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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 A LITTLE JOURNEY TO THE WEST VOL. XXVII. By "Jonathan Cover." LLL Aboard for Pittsburgh, Chicago is going on. These words signalized the be- ginning of a strenuous and pleasurable trip and were the initial step in a process of disillusionment andigkeit in management, which acquaintance was had with many of nature's truths and those material facts of American life which are not found within the limits of our own experience because our frequent intimal and physical toil is found to be many times increased through the added comforts of sleeping car and the appealing charm and satisfaction of dining room furniture. It is thus the elusive panorama of farm and town and busy factory, the gentle or rushing stream, beyond or bordering which are all in the same time, behind and then we are "coming in" and "coming in" for a time that seems interminable, until at length we are set down amid the bustle and noise of the Union Station, a great city at the heart of Lake Michigan. We are told the Auditorium is three blocks in one direction and four in another, and we figure we ought an able to reach the office of tax, do, eventually. Some class to us, you say, but no, we did not wish to put up there, for we were yet a long, long way from Denver; but at the drawing workshop of the G. O. P., the National Headquarters, and have a view of the pastmaster of a political genius and strategy, Senator Harry S. New. We gave it to us as his prediction that Colorado was absolutely safe, and so we were encouraged to linger for a while in the Windy City to renew acquaintances and make with the other day. As the guest of Hon. Edward H. Wright, committeman of the Second Ward, and Alderman Louis B. Anderson, an old Washington box boy, new years' eve courage to take Hurry the breeder's advice and by continuous industry has succeeded in turning it into prestige and cash, our facilities for observation and intimate contact with the men who made the Negro the leader of the progress and development of a greater Chicago not be improved. We are led to wonder what would have been the thought of the poor disfranchised breed of the sisters of the Second Ward could they have seen these stallwart defenders of the suffrage rights and privileges of their constituents, as they battled during several days before the Election Commission to lift the ban on voting from many of them the district. It was significant of the righteousness of their cause when we say that men and women of the City Hall through snow and rain, were triumphantly vindicated and their votes on November 2nd swelled the large majority of Chicago citizens reserved for their approval of the specially designed constructive Mayor Thompson. We wonder again what would be the thought of those folks, our folks "away down home," if they might have a vision of other occurrences modes of life among these other men of their group: see in their homes, surrounded by the elegant conveniences and culture and refinement; see in prompt, regular and efficient in the performance of duty, and honored, respected and consulted, with those reserve or condescension, by those place and power, who deem it m derogation of their honor or dignity to be civil and courteous to dark-slimmed men, a monster noon-day meeting at the Gayetton Theater, where the people's mayor, Big Bill Thompson, was given a tremendous ovation and Jim Ham's socks and iridescent whiskers were featured in the various speakers, was an interesting and inspiring long drive to Morgan Park, a remote suburban colored settlement, where Committee Wright spoke to a large gathering of voters and where Mr. Sprout, a successful candidate for a seat in the mayor also spoke, was another. Through the aid of Mr. Wright's and the competent and kindly aid of his chauffeur, we enabled to cover many points of interest. The new Defender building was known as the building alone represented an outlay of $65,000, and completely equipped would carry an investment of fully $200,000 and employ more than sixty men and women of the brief moment at the home of our old college mate, the Rev. Moses Jackson, pastor for many years of the Grace Presbyterian Church in card at the door of Dr. James Cleveland Hall at another distinguished coterie of successful Lincoln men, and a lingering progress through the spacious attractively furnished rooms of the famous Appomattox Club, and then we are away to make start on the final lab or office. We select the Burlington as the route on account of its reclining attractions, concluding that its further indulgence in Pullman dams, with so ambitious a travel program in mind, would be injudicious to say the least. A plow in clean, white case was hired in quarter from the porter, and with collar loosed, braces cased State Hist. & Nat Hist Bost State House and shoes unlaced, we proceed to say our "Now I lay me," and it would have been "down to sleep" had it not been for the wilful and persistent annoyance of those sagewives who, when seated their little hides with the light, protect their little hides with the care of innocent babies and care of mothers and cause words of flame to hape from tongues of brawny men. Hence came they and whither going, you ask; but now can I tell. I only know for truth, they were a "power," and since even those passengers who indulged not in the extravagant luxury of a pillow gave evidence of a凑合 able to believe that they may have been a sort of special service crew, whose unobtrusive devotion to the system had made them painstaking, efficient and tireless in their attentions to do their work. Their discomforts pass with the night and only live in the memory as a scourge of the flesh which, if we would but see, demonstrate beyond question the nonexistence of a preferred class of living beings that are perfect oneness of our common humanity; that Mother Nature distributes equally and evenly, without favor, her benefits and her distresses, and has promised to no race or class a monopoly of the one or an exemption from the other. A breakfast in the dining car was a tedious function, long delayed, with the tables filled with a hungry, clamorous crowd. The service was made for the teacher and pantry man for the waiter crew, weared from overwork, had refused to "double out." The conductor was the spirit of cheerfulness, however, and in due time everyone had learned to eat placed with us somehow. Westward with such speed and comfort as the venturous pioneers of the early days dreamed not of, and which in the stern midnight journeyed to, would have seemed to them more as a tale to whet the fancy of those of tender age, or like the beckoning mirage or some o'erwrought fertile brain. So she went ahead throughout the day and another night and then the following morning brings to view, away off ahead where azure, bending sky joins hands the earth around, the first line defense of this national use, and land the mountainous mighty storehouses of wealth and mystery—those rock-ribbed and cloud-topped symbols of the western world, which might very appropriately indeed be used in which descended the health-giving dews in Aaron's day, and where sacred history informs us the "Lord commanded a blessing, even life forever more." And since we are at Denver on a Saturday noon with its well remembered holiday aspect. Yet how different in its general physical outline. It takes no effort of the will to realize that business blocks have made for themselves a bronder girth and a far The new and massive Union Station, whose principal facade and huge and ornamental arch at the front, faces busy Seventh Avenue itself. The man's crowded streets the rustling cowboy with his big sombrero. Indians in semi-native dress and Mexicans, some in overalls and some trousered, wore with their longy colored about their necks, singly or in family groups. There they go saunting along, seemingly gazing and wondering, strayed toward and along with suspicious interest at window displays or making a brief survey of a shooting gallery and heeding not at all the warmth of invitations to enter, extended at every step of their It's the same old floating crowd and the same old every day loungers we used to see around Blake and Marvel and Larimer streets, but that's not exciting. We rush to the exhibiting tables of upper floors; no hating, listless, nerveless wrecks who care not whether they be cursed or blessed, and no tinkling gigs and groups hilarious, nor mundane glimpses of shimmering lights through swinging dance. The home of the Williams family at 2227 Arapahoe is apparently just as we knew it a quarter century ago, cosy, quiet, and charming, but its vacant rooms are eloquent and the voices that now are still we seem to hear again: one, carnest and resonant with words of warning and advice; the other, whispering encouragement in a tender voice that mothers use. Again, the insistent call of noisy alarm seems to rattle in our drowsy ears, while the dog awakens to the duties of the day. Needlework of quaint dewdign and decorations of wall and dwarf, are sweet smiles of the treeless shimble fingers—of the touch of a vanished hand" that knew no rest save in other forms of toil in the daughter's house. Mrs. Hassan's brother, now alone remain, but the kindly, homely welcome was as of yore, and the atmosphere that knows no counterpart was that of The scant four days of our stay, Denver, replete with interest and incipiently have been more or less pleasantly spent had a definite program been made for each moment of our stay. The Colorado Statesman, or rather ABLE PEOPLE'S PA ADC THE JOURNAL DENVER, COLORADO, S its energetic proprietor, our old associate, Joseph D. H. Drials, aby seconded by his amiable wife and family, assigned control of office with the up-to-date business office as a center, our movements reached out to church, society or politics, according as choice or convenience might dictate, the kindly courtesies occasioned and the ever recurring periods of晨iscence of early Statesman days were thoroughly enjoyed. But Den Den, who created a revelation of the industry, industry and achievement of its citizens. Its vision, as dreamed of and worked for by such pioneers as the late Judge Belford, is well advanced in vivid language and shows how the Judge, during his visits to Washington a decade or so ago, loved to walk the avenue in the calm of a summer's evening and would picture in vivid language the parks, extensive bouleavards, ornate buildings, giant causeways and splendid civic center. This latter—its colonades and peristyle now two-tiered language, the sprawling, where the people, all the people, may have a forum, whose chaste and artistic conception shall be an inspiration to civic pride and the heritage of an ennobled citizenship. As we rambled about the halls of the Capitol there came to me a vision of one of its court rooms on a day in the earlier time. The prose-writer and Dr. Graves for the poisoning of a rich Rhode Island widow. It was the head line of interest for more than a month. The prose-writer and Dr. Graves directed its heaviest guns against the principal witnesses for the defense, the French maid of the dead woman, whom Judge Belford at one point referred as "that delicate thing." In summing up for the prosecution the Judge spoke for the greater part of two days and seldom has a court been so frequently moved to tears or convulsions with mirth. The conviction of Dr. Graves was followed by his suicide a few days before the day appointed for his execution. Perhaps in no way is the wonderful JOHN H. PAYNTER. growth of Denver more clearly shown than in the development of its postal facilities. From a miserable make-shift tenancy in the city, nineteen years later, the part of the distribution force, it was moved to newer quarters, which were in turn soon outgrown and now we find the office housed in a massive gritty office made accessible by the better part of a city block. The old Patterson and Thomas block, the scene of our first employment, was the department to wield the duster and the broom in the offices of the late Senagive Teller, has also been forced to way to the modern and the modern and is now handsomely and becom- As with buildings so with men—but few remain of that old school of forward looking citizens. *riving* flammings, F. *T. Bruce*, John M. Williams, Gunnell, Gilliam, Crawford, Sillas Joseph, Fountain, Bradford and Peter Joseph are some of those who have passed on and whose staunch integrity and industrious worth, laid an enduring foundation which might extract a significant factor in Denver's growth and prosperity. Still there are a few remaining who remind us of the past, who stand out as beacon lights pointing the safe and only path for younger men to racial progress and civic excellence. T. S. Rector, George and John Contee, old Washington boys, Joseph D. Rivers, Dr. Spatulin William Burd, Mr. Burdine and Clearence Holmes, Sr. are among the Old Guard who are still on the firing line quick on the trigger and dependable in their aim. The succession of years has also brought new and excellent material and added valuable patterns to spelled out that is fashioned by Denver Negroes on the loom of destiny. Contributing largely to business and professional careers, the Elite Drug Co., which operates two up-to-date drug stores, this company was organized by Dr. E F. Cantey a graduate of the Howard Medical school in connection with Dr. Lee, a graduate of Meharry; The Granberry, AK, Co.; and the Realm and Polk Cafe are other practical and successful enterprises. Dr. Clarence F. Holmes, Jr., but recently graduated from the Howard Dental school, established a electrically equipped dental suite with all the business he can handle. He is also the secretary for the Reality Co. Dr. J. H. P. Westbrook, and Dr. J. H. P. Westbrook, Mr. Thomas Campbell, through their tactful, intelligent and manly attitude in professional and civic affairs have done much to promote a cordial and helpful understanding between the On Monday afternoon the Statesman called a Granberry Taxi and with Mr. Clarence Holmes, Sr. treated us to a panoramic view of the Inspiration Point with its glorious outlook on the Colorado Range, then past the White City which but a little while back was the scene of the story of White City is now departed, the Wurzberger has ceased to flow and its palm gardens are no longer taxed to accommodate the thirsty crowds, returned to the city by way of the country clubs the Daniel's Memorial and the elaborate chain of city parks, we looked in at the offices of the Re-publican office whom we found the same genial, hard-working and enthusiastic party man as we knew him in those earlier days. Mr. Phipps gave us greeting and voiced his optimism by respect to the results of the morrow, which was wholly in keeping with assurances received in the Denver District, one was up for re-election. The main objective of our western trip was accomplished early on in the company with Mrs. Hayes we appeared at the Election booth and deposited a ballot, which as an individual note, of the American voice, should help us one of the most chorus of the Guest and Solemn Referendum. We boarded the Rock Island at 7:55 Tuesday night for Oklahoma, breakfasted without objectification in Kansas, and continued the journey comfortably and pleasantly until about 4 p. m. when the train porter softly and considerably handed me the fact that we were proclaimed to be Oklahoma and that I'd have to move forward to the Negro coach. Of course there was nothing to do but to "move forward." It is the law of a great and sovereign state which must be respected while traveling. I could but observe, however, that fully a third of the occupants of the coach from which a respectable Negro citizen was to be eclectic in their knowledge in varying degrees the earmarks of their aboriginal condition—an indifference to enforced social conventions and a pronounced personal untidiness. We further of served that the even more congenial customers of the plausible and accommodating news butcher, buying anything and everything from a bottle of soda pop to an ingeniously contrived toy-telphone, whose lingering memory their native imagination immensely. Ruminating on these matters after gaining the seclusion of our private car (for there happened to be no other occupant) the thought came to us that the medium, and thriftless, acknowledged preference of the masses responsible, in part at least, for this Oklahoma ordinance. We more for exploitation of this fertile field as in others must and will be maintained. Soon our thoughts are more pleasantly occupied with the vast extent of the famous Hundred and one with its splendid herd of cattle and the almost only remnant of the native bur- A few hours at Oklahoma City and then we are off for Binger, the home of the University of Oklahoma, for light and morning here are all too brief to properly appreciate the amount of sacrifice and perseverance that Todd and his good wife in completing its transformation from one hundred and sixty acres of wilderness into a comfortable home for the family. With Mrs. Townsend we visited the hillside where her husband sold to rest, and where his soldier rested, earned. And what nobler heritage could be his than this; To peaceful sleep in soil his country gave. For defending her in days when young and brave. We are of on the following mid-day for Wendy Smith. The colored passengers along the line are very few and the seats in the colored coach are very generally occupied by whites. As very tumka colored passengers are loaded on very high platform as they enter by forward platform the conductor, who has sized up the crowd from window, faces about to the white passengers and says, "Gents, there empty car in the line, go back we're going to fill this all up with nigger coach, is it?" And as he was about to reply he caught a glance of indignant protest which proclaimed pelled him to say, with a visible sheenishness: "Yes, yes, this is the col- After a layover at Geary of five hours we arrived about midnight at Wowoka, Col. J. Coody Johnson, our old college mate, was not expecting us. until Saturday, but upon inquiry we found a couple of fellow passengers who would pass his home and who kindly permitted us to accompany them. The home is both ornate and substantial, of the rambling, bungalow type; thoroughly modern from lawn to lavatory and carrying its own electric lighting, water power system and heating plant. The logs in the great fireplace of the living room still shoot forth an occasional spark in evidence of an earlier evening flame. On either side are well filled book cases and all about, floor coverings, hangings and bric-a-brac and cushioned mahogany, appraise in eloquent terms the substance as well as culture of the Johnson home. As I now sit here in his home, I think of the stripling who with his father appeared at Lincoln in the fall of 79 with gold hoops in his ears. This was in the old Indian territory days, and his father, a descendant of the Creeks and an interpreter at the Fort Smith Agency, was even then considered well off as an owner of lands and cattle. The son, with education and enterprise and inheriting his father's talent for interpreting the Indian dialects, made frequent trips to Washington with one or another of the representatives of the Five Civilized Tribes and is responsible for much of the legislation enacted to procure a satisfactory status for those people. General Porter and Halputta Micou former chiefs of the Seminoles, depended largely upon the services of Coody, whose education, legal ability and intimate knowledge of Indian sentiment and tradition made him an invaluable asset in a period that was in great measure one of transition and unrest. In view of these facts it is not strange that out of the respectable inheritance left him a quarter century back has been evolved a fortune that places Coody with the millionaires of the Golden West. But here he is rubbing the sleep from his eyes for all the world as he used to do when roused from slumber by the clatter of the breakfast bell. The same broad smile that now almost closes the eyes in his round and jovial face is also there, and although the ninety pounds has increased to more than 200, the step is light and the creeping tone of gray in his short-cropped hair is all there is to indicate the passing of the years. But the night is waning and we may not linger beyond the noon of the coming day, notwithstanding persistent urgings for a longer stay. Breakfast is served promptly at 8, for Mrs. Johnson allows nothing to interfere with business, and while Coody is explaining the mechanism for heating and lighting, she is off afoot, expressing a hope through the maid that she may see us later on at the shop. A seven-passenger Cadillac awaits at the door and an hour is passed at the ranch, of which a hundred of its thousand acres furnish the space for the Negro State Fair, of which association Col. Johnson is president. We saw here a fine herd of Hereford cattle, headed by Beau Dandy, an English-sired bull that has taken first prize at several state and county fairs. Riding to and from the ranch through this splendid country of unequalled promise and productiveness; its acres upon acres of bursting cotton; its fields of corn and maize awaftailing the tardy harvester, it did not indeed seem strange that the original inhabitants should have fought and died rather than give up their "Beautiful Land." Back in town we meet a number of business folks of the race operating general merchandise stores, groceries, drug stores, hotels, and one general contractor. The Johnson law offices in the block of that name, a substantial brick and stone office building, contains one of the best law libraries in the state. Being ineligible on account of age for active participation in the great World War, Johnson organized the Home Defense League of Wewoka and was appointed colonel by the governor. A hurried visit a ladder company conducted by Mrs. Johnson which in explaining she said she "just couldn't be content to lead a life of idleness to the 12 o'clock local for Holdenville, where we may entrain for St. Louis and Washington by way of the "Frisco" through Tulsa which oil fields of southern Oklahoma. NO 15 CHEYENNE, WYO. NEWS The last of the "manhandlers" held in custody by the REAL manhandlers was tried in Judge Edward's court on Monday, Jan. 17. The judge discharged him and said the police had no proof of an assault committed. The case ended as all "assault" cases end where in a colored man and trash, incompetent police and an unfair editor are the main actors in the "movie." Mr. Collins, said by our daily paper to be a "crippled colored man," proved not to be crippled in the brain at least. Mr. Collins was held up by two white holdup men who invest our city. When the holdup men ordered his hands up he ran to the "Sherman house" and refused to go home until a policeman escorted him. Two officers came to escort him home. On the way they stopped at an "unprotected" restaurant and saw a couple of men drinking and were about to proceed as usual when Collins informed them those two strangers were the holdups. If it were not for Mr. Collins' clear brain two dangerous men would still be at large. Mrs. L. B. Mayo addressed a small audience at the A. M. E. lecture room on Wednesday evening, Jan. 12, subject, "Woman's Work." The address was interesting and instructive to all. Rev. J. M. Endicott preached on Sunday m. evening, text, Acts 28:2. Mrs. T. C. Davidson is improving after recent illness. Miss Etwood Troutman is able to sit up for a few hours each day. Mr. Albert Taylor of Taylorsville has paid his pledge, $5, to the Civic League fund to Laramie County Memorial Hospital. The officers and members of the Second Baptist Church have declared the pulpit vacant. It is not known who will fill this charge, as no minister has been enlisted. Many express complimentary remarks of Rev. J. T. Muse of Woodland, Calif., formerly of this city. Rev. Muse is an able minister and would be able to carry the Christian work in a manner creditable to the cause. He has a host of friends in our city and is highly esteemed by all. Why not call our old friend to do the work? Rev. C. O. Smith is still a visitor at his old home in Hutchison, Kan. Rev. Smith is superintendent of Baptist missions in territory of Wyoming, Utah and Idaho. It is hoped Rev. Smith will make Cheyenne his headquarters while attending to this mission. THE DENVER COLORED CIVIC ASSOCIATION MAKING BIG PREPARATIONS FOR LINCOLN-DOUGLASS CELEBRATION, FEB. 12. AN event that will be epochal in the history of Denver among the colored citizens will be the BIG BANQUET and CELEBRATION in memory of Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass on the evening of Feb. 12, at Shorter A. M. E. Church. The program committee has arranged a wonderful program and some of Denver's most eloquent young men will for the first time be honored as the orators for the occasion. The banquet committee is fast completing their arrangements to care for 200 guests. Full announcement of program and all particulars will be announced in these columns later. FOREIGN Spanish paper mill owners are making efforts to induce the government to restore the duty on paper imported into Spain. General Caviglia, commander of the Italian forces along the Adriatic, has ordered the raising of the naval blockade of Fiume, and also the land blockade. Rembrandt's landscape "After the Thunderstorm" was stolen from a private owner at Hamburg and supposedly was shipped to the United States. The painting is said to be valued at $2,000,000. Canada's wheat yield for 1920 totaled 263,189,300 bushels from 18,232,374 acres, an average gain of four and one-half bushels an acre over 1919, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics announced at Ottawa. More than 200,000 Armenian refugees between Kars and Alexandropole are dying because of lack of food and fuel, and anarchy stalks among them, said latest advices from Armenia received by the Near East relief. The Russian wife of Naval Lieutenant Warren H. Langdon, American officer killed by a Japanese sentry at Vladivostok recently, ended her life upon learning of her husband's death, according to a Reuter dispatch from Vladivostok. A call for a special session of the Mexican Congress, beginning Feb. 7, has been issued by President Obregon. Among the projects to be considered are the new banking law, article 27 of the constitution, which govern petroleum deposits, a new labor law, army reconstruction and international commerce. Fifty persons were arrested in Tokio, Japan, charged with disturbing a court in which thirteen Socialists, arrested when the Japanese Socialist leader was inaugurated, were being tried. Employees of an engineering works have smashed the fixtures in the plant following the dismissal of seventy-five strike agitators. Ten men were arrested. The Italian cabinet has decided, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Rome, that in the supreme council in Paris it will be impossible for Italy to support any measure calculated to force Germany to fulfil all entirely the obligations of the Versailles treaty or any measure to force Turkey to accept the present disposition on the Near Eastern situation. GENERAL Rent reductions averaging about 20 per cent were ordered made by seven Milwaukee landlords, by a ruling of the local rent bureau. Among the landlords affected was the owner of twelve flats. A reduction of 20 per cent in the price of farm implements has been announced by A. V. Burch, vice president and general manager of the Blount Plow Company at Evansville, Ind. The Singer Manufacturing Company, makers of sewing machines, employing 8,000 workers at Elizabeth, N. J., announced an immediate reduction in wages of 20 per cent. It will not affect salaried employés. Three men posing as policemen in Chicago stopped an automobile driven by Mrs. Sigmund G. Livingston and robbed her of Jewelry which she valued at $30,000. Included was a pearl necklace which she said was worth $20,000. George Franklin, a former attache of the United States Shipping Board, and latey auditor of the Southern Cedar Company, slipped on the bathroom floor at his home at Jacksonville, Fla., broke his neck and died almost instantly. It cost Stanley Wasno, 12-year-old adventurer, $200 for souvenir curls he clipped from the heads of two little girls in a theater in Chicago. Stanley was taken before Judge McKinley in the boys' court and six girls from 11 to 13 years old, testified against him. Judge McKinley thought the locks were worth $200. The 5-cent loaf of bread is back in New York. It appeared in a bakery shop there and almost immediately sales jumped from 80 to 1,000 loaves a day. In nearly all other New York stores the price is 10 cents, but the baker who reduced the price says he is making more money now. In a spectacular bout which was stopped by the referee in the sixth round at Madison Square garden, Benny Leonard, world's lightweight champion, scored a technical knockout over Richie Mitchell of Milwaukee, who, despite his defeat, proved himself a worthy challenger. The bout was the main attraction at a benefit given by the American Committee for Devastated France. Ole Hansen, former mayor of Seattle, disrupted a Socialist meeting at Racine, Wis., when, under auspices of the Racine Constitutional Defense League, he invaded the meeting, at which Irwin St. John Tucker, indicted under the captonage act, was the principal speaker, and challenged him to a debate. Mr. Tucker declined at first, but submitted the question to the audience, which voted against the debate amid shouting and hisses. Four sacks of registered mail, one reported to have contained $80,000 for use in making up pay rolls at Franklin county coal mines, have disappeared at Mount Vernon, Ill., early Friday. An estimate of the value of the contents of the other three sacks was not available. Twenty of the forty-four mills of the McKeesport Tinplate Company shut down since Dec. 23 have resumed operations. Officials announce that if conditions improve the other twenty-four mills will start up soon. Fifteen hundred men have gone back to work. CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD. RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY PEOPLE. WESTERN Eight-year-old Adeline Fisher is dead as a result of injuries received when the clapper of a 300-pound bell fell upon her as she was ringing for recess at the school she attended at Weston, Nebr. Representative Warren of Butte, Mont., has given notice in the state House of Representatives of a bill making picketing in strikes unlawful. The measure conforms to the Colorado statute, it was declared. A temporary dormitory is being installed in one of the shops of the Nebraska state penitentiary at Lincoln to provide sleeping quarters for the overflow population of the institution. The temporary dormitory will contain fifty beds. The reported recovery of nearly $250,000 in Liberty bonds and currency and the death of one of the bandits, were features of the police investigation into the robbery by six bandits of a sub-postoffice station at Dallas, Tex. The amount of loot taken was not known and four of the band remain at liberty. Feeling was intense over the murder of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Willard, both aged about 65, in their farm home near Kaufman, Texas. Officers said they had no clew as to the identity of the assailant. The bodies were found in bed, the heads crushed with blows from an iron rod which was found in the house. With about 8,000 men unemployed in Omaha, according to a report compiled by the Chamber of Commerce for the United States Department of Labor, anticipated revival of activity at the packing houses is expected to re-employ from 2,000 to 3,000 workmen, while prospective building forecasts work for a considerable number of tradesmen. H. L. Cook, 55 years old, formerly a wealthy oil operators of Casper, Wyo., was found dead in a hotel room in El Paso, Texas, with the rubber hose disconnected from a gas heater in his mouth. Cook registered at the hotel, telling the clerk he was without funds. Being well known he was provided with accommodations and a small sum of money. This was the last seen of him until when his body was found. WASHINGTON The automobile industry is paying $143,000,000 annually to the federal government, with state fees of $64,000,000, and personal property taxes and other fees of $50,000,000. A resolution requesting President Wilson to inform Congress why and by what authority he sent Major General Crowder to Cuba to investigate conditions there was introduced by Representative Emerson, Republican, of Ohio. To stop "enormous importations of Canadian wheat," Senator McCumber, Republican, North Dakota, announced that he would ask for a tariff of probably 50 cents a bushel on wheat to be included in the Fordney emergency tariff bill instead of the duty of 30 cents carried by the measure as it passed the House. Inaction by the Senate on the thousands of nominations submitted by President Wilson has been broken and the way paved for confirmation before March 4, of emergency appointments. Convictions of crime should not also carry loss of civil rights, unless the crime warrants such deprivation of citizenship, a committee representing the American Bar Association advised a Senate judiciary committee considering legal reform legislation. A bill to repeal the excess profits tax and to substitute for it a flat tax of 15 per cent on the profits of corporations has been introduced in the House. Abolition of the $2,000 exemption now granted business concerns also is proposed. The urban population of the United States, or people living in places of 2,500 or more, is 54,318,032, or 51.4 per cent of the country's total population, and the number of people living in rural territory is 51,390,739, the census bureau has announced. In 1910 urban population represented 45.8 per cent. This is the first time in history more than half of the population of the United States is living in "urban territory," the census bureau said. The level of retail prices declined 10 per cent during 1920, according to a Labor Department announcement. December retail prices declined 8 per cent, compared with November, the statement said. Wholesale prices during the same period dropped off 8.75 per cent. The Supreme Court has refused to review a judgment of the Supreme Court of California holding that the United States Railway Administration was not immune from damage suits arising from the operation of a common carrier in that state. Pithy News Notes From All Parts of Colorado Pithy News Notes From All Parts of Colorado Hamilton Armstrong, Denver's chief of police, died at his residence in Denver of heart failure. The forty-seventh annual convention of the Colorado State Grange will be in session in Denver Jan. 18-20. The Stockman's and Merchants' Bank of Pagosa Springs, Colo., has ceased to function through dissolution, according to notice filed with the secretary of state. O. D. Nell, prominent lumberman of Greeley, was elected president of the Mountain States Lumber Dealers' Association at the fourth session of the eighteenth annual convention held in Denver. Mrs. A. A. Spitzer was strangled to death at Sterling when her hair and a shawl around her neck became caught in an electric wringer connected to a washtub over which she was bending in the back yard of her home. William M. Kincaid of La Veta, Colo., will carry the vote of the Colorado electors to Washington, D. C. The six electors, meeting at the state house in Denver, cast their ballots for Harding and Coolidge. The Pharmacy building, on the university campus, has been ordered torn down by the regents at Boulder. It stands in front of the new Liberal Arts building. It is an old landmark on the campus, having been one of the first buildings constructed. The Silverton Northern Railway Company, a San Juan valley road, seven and one-half miles long, running from Silverton, Colo, to Eureka, has asked permission of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission to cease operation of the road until July 1. Colorado's coal production during 1920 exceeded that of the preceding year by nearly 2,000,000 tons and fell only about a quarter of a million tons short of the 1918 output when the twenty-one coal-producing counties of the state established a high production record of 12,658,055 tons. The "high cost of overproduction" was given as the cause of a wage reduction of 20 per cent announced by the Denver Rock Drill Company. The reductions affect 325 men. Everyone in the plant was affected by the reduction. A few of the foundrymen, molders and coremakers were reduced 25 per cent. The drive to help the starving millions of China was started in Denver with a sermon on the situation in that country by the Rev. E. R. Dickerson of Colorado Springs. The Rev. Mr. Dickerson has just returned from the stricken portion of China, where he was sent by his church to make a report on conditions. "Over 45,000,000 people are suffering at the present time, said Mr. Dickerson. C. W. Johnson of Manzanola, Colo., has presented a bill for $400 to the sheriff of Utah county, Utah, for expenses in connection with the burial of "Billy" Johnson, whom he thought was his son. "Billy" Johnson committed suicide at Payson, Utah. The body was sent to his supposed father at Manzanola. Mr. Johnson buried the body, but later he heard from his son at Denver. The Rev. J. H. Skeen, pastor of the Baptist church, in an address to young people at Boulder, advocated the construction of churches with gymnasiums, swimming pools and billiard rooms. He declared that too many churches were built only to the spiritual side of young people, and that it was time for religious workers to take into consideration the physical, intellectual and social requirements of young people. The new Methodist church at Montrose, built at a cost of $65,000, was dedicated with Bishop Charles L. Mead in the pulpit. "Drives" for outside funds among the students of Colorado College are to be curbed in the future, following action by the student commission, which reported that there had been too many and some of those had been neglected by students who failed to make the payments pledged. Hereafter all appeals will first go to the president of the college, and then to a referendum of students. Pledge cards are to be discouraged. With hundreds of cars of apples, vegetables and other farm products being withheld from market on account of prohibitive freight and express notes, a meeting of shippers, producers and members of the Cannon City Chamber of Commerce was held and resolutions of protest were adopted with the hope that either the railroad companies or the Interstate Commerce Commission would take up the matter and devise some means of relieving the situation. Henry F. Southard, who was in jail in Durango on charge of obtaining $11,700 from the Durango Trust Company under false pretenses, is out on bond awaiting trial. In our former item we erroneously stated he was an overseas war veteran. Mr. Southard was not in service during the war. A large attendance and a wide representation from all parts of the state marked the annual convention of the Colorado farm bureau, the sessions being held in the new Physics building at the Agricultural College in Fort Collins. ```markdown ``` All Colorado taxpayers must pay income tax on profits made from the sale of stocks, bonds and other securities, under the government interpretation that such profits are "income." This warning followed the publication of a statement calling attention to a recent decision by the United States District Court of Connecticut. This decision held that income from the sale of stocks and bonds is "capital increase," and therefore not taxable by the government by virtue of a constitutional provision. "The decision affects the state of Connecticut only." says Collector McCauly of Colorado. "Until the case is carried to the Supreme Court of the United States, if it is, and unless that court sustains the lower court, no other district in the United States is affected." COLORADO STATESMAN The Senate received a measure from Senator Wilson, which is said to have been introduced at the request of District Attorney Van Cise of Denver and designed to attack gambling from a new angle and to aid the district attorney in enforcing the laws against this form of vice. It provides that the owner of any premises where gambling is permitted to be carried on shall be deemed particeps criminis and shall be punished in like manner as the principal in the keeping of the gambling house itself. The Mouth-Piece of the People of Colorado and the Entire West The day of the little red schoolhouse is passing in El Paso county. In the last year the direction of rural school affairs under Mrs. Inez Johnson Lewis, county superintendent of schools, has resulted in school consolidations eliminating fifteen small and oneroom schools. They have been replaced by three modern brick buildings costing $140,000, centrally located and accessible to all children by means of well-directed motor bus routes. Plans to inaugurate a campaign to increase their present membership, to obtain greater publicity, favorable legislation, better marketing conditions and better development of roads were arranged by members of the State Farm Bureau at Fort Collins. W. G. Jamison of La Veta was elected president of the bureau for the coming year. RELIABLE chronicle of their doings and progress; a faithful mirror of their wants, their hopes, their best aspirations. Notice of dissolution for the Pagoosa Springs Stockmen's and Merchants' bank, filed with the secretary of state Jan. 11, was made for the purpose of changing the bank from a state bank to a national bank, according to announcements made yesterday by Paul Hardy, vice president of the bank, who declared that the institution was not defunct. R. V. Billington of Denver has recently been appointed as state supervisor of trade and industrial education. This work is carried on under the direction of the State Board of Vocational Education, co-operating with the national board. THE COLORADO STATESMAN Sportsmen are forming an organization which will make accessible to the public the famous Conejos Lakes region of the Rio Grande National Forest, Colorado, according to information received by the United States Department of Agriculture. Orders have been received by Lieut. Commander P. S. Theiss in charge of the Denver navy recruiting station to close the substations at Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Casper, Wyo. The Denver station is the only one to remain open in Colorado and Wyoming. A high grade of potash has been discovered in Stone canyon, eight miles west of Larkspur. The find has created much excitement in the vicinity of Perry Park and several farmers have deserted their ranch work to enter the prospecting game. Unequaled as an advertising medium for the business of professional men and women. According to the verdict of the coroner's jury in Pueblo, Antonio Romero committed justifiable homicide when he inflicted a beating and gunshot wounds upon Aululio Augon, after having found his wife in the latter's arms. Recommendations recently drawn up by the legislative committee of the Colorado Game and Fish Protective Association in co-operation with the state game department and the United States forest service here, calling for protection and increase of wild life in Colorado, will be presented to the State Legislature, according to Secretary-Treasurer John H. Hatton, chief of the grazing department of the forest service. An excellent family journal speaking to and for many thousand colored citizens. Another government tuberculosis hospital to supplement the work being done by Fitzsimons General Hospital at Aurora probably will be established at Colorado Springs, according to a statement made in Washington by Congressman Charles B. Timberlake of Colorado. A lone bandit invaded the Littleton State bank, and at the point of an automatic pistol forced Cashier Willard Teller to turn over -$3,000. He escaped in a small automobile. TWODOLLARSAYEAR Ben F. McCoy, a prominent merchant and landowner of Gild, committed suicide by swallowing poison in a hotel room at Briggsdale. THE GREAT ORGAN OF THE Work on Grand Junction's new High School building has just been completed and the $250,000 structure stands as a monument to western Colorado, the finest building of its kind west of the center line of the state. It is three stories in height and complete in every detail. LABORING MASSES Plans for an immense municipal auditorium with a seating capacity of 6,000 have been launched by the Chamber of Commerce of Colorado Springs, the conventions and agricultural committees being in charge of the project. OF INTEREST TO EVERYBODY NAVAL AIRMAN TELLS OF TRIP Thrilling Story of the Adventure of the Balloonists Who Were Lost in Wilds of Canada. DEATH NEAR WHEN RESCUED ‘Lost to the Woah haat in All— Wandered Four Days in the Woods With Nothing to Eeat Except the Pigeons They Had With Them. Migeons They Had With Them. Mattice, Ont—After being lost to the world for 29 days, four of which were spent wandering in the woods, the three navy balloonists, Lieuts, Farrell, Hinton and Kloor, arrived ‘here, Lieut. Farrell told the following $ story of their adventures: Lieut. Farrell's story of the filght and wanderings of the trio begins with the morning hours in Rockaway naval alr station on December 13 and goes on through the flight, the landing, and up to the meeting with the Indian at Moose Factory who saved their lives. “It was just an ofdinary balloon hop,” Farrell began. “It was for train- ing. Hinton told me after we left that the gas in the balloon was ten days old, stale and impure. “Hinton called me up at about twen- ty minutes to 12 (December 13) and told me I could come on flight if 1 wanted to. No special orders are needed. We just got permission from Commander Cummings of the post and Executive Officer Douglas. “I am senior officer of the three, but Kloor was in command of the flight, as he ts a balloon officer and 1 am a gunnery officer. I have been in aviation for three years and have flown in every kind of aircraft. We left at 1 p. m. Left With Four Pigeons. “We had four pigeons; we let the first one go with a message for the Brooklyn navy yard, “Hinton and Kloor had’ heavy un- derwear and uniforms under their fly- ing stits, I had only the underwear and the flying sult, Phad a grip with my uniformpand some other things in ft. We had eight sandwiches and two thermos bottles of hot coffee. None of the underwear was electrically heated. “We expected to land next morn- ing In upper New York state. We had no maps or charts except a railroad map of the Canadian Quebec Central line, which I bought. We had three chances to land before we did. We did stop once at Wells, N. Y. “We made fast to a tree near a light. It was in a window of a farm- house. A man came along and we ‘asked him where we were. He told us, but he could not say what big town we were near, Kloor Game to Go On. “We cast loose and went up again, It rained and blew during the night. We could have landed at Ottawa at 11 p. m. We saw the lights of a big city. But Kloor ts just a kid and he was enthusiastic about a long flight. Woe all agreed that we ought to do a decent filght. ‘There had been rain from Wells on. “The wind was north by west. That night it blew hard and rained. ‘There was no sign of civilization. But we thought it would be all right in the morning. At daylight we saw only for- ests. ‘The rain had calmed down. ‘There were low clouds and fog. “The rain stopped at 8 a. m. (De- cember 14). We ate all our food dur- ing the night. We had two packages of cigarettes and one box of matches but you cannot smoke In a hydrogen balloon. We realized we were in bad that morning.” Explains Flying Technique. Here Farrell paused to give a brief explanation of the technique of bal- loon flying. . “You have a lot of expendable bal- last,” he sald. “We had twenty-one sandbags) weighing thirty pounds ‘apiece. At first the Balloon rises with all the cargo. Then it begins coming down as the gas deteriorates. When you are down too low you throw out a sandbag and that sends you up again. “When all the ballast 1s gone you go up for the last time and have to come down as soon as the gas begins to weaken. “Our twenty-first bag went over that morning. After that we had to throw out equipment to keep up. We hauled in the drag rope which is used in making landings and cut it Into sev- eral pieces. We used each plece as ballast. It was not very long before the last plece went over the side. ‘At 11 a, m, the sun, came out and heated up the gas in the balloon; that makes ‘the gas expand and sends the balloon up. “We were fighting to keep In the alr. All we saw was trees, lakes, and snow. It was about 1:30 p, m. that we saw a shack in the woods. At eet ana ee ahaa | We - The first bicycle driven by pedals was made in Paris in 1866. ‘Ecuador takes Its name from the fact tNat it is situated on the equator. ‘Oll production in the United States 4ncreased 25,000,000 barrels in the last year. ‘The West Indian crab is born in the sea, matures in fresh water and then ‘passes the remainder of its life on Gry land. high, ‘The wind was, north by west, the sun had been heating up our bag and we began to go'up. We reached 6,500 feet, It takes a long time to go from that height. Make a Bad Landing. “The clouds were below us and above us, We got down about two o'clock. It was a bag landing and we were pretty badly shaken up. We were not hurt or thrown out, but the basket was smashed against the ground, “Phe balloon caught between the trees, We had taken the pigeons into the basket to protect them from the landing. Usually they ride in a cage tled outside of the basket. The weath- er was clear and nearly freezing. “All three of us stepped out of the basket in our flying clothes. I took the grip. We were soaking wet. Kloor took the pigeon cage. We started off at a terrific pace to get where the dog barked. We did not stop to in- spect the balloon, Fxom the bearings I took in the balloon we figured the dog to be south by east from us, Start on Long Trek. “We started through the forest on that line, I carried my grip for one day. We went on until dark and made a fire, I smoked two cigarettes | while we rested; so did Kloor, Hin- ton did not smoke. “We did not eat that day; we car- ried the pigeons until the next day. There was some snow on the ground, 90 we got a lot of pine brush to lie on and I picked a lot of rotten wood with my penknife. We had no fire- arms—only the knife and the box of matches. “Hinton went on a little to find a stream, While he was gone he lald off his flying suit to make better head- way and he could not find it on his way back. “That night I slept next to Hinton, He was next to the fire. I was on the outside. Kloor lay off to-one side and slept. We got on fine together in the forest. Hinton and I didn't sleep. We got up at daylight. They Eat First Pigeon. “We ate a pigeon that morning, De- cember 15. We cleaned a pigeon and cooked it. We divided it in three parts, a couple of mouthfuls apiece. We drank water out of moose tracks ‘and holes in the ground. That is what probably made me sick the next day. We started off, I carrying my grip. “We came to a creek that day (the Indians call this stream the Nesco- haga). Hinton was leading and kept moving too far to the west. “I proposed to him to go southeast. In 80 minutes we got to the creek, which was not frozen over, so we had to follow the bank. We camped again in good shape. I, for one, was not very hungry, but we were cold when we stopped walking. “We had made a fire and rested at noon, but we did not eat in order to conserve food. We argued about where we were. “I figured it some- where in the woods in Canada, but wasn't sure. How They Were Garbed. “At that time I was still in my flying sult, Hinton in uniform and Kloor in uniform and flying sult. We all wore flying boots. My grip kept getting foul of trees, so I threw It away at ten o'clock, but took care to put it in a tree. Before that I got my good English shoes out of the grip and put them on and threw away my flying boots, which were pretty near gone. “[ did not make more than four miles the first daysnor more than sev- en or elght the second day. Our night camp was on the creek, We did not eat. During the day we all nibbled fa bit of a kind of moss we found grow- ing fround. “We were not cheerful. We began to dread that this dog barking prop- osition was a kind of phoney. here, were so many nolses. I figure now it was a wolf barking. We saw a lot of ‘wolf tracks. : Youngest Flyer Prays. “Kloor told us he had been praying —not out loud, but Just to himself. Tm not much on religion; I didn't pray. No more than I made a propo- sition they should dine off me. “Hinton and I discussed our Course while Kloor was praying. We had to admit we were in a pretty serious jam and felt pretty blue. But when we quit we had a hunch’ that the third day was going to be lucky. “we ate the second pfgeon and killed the other one the morning of the third day—December 16. Kloor put {the dead pigeon in his pocket. We did this to do away with the cage. “During the night Hinton and Kloor oe uy te eaet in the fire. Now their Scotch interests are planning to ob- tain 42,000 electrical horsepower by harnessing three lakes, and to utilize the waterpower running to waste !n the watershed of the Tay. ‘As a form of hazing, “plebes” at the United States Naval academy at An- napolis who are unable to guess the daily dessert are forced to eat thelr meals sitting on the floor under the table. was very bad, but our heads were as clear as they ate right now, “It we had had a definite object we could have gone fifty or a hundred miles without so much distress. We saw so much of the same sort of woods that It appeared we were not golng anywhere, But we were not going In circles because we were steered by the compass zigzngging through the wood. That counted against us, “I began to lag behind pretty much and Hinton suggested that I take off my flying suit, I did, and walked in my underclothing the rest of the trip. “Hinton wrapped my suit around him as a sort of blanket. Just before noon T had # nasty fall over a tree trunk Into a hole three feet deep. I was bruised and scratched but I got up alone. Hunch Fails to Help Out. “We didn’t eat at noon and made fire and warmed up and started off again all together. We were pretty blue when we camfed the third night. Our hunch about the third being the lucky day flivvered. “Hinton said, ‘Let’s write some let- ters and put them in our pockets,’ but I sald, ‘No, we'll have plenty of time to do that.’ “Hinton could hardly hold his head up. It was very cold and It sure was our worst night, We slept again with Hinton near the fire and me on the outside. I had the flying suit on, but ‘It was too cold to He still, and I would get up often. “When I did Hinton did too, and we would both sit near the fire for a while. Kloor slept fine, almost in the fire. He kept getting his feet in the fire and we would have to pull them out. “Next morning we kidded the kid— that’s What we called Kloor—and told him he had been hogging the fire. Hinton had the matches, because he knows how to light a fire. We were careful with the matches, We would go stiff when it took Hinton two matches to get the fire going. ‘ Trio in Bad Shape. “Kloor had lots of pep after his night's sleep and Hinton was in bad shape. I was a bit better off than Hinton, but not much. We started off without food along the bank of the creek. Ihad @ hunch that night might have frozen up the creek and I left them to go down and try it out.” ‘The distance covered that afternoon was not more than three miles. Next day (Thursday) almost the same story was repeated at nightfall, thelr dis- tance from the “hypothetical” village being still as undetermined as when they made their landing. Friday proved to be the lucky day. In the morning ‘Tom Marks, a Cree Indian trapper, who was inspecting his traps on the outskirts of the set- tlement of Moose Factory, an island In the bottom of James bay, noticed tracks which he judged to have been made by three white men, His curl- osity getting the better of the native Indian timidity in the presence of the unusual, Marks followed up the tracks until early in the afternoon he came upon the three balloonists. Kloor’s Story of Trip. “The first days out were the worst,” sald Lieutenant Kloor, describing thelr experiences. “We had practiced walk- ing with snowshoes at Moose Factory while we were there ‘and thought we were experts with them, but after go ing a day on the trail changed our minds. It was quite stormy, too, and the first week we were out we en- countered three severe blizzards. “On Sunday a week ago It became so bad we were compelled to retrace our steps for morg than a mile. We also found that the dogs we had with us were Inadequate for the load we" were carrying and had to send back for more. The weather, however, was not very cold. We had lots of moose meat to eat and I think\we are all feeling fine.” “What scientific values to be de rived from your trip?” was asked. “The main gcientific fact demon- strated,” replied Kloor, “is that a balloon of 35,000 cubic feet capacity can remain in the air for more than twelve hours. We were in the air for twenty-five hours and could have remained there longer. Further than that I think nothing ought to be said until we report to our superiors.” Dogs Hail the Arrival. Kloor, a blue-eyed, ruddy young fel- low who looked to be in the pink of condition, was the first to arrive. He came whirling around the bend of the Missanaibi into the town, riding on the dog sled, with Sam Sainsbury, ‘Toronto explorer, who had gone to meet him. ‘The howling of huskies tethered be- ‘Trivial Accident Brings Disaster. The gypsy moth has caused a grest deal of trouble in this country, and much money afd energy have been spent in the effort to exterminate it. ‘The trouble started when a Bregch naturalist named Trouvelot, residing in the town of Malden, Mass. left a paper box containing gypsy moth eggs on a window ledge and it blew off. "That was in the early eighties, and he was making experiments with va- rious kinds of caterpillars as silk spinners. BRITISH START REPRISAL MOVE ee ee eee eT eee A. HASER, Prop. Phone Main 6758 | SS Wholesale and Retail Staple and Faney Groceries Fish and Oysters Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty Fresh and Cured Eastern Corn-Fed Meats Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry and Game FREE DELIVERY 1950 Larimer Street Denver, Colo. rR PAGO ANG WEA NER SEW WRECK SINN FEINERS HOMES IN CORK AS START ON NEW TACTICS. BEVEN KILLED IN DISORDERS NEAR DUBLIN—CURFEW AD- VANCED ONE HOUR. (Western Newspaper Union News Service.) 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Dwyer's wholesale drapery, the largest in southern Ire- lund, was searched, ‘The work of blowing up the designated houses was gone about carefully to prevent dam- age to adjoining property. ‘The houses selected for reprisals are said to have been oecupled by well-known Sinn Fein sympathizers, who were given warning to clear out. They were permitted to remove their furniture. and then military engineers prepared for the demolition. Mean- while officers with drawn revolvers ordered the large crowd that had gathered to disperse, saying that oth- erwise it would be fired on. ‘Ten loud explosions followed at in- tervals of several minutes, causing consternation. However, no fires broke out and no visible damage had been done to houses outside the zone. A ‘proclamation was issued by the military authorities announcing that the curfew on Saturday and Sunday would begin hereafter at 5 p. m. A majority of the ambushes and oth- er disorders, here have occurred Sat- urday nights. In the first formal interview given to the press since he came to Ireland, Major General Strickland, in com- mand of the troops, told the Associat- ed Press that martial law was proving a success, He discussed the reprisals and his letter to the acting lord mayor explaining that he expected aid from the citizens through a vigilance com- mittee to supply information. He did not allude to his report on the burning of Cork. “It might be taken as too optimistic to say that the present operation of the Republican army are its dying kick, but I believe that to be a fact. How tong they can keep going Is a matter of conjecture, but it Is only a question of time.” . Weatherhead Hat Co. TELEPHONE fae PIONEER BATTERS MAIN 8203 a OF THE WEST. WE es tee MAKE OLD HATS Established 1876 nd ras NEW. RENOVATORS, BLEACHERS, DYERS AND FINISHERS Of Gents’ and Ladies’ Hats of Every Description 1624 CHAMPA ST., DENVER, COLO. “punch imams paiva as ca Sack aan ar Sa aut aE TE a 5 ‘ ° . 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THE proceedings in Congress the past two weeks have been considerably enlivened owing to the investigation by the Census Committee of the House of Representatives of the election methods and disfranchisement of Negroes in the South. We hardly expected the fireworks to start this session of Congress, but rather in the next session after the Republican president had taken his seat. It is quite high time that the Republicans in Congress stop "pussy-footing" on this southern question and take hold of it like men and show the South that their election system is contrary to the Constitution of the United States and that their representation in Congress is positively reduced to the actual number of votes cast. We know of no other and better remedy for the absolute cure of disfranchisement in the South than the reduction of their representation in Congress. If they insist upon the forwardly method of disfranchisement, let Congress insist upon the fair and just method of reduction in representation. There is not a man in Congress, whether he hails from the benighted state of Georgia or from the cultured and enlightened state of Massachusetts, who does not know that the disfranchisement of Negroes in the South is in direct violation of the Constitution of the nation. Yes, it is brazenly and openly admitted by the southern congressmen and they defiantly ask you what are you going to do about it. Now is the time for the Republicans to show them what they are going to do about it. There is no legal or moral argument to be made in justification of disfranchisement, and such a flagrant violation of our Constitution should not be permitted by any state or people. This country was founded upon the principle that "taxation without representation was unjust," and so firmly is that principle rooted in the Constitution that no state or section of the Union can evade it without protest. It is certainly a sickening spectacle to see a sympathizing Republican simp pleading for tolerance for the South and telling us that the South is fast becoming Republican. Yes, the South always becomes Republican after we elect a Republican president. They are anxious to hold on to the jobs that belong to the real Republicans. But any time the South goes Republican you can win a wager that a snowstorm took place in Hades the same day. Before the Census Committee it was shown that in Georgia one man had seven times the voting power of a man in Colorado, and nine times as much as a voter in Indiana. Then to argue that the representation of the South Congress should not be reduced is absolute nonsense. Let Congress force them one way or the other to do the right thing. This biased and lopsided form of government will ultimately lead us to revolution if it is not speedily corrected. We stand for law and order, justice and the Constitution forever. It recognizes the office is established upon their business, the status of three centum of the core. The provision that the equipment, the This bill afferends in a class having fitt to $400 annual rei $1,490. Their cone a minimum of $15 fication necessary. The "I Over By J While the secal called legitimate to the time has passed and directed simple of some particular by producers in the fered. The great policy on the part producers must p The films of a written for the picture greatest writers. must be faithful to mit the star to ca I do not feel thing like a historic photodrama of the part in shaping th SIXTY-ONE LYNCHINGS is the final report for the year 1920; twenty-two less than in the year of 1919. Thus it is that the United States must again face a shameful record of murder, rioting and burning of helpless and probably innocent victims. We say probably innocent victims, for in the cases of the law they have not been proven guilty and convicted according to the law of the land. In each case of lynching the victims were entitled to the full protection of the law and under the law they were presumed to be innocent until proven guilty. When we think of our boasted superiority and supposed high standard of civilization, what must other countries think of us when they read the shameful record of lynchings in the United States for But Americans have learned, also, how to spend money with great generosity and for public and community good. Great universities, museums, public libraries and other institutions, established by the legacies of wealthy men and maintained by contributions from men actually living, are characteristic of America. The wealthy people of Europe do not, as a rule, spend their private fortunes that way. Europe does not know this great humanitarian impulse which is the glory of the United States. THE COLORADO STATESMAN LARGE SMALLER FARE MASSIVE COURTIN PARTY Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in the City of Denver, Colo. JOSEPH D. D. RIVERS.....Proprietor P. O. Box 116 1824 Curtis Street, Room 25 Phone Main 7417 Communications to receive attention must be news, upon important subjects, plainly written only upon one side of the paper, must reach us Tuesdays, if possible, anyway not later than Wednesdays, and bear the signature of the author. No manuscript returned, unless stamps are sent for postage. All communications of a personating nature that are not complimentary will be withheld from the columns of this paper. 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. REDUCTION OF SOUTHERN REPRESENTATION. THE proceedings in Congress the past two weeks have been considerably enlivened owing to the investigation by the Census Committee of the House of Representatives of the election methods and disfranchisement of Negroes in the South. We hardly expected the fireworks to start this session of Congress, but rather in the next session after the Republican president had taken his seat. It is quite high time that the Republicans in Congress stop "pussy-footing" on this southern question and take hold of it like men and show the South that their election system is contrary to the Constitution of the United States and that their representation in Congress is positively reduced to the actual number of votes cast. We know of no other and better remedy for the absolute cure of disfranchisement in the South than the reduction of their representation in Congress. If they insist upon the cowardly method of disfranchisement, let Congress insist upon the fair and just method of reduction in representation. There is not a man in Congress, whether he hails from the benighted state of Georgia or from the cultured and enlightened state of Massachusetts, who does not know that the disfranchisement of Negroes in the South is in direct violation of the Constitution of the nation. Yes, it is brazenly and openly admitted by the southern congressmen and they defiantly ask you what are you going to do about it. Now is the time for the Republicans to show them what they are going to do about it. There is no legal or moral argument to be made in justification of disfranchisement, and such a flagrant violation of our Constitution should not be permitted by any state or people. This country was founded upon the principle that "taxation without representation was unjust," and so firmly is that principle rooted in the Constitution that no state or section of the Union can evade it without protest. It is certainly a sickening spectacle to see a sympathizing Republican simp pleading for tolerance for the South and telling us that the South is fast becoming Republican. Yes, the South always becomes Republican after we elect a Republican president. They are anxious to hold on to the jobs that belong to the real Republicans. But any time the South goes Republican you can win a wager that a snowstorm took place in Hades the same day. Before the Census Committee it was shown that in Georgin one man had seven times the voting power of a man in Colorado, and nine times as much as a voter in Indiana. Then to argue that the representation of the South in Congress should not be reduced is absolute nonsense. Let Congress force them one way or the other to do the right thing. This biased and lopsided form of government will ultimately lead us to revolution if it is not speedily corrected. We stand for law and order, justice and the Constitution forever. THE LYNCHING RECORD FOR 1920 SIXTY-ONE LYNCHINGS is the final report for the year 1920; twenty-two less than in the year of 1919. Thus it is that the United States must again face a shameful record of murder, rioting and burning of helpless and probably innocent victims. We say probably innocent victims, for in the eyes of the law they have not been proven guilty and convicted according to the law of the land. In each case of lynching the victims were entitled to the full protection of the law and under the law they were presumed to be innocent until proven guilty. When we think of our boasted superiority and supposed high standard of civilization, what must other countries think of us when they read the shameful record of lynchings in the United States for 1920? Only sixty-one lynchings for last year. And why, may we not inquire was there any excuse for even one? Have we not sheriffs and a full corps of state, city and county officers, well paid to uphold the law and protect its citizens? We do not wonder that so many lynchings occur when we read that the officers of the law in one big lynching where four lives were sacrificed, attempted to stop the mob with a stream of water from a small hose. Think of the officers of the law playing with a mob with luke-warm water when four lives were at stake! We do not wonder that so many lynchings take place when the officers of the law willingly yield to the mob and surrender their helpless prisoners. There were several notable instances last year, even in the South, where the mob was fired upon by the state militia and frustrated in their murderous attempt at lynching after several of the mob were killed and wounded. A few more governors like the famous Kentucky governor would soon put an end to lynching. The charges against many of the victims that were lynched were trivial in their nature, such as common assault, threatening to kill, jumping a labor contract, assisting a prisoner to escape. One of last year's victims was a woman. Now, when any community becomes vicious and depraved as to permit the lynching of a woman, it is time to wipe that community off the face of the map. We have the record that Negro was lynched for attempting to cast a vote, and yet we hear the South howling for representation in Mr. Harding's cabinet. Surely the North or the Republican party are not so barren of great men that the President-elect should have to turn to the Sodden South for cabinet material. We have been informed daily by the press dispatches that the President-elect, Mr. Harding, has had daily conferences with almost every prominent leader of the Republican party and several prominent Democrats, engaging their views upon many of the great questions that confront the new administration. Would it not have been a broad and humane idea if the President-elect had invited several of our race leaders to discuss the race question, lynching and disfranchisement? Probably some day he may be induced to take up the subject and lead his weight and influence toward putting an end to such lawlessness and brazen violations of our sacred constitution. For Readjustment of the Salaries of the Fourth Class Postmasters. For Readjustment of the Salaries of the Fourth Class Postmasters. By SENATOR GEORGE H. MOSES, of New Hampshire. The present plan of compensating postmasters of the fourth class, adopted in 1882, is by a system of percentage of the value of stamps cancelled on outgoing mail by those postmasters. The incoming and outgoing mail in those days were very nearly equal. But the introduction of the parcel post increased the volume of the incoming mail without compensation. A conservative estimate would place the incoming mail at six times the number of pieces outgoing. C. GARRIS A. EVINE The plan which I propose for compensating this class of postmasters is based on percentages of receipts. follows the same plan used in determining salaries of postmasters of the second and third classes. It secures the same results as a salary while avoiding its discrepancies. It assures accuracy, reduces to the minimum the possibility of mistakes and assures their detection and certain should any occur. It requires no extra blank forms, books or record reduces to the minimum extra work for both the Postoffice dept and the postmasters. It removes entirely the possibility of disity, as receipts are recorded and checked quarterly by the auditor of the Postoffice department. It is equally fair to all offices of this large and small—regardless of the amount of receipts. It obviates necessity of cancellation records, reducing the work of the postmaster simplifying the accounting in the auditor's office. It recognizes the fundamental principle upon which the fourtn class is established, namely, that fourth class postmasters must depend their business for a part of their livelihood until their offices attain status of third class. The provision for an allowance of twenty per annum of the compensation for rent, fuel and light is very conservative. Provision that gives to the fourth class postmaster, who must furnish equipment, the whole of the box rents collected is based on fairness. This bill affects 41,600 fourth class postmasters, of whom 15,000 are class having from $100 to $300 of annual receipts; 5,000 having $350,000 annual receipts, and 20,800 with receipts ranging from $450 to $700. Their compensations in all these three groupings will range from minimum of $125 to $999, thus bringing their salaries within the classin necessary for promotion to third class postoffices. It follows the same plan used in determining salaries of postmasters of the first, second and third classes. It secures the same results as a salary plan while avoiding its discrepancies. It assures accuracy, reduces to the minimum the possibility of mistakes and assures their detection and correction should any occur. It requires no extra blank forms, books or records, and reduces to the minimum extra work for both the Postoffice department and the postmasters. It removes entirely the possibility of dishonesty, as receipts are recorded and checked quarterly by the auditor for the Postoffice department. It is equally fair to all offices of this class—large and small—regardless of the amount of receipts. It obviates the necessity of cancellation records, reducing the work of the postmaster and simplifying the accounting in the auditor's office. It recognizes the fundamental principle upon which the fourth class office is established, namely, that fourth class postmasters must depend upon their business for a part of their livelihood until their offices attain the status of third class. The provision for an allowance of twenty per centum of the compensation for rent, fuel and light is very conservative. The provision that gives to the fourth class postmaster, who must furnish the equipment, the whole of the box rents collected is based on fairness. This bill affects 41,600 fourth class postmasters, of whom 15,000 are in a class having from $100 to $300 of annual receipts; 5,000 having $350 to $400 annual receipts, and 20,800 with receipts ranging from $450 to $1,490. Their compensations in all these three groupings will range from a minimum of $125 to $999, thus bringing their salaries within the classification necessary for promotion to third class postoffices. The "Movie Star" Business Has Been Overdone; Its Day Has Passed. By J. STUART BLACKTON, Pioneer Producer. While the services of famous actors and actresses, of both the so-called legitimate stage and the silent drama, will always be in demand, some has passed when photoplays will be generally written, produced directed simply to exploit the special charms and accomplishments of the particular person. That sort of thing has been much overdone producers in the past, and as a consequence the productions have suffered. The great motion picture-going public has come to resent this on the part of the producers, and it is the taste of this public that actors must please. The films of the future will be made from scenarios, either specially for the pictures or adapted from stories and novels of the world's best writers. The productions will not necessarily be extravagant, but be faithful to real life, and the direction of the pictures will not permeate to carry off all the honors. I do not feel that it is yet time to write, or even begin to write, any-like a history of the motion picture business. I believe that the drama of the present and of the future will play an all-important in shaping the destinies of the world. While the services of famous actors and actresses, of both the so-called legitimate stage and the silent drama, will always be in demand, the time has passed when photoplays will be generally written, produced and directed simply to exploit the special charms and accomplishments of some particular person. That sort of thing has been much overdone by producers in the past, and as a consequence the productions have suffered. The great motion picture-going public has come to resent this policy on the part of the producers, and it is the taste of this public that producers must please. The films of the future will be made from scenarios, either specially written for the pictures or adapted from stories and novels of the world's greatest writers. The productions will not necessarily be extravagant, but must be faithful to real life, and the direction of the pictures will not permit the star to carry off all the honors. I do not feel that it is yet time to write, or even begin to write, anything like a history of the motion picture business. I believe that the photodrama of the present and of the future will play an all-important part in shaping the destinies of the world. America Practical and Materialistic, But Idealistic in an Emergency. By V. BLASCO IBANEZ, in American Magazine. it is probably true that Americans try to earn money harder and with persistence than people elsewhere. Americans enjoy money-making sport; and, besides, they feel that money is something necessary to existence. But Americans have learned, also, how to spend money with great utility and for public and community good. Great universities, multi-public libraries and other institutions, established by the legacies healthy men and maintained by contributions from men actually living, characteristic of America. The wealthy people of Europe do not, as they spend their private fortunes that way. Europe does not know this humanitarian impulse which is the glory of the United States. The United States is a practical and materialistic people; and on this real trait American power in the world is based. But the United States becomes an idealistic people the moment a crisis in human affairs ends heroism and idealism. And this will be the grandeur of Amer-history. It is probably true that Americans try to earn money harder and with more persistence than people elsewhere. Americans enjoy money-making as a sport; and, besides, they feel that money is something necessary to their existence. The United States is a practical and materialistic people; and on this national trait American power in the world is based. But the United States becomes an idealistic people the moment a crisis in human affairs demands heroism and idealism. And this will be the grandeur of America in history. Advantages of City Life on Surface; of Country Life Underlying. By J. W. COVERDALE, American Farm Bureau Federation. The drift from the farm to the city is not altogether due to the higher obtainable in the industrial centers. The city has been advertised and all reason. The appeal of the printed word is strong. The desire is something for nothing, to earn a living without the prescribed of the brow, is characteristic of all of us. There is no spectacular side to country life. It has to do with theiments. The advantages of city life are on the surface. The adges of farm life are substantial and underlying. There are very few real advantages of the city that cannot be brought to country, but the fundamental advantages of free life in the counn never be transplanted to the city except to a very limited degree. Every advantage of the city there is a corresponding advantage of the city. For every disadvantage of the farm there are innumerable draw-to urban existence. The drift from the farm to the city is not altogether due to the higher wages obtainable in the industrial centers. The city has been advertised beyond all reason. The appeal of the printed word is strong. The desire to get something for nothing, to earn a living without the prescribed sweat of the brow, is characteristic of all of us. There is no spectacular side to country life. It has to do with the fundamentals. The advantages of city life are on the surface. The advantages of farm life are substantial and underlying. There are very few real advantages of the city that cannot be brought to the country, but the fundamental advantages of free life in the country can never be transplanted to the city except to a very limited degree. For every advantage of the city there is a corresponding advantage of the country. For every disadvantage of the farm there are innumerable drawbacks to urban existence. WASHINGTON CITY SIDELIGHTS Where U. S. and British Colonies Agree WASHINGTON.—Informal negotiations have been going on for some time looking to a working agreement between the United States and Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to maintain a united front against Japanese immigration. These four British dominions are confronted with much the same problem as the California laws. It is admitted that among the problems discussed at the conference was the possibility of carrying out the idea that the five powerful countries' interests in excluding Japanese nationals are identical. Allied With Japan. The fact that Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa are supposed to be included with Great Britain in an alliance with Japan adds interest to the recent messages from London quoting Premier Lloyd George as saying the alliance with Japan would not be renewed until the colonies were consulted. Women Demand the End of Militarism Women Demand the End of Militarism WOMEN demand an end of militarism and world disarmament. Holding an unheralded demonstration at the monument of Benjamin Franklin, Mrs. Robert M. La Follette, wife of the Wisconsin senator; Mrs. Charles Edward Russell, wife of the Socialist writer, and others, delivered addresses, calling specifically for wholesale reductions in the appropriations for the United States army and navy, and for disarmament generally. The meeting was held under the auspices of the Woman's Peace society, and the speakers said they were voicing the sentiment of the women of the country. The keynote of the meeting was to urge the Brooks resolution, now pending in the house, calling for a conference of the nations in Washington to lay plans for disarmament. Mrs. La Follette declared the women of the country would use their votes to defeat senators and representatives who stand for militarism and war. "We women have the power," she said. "On the issue of militarism we hold the balance of power. We have the ballot. We are going to watch congress. We vow to use our votes to elect senators and representatives Tax Revision Likely in Next Congress Tax Revision Likely in Next Congress TAX CHANGES SENTIMENT in the house ways and means committee following recent hearings indicates the following line of action on tax revision in the next congress: 1—Repeal of the excess profits taxes. 2—Rejection of a sales tax because of its unpopularity with consumers. 3—Increase in present 10 per cent tax on corporation net earnings and a moderate, possibly graduated tax on undistributed earnings. 4—No increase in normal taxes on individual incomes, but a reduction of surtaxes on large incomes and an increase in the amount of income exempt- Public Markets For All the Large Cities ESTABLISHMENT of central markets for perishable food products in all large cities, and the setting up of a federal licensing system applicable to all dealers in such foods at those markets, is proposed by the federal trade commission in its annual report to congress. The commission's conclusions are based on an investigation covering many months, and it declares that federal action is necessary to obtain effective regulation and to avoid unfair and wasteful practices with the consequent effect on prices. In the present system the commission sees as a hindrance to the proper passage of perishables from the producer to the consumer certain intertrade dealings which, it believes, should be eliminated, and it suggests that the handling of these products be surrounded by numerous regulations and restrictions, such as the recording of available supplies, the dating of cold storage perlods, and provisions No steps have been taken by the British dominions to present the proposal to the State department. This is partly due to the brief tenure of the present administration. The only exchanges have been with Republican senators known to be in close sympathy with the Harding administration. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and Republican leader of the senate, in a speech several weeks ago in Philadelphia, made one brief reference to the Japanese problem. The paragraph suggested a union of the British dominions with the United States in dealing with Japanese immigration and land ownership, a copy of which Mr. Lodge said, found its way into the British embassy here in an astonishingly short time. Because of the Anglo-Japanese alliance there was nothing official which the embassy could do. But a high official of the government of Australia did not feel so hampered. Moreover, he knew well that the feeling in New Zealand and Canada was precisely similar to that in Australia and the United States. So he wrote to Mr. Lodge commending the suggestion of a league of English speaking nations whose boundaries touch the Pacific. Mr. Lodge has since consulted many of his colleagues and approval of his idea has been very general. who stand for peace and disarmament. "Away with armaments; away with them now, while all the horrors and mistakes of the World war are still fresh. Now is the time for action. Now is the time for disarmament." "We women of the United States demand that the billions congress proposed to spend in army and navy and military training shall be spent for human betterment; for food, for health, for education; for eradicating fear, prejudice and hate, the basic causes of war." Alleging that out of every $100 spent by the national government $92 is used for war, Mrs. Russell declared it is "criminal lunacy to appropriate 92 per cent of the total revenues for destructive purposes and only 8 per cent for all constructive purposes." ed from taxation under existing laws. 5—New excise taxes and increases in the tax on such articles as tobacco. There will be no refunding operations during the coming year. Congress will make evident its determination that the burden of the war debt shall be passed along to future generations and that the floating debt shall not be retired from the proceeds of taxation as rapidly as contemplated by the Treasury department, simply by keeping the revenues down to so low a point that no funds will be available for this purpose. Extensive refunding operations will be undertaken in 1923, when the Victory notes mature, the Republican program being to extend the payment of the war debt over a period of from 40 to 60 years instead of paying it up in 25 years as contemplated by the Treasury department. The belief that the substitute for the excess profits tax will be a flat tax on net earnings of corporations plus a moderate tax on undistributed earnings is gaining strength among influential members of the committee. for auction marketing of food products. The commission says that "the needed reforms can hardly be expected to be accomplished by the initiative of the dealers," and asserts that state and municipal authorities lack adequate power to effectively regulate the handling of the food supplies. Although co-operation of state and local authorities and railroads might accomplish the ends sought, the commission believes this plan does not hold out much hope for a satisfactory solution of the problem. THE COLORADO STATESMAN COLUMBIA RING BE FLEEK BASKET COUNTY PARTY --- Mr. and Mrs. Harry Polk have purchased a modern ten-room house at 2720 Marion street. E. E. Barton, one of our well-known young men, is a guest at the Fairbanks hotel. Mr. Martin L. Payne of 3646 Gilpin street underwent an operation for appendicitis at Mercy Hospital last week and is doing nicely. Dr. S. A. Huff has moved into his new suite of rooms at 2701 Welton street, where he can be seen or called at his regular office hours. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Garrett of Durango, Colo., are in the city the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Mack Wright of Wheatridge, Colo. E. R. Page, the popular poolroom proprietor of Denver, is remodeling his poolroom and when finished will surely be a pleasure place. Friday, January 7th, born to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Smith of 1320 East Twenty-fourth avenue, a fine 8½-pound boy. Mother and son doing nicely. Word comes to us from Mrs. Maggie Waters, who is now living in Akron, Ohio, with her daughter, Mrs. Artee Fleming, that she slipped on an ice pavement Dec. 30 and broke her leg. Her many friends will be sorry to learn of her accident. Miss Naomi Brown is leaving tomorrow for Colorado Springs to work as sales agent for the Frontier Press Co. Miss Brown is the only colored person ever employed by this firm. The home of Mr. and Mrs. George Gross of 1627 East Twenty-second avenue, was the scene of a beautiful dinner party last Sunday afternoon given by their son, Jimmie. The guests included: Miss Marjorie Pearsoll, Miss Estralda Sprattlin, Miss Agnes Wright, Mr. Frank Barnes, Mr. Wesley Lyons, Jr. An appetizing four-course menu was served and a very pleasant afternoon was enjoyed. The lecture delivered Sunday night at Fern hall by Evangelist T. H. Coopwood, was well attended and all enjoyed the services much. He discussed the resurrection of the just and unjust, concluding with a brief description of the destruction of the wicked and the earth made new. The subject for next Sunday evening is "Can a Man Sin? If So, How Can He, If the Law Was Abolished at the Cross?" Come and bring your friends to hear these lectures every Sunday night. EPISCOPALIANS TENDER BRILLIANT RECEPTION TO FATHER RAHMING. On last Thursday evening, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Stell, 2427 Ogden street, was the occasion of a notable reception to Rev. Father H. E. Rahming, the new priest, who comes to take charge of the Redeemer. The reception was a large affair and attended by all of the ministers of the colored churches in the city, together with the business and professional men and women and the social elites. Father Rahming comes to us from Kansas City, Mo., and all Denver extends him a hearty welcome. NOTED WQMAN TO SPEAK IN DENVER. Miss Mary White O vington, one of America's most noted white women, one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people, and at present Chairman of the Board of Directors, will be in Denver February 12th and 13th. She will address the Lincoln-Douglass banquet on Saturday night and on Sunday evening will deliver her set lecture on "The Colored Soldiers in the Federal Prison." All Denver should turn out to hear this great woman. The place of her lecture will be given later. READ AND THINK. The Universal Negro Improvement Association. To establish a universal confraternity among the race; to promote the spirit of pride and love; to administer to and assist the needy. Hear the principles of this organization expounded through the scholastic orator, the Hon. James D. Brooks, secretary general. Will arrive in Denver in February. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The annual financial and statistical reports, both for the men's and the boys' departments, have been completed and are now ready for the printers. Look for them in these NOTES next week. The branch has again closed the year without a single bill remaining over to be paid. This good showing is due to the loyalty and interest of our people in this city. Secretary Townsend, James Washington, James Sims and Alvin Rucker have returned from Greeley, where they went to attend the Older Boys' Conference of this state. They report that a very pleasant and profitable time was spent, and they were shown every courtesy by the people. A reception will be given for them next Monday evening (the 24th) at the Y. M. C. A. building, to which all boys are invited. On account of other meetings outside the attendance at the meeting last Sunday afternoon was below the average. It was a pity, because Father Rahmine gave a splendid talk. He spoke on the "Romance in Religion," pointing out that religion, like other things, has a romantic side only when it can be shown that sacrifices have been made and our promises kept with God. The meeting tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon will be addressed by the Rev. Dr. C. A. MacDonald, pastor of the Highlands Christian Church. He is a whopping good speaker. The meeting will begin at 4 o'clock, closing at 5. All will be welcome. On Thursday evening next, the 27th, a big social and debate will be held between the Y. M. C. A. and the Colored Civic League. The subject will be, "Would gradual emigration of the Negro to Africa relieve the racial feeling in the United States?" The public will want to hear. It will be a red-hot BOYS' NOTES Our boys and their leaders leave a lasting impression with all those that attended the Northern Colorado Older Boys' Conference by crowning themselves with glory while at Greeley last week. The most lasting and deepest impression was made by James Sims of East Denver high, who was elected over a white Denver boy, by popular vote of the Denver delegation, which consisted of fifty-five boys, by a vote of 45-9; to be the spokesman of the Denver delegation at the closing meeting of the conference. This meeting was held Sunday evening, at the Sterling theater, before a packed house, and Sims proved himself more than equal to the task by the masterly way he presented his subject. James Washington also left a good impression when he spoke before the Young People's Society at the Union Church, Sunday evening. Mr. Alva Rucker, the leader of the Hi-Y, and a student of D. U., won the respect of all with his pleasing personality. It was one time when the color line was forgotten and all were boys together. Mr. Townsend, our boys' secretary, proved himself a good mixer and won the respect of all the boys and their leaders. Saturday noon he was selected to sing with the leaders quarter, and in the afternoon was made official referee of the basketball games between the different delegations. Sunday evening, at the closing meeting of the conference, he was introduced to the audience by the state boys' secretary and was the recipient of a deafening round of applause. This conference meant much to our boys and we are only sorry that more of our boys could not attend. Sunday afternoon the Other Fellows' Club will elect their new officers at 3 o'clock. All boys are urged to be out and put in the boys who they think should lead this club. Good musical program. Don't miss this treat. If your boy is looking for a place to go after school send him to the "Y," where there is something doing every minute. SCOUT NOTES. Keep your eyes on the Scout Week, beginning Feb. 6 to 12. Sunday, Feb. 6, will open the program. At each troop's church a special sermon will be preached to the Scouts. Feb. 7 will be a Father, Mother and Son's banquet. 'Tickets will be on sale by the district committee. This will be a very large affair. Buy your tickets early so the committee will know how to prepare. Every day of the week will be given to Scout activities. The full program will be published in next issue. A drum corps was organized Jan. 18 with eleven boys at the beginning. We have twenty-four drums. The boys take to it like wildfire. Sunday, Jan. 23, every Scout and every committeeman on the Booker T. Washington District will meet at the Y. M. C. A. at 1:45 sharp to have a picture taken. If you are late you will be left out. Let's all join hands and make a gay week of it. W. H. C. S. PUBLICITY. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. THE CAMMEL UNDERTAKING CO. Anthony—Estella Anthony, the beloved daughter of Mr. B. C. Anthony of 1406 E. 24th Ave. departed this life Friday, Jan. 14. The funeral services were held Sunday, Jan. 16, at the Cammel Parlors, Rev. D. E. Over officiated. Interment, Riverside. Collins—Mrs. Josephine Collins, late of 2550 Welton street, departed this life Jan. 15. The funeral services were held Tuesday, Jan. 18, from Loyola Chapel Catholic Church. Interment, Mount Olivet. McGaugh—Mrs. Louisa McGaugh, the beloved mother of Mrs. Iona Marshall of Denver and Mrs. Nina Patrick of Colorado Springs, departed this life Jan. 15 at the residence of Mrs. Marshall, 2420 Welton street. Remains were shipped to Colorado Springs, Colo., Monday, for interment in the family plot. Foster—Mrs. Lucy Foster, formerly of Lewisville, Ark., and of 2614 Marlon street, departed this life Jan. 17 at her late residence. The remains were forwarded to Lewisville, Ark., Wednesday, accompanied by her son, Clinton Foster. Bradshaw—Wm. Bradshaw, departed this life at his late residence, 24th and Emerson street, Jan. 18. Remains at the Cammel Parlors awaiting the arrival of a brother. DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING CO. FUNERAL NOTICES. Eugene J. Milliner, 42 years, beloved brother of Bellen Milliner, Hot Springs, Ark., departed this life Jan. 15, at 2528 Stout street. Remains will be shipped to Hot Springs, Ark., for interment under the auspices of North Star Lodge No. 1, F. & A. M., Chicago, of which he was a member. Frank Brown, 65 years, departed this life Jan. 16. Body at chapel awaiting location of his son and daughter, F. H. Brown, who reside somewhere in New York City, N. Y. DAMON LODGE K. OF P. ELECTS OFFICERS. At a regular meeting, Damon Lodge No. 5, K. of P., 1832 Arapahoe street, Dec. 24, 1920, elected its officers for the semi-annual term as follows: C. C., L. Anderson. I. G., S. R. Hike. V. C., E. Pollard. O. G., Wm. Gibson. Prelate, A. H. Hall. M. of E., J. R. Grand Lodge Rep., Contee, one year. C. W. Young. M. of F., John J. W. Taylor. Kigh, one year. K. of R. S., Wm. H. Alternates, Lee, one year. L. Anderson. M. of A., Roger Ar. Robt. Watkins. nold. The lodge meets the 2nd and 4th Friday each month. CAMPBELL A. M. E. CHURCH. Cor, 23rd and Lawrence Sts. Rev. I. S Wilson, Pastor, Res. 2331 Arapahoe St. Phone Main 1214. 10 a. m., Sunday School. 11 a. m., Preaching. 7:30 p. m., Preaching. Mid-Week Meetings. Wednesday, 8 p. m., prayer and class. Thursday, 8 p. m., Willing Workers. The new residence for Rev. Wilson and his family will be at 2331 Arapaho street. Rev. John Adams of Pueblo looked after the legal affair of purchase of the new residence. Dr. Adams preached a noble sermon Sunday morning, his text, "Paul may plant Apollo's many waters, but the increase must come from God." The sermon was well received by the congregation. A. E. In Using Long Distance--- In placing a call to a distant point, thought should be taken of the convenience of the person called, and of others who wish to use the line. It isn't a kind act to place a long-distance call and then leave your telephone before connection is made with the distant person. For instance, you place a call for a busy man in Busyville. Then you leave your office. Meanwhile, the Busyville man is called, he answers, the operator rings your telephone and there is no response, or she is told you have stepped out. It is not only annoying to the person called, but others who are waiting have been delayed in securing the circuit. If you MUST leave the telephone before the call has been completed, please notify "Long Distance" at what telephone you can be called. This will prevent inconvenience to the person called and will conserve the use of long-distance facilities. Each subscriber is an essential factor in good telephone service, and we will greatly appreciate during this year, as in the past, your doing your part in the use of your telephone, and your friendly attitude towards our efforts to make the service the best possible. By the Way--- Are you taking adv Rates? Between 8:30 p that is, calls for number ONE-HALF the day ra calls are ONE-FOURTH TRY THESE RATES The Mountain S Telegra "Have Are you taking advantage of our reduced Evening and Night Rates? Between 8:30 p. m. and midnight, station-to-station calls that is, calls for numbers only and not for a particular person—are ONE-HALF the day rate. Between midnight and 4:30 a. m. such calls are ONE-FOURTH the day rate. TRY THESE RATES ON YOUR TELEPHONE. 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Whether you have a starter or not, a motor that is difficult to get under way is an exasperating proposition—and the arrival of cooler days and the present low grade of gasoline will make any motor difficult of initial operation. It is the absence of heat that brings about the hard starting motor, due to the difficulty of volatilizing the low grade of gasoline now on the market. Truth is the fuel is so cold and heavy it will not break up and mix with air even if the suction of the motor raises a sufficient quantity for ordinary purposes. Most of the cars now built are fitted with hot air tubes leading from the exhaust pipe to the fixed air inlet of the carburetor, thus permitting only hot air to enter, which aids in gasifying the gasoline. A tin can could be slipped over exhaust pipe and the hose inserted a hole in the can. This would so the purpose just as well as the flex pipe, except it would be difficult keep in place and would tend to rage. Fans Cause Trouble. Efficient cooling of a motor keeps somewhat upon the condition of fan, or more particularly, the blades. An instance is known when a motorist had gone over his car even had a repairman investigate find out why the motor heated, was found that three out of the fan blades had in some manner come straightened out, so as to no air through the radiator, although the fan was being driven by the as it was designed to do. As soon the blades were turned to their o This hot air tube will be of no particular avail while the engine is dead cold, as, for instance, when it has been standing all night, but is of material advantage in economical running and in starting. The common practice is to have a hollow casting clamped to the exhaust pipe and from the interior of this is run a flexible metal pipe to the fixed air intake of the carburetor, thus supplying warm, air at all times and aiding in making better mixture and more economy in the matter of fuel consumption. Heat Generates Gas. The warmer the air the more a given quantity of gasoline is transferred into gas, and so more economy is insured. Besides, it has been found that in even cool weather it is almost impossible to so adjust a carburetor as to permit the motor to be throttled down as well as it should be, and again the hot air pipe comes into good use. Most of the carburetor manufacturers or agents have these pipes ready for instant installation, and as they cost little, no motorist should be without one. As a matter of fact, a large section hose can be used so long as some arrangement is made whereby it can be secured at the exhaust pipe end. INDICATOR GIVES DIRECTION Convenient Means Provided for Facilitating Passage of Car Through Congested City. The Scientific American in Illustrating and describing a direction indicator, the invention of J. E. Mayhall of Covington, Ky., says: The primary object of the invention is to provide a convenient means for facilitating driving a vehicle, preferably a motor vehicle in a congested city or in fact anywhere it is desir- A Front View of Vehicle With Device Attached. able to give a warning to a vehicle either approaching from the front or rear, the direction which the vehicle on which the indicator is installed is to take, the device being conveniently operated by the chauffeur. PLAN FOR REPLACING BOLTS Often Very Difficult to Get Those Running Through Frame -Channel Back in Place. Bolts running through the frame channel are often very difficult to get in place once they are removed. An easy method where these bolts are drilled is to take a cotter pin and run a piece of wire through the hole in the bolt. The bolt may then be drawn through the hole. TROUBLE IN IGNITION COILS Effort to Secure Greater Efficiency is Likely to Burn Out the Condenser. The ignition coils on the market are made for the voltage that is obtained by using five or six dry cells. To connect a greater number of coils in series in order to secure greater efficiency is very likely to burn out the condenser and run the coll. A tin can could be slipped over the exhaust pipe and the hose inserted in a hole in the can. This would serve the purpose just as well as the flexible pipe, except it would be difficult to keep in place and would tend to rattle. Fans Cause Trouble. Efficient cooling of a motor depends somewhat upon the condition of the fan, or more particularly, the fan blades. An instance is known where a motorist had gone over his car and even had a repairman investigate to find out why the motor heated. It was found that three out of the four fan blades had in some manner become straightened out, so as to pull no air through the radiator, although the fan was being driven by the belt as it was designed to do. As soon as the blades were turned to their original position and air was pulled through the radiator there was no trouble about keeping the motor cool. Clean the Fuel Tank. Don't overlook the gasoline tank in the matter of cleaning, for at some time it will be found this is a necessary thing. Here was a recent cause that baffled even the experts, and it all came about because the owner ran out of gasoline. That was not a great misfortune, for he happened to be near a supply station and the tank was refilled. But the motor would not start, although a few moments before it had been running. Gasoline would not flow to the carburetor, although the tank had just been filled. When the gasoline ran out, became entirely exhausted, even down to the last drop, it carried into the gasoline feed pipe some little particle of refuse or dirt that previously had been floating on the top of the gasoline. This found its way into the pipe and clogged it, so as to prevent a flow to the carburetor. The remedy was simple enough when the difficulty was discovered. The gasoline pipe was removed and the particle of dirt blown out. It is because of this that it is essential that the tank be cleaned out every once in a while. WEAK VALVE SPRINGS Weakening of the springs which close the valves is a common cause of faulty engine operation. Whenever the valves are taken but the springs should be examined to see that they are all of the same length, or rather that all of the inlet set are of the same length and all of the exhaust, as the exhaust springs will, probably be a little longer than the others. If one spring is shorter than the others in its set it should be stretched or else a metal plate must be put under it to bring tension up to equality with its fellows. AUTOMOBILE NEWS One gallon of gasoline weighs 6 6-10 pounds. Eight of the noted motion picture players in California have between them passenger automobiles that cost $142,000. In 1919, Canada produced 94,000 motor vehicles. It is estimated that production this year will be fully 35 per cent greater. The bureau of chemistry of the Department of Agriculture is experimenting with the manufacture of motor fuel from dried leaves. Early applicants for 1921 automobile license tags in Pennsylvania are requesting special numbers to match their house, post office box, lodge or other numbers. In winter weather a set of tire chains is indispensable, but they should only be used when necessary and removed as soon as the emergency has passed. Of the 39,000 motor vehicles controlled by the Motor Transport corps of the United States army, disposition of 95 per cent or 38,048 vehicles, was made up to April 8. It should be borne in mind that friction at any place in a chassis is overcome at the expenditure of gasoline. Therefore, if the friction is reduced the mileage will be increased. The AMERICAN LEGION HEAD OF AMERICANISM BOARD Henry J. Ryan of Boston, Mass., is Named Chairman of Legion's Reorganized Commission. Typical of the spirit of the American Legion is the appointment of Henry J. Ryan of Boston, Mass., a former apprentice seaman in the navy, to succeed Arthur Woods of New York, who was a colonel in the army and former police commissioner of New York city, as Henry J. Ryan of Boston, Mass., a former apprentice seaman in the navy, to succeed Arthur Woods of New York, who was a colonel in the army and former police commissioner of New York city, as chairman of the Legion's reorganized Americanism commission, headquarters of which is at national headquarters at Indianapolis. When the war broke out Mr. Ryan attempted to enlist several times in the army, but was refused because of his defective eyesight. At last the navy accepted him, but he was ordered to remain on shore duty. During the various drives for Liberty loans and war funds the newly appointed chairman acquired a national reputation as an orator, especially on subjects involving patriotism and Americanism. Other members of the commission are To serve one year, Florella H. LaGuardia, New York city, William B. Follett, Portland, Ore.; E. K. Bixby, Muskogee, Okla.; Edgar H. Baird, Philadelphia; Garland W. Powell, Cumberland, Md.; Richard F. Beirns, Richmond, Va. To serve two years, Peyton H. Hoge, Jr., Louisville, Ky.; A. H. Gansser, Bay City, Mich.; Col. Gordon Johnson, U. S. A., chief of staff to Gen. Leonard Wood, Fort Sheridan, Ill. To serve three years, Will Percy, Greenville, Miss.; Dwight Davis, St. Louis; F. O. Horton, Des Molines, In.; Lindsey Blayne, Houston, Tex., and Leonard Withington, Honolulu, Hawaii. It will be the Legion's aim under Mr. Ryan to co-ordinate and consolidate the activities for the promotion of Americanism of the Y. M. C. A., Red Cross, Knights of Columbus, Masons, Salvation Army, National Security league and many other organizations. To this end a conference will be held in Washington soon. MAN OF TRAVEL EXPERIENCE Samuel, Adjutant of Legion, Department of Kansas, Has Seen Much of Broad World. After traveling over pretty much all of the continents of North America, Europe and Asia, Frank E. Samuel has settled down into a busy life as adjutant of the American Legion, department of Kansas, with headquarters in Topeka. PETER H. Samuel was born in Downing, Mo., in 1889. Armed with a college degree in 1912 he started out to see the world. What part of it he missed in civilian pursuits was made up to him when he joined the Three Hundred and Fifty-third infantry regiment of the famous Eighty-ninth division and served in all the battles in which that outfit participated. Samuel, on his return to civil life, became assistant state adjutant of the Legion in Kansas and was made adjutant in September, 1919. He was recently re-elected for a two-year term. GENERAL'S WIFE NEW LEADER Mrs. Clarence Edwards Is Chosen President of Massachusetts Department of Auxiliary. Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, who commanded the Twenty-sixth di- vision through its training period in the States, in quiet defensive sectors and in its later participation in almost every major offensive of the war, is the idol of thousands of New England members of the American Legion and other vision through its training period in the States, in quiet defensive sectors and in its later participation in almost every major offensive of the war, is the idol of thousands of New England members of the American Legion and other former service men. Mrs. Clarence R. Edwards, his wife, is now placed in a similar position by the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of these veterans, for Mrs. Edwards was elected president of the Massachusetts department of the women's auxiliary of the American Legion at a recent state convention of that organization. The newly elected president is a resident of Newton, Mass. She has been active in work for the benefit of New England members of the American Legion and other former service men CONGRESS IS URGED TO ACT Five Provisions Requested in Aid of Disabled Veterans, Amending Vocational Training Law. Amendment of the law under which disabled veterans of the World war are given vocational training, so as to provide five things demanded by the last convention of the American Legion at Cleveland was urged in congress by Legion representatives. The five provisions requested by the Legion are: 1. Vocational training for American citizens who served with the allied armies, who were disabled and who are not entitled to training under the present law. 2. Training with pay for all disabled veterans with 10 per cent or more disability, instead of training with pay for some and training without pay for others, as now provided. 3. Vocational training for the widows and orphans of all men who died in the service. 4. The right of the federal board for vocational education to give all disabled men in training such medical care and treatment as is necessary to keep them at their courses. 5. That all disabled men in training shall receive $100 a month from the government while in training and those with dependents $120 a month, instead of different sums based upon the cost of living in different localities as now provided. A special plea was made by John Thomas Taylor of the national legislative committee of the Legion for vocational training for the widows and orphans of the American dead of the World war. He said that undoubtedly the 50,000 American children whose fathers slept in Flanders fields were entitled to the same educational advantages that they would have had, were their fathers alive and able to provide for them. The widows of the men who died in France, he added, were likewise entitled, the bread-winning member of the family having been killed in defense of the country, to be taught some kind of work of trade. EDITOR WAS ON FIRING LINE Commander of Missouri Department of Legion One of Many Newspaper Men Who Heard Call. John Francis Williams, commander of the Missouri department of the Legion, is one of thousands of newspaper men who left their typewriters when the war broke out. Enlisting as a private in the Missouri National Guard, Mr. Williams rose to the rank of first lieutenant. PETER B. In the A. E. F. he served as a machine gun officer with the Thirty-fifth division in the Vosges mountains and in the Argonne Meuse drive. After the armistice, he served as instructor in the A. E. F. university at Beaune and later assisted in publicity in connection with the interalled games. Mr. Williams, who is a member of Robert S. Thurman post 13, Joplin, Mo., served as post commander and state master-at-arms previously to his election as department head. He is editor of the Joplin News Herald. ORGANIZATION IS HIS TASK Spokane (Wash.) Man Will Supervise Work of Enrolling Every Former Service Buddle. Edward H. Prell of Spokane, Wash., was recently appointed director of the organization division at national headquarters of the American Legon. He succeeds Russell G. Creviston, who is now assistant national adjutant. PETER HARRIS Mr. Prell served overseas with the One Hundred and Forty-sixth field artillery and par- ticipated in two major offensives of the World war. After his discharge from the army, Mr. Prell was active in the early organization of the Legion in his state. The supervision and direction of the Legion's 1921 campaign to enroll every eligible former service man in its ranks will be in the hands of the new director. RAISED BIG CHRISTMAS FUND RAISED BIG CHRISTMAS FUND Adjutant of Illinois Department of Legion Had Aid of Actress in Raising Christmas Money. When William Q. Setliffe, adjutant of the Illinois department of the American Legion, started the Legion campaign which raised $50,000 for Christmas entertainments for sick and disabled veterans in Illinois hospitals, he called upon Miss Floe Bert, a well-known actress, to assist in making the undertaking a success. the undertaking the undertaking a Miss Bert gave entertainments in proceeds of which Legion's fund. a large number of Illinois cities, the were applied to the LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES Senator William E. Rehshaw of Idaho Springs presented a bill in the upper house which makes traffic laws uniform throughout the state. The Republican majority in the State Senate declined to confirm the appointment of Booth M. Malone as public trustee for the city and county of Denver. A bill to establish the office of public defender in Denver will be one of the remaining measures to be presented to the Twenty-third-General Assembly of Colorado. Governor Shoup withdrew his list of recess appointments subject to confirmation by the Senate. He submitted the list to the senators and gave notice that a revised list will be introduced later. A bill that would increase the salary of the superintendent of the state insane asylum was introduced by Representative Morris Penter of Pueblo. The present salary is $3,500, while the bill calls for a maximum salary of $7,500. Three hundred and eighty-eight bills have been introduced in the two houses so far, as compared with approximately 1,300 offered in the last session. Senate and House leaders predicted the total for this session will not exceed 600. Senators and representatives from the agricultural districts are being rallied together to support the Republican platform proposal to fix a minimum rate of fifteen miles an hour at which railroads must convey perishable farm products and to prevent delay between shipping point and destination. The judiciary committee is putting in several hours a day trying to catch up with the great mass of work before it. Several bills have been passed upon and ordered printed. Among these was the bill by Representative A. Thomas Pollock repealing the headless ballot law. Governor Shoup resubmitted to the State Senate his list of recess appointments. No one as yet is named for public trustee in Denver. The Senate in executive session received the chief executive's message and referred the appointments to various committees. Ratification without debate is expected for the whole list. Plans providing for the establishment of six additional game preserves in Colorado and recommending more rigid enforcement of the game laws will be presented to the State Legislature within a few days, it has been announced by John H. Hatton, chief of the grazing department of the United States forest service. The short appropriation bill, for the period Dec. 1 through March, was introduced in the lower house Representative A. M. Wilson of El Paso county. It provides for appropriations of $400,779.46. The House adjourned to allow the appropriations committee to consider the proposal, which was reported by the committee for printing. One of the major bills of the session, in that it is considered a fertile basis for heated discussion in both houses, was introduced in the Senate by Senators David Elliot, El Paso county, and John McFadzean of Del Norte, proposing abolishment of the State Railroad Commission. The proposal was referred to the committee on state affairs. Representative David P. Howard of Grand county, who has been engaged a number of times in attempts to collect county taxes from the Denver & Salt Lake railroad, is sponsor for a bill which would repeal the present law regarding collecting of taxes from corporations and substitute provisions by which the taxes could be collected through a court. Twenty-three of the twenty-four Republican state senators signed a petition requesting Governor Shoup to reappoint John F. Vivian as a member of the State Land Board. Colorado mountain lions dead will be worth $100, if the State Legislature makes a law out of a bill introduced in the Senate by Senator J. L. Morrison of Dolores, who is chairman of the executive committee of the Dolores River Fish and Game Club. The bill proposes the state pay $100 bounty on each lion killed when the huntsman produces the animal's skin before the state fish and game commissioner within thirty days after it is killed, with proper affidavits. Definite revival of the project for the construction of the Moffat tunnel is contained in a report made by W. G. Evans, as chairman of the State Railroad Commission, to Governor Shoup. The report suggests the creation of a state agency charged with the duty of making clear to the Interstate Commerce Commission the situation concerning transportation lines in Colorado and urgent need for the construction of the tunnels proposed in the defeated bond issue last November. Representative Iver H. Dailey of Huerfano county, who is president of the Colorado Game and Fish Protective Association, will submit a bill which would bring about a complete working over of the present game and fish laws to make them conform in all respects with federal laws. Complete abolishment of the present State Pardons Board and substitution thereof of an attorney advisor to the governor at a salary of $2,500 is called for by a bill introduced in the House of Representatives by Representative John F. Rotruck of Denver. # A **B.S.** D.D.S. Invites the table of tables of Denver to inspect his modern, electrically equipped dental suite, 2602 Wetton St. Hours 9 a.m. to 12 m.; 6 a.m. to 12 m.; and Sun days by appointment. Office phone Champa 2807. Residence phone Champa 1536. DR. WESTBROOK, Physician and Surgeon, office 25 Good Block, 16th and Larimer St. Phone Main 5595. Hours 10 to 11 a.m. to 4 and 7 to 8 p.m. Residence 2555 Glenarm place. Phone Champa 6148. Hours at residence by appointment. Call Physicians and Surgeons. Telephone Exchange: Main' 1624. night or day. R-ray examination and treatments a speciality. C. E. TERRY, M.D. 1027 Twenty-first St., Denver Office Phone Main 2701. Hours 12 to 2 and 6 to 8 p.m. or by appointment. Res. 2337 Glenarm Place, Phone Champa 3303. E. P. BLAKEMORE. Attorney and Counsellor at Law Office, Rooms 39 and 40 Arapahoe Bldg., 1622 Arapahoe St. Phone Champa, 5450. DR. HUFF'S office phone is Champa 6001. And his residence Phone, York 4101. When not reached at office or home, call Atlas Drug Co., Main 875. Office, Suite 5, 6 and 7, 2701 Welton St. over Atlas Drug Store. Office hours, 11 to 12 a. m., and 3 to 5 p. m. Office 609 27th St. Ph. Champa 1142 S. E. CARY ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Six Years City and County Attorney at Russell Springs, Logan County, Kansas Office Hours 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 M. 2:00 P. M. to 4:00 P. M. DENVER, COLO. THE WARD AUCTION COMPANY Sales Daily at 2 p.m. Office Purs- niture a Specialty. PRIVATE SALES AT ALL TIMES HAVE MOVED TO— 1723-39 GLENARM ST. PHONE MAIN 1678. Phone Main 8036 Res. Phone York 5774W FRANK D. TAGGART Attorney at Law—Notary Public 205-206 Cooper Building Denver, Colorado JOSEPH CARTER Express, Moving, and Storage COAL AND WOOD PROMPT DELIVERY. Phone Main 6544. 2415 WASHINGTON STREET. ORIENTAL RESTAURANT Chop Suey, Noodles and Short Orders Phone Champa 113 1848 Arapahoe Do You Use Good Paper When You Write? We Can Print Anything and Do It Right. 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SCOTT SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO SECRETARY OF WAR complete and authentic narration of the participa- tive American soldiers of the Negro race in the great fight in America. Illustrated with official and personal photo- ver two hundred in number, this work offers deli- ing of its 600 pages for the youth, the middle-age old, and each home will add dignity and loyalty to and country by being provided with a copy of this able work. A very desirable gift in and out of s book is being offered at the very reasonable pr $3.00 Makers of 18 superfine preparations for the hair and skin 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 SCOTTS OFFICIAL HISTORY OF 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 $3.00 at the office of THE COLORADO STATESM D. Box 116 Room 25, 1824 Curr engements can also be made over phone. Call Main PRESS COMMENT: No library is complete without Sc history of "The American Negro in the World War," and no b gracy could be left to posterity than this great work of N roism and patriotism. SOMETHING NEW GARDNER THE TAILOR giving a United Certificate for each 25 cents spent in for cleaning, pressing, repairing or tailoring. These Certificates are good for Community Silver may be exchanged for cash at the Globe, National Denver. 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. Is giving a United Certificate for each 25 cents spent with him for cleaning, pressing, repairing or tailoring. These Certificates are good for Community Silverware, or may be exchanged for cash at the Globe National Bank of Denver. Get your share of them by calling Champa 1019. 1025 21ST STREET. A WETHER they are made of satin or taffetta, many of the new afternoon frocks appear to exist with a single ambition, and that is to set forth one of the many ingenious ways in which narrow ribbons may be used as an embellishment for them. Designers appear to have discovered in ribbon trimmings a new world to conquer and they are busily exploring it. Nothing seems to suit quite so well the character of taffetta frocks as the unpretentious, pretty ribbon fancies; it is in the nature of things that they should replace embroideries and beadings. Among the afternoon frocks made ready for spring appears the simple and fascinating model shown in the picture. A glance reveals that it has not discarded the plain bodice and elbow sleeves of many taffeta frocks and that it approves the tunic with emphasis, for it has a long and very full one, which is bordered with etreles Blouses Strike a Quiet Note L THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIES NEW blouses add their testimony to that of sports clothes in prophesying that there will be no riot of vivid colors this spring, but, on the contrary, pale tints and more or less sedate shades. Unless the goddess of fashion changes her mind, much quiet refinement is to succeed the gorgeous and lavishly ornamented fall apparel—that is the note struck by new blouses. Autumn was ushered in with vivid hues that rivaled its bright foliage, and the most colorful and intricate of embroideries helped to make apparel gorgeous. The present indications are that the softer and daintier colors of spring blossoms are to be reflected in the new blouses at least. So far few of the models presented have a peplum, but in quite a number of them the blouse extends a little below the waist line and dispenses with a girdle. Long sleeves predominate and shawl collars, high at the back and open at the front, which leaves opportunity for vestes. Wide tucks, ribbon frills, either fluted or plaited, cluny and Irish laces and fine needlework in embroideries that match the color of the blouse account for much of the decoration. Narrow rib- and scrolls of narrow ribbon, shirred along the edge, and sewed down to the silk. There is a belt of taffeta—a blaz French fold and the sleeves are prettily finished with the shirred ribbon, which in this case is in the same color as the dress. Some of the new taffeta or sath afternoon frocks have bodices of georgette crepe in a contrasting color, trimmed with narrow faille ribbon like the skirt in color. The ribbon is used to finish edges in borders, in little loops sewed over the crepe and in hanging ends or short tabs set close together. Frocks of dark taffeta have the full skirts or tunics finished with a wide border in lattice work, made of narrow ribbon stitched down on both edges. Very narrow-fluted or plaited frills in bright colors, edge-deep slashes at the bottom of tunics and, for both skirts and bodices, ribbon rosettes find many points of vantage. THE FILM OF "THE LOVE OF THE WEEK" BY JOHN H. HARRIS, AUTOGRAPHED BY JOHN H. HARRIS, AUTOGRAPHED BY JOHN H. HARRIS bons are also used in tabs, rosettes and fanciful ways as an embellishment. A noteworthy example with ribbon trimming is made of tan colored tricolore with little leaves simulated in narrow, brown faille ribbon sewed at intervals all over it. Crepe-de-chine blouses, with deep, close-fitting cuffs and shawl collar crocheted of heavy silk, are among the novelties. An exception that proves the rule of short smocks and blouses makes its bid for favor in the long smock at the left of the picture above. It remains loyal to beads as a decoration, and also pins its faith to elbow sleeves. The smock at the right, of satin, is short, and avails itself of the mode for combinations of two colors. Its sleeves are typical and so is the stitchery that finishes it. There are a great many examples of two-color combinations among georgette blouses. Julia Bottomley COPYRIGHT BY WESTERN NEWSRAFT UNIONS White Broadtail Popular. White broadtail is one of the smart new trimmings for suits. J. R. CONTEE, Pres. and Mgr. Phone Main 6123—Day or Night. 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