Colorado Statesman

THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY TWENTY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF COLORADO CLOSES TUESDAY, 6 P.M. Three Months' Session Ends With Laws Beneficial to the People. Presiding Officers of Both Houses, Chairmen of Committees, Secretaries, Other Officers and Employes Make Record for Most Harmonious Legislature Ever Held in Colorado—Deserving Ones to Be Rewarded. VOL. XXVII. TWENTY-THIRD GEN ASSEMBLY CLOSES Three Months' Session E to the Presiding Officers of Both mittees, Secretaries, Ou Make Record for Most H Held in Colorado—Dese IN the busy march of life there are men and women to be found who can find a little time to devote to serviceto a community offering their best interests for the development of a people, a state, a nation, and from the program that has been gone through by the Legislature, sitting as the Twenty-third General Assembly, it can be affirmed that Colorado produces some of those characters who believe that life's purpose is best served by those who desire to live and act a life of service. In a recent issue of this paper an account was given of the Speaker of the House and his associates in the conducting of the business of this lawmaking body, and now that the work is completed, a word of commendation herein offered in appreciation of their services, offers a tangible evidence that the people of Colorado are not slow to recognize ability, worth and service whenever engaged in for the good of all the people. Selection of Committees. The President of the Senate, Lieut-Gov. Earl Cooley, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hona-Roy A. Davis, have come in for quite a share of praise in the selection of committees for carrying out efficiently the work assigned to them, and the harmony characterizing the many conferences of these committees, as well as the good results that were brought about, gave every satisfaction to citizens who followed their proceedings with the closest and most critical observation. As space will not permit the naming and commenting on all the members of the respective committees, a word relative to the chairmen of the House committees and the very efficient corps of clerical employés and heads of departments will serve to show that there has been general approval of what has been accomplished on both sides and from all sources. Chairmen of House Committees. HON. LORENZO M. SUTTON, AGRICULTURE AND IRRIGATION.—He comes from Fort Morgan, representing Morgan and Washington counties. Always on the job, he never fails to offer a correct solution of the problems that will increase the agricultural development of this state and make its resources richer and greater. He has done well. HON. A. M. WILSON of El Paso county, APPROPRIATION AND EXPENDITURE.—Faithful to his task, and occupying this position on the most important committee, he is accredited with having performed his duties with entire satisfaction to all. HON. WM. D. McGINNIS, BANKING.—Representing Phillips and Yuma counties; quoted as an authority, he justifies the same by his searching inquiries and his wise suggestions as to the taking care of the public funds and the fair distribution among the various banking institutions of the state, and also the safe investment accompanied with the best returns of the people's money. HON. JOSIE J. JACKSON, DENVER CITY AFFAIRS.—Mrs. Jackson is a member from Denver county, who has been unfortunately absent from the Legislature by a long illness, and who recently becoming convalescent appeared at her desk during the last few days. She has been accorded every sympathy from her associate legislators who missed her very capable assistance. HON. W. B. VAN ATTA, FOREST RESERVES.—San Miguel county is proud of her representative, having every confidence in him, as his dignified bearing and ability for the performance of duty, supported to an impressive degree by his quiet and unassuming manner, lend an attraction that makes him approachable, resulting in a readiness to listen and attend to the needs of his constituents. A product of Iowa, Mr. Van Atta attended the Washington Academy of that state and afterwards entered commercial life in 1880. Coming to Colorado in 1883, he established a business in the same year and has been identified with educational and business interests of San Miguel county nearly forty years. A very interesting occurrence of this session which will not be easily forgotten, was the meeting of Senator T. T. Wilson of the Seventh district, including Greeley, and Representative H. H. Harbaugh of Weld county, "chums of youthful days" of Mr. Van Atta, who renewed their acquaintances after their association at the Academy in Iowa in 1880, this being the first meeting since that time. Some say that in general appearance, stateliness, etc., Mr. Van Atta looks like President Harding's double. There is no reason why he cannot represent Washington in this county from an all-round standpoint. HON. JOHN F. ROTRUCK, INSURANCE.—There could hardly be a better appointment as chairman of this committee, as from Mr. Rotruck's experience in probate and real estate matters and his acceptance by the people of Denver as one of our legal luminaries, he is always willing to argue any matter affecting the people's interest and disposing of same to the satisfaction of the citizens. A Denver representative who has labored assiduously this session in accordance with his pre-election promise. HON. MABEL RUTH BAKER, EDUCATION.—Another Denver member, well qualified, with a determination that because the educated mind should DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, APRIL 2 1921 101 R. L. SHAW, CHIEF CLERK of the House of Representatives, and who through his devotion to duty, executive ability to run his staff successfully, so that there is no friction, but a complete understanding that all work for the best advantage to government and people, is accorded much commendation for his efficient service to the present Legislature. Mr. Shaw's home is Buena Vista, Chaffee county, Colorado, and has given yeoman service for many years in the capacity of chairman of the county committee, having brought Chaffee into the ranks of the Republican party, the result of hard fought political battles at the time when Democratic influence held authority. Through his energy and enthusiasm, Mr. Shaw gave a plurality for Republican Governor Carlson in 1914, and in 1920 his county went strongly for President Harding and Senator Nicholson by the plurality of 283 and 299 respectively. He now comes forward with an application for the position of Director of Federal Prohibition for Colorado, and Republicans of his county, and several other counties, including Denver, are desirous of Mr. Shaw becoming the successful applicant, as from their association with him and conferences on prohibition, they conclude that he is in sympathy with the results which should follow from an efficient administration of the duties of that office. As is clearly shown during the period of the Twenty-third General Assembly, which closes next Tuesday, in his present capacity, he is a good judge of men, and with the harmony now existing between the men and women on his staff, Mr. Shaw can be termed a good leader, and from this the deduction can be made that good team-work and harmony would prevail between him and the agents concerned in the enforcement of the National Prohibition Act. THE COLORADO STATESMAN, having a full knowledge of Mr. Shaw's qualities as an office head, and more than a passing information of his courteous treatment, though strictly business-like action to his associates, expresses its admiration for him and takes this opportunity of offering its endorsement for a man who would fill the position with honor, fearlessness and sound judgment to the state and to the people. We join with Chaffee county, Colorado, in wishing Mr. R. L. Shaw success for the appointment. help to uplift and entirely uproot savagery, barbarism and discrimination from the land, so that we may fill our place as leaders, she rises to the occasion, fearlessly making a plea for a thorough education for all citizens irrespective of creed or color. HON. MINNIE C. T. LOVE of Denver and the HON. T. C. WILSON of Teller and Park counties are strong and helpful women members of the Legislature and are equally fearless in representing the causes of the people that tend to advance and carry on to success. HON. FRANK R. KELLY of Chaffee county was well chosen for the HOUSE EXPENDITURE committee and with his wonderful intellectuality and business experience he takes mighty good care to see no money's wasted. HON. CHAS. C. SACKMAN, Denver, a member of the JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, with HON. W. B. GORDON of Prowers and Baca counties as chairman, are very valuable assets to the Legislature, as their legal ability is materially helpful in saving the people from needless litigation. Mr. Sackman is also president of the Blackstone Transit Co., Gas & Electric Bldg. General Opinion. It is the opinion of the public that the Twenty-third General Assembly has set a standard that will be followed for a long time to come, as both members, officers, Senate and House employees in every grade, seem to have felt the responsibility of service, and the one aim and purpose of the people's representatives can be found in the words—TRUE SERVICE. Deserving, therefore, the public's commendation. The Colorado Statesman offers congratulations to all persons who took part in the people's service, and request that omission of other names be taken in good part as space is at a premium, and we trust you'll be generous enough to accept the best we could do under the circumstances. The bills favorable to the citizens were accepted. Those unfavorable were rejected. Our thanks and best wishes are offered to the Colorado Legislature for what they have accomplished. BIG EVENTS AT TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE DURING MONTH OF APRIL Semi-Annual Meeting of the Trustees—Founder's Day Celebration and Clinics at the John A. Andrews Memorial Hospital. Tuskegee Institute, Ala., March 21. Arrangements are well on the way toward perfection for the big events at Tuskegee Institute during the month of April. At this time the semiannual meeting of the trustees is held at the school and Founders' Day is celebrated, and for the past nine years clinics have been held at the John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital. Efforts are being made to make this occasion this year eclipse any similar events of previous years and the outlook is most favorable for the accomplishment of this object. There will be several events of interest: First, beginning April 4th a post-graduate course in medicine and surgery will be inaugurated to continue for four weeks. On April 11th 12th and 13th the annual clinic will be held. These clinics are so well known and so far-reaching in their results that we can not add much here with reference to them. Suffice it to say that they have become an annual event of such interest as to engage the attention of physicians from practically all points of the country, culminating last year in an attendance of 100 physicians from eleven different states. There is every reason to believe that this year the attendance will be larger and that there will be an increased number of patients. The Alabama State Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutical Association will be in session at the same place on the 13th and 14th of April. The John A. Andrew Clinical Society will hold its fourth annual meeting during the clinic, thus it will be seen that there is a large number of attractive events at this time. Communications from different sections and localities bringing the encouraging news that physicians PENROSE AROUSES SENATE WITH PLEA FOR NEGROES. WASHINGTON, March 3L. A far-reaching political effect is predicted by both Republican and Democratic leaders Thursday to result from the declaration of Senator Penrose, member of the Republican national committee from Pennsylvania and titular Republican leader of that state, for "equal rights" for the Negro. Acting largely under orders from Penrose, the House of Representatives at Harrisburg has just passed a bill which provides that Negroes in Pennsylvania may patronize hotels, cafes, restaurants, educational institutions and amusement places on equal terms with whites. The measure would severely penalize those who own or conduct public utilities accommodations for refusing Negroes access to them, or for denying Negroes the same privileges accorded whites. "I communicated with my friends in Harrisburg that I wanted the bill passed." Penrose said. "I believe the time has come when our Negro citizens must no longer be denied those rights as free men which is given them by the constitution. There must be an end to the repression and discrimination to which Negroes are subjected. "I see no reason why a Negro should be denied a cup of coffee and a sandwich in a light lunch cafe frequented by whites just because his color hap- NO25 will be in attendance from every quarter. The good to be derived from these occasions for both physicians and patients has been recognized of such value that during the nine years that clinics have been held they never lacked for a sufficient number of patients to keep the attending physicians interested and busy. In fact this is largely responsible for the inauguration of the post-graduate school. They have not had the time heretofore to do justice to the large number of patients during the two or three days assigned for the clinic. It is regarded as a most excellent opportunity for those of our physicians who are in need of clinical work and that a great and gratifying number of them will avail themselves of the opportunity. In fact the correspondence is such as to warrant the assurance that the occasion will prove a splendid success. There is no other occasion, not even excepting the meeting of the National Medical Association that has thus far brought together in any one place such a representative group of distinguished physicians and surgeons of both races from various parts of the country as these coming occasions promise to do. The program contains the names of eminent men of the profession from Chicago, Boston, New York, Washington, Nashville, Lexington, Ky., Atlanta, Birmingham, Montgomery, Raleigh, Charleston, W. Va., Philadelphia and other places. Many of these men bear national reputations which are beyond challenge. The occasion will be replete with scientific knowledge of medicine and surgery in practically all of their branches that few can well afford to miss. pens to be different from theirs. I see no reason why he should be turned away from a hotel or restaurant because he is not white." Democratic senators from the "solid south" were swift in criticising Penrose's utterances. While most of them declined to be quoted for publication, several of them like Senator "Tom" Heflin of Alabama strongly condemned the "equal rights" idea advanced by the Pennsylvania senator. A number of Penrose's Republican colleagues expressed concern regarding the political effect his declaration would have. NATIVE OF KENTUCKY SEEKS NOMINATION FOR LEGISLATURE. Hopkinsville, Ky., March 21.—In the Republican primary election on the 6th of August this year, the voters will have the opportunity of nominating a colored man for the candidacy for the Legislature, to be voted for in the final election in November. Hon. C. W. Merriweather, a native of this county, Christian, an able lawyer of more than fifteen years' active practice in the courts of western Kentucky, a splendid citizen of this city, identified with all of its movements for progress and advancement, has made his announcement for the nomination. This county is easily Republican by a thousand majority and with 85 percent of the Republican vote coming from the Negro, the outlook for his nomination and election is indeed flattering. FOREIGN A case, believed to be the first of its kind in England, was decided at Glasgow, when a fine of $20 was imposed on an airman, William Reeve, for a violation of the air navigation regulations by dropping leaflets from an aeroplane during the local prohibition veto poll. Former Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary was in Vienna and met a group of monarchists, according to information from most reliable quarters. The ex-emperor, it is stated, went from Vienna to Budapest, but left that city within a few hours at the request of the Hungarian government. While masses of troops who are reported to be discontented are held around Petrograd and other cities ready to quell disturbances, the Bolshevist administration is trying to overcome the critical food and fuel shortage to tide over April and May until the new soviet policy can be effective. This information is brought to the frontier by refugees. Minsk, an important city in western Russia, has been captured by revolutionaries, says a Copenhagen dispatch, The Eighth Bolshevist army is declared to have joined the revolutionists, who have formed a democratic White Russian republic. Kiev is said to be surrounded by rebellious peasants, and the Communists there are adopting terrorist measures. The Sinn Feiners "fire-raising" campaign in England reached a climax in simultaneous outbreaks in places as far apart as the rivers Tyne and Tees, or as Chester and the suburbs of London. Great precautions are being taken to protect the Bank of England and other public and private buildings which are thought likely to be subjects for the attention of the firebrands. Warning that any person found on Mexican soil with firearms would be "shot on sight by federal troops, who are seeking guerillas," and an order closing the border to American hunters, was issued in Matamoras, opposite Brownsville. The order and warning was signed by General Lopez, commander of the Matamoras garrison, following a conference with Gen. Arnulfo R. Gomez. As a result of the overhauling of its finances, the Hungarian government has made the crown worth $2½ Austrian crowns. This increase in the value of the Hungarian crown has had a peculiar sequel, according to a statement made by Kolman Hededus, minister of finance. "It is now profitable," he said, "for some scoundrels in Switzerland to counterfeit our stamp and imprint it on the unstamped bills of the Austro-Hungarian bank." GENERAL A movie censorship bill, providing for the creation of a State Board of Motion Picture Censors, has been passed by the House of the Iowa Legislature. The Boston Typothetue has announced a reduction of $4 a week in the pay of journeymen printers and $3 a week in the pay of journeywomen printers. The cut applies also to the bookbinding industry. Strike sanction has been asked of the International Typographical Union. Based on reports from Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, officials of farm and horticultural associations said much damage had been caused by freezing temperatures. Little hope for early fruit crops in Missouri and Kansas was indicated, although it was said the latter crops probably had not suffered materially. A huge ape which was shot while attempting to break through a window in the bedroom of Fred Grossman in Detroit and which later terrorized East Side residents, was claimed at the police station by J. K. Seaman who said the animal was an escaped pet. Police, believing the Simian may have been trained to rob houses, have begun an investigation. The New York Central railroad has announced a 10 per cent reduction for round trip tickets with time limit effective between May 15 and June 1 up to Sept. 30, to all points in its territory. Restoration of the "homesecker" rates for colonists bound west of Chicago also was announced. These rates were abolished during the war. Conspiracy to interfere with public trade by fixing prices of coal is the charge that forms the basis for indictments voted by the grand jury in Chicago against four officials of the Chicago Retail Coal Merchants' Association and the Retail Coal Bureau. Four private detectives, said to have been employed by the association and the bureau, also have been indicted. Final settlement of the $400,000 estate of Henry Field, grandson of Marshall Field and brother of Marshall Field III, was made in Probate Court in Chicago. The final accounting showed the $100,000 claim of Peggy Marsh, an actress, by whom Henry Field had a son, Henry Anthony Field, had been paid. The claim had been withdrawn, but Marshall Field III assumed the contract and paid Miss Marsh the money. Police of Jacksonville, Fla., began search for Earl Weems, who, returning to his room in a hotel, began firing when he saw a form in his wife's bed. The form proved to be that of Mrs. Rosa Goodwin, a friend, who was slightly wounded. Mrs. Weems was badly injured by another shot. Weems fled in an automobile and escaped. Larry McLean, former catcher for the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Giants, was shot and killed in Boston during a brawl in a soft drink establishment. Jack McCarthy, a friend, was severely wounded. AN EPITOME OF LATE LIVE NEWS CONDENSED RECORD OF THE PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT HOME AND ABROAD FROM ALL SOURCES SAYINGS, DOINGS, ACHIEVE MENTS, SUFFERINGS, HOPES AND FEARS OF MANKIND. (Western Newspaper Union News Service.) WESTERN Union carpenters of Tacoma, Wash., announced a voluntary wage reduction from $8 to $7 a day, to become effective at once. The purpose of the cut is to stimulate building, it was said. A man identified as J. Elton Moran, of Chicago, entered the private office of R. A. Crothers, publisher of the San Francisco Bulletin, demanded $5,000 and then committed suicide by shooting himself through the head when the police arrived to arrest him. Organization of a pool for the marketing of the 1921 clip of Utah wool was perfected at Salt Lake when the wool-marketing committee of the State Farm Bureau and the directors of the Utah Wool Growers' Association agreed upon the general outlines of a plan to be followed. Fred D. Krull, of Des Molnes, Iowa, former bank cashier and travelling salesman, reported to be wanted in at least ten cities, on charges involving worthless checks, is being held in jail in Los Angeles and is said by authorities to have admitted some of the charges. Krull's operations are alleged to have netted him about $20,000. Chinese tong fight broke out again in San Francisco when two tongmen fought a desperate gun duel in a Chinatown lodging house. Both duelists were killed. Police, attracted by the sound of shots, found the dead body of an unidentified Bing Kong highbinder lying on the sidewalk at the foot of a stairway. Fanned by a high wind, fire, which destroyed several derricks and approximately 1,500 barrels of crude oil, caused damage estimated at more than $100,000 at Goose Creek, near Houston, Texas. The fire started when friction caused by the withdrawal of a string of pipe from an Humble Oil Company well ignited gas and oil. Two patrolmen armed with shotguns will accompany all mail trucks in the streets of San Francisco after dark hereafter, it was announced by Captain of Detectives Duncan Matheson. The step was taken as a result of a recent mail robbery in Oakland. The police are under orders to shoot to kill in the event of an attempted holdup. One hundred and fifty pieces of stove iron were removed from the body of John C. Mannful, while he lay on the operating table for three hours in Butte, Mont. Mannful, a prospector, kindled a fire in the stove of a cabin in the hills. James McLeod, owner of the cabin, after the explosion recalled that he had hidden two sticks of dynamite, with caps, in the oven. WASHINGTON Notification of his election to honorary membership in the Long Beach Horseshoe Club, the largest organization of horseshoe pitchers in the world, was mailed to President Warren G. Harding by officers of the club. President Harding is a horseshoe enthusiast, and a movement is afoot among horseshoe clubs throughout the country to present him with a pair of silver horseshoes. President Harding has appointed Washington Gardiner of Albion, Mich., a former member of the House of Representatives and a union veteran of the Civil war, as commissioner of pensions. Hubert Work of Pueblo, president of the American Medical Association and former Republican national committee man from Colorado, has been given a recess appointment by President Harding as first assistant postmaster general. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, denounced as "unpatriotic Americans" those labor leaders who have criticized his refusal to indorse the Russian soviet government or to urge its recognition by the United States. Ten legislative proposals designed to relieve the housing shortage are set forth in the final report of the Senate committee in reconstruction, made public. The chief necessity is that of providing new capital for home construction the committee found and several bills suggested, it added, would relieve housing investments and incomes derived therefore of federal taxation, in whole or in part. More than a third of the country's population in 1920, and nearly 70 percent of the urban dwellers, 37,770,114 persons, lived in cities of 25,000 inhabitants or more. Census figures said approximately 36 per cent of the total population was grouped in the 287 communities in this class. Panama is expected by Central American diplomats in Washington to exhaust every means of diplomatic resistance before complying as demanded by Secretary Hughes, with the Panama-Costa Rica boundary award made by Chief Justice White. Pithy News Notes From All Parts of Colorado (Western Newspaper Union News Service.) Gaining an entrance through the back door, burglars robbed the East Lake Mercantile Company of about $1,500 worth of silk goods. The thieves used an automobile to get the stolen goods away. After deliberating less than two hours a jury in the District Court at Colorado Springs acquitted William Shunmard of the charge of attempting to destroy his home at 411 East San Rafael street by fire on the night of January 26. The case went to the jury at 10:30 o'clock. The verdict was returned at noon. Thousands of sacks of onions are being dumped in the vicinity of Olathe by the growers and commission houses, due to the fact that the price offered for them would not justify the sacking and shipment. It is estimated that at least sixty-five cars of onions will be dumped this year in the Olathe district. The League of the Southwest will hold a meeting in Denver April 15 and 16 to consider plans for urging passage of reclamation legislation before Congress at Washington, according to announcement made by Governor Mabey of Utah, following receipt of a letter from Governor Campbell of Arizona, president of the league, who issued the call. Water pumped from the engines of the Denver & Salt Lake railroad saved Tabernash from destruction by fire. The loss is estimated between $15,000 and $20,000. The Percy & Parker general merchandise store, Cullen's pool hall and a barber shop were ruined. The buildings are located in Main street, one-half block from the railroad tracks. One-ninth of all the deaths in the United States are due to tuberculosis, and contaminated milk of tuberculosis cows is responsible for a good share of this terrible disease, according to W. H, Feldman of the Colorado Agricultural College. Especially is this true as regards children, statistics showing that 6 to 10 per cent of the deaths of children from tuberculosis is of the bovine type. The Union Pacific railroad office in Byers was broken into by thieves and 150 railroad tickets, requiring only a date and a stamp to enable the holder to travel practically any point on the Union Pacific system, were stolen. A complete check of the mississippi tickets has been made and the number needed to all conductors. The thieves garrerd entrance to the depot through a window in the rear of the building. The average density of population throughout the United States, exclusive of outlying possessions, was 35.5 persons per square mile of land area in 1920 as against 30.9 in 1910, the census bureau announced. The density in the individual states in 1920 ranged from 7-10 of 1 per square mile in Nevada to 566.4 in Rhode Island, the bureau announced. The density figure for Colorado 9.1; Kansas 21.6; Nebraska 169; New Mexico 2.9; Wyoming 2.0. Theodore Myers, 24, of Durango, was killed in No. 7 level of the Smuggler-Union mine at Telluride when a box of powder exploded. Fortunately a few minutes before nearly a score of workmen had left the mine, following their shift. Myers, it is said, was preparing to leave when he was killed. The mine was badly wrecked for a distance of 100 feet from the scene of the explosion. According to Carl Koppe, shift boss, he had seen Myers, who was a niper, a short time before and he said he believed Myers was smoking a cigarette and this is alleged to have caused the explosion. John C. Scott, 67 years old, pioneer of Sterling, former member of the Colorado Legislature, former postmaster, booster, philanthropist and baseball fan, died at New Orleans, where he went for his health two months ago. Compilations made by the State Immigration Department from the records of the State Tax Commission and from the advance reports of the federal census bureau show that the average value of farm land in the state as reported by county assessors in 1920 was $16.45 per acre, compared with $31.22 reported by the census bureau. Assessors report nearly 28,000,000 acres of farm land on the tax rolls while the census bureau found the average value of farm land and buildings in the state on January 1, 1920, to be $35.40 per acre. Reports of county assessors show the value of all farm property, including land, buildings, livestock and farm implements, to have averaged $23.16 on the 1920 assessment. The census report shows an increase of more than 10,000,000 acres in farm land in the state in the past decade and an increase of $5.21 per acre in average value. the organization of a fish and game club with 100 charter members has been effected at Saguache, Colo., announcement being made that it will be affiliated with the Colorado State Fish and Game Protective Association. Promotion of fish hatcheries for the nursing of young fish will be the main object of the new association. The Innes Denver Boy Scout hand of forty pieces is to give a concert in Longmont April 8. This is the band that went to England last summer. The proceeds of the concert will finance a boys' band in Longmont. CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS. Figures now being compiled by the State Immigration Department from the records of the state superintendent of schools for publication in the Colorado Year Book show very substantial increases in the value of public school property and in the expenditures for public schools in the state in the past biennial period. Reports from all counties show that the total amount spent for public school purposes in Colorado during the school year ending June 30, 1920, was $13,279,407.44 compared with $9,892,699.13 for the school year ending June 30, 1918. The amount invested in public school property at the close of the last fiscal year was $23,492,493.47, with one county not reported. On June 30, 1918, the amount invested in school property, with four counties not reported, was $16,439,015.11. The average monthly cost of public school education during the past school year based upon total enrollment in the public schools was $9.39 per pupil, compared with $8.72 for the school year ending with June 30, 1918. There has been a large increase in the total amount of taxes levied for the support of the public schools of the state in the past two years, the increased revenue being spent chiefly for teachers' salaries and for new buildings and equipment. Total expenditures for public schools in the state at present, exclusive of expenditures of public funds for higher education, now amount to about one-third the taxes collected. An automobile show planned for women. This is the idea of the automobile show committee which is arranging this year's exhibit of the world's leading motor cars which is to be held in the municipal Auditorium at Denver, April 4 to 9. There are many features which will make each day and night a sort of society event of formal nature. Another feature of the show which is in keeping with the idea of formality is the serving of refreshments. Arrangements are being made by the Colorado Manufacturers and Merchants' Association to serve coffee and cakes and other refreshments to 100,000 people during the week. To carry out this plan guides will conduct parties each afternoon and evening through the basement of the Auditorium, where special exhibits of Colorado-made goods will be explained. At this time the association will serve refreshments—Colorado-made, of course. More than 150,000 mountain trout at the commercial hatchery of Andrew J. Heil, nine miles north of Denver, were mysteriously poisoned, according to a report to the Adams county officials. The poisoned fish constituted nearly two-thirds of all the fish in the hatchery, according to Heil, and were valued at between $5,000 and $6,000. They ranged in size from mere "wiggers" an inch long to spawning trout weighing six to seven pounds. Heil told the authorities. Heil did a large commercial trout business with several Denver fish and game restaurants. Denver and Adams county officials are investigating the mysterious death of the fish. Dr. Amni Bradford Hyde, the "grand old man" of Denver University, is dead. He passed away at his residence, 2161 South Josephine street, in Denver following an illness induced when he fell on March 13, his ninety-sixth birthday, and fractured his hip. Because of his advanced years, physicians in attendance found it impossible to set the broken bones, and as a result of the shock from the fall his life gradually ebbed away. A timely visit to the jail by Night Marshal McDonald at Monte Vista prevented the suicide of Walter Taylor, a convicted bootlegger, who was committed to jail in default of payment of a fine of $200 and costs by Police Magistrate W. F. Batchelder. Taylor conducted a lunch stand on the principal street, and for months had been selling liquor, police allege. That the price of living is declining in Loveland was demonstrated when eggs reached the lowest price known since before the war. They are selling in the stores for 20 cents per dozen. Butter also took a drop to 30 cents per pound for ranch and 50 cents for creamery butter, and wheat is now bringing but $1.15 a bushel, a new low record for three years, while flour took a tumble to $4, or lower than it has been for nearly a year. Sheriff L. F. Dorsey and Harry H. Johnson, alleged forger, were seriously injured when an automobile in which they were riding skidded on a muddy stretch of the road and rolled down a ten-foot embankment. Both were given first aid by passing motorists and taken to Grand Junction. The prisoner made no attempt to escape. He was being taken to jail from Montrose when the accident occured. Albert E. Reynolds, one of the state's empire builders, a pioneer Indian trader, mining man and trustee of Denver University, died Monday in Nashville, Tenn., of heart trouble. Mr. Reynolds was 81 years old. He had been ill several months and had gone to the lower altitude to regain his health. John Aberton, 40, D. & R. G, fireman, residing in Pueblo, died at Graves hospital, Cañon City, as a result of injuries sustained when struck in the forehead by a flying stone, while he was on duty on engine No. 1,002 between Echo and Texas Creek, Colo. Engineer G. Kelker saw Aberton fall from his seat in the cab and went to his assistance, finding a deep gash in his forehead. Aberton was taken from the train at Cañon City where examination showed two severe fractures of the gaull. COLORADO STATESMAN The Mouth-Piece of the People of Colorado and the Entire West RELIABLE chronicle of their doings and progress; a faithful mirror of their wants, their hopes, their best aspirations. THE COLORADO STATESMAN Unequaled as an advertising medium for the business of professional men and women. An excellent family journal speaking to and for many thousand colored citizens. $2.50 A YEAR THE GREAT ORGAN OF THE LABORING MASSES ORIGINAL IN POOR CONDITION ays Getere Today \ eranly Little Jo “to~Pla H rece: Events’ @ & an se | oe BAKU: OIL CITY OF THE CASPIAN SASEIAN ‘The recent outbreak of a revolt in Russia against the Bolshevik regime voices among other Interesting ques- tons that of whether Baku, the great oll city of Asia, now surrounded by Bolshevik governments, will be once more thrown open to world commerce. ‘This city In the heart of one of the world’s greatest petroleum fields, has been practically bottled up since the fall of the Russian empire. ‘The city of Baku, bullt in the form of un amphitheater on the south side ‘of the Apsheron peninsula, which juts far out into the Caspian sea, is the Tampico of the Slav domain. Two vast oll fields, containing more than 2,700 wells, make it the chief oil cen- ter of Europe. During the World war, had the ‘Teutonte powers succeeded in reaching It before the British forces occupied it, the blow would have been even more serious to the allied cause than was the seizure of the Roumani- an ol fields by the German army of occupation. According to a census the year be- fore the outbreak of the war, Baku was a city about the present size of Providence, R. L, Columbus, Ohio, or Louisville, Ky. It was the chief city of the Russian province of the same name, but in recent years the province has formed a government of its own under the name of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Baku is situated in the midst of an unattractive, treeless plain which stretches along the west- ern shores of the Caspian. The Cas- pian is 84 feet below sea level, and Baku rises only 30 feet above the great inland sea, so that it is more than 50 feet below the ocean level. Many centuries ugo the Persian fire worshipers discovered that the nat- ural gases issuing from fissures in the rocks near Baku would burn, and there may be seen, a few miles from the city, the remains of one of their ancient temples. ‘The upper part of the city, corre- sponding to the back rows of an amphitheater, is the picturesque Tatar quarter, with its many narrow lanes and oriental bazaars. A fifteenth-cen- tury palace of the khans is In a very dilapidated condition, and has been used for many years by the Russians as a military magazine. The most characteristic structure In the town is the massive Kis Kale, or Maidens’ ‘Tower, which rises to a height of 147 feet and which is now used as a light- house. It dates from the Byzantine period. Four fifths of all the ofl produced in the Russian empire comes from the Baku fields. The high-water-mark of production was reached in 1902 when the output of the district was nearly ten million tons of crude petroleum. In 1905, however, there was a dis- astrous fire which considerably cur- tailed production for a time. The latest authentic figures on production are those for 1915 when a little more than seven million tons was produced. Much of the output of.the wells, which vary in depth from 500 to 2,000 feet, was transported by pipe line to Batum on. the Black sea, but Baku ts also connected by rail with this seaport as well as with Rostoy-on-the-Don. In addition to its ofl interest, Baku had drydocks, flour mills, sulphurle acid works and tobacco factories. It was the chief entrepot for raw cotton, silk, fruits, dried fish, wines and rice produced in Persia and the Transcau- casus territory. ‘The town derives its name from the squalls (badkube) which are frequent- ly very violent on this part of the Caspian coast. A ROMANCE OF BANANAS AND COFFEE When the American small boy eats his daily quota of bananas, and when his father and mother sip their break- fast, luncheon, or dinner coffee, they are making important contributions to the prosperity of fellow Americans of whom ,they know very Iittle—the residents of the flye Central American republics which have lately reached a preliminary decision for the forma tion of a sort of “United States of Central America.” Central America illustrates striking- ly the effects of geographic factors on ‘a region's development. All the five republics lie on the relatively narrow isthmus between the narrow ribbon of Panama on the south and Mexico on the north. The Spanish settle- ments made soon after the discovery of America were all on the Pacific side of the isthmus, for the most part on the plateaus and mountain slopes ‘and in the mountain valleys of that region, which temper an otherwise tropical climate. Practically the en- tire Atlantic side of the isthmus was ‘a low plain, covered with a dense jungle: ‘At the time of the throwing off of the Spanish yoke in 1821, the Central ‘American settlements were as effec- tually cut off from the United States ‘as if they had been many thousands ‘of miles away instead of being only cross the Caribbean sea. With the settlement of the Pacific const of the United States, the building of the Panama railroad, and Inter the con- struction of a trans-Mexican railway, the Panama canal, and railways across Guatemala and Costa Rica, Central America has become easily accessible, Shortly before the construction of the Panama rallroad, coffee was tn- troduced into Central America from the West Indies, and was found to grow to perfection in the lava soll on the slopes of the volcanic mountains along the Pacific coast of most of the region, Coffee soon became an export of prime importance and has brought much money into Central America, ‘The remainder of Central America’s horticultural romance has as its mo- tif, the banana, In order that the great American hunger for that slen- der golden frult might be appeased, large frult growing and distributing corporations from the United States acquired extensive tracts of Jand in the Atlantic plain, reclaimed tt from the Jungle, and planted great banana groves which produce millions of bunches of bananas yearly. ‘The by-products of this development have been as valuable to Central America ag the money that has flowed directly to laborers and to the gov- ernment. Important cities have sprung up along the Atlantic coast, railroads have been built, and what {s probably most important of all, lines of fast, well-equipped steamers, carry- Ing both passengers. and freight haye been established between the Atlantic porta and those of the United States. In effect the banana has shifted Cen- tral America thousands of miles clos- er to the outside world. BATTLEGROUND AND PLAYGROUND of the latest anti-Bolshevik military efforts from outside Russia to win back a part of that old empire. This, expedition, under General Wrangel met disaster as had similar forces launched against the soviets farther north, and the Crimea was overrun by the Bolsheviki. ‘The Crimean peninsula in which this encounter took place is a land which has aspects known to every school child. It is the land of the Cim- merians about whom Homer sang in the “Odyssey” and from whom the penin- sula takes its name; the land of the Crimean war, the siege of Sevastopol, and the “Charge of the Light Bri- gade": the land in whieh Florence Nightingale first caused efficient, or- dered merey to have a part in war. ‘The Crimea is known as “The Little Paradise” to the ‘Tatars, last of the ‘many races to overrun the peninsula before the land fell under the sway of the Muscovite. A traveler Jour- neying from the North is likely to accept this appellution, if at all, with ‘a strong mental reservation as he crosses the almost desert-like plains of northern Crimea; but once over the mountains that rim the southern shore he will approve the description with enthusiasm. ‘There, nature has made a wonderful garden spot, the Riviera of Russia, a combination of sea, moun- tains and riotous verdure that really vied with its famed Italian counter- part in the days when Czarhood was In flower. ‘Though a part of what has come to be looked upon as “cold Russia,” the southern shore of the Crimea brought to the old empire a touch of the tropics. On the mountain slopes and in the sheltered valleys grow grapes, figs, olives, and all the tender fruits; magnolias, bays, and myrtles; and a profusion of wild flowers and grasses. ‘That the delights of its mild climate were discovered early is testified by the ruins of Greek, Byzantine, and Italian architecture which are to be found among the mosques of the later ‘Tatars, the palaces of the Russian tm- perlal family and nobility, and the magnificent modern hotels of the pleasure towns to which the prosper- ous classes of Russia flocked before the World war. Yalta, in those care- free days, was Russia’s Nice, New- port, and Miam! rolled into one; its cafe and casino Ife was as hectlc, gay, and expensive as that to be found in any of the world’s pre-war play- grounds. ‘The Crimea {s a peninsula that barely escaped being an Island. It ‘hangs from the mainland of South Russia down into the Black sea, like a gigantic watch fob shaped like a flounder. It is attached by the nar- row ribbon of the Isthmus of Pere- kop, a strip of land only three-quar- ters of a mile wide nnd only a few ‘feet above sea level. On one side Is the Black sea and on the other the stagnant, shallow, malodorous waters of the Sivatch, or Putrid sea, a la- goon of the Sea of Azov. This is the only unbroken natural land connec- tlon between the maintand and the Crimea, but a few miles to the east ‘a narrow part of the Putrid sea has been bridged by the railroad which enters the peninsula. wNphe greatest width of the Crimea north and south is 115 miles, and its ‘greatest length from “head” to “tail” fs 225 miles. It contains about 9,700 ‘square miles, and 1s thus approximate: ly the size of the state of Vetmont or the island of Siclly. Before the World war its population was 2,000,000. ‘Phe Crimea was conquered by Cath- arine the Great of Russia in 1771, and remained a part of the Russian em- pire until that political entity's col- lapse in 1917. The bulk of the popu- lation remains Tatar, though there {s an admixture of both Greek and Ital- jan blood In the nominally Tatar PANE IN TURKEY REFORM SPRINGS ETERNAL | ‘Turkey bids fair to “come back,” in u limited sense at least, as a re sult of the proposed revision of the Sevres treaty that dismenbersd the Ottoman empire after the World war It will be a changed Turkey, to be sure, but change is not new in the ‘country that inherited Mohammed's ‘religious empire. Paradoxically, ‘Tur Key, though It has a tradition of Ba- tional inertia, also ix a land of kalei- doscople reform, and may be said to react to reforins more diserimiuat Ingly than any other country in or out of Christendom, ‘The ‘Surks have adopted some reforms bodily and some partially, and haye rejected others flatly even when the prestige of the Caliph and Allah's ministers was be- hind them, ‘Turkey began its existence vn a foundation of reform, the empire in- heriting the comprehensive reshaping of the religious and social world in- stituted by Mohammed. It “went dry” Just 620 years before the United States, for its “eighteenth amend- ment” was not an amendment at all, but a part, so to speak, of the organic act when the empire came into exist- ence in 1200. Even in the matter of polygamy, looked at askance by the western world, Mohammed and the government which took up his mantel were re- formers. ‘The legal maximum number of wives was placed at four. Even the Jokes of coffee and tobac- co prohibition that have gone the rounds of the American vaudeville stage came near being @ reality in ‘Turkey. Mohammedan scholars ful- minated against the steapling cup} and one sultan went so far as to pro- hibit the use of tobacco, fearing that it was taking too firm a hold on hie people. But the populace refused to have the prophet’s convenant changed and the ban was raised. ‘Though the reported passing of the fez Is looked upon as a reform which to western eyes would remove some- thing as distinctively Turkish as the star and crescent, the introduction of the gaudy skull cap was itself a re- form effected less than a hundred years ago; and staunch old Moslems ‘of that time wagged thelr heads in warning as the reckless reformers cast aside their dignified turbans for the new bauble. To the Turkish Tories of those days the fez traveled in com- pany sufficiently disreputable to damn it utterly. It was introduced forcibly into the army by the Sultan Mahmoud IL in the early part of the nineteenth “century along with tight Huropean trousers and frock coats. The fez and turban types of head coverings have -a definite reason for existence in Turkey, and it 1s to be doubted that they will be discarded entirely, especially for the brimmed hats and visored caps of Europeans. Mohammedan rules and customs call for covered heads at prayer; and they also require that at one stage of pray- er the yotary shall touch his nose and forehead to the ground, a feat that 1s impossible “if he wears a hat with a protruding brim. PACIFIC ISLAND GARDEN SPOT i With the shifting of ownership that has taken place among the Islands of the Pacific and the growing Impor- tance of that great body of water In international affairs, the holdings of the various nations in the Pacific are taking on new value. One of the most important of the French Pacific pos- sessions is Tahiti, or the Soclety Is- lands, with steamship connection to San Francisco and New Zealand. ‘They are described in the following communication to the National Geo- graphic society from H. W. Smith: “Like the Samoans, the Society Is- jlands ure of volcanic origin, rising from the low bed of the ocean, which has depths near the jslands of 1,500 to 13,000 feet, whfle the highest peak, in the center of the island of Tahiti, reaches an altitude of 7,300 feet! | “Near Papeete the beautiful Fa- ‘tauua valley may be visited in an afternoon. For a good part of the | way a carringe road leads up the val ‘ley, offering changing vistas. “Why, indeed, should the Tahitian toll? ‘There are great leaves of the wild ‘taro’ growing by the roadside ; the young leaves are delicious boiled, and the curious stranger will find many other new delicacies of the table—the alligator pear, the baked papya, the Mantis crab, the raw fish, as good as the best oyster. “In Tahiti, as well as in most of the South Sea Islands, great numbers of coconuts are grown. ‘The meat, af- ter being dried Into copra, 19 shipped in large quantities to Europe. We were much Interested In the different methods of gathering the nuts in va- rious islands. In Tahiti the natives climb the trees with the help of a strip of green, fibrous bark torn off the stem of a hibiscus tree. After knotting the two ends together, the climber slips his feet half through the circle, and standing with his legs apart, so as to stretch the thong tight, ascends the tree In a serles of leaps, with a foot on each side of the trunk. “In its fresh, green state the coco- nut provides a most refreshing drink, but as it grows older the ‘milk’ hard- evs and forms the white Inner rind with which we are all familiar, When dried this Is the celebrated copra and 4s commercially put to many different fuses. In Tanitt tt te used for sauces and for coconut ofl. One sauce, which “was served with fish, at a very enJoy- able plentc, although compounded of scraped nut and sea-water, was pal- atable.” JP.TO.DATE REPORT OF WHAT IS TAKING PLACE AT THE STATE CAPITOL. | C. V. FAIRBANKS —Props.— N. FAIRBANKS ae Fairbanks eats ‘Seser §=Hotel and mast CLASS Cafe | MEALS SERVED | | (Formerly Barnes Hotel) | HOME COOKING 1 2716 WeltonSt., Denver, Colo. ee ee ne (Westera Newspaper Union News Sereioe. > Pe aRnS = By Representatives Kelly of Chaffee, Miller and Kelley of La Plata—Limit- Ing the number of cars which may be fauled upon a freight train upon grades of more thin 1 per cent to forty, and on grades of less than 1 per cent to sixty. By Representative Love—Appropri: ating $25,000 for the support and main- tenance of the state detention home for women suffering from social diseases, By Representative Spooner—Provid- ing for the submission to the voters at the next election of a constitutional amendment fixing the terms of county officers at four years, By Representative Dickerman—Re- vising the law pertaining to the mining commission. ‘wo of the most important bills In- troduced at the present session of the Legislature passed the State House of Representatives on final reading. They were the Pollock bill repealing the present direct primary law and re- establishing the convention system of Selecting party candidates with the provisions that a primary election can be called if it is requested by petitions Signed by 20 per cent of the aumber who voted for the party candidate for governor at the preceding election, and the bill providing for a tax levy of two- tenths of a mill for two years to raise $600,000 for the securing of the Rocke- feller gift of $700,000 to establish # $1,500,000 hospital and medical school branch of the University of Colorado. ‘The long appropriation bill. provid- ing funds for the running of the state government for the next two years was passed on second reading by the State House of Representatives. Ap- propriations made by the bill approxi- mate $1,800,000. The appropriations coimumittee of the House cut $300,000 from the estimate submitted by C. A. Lemmers, budget and efficiency com: missioner. ‘The amount is practically the same as was appropriated by the Legislature two years ago. Over opposition of Senators John L. Slattery, George I, Colgate; Walter F. O'Brien, Prancis J, Knauss, M. B, Bashor, Samuel W. DeBusk, O. E. Ban- nister and others, proponents in the State Senate of the Booth-Calien-Young bill to establish a state-owned and operated cement and crushed-stone making plant put their measure through on second reading, 19 to 13. @mntor Knauss obtained segregation pt Dill from the report of the com- ittee of the whole, With thirteen of the twenty-four Republican senators standing by him to the last diteh, John F. Vivian, in a letter to Senator Booth, released his friends on the final roll call on the confirmation of former Lieutenant Governor Stephan, thereby making the confirmation possible. ‘Che vote at the time of, the release was seventeen for Vivian and eighteen for Stephan. The Vivian vote at the last was made up of thirteen Republicans and four Dem- ocrats. ‘The Senate adopted unanimously a joint resolution presented by Senator Frank L, Dodge, Adams and Samuel W. De Busk and given unanimous con: sent for immediate consideration by which a memorial window is ordered placed in the Senate chamber in tribute to the late Senator Casimero Barela, for more than forty years a legislator and public official of the state from Las Animas county. Colorado senators declined to ap- propriate money for oll shale experi ments at the Colorado School of Mines. The measure fixing the minimum wage of school teachers at $75 a month was passed on final reading, A companion bill, changing the law so that school districts will not haye to obtain the permission of the tax com- mission to raise their tax levies up to 25 per cent passed the House on final reading. ‘The House of Representatives prob- ably will not act upon the Senate amendment to the resolution fixing date of final adjournment for several days. It is predicted that when the House does act it will be to delay the date to April 5 or 9 to permit the pas- sage of needed legislation. Immediately upon confirmation of former Lieut, Goy. George Stephan as | registrar of the Land Board, Governor Shoup sent a letter to William R. Mur. phy, engineer of the State Land Board and the only remaining Republican on the bourd, requesting his resignation. 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As we go along the business, we stock in the various lines being inner peering at the windows to ac. ded that we had a very trying time in the happenings for the past week, southern towns with ours, it can form of bad weather. hard times is prevalent throughout hope that we will be amply rewrist that we have undergone, and it time by the forelock, accomplish seems to be in store for us. spring are too innumerable to nos give praise and thanks to Him and enjoyment of all creation, and season that brings us good cheer. Reading notices, ten lines or less, 15 cents per line. Each additional line ever ten lines, 12 cents per line. Display advertising, 75 cents per inch for first insertion and 50 cents per inch for each additional insertion. Remittances should be made by express money order, postoffice money order, registered letter or bank draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1c and 2c stamps taken. No discounts allowed on less than three months' contract. Cash must accompany all orders from parties unknown to us. Further particulars on application. Communications to receive attention must be newsy, upon important subjects, plainly written only upon one side of the paper, must reach us 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. SPRING EVEN though we are having an occasional snow at present, yet the time is fast approaching when we will revel in the idea that spring has come again. Reflecting on the experience of the terrible snowstorms of last Saturday, when the consensus of opinion was: no chance of clearing away our mantle of white until May, we cannot but conclude that we live in a country of wonderful climatic conditions, suited to all phases of humanity, the adaptability to which brings renewed health and vigor to suffering ones. In the enjoyment of an average temperature above 50 degrees, brilliant sunshine and pureness of atmosphere, it necessarily follows that an awakening of thought, spirit and action should be possessed by us, and acting in concert with the beautiful strains that proceed from the birds as they fly from branch to branch heralding the incoming of the season, there is every reason for hope and encouragement for some progress and betterment of the present state of business. As we go along the business section of the city we notice stores with new stock in the various lines being installed, and the people in their usual manner peering at the windows to catch the first glimpse of spring garments, etc. While it is conceded that we had a very trying time during the winter, yet when we contrast the happenings for the past weeks in the New England cities and some of the southern towns with ours, it can be said that we had a comparatively modified form of bad weather. The complaint of hard times is prevalent throughout the country, but we have every reason to hope that we will be amply rewarded in this and the next season for the test that we have undergone, and it needs only our energy and backbone to take time by the forelock, accomplishing the task set before us, and obtain what seems to be in store for us. The blessings of spring are too innumerable to mention herein, but we can with all our hearts give praise and thanks to Him who provides the seasons for the comfort and enjoyment of all creation, and with this fact alone we will relioice in the season that brings us good cheer—spring. THE PRACTICAL IN NATURE. called attention to the wonderful high to come to our race by keepers, if only in a theoretical way interesting than the study of nature intelligent attention. To watch the chicken and sharpen the powers of clop and foster respect for intelligent know than that plants are guided by intelligent direction, and to unstimulated by the rain, invigorate. In order to obtain the greatest theoretical and scientific sides must be meant thing, for this same principle in a thousand other things. Even taught the application of the science bond readily to the demand and it should be noted. This is the best us, and especially in the Southland,ize the importance of good farm the curriculum with arithmetic and open to us an intelligent chapter goodness and wisdom of God is p RECENTLY we called attention to the wonderful achievements and the benefits that ought to come to our race by keeping in touch with these practical movements, if only in a theoretical way. There is nothing more valuable and interesting than the study of nature when pursued in the right way and with diligent attention. To watch the manner and process of plant growth is to quicken and sharpen the powers of observation, cultivate the intellect and develop and foster respect for intelligent labor. What is better to know than that plants are guided and developed in their progress of growth by intelligent direction, and to understand how they are nourished by the soil, stimulated by the rain, invigorated by the air and fed by the atmosphere? In order to obtain the greatest benefit from the study of agriculture, the practical and scientific sides must be combined. The Why? This is the all-important thing, for this same principle may be embodied with certain modifications in a thousand other things. Every child, whether boy or girl, should be taught the application of the scientific principles which cause the soil to respond readily to the demand and wish of the tiller, and the results obtained should be noted. This is the beginning of science on any subject. Our public schools, and especially in the Southland, could do no better thing than to emphasize the importance of good farming by giving the subject equal place in the curriculum with arithmetic and grammar, because in soil study we have open to us an intelligent chapter in the great book of Nature in which the goodness and wisdom of God is plainly written. NEGRO GENIUS. yet almost entirely undeveloped, poorly recognized and but little us in its true form when we may the simple traits or characteristic in usual lines, for of this latter extraordinary force, who develop or who accomplish works new or takes up to them and acknowledges in matters of rare importance to contemplating. For it is genius of men and of races and of NEGRO genius is yet almost entirely undeveloped, and because it is undeveloped it is poorly recognized and but little appreciated. We are speaking of genius in its true form when we make this assertion, and have no reference to the simple traits or characteristics which mark men as apt or unusually capable in usual lines, for of this latter class the Negro has plenty. But men of extraordinary force, who develop conditions entirely of their own conception, or who accomplish works new or unusual in their scope, so that the world looks up to them and acknowledges them as inspired leaders or gifted teachers in matters of rare importance to the world—this is the kind of genius we are contemplating. For it is genius of this character which measures the development of men and of races and of nations. It is personified in great sculptors and painters, great orators and statesmen, great scientists and educators, great mechanical constructionists and inventors, great moralists and teachers, great writers and poets. This kind of genius is manifestly present in the African character and the African nature, but as a modern force it is entirely undeveloped. We have those who aspire, and who, perhaps, have touched the hem of the garment of some immortal genius of the world, but we have but few who have written their names in the sky, where the brilliant letters could not be erased. But genius, like other things mortal and social, is not wholly independent in its growth. It rises out of the substratum of its environment and is the expression of the inherent power and character of the people with which it is identified. A people must be a live and growing people to give birth to and develop a genius, and the conception of the gift must grow out of the need. Perhaps the late Booker T. Washington, as a great organizer and director of educational forces, came as near this mark of a genius as any Negro, but his work has outspread racial environment, and the white philanthropist must be largely credited for what he accomplished. These facts lead us to wonder if we are really developing a Negro people in America, or whether we are merely adjusting that people to an environment which will not require a genius of dark complexion for some generations to come. But a repressive condition is not a natural condition, and out of the blank and uncertainty of the present day may arise the very star for which we are looking. Groping now along misconceived lines of activity, the genius of the American Negro may be discerned by the close student of human nature sometimes in the life of the sturdy pioneer settler, who possesses all of the undeveloped requisites of a brilliant promoter, and might have been a statesman and a leader of men in another environment; sometimes in the checkered course of a magnetic but dissatisfied preacher, who might have been a gifted scientist; sometimes in the inconceivable successes of an obscure journalist or business man, director of great works; sometimes in the peculiar traits and contrivances of an ignorant countryman, who might have been an inventive or mechanical genius of great mark. That inherent genius is misapplied or continues dormant is due to repressive racial conditions not understood as yet, but which must dawn upon the Negro in the course of future years. PEONAGE MENACE TO NATION'S ECO NOMIC FUTURE Greatest Cause of Unrest Next to Lynching. Negro Association Telegraphs President Harding and Georgia Governor on Georgia Cases. THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 70 Fifth avenue, New York, today made public telegrams sent to President Harding and Governor Dorsey of Georgia in which the statement is made that the murder of eleven Negroes on the e Williams plantation in Georgia does not constitute an isolated case of peonage in the South but that a number of cases have been called to the attention of the Department of Justice in recent years. The Arkansas riots of 1919 and the burning at stake in January of this year of Henry Lowery, are laid to the same cause and it is stated in the telegram that the practice of peonage is widespread in southern states, especially in the Mississippi delta region. It is called the greatest cause of unrest next to lynching. In the telegram to the governor of Georgia, he is called upon not only to exercise his full power to bring the offenders in the present cases to justice, but to proceed against the widespread system of debt slavery which prevails in his state. The telegrams follow. The one sent President Harding is as follows: "March 28, 1921. "Hon. Warren G. Harding, President of the United States, Washington, D.C." "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People urgently requests of you that a thorough investigation be made by the Department of Justice under authority vested in that department by federal laws of peonage conditions in Jasper county, Georgia, where John Williams, a white landowner, has killed or caused to be killed eleven Negroes who threatened to testify against Williams regarding peonage. This case is not an isolated one but is indicative of similar conditions which exist in most southern states and particularly in the Mississippi delta. Henry Lowery, colored, was burned at the state in most horrible fashion in Arkansas on January 26 because he attempted to escape from being held in peonage. In Phillips county, Arkansas, in October, 1919, an unknown number of Negroes were slaughtered and others sentenced to death and imprisonment for attempting to secure redress from exploitation through the courts of that state. This association has fulfilled numerous cases of peonage to the Department of Justice. The entire economic future of the South and of America are affected by this system. Thorough investigation and punishment of those guilty of perpetuating this system whatever the cost to the United States must be made. We urge you to issue such an order. "JAMES WELDON JOHNSON, "Secretary." The telegram to Governor Dorsey is as follows: "March 28, 1921. "Hon. Hugh M. Dorsey, Governor State of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga." "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People urges you to use every effort to bring to justice the murderers of eleven Negroes in Jasper county, Georgia, because they threatened to reveal peonage conditions in that county. We also strongly urge that you have brought into the light this vicious system of economic exploitation and debt slavery which is so prevalent in other parts of Georgia as well and which is so great a menace to the well-being of Georgia, the South, and America. Will you not also turn over to the Department of Justice evidence of such other cases of peonage as you have in your possession that the department may act in conjunction with state authorities in wiping out this evil. Next to lynching there is no greater cause of unrest than this vicious system. "JAMES WELDON JOHNSON, "Secretary." A telegram was also sent to Attorney General Daugherty urging that the entire machinery of the Department of Justice be placed behind the Georgia prosecutions. TWENTY-SEVEN STATES ACTIVE IN N.A.A.C.P.DRIVE Opposition to Meetings by Whites in Florida. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York, today announced that its country-wide drive for a quarter of a million members was well under way and that twenty-seven states and sixty-three cities were already represented. Among the southern states in which the drive is being actively carried forward are Alabama, Louisiana, Kentucky, Florida and Virginia and South Carolina. Among the large cities of the coun- try in which the drive is under way are New York, Chicago, Richmond, New Orleans, Washington, Denver, Kansas City, Seattle and Spokane, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Detroit and Minneapolis. In Florida, according to the Advancement Association terroristic methods are being employed to prevent colored people from holding meetings. Reports from Florida are that not only are letters sent to colored people opened, but threats of violence are made to deter them from holding mass meetings. The drive is, however, proceeding in that state, among the branches participating being the one in St. Augustine. DOUGLASS HOME FREE OF DEBT. Washington, March 21.—Anacostia, the historic home of Frederick Douglass, is now the property of the colored people of the United States. Mrs. Mary B. Talbert, president of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, has just announced that the mortgage against the building and land has been lifted by her society. Haillie Q. Brown, Meta Pehlam, Nettle L. Napier, Laura Brown, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Dr. Mary Waring, Mary McLeod Bethune, Elizabeth Carter and Nannie Burroughs are among the prominent women who helped to bring the campaign for the mortgage fund to a successful issue. FIRST NEGRO JURY FOREMAN Burlington, N. J., March 20.—As a foreman of a jury in the Burlington county courts, last week, Edward Lane enjoys the distinction of being the first man of the race to be honored in this section of New Jersey, if not in the entire state. POLICEWOMAN FOR ATLANTA. Atlanta, Ga., March 20.—As a result of the efforts of the campaign recently waged by the Tri-State Big Brother and Big Sister Association, pressure was brought to bear on the local municipal government to appoint a policewoman representative of the local Negro citizenship whose duty it will be to look after the dance halls, pool rooms and the resorts frequented by Negro boys and girls. A permanent organization was formed at a meeting of delegates from South Carolina, Alabama and Georgia held at the Butler street Y. M. C. A. SEEK MUNICIPAL FARM FOR DE LINQUENTS. St. Louis, March 20.—Two hundred thousand dollars for the establishment of a municipal farm for delinquent colored girls is the basis for the summer work of the St. Louis Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. At a meeting of the federation last Monday night, Circuit Court Judge Moses Hartman made an address favoring the plan. FATAL KISS LEADS TO LYNCHER'S ROPE South Adds Three More to List in "Black Book of Democracy." Hattiesburg, Miss., March 25.—Arthur Jennings made a fatal mistake here last week when he killed a woman of his race who was dearly loved by a prominent white merchant here. Jennings, according to persons here, could have used his gun on any other member of his race, and still be permitted to walk the streets. But he erred in selecting a woman who, it is claimed, had permitted herself to be the "mistress" under the concubinage system prevalent in this section. He loved the woman himself, but had been warned to keep away from her by from her by white men. She was not of their race, and Jennings could not understand why they claimed her attention. Jealousy prompted him to shoot her through the heart. Others Lynched. Angered because they had been deprived of a "companion," a band of armed men overpowered the sheriff at the county jail, took Jennings to the outskirts of the city and riddled his body with bullets. Another lynching was added to the long list in the South this week. Phil Slater, who confessed that he had accepted a kiss from a white woman, who declared she loved him, according to his dying statement, was shot to death near Monticello, Ark. Lynchers Banquet. Adolphus Ross, who was charged with frightening Mrs. George Coffer, age 65, was lynched by prominent citizens, known to the police, at Water Valley, Miss. Ross was taken from the jail by fifty men, who held a banquet in the jail hall before they took him out. THE DENVER DRY GOODS CO. The Campaign for "Better Homes" is on for the coming week and its objects will be entertainingly told and illustrated at East Denver High School Auditorium by Mr. Ross Crane from the Art Institute of Chicago. If we are just to ourselves we shall all learn something of interest and importance concerning the intelligent planning of the home and its surroundings, its effective interior decorating and the art of making the available furniture and furnishings play the maximum role in producing the desired effects in restful harmony, correct settings and cozy homelikeness. The idea of "Better Homes" does not necessarily contemplate a greater money outgo—it more particularly undertakes to demonstrate the art of correct symmetry and proportion in the arrangement of ones home equipment—be it much or little—and to produce in color schemes the most desirable effects in harmony and contrasts. Attend every one of Mr. Crane's talks if you can—they are FREE, immensely entertaining and full of the type of practical ideas and suggestions that really help. FOR BEST RESULTS PLANT Seeds-- Bulbs--Shrubbery FROM COLORADO SEED CO. 1515 CHAMPA ST. Near Fifteenth Our stock are dependable. Our prices are lowest. Our location is very convenient. Our salespeople are courteous. We give service. W. K. HUNT Bring your Petrolene Soap Coupons in, we will redeem them. New Green Cabbage, lb.....5c Eggs, 2 dozen.....55c We will have Strawberries, Fresh Tomatoes and Asparagus. Roy Garment Bags, three different sizes in set. $1.35 Closgard Wardrobe, 22x50-inch, all-proof material $3.50 Cedarized Sheets, per doz. 90c Tarine Moth Cards, 4%x6% 30c Moth Balls, per lb. 19c Moth Flakes, per lb. 19c Kedro Cedar Oil, per lb. 19c 3-in-1 Oil, large bottle or can 29c Gorham's Silver Polish, Paste or Powder 30c Electro Silicon Silver Polish, Powder, 3 for 25c Pluro Silver Cleaner. 19c Alumino Silver Cleaner. 19c King sbury's Rust Eradicator 25c Putnam's Dry Cleaner. 19c Putnam's Dry Cleaner, lg. 39c Linol Extract 19c Carbona Cleaning Fluid. 43c Downing's Cleaning Fluid, large size 75c Togo Cleaning Fluid. 25c Chamois Skin, 13x16-in. 50c Chamois Skin, 11x13½-in. 25c Chamois Skin, 10x13-in. 15c Elite Cloth Cleaning Pads. 10c Prisella Silver Paste, small. 20c Prisella Silver Paste, large. 39c Selyt Polishing Cloth, small, at 21c Shine-Off, removes shine from cl Wright's Silver Cream, large... Wright's Silver Cream, medium... Wright's Silver Cream, small... Whiz Metal Polish, ½-pint... Whiz Metal Polish, 1-pint... Whiz Metal Polish, 1-quart... Whiz Metal Polish, 1-gallon... Electro Shine Paste Metal Polish. Main Floor FOR BEST R Seeds-- Bull COLORADO 1515 Our stock are dependable. Our location is very conv courteous. We give ser W. K. CHAMPA 3522 Bring your Petrolene So deem them. New Green Cabbage, lb. BARGAIN SQUARE SPECIALS PLANT Anrubbery ED CO. MPA ST. Fifteenth prices are lowest. our salespeople are 2962 WELTON s in, we will re- Arthur Campbell of S37 Elati street continues to be very ill. E. L. Pollard, who has been confined to his home with rheumatism, is able to be out. Mrs. Viola Pinchback, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Lyons, arrived last week from Los Angeles to be at her mother's bedside. swimming exercises. Billiards and other indoor games were slighted in account of the good weather. Although three months ahead of the croquet players are as active bees. Many good and strong girls have already been played, especially singles. The record so far stands follows: King 8, Star 12; King Stripling 4; King 1, Sims 4. All players up to this time are lead King not because he plays poor. The many friends of Mrs. Wesley Lyons will be pleased to learn that she is rapidly improving, and the doctors are very much encouraged at her improvement. VICTOR WALKER, assistant deputy sheriff, continues to give satisfaction to the department and his chief in spite of the knocks resulting from petty jealousy. Mr. Walker, reflecting on the days of his youth when he worshipped with the family circle, has decided to become a member of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Redeemer and is receiving instructions with others in the class for Confirmation. A member of the Elks Lodge, Mountain No. 39, and its presiding officer; also member of the N. A. A. C. P. and other institutions, Mr. Walker continues his assistance to all worthy cases of charity and contributes unstintingly to all organizations for the welfare of his people. THE MODERN GIRLS OF '76 TALENT! Yes, talent we say and have always said, is right here in Denver, only if our people would resolve to maintain same, by engaging a little sacrifice and having more pride in themselves and their ability to do things. "The Modern Girls of '76" did justice to our thoughts about the Denver youths, when a number of our young matrons and spinsters presented at Fern hall last Wednesday evening, "December's May" in character. About fourteen of our young people, assisted by Prof. Geo. Morrison's Orchestra, with a good stage-setting and pleasing scenery, delighted the capacity house, the audience from their applause and general remarks expressing entire satisfaction. For amateurs we compare them very favorably with some foreign talent that we have paid high prices and came away dissatisfied, but ENCOURAGE THE YOUTH OF THE WEST is our slogan; take up the cry, and let us support their efforts. Congratulations to the promoters. Come again! We are here to welcome you. ANNUAL THANKSGIVING SERVICES OF KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. The annual thanksgiving services of the Knights of Pythias and Courts of Calanthe were held last Sunday afternoon. Headed by a brass band the Uniform Rank led the procession to St. Stephen's Baptist Church, Thirty-second and Lafayette streets, where the services were held. The church was packed with those who were anxious to hear the onward progress of this enterprising organization and d its auxillaries. Rev. Floyd Smith, who preached the sermon, deserves all the credit that he is receiving for the very able manner in which he enlightened the audience with his brilliant remarks on Pythianism. SCOUT NOTES The prospective hike of Saturday, the 26th, of the Boy Scouts of our district was annulled on account of the storm, nevertheless Lee, Springs, Colquit and Hackley, four of the braves with loaded packs, faced the elements and hiked to Camp De Ricques, camped over night, came back Sunday. They reported the best time of their lives. Hail, Scouts, don't be a tenderfoot all the while; show your colors and be a soldier. The drum corps is doing splendid work. The orchestra has filled several engagements of late and is on the road to success. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. Last week was a gala one for the boys, for school did not "keep." Some good games of baseball were played. The high school boys lost the series they played withone of the white teams, but made a fine and creditable showing. Some good games of indoor were also played on the playgrounds. At the bathhouse swimming and gymnastic exercises were conducted in which many boys took part. A large number of men also took part in the swimming exercises. Billiards and other indoor games were slighted on account of the good weather. Although three months ahead of time the croquet players are as active as bees. Many good and strong games have already been played, especially in singles. The record so far stands as follows; King 8, Star 12; King 2, Stripling 4; King 1, Sims 4. All the players up to this time are leading King, not because he plays poorer than last year, but because the other players are playing better. Other records will be reported next week. The Easter program was not attended by a large number, owing to annual sermons, funerals, etc., but it was very interesting. Little Walter Marshall captured the audience by his violin playing. The other small boys also were splendidly received. Mrs. Rice-Davis presided at the piano. Owing to certain conditions arising at the time, it was found impossible to begin the budget drive last Tuesday as had been planned. It has been set for April 9th. All team workers are holding themselves in readiness for the work At the meeting tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon the Rev. Mr. Cooperwood, pastor of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, will speak. Special music by Mr. Clark and Mrs. Williams, accompanied by Mrs. Craig. The program begins at 4 o'clock. All will be welcome. FUNERAL NOTICE Douglass Undertaking Co. Harrie Cecelia Graham, infant of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Graham, 2734 Welton street, was buried 1 p. m., Monday, March,28, in Riverside cemetery. THE CAMMEL UNDERTAKING CO Deaths and Funerals. Smith—Mr. Edward Smith departed this life at his residence, 2391 South Galapago street, Tuesday, March 29. Services will be held when brother arrives from Pennsylvania. Mrs. Hattie Boyer Render, the beloved wife of Mr. Isaiah Render, departed this life Tuesday, March 29, at 2918 Marion street. The remains were shipped to Pleasanton, Colo., for burial in the family plot by the Cammel Undertaking Co. Mrs. B. Jones, sister, and J. Boyer, brother, accompanied the remains. U. N. I. A. Denver Division No. 118. ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING HELD (By Geo. R. Brushwood.) Over eighty persons assembled last Tuesday evening in the meeting rooms of the Universal Negro Improvement Association in response to an invitation for a heart-to-heart talk on the impressions made from the recent visit of the Hon. James D. Brooks of New York, Secretary-General of the above association. It has been a long time that such a spirit for united action and a desire for organized efforts have been displayed among our people in this city, and at the close of the meeting the prevailing sentiment resolved itself to an anxiety to band ourselves in one common brotherhood to win recognition from the other peoples and races of the world. Youth and old age co-mingled, and the freedom in which they gave vent to their expressions of cheer, good will and encouragement to their own cause furnished proof that the present economic conditions were forcing the get-together spirit among our people, and they are determined to work out their own salvation. Inspiring talks from men and women who were the victims of prejudice and discriminations brought forth an unison of action, and emphatic statements were made that we do not intend to be parasites, but throwing ourselves on the strength of Almighty God and the help of ourselves, we will go forward to maintain a righteous cause. Members re-dedicated themselves to the cause of the Redemption of Africa, and one member filled his application blank for transportation to Monrovia, Liberia. Next meeting will be held April 5th, when we hope to entertain twice our numbers. Invitation cordially extended the public. Hall's Magic Hair Refiner, for men only. No kinky edges. Apply 1333 Pennsylvania St. Phone Main 7523. Fancy flower-beds made in any design. Trees trimmed and lawns made over. All kind of shrubbery work done by expert gardener. Colorado Tree and Lawn Co., Wm. Mechanic, 3016 Arapahoe Street. Phone Main 2989. ORIGINAL IN POOR CONDITION [Picture of a man with white hair and a mustache, wearing a suit and a white shirt. The background is black.] [The text on the left side of the image reads: "PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES."] Joseph D. D. Rivers, proprietor of The Colorado Statesman for many years, filling the position of Asst. Sergeant-at-Arms, and who has been so diligent in his duties in the House of the Legislature that he receives from the Speaker, other members, officers and employés, individually and collectively, expressions of appreciation for his faithful and untiring services. Mr. Rivers is popularly known by government officials, business men, merchants great and small, and is a welcome visitor whether in business or social life among the thousands of his people in Denver and other parts of Colorado, also the other mid-western states, his news journal having a very large circulation in a number of the western states. This is the third time Mr. Rivers has served the Legislature with an interval of several years, having been always big enough to give way to the other fellow, but being requested this time, he accepted, and has given that satisfaction which commends itself to the authorities. A staunch Republican, proud of his party and invincible in combatting his opponents, he is growing older but getting wiser in championing the cause of his people and advocating fearlessly their rights as American citizens to CIVIC LIBERTY and FREEDOM S RIGHT. CHEYENNE, WYO. NEWS CHEYENNE, WYO. NEWS EASTER celebration was held in our churches. The A. M. E. children had exercises in the afternoon and the Baptist children had their exercises in the evening. Songs, dialogues, recitations, etc., were rendered by the little ones. The churches were adorned with flowers, Mrs. Otis West and her "Sunshine Band" played well their part. Follows a list of children who took part in our Easter exercises: Romine Kath, the three McMickens sisters, Irma Dyer, Irma Baker, Lottie and Willie Shelton, Cassie Baker, Arline Knight, Imogen Stone, Viola and Robert Catlett, Jared Brown, Layette Randle, Dorothy Forbush, Emma Clinton, Christina and Dorothy Witt, Dorothy Crumbay, Ruth and Nora Brown, Harold Clay, Lilly Asberry, Frank Winslow Sara Martha Fleener, Lena Veta, Ruth Ballanger, Jack Carter, Blossom Rhone, Rena Brown, Leroy Smith, Julia Jones, Dimple Crumley, Alice and Juanna Gaskins, Frank Ballinger, Clifford Brown and Fred Forbush. Mrs. J. M. Endicott, Miss Hattie Brown and Mrs. Jones Randle are complimented on the neat appearance of the children. Mrs. Tobe Johnson is having a delightful visit with friends in Oklahoma. WOODLAND, CALIF., NEWS. Easter Sunday was a big day at the Second Baptist Church. At 11 a. m., Pastor Rev. Muse certainly preached a wonderful Easter sermon. It was instructive and spiritual; our hearts were made to rejoice over this great message taken from Matt. 28:6. "He Is Risen, as He Said." At this service the following named persons were added to the church: Mrs. Stanley and Mrs. Montgomery, by experience; Mrs. David Miller, reclaimed. Miss Thelma Reed and Master Harold Keith, who were converted in the revival meeting here in January, were baptized at the conclusion of the morning service. The Easter program for Sunday night was something grand and enjoyed by a large audience. Mesdames J. T. Muse, O. H. Earl and Fred Hayes deserve much credit for the splendid training of these boys and girls for this occasion The Young People's Progressive Club and the B. Y. P. U. give a big reception in honor of Miss J. M. Gayles at the Second Baptist Church, Friday night. March 25th. Miss Gayles departed Saturday morning for Oakland, Calif., where she expects to make it her future home. Mr. Ed Gaither, president of the club, spoke in the behalf of it. and Miss A. Widener, vice president of the B. Y. P. U., spoke in the behalf of the Union. Several songs, recitations and readings made up a very timely program. Remarks by Rev. Muse and also Dr. J. M. Riddle, the field missionary. Miss Gayles had a lovely farewell address. At the conclusion of the program refreshments were served in the social hall of the church. There were between fifty and sixty people to bid Miss Gayles farewell. Miss Gayles is a member of the Second Baptist Church, and we don't believe that her equal can be found anywhere when it comes to the great question of duty and loyalty to the church. She is a fine young lady and loved by all, both young and old. GREETINGS The Centennial Lodge No. 4, F. and A. M., wishes to announce to all organizations that their new hall is now ready for occupancy at 2802 Welton St. See rental agent, Dr. T. E. McClain, 929 17th St. M. 7416. THE COLORADO SEED CO. is the most reliable place in Denver to buy your garden and flower seed. They are an old firm and famous for their courteous treatment to all their patrons. They carry the highest and best grade of seed obtainable on the market. 1515 Champa St. NOTICE. The Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League meets every first and third Tuesdays in the month at 609 Twenty-seventh street, 8:15 p. m. sharp. Visitors welcome. EDWARD C. DAVIS, Secretary. An All-British Bird The red grouse—probably the most sporting bird that flies—has never been known to nest outside the limits of the British Isles. This bird flourishes in every Scottish county and in most counties of Ireland and Wales. In England the grouse thrives only as far south as Derbyshire, all attempts to stock more southern districts, even when apparently suitable for the purpose, having proved failures, though some grouse survived for quite a long time after such an experiment in the Thetford district. Beauty as a Business Asset. I can't recall when I have seen a homely girl in charge of the reception room of a business office. It has long since dawned on employers that beauty makes an excellent first impression, and, moreover, that beauty whether in a girl or the wallpaper, boosts the office morale.—The Nation's Business. Doggie Surely Lost. Junior's dog, Rex, had a collar with his name and address engraved on it. One day the boy let the dog go out. Later he discovered that he had forgotten to put the dog's collar on. "Oh!" said the child, "now he's sure to get lost. How will he ever know where he lives without his collar?" A. E. HARVEY G. WEBSTER PATRIOTIC SHOE SHINING PARLOR 1526 Welton St Phone Main 2196 OPEN THE SHOP SQUARE DEAL FOR ALL AMERICANISM Prof. W. M. Mackey FIRST CLASS TONSORIAL WORK 2244 LARIMER ST., DENVER YOU COULD WELL AFFORD TO BUY AN OVERCOAT in midsummer, and you would find it a good invest- ment at this price— $24 for values up to $60 100 of them sent to us by Adler, Milwaukee, maker of Collegian Clothes for men, who billed us these Overcoats at considerably less than one-half the season's prices. Michaelson's 15th and Larimer Streets POOR COND Children's Shoes Sizes 5 to 8 and $ 8^{1/2} $ to 11—For children 3 to 8 years old —This is a special sale of these splendid play shoes for boys and girls. When you see them you'll, in all probability, buy several pairs. —They're made on nature lasts; elk uppers, in black, brown, tan and smoke; button or lace style. A Special Sale —Third Floor, Joslin's— Triple Knee Hoisery for Boys and Girls —Boys and girls have a way of wearing out the knees of their Sidley Hose Supporters For Children 15c, all Sizes Triple Knee Hoisery for Boys and Girls Boys and girls have a way of wearing out the knees of their stockings these spring days when marbles and "jacks" are their chief pastimes. That is the reason for the popularity of these splendid triple reinforced knee stockings. Sizes 6 to 10; black and brown. -Notion Dept., First Floor, Joslin's- SPRING SALE OF FOR WOMEN AND G SALE OF UNION WOMEN AND CHILD SPRING SALE OF UNION SUITS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN Women's Union Suits —Fine combed cotton and lise; splendid full-fashioned garments; shoulders made so they don't slip. Band and crochet tops, tight and wide knee. All sizes, 36 to 44, at— Women's Silk Top Union Suits —Bodice slip top Union Suits with ribbon shoulder straps, tight or loose knee styles, pink. 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Exceptional value at— 59c —Fourth Floor, Joslin's— A large proportion of our troubles is caused by too much bone in the head and not enough in the back.—Columbus (S. C.) Record. These are elastic Sidley hose supporters t h a t sell regularly 25c to 45c, according to size. BTATE OF COLORADO, Thsurance Deparunent Sphopain of Statement for 1920 and Cops of Cortifiente of Authority, DERTHOMT NUTIONAT Prt INSU It ANCE COMPANY, DETROIT, SICH, Abnets $195,497.28 Blabi tition Ts.6s0.2 Gupitar 200:000,00 Surplus 214,810.91 STATE OF COLORADO, Certifiente of Authority, Office of Commissioner of Insurance Tt la hereby ceertitied Chat the Die TROIT NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE, COMPANY, a corporation organized Under the Jaws of Michigan, “whose Principal office is located. at Detroit, Nas complied with the requirements of ihe Inws of Colorad applieable to sald Company, and. is hereby. authorized. to transact business within the State of Colorado, as an insurance company, in necordance with its Charter or Articles Of Incorporation, subject to the provi- Hons and tequirements of the laws: hereof until the last day of Bebruary, ja the year of our Lord, one thousand Hine hundred and twenty-two. Tn testimony. whereof, 1, Barl Wilson, Commissioner of Insurance of the State ot Colorado, have. hereunto et my hand and affixed my seal of office at the City of Denver, this lat day of Mareh, A. 1. 1921, (Seal) EARL WILSON, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department, Kynopain of Statement for 1920 and ‘Copy of Certifiente of Authority. DIATE, PHE INSURANCE COMPANY, GREENSBORO, NORTH CARO LINAL Assets Jo e+ -$1,787,321.96 Liabiities UID agaisasiar Capital LTT so0vooa.o0 Burplus TSE Eo. | sae erees STATE OF COLORADO, Certificate of Authority, Office of Commissioner of Insurance. Ils hereby certified that the DIXIE FIRE. INSURANCE COMPANY, a. cor- poration organized under the ‘laws of North Carolina. whose principal office ix located at Greensboro, has complied with the requirements of the laws of Gatorade applicable to said Company, And is hereby authorized to. transact Business within the State of Colorado, 4s an insurance company, in accord- Race with its Charter or Articles of Incorporation, subject to the provisions and requirements of the laws hereof until the last day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, Th testimony whereof, i, Barl Wilson, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorads, have hereunto set my Rand and affixed my aeal of office at the City of Denver, this Ist diy of tareh, A.D. 1921 (Sen) EARL WILSON, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. Synopsis of Statement for 1920 nnd Copy of Certifiente of Authority. PAGE PERE INSURANCE COMPANY, NEWANIG, No J. Assets '$1,498,720.87 Liabilities 672:807.78 Capital 400,000.00 Surplus $21,028.11 STATE OF COLORADO, BEATE O12 USNs ia Seah Office of Commissioner at Insurance. It ja hereby certified that the EAGLE PITRE INSURANCE COMPANY, 2 cor= poration orcanized under the ‘Inws of Rew Jerseys. Whose principal office is Incated at Newark, has complied with the requirements of the laws of Colo- rade applicable to said Company, and ig hereby authorized to transact ‘busl- ness within the State of Colcrado, ax fn insurance. company, in accordance With its Charter or Articles of Tneorpo- Tation. subject to the provisions and requirements of the laws hereof until the last day of february, in the year Of our Lord, one thousind nine hun- red and’ twenty-two. In testimony. whereof, I, Bar! Wilson, Commissioner of Insurance of the State bf Colorads, haye hereunto set my Nand and affixed my seal of office at the Clty of Denver, this Ist day of Mareh, A. D. 1921 (Seal) EARL WILSON, Commissioner of Insurance, STATE OF COLORADO, tnsurance Department, Synopsis of Statement for 1920 and Cops of Cortiflente of Authority. FEDERAL UNION INSURANCE COM- PANY, CHICAGO, ILL. | Assets Fh Oe Liabilities SUE oe a aes Capital. =e LL 1 2h0}000:00 Surplus ayean 91,526.20 STATE OF COLORADO, Certiflente of Authority, Office of Commissioner of Inkurance. It is hereby certified that the PED= ERAL UNION INSURANCE COMPANY, 4 corporation organized under the laws Of Tilinols, Whose principal office is Jocated at Chicazo, has complied with the requirements of the laws of Colo- rado applicable to sald Company, and is hereby authorized to transact bust hess within the. State of Colorado, as An. insurance company, in accordance with its Charter or Articles of Incor= poration, subject to the provisions and Teauirements of the laws hereof until the last day of February, in the year bf our Lord, one thousand nine hun- dred and twenty-two. In testimony whereof, T, Barl Wilson, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my Nand and affixed my seal of office at the City of Denver, this Ist day of Maren, A.D. 1924, (Sealy EARL WILSON, Commissioner of Insurance, STATE OF COLORADO, Tnsurance Department, Synopals of Statement for 1920 and Cops, of Certificate of Authority. wie etn RBASSURANCE COoM- PANY OF NEW YORK, NEw VouI, N. Assets Loris s $8,805,194,81 Liabilities SULT alarii500.96 Capital DELEIES “toolo00.00 Surplus aka 493,633.85 STATE OF COLORADO, STATE OR See Office of Commissioner of Insurance. Tt js hereby eerfied that the ‘THE FIRE REASSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK. « corporation organized Under the laws of New York, whose Principal office Ia located at New York Nas complied. with the requirements of the laws of Colorado applicable to said Commnny. and is hereby authorized to transact business within the State of Colorido, as an insurance company, in accordance with Its Charter ov Articles Of Incorporation, subject te the provi- ions and requirements of the laws Fereoe until Wie last day of Pebruary, in the yenr of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two. Th testimony: whereof, T, Bar) Wilson, Commissioner of Insurance of the State bf Colorady, have hereunto set my Rand and affixed my seal of office at the Cliy of Denver, this Ist day of March, A. D. 1921, (Seal) EARL WILSON, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department, Aynopals. of Stitement for 1920 and Copy of Certificate of Authority. pA FIRST RELYSURANCE | COM- PANY OF HARTFORD, HAT FORD, CONN. Assets . p22 $8,600,000.14 Liabilities 3 2464,526.15 Capital iss 500,000.00 Surplus eens, 635,179.99 STATE OF COLORADO, Certificate of Authority. Office of Commissioner of Thaurance. Tt is hereby. certified that the THE FIRST REINSURANCE COMPANY OF HARTFORD, & corporation organized under the laws of Connecticut, whose principal office {x located at Hartford. has complied with the requirements of the laws of Colorado applicable to said Company, and is hereby authorized to transact business within the State of Eolorado, as an insurance company, in Salgrdance with its Charter or Arti- cles of Incorporation, subject to the provisions and requirements af the awe hereof until the last day of Feb- ruary, In the year of our Lord, one thousind nine hundred and” twenty~ two, Th textimony whereof, 1. Bart Wilson. Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my weal of office at the City of Denver, ‘thi Ist day of Mareh, A, D, 1921 (Seal) EARL WILSON, Commissioner of Insurance, STATE OF COLORADO, Thsurance Department Ssnopaln of Statement for 1920 and Copy of Certifiente of Authority, GLOBE NATIONAL PHTE INSUTANCE, COMPANY, SIOUX CEPY, TOW A. Aneta ce... $2,201,824.05 Liabilities © SS9.880.49 Capital 1,000°000.00 Surplus | cee ) RT AgLa6 STATE OF COLORADO, Ne So nea eee nas Ptfice of Commissioner of Insurance, | It is hereby certified that the GLOBE NATIONAL. Piite INSURANCE. COM: | BANC Corporation oranlsed under the laws of fowa, whose, principal of. Hee is ocated at Sioux City, hus come plea’ with the requirements" ot" thy | Raw ct'Gotgrnag applicable. co. wails Company, and is hereby authorized "te trananct ‘businest "within ‘the State of | Gotbrado, ‘ae an insurance company, in Kecordanee with tte Charter or Articles Of Tnearporation, subject to, the. provi [stoma and reauirements, of ‘the! Ines | ftereoe inti! the laxt day of February, | Inthe Year of our Lord: ome thousand nine hundred and twenty-two, | PTW testimony" whoreot. t, Bar Wilzon, Commissioner of Insurance of the Stats [Sr Golorads, haves hereunto wet my Rand and aftixed my" geal of office at lthe City of Denver, this Ist day of | Mavens a. D183 ‘eul EARL WILSON, Commissioner ot Insurance, STATE OF COLORADO, Taaurance Deburtment. Abaupais’ ef Mtatement for 1920 and ans" of Certificate of Authority. Giih BECunHS NUrION At. SU BOM iki, tssuiaNen com PASy INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Annes MSI 8.70 atic Tegra Capital hiueint Surptus gone STATE OF COLORADO STATE OF COLORADO, Foe oe eee OF tee ares It is hereby certified that the GRAIN DEALERS NATIONAL MUTUAL FIRE | INSURANCE COMPANY, « corporation jorganized under the laws of Indiana Whose principal office ix located at Thdianapolis, has complied with the re- lauirements of the laws of Colorado ap- | plicable to suid Company, and ix hereby futhorized to transact business within the State of Colorado, as an insurance company, In accordance with its Char- ter or Articles. of Incorporation, sub- ject to the provisions and requirements Of the laws hereof until the last day Of February, inthe vear of our Lord, She thousand nine hundred and twen- tystwo, In testimony whereof, I, Earl Wilson, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorady, have hereunto set my hand und affixed my seal of office at the Clty of Denver, this Ist day of Mareh, A.D, 1921 (Seal) EARL WILSON Commissioner of Insurance, STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department Snopsis of ‘Statement for 1920 and Cons of Certifieate of Authority. HUDSON INSURANCE COMPANY, NEW VOR, N.Y. Assets crv 98,595,828,0% Liabilities TA29;72 1,93 Capital. 500,000.00 Surplus. : I) éo6;098:15 STATE OF COLORADO. / g Eran ne Ane. Caer ony Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby_-certified that the HUD= SON INSURANCE COMPANY, a corpo~ ration organized under the laws of New York. whose principal office is located at New York, has complied with the requirements of the laws of Colorado Applicable. to sald) Company, and ts hereby authorized to transact business Within the State of Colorado, as an ins surance company, In accordance with its Charter or Articles of Incorporation, Subject. to the. provisions and require: ments of the laws hereof until the last day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two. In testimony whereof, I, Barl Wilson, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set_ my hand and affixed my seal of office at the City of Denver, this Ist day of Mareh, A.D, 1921. (Seal), EARL WILSON, Commissioner of Insurance, STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department Synopsis. of Statement for 1920 and Cops of Certifiente of Authority. INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE COM PANY, NEW YORK, N.Y. Assets ciesiewia ri ons $O,201,7 60,84 Liabilities ...cscscscss-2. 4821 108,02 Capital 1/000;000:06 Surplus 12.0 ¢ 4 880,641.32 STATE OF COLORADO. RRR ie caw toe eo Office of Commissioner, of (nsurence: It is hereby certified that the IN- TERNATIONAL INSURANCE | COM- PANY, a corporation orzanized under the laws of New York, whose. princi- pal office Is located at New York, has Complied with the requirements of the laws of Colorado applicable to said Company, and ix hereby authorized to transact business within the State of Colorado, as an insurance company, in accordance with its Charter or Articles Of Incorporation, subject to the provi- sions and requirements of the laws hereof until the last day of February in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two. Tn testimony. whereof, T, Earl Wilson, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorade, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the City of Denver, this Ist day of Mareh, A.D, 1921. (Seal) EARL WILSON, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, firated gatphst:fogyee tak, Shin lobe! Synopals of Statement for 1920 and Cony of Certifiente of Authority. PRDETATED PIRE, Ite-TNSURANCE COMPANY. MASON CEEY, iow. Avsots $866,958.04 Diabitivies Thabo. Capital LL BsosdaO00 Surplus”! 1 ibo/267088 STATE OF COLORADO. Certificate of Authority. Office Of Commissioner, of, Insurance IU is hereby certified. that the RED- [ERATED TIRE RE-INSURANCE COM- PANY. a corporation organized. under the laws of fowa, whose principal, of- flee 1s located at Mason-city, fs _com- plied withs the. requirements of the laws of Cblorado applicable to said Company, and_is hereby authorized. ti [transact business ‘within the State of Udlorady, as_an insurance company, in Agcgrdance with its Charter of Articles [OF Thesrporation. aubsect to the provi: Sions and requirements of the. laws hereor until the last day of February. inthe year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and. twenty-two. Tn teatimony: whereof, 1, Bari Wilson | Commissioner of Thsurance of the State OF Colorado, have. hereunto set my onseaei ari gte ma eat 'Soflon' the city of Denver, this Ist day of | March, A.D. 193t. jn Bealy EARL WILSON Commissioner of Insurance, Mahogany a Fast Grower. The rate of growth of mahogany Is “shown in southern Nigeria, where, the site of a town destroyed 60 years ago has been covered with & forest con- taining mahogany trees some of which are more than ten feet in diameter. STATE OF COLORADO, Thsurance Department Ssnopsin of Stutement for iz0 and Cons of Certifieate of Authority. PEANSYEVANIA CHILDERS MUTUAL PHO INSURANCE COMPANY, WILKES-BAIEII, BAL Anawots + $1817,099.20 Ljabitition 463,020.56 Capital Mutial Suc plus 80Ra78.04 BIATE OF COLORAD Cortifiente of Authority, Office of Commissioner of Inkurance IUis hereby certified Uhat the PENN= SYLVANIA MILLERS MUTUAL PCE INSURANCE COMPANY, a@ corporation organized under the laws of Pennayl~ Vania, whose principal office Ix located at Wilkes-Barre, nas complied with the requirements of the laws of Colo= rade applicable to said Company, and ia hereby authorized. to transact busi- hess within the State of Colorado, ax an insurance company, in accordance with its Charter or Articles of Incor- poration, subject to the provisions and Fequirenents of the laws hereof until the last day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hun= dred and twenty-two. In testimony whereof, 1, Earl Wilson, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have. hereunto set. my hand and affixed my seal of office at the City of Denver, this Ist day of March, A.D. 1921, (Seal) EARL WILSON, Commissioner of Insurance. NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS’ STOCK! SOOTEN Ges Secure See rn eee are, To the Stockholders of the Western Loan and Investment. Association: You are hereby notified that the an- nual meeting of the stockholders of the Western Loan and Investment As- sociation Will be held on Tuesday, May 10, 1921, at the hour of 8 o'clock “p.m. of suid day, at room 25, Western News paper) Union ‘Bulldini, 18240 Curtis Rtreet, Denver, Colorads, for the elee- tion of officers and directors of aid association and for the transaction of any and all other. business which may properly come before said association. JOSEPH D.D. RIVERS, President, J. R. CONTEE, Secretary. Wedding Ring’ Use Much Gold. More than 7,000 pounds of pure gold, says an anthority, are required each year to supply the wedding rings for brides. Health in White Cedar, Water pails and other vessels made of southern white cedar were long held to have a wholesome effect on the contents because of supposed medicinal properttes of the wood, says the American Forestry Magazine. It was even believed that water tssuing from 1 white cedar spigot had its healthfuiness inereased. Did Her Little Beat. “Dorothy, dear, 1 hope when you took back the picture book that you thanked Mrs, Naybor for lending it to you.” “There was nobody home, mamma, but the door was open so T went in und put the picture book on the table and said ‘Thank you, an’ comed away.”—Boston ‘Transcript Diminutive Only in Stature. It is related of Philetas of Cos, dis- tinguished about 380 B,C. as a poet and gtatnmarian, that he was so di- minutive in size and avoirdupois that he carried metal weights in his cloth ing to preven his being blown! away hy the wind. He was the preceptor of Prolemy Philadetphns Hairs in A Violin Bow. The vuinber of hairs in a violin bow wus formerly from S0 to 100 In France; but now it Is customary to have the halr ribbon broader, and this, there- fore, requires 175 to 260 single hairs. ‘These must be at least 26 inches long. Tourte bestowed great care on the selection of bow-hair, preferring the French horse-hair, A great deal of bow-hair comes from Russian horses. Mmbarckaaina elontent. The car was crowded and as we neared our destination my cousin and 1 decided to make our way toward the door. I suddenly missed my purse, so we started back through the car to look for it. A number of people helped us in the hunt, and then a woman said: “Why, your purse Is hanging on your umbrella.” 1 should have Uked to have made an exit through the nearest window.—Chicago ‘Trib- une. A GREAT PROBLEM SOLVED Don't throw away your used blades! 2 AOR BOs | TP Os 6 ) g(a me | a oS NI vert? Wik | r | a TARANTELLA The Universal Satety Razor Blade Sharpener for every make of Blade. IT MAKES SHAVING A PLFASURE INSTEAD OF A DREADED TASK, old razor blades in less chan one minute, producing an easy. clean and confortable shave. WORKS LIKE A RATTLE, BUT DOES “RATTLING” GOOD WORK. PRICE COMPLETE 83.00 TARANTELLA CO. Pulitzer Building New York ALLIES WILL RESIST FORMER EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA, IS REPORT. SWISS TO RECEIVE CHARLES IF HE RETURNS TO THAT COUNTRY. (Westeen Newspaper Unlon News Service.) Vienna, April 1—The Hungarian charge d'affaires has notified Austria that former Emperor Charles will re- turn to Switzerland, ‘The Swiss min- ister declares that Switzerland will agree to his return, London,—The allies will institute drastic military action at once if for- mer Emperor Charles is allowed to re- main in Hungary, it was announced at the foreign office. It was stated that the allies will aid in facilitating the former emperor's return to Switzer- lund or will assist him in getting to Spain, but that under no circumstances would he be permitted to remain in either Austria or Hungary. Vienna.—tIt is unofficially reported here that Admiral Horthy, the Hun gurlan regent, has resigned and will let events take their course, but the report is not confirmed, It also is reported that former Eur peror Charles is on the way to Bud upest from the frontier and that the urmy adhering to his cause is on the move. Further reports are that 100,000 men from the West Hungarian garrisons haye rallied to colors of Lehar, re puted to be the military leader in a movement from Steinamanger to cause the restoration of Charles. ‘Ausiety was expressed as to whether Admiral Horthy would be able to hold the southern contingents in line. The resignation of Regent Horthy, it is reported, was actuated by grow: ing disaffection in the army and its virtual refusal to support him longer, ‘The Wiener Journal announces that 20,000 Jugo-Sluv troops have been massed in Vaarasdin, in Croatia, with the intention of marching on Steina- manger and preventing a restoration of the Hapsburgs by all means. Budapest.—The countries near Hun- gury are Intensely watching events oc- curring there, It was learned that the Rumanians are concentrating troops at Grosswardein, on the Hungarian bor- der and at ‘Cemesvar, farther south, to be ready should armed interference be recessiry. Harding Will Make Presentation. Washington.—President and Mrs. Harding will receive Mme. Curie May 20, and present her with a gramme of radium valued at $100,000 in behalf of women of America, who haye contrib- uted to a fund for this purpose in ree- ognition of her scientific service, par- ticularly In the discovery of radium, Mme. Curie will come to this country especially for the presentation, It was announced here. Stage Anti-Red Meeting. Stockholm.—An anti-Bolshevist mu- tiny among sailors of the Russian White sea squadron is reported in Helsingfors advices. The mutiny orig- inated, according to the rumor, on the cruiser ‘Tehesma, It is reported that the Bolshevists have been forced to withdraw from Archangel, Will Hear Amnesty Plea. Washington. — President — Harding has agreed to receive on April 13 rep- resentatives of the political amnesty committee, composed of delegates from the Farmer-Labor party, the Socialist party, the Civil Liberties Union and other organizations, who will hold a mass meeting here, then to present am- nesty petitions to Congress. The date is the second anniversary of the im- prisonment of Eugene V. Debs. Nation's Finances Improving. Washington—Government finances are in much better shape as a result of tax payments of March 15 exceeding expectations, treasury officials said in announcing nearly complete figures for the first quarter when slightly more than $70,000,000 was received. Uprising in Zone of Occupation. Coblenz.—Communist uprisings broke out in Moers and Grefeld in the Bel ginn zone of occupation and there were clashes in which casualties were in: flicted on the communists. ‘The whole Belgian zone is in a state of ferment, ‘Recall le Ordered in. N. D: Devils Lake, N. D.—Decision to call a recall election on or before Nov. 8 against three state officials endorsed by the Nonpartisan League to initlate a series of constitutional amendments and the naming of two of the three candidates to oppose the state officials was reached at the closing session of the antl-Nonpartisan League conyen- tion. ‘The recall will be against Gov. L. J, Frazier, Attorney General Wil- Mam Lenrke and John N. Hagan. Aliens Arriving Here Prefer Work in Factories to Going to the Land By LOUIS F. POST, Assistant Secretary of Labor emerges from the maelstrom into which the great war has piunged it the overseas exodus from all that part of the world will increase beyond any- thing ever dreamed of in the past. ‘The flood only awaits the breaking of the dam. I should be delighted to know how to make arriving immigrants an economic benefit, instead of a menace. We should be glad if most of them would go to the farms and grow food; but, unfortunately, they show a very general disinclination to do anything of the kind. Even if their inclination were otherwise, where are the farms for them to go to, except at low wages; or the farm lands for them to buy, except at forbidding prices, or to lease, except at excessive rentals? Immigration to supply our farm owners with labor is a hopeless prop~ osition. Aliens arriving in this country refuse to work on the farms because they can get more for their labor in the cities. Agricultural la- horers of Europe come to the United States and go to work in the fac- tories. Visit the great manufacturing plants, and you will find them full of alien workers, a large majority of whom were farm laborers in the countries of their origin. Now Is the Time to Study Thoroughly the Possibilities of Aeronautics. By REAR ADMIRAL B. A. FISKE, U. S. Navy (Retired). It must be borne in mind that while the principles of strategy are everlasting, the practice of strategy is exceedingly changeable. It may also be pointed out that the’ reason for its changeability is mainly the changes which our rapidly developing civilization has introduced and is still introducing into naval war. The whole practice of strategy and of tacties is in the utilization of weapons of warfare and the consequent methods of their employment ‘ During the past fifty years almost the whole opposition against the use ef new inventions and novel methods and appliances has come from men who did not know much about them. For instance, the determined opposition waged against the utilization of electricity in the navy came from men who knew little about electricity and its possibilities, Similar ly, today most of. the men who oppose the strenuous development of aero- nauties have not studied carefully the possibilities of aeronautics. This is unfortunate, for now is the time to study thoroughly the possibilities of aeronautics. Above all, we must experiment. Tn the opinion of many of us, aero~ nautics is destined to bring about a revolution in warfare in comparison with which the revolution in warfare brought about by the invention of the gun was like a vaudeville performance. | Fashions of Thirty Years Ago Would Not Be Thought Beautiful Now | By HARRISON FISHER, American Painter 2 | Women are always secking that which 1s expressive of good taste. which may be said to be an element of beauty in dress. You mustn’t get ‘the idea that the woman who is beautifully dressed is in any way lees ‘womanly, less fine morally, than the woman who dresses with painful plainness. Some folks may think fashions of thirty years ago or more would be considered beautiful now if they were generally worn, but that’s not ¢o. The old-fashioned garments of women never were beautiful and never could be, for they were not intended to be more than a covering. There were beautiful women long ago, to be sure; women whose beau- ty was noticeable in any gathering and might be as noticeable today. They would have been ten times as beautiful long ago of they had worn, tho fashions of today. It is not difficult for a girl of taste to appear very pretty today even though nature has not been over-generous to her. But a plain girl thirty years ago—well, look at the old family photograph album. But, heavens! Don’t think I know anything about feminine fash- ions, the why or wherefore of them! I just draw them, I don’t know ‘anything about women, either! Danger of the Enormous Social Drift Toward Premature Adulthood. By JUDGE JOSEPH SABATH, Superior Court, Cook County, Ill. ‘There are no children any more. ‘There are only infants and adults. ‘The race for sophistication is so swift that young people go through no developing period of adolescence. ‘They jump from the cradle onto the dance floor. There is an enormous social drift on toward premature adulthood. Girls don’t want to be called girls; they want to be called women from the time they cut their second teeth. They want to dress their hair and bodies like grownup ladies before they are fairly in their teens. There is only one way to curb this ridiculous and dangerous ten- Jeney—inerease public education—for self-control, the only real restraint, comes best through schooling. ‘The schools must curb this unnatural and often disastrous ambition of children. Courts can mend breaks, but it is better for the community if the breaks never occur, and the schools are the hope of those who want to see this fever of forced growth cooled. » ‘The immigration problem, in regard to which we are now feeling so much anxiety, did not begin to bother us until less than thirty years ago. Tt was, at the start, a land problem. From the foundation of the republic to 1890 most of our immigrants went to the land on arriying in America. Immigration did not become a problem until the desirable and accessible lands had been occupied or cornered. Up to that time we were able to take care of the arriving aliens. Far from wishing to exclude them, we wanted them, It is expected that when eastern Europe finally DR. CHARLES HAMES, JR. B.S., D.D.S. Invites the public of Denver to inspect his modern, electrically equipped dental suite, 2602 Wet- ton St. Hours 9 a.m. to 12 noon; 1 to 6 p.m.; evenings and Sun- days by appointment. Office phone Champa 2807. Residence phone Champa 1536. C. E. TERRY, M.D. 1027 Twenty-fifth St., Denver Office Phone Main 2701. Hours 12 to 2 and 6 to 8 p.m. or by appointment. Res. 2337 Glen- arm Place. Phone Champa 3303. E. P. BLAKEMORE. Attorney and Counsellor at Law Office, Rooms 39 and 40 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 Dr. Co. Store 87.87 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 600 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 Purr- 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 Express, Moving, and Storage COAL AND WOOD PROMPT DELIVERY. Phone Main 6544. 2415 WASHINGTON STREET. Phone Champa 113 1848 Arapahoe 舒绎必 The Difference Between the Cost of Good and Cheap Printing is so slight that he who goes shopping from printer to printer to secure his printing at a few cents less than what it is really worth hardly ever makes day laborer wages at this unpleasant task. If you want good work at prices that are right, get your job printing At This Office KEEP SILVER IN BEST CONDITION If Cleaned Regularly Little Time or Effort to Keep It Bright and Lustrous. Glittering Surface May Be Obtained by Use of Friction Cleaners, by Electrolysis or by Boiling in Strong Solution. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) "All the table service was of silver and gold." Winifred was reading aloud from the society columns an account of a dinner, and as she read the last item her voice was full of awe. "Think of it, Nan; plates and everything, solid silver." "I am thinking of it," said Nan, the practical one; "and I'm thinking also that I'm glad I haven't on my hands the cleaning of all those solid 'silver plates and everything.' The flat silver that was given Jack and me when we were married is more than a plenty for me when cleaning day comes around. I like housework, but I do detest cleaning silver." Many women feel as Nan did; but if silver is cleaned regularly, little time or effort is required to keep it bright and lustrous. The office of home economics of the United States Department of Agriculture gives the following directions on the care of silver: Causes of Tarnish. The tarnish on silver is silver sulphide, and is due to the sulphur compounds in the air where coal and gas are burned, and also in many foods, in wool, in rubber, and in some bleached and dyed materials. This is the reason silversmiths rarely, if ever, use white cotton flannel for their cases of silver. Dryness prevents tarnish somewhat; so camphor, which absorbs moisture, is sometimes put into the silver drawer. Silver may be cleaned by the use of certain powders, pastes, and cloths, which clean by friction, by boiling it in a strong alkaline solution, or by a process known as electrolysis. The materials which clean by friction are whiting, jewelers' rouge, and commercial pastes or powders. The noncommercial powders are mixed to a paste with water, ammonia, or alcohol, rubbed on the silver, allowed THE WOMEN'S HOUSE Good Luster on Silver Is Put on by Friction Cleaners Although Boiling in an Alkaline Solution or Cleaning by Electrolysis Is Easier. to dry, and then polished off with a soft cloth, chamois, or a brush. The result is bright, lustrous silver. Prepared cloths, sold under various trade names, also clean by friction. They are usually cotton flannel treated with a cleaning mixture, and are convenient but sometimes relatively expensive. The alkaline solution for cleaning silver is made by dissolving four teaspoons borax, three teaspoons washing soda, or two teaspoons lye (caustic soda) in one quart water. The silver is placed in an old kettle or pan, covered with this solution, boiled for 10 minutes, and cooled in the water. One method of removing the tarnish from silver by electrolysis is the following: Fill an enameled or agateware kettle partly full of water in which has been dissolved one teaspoon of either washing soda or baking soda and one teaspoon salt to each quart of water. Heat this solution to the boiling point, put in strips of aluminum or bright zinc, add the tarnished silver, and boil it. The silver must be covered completely by the water, and each piece must be in contact with the aluminum or the zinc, either directly or through other silver. When the tarnish has disappeared the silver should be removed from the kettle, washed, and dried with a clean, soft cloth. An aluminum kettle may be used, but it soon corrodes and must be cleaned, as only a clean, bright kettle serves the purpose. The zinc also grows dull and then is less active. It may be cleaned, however, in water containing a little hydrochloric (muriatic) acid, which is very poisonous and must be handled with extreme care. Silver cleaned either in an alkaline solution or by electrolysis lacks luster, which cleaning by friction gives. It may be made bright, however, by a little rubbing with a soft cloth or chamois. INCLUDE VEGETABLES IN THE WINTER DIET Necessary During Cold Weather as Well as Summer. Tired.Out Feeling Which Many People Have at End of Winter Comes From Lack of Supply of Garden Truck and Fruits. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Vegetables should be freely included in the winter diet as well as in the summer one. Doctors say that that tired-out feeling which many people have at the end of winter—"spring fever"—often comes from a lack of fruits and vegetables in the winter diet. Plenty of vegetables keep the children well and make their meals more appetizing. Vegetables mashed and put through a sieve are more easily digested by little children. Salts of many kinds are needed by the body, or it will not work smoothly. Vegetables and fruit are rich in them and if you eat a variety you are sure to get all the kinds of salt you need. When the water in which vegetables are cooked is thrown away, valuable salts are often wasted. Sometimes the flavor is not desirable, but if it is good save this water for soup or gravy. An even better process is to cook the vegetables in as little water as possible so there is none left to drain off, or bake or steam it. Canned and dried vegetables often need only skillful seasoning to make them taste as good as the fresh variety. Canned corn is very good when turned into a baking dish with the addition of milk and seasoning added, heated through in the oven, and allowed to brown on top. Outside stalks of celery, a green pepper, or both, chopped and added before baking, will vary the flavor of the dish. Spinach Loaf. A small can of spinach, chard, or beet tops, combined with rice or bread crumbs, will serve seven or eight people if it is made into a loaf. Asparagus or string beans are also good served in this way: 2 cupfuls cooked lima beans. 1 can chopped spinach. 4 cupfuls boiled rice. 2 cupfuls white sauce. 1 red pepper. Make a thick white sauce of two cupfuls of milk, four tablespoonfuls of flour, four tablespoonfuls of butter, and one teaspoonful of salt. Melt salt and mix with flour, add to milk and stir over the fire until it thickens. Mix with the rice, chopped spinach and pepper. Form into a loaf and bake 20 or 30 minutes. Investigations with dried vegetables, which have been conducted in the experimental kitchen of the United States Department of Agriculture, show that provided the dried vegetables are of good quality they are quite as satisfactory when they are cooked without previous soaking, as when soaked, and oftentimes better. MAKE SAVORY FRUIT PASTES Combination of Different Kinds of Fruits Is Excellent—Canned Goods Can Be Used. Fruit pastes are made from the edible portion of fruit which after cooking has been passed through a sieve and cooked again until the excess water is driven off. Only a small amount of sugar is required. A combination of different kinds of fruit pulp makes a delightfully flavored paste, but peaches alone make a delicious one. Canned fruit can also be used to make paste. When the pulp is boiled down until very thick, pour it in $ \frac{1}{2} $ - inch layers on marble or glass slabs or on a platter. Place where there is a strong circulation of air and allow the paste to dry for two or three days. When it is sufficiently dry, cut it into 1-inch squares. Roll in granulated sugar and place again in a draft. Paste may be packed in tin boxes, glass jars, or paraffin-coated containers. PASTRY SHELLS Bake pastry in or on the outside of muffin pans and fill these shells with jam, preserves, or well-sweetened stewed fruit. With or without the addition of whipped cream these form a delicious dessert. These shells may be filled with creamed chicken, creamed peas, or other creamed vegetables, adding an attractive dish for another meal. OF INTEREST TO THE HOUSEWIFE Mildewed leather may be cleaned with vaseline. Long handles on brooms, brushes and dustpans save the back. * * * * Dinner plates should always be sent to the table warm enough not to cool the food served on them. * * * * To remove grease spots from silk, take a lump of magnesia, rub it wet on spot, let dry, then brush the powder off. * * * * Keep empty spools and slip them over the nails in the hookless closet. They are a great protection to the clothes. The Kitchen Cabinet "The globe has been cfcremnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality." MAPLE-SUGAR TIME. A most delicious frozen dish may be prepared with maple sirup called Maple Parfait. —Beat the yolks of four eggs until thick; add a little salt and pour over them a cupful of hot maple sirup; stir until smooth and the —Beat the yolks of four eggs until thick; add a little salt and pour over them a cupful of hot maple sirup; stir until smooth and the eggs cooked, then fold in the stiffly beaten whites and a quart of thin cream. Whipped cream may be used, leaving out the eggs. Freeze, pack and let stand to ripen. An ordinary vanilla ice cream is especially delicious served with a maple sauce and chopped walnuts. Maple Biscuit.—Sift two cupfuls of flour, four teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one-half teaspoonful of salt, rub in two tablespoonfuls of fat and three-quarters of a cupful of milk. Roll out to one inch in thickness and cut in rounds. Brush half of them with softened butter, spread thickly with grained maple sugar and put together in pairs. Place in a buttered pan and bake in a hot oven. Nice to serve with afternoon tea. Maple Sirup Cake.—Cream one-half cupful of shortening; add one-half cupful of sugar, one cupful of maple sugar; beat well; add well beaten yolks of four eggs, or two whole eggs, and one-half cupful of hot water. Sift two and one-half cupfuls of flour, one-quarter teaspoonful of salt and two teaspoonfuls of baking powder; add to the first mixture; add one-half tea spoonful of mapleine. Bake in layers and put together with: Maple Fudge Frosting.—Take one cupful of maple sugar, one-third of a cupful of cream, one tablespoonful of butter; heat slowly until the sugar is dissolved. Boil to a soft ball stage and then heat until thick enough to spread. Maple Nuggets.—Take two cupfuls of maple sugar, one-half cupful of milk, cook to the soft ball stage. Beat two egg whites until stiff, pour over the boiling sirup, adding a teaspoonful of vanilla; beat until firm enough to drop and keep its shape. Add nuts and drop in the form of small nuggets from a teaspoon on a buttered sheet. Today is your day and mine; The only day we have; The day in which we play our part. What our part may signify in the great world, we may not under- stand. But we are here to play it, and now is our time. —David Starr Jordan. SEASONABLE GOOD THINGS. For those who are fond of apple dumplings the following recipe is good and a little differ- Bread Apple Dumplings.—Select tart apples that do not lose their shape at once in cooking. Remove the cores and peel. Put the apples in water enough to float them, add a cupful of sugar and cook until nearly tender enough. Remove the apples with a skimmer and cook the stirup until thick. Place each apple in a square of pastry. fill the cavities with butter, lemon juice and sugar and drop the stirup over the apples. Moisten the tips of the pastry and pinch together at the top. Place in a baking tin and bake until the pastry is brown. Serve with cream just turned sour, stirring in a little powdered sugar. Marshmallow sauce is very good to serve with dumplings. Celery and Brussels Sprouts.—Cook one quart of Brussels sprouts in boiling salted water until tender. Cut two stalks of celery into half-inch pieces and cook in a covered saucepan in four tablespoonfuls of butter, being careful not to brown the butter. When the celery is cooked add one fourth of a cupful of flour, stir until smooth, add a pint of rich chicken stock or milk, season to taste and when thick and smooth pour over the Brussels sprouts in a casserole. Cover with buttered crumbs and bake until the sauce bubbles up through the crumbs. Timbales of Corn and Pimento.—Remove the seeds from a half dozen sweet red peppers and boil until tender. Rub through a colander and mix with one pint of corn already sifted, two tablespoonfuls of heavy cream added and one tablespoonful of tomato sauce, the yolks of three eggs, beaten thick, and seasoning to taste. Fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs and pour into well-greased timbale cups and pouch for half on hour set in hot water in a moderate oven. Turn out on a platter and serve with Hollandaise sauce. Bakewell Tart.—Line a pie tin with a good rich crust, spread with a layer of jam. Mix two beaten eggs with six tablespoonfuls of sugar, two ounces of ground almonds and four tablespoonfuls of butter. Spread over the jam and bake thirty minutes. Nellie Maxwell A. HASER, Prop. 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AND American Shoe Repairing FIRST-CLASS WORK Best Leather Used—Reasonable Prices 1855 Champa St. Phone Main 3737. 1221 Sixteenth St. Phone Champa 5389. Opp. Golden Eagle. DENVER, COLO. Manager, Res. Phone South 1608 Market Company Meats and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Oysters. Ts Our Specialty. Fresh and Cured Corn Fed Meats Vegetables, Poultry and Game. Bain 4302, 4303, 4304, 4305 DENVER, COLORADO RES. PHONE GALLUP 942 An K. Rettig ENCY AND STAPLE GROCERIES 1864 CURTIS STREET Denver, Colo. Denver, Colo. Denver, Colo. Aiding Nature in Her Work TO repair the damage done by destructive forces is a process of no short time. But to prevent these bad effects is but the routine of a few precious moments. In either case, Madam C. J. Walker's Superfine Toilettes stand ready to aid you in the task at hand. FOR PREMATURELY OLD COMPLEXIONS— Madam C. J. Walker's Vanishing Cream Superfine Face Powder (white, rose-flesh, brown) Compact Rouge TO PREVENT THE ON-RUSH OF OLD AGE— Madam C. J. Walker's Cleansing Cream Witch Hazel Jelly Floral Cluster Talc 640 North West Street Indianapolis, Ind. 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 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 the AMERICAN NEGRO IN THE WORLD WAR EMMETT J. SCOTT SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO SECRETARY OF WAR A complete and authentic narration of the participation of American soldiers of the Negro race in the great fight for democracy. Illustrated with official and personal photographs of over two hundred in number, this work offers delightful reading of its 600 pages for the youth, the middle-aged and the old, and each home will add dignity and loyalty to our race and country by being provided with a copy of this commendable work. A very desirable gift in and out of season. This book is being offered at the very reasonable price of $3.00 at the office of THE COLORADO STATESMAN P. O. Box 116 Room 25, 1824 Curtis St. Arrangements can also be made over phone. Call Main 7417 A complete and authentic narration of the participation of American soldiers of the Negro race in the great fight for democracy. Illustrated with official and personal photographs of over two hundred in number, this work offers delightful reading of its 600 pages for the youth, the middle-aged and the old, and each home will add dignity and loyalty to our race and country by being provided with a copy of this commendable work. A very desirable gift in and out of season. This book is being offered at the very reasonable price of at the office of 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. SOMETHING NEW GARDNER THE TAILOR 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. THE HAT 1 HATS that range all the way from the plainest, most practical and substantial of sails to the most airy and unsubstantial of malines and hair braids, are presented in this spring's millinery showings. "Unsubstantial" is not to be taken as meaning fragile or perishable, because some of the airiest and sheerest of materials can stand endurance tests that wreck their heavier competitors. The great variety of hats in the displays promises a season of becoming millinery, since all types and all occasions can be suited. In the group pictured above hats appropriate for street wear have been chosen and the "airy nothings" of millinery, the sheer dress hats of lace, hair braid, or malines—that is the more pictoure styles—have been omitted. The plain banded sailor at the top of the group always has an army of admirers and when it appears in fine rather soft, milan with a well proportioned crown and brim, it is sure to crown many a discriminating and aristocratic head. Here it finds itself in the company of a smart scarf and spring umbrella worn with a sweater Attractive U WHOEVER has need of clothes with dependable wearing qualities, as the business or professional woman, will find among the new blouses for spring some models that will delight her. The creators of blouses have combined in these models, utility and chic style—the two essentials that busy women look for in this workaday world, and find it easier each season to procure. Satin, taffeta or poagee account for many smart models to be worn with suit skirts or separate skirts, in place of the lingerie blouse, during the spring season; with midsummer, sheer materials will replace them. The blouse of dark satin with binding in a contrasting and lighter color, as shown in the picture, is modeled on the lines of the Russian blouse, with short peplum split at the sides and rounded off. A ribbon to match it in color provides its girdle and the easy adjustment of it is a point to be noted in many new blouses. The girdle is weighted with two little satin-covered balls on each end. Round buttons covered to match the binding, take care of the shoulder and collar, fastening in a most efficient manner, giving the blouse just the business-like and smart finish that makes it attractive. Blouses of pongee made in the slip-over style, with small "V" shaped collar opening and three-quarter sleeves, are of the same character as this satin blouse but of entirely different design. They have turn-over collars at the back, very short pep --- coat and sports skirt. It has a rizal at the bottom of the group in a bright stiff straw that has proved popular. This appears in cheerful colors—bright red among them—and occasionally the band is replaced by a wreath of cherries. A chic four-cornered hat with a light crown made of folded crepe de chine and a brim of dark straw braid, is draped with one of the novelty fabrics that have added brilliance to spring headwear. A big ornamental pin gives a good account of itself as a finish. Below a round hat of braid proclaims it a model for a youthful wearer, by adopting a wreath of small flowers and is finished with many hanging loops and ends of narrow ribbon at the back. The stately tricorn at the left, with upturned front and brim decorated with a braided pattern, like the smart four-cornered hat, uses only a handsome pin for embellishment. Both these models are suited to matronly wearers and they may safely defy their youthful rivals to comparisons in point of chic style and originality. tility Blouses lums and narrow girdles, usually of the material used in the skirt worn with them. But narrow belts of patent leather may be used. In any case the girdle or belt is loosely adjusted. Pongee, crepe de chine, silk shirtings, linen, or any sturdy and suitable material might be used for the tailored blouse pictured. It is good for all summer like the pongee blouse, and has a convertible collar that may be worn either open or closed. The deep cuffs have a narrow turned-back portion finished at the edge with button-hole stitchery of silk floss. Julia Bottomley COPYRIGHT BY WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION Playing up to the most striking feature of one's appearance, whether it be eyes, hair or complexion, is one of the rules of tasteful dressing. In the case of red-haired women who, as a rule like to wear blue, brown is really their color, especially if their eyes are brown. Black suits the red-haired woman, too, green also is for her, an olive shade of green for the day, and jade green for the evening. Of blues, the best shade is a greenish blue. Summer Headgear for Baby. Warm weather headgear for the baby includes many charming little caps or bonnets combining very fine straw braid or leghorn with chiffon, or filmy white mull. --- Licensed Embalmer and Director Lady Assistant. Polite Service to all. Parlors, 2745 Welton Street. DENVER, COLORADO. ber Shop c Massages Bolden Barber Sho Baths, Electric Massages BARBERSHOP FIRST CLASS SERVICE GROWER passing and Grower. SWANTED. Good Money THE STAR HAIR GROWER A Wonderful Hair Dressing and Grower. 1,000 AGENTS WANTED Good Mo THE NEW YORKER preparati send $1.00 and we will send you a full supply that you can be work with at once; also agent's terms. Send all money by money order to THE STAR HAIR CROWER MF'R P. O. Box 812, Greensboro, N. Phone York 3786 720 East Twenty-sixth Ave full supply that you can begin terms. to GROWER MF'R., Greensboro, N. C. 20 East Twenty-sixth Avenue send $1.00 and we will send you a full supply that you can begin work with at once: also agent's terms. Send all money by money order to THE STAR HAIR CROWER MF'R., P. O. Box 812, Greensboro, N. C. SERVICE TAILORING COMPANY Is offering best creations in their spring and summer open at Five Points District. WM. WILSON, Prop. e spring and summer opening s District. N, Prop. Is offering best creations in their spring and summer opening LADIES' AND GENTS' TAILORING Cleaning, Pressing and Repairing Work Called for and Delivered H. ANDERSON, Tailor and Manager DENVER, COLO. --- MILITARY MILITARY R. B. BOLDEN, Proprietor