Colorado Statesman

THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY DEMOCRATS TRIED TO MAKE NEGRO SOLDIERS "PIONEERS" VOL. XXX (Lincoln Service.) Washington, Jan. 1.—General Frank S. Dickson, former congressman and adjutant-general of Illinois, reveals an interesting story of Democratic duplicity and discrimination toward colored soldiers. After the 400,000 colored defenders of the country had been mustered out from the service, the Democratic Secretary of War determined that they should not be permitted to enter the federalized state militias, except as "pioneer" units. That is, they were to do ditch-digging, kitchen policing, sanitary cleaning and other menial occupations. In short, as a slap to the valorous aspirations of the Negro soldier whose achievements form a conspicuous part in the history of all our country's wars, the Democratic administration would arm him with a broom instead of a gun. This was a set Democratic policy. "I was adjutant-general of Illinois after the war," said General Dickson, "and was proud when the old 5th regiment returned from France covered with honors. Hundreds of the boys remained in Flanders Field. The city, of Chicago named a street after one of its officers who lost his life. Of course, the regiment no longer existed as a unit of the National Guard, and Colonel Duncan set out to organize the outfit in conformance with the nationalization plan of the United States government. Recruiting went forward with the Illinois regiments, but the Eighth was the first to fill its quota. I congratulated Colonel Duncan and his staff and issued the equipment. "Then, like a bolt from a clear sky came a letter from Secretary Baker saying that colored regiments would be accepted by the national organization only as pioneer units. I was astounded. Here was the 8th regiment, the pride of Illinois, coming home from France, covered with glory, only to be disgraced by the country it served. I came immediately to Washington, and was told by the Secretary of War that it was deemed best that the Negro in the future should be allowed to do only the dirty work of military activities—clean up camps, dig ditches, etc. By the Democratic plans for the Negro soldier, the pick and shovel would be mightier than the sword. "The deduction was so cold-blooded that it chilled me and actually hurt my soul. I could not speak for a minute and then everything boiled up within me and I told him: "Mr. Secretary," I said, "I believe this is the most flagrant insult ever imposed upon a group of loyal soldiers. The idea of making sweepers of veterans is entirely too much for me. If this rule stands, I will return to Chicago and muster the old Eighth out of the service and place the responsibility on your head. Those brave boys shall not be camp cleaners while I am head of the Illinois military organization." "When they saw I meant business," continued the fighting general, "they changed their plans in reference to the Eighth and gave me a letter making it a combat unit, and it is for this reason alone that it was done." FEMALE EMPLOYMENT IN CITIES (Lincoln News Service.) New York, Jan. 1, 1924.—With 40, 484 colored females ten years of age and over, gainfully employed, this city ranks in first place, followed by Washington, with 28,588; Philadelphia, with 27,792; Baltimore, 26,893; New Orleans, 22,305; Chicago, 20,755; Atlanta, 16,743; Memphis, 13,835; St. Louis, 13,526; Richmond, 13,084; Birmingham, 12,044; and Louisville, with 11,246. In no other city does the number of colored females reach 10,000. Secretary of Labor Praises Phil Brown's Work Secretary of Labor Praises Phil Brown's Work (Lincoln News Service.) Washington, Jan. 1, 1924.—Hon. Jas. J. Davis, secretary of labor, made the following announcement on the death of Mr. Brown: "The death of Phil H. Brown, commissioner of conciliation in charge of Negro economics, inflicts a distinct loss, not only upon the government, but also upon the Negro race and the Republican party. He has served with unfailing faithfulness to the best standards of his country, his party and his race. I believe that Phil Brown has done as much as any other colored man of his generation to encourage the members of the Negro race to play their rightful part in the political life of the country and to keep their political activity on the highest moral plane His recent survey of the Negro migration contributed, perhaps, more than any other factor, to an intelligent understanding of a difficult national problem. With a sense of genuine personal loss in Phil Brown's death, I wish to pay this brief tribute to his memory." Doctors to "Blacklist" Negligent Patients (Lincoln News Service.) Washington, Jan. 1.—The possibility of Washington physicians establishing a "black list," composed of patients whom they consider able to pay, but who steadfastly refuse to, is imminent. It has been proposed that once every three months physicians would send in to a central bureau the names of those patients who have refused to pay them. These names would be kept on file and whenever a physician received a call to new patients he would call the bureau and find out their status. It is claimed that such a bureau has been found to work satisfactorily in Chicago. The local doctors have no desire to list the names of poor people who cannot pay, but are after those who waste their money on luxuries and then refuse to pay for medical services rendered. DENVER, COLORADO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1924 State Hist & Nut Hist Society State House ABLE PEOPLE'S PA ADO E JOURNAL DENVER, COLORADO, SA SHORT CUTS There are nearly three million colored females of voting age. Among the South Sea Island savages there are no customs which include kissing. Georges Carpentier, the French boxer, is coming to this country to fight "Battling" Sikl. French styles in next summer's cloaks and gowns and dancing slippers will be decorated by ribbons and beadwork made by native Africans. Compulsory participation of every student in some form of athletics or physical education has been recommended by the president of the University of Illinois. It is now claimed that the great age which Methusaleh reached was due to the fact that he lived so slow that he could not accomplish much under a thousand years. Prosperity under the Republican administration has been echoed by Paesident Rea of the Pennsylvania railroad, who says that the company this year handled successfully the heaviest volume of traffic ever moved by any railroad system. In his annual report to the President, just made public, Postmaster-General New cites a most gratifying decrease in the postal deficit amounting to approximately $30,000,000 from the previous year's deficit, all of which is welcome news to the taxpayers. Houston, Texas, leads in the number of divorced colored females, 15 years of age and over. Chicago ranks in second place and is followed in the order named by Memphis, Birmingham, Louisville, New Orleans, Nashville, Dallas, St. Louis and Kansas City. There are 43,265 more pupils in the public schools of the Philippines this year than last year, according to a report of the bureau of education at Manila. It appears that the future citizens, if not the politicians, are being greatly benefitted by the American governmental control. Senator James E. Watson, of Indiana, in a letter to the Unity League of Indianapolis, said: "I am not a member of the klan or any affiliated organization," and that he believe all men are created equal, without regard to race, color, creed or nationality. The senator stated that he believes in the Constitution of the United States and that he has always upheld it. Whether political blocks will resolve into legislative blocks is one of the questions which the meeting of Congress will decide. Albert LaRue, 86 years old, who drove the hearse bearing the body of Abraham Lincoln in the funeral at Philadelphia, is dead in that city. Ida Cox, famous colored "blues" composer and singer of Atlanta, Ga., delighted an exlusively white audience there last week with her inimitable rendition of some of her latest songs. Steinhardt, alleged rent gouger of New York, who failed to furnish sufficient heat and water to thirty ten $1,700, was given a thirty-day jail sentence, which he preferred to paying a nants, paying a monthly rental of $500 fine. Ships arriving at Havre from Africa in the last two weeks were found to be carrying scores of colored passengers and a few whites suffering with a malady known as alstrim, a species of Kaffir fever, very much resembling small pox. --- WOMEN VOTERS (Lincoln News Service.) Washington, Jan. 1, 1924.—The 775,000 colored women of voting age, who live in the northern and border states, will be interested in the following general statement recently made by Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, the noted woman leader, who is serving as vice chairman of the Republican National Executive Committee. "In the coming national campaign," said Mrs. Upton, "women will play as important a part in the ranks of Republican organizations as men. They will be held accountable for results in whatever fields of the organization they are placed. Women are Republicans for the same reason that men are Republicans, and they should appreciate the fact that they, in common with the men, reap benefits equal with men from any policy which operates to the prosperity and welfare of the country, and they suffer equally with men from any policy which, because it is economic or short-sighted, brings depression to business, idleness to industry and suspicion and hatred to the hearts of the people." This statement will appeal with force to the 170,000 colored women who are gainfully employed in the manufacturing and mechanical industries; in trade; in professional service; in clerical occupations, and by the transportation systems of the country. And it will also influence the thousands of colored women voters whose husbands have found steady employment in industry through the curtailment, by a Republican administration, of the flood of European immigrants who for years have stood in the way of the industrial advancement of colored wage-earners. Mrs. Mary Wood, colored, recently turned over to the police of New York City a diamond necklace set with eight-two stones which she found on one of the city's busy corners. The necklace, valued at $3,500, was claimed by a white woman, who paid Mrs. Wood $100 reward for its return. The barking of a dog in an alley in New York City led to the discovery of Samuel Wilson lying seriously injured in the basement of a building. Wilson, who was employed in the building, had fallen down a thirty-foot air shaft and had lain alone all night in the basement. Condition serious. After several trips abroad Roland Hayes made his first appearance on November 6, as soloist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Boston. The Boston Transcript said: "His singing prevailed over the orchestra and he was recalled by applause that was general, hearty and significant." Only about fifty Negroes were in the audience. Edward H. Wright, brilliant Chicago lawyer, named by Governor Small as a member of the Illinois Utilities Commission, will receive 7,500 a year. This is the outstanding appointment accorded to a colored man. As special attorney to the Utilities Board of Chicago under Mayor William Hale Thompson, Wright received for a year the modest stipend of $100 a day. Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick," a heavy hickory cane with a star in one end, is now the property of James Bailey, footman of one of the Washington, D. C., department stores. Three days before the President retired from office in March, 1908, he took the "Big Stick" and an autographed picture of Mrs. Roosevelt and presented them to Bailey, who uses the cane regularly. Remarkable Prosperity of Kansas Colored Farmers Remarkable Prosperity of Kansas Colored Farmers (Lincoln Service.) Washington, Jan. 1, 1924.—A typical case of the progress being made by colored farmers in western states is found in Kansas in what is known as the "Hutchinson District." In this district, which comprises several counties in the southwestern part of the state, the 172 pioneer colored farmers who have found their way from the South to this agricultural Eldorado, operate approximately 41,000 acres, or enough land, if placed acre to acre, to make a strip one mile wide and 64 miles long Of these 172 farmers 116 or 67 per cent are owners, or, In other words, there are as many owners among this small group of Kansas farmers as there are among the 5,461 colored farmers in Leflore county, Mississippi. But Kansas is an attractive state, especially for colored men who know how to farm, as is indicated by the fact that out of a total of 1,135 colored farmers in the entire state, who operate about 177,000 acres valued, with buildings, at nearly $10,000,-000, about 710 or 62 per cent of them are owners. In only four other states having 500 or more colored farmers is the percentage of ownership higher, and these are, in the order named, West Virginia, Michigan, Ohio and Virginia. Concerning the value of the farm produce raised in the "Hutchinson District" last year, the Hutchinson News says: "The produce raised last year (in that particular district) had a value equal to twelve times as much as all the gold produced in Alaska last year; eight times as much as all the gold and silver mined in Colorado; it was $24,000,000 more than all the copper produced in Arizona; nearly twice the value of all the iron ore mined in Michigan; nearly three times as much as all the coal mined in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma combined; three times the value of all the granite quarried in New England, and four times the value of all the petroleum produced in Pennsylvania last year. It is fortunate for those colored pioneers that they located in such a prosperous part of the country where law and order obtain, and where their success depends wholly upon their individual efforts. If more of our men who know how to farm and who really prefer an agricultural to an industrial life could be directed to the farming opportunities in such states as West Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas and Washington, their lives would be much happier and they would doubtless be of more service to their race and country than as residents of ghetto districts in highly organized industrial centers where the competition is too keen to permit of matrial advancement for men of their training SECRETARY WORK SECURES APPROPRIATION FOR HOWARD (Lincoln Service.) Washington, Jan. 2.—When the secretary of the interior included $500,000 additional appropriation for a new laboratory for the Medical School of Howard University it was cut out by the budget committee But Secretary Work, who is indefatigable for the extension of educational facilities of colored physicians, fought it out and it was returned to the appropriation. NO.12. Cheyenne, Wyo. News Cheyenne, Wyo. News Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Birney entertained at dinner on Christmas day. The invited guests were: Mr. and Mrs. James Randle, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Peniston, Mr. and Mrs. Poole Turner, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bragdell, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Green, and Mr. Frank McCombs. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Green entertained a number of Denver friends at a Christmas dinner party. Mr. Burke is ill at his home in South Cheyenne. Jack Allen of Howell, Wyo., is visiting friends at Georgetown, Texas. Miss Etwood Troutman entertained at the home of her mother, Mrs. Mattie Crawley. This was a birthday party. A Christmas tree furnished a brilliant center of interest to the guests. The guests were Mesdames George Spates, Hazel Crosby and Mr. Jordon Davis. Mrs. Hazel Crosby was hostess to her friends at an elaborate dinner Christmas. The cuisine was delicious, the service solid silver. The fortunate ones to attend this brilliant affair were Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bryant, Mesdames, George Spates, Armes Anderson and Miss Rosa Belle Knight. Miss Rosa Belle Knight entertained a host of friends at a New Year breakfast. Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Taylor entertained in honor of their daughter, Miss Beatrice McMillen, at their home, 3620 Jackson avenue, on Thursday, Dec. 27. Mr. Robt. Rhone entertained a host of his friends in the home of his parents on Dec. 29. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Smith entertained friends att heir home, 623 West Nineteenth street, on Dec. 28. Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Dean entertained on Dec. 26. Mr. and Mrs. James Smith entertained on Dec. 25. Mr. John Horn of Florence, Colo., is a visitor at the home of his children Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Horn, 620 West Tenth street. Te ladies of the Searchlight Club held New Year reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Rhone on Jan. 1. The home was beautifully decorated with the club colors. Luncheon was served. Frontier Lodge No. 285, that gallant herd of Elks who have made it worth while to live in this community, received their friends from 8 to 11 p. m., Jan. 1. Their hall was decorated with Elks' colors. A delicious repast was served. Dancing was one of the pleasant features of the evening. The guests departed vowing the Elks the best entertainers. THE SALUTATION OF THE DAWN Night, with sable, somber sorrow, Folds her records in mem'ry's book Unrolls her scroll for a glad tomorrow And points to visions down life's brook. O brook from out that hazy future, Where the down bursts into morn, Let me rise without conjecture And top the hill ere day is born. Let me there in that soft twilight Where a profound stillness reigns, With a solemn declaration plight Deliverance to all in chains. Thus while on the hill enshrouded By the glory of morning's dawn, Let me see the orb unclouded Wake the ignoble sleeping fawn. Wake him from his rank stagnation For the duties that follow dawn, Thus aroused—with self abnegnation— Will greet the dawn on the upland lawn. Patience, now the dawn is breaking In the east 'tis glowing red; Thus the dawn salutes your greeting; Act—act the night is dead W. R. HERNDON. FOREIGN Fifty-four hours a week for the next year is the minimum working period set for all state officials and employees in a governmental decree just issued in Berlin. Ambassador Hanihara has taken up with the State Department in Washington questions raised by Pacific Coast state land laws, according to a dispatch from Tokio to Jiji, the Japanese paper in Honolulu. The heir to the crown of Jugoslavia holds the distinction of being the youngest colonel in the army of the nations of the world. Having recently reached the age of seven weeks, his elevation to the military rank of regiment¹ commander coincided with his christening. Opposition to extension of the coastwise shipping laws of the United States to the Philippines, as recommended to President Coolidge by Chairman Jones of the Senate commerce committee, was expressed by Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Senate. Type composed by Warren G. Harding in the office of the Fairbanks, Alaska, News-Miner will be forwarded to the Harding Memorial Association if the organization at its coming meeting in New York accepts the offer, W. F. Thompson, publisher of the newspaper, has announced. The series of devastating avalanches in the Alpine region of Switzerland is continuing. A number of houses were swept away at Le Sepey, in the canton of Vaud. The bodies of a man and his wife who occupied one of these dwellings were found, enveloped in their bedclothes, 500 feet away. Herr Gruetziner, the expelled president of the Rhine provinces, was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment by a French court-martial on the charge of resisting Franco-Belgian orders. Minor sentences were imposed on a number of German police officials. Herr Pohl, a former German submarine commander, was among those sentenced. GENERAL The Columbia Graphophone Manufacturing Company, which went into bankruptcy October 15, filed a schedule in Federal Court in New York listing $23,910,405 liabilities and $18,637,931 assets. The Geological Survey announced that the daily average production of crude petroleum in the United States in November amounted to 2,150,866 barrels, an increase of 22,576 barrels over the daily average for October. District Judge George W. Clark disqualified himself to hear the motion of J. C. Walton, former governor of Oklahoma, to quash indictments pending against him, and Judge C. C. Smith of Logan county was assigned by the State criminal Court of Appeals to conduct the hearing. West Virginia's new state tax of 2 cents on each gallon of gasoline sold to retailers will yield approximately $1,000,000 a year, according to estimates of Grant P. Hall, state tax commissioner. The tax went into effect July 26 and figures have just been compiled of the returns for the month of August, showing a yield of $102,449 for the month. Billy Miske, St. Paul heavyweight pugilist, died at a Minneapolis hospital after a week's illness from an acute attack of Bright's disease. He was 29 years old. Although Miske had suffered from a chronic condition of the disease for four years, he did not become seriously ill until recently. He spent Christmas with his family in St. Paul but collapsed the next day and was taken to the hospital. Saturday he became unconscious and remained so until his death. Miske's ring career was full of action. He had engaged in 114 ring battles and has been knocked out but once. His illness had twice forced him to retire from the pugilistic arena. Canada's per capita consumption of spirits is decreasing sharply, but that of beer, wines and tobacco has remained fairly constant, the annual report of the Department of Customs and excise showed. In 1869, the earliest figures available, the per capita consumption of spirits was 1.124 gallons The highest mark was reached in 1874 with 1,994. In the last fiscal year it stood at .219 gallons. The figures for the previous year was .360. Four special trains carrying $12,000,000 worth of silk, the largest and most valuable shipment ever to cross the continent, arrived in Chicago over the Burlington railroad a few days ago. The consignment comes from the Orient by way of Seattle and will be run through to New York intact. The silk is being transported in baggage cars and the trains are being operated on faster than regular passenger train time, the run from Seattle to Chicago being scheduled at sixty-eight and one-half hours. There are forty-six cars in all, two trains of eleven cars each and two of twelve each. Each train is accompanied by twenty-five armed guards. Canadian raidroads heretofore have carried much of the silk shipments. Dissolution of the Copper Export Association, formed soon after the war to dispose of surplus copper stocks, will take place early in January. Major producing interests will be segregated into the original selling units, with foreign sales conducted independently by the companies. Dissolution was agreed upon when certain members announced they would withdraw the first of the new year. It was said remaining producers felt that the remnant of the association would be open to attack by the government as a price-fixing organization. THE WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS 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 Fire of undetermined origin at Medford, Orc., destroyed the Page theater, with an estimated loss of $100,000, caused the death of Amos H. Willett, 30, prominent Medford business man, and grave injuries to Roy Elliott, Medford fire chief. William Wrigley, Jr., drove the first rivet at the laying of the keel of the Catalina, a $1,000,000 vessel being built at San Pedro, Calif., to operate in the tourist trade between the mainland and Catalina island. The Catalina is being constructed for the Wilmington Transportation Company, which is controlled by Wrigley. The coroner's jury at Santa Barbara, Calif., in the case of Maj. Geo. W. Fishback, and his wife, who were killed when their automobile was struck by a train a few days ago, returned a verdict that death was due to an unavoidable accident. Major Fishback was retired from the regular army and at one time was one of the owners of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Two loggers, Jack Baxter and J. L. Goeden, employees of the Herman Marquardt Lumber Company of Hot Springs, Mont., were killed almost instantly when on an icy hill they lost control of the truck, log laden, while trying to shift gears. The men jumped to the ground on the lower side of the truck when the car rolled over. They were caught beneath 2,000 feet of logs. Three convicted oil land operators received prison sentences in the Federal District Court at Los Angeles. Martin J. Cullen and R. C. Dennison were given six years each in McNeil Island federal prison and Thomas V. King two years. They were convicted of misuse of the mails in the sale of reputed worthless oil lands in Antelope valley under the name of the Great Angeles Oil and Land Corporation. WASHINGTON A formal call was issued at Washington for the fifth annual convention of the National League of Women Voters, which is to meet in Buffalo, April 24. The convention signals the opening of an intensive nation-wide campaign "to get out the vote" for the 1924 election. League officials expect every state to be represented. More than 1,000,000 square miles of territory may be added to the United States as the result of the navy's projected expedition into the Arctic Circle, it was declared at the navy department recently. This big expanse of land, most of it covered with ice—is believed to be between Alaska and the North Pole. Argument in favor of barring Japanese from the United States was made at a hearing before the House Immigration committee by Representative Miller, Republican, Washington, who declared that the immigration laws should place Japanese on the same basis with Chinese. Admission of Japanese, he said, is having the result on the Pacific coast of increasing racial friction which might lead to an "unpleasant situation of national scope." Deaths from diabetes showed a considerable increase last year, it was shown by census bureau statistics. There were 17,182 deaths from diabetes in 1922, compared with 14,933 in 1921 and 14,062 in 1920, in the registration area, comprising 85 per cent of the country's population. The death rate was 18.4 per 100,000 population last year, compared with 16.2 in 1921 A demand for "reform" within the Ku Klux Klan was made in Washington by E. Y. Clarke, formerly high in the councils of the organization, and was met by a statement from Milton Elrod, director of the department of publication and education of the Klan, that Clarke for months had been attempting to "destroy" the order. Mr. Clarke made known his position through a letter to President Coolidge, offering to co-operate with the executive in ending the activities of "an element" which he said is converting the klan into an organization far different from that planned by its founders, and through announcement of his intention to call "the better element" either to take hold and "remedy the existing evils" or disband the organization. Information so far received has not convinced President Coolidge that a separate department of mines should be created to take over the work now done by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Mines and Geological Survey. The President believes, however, that the work of the Bureau of Mines should be extended and made more efficient. Seventy-five men have returned to work in the Milwaukee shops at Deer Lodge, Mont., after a layoff of ten days. They are employed chiefly in the car repair department. LATE NEWS From All Over COLORADO Colorado Springs.—Eugene D. Preston, attorney, was elected commander of Colorado Springs post No. 5 of the American Legion. Pueblo.—Two brothers, 16 and 17 years old, sons of a dairyman near Pueblo, were drowned while skating in Lake Minnequa, near the southern limits of the city. Denver.—Suit for $57,000 was brought against W. O. Reynolds, stockholder of the defunct Hibernia Bank and Trust Company, by Grant McFerson, state bank commissioner in charge of the affairs of the institution. Loveland.—Oil experts and geologists of the Sinelair Oil Company are expected to arrive in Loveland soon to start investigation of the company's leases on 10,000 acres of land in the vicinity of Boyd lake, east of Loveland. Denver.—Lillian Wood, sister of Joseph Wood, an employee in the state motor vehicle department, received word from United States Senator Lawrence C. Philips that President Coolidge has appointed her postmistress at Louisville, Colo. Denver.—His neck caught tight by a falling window, while his body dangled inside, his feet a yard from the floor, Ray Harrison, member of the city bootleg squadron, ended an unsuccessful chase for a violator of the prohibition laws. Loveland.—Mary Johnson, the 14-months' old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Johnson of east of Loveland, was severely burned about the face, neck and right arm when a pan of scalding water was accidentally spilled on her while she was playing. Denver.—Victor Walker, colored, former deputy sheriff under Mayor Dewey C. Bailey and editor of the New American Weekly, a negro newspaper, was convicted on charges of criminal libel by a West Side Court jury before Judge George F. Dunklee. Denver.—Word of the appointment of H. B. Westover as agent in charge of the narcotic division of the bureau of internal revenue has been received from Washington. Westover has been acting agent in charge of the Colorado, Utah and Wyoming division since last April. Sterling.—Following a chase of several blocks in the railroad yards at Sterling, Magnus Reeves, 19 years old, was arrested by Chief of Police James Kerr for grand larceny. The youth, police say, is responsible for numerous burglaries in the resident district of Sterling. Denver.—Governor Sweet will deliver an address in Pittsburg on Feb. 29, and following that will spend a few days in New York city with Col. E. M. House, famous "silent man" of the Democratic party, he said in a letter sent to Edward A. Filene, prominent Boston man and owner of a large department store in that city. It is planned to schedule other addresses if sufficient time may be spared from executive duties, the letter added. Fort Morgan.—When the Fort Morgan factory of the Great Western Sugar Company closed its slicing campaign a few days ago it had produced 370,000 sacks of refined sugar—37,000,000 pounds of the sweet. The campaign here lasted ninety-five days, ten days longer than last year. The average daily slicing at the local factory was 1,467 tons, which is above last year's record and gives the Fort Morgan factory practically an undisputed claim to the efficiency pennant offered Great Western factories. The average sugar content of the beets in this district was 14.15, several points higher than it was last year Fort Collins.—Three Fort Collins boys, Chester Hadley, Ralph Connell and Everett Manning, all 17 years old, were arraigned on charges of stealing an automobile from Clark Bouton, clerk of the County Court. Denver.—Samuel J. Lewis, state printing commissioner and one of the state's most widely known newspaper men, died at his home, 1406 Gaylord street, a few days ago. Death was due to a complication of diseases and came after an illness of less than a week, though Mr. Lewis had been in bad health for a number of years. Colorado Springs.—Three workmen were injured, one of them probably fatally, when the scaffold upon which they were working on the new gymnasium unit of the Colorado Springs high school collapsed and hurled them from a height of fourteen feet to the ground. E. B. Norwood, who was unconscious when rushed to the Beth-El hospital, was found to have sustained a concussion of the brain. Hospital attaches held out little hope for his recovery. J. L. Beam, another workman, incurred a number of broken bones in his left heel, and Walt Johnson a fractured left ankle. Pagosa Springs.—The public schools of Pagosa Springs are closed down until Jan. 7 and all indoor Christmas exercises, together with Sunday schools, are temporarily called off on account of the fresh outbreak of scarlet fever. In the home of Claude Keith, the mother and four children are suffering from the disease. There are numerous other cases in and near town. The town authorities permitted the community Christmas tree and the sacred services therewith as these were outdoors. CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS Boulder.—Arthur Chapman, formerly managing editor of the Denver Times, has completed his textbook on Colorado and met a few days ago at Colorado Springs with the educational committee of Greater Colorado, Inc. Upon its acceptance, Mr. Chapman will leave for New York City to resume his newspaper work, having been granted a leave of absence several months ago to accept the commission from the Greater Colorado, Inc. The book is to be used for instruction purposes in the intermediate high schools and perhaps in colleges. The purpose of it is to teach Colorado school children the history and resources of the state. It is to be illustrated with many pictures. Prof. Harry M. Barrett of the University of Colorado, former principal of East Denver High School, is chairman of the educational committee, which is composed of representatives of every section of Colorado. Denver.—The State Land Board received $934,689.38 during the fiscal year which ended Nov. 30, including repayment of principal, taxes, insurance and costs in the farm loan departments, an audit completed by the state auditor's office shows. A cash balance of $220.70 remained in the land commissioner's cash fund which, with collections made by this department, equaled the sum of $22,337.42. From this amount $18,956.05 was deducted for salaries and disbursements, leaving a balance of $3,381.37, the report states. The sum of $38,288.48 was expended last year for salaries and miscellaneous expense for all employees in the state land board office, leaving $31,411.51 of the original appropriation yet to be expended. The interest on farm loans last year amounted to $37,124.45, all of which was paid in to the farm department of the land board. Denver. — Appointment of Harry Zimmerhackel, an attorney and George W. Beck, an insurance man, as joint receivers for the Scholtz Mutual Drug Company was made by United States District Judge J. Foster Symes, after counsel for creditors, stockholders and the company itself had made the request that liquidation of the firm be ordered. Operation of the numerous branches of the concern, which include one each in San Francisco and Los Angeles, six in Denver and one each in Brighton, Longmont and Greeley, has been carried on since July 20 by a creditors' committee of five men, J. B. Johnson and G. D. Blount of Denver and F. MacFarland, J. J. Wilson and J. T. Sheron of Los Angeles. Denver.—Wives of three convicted members of the $1,000,000 Denver bunko ring arrested recently on suspicion of connection with an alleged $7,000 fur theft plot, were released on $1,500 bond pending hearing on a habeas corpus proceeding instituted in their behalf before Judge George F. Dunkle in the West Side court. The three women, Mrs. Irene Mushnick alias Miss Anna Adams; Mrs. Gladys Byland, alias Miss Florence Rhodes, and Mrs. Jennie Kelly, alias Mrs. Emma Lawrence, were granted their freedom pending a hearing on their application for writs on bonds furnished by Albert A. Itkin of 921 East Twentieth avenue. Colorado Springs.—Dirt soon will begin to fly for Manitou's new $1,650,000 amusement pavilion and hotel project sponsored by a group of Chicago capitalists headed by W. H. Darrach, president of the Pike's Peak Hotel Company, which has acquired a $50,000 site just across from the Cliff house and bathhouse in Manitou. In commenting on plans for the future, Mr. Darrach declared that he expected representatives of the Rapp Brothers, Chicago architects; Collins Brothers, Kansas City, Mo., contractors, and a bonding company soon after the first of the year, when the deal would be closed. Denver.—Postal receipts for the year have passed $3,000,000, according to Postmaster Frank L. Dodge, after the heaviest mails in the history of the Denver postoffice had been experienced before Christmas. It was necessary for thirty-five men to work eight hours each on Sunday in order to cope with the tremendous volume of first-class letter mail, amounting to more than 1,250,000 pieces, received during three days. Longmont.—Relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Barker are worried over failure to receive word from them. They are thought to have been caught in the blizzard in New Mexico, as they were en route by auto to California at the time of the storm. The last letter received from them was dated Dec. 14 and was sent from Las Vegas, N. M. Boulder.—Burglars who entered the Tri Delta sorority house at Boulder recently worked unmolested as the occupants were all away for the holidays. Evidences of a thorough job were revealed when the house was found littered with dainty bits of lingerie, party dresses and other feminine attire. The loss has not yet been estimated. Denver.—Knocked from his bicycle at Thirty-eighth and Wewatta streets a few days ago, Fred Schafer, Jr., 15 years old, of 4505 Sherman street, was run over and killed instantly by an automobile driven by Waldo E. Hendrickson of 4615 Williams street. Cripple Creek.—Glen Coy, 19 years old, a miner working on the Crescent properties, was killed instantly when he was crushed by a fall of rock in a drift on the nineteenth level of the mine. Coy is survived by his parents and a brother living at Elkton, Colo. 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The householder gets, for a few cents a month, the result of incalculable labor, condensed to the point. To deny yourself a weekly race paper is the poorest economy and the smallest self respect and race enterprise and race interest. There is no other benefit that can be gained so cheaply. No citizen of Denver can hope to be awake to all that is going on in the city, state, nation and throughout the world without a copy of the Colorado Statesman making its weekly visits to his home with race news assimilated and digested to the comprehension of the youngest member of the family. The Colorado Statesman is the best dispenser of the latest news, both at home and from the outside. It contains the best editorial comment on progress being made weekly by the race. The most helpful thoughts, the best reports in all lines of endeavor in the business and social advance the best summaries of doings from all fields. The Colorado Statesman stands pre-eminently as the paper for the profession, the home, office and shop, and for people in all walks of life. Napoleon Bonaparte, the great general and wise observer, said, "show me a family of readers and I will show you the people who move the world." Let us cultivate the habit of close and attentive reading. You will always find something in this paper to interest you and make you a power in the world of thought and activity. One of the best New Year's presents to give yourself or family is to subscribe now for the Colorado Statesman, and let it be your guide and friend for the New Year. THE CHANGING WORLD BROTHER JASPER said, "The sun do move," and in this quaint, homely observation, born more of an honest conviction than from any scientific deductions or philosophical reasonings, this typical Negro preacher of the old school brought nation-wide attention, if not fame, to himself and his race. We will not attempt to point out the incongruity of his findings, though, were he living in the present age he would find the world events moving with such rapidity as to be history-making in its daily and yearly revolutions. The transition of the old year, 1923, into the new year of '24 marks a distinctive dividing line of events, that for far-reaching effect on the human family has had no counterpart in all history. Justly, we cannot properly contemplate the seething events of the year just brought to a close without associating with it many of the world happenings that had gone before. The government of the United States holds itself as blessed among the nations of the earth. We are not so sure that there is ample justification for the vain glorious attitude. True it is that we have a degree of peace so far as our relations with other nations go, but can it be said all is well within our own borders. We stand back and view with complacency the gaunt specters of hate and fear stalking through continental Europe and phara-sically proclaim that we are glad we are not as other people. The ever-changing world is today thinking and acting in terms of blood. Discontent is the only assured monarch. France marches forth to crush Germany and has with her the well wishes of many nations that she will succeed. Industrial upheavals threaten on all sides, while dynasties tremble and thrones totter. Mexico, our sister republic, quiet for a brief season, is about to witness another revolution. Can the United States maintain a strict neutrality or even attempt to do so after having been drawn into the world conflict? Have we not had a sufficiency of war, blood and wastage? These are questions that must be given an answer for the peoples of the world are so closely knit together that we must ever be a part and parcel of changing events. Nothing is stable and the whole earth is in travail. We sometimes wonder whether or not the world is moving toward a new civilization, and, if so, will it carry us on to a better one or will we plunge into an abyss akin to the dark ages. Surely the horrifying history of the past decade is anything but reassuring. Ten years ago Germany was proud, haughty and mighty—a veritable power in civilization; today she is an humble mendicant, begging of crumbs that fall from the tables of the rich, a Lazarus among the nations of the earth. Ten years ago not a war cloud was in sight from any pinnacle within the United States, though rumblings in plenty were heard in Europe; today we are still divided on the terms of peace, while taxation, the soldier bonus and other issues, internally vexing, disturb us by day and by night. Ten years ago we looked to Christianity as our sword and buckler, to be an ever present help in the time of trouble, but when the world's saturnalia broke out in 1914 the sword and canon and poisonous gas were substituted for the cross of Jesus and men hurriedly denied the responsibility of being a brother's keeper. And today we find a branch of the great Christian church divided and fighting over the question of the Virgin birth of Him who was to be the Saviour of the world. The United States is fortunate in its splendid isolation these days and we would do well to keep out of the League of Nations or any other European entangling alliances. We have some problems of our own well worthy of our attention and we trust the lesson of the beam and the mote was not wholly lost upon the United-States in its armed effort to make the world safe for democracy. A more insistent cry, and one that did not end with the signing of the armistice, was for this country to busy itself with the eminently humane task of making America safe for Americans. The feeling was extant that we had essayed to take in too much territory in the face of some bestial conditions ahead. But all is not gloom, and a bright light appears upon the horizon of the New Year. The report is given out that lynchings in the United States decreased more than 50 per cent during 1923, as compared to 1922, and that in forty-six instances officers of the law arose to their sworn duties and prevented lynchings. And now that the Ku Klux Klan is in a factional fight that threatens its very existence, we feel justified in paraphrasing Brother Jasper by the exclamation, "Surely the world do move." King Tut-Ankh-Amen Was Pharaoh of Exodus, and Not Rameses II By ARTHUR WEIGALL, Famous Egyptologist. KING TUT-ANKH-AMEN was the Pharaoh of Exodus. He was the ruler of Egypt who hardened his heart against Moses and the children of Israel, for which he was visited by the plagues. It was King Tut-Ankh-Amen, not Rameses II, as tradition holds, who kept the Israelites in bondage and played the leading part in one of the greatest and most moving dramas in the world. I expect that my statement will be challenged, and even among other Egyptologists, but I am quite prepared to establish and prove my assertion. I have made intensive investigations and research of this subject, before arriving at my decision, and now I have historical and Biblical confirmation that King Tut was the Pharaoh of Egypt at the time when Moses sought to deliver his people to the Promised Land. "Actually, the Egyptian historian Manetho, in the Second century B. C., gives an account of the great religious disturbances which took place in the reign of Akhnaton, King Tut's father-in-law, and states that Moses was living at that time. That date was about 1375 B. C. The Book of Genesis says that the bondage of the Children of Israel in Egypt was to last about 200 years, and we know from history that the oppression of these foreign people in Egypt began about 1575 B. C., which is just 200 years before, making the dates and events synchronize. Then Tut came to the throne. Tut started feverishly to rebuild all the temples to the old gods which had been destroyed during the idealistic reign of his father-in-law, who believed in one god. Tut himself tells of this in an inscription found recently telling of using thousands and thousands of slaves and rebuilding these temples. That explains why the Israelites were kept so busy making bricks without straw. In the same inscription, which was found at the Temple of Karnak, Tut also tells how Egypt was visited with the plagues, which again confirms the Biblical account of them. Moreover, we know that Tut-Ankh-Amen left no sons to succeed him, which perhaps is the origin of the story of the death of the first born. In Tut's tomb we found a little casket which had on it a painting representing him in his chariot with all his charioteers behind him giving chase to a lot of flying Semitic people who might well have been the Israelites as they started toward the Red sea. Think of the dramatic moment this winter when the big tabernacle will be opened and the world will be able to gaze at the Pharaoh whose heart was hardened against Moses and whose last words were: "I will not let thy people go!" Woman Has Never Fallen So Low as When She Began to Try to Imitate Man By GINA LOMBROSO, Italian Woman Doctor. No masculine standards can be suitable to women, for the simple reason that man is created to fulfill an entirely different function in the world. Modern writers and others have become used to regarding as superior those women who, thwarted in their own field, have tried to find an alternative by taking up a masculine career, or who, unable to employ their feminine superabundance of emotion, have sought an outlet in masculine professions. Because masculine careers and professions are most admired today, women have begun to rush into them, without regard to their own inclinations. They strive in every way to copy masculine methods of thinking and working, making the masculine standard the intellectual standard of both sexes. Woman has never fallen so low as when she began to try to imitate man. The legend of woman's inferiority came into being precisely at the time that she began to consider herself superior. At the present time the highest type of women are smothered by the clamor of those whose love is crushed by ambition; by those whose passion for fame exceeds the wish to help others; by those who, in short, have acquired a masculine outlook on things and have lost the feminine viewpoint. Diversified Farming Is Not a Remedy for the Wheat Farmers' Plight By DR. H. J. WATERS, Kansas City Editor. The purchasing power of the farmer's dollar is only 87 cents in terms of other industries. This means he is paying more for what he consumes and receiving less for what he sells than any other business man. Because the wheat farmer has faced an overwhelming fall in his market prices without giving up does not indicate he can continue to stand alone. Population is on a high tide toward the cities from the country at the rate of 1,400,000 yearly. While this eventually may benefit the farmers, it now works toward making farm help expensive. Diversified farming cannot be locked on as a remedy to the wheat farmers' plight. Climate, soil and economics prevent any great substitution of crops in the Kansas wheat areas. It is the best wheat land in the world, but will grow nothing else as profitably. The grain rate fight is local. The wheat growers of New England Pennsylvania or California have no excess to ship out of their country all they can produce can be milled and sold locally without paying any of the heavy transportation cost of long hauls to market. The Kansas farmers ship 74 per cent of their grain out of the state. The University Takes Its Place by the Side of the Church and the State By NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER. President Columbia University The university takes its place by the side of the church and the state as one of three fundamental institutions of modern civilization on its moral and spiritual side. The church represents the organized faith of Christendom and its collective worship. The state represents the purpose of civilized man to live happily and helpfully to the organized society. The university represents man's inborn love of truth, his persistent curiosity which has given rise to all science, and its dominating idealism which is the origin of all literature and of all philosophy. Long experience has shown that the university man and can only achieve its end by a three-fold activity, each aspect of which is complementary to the other two. The university must gather and conserve knowledge; the university must advance knowledge; the university must diffuse and apply knowledge. These are its three necessary and characteristic functions. The university fails of its high purpose and falls short of its lofty ideal if it does not realize the fact that it must add to scholarship public service, and that it exists not for itself alone but for the nation and for all mankind T. G. Granberry, President Lady Assistant and Soloist With All Funerals W. T. 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The Denver is prepared to make this an enjoyable task, with its selections of lovely Frocks, Coats and Suits. Coats, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2 Off Suits, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2 Off Dresses, 1/4, 1/3, 1/2 Off THE DENVER DRY GOODS CO. Radiantfire Entire Houses Are Heated With Radiantfire Because it's odorless and safe. Its 100% combustion assures the purest, most wholesome air—air in which plants and birds will thrive. This wonderful new gas fire is to be had in grates for every fireplace—as well as in portable styles for any room in the house. It has the glowing beauty of the open hearth, but has decidedly more warmth because its heat rays are projected directly into the room—none escaping through the chimney. See the variety of models displayed in our show-rooms. Priced at $18.00 and up. "USE GAS FOR FUEL" MAIN 4000 MAIN 4000 The J. C. Bloom Jewelry Co. Diamonds Watches and Jewelry New Location 821 15TH St. Jewelers and Optometrists Born to Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Welch, 1872 Downing street, a fine son. Mother and baby doing nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Brooks, with little Jo Gaines, motored to Colorado Springs last Saturday, spending the week end with Mrs. Julia Reed and family. MISS ADA RAHMING BECOME BRIDE OF OLIVER BOWEN Popular Couple Joined in Holy We lock, Bishop Ingley Officiating Promptly at high noon Wednesday Miss Ada Rosamond Rahming and Oliver Leverens Bowen were joined at the holy hands of matrimony. Cary Fox of Kansas City, Kans., was the guest of his mother and other relatives during the holidays. He was en route to California, on a sixty days' vacation. He is one of the oldest employees working for the Santa Fe Co. The funeral of Mrs. Nellie Walker, beloved wife of Paul W. Walker, 1623 Gilpin street, will be held at Shorter A. M. E. Church, Sunday, at 1:45. Rev. John E. Ford of Jacksonville, Fla., former pastor of Zion Baptist Church of Denver and an old friend of the family, will deliver funeral sermon. Cammel Undertaking Company in charge. Word came to Denver early Wednesday morning that Mrs. Harry Perkins, formerly of Colorado Springs and Denver, had passed away in Los Angeles, Calif. The Perkins family were very prominent citizens of Colorado for many years and their many friends will be saddened by news of the death of Mrs. Perkins. THIRTY YEARS OF SERVICE The record of longest service of the Kenmark hotel is held by Frank DeMar, colored houseman, who has been with the hotel since its opening and was with the old Albert, his total service covering a period of about thirty years.—Rocky Mt. Hotel Bulletin. SHORTER CHAPEL NOTES The minister will occupy the pulpit Sunday morning at the 11 o'clock service. Subject, "Moving in Destiny," followed by the Holy Communion. At the evening service at 7:30 p. m. the choir will repeat their Christmas program by request. The "Week of Prayer" will be observed. Services every night during the week. ELECTION OF OFFICERS Denver Lodge No. 8646, G. U. O. of O. F., at their regular quarterly election, elected the following officers for the ensuing quarter: Advocate, Bowers. Chaplain, E. V. Cammel. W. Treasurer, W. L. Broils. Elective Secretary, F. D. Broils. Permanent Secretary, E. H. Rose. Vice Grand, L. R. Watson. Noble Grand, Leo Mays. P. N. Grand, A. D. Knowles. Noble Father, Zike Gallmore. P. N. Father, S. L. Marshall. SOCIAL BEAUTY AND SPLENDOR MARK AN UNUSUAL HOLI- DAY SEASON Week Crowded With Brilliant Events In spite of the bitter cold wave that has held Denver in its grip since last Saturday night, a week of more beautiful social functions, marked in some instances with stern exclusiveness has never been known in this city. First of these was the formal dinner party given by the Hipasthia Derloc Club last Sunday evening at the residence of Edward Beckwith, 2549 Gilpin street. Covers were laid for sixteen and was a six-course dinner. The club colors of blue and gold predominated in the decorative scheme which was gorgeous in every particular. The Men's Club gave a breakfast dancing party at Fern hall New Year day, from 9 to 12, that was well attended, with every one bubbling with the Jovial New Year spirit. It was a complete success. From 3 to 6 and from 6 on the one and only 13 Club entertained in its incomparable manner New Year day at 2456 Lafayette street, by keeping open house. Denver society always eagerly awaits any function sponsored by the boys of '13 and the response on Tuesday was unexpectedly large. Mrs. Marie Brown and Mrs. Carrie L. Smith assisted in the service. Mr. John Morris, a leader in the younger social set was host to a delightful dinner dance Monday evening at his home, 2537 Gilpin street. Sixteen guests were seated at 8:30 and later induged in dancing till near the morning hours. --- ORIGINAL IN POOR CONDITION MISS ADA RAHMING BECOMES BRIDE OF OLIVER BOWEN Popular Couple Joined in Holy Wedlock, Bishop Ingley Officiating Promptly at high noon Wednesday, Miss Ada Rosamond Rahming and Oliver Leverens Bowen were joined in the holy bonds of matrimony at the Church of the Holy Redeemer, with Bishop Ingley reading the service. The church was literally packed to the doors as both the contracting parties stand high in church and social circles of Denver, Miss Rahming being the sister of Fr. H. E. Rahming, popular vicar of the Church of the Redeemer. She possesses a charming personality and by her sweet unassuming manner has won a large host of friends during her short residence in Denver. Mr. Bowen is an energetic young man of excellent qualities and for some time has been bass soloist in the Redeemer choir. Indeed it was while serving in this capacity that the romance was begun that culminated in the beautiful marriage ceremony of Wednesday. Mr. Edgar Holly served as best man and Mrs. Grace Rahming stood with the bride. Father Rahming gave the bride away. A reception for the happy couple was held at the vicarage, 2140 Humboldt street, from 8 to 10, Wednesday evening, which was attended by close to 300 guests. They were the recipient of many handsome presents. The COLORADO STATESMAN joins in hearty congratulations. MRS. JOHN H. WARDEN GUEST OF HONOR AT BRILLIANT RECEPTION Hcliday Season Closed with Notable Function at Residence of Mrs. Roy. Mrs. John H. Warden of Henderson, Ky., who, with her husband, has been spending the holidays in Denver as the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Robert Roy, 3032 Columbine street, was the inspiration of a very pretty breakfast and card party Thursday morning at which was assembled thirty-six (sacred thirty-six if you will) of Denver's society matrons. The house decorations consisted of carnations profusely placed with Christmas colors gracefully intertwined, which, with drawn shades and the soft glow of the candle light, lent a touch of witchery and indescribable beauty to the scene, as well as a fascinating charm and stateliness. Those present and sharing the hospitality of Mrs. Roy were: Mesdames John H. Warden, Henderson, Ky.; Carrie L. Smith, Los Angeles, Cal.; Maggie Jeffries, Colorado Springs, Colo.; Anna Wright, Wheatridge, Colo.; Thenis Stewart, Viola Lyons, Grace Walker, Barbara Walker, Isabel Brown, Ledley Plummer, Stella Robinson, Alleyne Cary, Mary Gross, Mae Johnson, Edna Cantey, Fatie McClain, Mable Burns, Fairfax Holmes, Mary Holmes, Georgia Thompson, Kate Montgomery Maude Greenway, Marie Brown, Mattie Mitchell, Edna Fisher, Grace McCain, Grace Rahming, America Turner, Ada Bowen, May Lawson, Ida Craig, Mayme Benoit, Fannie Pitt and Laura Galnes. Mrs. Grace Rahming won first prize and Mrs. Stella Robinson, second. FUNERAL NOTICE BY THE PEOPLE'S MORTUARY Carter—Mrs. Emma Carter, the beloved mother of Mr Eugene Carter, and the sister of Mrs Dr. J. L. Ford, departed this life at a local hospital, Dec. 29, 1923. Funeral services Saturday, Jan. 5, 10 a. m., from Parlors. Rev. John E. Ford of Jacksonville, Fla., officiate. Remains will be forwarded to Galesburg, Ill., accompanied by her son, Engene Carter. DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING CO. FUNERAL NOTICES Myers—John H., late of 2522 Humboldt street, departed this life Dec. 26, 1923. Leaving to mourn his passing three sons and host of friends. Services were held from Shorter Chapel Sunday, Dec. 30, at 1 p. m., Rev. W. H. Thomas officiating. Interment, Fairmount. Daniels—Miss Lottie, late of Philadelphia, mare recently, of 2311 Clarkson street, passed away Dec. 2, 1923. Remains were forwarded to Germantown, Pa., Dec. 29, 1923. CARD OF THANKS Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Von Dickersohn and family, Fred Graham and daughter wish to thank their many friends for their kindness during the illness and death of their daughter, wife, sister, mother, Theta Graham BOULDER, COLO., NEWS Mr. James Chrysler was a Denver visitor Monday the 24th, returning Monday night. Mr. F. Paige was a Denver visitor Monday the 24th, returning Monday night. Mr. William Dernin went to Akron in company with Mr. Frank Williams. Mr. Williams is planning on remaining home for about two weeks. Mr. Suttons has returned from Trinidad, preparing entering the university again. Little Miss Floreta Willis spent the Xmas holidays in Denver, returning Saturday, the 29th. Mr. and Mrs. Howard of Denver spent the Xmas with Mr. Howard's mother, Mrs. Mary White. Mr. and Mrs. Howard came up Monday evening in time for the Xmas tree held at Allen Chapel Monday night, and to attend the 5 o'clock prayer meeting Xmas morning. The 5 o'clock prayer service Xmas morning was a grand success. Quite a number attended. Both churches, the Baptist and Allen Chapel, had Xmas trees, the Baptist having theirs Sunday night, the 23rd, Allen Chapel having theirs Monday night, the 24th. Both churches rendered excellent programs. The Booker T. Washington Civic Association had a spelling match after the business part of the meeting on their regular weekly meeting Thursday, the 27th. Miss Nell Williams rendered a selection from "Dunbar." Miss Catherine Williams sang a solo. The Cedar Art and Literary Club gave their annual Friday night at the residence of Mrs. S. B. Harris. A short program was rendered, after which delicious refreshments were served. There were quite a number of guests present. Everyone enjoyed a lovely time. Rev. Murphy's subject for Sunday night, the 30th, was "Jesus Christ All to All." There were not many out because of the cold weather. Mr. and Mrs. Rowel left for Wyoming last Friday. Mrs. Baskett was to give a family reunion dinner. All the relatives were invited to attend. Mr. and Mrs. Morrison and daughter from Denver were expected, as well as Mr. and Mrs. Ray from Akron, Colo. With the children that reside in Boulder they expect a fine time. Rev. Wims of the Pentecostal Mission was a visitor at Allen Chapel Sunday night. There will be a chitterling supper at the mission New Year's night. Watch meeting will be held at Allen Chapel New Year's eve Telephone when you want that next job of Printing You will get first-class work, and you will get it when promised, for having work done when promised is one of the rules of this office. If you prefer, send the order by mail or bring it to the office in person. 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The rapid growth of aircraft and radio transmission allike, he said, had created a need for administration development, while the navigation laws, long under scrutiny, required adjustment to the increased commercial expansion. Within the department itself Mr. Hoover recommended that congress follow the general reorganization plan prepared under the Harding administration, and make three administrative groupings to deal respectively with industry, trade and navigation. In this connection, likewise, the report dealt with the foreign trade situation, and the studies made under Mr. Hoover's direction for determining the financial situation of the United States as left by trade balances in "visible" and "invisible" exports and imports. It was noted that during the period under review—the fiscal year 1923-24—commerce in general had revived, prices had firmed somewhat and the before any action is taken upon them, even though since July 1 accumulation of 70,000 cases which the office has in arrears is being decreased at the rate of 1,000 cases a month—it would take five years to bring the patent office up to date. A drive for relief is going to be made immediately in congress. Manufacturing industries are deluging members of congress with appeals for relief in the patent office, which is "putting the brakes" on industry. This reaches into practically every home in the country, especially through the employment furnished by these factories. Brig. Gen. Herbert M. Lord, director of the budget bureau, is expected to include recommendations to remedy the situation in the budget which will be laid before congress. At least 100 additional examiners are needed. Remodeling the famous old building on the squares between F and G and Seventh and Ninth streets to provide additional office space for examiners, and building of a steel stackroom for the millions of printed copies of patents, is recommended. At least half of the old land office building, which is across F street from the patent office, should be made available, those who have studied the problem say. Fifty more rooms are necessary and would be a real economy THROUGHOUT the whole period in which the senate has occupied its present quarters the desks have been, until now, equally divided between the two sides of the chamber. In recent years, because of the greater number of Republican members, it has been necessary to place incoming Republicans on the Democratic side. Pepper and Reed of Pennsylvania, Norbeck of South Dakota, Couzens of Michigan and Brookhart of Iowa are thus placed. Now there are 43 desks on the Democratic side and 55 on the Republican side. The significance of this rearrangement is that not only the radical Republicans but the two Farmer-Labor party senators, Shipstead and Magnus Johnson, who defeated Republican candidates in recent elections, and thus are not classified as even near-Republicans, are seated on the Republican side. In recent years and under processes of time and usage the senate chamber has been a bit shabby. It has always been a gloomy place, due to a raffered ceiling glazed, but so cut up by heavy beams as to obstruct the light. The RECOMMENDATIONS for earthquake study in the United States as a whole, similar to the work being done in California, are made by E. Lester Jones, director of the coast and geodetic survey, in his annual report. Disturbances which in some cases caused more or less local damage have occurred in the last two years in Canada, near Maine and New York, in Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Missouri, Montana, Utah, Arizona, Washington, California and beneath the sea off the Oregon coast. If the scientific investigation being made for the preparation of an earthquake map of California could be widened, the report said, the country would benefit, the information thus gained being of practical value to architects and engineers. It would be possible to indicate in this way, Director Jones said, places where earthquakes might be expected and where "special precautions in order to avoid the danger of catastrophe" were necessary. Such knowledge, he added, would be of particular value in determining the sites for great dams or other reclamation projects. FEW USE ALL THEIR BRAINS Scientist Says Most of Us Have More of Them Than We Know What to Do With. "We do not use our brains to half their capacity," says Sir Arthur Keith, a British scientist. He makes that assertion after a minute study of the brains of gorillas and gibbons in the African jungles. "Most of us," he goes on, "have more brains than we know what to do with." That, we suppose, will be taken by most persons as a compliment. The more common assertion has been that most persons did not have brains enough. However, if one does not use the brains nature has given him, what profiteth him? He might just as well be without brains. Atrophied brains, brains that are not used, are useless. It is nature's way to remove useless organs or to reduce them to an embryonic state. If, therefore, most of us have more brains than we use, and they are in consequence of no value, will not nature proceed to reduce the brains she gives each one of us to an amount which is made to work? If she does that, what will be the result? Who can say? Other changes are being wrought in the human body. The same scientist says he is convinced certain characteristics, easily recognized in the bodies of a large proportion of our modern population, are of recent origin. The most plastic bone in the human body, he said, is that under the gums, in which the teeth are rooted, and it is here the most marked changes are to be noted. "In 30 per cent of the people this bone," continued Sir Arthur, "instead of spreading outward and giving the roof of the mouth a wide and low vault, as in prehistoric races, grows in a vertical direction, giving the palate a narrow and high arch. "In these contracted palates there is no longer room for the normal number of teeth. Such as appear are crowded; the wisdom teeth often fail to cut or are absent altogether. "The recession of the teeth gives the modern nose and chin an undue prominence; the tendency of all modern changes is toward the production of long and narrow faces. The 'adenoid' type of face, with which medical men are familiar in modern children, was unknown in prehistoric times." With an emptying brain pan, then, what form of head will the future man have?—Buffalo Express. A Yarn About General Sherman. West Point and its traditions recall a story that is told of General Sherman when he was commanding general of the army, after the Civil war. With several other distinguished visitors, he made an inspection of the West Point barracks. Finally he entered a room in one of the divisions and the two cadets occupying it sprang to attention. Sherman saluted, as is the custom, then drawled: "Any contraband in this room?" When neither of the cadets replied, the general, with a smile on his face, stooped down before the fireplace and, reaching up, removed a loose brick. Putting in his hand he drew forth several cigars. This was in the days when no smoking was allowed. "Thought so," said the general. "I used to hide 'em there myself." It was Sherman's old room. U. S. Gets New Zealand Bird. Among the interesting birds imported into this country recently was a "klwl" shipped from New Zealand for the National Zoological park at Washington. The biological survey of the United States Department of Agriculture issues permits for all shipments of foreign mammals and birds, and inspects them when necessary in order to protect this country from the introduction of species which may prove injurious to agriculture. The klwl, which is native only to New Zealand, and even there approaching extinction, is rarely imported into the United States. The present specimen is the first that has been on exhibition in the National Zoological park for 15 years. The last shipment was made in January, 1906. One of the birds coming in at that time lived two years. The first day at school a little girl presented herself who looked very much like a true daughter of Italy. "You're an Italian?" asked the teacher. "No'm," was the astonishing reply. "But wasn't your father born in Italy?" "Yes'm." "And wasn't your mother born in Italy?" "Yes'm." "Well, you must be an Italian." "No'm," she answered. "I'm Irish. I was born in Boston."—Open Road. A pair of London lovers were strolling along late one evening when the girl said to her companion: "Bill, I dreamt abart you larst night." For one short moment Bill tasted heaven. "Gwan," he breathed; "yer never!" "Yus," she continued. "I did straight. Yer know fried fish an' mince pies always gives me the nightmare!" A charitable young lady, visiting a sick woman, inquired, with a view to further relief, as to her family. She asked: "Is your husband kind to you?" "Oh, yes, miss," was the instant response, "he's kind—very kind. Indeed, you might say he's more like a friend than a husband." nation as a whole had experienced prosperity. "Through the huge export balances of the last few years we have shifted from a debtor to a creditor nation," said Mr. Hoover, "and the theory is now more or less generally accepted that our hitherto normal excess of exports over imports must ultimately shift to an excess of imports, as we have large balances to receive in payment of interest. "The situation in most branches of agriculture," he continued, "seems to be gradually adjusting itself. The partial recovery in foreign demand for cotton has permitted a higher price for the crop of 1923 than for that of 1922, in spite of an increase of 14 per cent in acreage and an appreciable increase in production. "The dairy interest in general is prospering, the demand for dairy products varying more than for most other agricultural products with general movements of prosperity and depression in industry. As for wheat, which is the more dependent on foreign markets than any other agricultural product, and which is subject to greatly increased competition from Canada and other foreign countries, it seems necessary gradually to reduce acreage." with the existing force. Every nook and corner in the patent office building is now used, including the ends of all halls not used as exits. It is not generally known that Uncle Sam runs the biggest 10-cent store in the world. About 200,000 printed copies of patents are sold all over this country each month at 10 cents apiece. It costs 6 cents each to print them, which is one of the biggest jobs done by the government printing office, Public Printer Carter says. He says 50 linotype machines are kept busy eight hours a day all through the year on this work alone. Patent office printing costs $1,000,000 a year, which comes back into the treasury with at least $200,000 profit. In addition to the 200,000 copies of patents distributed every month, 2,000,-000 copies are sent to libraries all over this country and to foreign countries in exchange. There are in the patent office, subject to sale, 50,000,000 copies of patents, which makes this the most valuable store in Washington. These have a cost value to the government of $3,000,000, and a sale value of $5,000,000. Visitors to Washington seldom realize that the F street entrance to the patent office is an exact reproduction of the Parthenon. Estimates for improvements to give the patent office an adequate workshop call for an appropriation of $1,000,000. desks, while of the best solid mahogany and fine examples of the cabinet maker's art, have been varnished again and again in the course of years. During the past summer the chamber has been "done over" radically and beautifully. The heavy rafters have been removed from the ceiling, practically doubling the lighting; a new carpet has been put down, the walls have been cleaned and the woodwork has been repainted. The desks have been burned off with acids and a new dressing given to the wood. Unknown to the public the older of these desks have rich historical associations. There are no written records, but in secret places beneath the covers records have been kept by veteran employees who are jealous of these secrets. It was only a few years ago, and through the exercise of all his diplomatic powers, that Senator Lodge contrived to have assigned to him Charles Sumner's old desk. Joe Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic floor leader, now holds with pride the desk at which Daniel Webster sat through his senatorial service. "The outstanding purpose," he declared, "is to make it possible to reduce the loss of life and property in great earthquakes and eliminate it entirely in minor ones. The work in California, standing alone, is handicapped by the lack of investigation of a similar character for the country as a whole." Mr. Jones also reported that the wire-drag survey of the inside steamship routes of southeastern Alaska, begun in 1914, would be completed next summer. Deep water channels as far west as Cape Spencer already have been dragged, marking the completion of one of the most important surveying projects of the territory. Practically all vessels bound to or from Alaska pass through these waters, and many, in the past, have been stranded, with considerable loss of life. Southern Alaska is a region of volcanic disturbances. Islands frequently rise up in a night from the sea; others disappear beneath the sea. The national monument, "Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes," was created when Mount Katmal blew its head off a few years ago. A. Yarn About General Sherman U. S. Gets New Zealand Bird. A. New Spoke in the Hub. "Yes'm." Then He Kept Quiet. Friend Husband. FORTY DIE IN FACTORY BLAST FORTY DIE IN FACTORY BLAST DUST EXPLOSION AND FIRE DE STROYS ILLINOIS CORN STARCH PLANT TRAPPED WORKER SINGS RESCUE PARTIES, BRAVING DEATH IN FLAMING RUINS, RECOVER FEW BODIES Pekin, Ill.-Upwards of two score workers are dead or missing and another two score were injured, a dozen of them probably fatally, as the result of a dust explosion and fire which destroyed two buildings of the Corn Products plant at Pekin, Ill., a few days ago. Rescue parties, working frantically, had recovered fewer than a dozen of the bodies the night following the fire when a second shift of rescuers entered the ruins to fight ice and fire in a near zero temperature, hampered by the fear that overranging walls might crash and imprison the rescuers themselves. Superintendent H. B. Lawton issued an official statement to the effect that he could not tell how many were killed as some workmen may have left the plant without "checking out." Earlier in the day a report issued from the plant employment office had it that between thirty-four and forty were known dead or missing, twenty-eight injured in Pekin and Peoria hospitals, eleven of them probably fatally, and fourteen injured removed to their homes. Wives and families of the victims showed wonderful coolness. They did not congregate at the plant, but kept coming and going in steady succession, inquiring with quivering lips for word that their loved ones might have been rescued early in the afternoon, when the word went out that if it was possible the missing had survived the explosion, the fire and the falling debris, their lives by that time would have been ended by the cold. There were one million pounds of starch in the buildings destroyed, which Chief Chemist R. F. Sherman said contained 12 per cent moisture. How starch of this moisture content could have produced explosive dust sufficient to cause the extreme damage done the plant, was a thing he could not explain, he said. Trapped in the third floor of the burning plant, Frank Lichtweiss, 26, of Peoria, sang to his fellow workers for nearly an hour to calm them and when the last retreat was cut off, he jumped from a window of the blazing building. Lichtweiss was at work on the third floor when the explosion occurred that soon made the building a seething furnace. He has a good voice and some of his companions went to their death with the strains of songs in their memory. He did not jump until all the men who were able leave the floor had done so. He was severely burned, with an injury to his eyes. He is now in a Peoria hospital. The plant employed about 800 men. The 250 at work in the starch house when the explosion occurred were members of the night shift, which went on at 11 o'clock. Among the victims also were workers on the next shift, due to go on duty at 4 a.m. The explosion was so terrific that several box cars alongside the plant were shattered and blown off the tracks. The force wrecked the starching department, table and retable houses and the kiln house, causing more than $500,000 damage to these departments. Plan New Immigration Bill Washington.—A draft of a new immigration bill providing for selection of immigrants abroad, for extension of the quota restriction to all countries in the western hemisphere and for various modifications of the present entry requirements, was sent to the Senate and House immigration committees recently by Secretary Davis, under whose department the immigration bureau is administered. Members of the two committees already have begun informal discussions regarding amendment of the present law. Moves to Ban Normand Films Moves to Ban Normand Films Topeka. The Kansas motion picture censor board was requested by Attorney General C. B, Griffith to bar from the state all films in which Mabel Normand appears. The attorney general in a letter to the board, stated that his action was taken as a result of the shooting of Courtland S. Dines at Los Angeles by Miss Normand's chauffeur and also mention of her name in connection with the case of William Desmond Taylor, who was slain at Los Angeles more than a year ago. Solon Opposes Arms Sale Solution Opposes Arms Care Washington.-Congressional opposition to the sale of American surplus army equipment to the Mexican government crystallized recently in the introduction in the House of two resolutions by Representative Fairchild, Republican. New York, intended to block completion of the project if possible. The first resolution called upon the State Department for full information as to negotiations for the sale to Mexico; the second would prohibit government sales of arms to any foreign government. 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E. P. Blakemore, Attorney. First publication, December 22, 1923. Last publication, January 19, 1924. Phone South 7228 DENVER, COLO THE term "sports clothes" embraces a wider range of designs and styles than ever before, and is somewhat difficult to define. It includes much apparel that merely borrows a flavor of clothes designed for actual sports wear, and these glorified sports clothes, together with actual things, dominate the world of fashion at this season of the year. As soon as Christmas has ceased to engross them many "sun hunters" hurry South. They are clad and mainly live in "sports clothes"—that 1 THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIES JULY 1920 TWO-PIECE SPORTS SUIT is, clothes suited to the spot of living outdoors in summer lands. The styles are smartly simple and the materials used for suits and dresses include fine jersey cloth, tricot crochet flannel, washable flannels, knitted wear and many "sports weaves" in silk and wool. 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Coats appear in short box-coat models and straight coats, with and without deeves, and dresses are also privi- is trimmed with a ribbon; other felt hat at the left facing of fancy braid and of white yarn. A turbabrown velvet, figured with one more change on this which have so permeated styles in millinery and in parel. --- legged to be sleeveless or long sleeved Naturally the jumper style, with variations, is among them. On the drama of winter millinery the curtain is about to be rung down, and all the nostr and actors, in Es, intricate and brilliant story, appear together in a grand finale. Small, close-fitting shapes, in brimmed hats and turbans have made a triumphal progress through the season, and thus far there is notning that promises to supersede them—even with spring hats already sighted 10 and on their way. Besides these little hats there are many moderately wide-brimmed shapes, developed in all the fashionable millinery materials. 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