1921, which rushes in upon us, is a true exemplification of that century-old saw. Perhaps the world is filled with many men rushing, straining and almost exhausting themselves to complete a certain task, a piece of work, or a contract before the old year passes out. There are many men who, no doubt, would give many thousands of dollars if they could only take hold of Father Time and bid him wait on them just a little while longer. But it cannot be; he is no respecter of persons, and he will not linger on the wayside for the pleasure or convenience of any man. So it is with the coming of the New Year. Thousands of men and women are not yet prepared to welcome the New Year. They would give one-half of all their possessions if the coming of the New Year could just be postponed for a little while. But to no avail, for we have just written that "Time and tide wait for no man." Therefore, we must accept the inevitable certainty of Time, and, whether or not we are prepared for either the passing of the Old Year or the coming of the New, render an accounting unto Him. To each of us He gave certain talents, and now we are called upon to explain to what use we have put those talents during the past year. Some have invested their talents wisely and have prospered; others have been unwise and slothful and have not used the talents given them, and consequently they have failed. But, whether we have succeeded or failed in the last year, we cannot go back and begin over again. That opportunity is gone and passed on. How often have we heard some men remark: "If I could only go back just ten years and start all over again I could or would do so much better than I have." Too late—those golden days have fled from us, never to return again. It is not for us to attempt here in this brief, hasty moment to recount the deeds of individuals, but rather to take into account a few important facts that have taken place in the last year. Among the many things that have attracted the attention of the people during the past year, the outstanding and most interesting event was the last national election. That was to be expected, of course, as 1920 was looked upon mainly as the presidential year, and everything was secondary to the national election. It was the most complete victory the Republicans had ever witnessed, and the most overwhelming and crushing defeat the Democrats have ever endured. It seemed that the country had become nauseated with Wilson and Gompers and were glad of the opportunity to throw them overboard. Such a crushing defeat should ever serve as a reminder to all parties that they should, in the future, not let any one man run away with the party. It was a good thing for the country to vote a change at this most critical and constructive period of the nation. The results of the election are already bearing fruit. We see prices have begun to tumble in many ways and business generally becoming more confident and stable. The great graft exposure of the ship- state Hst. & Nat Hist. Soc State House FOR THE ONLY RELIABLE COLORA ASSETH OUT AND IS USHERED IN building board is being presented to the people and many indictments and prosecutions are promised against some of the "higher-ups." It is unfortunate to think that any nation or country would, in time of war, be infested with a gang of petty profiteers and greedy grafters. A few convictions and penitentiary sentences for those "higher-ups" would be a very healthy outcome for their baseness. Altogether it seems to have been a great year of crime and grafting, and no one seemed to care. But it seems that at last the people are waking up and rising up in arms against these petty pilferers and demanding that they be punished. Even in the great national game of baseball the most shocking exposure of graft came to light and caused many lovers of the great sport to become disheartened. Surely the year of 1920 will long be remembered by many crooks as the year of their downfall. In the midst of all this exposure of crime the Peace Council met in Brussels to solve the differences among the nations as to the Versailles Treaty and pave the way to a better understanding between all the nations of the earth. The great railroads have been returned to the owners and taken from government control. The Congress now in session has just repealed the war-time powers of the President and is hard at work upon some kind of just and equitable relief for the farmers of the country, who are in distress and have no outlet for their crops. Our country has been fortunate with all of its fills in comparison to England and the European nations. England has had and is still occupied with the Sinn Fein insurrection in Ireland and many lives have been taken and much property damaged and destroyed. In Greece, Premier Venizelos was overthrown and King Constantino restored to the throne. What the final outcome will be we do not attempt to foretell. Italy has had her share of trouble in the Flume situation. In Russia the Bolsheviki still holds sway and seems to be too strong to be dislodged from power. Returning to our own shores and touching upon matters racial, we note with much satisfaction the effective fight being made by the N. A. A. C. Pa against lynching and the oppression of Negrees generally in the United States. Mr. Garvey of New York seems to hold the center of the stage at present with his great scheme: scheme: "Negro Universal Improvement Association." We welcome the NEW YEAR—1921—full of cheer and hope that PEACE, PROGRESS and PLENTY will reign throughout each day. WOODLAND, CALIFORNIA. Tuesday night, December 21st, Mrs. J. T. Muse put on a program known as the "Glimpse of the Nation," for the benefit of the Sunday school. In spite of the heavy rain during the day and evening, a neat little sum was realized from a free-will offering by the audience and refreshments that were served by the young people of the Sunday school. Miss Florence Machen was the chairman of the refreshment committee. Mrs. Muse has been asked to duplicate the program in the near future. The Sunday school Christmas exercises Christmas eve were just fine. It is said it was the best that the school has had for several years. Superintendent J. C. Corbett was much elated over it. Mrs. Muse and Mrs. Earl had trained the youngsters for this occasion. The superintendent had a beautiful Christmas tree arranged and set up for his school, in which the children received many presents therefrom. Rev. and Mrs. J. T. Muse were made happy at this tree when a purse was presented to them by Mrs. Earl from the Missionary Society and friends, containing $54.50, and $5 by Mr. Ed. Gaither from the Young People's Progressive Club—a total of $59.50. The Reverend and Mrs. Muse were full of smiles as they expressed their high appreciation for this great token of love and respect that the missionary society, friends and the Y. P. P. C. had for them. This club also sent in by its treasurer, Mr. Ed. Gaither, $5 as a Christmas present to the Second Baptist church. The missionary society of Woodland carried out the resolution of their district president, Mrs. J. T. Muse, by sending out Christmas baskets to the old people of the city. Little Hellen Earl, the 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Earl, accompanied by Mr. David Miller, delivered the baskets. Mrs. Darindo Mansfield, president of the local missionary society of the Baptist church, departed December 24th for Fresno, Calif., where she will attend the wedding of her son, Mr. C. C. Mansfield, to Miss Della Shavers. Rev. J. T. Muse, the moderator of the Sacramento Valley District Convention, was in Marysville and Oroville last week on official business. PROTECTION FOR ALL WOMEN Editor, La Follette's Magazine. Sir: THE undersigned wish to express their admiration of the able and timely editorial entitled "People Demand a Free Press," while at the same time expressing our disgust for the reproduced article "To the White Women of the World." Both articles appearing in the November issue of "La Follette's Magazine." We have for many years been admirers of Wisconsin's fearless senator, and have always regarded him as one of the most consistent and progressive senators of past and present generations. However, we must confess our surprise at finding such a loathsome article as "To the White Women of the World" in the columns of "La Follette's." Such a malicious article as the one complained of should have no place in a publication which lays claim to the progressiveness and liberality of your magazine. Granting the article states the literal fact, it by no means depicts the fundamental truth of the situation. The author of "To the White Women of the World" may not know, but Senator La Follette must know that the black conscripts of France are not responsible for their being on German soil. Why not, then, place the blame where it rightfully belongs; namely, at the door of greedy French diplomacy in particular and the grasping diplomacy of the Allies in general. It is quite probable that all liberal minded persons condemn the occupation of German territory by foreign soldiers, be they black or white. But harping on the cord of color prejudice is not a wise means of arousing international public sentiment to demand the withdrawal of such troops. It is also safe to say, that people who think with unbiased minds place as much confidence in the reports alleging unusually bad conduct of the Colonial French soldiers toward German women, as they placed in reports emanating from Allied sources to the effect that German soldiers were guilty of committing atrocious acts upon Belgian and French womanhood. We note throughout the article the implication that only black soldiers commit "brutal violations of womanly honor." We are not excusing the crimes of the blacks if committed, but we condemn the inconsistency of "liberal" publications in giving such ready publicity to the alleged bad conduct of French African soldiers toward German women, while at the same time maintaining complete silence regarding the reign of terror instituted by American Marines in Haiti. It is reported that many Haitian girls ranging in age from eight to twelve, have died as a result of having been criminally assaulted by white American Marines. It is further alleged that members of the native constabulary are compelled by white officers to procure native women for use of the whites as concubines. Also it is a matter of common knowledge that the German barons so abused the African women that the Socialist and Centre parties combined in the Reichstag in 1912 to put a stop to it. As the author of "To the White Women of the World," and the editor of "La Follette's Magazine" aware of these crimes? In conclusion we make the point that crimes committed by black French troops against white German women are no more reprehensible than crimes committed by German barons and white American Marines against the black women of Africa and Haiti. F. G. EASTMOND, Brooklyn. ERNEST MURRAY, Brooklyn. JOHN F. JARVIS, Brooklyn. W. E. T. S. NURSE, N. Y. City. N.A.A.C.P.FIGHTS KU KLUX KLAN Federal Investigation Demanded, Also Denial of Mailing Privileges. Police and Justice Departments Informed. THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth avenue, New York, today issued a statement announcing the steps which had been taken in the fight against the Ku Klux Klan, James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the Advancement Association, signed the statement, which is as follows: "Colored People throughout the United States, as well as white Americans, are urged to join with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in fighting the ridiculous and sinister mummery which the Ku Klux Klan is trying to make people believe represents Americanism. Colored people have reason to know that the Ku Klux Klan represents terrorism and oppression, that it is organized to maintain so-called 'white supremacy' which means depriving colored people of their constitutional rights by violence. "To date the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has taken the following steps in its war on the Ku Klux Klan: "1. The postmaster general of the United States has been written to asking him to refuse the privileges of the United States mails to the Klan for soliciting members." "2. Information having been obtained that the Klan intended to organize a branch in New York City, letters were written to the United States attorney for the district of New York, also the New York district attorney, the police commissioner and the mayor of New York and the governor of New York state. Assurances have been received that no branch of the organization will be tolerated in New York and in a public statement Assistant District Attorney Alfred J. Talley scored the Klan as 'narrow- CHEYENNE, WYO. NEWS CHEYENNE, WYO. NEWS When a class was initiated into the order of the I. B. P. O. E. W. on December 21, 1920, to be known as Frontier Lodge No. 284, it marked an epoch in the history of secret organizations among the colored men of the state of Wyoming. On that date forty young Elk were herded into the corral after a trip across the sandy desert and branded with the fraternal insignia of benevolence. The local lodge was organized with the assistance of the following officers from Denver: Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler Victor Walker, Edward Page, Richard Frazier and Duke Conway. Promptly at 7 o'clock the solemn ceremony of initiation was begun and closed at 5:30 the following morning. Good fellowship reigned supreme throughout. The roster of the lodge is as follows: Exalted Ruler—J. A. Baker. Esteemed Leading Knight—Harry C. Greene. Esteemed Loyal Knight—Arthur Nave. Esteemed Lecturing Knight—William H. Redd. Secretary—James McMeans. Treasurer—Hugh L. Hopkins. Tiler—Jordan Davis. Chairman Trustees—Eugene Bryant Esquire—James Galbrath. Inner Guard—William Armstead. Chaplain—Philip Baker. Organist—William Smith. Frontier Lodge No. 284 wishes to thank the officers from Denver, who so ably assisted them in their organization. Programs rendered by the Sunday school children on Christmas eve at the A. M. E. and the Baptist churches were a success. The program at Allen Chapel was arranged by the children of that school under the supervision of Dorothy Crumley. Follows the program as rendered; Prayer—By Rev. J. M. Endicott. Song—"Oh, Little Town of Bethle- hem." "3. Officers of the United States department of justice and of the New York police department are co-operating with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to bring the facts about the unpatriotic and un-American Ku Klux Klan into the light of pitiless public. "Colored and white people throughout the United States are urged to obtain all possible information about the vaudeville artists who parade at night draped in bed sheets and pillow cases. This information, if sent to the National office of the Advancement Association, will be duly sent out to the American public so that they may know what kind of 'patriots' meet in secret to devise plans for violating the United States Constitution and the federal criminal code. "The time has gone by when any group of ignorant, bigoted and violent men can wreak their will upon the masses of their fellow citizens without a nation-wide chorus of protest and ridicule greeting their efforts. "JAMES WELDON JOHNSON, "Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People." NO 12 Plano Solo—MarJorie Witte. Recitation—Theodore Brown. Recitation—Junita askins. Recitation—Lloyd Edwards. Recitation—June Gaskins. Recitation—Dorothy Witte. Song—"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear." Recitation—Dorothy Forbush. Selected reading by Hattie Brown. Plano Solo—Jennie Thompson. Recitation—Dimple Crumley. Dialogue—Annie Clinton, Emma Clinton, Harrold Gaskins and James Gaskins. Recitation—Wm. Witte. At the Baptist church recitations were rendered by Robt, Catlett, Cassie Baker, Viola Catlett, Irma Baker, Imogen Stone, Frank Winslow, Arline Knight, Hettie Shelton, Willie Shelton, Irma Dyer, Nora Brown, Hal Clay, Layette Randale, Anna Clay, Lena Veta and Emora Clinton. "Pure White Ribbons" was the opening song. Raymond Davis rendered a violin solo, accompanied by Nora Brown and Irma Dyer. Solo by Imogen Stone and Arline Knight. Dialogue by the McMickens sisters. A bell drill closed the exercises. Miss Santa Claus gave presents at Allen Chapel, and old Santa Claus gave presents at the Baptist church. Mrs. Zared Brown attended the exercises at Churchell school. The first of a series of dances given by Mr. Truman Russ on December 22nd was a success. Mr. E. W. Wright has recovered from recent illness. Mr. Emmett Bennett, who has been ill during the past few weeks, is able to be out for exercise. Harrison Martin departed our city to visit his brother, Thomas, who is seriously ill in Denver. Mrs. Ollie Kelly and Miss Lola Wells departed for a brief trip to Omaha to spend the holidays. Mrs. Lee has recovered from recent illness. Raymond Davis, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Davis, was given first prize for efficiency on violin at Carnegie library, December 23rd. Layette Randle, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Janis Randle, made a "hit" and demonstrated to the audience race talent. Raymond and Layette are the only colored children in Mrs. Linstrum's class. A number of our people attended the musical. Mrs. Chas. Johnson is in Chicago to spend the holidays with relatives. Mr. Ben Davis is slowly improving from recent accident. Jordon Davis entertained his friends on December 24th. The event was in honor of his birthday. Jordon is an excellent host. All who were fortunate to attend appreciated Jordon's hospitality. The Tulsa Jazz Band returned from Salt Lake City. Mr. L. B. Mayo arrived in our city December 25th. Mr. James Randle reported for duty at Union Pacific shops. Mr. Henry McCormack is 18. Christmas anthems at the A. M. E. church on Sunday, December 26th, were sung by Mrs. James Smith and Mrs. J. M. Endicott, and piano accompaniment by Mrs. Ruben J. Smith. Frontier Lodge No. 284, I. B. P. O. E. W., has the best wishes of the Colorado Statesman. The officers of this lodge are a thrifty and enterprising class of men and will endeavor to make No. 284 a credit to the state and fraternity. FOREIGN The effectives of the German army have been reduced to 100,000 in accordance with the Spa agreement with the allies, it was announced in Berlin. The French Socialist party by a large majority, voted in favor of absolute affiliation with the Moscow internationale. Efforts are now proceeding to keep the Socialist party intact but the probability seems to be that the organizations should be split in two. King Constantine has declared to delegations from the provinces that he must go to the Smyrna front. He is receiving telegrams of felicitation from all parts of the country. Constantine slowly and carefully is formulating the speech with which he will open parliament on Jan. 8. A dispatch to the Handelsblad from Dusseldorf says the interallied Rhine commission, alarmed because of the spread of militarism in German schools, has issued an order prohibiting the use of schools for military purposes, on penalty of confiscation of the schools and arrest of those held responsible. Official protest against the exhibition of a moving picture film portraying the execution of Edith Cavell, who was put to death by the Germans in Brussels, Oct. 15, 1915, was made at Havana, Cuba, by Dr. Franz Karl Zittolm ann, German minister to Cuba. As a result of his protest to the State Department the film was withdrawn. The Tientsin government mint has concluded a loan for $1,000,000 with the Sino-French bank, giving that institution the right to purchase all bulion and also to take charge of the output of silver dollars and copper coins, according to reliable reports from that city. The funds supplied through the bank are Japanese. Cancellation of President Iroygen's usual holiday trip gave strength to rumors of an impending general strike at Buenos Aires. Workers generally were said to be planning a walkout to support ferry hands and naphtha workers. The president's trip was postponed "because of the extraordinary situation now prevailing," according to newspapers. Striking miners in the Rhondda coal field district of Scotland have voted to resume work pending negotiations between their employers and the South Wales executive committee. A general strike of the miners in the district was reported Dec. 22, following refusal of one company to reinstate eleven men who had been dismissed on the ground that their work was not remunerative to the firm. GENERAL Four men are seeking to recover in court at Milwaukee $2,725 lost in an African domino game in which it is alleged "loaded" dice were used. Damage estimated at $400,000 was done by a fire that swept the downtown business district of Terre Haute, Ind. The origin of the fire is unknown. Three children and a woman were burned to death and two other children and their father narrowly escaped the same fate near Mount Morris, N. Y., when the home of William Barrett was destroyed. John Doyle, an A. E. F. veteran, was killed in the subway when he leaped in front of an express train at the Seventy-second street station in New York. Doyle served in France with a machine gun battalion and was suffering from shell shock when he returned. Up to two weeks ago he worked in a ship yard, but because of the state of his nerves, due to shell shock, went to a base hospital. Plans have been completed for a new six-story $4,000,000 postoffice building at Chicago to handle parcel post exclusively. Work will start about March 1. The new building, which is to be located in the heart of the railroad terminal district, will have underground loading platforms 800 feet long, capable of accommodating forty-two railway mail cars at a time. With three shifts a day, 126 cars can be handled. Retail-prices of practically all clothing reached their lowest levels since 1914 in Chicago when merchants advertised gigantic clearance sales, throwing millions of dollars' worth of goods on the market this week. Police of New Orleans have launched an anti-hobo campaign, fearing that crime wave activities by the authorities in the North might start a pilgrimage of undesirable winter tourists. The jail is crowded with wayfarers accepting this enforced hospitality. The messroom and several state rooms in the officers' quarters on the presidential yacht Mayflower were burned out while the yacht was tied up at the navy yard at Washington. The loss is estimated at $100,000. A board of inquiry was convened to determine the origin of the fire. The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, announced a deficit for the fiscal year ending Oct. 31, of $15,647,653, not including anticipated losses on contractual obligations for rubber and fabrics which are expected to be approximately $19,000,000, notwithstanding that sales exceeded $200,000,000, the largest in the history of the company. Fire which broke out in the plant of the Wilmington Leather Company, Wilmington, Del., caused damage estimated by James I. Ford, treasurer of the company, at $2,500,000, and upset plans for employing 800 men and women to relieve the unemployment situation in this city. Boston is said to have become the greatest fishing port in the world with the announcement that 122,226,060 pounds of ground fish had been brought there during 1920, shattering all records for the last thirty-two years. NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD. DURING THE PAST WEEK RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY PEOPLE. (Western Newspaper Union News Service.) WESTERN A one-pound baby born Christmas night to Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Pruitt of Abilene, Texas, displays evidence of robust health. The child is kept wrapped in cotton and takes nourishment regularly. Chester H. Rowell of Fresno, Calif., recently appointed by President Wilson to be a member of the United States Shipping Board, announced that he soon would give up his work on that institution to become a member of California's State Railroad Commission. A boy 15 years old was arrested for robbing the law office of Governor-elect Pat M. Neff of Waco, Texas. The thief broke open Mr. Neff's desk and filled his pockets with gold pens and other valuables. The boy had been released on probation two days before Christmas. Dick Russell of Maud, Texas, who was shot by Constable John Ing in an altercation after Russell had invited Ing to take dinner with him, died in a hospital. Ing is held on a warrant charging murder. He said Russell became abusive and that he shot to protect himself. Ing is 62 years old and has been peace officer for twenty-six years. Caught in a blizzard, George Dierman, 60 years old, of near Winner, S.D., a stockman, was frozen to death while attempting to burrow his way through a huge snow drift to escape the storm. His body, standing upright, with only his head above the snow, was found by a neighbor at the entrance to a cave in which Dierman had made his home. Roy Austin McKeel, 19, was electrocuted at his home near Lodi, Calif., while conducting an experiment with an electric welding outfit which he had recently perfected and sold to an electric house. McKeel was taking a correspondence course in electricity. While at work his arm dropped across a wire carrying a high voltage, and standing on a steel plate laid on wet ground he closed the circuit, receiving a shock from which he died in a few minutes. WASHINGTON Passage of the soldiers' bonus bill would cost the government approximately $2,300,000,000, Secretary Houston estimated before the Senate finance committee considering the soldiers' aid measure. One hundred more men will be employed to guard Kentucky whisky warehouses against robbery. The increase will make a total of 300 guards employed by the government in Kentucky and their salaries will aggregate $510,000, it was estimated. War risk bureau clerks rushed work on mailing out checks to former service men or their beneficiaries this month as a measure of Christmas cheer, getting out a total of 345,540 December payment checks for more than $15,000,000 up to Dec. 15. On Dec. 20 the bureau had 328,607 active accounts, it was said, and now has paid out since its operation began a total of $331,606,958. The American Red Cross announced an additional appropriation of $20,000 for use in the fight against the epidemic of typhoid fever in Salem, Ohio, where during the past three months nearly one-tenth of the city's population of 9,500 have been stricken with the disease. The society previously had appropriated $50,000 to fight the epidemic. The State Public Utilities Commission has vacated an order issued last August providing that railroads could ship nothing but coal in coal cars, thus making coal cars available for any kind of shipment. The commission's action was taken, it was announced, "after a careful investigation had shown that it was no longer necessary to give such priority to coal shipment." Wholesale liquor dealers are forbidden to deal in both industrial alcohol and intoxicating liquor under a new prohibition regulation issued by the bureau of internal revenue. Industrial alcohol is defined by the bureau regulations as the various forms of ethyl alcohol "having a proof of 100 degrees or more, and does not include the substances commonly known as whisky, brandy, rum or gin." The Interstate Commerce Commission was requested by a resolution, introduced by Senator Nelson, Republican, of Minnesota, and passed, to ascertain and report the increased cost of railroad fuel consumed during 1920, as compared with 1919. Two of the bills carrying appropriations to run the government during the year beginning next July 1, reached the House and were given more than the usual preliminary scrutiny because of the announced intention of Republican leaders to cut government expenditures. Pithy News Notes From All Parts of Colorado (Western Newspaper Union News Service.) The Boulder City Council plans to expend $250,000 on paving and storm sewers. The Western Products Company plans to erect a concrete manufacturing plant in Delta costing approximately $60,000. The new state home and training school for mental defectives, located at Grand Junction, Colo., is now ready for occupancy. The citizens of Weldon Consolidated School District No. 63 have voted favorably on the bond issue of $18,000 for the erection of a school building. The State Highway Commission plans to build three concrete bridges in Montrose county at a cost of $45,000. High-grade ore in small quantities has been encountered at the Rose Nicol mine of the Reva Mining Company at Cripple Creek. The ore is valued at $25 to $75 per ton. Complete arrangements have been made for the twenty-first annual convention of the Retail Merchants' Association of Colorado, which is to be held at Colorado Springs January 17, 18 and 19. The maturing pond for small trout which has just been completed in the Big Thompson canyon near the Fork hotel has been officially accepted by the commission. The pond is not to be filled with water until spring. Weld county commissioners have asked the Colorado highway commission to spend $285,426 on the 317 miles of state road in the county during 1921. The county agrees to put $139,395 with this budget, making a total expenditure of $413,725. Assurance that the Fall River road to Estes Park will be ready for the summer tourist travel was given when the state highway commission approved the appropriation of $25,000 to cover the cost of improvements to be made in the early spring. Lester A. Kelsey, charged with the embezzlement of three $50 Liberty bonds last April while employed at Lafayette, Colo., as an agent of the American Railway Express Company, has been arrested in Salt Lake by an agent of the Department of Justice. Fifty per cent federal aid has been asked by the State Highway Commission in the construction of a 5.1 miles of improved mountain graded road between Buenn Vista and the Continental divide, in Chaffee county, at a total cost of $110,775.50. Contact of water with a rod-hot crown sheet exploded the boiler of a big Santa Fe freight engine at Pring, Colo., fifty-seven miles from Denver, resulting in the death of one man and the serious injury of two others, all residents of Denver. Rlenzi Dickens, who was convicted four years ago of second degree murder of his father, W. H. Dickens, wealthy Longmont farmer and banker, is to be retired at Greeley early next year, the exact date to be set within a few days. There is considerable stir in oil shale possibilities in Rio Bianco county at present. It appears that a failure to do the assessment work before December 31st on claims initiated prior to the passage of the leasing bill by Congress last February means that private control thereof comes to an end for all time, and hence the locators are busy endeavoring to perform the work so that they can hold on another year, during which time they stand a good chance of selling out and making a "stake." Of nine entries made by Moffat county farmers in the world's greatest grain exhibition, the International Hay and Grain Show at Chicago, eight premiums were brought back, carrying $85 in prize money. Of this the High School Athletic Association will receive $20. The winnings were made against competition from the entire United States and Canada, and with the exception of Montrose county, Colorado, Moffat county carried away more premiums than any other county entered. A number of entries will be made at the Denver potato show. Approximately $10,000 has been raised in Denver since December 12th for the relief of distress in Europe, it was announced by Dr. S. G. Dorey, field secretary for the Near East Relief in Colorado. No estimate has been made of the funds subscribed by the entire state. Frank Lee Cantonwine, 5 years old, was killed in front of his home at Colorado Springs when he jumped from the rear of an ice wagon in the path of an automobile driven by C. A. Baldwin of the Broadmoor. Mr. Baldwin, a millionaire art collector, was absolved of blame by eyewitnesses. Washouts of the Santa Fé tracks and bridge over Sand Creek, south of Colorado Springs, are to be checked in the future through the erection of an immense breakwater, 300 feet long, now being constructed primarily to protect the south end of the Sand Creek bridge where the riprap has failed to halt swerving of the stream. The Great Valleys Sugar Company plans to start work on its factory in Ault very soon. The new structure at Lafayette is rapidly nearing completion. ```markdown ``` The state of Colorado can have the finest medical school in the West if it will take advantage of the offer recently made to the State University by the Rockefeller Foundation. This offer is $700,000, and is the only one ever made by Rockefeller trustees to a state school, but is contingent upon the state of Colorado providing $800,000 to go with it. It is understood that the regents of the State University will ask the next State Assembly for $600,000 and then go before the public for the remaining $200,000 on popular subscription. Thus $1,500,000 can be raised, and it is planned to construct a state hospital of at least 150-bed capacity for indigent sick, a nurses' home, medical laboratory, a central heating plant, etc., equipped with the most up-to-date appliances known to medical science. This would be a Colorado institution, built for the entire state, and President George Norlin of the State University, together with various medical societies, physicians and friends of the movement, are backing the plan to the utmost. The Colorado State Medical Society will give the proposition its hearty support, because it would mean the best "medical plant" between the Missouri River and Pacific Coast. A considerable amount of interest has been raised, and those in a position to know something about the matter feel quite sure that the Rockefeller offer will be accepted. THE COLORADO STATESMAN The Mouth-Piece of the People of Colorado and the Entire West Corn and hogs keep side by side. No corn, no hogs. Colorado is becoming a corn state and that accounts for the fact that a corn show is to be held this year in connection with the National Western Stock Show at Denver, Jan. 15 to 22. It is the first corn show of state-wide character held in Colorado. Corn growing has advanced in this state with wonderful strides, because the farmers have come to believe in it. The show will promote this belief. Hog raising also has made a wonderful advance, and the show management has been compelled to erect an exhibition building for swine. This pavilion is just finished at a cost of $20,000. It is 100x185 feet, built of brick and tile and cement sloping floors. An unusual feature of the building will be a huge fireplace around which will be erected a sales and display room. at the show last year there were ninety head of fat swine and 545 head of breeding swine entered. A RELIABLE chronicle of their doings and progress; a faithful mirror of their wants, their hopes, their best aspirations. The first biennial report of the state blind benefit commission records the expenditures of $30,073.96 from sixty-three counties during the two-year period. Half of this sum is paid by the state and the balance by the counties concerned. On November 30th, the last day of the biennial period, and the end of the fiscal year, the state reports a balance of about $12,000 in the blind commission treasury. Last year the fraction of a mill tax levy appropriated by the Legislature for this purpose brought in about $27,000. It is estimated that this appropriation will amount to $50,000 for 1921, which added to the balance on hand would give the commission about $77,000 for the coming year's work. THE COLORADO STATESMAN C. G. Solquis, town clerk and recorder of Brighton, has filed an affidavit with Acting Gov. George Stephan certifying that a recent census shows a total of 3,215 population of the town, and therefore Brighton is entitled to be rated as a city of the second class. At the same time he requested the governor to take the proper steps to establish the legality of this classification. After conferring with the secretary of state and state auditor, as required by law, Lieutenant Governor Stephan said he would issue an official proclamation declaring the town a city of the second class in a few days. Unequaled as an advertising medium for the business of professional men and women. The new State Home and Training School for Mental Defectives, located at Grand Junction, is now open and ready to receive feeble-minded persons, according to announcement made. One bushel of hand-picked Turkey Red wheat has brought Ralph K. Davis of Moffat county $47.70 in prize money. The bushel was first taken to Craig for the community fair, where it won first award and $14.70 in merchandise. Then it took the first prize of $1 at Maybell and $7 first premium at the Colorado state fair. This wheat was awarded fifth premium at the International Hay and Grain Show in Chicago, Mr. Davis receiving $25. An excellent family journal speaking to and for many thousand colored citizens. Examination of the 1921 state highway budget discloses that the budget, as prepared by T. J. Ehrhart, state highway commissioner, provides for the use of $720,000, which will not be available until 1922, for federal aid projects. This $720,000 is part of the highway commission's share of the proceeds from the sale of highway bonds to be issued in 1922. With evidence said to have been obtained through the sensitive transmitter of a telephone device the Denver police declare that they have proof in their possession which will succeed in exposing John Dramm, alias John Lame, suspected train robber, as being one of the most cunning and shrewdest prisoners ever in the Denver jail. TWODOLLARSAYEAR A big project which will furnish electricity for five Eastern Colorado towns adjacent to Colorado Springs has been set going by a new corporation known as the Farmers' Electric Light, Power and Coal Company. The company expects to build a power plant at Matheson large enough to generate power for the towns of Matheson, Simla, Ramah and Calhan. The Pueblo office of the United States Department of Justice has been closed and in the future all business of the department will be cared for from the Denver headquarters. DR. CLARENCE F. HOLMES, JR. B.S., D.D.S. Invites the public of Danver to inspect his modern, electrically equipped dental suites. 2602 Weldon Avenue 1 to 6 p.m.; evenings and Sundays by appointment. Office phone Champa 2807. Residence phone Champa 1536. DR. WESTBROOK, Physician and Surgeon, office 25 Good Block, 16th and Larimer Sts. Phone 216-2555 Hours 8 p.m. to 1 p.m. to 2 and 4 p.m. Residence 2555 Glenarm place. Phone Champa 6148. Hours at residence by appointment. Call Physician and Surgeons at 216-2555. Hours 1644 night or day. R-ray examination and treatments a speciality. DR. HUFF'S office phone is Champa 6001. And his resi- dence, Phone York 4101. When not reached at office or home, call Atlas Drug Co., Main 875. Office hours, 11 to 12 a.m., and 3 to 6 p.m. 1027 Twenty-first St., Denver Office Phone Main 2701. Hours 12 to 2 and 6 to 8 p. m., or by appointment. Res. 2337 Glen- arm Place. Phone Champa 3303. E. P. BLAKEMORE. Attorney and Counsellor at Law Office, Rooms 39 and 40 Arapa- hoe Bldg., 1622 Arapahoe St. Phone Champa 5450. The WARD AUCTION COMPANY Sales Daily at 2 p.m. Office Furniture a Specialty. PRIVATE SALES AT ALL TIMES HAVE MOVED TO 1723-39 GLENARM ST. PHONE MAIN 1675 Phone Main 8026 Res. Phone York 5774W FRANK D. TAGGART Attorney at Law—Notary Public 205-208 Cooper Building Denver, Colorado Express, Moving, and Storage COAL AND WOOD PROMPT DELIVERY. Phone Main 8544. 2415 WASHINGTON STREET. ORIENTAL RESTAURANT Chop Suey, Noodles and Short Orders Phone Champa 113 1848 Arapaloe So the People May Know that you are in business, come in and let us show what we can do for you in the way of attractive cards and letter heads. Good printing of all kinds is our specialty and if we cannot satisfy you we don't want your business. That's Fair, Isn't It? (8, 1920, Western Newspaper Union.) "A fiery mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jollyfish and a saurius And a cave where the cave men dwell; Then a sense of beauty, A face turned from the clod— Some call it evolution; Others call it God." SEASONABLE GOOD THINGS. When a small portion of fowl has been left from a roast which has ap- peared both hot and cold, croquettes are sug- gested. ```markdown ``` Rice and Chicken Croquettes.—Remove all the choice bits of meat from the bones and cut them in small pieces. Any quantity not exceeding a cupul may be used. For more chicken or turkey more rice will be needed. Cover the bones with cold water and heat slowly to the boiling point. After simmering an hour add one or two outside stalks of celery, an onion cut in slices, a small portion of carrot, also sliced, and let cook half an hour longer. Drain off the liquid. Beat three-fourths of a cupful of rice to the boiling point in a quantity of cold water. After boiling two minutes drain, rinse in cold water and set to cook in three cupfuls of broth. When the rice is tender cook one-fourth of a cupful of flour, half a teaspoonful each of salt and paprika in one-half cupful of butter. Add one cupful of the broth taken from the rice if it is not absorbed and stir until boiling, then stir in the chicken and the rice and any additional seasonings needed. Let stand until cooled a little, then shape in cylinders. Roll in soft bread-crumbs, beaten egg diluted with milk or water and again in crumbs and fry in deep fat. Serve with a sauce made of the chicken broth and cream or to tomate purée, half and half. Roquefort Salad Dressing.—Cream two ounces of Roquefort cheese, using a wooden spoon. Gradually beat in four to six tablespoonfuls of olive oil, two to three tablespoonfuls of vinegar and a scant half-teaspoonful each of salt and paprika. Cream may be used to replace the oil, all or in part. Potato and Ham Croquettes.—Take one cupful of minced ham, add two eggs, stir over the heat until the egg is just set, cool, make into balls, cover with mashed potato. Roll in fine dry crumbs, then in egg white thinned with a little cold water, then in crumbs again. Fry in deep fat. At our house we laugh an' we sing an' we shout. An' he's all out of breath when the fightin' is through; An' ma says that our house is surely a sight. But pa' an' I say that our house is all right. —Edgar Guest. JUST EVERY-DAY GOOD THINGS. Even in a family of gingerbread lovers there is always a leftover problem. Try the following to save the last few pieces: C Gingerbread Custard.—Scald a pint of milk, beat the yolks of two eggs and add one-fourth of a cup of sugar. Add the scalded milk gradually to the sugar and egg, and pour this over one cupful of gingerbread crumbs which have been placed in a baking dish. Place in a pan of hot water and bake in a moderate over for thirty minutes. Cover with a meringue made from the egg whites, and brown in the oven. Prune Cornstarch Pudding.—Wash and soak over night one-half pound of prunes. Boll these in the same water until soft; remove the stones and cut the prunes into quarters. Add one cupful of sugar, one and one-third cupfuls of boiling water, and a few drops of oil of lemon; simmer five minutes, then add one-third of a cupful of cornstarch mixed with one-fourth of a cup of cold water and boll twenty minutes; stir in one-half cupful of nutmeats. Serve cold with plain or whipped cream. This may be varied by using other flavoring. Savory Potatoes. — Arrange nine medium sized potatoes in a shallow baking dish, add one-fourth cupful of water, six tablespoonfuls of olive oil, two onions minced, one trblespoonful of powdered sage, one teaspoonful of salt, and a few dashes of pepper. Bake about an hour until the potatoes are soft and brown. Cheese Balls—Beat the whites of three eggs dry. Mix together one and one-half cupfuls of grated cheese, one-fourth of a teaspoonful each of salt and paprika and fold in the egg whites. Shape the mixture into balls the size of a hickory nut. Roll them in sifted cracker crumbs and fry in deep fat to a delicate amber shade. The balls will be done almost as soon as they rise to the top of the fat. Drain on soft paper. Serve with stewed fruit, plain celery or a green vegetable salad. If a dry cheese is used less than the quantity given will be needed. Nellie Maxwell (@. 1920. Western Newspaper Union.) Who backward turns the pages of his life Must smile to see how much he wrongly read; Where he believed him vanquished in the strife He held a victory unquestioned. Where dreams were given up with bitter sighs Are dreams that did come true, but were unknown; On every page in simple beauty lies Rich proof of harvest reaped from kind deeds sown. —Arthur Wallace Peach. CAKES OF LONG AGO. Cakes made at home, mixed and baked by the housemother herself, are by the family than if much more is spent by buying them in the shops. A box of homemade cookies or small cakes makes a much prized gift and the one who makes and gives them will find a greater pleasure if the gift is a result of her handwork. Little Plum Cakes.—Measure four cupfuls of flour, one cupful each of sugar and butter, one teaspoonful of mixed spices, and one half teaspoonful of salt. Beat the butter to a cream; add three well beaten eggs, one-half pound of raisins, the seedless kind, and one half-pound of currants. Add to the flour mixture and beat hard for ten minutes. This will form a stiff paste. Dredge flour on tin baking sheets and drop the batter the size of a walnut on them. Bake in a brisk oven. Seed Cakes.—The old-fashioned seed cakes which our grand and great-grand-mothers enjoyed have not lost any of their deliciousness. Wash one cupful of butter in one-half cupful of rose water, then cream it and add two cupfuls of sugar. Beat four eggs and add to the first mixture with three tablespoonfuls of caraway seed and three drops of the oil of cinnamon; add one-half cupful of boiling water with one-half teaspoonful of soda and a half teaspoonful of salt. Add four cupfuls of flour and, if needed, a little milk. Drop on buttered paper or baking sheets in balls the size of nutmegs and bake in a moderate oven. This recipe dates back to 1700. Cider Cake.—Cream one cupful of butter, add two cupfuls of sugar, one fourth teaspoonful of salt and one teaspoonful of cinnamon and allspice mixed; add three well beaten eggs, a cupful of cider and one teaspoonful of soda. Mix with three cupfuls of flour and bake in a loaf in a moderate oven. Cover with brown sugar frosting. This cake was a great favorite in 1796. "When a man will trust his wife with his name, his honor, and his children and will not trust her with his purse, it is easy to see on which he puts the highest value." absorb the oil and flavor and if kept in a tight receptacle is always ready to drop into a cup of tea? That a cupful of black walnut meats, or less, added to a custard pie, will form a crust that is delicious when baked? That a quarter of a teaspoonful of a cinnamon added to a gallon of chocolate ice cream, gives it a flavor that every one likes? That boiled and mashed squash or carrots make a pie which some prefer to pumpkin? That minced dill pickles, added to potato salad, is a welcome change, especially if the salad dressing is mild? That a little orange rind mixed with apple makes an improvement in ordinary apple pie? That a teaspoonful or more of vinegar added to meat will make it much more tender if added while boiling? Delicious Muffins.—Pour two and one-half cupfuls of milk over three cupfuls of bread crumbs, let stand until soft, then beat with an egg beater; add the yolks of three eggs, one cupful of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder and a half a teaspoonful of salt; beat well and add one tablespoonful of melted butter and fold in the stiffly-beaten whites of the eggs. Bake in buttered muffin tins about 20 minutes. Baked Apple Ice Cream.—Pare and core tart apples, sprinkle lightly with sugar and grated lemon rind and let bake until tender; press the apples through a sieve, add to a quart of the pulp the juice of two lemons and two cupfuls of sugar. Stir until melted; when cold add one quart of thin cream and freeze as usual. Lazy Daisy Cake.—Into a measuring cup drop the whites of two eggs, fill the cup to one-half with softened butter, not melted; add milk to fill the cup. Now add one cupful of sugar, one and one-half cupfuls of flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder sifted with the flour three times; add a bit of salt and beat hard seven minutes. Bake in a loaf, ice with one cupful of powdered sugar, one teaspoonful of lemon extract and a tablespoonful of milk; beat until creamy. This makes a delicious white cake. Nellie Maxwell ORIGINAL IN FOOR CONDITION COLORADO'S CROP REPORT FOR 1920 COLORADO'S CROP REPORT FOR 1920 State Crop Service Bulletin Shows Greatest Production in History of State. Western Newspaper Union New Service. Colorado's agricultural output in 1920 was the largest in the history of the state. The total area under cultivation, according to compilations made by the State Co-operative Crop Reporting Service from the reports of county assessors, was 5,635,339 acres, compared with 5,650,951 acres in 1919. The total farm output for the season just ended far exceeds that for the preceding season. One example will illustrate this. The area devoted to wheat in the state in 1920 was 1,471,242 acres, compared with 1,524,594 acres the preceding year. The 1920 output, however, was 27,117,000 bushels, compared with only 18,435,000 acres in 1919 But the value of the 1920 crop was more than $30,000,000 less than that of the 1919 crop, the result of a very sharp falling off in the prices of all farm crops since harvest time. The value of all Colorado crops, including fruits, for 1920, based upon prices prevailing on or about Dec. 1, was $167,553,934, compared with $199,947,000 for the 1919 crop at prices prevailing on or about Dec. 1 that year. While the 1920 wheat crop was more than 9,000,000 bushels greater than that of 1919, its value was only $36,608,000, compared with a value of $37,240,000 for the 1919 crop. The 1920 potato crop was only about 240,000 bushels less than the 1919 crop, but the value of the former at prices prevailing on Dec. 1 was only $8,695,000, compared with a value of $18,870,000 for the crop of the preceding year. Yet the value of the 1920 farm output was greater than that for any previous year except 1919. The 1918 crop was sold at war prices, but its total value was only about $151,000,000, while the 1913 crop, which was marketed before the World war began, was worth considerably less than half as much as that of 1920. Wheat was Colorado's leading crop in 1920, both in acreage and value. Most of this crop is winter wheat, the area devoted to the winter grain showing rather substantial increases each year, while the acreage of spring wheat remains about stationary. Winter wheat is grown chiefly without irrigation, while the reports of county assessors to the State Immigration Department show that about 50 per cent of the spring wheat irrigated. Corn is the second crop in the state in acreage and fourth in value. Reports of assessors show 1,203,792 acres devoted to corn in 1920, of which 70 per cent was harvested for grain and the remainder cut for silage or fodder or fed in the field. The total value of the crop was a little in excess of $20,000,000, of which $12,210,000 was the value of the grain harvested. This crop is growing rapidly in popularity in the state, the corn area as reported by the census bureau in 1900 going only about 328,000 acres. It is grown chiefly in the eastern part of the state, Yuma county being the leader, with about 128,000 acres. Alfalfa is the third crop in the state in both acreage and value. Reports of assessors showed about 724,000 acres devoted to alfalfa in Colorado in 1920, and the production was 2,173,000 tons. This was worth at prices prevailing on Dec. 1 about $26,000,000. The total area devoted to tame hay is about 1,000,000 acres, other varieties being timothy, red clover, timothy and clover mixed, sweet clover, millet, sudan grass, field peas, other tame grasses and grains cut green, chiefly rye, oats and barley. The total production of tame hay in the state in 1920 was about 2,803,000 tons, worth approximately $33,637,000. There is also about 254,000 acres devoted to wild hay, with a production of 294,000 tons, worth about $411,500. Sugar beets is the second crop in the state in value and eighth in acreage. Reports of the sugar companies, operating in the state, show that about 221,500 acres of sugar beets were harvested in Colorado in 1920, producing 2,369,907 tons, worth to the farmers $27,135,135. This crop is grown almost exclusively under irrigation and has proved to be one of the most remunerative crops grown in Colorado. Reports of sugar companies indicate that the average price paid farmers per ton for their beets in the state in 1920 was $11.45. The potato crop was fifth in value among the state's crops in 1920, ranking next below corn. Last year, however, it was fourth in value, surpassing corn by about $2,000,000, and ranking only slightly below sugar beets. It comes far down the list in acreage, being surpassed by oats, barley, rye, grain, sorghums and wild hay. The sorghums rank fourth in acreage in 1920, with a total of about 445,000 acres, consisting of 298,720 acres of grain sorghums, 112,798 acres of sweet sorghums and 23,329 acres of sudan grass. The total value of all sorghums for 1920 was above $8,000,000. The acreage devoted to beans in Colorado in 1920 was considerably short of that for 1919, though the production was slightly larger, due to a more favorable season. Assessor's reports showed about 63,000 acres of beans the state in 1920, compared with 90,000 acres in 1919, 252,000 acres in 1918 and 250,000 acres in 1917. Though this has been proved to be a good crop for the eastern counties of the state, so far as production is concerned, the price has been unfavorable for the past three years, and the acreage has been rather rapidly reduced. much more appreciated by the family than if much more is spent by buying them in the shops. A box of homemade cookies or small cakes makes a much-prized gift and the one who makes and gives them will find a greater CULINARY KINKS. Do you know: That loaf sugar rubbed over well sugar rubbed over well washed orange rind will absorb the oil and flavor and if kept in a tight receptacle is always ready to drop into a cup of tea? That a cupful of black walnut meats, or less, added to a custard pie, will form a crust that is delicious when baked? That a quarter of a J. GIBSON SMITH Art Dealer PHONES: DENVER, CHAMPA 2077; PUEBLO, 864. DAY OR NIGHT. E. V. CAMMEL, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER, DENVER AND PUEBLO. WESTERN BEEF CO. WESTERN BEEF CO. 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. THE CHAMPAPHARMACY 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. PRACTICAL PLUMBER.—LICENSED DRAIN LAYER. Jobbing Promptly Attended to—Special Attention Given to Ventilation and Sewerage—All Work Guaranteed. 2018 CURTIS STREET. DENVER, COLO. Black and White Remedies Ane a Full Line of MME. C. J. WALKER'S Toilet Articles. BUT WE KNOW YOU WILL LIKE Jones West Hair Pomade Best. 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A FU Black and W Ane a Full Line of MME BUT WE KNOW Jones West I Atlas 2701 Welton St GRANBERRY Office 2 OFFICE PHONE CHAMPA 87 Quick and rrompt Service Day on Out Fairbanks Hotel and Cafe (Formerly Barnes Hotel) 2716 Welton St., Denver, Colo. R, CHAMPA 20 DAY OR NIGHT The Camma Making Co. FUNERAL PARK . 945 F. eligency and mod- can save you tha are treated as the MERS, FUNER- DY ATTENDANT PRESIDENT AND G ER AND PUER N SMITH Dealer MAMPA 2077; PUEBLO, 864. FOR NIGHT. Cammel ing Company Though Just as Reliable ERAL PARLORS. 945 Routt Ave., Pueblo, Colo. and modern conditions through- have you time, worry and money, gated as though they were our own. FUNERAL DIRECTORS AND ATTENDANTS. NT AND GENERAL MANAGER, AND PUEBLO. N BEEF CO. ```markdown ``` Tails, Snouts, Ears, Pigs Feet, Neck Received Fresh Daily. Kinds.. Fresh Vegetables, Staple and Groceries. Always the Lowest All Parts of the City. Champa 1641. DENVER, COLO. The Three Rules. A PHARMACY AND CHAMPA, to get your AND PATENT MEDICINES DRINKS. OUR SPECIALTY. the goods to all parts of the city. THRALL, Propr. MAIN 2425. Pig Tails, Snow Ribs Received All Kinds.. Free Fancy Groceries. Are Always Ready to All Parts one Champa 160 site the Three R MPA PR NIETH AND CH the place to get y ALLS AND PAT SERVE DRINK CONS OUR S deliver the goods E. THRALL, ONE MAIN 242 Residence Phone Champa 328. H. BALF TER.—LICENSE to—Special Att age—All Work FULL LINE C BALFE -LICENSED DRAIN LAYER. Special Attention Given to Ventila- All Work Guaranteed. DENVER, COLO. LINE OF White Remedies N. FAIRBANKS Denver One of the Most Up-toDate and Sanitary Markets in the City. Our whole national life has been one immense factory to manufacture the governing classes. The foreigners have controlled our commercial life, operated our mines, our railroads, our stores, our factories. Since the foreigner has carried on all of our economic life, what is there left to the Mexican to do? Why, simply to govern. And so our schools have prepared men for governing. We need more and more different kinds of training. Our people need to enter many other lines, instead of being simply shut up, as in the past, to becoming physicians, lawyers and engineers. Our educational system must change, so that it can direct the young people into fifteen professions instead of into three, and into twenty or thirty different modes of gaining their living and contributing to society. The new school should turn itself to developing leaders in our economic and social life. I have renounced my right to a million-dollar legacy left me by my father. I refuse to take the money because it is not mine. A system which starves thousands while hundreds are stuffed condemns itself. A system which leaves a sick woman helpless and offers its services to a healthy man condemns itself. It is such a system that offers me a million dollars. It is blind to the simplest truth known to every child, the truth that the hungry should be fed and the naked clothed. I have had to choose between the loss of private property and the law which is written in every human heart. I choose the one which I believe to be true. I believe I could do no good with the money. It is the man who gives food to the hungry who does good, not the dollars given in exchange for the food. I would be happy to be the man if I had the food to give, but I cannot lend myself to handling the money that is not mine even though the good that might be done is possibly great. No sane person can look at the 200,000 paupers and prisoners and 250,000 insane in our country with equanimity, especially when he finds that they are breeding faster than the prudent and thrifty part of the population. We need more super-normal and fewer sub-normal persons. There are two ways of bettering human conditions, by improving the individual and by improving the race. If segregation and sterilization are both resorted to the problem of crime, insanity and sickness would be largely solved within a century. The asylums, prisons and hospitals would decrease appreciably; the indigent old and the hopelessly degenerate would no longer trouble our civilization; above all, the ever present problem of unemployment caused largely by lack of ordinary mental ability and of vitality would solve itself. ```markdown ``` THE COLORADO STATESMAN CARON SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY JOSEPH D. D. RIVERS Proprietor P. O. Box 116 1824 Curtis Street, Room 25 Phone Main 7417 Remittances should be made by express money order, postoffice money order, registered letter or bank draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1c and 2c stamps taken. No discounts allowed on less than three months' contract. Cash must accompany all orders from parties unknown to us. Further particulars on application. Reading notices, ten lines or less, 15 cents per line. Each additional line over ten lines, 12 cents per line. Display advertising, 75 cents per inch for first insertion and 50 cents per inch for each additional insertion. NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION. It would therefore be appropriate and in keeping with New Year's customs, that we start out 1921 with a determination to raise the standard and improve the dignity of our church relations, habits, manners and customs, so that we can carry out the biblical injunction with fearlessness characteristic of the body of people called CHRISTIANS. THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. AS TIME ROLLS ON, new features are being presented to us which cannot fall to engage seriously the attention of every inhabitant of these United States, and as a writer in one of our leading magazines puts it—"the sooner we get down to business and prepare to set our house in order, the better it will be for us"—we verily believe this truth will be realized and will be worked to our greatest advantage. Because of the inexorable law of action and reaction, which should never be forgotten, it is argued by some that indications point to a general depression towards the close of this year and the forthcoming year, as in the great wave of benefits derived from the recent world's calamity before we entered it, and even when we became a participant (the era of prosperity attending us so that we became the greatest credit agent of the world), we were apt to forget the limitations to such things, and for lack of guarding against the reaction, a deplorable condition confronts us. "QUIT YE LIKE MEN, BE STRONG." If ever there was a time for American brain and brawn to assert itself it is now, and adhering to the encouraging words of the Good Book, we ought to lay aside all feelings of fear and doubt and in the spirit of real Americanism tackle this man's job and prove to the world what we have accomplished abroad can be also done at home. Factories are being closed; thousands and tens of thousands of men are being put out of jobs; apparently it seems as if an avalanche is sweeping down the sides of our famous "Mountain of Prosperity," and soon we will be in the maelstrom of something unprecedented in our history. But can we fail to remember that confidence can be restored to our government? Can we not also see the signs of the times pointing to the "calm after the storm," when as our President-elect with all seriousness and not unmindful of the grave responsibility to be borne by him, said, "This is not merely a man's victory, but a clear expression of the voice of the people," when the returns of November last made him the successor of the present executive? Some express, "Words! Words cannot help us," which may be true, but the great press of this country with its determination for RIGHT, PEACE AND GOOD WILL TOWARDS ALL MEN, will find an echo of cheerfulness from every member of this nation, if they fearlessly espouse the cause of our constitution in reminding, through their columns, the doctrine of fairness to all and privileges to none, which must result in the destruction of the pampered few—the classes, against the masses who are the burden-bearers of this commonwealth. We are still in the order of the optimist as we note the representations being made by citizens for the enjoyment of their rights are gradually taking shape and bringing the recognition necessary to support the much-yaunted Americanism that is so often expressed and which should be meant. THE NEGRO AND THE INDIAN, two elements of the population that once, according to our records, had the same classification—both coming in for a share of sympathy which placed them in the same schools to acquire education; both being impressed from time to time with the idea of measuring up to the stature of American manhood and claiming the rights of citizenship as any other American. After all these years, the one no longer a "ward" is partially enfranchised; the other still under the domination of the Bureaucracy years for freedom and the exercise of the franchise. Negro and Indian are making representations in such a manner as to be creating interest in their movements for world-wide recognition—the former with a propaganda of racial independence and equal rights under the law in this country, with an organization of 4,000,000 strong, to enter the field of commerce to win the respect of other competitors in the world's markets—the latter demanding through his leaders the removing of the yoke and the benefits of free and uninterrupted action as a citizen. With these demands coming from the depths of their intellectuality and utterly void of anything physical, the signs of the times point to an entertainment of these component parts of our population who are among the nation's most valuable assets and who are prepared to stand again in defending its honor and national integrity. With MARCUS GARVEY and his idea of cementing the Negroes universally and in the years to come win the recognition as a world power as Japan, Siam or any other; with Chief Red Fox and the Rev. Samuel Coolidge, who are making very favorable impressions for the full exercise of citizenship of their fellow Indians in this country, surely the new administration will lend a listening ear and enlist under its banners those who have been faithful to their trust, and though in the eyes of some the gloom can be actually seen, yet with a united people in reality, with an accepted United States at heart, a prosperity will dawn on us that will not only dispel the darkness but restore to us life and light and power that will usher us into the right position of THE GREATEST NATION ON EARTH for the New Year and succeeding years. THE KLU KLUX KLAN. FOR downright outlawry and unblushed mockery of constitutional law and authority, the South can always be depended upon. Once again the decent, law-abiding citizens of the South are to be harassed and oppressed by that fearful and murderous KLU KLUX KLAN that struck terror to the hearts of millions of helpless and defenseless Negroes in the dark days of the reconstruction period in the South. In those days the cowardly gang operated principally at night. In the present day, under the guise of patriots, the authorities permit these unholy scoundrels, disguised in white caps and shrouds, to parade through the principal streets of the cities of the South. The people are not to be deceived by this gang of bloody cut-throats and their purpose has already been clearly exposed, and it will not work. Warren G. Harding has been elected as a Republican President for the next four years, and we warn the South now that the country will not stand for a repetition of the murderous bull-dozing and oppression of Negroes as was practiced during the days after the Civil War. The KLU KLUX KLAN is simply paving the way for martial law in the South and many full graveyards and penetentiaries. The constituted authorities of the South had better take hold of the situation now and put a stop to that gang if they have the interest of their cities and communities rightly at heart. If they think that by that means they can intimidate a Republican President they have another thought coming. If the KLU KLUX KLAN think by that game they can intimidate the Negro they have already lost, for some of these days soon when they assemble in their white caps and white shrouds to parade, their captain will have sad news for them—that Congress has passed an anti-lynch law and reduced the representation in Congress from the South. It has certainly been amusing to read of their parades in Richmond and other cities in the South and the fool talk of coming up North to organize a band of white-cappers. They would last about as long up North as a snowball in Texas, and get as far as a bourbon highball in Colorado. We are not asleep and already the law is ready to be put into operation the moment they start any rough stuff. We have gone too far and too long to stand for such rot as this KLU KLUX KLAN. THE WORLD'S RACE PROBLEM. RACIAL, and color questions seem to be increasing in importance as the years go by, nowwithstanding the apparent desire of the world's thought-makers to drive such differences into the background. The long-nursed desire of the white man to make the authority of his power world-wide has been checked more in recent years than in a thousand years previous, and this check, given so emphatically to the Russians by the Japanese, has begun to assume an importance not given to it at the time the blow was being inflicted. Many white enthusiasts who cheered the Japanese for their brilliant military and naval achievements, are now beginning to realize that those successes established a check to the dream of political and commercial domination which has inspired the white man through so many centuries. It was not dreamed, at the time of the war, that the yellow man would acquire this lust for expansion and power and a wider market, although a certain social instinct did find expression in vague warnings of a "yellow peril." But now that the Japanese are seeking not to dominate, but to compete in commercial markets, and to expand in political influence, in a manner to possibly endanger future white domination, the relations of the races are inclined to take on an entirely different aspect. The main territories of the United States and Great Britain provide the best avenues for trade and labor successes, under present conditions, of all the developed countries, and to these territories the crafty and close-living Japanese have presumed to go, as white men before them have gone to all parts of the world. But to the white man's way of thinking, this makes the brotherhood of man a little too practical; hence more stringent exclusion acts and treaties are the subjects of immediate legislation or negotiation. The agitation awakens anew the sense of race difference and increases that prejudice against other peoples which have characterized the Caucasian race throughout its long domination of world affairs. American and English statesmen and journalists are assuring their respective countries that these conditions will be accepted by the Japanese and that a friendly co-operation on the basis of a one-sided exclusion policy will be diplomatically arranged between the nations. In such an arrangement white men are depending upon the weakest thing on which nations can rely, and are taking their first step backwards. The mere presumption of inert racial superiority may continue to inspire the white man, while the world continues its search for moral uplift and social unity, but the modernized Japanese are now too far advanced to actually and finally concur in an unnatural ban upon their world privilege as well as a restraint upon their national and racial dignity. They have shown their ability to bide their time, and while their energies for years to come may be directed westward, instead of reaching toward this side of the Pacific, their activities and their sentiments will go with them into fields from whence white men now draw great volumes of wealth. That course of national and racial development which expresses itself in commercial expansion and political conquest abroad and fortifies itself with exclusion armor at home, will not be the course by which any other people on earth than the white people will advance, or upon which any other people than the white people will serenely rest. But the new way will be the wisest and the best. WANTED to place in each of the fifteen thousand homes of our people in Denver, a copy of Scott's Official History of the American Negro and the World War SCOTT'S OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO IN THE WORLD WAR EMMETT J. SCOTT SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO SECRETARY OF WAR A complete and authentic narration of the participation of American soldiers of the Negro race in the great fight for democracy. Illustrated with official and personal photographs of over two hundred in number, this work offers delightful reading of its 600 pages for the youth, the middle-aged and the old, and each home will add dignity and loyalty to our race and country by being provided with a copy of this commendable work. A very desirable gift in and out of season. This book is being offered at the very reasonable price of at the office of THE COLORADO STATESMAN P. O. Box 116 Room 25,1824 Curtis St. Arrangements can also be made over phone. Call Main 7417 PRESS COMMENT: No library is complete without Scott's History of "The American Negro in the World War," and no better legacy could be left to posterity than this great work of Negro heroism and patriotism. By COL. J. T. AXTON, Chief of Chaplains, U. S. A. On the barracks wall at Delhi, India, this inscription will be found: PETER B. "When war is on and strife is nigh, God and the soldier is all the cry; When war is o'er and peace is cited, God and the soldier are quickly slighted." This may have been true of some former period, but it is not true concerning the World war. This nation is nearer to God than before the mighty con- flict, or the war's greatest lesson has been missed. I believe that we are nearer to God in all the relations of life than before we entered the titanic struggle. and the soldier is not being slighted. The best evidence of this lies in the fact that an average of more than four hundred splendid young men from all walks of life are enlisting every day for duty in the regular army. The call to military service is especially strong now because of a nation-wide interest in military affairs and because the War department has sensed the need for making every hour a man spends in the army profitable to that man. Fully as much emphasis is being placed upon the moral and educational training of our troops as upon military drill, target practice, discipline, or any of the other things that are essential to the making of a fine soldier. The comprehensive educational system is in charge of picked men who specialize in it; while moral training is quite properly committed by the congress of the United States to a corps of chaplains, composed of men who know how to put stress on those religious elements that appeal to healthy young men. Public confidence in the regular army was never so high as today, and our people may be sure that the whole aim of those in authority is to justify that confidence, by developing the individual soldier along lines that will make him a thoroughly useful citizen when he returns to civil life. Mexican National Life a Factory to Turn Out the Governing Classes. By PROF. EZEQUIEL CHAVEZ, Mexican Educator. I do not mean to make our education entirely practical, leaving out all of the humanities, as Germany has done. We must see that the school introduces young people into useful livelihood and trains them at the same time to be good citizens. "I Refuse to Take the Million Legacy Because the Money Is Not Mine." By CHARLES GARLAND, Buzzards Bay, N. Y. There are great opportunities to do good, but they are in men's hearts, not in the check book. We Need More Super-Normal and Fewer Sub-Normal Persons in America. By PROF. RUDOLPH M. BINDER, New York University. Eight states have already passed laws for sterilizing the defective classes: Indiana in 1907; Washington, California and Connecticut in 1919; Nevada, Iowa and New Jersey in 1911, and New York in 1912. » Mrs. Basel Cook of 201 Perry street is quite sick, | A, Rt, Butler of 2048 High street is numbered among the sick this week. Mrs, John W. Hardy left for Wash- ington this week to join her husband. Mrs, Anna Smithea of Grand June- tlon, Colo. is In the elty visiting rela- tives and friends, | Miss Cleo Hobson of 2352 Glenarm place is quite sick, Her many friends’ wish for her a speedy recovery. | Mrs. BE. B, Hutchison of Chicago, is visiting her brother, Wm. R. Rhodes, and will be in the city several weeks. Curtis M, Harris is one happy man, his mother, Mrs. Edw. Clark, is visit- ing him. She is a member of the Court and also a 8. M.T. Mrs, Grace Helms Bendy, who was operated on at Park Ave. Hospital, last Monday, is improving nicely, under the care of Dr, Geo, Osborne. Mrs, Ona Andrews of Salt Lake City arrived last Saturday and will be the guest of her mother, Mrs, Allie Spen- cer of 2918 California St., for a month. Mrs. Frances Parker of Kansas City, Mo., is visiting her sisters, Mrs. Stone, Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Johnson, at 2422 Tafayette. ELKS’ BALL at Colony Hall last ‘Thursday evening was a very success- ful event and reflected much credit on the!r entertainment committee. Quite a lurge attendance and good music were evidences of a real public treat. Miss Henrietta Patterson and Mrs. Henrietta Popa, sister and aunt of Mrs. Slade, also Mrs. Frost of Mani- tou, are the guests of Mrs. Slade, who is making their stay in the city during the holidays a most pleasant one. James Wims arrived on Christmas Day from Alliance, Neb., to spend the holidays with his mother, Mrs, Elliott. Mr. Wims says our people are doing well in Nebraska. HARVEY WEBSTER takes much pleasure in extending the compliments of the season and best New Year's greetings to his patrons and friends, nnd bids them welcome to the POPU- LAR SHINING PARLORS, 1526 Wel- ton Street, The annual banquet of the Pythias Lodge No. 11, scheduled for January 3, 1921, has been postponed, owing to the death of Grand Chancellor C. S- Muse. Announcement of the date will be given later. Fred Johnson of 2847 California has returned after a month's absence to Missouri and Arizona points, Mr. Johnson informs us that our people are doing nicely and show every sign of progress, He has added a few pounds to his avoirdupois. Owen G, Caswell, our popular friend and fellow citizen who has been for many years in the employment of the Oo, P. Baur Company, confectioners and caterers, is cpnvalescing from a serious iliness, His many friends are glad to note his improvement, as he was missed from his usual place at the candy counter during the Christ- mas season, Many inquiries after Owen’s health haye been made by the leading and exclusive society people whom he has given splendid service for nearly four decades. We wish him a speedy return ta health and a happy New Year. The one big novelty dance will be held at Fern hall, Jan. 1, 1921. Morri- son’s 2nd Jazz Orchestra, five pieces. “Oh, Boy, horns, balloons ‘mieverything. BILLY KNIGHT, Mgr. A MERITED PROMOTION. Mr, A. ©. Jackson, one of Denver's very best citizens, and who has been 4 state employé for the past 12 years, was elevated to the worthy position of messenger to the Supreme Court by that high tribunal a few days ago. THE COLORADO STATESMAN warmly congratulates Mr. Jackson and also offers high words of praise to the members of the Supreme Court whd ‘gave such merited recognition to a faithful and tried employé. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. This is to certify that Mrs, Gussie Watkins was granted a final decree of divorce from Robert Watkins on Aug. 40, 1920. SYRACUSE LODGE NO. 10, K. OF P- ELECTS OFFICERS. A pretty large attendance of the members of Syracuse Lodge No. 10, Knights of Pythins, lent interest to the election of officers last week, Friday evening, at their castle hat, 25— Washington street. Mr. R. Rhoads was elected Chancellor Commander ; Wm, Perkins, Vice Chancellor; A, Bai- ley, Prelate; W. B. Odom, Keeper of Records and Seal; W. McKittrick, Master of Exchequer; W. G. ‘Thalley, Master of Finance ; Representatives to Grand Lodge, Gus Herron and Four- ney; Lew Carpenter, Master-at-Armns ; Slayton, Trustee for eighteen months. Brother Herron gave a splendid re- port of his two successive terms of service and promised to give his suc- cessor every assistance that he could, Expressions from the brothers ac- corded the retiring presiding officer much commendation for the good work he had accomplished in bringing the lodge to an efficient and successful standard. Installation of officers will take place next meeting night, Jan. 7th. ‘The brothers are requested to make a record attendance. AN APOLOGY TO THE DANCING PUBLIC AND VICTORY FOR BIL- LY KNIGHT CONCERNING THAT CHRISTMAS NIGHT DANCE AT FERN HALL. By a verbal contract with Mr. Geo. Morrison, Billy Knight was promised Morrison's 2nd Jazz Orchestra, the same that has played for the Monday night dances at Fern hall, advertising to that effect, the public was very much surprised to find a white orches- tra in the hall, They played as well as they knew how, but not up to the standard of the colored boys. Taking the matter up with my attorney, Mr. Blakemore, Mr, Geo. Morrison has promised to have his 2nd Jazz Orches- tra play at our dance New Year's night, Jan. 1, 1921, and avoid lawsuit. BILLY KNIGHT. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. A business meeting of the boys’ de- partment will be held tomorrow (Sun- day) afternoon at 3 o'clock, at which officers will be elected for the coming year, All boys are expected to be pres- ent. In spite of the inclement weather the meeting last Sunday afternoon was a good one. The program dealt with the Christmas season, and the lecture was illustrated by lantern slides, ‘The ad- dress was delivered by Secretary Thomas J. Bell, while Artemus Strip- ling operated the machine. ‘The meeting tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon will be held at the Y. M. C. A. building, beginning at 4 o’¢lock. Al will be welcome. Open house this (Saturday) after- noon from 2:30 to 5 o'clock, ‘The en- tire city is Invited, SOME MORE HORNS ADDED TO THE ELKS. Messrs. Victor Walker, Eddie Page, Duke Conway and Dick Frazier have just returned from Cheyenne, Wyo., where they went to set up an Elk lodge. ‘They report Cheyenne as be- ing prosperous, and great praise for Mr, John Baker and friends who roy- ally entertained them while there. They will leave shortly for Casper, Rawlins and Green River, where they will do honors likewise, as the Elks are jolly good fellows. CAMPBELL A. M. E. CHURCH. Cor. 23rd and Lawrence Sts. Rev. |. S. Wilson, Pastor. Res., 1218 23rd St. Phone Main 1312. 9:45:a, m.—Sunday School. 11:00 a. m.—Prenching by Rev. Pope. 2:00 p. m.—Quarterly Meeting. 6:80 p, m.—Christian Endeavor, 7:80 p. m.—Preaching by Rev. Pope. ‘Mid-Week Meetings. ‘Tuesday, 8 p. m.—Quarterly Confer~ ence. Wednesday, 8 p. m—Prayer and Class. ‘Thursday, 8 p, m.—Willing Workers. Friday, 8:30 p. m—Trustee Helpers at 2326 Walnut street. Sunday will be Quarterly Meeting with Presiding Elder Rev. Pope preaching in morning and evening ser- vices. Quarterly Conference Tuesday evening. Santa Claus was very good to the members of Campbell. ‘The Willing Workers presented Rev. Wilson with a fur collar overcoat. CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER, EPISCOPAL. 22nd Ave. and Humboldt St. New Year's Service, Sunday, Jan 2: Holy Communion, 11 o'clock. Celebrant and preacher, the Rey. Father H. ©. Rahming, the newly appointed pastor. Come and give him a hearty welcome and hear his message for the new year. Mr, and Mrs, ‘Thomas Williams of 2013 Glenarm entertained =a few friends at a dinner of fine appoint- ments on Christmas Day Mr, Duke Conway entertained a number of friends at a sumptuous Christmas dinner, There was nothing short that goes to make up an appe- tizing menu, and all had a good time. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Hall of 1383 Pennsylvania street celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary last Sun- day, to which twelve friends were in- vited. The decorations were in keep- ing with the Christmas season and the expressions of the guests were vaani- mouse in declaring Mr. and Mrs. Hall very genial hosts, One of the prettiest affairs of the week was the dainty little luncheon given by Miss Carol Jarrett, after which she took her guests to see the musical extravaganza, “Chu Chin Chow.” Those present were the Miss- es Mazelina Stell, Dorothy Burdine, Bonita Scott, Harriet Russ and the hostess. One of the pleasant social affairs planned for New Year Day is an open house reception to be extended to the executive officers of the Denver branch, N. A. A. C. PB by Mr, and Mrs. Geo. W. Gross at their residence, 1627 East Twenty-second avenue, from 7 to 9. The executive officers of the Colorado Civic and Commercial Asso- ciution and also of the Defense League will be guests of honor. Mrs. Robert L, Russ of 2612 South Logan, in her usual hospitable man- ner, entertained: twelve little ones at a children’s party last Tuesday to the delight of the youngsters. A large Christmas tree with choice decorations and a gift for each child added to the attractions, the pleasure of which was reflected by the beautiful smiles beamn- ing on the countenances of the little ones, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Carter of 2452 Lafayette street, popular among our leading social entertainers, offered an- other of their social functions to sev- enty-five of their friends at an “All- Night” dancing party Christmas eve. Beautiful decorations which seemed to vie with the costumes of the Jadies for supremacy lent a charming appearance to the scene, and the guests enjoying this hospitality declared that _ this event excelled any of their hosts’ for- mer ocensions. Dr. B, T, Canty, proprietor of the Elite Drug Store, and Dr. Lee were a genial host to about 100 of their friends to a beautiful luncheon danc- ing party and buffet luncheon Tuesday night at Mr. Cauty’s residence, 2104 Arapahoe. Dr, Canty and Dr. Lee have been giving these Idvely parties for so long us a_distinctive holiday feature that they are now yearly looked forward to by Denver's smart set with great eagerness. The house was gorgeously decorated in appropriate Christmas colors which, supplemented with the handsomely gowned ladies, lent @ charm of beauty and richness seldom witnessed in social affairs. The home of Mr. and Mrs, William Gibson, 8230 Gilpin street, was the scene of one of the season's best par ties on Christmas night when a num- ber of friends joinéd in celebrating the birthday of Mrs. Gibson. Christmas decorations in profusion with a large Christmas tree in the parlor laden with many presents added to the splendor and gayety of the occasion which hap- pened fortunately to fall on this annu- al festal diy, An eight-course dinner of fine appointments met the delight- ful enjoyment of the guests, while Miss Beatrice Stamps at the plano offered ‘added atraction to the proceedings. At ‘a late hour the guests departed wish- ing Mrs. Gibson much happiness and ‘the enjoyment of many future birth- ‘days. Mr. Gibson made a very genial host. CHARLES S, MUSE, POPULAR PIO- NEER CITIZEN, DIES. ‘Lived in Colorado over Forty Years and Was Member of Nearly Every Fraternal Organization in Denver— Re-elected Grand Chancellor Knights of Pythias Last Grand Lodge Ses- ‘alone “Death is dawn, ‘The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.” Again has the grim reaper inyaded our ranks and garnered unto Himself one whom we can truly term a con- necting link in the chain of old and new Denver. Chas. S$. Muse was an Cs -— f~- — CHIRUNER URUVGUDY. - - By Bee FF NEVER SHAKE 7 STEW BAD- 'S) BAD J HELLO GEORGE — HANS. aN ape THE SCORPION IS IN CONTACT ) CONGRATULATE ME — MeN ree WITH THE ZODIAC - THAT ALWAYS 4 THS IS MY ee BAD MEANS TROUBLE- YOU MUST BE _/ THDAY! = VERY CAREFUL THIS YEAR — BIRTHDAY! y Luck —, eS Ne 7 a ex Sal = cay) AE i n oO a! IR CE Los BA i GE | re QO a ( y i <A A i 7 FS) 2 TK hf Heri) eames rN Bet eas aes CEA ee page A ete Reach c F PEE cee ee iS IN \ CAN MAKE 'EM Sec (eT Ne | Cone aoromant SS — YOUR PROPERTY — AND cis im Rew) goa henenser JOE, THAT . (aay mM AN UNDERTAKER— —F Ss Y e ANDO WHEN ANY OF As a YOUR FAMILY ee : —e pes Ca = ae ee Ee a fos ey, 2) ep ee ae > 3 : Paty | 4 ee See RA oo — ll Aero employé of the Stockyards Bank for several years and owas very much thought of by all the officials and staff in general. A lover of fraternal soct- etfes he identified himself with nearly every branch In Denver-—Masonry, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythins, United Brothers of Friendship, and the Amer- Jean Woodmen, He died last Tuesday evening from an attack of pneumonia, his Hiness be- ing of short duration, He leaves to mourn his loss a wife and many other relatives, Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 1 p. m. under the auspices of Damon Lodge No. 5, Knights of Pythias, at Shorter's Chureh, Twenty-third and Washington streets, Rey, 1 8. Wilson officiating. All other secret societies to whieh de- ceused was attached will be present. A further account of his life will ap- pear in our next issue, ‘The Colorado Statesman offers sincere condolence to the bereaved members of his family. 1907 ——_—_——. 1921 The Douglass Undertaking Co. 2745 Welton St. Wish You a Happy and a Prosperous New Year. DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING CO. ‘Show your shrewd judgment in mak. ing The Douglass Undertaking Co. your choice in the hour of bereave- ment. You save money, time and wor- ry. Select what you admire and we will display it to a great advantage. Phone M. 6123, Funeral Notices. Foster—Chas. Edward, 10 months, infant of Mr, and Mrs. Henry Foster, 316 Twenty-fifth street, departed this life Dec. 26, Services were held 1 p. m., Tuesday, Dec. 29, from Douglass Chapel. Interment, Riverside. Atkins—Thomas, 45 years, beloved husband of Mrs. Bertha Atkins, for- merly of New York, departed this life Dee. 27, at 2121 Arapahoe street. Body was accompanied by Mrs, Atkins and son to Culpepper, Va., Wednesday evening, Dec, 30, for interment, THE CAMMEL ‘UNDERTAKING CO. Funeral Notices. Yancey—Mrs. Mary J. Yancey de- parted this life Dee, 22 at her residence 3132 Downing Ave. Services were held Monday, Dec, 27, from the _undertak- ing parlors at 2p. m, Rey. P. J. Price officiated. Interment at Riverside. Frazier—Mr, Jessie J. Frazier de- parted this life Dee. 24 at his resi- dence, 504 Twenty-fourth street. His remains were shipped to Elsworth, Kan., for burial in the family plot, accom panied by his wife, Mrs. Jessie Fra zier, and his sister, Mrs. Ethel Devall es | cans cae rs ¥ pe ~ = i ee a by mary re a a a A Rs! ne Lo ae 4 “ yes Gs Sag eG ee Nero BIRPe aoe -— a AG HARVEY G. WEBSTER SHOE SHINING PARLOR 1526 Welton St Phone Main 2196 THE ATTACK ON THE JEW HE individuals and publications I responsible for the — so-called “anti-Semitic movement” are not serving the eause of true democracy In the United States. ‘The American government was founded on the principle that men of every race are entitled to equal rights and privileges, and endowed by nature with a capacity for good eltizenship, under Democratic institutions, ‘That, at least, was the conception of Jeffer: son and Lincoln, the two great ex- pounders of the’ Declaration of Inde- pendence from whieh Lineoln declared all his political sentiments had been derived, We are passing through # period In which the ‘Toryism of 1776, disguised as Super-Patriotism, hax singled out for unwarranted and dishonest perse- cution millions of American citizens of German antecedents, who have con- tributed in full measure to build and perpetuate a real American democ- racy. ‘These Tories of our time, like their double dealing prototypes proclaim a false “Americanism,” alien to the creed of Jefferson and Lincoln, ‘The anti-Semitie movement is an ex- treme form of bigotry, But it goes one step further than Toryism, by urging discrimination against the jews on the ground of religion as weil as the accident of birth. Whether the Jew is superior or in- ferior to other races, is immaterial ; in the eyes of the law he is no better and no. worse than members of other groups who compose our citizenship. In his right to the full privileges of a citizen, he stands on an absolute equality with all men. An attack up- on the Jew because he is a Jew has no more basis in reason than an at- tack upon an Irishman, a German, or an Englishman, and because the Jew has for centuries shown his ability to survive persecution, it is even less likely to accomplish Its diabolical pur- pose. The propaganda directed at the Jew on such narrow grounds hurts its victim less than the nation at large, because it is obvious that if we should once open the door wide to racial ani- mosities in the United States, we should speedily find ourselves involved in endless contention and strife, fatal to our continued existence as a nation. ‘The anti-Semitic movement will re- sult in evil reaching beyond our na- tional boundaries, Racial prejudice is the surest breeder of war, Until it is weeded out of the hearts of mankind, there will be no lasting peace, The common people of the land, who have most to gain from democracy and most to lose in international war, must defend this country from attacks like that now directed against the Jew. He is an enemy of American de- mocracy who assails any man or any people because of nationality or re. ligion. ROBERT M. LA FOLLETEB. A Stiff Upper wip. Keeping a stiff upper lip is all right, but there's nothing commendable about It. Everybody keeps a stiff up- per lip: has to. The upper lip ean’t be anything but firm, Ever watch a child overcome by emotion? It’s the under lip that trembles, and then the Jaw drops, to open an exit for the roar, Next time tell him to keep a sti ower ip. It won't sound right, tt will lack punch and probably will fail to Inspire the subject to the proper de- gree of steadfastness, but you'll have the approval of the purist,—Louisville Herald. The Fast Age. “Phe world never moved so fast be fore.” mused Mr. Simmons, “We have winier ice on the Fourth of July, spring vegetubles on Christinasy we buy our straw hats in February and our felt hats In August; we get cur Sunday paper on Saturday night, and our magazines a month ahead of time, If we telephone a man in San Pran- cisco from New York, be hears our volee about four hours before we speuk; and if some one Japan sends us u cablegram tomorrow, we get It today.” PUALIC TRUSTEE’S SALE. Whereas, Abbie J. lack, by deed of trust. dated the 28rd day “of January, ibid, which Is recomued in book, idiy pane 27, of the records in the office of the Clerk and aecorder of the City and County of Denver, Colorade, duly’ con Yeyed to the Publie Trustee in and tor theCuy and County ef Denver, Colo~ fado, the following described real en- tate in the City and County of Denver, Colorado, to-wit! Lot numbered thirty: nine. (39), sn Grommons Reaubdlvinion Of Block’ numbered, twenty-five 136); Hartman's Adaition to the City of Dens ver, which “deed of truat was mage te fecuro the payment of her promiasory howe of even date with said deed of fyust for the sum, ok five, hundred 00,00) dollars, payable order eae dolintta, Matec yours after the date ‘thereof, with jnterest thereun wt fix (6) per Gent per kanurn until mae tunity (ind ‘to diaw ten per cent per Annum after maturity) intergst Paya~ bie wemi-annually, as Is more particu jariy met forth in aid deed of trust. reference to which is hereby made sor Kreater certainty, and, Whereas, ‘The time of payment. | of sald note Was subsequently extended nti January 2drd. 1918, and Whereas, ‘the said Abbie J. Black and all persons claiming by, through or ume, der her, having detauited in the pay ment of the principal sum of aid pote When ‘the same became dive an = wet a having aie defaulted dn the payment cf all installments of interest. ailing. due ‘upon said note «ince ~tnex Hira day ‘or January, 1917, and, payin, also defauited in the payment of taxes taseased against said real estate for, the years 1915 and 1916, which said’ taxes the holder of said deed of trust was required to pay and did pay in ors, der to protect his aecurity for sald loan, t and the Tegal holder of said mote, hay: : ing elected on accaunt of said default, to declare said “note unpaid, due ‘and payable, Now,” therefore, at tne wittten rer quest’ of Katherine Kraus, the : Wuidtr “se auld note, puravant to Jew. I, the undersigned. Public ‘Trustee In, And ‘forthe ‘City’and County of Dem, ver, Colorado, do hereby give motheg! ade Twit at che nour of 28 oeiook 1 the forenoon of MONDAY, JANUARY 3, 1924, 0 at the ‘Tremont street fromt door Of she. Court House, in the City and County of { ton’ to the highest and beat blader for jon, to the highest an tor’. tusk, ‘the said described: premises: ail the right, title and interest of the* sald Abbie J: Wiack: ‘hor ‘hele @ Signs therein, for the purpose of pay— ing the sum'of five hundred and thirty (3830.00) dollars, together with interest theron from January 23rd, 1918, at the Fate of ten (10) per cent per annum, and the further sum of $34.33, together with Interest. thereon from Nov. 15th, 1916, at the rate of 10 per cent per an- hum, and the further sum of $80.14, to- gether with interest thereon from Nov. ‘Sth, 1917. at the rate of 10 per cent per annum, bemg the amounts, paid for taxes us aforesaid. the Indebtedness se cured by said deed of trust, and the: cost. and expenses of exeetiting this: trust, ‘and will deliver to the purchaser a certificate of sale as provided by law. Said sale Will be made xubject to the: lien for taxes aainst sald Teal extate: fubsequent to the assessments for the year 1917. Dated at, Denver, Colorado, Decem= ber 2nd, 1920. 2. M. MALONE, Public Trustee in and for the City and ‘County of Denver, Colorado, First publication, Dec. 4, 1920, Last publication. Jan. 1, 1921, Intelligent Parrot. Locke's “Essay on the Human On- derstanding” refers to a parrot whieh had the faculty for answering ques- tions sensibly. When the governor of Brazil was introduced to It be asked the bird: “What do you do here?* “I look after chickens.” was the recdy reply. “You look after chickens?” roared the governor, with a burst of laughter. “Yes.” retorted the bird, “and | know how to do ft.” at the same time clucking like a broody hen. “Tough as Hickory.” “Tough ax hickory” Is a phrase sug gesting the peculiar strength and elas- Uelty of the hickory wood and it may be for thar reason your favorite, Gen. Andrew Jackson was — endearingly called “Old Lickory” by bis soldiers beeuuse of his tough, unytelding dls position. This vickname may have been bestowed during the war with the Creek Indians in 1813, when he fed his men on hickory outs over @ period when they were short of rations. es COURSE IN HAIR“BEAUTY CULTURE MAILED FREE UPON RECEIPT of YOUR NAME 4" ADDRESS “SEND NO MONEY" THE OZONIZED OX MARROW C8.) 46 W. KINZIE ST. CHICAGO, ILL. Chronology of the Year 1920 Compiled by E. W. PICKARD Jan. 1- Bolshevkii announced capture of Yekaterinoslav. Jan. 3- Letvian and Polish troops took Dvinsk from the Bolshevkii. Jan. 4- In peace treaty dismissed, United States, Greece, China and Boumania not being represented. Jan. 14 - Ciemenca and Lloyd George Jacepe plan giving Italy sovereignty Jan. 17—Supreme council called on Holland to surrender former German emperor Jan. 20—Supreme council gave Jugolavia four days to agree to the Flume settlement. Clemenceu retired from the council of the Netherlands. Jan. 23-Holland refused to surrender the former German emperor to the allies. Jugo-Slavia given more time to reply to proposed Flume settlement. Jan. 24-General Bohlenvik along the Dvina reported. Jan. 27-General Denikine and staff refences on British vessel at Constantinople. Jan. 28-Jugo-Slavia rejected the Adrii- Feb. 3—List of Germans accused of war crimes, headed by former crown prince, handed to German representatives by allied Feb. 6—Russian soviet troops entered Germany. President Wilson notified allies he would not assent to proposed settlement of relat- Feb. 11—Letts declared armistice with soviet Russia. Feb. 15—Supreme council agreed sultan may remain in Constantinople, under guarantee. Feb. 16—Allies renewed their demand on Holland for extradition or ex-kaiser. Allies agreed Germany's right to try them, valuables, reserving the right to try them themselves if results are contrary to justice. Supreme council decided on internationalization of the Dardaneelies and the Bosporus. Feb. 20—Russian Bolshevkli announced the capture of Archangel. Feb. 21, Bolshevkli occupied Murmansk. Feb. 27—Soviet Russia made offer of peace to United States, Japan and Roumania. March 1—Moscow reported destruction of Denikinek's Kuban Cossack corps and also the capture of Stavropol. March 5—Istanbul again refused to surreptitiously kaiser to allies. March 6—President Wilson again rejected entente plan concerning Adriatic. March 7—Bolshevik decisively defeated by Poles at Mozir and Kolenkovitz, southeast of Minak. —Japanese troops occupied Vladytokt. April 8—Germany formally protested against French advance. April 19—Allied premiers in conference at San Remo decided Sultan should remain in Constantinople but Dardanelles should be unblocked nationalized. April 25—Supreme council, having reached agreement on Turkey and Germany, may move to a new out-threatening force. President Wilson asked to determine boundaries of Armenia. April 25—Foles started successful offensive against Bolshevkii in Ukraine. April 29—Russians in Vladivostok region yielded to all Japan's demands. May 5—Denmark occupied North Schleswig. May 15 Bolshevik drove British from Enzell, Persia, and started counter offensive against the Poles. Foreign repatriation claims of $1,571,000,000 against Germany. May 31 -Capture of Res't, most important Caspian seaport, by Bolshevik announced. June 1 -Japanese broke off negotiations with Bolshevik for buffer state in Siberia. June 4 -Treaty of peace with, Hungary signed. June 5 -Ruthenians decided to join Poles in war on soviet Russia. June 12 -Japanese invaded Kiev. June 21 -Bolshevik opened midsummer drive against Poles. June 27—Eleventh Bersaagilier regiment of Italian army mutinied at Ancona overpowered rebels after battle in which many were killed. The hundred Italian troops killed in two-day battle with anarchists at Ancona and Plomboin. July 6-Allied and German representatives met at Spa, Belgium, to discuss July 10—Polish forces evacuated Brest-Litovsk. July 11—Allied supreme council agreed to begin negotiations with Russian Bolsheviks and made armistice between Bolshevik and Polish. Bolsheviki captured city of Minsk from Poles. July 14—Allies and Germans agreed on coal deliveries. Lithuania and Russia made peace and formed a regiment town from Poles. July 19—Russian soviet government rejected British peace proposals for Poland. New attack by Bolshevik armies repulsed by Poles in Volhynia, but Reds invaded town at a point. July 26—Russians suggested peace negotiations direct with the Poles. July 21—Arabs accepted French terms concerning Syria. July 19—Reds asked soviet Russia for garristice, and new Polish cabinet was formed with Witos as premier. July 24—Russia consented to an armistice. July 25—Russia offered to talk peace with allies if Wrangel surrendered. French occupied Damascus. July 26—Greeks took Adrianople, capturing Jafar Tayar. Russians took Bialystok and attacked Brest-Litovsk. July 31—Vilna abandoned to soviet forces. Peace negotiations began at Baranovich. Aug. 1-Fortress of Brest-Litovsk taken by Russians. Aug. 2-League of Nations council at San Sebastian adopted Fence plan for international adopted staff of military experts. A Noel adopted Root's plan for international court of justice. Aug. 5-League council adopted intar national blockade plan. Aug. 4- Lloyd George issued ultimatum to Russian representatives. Poles agreed to meet Russians at Minsk on Aug. 8- Bolshevik rejected British plan for ten-day armistice. Aug. 9- British labor leaders warned government against Poland. Poles would support Poland "with all available means" against dismemberment; would never recognise the soviet regime; would allow Russian invasion of Russian territory; and suggested withdrawal of Russian troops from Poland and foreign troops from Russia as a means to end war. Turkish troops treaty signed. Aug. 11—French government announced it recognized the Wrangel government in south Russia and would give it aid, and broke off relations with soviet representatives. Letvil and soviet Russia signed peace treaty, and Finland and Russia agreed on an armistice. Aug. 12—Mlawa captured by the Bolshevik. Bolshevik captured Soldau. Aug. 16—Russo-Polish armistice negotiations opened at Minsk. Great battle for possession of Warawar. Aug. 18—Russians and Russians and launched three counter offensives. Aug. 18—Danzig corridor cleared of Bolshevik. Aug. 19—Russians retreating in disorder from Poland. Aug. 23—Poles recaptured Bialystok. Aug. 24—Poles, having destroyed or dispersed four of the five Bolshevik armies, rejected Russian terms. Aug. 26—Russian Wrangel opened great offensive in south Russia, taking Novo Rossisk and other cities and the Donetsk basin. Aug. 28—Reds recaptured Grodno and Poles evacuated Bialystok. Aug. 31—Ukrainians opened drive against the Bolshevik. Peace conference at Minsk broke up. Sept. 1—Budenny is held army in Galicia. Oct. 1—Budenny is held army in Galicia. Sept. 20—Ninth session of League of Nations council adjourned after persuading Iraq and Lebanon to support hostilities and arbitrate their differences, and Finland and Sweden to arbitrate concerning the Aland islands. Polish-Russian peace conference opened at Kraków. Sept. 23—Poles and Lithuanians resumed hostilities. Vilna seized by Polish troops under Zellgowski. Oct. 12—Poland and soviet Russia signed peace treaty. Lebanon began offensive against new sixth soviet army. Oct. 14 - Russo-Finnish peace treaty signed. Oct. 17-Japanese and Korean troops fought in Manchuria. Defeat of Wrangel near Kakhovka announced. Nov. 13-Serious defeats of Wrangel's forces announced. Nov. 10-Italy and Jugo-Slavia reached agreement on Adriatic dispute. Nov. 13-Complete collapse of Wrangel's forces in Manchuria. Wrangel's first meeting of Nations assembly opened first meeting in Geneva; Paul Hymans of Belgium elected president. Nov. 16-Ukrainians routed by Reds, losing Kiev and other towns. Spain agreed to the allies in police action district. Nov. 19—Germany notified League of Nations that the treaty of Versailles had been violated by the allies in the matter of mandates, and demanded her former commission. Nov. 23—Scandinavian amendments to League of Nations covenant voted down by committee on general organization Commission on Armenian situation ap- Peace negotiations between Poland and soviet Russia resumed the Polish troops withdrawing to armistice in the Nations council asked United States to mediate between Armenia and Mustapha Kemal Pasha. Nov. 29-italy started to force D'Annun- Dec. 1-D'Annunzio declared war on Italy. Austria voted membership in League of Nations. Russian Reds took Erivan and established son Samuel in Russian Armenia. Great Britain, France and Italy warned Greece against restoring Constantine to throne. Dec. 3-Argentine delegates withdrew from League of Nations assembly because of refusal to consider amendments to covariant. Armenia and Turkish nationalists signed peace treaty. Dec. 8-President Wilson declined to appoint American representatives on League of Nations disarmament commission. Dec. 10—League of Nations assembly postponed postponed decision on economic blockade Dec. 13—League of Nations assembly adopted statutes to permanent interna- tions of justice Holland broke off diplomatic relations with Jugo-Slavia because of "a long series of insults." Dec. 15—Austria was admitted to the League of Nations, Spain, Brazil, Belgium and China made elective members of the league council. Dec. 16—Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Finland and Luxemburg admitted to League of Nations. Dec. 17—Albania admitted to League of Nations. Dec. 18—Meeting of League of Nations assembly closed. Dec. 22—Great powers warned Spain against attacks in the cortes to strangle foreign enterprises. FOREIGN Jan. 13–D. Dr. Jose Luis Tamayo elected president of Ecuador. He was rechagstag in Berlin and was routed by troops, 35 being killed and scores wounded. The elected president Jan. 17—Paul Deschanel elected president of France. Jan. 18—Millerand made French premier. Feb. 6—Active rebellion against Japanese rule in Korea. Feb. 22—Serious revolution in Honduras. Feb. 25—Irish home rule bill introduced in parliament. March 1—Admiral Horthy elected regent of Hungary. March 15—Overthrow of Ebert government in Berlin, Germany, by counter revolutionists headed by Dr. Wolfgang Kapp and monarchists. March 15—Military of old German caballero standing at Stuttgart, Germany, refused to negotiate with the reactionary reaction headed by Dr. Wolfgang Kapp. March 17—Dr. Wolfgang Kapp resign as chancellor of Germany. March 18—Ebert government regained control in Berlin, Doctor Kapp's troops leaving. March 20—Lord mayor of Cork assassinated by masked person. March 22—Ebert government persons killed in fighting at Leipzig, Germany, before Ebert troops captured city. March 31-Japanese troops stationed at Nikolaevsk, Siberia, defeated in battle with Russian forces; Japanese killed in battle with common passed Irish house rule bill, 348 to 94. Ian Macpherson, chief secretary for Ireland, resigned. April 2-Ebeye government at Berlin reached a promise agreement with warkeepers; civil war ended. April 4-Many government buildings burned by fire throughout Ire- land Sunday. April 20—Hidalgo and Tlaxcala, Mexico, joined the secession movement. April 22—Former Premier Caillaux of France convicted of having commerce and correspondence with the enemy. April 28—Mexican revolt spreading Battle for Chihuahua City won by Carranza troops. American border troops ready for action. May ?-Rebels occupied Mexico City; Carranza fled. May 8-Obregon's forces occupied Tampico. May 11-French government ordered dissolution of General Federation of La Rioja. May 16-Joan of Arc canonized by Pope Benedict. May 20-Venuttiano Carranza, fleeing president of Mexico, killed by former comrades. May 26-Adolfo de la Huerta elected provisional president of Mexico. June 1-Pope announced Catholic sovereigns might visit the king of Italy. June 26-Seventeen persons killed and scores injured in civil warfare in Londonderry, Ireland. July 18-Prince Joachim, youngest son of former kalser, committed suicide in Berlin July 28- Esteban Cantu, governor of Mexico, in rebellion against Mexican government. Aug. 1—Dr. D. Porras elected president of Panama. Lord Mayor MacSwiney of Cork and ten assistants arrested while attending a Sept. 4-Bolshavist uprisings in Italy; soviet rule established in many industrial plants. Sept. 5-Obregon elected president of Mexico. Sept. 15-Paul Deschanel, president of France, resigned. Sept. 18-Workers in southern Italy setze many industrial plants. Sept. 20-Fortress of Mantua, Italy, blown up by anarchists. Sept. 21-City of Balbriggan, Ireland, raided and partly burned by British police. more towns, making eight in a week. Sept. 25-Italian workers and employers made agreement and reign of communism in industrial plants ended. Oct. 20-Jugo-Blava declared a constitutional, hereditary monarchy with the Serbian royal family the reigning dynasty. Oct 25—Terence Macwainy, lord mayor died, of starvation in Brixton prjp@jpm Drys badly defeated in Scottish prohibition elections. Nov. 11-Irish home rule bill passed house of commons. Nov. 12-Hunger strike of Sinn Fein prisoners called off. Nov. 14-Venizelos' party defeated in Greek elections. Nov. 15-Sebastopol captured by the British. Nov. 17-Venizelos, Greek premier, resigned and Rhailas formed new cabinet. Nov. 21-Many killed and injured in Dublin following the murder of 14 British men. Nov. 23-Top of Mount Blanc fell off and caused great avalanche. Nov. 26-Arthur Griffith, acting president of the "Irish republic," and other Irish men arrested in Sinn Fein arson plot in London foiled. Nov. 23—Irish plotters set fire to several waterfront and killed two men. Dec 8--Greek government invited Constantine to return to the throne, despite warning by Great Britain, France and Italy. Dec. 10-Martial law proclaimed in south Ireland. Dec 20 - Eighteen killed and many wounded wounded in English and in County Tipperary. Jan. 2- Thousands of Reds arrested in many cities. Ralds continued daily. Taking of the census begun. Jan. 3- Department of Finance revealed raid on both the government, War Finance corporation announced loans of $17,000,000 to aid exporters. Jan. 8- Democratic national committee meetings for the convention, opening June 28. Jan. 10- House of representatives again denied Victor Berger his seat. Jan. 27-David F. Houston appointed secretary of the treasury and Edwin T. Meredith of Iowa secretary of agriculture. Henry P. Fletcher resigned as ambassador to Mexico. resigned, effective March 1. Feb. 12-Arizona ratified suffrage amendment. Feb. 16- Subcommittee of house reported great extravagance, waste and incompetence in promotion, severely disliking Secretary Baker, Colonel Disque and Director Ryan. Feb 19-New Mexico ratified suffrage amendment Feb. 21-Railway bill conference report adopted by house. named minister Felix Baimbridge Colby selected for secretary of state. Feb. 28—G. W. P. Hunt of Arizona made minister to Slam. Feb. 27—Court order entered divorcing big packers from business not directly related to packing. Feb. 28—Oklahoma ratified suffrage amendment. March 1—Federal Judge Geiger in MII- laws he held Wisconsin's 1/2 per cent beer law. New Jersey legislature passed law legalizing 3½ per cent beverages. United States Supreme court decided United States Steel corporation is not an illegal combination. Railroads returned to owners. Sir Auckland Gedden accepted as British ambassador to United States. President Wilson let it be known he would not be candidate for re-election. March 10-West Virginia assembly ratified suffrage amendment. United States submarine H-1 wrecked near Magdalena bay. Lt. Commander J. R. Webb and three of crew lost. March 15—United States senate adopted a reservation to peace treaty by vote of 54 to 46. United States Supreme court granted permission to state of New Jersey to institute original proceedings to test validity of prohibition amendment. John Barton Payne retired as chair- man and was sworn in as secretary of interior. March 18—United States senate adopted a bill requiring all foreigners for self-determination for Ireland. House of representatives passed army appropriation bill providing for army of 29,000 enlisted men and 17,800 officers. March 13-German peace treaty with league covenant failed of radiation in senate. March 20-Truman H. Newberry, junior United States senator from Michigan, and others convicted by jury at Grand Rapids court criminally in 1918 to violate election laws. Newberry fined $10,000 and sentenced to imprisonment for two years. March 23-Balnibridge Colby sworn in as state Government control of bituminous coal withdrawn by President Wilson, effective April 1. April 24-Director General of Railroads Hines effective May 15. April 26-Supreme Court declared the Reading company and certain of its subsidiaries an illegal combination. May 13-Socialists nominated Eugene Dabs for president and Seymour Stedman for vice president. May 15-Senate adopted Knox peace resolution. May 18-Secretary of the Interior Payne made director general of railroads. House adopted senate peace resolution. May 24-President Wilson asked congress for authority to accept the mandates of a government. Investigation of presidential campaign expenses begun by the senate. May 27-President Wilson vetosed Knox peace resolution. May 29-Merger power conservation bill passed by congress. June 1-United States Supreme court decided ratification of a constitutional amendment is not subject to submission nominationendum. Undersecretary of State Frank Polk resigned. June 5—Congress adjourned, President Wilson letting several important measures direct the signature of the United States Supreme court declared valid both the prohibition amendment and the Volstead enforcement act. June 8—Republican national convention opened in Chicago. June 2—Republicans nominated Warren G. Harding of Ohio for president and Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts for vice president. July 6—Democrats in San Francisco nominated James M. Coe of Ohio for President and Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy, for vice president. July 14—Parley P. Christensen, Salt Lake City, nominated for president by Farmer-Labor party in Chicago, after bolt by committee of forty-eight and sinister. July 20—George White, Marletta, Ohio elected chairman Democratic national congressman July 21—Prohibitionists opened national convention in Lincoln, Neb., and nominated W. J. Bryan for president by acclamation July 22—Bryan declining, the Prohibitionists nominated Aaron S Watkins of Ohio for president and Lloyd Colvin of Ohio for president. July 31—Interstate commerce commission authorized freight, passenger and Pullman rate increase amounting to about half the bill and communicated to Aug. 2—Twenty Communist Labor leaders found guilty of sedition in Chicago. Aug. 5—Fatal anti-foreign riots in West Frankfurt, Ill.; state troops sent. Street car raids in Denver; several arrests killed in Chicago. Aug. 7—Governor Cox formally notified of his nomination. Aug. 13—Increase of 12½ per cent in express rates authorized by interstate com Aug. 26- Ritification of suffrage amendment proclaimed by Secretary of State Hugh Sept. 21—Three Socialists, re-elected to assembly, ousted, two seated, but resigned. Sept. 24—W. A. Ketcham, Indianapolis, elected commander in chief of G. A. R. President Wilson declined to abrogate the sales tax and to congress in the merchant, marine act. Walter Dill Scott elected president of Northwestern university. He was the population president of continental United States announced as 106,683,108. Nov. 2-Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge elected President and vice president of United States; Republican land- California voters indorsed the anti-alien land law. Nov. 1 Irish mob in New York attacked British League club because British flag was flying. President Wilson's message to congress urged independent leaders, the Philippines and Malta, to rename the peninsula. immigration for 14 months. House adopted resolution repealing war- Dec. 14-Government crop report showed shrinkage in values of nearly five billion dollars compared with 1919. Dec. 15-Senate passed bill authorizing farmers' co-operative marketing associations. Dec. 16-Senate passed bill forbidding strikes on railroads. Dec. 20-Permanent merge of four express compartment optimized by interstate commission Jan. 8—Steel strike called off by workers' committee. March 1—Central railway strike in Italy; martial law in principal cities. Feb. 9—Three hundred thousand members of Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees on behalf La-La-La Railway strike February 17. March 1-French railway strike settled. March 5-Two sasand railway express Chinese-Chinese March 31-Bituminous coal miners accepted 27 per cent wage increase and eight-hour day awarded by President Wilson's coal commission. Five thousand coal miners in Illinois and Kansas state use of dissatisfaction award awards. April 9 - Chicago switchmen's strike spread to all cities. April 13 - President Wilson appointed railroad board to settle railroad wage争议 June 7-Fortieth annual convention of American Federation of Labor opened in Montreal. June 19—Samuel Gompers e-relected president of the American Federation of Labor for thirty-ninth time. July 20—United States labor board awarded strike in wage to all classes of railway workers, about half what was asked. July 22—Rail unions ordered referendum vote on wage award. July 23—Illinois coal miners on strike. July 24—Indiana and Kansas coal miners struck. July 29-International Harvester company announced it would pay employees 60 per cent of its profits after cent had been paid on invested capital. July 31-Striking miners ordered back to work. August 10-Wage increases totaling more than $30,000,000 awarded employees of American Railway Express by United States railway labor board. July 23-New York street car men struck. Sept. 1—Outlaw strike paralyzed the anthracite fields. Sept. 12—Outlaw strike of railway men in Chicago district ended. Oct. 16—Coal miners of Great Britain struck, demoralizing the nation's industries. Nov. 3—British mine strike called off. Dec. 13—New England cotton mills reduced wages of 100,000 workers about 22½ per cent. Dec. 15—Several big industrial concerns announced reductions and discontinuance of reduction of dividends. NECROLOGY Jan. 1-Thomas Hume, millionaire lumberman, at Muskegon, Mich. Jan. 19-Reginald De Koven, American composer. Jan. 24-Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, author, at Yonkers, N. Y. Jan. 27-J. B. Wilson, Texas cattle magna- tate. Feb. 4-E. P. Ripley, chairman of Santa Fe railway, at Santa Barbara, Cal. O. C. Barber, founder of Diamond Company company, O. Feb. 8-Jev. James B. Buckley, editor Christian Advocate, at Morristown, N. J. Feb. 10-C. F. Gunther, pioneer candy manufacturer of Chicago, and art co- nrolseur. Feb. 12-Jullus Chambers, author and explorer, in New York. Feb. 18-Brig. Gen. P. W. Davison, U.S. Feb. 20-Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, U.S. N. discoverer of north pole. Feb. 22-Maj. R. W. Pullman, superintendent of Washington police. Feb. 24-K Franklin Murphy, former gov- ernor of Washington police. March 15—Former Senator Henry W. Blair of New Hampshire in Washington. March 19—Albert Rouillier, artist and collector of American art. March 29—Dr. Thomas H. Owen, director of department of archives and history of Alabama, at Montgomery, Ala., artist and Smedley, American artist, at New York. March 31—Edwin Warfield, former governor of Maryland, at Baltimore. April 14—Bishop Matthew S. Hughes of Philadelphia, at O'Connell. April 8—Dr. John A. Braashe, former chancellor of University of Pittsburgh, and astronomer. April 10—Judge Richard S. Tuthill, at choice. April 14—Roger C. Sullivan, democratic leader, at Chicago. April 16—Theodore N. Vall, chairman of American Telephone and Telegraph company. April 26—Miss Marjorie Benton Cooke, American author, at Manila. May 4—R. J. Belford, publisher, at Los Angeles. May 4—R. J. Belford, publisher, at Los Angeles. May 11—William Dean Howells, in New York. May 16—Levl P. Morton, former vice president. May 17—Col. W. D'A. Mann, inventor and publisher, in Morristown, N. J. May 15—R. J. Belford, noted attorney in Cleveland, U. S. June 1—Rear Admiral W. W. Hendrickson, U. S. N. June 3—Dr. Charles Augustus Stoddard, noted author, in New York. June 5—Rear Admiral Winterhalter, U. S. N. Rhoda Broughton, British novelist. June 14—Mme. Rejane, famous French actress. Crown prince of Slam. June 18—George W. Perkins, financier, at Stamford, Conn. July 4—Maj. Gen. William C. Gorgas, former surgeon general of United States on board. Representative Dick I. Morgan of Eighth Oklahoma district. July 21-Arthur J. Eddy, Chicago, author, art critic and lawyer. Aug. 1- J. Frank Hanley, former governor of Indiana, killed in accident Marquis of Queensberry, in Johannesburg. Aug. 6--Commander C. M. Howe, U.S.N. Rev. Dr. H. C. Herring, general secretary national council of Congregational churches. Rear Admiral E. H. Gheen, U. S. N., Aug. 12-Walter Winnans, noted American artist and sportsman, in London, Aug. 16-Sir Norman Lockyer, eminent scientist, at Sidmouth, England, Aug. 20-Ettelka Gerster, famous scientist in Italy, Aug. 22-Andreas Zorn, famous Swedish painter, Aug. 26-James Wilson, former secretary of agriculture, at Traer, Iowa, Aug. 29-Cardinal Amette, archbishop of Paris, Sept.-Cardinal Mendes, archbishop of Titicaca and primate of Spain, Sept. 17-Egerton Castle, English novelist, Sept. 20-George Nasmyth, American soilologist, at Geneva, Sept. 21-Dr. Eric Doolittle, noted astronomer in Philadelphia, Sept. 21-Dr. Eric Doolittle, noted astronomer in Philadelphia, Sept. 21-Dr. Eric Doolittle, art patron and philanthropist, at Hartford, Conn, Jacob H. Schiff, New York banker and philanthropist, G. K. Murray Crane, United States senator at Dalton, Mass, Oct. 6-Miguel de Palacios, noted Spanish author, Oliver Rev. Dr. H. Stuck, archdeacon of the Yukon. Oct. 13—Mrs. Ogden Mills, social leader in New York and Paris. Oct. 14—Mr. famous evangelist, in Birmingham, England. J. G. Snyderk, Chicago capitalist and art connoisseur. Oct. 16—Howard H. Gross, president Universal Military Training league, in Chicago. Oct. 17—General Leman, defender of Llege against the Germans. John Rale, American writer. Oct. 18—Federal Judge A. L. Sanborn at Madison, Wils. Oct. 19—Jay Rial, prominent theatrical and circus man, at Winston-Salem, N. C. Oct. 23—Oliver Doud Byron, veteran Amherst lawyer. Oct. 24—Stephen S. Gregory, eminent Chicago lawyer. Nov. 2.-G. W. Stavens, president Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. Nov. 9—Ludwig III, former king of Bavaria. Maj. R. W. McClaughry, former warden of Leavenworth and Joliet penitentiary. Nov. 10—Henry Thode, noted German historian. Rear Admiral T. B. Howard, U. S. N., retired. Nov. 14—Alston Ellis, president of Ohio university. Nov. 15—Iomas Shields Clarke, sculptor and painter, in New York. Nov. 18—Franklin Fort, former governor of New Jersey. Thomas H. Goldge, former minister to France, at Boston. Nov. 22—George W. Breck, noted mural decorator. Nov. 23—Commodore E. C. Benedict of New York. Mrs. Margaret Brewster, writer, in Modesto, Cal. Nov. 26—Jake L. Hamon, Republican national committeeman from Oklahoma. W. A. F. Ekengren, Swedish minister to Dec. 3—Francis Lynde Stetson, eminent attorney of New York. Dec. 10—Horace E. Dodge, automobile manufacturer, in Palm Beach. Marquis Della Chiesa, brother of the pope. Dec. 12—Olive Schreiner, novelist. Dec. 16—Cyrus Beard, chief justice of Wyoming, supreme court. Dec. 18—Mrs. Helen E. Starrett, noted American educator. DISASTERS March 28—Nearly 200 persons killed and hundreds injured by tornado that swept Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Louisiana. Several million dollars' property, damage. Aug. 19—Great floods in Japan with heavy loss of life. Dec. 9-Disastrous earthquakes In Chile and Central America. Dec. 16-Earthquake destroyed towns along Argentine slope of the Andes; 400 killed. SPORTS Jan. 18- A. Haugen of Colorado won the international ski tournament at Cary, Ill. Jan. 30- Joe Stecher won heavyweight winning championship from Earl Caddock Feb. 4- W. B. Huey won world's amateur three-cushion championship at Chicago. March 5- Percy Collins of Chicago won national amateur 18-2 billiard championship. May 8-Kentucky Derby won by Paul Jones. May 12-Chevrolet won 500-mile automobile race at Indianapolis. July 2-William T. Tilden of Philadelphia won British lawn tennis championship. July 15-Shamrock won first of America's cup races, owing to accident to Resolute. July 17-Charles Evans, Jr., won western amateur golf championship. July 20-Shamrock won second race for America's cup. July 23-Resolute defeated Shamrock in third race. Aug. 3- United States won Olympic target shooting contest. Americans won the Olympic championships. Sept. 6-Jack Dempsey knocked out Billy Miske in third round. Sept. 28- Seven members of Chicago White Sox club and one former member accused of conspiracy to throw" world series at Chicago. Grand at Chicago voted indictments. Oct. 6-Brooklyn won second world series game. Carpentier of France knocked out Lovinsky and became light heavyweight twice in Oct. 18- Eight National league and three American league clubs voted to withdraw from the national agreement and adopt a new rule. Oct. 23- Grand jury in Chicago indicted Oct. 23—Grand jury in Chicago Indicted Hassan Abu Attel for the haggah conspiracy. Oct. 30—American fishing schooner Esperanto defeated Carnegiean entry Delawanna. Nov. 1—Esperanto defeated Delawanna again and won series. Nov. 8—Owners of eight National and form new 12-club clubs voted to form new 12-club club and offered chairmanship of board of control to Judge Landis with annual salary of $50,000. Nov. 15— chairmanship of baseball board of control, and war between the major leagues was averted. Nov. 20—Ohio State university won conference football championship. Dec. 12—John Layton of St. Louis won the billiard championship from B.C. Cannefax. AFRONAUTICS Feb. 27—Maj. R. W. Schroeder made world's altitude record of 36,020 feet at Dayton, O., and then fell five miles, but struck the ground. May 31—Two Italian leutenants completed flight from Rome to Tokyo. June 27—Aviator John H. Larsen made new altitude record in United States; completed flight from Omaha, Neb. to Philadelphia in 11 hours. July 15—Four United States airplanes started flight from New York to Alaska July 23—First transcontinental mall plane left Long Island for San Francisco. Aug. 8—First transcontinental air mail reached Oakland, Cal. Aug. 10—Air mail service established between Chicago and St. Paul-Minneapolis. Aug. 15—Chicago-St. Louis air mail service reached Nome, Alaska. Aug. 23—Army planes from New York reached Nome, Alaska. Sept. 8—Coast-to-coast air mail service reached Sept. 28—James Gordon Bennett trophy race won by Sadi Lecolonte, France. Oct. 25—Sugimori entry, Japan international balloon race in America. Nov. 25—Leut. C. C. Mosley won Pultzler trophy airplane race at Mineola, N. Y., his speed being 16 miles an hour. Dec. 5—J. Christensen, air mail pilot, set new record for Chicago-New York flight, making 742 miles in 5 hours 31 minutes. 4 The BIRTH of the NEW YEAR 1921 INTERNATIONAL My Times are in Thy hand.—Psalm 31:16. SAD and solemn are the last hours of the dying year. Only a few months ago a New Year was given unto us, fresh and pure from God's great storehouse of time. It has spent its life upon the earth, and its footprints will never be effaced. The departing year has brought to us God's numberless blessings; it has seen many noble deeds done, and it has seen progress in many departments of life. The passing of another year must emphasize to every thoughtful person the swift flight of time. Looking backward over the past years of our life they seem to shrink to the size of beads strung around a child's neck. Seeking an image of man's career, the prophet sees his days swifter than a weaver's shuttle; his years swifter than an arrow, curving as it rises to its fall. What is man's life? he asks. It is a cloud dissolving in the sunshine. It is a summer brook swollen by sudden rains, but soon running out and leaving the stones bare again. It is a tale that is soon told. These last days of the old year urge us to husband well the time that is still given us. To a shrub a year means only a leaf; to the vine, a cluster; to the tree, a new ring of wood. But to a man a year means a large portion of his life which has been used or wasted. Youth often unthinkingly throws all responsibilities on the years to come. To him everything seems possible in the future. Then he thinks to have time for education. Then he will practice economy and thrift, let the present be prodigal as it may. The morrow will suffice for the forming of habits and the building of character. So dazzled by the future the youth allows the years to slip through his hands, and the result is a man who is an intellectual infant and a moral feebling. As you pause now and think over the past, you must realize that the morrow holds no harvests which the laborers called yesterday did not sow and cultivate. There was an ancient custom of putting an hourglass into the coffin of the dead to signify that their time had run out—a useless notification to them. Better put the hourglass into the hand of every living man to show him how swiftly the sands of life do flow. But, after all, time is of value only as we make the best use of it. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths In fact, he is in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts The old year may hold our many failures, many disappointments, many bitter regrets. The New Year holds out to us hope and promise, for my times are in Thy hand, O Lord. It should comfort us when we think of the brevity of our years, to realize by contrast the length of God's years. We have but a short time to work, and it is well to remember that in order that we may be dilligent. But God has a whole eternity in which to work, and it is well to remember that also, so that we may cease from freetfulness and impatience at the slow progress of His kingdom among us. Jesus Christ has not ceased from His redemption of the world, nor has God been defeated in His plans for humanity, for the times of men and nations are in His hand. For most of us the memory of the past is a chamber of discontent. Let therefore the old year bury from sight its story of sin and sorrow and failure. Let there be sincere repentance for the follies of the past, and then let a new man step forth to meet with hope and determination the glad New Year which God desires shall be a blessed year for every child of earth. When God forgives, He forgives utterly. He casts man's sins "into the depths of the sea." Why then should memory thrust its hooked pole into the sea to dredge the bottom and bring up by the locks some pale memory which God has plunged into the ocean of forgetfulness? Man's life is not in the past, but in the days to come, for our times are in His hand. And how many of us are waiting for the opportunities of the coming year? With how many of us is it the unuttered hope that tomorrow may be free from the sins and the mistakes of yesterday? I pray God that for you it may be so. Your times are in His hand, and let your Father shape the new year for you; let Him rule it, and strive with the help of the Spirit to walk the way of His commandments. "Forgetting the things that are behind, let us press on for the prize of the high calling in Christ Jesus." The passing year also must remind us that there will come a last year for each one of us. Perhaps this coming year is your last. Are you therefore ready to see the curtain rise upon eternity? Are you now ready to hear the midnight cry, and to enter into the marriage supper of the King's Son? Our times are in God's hand, and no man knoweth what day or hour he may be called from his labor. Though we live to be counted among the oldest inhabitants we must depart at last. Others have gone before us and are going every day, and yet we seem so eager to forget our own mortality. Nay, let us rather look forward with anticipation, believing that God will then give us a New Year which shall be without sin and tears and sorrow and pain, where love shall rule, and where happiness shall be complete in the fullest service to our God. The New Year bells will soon be ringing. Do not fail to make some personal preparations for its coming. Make resolutions for the future on the basis of your experience of the past. Every heart knows its own needs, and its own weaknesses. Be not discouraged by past failures, but pray to God earnestly to help to future successes. Take this New Year as a holy gift from a gracious Father and begin to live it carefully and prayerfully. Do not strive to carry the burdens of future months, but live each day as if it were the last and the best. In spite of all the lills which we see in the world today, let us believe that the New Year will be a blessed year to all mankind, and let each one of us do our uttermost to make it so. May God look upon us all in mercy, and may He let this New Year Ring out old shapes of foul disease. Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old. Ring in the thousand years of peace. Let the new year be a year of freedom from sin, a year of service, a year of trust in God, and it will be a happy year from first to last. It may be the hardest year we have known, but it will be the happiest. —J. M. Burkley, D. D. Encircling Wreath of Fancy Bedecks New Year's Day EVER since the dawn of time the happenings of New Year's day have been said to foretell the luck of the coming months. For there is a vein of superstition in the human race, and all of us share in its delusions. There is no day in the year without its encircling wreath of fancy; this first day of them all is wondrously bedecked. Not even Christmas is so ancient, and so world renowned, and it stands first in the folklore of every language. On New Year's day in ancient Egypt, when as yet the pyramids were unbuilt, there were grand processions and smoking sacrifices. In Sparta it was celebrated by the consecration of youths to military service. Among the Saxons and old Germans were great rejoicings, feastings and carousels on this day, and the wail sail bow passed merrily around. This was a great vessel filled with ale, sugar, fruits, nutmeg and spices. There was enough for the whole community and the great bowl ran freely all day. In all countries there have been charms and devotions peculiar to the opening year, for a desire to peer into the future is really common to us all, no matter how we affect to deride the idea. The Bible charm was one familiar to our grandfathers, and was used by religious people even down to the present generation. It is solemn and interesting, and well worth recording. "When the clock strikes 12 on New Year's eve, pick up your Bible and open it at random, and walking backward to a table, lay the book down, face open, upon it. Turn around three times, take up the book, read the verse upon which your thumb falls. It will tell your fate for the coming year. For instance, if it should be: "And He will love thee and bless thee and multiply thee," or "If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the earth," we expect a very pleasant year. But conceive the horror of one who should open to these words: "So he died, and was gathered to his fathers," or "In hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment." In Switzerland the malden borrows her mother's wedding ring, ties it with a hair from her own head, then suspends it just over the rim of a teacup, all the while counting rapidly the years of her own age. Of course the hair-hung ring trembles and knocks against the cup, and each little tap counts one year before she will wed; so she must count very fast, or be shocked at the number of taps. In Norway the kind of fish caught on the day foretells "fisherman's luck" for the coming year. In rural New England almost over locality has some special charm of fortune-telling of its own for this day of fate. The Chinese have used cards for thousands of years, and the queerest thing in the world is a Chinese New Yerr's card. It gives all the complimentary titles of the owner, and is almost as large as a wall map. In olden times it was the custom for tenants to give New Year's gifts to their landlords, and every loyal subject owed a gift to his sovereign. We read how good Queen Elizabeth was such a favorite that her gifts were marvels of taste and extravagance. In our country we give presents on Christmas day, but in France they are reserved for the first of the year. OFFER $50,000 WHISKY BRIBE REVENUE BUREAU CLERKS AP: PROACHED TO HELP AVOID LAW ENFORCEMENT. ATTEMPT FRAUD ON U.S. FENCING SCHOOL PROFESSOR TAKEN INTO CUSTODY BY FEDERAL AGENTS. Washington, Dec. 31.—Officials and employés of the Internal Revenue Bureau here have been offered bribes up to $50,000 to assist in evasion of the Volstead prohibition enforcement act through issuance of false liquor withdrawal permits, local prohibition agents declared. The statement was made in discussing the arrest here of Antonio Pappano, charged with bribing one of the employés of the federal prohibition director's office in New York. There has been no evidence, however, that any of the bribes offered here were accepted, it was said. Pappano, who conducted a fencing school here, was released on $10,000 bond following his arraignment. New York.—Two women clerks in the federal prohibition director's office here and three men were arrested, charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States through the use of liquor withdrawal permits obtained by brithery and by forgery of telegrams and permits. The women are Mary Perkins and Regina Sassone, and the men are Edward Donegan, a Brooklyn contractor; Sigmund (Beansy) Rosenfeld and Geo R. Stibberson. Donegan, Rosenfeld and the women were arranged before United States Commissioner Hitchcock, who held Donegan under $100,000 bail and each of the others under $50,000 bail. Stibberson was not arraigned. Besides the charges of fraud in use of permits and telegrams, complaints sworn to by agents allege that Donegan and Rosenfeld offered the agents $25,000 to destroy evidence and release them and the women and that $6,500 was paid to the agents. Operations of the alleged conspirators were described in four complaints. They charge that beginning Sept. 15 last the defendants agreed to obtain from the files of the prohibition director for New York state telegrams from distilleries in various parts of the country, inquiring about the genuneness of withdrawal permits presented by the distillers. By means of forged telegraphic replies and fraudulent permits the complaints allege, the defendants planned to obtain liquor. The charge is made that Miss Sassone was to remove the telegrams from the files for which she was to receive $100 a telegram, and that she received about $3,000 from Donegan. The complaint alleges that during the last week an attempt was made to carry out the scheme against the New York and Kentucky company. Get Murderer in Mexico. Washington.—The murderer of John Berens, an American mining man, killed last month in the state of Mexico, Mexico, has been arrested and is being held for trial in the state of Nichoacan, the American embassy reported to the State Department. The authority given by the embassy for its statement was the account of the arrest published in the Mexico City newspapers. Phonograph Works Closed. West Orange, N. J.—The photograph works of Thomas A. Edison, Inc., has been closed and will remain closed indefinitely. The record department will not be affected. "General business conditions" throughout the country were given by company officials as the reason for the closing which affects 800 employés. Wants Gold Price Increased. Washington—Gold producers alone have not profited by increased prices, Representative Raker, Democrat, California, told the House, urging his bill to increase the price of gold $10 an ounce. He said gold producers were "hard up" and hundreds of mines were closed, as the metal cost more to mine than it could be sold for. Cyclone Wrecks Forty Homes. Oviedo, Spain.—A cyclone has caused enormous damage in the province of Oviedo. Forty houses were destroyed in the hamlet of Sama De Langreo, and buildings in many mining settlements of that region were unroofed. The potato, maize and chestnut crops are said to be destroyed. Postal Official Arrested. San Francisco.—William C. Petersen, assistant postmaster of Honolulu, has been arrested there and charged with embezzling $27,000 of postoffice funds, according to a cablegram to the postoffice inspector here. Petersen admitted taking the money, asserting he did not know what became of it, a Honolulu inspector cabled. Petersen has been employed in the Honolulu postoffice fifteen years. William Kane, postoffice clerk, was also arrested, accused of embezzling customs funds. Wholesale and Retail Staple and Fancy Groeries Fish and Oysters Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty Fresh and Cured Eastern Corn-Fed Meats Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry and Game FREE DELIVERY FLORAL DESIGNS PUT UP WHILE YOU WAIT CHOICE PLANTS AND CUT FLOWERS CONSTANTLY ON HAND GREENHOUSES: Thirty-Fourth and Curtis Streets TELEPHONE, MAIN 1811 DENVER, COLO Weatherhead Hat Co. RENOVATORS, BLEACHERS, DYERS AND FINISHERS Of Gents' and Ladies' Hats of Every Description 1624 CHAMPA ST., DENVER, COLO. 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Walker's Cleansing Cream Witch Hazel Jelly Floral Cluster Tale <r The{ Madam C. J. Walker Mfg. Co. 640 North West Street Indianapolis, Ind. Makers of 18 superfine preperations for the hair and skin w. K. HUNI GROCERIES and MEATS We have just received a shipment of fine Mackerel, all sizes, from 10c up. | DON’T WAIT—ORDER YOUR TURKEYS NOW We will have plenty of Chix, Celery, Cranberries A FEW SPECIALS: Brazils .............---40¢ Sliced Peaches, can. ....30c Ppoadii |)... bscats 82 s85e" . Datesi2 pkgs. ct: 2-8. sabe Almonds ...............85¢ _L. ©. Syrup... .40¢ and 75c Comb Honey.....-.-30¢-35¢ Popcorn, the kind that pops, Mincemeat, Ib...... 206 2 Ibi for.....:...;...5.400 2962 WELTON ST. Phone Champa 3522 pO OxO=OnO=O=O= OOOO OO OOOO OOOO OOOO Oe Oe SO ee POLK’S CAFE Our Motto: Courtesy, Celerity, Cleanliness. Sunday Dinners a Specialty. pety hep zs Luncheonette Rh asi Soda Fountain MUSIC. Open from 6:30 a. m. to 11:00 p. m. 2721 WELTON ST. | 4 Wishing Every One a Happy and : 1 ’ PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR; A. V. GARDNER i Phone Champa 1019 1025 Twenty-first St 4 vce we eke at elt okt Shs eh Ee SS SHE Ske Ste} A. BRADSHAW 1443-1447 STOUT STREET oo. nnn General reduction in all merchandise. Men’s Fibre Silk Hose, all colors, 50c pair. Men’s Pure Silk Hose, 75c pair. Men’s Silk Ties at a big reduction. Ladies’ Silk and Fibre Silk Hose, 75c and up. Ladies’ Heather Wool Hose, $1.50 to $2.00 pair, all colors. Outing Flannels, Percales and Ginghams, 25c yard. Complete line Ladies’ extra size Underwear. Men’s Haines’ Union Suits, $1.95. —_:::°DhO]==CXxxCx = i COME EARLY AND AVOID RUSH _ SSS “Thie Fish a Fighter. ; rae Maskellunge sometimes coun up to one hundred pounds in weight, says the American Forestry Magazine. and to and one with rod and tine ts feat not to be forgotten tn a tfetime. That's the Way It Is. Uncle Bill Bottletop says that too few people lay by anything for a rainy day and too many lay by something for a dry «pett.-Washington Star. Suits for the Tourist = han rs : SN Arai) as Pp? 4 Wee 5 &) hoa ore. ACN || Ve: & Baey ay eR aS wre. cee 3 He el Rea ee bite 4 rh a . aes = ple ee, ee % Mths EGS eee 5 cement tS 4 y — < See <A Orca wi she will a-traveling go, | returning in force, for these the expertenced tourist gives | things, are sure to please. niuch thought to her sults. In them| A sult of pongee and one the knows she will make innumerable | as shown in the picture, w' fest impressions and that she Will | tne goid test of expert critic be placed to her advantage or disad- | ~ vantage, many times by these same Im- | handsome pongee orings vi pressions. | palins, blue skies and spark! Just at the right time Paris has pre- | and the southern tourist will f sented some new models in sults In| use for It. Its box coat, sh which both skirts and coats are long-| the sides and finished with er and wider than they have been. | borders, could hardly be m¢ These fuller skirts and coats are In- ‘The suit of cloth at the rigi geniously cut, and furbished up with | on semj-fitted lines and {8 un attractive trimmings, as braids, nar- example of fine talloring. It row fringes, tiny gold or silver cord | close friendship wfth the v« and embroideries. The coats are usu- | points, displaying embroidery ally provided with high collars, but | color in long, graduated poln this rule has exceptions. They divide | the bottom of the coat that honors in the realm of tailored things | peated on the body at the un with coat-dresses and street dresses | It Is quite long and full, an that resemble suits more or less. At| fashionably high but narrow first glance it is not easy to place some | lar. Such a suit, developed of the new street clothes in the class | of the quiet colors, possesse to which they belong—the sults look dignity and Is equal to almost like dresses and the dresses look (ike | time wear with the aid of th suits, Serge and braid trimmings, hat and aceessories, ern | Tunics Reaffirm Their Charm = % =e a” i bone stoereri ere pietured two dresses of woolen cloth that will prove the worth of things designed for the business girl. But almost every girl Is more or less a business girl in these days. Both the tallored frocks pletured are varieties of the tunic dress and designs are endlessly ingenfous in developing this atyle because it has shown itself to be a favorite with all types of wom- en. In the dress at the left the tunte is attached to a coat body and Is plalt- ed, Braids have made quiet but prom- ising entry on tallored frocks, and ap- pear in this model, where a narrow silk braid finishes all edges and orna- ments the sleeves in parallel rows of three lengths. The coat-bodice has a vest to match and a narrow belt of the material. ‘The neck Is high.at the back ‘and opet at, the front and the plalts In the tunle are pressed flat. There are many variations of the tunle, more than balf of them revealing uneven- returning in force, for these tailored things, are sure to please. ‘A sult of pongee and one of cloth. as shown in the picture, will stund the acid test of expert criticism. The handsome pongee vrings visions of palins, blue skies and sparkling seas and the southern tourist will fiud much use for It. Its box coat, slushed ut the sides and finished with braided borders, could hardly be more chic. ‘The suit of cloth at the right Is cut on semj-fitted lines and 1s an elegant example of fine tailoring. It claims a close friendship wfth the vogue for points, displaying embroidery in self color in long, graduated points about the bottom of the coat that are re- peated on the body at the under-arms It Is quite long and full, and has a fashionably high but narrow fur col lar, Such a suit, developed In any of the quiet colors, possesses much dignity and Is equal to almost any day- time wear with the aid of the proper hat and aceessories. ness in their length at the bottom. At the right, a frock of dark blue cloth has a plain straight tunic, split at the sides and joined to a sleeve less over-bodice. The embroidery, iu a narrow border design, Is In tan- colored wool and there is a belt of the material that fastens with a buckle at the front. This over-bodice and tunic, in-one, has been developed very effectively and braid trimmed, and a bodice and tunic worn over a plain skirt appears among the newest models, trimmed from hem to bust line with rows of glazed silk braid, some: thing over an inch wide in parallel rows. It Is one more indication that “spring will bring a braid-trimmed, tall- Ss mode. eee ee eta NP J. R. CONTEE, Pres, and Mgr. Phone Main 6123—Day or Night Residence Phone York 7992 THE OLD RELIABLE _ DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING CO. INCORPORATED AND BONDED NOTARY PUBLIC - FRANK 8, REED, Ss a it } S| Licensed Embalmer and Director ; = eer oi ‘ ‘aoa B, Lady Assistant. polite Service MDD paris, 2745 Welton Street. eo RECO eae aoe tk. CCwSSC D ay " ; . od As * 4 Z _ ee ee) x Fs ie oS a ae i a SSF FFF ee 4 il 7 ms he . - ‘4 ge 4 ane at Ee ‘Bolden Barber Shop Baths, Electric Massages FIRST CLASS SERVICE R. B. 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