Colorado Statesman

THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY SECRETARY JAS, WELDON JOHNSON CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT HARDING The Secretary Emphasized the Fact That the N. A. A. C. P. Was Not Interested in Petty Jobs, But Enactment of Measures to Relieve Oppressive Conditions VOL. XXVII. SECRETARY JAS, W CONFERS WITH P The Secretary Emphasized th P. Was Not Interested in ment of Measures to Condi THE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth avenue, New York, today released a statement regarding an interview held by James Weldon Johnson on the morning of April 4th with President Harding. Mr. Johnson, in talking with the President, emphasized the fact that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in speaking for twelve million colored citizens of the United States, was not interested in the parceling out of petty jobs, but that its interest was in the enactment of measures to relieve oppressive conditions affecting colored people. Mr. Johnson took up with Mr. Harding the following points, earnestly urging that federal anti-lynching legislation, congressional investigation of the American occupation in Haiti and a congressional investigation of disfranchisement in the South be included in the President's first message to Congress. Mr. Johnson also urged on behalf of the association that the other points be taken up and action taken on them by the President. Mr. Johnson reports that his interview with the President was very satisfactory. The specific points discussed were: 1. Passage of a federal anti-lynching law by Congress. 2. A wide and thorough investigation of peonage conditions in the southern states, to be made by the Department of Justice, followed by the punishment of the perpetrators of the peonage system. 3. An investigation of disfranchisement in the South and the right of the Negro to vote under the identical qualifications required of other citizens. 4. The appointment of a national inter-racial commission to make a thorough study of race relations. 5. Congressional investigation of both military and civil acts of the American occupation in Haiti. 6. The appointment of colored assistant secretaries in the Departments of Labor and Agriculture. 7. The abolishment by executive order of all race segregation in the departments at Washington and the United States civil service. ROAD DROPS PORTERS. Palestine, Texas, April 1.—All train porters on passenger trains of the International and Great Northern railroad were suspended under orders issued from the road's general offices here. This move followed suspension of train auditors on the same road earlier in the week. GEORGIA GOVERNOR PROMISES PUNISHMENT OF PEONAGE. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth avenue, New York, today made public a letter received from Governor Hugh M. Dorsey of Georgia, relative to the disclosures regarding peonage in Jasper county, Georgia, which caused the murder of eleven colored peons. The governor definitely promised to do all in his power to see that the perpetrators of the system are punished. Governor Dorsey's letter to the association reads as follows: "I assure you that all true Georgians deplore the awful tragedies recently brought to light, and I am leaving no stone unturned to put the 'wheels of justice' in motion, and hope to bring about the conviction of the guilty parties. The governor, as you know, has no jurisdiction. All he can do is to try to bolster up the officials elected by the people." MILLION-DOLLAR ASSETS FOR N.C. INSURANCE CO. Durham, N. C.—The twenty-second annual statement of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, for the year ending Dec. 31, 1920, made public recently, shows steady and healthy growth. Admitted assets are $1,115,312.69, as against $774,935.32 for 1919, an increase of $440,377.67. Insurance in force is nearly $7,000,000 more than the preceding year. The company, claiming to be the largest Negro insurance company in the world, is doing an old fine legal reserve business, is using a variety of policies, including industrial, ordinary whole life, ten, fifteen and twenty-payment life, ten, fifteen and twenty-year endowment, and operates now in North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Tennessee, Oklahoma and District of Columbia. Founded in 1899 by the late John Merrick, its present officers are Dr. A. M. Moore, president; J. M. Avery, vice president; C. C. Spaulding, secretary-treasurer; E. R. Merrick, assistant secretary; Dr. Clyde Donnell, medical director, and W. J. Kennedy, Jr., member board of directors. POLICE HEAD FOILS LYNCHERS Birmingham, Ala., March 31—It was the cool-headed action of Commissioner Taylor, of the public safety department of this city that held in check the spreading crime wave and prevented a certain lynching of an aged man. Cool-headed, quick and deliberate action by this official in dispersing a mob saved a life and a lynching stigma against the name of Alabama. Just as a number of shoppers came out of the large Second Avenue stores into Second avenue, always a crowded thoroughfare, an humble colored man, in his greasy overalls, collided with a woman. With a tip of his cap and an apology he hurried on his way. As he hurried, all the men and boys that congregate on the downtown corners pursued, giving chase after a riot call was sent to police headquarters. "The fugitive was landed safely in jail, while the jeering, snouting mob outside clamored for his life's blood. The police commissioner ordered the men to disperse. They did not, then he called the fire department out. Chief Atkins soon had the big hose playing a forceful stream of water on the mob. Was it effective? Well, yes, the crowd hurriedly dispersed. Birmingham was saved the disgrace of a lynching, while the jeering, jeering crowd awoke the next morning without blood-stained hands. DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, APRIL 9 1921 ORIGINAL IN FOOR CONDITION CHEYENNE, WYO. NEWS The Ladies' Searchlight Club took delight in preparing a luncheon for their members on Thursday noon, March 27th. Mrs. Carrie Wright presided graciously, and with wit and partee. This luncheon was had at the Baker Café, consisting of seven courses. Pink carnations and ferns represented the club colors. Place cards, made up in club colors, were made by Mrs. Daisy Thompson. Songs, toasts, speech and good fellowship predominated. The beautiful gowns of the ladies—but why mention their beautiful gowns? The intellectual qualifications of these women were given free vent. The building of a race is the work of such women. Mrs. Daisy Thompson's address on "Our Coming Club Women," was a beautiful and true vision of what is to be. Mrs. Ollie Redd addressed the club women of today; her theme, "Co-operate to Make Club Life What It Should be," and Mrs. Redd is the one lady who can make one understand the benefits of co-operation. Mrs. Mary Baker's address to "Our Absent Friends," was overflowing with love and pathos. Mrs. De Marge Toliver's address, "The Past Officers and Members of the Searchlight Club," follows: The Past Officers and Members of the Women's Searchlight Club, Cheyenne "By their works we shall know them." I can truthfully say, ladies, it is with much pleasure I will endeavor to tell of our former officers and members of the Searchlight Club. After being a member of one of the best clubs in the jurisdiction of Colorado over eighteen years, I cannot help knowing something of the personal of officers and members who filled their places with dignity and intelligence, women who came to the Golden West to cast their lot for the good of the community they selected to help build. I know they filled their places as only good women can. Our past officers and members were true wives, mothers, Christians, citizens. They were true club women whose interest in the work meant success from start to finish. These women made it their aim to ever be up and doing for everything of interest for all concerned. When the officers and members of the past met, happiness and peace prevailed; each and every one was anxiously waiting to do their part and be a part of what is now a passed history of this grand club of women, who little dreamed of the pleasure we are enjoying today because of their foresighted view of the S. L. C. future. You that may be spared another eighteen years, what will be your part to tell of your faithfulness, co-operation and good will that has existed among you? Will you look back the same number of years and tell some of the good you have accomplished, or will it be otherwise? I hope you can boast of more success, for instance, a club home, orphanage and a home for homeless girls, boys, old men and women, and other things worth while. Our passed officers and members paused not to parley over petty grievances as so many great and good problems were ever before if not work on the outside of our club. A first-class study of some good history, bible or play Authors worth while every woman worked hard to be at her best, and could be depended on. The past officers and members were women of broad mindedness, each one strived to bring their broad club spirit to each and every one with whom they came in contact. The past officers and members success was due to the intelligence of harmony, the good there was in each other. I wish I could bring those who have passed before you and convince you of their good for all, malace toward none and charity to all. While some have passed to the east, others north, south or west, their work with us still lives. We pause a moment to speak of some of our beloved ones who finished their life's work with us after years of faithful service, doing their best to make the S. L. C. what they wished it to be, they joined the unbroken circle of rest and peace. We who form the membership of the S. L. C. today should strive to follow the footsteps of our past officers and members, not only to live in the world on high, but live in this life to leave behind us the immortality of influence. "And by your works ye shall be known." Rev. I, N. Whitten and Rev. C. A. Miller of Denver, Colo., two good young men and excellent preachers of the gospel, are closing one of the greatest revivals we have had since Rev. Allen labored with us. These young men can surely preach the word our Lord sent them to preach. Wonderful young men and intelligent ministers. We would like to have them remain with us. There is work to be done—much work. On Sunday evening all available space was taken in the Baptist church when Rev. Whitten accepted for his text Luke XVI: 23. His subject was "The Possibility of a Hell." He must have proved it beyond a reasonable doubt from the manner in which the lost sheep returned to the fold. Rev. Whitten brought back "ninety and nine," and now it is up to Rev. Miller to bring in that one poor lost sheep, "If I were you, I would stop right here and pray." Frontier Lodge No. 285, I. B. P. O. E. W., gave another one of their excellent entertainments at the Coliseum on Thursday evening, March 27th. The Elks sermon will be preached at Allen Chapel on Sunday, April 10th. Sergeant W. S. Jones is slowly recovering from a serious illness. Mrs. Wm. Witt has returned from Brazil, Ind., where she called on account of the death of her sister. Mrs. Peggy Anderson entertained a party of select friends on Thursday evening, March 27th. Rev. I. N. Whitten was the honored guest. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Moss have returned from a brief pleasure trip to Omaha. Mrs. Hannah Mitchell mother of Mrs. Frank Gaskins, is ill. Mrs. Frank McCombs is a visitor in Cheyenne. Mrs. J. E. Brown is ill. Mr. Walter Lofton is convalescent at St. John's hospital. Mr. J. D. Bowen of Lincoln, who has been at the bedside of Mrs. Bowen, has returned to Lincoln. Mrs. Bowen has improved. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Pennison reside at 2112 Snyder. Messrs' James Randle and Joe Baker have returned to their positions at the Union Pacific. The boys had a nice vacation and a much needed rest. ONE MAN ROUTS GANG OF WOULD-BE MOBBERS ONE MAN ROUTS GANG OF WOULD-BE MOBBERS Wilson, N. C.—A race rlot was narrowly averted here on Saturday evening, March 19th, because of a gross insult by two white clerks in a store to two young colored school teachers. The young ladies resented the insult and when the white perverts threatened to slap their faces, a young colored man who happened to enter the store just at that time, came to their defense. This manly action naturally incensed the white braves and they quickly called a number of their ilk to assist in punishing the "impudent" Negro. The colored man, Mr. Bowser, who is in business here, proved to be very much of a man. Singlehanded, he defended himself against the impromptu mob, and after flooring four of them, made his escape without other injury than a coat considerably cut up in the back. The young ladies, Miss Burns and Miss Izell, had, in the meantime gotten safely out of the store. Further trouble was prevented by prompt action among the cooler headed citizens, which kept the races to their own territory. As a result of this incident, however, Gay Bros., proprietors of the store, one of the largest in this community, are apt to lose the major portion of their Negro trade, as a general boycott is proposed against the two clerks. Wilson has thus far escaped race trouble and it is hoped that this episode will be the last of its kind. RACENEWS Gathered From Various Sources Wilmington, Del., March 24.—Dr Henry Clay Stevens has been appointed one of the city's vaccine physicians at large. He is the first Negro to receive this signal honor in the state of Delaware. His appointment was procured through the efforts of Councilman Dr. John O. Hopkins. The colored people of the city are much pleased over the appointment. THREE ARE INJURED AS BOMB WRECKS RICH NEGRO'S HOME Chicago, April 5.—Two Negro women and a Negro man were injured Monday night when the home of Oscar De Priest, former Negro alderman of Chicago, was wrecked by a bomb. De Priest is a wealthy Negro, owning real estate on Chicago's South Side. He recently bought a house in a white neighborhood and rented it to Negroes. The authorities believe his home was bombed in retaliation. SAYS "NOT GUILTY" NEAR DEAD BODY AT CEMETERY. Erie, Pa., April 1.—In an effort to wring a confession from Eddie Williams and Fred Maxwell, held in connection with the murder of George Mauer (white), a night watchman, officers took the two men, shackled hand and feet, to the cemetery. With a dim light burning to increase the weirdness of the scene, both men, with one hand in contact with the dead body and the other upraised, swore they knew nothing of the murder of the aged watchman. The time of the visit was midnight. Rain fell on the roof of the vault, and lightning flashed as the two men swore they were innocent. A coroner's jury found Williams and Maxwell responsible for Mauer's death. N. A. A. C. P. INAUGURATES DRIVE WITH CHURCH DAY ON APRIL 24. The National Association for the Advancement of Colorado People, 70 Fifth avenue, New York, today announced that April 24 had been designated as the opening day of its drive for a quarter of a million members, and that the day would be signalized by special church services throughout the country. Colored ministers in all parts of the United States have been asked to preach sermons on the subject: "Justice to the Negro—the Test of Christianity in America." A syllabus containing information upon which the sermons may be based has been distributed broadcast to colored ministers. Special prayers will be held in many of the churches. Colored ministers who desire copies of the syllabus for the sermon are invited to communicate with the national office of the N. A. A. C. P. at 70 Fifth avenue, New York. THE MOTON INTERPRETATION. The address delivered by Dr. Robert R. Moton last night could produce no other than a salutory effect. En- NO26 devenoring to interpret some of the things which the white and colored people, respectively, keep "in the back of their heads," the Tuskegee principal spoke with refreshing frankness. His directness, his simplicity, his honesty and earnestness are at once disarming and strongly persuasive. He is immediately revealed as a man who loves mankind, whose outlook is that of a clear-eyed Christian. The widespread adoption of the Moton methods would soon clarify the atmosphere of racial relations. His method is that of unreserved frankness and unlimited charity. Nothing is to be gained by a policy of concealment; no adjustment of the race problem will ever be made while there is a lack of understanding, or while a spirit of sympathy is excluded from our councils on racial relations. The Wilmington (N. C.) Morning Star, Saturday, March 19, 1921. WHIPPING POST IS REVIVED IN DELAWARE. Wilmington, Dela., March 26.—At Newcastle county workhouse today, four colored men felt the sting of the Delaware whipping post law. Those whipped were Worner Lewis, convicted of larceny and sentenced to one year in prison and twenty lashes; Leonard Barrett, highway robbery, ten years and forty lashes, and John Richardson and Horace Archie, highway robbery, ten years and forty lashes each. This total of 140 lashes was the largest imposed at the whipping post in this county for many years. The whippings were administered by Warden Plummer of the workhouse, and the lashes were applied lightly as a vigorous application of the nine-thonged "cat" would cut a man's back into ribbons in the administration of a dozen or more blows. The backs of the victims were marked with discoloration as the result of the flagellation, but only by an occasional flinching did they give evidence of physical suffering. The whippings were wittedness by about 100 people. PRESIDENT OF LIBERIA ATTENDS PERFORMANCE OF BROADWAY RASTUS AT HOWARD THEATER. Washington, D. C.—(Special.)—On Tuesday night, March 22nd, while Broadway Rastus was playing the Howard Theater, Washington, D. C., the president of Liberia attended the performance. During the action of the play, Irvin C. Miller stepped to the edge of the stage and made a speech in which he called the attention of the audience to the presence of the president and thanked him for the honor of his presence. President King arose in his box and bowed in acknowledgment of the applause that greeted the conclusion of Mr. Miller's remarks, and after the show came back on the stage and personally congratulated Mr. Miller upon the excellence of the performance. He said that he had attended theaters in France, Germany and England and enjoyed Broadway Rastus as much as any show that he had ever visited. FOREIGN Newspapers of Vienna appear to be certain that the episode resulting from the attempt of former Emperor Charles to re-establish himself as king of Hungary is ended. The Greeks have been defeated by the Turks in the battle at Eski-Shehr, says a communication issued by the headwaters of Mustapha Kemal Pasha, Turkish Nationalist leader. Fifteen thousand were rendered homeless in Manila in a fire, the most destructive in more than twenty years, which destroyed 3,000 homes in the northern section of the city, a native quarter known as the San Lazara district. Measures are being taken by the Russian soviet government to allow foreign owners of manufactories in Russia to exploit their properties under a regime similar to that established for the mines, it was announced in a wireless message from Moscow sent out by the soviet government's service. The volcano of Popocatepetl is in action again. A message received at Verna Cruz says thousands of inhabitants of the surrounding area have left. Columns of gas and sulphurous smoke are shooting skyward to a height of more than 3,000 meters. Streets in three nearby towns are covered with hot lava. France has lost approximately 5.7 of her population since the 1911 census, according to the early returns of the 1921 census. In a fourth of the population area, including Paris and eighteen departments, three departments showed a total gain of 40,000, while fifteen departments lost 617,000. Paris was found to be almost stationary. Prince Andreas of Greece, brother of King Constantine, has died from wounds received in fighting near Brusa, says a Constantinople dispatch, quoting a Turkish announcement. The Turks also assert that General Vlachapoulos, who was in command of the Greek attack against the Turkish Nationalists on the Brusa front, has been killed in action. Despite the new trade agreement between Great Britain and soviet Russia, the large portion of the extremely small amount of goods entering Russia through Esthonia continues to be of American origin. One freighter in Reval has just unloaded 100,000 pairs of American shoes and a quantity of leather for shipment into Russia, while another American steamer similarly laden has just arrived there. GENERAL Married in 1869, separated in 1874, seeking divorce in 1921 is the tragic record of John Mentzer's marriage to Elizabeth F. Mentzer. The case came up for trial in the Superior Court at Marion, Ind. Emphatic denial was made at the offices of the United States Steel Corporation in New York of published stories that wage reductions of 20 per cent and cuts in prices of iron and steel products were contemplated by the company. No policy on these questions has been adopted, it was declared. Three hundred breweries are clamoring for permits to brew "medicinal" beer under the recent ruling of the Department of Justice, according to Federal Prohibition Commissioner Kramer, "One or two breweries could manufacture enough beer to meet the legitimate medicinal needs of the entire United States," Kramer said. A world's record for speedy construction is claimed for the tanker Agiwhavre, built for the Atlantic, Gulf & West Indies Transportation Company and launched at Philadelphia at the Sun shipbuilding yard at Chester-on-the-Delaware. The vessel, 12,940 deadweight tons and 485 feet long between perpendiculars, was built in ninety-seven working days, which the company says is a record for the size of the ship. Gen. J, J. Pershing, in addressing a mass meeting in New York, to arouse public sentiment for betterment of hospital conditions for wounded soldiers, declared existing organizations for the care of wounded veterans have failed in their purpose. Coal operators of Springfield, Ill., explained that a reduction of 50 cents a ton in coal is made at this time to allow plants and individual consumers to replenish their stock for next winter and to aid in the movement of cars now standing idle on railroad tracks. Practically all operators reduced their prices. Erwin Bergdoll, wealthy Philadelphia draft dodger, must serve the remainder of his four years in Leavenworth prison for evading the draft, according to a decision handed down by Federal Judge John C. Pollock at Kansas City. Judge Pollock denied a writ of habeas corpus applied for by attorneys for Bergdoll. The Philadelphiaian contended he had not been technically advised that he was drafted. Judge Pollock waived aside all objections to the manner of notification. Bergdoll is now in jail at Leavenworth. Everett Harding's attempt to climb the family tree of President Harding ended disastrously and brought him to a cell in Chicago where he is being held on a charge of impersonating a government officer. Harding, who is 26 years old, claims to be a cousin of the President. Enforcement of Sunday blue laws in South Dakota, originally planned as a state-wide effort under direction of the state's attorney general, will be carried out on sole responsibility of the various county attorneys, Attorney General Payne declared at Pierre, S. D. NEWS TO DATE IN PARAGRAPHS CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF WIRES ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD. DURING THE PAST WEEK RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS CONDENSED FOR BUSY PEOPLE. (Western Newspaper Union News Service.) WESTERN Edwin Anderson of Chicago, arrested at San Bernardino, Calif., on a charge of having embezzled $29,000 in Liberty bonds and currency from Earl L. Hart, for whom he acted as sales manager, was sent back to Chicago with his wife, without any guard, it was announced by E. D. Deliss, chief of police. Death losses from the sinking of the steamship Governor off Point Wilson, near Seattle were reduced to nine when an error in the list of survivors was cleared up by the discovery that the name Alfred Kasenu, Los Angeles, reported missing, should have been Alvard Risean, Spokane, Wash., who was saved. The Lafayette, the tallest tree in the Calaveras grove of big trees, eighty-five miles east of Stockton, Cal., has been blown down. The tree was 300 feet tall, and had a diameter of thirty feet at the base. A forest ranger, who reported the tree had fallen, said that in February the hotel at the grove was shaken as if by an earthquake, and that soon as the snow receded he found the tree prostrate. City, county and federal officials have worked without success in attempts to find two men, believed to be Mexicans who, according to Postmaster L. R. Bailey, forced him, at the point of guns, to open the safe in the Bisbee, Ariz., postoffice and turn over to them a package containing about $40,000 in currency and several thousand dollars in postoffice funds. Bailey is confined to his home, suffering from minor injuries caused by having been bound and gagged. A recheck of votes cast in the municipal election showed Pomona, Calif., went "blue" by fifty-three votes. The vote on the ordinance providing all places of amusement where admission is charged should be closed on Sunday was 2,079 for and 2,026 against. Motion picture interests announced they will test the validity of the ordinance and if it is held valid they will keep the thenters closed every day. The contest was the closest and most bitter ever held here. Ministerial forces favored the measure. WASHINGTON The American army of occupation in Germany will not be reduced in size before July 1, 1921, the War Department has announced. The United States has addressed a new note to Japan on the Yap controversy and the subject of mandates in general, which is understood to be much sharper in tone than any of its predecessors. Farmers and small merchants making sales of less than $4,000 would not be subject to the provisions of proposed sales or "consumption taxes" by the terms of Senator Smoot's tax revision bill, now before Secretary of the Treasury Mellon for approval. Secretary Mellon said that he is giving much study to this particular clause of the Smoot bill, though he was not ready to say that he will approve it as it is now tentatively drafted. The United States has informed Germany that this government still stands with the allies with regard to the payment of reparations, the State Department has announced. The condition of cereal crops in the northern hemisphere was described as "generally favorable" by the Department of Agriculture's bureau of crops in a summary of foreign crop prospects. The mild winter in almost all the reporting countries was held to have been an important factor in the crop situation. The bureau said that although several reports had been received as to Russian crops, nothing reliable had come through. More than 300,000 unemployed will find work during the next year on road building projects already approved and Congress makes an additional appropriation of $100,000,000 as federal aid in highway improvement, officials of the Department of Agriculture have estimated. The grand total cost of road-building projects that have been approved and are awaiting completion is $622,000,000. Between 20,000 and 25,000 miles of road can be built, if all the money is expended. Special safeguards around shipments of currency, worked out during the "crime wave" by a committee of two inspectors and one representative of the Postoffice Department, are in effect, it was announced at a conference in Washington between Postmaster General Hays and postmasters from eleven of the larger cities. Inspectors working under the Postoffice Department, and in addition to the regular force, are charged with the safety of all cash shipments, it was said, and generally the plan was proved a success Pithy News Notes From All Parts of Colorado (Western Newspaper Union News Service.) A blaze swept the Denver shale brickyards at Swadley, a mile and a quarter northwest of Arvada, causing damage estimated at $15,600. George A. Flannigan, for the past four years secretary of the Colorado Utilities Commission, has submitted his resignation, to become effective April 6. Henry C. Watson, the man who made the Greeley potato famous throughout the United States, died at Long Beach, Calif., from heart trouble, according to word received in Greeley. Plans have been drawn at a meeting of the Rocky Mountain Radio Association for the establishment in Denver of one of the largest amateur wireless telephone stations west of the Mississippi. School expenses in Colorado have increased about $3,500,000 in the last two years, according to figures made public by the State Immigration Department. The statistics are compiled from records of the state superintendent of schools. Although the monthly production of oil remained unchanged in the Colorado fields during February, there was an increase of thirty-one barrels in the daily average output compared with January, the variance being due to the difference in the length of the months. As the result of an agreement between the Republicans and Democrats, Golden will not hold an election this spring and thereby save approximately $1,000. The plan is to let the present City Council hold over and to receive resignations to those aldermen who do not desire to hold their office longer. Two additional air mail routes out of Salt Lake City, one to Los Angeles and another to Denver, are contemplated by the government, according to Col. John A. Jordon, superintendent of the western division of the United States air mail service. He said that the two routes may be established early this summer. The Leadville Chamber of Commerce has recently issued a folder describing and illustrating the charms and advantages of Leadville, "City of romance and beauty at the crest of the continent." The illustrations are artistic and a map showing the mining and scenic region adjacent to Leadville adds to the value of the folder. Denver will bloom with poppies May 30 when as a reminder of the war sacrifices 40,000 French poppy blossoms will be distributed on the streets. More than 100 Colorado American Legion posts including the Denver units, launched a campaign that will terminate on Memorial day with the wearing by every American of a French poppy. Six business houses were burglarized in Kersey, near Greeley. The thieves then stole a Union Pacific hand car and made their escape on it. The safe of the Boise-Payette Lumber Company was opened and $45 taken. Efforts to break the safes of the Kersey Lumber Company and Tom L. Schank's seed mill were unsuccessful. Fifty dollars was taken from the cash register in the E. A. Collins meat market. Nicolas Lopaz, a Filipino cook, who is charged with stabbing Mrs. E. E. Watton, wife of the president of the United Oil Company, and Mrs. Gus Lorentz at Pine, Colo., a summer resort, has been captured and lodged in the San Miguel county jail in Telluride. Lopaz, according to Sheriff Gary Kerr of Golden, jumped $1,000 bond, which was signed by W. H. Ellis of Edgewater, Colo. Donald Coleburn, a 10-year-old boy of Wiley, was badly burned when a kite string which in this case was a fine copper wire, struck a highly charged electric wire. The heavy electric wire carried 2,500 volts, which was transmitted to the boy's body, knocking him unconscious. One divorce to 8.63 marriages is Colorado's record. This state ranks twenty-third in the Union in the number of divorces in proportion to marriages, says an announcement by the International Reform Bureau. In other words, though there are nearly one-eighth as many divorces as marriages in the Centennial state twenty-two other states have proportionately more legal separations. The federal census bureau has placed an average of $31.22 on farm lands in Colorado. This is nearly twice the figure fixed by the county assessors, which was $16.45 in 1920. An increase of 10,000,000 acres of farm land in the state is shown by the report. The average increase in value has been $5.21 an acre. Nearly 28,000,000 acres of farm land is reported by the county assessors' tax rolls. W. S. Melvin, owner of the Colorado theater at Alamosa, was assaulted by an unidentified man within a few yards of his home. The assailant beat him over the head with an iron bar and then fired two shots which did not take effect. His condition is reported to be serious. The prevention of forest fires in Colorado, by the use of special spark arresters on mountain locomotives, will be investigated in Denver by a government expert, connected with the United States forestry service, according to an announcement. Road projects for Colorado aggregating $253,344 were submitted to the federal public roads bureau by the State Highway Commission, of which $124,976.46 will be paid by the government if approval is made by District Engineer J. S. Bright. One and three-tenths miles of concrete road between Fort Collins and Loveland constitutes one of the projects, to cost $54,003.21. One and one-tenths miles in Boulder county, running south from Longmont, will cost $47,381.07, the road also to be of concrete; while a third concrete road project embraces four and four-tenths miles between Brighton and Denver, in Adams county, the estimated cost of which is $151,959.72. Richard Winnerah, a 12-year-old schoolboy of Ouray county, is the champion talker of Colorado. He was awarded first prize in the annual oratorical contest conducted by the Colorado Association of County Superintendents and Institute Workers at Corona school in Denver. Eighth grade pupils from every county in the state competed. At the same time Mildred Akey, pretty little 13-year-old miss of Wray, Colo., was declared the champion eighth grade word speller of the state. Pahaske teepe, the building which is to house the Buffalo Bill museum on Lookout mountain near Colonel Cody's grave, is rapidly nearing completion and it is expected it will be thrown open to tourists by June 1. The city of Denver is erecting the building in conjunction with Buffalo Bill's foster son, Johnny Baker, who has been granted the concession, and will conduct a first-class restaurant and pavilion in the building for the convenience of tourists. George C. Willard, recently sentenced to serve eighteen to nineteen months in the penitentiary, after being convicted of bribery, will not have to serve this sentence unless the appeal which will be taken to the Supreme Court reverses Judge T. J. Black, who ruled that Willard had been erroneously convicted. The peculiar quirk of the law has caused consternation in Grand Junction. Permission to continue the tri-weekly passenger service on the Denver & Salt Lake railroad till May 1 has been granted by the Colorado Utilities Service. The order was issued on application of Receiver W. R. Freeman, who declared that the passenger traffic was insufficient to warrant the resumption of daily passenger service at this time. The state tax of 1 cent a gallon on gasoline and oils has been declared constitutional in a decision rendered by Judge Charles C. Butler of the District Court at Denver. The validity of the tax has been in issue for several months. A number of oil companies have paid the tax into the state treasury, others have resisted payment. William W. Prantz, former convict at the Colorado penitentiary, is in jail in Littleton, charged with the robbery of the Strasburg bank and the depot at Byers. Both crimes were committed last month. When arrested several railroad tickets, said to have been stolen from the depot at Byers, were found on Prantz. The work of the convict road gang which was recently sent to Montrose county from the state penitentiary has proved so satisfactory that the county commissioners have contracted to use approximately thirty more men when the construction camp is moved to Cerro Summit, where extensive road work is being planned. Hysterically accusing them of breaking up her home, Mrs. John Haner, 36 years old, wife of a homesteader and mother of seven children, residing four miles south of Center, Colo., shot and instantly killed N. H. Relaford and Frank F. Schmid. She fired five shots at Relaford and three at Schmid, all taking effect. Fred Maddocks, son of C. E. Maddocks, former Colorado Springs contractor, and Frank Peterson, both Simla high school students, have confessed to rifling postoffice mail sacks of registered mail and of robbing the postoffice itself at Simla of sums which total $3,000, police say at Colorado Springs. All along the Grand river and the Gunnison river farmers are busy riprapping the banks of the river to repair places damaged by high waters last spring when the floods from the hills broke all records and did half a million damage in western Colorado. Model reservoir has yielded up the bodies of two of four Berwind youths who were drowned while boating on the lake March 19. Search which has gone on unremittingly, was rewarded when drag hooks lowered from a raft brought up the bodies. George M. Taylor, receiver for the Cripple Creek Short Line railroad, has announced that the line will not operate during the tourist season of 1921. The line operated to a half-way point last summer, but the plan was not a financial success. Plans are on foot for a Tri-County fair to be held in Overland park, Denver, from Aug. 14 to Aug. 21; a regular old county fair, a "gold week," with sports of all kinds—harness and running races, ball games, tugs of war, pitching horseshoes, cowboy riding, roping of cattle and Indians from the reservations showing their mode of living. Walter Bakeneier was suffocated in a cave-in of ore in the bins of the loading station at the Bullion tunnel workings of the Smuggler-Union Mining Company near Telluride. ```markdown ``` THE 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. 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If you want good work at prices that are right, get your job printing At This Office --- Today's Geography Little Journeys to Places Figuring in World Events Prepared by The National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., for Department of Interior, Bureau of Education. CENTER OF ITALY'S SOCIAL EARTHQUAKE ZONE Milan, chief city of the Lombardy Piedmont region of Italy, where workers seized factories several months ago, and where much unrest has been manifested since, has frankly considered itself for long years the virtual capital—the "capitale morale"—of the country. In the recent industrial troubles factories are reported to have been seized by workmen in practically all parts of Italy; but it was in Lombardy and Piedmont, the territorial division lying farthest north and farthest northwest in the peninsula—the seats of the important Italian metal industries—that the seizures were most numerous. In those regions, in turn, the movement was most pronounced in and about Turin, the principal city of the Piedmont, and the Detroit of Italy; and in Milan, metropolis of the north, and Italy's Fall River, Philadelphia and Schenectady rolled into one. Lombardy and the Piedmont comprise the plains of the upper reaches of the great Po valley, the Alpine foothills, and the southern and eastern slopes of a large part of the Alps themselves. Milan, on a fertile plain near the southern ends of some of the most important of the Alpine passes, was a town of considerable importance even in the dim historic days of 222 B. C., when it was captured by the Romans. It was then, as it is today, second city in point of population in Italy. Milan early earned a position of leadership among surrounding cities, a leadership, however, which did not go unchallenged. The city has been destroyed many times, once by a league of neighboring towns, and at other times by alien conquerors. After each destruction it has sprung up on a seemingly firmer foundation to achieve greater popularity and a more far-reaching influence. Apart from any reputation Milan may have gained as an index to industrial unrest, it is a leader among Italian cities in other respects. Indeed, the Milanese insist that their city, their "capitale morale," is the very heart and head of Italy's modern life and activity—"first in industry, first in municipal progress, first in political importance." The industrial plants of modern Milan have fairly burst the confines of the old city and many are to be found in numerous populous suburbs that have sprung up, especially since 1895. The population now numbers close to three-quarters of a million. It is exceeded only slightly, if at all, by that of Naples, and is considered in excess of that of Rome. TIENTSIN, PANORAMA CITY Tlentsin, in the northeastern edge of the terrible Chinese famine area, in which millions of people are starving to death, is like a necklace of towns strung together. To walk about Tlentsin is to travel. An afternoon's stroll from the native to the British, French, Italian, Russian and other foreign quarters, gives the sensation of a magic tour through Peking, London, Paris, Rome and Petrograd. And the windmills among the salt mounds just outside the city add a touch of Holland. This panorama city has had a tempestuous history. There a group of American and other foreign residents—Herbert C. Hoover among them—defended themselves for a month against the fauntic Boxers in 1900. Since then the native city has been known as Cheng-li, or "Town without Walls," because the ancient barriers were demolished during the siege. Of the 500 doughty foreigners more than fifty were killed and many others wounded before military aid came. Tientsin was the scene of another famous siege, that of the Talping rebels in 1853. Followers of Hung Sin Tsuan, who had professed Christianity and set himself up in Nanking as the "Heavenly King," marched toward Peking. But the Waterloo of the "long haired rebels," so-called because they could not plait their queues and thus signify loyalty to the Manchus, came at Tientsin. The success of the campaign against the revolutionists was due principally to the gallant "Chinese Gordon." Gen. Charles George Gordon, and his "Ever-Victorious Army." Commanding the native force at Tientsin was Seng-ko-lin-sin, a Mongol general, who later distinguished himself less creditably. In 1860 he sought to defend Tientsin against a foreign expedition by erecting an immense mud rampart outside the city. Tientsin was captured and held for two years by the British and French, and the crude defense is known in the foreign quarters as "Seng-ko-lin-sin's folly." The region about Tientsin was known as Chi-chou under the Hsia dynasty, whose rulers, 4,000 years ago, already had court astronomers who could predict eclipses. Later it was called Ya-chou, in the Chou dynasty, marked by the western wars waged by Mu-Wang against the "Dog Barbarians," thought to have been ancestors of the Huns. Tientsin dates back at least to the fourteenth century. The salt industry in the neighborhood of Tientsin is prodigious. Windmills are used to pump salt water into the fields along the Hallo river, where the widely known Chang-lu salt is made. Before the war nearly 20,000 tons were produced annually. But Tientsin is important commercially in many respects. It is a rice market, and Siberia's tea formerly was shipped through there. Exports were as varied as the needs of the dozen or so nations which had separate settlements along five miles of the river front, and its imports were as diverse as the commodities those nations had to exchange. The Pelho and Hunho rivers converge at Tientsin. From the latter to the Yangtsze-Klang extends the Grand canal, that remarkable specimen of ancient engineering, mentioned by Confucius, which originally was more than 1,000 miles long. Tientsin has more people than Boston. It is the principal city of Chihli, and is 86 miles southeast of Peking by rail. ONE OF GERMANY'S LOST TERRITORIES The former German Samoan islands constitute one of the important groups of Pacific islands that have fallen to the lot of Great Britain, through New Zealand, as a result of the World war. The Samoan group, called by former geographers "The Navigators' Islands," from the skill in navigation shown by its inhabitants, consists of four principal bits of land lying in the South Pacific, nearly midway between New Zealand and Hawaii. The number of islands in the group may, by counting the smaller, be increased to 11, or even 14, but only Savil, Upolu, Tutulla, (owned by the United States) and the three usually included under the general term Manua, are important. All are verdure-clad and inhabited, and in appearance and shape resemble immense green hats, the interior representing the crown being mountainous, while the brim or shore is covered with coconut palms, breadfruit, banana and other tropical trees, which furnish the native food. At some prehistoric period the peaks of a submerged mountain chain running northeast and southwest have been lifted from the depths of the ocean by the upheaval of volcanoes now long extinct. Accumulations of soil brought by heavy rains from the mountains meet the ever-growing reef, which prevents easy approach to the land except in those places where fresh-water streams, forcing their way through, form openings in the coral barrter. Between reef and shore a lagoon, varying in width from 200 yards to two or three miles, provides a secure highway for coast and inter-island traffic. The entire length of the group, if Rose island be included, is little less than 300 miles, and the gross area of the islands is larger than the state of Rhode Island by 50 square miles. The native inhabitants of the islands are of Polynesian stock and are clearly related to the natives of both Hawaii and New Zealand. For practical purposes these natives may be divided into four classes. At the head stand the chiefs, who are hereditary in the sense that they must belong to certain families, but elective in that they exercise authority by virtue of titles conferred on them. The Tulafale, talking-man, is their executive officer, who phrases their thoughts in eloquent language, and is frequently the central figure in the district and the source of authority. Below him and above the lowest class, composed of what are known as the "common people," are the native teachers and catechists, who wear more clothes and do less fighting than the rest of the population. There is nothing in the dress or bearing of a high chief which enables a foreigner to distinguish him, but he is isolated from the rest of the people by a system of rigid etiquette. No one may hold up an umbrella or do certain kinds of work in his presence, and a special vocabulary is set apart in which to address him. The common names for food, an axe, a plig, etc., are tabooed in his presence. His face, his anger and other attributes are described in an entirely different set of words from those used for ordinary men. The powers and duties of the "talking men" are considerable. They are men of much dignity of carriage, and as they stand leaning upon a staff of office with a "fue," or fly-flap cast over one shoulder, with which occasionally to emphasize their remarks, they compare favorably in appearance with the orators of a nation more civilized than themselves. MARSHALL ISLANDS: NEW IAPANESE TERRITORY The Marshall islands, one of the Pacific archipelagoes formerly owned by Germany, and over which Japan has been given a mandate by the League of Nations, practically form a barrier between the Hawaiian islands, on the east, and Guam and the Philippines to the west. The two chains of curiously shaped atolls, or coral islands consisting of low-lying coral reefs encircling lagoons, known as the Marshall group, lie a little south of the center of an imaginary line connecting Hawaii, Guam and the Philippines. triangle of trade routes, with its sides not penetrated by important steamship lines. Within this isolated Pacific triangle are the Marshall islands. Before the war Sydney was reached by steamer, a voyage of more than 3,000 miles. The only other method of egress was a steamer to Ponape which connected with a French line to Singapore. Like two loosely strung chains of jewels, the islands stretch from northwest to southeast, each with its lagoon setting encased by a strangely shaped circlet of coral, some like triangles, harps and stirrups, and one outlining a bull's head with its horns. Straight haired, dark brown natives, still preserving the religious significance of tattoo and taboo, are to be found. Once a sturdy, reliant, seafaring people, for they were the best mariners in the Pacific, the white man's coming, as in the case of his advent among the Eskimo and the Indian, did not seem wholly beneficial. In teaching them ways to live more easily civilization robbed them of that boldness and adventure which made them the hardlest of the Micronesian peoples. Many of the young died of tuberculosis. Skillful and fearless navigators, the natives used bread-tree wood to make sailing canoes in which they would voyage for months. They devised charts, made of sticks, showing the locations of islands and the directions of prevailing winds. Ancestor worship was their predomnant religious sentiment. With petitions and gifts they worshiped the departed whose spirits were supposed to return to earth in certain palm trees which they set off in stone enclosures. Birds and fishes sometimes embodied these spirits, they believed, and thus certain species became taboo. Homes of the natives were not pretentious. Floors were raised above the ground to escape the rats, and thatched roofs covered the combination house and storage room. The two island groups are known as the Ratak and Ralik chains. Their entire area is not more than 160 square miles; their native population before the war was 15,000, with fewer than 300 foreigners. The seat of German government was on Jaluit and the most populous island is Majeru, with but 1,000 persons. Other explorers had touched at the islands but they, with the Gilbert group, took their names from Captains Marshall and Gilbert who explored them in 1788. The Germans annexed the islands in 1886. FORMER AUSTRIAN NAVAL BASE NOW ITALIAN STRONGHOLD Pola, formerly important to Austria as its naval base, now is equally important to Italy, for a different reason. A glance at a map of the Adriatic will show that the possession of Pola, and the recent acquisition of the island of Cherso, by the terms of the Rapallo agreement, give Italy control of the water route to Flume. Situated near the extremity of the Istrian peninsula, 85 miles by rail southwest of Trieste, Pola's sole important activity before the war was connected with the repalring, provisioning and harboring of the Austrian naval forces. The town is virtually without industrial establishments or manufactures. In 1900 the population of Pola was about what it had been eighteen centuries before under the rule of Roman emperors. During the succeeding ten years, however, it grew from 45,000 to 70,000. The practically land-locked harbor is divided, the upper or northern half being the commercial roadstead, and the lower half (below the chain bridge which connects Scoglio Olivi, or Olive island, with the mainland) being the Porto Milltare, with the extensive marine arsenal on the southeastern shore. The city itself clusters around a castle-crowned hill which was once the site of the Roman capitol. The castle is a memento of the days of Venetian powess. Its settlement is attributed to the Colchians who pursued Jason and his argonauts. Pola's splendid harbor became a Roman possession in 178 B. C., but Julius Caesar destroyed it for having espoused the cause of Pompey. Some years later it was rebuilt by the Emperor Augustus at the instance, according to Pliny, of his beloved daughter Julia. The most impressive ruin in Pola is the vast amphitheater, erected at the beginning of the Christian era in honor of the emperors, Septimius Severus and Caracalla. This is believed to be the only Roman amphitheater whose outer walls have withstood the ravages of time and of man. The interior, however, is badly dismantled and the foundation walls at one end, centuries ago, were extensively quarried by the Venetians who desired the white Istrian limestone for the erection of their own palaces. About the middle of the 12th century Pola became a Venetian city. In the destructive wars, which resulted from the rivalry between Venice and Genoa to control the commerce of the world two centuries later, this port across the Adriatic from its parent republic suffered often and grievously. It was completely destroyed in 1379, and for nearly four and a half centuries it lay dormant. It passed to Austria at the end of the Napoleonic wars, however, and its modern growth dates from 1848, when it was selected as an Austrian naval base. Pola lies almost due east of Venice, a distance of 75 miles across the Adriatic. Wholesale and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries Fish and Oysters Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty Fresh and Cured Eastern Corn-Fed Meats Fruits, Vegetables, Poultry and Game The Curtis Park Floral Company FLORAL DESIGNS PUT UP WHILE YOU WAIT CHOICE PLANTS AND CUT FLOWERS CONSTANTLY ON HAND GREENHOUSES: Thirty-Fourth and Curtis Streets TELEPHONE, MAIN 1811 DENVER, COLO THE CHAMPA PHARMACY TWENTIETH AND CHAMPA, Is the place to get your DRUGS, CHEMICALS AND PATENT MEDICINES WE SERVE DRINKS. PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY. Phone us and we will deliver the goods to all parts of the city. JAMES E. THRALL, Propr. PHONE MAIN 2425. Wholesale and Retail Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Oysters Hotels and Restaurants Our Specialty. 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WE MAKE OLD HATS NEW. laws are broken in community centers, it is the business of the courts or of the Department of Justice to try the individuals who have broken the law. Another statement made in congress was that they did not wish to pay the expenses attendant upon our dancing in our school buildings. Again I ask, granting that we have a moral right to use the school build- ings, is it any of their business what we do in them, whether we listen to Socialist speeches or whether we dance? It was even suggested the other day on the floor of the senate that we should not be allowed to talk poli- tics'in our centers. Isn’t that amazing? Suppose, that we should initinte a nation-wide referendum to make new rules for senate discussions. What an outery there would be. It would not be a lawful procedure, I know, and therefore impossible, but would it not be more logical and reasonable for us to make rules limiting the discussions of those who are accountable to us than that they should make rules for our meetings? “The community center is the people’s machine. It works in the open. The charges brought against the United States by other peoples are startling. We are charged with being international meddlers. ‘They say that Uncle Sam is a veritable Don Quixote, tilting at every alien wind- mill. ‘The satirical say that the principle of self-determination, if applied to our own country, would disrupt the nation. What about the Filipinos, Negroes and Indians? Again, Europeans say that we want to foist our form of government upon the entire world; that we ignorantly set ourselves up as models of cosmic perfection. ‘They say we are innocent, arrogant, naive and con- ceited. We are charged with being militaristic. It is charged generally throughout the world that the United States is aggressive. We have taken Florida from Spain, the Pacifie: coast and Texas from Mexico. We have annexed Hawaii and the Philippines. We fomented a revolution in Pana- ma for the purpose of taking the territory that we desired. We have as- sumed an overlordship of South America through the Monroe Doctrine. We are charged with being capitalistic. Deals rather than ideals characterize the average American, We wet to war for the benefit of humanity and came out with humanity’s gold. Our Pilgrim Fathers came to this land 300 years ago to get away from too much government, from a government that interfered with reli- gion, education, private business, individual initiative and personal liberty. In recent years this country has moved farther and farther away from the fundamental principles of freedom and liberty until now we are the most rigidly governed people on earth instead of the least governed. Private rights have small place in the United States of America in these modern days. We are supervised, interrogated, inspected, investi- gated, controlled and directed by bureaucratic officials in every depart- ment of private life and business. Largely because of the numerous bu- reaus we are now burdened with such taxes as would have appalled any generation preceding this. \ Tt was bureaucratic, not autocratic oppression and corruption that ruined Russia, and today our own country is rapidly striding with no un- certain steps into the same sort of bureaucratic machine government that Russia had before the revolution there. We must destroy those governmental bureaus, commissions and boards, root and branch, horn and hoof, with their destructive, inquisitorial in- terference. 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Only te and 2¢ stamps taken bine an oskh fOr Shere Ope Beegecc = ee No discounts allowed on Jess than three months’ contract. Gash must ac- company ail orders from parties unknown to'us. Purther particulars on ap- Bileation. Di ae bo S i Communications to receive attention must be newsy, upon important sub- Jects, plainly written only upon one side of the paper, must reach us Tuesdays, If possible, anyway not later than Wednesdays, and bear thé signature of tho author, No manuscript returned, unless stamps are sent for postage. All Communications of a personating nature that are not complimentary will be withheld trom the columns of this paper. THE CLOSING SCENES OF THE COLORADO LEGISLATURE. HE curtain has dropped, and the last scene in the Act of the Twenty- AL; third General Assembly of the State of Colorado is ushered into memory. We have given in former issues sraphic descriptions and detailed accounts of the workings of this august body, and have clearly shown to the people how much can be acomplished by a number of men who resolve in serving a people to the best of their ability, and because they delight to serve will act harmoniously for the welfare of a state. Many bills have been passed which we trust will be beneficial to the com- munity, Appointments haye been made and confirmed, the appointees in their acceptance taking the oath to be true and conscientious in dealing with the people, acting with honor and dignity in their respective positions; the Governor, president of the Senate, speaker of the House, members of both Houses of the Legislature have all worked in session for the good of our state. Will they close their good work, their influence, their help individually and collectively to the people of Colorado, with the close of their session? “‘No!” Big hearts, large minds bent on the advancement of a good cause and the progress of a people CANNOT, MUST NOT, WILL NOT; and therefore the COLORADO STATESMAN, an advocate for JUS- ‘TIC and RIGHT for all citizens irrespective of race, creed or color; an instrument whose years of service to this community have been filled with sacrifice and devotion to the duty of serving others; an agency for amelio- rating the conditions between the races so that we live and move for the welfare of all, comes forward and expresses its gladness that nothing dis- criminating against any class of citizens has been enacted and that such interpretations have been placed upon the laws governing us so that we share the burden alike and participate in the good things equally, We congratulate the Colorado Legislature just prorogued on its very guccessful session. THE NECESSITY FOR ORGANIZING. N OUR review of the progress of individuals, which makes them become f siiccessful race, people and nation, we can arrive at no other conclusion than that this success has its origin in their ability to organize and their adherence to such organizations, hence our taking this opportunity to present to our readers (especially the members of our race) certain information which if acted on now will be advantageous to us in the near future and be handed down to our posterity for their guidance and welfare, ‘The fact cannot be disputed that there are a few persons of the Negro race in this country who by perseverance, backed up by a strong determina- tion to overcome and overthrow anything tending to retard the wheels of progress in their lives, haye achieved and accomplished great things; but we may repeat this question that was asked on an important occasion and at a erucial moment: “What are these among so many?” and although we are witnesses of some miraculous performances in these days, yet we have not the Arch Performer in the flesh to command and compel us to imbibe the get-to-zether spirit and pertain to the habit of closer union with one another. It therefore devolves on us to meet more often, to exchange our ideas fre- quently, and last but not least, form organizations with the glue-like quality In us that will necessarily result in such an adamantine feature that the base- less enemy, prejudice cannot defeat, and then we will reach the goal of success alike uny other people on this earth, enabling us to assist in the dictation of how to govern and be governed. As we travel fn and through this great United States, with its wonderful natural advantages, we seem fo solve the problem of the cause for such an emigration to this country, and we particularly note the way how these emigrants strive to combine their effoMs and consolidate their actions, which make them become wealthy and wise and in the end attain the enviable role of leaders of us, filling the high- est positions in the land politically, financially, socially, ete. We can find them occupying the presidential chair, the houses of our Congress and Senate, classed among the greatest railroad magnates of the world, and in every conceivable form of business they are what is commonly called top- notchers by their prominence. ‘The reason is obvious, as they start early in the way of organizing, they endeavor, even though they might have been unknown to each other in their native homes, to live, act and work together, so that soon after they establish an impenetrable and invinelble foundation which safeguards their superstructure and finally forees recognition of more than ordinary type from our government. What other result can there be put success in the superlative sense of the word, as, unlike us, they start early, do not fight and wrangle within their ranks, but unite with one aim, for one purpose, becoming so impregnable that they secure for themselves and their offspring perpetual privileges, facilities and advantages from our government. Nearly all the wealthy men of this country (excluding the Jegatees) have had thelr experience of poverty's role, and the wonderful re- sults obtained by them through the agency of organization have been de- Gared and demonstrated again and again, Why can’t we measure up? Don't say no; don’t think the Impossible; eliminate the word cant from the dic: tionary of our lives and let us profit by the examples and standards so long established by the dominating factor in this our land of the free and home of the brave. Fellow Negro Republicans, wake up! ‘The party is not dead, so do not lie dormant. Be active now; start the ball off, do not walt for political bosses, and we will soon discover that If we are bent on organizing and adhering faithfully to our organizations there 1s every possibility of our winning the recognition that has long been forfeited us; and as real and true-hearted sons and daughters of this American soil rise and progress In a manner com- mendable to this eleven million portion of the population of this country. Remember the tried and true expression: pime is gliding fast away, Let us act and act TODAY.” Ts It the Business of Congress to Supervise the Social Centers? By MISS MARGARET WILSON, Community Worker a I speak in behalf of community center work. Community workers are impatient with Representa- tive Wood of Indiana for denouncing the centers as “hotbeds of socialism” and the use of school buildings for community dances as a waste of public money. , Is it any of the business of congress to supervise rh the activities or speech of those they represent? One oo reason that was given in the senate for cutting our ae appropriation was that our centers in Washington had an 2 been breeding unrest. I know of nothing that could «*@ uphold that statement, but even granting it, even if ¢ » (~~ DS. acannon eae * y + EE - By FRANK N. BRIGGS, Denver Banker Jur Pilgrim Fathers came to this land 300 years ago to get away too much government, from a government that interfered with reli- education, private business, individual initiative and personal liberty. ent years this country has moved farther and farther away from the mental principles of freedom and liberty until now we are the most y governed people on earth instead of the least governed. rivate rights have small place in the United Stateg of America in modern days. We are supervised, interrogated, inspected, investi- controlled and directed by bureaucratic officials in every depart- of private life and business. Largely because of the numerous bu- we are now burdened with such taxes as would have appalled any ation preceding this. ‘ t was bureaucratic, not autocratic oppression and corruption that 1 Russia, and today our own country is rapidly striding with no un- n steps into the same sort of bureaucratic machine government that, a had before the revolution there. must destroy those governmental bureaus, commissions and boards, ind branch, horn and hoof, with their destructive, inquisitorial in- ence. Americanization Is Retarded by the | Foreign-Language Newspapers 7 By DR. PAUL SHOREY, University of Chicago Foreign-language papers and foreign-language preaching only retard jeanization and promote clannishness. Except for a few gifted in- uals, there is no such thing as bilingual culture. The heart, the un- nding and the loyalty are truly at home in one language only. American schools have hitherto taught too much about American ons and henceforth ought to emphasize the things that unite us. does not mean that they should falsify history, still less that they d foster a temper of provincial pride and contempt for the foreigner. Americans who hope that the new America will remain “E pluribus :” and carry over all that was best in the old, should see to it that chools make fuller and more critical use of the noble American tradi- of rational, sober, statesmanlike and lawyerlike discussion of grave cal preblems. And with it they should encourage the study of ‘the ya po et te. refined. intelligent, if not supremely great, Foreign-language papers and foreign-language preaching only retard Americanization and promote clannishness. Except for a few gifted in- dividuals, there is no such thing as bilingual culture. ‘The heart, the un- derstanding and the loyalty are truly at home in one language only. ‘American schools have hitherto taught too much about American divisions and henceforth ought to emphasize the things that unite us. This does not mean that they should falsify history, still less that they should foster a temper of provincial pride and contempt for the foreigner. Americans who hope that the new America will remain “E pluribus unum” and carry over all that was best in the old, should see to it that our schools make fuller and more critical use of the noble American tradi- tion of rational, sober, statesmanlike and lawyerlike discussion of grave political preblems. And with it they should encourage the study of the selected best in our pure, refined, intelligent, if not supremely great, American classical literature. 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Our prices are lowest. Our location is very convenient. Our salespeople are | courteous. We give service. nn 0 OE OO IO 0 W. K. HUNT CHAMPA 3522 2962 WELTON Bring your Petrolene Soap Coupons in, we will re- deem them. New Green Cabbage, Ib............0.+0e eee + 5 Bpee; 2 dozens cere. tee A ee eo SOM We wilf have Strawberries, Fresh Tomatoes and Asparagus. lmoorted insect. Peate: 1 Ancient “Chapman.” Mexico has contributed Its share of Insect pests that are now established in this country. Chief among these are the boll weevil, the pink bollworm and the little Mexican beetle, known as the bean ladybird. ‘The last, which has been discovered in Alabama, threatens to spread to other states and inflict immense damage to the cowpea and bean crops. Crowded House. Little Mary awakened in fright one night recently. When her mother went to her to ascertain the cause of her screams she said: “Oh, I dreamed that satan and al) of his family were coming Into the house.” We hand this out and ask no price —And know that you'll forsake it. For you must charge for your advice—if you want folks to take {t—Arkansas ‘Thomas Cat. a a ae Advice. Ancient “Chapman.” In olden deys there was a merchant whe would buy his stores in the cheap- est market, load them into a wagon, and drive about the country, selling where he could. He was known as a chapman and the modern name Is de- rived from that word. As the mer- chant’s chief stock In trade was a Jovial personality the word chap has long meant a jolly fellow. Value of Home Experience. “The middle-aged mothers who have successfully managed large homes and sent out their children as good citizens haye proven that such training is in- valuable in any national or public work. Any work requiring intricate knowledge and care of detull can be handled by such women just as well as by -the younger women who we have been led to belleve are the only leaders of the ‘new race’,” says a writ- er In the Independent Woman. “The middle-aged woman has countless op- ‘portunities for world usefulness.” EE THE COLORADO STATESMAN Miss R. Webster of Montgomery, Ala., is in the city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Polk. The Mary B. Talbert Club will meet at the residence of Mrs. Ollie Anderson, 1760 Clarkson street, Wednesday, April 13th. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. At a meeting of the Boys' Baseball League Monday evening, Roy Johns was elected president and a full co-officers were chosen. The League will begin work at once, and hopes have some good games scheduled. Mrs. Henrietta Patterson of Manitou, Colo., arrived here last Thursday to attend the wedding of her niece, Mrs. James Allen Bolden, nee Montgomery. Mrs. Mary White of Wellington, Mo., mother of Mrs. V. T. James, returned to her home last week after a very pleasant visit with her daughter. Mrs. Horace Mason, daughter of Mrs. William Slade, has returned home from the hospital after undergoing a serious operation. She is improving gradually to the delight of her many friends. Mr. and Mrs. V. T. James of 2526 Clarkson street are proud of their daughter, who peeped into the light of day March 14th. Mother and daughter are doing well. The Church of the Redeemer will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its founding by a memorable SILVER JUBILEE during the week from April 24 to May 1. The Men's Club, a new "live-wire" organization of Denver, will have charge of the affair and that alone insures its success. A full program will be given next week. THE SERVICE TAILORING COMPANY of 720 East Twenty-sixth is offering the best in spring suits for the gentlemen. Call and see H. Anderson, the popular tailor, and manager, who is establishing himself through his ability to suit the most critical tastes in the art of dressing. Latest samples to select from, with competent assistants and very civil lady repairers, cannot but result in an increase of patronage which is well merited. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the greatest organization for all time so far as our race is concerned, has nearly completed plans for its big membership campaign to open April 24. In this drive the association hopes to swell its membership to a quarter of a million, an irresistible force. The Denver Branch must supply 1,000 of this number and will open its drive Sunday, April 24. Jack Brushwood of Thermopolis, Wyo., is in the city for a few days on business. He is a former Denverer and well known among the old-timers of the city. He hails from the Big Horn Basin, being connected with the Thermopolis Cut Creek Syndicate—great oil corporation in that part of the country. Mr. Brushwood served in the last Legislature of Wyoming and was the first colored man to be appointed assistant sergeant-at-arms of the Senate. He has been appointed on the advisory board of the Citizens Committee Equity Congress of Greater New York. All his friends were delighted to see their pal "Jack" once more. DENVER DIVISION NO. 118, U. N. I A., ESTABLISHING A FIRM FOUNDATION. (By Mrs. Ida May Cole.) 15 spite of the knocks, ill-sentiments and even assaults on some of the leaders in Denver of the Universal Negro Improvement Association, generally known as the GARKEY MOVEMENT, the Denver division goes on quietly, increasing numerically as well as sinking its principles deeper in the hearts of men and women, and even the youth is beginning to realize that he must throw in his hat with us now for the journey that will end in absolute recognition of the rights and liberties to be enjoyed by the black race alike any other race on earth. Our hall at 009 Twenty-seventh street, is crowded every first and third Tuesdays, and already a committee is appointed to rent or lease larger accommodations. "EQUAL RIGHTS FOR THE NEGRO," as ratified by the Pennsylvania Legislature last week at Harrisburg; "The Negro must be treated as a citizen and given full rights as any other citizen in this country," as declared by United States Senator Penrose, can surely be nothing else than the hand-writing on the wall of Garveyism. Remember next meeting, Tuesday, April 19th, when everyone can come out and express themselves on this great constructive program. ORIGINAL IN FOOR CONDITION Y. M. C. A. NOTES. At a meeting of the Boys' Baseball League Monday evening, Roy Johnson was elected president and a full corps of officers were chosen. The League will begin work at once, and hopes to have some good games scheduled for the coming season. Several unofficial games have been played already, the most of which were won by the boys. Owing to the enforced absence of the Rev. T. H. Cooperwood last Sunday afternoon, no set speech was delivered at the meeting. Mr. Townsend told of the plans of the Marathon Club with reference to its program for the colored boys of the city, and expressed the desire for complete co-operation on the part of our own colored people in view of the enthusiasm shown by these young white men. Mr. Charles A. Clark and Miss Williams, accompanied by young Miss Clark, rendered as a trio, "He will Not Let Me Fall." Owing to the absence of some of the players, the croquet fans did not get in a full week's work. King and Blakemore played early in the week, Blakemore winning by 2 to 1. King was eager to play on, but Blakemore insisted on stopping "while stopping was good." King and Sims had their third encounter Tuesday morning. Sims came on the ground in a determined mood, and in short order clean up for King by a score of 4 to 1, "whitewashing him" three games. Their score now stands 13 to 6 in favor of Sims. The financial drive for maintenance begins today (Saturday), closing next Wednesday evening. The branch must raise $3,000 in that time. About ten teams of five men each will be in the field. The meeting tomorrow (Sunday) afternoon will be held at the building, and will begin at 4 o'clock. Mr. Haines of Cleveland, Ohio, now with the American Woodmen, will be the speaker. He will speak on "The Negro of Cleveland and of Ohio; His Present and Future Status." Mr. Haines knows his subject thoroughly and will tell an interesting story. All are invited to hear him. THE MONTGOMERY-BOLDEN WEDDING. One of the prettiest little weddings of the season took place last Thursday evening, April 7th, 8 p. m., at 3022 Welton street, the home of the bride, when Beatrice May Montgomery, daughter of Mrs. Florence Slade, and one of the members of the younger social set, became the wife of James Allen Bolden, popular Denver citizen. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. H. Thomas, pastor of Shorten A. M. E. Church, who in his usual impressive manner imparted blessings on the union of the two young people and invoked Divine guidance for their entering on the two-fold life. Precisely at 8 o'clock the groom, attended by Ernest J. Brooks, best man, entered the beautifully decorated parlor (pink and white scheme consisting of carnations, etc.), followed by the bride, who descended the stairway supported by her mother, who gave her away, and Miss Hortense White, the bridesmaid, who acted her part with much grace and accomplishment. The bride looked charming in a dress of white shadow lace with dainty slippers to match, and carried a bouquet of white roses, while the bridesmaid was attired in white organdle, carrying pink carnations. The groom and groomsman were in the usual conventional dress and offered an appearance no less attractive than the bride and her attendant. Mrs. Slade wore a beautiful creation of black satin, very becoming a matron of a few summers. About seventy-five members of the younger set attended the wedding, Mrs Bolden being one of the foundationers of The Girls' Pleasure Seekers' Society, and her husband being popular in the order of Elks. Many well-wishers and life-long friends of the happy couple were present to bid them a safe voyage on the matrimonial sea of life, also out-of-town guests—Mrs. Henrietta Patterson, a favorite aunt of the bride, and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bolden of Fort Morgan, Colo., brother and sister of the bridegroom. Mr. Fern Morton presided at the piano, playing the wedding march from Lohengrin, also popular selections, and Miss Hortense White sang, "I Know What It Means to Be Lonesome." A dainty wedding supper of fine appointments was served, to which full justice was done by the guests. Mr. and Mrs. Bolden, being popularly known, have the best wishes for every success in their new life, and the COLORADO STATESMAN joins with their many friends in wishing a bountifulness of happiness and perpetual conjugal bliss. Numerous present, which were choice, rage and beautiful, the gifts to the bride and groom, adorned the parlor, and harmonizing with the soft rays of the electric lights, reflecting a beautiful illumination from the pink and white decorations, created a scene that the artist's brush would adequately describe. An added feature of the evening's event was a celebration of Mrs. Slade's birthday, when a midnight supper was served and Prof. Geo. Morrison delighted those present with his alluring musical strains. A cake with "18" candles was presented Mrs. Slade. HAMPTON GRADUATES AND EXSTUDENTS TO GIVE ATHLETIC FIELD HAMPTON GRADUATES AND EXSTUDENTS TO GIVE ATHLETIC FIELD Great Enthusiasm Shown Over Project—Every Hamptonian to Be Reached—$5,000 Pledged Before Campaign Is Announced —Editor Abbott of "Chicago Defender" Pledges $1,000. By Charles H. Williams. HAMPTON, VA., March. 31.—The spirit of racial consciousness that had its rebirth during the World War is being turned into something tangible by Negraes throughout the country. The Hampton Institute graduates and ex-students have caught this new spirit of self-help. They are raising sufficient money to build and equip a modern athletic field. The idea that the graduates and ex-students of Hampton should equip an athletic field, with grandstand, quarter-mile track, 220-yard straight-away, football and baseball fields, was introduced last January at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Alumni Association. The committee voted to support the proposition. It suggested plans for a campaign that will reach every Hampton graduate and ex-student. Sixty leading graduates and ex-students, who have been asked to serve on the Athletic Field Committee and to give their financiti and moral support are responding in a most liberal way. Dr. R. R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute, pledged the first $1,000 toward the field for the Hampton graduates and ex-students who are working at Tuskegee. The graduates and ex-students who are working at Hampton have pledged more than $1,500. Robert S. Abbott, class of 1896, owner and editor of the "Chicago Defender," has pledged $1,000 toward the field. This is the largest pledge to date. Hampton students are enthusiastic and have pledged nearly $1,000. Graduates at Penn School, Frogmore, S. C., and at Princess Anne Academy, Princess Anne, Md., have sent their pledges. The field with cost more than $30,000. To secure this amount of money from Hampton graduates and ex-students seemed at first like a bourbful undertaking. Realizing that every Hampton graduate and ex-student is anxious to have a share in this undertaking and that it may not be possible for everyone to give cash immediately, the committee has arranged to have the payments of pledges made as follows: First half on or before July 1, 1921; the second half on or before July 1, 1922. Trustees Approve the Idea. The Hampton trustees at their recent meeting gave inform consideration to the athletic field proposition and expressed their willingness to allot the necessary land. The completion of the proposed field at Hampton would enable Negro schools to hold national meets and would serve as a great factor in developing the young manhood of the country. For this reason the movement has the endorsement, not only of Hampton graduates and ex-students, but of all who are interested in developing the finest type of American citizens. Hall's Magic Hair Refiner, for men only. No kinky edges. Apply 1333 Pennsylvania St. Phone Main 7523. 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. CHRONIC GROVCHES... by Hendrix. S'MATTER FRANK? YOU SEEM UPSET ABOUT SOMETHING- YEAH—WE'VE GOT A NEW SHIP TO BE LAUNCHED AND WE CAN'T FIND A WOMAN TO CHRISTEN IT! ARE WOMEN SO SCARCE AS THAT? N-N-NO-IT AINT THAT— MOST ANY WOMAN WOULD DO— WHO HAS A BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE! © U.S. FEATURE SERVICE INC. Funeral Notices. Pyles Elige, pioneer resident of Denver, late of 412 Twenty-fourth street, past away March 31st. Services were held Sunday, April 5th, under the auspices of the Building Labor Union, No. 1, at Campbell A. M. E. Church. Instrument Riverside cemetery, Rev. I. S. Wilson officiating. DEATHS AND FUNERALS. The Gammel Undertaking Co. Grayer, Emogene, daughter of Mrs. V. Foster of 2449 Welton street, departed this life April 1st. Services were held Sunday, April 3, from the Cammel parlors, Rev. I. S. Wilson officiated, Interment at Riverside. Harris, Miss Sailie Fleming, 3025 California street, departed this life Thursday, April 7th. Services will be held Sunday, 2 p. m., from residence, Rev. W. H. Thomas officiating. Interment Fairmount. CARD OF THANKS. We wish to express our heartfelt thanks to our many friends for their kindness and sympathy and beautiful flowers in our late bereavement of our dear wife and sister, Elizabeth D. Cook. Signed. BASIL T. COOK, MRS. MARGARET LEE, MRS. MARY M. LEE. A. E. HARVEY G. WEBSTER PATRIOTIC SHOE SHINING PARLOR 1526 Welton St Phone Main 2196 YOU COULD WELL AFFORD TO BUY AN OVERCOAT in midsummer, and you would find it a good investment at this price— $24 for values up to $60 100 of them sent to us by Adier, Milwaukee, maker of Collegian Clothes for men, who billed us these Overcents at considerably less than one-half the season's prices. 15th and Larimer Streets Prof. W. M. Mackey FIRST CLASS TONSORIAL WORK Hair Cutting a Specialty Satisfaction Guaranteed STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC. REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES. Of COLORADO STATESMAN. Published weekly at Denver for April 9, 1921. 2. That the owners are (give names and addresses of individual owners, or, if a corporation, give its name and the names and addresses of stockholders owning of the total amount per stock) of Joseph D. D. Rivers, 1824 Curtis street, Denver, Colorado. 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding one per cent, or more of the total amount of bonds, mortgages or insurance (if there are none, so state); None. 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee name of the person or corporation for or in any other fiduciary relation, the whom such trustee is acting as trustee, the who such trustees are acting as trustees, contain statements embracing affiants' full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the stockholder hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association or corporation is acting on behalf of direct in the said stock, bonds or other securities than as so stated by him. 5. That the average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold is 10,000,000, otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date shown above is ..... (This information is acquired from daily publications only.) JOSEPH D. D. RIVERS, (Signature of Editor, Publisher, Business Manager, or Owner.) S sworn to and subscribed before me this 3th day of April 1917. OLIVE T. LEWIS. Nortary Public. (My commission expires December 20. 1923). COMFORT AND RAZOR BLADE 1 4 YEAR SIMPLICITY ARANTELLA ICKLES HE IMID Because it sharpens in less than one minute any make of Safety Razor Blade, producing a hollow ground edge which will give you a clean, easy and comfortable shave. It makes shaving a PLEASURE instead of a dreaded task. Works like a RATTLE, but does "rattling" good work. "TARANTELLA" the Universal Safety Razor Blade Sharpener for all makes of Blades. TARANTELLA CO. Pulitzer Building New York OPEN THE SHOP SQUARE DEAL FOR ALL AMERICANISM 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. Guirks of Children's Minds. A correspondent informs us that we did not quite complete our story about the little girl whose version of the national anthem was "My country teases me." He says she followed it with "Arthur of liberty." He adds: "And a close second to this is the following quotation from the twenty-third Psalm by another little miss, 'Surely the good Mrs. Murphy will follow me all the days of my life.'"—Boston Transcript. As Others Saw Him. To see ourselves as others see us has its humorous as well as its salutary side. The Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries may take note and fashionable collectors look to their laurels. At Norwich, England, a man was characterized as a dealer in antiques, and the description was added: "He is a man that goes round buying old fishing nets and such like." Odd Japanese Custom From time away back it was the custom in Japan to remove one's shoes before entering a building of any sort, but the old-style shoes of Japan have been discarded for those of the occidental, and it is not so easy to remove them. The Japanese now washes his shoes before going inside a house. Tanks of water with long-handled brushes are to be seen standing outside many of the stores and dwellings of the Japanese cities. Calling in Cairo. Englishmen who do not know Cairo sometimes take houses in renoite and undesirable parts of the city. In "Egypt as We Knew It" Mrs. E. L. Butcher amusingly describes how hard it is to find a person who has thus gone astray. Her husband, she says, wrote to a doctor for the address of some friends whom she knew he had attended. Here is the doctor's answer: "The M——'s live in a house without a number in a street without a name next door to an Armenian butcher who, I think, has no sign, west of Abdin palace! The staircase has eighty-seven steps." First Roller Skates Crude The first roller skates patented were made in London in 1823. These and other models brought out later could be guilded in curves only at the expense of enormous friction. It was not until 1865 that an American brought out a roller skate that made curves and figures such as those possible on ice skates. Early-Day Peddler An important merchant of centuries ago was the man who did your buying for you. In those days there were no mall-order houses nor was there such a thing as running into town to do your shopping. So there was evolved a professional shopper who made it his business to buy what you needed. He was known as a packer, pakere, or pake-man, and from these words the modern names resembling them have sprung. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department, Synopsis of Statement for 1920 and of Certificate of Authority, DETROIT NATIONAL FIRE INSUR- ANCE COMPANY, DETROIT MICH. Assets $88,000,000.32 Liabilities Capital 78,680.32 Staplus 200,000.00 Staplus 141,846.91 STATE OF COLORADO. Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified that the DETROIT NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of Colorado, is located at Detroit, has complied with the requirements of the laws of Colorado applicable to said Company, and is hereby authorized to transact business in the insurance company, in accordance with its Charter or Articles of Incorporation, subject to the provisions and requirements of the laws hereof until the last day of January, in the one thousand and twenty-two. In testimony whereof, I, 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 1st day of March, A. D. 1921. (Seal) EARL WILSON, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department, Sympathies of Statement for 1920 and Copy of Certificate of Authority. DIME FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, GREENSBORO, NORTH CARO- LINA. Assets.....$1,737,321.96 Liabilities.....892,345.41 Capital.....500,000.00 Surplus.....344,976.55 Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified that the DIXIE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY operation whose principal office is located at Greensboro, has complied with the requirements of the laws of Colorado applicable to said Company, and is hereby authorized to deal with business in the State of Colorado, insurance company, in accordance 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 2012, thousand nine nine and twenty-two. In testimony whereof, I, Earl Wilson, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my land and affixed my seal of office at the City of Denver, this 1st day of March, A. D. 1921. (Seal) EARL WILSON, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO. Insurance Department, Synopsis of Statement for 1920 and Copy of Certificate of Authority. DAGLE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. NEWARK, N. J. Assets. $1,493,720.87 Liabilities. 672,697.70 Capital 400,000.00 Surplus 421,023.11 STATE OF COLORADO. Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified that the EAGLE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of Newark, the principal office is located at Newark, has complied with the requirements of the laws of Colorado applicable to said Company, and is hereby authorized to transact, usess within the State of Newark, as 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 your death, one thousand nine hundred twenty-two. In testimony whereof, I, 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 1st day of March, A. D. 1921. MCPOL, N. D. 1921 (Seal) EARL WILSON, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department, Synopsis of Statement for 1920 and Copy of Certificate of Authority, FEDERAL UNION INSURANCE COMP. PANY, CHICAGO, IL. Assets $726,190.95 Liabilities 434,664.75 Capital 200,000.00 Surplus 91,526.20 STATE OF COLORADO CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified that the® FEDERAL UNION INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of Illinois, whose office is located in Chicago, has complied with the requirements of the laws of Colorado applicable to said Company, and hereby authorized to transact, busi- ness within the State of Illinois, with an insurance company, in accordance with the 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 lun- dred and in testimony whereof, I, 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 1st day of March, A. D. 1921. (Seal) EARL WILSON, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO. Assets ..... $3,305,134.81 Liabilities ..... 2,411,500.96 Capital ..... 400,000.00 Supplies ..... 493,633.85 STATE OF COLORADO. Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified that the THE FIRE REASSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK, a corporation organized under the name of New York, whose original office is located at New York, has complied with the requirements of the laws of Colorado applicable to said Company, and is hereby authorized Grandact business State of Oklahoma insurance company, in accordance with its Charter or Articles of Incorporation, subject to the provi- sions and requirements of our hereto united day of February, the day of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two. nine hundred In testimony whereof, I, Earl Wilson, Commission of Insurance of the State of Ohio, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the City of Denver, this 1st day of March, A. D. 1921. FORD. CONN. Assets ..... $3,600,006.14 Liabilities ..... 2,464,526.15 Capital ..... 500,000.00 Surplus ..... 635,479.99 STATE OF COLORADO Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified that the THE FIRST REINSURANCE COMPANY HARTFORD a corporate organization under the name of Organized capital office is located at Hartford, which has complied with the requirements of the laws of Colorado applied to Company, and has authorized to engage business within the State of Colorado, as an insurance company, in accordance with its Charter or Arti- cles of Incorporation, subject to the provisions and requirements of the laws hereof until the last day of February, 1921, and hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the City of Denver, this 1st day of March, A. D. 1921. (Seal) EARL WILSON, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO. Insurance Department. Synopsis of Agreement for 1920 and Certificate of Authority. GLOBE NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, SIoux CITY, IOWA. Assets $2,900,144.55 Liabilities 889,833.49 Capital 1,000,000.00 Surplus 211,491.16 STATE OF COLORADO Certificate of Authority Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified that the GLOBE INSTITUTE OF INSURANCE PANY, a corporation organized under the laws of Iowa, whose principal office is located at Sioux City, has compiled with the requirement of the Colorado State Board of Insurance Company, and is hereby authorized to transact business within the State of Colorado, as an insurance company, in accordance with its Charter on an Award of the State Board of Insurance to the provisions and requirements of the laws hereof until the last day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine days. In testimony whereof, I, Earl Wilson, Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at March, A. D. 1921. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. Synopsis of Statement for 1920 and Copy of Certificate of Authority. GRAIN DEALERS NATIONAL MU- TUAL FIRE INSURANCE MANY, INDIAN POLIS, IND. Assets $1,739,484.76 Liabilities 744,374.36 Capital Mutual Surplus 995,110.40 STATE OF COLORADO. Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified that the GRAIN INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of Indiana, whose principal office is located at Indianapolis, has compiled with the requir- ment of the State of Colorado a re- quireable to said Company, and is hereby authorized to transact business within the State of Colorado, as an insurance company, accustomed to the provisions of the Article of Incorporation, sub- ject 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 twen- nine hundred and sixty-seven. In testimony whereof, I, 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 1st day of March, A. D. 1921. (Seal) EARL WILSON, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. Assets.....$2,535,823.07 Liabilities.....1,429,724.92 Capital.....500,000.00 Surplus.....606,098.15 STATE OF COLORADO. Certificate of Authority. Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified that the HUD- SON INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws York, whose principal office is located at New York, has complied with the requirements of the laws of Colorado applicable to said Company, and is hereby authorized to transact, business in New York, as an insurance company, in accordance 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 Lost and thousand nine hundred and twenty-two In testimony whereof, I, 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 1st day of March, A. D. 1921. MCCFON, A. D. 1921 (Seal) EARL WILSON, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO. Insurance Department. Synopsis of Statute for 1920 and Copy of Certificate of Authority. INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE COM- MERCE N. N. PANY, NEW YORK Assets $6,201,760.24 Liabilities 4,321,118.53 Capital 1,000,000.00 Surplus 880,641.32 STATE OF COLORADO. Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified that the INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws of New York, a private office is located at New York, has complied with the requirements of the laws of Colorado applicable to said Company, and is hereby authorized to transact business with the insurance company, in accordance 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 its establishment, thousand and twenty-two. In testimony whereof, I, 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 1st day of March, A. D. 1921. (Seal) EARL WILSON, Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. Symbols of Statement for 1920 and Copy of Certificate of Authority. FEDERATED FIRE RE-INSURANCE COMPANY, MASON CITY, IOWA. Assets . . . $866,958.04 Liabilities . . . 131,250.15 Capital . . . 580,450.00 Surplus . . . 155,257.89 STATE OF COLORADO. Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified that the FEDERATED FIRE RE-INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized by the principal office is located at Mason City, has complied with the requirements of the laws of Colorado applicable to said Company, and is hereby authorized to transact business in the State of Colorado with its insurance company, in accordance with its Charter or Articles of Incorporation, subject to the provisions and requirements of the laws thereof until the last day of the year. Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two. In testimony whereof, I. Earl Wilson, commissioned by the Commission, of Columbia, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the door of the house, this 1st day of March, A. D. 1821. (Seal) 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 a forest containing mahogany trees some of which are more than ten feet in diameter. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. Synopsis of Statement for 1920 and Copy of Certificate of Authority. PENNAMENTAL INVESTMENTAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, WILKES-BARRE, PA. WILKES-BARRE, PA Assets $1,317,093.30 Liabilities 453,620.36 Capital Mutual Surplus 863,478.94 STATE OF COLORADO. Office of Commissioner of Insurance. It is hereby certified that the PENN- SYLVANIA MILLER MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation based in Colorado, is the principal office is located at Wilkes-Barre, 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 Colorado, as described in the laws of Colorado, 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 ninety-one thousand one hundred and ninety-one. In testimony whereof, I, 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 1st day of March, A. D. 1921. (Seal) EARL WILSON, Commissioner of Insurance. NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS' Denver, Colo., April 2, 1921. To the Stockholders of the Western Loan and Investment Association: You are hereby notified that the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Western Loan and Investment Association will be held on Tuesday, May 1922 at the courthouse, 25 Western Newspaper Union Building, 1824 Curtis Street, Denver, Colorado, for the election of officers and directors of said association and for the transaction of any and all other business which may properly comply with the loan association. JOSEPH D. D. RIVERS J. R. CONTEE, Secretary Wedding Rings Use Much Gold. More than 7,000 pounds of pure gold, says an authority, 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 properties of the wood, says the American Forestry Magazine. It was even believed that water issuing from a white cedar spligot had its healthfulness increased. Did Her Little Best. "Dorothy, dear, I 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 I went in and 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, distinguished about 330 B. C. as a poet and grammarian, that he was so diminutive in size and avoiddupols that he carried metal weights in his clothing to prevent his being blown away by the wind. He was the preceptor of Ptolemy Philadelphus. Hairs In A Violin Bow. The number of hairs in a violin bow was formerly from 80 to 100 in France; but now it is customary to have the hair ribbon broader, and this, therefore, requires 175 to 250 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. Embarrassing Moment. The car was crowded and as we neared our destination my cousin and I 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." I should have liked to have made an exit through the nearest window.—Chicago Tribune. A GREAT PROBLEM SOLVED Don't throw away your used blades! COMFORT AND RAZOR BLADE 1 A YEAR WHY WEAR IRY HISKERS TARANTELLA The Universal Safety Razor Blade Sharpener for every make of Blade. IT MAKES SHAVING A PLFANIURE INSTEAD OF A DREADED TASK. Will sharpen your new and old razor blades in less than one minute, producing an easy, clean and comfortable shave. WORKS LIKE A RATTLE, BUT DOES "RATTLING" GOOD WORK. PRICE COMPLETE $3.00 TARANTELLA CO. Pulitzer Building New York SUBMIT PLAN TO END DISPUTES RAIL UNION MEMBERS ACCEDE TO PRESIDENT'S LABOR PLAN. ASK HARDING TO HELP CONFERENCE PROPOSED TO END INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES OF ROADS AND WORKERS. ( Western Newspaper Union News Service. ) Chicago, April 8.—Five railroad labor unions with 500,000 members have submitted to President Harding's labor plan for ending industrial disputes between the roads and their workers, proposing that the President call a conference of representatives of both sides at which new rules governing working conditions would be made to take the place of the national agreements, now in dispute before the Railroad Labor Board. The proposal was contained in a statement by representatives of the five mechanical unions and was sent to the President by B. M. Jewell, president of the railway employés' department of the American Federation of Labor. It proposed that all wages disputes be held in abeyance pending the conferences, holding that wages could be quickly adjusted when the question of rules had been settled. The telegram was sent in response to a request from President Harding at the conference with Mr. Jewell that labor submit its plan for ending the railroad industrial troubles. It included twelve points which were termed "labor's self-evident and alienable rights," which, it said, would have to be settled at the proposed conference, and specified that the national agreements should not be discounted in any way pending the outcome of the proposed conference. It was suggested that the conference be held under the jurisdiction of the railroad labor board, which would have full authority over it. Included in the twelve points were the basic eight-hour day, the right of collective bargaining, the right of each craft to decide what organization should represent it in any conference with employers and adjustment of "proper pay" for overtime. Among the other points are: "The protection of employés against discriminations because of membership in trade unions. "The right of the majority in each craft on each railroad to determine what organization shall represent them. "The right of the majority of each craft on each railroad to select a committee or representatives who shall handle all grievances which may arise affecting all employees of the craft in accordance with the provisions of the agreement. "The beginning and ending of working shifts to be so arranged as to permit of living arrangements by employés and their families. "Applicants for employment as mechanics to show that they have served an apprenticeship of four years or performed mechanical work for a similar period. Driver Blown to Pieces. Hominy, Okla.—A. W. Weed, driver of a nitroglucerine truck for the Osage Torpedo Company of Pawhuska, Okla. was instantly killed when a hundred quarts of nitro-glucerine exploded about five miles west of here. Weed was alone at the time. Women'a Police Squad Disrupted Kalamazoo, Mich.—Feminine jealousies have disrupted the women's squad of the Kalamazoo police department, Chief Tully declared here in announcing that he had requested the resignation of two policewomen, Miss Melva Nagler and Miss Jennie Workman, "Something had to be done," he wrote City Manager Harry Freeman. "The women are supposed to work together irrespective of personalities, but there has been more or less friction for weeks and co-operation has become impossible. Dismissal was the only solution." Confesses to Elwell Murder Buffalo, N. Y.—Claiming he was one of two men hired to kill Joseph B. Elwell, New York clubman and whist expert, for $5,000, last June, by a woman named "Fairchild," R. O. Harris, alias E. B. Leonard, alias C. Carlin, has signed a confession telling of his part in the crime. He named "Bill Dunklin," a friend, as the man who fired the actual shot which caused Elwell's death. He is being held in New York. Murderers Rebel in Death Cell. Chicago.—Murderers fell out here when six doomed men in the death chamber rebelled and refused to drill any longer under Carl Wanderer, convicted of slaying a "ragged stranger." Wanderer, a former army lieutenant, has been drilling the murder squad every day for a week, but they went back in their cells when he yelled, "Attention!" "He's too hard boiled," sald Lone Wolf Ward. "What's the use of drilling to death before they hang me?" agreed Sam Cardinella. "HE IS THE ONE BOCHE WE WANT" AMERICAN LEGION WANTS BERG DOLL BROUGHT BACK TO THIS COUNTRY. SEDITION IS STILL AT WORK Men Who Fought for Flag on the Battlefield Are Being Compelled to Continue to Fight for It in the Fields of the Home Land. Bv EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington.—Col. F. W. Galbraith, commander of the American Legion, has been spending considerable time in Washington recently. He has been in conference with President Harding and some of the leaders of congress concerning legislation which the service men would like to have enacted at the extra session. It seems to be the belief of the Legion leader that at the next session provision will be made for the grouping of all government soldier relief agencies into one bureau, and for a continuous hospital program, especially for tuberculous and neuro-psychiatric patients. "He is the one Boche we want." This is what the Legion's commander has said in reference to Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, Philadelphia draft evader, rich and influential, who is now in a country which he loves better apparently than the land of his birth. It is the belief in Washington that the new administration will make an effort to lay hands on Bergdoll and bring him back to this country. The Legion says that it wants this man—and if the government wants him it will get him. Nearest Their Hearts. Of course the proper care of the sick and wounded soldiers is the thing nearest the hearts of the service men. Already the country knows that the sum of $6,000,000 instantly is available for rehospitalization purposes. The sole fear now is apparently that government red tape, and the delays which have become historic in American administration, may prevent quick relief for the sufferers, but all that men can do to spur the government to its instant duty is to be done. The American Legion has not forgotten the recent meeting at Madison Square Garden, New York city, where pro Germans were allowed to preach doctrines that were more than semiselitious. Neither has the Legion forgotten the attempt of pro-Germans to break up another meeting in New York city which was called for the purpose of disciplining a recreant Legion member. If any one believes that the American Legion is going to let such matters as these drop another thought should be coming to him quickly. Recently there was held in Madison Square Garden, New York city, under the auspices of the American Legion "An All-American Meeting for God and Country." It was not necessary at that meeting to have 1,500 policemen inside the hall to maintain order. When the lovers of Germany held their meeting they succeeded in securing the services of 2,000 policemen who they thought might be ready to club any American Legion man who should show any too marked an affection for the American flag. A Patriotic Document Here is the call for the recent meeting which the American Legion sent out: "An All American Meeting for God and Country will be held in Madison Square Garden, Friday, March 18. "For two years an insidious propaganda has been carried on throughout the nation. Forces identified with movements and causes unworthy of America again appear to break the friendships born of the common struggle—human liberty. "Propaganda in many forms, some of it of foreign origin and in foreign interests, is being disseminated, entering the school, the home and the church. "Appels for causes which in themselves are worthy, namely: humanity, decency and charity, are being made the vehicle for the spread of hate, furnishing germs for future wars. "Meetings which are disgraceful examples of propaganda are being held throughout the nation for the purpose not only of disuniting the American people but also of alienating us from those peoples who gave with us their life's blood on a common battlefield. "There comes a time in the history of all peoples when they must prepare themselves to meet a common foe. Such a time has come to the American people. Our honor, our ideals and our future are imperilled. Shall they remain undefended? The noble dead and those who now lie in hospitals, living monuments of willing sacrifice, who gave their bodies for their heart's desire, look to us to carry on—for God and Country." For the first time in the history of the American nation men who fought for the flag on the battlefield are being compelled to continue to fight for it in the fields of the home land. The enemy calls itself American, but it is American to a far less degree than the Germans who fought against the American flag in the Argonne, in the St. Mikhel salient and along the banks of the Meuse and the Marne. Plan Work for Congress. Congress knows pretty well what duties it will be expected to perform, and the order in which they must be taken up, when the extra session comes into being. In truth, President Harding, in his inaugural address, gave some intimation of what he expects, although he did not go into specifications. When the new congress assembles in April it probably will find waiting for it some definite plan concerning foreign relations. It is, of course, possible that the President and the secretary of state will not find enough time between now and the convening of congress to set forth definitely their views concerning the vexing question of our relations with the lands across the sen, but it is not believed that spring will be far advanced before plans are presented for action or rejection, although it can be taken for granted that, with the heavy Republican majority in both houses, no administration plan stands in much danger of disapproval. The Knox resolution for immediate peace with Germany may show its head in the senate within a day or two after the next session begins, although now there is some thought of postponing it. The high hope of some of the senators is that the President will recommend the coupling up with the resolution of a paragraph which will give to France a new evidence of our friendship for that country. No one can tell, however, as to how this will be, because there has been strong opposition in congress to doing anything with the Knox resolution except to pass it in the briefest possible form, a form which shall include nothing except a bald statement that peace exists with Germany. Harding Gave Warning. In his inaugural address Mr. Harding said: "There is no instant step from disorder to order. We must face a condition of grim reality, charge off our losses and start afresh. It is the oldest lesson of civilization. I would like the government to do what it can to mitigate them. In understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for the common good, our tasks will be solved." Every President in recent years on taking office has said something in his inaugural address to remove from the minds of certain kinds of people the thought that because an administration is changed instant relief from evil can be expected. Mr. Wilson said something of this kind when he came into office, and so did Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt, and it may be that all the Presidents before their time had a like thought, and uttered a like note of warning. It must be remembered that this is a Republican administration, Republican in the White House, Republican in both branches of congress and Republican in all the executive departments. Consequently the Republican party is to be held responsible for everything that is done or that is left undone. The President has been holding conferences with leaders of congress. Apparently the executive and the legislative branches want to make good, but it can be said without any antimus whatsoever that some of the legislators, as has been the history of things ever since politics was, seem to want to make good in everything only if it can be done without injuring their chances of re-election. Pass Immigration Bill. The plan of the Republicans is for an immediate passing of the immigration bill which failed of passage at the last session. The President and a majority of the Republican senators and representatives apparently want to have this bill put through in just the form in which it was passed at the last session, but influences have been brought to bear on some of the members and senators, and it looks now as if the percentage rate of immigrants who are to be allowed to enter the country is to be raised. Congress at the last session fixed the immigration rate at 3 per cent of the persons of any one nationality now residing within the United States. Now it is being urged that the percentage be raised to 5 per cent, and there are some members of congress who would like to see it put up to a much higher point. The immigration bill, however, will go through and it seems likely they that the only yielding that will come will be in the direction of raising of the rate of influx from 3 per cent to 5 per cent. At the 5 per cent rate about 400,000 immigrants will be admitted into the United States every year. The navy appropriation bill failed of passage at the last session of congress. It will be taken up immediately on the reassembling of the lawmakers, and with its discussion will come a continuation of the debate on disarmament. The country is to hear a great deal more about the navy building program of Japan before congress finally acts on matters concerning our own fleets. Only President Who "Came Back." In practically all lists of our Presidents which rank them numerically, only one name occurs twice, that of Grover Cleveland. The other Presidents who have served two terms were chosen to succeed themselves. Thus Washington is called our first President and John Adams our second, and not our third, as would be the case if Washington's two administrations were numbered separately. Grover Cleveland was defeated by Benjamin Harrison when renominated, but he triumphed over Harrison four years later. He is the only one of our Presidents re-elected after an interim and, in numerical lists, he is called our twenty-second and twenty-fourth President. BREAD OUGHT TO BE BAKED RIGHT Recipes for Short and Overnight Methods Recommended by Kitchen Specialists. IDEAL LOAF IS ATTRACTIVE Any Woman Who Desires to Establish Reputation as Good Cook Will Wish Particularly to Excel in Bread Making. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) No other single article of food is as frequently placed on the table or takes as prominent a place in the average diet as bread. In some form or other it is served at practically every meal, and many times is the chief article. Properly balanced with milk, butter, fruits, vegetables, eggs, cheese or a little meat, bread may well form a considerable part of our daily food. Bread and other cereal products are also among the least expensive of our foods. As it occupies so prominent a place in the diet, bread ought certainly to be well made, well baked, and properly cared for. Moreover, any girl or woman who desires to be known as a really good cook, will wish to excel particularly in bread making. An ideal loaf of bread is attractive in appearance; crust smooth, tender and golden brown in color; the loaf itself light and well-rounded on top; the crumb spongy and tender; and the whole delicious in flavor. Methods for Making Bread. There are two general methods for making bread, one known as the straight-dough process and the other as the sponge process. In the straight-dough process all the ingredients are mixed at one time and the dough is made of the proper consistency before rising. Either compressed or liquid yeast may be used for this, but not dry yeast. In the sponge process only half the total amount of flour is used at first, with all or nearly all the liquid, the yeast, and frequently the salt and the A woman in a long dress and hat is preparing bread in a large oven. The Pride of the Artist Is Her's Whose Skill Results in a Perfect Loaf. sugar. Compressed, dry, or liquid yeast may be used for this. This mixture is similar to a soft batter, and after the first rising the remainder of the flour, the shortening, and any other desired ingredients are added. It is then kneaded until of the proper consistency and smoothness. Decreasing Time of Process The sponge process usually requires less yeast than the straight-dough method, because of the softer consistency of the mixture which favors the growth of the yeast, and also because it is generally given more time. However, by using larger or smaller amounts of yeast one may shorten or lengthen the time required for rising. In a similar way the straight-dough process may be shortened or lengthened by increasing or decreasing the amount of yeast used. Great care should be taken with a sponge or dough which stands a long time as the overnight straight dough or the overnight sponge—to keep it much cooler than when the quicker methods are used, since the former have a greater chance of becoming sour. The following bread recipes are given by specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture: Short Process, or Straight Dough 4 cupfuls (1 quart) lukewarm liquid. 4 teaspoonfuls of salt. 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar. 2 tablespoonfuls of shortening, if desired. 1 or 2 cakes of compressed yeast, or half to 1 cupful of liquid yeast. 3 to 4 quarts of sifted flour. If milk is used it should be scalded and cooled until lukewarm before using. When liquid yeast is used its volume must be deducted from the other liquid called for. This makes four loaves. Soften the yeast with a small amount of the lukewarm liquid. To the rest of the liquid add the salt, sugar and shortening. Add the yeast and mix all together. Measure the sifted flour into a bowl and blend with this the liquid. If too soft to knead, add more flour until of the proper consistency. Knead for five to ten minutes, or until smooth, elastic and no longer sticky. Cover with a lid or plate and place where it will be away from drafts and at a uniform tem- ORIGINAL IN POOR CONDITION perature of 80 to 88 degrees F. Let rise until about double its original bulk or until a slight touch of the finger leaves an impression. This should happen within one to two hours if the yeast is in good condition and the temperature right. Knead and set aside again in the same warm place until it doubles its bulk. Then knead and shape into loaves; let rise again until double in bulk and bake. Overnight Sponge Method. 4 cupfuls 0 quart) of lukewarm liquid (half cupful less if potato is used). 4 teaspoonfuls of salt. 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar. 2 tablespoonfuls of shortening (if desired). 1 cake of yeast (dry or compressed), or half cupful of liquid yeast. 1 cupful mashed potato (if desired). 3 to 4 quarts of sifted flour. If dry yeast is used, soak it for 20 minutes to one hour before mixing the sponge and mix the sponge earlier than if compressed or liquid yeast is used. When liquid yeast is used, its volume must be deducted from the other liquid called for. Blend the yeast with a little of the lukewarm liquid. If potato is used add to it the salt, then the yeast mixture, the remainder of the liquid, and finally one-half of the flour. Beat until smooth, cover, and set to rise where it will be at 60 to 70 degrees F. In the morning, break up the sponge, add sugar, the melted shortening (if used), and enough flour to make a dough of the proper consistency. Knead until the dough is smooth, elastic and no longer sticks to the bowl or fingers. Cover and set to rise until at least double in bulk. Knead down, mold into loaves, let rise again until double in bulk and bake. FERMENTED CORN IS HANDY FOR CHOWDER FERMENTED CORN IS HANDY FOR CHOWDER Recipe Recommended by Household Specialists Given. It Will Be Found Most Satisfactory to Remove All Acid Flavor—Rinse The Flavor and Seek For Four (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Some fermented and salted vegetables like cucumbers, are eaten raw; others, like cabbage (sauerkraut), are usually cooked. In general the fermented and salted products may be prepared for the table in much the same manner as the fresh vegetables, except that before being cooked they should be soaked in fresh water for several hours or longer, if necessary, to remove the salt, the water being changed several times. In some cases it may be necessary also to change the water once or twice during the boiling of the salted vegetables. In this one should be guided by taste. Te prepare the fermented or salted corn for the table, rinse it thoroughly and soak for four or five hours, changing the water frequently. In general it will be found more satisfactory to remove practically all the acid flavor from the fermented corn. After soaking, place the corn in cold water and bring to boil, pour off the water, add fresh cold water, bring to boil again, and cook until tender. The cooked salted or fermented corn may be used in many ways. The following recipe for corn chowder is recommended by household specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture: Corn Chowder. ¾ pound cold beef, or 1 cupful tomatoes. ¾ pound salt pork or 3 tablespoonfuls of bacon. 2 potatoes. 1 cupful milk or 1 onion. ½ green pepper. 1 teaspoonful salt. ½ cupful cooked ¼ teaspoonful pepper. corn, or more. Cut the beef or pork into cubes; cover well with water. Add the tomato and cook slowly for about two hours. Then add the potato, onion, pepper, corn and seasonings. Mix the flour with a little cold water, add to the other ingredients, and cook slowly for five or ten minutes. Add the milk or cream. Serve not. HEM IN WORSTED MATERIALS Almost Invisible Hem Easy to Press Can Be Made in Heavy Cloth by Means of Cat-Stitch. A secure, flat hem, almost invisible and easy to press, can be made in heavy worsted materials by means of cat-stitch. Do not turn the edge of the hem, but press hem flat and cat- stitch over the raw edge and into the skirt, taking up but one thread in each stitch. Double silk thread is used for the work. OF INTEREST TO THE HOUSEWIFE Make two or three desserts at one time and save time, labor and fuel. Beaded medallions can be sewed across the worn toes of satin slippers. * * * Odds and ends of old bread made into a well-seasoned dressing is a great addition to any roast. * * * Threads drawn from old Brussels carpet can be used for mending rugs. Wool, of course, should be used for mending a woolen rug. THE KITCHEN CABINET (6) 1921, Western Newspaper Union. Ethereal Goddess of the Days, Sweet, fragrant May, enticing Our hearts with thy alluring ways, Eliciting our warmest praise. "Our year's path spicing! When every child of nature wakes To springtime's charms succumbing; And in all haste each one forsakes Its cloak of gray for green, it makes Us know thou'r coming. -Caroline Sumner. GOOD THINGS FOR FAMILY. A dainty salad is always a welcome dish. The following will be found good and uncom- PINEAPPLE Pineapple and Cheese.—Arrange slices of pineapple on white leaves of lettuce. Fill the hole in the center of the pineapple with cream cheese that has beer, softened to a paste with a little thick cream. Place a dash of paprika on the cheese and pile lightly on each ring pieces of apple, banana and grapefruit. Garnish with cherries and serve with French dressing. Buttered Cream Onions.—Cook two bunches of young green onions, stems and all, in boiling salted water until tender, then drain. Lay the onions on buttered toast, pour over each a table-spoonful of melted butter and serve very hot. A thick rich cream sauce may be used if preferred. Chocolate Cream Pie.—Line a deep pieplate with plain paste, wet the edge and put on a half-inch rim. Prick with a fork and bake in a hot oven. Prepare a filling by mixing five tablespoonfuls of cornstarch with one-half cupful of sugar and one-fourth teaspoonful of salt. Dilute with one-fourth of a cupful of cold milk, add two cupfuls of scalded milk and cook over hot water for half an hour, stirring while thickening. Melt two squares of chocolate, add four tablespoonfuls of hot water, stir until smooth and add to the mixture. Remove from the stove and fold in the whites of two eggs, beaten stiff. Flavor with one teaspoonful of vanilla. While still hot pour the filling into the pie, just as the crust comes from the oven. Serve cold, covered with one cupful of whipped cream unsweetened. Baked Stuffed Heart.—Wash a beef heart, remove veins and arteries. Stuff with bread stuffing. Lard with salt pork, sprinkle with salt and pepper and dredge with flour. Place in a double boiler and cook in a moderate oven three hours. Noisette Bread.—Soften one cake of compressed yeast in one-fourth of a cupful of lukewarm water. Add to one cupful of scalded and cooled milk. Stir in one tablespoonful of shortening, two tablespoonfuls of molasses, one cupful of filbert meats, whole, and one-half cupful of whole wheat flour. Add white flour as needed for dough. Knead thoroughly, return to the bowl, cover closely and stand in a warm place free from draft until it has doubled in bulk. Shape into a loaf, place in pan, set aside to rise and bake in a moderate oven. SEASONABLE GOOD THINGS. Now that the young tender dandelion greens are here, let us try them with the following dressing: Dutch Dressing.—Wash and drain one pint of fresh tender greens, cut in two-inch pieces. Cut two ounces of bacon into small cubes and try until crisp and brown. Beat Dutch Dressing.—Wash and drain one pint of fresh tender greens, cut in two-inch pieces. Cut two ounces of bacon into small cubes and fry until crisp and brown. Beat one egg until light, add two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one-fourth teaspoonful of salt, one-third of a cupful of water, one-fourth cupful of vinegar. Pour this mixture into the frying pan with the bacon and mix well, stirring constantly until thickened. It should be about the consistency of cream. Pour boiling hot over the dandelion greens. Pepper Pot.—Take a knuckle of veal, one and one-half pounds of honeycomb tripe. Cook the veal with a tablespoonful of salt, two large onions sliced, six allspice, ten pepper-corns, two bay leaves, one tablespoonful of marjoram, one tablespoonful each of sweet basil and thyme, one hot red pepper, one-fourth of a teaspoonful of pepper, all in a bag, the red pepper cut in small pieces. Simmer for two hours, or until the veal is tender. Remove the veal from the stock. Cut the cleaned tripe, which has been washed in salt water and lastly in soda water, in julienne strips. Simmer in the stock for one hour. Add two large potatoes cut in dice and add egg balls the size of marbles, made by beating an egg and adding flour to make a dough stiff enough to roll in the hands. Cook for half an hour longer, then thicken with two tablespoonfuls of sweet fat and three of flour. Cook until well blended and serve hot. The veal may be chopped, or part of it, and added to the dish. This will serve ten persons. Steamed Strawberry Shortcake. Sift together two cupfuls and a half of flour, one-half cupful of sugar, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one-fourth teaspoonful of salt; cut in one-fourth of a cupful of butter. Beat one egg, add one cupful of milk and mix all together. Turn into a buttered mold and steam three hours. Serve hot with whipped cream and strawberry jam. The Kitchen Cabinet The Kitchen Cabinet (© 1921, Western Newspaper Union.) The time is coming when no young person of either sex will be considered well educated, who is not conversant with the composition of foodstuffs, and their uses in the body, and who does not know why cleanliness is ranked next to godliness. An elementary training in the principles of food and dietetics is quite as important as skill in the use of the multiplication table, and both should be taught at the same age. The girl whose school days end with the grammar grade has not been started in life properly unless she can classify all the food products found in the market, and get good results on her cookstove.—American Cooking Magazine. EVERYDAY GOOD THINGS. A dish of onions in some form should be served at least once a week, and oftener if possible. in every family. ```markdown ``` Stuffed Onions.—Parboil or steam six Spanish onions, or other choice even sized ones, one hour. Remove from the fire, drain and cut the centers from them; scoop out the onion to form a cup. Chop fine the onion removed, and pass through a sieve. Add an equal measure of finely chopped veal or chucker, cooked; salt, pepper and a teaspoonful of minced parsley, one-fourth of a cupful of soft bread crumbs, one-fourth of a cupful of butter and mix thoroughly. Put a spoonful of the mixture into each onion, then add a few nuts—chestnuts are especially good if blanched and boiled until tender. Bake slowly one hour, basting four times with melted butter and hot water. Fifteen minutes before removing from the oven add a spoonful of buttered cracker crumbs on top of each and brown. Serve with a thin cream sauce, or a white sauce made by using one tablespoonful each of butter and flour. When cooked add one cupful of milk and season with salt and pepper. Delicious Cheese.-Rub the yolk of one hard-cooked egg to a paste with a tablespoonful of olive oil or butter. Add one teaspoonful of salt, one of made mustard, one of granulated sugar, and one-fourth of a teaspoonful of cayenne. Mix with this two cupfuls of grated cheese, and one cupful of chopped chicken. Press into scallop shells and bake until the cheese is melted. Strawberry Bavarian Cream.—Soften one-half package of gelatin in one-half cupful of cold water and dissolve in one-half cupful of hot strawberry sirup; add one cupful of berries pressed through a sleeve, three-fourths of a cupful of sugar and the juice of half a lemon. Stir until the sugar is dissolved, then let chill on ice. When the mixture begins to thicken, fold in one and one-half cupfuls of cream beaten firm. Mold and serve cold, decorated with chopped pistachio nuts to be pretty, or other nuts may be used, and small meringues. GOOD THINGS FOR OCCASIONS. The following are a few dishes which may be enjoyed for special days: Tomato and Pineapple Salad. —Remove the skins from hot-house tomatoes; scoop out the centers, chill, fill with small cubes Tomato and Pineapple Salad.—Remove the skins from hot-house tomatoes; scoop out the centers, chill, fill with small cubes of fresh or canned plineapple; if the fresh is used, sweeten slightly. Set a spoonful of mayonnaise, mixed with one-quarter its bulk of whipped cream, above the fruit. Chicken Custard.—Beat the yolks of four eggs until thick and stiff: add a little salt, and beat into one cupful of cream. Heat a cupful of strong, well-seasoned chicken stock in a saucepan; add the beaten eggs and cream and cook with care, stirring until the custard coats the spoon. Serve cold in small custard cups with a garnish of watercress. Date Loaf Cake.—Cream one-half cupful of butter with one cupful of brown sugar; add two well-beaten eggs and two cupfuls of flour, sifted with one-half teaspoonful added alternately with one-half cupful of lukewarm water, in which one teaspoonful of soda has been dissolved. Lastly stir in one pound of dates, stoned and chopped, with one cupful of nuts, chopped, one teaspoonful of vanilla extract. Bake in a greased and floured pan in a slow oven. Virginia Ham, Boiled.—Wash and scrub the ham thoroughly; let soak 30 hours in cold water to cover; remove from the water and rinse; place on the stove in a kettle of cold fresh water. Bring slowly to the boiling point and let simmer for five hours. Remove from the kettle and take off the skin while hot. Steamed Strawberry Shortcake.—Sift together two and one-half cupfuls of flour, one-half cupful of sugar, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a little salt and one-quarter cupful of milk Beat one egg; add one cupful of milk and add to the mixture. Turn into a buttered melon mold and steam for three hours. Serve hot with whipped cream, the juice and pulp of one cupful of crushed strawberries, well sweetened. Nellie Maxwell C. V. FAIRBANKS FIRST CLASS MEALS SERVED HOME COOKING --- Phone Main 4843 J. GIBSON SMIT Art Dealer J. GIBSON SMIT Art Dealer 1638 Tremont St. PHONES: DENVER DAY Not as Old Undertaken HOME P.O. 2418 Welton St., Denver. Motto: Service, efficient out. Consult us. We care Your cares and sorrows are LICENSED EMBALM LADY E. V. CAMMEL, PRESS DENVER WESTER SES: DENVER, CHAMPA 2077; PUEBLO, DAY OR NIGHT. The Cammel Undertaking Company HOME FUNERAL PARLORS. On St., Denver. 945 Routt Ave., Pue Service, efficiency and modern condition ult us. 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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. at the office of Arrangements can also be made over phone. Call Main 7417 PRESS COMMENT: No library is complete without Scott's History of "The American Negro in the World War," and no better legacy could be left to posterity than this great work of Negro heroism and patriotism. 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. L BREAKFAST caps go their cheerful and frivolous way this spring with ribbons and laces hand in hand in their making. Each appears to be quite helpless without the aid of the other in the accomplishment of a successful cap and it is sometimes one and again the other that dominates. Two such gay and versatile materials might be expected to wander into many bypaths and that is what they have done. The new displays reveal them in the mimicry of many styles in headwear, beginning with a ribbon-trimmed, lace stocking cap and ending with caps having wired lace brims, like the cap at the left of the two shown in the picture. An excellent use is made of ribbons with picot edges which can be caught up by the crochet needle, by which means the ribbons may be joined to lace insertions or to each other, but usually edges are whipped together to form caps, as shown in the model at the right of the two pictured. In the other cap a crown of net supports rows of satin ribbon, sewed to it along one edge and joined to a brim of lace held in place by fine wires. In the Review of Blouses WHAT we designate as sports skirts are not confining their usefulness to sports wear, but have extended it to all sorts of outdooring, including street wear. These snappy skirts require blouses that are designed for the same kind of service and a demand for attractive tailored blouses has been answered by the appearance of fine models in taffeta, pongee, crepe de chine and satin. As nearly all the skirts are striped or made of plaids and checks, the blouses are simply designed and plain. Some of them have lingerie collars and vestes by which means they may be always kept fresh looking, but the smartest style requires the simplest and most casual designing. A blouse of exactly this character appears at the left of the two shown above in a dark blue taffeta silk. Many of these taffeta blouses are made in the slip-on style with necks high at the back and having a shallow "V" at the front. They are finished with narrow, picot-edged ruffles of the silk as in the blouse pictured. Loosely adjusted girdles of silk, weighted at the ends with small balls or other ornaments are provided for them, but some times a narrow girdle, made of the material in the skirt, is worn instead. The three-quarter length, slightly-flaring sleeve is a favorite, for it is cool and practical, and pongee blouses in this same style are above criticism for style and utility. The satin blouse at the right is one of those that fills the same niche in the wardrobe. It is a shade less severe in style by the introduction of collar, vestee and sleeve finishings of embroidered batiste, which are all detachable and may be easily laun- Ribbons are making themselves useful in many directions on all kinds of apparel from head to foot of fair ladies and their children, but girdles remain the most important of their missions, increasing in beauty and ingenious designing each year. Two-toned satin ribbons, dark on one side and light on the other, inspire beautiful examples. One of these, a ribbon about five inches wide, has two loops at each side over the hips. These loops are six and seven inches long and a cluster of little ribbon roses is placed at their base. Long-painted ends are knotted a little below the waistline in the back. A similar girdle of light-colored, plain satin ribbon has hanging ends and loops at each side. It is made of sash ribbon and has flat, conventional flowers of ribbon set about the crushed girdle. Two-inch ribbons in the darker colors, bordered with very narrow, picot-edged ribbons in contrasting color make pretty sashes, brought about the waist and knotted at one side. Like all their companions they are bedecked with ribbon flowers in flat appliqué—one at each end and a row about the waist. dered. The shops show many of these collar and vestee sets, and sell by the yard materials for making them, so that blouses may be varied with different patterns in these accessories. For wear with handsome silk sports skirts, fine lingerie and georgette blouses are presented. "Sports skirts" is really a misnomer for the smart silk affairs, which provide with their corresponding blouses a substitute for afternoon frocks. Julia Bottomley COPYRIGHT BY WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION Easy Way of Making Dress Ruffles. Ruffles, wide and narrow, are going to be used extensively as trimming on the shorter wash dresses, during the coming summer, Organdie, dimity, volle, tissue, lawn, and even the heavier glingghams will be ruffled. For the home dressmaker the construction of an even ruffle is something of a problem. Even when one's sewing machine has a ruffling attachment not all requirements can be met. For the ruffle that needs some special adjusting, or in case of one's not possessing a machine ruffler, the tension of the machine may be loosened, the stitch lengthened, and the material to be ruffled simply stitched. This done the under-thread may be pulled up and the fullness adjusted wherever needed. The cape and cape dolman wrap is to continue through the spring, judging from reports from Paris and advance models seen here. J. R. CONTEE, Pres. and Mgr. Phone Main 6123—Day or Night Residence Phone York 7992 THE OLD RELIABLE DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING CO. INCORPORATED AND BONDED NOTARY PUBLIC FRANK S. 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