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SUBSCRIBE FOR THE ONLY RELIABLE PEOPLE'S PAPER IN COLORADO "THE COLORADO STATESMAN" THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RAGE COUNTRY PARTY LEADING WHITE WOMEN PLEDGE RACIAL GOOD WILL North Carolina Group Joins Southern Movement for Christian Race Relations. STRONG STATEMENT OF PRINCIPALS Special Emphasis on Protection of Women, Children and Home—Mob Violence Condemned. VOL. XXIX. LEADING WHITE WO PLEDGE I North Carolina Group J for Christian I STRONG STATEMENT Special Emphasis on Pre dren and Home—Mob ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 30.—(Special to THE COLORADO STATESMAN.)—Another important step in the South-wide movement for better race relations was taken when eighteen representative North Carolina women met in Raleigh on Oct. 12, accepted membership in the State Committee on Race Relations, and gave out a vigorous declaration of their principles and purpose. The personnel of the group was most notable, including outstanding leaders of the State Federation of Clubs, the State Welfare Board, and the big church organizations. It is doubtful if there could be found in the state another group of equal number having as wide connections and able to wield as great an influence. After a day given to earnest study of the interracial situation, the group drafted and gave to the public the following statement: "We are conscious of a world condition of restlessness in which race friction plays a conspicuous part. We cannot ignore the fact that this presents a problem in which the South is so acutely involved that we are conscious that the eyes of the world are upon us, questioning our course. We cannot shirk the responsibility of taking up the challenge, grasping the opportunity presented, seeking a solution to this problem and demonstrating it on our southern soil. "We believe that unrest existing between two different races dwelling side by side under the same economic system and the same government can be lessened, and eventually dispelled by a course of justice and fair play. When one race exceeds the other in numbers, in possessions and in opportunity, there is but one solution. As a Christian people we hold the elements of that solution. It lies in the cultivation of an attitude of fairness, of good will and a conscious determination to establish an understanding sympathy. "We believe that every human being should be treated not at a means to anothers' ends, but as a person whose aspirations toward self-realization must be recognized; that we must cherish racial integrity and racial self-respect, as well as such mutual respect as will lead each to higher moral levels, to mutual trust and mutual helpfulness. We believe that in this process certain values must be developed and maintained. "No family and no race rises higher than its womanhood. Hence, the intelligence of women must be cultivated and the purity and dignity of womanhood must be protected by the maintenance of a single standard of morals for both races. "The right of childhood to health and safety, to the training of body and mind in right habits and the soul in right purposes, is unchallenged. The childhood of every race must be safeguarded, for 'races move forward on --- the feet of little children.' "As a foundation for social security for all races the family ideal must be made possible by economic justice, by religious sanction, by legal safeguards and a single standard of morals. "We believe that violence has no place where people lend their support in every possible way to the agencies constituted by the people for the apprehension, trial and punishment of offenders against society. We resent the assertion that criminality can be controlled by lawless outbreaks, and woman's honor protected by savage acts of revenge. "We believe it our highest duty to pursue these methods toward harmonious racial adjustment. "We believe that bitterness, resentment and strife will yield to mutual trust only as we steadfastly cultivate in both races these attitudes and this faith in our common humanity. "To these ends we pledge ourselves." Similar organizations of women have been effected during the last year in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Texas. This enlistment of the women is generally regarded as one of the most significant phases of the good will work that is being done throughout the South by the Commission on Interracial Co-operation, which came into existence in 1919 and now has branches in every southern state and in 800 counties. "Halt the Outlaws," Says N. Y. Daily, Commending N. A.A.C.P. Fight Against Ku Klux "Halt the Outlaws," Says N. Y. Daily, Commending N. A.A.C.P. Fight Against Ku Klux UNDER the title "Halt the Outlaws," the New York American of November 17, publishes an editorial commending the fight of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people against the Ku Klux Klan and endorsing the appeal to Governor Miller of New York State, to proceed against that "anarchic body." The New York American's editorial reads as follows: "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People asks Governor Miller to do as Governor Allen of Kansas has done regarding the Ku Klux Klan. The latter has taken steps to suppress that anarchic body. "It appears that in Western New York the clamorous Kluxes are growing bold in their scurrilous denunciations of Catholics, Jews and Negroes. The National Association renders a service to law and order and decent Americanism in demanding official war upon so lawless, disorderly and un-American a body as the misguided Ku Kluxers. "Protestant Christianity and the Caucasian race need to be protected against their shrouded, over-realous friends. They can still guard themselves against their open enemies." DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1922. State Hist & Nat Hist Society State House ABLE PEOPLE'S PA ADO E JOURNAL DENVER, COLORADO, SATU Anti-Lynching Sentiment Fast Gaining Ground Twenty-two Lynchers Indicted in Georgia This Year—Four Convicted, Fifteen to Be Tried. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 14. (Special to the Colorado Statesman.)—That there has been a surprising increase of antilynching sentiment in Georgia recently and a growing determination on the part of Georgia people that the sanctity of the law must be upheld, was clearly indicated in reports made to the State Committee on Race Relations in its recent semi-annual meeting in this city. It was pointed out that during the present year twenty-two indictments have been returned against alleged lynchers and four convictions secured, carrying penitentiary sentences. Fifteen of these cases are still to be tried, most of them on the charge of murder, besides a number of damage suits growing out of injuries and losses inflicted by mobs. In one lynching case both the deputy sheriff and the chief of police are under indictment. The significance of these facts was emphasized by the statement that in the 37 years ending with 1921 there had been 430 lynchings in Georgia and that record of only one indictment in all that time had been found. The State and county race relations committees have been active in a number of recent cases, conducting investigations, securing evidence, and otherwise supporting local officials in their efforts to vindicate the law. The need of an effective antlynching law in the state was stressed and the responsibility for drafting and getting such a bill before the next legislature was delegated to a committee of eminent jurists headed by Judge Samuel B. Adams, of Savannah. Moton Given Ovation on His Return New York, N. Y., Nov. 24.—Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute, and who since the death of the late Booker T. Washington, has been hailed as the foremost spokesman of the Race, and Mrs. Moton and other members of his party were tendered a reception here last Wednesday evening, at the Y. M. C. A., in honor of his return from Glasgow, Scotland, where he spoke before the great Missionary Convention on the Negro question. The reception was a magnificent tribute to the leadership of Dr. Moton, and some of the most prominent men and women of the nation were present and joined in praising Dr. Moton for his work for racial good-will, and for the impression he made in representing the Race at the great gathering in Glasgow. NEGRO CONGRESS PROPOSED. Moscow, Nov. 26.—A congress of Negroes of the world, either at Moscow or somewhere in the United States, for the purpose of bettering themselves an asserting their rights, was proposed before the third internationale, which has devoted several days to the question of the Negroes. Women of America Respond to Call of Anti-Lynching Crusaders Margaret Deland Writes, Denouncing Lynching as Contrary to Christianity. THE Anti-Lynching Crusaders, an organization seeking to enroll a million American women in the campaign to end lynching in this country, today announced a widespread response to the call. Among those who have written, denouncing lynching are: Margaret Deland, novelist; Belle Caldwell Culbertson, president of the Woman's Inter-denominational Missionary Union, Washington, D. C.; Marian de Forest, of Buffalo, N. Y.; Ethel Stover, woman mayor of the town of Cokeville, Wyo.; Kate H. (Mrs. Arch) Trawick, Secretary, Young Women's Christian Association, Nashville. Tenn.; Rosacher M. Jones, of New York; Alice Thacher (Mrs. Louis F.) Post, of Washington. Miss Deland's letter to the Anti-Lynching Crusaders says in part: "If you care to quote me as saying that I think that lynching, irrespective of circumstances and of color, is a menace to our democracy, and that it is an absolute denial of the first principles of the Christian religion, you may do so." Mrs. Culbertson, of the Missionary Union, writes: "As a Southern woman from Louisiana, I am deeply sympathetic," and states that the "church women in Washington do most heartily and prayerfully endorse your righteous crusade for the abolishment of mob violence and lynching." Marian de Forest says: "You have my heartiest endorsement of the Crusade you are waging against lynching. It is a blot on our civilization which I feel sure the entire womanhood of America will seek to wipe out." Others who have endorsed the Crusaders are: Rosa Breeden, for three years head of Bethlehem House, Nashville, Tenn.; Mrs. Cyrus Beard, widow of the late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Wyoming; Florence C. (Mrs. J. A.) Blaisdell of Claremont, Calif.; Mrs. George H. Day, Sr., Hartford, Conn.; Mrs. Bolton Smith, of Memphis, Tenn.; Elma Ehrlich (Mrs. Lee J.) Levinger of Wilmington, Del.; Mrs. W. C. Mentzer of Cheyenne, Wyoming; and Miss Grace L. Plimpton, of Hartford, Conn. The Anti-Lynching Crusaders are hended by Mrs. Mary B. Talbert of 521 Michigan Avenue, Buffalo, New York, winner of the Spingarn Medal for 1921. Bishop Vernon Tells of Problems in South Africa Bishop Vernon Tells of Problems in South Africa New York, N. Y., Nov. 24.—Bishop Vernon of the A. M. E. Church, who returned from South Africa Tuesday, Nov. 14, on the steamer Majestic, spoke briefly on the important work for which he is responsible in South Africa at the welcome reception given in honor of Dr. R. R. Moton at the Y. W. C. A. Wednesday evening, Nov. 15. He This Passenger Stood for Rights This Passenger Stood for Rights Got Witnesses and Invoked Law Against White Invaders of Railroad Car. How a colored railroad passenger in South Carolina maintained his rights against white invaders of the smoking and wash rooms is told in a letter of Wm. H. Summerson of Darby, Pennsylvania, made public today by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "Leaving Charleston, S. C., Oct 29, 1922, on the Atlantic Coast Line R. R. for Philadelphia," says the letter in part. "I took a seat in coach 1014 which in appearance was the same as the one occupied by the whites. In the forward end of the coach were, on the left, Ladies Toilet and on the right, Ladies wash room. About 15 minutes after the train left Charleston, I noticed a young man go into the ladies' toilet, after coming out he then went into the ladies' wash room; about 10 minutes later two men did likewise. I at once thought something was wrong so I began to investigate and I found that the rear end of the coach, the smoking room with all accommodations for men had been taken over by the whites and our men were obliged to use the women's toilet and if they wanted to smoke, they had to go to the platform of the car to do so, and at one time six or more were there smoking while the train was speeding along. "Shortly after noting these facts, the train conductor came along and I asked him, 'what about the men's smoking room and their toilet in that coach,' and he said that we would have to use the women's and go to the platform, if we wanted to smoke. I then said to him that it was against the law of the Inter-State Commerce and taht I would report it. "Later I secured the names of a few witnesses which I here send you..... While I was getting these names the conductor sat 3 or 4 seats back of me talking to two white men. Shortly afterward they disappeared into the smoking room and a short while after that I noticed a change and the smoking room was vacated by the whites and turned over to us before we reached Florence, S. C." The N. A. A. C. P. commends Mr. Summerson for the way he obtained witnesses and his courage in dealing with the situation. stated that the vital problems confronting his church and the native people in South Africa demand his return to the continent after spending a short vacation in the United States. Bishop Vernon was warm in his praise of Dr. Thomas Jesse Jones, whom he met in South Africa while the latter was a member of the African Education Commission. In the course of his remarks Bishop Vernon stated that Dr. Jones had "opened the door" for him in South Africa by introducing him to prominent government officials, including Dr. C. T. Loram, member of the native affairs commission of the Union of South Africa, whose sympathetic co-operation has made it possible for him to enlarge the scope of his activities. NO. 7. Private funeral services were held at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 15, for William Robert Gaskin, the 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gaskin, at the family home, 1515 West Twenty-fourth street. The little son, who died Tuesday night, was the second of the children of the family to succumb to diphtheria within the last few days, Helen, a daughter, having passed away Nov. 8th. Other children in the home are at present fighting the disease. The funeral of Harrison Henderson, retired sergeant, Ninth Cavalry, was held Thursday afternoon, Nov. 16th, at A. M. E. Church. Rev. W. T. Thornton affiliated. Major M. T. Deane, a comrade of the deceased, delivered a commendable speech, coached in terms of warm praise on the life of Henderson. Harrison Henderson was born in Paris, Ky., in 1858. He enlisted in the U. S. army in 1893, completed thirty-seven years' service. He was a 33rd degree Mason, held the office as W. M. for sixteen years, died at San Francisco, Nov. 8, 1922. He leaves to mourn his death four nephews and one niece and a host of friends. While he reports at the portals of glory with the innumerable host of the blood bought, he was a Christian. Mrs. Susannah Pierson is seriously ill. Children from distant cities are at mother's bedside. Mrs. Mattie Crawley is confined by illness. Mesdames Chas, Rhone and Allie Smith were the gracious hostesses to friends in honor of Mrs. H. C. Jefferson. The event was Tuesday afternoon and evening of last week. Mrs. Jefferson will soon depart for Kansas to spend winter with mother. The nest of Ku Klux Klan in Cheyenne contains 213 members. Mrs. Benj. Davis, Mrs. H. J. Reed and niece, Miss Gaylord, were the hostesses to a number of friends of the Cheyenne Civic League of Colored People at an entertainment for benefit of colored people's pledge to the Laramie County Hospital. A large sum of money was raised to help the fund. Mesdames Davis and Reed are two enterprising women who have faith in unity and co-operation for those things which stand for the Race. Indianapolis Branch, N. A. A. C. P., Wins Spite Fence Case After Three-Year Fight White neighbors of Dr. Lucian Meriweather, a colored resident of Indianapolis, next to whose house they had erected a spite fence, ten feet high, have been compelled to remove it and to pay damages after a three year legal battle conducted by the Indianapolis branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Dr. Meriweather was awarded damages of $150 from one of his white neighbors and $350 from the neighbors on the other side. On November 17, 1922, after the defendants in the case had appealed to the Appellate Court, the decision originally rendered were affirmed. R. L. Bailey, of the executive committee of the Indianapolis branch, N. A. A. C. P., conducted the legal fight. The law under which the decision was rendered forbids the erection of any fence or other structure in the nature of a fence exceeding six feet in height, "maliciously erected or maintained for the purpose of annoying the owner or occupants of adjoining property." Dr. Meriweather who is a loyal member of the N. A. A. C. P., served overseas during the World War as a dentist. ```markdown ``` FOREIGN Former Prime Minister Lloyd George was unanimously elected leader of the National Liberals at the party meeting recently, in London. Thirty-four lives were lost in a collision between a launch and a ferryboat in the Parana river near Zarate, northwest of Buenos Aires. The House of Commons without division passed the second reading of the Irish constitution bill, after a debate in a single sitting without striking incidents. Six former cabinet officers and army officials convicted of high treason in connection with the Greek military disaster in Asia Minor were executed at Athens. The execution of the condemned men was by shooting. Lord Curzon, the British foreign secretary, recently authorized an official statement to the press that England supports the American "open door" policy in Turkey and regards the San Remo agreement for division of the Mosul oil district as null and void. Miss Mary MacSwiney, who has been hunger striking in Mount Joy prison, has been released. Her release came on the twenty-third day of her strike. She had refused to take food since her arrest, when she was seized during a raid on a house in Aylesbury road by nationalist troops who were seeking Eamonn de Valera. William T. Cosgrave, president of the Dail Eireann, said that the execution of Erskine Childers was inevitable, and added: "I fear there will be many more. We do not want these executions, and would give anything to avoid them, but there is no other course of opinion. The only people who can stop them are the irregulars themselves." Richard Washburn Child, chief American spokesman at the near eastern conference at Lausanne, amazed the other delegations by reiterating the insistence of the United States upon the open door policy in Turkey. He read the alde-memoire delivered on Oct. 30 to Great Britain, France and Italy, and said that the American government and public supported this policy. GENERAL Another series of earth tremors has shaken a very considerable area along the Chilean coast, covering largely the zone which suffered most from the earthquake of two weeks ago. His fighting blood up, the Tiger of France turned from the abstract to the specific while in Boston, answered his critics at Washington with barbed phrases and declared that what he really came to America for was to seek to draw the United States into the conference at Lausanne for the settlement of the eastern crisis. Seven of the fifteen convicts who escaped from the state prison at Marquette, Mich., have been captured, according to prison officials directing the search. Three of the convicts were found hiding in an abandoned brewery four miles from the prison and four were trapped in the hold of a tug beached at Portage lake. Fifteen convicts, four of them serving life terms, made their escape from the Marquette, Mich., branch prison. Later two of them were captured, the searchers being impeded by a heat, snow storm. Crawling through a steam pipe tunnel, which runs under the prison yard and one of the cell blocks, the fugitives made their way into the basement under the warden's residence by digging under three concrete walls and a steel door. Three men are seriously wounded, the First National Bank is wrecked, telephone and telegraph wires are all cut and $4,000 is missing from the bank safe at Gallatin, Mo., as the result of activities of six desperate robbers. The bandits were discovered at work by John Chamberlain, town marshal, while robbing the safe. Binding him, the bandits set off two powerful explosions of nitroglycerin, wrecking the bank. Miss Anna Lentz, who lives on a farm near Chilton, Wis., confessed that she had mailed the poisoned cany dy which caused the death of Mrs Frank Schnelder, a mother of eight children. She has been arraigned on a charge of murder. The confession was made and signed before Federal Postal Inspector Niles of Fond Du Lac. New York and New Jersey cities are being flooded with liquor from the Bahamas, Scotland and England, according to Frank J. Hale, an investigator for the prohibition department in New York City. He declared that a steamship had cleared from Scotland recently with 24,000 cases of whisky bound for the "whisky armada camping ground," four miles off the American const. Another sensational angle in the marital relations of Prof. John P. Tiernan and Mrs. Augusta Tiernan, principals in the Poulin paternity case, developed when the professor, whose degree of divorce from Mrs. Tiernan was invalidated by the South Bend, Ind., Superior Court following his marriage to Mrs. Blanche Brimmer, returned to South Bend and effected a reconciliation with the first Mrs. Tiernan. A plan for direct action by France as a solution of the reparations question has been submitted to a full cabinet meeting in the Elysse palace, with President Millerand presiding. The plan provides for seizure of the state coal mines and collection of the export taxes in the Ruhr district, together with absolute control of that section of the Rhine. Eighty-four lives were lost and sixty persons were injured as a result of an accident and explosion in Dolomite No. 3 coal mine of the Woodward Iron Co. at Birmingham, Ala. A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR-EIGN COUNTRIES. IN LATE DISPATCHES DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS OF THE AGE. WESTERN Mrs. Clara Phillips, convicted of murder in the second degree for killing Mrs. Alberta Meadows with a hammer, has been sentenced at Los Angeles to serve from ten years to life in the state penitentiary at San Quentin. W. G. McAdoo of Los Angeles, former secretary of the treasury, was arrested in Tulare county, Calif., and cited to appear before Judge J. S. Clack of Fresno to answer to a charge of speeding at the rate of fifty-one miles an hour. Twenty-six forest supervisors from Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, Michigan and Minnesota, will meet in Denver Feb. 5 to 10 for a discussion of timber sales and forest fire protection, according to Allan S. Peck, district forester of the Denver division. Burned to death in a straw pile was the fate which overtook Grover Redells, 2-year-old son of John Redells of Hysham, near Billings, Mont. The little fellow was with two brothers, aged 5 and 7, playing house in a fifteen-foot tunnel they had made into the straw pile. Members of the Colorado River Commission, through Commissioner Delph E. Carpenter of Colorado and Col. J. C. Scrugham, Nevada commissioner, paid a high tribute at the final meeting of the commission at Bishop Lodge in Santa Fé, to the work of Chairman Herbert Hoover and Executive Secretary Clarence C. Stetson in bringing about the final signing of the seven-state river compact. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, who directed the conference of the Colorado River Commission at Bishop's Lodge in Santa Fé, which resulted in the signing of an interstate compact governing the use for the basin of the waters of the river, issued the following statement after the adjournment of the sessions: "The big thing about the Colorado river compact is that it breaks the blockade on development of the whole river; it allows us all to go ahead with river development and with flood protection for the Imperial valley." WASHINGTON There can be no question that the Washington government views the present situation in the Near East with its threat against world peace, as a natural outgrowth of the commercial and economic rivalry among European powers that has kept the region in a ferment for years. Another move against the Ku Klux Klan was made in the House when Representative Hawes, Democrat, Missouri, introduced a bill to prevent the klan from sending unsigned communications through the mail. Hawes led the fight against the Ku Klux Klan in Missouri during the last campaign. "Shocked beyond measure," he said, over the manner in which the midshipmen of the United States Naval Academy conducted themselves in Philadelphia after the Army-Navy game there, Secretary of the Navy Denby ordered an investigation to determine the source of the liquor which he admitted flowed freely. Federal tax collections during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1922, fall off almost $1,400,000,000, or 30 per cent, as compared with the previous year, according to the annual report of the internal revenue bureau, issued in Washington by Commissioner Blair. Income and profits taxes collected during the year showed a decrease of $1,141,000,000, or 35 per cent. A Senate debate on the recent utterances of former Premier Clementeau of France took a sensational turn when a negro wearing the uniform of the United States army interrupted from the gallery a speech by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, ranking Democrat of the foreign relations committee, regarding alleged atrocities by black French troops in Germany. Senator La Follette, Republican, Wisconsin, declared in a statement in Washington that reports emanating from Phoenix, Ariz., concerning a telephone conversation with Governor Hunt, were "absolutely without foundation in fact" and "misleading in every detail." He had made no mention of "a third political party" in his conversation with the governor, Mr. La Follette said. Measures to relieve the financial plight of farmers and curb profiteers, particularly in food and clothing, were discussed with President Harding by Senator Watson, Republican, Indiana. The visit of the Indiana senator to the White House followed a conference in his office, at which a number of senators from western states talked over a possible legislative program acceptable to the West. This program was reduced to definite form at the conference, which was attended by nearly a dozen senators from states west of the Mississippi river. LATE NEWS From All Over COLORADO Wiley.—The newspaper plant of the Wiley Journal was recently destroyed by fire. Castle Rock.—The dedication of the electric light system here was attender by a general celebration. Denver.—William S. Cochran, Jr., was nominated recently by President Harding to be postmaster at Del Norte, Colo., and John H. O'Donnell at Sugar City. Denver.—Fumes from the exhaust of his automobile are believed to have caused the death of William Herman Hall, who was found dead in a private garage. La Junta.—In the game to decide the southern Colorado high school football championship, played between the La Junta Tigers and the Colorado Springs Terrors here, Terrors won by a score of 18 to 0. Hugo.—John J. Huddart, Denver architect, is drawing the plans for the Lincoln county court house to be erected in Hugo. The structure was authorized by a $90,000 bond issue passed recently. Colorado Springs.-Petitions asking the forming of a flood conservancy district on the Fountain creek, south of Colorado Springs, have been filed by interested property owners and irrigation companies. Castle Rock.—A health conference and exhibit was held at the court house in Castle Rock recently which included the free physical examination of children under 6 years of age and a practical program in health subjects. Denver.—Acting on the request of the National Bureau of Education, the American Legion and the National Educational Association, Governor Shoup has set aside the week beginning Dec. 3 as American Education Week. Pueblo.—Ames Wickes, a miner in the Red Canon coal mine, near Delta, Colo., was instantly killed when a portion of a 1,000-pound slab fell from the roof and crushed him. Other miners nearby escaped without injuries. Denver.—School children of Colorado, from one corner of the state to the other, are to be enlisted in the campaign against forest fire danger at the request of William B. Greeley, chief forester at Washington, D. C. Fort Collins.-Fort Collins High school won the northern Colorado interscholastic football championship here in a triangular pigskin tournament which proved one of the most sensational football contests ever staged here when it beat the Greeley Wildcats 7 to 0 and the Loveland Lobsters 2 to 0. Fort Collins.-A municipal recreation area has just been set apart for the city of Fort Collins by the U. S. forest service on the Upper Poudre river, embracing an area of forty acres. While this still remains a part of the Colorado National Forest, it is reserved and dedicated to the purposes of a recreation area for the city, upon which will be placed improvements costing in the neighborhood of $36,000. It is the plan of Fort Collins to develop this into an ideal mountain playground. Denver.—Wheat continues to be the most important crop grown in Colorado, both in acreage and value. Reports of county assessors to the State Immigration Department show 1,981,652 acres of wheat planted in the state for the 1922 harvest, which is the largest area ever planted in Colorado. Preliminary estimates indicate the production will be approximately 23,000,000 bushels, which at prevailing prices should be worth close to $20,000,000. The area devoted to wheat in the state this year is 34.68 per cent of the total cultivated area. Pueblo.—The will of the late Alva Adams, banker, merchant and former governor of Colorado, was filed in the County Court here and it gives no estimate of the value of the estate. Friends of the former governor say no estimate can be made until appraisers have checked up on the items. The will remembers relatives and friends of the late governor. Denver.—The Republican state central committee spent $119,533.42 during the recent campaign, according to a statement by George H. Shaw, Republican state chairman, filed with Carl S. Milliken, secretary of state. The report shows receipts of $119,725.70, of which $116,475.70 was from contributions and $3,250 from assessments of candidates. Pueblo.—A. E. Robertson, claiming to be the son of Alexander Robertson, president of the Aero Manufacturing Company, Nineteenth and Broadway, St. Louis, Mo., and wanted in Denver on a charge of "jumping" a bill of $93.80 at a hotel, was arrested in Pueblo when he registered for one of the most expensive rooms at the Vail hotel. He had only a cardboard suitcase as luggage. Hooper.—Oil came in at a well on the property of the Valley Oil Company, three miles northeast of here, according to Horace Means, president, and other officials of the company. The oil producing sand was struck at 2,260 feet after five days of drilling through thirty-six feet of cap rock. News of the well spread to Alamosa, Monte Vista and other towns nearby and brought hundreds of persons to what is believed to be a field that will surpass any in this region. According to Judge William Pike, the well may be merely a pocket. CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS. Denver.—The Great Western Sugar Company has begun to put its factories in shape to handle a beet crop next year that is expected to exceed in tonnage anything it has ever had offered by the farmers. Factories at Eaton, Greeyle, Windsdor, Brighton and Lovell, Wyo., have been shut down, and men are already at work preparing them for the big business expected in 1923. Plants at Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont and Billings will close in the near future. Those at Sterling, Brush, Fort Morgan and at four points in Nebraska will continue their operations until the beets are all sliced, and then they, too, will be put in condition. All of the Great Western factories have been run on a scale of about two-thirds of the production in 1921. Denver.—Colorado prize Hereford cattle won awards at Kansas City in the judging of a number of classes, and the ribbons won, including two firsts and one grand championship, was considered a great triumph for the Colorado breeders. The Baker ranch took a first and the grand championship in the junior yearling bull class of Herefords, besides several other lesser awards. Dewitt & Lamont took a first in the junior calves, Baker won second and Ken-Caryl ranch third. In the aged bull class W. N. W. Blayney won seventh, Dewitt ninth and Ken-Caryl ranch tenth. Denver.—William E. Sweet, governor-elect of Colorado, when asked to express the full meaning of his remarks pertaining to the enforcement of the Volstead act, as quoted from an address made before the Denver Optimists Club, explained his position as follows: "I hold tenaciously to the proposition that laws are made to be enforced, including the prohibition law, and I should look with favor on the enactment of any supplementary legislation which will help enforcement." Denver.—A decrease of 40 per cent in the annual cutting of lumber in Colorado is revealed in the figures for 1921 given out by the United States Department of Commerce. The report shows that 64,864,000 feet of lumber were cut in 1919; 67,847,000 in 1920; and 41,076,000 in 1921. Of the total cut for the last year more than 22,000,000 feet were of the yellow western pine tree, 8,680,000 feet of yellow spruce, 6,418,000 of Lodgepole pine, and 3,343,000 of all other types of trees. Denver.—The Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad will spend $22,268,000 on improvements within the next three years. Of this sum $16,700,000 will have been spent by Jan. 1, 1924. This was announced by Special Master Cass E. Herrington upon submission of his report to the United States District Court recommending the immediate expenditure of $7,000,000 on improvements. The expenditures will be made under the direction of the court. Trinidad.—Sheriff's officers here are prosecuting so far an unavailing search for Luther J. Smith, a negro coal miner, who shot and killed Charles Jones, another negro miner, at Pledmont, a camp near here. Jones body was riddled by bullets from a pistol and rifft, both of which, it is alleged, were used by Smith, who is said to have robbed the dead man of $26 in money before making his escape. Fort Collins.—The largest amount expended by any Larimer county candidate in the recent election campaign, as far as the reports have been received, was spent by the only Republican to be defeated at the polls. Fred W. Harris, candidate for sheriff, reports expenditures of $331.90. Denver.—Frederick Patterson Johnson, widely known stockman and publisher of the Record-Stockman, left an estate valued at $30,000, according to a petition for letters of administration filed in the County Court by James B. Foley, who is named in the will as executor. Denver.—Colorado is assured important rights under the seven states compact, apportioning the waters of the Colorado river, which was signed in Santa Fé, N. M. The rights guaranteed by the treaty include: Participation with Wyoming, Utah and Nevada in use of 7,500,000 acre-feet of the river waters. Protection of all water rights now existing in the Colorado river and its tributaries. The right of removal of the water from the basin of the Colorado river. Ample supply of water for Denver from the river or its tributaries. Use of water of the river or tributaries for domestic, agricultural, municipal or industrial purposes, but not to generate power. Denver.—Republicans are assured control of the lower House of the next State Assembly by a majority of one vote. Official counts, completed in all doubtful districts, give Republicans thirty-three and Democrats thirty-two seats in the House. In three doubtful districts — Clear Creek, Saguache and Teller and Park counties—Republicans were elected. In the fourth, that comprising Hinsdale, Archuleta and Mineral counties, a Democrat won. Denver.—Colorado Hereford herds will be represented at the International Live Stock Exposition at Chicago, Dec. 29, by seventy-seven entries from the herds of six exhibitors. Five Colorado exhibitors are showing at the American Royal and will go to Chicago from Kansas City. Fifteen head of Herefords will be shown by George W. Baker of Littleton. W. N. W. Blayney of Denver will exhibit twenty-one head, including three steers. J. D. Canary of Littleton will take his eleven head of show cattle on to the International from Kansas City. Phone Gallup 473 WELL BRO COAL COMPANY Wholesale and Retail N, COAL, WOOD AND SUPPLIES 38th Ave. Yards: Phone Gallup 473 CAMPBELL BROTHERS COAL COMPANY Wholesale and Retail HAY, GRAIN, COAL, WOOD AND POULTRY SUPPLIES Office: 1401 W. 38th Ave. Yards: 1400 W. 32d Ave. Phone Champa 7889 WESTERN SHEET COMPANY WARM AIR FURN REPAIRS FOR ALL FURNACES—SHEET CHIMNEY STACKS 920 NINETEENTH STREET DE BURN SHEET COMPANY IN AIR FURNITURE L FURNACES—SHEET CHIMNEY STACKS STREET DE REPAIRS FOR ALL FURNACES—SHEET METAL WORK CHIMNEY STACKS TELEPHONE MAIN 1511 HERE IT Jazz is being taken from muscle, caught it and am putting it SUITS Come in and See My Jazz GARDNER, T PHONE CHAMPA 1019 C. E. SMITH, Manager, The Market Wholesale and Retail Staple and F Hotels and Restaurants Our B Eastern Corr Fruits, Vegetables, I Telephones Main 430 622-636 15TH STREET CHARLOTTE CAP SHAPE A Single Mesh ..... Double Mesh, 15c; two for..... TAN OFF—MADAM WALK The Atlas The Five Points PHONE MAIN 875. IT IS from music, but I have not putting it into ITS My Jazz Styles. NER, THE T M, Manager, Res. Phone Market Co Staple and Fancy Grocery brants Our Specialty. Corn Fed Vegetables, Poultry and es Main 4302, 4303, 43 T OTTE HAIR SHAPE AND FRING two for RAM WALKER'S SK Atlas Dr Five Points Postal Sta JOB PROMPTLY A P. H. H PRAC PLUM C. E. SMITH, Manager, Res. Phone South 1608 The Market Company 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. Telephones Main 4302, 4303, 4304, 4305 622-636 15TH STREET DENVER, COLORADO CHARLOTTE HAIR NETS CAP SHAPE AND FRINGE Single Mesh .....10c Double Mesh, 15c; two for.....25c TAN OFF—MADAM WALKER'S SKIN BLEACH AT The Atlas Drug Co. The Five Points Postal Station. PHONE MAIN 875. 2701 WELTON On Given to VENTIH AGE. All Work Guar 1907 Arapahoe St. Special Attention Given to SEWERAGE. All V Phone Main 207 1907 Arap Special Attention Given to VENTILATION AND SEWERAGE. All Work Guaranteed Phone Main 207 1007 Arapahoe St. Denver. Col- Dorothy First Class Meals Served 2444 Washington St., Denver, Colo. one Gallup 473 ALL BROTHERS GOAL COMPANY Wholesale and Retail GOAL, WOOD AND POULTRY SUPPLIES Ave. Yards: 1400 W. 32d Ave. SHEET METAL COMPANY AIR FURNACES FURNACES—SHEET METAL WORK MNEY STACKS SEET DENVER, COLORADO 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 Denver, Colo. R, THE TAILOR 1025 TWENTY-FIRST Manager, Res. Phone South 1608 Market Company and Fancy Groceries, Fish and Oysters. Our Specialty. Fresh and Cured Corn Fed Meats Tables, Poultry and Game. In 4302, 4303, 4304, 4305 DENVER, COLORADO TE HAIR NETS ESPAE AND FRINGE 10c 25c WALKER'S SKIN BLEACH AT as Drug Co. Points Postal Station. 2701 WELTON JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO P. H. BALFE PRACTICAL PLUMBER LICENSED DRAIN LAYER Given to VENTILATION AND All Work Guaranteed 7 Arapahoe St. Denver, Col- Just received 1,000 of the season's latest styles of Woolens for your inspection and selection. W. K. HUNT We Have Velva Syrup, 35c and 55c Size. Don't for give u Thanksgi der. We plenty Dressed Ducks, Ch Sweet Spuds, the best the We handle nothing but the l PROMPT DELIVERY SE COURTESY AND SERVIC the best there are. ng but the best Meats. DELIVEY SERVICE D SERVICE TO ALL Sweet Spuds, the best there are. We handle nothing but the best Meats. PROMPT DELIVEY SERVICE COURTESY AND SERVICE TO ALL OF LOUISIANA HAS MADE HUNDREDS OF DOLLAR International Distributors, Memphis, Tenn. Dear Sirs: I have made hundreds of dollars and many friends selling Fair Plex Beauty Preparations and any honest man or woman can do the same. Whenever you sell Fair Plex Preparations you need not worry about future sales. If you don't call, the customer will come after the goods. Send today to the International Distributors, Memphis, Tenn., for positive proof that you, too, can make big money. THE IR GROWER Dressing and Grower. TS WANTED. Good Money THE STAR HAIR G A Wonderful Hair Dressing and 1,000 AGENTS WA send $1.00 and we will send you a full supply work with at once; also agent's terms. Send all money by money order to THE STAR HAIR CROW P. O. Box 812, Gree STAR HAIR GROWER A Wonderful Hair Dressing and Grower. 1,000 AGENTS WANTED. THE WORLD'S FINEST HAIR DRESSER you a full supply that you can begin nt's terms, order to R GROWER MF'R., Greensboro, N. C. send $1.00 and we will send you a full supply that you can begin work with at once; also agent's terms. Send all money by money order to THE STAR HAIR GROWER MF'R., P. O. Box 812, Greensboro, N. C. If you suffer with FEMALE TROUBLES, such as Ovarian Pains, Pains in the lower part of your Stomach, Bearing-down Pains, Headache, Backache, have a pregnant Periods. If you have that a regular fever, run-down feeling so common to women. If you have tried all kinds of medicines and doctors, and even though you have been told that an operation is necessary, YOU MAY BE MADE WELL BY STRING AGAIN. Write for FREE booklet of information and advice today. --- --- CHAMPA 3522 S. K. B. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished room for gentleman in quiet family within easy reach of two car lines. 426 Twenty-fourth street. Phone Main 7417. Two nicely furnished rooms for rent at 2917 Marion street. Gentlemen or man and wife. Telephone York 6250W. ARE YOU GUILTY? A FARMER carrying an express package from a big mail-order house was accosted by a local dealer. "Why didn't you buy that bill of goods from me? I could have saved you the express, and besides you would have been patronizing a home store, which helps pay the taxes and builds up this locality." The farmer looked at the merchant a moment and then said: "Why don't you patronize your home paper and advertise? I read it and didn't know that you had the stuff I have here." MORAL—ADVERTISE 2962 WELTON Don't forget to give us your Thanksgiving Order. We will have plenty Fresh Dressed Turkeys, Ducks, Chickens. DAN DUKES. Made We want agents in every city and village to sell THE This is a wonderful preparation. Can be used with or One 25 centa box proves its value. Any person that will use a 250 box will be convinced. No matter what has failed to grow your hair, just give STAR HAIR GROWER a trial and be convinced. Send 250 for full size box. If you wish to become an agent for this wonderful preparation. WEAK WOMEN ATTENTION THE PELVO MEDICINE CO. MEMPHIS, TENN. Michaelson's Corner 15th and Larimer Streets ○=○ ANY MAN—ANY AGE—WHO BUYS AN ADLER COLLEGIAN SUIT OR OVERCOAT AT MICHAELSON'S, IS SURE TO GET $10 OR BETTER VALUE AND BETTER STYLE, OR PAY $10 LESS THAN ANY OTHER MAKE WOULD COST HIM OF THE SAME HIGH GRADE. SHIPPING BILL GOES TO SENATE MARGIN FOR SUBSIDY LOWER THAN WAS PREDICTED BY SPONSORS. MARINE ACT PASSED BITTER FIGHT OVER MERCHANT MARINE BRINGS VICTORY TO REPUBLICANS. Washington. — The administration shipping bill, around which was waged the most bitter partisan fight of the present Congress, had 24 votes to spare. The final count was 208 to 184. Sixty-nine Republicans broke away from their party organization and opposed the bill, while four Democrats supported it. There never was much doubt about the result, but the margin by which it went through was much lower than estimates publicly given by most of the leaders. It was, however, just about what they figured on privately. In the face of threats to delay, if not prevent, its passage, by the Senate, the measure will go to the Senate committee which plans to accept it as passed by the House. Roll call from the states of Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico show the representatives voting on the shipping bill as follows: Colorado—Valle, Timberlake and Hardy (Republicans) voting for; Taylor (Democrat) against. Wyoming—Mondell (Rep.), for. New Mexico—Montoya (Rep.), for. The House, in the last stage of the battle, defeated an amendment by Representative Lanham, Democrat, Texas, designed to give the measure what he declared was its proper name. Mr. Lanham wanted to change the title of merchant marine act to the ship subsidy act of 1922, asserting that he has put forward the proposal in the "final hope that a spade may be called by its proper name." As passed by the House, no line was left in the bill relating to the subject of liquor selling on American ships. When the question was reached in committee of the whole, the Bankhead out-and-out prohibition amendment was put aside and a substitute offered by Mr. Edmonds accepted. It stipulated that if a ship on any particular voyage permitted the transportation of liquor, it could not share in a subsidy for that voyage. The House made a number of changes in the bill as reported by the merchant marine committee. One of them gave Congress the right to appropriate annually out of the merchant marine fund the money necessary to carry out the provisions of the act. Another provided that industrial ships, such as those owned by the Standard Oil Company, should not collect compensation on any portion of a vessel carrying cargo of the ship owners. The provision of the bill giving income tax reductions to shippers sending their goods abroad in American vessels was stricken out, and the House also stipulated that the steamship Leviathan should not be sold for less than the cost of reconditioning—$8,106,000. Purchasers of shipping board vessels would pay not less than $4\frac{1}{4}$ per cent interest on deferred payments, instead of 4 per cent, as originally stipulated in the bill, under an amendment adopted, and money loaned to prospective constructors would bring the government not less than $4\frac{1}{4}$ per cent interest instead of 2 per cent. Millionaire Agitator Is Released. Joliet, Ill.—William Bross Lloyd, wealthy communist leader, and six associates serving sentences of from one to five years in Joliet penitentiary for violation of the Illinois anti-syndicalism law, have been released from prison after serving eight days. The papers signed by Governor Small and commuting the sentences were presented as Thanksgiving gifts to the prisoners. Lloyd emerged from prison to be met by a flashlight barrage of cameras. Injured Steamer Reaches Port. Los Angeles, Calif.-The steamship Newport put into Los Angeles harbor with her bow torn open, the result of a collision with the steam schooner Svea off Port San Luis, Calif. Capt. George McKinnon said the Svea had attempted to cut across the bow of the Newport, which could not be reversed in time to avoid a collision. The weather was fair. No one was injured, and there was no panic among the fifty-three passengers on the Newport. Another Tax Payment Due. Washington—The treasury has issued a reminder that another payment of income and profits taxes is due Dec. 15. It estimated, a formal statement said, that the payment would bring in about $275,000,000. Not all of the payment, however, will be in cash, as under the optional forms of payment permitted, taxpayers may turn in, in addition to cash or checks, either treasury certificates of indebtedness maturing Dec. 15 or $4% per cent Victory notes. SOUTH DRIVERS CAFE TAXI Yell CHAMPA 410 NIGHT & CHAMPA 26 DAY TAXI Oldest in Denver 1865 CUPTIS STREET A VERY USEFUL CHRISTMAS GIFT The great desire and yearning for the Negro Race to know something about itself, its contribution to the world's civilization, its intellectual, political and financial standing, its Race relations and Inter-Racial Co-operation, its wonderful rise and advancement, and its recognition by the other races and nations since the late war, can be satisfied in a Xmas Gift of The Negro Year Book, 1921-22, to oneself or to a friend. This book, an encyclopaedia of the Negro, edited by Monroe N. Work, Director Department of Records and Research, Tuskegee Institute, is the standard book of reference on all matters relating to the Negro, and is the most extensively used compendium of information on this subject. Don't miss this opportunity of over a million facts for a very small price. Call Hewetson-Watson, COLORADO STATESMAN'S Office. Main 7417. Room 25, 1824 Curtis St. A BETTER CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR LESS. The wonderful military and naval achievements of the Negro in the late World's War is to be found in the authentic HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO IN THE WORLD WAR, by Emmet J. Scott, Secretary-Treasurer of Howard University, and formerly on the staff of the Secretary of War as Special Assistant. There is such a demand for this work that already thousands upon thousands of copies are in the homes of both colored and white people. It makes a better Xmas gift for less money, and any person or home without one should make a special effort to secure some now. We have a consignment just arrived and can supply your order. Call COLORADO STATESMAN, Main 7417, or a few minutes' walk or ride to 1824 Curtis street, Room 25, Western Newspaper Building, will secure your order. A splendid bargain for your money. A nice large front room; also a smaller room in private home, with all modern conveniences. Mrs. V. L. Fleming, 2732 California street. Phone Main 4379 Good, industrious men and women can make good money in a pleasant way in handling exclusive agency contract for International Distributors, Memphis, Tenn. Write them for free information about this great offer today. For Rent—Furnished rooms for gentlemen only. 2357 Ogden street. FREE THIS BEAUTIFUL HAIR STRAIGHTENING AND SHAMPOO COMB This Comb Is Well Worth $1.00 Solid Brass, wooden handle 8 1/4 inches long weight 4 ounces. given as a present to all who take advantage of our great BIG OFFER NO. 1144 JUST WRITE TO US AND SAY, I wish you a hair straightening and shampoo comb free. Send me particulars regarding your No. 1144 offer." Be sure and write your name and address lately and tell particulars will be sent you. Do not wait, write to-day for this offer will not last long. We are doing this to advertise Ford's Hair Pomade and Ford's Hair Straightening and Shampoo Combs. Address your letter to THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. WARSAW - - - ILLINOIS No Accidents GASAWAY WALTON. Owner The Faithful Workman. So long as men work as men, putting their hearts into what they do, and doing their best, it matters not how bad workmen they may be, there will be that in the handling which is above all price—Ruskin. "Sweetheart." It is not exactly known when or how this word came into use. The term was originally written in the form of two words, and it is found in literature as early as 1290. Washing White Furniture. If your white furniture is not enameled, it should be washed a little at a time with sansoap. If it is enameled, a neutral soap should be used. Each spot, as it is washed, should be thoroughly dried. Odd European Belief. In some parts of Europe, when there are several babies to be christened at the same time, the mothers insist on the minister baptizing the girl babies first, as otherwise when they grow up they will develop beards. Today's Wise Word. "The world is so full of the unexplored! To those who care more for people than places, around every corner is something new—a world only dreamt of, if that."—Cornelia Stratton Parker. Few Really Learn Life's Lesson. Life is the finest of fine arts; it has to be learned with lifelong patience, and the years of our pilgrimage are all too short to master it triumphantly.—Henry Drummond. Antiquity of Ocean Travel. The records of Aegean civilization point to the great antiquity of sea travel. Neolithic settlements excavated in Crête are believed to have been established by tribes from North Africa prior to 10,000 B. C. Chemical Warfare of Ceylon Ants. The standing army maintained by the white ants of Ceylon practices a sort of chemical warfare against insect enemies. They squirt drops of a secretion in the faces of other ants, which is said to drive them almost crazy. "Aunt Dorothy." The Dorotheum, known more familiarly as "Aunt Dorothy," is a state-owned pawnshop and auction room in Vienna, where a person can buy, sell or pawn almost anything. All classes use the Dorotheum. Training a One-Man Dog. A one-man dog can be reared only as follows: Take a mere puppy; allow no one to play with it, much less pet it. If anyone comes near it have him use a small stick and whip the dog—then when he comes to you, you pet the animal. That gives the dog complete confidence in you alone.—Adventure Magazine. Maine Cannot Grow Sugar Cane. Maine is the only state in the union where sugar cane cannot be raised. It grows there only a few feet high and the sap is not sweet. If all our cane sugar had to be raised in Maine it would cost about a thousand dollars a pound. Maine corn, on the other hand, is the sweetest corn raised anywhere. Ghosts In Parliament House. The ghost of Guy Fawkes is not the only spook of the British house of commons. The most famous, as well as the most sinister ghost of St. Stephens is the one called after Big Ben. It is certainly the best authenticated parliamentary specter, and it is said that on the day following each of its appearances a member of the royal family has died. DENVER, COLORADO Save Pennies Waste Dollars Some users of printing save pennies by getting inferior work and lose dollars through lack of advertising value in the work they get. Printers as a rule charge very reasonable prices, for none of them get rich although nearly all of them work hard. Moral: Give your printing to a good printer and save money. Our Printing Is Unexcelled YOUR PRINTING is A Valuable Asset of Your Business We Help Our Cus- tomers to Success With Presentable, Profitable PUBLICITY Salt Water Softened Cast Iron. Cast iron that had been covered by salt water for a century, when first brought into the air, could be cut with a knife. Art the Crown. Throughout the vegetable world, with only rare exceptions, growth is assured and sealed with bloom. So in matters social and moral, progress is not ended, nor all that we bring under that convenient term civilization, fully compacted and perfected, until set off with the coronal bloom of art.-Donald G. Mitchell. Paper for Car Wheels The bureau of standards says the only case it knows of where wheels are made out of papier-mache is in Pullman cars. Pullman car wheels have been made very successfully by gluing together a large number of plates of cardboard with two outside plates of thin metal and surrounded by steel tire. Lake Freezes in June Asahikawa and districts in Hokwakdo, Japan, suffered an unusual drop of temperature on June 24, 1922, all the lakes and streams freezing. Such an experience at that time of the year has only been recorded once before in those localities. That was 35 years ago when the rivers froze on July 2. Serious damage was done to crops. "Due Process of Law." The constitutions of the various states and the federal constitution contain no description of those processes which it was intended to allow or forbid by the various uses of the expression "due process of law." It is generally held to mean, however, law in its regular course of administration through courts of justice. Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in the City of Denver, Colo. Recognized by the Retail Merchants' Bureau of the Denver Civic and Commercial Association as an advertising medium. JOSEPH D. D. RIVERS..... Proprietor P. O. Box 116 1824 Curtis Street, Room 25 Phone Main 7417 SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One year ..... $2.00 Six months ..... 1.25 Three months ..... .75 MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE Reading notices, ten lines or less, 15 cents per line. Each additional line over ten lines, 12 cents per line. Display advertising, 75 cents per square for first insertion and 50 cents per square for each additional insertion. Remittances should be made by express money order, postoffice money order, registered letter or bank draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for fractional part of a dollar. Only 1c and 2c stamps taken. independent and that is to be self-sufficient. We cannot be self-sufficient unless we have a merchant marine of our own. We cannot have a merchant marine of our own unless the present ship subsidy bill or some legislation of a like nature is passed. Many of our citizens refuse to see this undeniable fact. It is difficult for them to follow the chain of cause and effect which produces it. For example, to a farmer in the wheat fields of Illinois or Iowa it is difficult to explain the necessity of an American merchant marine. He exports his wheat, however, and our exports depend upon ships. We have not got our own merchant marine. Of a necessity we have to depend upon the merchant marine of other countries. Quite naturally, furthermore, those other countries will simply handle our goods when it is to their advantage to do so. Should war break, should any stringency arise, this merchant marine would cease to be available, and our isolation would at once follow, with its coincident disasters. No real naval power is possible without both a regular navy and a merchant marine. The two are indissolubly linked, and either is crippled without the other. THE COLORADO STATESMAN, a real representative news organ of the people of Denver and Colorado, joins heart and hand with all our citizens in our gratitude for the great humanitarian, large-hearted and practical sympathetic action in the over-subscription to the Community Chest drive which resulted in so much success under the guidance and skillful leadership of genuine philanthropic men and women, who in their unselfishness live for others, and by action, not mere sentiment have caused our citizens to loosen their purse strings and given to the great and worthy CAUSE OF CHARITY as never before. Yes! This is an act worthy and meritorious of our celebration of THANKSGIVING DAY, and as the columns of this paper is always open to that charitable role which is beneficial to all the people, irrespective of class, creed or color, we again are proud of our Denver people, who are demonstrating to all America and the world that WHEN WE RESOLVE TO DO, WE DO. WE are again merging into the gay holiday season, that delightful time of the year when the more humanizing influences of life cause one to look forward to the happiness of others as well as ourselves. It is the gift season, rightfully so called, as we give thought to those things that beget lighter hearts and joyous expectations. The hallowed influences and sacred memories that make life worth the living steal upon us almost unawares in the night hours and cause us to arise in the early morning devoid of selfishness and intrigue. We give way to sensitive emotions as to what would best please mother or father, or sister or brother. What would delight baby and give to the cherished ones a true perspective of what a holiday season really means. Then, again, it dawns upon us how delightful it would be to gladden the heart of some friend by an appropriate token of love or fond remembrance. Our minds leap into space and annihilate distance as we think of loved ones far away. A decision must be made, and we at once consult the beautiful show windows and laden shelves of our inviting stores. We pass from the Thanksgiving season into the full glare of the Yuletide as we find here and simple mementoes or suggestive souvenirs that bespeak our sentiments and voice the yearning of soul. It is often said "Tis a privilege to live in Colorado." For convenience at this season of the year let us confine the privilege to Denver, for certainly no city can boast of more complete stores than ours. Every preparation is made to meet the needs and refined tastes of the holiday shopper. There is no need to consult the handsomely adorned catalogues of distinct stores, nor to go to the pains of comparing prices. Every comfort and happiness is at our doors. Courteous treatment and cheerful response to the prospective purchaser's every whim is the rule in Denver's shopping district. Intending purchasers will find it to their advantage to adopt the "shop early" habit, for the great variety of beautiful wares makes shopping both easy and profitable. The prices are moderate, the stock complete and the quality superior. Let us be your advisor; let us mail to you through the columns of THE COLORADO STATESMAN an invitation to visit Denver's incomparable shopping district. Let us urge that you visit Lewis & Sons Dry Goods Co., Joslin Dry Goods Co., The Denver Dry Goods Co., Scholtz-Mutual Drug Stores; Daniels & Fisher's Stores Co.; The May Co.; Gano-Downs Clothing Co.; Perini Bros., Hosiery and Ladies' Lingerie; Pattison Music Co.; Knight-Campbell Music Co.; Broadhurst & Young Shoe Co., and Hening Shoe Co.; Baur's Confectioner Co.; Cottrell Clothing Co.; Price-Mayer Trunk Co.; Jos. I. Schwartz Jewelry Co.; Stark Jewelry Co.; Bohm & Allen Jewelry Co. Visit all of these stores, and many others, in your leisure hours and report to us whether you have found the effort worth the while. We are willing to go on record as saying that you will get your money's worth in each and your innermost longings satisfied. 105,000,000 By EA There are more they are buying are sold to a small best sellers does no beans. There are two and in undertaking the scant supply to Toledo has never opened even a reel you will see how his salesmen never visit pay their way. The book business, tion. Outside of the south of Richmond. The second is can hardly be courteous forgotten the public free of cost, a situ There are two difficulties that militate against our selling more books and in undertaking an extensive campaign to promote reading: One is the scant supply of outlets. When you realize that a city as large as Toledo has never had a real bookstore and only two or three years ago opened even a representative book department in a department store, you will see how handicapped we are in the matter of distribution. Our salesmen never visit towns like Utica and Syracuse, because they cannot pay their way. The entire South, which is known as the graveyard of the book business, is practically foreign territory to our sales organization. Outside of Atlanta and Jacksonville there isn't a real bookstore south of Richmond. That is the first difficulty. The second is that the publishing industry is not a wealthy one and can hardly be counted on to supply a rich war chest. And then you have forgotten the public libraries which supply our public with literature free of cost, a situation that exists in no other craft in this country. In the long and virulent series of attempts to overthrow judicial review of the constitutionality of legislation from Thomas Jefferson to the present day, every argument was made that is now advanced against that American doctrine. Not a single new reason, not one item of historical knowledge, is now presented against the power and duty of our courts to set aside legislation that violates the Constitution, which was not adduced in the previous assaults. In the long and virulent series of attempts to overthrow judicial review of the constitutionality of legislation from Thomas Jefferson to the present day, every argument was made that is now advanced against that American doctrine. Not a single new reason, not one item of historical knowledge, is now presented against the power and duty of our courts to set aside legislation that violates the Constitution, which was not adduced in the previous assaults. THE COLORADO Supreme Court hewed commendably close to the line of common sense last week when it upheld the constitutionality of the Moffat tunnel act. By a sweeping decision concurred in by every member of the court the economic shackles were struck from the state of Colorado and a new era of prosperity assured every section of the commonwealth. All citizens alike will share in the improved industrial conditions certain to accrue from this stamp of legality placed upon the greatest project ever known to the state. Colorado, with all her wealth of coal and minerals and fine farming land, has been struggling against a mighty barrier between the western and eastern slopes of the state in the form of a great snow-capped continental range. So completely has been this separation that at certain times in the year virtual isolation has been the portion of those living on the western slope, and they were to us as residents living in some far away state. But this barrier has been removed, burned away in fact, by the magic of legal procedure that will now rivet the atten- Those who today are again making the same old attacks, use precisely, word for word, the identical language of extravagant denunciation which the enemies of our American judicial theory and practice employed during the first third of the last century. They said then, as their successors repeat now, that the Supreme court ruled America by means of "usurped powers"; that the national judiciary was a "despotic oligarchy"; that it was "an umpire of minorities," and that unless its power to overthrow legislation was destroyed the "monster" would destroy American liberties. The conflict to impair American institutions of orderly freedom is as old as the republic. Let us be as upright and as brave as those who, in their day, fought the battles of constitutional liberty; and, in our day defend against all comers "the faith of our fathers." --- THE COLORADO STATESMAN Entered as second-class matter at the postoffice in the City of Denver, Colo. Recognized by the Retail Merchants' Bureau of the Denver Civic and Commer- cial Association as an advertising medium. JOSEPH D. D. RIVERS P. O. Box 116 1824 Curtis Street, Room 25 Phone Main 7417 SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One year ..... $2.00 Six months ..... 1.25 Three months ..... .75 Reading notices, ten lines or less, 15 cents per line. Each additional line over ten lines, 12 cents per line. Display advertising, 75 cents per square for first insertion and 50 cents per square for each additional insertion. Remittances should be made by express money order, postoffice money order, registered letter or bank draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for fractional part of a dollar. Only 1c and 2c stamps taken. DENVER'S COMMUNITY CHEST DRIVE A SUCCESS. THE COLORADO STATESMAN, a real representative news organ of the people of Denver and Colorado, joins heart and hand with all our citizens in our gratitude for the great humanitarian, large-hearted and practical sympathetic action in the over-subscription to the Community Chest drive which resulted in so much success under the guidance and skillful leadership of genuine philanthropic men and women, who in their unselfishness live for others, and by action, not mere sentiment have caused our citizens to loosen their purse strings and given to the great and worthy CAUSE OF CHARITY as never before. Yes! This is an act worthy and meritorious of our celebration of THANKSGIVING DAY, and as the columns of this paper is always open to that charitable role which is beneficial to all the people, irrespective of class, creed or color, we again are proud of our Denver people, who are demonstrating to all America and the world that WHEN WE RESOLVE TO DO, WE DO. THE SEASON OF GAYETY. WE are again merging into the gay holiday season, that delightful time of the year when the more humanizing influences of life cause one to look forward to the happiness of others as well as ourselves. It is the gift season, rightfully so called, as we give thought to those things that beget lighter hearts and joyous expectations. The hallowed influences and sacred memories that make life worth the living steal upon us almost unawares in the night hours and cause us to arise in the early morning devoid of selfishness and intrigue. We give way to sensitive emotions as to what would best please mother or father, or sister or brother. What would delight baby and give to the cherished ones a true perspective of what a holiday season really means. Then, again, it dawns upon us how delightful it would be to gladden the heart of some friend by an appropriate token of love or fond remembrance. Our minds leap into space and annihilate distance as we think of loved ones far away. A decision must be made, and we at once consult the beautiful show windows and laden shelves of our inviting stores. We pass from the Thanksgiving season into the full glare of the Yuletide as we find here and there simple mementoes or suggestive souvenirs that bespeak our sentiments and voice the yearning of soul. It is often said "Tis a privilege to live in Colorado." For convenience at this season of the year let us confine the privilege to Denver, for certainly no city can boast of more complete stores than ours. Every preparation is made to meet the needs and refined tastes of the holiday shopper. There is no need to consult the handsomely adorned catalogues of distinct stores, nor to go to the pains of comparing prices. Every comfort and happiness is at our doors. Courteous treatment and cheerful response to the prospective purchaser's every whim is the rule in Denver's shopping district. Intending purchasers will find it to their advantage to adopt the "shop early" habit, for the great variety of beautiful wares makes shopping both easy and profitable. The prices are moderate, the stock complete and the quality superior. Let us be your advisor; let us mail to you through the columns of THE COLORADO STATESMAN an invitation to visit Denver's incomparable shopping district. Let us urge that you visit Lewis & Sons Dry Goods Co., Joslin Dry Goods Co., The Denver Dry Goods Co., Scholtz-Mutual Drug Stores; Daniels & Fisher's Stores Co.; The May Co.; Gano-Downs Clothing Co.; Perini Bros., Hosiery and Ladies' Lingerie; Pattison Music Co.; Knight-Campbell Music Co.; Broadhurst & Young Shoe Co., and Henning Shoe Co.; Baur's Confectioner Co.; Cottrell Clothing Co.; Price-Mayer Trunk Co.; Jos. I. Schwartz Jewelry Co.; Stark Jewelry Co.; Bohm & Allen Jewelry Co. Visit all of these stores, and many others, in your leisure hours and report to us whether you have found the effort worth the while. We are willing to go on record as saying that you will get your money's worth in each and your innermost longings satisfied. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY. THE COLORADO Supreme Court hewed commendably close to the line of common sense last week when it uhheld the constitutionality of the Moffat tunnel act. By a sweeping decision concurred in by every member of the court the economic shackles were struck from the state of Colorado and a new era of prosperity assured every section of the commonwealth. All citizens alike will share in the improved industrial conditions certain to accrue from this stamp of legality placed upon the greatest project ever known to the state. Colorado, with all her wealth of coal and minerals and fine farming land, has been struggling against a mighty barrier between the western and eastern slopes of the state in the form of a great snow-capped continental range. So completely has been this separation that at certain times in the year virtual isolation has been the portion of those living on the western slope, and they were to us as residents living in some far away state. But this barrier has been removed, burned away in fact, by the magic of legal procedure that will now rivet the attention of the entire United States upon forward looking, enterprising Colorado. The Supreme Court, by its righteous decision, has given us heart, has bid capital to again seek untold riches in Colorado, has beckoned the prospector to again invade the hills; has given an easily arrived at market to the stock grower and sounded the fathomless depths of the richest and most extensive coal fields in America. It has said in effect, there is no west, but one great big, indivisible sovereign state. The stagnant veins of commercial intercourse will now respond to the heart beats of united effort and enterprise. The Moffat tunnel project is known to all Coloradoans. It has been the object of merciless assaults by greedy, selfish interests for years. No argument against its necessity has ever been advanced, though superficial and all too powerful objections have abounded in plenty. Sectional jealousies have been added to the scheming purposes of rival combinations of capital. But Denver and those on the western slope never relaxed in energy. Convince a people that a cause is just and handicap can or will withstand the virtues of perserverance. The tunnel commission has given assurance that actual construction will begin at an early date. The occasion should be made one of great rejoicing and thanks-remained undaunted in the temporary blinding of their vision, has come true. David Moffat and many of his associates, who shared his great vision, have passed on. But the man and the occasion and the hour always survives. It must indeed be a happy day for William G. Evans who grasped and held aloft the banner of hope when death stilled the energies of his noted father, of Moffat, Dodge and others and led the vanguard of Colorado's hosts to a notable victory. To Gov. Shoup and Mayor Bailey, let due credit be given as far-sighted executives who carefully piloted the tunnel act through the Legislature. Their claims of its constitutionality have been justified and the tunnel commission can now proceed to issue bonds provided for in the act and break ground for actual construction work. Its completion, uniting the eastern and western slopes and opening up new empires of development, will mean a new day and a happy day for Colorado. Coupling this decision with the signing of the Colorado river pact by the nine tributary states, thus assuring the use of the waters of this great river to vast stretches of irrigable land, foretells the development of riches almost limitless in contemplation. Our state is destined for a larger growth in population and prosperous trade centers will be opened up at each end of the great tunnel. Viewing it from a somewhat selfish standpoint we trust that many of our group from the crowded centers of of states will feel the urge of opportunity and settle in Colorado to give and take of her wealth. But just as we are today proud of the character and make-up of our citizenship, so shall we be scrutinizingly jealous of those who may seek abode within our borders. THE COLORADO STATESMAN has ever held to an abiding faith in the future greatness of our state and today we stand upon an eminence of realization where in common with other forceful agents we behold the rising sun of a new day more radiant by far than any of those golden days that have gone before. The last immense barrier to progress has been burned away and the riches of a virgin empire unfolded to an astonished world. No Real Naval Power Possible Without Both Navy and Merchant Marine BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT, Assistant Secretary, U. S. Navy. The United States is a world power. Her commerce is spread over the seven seas. The prosperity of her people depends upon her exports and her imports. By no stretch of the imagination can she be said to have a closed cycle of trade. For a country doing the business that our country does, for a country the prosperity of whose people depends on such business, it is a most dangerous thing to have our carrying trade handled by foreign bottoms. CORPORATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA We always speak of the independence of our country. There is but one way we can be properly independent and that is to be self-sufficient. We cannot be self-sufficient unless we have a merchant marine of our own. We cannot have a merchant marine of our own unless the present ship subsidy bill or some legislation of a like nature is passed. Many of our citizens refuse to see this undeniable fact. It is difficult for them to follow the chain of cause and effect which produces it. For example, to a farmer in the wheat fields of Illinois or Iowa it is difficult to explain the necessity of an American merchant marine. He exports his wheat, however, and our exports depend upon ships. We have not got our own merchant marine. Of a necessity we have to depend upon the merchant marine of other countries. Quite naturally, furthermore, those other countries will simply handle our goods when it is to their advantage to do so. Should war break, should any stringency arise, this merchant marine would cease to be available, and our isolation would at once follow, with its coincident disasters. No real naval power is possible without both a regular navy and a merchant marine. The two are indissolubly linked, and either is crippled without the other. 105,000,000 People in This Country at Present Buy 100,000,000 Books a Year By EARNEST ELMO CALKINS, in Printers' Ink. There are more than 105,000,000 people in this country, and at present they are buying 100,000,000 books a year. The present 100,000,000 are sold to a small fraction of the total population, and the greatest of the best sellers does not reach as many homes as any one brand of baked beans. There are two difficulties that militate against our selling more books and in undertaking an extensive campaign to promote reading: One is the scant supply of outlets. When you realize that a city as large as Toledo has never had a real bookstore and only two or three years ago opened even a representative book department in a department store, you will see how handicapped we are in the matter of distribution. Our salesmen never visit towns like Utica and Syracuse, because they cannot pay their way. The entire South, which is known as the graveyard of the book business, is practically foreign territory to our sales organization. Outside of Atlanta and Jacksonville there isn't a real bookstore south of Richmond. That is the first difficulty. The second is that the publishing industry is not a wealthy one and can hardly be counted on to supply a rich war chest. And then you have forgotten the public libraries which supply our public with literature free of cost, a situation that exists in no other craft in this country. The Conflict to Impair Our American Institutions of Orderly Freedom By ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, Former Senator From Indiana. Emphasis on Social Justice's Golden Rule Duties Rather Than Rights By E. S. LINES, Episcopal Bishop of Newark, N. J. The church cannot countenance violent methods, or an unfair day's pay or an unfair day's work, or the breaking of agreements, but it may never lose its interest, nor forget its obligation in the master's name for the multitude in the hard places of life. The church must be able to give voice to the aspirations and hopes and desires of this multitude for something better in life for themselves and their children. Out from unspoiled homes are to come those who shall maintain the life of the church and the service of religion. The church has stood for charity and relief and mercy. Emphasis must be put on social justice and fellowship and the golden rule, upon duties rather than rights. No one can see the way in which our great cities have grown up with their homes of luxury and extravagance, wast and selfish comfort at one end, and mean streets and comfortless house and indecent conditions at the other end of the town, without feeling that it is semi-paganism rather than Christianity. The church must make its own the cause of the unprivileged people those who are in hard places in life, of those upon whom the existing social and industrial order presses heavily, while it must stand against injustice and unfairness on both sides. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS dries, preferential tariffs and commercial treaties and accounting. In addition, the commission has provided for the establishment of a New York office and for the conduct of investigations in foreign countries. TARIFF COMMISSION TARIFF RATES The work of the commission's staff is co-ordinated in an advisory board, which reports only to the commission, and is under its immediate direction. The chief investigator is chairman of the board and its other members are the chief economist, a representative of the legal division and the chief of the division concerned in the subject matter under consideration at any given time. WASHINGTON.—Complete reshaping of the organization of the tariff commission to meet the new responsibilities placed upon it by the tariff act of 1922 is announced by William 8. Culbertson, vice chairman of the commission. General investigations which the commission may conduct will be supervised by the chief economist, and special investigations made necessary by the new porters vested in the President will be under the direction of the chief investigator. Applications for investigation may be made by anybody. Under the commission there are now four board divisions—the office of chief investigator, the office of chief economist, the legal division and the secretary. The commission's organization under the direction of the chief economist and the chief investigator consists of a series of divisions, each with a chief and other experts, said Mr. Culbertson. They are chemicals, pottery and glass, metals, wood and paper, sugar, agriculture, textiles, leather sun- Explaining sections 316 and 317 of the new tariff law, Mr. Culbertson said the first was in the nature of a supplement to tariff rates, designed to protect American industry against unfair methods and unfair acts in the importation of goods. In Support of the U. S. Supreme Court CHARACTERIZING the movement to amend the Constitution of the United States so as to permit congress to override and nullify decisions of the Supreme court as "the most dangerously destructive doctrine that has been voiced in America since the birth of Bolshevism," the executive committee of the National Security league announces a nation-wide campaign of opposition. NO! AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SUPREME COURT The Security league's board of directors includes Lindley M. Garrison, Myron T. Herrick, Theodore Roosevelt, Frederic R. Coudert, John Henry Hammond, Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart, Dr. David Jayne Hill, Adolph Lewishon, Frederick J. Lisman, Morgan J. O'Brien, Maj. George Hayen Putnam, Louis W. Statesbury, S. Stanwood Menken and Booth Tarkington. and balances in this remarkable document are one of its outstanding features. "Foremost of these established safeguards for the preservation of the liberties granted and guaranteed by the Constitution is the power of the Supreme court of the United States. This should be inviolate. No less an authority than the great James Bryce declared that the power of the Supreme court to supervise, and, if necessary, correct legislative action, has been the salvation of the republic. The United States is the only representative government the founders of which had the wisdom to provide such insurance against hasty and ill-advised legislation." The statement announcing the league's campaign includes this: "The National Security league has always been in hearty accord with any constructive step to improve the American form of government and the administration thereof by legal means. "The Constitution of the United States is obviously the foundation of all that America means. The checks Gum Costs Americans More Than Navy least taxed for the navy. In such country districts the per capita cost of the navy seems to be about 25 cents a year. MIGHTY CHEAP PROTECTION "The federal taxes, although not so equally distributed as local taxes, are in total only about one-third of the whole taxation by state and nation. The navy absorbs about 8 per cent of the federal taxation, or $2\frac{1}{2}$ per cent of what the taxpayer has to find to satisfy all demands upon him. Those who do not pay large federal income taxes contribute comparatively little to support the navy. Those who pay small federal luxury taxes also contribute little to the support of the navy. "EXPENDITURES for the navy, like personal and national expenditures for everything else worth having by the taxpayers, may be termed a burden, but it is well worth carrying, and would be so if its cost were much greater," says Rear Admiral Rogers, of the executive committee of the general board of the navy. "However, the so-called burden is really much less than most people fancy. "As has been said often recently, the people pay more for the pleasure of chewing gum than they do for the substantial benefit derived from the navy. "Whatever burdens we inherit from past errors of unpreparedness, for the present and the future we must look on the current cost of the navy as a wise insurance against future wars thrust upon us and excessive cost and duration of war if it must come. Unless we change our national character we cannot avoid war if we are unarmed and a business rival insists on having his way contrary to our peaceful remonstrances. Adequately armed, our peaceful remonstrances will be enough." "While the per capita cost of the navy to the whole people is somewhat over $3 a year, I am assured by those who have looked into it more deeply than I have, and who deserve confidence, that the financial support of the navy falls unequally upon different regions of the country and that the districts about the Mississippi and to the west thereof, and particularly the agricultural parts of this region, are National American Engineering Museum AN ENGINEERING museum, the counterpart of the South Kensington museum in London, the Arts et Meliers in Paris and the German museum in Munich, is to be established by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution. It will be housed in the National museum at Washington. The society appointed a committee to co-operate in making a collection of historical material connected with Cornelius H. DeLamater and Capt. John Ericsson during their 50 years' association (1840-1890) in the DeLamater Iron works. These works were the largest institution of their kind in their day and there developments took place in naval, merchant marine, ordnance and industrial engineering "which helped materially to raise this nation from comparative unimportance to its recognition as the leading nation of the world, and yet of the details of this accomplishment there is no record." ing of the DeLamater-Ericsson historical collection in its National museum, but proposed the co-operation of the committee in establishing the nucleus there of a great national engineering museum. Notwithstanding all that the engineers have done for this country, it was not until 1920 that one of them, James B. Eads, was deemed worthy of being associated with the notables in other vocations in the Hall of Fame. The first monument to an engineer is only now being erected and will be dedicated to Capt. John Ericsson in 1924, adjoining the Lincoln memorial in Washington. The first engineer to be given a chair in a President's cabinet is Secretary of Commerce Hoover. In seeking for a permanent depository for this historical collection the committee conferred with the Smithsonian institution at Washington. The institution then not only solicited the plac Chapels eee | OLORADG\eZKSTATESMA La RADE ot : Gre BO tig, = CS? ene ea A eee A Sean eM ee I Ee Se pe Me es Mr. Titus 8, Rector is suffering this| THE DENVER COLORED Ci week with rheumatism in his hip, ASSOCIATION ANNUAL ELE! TION OF OFFICERS. Mrs. Effie Waldon left last week =a for Casper, Wyo., to spend Thanksgiv-| ‘The regular meeting of the Der ing with her husband, Colored Civie Association will be | at the Odd Fellows’ Hall, 2680 We "Te. street, Dec, 6, Wednesday even Madame J. T. Hammond, 1625 South | g.45, p.m, All members are urge Lincoln, returned home last week from| requested to come out early, as tl avery successful business — trip | will be business of much importa through the Middle West. to be transacted, together with — election of a president, vice-preside Miss Arula Cole, popular hair-| Secretary, ‘Treasurer and board of dresser and charity worker, is home! rectors for the ensuing year. We 1 again at 2546 Clarkson street, and| begin now to arrange for our g) mending nicely after a number of|@nnual Lincoln Douglass banquet. weeks’ illness, the result of a serious| every loyal member be present operation at St. Anthony's Hospital. Join in making the association a Mrs. Lance Ford arrived in the city last week from San Manteo, Calif., to spend a few weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, William Baxter, ot ‘Twenty-third avenue and Lafayette street. | —— Rey, Father H. BE, Rahming paid nis usual visit to Colorado Springs last Sunday, conducting services at the Episcopal Church, Dr. 8. A. Huff, one of our prominent physicians, is the possessor of the lat- est model Buick sedan car. ‘The doe- tor says there will be no impediment in going over the roads to visit his pu: tients early morn or late at night. Mr. and Mrs, Rob Ford Smith, Mrs. Kate Norton, Mrs. Myra Upshaw, Mr. Dan Struthers on Tuesday last mo- tored to Eaton, Colo., in the Smiths’ new Buick car, to be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Count Rogers at a luncheon. H. ANDERSON, the popular Five Points merchant tailor, of 720 East ‘twenty-sixth avenue, reminds the pub- lic of his specialty in gents’ fine tailor- made suits for Christmas, and hopes that his customers and patrons will not allow this special season’s oppor- tunity to slip by. His price and suits fit without a flaw. ‘Thirty Mississippians held a get- together meeting at Scott’s Church and elected Dr. A. C, MeKissack pres- ident and Mrs, A. J. Howard secre- tary. Another meeting will be held Monday evening, Dec. 4, at the Y. M. ©. A. 2800 Glenarm Place. “Any per- son claiming Mississippi as thelr na- tive state is eligible. GARDNER, THE TAILOR, of 1025 ‘Twenty-first street, offers a special price on all orders for Christmas suits at a competition-defying cost. My moderate prices being within the reach of all, my competent staff of workmen will complete orders to your satisfac- Hon EDWARD E. JOHNSON of 3609 Federal street, Chicago, Il, chef on the Rock Island Railroad from Chica- xo to Denver, was seriously injured Sunday, Nov. 19, haying been struck by an automobile. Mr, Johnson has been in the service of the railroad for several years and is well thought of by his employers. His many friends extend sympathy and hope for his speedy restoration to health. Mr, and Mrs. B. A. Danforth of Deerfield, Chapelton, Colo., arrived is the city this week and left after vis- iting friends, for Los Angeles, Calif, where they will spend a few weeks with their relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Danforth are among the Deerfield pio- neers, and they were successful in the trade of the TURKEY MARKET, having sent so many birds into town for this season. THE NEW DRY CLIMATE CIGAR. THE DENVER COLORED Civic ASSOCIATION ANNUAL ELEC. . TION OF OFFICERS. —_ The regular meeting of the Denver Colored Civie Association will be held at the Odd Fellows’ Hall, 2630 Welton street, Dee. 6, Wednesday evening, 8:15 p.m. All members are urgently requested to come out early, as there will be business of much importance to be transacted, together with the election of a president, vice-presidents, secretary, ‘Treasurer and board of di- rectors for the ensuing year. We must begin now to arrange for our great annual Lincoln Douglass banquet. Let every loyal member be present and Join in making the association a big- ger and greater organization for good. THOS. CAMPBELL, President. W. R, CHAPMAN, Secretary, REV. DR. EMMETT M. COHRON. Pastor of New Hope Baptist Church Groeseethe Bar. In recording the death of Rey, Dr. Emmett M, Cohron, late pastor of the New Hope Baptist Chureh, the words of the Psalmist, “Know ye not that a prince and a great man is fallen in Israel?" can be fittingly applied to this leader of a Christian flock, whose min- isiry in Denver, though of skert dura- tion, has left an ever memorable im- pression for moral and religious uplift of our community by his good and great work that he accomplished among all classes of our citizens. He was called to the New Hope Bap- tist Church in Denver April 2 of this year and departed this life Saturday, Noy. 25, after a brief illness, aged 64 years, 8 months, 2 days. He leaves a loving and devoted wife, eight chil- dren, three brothers, one sister and a large number of relatives and friends to mourn his irreparable loss. Funeral services were held from the New Hope Bapaist Chureh, Twenty-sixth avenue and Ogden street, last Wednesday, when a large and representative body of Denver citizens paid their last re- spects. ‘The sermon was preached by the Rey. A. C. Jackson, specially request- ed by the deceased. Resolutions of con- dolence from the trustees and all auxil- jaries of the church, also the Y. M. C. A. were read. ‘Phe remains were shipped to St. Jo- seph, Mo., last Thursday, for burial in the family plot. God's Ways are not our ways, and He only must be trusted. THE COLORADO STATES: MAN offers its deepest sympathy to the bereaved relatives, commending them to the care and protection of Him Who gives and takes: MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE. THE CRIMINAL FEW. THE COLORADO STATESMAN wishes to say without reservation that it greatly deplores the presence in our community of any class of criminals of any race that would be guilty of such a revolting crime as was evi- denced in the murder of George E. Miller at Globeyille Sunday night. And no mitigation of this statement will be employed, because it happens that two members of the Negro race have been arrested as suspects in the case. Clearly, facts are yet meager and we haye only the newspaper reports to the effect that the two men have made a complete confession, It is in no sense the purpose of this article to presume upon either the guilty or in- nocence of the accused men. Suffi- cient Is It to know that one of the most brutal and atrocious murders in the criminal annals of the city has been committed, and if the finger of sus- picion is pointed at one or more of our group it is our part as good citi- zens to aid in running down the guilty parties, whoever they may be. It Is a matter of good fortune that the ultra-vicious type of criminal has seldom made Denver an abiding place, and nothing will be lost and much gained if they never come here. ‘The consoling aspect of the case is that the accused will be given a trial be- fore a jury of their peers, who alone must decide according to the law and evidence. We must ask calm, dispas- sionate judgment prevail among the citizenry at large, for too often a crim- inal few can make conditions much harder for the major element make every effort to live up to the highest ‘requirements of citizenship. Inevitable. ‘A newspaper advises the young man to escape from labor troubles and other complexities of civilization by taking refuge on a tropic Isle. But when he got there he would probably find the coconuts cornered on the congolida‘ed coconut exchange, and the amalg-mated union of banana pickers engi...ering an island-wide strike—-Boston Transcript. DANIEL HOWARD WILLIAMS LAID AWAY_IN BOULDER. BEAUTI- FUL TRIBUTE PAID FORMER DENVER CITIZEN. The funeral of the late Daniel How- ard Williams was held in Boulder, Colo., last Sunday afternoon under the auspices of the Masonic lodge of that city and of Damon Lodge No. 5, K. of P. of Denver, ‘Phe services were im- pressively conducted by the Rev. A. C. Murphy of Boulder. Many Denver elt: izens, old-time friends of the deceased attended, and special pains were made to look after the comfort of all, Dan H, Williams was summoned by the angel of death Nov, 19, 1022, at 1 o'clock p,m. His illness was quite brief and little did his family und friends realize that the end was 80 near, He was a ploneer Colorado citl- zen, having come to this state in his early life, engaging in various occu pations. For a long time he was an active and useful member of Shorter A, M. B. Church, Denver, and most acceptably filled the position of class leader up to the time of his leaving that city. His friends and all who knew — bin speak of him as being every inch a MAN. ‘As un Odd Fellow, as a K. of P., as a Mason, his highest endeavor was to live the principles of these fraternal orders. ‘These, together with his faith in an All-Wise Heavenly Father, strengthened the roundness of his life and character and fitted him to be a good husband, a kind father and a worthy citizen. ‘The following resolutions were adopted by Damon Lodge No. 5, K. of P. of which he was an honored men ber: “Whereas, God, in His Infinite Wis- dom, has called ‘our beloved Brother D. H. Williams to his last reward, we the members of Damon No. 5, K. of Px do extend our deepest sympathy to his bereaved wife and family. “Resolved, That as a token of our respect and’ sorrow, a copy of these resolutions and condolence be sent to the bereaved widow and a record be ‘spread upon the minutes of the lodge.” His sufferings ended with the day, Yet lived he at its close, And breathed the long, long night away, In statuelike repose. But when the sun in all its state, Tiumined the eastern skies, He passed thru Glory’s morning gate, And walked in Paradise. J. W. TAYLOR, ©. C. WM. H. LEE, K, R. 8. REDDIE STEWART, V. C. He leaves to mourn his loss a wife and baby daughter and a host of friends. Their loss is Heaven's gain. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The basketball team, while failing to secure membership in the May Jun- ior League, has not lacked for games to play during the past two weeks, Some of the games were played against heavier teams, but the boys were fully able to take care of then selves. Manager Townsend feels 000 over the result. Our genial friend, W. E. Parks, aft: er serving two weeks on the jury, was laid up for two or three days from a vaccinated arm. He was up ‘Thanks giving, however, and is now all right again, The meeting last Sunday afternoon was addressed by Dr. S. A. Stripling. who told of the great progress made by the colored people of Tulsa in the rebuilding of thelr stricken town, He said that our people would be greatly handicapped until they had developed men of financial means, Nearly thirty boys, with their Big Brothers, will attend the annual big banquet of the Big and Little Broth: ers at the Adams hotel next Monday evening, Dec. 4. Nearly all the boys are “Y" boys. After the dinner they will be taken to a show at the Or- pheum theater. ‘The meeting to-morrow (Sunday) afternoon will be one of great inter: est to ladies. A good program will be rendered and Mrs. Fred O. Kelley, 1 lady from the East, will give an inter: esting “chalk talk.” Eyery gentleman is requested to bring a lady. ‘The meeting will begin at 4 o'clock. Ev: erybody Is invited. BOULDER NEWS. Daniel Howard Williams, Colorado Pioneer, Passes Away. Daniel Howard Williams departed this life Dee. 19, 1922, at the Univer- sity Hospital, Boulder, Colo., from an operation for appendicitis. He was a pioneer and well respected citizen of Colorado, He leaves to mourn his loss a wife, Mrs, Macgrudis Williams; 2 daughter, Evelyn Idell Williams, 3 years old, and a host of relatives and friends, He was a member of Damon Lodge No. 5, K. of P.; Arapahoe Lodge, G. U. O, of O. F., of Denver, Colorado and Golden Star Lodge and Court 108, F. A. A. Y., Masons, of Boul- der, Colo. Floral offerings were given by Masonic Lodges 104 and 98 of Den- ver, Colo.; Assistant Manager of the Hotel Boulderado, Mr, and Mrs. W. B. Pope, and Golden Star Lodge and Court 103 of Boulder, of which he was ‘a member, Resolutions commemorat- ing the fraternalism of Bro. Williams were read by the secretary of Damon Lodge, K. of P., and Mrs. Lillian M ‘Thompson of Golden Star Court No. 108 of Boulder, Colo. ‘The sermon, de- livered by Rey. A. C. Murphy, was very brief, but full of interesting facts con- cerning the life of the deceased. JOHN S. MORRIS, W. M., MRS. VINCENT SMITH, C. Sec'y. ©. M, E, CHURCH NOTES. ©, E. Chapman, Minister; Residence 2926 Glenarm Pl.; Phone Champa 4879-W. Last Sunday was an excellent day from every viewpoint. During the Sun- day School hour much interest was manifested and the lesson was well discussed, ‘The attendance during the Sunday School hour was above the average, ‘Two splendid and appreciative audi- ences were present both morning and evening during last Sunday, Rey. C. B, Chapman, minister in charge, was the speaker both morning and evening. ‘There will be the usual program next Sunday. Sunday School, 9:45 a, m.; morning praise and worship, 11 a. m.; evening praise service and workship at 7:30 p.m. Rev, ©. B, Chapman. will be the speaker at both hours, Morn- ing subject, “The Gractousness of the Words of Christ.” Evening subject, “Fame and Power.” A cordial invita- tion Is extended everybody. THE GUILD OF ST. PERPETUA PLEASES LARGE AUDIENCE WITH HIGH CLASS MINSTREL SHOW. ‘The first female minstrel show giv- en In Denver in many years held sway at Old Colony hall Tuesday night un- der the auspices of the Guild of St. Perpetua, and to say that it was a clean, high class performance is but to describe this meritorious show mild- ly. With bright, crisp and jaunty cos- tumes, well trained choruses, beautiful ballads, the jazziest Jazz, and spark- ling new jokes, the girls gave an ex- hibition of minstrelsy that would do credit to many professional companies. ‘Phe opening overture was a _pietur- ‘esque stage setting of perfect arrange- ‘ment and completeness. ‘The show pete with plenty of ginger and “pep” from curtain to curtain, and the large ‘audience that crowded every ayatlable oot of space in the hall showed its ap- proval by tremendous outbursts of ap- [plause atter each net. | Ferba Gross and Louise Mays were ‘a seream in a catchy dialogue sketch, ‘and Vera Walker, with a snappy cho- rus supporting, set the house in a pur- oxism of delight by her Jazzy singing. Senora Maxwell, she of the sweet voice, never falls to please a Denyer audience and her dancing was to the delight of all. Then came Jessie Roy and chorus singing “Nobody's Fool” with the latest dance steps aecompany- Ing that caused the audience to call them back for more, Edna King as “Uncle Ephraim” was the star attrac- tion in x typical plantation scene in which the whole company assisted. Her interpretation of the part was perfect and would do credit to many traveling artists, Perhaps the most striking feature was the chorus costumed in black aitwhite, and led by Nellie Banks. The ballad selection by Nin- eva Carson was a bit of artistic work that met popular approval and eaused her to respond to an enthustastte en- core, As an end man Isabel Brown was incomparable. She was a show within herself and a decided hit that kept the audience in an uproar when- ever she came upon the stage. Katie Montgomery was another funny end man, Josephine Harding, as interlocutor. was not only finished and artistic, but her costume was the most beautiful and becoming ever seen on a local stage. She acted her part to perfec- tion. Too much credit cannot be given Jessie Roy for having written the parts and training the — choruses ‘through long weeks of preparation ‘that gave to Denver amusement lovers ‘a show that will live long in the men ories of all who-attended. THE DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING COMPANY. Funeral Notices. SHIVERS—William Shivers Jr., the beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. William Shivers Sr., passed away Nov. 23, 1922, at the family residence, 2822 Lafayette street, Funeral services followed pri- vate. Interment was made in Fair- mount Thursday, Nov. 23, at 1 p. m. BURNLEY —Edmund S. Burnley, late of 1821 Columbine street, who passed away about Nov. 18, 1922. Re- mains will be forwarded to relatives In Fredricks Hall, Va., their final resting place. BINER-—George Biner, the beloved husband of Mrs. Laura Biner, depart- ed this life Nov. 25, 1922, at the late residence, 2786 California street. Pri- vate interment at Riverside Saturday, Noy. 25, at 1p. m. BARLEY—Henry Earley of 1030 ‘Twenty-third street passed away on Nov. 25, 1922, leaving to mourn his demise a nephew and niece and a host of friends. Funeral services held from the parlors Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 2p. m., Father H. Rahming reading last rites. Interment at Riverside. CARD OF THANKS. We desire to thank all those who rendered any service, in words of sym- pathy, flowers, or did anything what- soever to give comfort to our husband and father during his illness and death, MRS. BF. M. COHRON AND FAMILY. Two-room furnished apartment for man and wife. Phone Main 8069. SS yo eS pho a) rae Way 7 AS ye ge Pe. RS SERS) BL PIA ar \ 2 if we Met net te om er rd Early Gift /Ohoppers We've Arranged Special Displays for You in ‘ : Holiday Booksand Stationery Also Christmas Novelties and 1923 Calendars In the book department, postcard section and on the main aiste table near the elevators you'll find some very interesting things Monday. ‘And the prices are just as attractive as the displays themselves. Here are a few of the offerings: Post Card Calendars, 12c Each Attractively boxed Calendars in numerous designs. 12 Christmas Cards With Envelopes to Match, Boxed, 25c Pollyanna Gold Edged Correspondence Cards 24 Gold Edged Cards and matching envelopes. White and colors. Packed in a fancy ribbon-tled box..........--006sceeee eee ee ee SOC Pollyanna Box Paper 24 sheets of good quality paper and long, narrow envelopes to match; white and colors. An interesting picture is enclosed with each Specials in Books for Young People Many, Many Stories—A collec- All the Old Favorites—Beauti- tion of stories every boy and fully illustrated; appropriately girl will like. boxed; each at............50e My Big Book of Fairy Tales— Children's Board-Back Toy Carefully selected fairy tales, Books — Stories children love, Both fuily illustrated, each.75e | --19c, 29c, 39c¢ and 59c MAIN FLOOR CE QEXVER PRY GOODS EO ee If They Don’t Suit You They contain a blend of four kinds of Havana tobaccos, grown in four different districts of Cuba. These tobaccos are the cream of the Cuban Crop, aged and blended in a dry climate till just right and mild. Smoke any cigar that costs 25 cents. Then get from your | e e pry imate igars made this year. Smoke them. bands to us with your dealer’s name (before 60 days) and we shall Secure your six Dry Climate Cigars today Prove these state- ments or get your money back. | is Ci Co., Mak The Solis Cigar Co., Makers DENVER, ARCHIE M. STEVENSON SUM- MONED BY DEATH. Noted Political Warrior and Civic Leader Taken by Pneumonia. A. M. Stevenson is dead. The giant, stulwart figure that for more than a generation has loomed so conspicuous: ly in all activities of Denver and Colo- rado answered the final call last Mon- day shortly after noon at his home, 1756 Grant street, as a result of dou- ble pneumonia. Mr. Stevenson re- tured from a business trip to Texas on Wednesday of last week, suffering from a slight cold, to which he paid but little heed at first. He was at his office Wednesday and again ‘Thurs: day, but later In the day was forced to go home and take to his bed. His con- dition gradually grew worse until late! Sunday, when it was seen that the end was near, Early Monday morning he became unconscious and about the noon hour passed away, surrounded by his wife, his sister, Mrs. Hattie M. Shores; his daughter, Mrs. George D. Begole, and Mr. Begole, city auditor. Mr, Stevenson was one of Colorado's big men, physically, politically and in dynamic force. As un attorney, club- man and politician he took front rank with the great men who have helped to make up Colorado’s history. He stood high in the ranks of the Repulr lican party, and his counsels were ever sought in state and national con- ventions, He was loyal in his friend ships and equally uncompromising in his legal or political battles. During the transitional period from populism to a return of political sanity he was the storm center of many memorable contests. But his honesty of purpose was never questioned, and his judz- ments born of deep-seated convictions. Colonel Stevenson was born in Roth- esay, Scotland, Feb. 17, 1858, and he was G4 years old at the time of his death, He was held in high esteem by all who knew him, and he honored his chosen profession us a worthy inem- ber of the American Bar Association. By his death the state has lost a valu- able citizen, an earnest friend and natural leader. None knew him better than the Colorado Statesman, and our sympathies are earnestly extended to those bereaved ones who survive him. OBITUARY RECORD. boa) fie Viento blade eased cas int dent ch BELL—Chesterly Bell, Noy. 18, 1922, late of 1727 South Emerson street, be- loved husband of Ann A, Bell. | Pu- neral services were held Noy. 21 from the residence. Interment at Fairmount. COWAN—Emily Cowan, Nov. 17, 1922, beloved sister of Minnie Gunther of 2934 Larimer street. Funeral sery- ices were held Nov. 21 from the chapel of the Cammel Undertaking Company. Interment at Riverside. CARTER—Baby Carter, Nov. 22, 1922, infant daughter of Mr. and Mes Harold Carter, 2518 Lafayette stree Interment at Riverside. COHRON—Rev. Emmett M. Cohron, Noy. 25, 1922, pastor New Hope Bap- tist Church.’ Funeral services were held Nov; 29 at 2p. m. from the New Hope Baptist Church. Remains for- warded to St. Joseph, Mo., for burial. MASON—Bertha Mason, Nov. 2%, 1922, beloved sister of Lillian Morris. Funeral services Dec. 3 from the Cam- mel chapel at 1:30 p.m. Interment will follow at Riverside. INTERNATIONAL Christmas Gifts A LL wrapped in tissue paper and tied with ribbons bright. 'Course they're only little things, I'm not quite eight, you see. A handkerchief for Grandpa, I hemmed it ev'ry bit; A crocheted mat for Mother with scaloped edge, you know; Scrapbook filled with birds and beasts for little Brother Don; Reins for Baby Eleanor with jingly bells sewed on. They're wrapped in tissue paper and tied with ribbons bright. Hidden in my bureau drawer—the one that's locked up tight. —Elsa Gorham Baker in Successful Farming. THE CULTIVATED CHRISTMAS TREE BY CHRISTOPHER G. HAZARD 1912 WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION NCE there was a boy named Peter Mephibosheth Onondaga Cologos Cadwalader. It was such a long name that he would get out of sight before his mother could finish calling him, so she shortened it into "Pete." "Oh, Pete," or "You, Pete." NCE there was a boy named Peter Mephibosheth Onondaga Cologos Cadwalader. It was such a long name that he would get out of sight before his mother could finish calling him, so she shortened it into "Pete," "Oh, Pete," or "You, Pete." At the right time of year Pete wanted a Christmas tree, so he went to the woods to get it. Selecting a mountain ash tree, he was about to cut it down, when a flock of starlings disputed with him, claiming it as their Christmas tree and all its bright berries as their own. Then he considered a nut tree, but the squirrels were furious wanted to know where their Christmas would be if he took it. So the boy concluded that no one else would want the evergreen tree, with nothing on it but cones, and took that. Reflecting, however, that his tree did not seem likely to have anything on it worth while, Peter remembered what an old woodman had once told him about a wild tree that had responded wonderfully to cultivation, and resolved to see what could be done in his own case. His mother smiled when he made his plan known, but offered no objection as her son set the tree up in a box, supplied it ```markdown ``` with earth and enrichment and watered it from day to day. His frequent inspections did not much reward his hope; indeed, the tree seemed to be wilhering, and yet, on Christmas morning, there it was, all adorned and well supplied with gifts as beautiful as a barberry bush. It was strange, however, that withal there did not seem to be much happiness among the branches. Indeed, before long, Peter seemed as dissatisfied and fretful as though his tree had borne him nothing more than its wild cones. His mother felt a good deal disappointed, for she had hoped that Let us be practical, however, first of all. Let us wrap the parcels, especially the ones which have to go by mail or express, very securely indeed, registering them if they are valuable. Tissue paper first, and then good, strong wrapping paper, tied with stout cord or heavy elastic, is the best method. Reserve ribbons and fancy cards for the inside of the package, and remember that putting a seal over the fastening of a parcel prevents its being sent third class. For perishable objects use cardboard boxes. As for the packages which are to be delivered in person, however, or the inside of those to be sent by mail or express, you may exhaust your ingenuity to make them pretty. With a box, of course, it is always easy to use holly tissue paper and green and red ribbon and a sprig of holly or mistletoe; but a wrapped parcel always looks more clumsy. These seals, by the way, although they may be purchased very cheaply, still have a further touch of individuality when made at home. Do them on glazed paper and coat them, before cutting out, with mucilage that can be allowed to dry and then wet again when necessary. Three suggestions for designs are the bell and star, the Christmas tree with presents and Santa Claus with his pack. Many more to be drawn, touched up with watercolor and cut out, will suggest themselves to the reader. Finally do not forget to weigh all packages you mall. Nothing is more annoying than to have to pay for a package sent out by some careless friend. And keep a card catalogue of your Christmas presents. Then you will avoid the two pitfalls of forgetting some one or duplicating a gift—both horrible to contemplate. so wonderful a surprise would be as happy a thing for him as it had been for her; but she could think of nothing better, so that the Christmas celebration began to seem like a failure. Mr. Cadwalader, however, had a suggestion to make. He said that he thought that the tree had not been cultivated enough, and that if Peter would invite some of his young friends in he thought they might get a good deal of pleasure out of things even yet. When the little company had assembled and Mr. Cadwalader had distributed some packages that he had placed on the tree there was a merry time over the games that he knew how to play, and a wondering when he disappeared into the hallway, promising to come back all dressed up in a minute and take the three gifts off that were left on the tree and see what they were and who they were for. They hardly knew the jolly man who came back, after a little, all in red, with white whiskers and paper snowflakes in his hair and on his coat, as though he had come in out of a snow storm. Little Dorothy Avery, the smallest of them all, jumped up and leaned on her crutch as she exclaimed: "I know him, he's a friend of mine, mistaking him for Santa Claus, but the older ones did not correct her mistake. Whoever he was, he made them a little speech and wished them a merry day and began to take off the three remaining gifts. In his speech he said that he felt sure that there must be a good deal of happiness on that tree, because God had made it, hope had planted it in the box, faith had watered it, affection had filled it with fruit, but, as they not yet had the best things that cultivation could produce, he SANTA Madeline got this second present and seemed very glad of it. Then the third gift was taken down and presented to Peter. It was only a note, all done up in an envelope, but it helped him to see why the party had made him happier than he had been when he was all alone with his tree, for he did not only read the note, but also the sweet meaning when it said: All trees are Christmas trees that bear the care of love and love of care. To cultivate Christmas tree Plant it in love and let it be. Gold for misfortune it will keep. So Peter found out all that the old woodsman had meant when he told him about cultivating trees. Raisln Quick Candy. One and one-half cupfuls sugar, $ \frac{1}{2} $ cupful chopped raisins, $ \frac{1}{2} $ cupful roasted almonds. Heat the sugar in frying pan over a low fire, stirring constantly until it becomes a golden brown sirup. Remove from fire and quickly stir in raisins and nuts. Poul on inverted ungreased pans. As it is beginning to harden mark into squares. PACK GIFTS WITH CARE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS SHOULD BE WRAPPED WELL. Parcels to Go by Mail and Express Need the Careful Attention of the Sender. IT IS all very well just to wrap an ordinary package in paper and tie it securely with string, but with a Christmas gift it's different. Somehow the Christmas sentiment oozes out even to the out side of the package, and we must take just as much care in "doing up" our parcels as in making IT IS all very well just to wrap an ordinary package in paper and tie it securely with string, but with a Christmas gift it's different. Somehow the Christmas sentiment oozes out even to the out side of the package, and we must take just as much care in "doing up" our parcels as in making or buying them in the first place. Wrap the gift first in white tissue paper; then roll it in white bristol board; and then cover it with green or red crepe paper. Tie around it a bow of ribbon in the contrasting shade, stick through this a sprig of holly and a card of good wishes, fasten at the ends with Christmas seals, and there you are! The very ribbon with which your gifts are tied can be stenciled with a design more original than the inevitable holly of the shops. The red border and the mistletoe wreaths and stars make one pretty pattern. The process is the simple one of ordinary stencelling. With your gift send some pretty card expressing your affection for the recipient. A good idea, especially with a book or some other gift of the sort, is to send instead of a card a little blotter calendar. It consists of two or more blotters tied together with a bow of holly ribbon, a calendar pad for 1922, and a picture (a post card will do, but the subject must be suited to your friend's tastes) fastened to it on the other side. The fastening may be done by clips or by sealing wax. A slip of paper with a Christmas greeting should also be added. The blotters may be red and green or they may give the colors of some club or college in which the donor or recipient is interested. Above all, wrap your presents with a kindly thought—or do not give any at all. Removing Water Spot. Some silks and wools are spotted by water. A satisfactory method for removing such spots is to dampen the entire material evenly and press it while still damp. Either sponge the material carefully with clean water or shake it in the steam from a briskly boiling tea kettle until it is thoroughly damp, then press it. Her Happiest Day K IS MAN'S FRIEND Volcano Wrongly Considered as an Enemy. Furnishes Carbon Dioxide, Without Which There Could Be No Animal Life Possible. It might be a surprise to many to be told that the fire-spitting, lava-spouting, earth-rocking volcano is one of mankind's best friends rather than his arch enemy, but such was the surprising declaration to the conference of geography of the National Education association of Boston. The most tremendous volcanic eruption of history, that of Mount Katmal in Alaska, in 1912, described in this connection by Dr. Robert F. Griggs, leader of several parties sent to the scene of the cataclysm by the National Geographic society, and who discovered the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Katmal's neighbor wonder of nature. Mankind's debt to the volcano has been more fully recognized by results of recent researches, says a bulletin of the society describing the upheaval. Without volcanoes, it is now believed, there would be no ocean, and to volcanoes we are indebted for carbon dioxide, without which life could not exist. The explosion of Katmat, the conference was told, was unnoticed because it was so far from the centers of civilization. Had the eruption occurred near New York city, the bulletin declares, the sulphurous fumes would have polluted the air everywhere east of the Rocky mountains; the noise would have reverberated like an artillery duel across the central states. The lower Hudson itself would have been turned into a gigantic tomb. However, due to the lack of population in that far region, there was no loss of life, and the eruption provides scientists and geographers now one of their greatest opportunities to study the phenomena of the cataclysm. Though generally unaware of the eruption until long after, every inhabitant of the country, and almost of the world, felt its effects, one of which was the cold damp summer of 1912. This was caused by the interception of sunlight by the long-hanging dust cloud in the upper air. Even in cloudless Sahara, it was declared, the sky was overcast. A succession of such mighty explosions could plunge the earth into another ice age, it is believed. An area around Katmal, larger than the state of Delaware, was covered that summer by more than a foot of volcanic ash, which was enough to destroy all but the hardiest of vegetation. When the explosion occurred two cubic miles of material were blown off the top of the mountain, and the present whereabouts of the mountain top is still a mystery to scientists. The Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, from which arises virtually millions of steam jets in a scene of unsurpassed grandeur and beauty, is believed to have been an aftermath of the cataclysm. President Wilson turned aside from the stress of war to make this region a national monument second to none in the world. While the country is so remote that the few white men who have viewed its wonders have been members of the society's expeditions, the educators were told, it is easily accessible from a sheltered bay christened in honor of the society, and a 50-mile roadway will some day place it within the compass of the automobile tourist. Gallantry. Caught in a sudden and unexpected shower, the Woman slipped into a protecting doorway. As she watched the progress made by the bolder pedestrians and those equipped with numbershoots she noticed, down the streets, a boy about fourteen years of age who appeared to be struggling with a woman. She seemed to be embracing him, much to his disapproval. After a moment he managed to release himself. Pushing the lady from him, he removed his coat, and, like a real Sir Walter Raleigh, wrapped it about her shoulders. Not content with the bestowal of his coat, he then picked her up bodily and continued on his way. As he did so he turned in such a manner as to expose her pedal equipment, which proved madam to be merely a dressmaker's form—probably a "perfect 36." A. Busy Spot. Twenty years ago Londoners, proud of the size of the city and the dimensions of its traffic, used to point to the fact that Clapham Junction was the busiest railway station in the world—on an average a train a minute passed through it. Now that record is doubled at the underground station at Earl's court where 120 trains an hour pass through during the rush hours, and at Charing Cross, with its three underground stations in one, there are often four and on an average three trains a minute. Soap From Cornmeal A new soap has appeared on the market, which is made from malte or cornmeal, according to the Scientific American. This soap is made in various forms for use in the home and in textile plants. It is claimed that the soap will remove spots, dirt and all sorts of stains and smudges from the skin and from all the different textile fabrics. The soap is cheap and its action is very rapid and thorough. It lathers well and may be used with hard water. The soap is made in the United States. ```markdown ``` THE COLORADO STATESMAN ```markdown ``` the Mouth-Piece the People of Colorado and the Entire West RELIABLE chronicle of their doings and gress; a faithful mirror their wants, their hopes, ir best aspiration. 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