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SUBSCRIBE FOR THE ONLY RELIABLE PEOPLE'S PAPER IN COLORADO "THE COLORADO STATESMAN" THE COLORADO STATESMAN THE JOURNAL OF THE WEST. LABOR SHALL BE FREE RACE COUNTRY PARTY PULLMAN PORTER TO SPEAK AT DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Student Body to Hear Knight of Sleeping Car in Unusual Address PULLMAN PORTER AT DAIL Student Body to Heal Car in Unus New York, March 20.—(K. N. F. Service)—Possibly the greatest event in the life of J. B. Ford, a Pullman porter living at 700 East 221st street, will take place next Tuesday morning, when he will lecture to about 100 students taking courses in transportation at Dartmouth College. Porter Ford, who runs as a porter-in-charge between New York and Winsted, Conn., will deliver the lecture at the instance and invitation of Prof. Malcolm Keir of the department of economics. The invitation came as a surprise to Ford. He remembered that on February 9th, last, he had an extended conversation with a passenger who rode from New York to Seymour. That passenger he found out afterward was Prof. Keir of Dartmouth. "After returning to Dartmouth," the professor wrote him a few days ago, "I came to the conclusion that it would be a valuable experience for our students if they could meet you and have you tell them about the life and experiences of a Pullman porter. Accordingly, I wrote to Mr. Cook, the superintendent of the Pullman Company, and asked him if he would release you for a visit to our campus." He also stated that the superintendent had given his consent. Not only will Mr. Ford's lecture be an important event in his life. It will be an important event in the life of the Negro in the United States, as nothing of its kind has ever happened before. Several railroad vice-presidents and a number of transportation specialists have lectured to the same classes at Dartmouth. An honorarium will be paid Ford for his morning's work. Accommodations have been reserved for him at the College Inn, "which the college operates for the entertainment of its official guests." Mr. Ford was born, November 18, 1884, in Ridgeway, S. C. At the age of seventeen, he was still unable to read or write. Nevertheless, he entered the Public School of Benedict College, Columbia, S. C., and in 1905 was graduated. He went to high school one year. While in school he worked his way, first as a dishwasher and later as chef. He entered the Pullman service in Richmond, Va., first as a car cleaner. Later he became a foreman and in 1907, a porter. In 1908 he transferred to New York, where for the past twelve years he has worked as a porter-in-charge on the Winsted Express of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Ruth Ford, his fourteen year old daughter, is a student in Hunter College High School, this city. Last year she won a gold medal at Public School 216. There are two other children. Mrs. Tene Ford, his wife, also comes from South Carolina. The Danger Signals (From the St. Louis Argus, March 14, 1924.) There is being practiced in this state especially southeast Missour, by the Missouri Pacific and the Frisco railroads, Jim Crow car laws, just as hold and with as much impunity as such laws are practiced in any of the Southern States. This practice is without warrant or sanction of law of the state, yet it is carried on daily without apparent notice to the traveling public. We therefore wish to call this matter forecibly to the attention of the colored people of the state that they may awake from their state of carelessness and indifference, and take action, yes speedy action, against such practices on the part of the railroads operating under the laws of the state. We all know that the meaning of the Jim Crow cars is to humiliate, disgrace and to make inferior and unequal accommodation. It is one of the by-products of slavery and a Southern practice. Many efforts have been made to introduce it in the North, just as was slavery. And as we see things, it is little by little gaining ground, until it has found its way right into the Union Station at St. Louis. Just a few years ago, railroad crews wouldn't dare attempt to Jim Crow colored people out of St. Louis, but somebody or some influence has made them bold, and now it's a Jim Crow car you see, little by little, these rights as citizens are being slipped away from us while we stand by "wide alseep." Remember, that every move to segregate or Jim Crow is but a danger signal that evil is ahead and must be fought. The remedy is in our own hands. Will we stand idly by and see our rights taken from us without a protest? The question now is, who will undertake the task of remedying this condition? Who will take the matter into the courts and demand justice in our behalf? Who will strike the blow that we all may be free? The logical medium through which to work, is the N. A. A. C. P. Your membership will hasten the time. How much will you give for your God-given rights? We, as a group in St. Louis spend over $100,000 a year for amusement. How much do we spend for those sacred rights of man and womanhood? Miss. Factions to Elect Delegates Rival Bodies Will Meet and Elect Delegates in Jackson Next Week Jackson, Miss., March 20.—The next Republican national convention will have two delegations, from this state, one headed by Perry Howard, assistant U. S. attorney general, of Wash- ```markdown ``` Tuskegee to Pay Tribute to Founder Tuskegee, Ala., March 21.—On April 5, the birthday of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington, the seventh annual observance of founder's day will be held at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal, announced that the address will be delivered by Dr. Talcott Williams, dean emeritus of the Pulitzer School of Journalism of the Columbia University. Each year on this occasion a prominent American citizen is selected to deliver the memorial address. Among the previous speakers have been the late Hon. William G. Willecox, former chairman of the board of trustees; Chief Justice William Howard Taft; Dr. Wallace Buttrick, president of the general education board; Dr. George Cleveland Hall, Chicago, and the Hon. Josephus Daniels, former secretary of the navy. The selection of Dr. Talcott Williams is in direct line with this policy, as he is one of the best informed men in America and one of the famous journalists of the world, having served on the staff of several of the leading dailies, and was for seven years director of the Pulitzer School of Journalism of Columbia University. Dr. Williams is a scholar, an author and an orator of wide repute and was a close friend of the founder of the institute. Dr. Moton is extending an invitation to all friends of Dr. Washington and of Tuskegee Institute to join the institute in memorializing the birth of the founder. Ample accommodations will be arranged for all guests. Garvey Organizes New Steamship Co. Garvey Organizes New Steamship Co. New York, March 20.—The U. N. L. A., of which Marcus Garvey is head, announces the formation of a new $500,000 steamship line to carry Negroes back to Africa. The first ship will be ready to sail Sept. 1, it was said. No stock will be sold, but the interest will be held by the company. Those who want to go back to Africa, it is believed, will put up the money to float the new company. Garvey, under five-year sentence to Atlanta penitentiary, on the charge of using the mails to defraud persons out of a sum said to exceed millions in the Black Star Line Steamship Company, is out on bail pending an appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals. ington, and the other by M. J. Mulvihill, white. Mr. Howard arrived here from Washington today. Both conventions will be staged here March 25 and each will elect eight delegates, and twelve delegates at large. Up to February last when the split came both factions were working under a harmony agreement by which patronage was dispensed by the two leaders jointly. Both factions have forwarded to Washington strong resolutions endorsing Coolidge for renomination. Douglass Society Wins Adams Debate Hampton Institute Students Debate on Compulsory Military Training—Winners in Essay Contest Are Announced — Elbridge L. Adams Awards Prizes Hampton, Va., March 24, 1924.—The Adams Prize Debate on the subject, "Resolved, That compulsory military training should be abolished in secondary schools," was recently won in Ogden Hall, Hampton Institute, by the negative team, consisting of Grady B. Burwell, Selma, Ala.; J. Wesley Lewis, Holland, Va., and C. Colon Lassiter, Rachek, N. C., who represented the Douglass Literary Society. The affirmative argument was presented by George R. Watkins, Mercerville, N. J.; James H. Jones, Boston, Mass., and Scott E. Johnson, Huntsville, Texas, who represented the Dunbar Literary Society. The presiding officer was Elbridge L. Adams, a well-known lawyer of New York, who for many years has offered valuable prizes for students who showed excellence in debating and essay-writing. Mr. Adams announced the following winners in the Adams Essay Contest: Gold medal, Hugh V. Brown, Franklin, N. C.; silver, Charles L. Cooper, Harrisburg, Pa.; and bronze, Wesley D. Elam, Waverly, Va.—all collegiate students. Music was furnished by the Boys' Glee Club of Hampton Institute, under the direction of R. Nathaniel Dett. The Dunbar Literary Society at Hampton Institute has won seven of the Adams prize debates and the Douglass Literary Society has won five debates. Mr. Adams, in a brief address, expressed his deep satisfaction over the excellent way in which the debaters presented this interesting school problem and declared that the debate was "one of the best" he had ever heard. Virginia Has 20,000 Who Are White or Colored at Will Virginia Has 20,000 Who Are White or Colored at Will Richmond, Va., March 20.—Virginia blacks are getting white, not by intermarriage, but by the so-called "back door method." The Bureau of Vital Statistics estimates that there are 20,000 people in the State who may be either "white or colored," which ever they please. Sometimes they are colonies in various sections of the state withholding themselves from both races. Now and again some of them have gone into the courts and had themselves proved white and sent their children to the white schools. For the most part these colonies have grown up as the result of the common-law marriage of numerous white men and colored women or of still earlier origin when both whites and colored were held as slaves here and intermarried. In order to stop the mixing of the races, Senate Bill 219, which recently passed the House, has now become the law in this state. It provides that all persons will register with the Bureau of statistics. Persons may also register their ancestors and complete their family tree. In this way it is hoped to keep a clear record of both races and prevent very fair colored people from intermarrying in the state. ARE INDIANA NEGROES MEN? ARE INDIANA NEGROES MEN? THE naming of Rev. J. W. Brown, pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church, New York City, as delegate at large to the National Republican convention which meets in Cleveland, Ohio, next summer is but another evidence that the Negroes of New York City know what they want and know how to get it. More important still it evidences the fact that the Negro has reached the full status of a man and citizen in that section of our country. This is the third state that has led off in the matter of sending a colored delegate at large to the Cleveland convention. One unacquainted with the real situation in New York would think that this honor is given the colored Republican voters of New York because of their unfailing loyalty to the Grand Old Party. The opposite, however, is true. The Negroes of New York City had sense enough to know that the only way to make the Republican party realize and appreciate them as voters was by giving them a good whipping at the polls. This they did by lining up with the Democrats and putting a Democratic governor and mayor in office. The fruits of which New York now has a Democratic alderman of color and Democratic officials of color in every department of state and city government. They have colored men and women drawing big salaries in every city office. They have a colored assistant United States attorney, colored assistant district attorney, and of the four state insurance commissioners, one is a colored man drawing an annual salary of $7,000. Thus, the Negroes of New York have effectively solved their political problem and the Republicans no longer regard them as a sure thing. Here in Indiana where the Negroes hold the balance of power, it appears that the best they have ever gotten in the way of a delegate was an alternate to the National Republican convention. As for a colored assistant district attorney or a United States attorney or any position really paying a big salary the Republican party would throw a fit if the Negro even looked as if he hoped for such a thing. It has always been thus and it appears it always will be. Our guess is that the Negroes this year will listen to a few more promises, put a bunch of white men in office and get a few menial jobs that the Negroes in Georgia who do not vote always get. Will they do this or will they rise up like men, demand a delegate to the National Republican convention, and all other fair and just considerations at the hands of the Republican party, and if they fail, then teach them a lesson that they will be a long time forgetting. Let the Negro of Indianapolis awake, arise, or be forever fallen.—Freeman, March 22, 1924. BOULDER, COLO., NEWS After services at his church Sunday night Rev. A. C. Jackson visited the Allen Chapel. Rev. A. C. Murphy preached a good sermon to a crowd Sunday night from the subject, "The Afterwards." The Booker T. Washington Civic League is planning a fine program for Thursday night, the 27th. The executive committee meets Monday night at the home of Mrs. S. B. Harris. They plan a round table discussion after which hot chocolate and maybe something else will be served. But not "hootch." Mrs. E. G. Chrysler was agreeably surprised Monday night, the 17th, of last week, when Mrs. S. E. Tinsley and Mrs. Chrysler's son, Mr. Chrys- NO.24. SEGREGATION POLICY ADOPTED IN SCHOOL SOCIAL ACTIVITIES A segregation policy in the activities of white and Negro students of Denver schools has been adopted as the result of recent disturbances. In the future, schools providing social entertainment will have two social hours—one for the whites and the other for the Negroes. The color line will be drawn the same way in the formal school functions, such as the junior and senior proms and school dances. The new regulations will principally affect Manual Training High school, which has the largest Negro attendance, and the East and North High schools. N. A. A. C. P. PROTESTS AGAINST SEGREGATION ORDER OF DENVER SCHOOL BOARD Denver Branch Enters Fight Strongly Backed by Ministerial Alliance The Denver Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, together with the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Denver and representatives from the Parent-Teacher Association, the Phyllis Wheatley Branch Y W. C. A., the Y. M. C. A., the Denver Colored Civic Association and many other racial interests, met with Supt. Jesse Newlon of the Denver Public Schools Wednesday morning and entered a most emphatic protest against the recent segregation order of the School Board as to the social activities of white and colored students. The delegation that waited upon the school board numbered twenty and represented nearly every side of Negro life in Denver: George W. Gross, president of the Denver Branch, N. A. A. C. P., opened the meeting with the voice of protest of the Negro citizens of Denver and placed before Supt. Newlon a copy of resolutions adopted by the Ministerial Alliance which fairly represented the views and sentiments of our citizens. Attorney Blakemore presented the legal phase of the question, while Mrs. Gertie N. Ross and Dr. Robert W. Bagnall spoke for the Parent-Teacher Association and the N. A. A. C. P. respectively. Mr. Newlon in his reply to the delegation indicated his present purpose to stand by the order as issued but said he would arrange for the colored citizens to meet the school board proper for further discussion of the vexed question. ler planned a birthday party in her honor. They invited in about seventeen guests. The evening was spent in singing and playing the piano after which chicken salad, bread and butter sandwiches, ice cream and cake were served. Mrs. Chrysler received many nice presents of which she is very proud. Mrs. Tinsley and Mr. J. Chrysler were very pleased with the success of their plans as every one had a nice time. We were glad to see Mrs. D. Wharton out to services last night. She had been out in the afternoon at "Macky." Mrs. Wharton recently had an operation. There will be a flower wedding at the "Blue Bird Shop" the evening of the 28th, proceeds for the benefit of Second Baptist Church. Mrs. M. Hall is about the same. Mr. Thomas Pucker is improving we are glad to state. $1,000,000 TALE ONCE NOTORIOUS BANDIT SAYS JAKE HAMON BOUGHT NOM- INATION FOR HARDING OIL MAGNATE WAS TO BE SECRE- TARY OF INTERIOR, DECLARES WITNESS Washington—Al Jennings, once a notorious train robber and now a Call- fornix real estate dealer, related before the ofl committee one of the most un- usual tales congressional investigators have ever heard. It revolved around a $1,000,000 pay- ment which he said he had been told figured in the Republican national con- vention at Chicago in 1920. He sald his only information, however, had come from the late Jake Hamon, who at the time was the Republican na- tional committeeman from Oklahoma, In a Chictgo hotel room during the convention, the witness suid, Hamon told him that the nomination of Hard- Ang would cost him $1,000,000; that he (Hamon) had “put up” $250,000 of this gum to the late Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania, $25,000 to Harry M. Daugherty, $25,000 to Will H. Hays, the chairman of the Republican na- tional committee, and another $25,000 to 1 fourth man from Ohio named Manning, or something similar. Besides, he quoted Hamon as saying “Money was used — indiscriminately with the Oklahoma delegation and It cost him like hell to get the New York delegation.” Jennings said he could Not recall that he had been told of any other individual payments of inoney. It also was « part of the story that Daugherty, Hays and others had agreed to make Hamon secretary of the interior; that Hamon was to take ‘over what the Democratic adminis- tration had left of the public lands; and that Hamon expected to make a great deal of money out of them und then get himself elected as the next President. : Huinon was quoted as saying that Daugherty at first had wanted, Al- bert B. Full as secretary of the In- terior, but that he had “put it all ever him” on that proposition, Asked us to the correctness of Hamon’s expectations, Jennings replied that, of course they were not fulfilled, as he jad not lived. Haimon was shot and killed by Clara Smith Hamon late in 1920. Jennings was on the stand less than half an hour and was subjected to only a brief cross-examination, Sena- tor Spencer, Republican, Missouri, Drought out in each instance as their names were mentioned that Harding, Penrose and Hamon are dead. Jersey City Enforces Blue Laws Jersey City, N. J.—Plenickers In the city park, a woman who brought a doz- en eggs, sever men who bought clg- arettes and one who had his shoes shined were among 8,000 alleged Sun- day blue law violators whose names were listed by police here, ‘The coun- ty jail already has considered a list of 10,000 violators. Poincaire Resumes Premiership Paris—M. Poineaire, despite the fact he is finding the work of setting up 2 new government harder than he expected and has, therefore, been un- able to complete it, informed Presi- dent Millerand that he accepted the tusk of resuming the premiership and constructing a ministry, Congressman Indicted in Whisky Plot Washington. — Representative John W. Langley, Republican of Kentucky, was Indicted by a federal grand jury here on a charge of conspiracy to in terfere with the operations of the goy- ernment. Five others were named in the indictment. ‘The indietment charged the accused men conspired to pay $100,000 to Elias H. Mortimer, the star witness in the veterans’ bureau In- Yestigation; Hermann Oeltzeller und Donald J. de Lancey to procure the purehuse, withdrawal and transporta- tion by Moses and Sattler of whisky from n distillery warehouse to the Union Drug Company. Mail Robbery Suspects Held Chicago.—Two men arrested as sus- pects in connection with the robbery of registered mail pouches containing $150,000 in currency from the Illinois Central station at Harvey yesterday were turned over to federal author- {ties by Judge Lindsay In criminal court. ‘They were Carl Fontana and John Walsh and the Judge's action was taken when habeas corpus proceed: ings were brought. ‘mindthaned dlst tionet CMeage.—When a 12-year-old boy pediled his bicycle to the home of Nicholas Ariola to call for $555 de- manded by 1 blackhand letter, a police automobile squid followed. The ar- resis of Robert L. Maxwell, whose homie Is suid to be in Mansfield, Ohio, and Arthur M. Knoxgon, who says he Js a son of x Pasadena, Calif, real es- tute dealer, resulted. Maxwell sald he had been hired by Knoxson for $50 to. deliver the letter to Ariola, but gublet the job to the boy. STATE OF COLORADO, ‘Insurance Department, Synopsis of Statement for 1923. and Copy of Certificate of Authority, THE CAPYPAL FIR INSURANCE COMPANY OF CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AmMetn ccec cece se esc ce es RE 2M IDG, Dinabitities 1000000000 esmiaa.on Capea eee 800;000.00, Surplus eI pean Stats Gi COLORADO. = CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY Office of Commissioner of Insurance, IT 18 HEREBY CERTIRIED, That the THE CAPITAL FIRE INSURANCE. COMPANY OF CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, a corporation organized under the laws of New Hampshire, whose principal, office ts located at ‘Concord, has complied with the requirements of the laws of Colorado applicable to sald Company, and is hereby authorized to transact business within the State of Colorado, a8 an insurance company, in accordance with its Charter or Articles Of Incorporation, subject to the pro- Visions and requirements of the laws hereof until the last day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, Jack- son Cochrane, Commissioner of Insur- ance of the ‘State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my. seal of office at the City of Denver, this first day of March, A.D, 1924, JACKSON COCHRANE, (Seal) Commissioner of Insurance, STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance. Department. Synopsis of Statement for 1923 and Copy of Certificate of Authority, THE CHRISTIANIA GENERAL IN- SURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, CHIISTIANIA, NORW AX. Annete civssssscvvsets vers TOS 858.98 Tinbititien ooo v eect LLB zag iso.01 Depostt—Capital 2220211 "200,000.00 Surplus ceeretecelocieses) TBACROT STAT OF COLDRADG "PE CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY Office of Commissioner of Insurance, IP 1S HEREBY CERTIFIED, ‘That the CHRISTIANIA, GENERAL INSUR- ANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, CHRISTIANIA, NORWAY, a corporation orkaniied under the laws of Norway, whose principal office is located at Christiania, hag complied with the requirements of the Jaws of Colorado applicable to said Company, and is hereby authorized. to transact ‘business within the State of Colorado, ax an insurance company, In hecordance with its Charter or Articles Of Incorporation, subject. to the -pro= visions and requirements of the Inws hereof until the last day of February, In the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, IN PESTIMONY WHEREOR, 1, tack son Cochrane, Commissioner. of Thsur- ance of the ‘State. of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the. City of. Denver, this first day of Mareh, A.D, 1924. JACKSON COCHRANE, (Seal) Commissioner of Insurance. STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance. Department. Synopels of Statement for 1923 and Copy of Certificate of Authority, THE CONSOLIDATED ASSURANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, LONDON, ENGLAND. Deposit—Capltal 22.00.50... "200,000.00 SUIpIWS jeceee ec ceec i ABI TOASS STATE OF COLORADO. = CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY Offico of Commissioner of Insurance. If IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, That the THE CONSOLIDATED ASSUR- ANCE COMPANY, LIMITED, a corporation organized under thé laws of Great Britain, whose principal office 1 located at London, England, has complied, with the requirements of the laws of Colorado applicable to said Company, and is hereby. authorized. to transact ‘business within the State of Colorado, as an insurance company, in accordance with Its Charter or Articles of Incorporation, subject to the pro- Visions and requirements of the laws hereof until the last day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, Jack- son Cochrane, Commissioner of’ Insur- ance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the City of Denver, this first day of March, A.D, 1924, ‘ JACKSON COCHRANE, (Seal) Commissioner of Insurance, STATE OF COLORADO, Insurance Department. Synopsis of Statement. for 1923 and ‘Copy of Certificate of Authority, COMPANY, NEW YORK, N.Y. ARMOUR cece cece ects cess BUSS A12.01 Liabitities 6200000000000 esters Capital “400,000.00 Surplus 00202 ga-000.e6 SPATE OF COLORADO. — CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY Office of Commissioner of Insurance, IT I$ HEREBY CERTIFIED, That the UNION HISPANO AMERICANA FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, NEW YORK, N.Y. ‘a corporation organized under the laws ‘of New York, whose principal office is located at New York, has complied with the requirements of the laws of Colorado applicable to sald Company, and ix hereby authorized to transact business within the State of Colorado, a8 an insurance company, in accordance with its Charter or Articles of Incorporation, subject to the pro- Visions and requirements of the lnws hereof until the last day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, IN ‘TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, Jack- kon Cochrane, Commissioner of Insur- ance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the City of Denver, this first day of March, A. D. 1924. JACKSON COGHRAND, Geal) Commissioner of Insurance. Synopsis of Statement for 1923 and Copy of Certificate of Authority, ST. PAUL MUTUAL HAIL AND cy- CLONE INSURANCE COMPANY, ST. PAUL, MINN. AMMO oc cce cess este c ete e s+ LOS, TI9.25 Liabilities 200002000... a.x00.00 Surplus eee LIS! t0siarpas STATE OF COLORADO = CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY Office of Commissioner of Insurance. If IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, That the ST. PAUL MUTUAL HAIL AND CYCLONE INSURANCE COMPANY, a corporation organized under the laws ‘of Minnesota, whose principal office is located at St, Paul, has complied with the requirements of the laws of Colorado applicable to said Company, and is hereby authorized’ to transact business within the State of Colorado, as an insurance company, in accordance with {ts Charter or Articles of Incorporation, subject to -the pro- Visions and requirements of the laws hereof until the last day of February, In the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, Jack- son Cochrane, Commissioner of 'Insur- ance of the ‘State of Colorado, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at the City of Denver, this first day of March. A, D. 1924. ‘JACKSON COCHRANE, (Seal) Commissioner of Insurance. WHO WOULD LENO A THIRD PART’ it looks Into the political future still is asking, “What of a third pacty In the presidential campaign?” ‘The won der is If Senator Robert M, LaFol lette, as a good many of his follow- ors desire, will consent to lead a third party In the coming eampalgn, Ip letters from Washington recently It was.sald that all of the probahllities are that such party will be in the fleld with a presidential candidate next summer, but that {t was by no means assured that LaFollette, who seem- ingly always has had a strong Uking for the appearance of regularity, If not us some people seem to think for Its substance, may decline to head a third party force. Senator LaFollette recently asked that his name be taken off the primary ballot in- North Dakota, but the re- quest or order seemingly has not been obeyed. Some politicians in Washing: ton Interpreted this action of the Wis- consin man as meaning that he did not care to enter the primaries of Nort! Dakota as a Republican because he was thinking hard on a proposition to lead a third party. This thought, however, does not seem to appeal to some of the more astute politicians here. No one really seems to think that Senator Latol- lette Is even going to suggest a leader- ship in a third party until after the Republican convention has met and has done its work. LaFollette, In a public communication, has Intimated that he thinks steam, roller operations In the Republican convention will nom- inate President Coolidge. Murdock Might Lead It. Some of the advocates of the nom- Ination of Hiram W. Johnson put out a stutement at the same time to the effect that a third party is a certainty if President Coolidge 1s nominated. ‘These vwo things taken together show something of the bent of tind of the opposition of the progressive Repub- Neans to the nomination of the man now In the White House, There seems to be no absolutely Wxed belief in Washington, however, that Senator La- Follette will bolt the party 1f Cool- {dge is nominated, und there seems to be a fixed bellef that Senator John- son will not consider taking such a course, Victor Murdock, Inte of the federal trade commission, one time Republican insurgent In the house of representa- tives und later a Wilsonite, has been suggested recently as a mun who more than lkely may be culled upon to lead ‘a third party movement. Murdock bas strength of Individuality, and he also has # pleturesque personality, but this red-headed leader of progressivism in the house of representatives of four- teen years ago has been rather out of the limelight recently except that supplied by the lecture platforms. In the year 1916 the Republican lenders who were dubfous about the chances of party stccess In Kansas were exceedingly anxious to find out how Victor Murdock and his news- paper were going to stand in the cam- paign, At that time Vietor was in China, and it was a long thme before any word came from ‘him, and then {t was not transmitted to the party leaders but to two members of his family who were running his Wichita ‘newspaper in his absence, Victor and his paper came out for Woodrow Wil- son, It is possibly worthy of note that In his Httle autobiography pre- pared for Who's Who In America the Wichita man refrains from giving the name of the political party to which he belongs, Senator Borah has been spoken of 1 number of thes as a possibility In the field of leadership for a third party, but this word has been dis- counted by most of the politicians here in Washington, Senator Borah a year or two ago spoke affirmatively of the likelihood of a third political organt- zation, but he in no wise Intimated he had any desire to lead such a party. Taking one thing with another, while Washington 1s fairly well con. vinced that a third party ts a prob- ability, there Is a strong feeling that most of the more prominent Republic ans suggested us Ikely to lend tt wil be much more likely to remain in the fold and to use thelr abilities as sen- ntors or as other officials In attack upon things in the economte or politl cal field which they do not Ike. There is little lkellhvod, as poll- ticlans here view It, that the balance of power hold which the progressives have on the senate can be loosened for some years to come. ‘The survey of the fleld of the coming vacanctes, with proper study of likely happenings mukes {t seem that things a year from now, when the new congress comes to- gether, will be just about the same us they are today. Deciphering Code Messages. It wns un army code expert whe translated for the oll investigating com: mittee some of the messages Sent In of the codes and ‘elphers were rtdica lously simple, while others were In tricate, of a kind in fact to require the services of the best decipherers to wrest from them their meaning. Attempts to communicate informa tion by the written signs ranged ali the way from ordinary English, Ger man, French or some other language, written In Invisible Ink, to the most elaberate cryptogram that the mind of man could conceive, When a letter from a suspect was intercepted and the envelope opened, the presence of a blank sheet of paper inside meant al- most Invariably that the reading of the hidden message was to be an eusy matter. The dipping of the sheet Into chemical solutions-or its exposure to heat usually made the writing visible. Isolated Language Discovered. In the service of the government during the war there was a professor of one of the great American univer- sities, He was given a commission ss a captain and his work was that of deciphering, and, generally spenking, putting Into plain English the stuff which was supposed to be so written as to be beyond the range of explica tion by the experts. This university professor, who Is well known In the West, although per- haps his particular gift In the matter of ciphers 1s not as well known as are his gifts In other Hnes, once was puzzled an unusual length of time by a letter which was handed to him to be put Into English. P One glance at the writing showed him that the letter was not-a cipher nor a code, but was some kind of an actual language, He found traces of this language and that language tn the letter, and after about forty-eight hours of work fhe had translated the whole thing perfectly. This lettet turned out to be an innocuous one, but from {It men learned that in one part of the Balkan area a language {s spoken by a few thousand people which Is a mixture of the lapguages of three or four countries, and In con- siderable part is a combination of peasant words, and of slang words which would not pass muster 'n an academy of letters, The letter In question was written by a man who came from that part of the Balkans, and he wrote it just as ‘fhe would have spoken it. There prob- ably were not more than five or six thousand people in the world, and these remotely removed from America, who could have read the epistle at sight. . Americans Bold In Treason. The British became experts at quick solution of cipher puzzles, and they passed some of their knowledge on to the American officials. It was not al- ways necessary to employ an expert to read what one American suspect would write to another. There are some Americans today who are known to the authorities to have sent writ. ten communications which, if they have been “a letter or two” more ad. vanced toward the field of treason. would have lkinded them behind the bars, or tf this country had been like other countries, put them before a fir ing squad. 5 It was amazing how some Amerlean citizens who were more kindly in clined to the enemy than to their own country would put down their thoughts In plain English, and sometimes out- Ine actual schemes to hurt America and help the enemy, In these eases where there was not sufficient evidence from the letters to arrest a man, but plenty of evidence to show that the writer was an enemy sympathizer, no direct action was taken, but there are a good many citl- zens of this country today who pre sumably are respected by their neish. bors, but who are not at all respected by men who saw service in the in telligence depaftment of the govern ment during the war. It would be mighty interesting read” Ing, spectacular, sensational reading If the letters which the government at one time had in Its possession were to be made public in this day, Uncle Sam was very easy on men and women who showed a willingness te be “Ar eat gate cae lane naereet aes _ Wasted Time A man who owned a paynshop took out a fire insurance polley, ‘Phe same day a blaze broke out that destroyed the building and Ite contents ‘The insurwhee company tried In vain to find sufficient grounds to refuse payment, and was obliged to content itself with the following letter ap pended to the check: “Dear Sir: We note that your policy was Issued at ten o'clock on Thursday morning and that the fire did not oc cur until three-thirty, Why this de lay?” Try a Back View Aunt Pinney—I don't like this photo graph you took of me. It don't do me Justice. Photographer—Well, you'see, madam when I told you to look pleasant, you didn’t look natural. And when I tolé you to look natural, you didn’t look pleasant. Barred Inspector—How did the prisoner ge. away? Irish Pollceman—He ran through 2 oor marked “No Admittance ;"" 80, of course, I couldn't follow.—Passing Show, London. Judge Indorses Scouting Being « scoutmaster is the finest form of service any man can render to the boyhood of a community.—Judge James C. Cropsey, Brooklyn, N. Y. 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Synopsis of Statement tor 1923, and Copy of Certificate of Authority, | THE FARMERS Foe INSURANCE COMPANY, AWNOUM eee cece ces cece BE TOSTT2G0 Aiabilities 0000000000000. 'sz5.sea.08 Capteat mean Bereles: 25S aeeeat, papa NE Lag Aon a in A a CERTIFICATE OF AUTHORITY Office of Commissioner of Insurance. If IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, That the FARMERS FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, « YORK, PA‘, a corporation organized tinder the laws of Pennsylvania, whose principal office is” located at york, has complied with thé requirements of the laws of Colorado applicable to sald Company, and is hereby authorized to transact business within the State of Colorado, as an insurance company, In accordance with its Charter or Articles of Incorporation, subject to the pro~ Visions and requirements of the laws hereof until the fast day of February, in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, Jack- son Cochrane, Commissioner of Insur- ance of the State of Colorado, have hereunto #et my hand and affixed my Soul of office at the City of Denver, this first day of Mareh, A. D, 1924. (Seal) Commissioner’ of ‘Insurance, JACKSON COCHRANE, Buying at Auction. ‘The fellow who buys at auction al- ways pay more than anyone else Is willing to bid. Sulphite Pulp. Sulphite pulp 1s made from wood, straw, esparto, and other vegetable products, by the action of a solution of a sulphite of an alkaline earth, as lime-or of an alkall, as soda, that contains an excess of sulphurous acid, and is used In paper manufacture. Big Electric Sign. Chicago's. largest electric sign con- tains 3,152 lights and is used to ad- vertise a large loop department store. ‘The number of electric signs through- out the United States 1s estimated at 250,000, More than 15,000,000 electric lamps are needed to illuminate them. Sun's Radiant Energy. If the radiant energy of the sun fall- Ing on the earth were wholly converted into meehanteal energy, each individ- ual's share would be sufficient to lift @ weight of 8,300 pounds through a yer- tleal distance of nearly 20 miles every minute of hts life. i Her Secret. A dear old lady of our acquaintance who manages to get through a tremen; dous lot of work sald when asked how she could find time for {t all: “The way to find time+to do everything is never to let'time find you doing noth- ing."—Boston ‘Transcript, Larcest Waves. From a series of observations made of waves of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans by a French naval offi- cer, Jt was found that the largest waves occurred in the Indian ocean, where thirty different waves averaged 29 feet, the largest being 37 feet. e “Michadsows. CORNER 15TH AND LARIMER STREETS < There is nothing, more essen- tial to your looks, feelings, comfort and general satisfac- tion than the proper Foot- wear. Maybe, in the high rent dis- tricts, you can’t find exactly what you want,at the price you are willing to pay, that’s why we suggest that you visit this store. Always the biggest stock, and the best values. Investigate. NOTICE OF ADJUSTMENT DAY Estate of George Washington Clark, i Deceased. No. 33,838. All persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to pre- sent them for adjustment to the County Court of the City and County of Den- ver, Colorado, on the 15th day of April, 1924, ; LUCINDA BURKS, ‘Administratrix. BE, P. Blakemore, Attorney for Estate of Georze Washington Clark, Deceased. First publication, March 1, 1924. Last publication, March 29, 1924. Express, Moving and Storage Coal and Wood 2415 WASHINGTON STREET PROMPT DELIVERY Phona M-'> 6544 First Fog Signals In U. S. Development of the radio compass for the first time made possible the taking of accurate bearings effectively at a considerable distance during @ fog, but guns, fired occasionally, were the first fog signals used in this coun tea Andorra’s Strong Box, Six iron locks, connected by an irom chain, guard a massive chest in the council hall of the Httle republic of Andorra, on the southern slope of the Pyrenees. A consul from each of the six parishes has @ key, and the locks cannot all be opened unless the six consuls are preseat. No stranger fs permitted to see the contents of the box, but they are supposed to be sheets of Jead upon, which is written the charter granted by ,Charlemagae. FOREIGN Elght persons were killed and elev- en Injured at Metz when the Ostende Basle express crashed Into a freight. The national assembly of Greece passed a resolution in favor of the overthrow of the Glucksburg dynasty and the establishment, of a Greek re- public, An Argentine military commission has arrived in Paris to spend two years in Europe buying war materials and seeking means of strengthening the Argentine army, Honduran revolutionists are In com- plete possession of the entire country with the exception of Tegucigalpa, the capital, American Minister Morales reported to the State Department at Washington, Gen. Robert Nivelle, who succeeded Marshal Joffre as chief In command ot the French army in December, 1916, died in Paris a few days ago. He fought In the first battle of the Marne, when the German advance upon Paris was halted in 1914, ‘The Basilica of St. Peter's In Rome was transformed or the public con- sistory at which two American prelates —Archbishop Hayes of New York and Archbishop Mundelein of Chicago—for- malty received from Pope Pius the red hats of the cardinalate. | A-column of 1,500 federal troops was “completely annihilated” by revo- lutionists at Barra Tonala, Tabasco, Gen. Candido Aguilar, chief of the third revolutionary military zone, re- ported to headquarters of the rebel- Mon at/Frantera, {t was announced in Merida, Yucatan. f Doubt of the authenticity of the text of an alleged secret military pact be- tween France and Czecho-Slovakia, re- cently published in Theodore: Wolff's Berliner Tageblatt, is now being freely expressed in a section of the Berlin press. The newspapers are of the opin- fon that Wolff was the victim 6f inter- national forgers. “We expect the rights of our citi- zens residing in Mexfeo to be pro- tected in accordance with Inter- national law, which must be respected if international relationsure to exist,” declared Charles B. Warren, the new American ambassador to Mexico on his arrival in Mexico City to take up a post that has been vacant for six years. ‘. GENERAL An epidemic of searlet fever in the United States academy at West Point, N. Y., lias brought forth orders to can- cel all social affairs and exclude all visitors, Seven cadets and one enlist- ed man are at the isolation hospital. ‘The captain and two other officers who were lost when theAtlantic Fruit freighter Glyndon sank sixty mfles off Cape Hatteras, refused to be saved, preferring to go down with the ship, according to information received in New York. The remaining twenty- four members of the crew were res- eued by the steamer Cananova of the same line when the Glyndon sank in a terrific storm. ‘4n alleged plot to force Easel Ford, son of Henry Ford, to pay $1,500,000 by threatening him and his wife with death and their children with blind- ness, was uncovered in Detroit, ae- cording to police. Police arrested Maslov Simek as he picked up a dummy box containing a copy of a newspaper which Had been placed in a vacant lot te trap him. Anna Hiladik, Simek’s landlady, was also arrested. Half the bank deposit reported on June 30, or approximately $18,000,000,- 000, comprised savings deposits, C, H. Deppe of Cincinnuti, president of the savings bank division of the American Bankers’ Association, stated in Chi- eugo at the annual meeting. ‘The re- ported savings deposits for Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming and eleven other states aggregated approximately $5, 500,000,000, a gain in the last eleven years of $3,000,000,000, Deppe said. Negotiations looking toward delim! tation of the boundary between north- ern and southern Ireland, initiated by Premler MacDonald soon after assum- ing office, haye broken down and ac- tion by the British government is nec- essary to solve the deadlock, London newspapers declare. Fifty-two guns and a large quantity of ammunition, found near a wrecked truck at Agua Prieta, an Arizona town on the Mexican border, were brought back to Los Angeles by deputy sher iffs. Willlum S. Spey, a night wateh- man at 1 warehouse from which au- thorities believe the firearms were stolen, has been urrested pending an Investigation. Four bandits held up employees at the Illinois Central station at Harvey, Ill, seized two registered mail sacks containing between $110,000 and $150.- 000 in currency, and escaped in an automobile, ‘The money was con- signed from the Federal Reserve Bank at Chicago to the First Nation- al Bank of Hgrvey to be used for pay- rolls of large manufacturing plants at Hazyey. Albert J. Pant, minister of finance in thé cabinet of President Obregon of Mexico, has been officially designated ambassador to the United States, ac cording to word received In San An- tonio, Texas, from Mexico. Leon Sal- inas will succeed Pani as minister of finance. Henry Ford's railroad, the Detroit, ‘Toledo & Ironton, operated as a “plant facility,” has lost its owner*$98,207 in the four years of its operation, It was declared in New York In a report by the committee on public ralations of the eastern railroads @ BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR- F EIGN COUNTRIES IN LATE DISPATCHES DOINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK TH PROGRESS OF THE AGE WESTERN with the Montana secretary of state as candidate for delegate at large to the Republican national convention. By a decision of two to one, the Oniversity of Wyoming won a debate from Willamette University at Salem, Ore, Monday night on the question, “Resolved, That the @nited States Bhould Enter the World Court.” Wyoming upheld the affirmative and Willamette the negative. Hume M. Frost, mining operator, was fatally injured near Silver City, N. M, in an automobile accident. He fied in the emergency hospital at ort Bayard, N. M., three hours after the accident. Frost was changing a tire on a rear wheel of his car when a car following crashed Into’ him, erushing him against his own car. Charges that California “lobbyists” and representatives, “as well as power trust officials seern to consider Art- eona’s interests in the Colorado river as unworthy of consideration,” in hear- ings before the House committee on arid lands were “ade in a telegram sent by Governor Hunt of Arizona to Chairman Addison T. Smith of the comynittee. » Men, supplies and equipment were rushed to Mariposa and Merced coun- ties in California, and the slaughtering of cattle affected with the foot and mouth disease in that district was started by authorities In a drastic ef- fort to check a new outbreak of the malady, considered the worst since the epidemfc began in California more than a month ago. Armed guards have been placed at the stockyards in San Francisco and Los Angeles to prevent all but inspect- ed cattle and swine shipments because of new outbreaks in the state of the foot and mouth disease, the authorl- Hes announced in San Francisco. The police who were placed at the stock- yards when the disease was discoy- ered were replaced by guards paid by the state and federal governments. Four fossilized human skeletons, es- timated to be from 10,000 to 25,000 years old, have been unearthed in ex- eavations near Los Angeles which re- cently gave up a skull classified by some paleontologists as possibly one of the earliest relics of primitive man yea brought to light. The skeletons were examined by Dr. Chester Stock, head of the department of paleontol- ogy of the University of California. WASHINGTON Harry F. Sinclair, lessee of Teapot dome, was certified to the federal courts by the Senate for contempt pto- ceedings because of his refusal to an- ewer any further questians put by the oll Investigators. Under the caption, “What Every- body Should Know Abaut Senator Wheeler and His Montana Gang,” the Republican national news bureau Is- sued a detailed attack on the prose- cutor of the Daugherty investigating committee. The Roosevelt brothers—Theodore and Archie—who dramatically ap- peared before the Senate public lands committee weeks ago anc told of their suspicions of wrongdoing in connection with Harry P, Sinclair's lease of Ten- pot dome, came in for a sarcastic de- nunciation at the hands of Sinclair. Representative Lampert, Republican Insurgent, Wisconsin, was selected head of the House committee which will investigate the aircraft industry, while Representative McFadden, We- publican, Pennsylvania, was made chairman of the committee which will conduct an Inquiry into charges of du- plication of government bonds at the hureau of engraving and printing. The country’$ first helium reserve, comprising 7,100 acres of gas-bearing lands in Emery county, Utah, has been created by President Coolidge on recommendation of Secretary Work. ‘The land will be known as Helium Reserve No. 1 and will be closed to public settlement, location, sale or entry. Except for a few prospecting permits, issued about three years ago, full mineral title to the land is vested in the government. ‘A resolution providing for the im- peachment of ©. C. Chase, collector of customs at El Paso, on charges of con- splracy, was introduced in the Sen- ate by Senator Walsh, Democrat. Mon- tana, and was adopted unanimously, seventy senators voting. Reciting the refusal of Chase to testify before the ofl committee and the previous testl- mony that he attempted to get Price McKinney, Cleveland banker, to give false testimony, the resolution brings the situation to the attention of the Rouse “for appropriate actlon.”. LATE NEWS From All Over COLORADO to get their ground in proper shape for the 1924 crop have been held up by un- favorable weather conditions. Greeley.—Greeley High school won the championship of the Intermountain basketball tourament at Salt Luke City by defeating Latter Day Saints High school, Salt Lake City, 29 to 13. Boulder—The Ohio Oil Company spudded in thelr first well In the Hay- stuck structure, eight miles north of here, last week, without ceremony. ‘Two hundred persons witnessed the operation, Leadville—Five persons were ar- rested here in a series $f liquor raids by federal prohibition officers’ from Glenwood Springs, who expressed thelr intention to “clean up" Leadville be- fore they left town. - Glenwood Springs—Harry O. Swit- zer, alderman and associated with Mayor McDonald in the MeDonald- Switzer Hardware Company, died here as the result of complications settling In, following a recent operation. Pueblo.—Five million dollars will be spent with the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company for 105,000 tons of steel rails by the Santa Fe system, asserted E. L. Copeland, secretary-treasurer of that railway, at a rdcent, dinner of the Pueblo Commerce Club. De Beque.—Jake Gilman, a well- known rancher of De Beque, Colo. 1s at the point of death in the hospital here as a result of-two bullet wounds which he received, and his wife, Nat- tle, is being held in the county Jail at Glenwood Springs in connection with the shooting, Fort Collins.—Witliam Ross of Love- land, who is now serving a year’s sen- tence in the state penitentiary for manslaughter In connection with the death of Mrs. Anna Lapp, also of Love- land, who was killed Feb. 4, 1921, by an automobile sald to have been driven by Ross, was found not guilty by a Jury In District Court here on a charge of perjury which resulted from his tes- timony at the time of the manslaugh- ter trial. Loveland.—Loveland will erect a mu- nicipal light and power plant despite the protest of the Public Service Com- pany. Contracts for the completion of the plant, upon which work was start- ed several years ago but not carried out, haye been let by the city council to the Hendrie-Bolthoff Company of Denver for $371,587.14. ‘The Hendrie- Bolthoff Company also agrees to buy the city’s bond issue of $425,000 vot- ed by the councll for the plant. Boulder.—Leading educators of the state are to meet in Boulder April 8 and 4 for their annual high school and college conference, sponsored by the University of Colorado. The junior college, plans for the Colorado Education Association, school citizen ship, the platoon school and its posst- bilities, professional preparation of the elementary teacher, duties and re- sponsibilities of principalship and preparation of teactiers are some of the subjects that will be discussed. Denyer—Suit to foreclose a trust mortgage upon property of the Em- pire Consolidated Mines Company in Clear Creek county, Colorado, given to secure a bond Issue of $100,000 and interest thereon, was filed in District Court here by Charles D. Cutler. De- fendantg in the action besides the mines company are the Bankers -and Stockmen’s ‘Trust Company, a Wyo- ming corporation, and William A. Skinner, M. A. Jobe and Thomas P. Fahey, as trustees after the dissolu- tion of the trust company. Fowler—The local high school build~ ing was destroyed by fire of unknown, origin, A pumper apparatus was rushed here from Rocky Ford, making the twenty-two mile run in thirty-five minutes, when the blaze reached such proportions that the local department was unable to cheek it, The loss Is es- timated at $25,000, Loveland, — Interests representing the Midwest Refining Company have just appeared for the first time In the records of Larimer county as ac- quiring property in the northern Colo: rado oil field, ‘The entry consists of oll and gas assignments covering 1,- 520 acres in sections 8, 9, 16, 17, 20 and 21, township 4, range 69. ‘This location is about two miles directly west of Berthoud and about forty miles north of Denyer and twenty-five miles south of Fort Collins. ‘The transfer is from the Rocky Mountain Oil Company to G. B. Jenkinson, the latter being a member of the Mid- west ‘Refining staff. It ts understood that Sinclair Interests are also acquir- ing oil properties in the Berthoud field, although the records ‘of such transactions have not yet been en- tered in the Larimer county records. CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS Bice. ee oe rata bare ai aes LN im thd owl Olas a ewer Seas ge ee Oe & ee T. G. Granberry, W. T. Collins Curtis M. Harris, President Licensed Embalmer marge Lady Assistant an and Soloist WithSERVICE DAY eb ee Director All Funerals ane Funeral THE PEOPLES’ MORTUARY Funeral Directors and Licensed Embalmers Parlors, 2718 Welton Street * Denver, Colorado Consideration, for the dead. Satisfaction guaranteed. jor the bereaved. : . ‘: amittediy” the riargent | race Ainight, tt Your eervics, day or Gatabliament of its Kiad inthe gaurn treatment to all on Empl ous. foam re tar egies Eoonomy our watchword. Ever ready to assist the worthy. Service incomparable. the U. S. Department of Labor, shows that industriul and employment condl- tlons in Colorado have made a notice: able Improvement over January. Fav- orable weather permitted a partial re- ‘sumption of seasonal out-of-door activi- les, which has resulted in relieving to some extent existing winter surplus of principally unskilled labor, Labor sit- uation In the metal mining camps of this state continues to Improve and es- tablished metal mines and many small enterprises recently initiated maintain practically normal forces. Favorable weather has allowed building and oth- er outside construction, of which there are large programs, to resume earlier than antielpated, thereby causing em- ployment for a moderate portion of the Seasonal surplus of skilled construc- tion programs to be under way within thirty days will cause employment of large numbers of local labor. Indus- trial plants, particularly those manu- facturing building materials, equip- Tent and supplies: fr municipal. tr provement and general construction, and meat-packing plants are operating to capacity, Railway shop employ- ment slightly increased. F, Loveland—The Midwest Ofl and Refining Company has taken up the leases for about 8,000 acres on which they held options on the Red Rock dome, southwest of Loveland, assur- ing that the Midwest will drill in this section soon. Text holes at Red Rock are said to have revealed a favorable formation and the company expects to strike the ofl sands at a depth of 4,200 to 4,500 feet. The Midwest has a large force of men on the ground and drilling is expected x0 start dur- ing the coming month, Included in the lands leased Is the acreage se- cured through Ray Baxter, public trustee of Lurimer county, and the farms of L. H. Fagan, Jay Chesbro, Henry Rasmussen, Henry Hoffman and L. 8, Hertha. Durango.—A ton of dynamite, hurted from forty bursting cases and scattered along the ‘railroad right of way for more than 100 yards, failed to explode when a Telluride-Durango passenger train struck a wagon loaded with the explosive ten miles west of this city. Four cases of the dynamite were ground to dust by the force of the Im- pact. The remainder, scattered for hundreds of feet, was salvaged. The wagon was reduced to kindling wood by the collision, as were the cases in which the dynamite was contained. The driver of the wagon, H. C. Carey, and the team of horses escaped injury. Denyer—Deposits in the banks of Colorado at the beginning of 1924 were $299,786,014.22, compared with $304,- 585,006.57 at the beginning of 1923, ac- cording to compilations made by the state board of immigration. The de- crease is but 1.6 per cent, which is re- garded as an excellent showing in view of the financial depression that has af- fected the agricultural districts of the West and Northwest for the last two years. These figures indicate that loss of deposits in Colorado has been lower In the past twelve months than in any other state In this section of the coun- try. ‘ Colorado Springs—Violet Pugsley pleaded guilty in District Court here to a charge of obtaining money under falst pretenses and was sentenced to a term of from one to five years In the state penitentiary by Judge Arthur Cornforth. She is alleged to have swindled more than thirty concerns, in- cluding department stores, steam and electric railway companies, by faking an injury to her ankle. 3 Denver.—James Dalrymple, state coal inspector, announced that the amount of coal produced in Colorado In February exceeded that or any pro- duction over a similar period. ‘The to- tal for the month was 1,912,812 tons, an Increase of 187,146 tons over that of February, 1923. Denver.—At the annual meeting of Colorado Fuel and Iron in Denver the same board of directors that has served for the past few years yas re- elected. Rumors that DuPont Inter. ests had obtained control of the com- pany were denied by Colorado Fuel and Iron officials, who pointed out the manifest Impossibility of this be- cause the entire old board was re- ‘tained. Golden.—Sam Franklin, Jefferson county youth, was found guilty of the burglary of a mountain cottage in Bear Creek canon by a jury in the District Court here. 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In case you do not receive any number when due, inform us by postal card and we will cheerfully forward a duplicate of the missing number. Remittances should be made by Express Money Order, Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Bank Draft. Postage stamps will be received the same as cash for the fractional part of a dollar. Only 1-cent and 2-cent stamps. Communications to receive attention must be neway, upon important subjects, plainly written only upon one side of the paper; must reach us Tuesdays, if possible, anyway, not later than Wednesdays, and bear the signature of the author. No manuscript returned, unless stamps are sent for postage. SPRING THE BUDS are coming. Some are already out on the new spring hats. The leaves and the flowers and the trailing vines are on their way. The tailors and dressmakers are busy with the new drapings, the gorgeous creations of the moulders of fashion, and even the harem skirt has one pretty little pantaloonlet peeping over the exhibition counter. But we cannot describe these things one-half as well as the live merchant who invites you to an inspection of his up-to-date stock. The seed for a large crop of sales is planted in the early springtime in rows of display type in the rich soil of a readable newspaper's columns. Every newspaper has its own peculiar way for cultivating a crop of buyers, and no other newspaper offers just the same facilities that are offered by THE COLORADO STATESMAN. The spring advertising that appears in these columns is just as sure to bear fruit as is the finest tree that blooms. Our readers are good dressers and live thrifty people, who know new styles from foot to crown, and although not extravagant purveyors of extreme fashion, make up a patronage which it pays any merchant to make an effort to obtain. That is why our readers see nothing but choice, reliable advertisements in the columns of THE COLORADO STATESMAN. The tastes of our readers, as a class, are such as to make them appreciate the timely description and illustration of new and changing fashions or the best products of the shops and markets. The Easter glow is not a spasmodic expression of a fleeting desire for display on our part. We go right on buying good clothes, good shoes, good millinery, good gloves and hats and good table provisions. The average colored man's home contains good furniture and tasty draperies, such as neat and thrifty people enjoy, and an inspection of them would prove a surprise to many a merchant or advertising manager who has overlooked our aspiring tendencies. The advertisements appearing in our columns are those of wide-awake merchants and tradesmen who are aware that the seasons' changes are watched by others than sole readers of the daily newspapers. Inspect their offerings. It will pay you, them and us. THE NEED OF BROAD VISION THE MOULD of public opinion is being called upon these days for such continuous recasting and to meet new conditions almost daily that the question of a sane, conscientious leadership becomes intricate and perplexing. Society does not stand in one place very long and the kaleidoscopic changes of human environments sometimes sweep a nation's form of government out of existence and set up a new dynasty almost over night. Thus we need not be surprised nor at all alarmed over what appears to be a radical change in the social status and school life of Denver. The present situation but implies and suggests increased responsibility. The full man, the fearless, stalwart, upright man must come to the fore. We need neither the radical on the one hand, nor the trimmer on the other. Notwithstanding seeming obstacles on every hand, the general outlook for the Negro in America is one full of hope. It is said that we chiefly suffer from a lack of proper leadership; this seems to be an overdrawn view, for we still have faith in those who plead our cause and lead in our battles. We need a leadership of vision, of training free from selfishness, that will think, work and plan in terms for the helpfulness of the race at all times and under all conditions. This type of leadership is essential to the social, religious and political progress of any people and assuredly the Negro must have leadership of such stainless character. Eminent authorities in the careful study of racial conditions in this country are agreed that the young Negro is thinking and thinking in terms much larger in scope than was given to leaders of the old school. A significant article under the caption "Jim Crow grown up" appeared in a recent issue of Colliers from the pen of a southern white man. The article proved a choice morsel and much more delightful in reading than the rather in-elegant title would suggest. In it the new Negro aspires to the full stature of a man and yet does not blind himself to all that must be gained, all that must be sacrificed to attain such an end. The Negro, in order to enjoy full citizenship privileges must accept the duties and requirements needed to keep every avenue open for the employment of our people. He needs and must have training as to the value of making good, no matter what the employment, of making time, no matter what the requirements be, and of keeping himself physically fit, staying on the job six days per week and putting his heart and soul into the same. Such a spirit and such determination will develop a leadership in the way of foremen and superintendents that is certain to give to us a standard equal to that of any other people. Industry and character often go hand in hand. The indolent, shiftless, loafing type of Negro has never found a welcome lodgement in Denver. We do not need him; our problems multiply rapidly enough without him. Fortunately in the present situation we have no need to apologize for the class of citizens who are pleading, yea demanding a square deal for the Negro. We are convinced that the broader vision needed for a judicious handling of the delicate situation confronting us will be forthcoming and at the convenient moment. No people can view with complacency a threatened denial of fundamental rights and no one need expect us to do so at this time. In many of our eastern cities a friendly atmosphere is maintained by the creation of a strong inter-racial group made up of the best white and colored citizens to safeguard their interests and to make difficult the possibilities of racial friction. Some time ago we heard of an inter-racial and tolerance group in Denver. Has it or they been called into requisition in the present crisis? If such a group is to function at all and prove of worth to a community, the time to do so is when clouds arise, and direct action needed. We do not despair by any means as to the social, religious, educational and economic progress of the Race, so long as we hold to a big program and are guided by leaders of wisdom, vision and unselfishness. The lack of broad vision and spirit is chiefly the cause of the failure of many helpful social and welfare associations from accomplishing the idealistic true and real in this life. Laws Giving President War Power to Mobilize Resources of Nation By BERNARD M. BARUCH, Address to War College. STRONGLY recommend that legislation be put into effect that would give power to the President, in case of war, or threatened war, to mobilize immediately the resources of the nation. That would mean the mobilization of men, money, materials and food; the fixing of all prices and the regulation and distribution of production. In charge of this work an industrial strategist, or board, should be placed. The military authorities should put into effect a draft of the entire population, from which the required number of men should be drawn and place the necessary orders for equipment and material. The industrial strategist would then say from what industries the men should be taken, giving you and the draft boards a list of the essential and less essential industries. The industrial strategy board would then immediately declare not alone what industries were essential and less essential, but what proportion of its peace-time quota each industry should be permitted to produce. Prices of materials, commodities and, in fact, all things would be declared fixed as of such and such a date, and it would be illegal either to buy or sell at a different price. The machinery to make this effective could be immediately set up, as was done during the war through the state councils of defense. Money would be mobilized the same as men and materials, because a price would be fixed at which money could be and should be used, but the money would be allocated for the purpose of winning the war, the same as in the case of men and materials. This would prevent any rise in prices and would also prevent competitive bidding for labor. The excess proportion of the profit that was made in industry and internal revenue would go to the prosecution of the war. Thus, you would not only take the profit out of war and make profits impossible by taking practically all in taxes for war purposes, but you would place all the resources of the country at the command of the war-making agencies. The Freedom of Occupational Choice Should Be Zealously Safeguarded By E. E. WINDES, U. S. Bureau of Education. Freedom of occupational choice is an outstanding characteristic of our American civilization and a condition to be zealously safeguarded. Individual migration in response to occupational opportunity has largely determined the ceaseless shifting of population in the United States. So long as we can keep the road to free occupational choice open, hope and stimulation to effort will not be lacking, unrest and destructive revolution will not seriously menace, economic forces will balance vocational groups, and the need for governmental interference will not become acute. One who realizes that the occupational misfit is a danger to society; that an occupational misfit is relatively unproductive because the keen stimulation of working toward a self-chosen end is lacking; that an occupational misfit is a discontented man, ripe for propaganda inciting to violent acts against the established order; that an occupational misfit is an unhappy man, and organized society is not justified in contributing to such a lot, will insist that the school concern itself largely with education for occupation. It Is Ignorance of This Country That Bulwarks It and Preserves It By SAMUEL G. BLYTHE, in McNaught's Monthly. Suppose the entire people knew the exact truth about the finances of this country from high to low, meaning all finance, not governmental, but all; suppose the people knew the truth about our office holders, our legislators, our labor leaders, our social leaders, our religious leaders, our financiers, our plutocrats, our exploiters, our despoilers, our professional politicians, our city governments, our graft, collusion, extortion, administration of the law, subversions of justice, briberies, subornations, police compliances and complaisances, robberies, crooked compromises, looting of the public purse, legislative malfeasance, governmental ineptitudes and worse; suppose the public had even a scanty knowledge of the real workings of this enormous machine we call America—then what? It is not the intelligence of this country that buttresses it and maintains it. It is the ignorance of this country that bulwarks it and preserves it. Writers Confuse Smut With Sex, Dirty Stuff; No Reason for Writing It I know the crowd you mean. They are so busy discovering sex and garbage they have forgotten beauty exists in the world. And they have become so fascinated with the words themselves they have forgotten that words are supposed to convey something to the mind other than mere sound. Take the case of Chicago, for instance. Chicago woke up one morning and discovered that there were a lot of writers there. Bang! The "Chicago school" came into being. They didn't seem to realize that writers are somewhat like skunks; get enough of 'em together and you have a bad smell. Not that I'm saying they can't write. Some of them can; but they are floundering around in a maze of words. Chicago seems to be suffering from nervous culture. Many of her writers are writing propaganda—and propaganda is never art. It can't be. And then many writers confuse smut with sex. Dirty stuff; no reason for writing it. Girl Scout Will Make Best Type of Citizen in Future City and State By REAR ADMIRAL W. S. SIMS, U. S. Navy. A girl who has had girl scout training will make the best type of citizen in the future city and state. She has been brought up with the idea of being useful in an intelligent way to her village, her town, her city, her state, her country. Scouting emphasizes the domestic activities and interests of a girl's life. Many a girl has scorned her mother's kitchen until, as a scout, she has learned that it is not drudgery but "fun alive" to learn to cook a simple meal, and set the table correctly. But, the old-fashioned mothers will say, "Good mothers have for centuries been trying to teach these homely accomplishments and instill these principles into their daughters." This is true, and it is to help the mothers in their important and unending task that the scout movement has utilized important and characteristic principles of modern education. Children's Shoes Closing Out Several Discontinued Lines At Half Price BOOTS These are all good, reliable Joslin quality shoes-only lines in which we do not intend to fill in sizes when they are sold. LOT 1— —Children's Shoes, black or brown, button styles. Hand-turned soles. —$2.50 Shoes, sizes 5 to 8, at.....$1.25 $3.00 Shoes, sizes 8½ to 11, at.....$1.50 LOT 2— —Boys' Shoes, made of brown calfskin, good quality oak soles. —Sizes 10 to 11½, at.....$2.65 —Sizes 12 to 6, at.....$2.95 LOT 3— —Big girls' lace shoes, in brown calfskin; also patent with black or brown kid tops. —$5.00 Shoes, sizes 4 to 7, at.....$2.50 —3rd Floor, Joslin's— --at Joslin's Sixteenth and Curtis Midwest Cafe UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT Polk & Polk, Proprietors A woman serving a tray. A VINEGAR Meals Served from 6 A. M. to 8 P. M. 924 19th St. Denver, Colo. Short Orders at All Times Home Cooked Food. Best of Service. Meals Served from 6 A. M. to 8 P. M. 924 19th St. Denver, Colo. J. R. DRESSOR President L. A. KEIGLEY Foreman J. R. DRESSOR President L. A. KEIGLEY Foreman First Grade Guaranteed Paint $3.25 per Gallon The Colorado Wall Paper and WALL PAPER PAINTS, OILS AND GLASS Paint Co. TELEPHONE MAIN 871 WALL PAPER PAINTS, OILS AND GLASS INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR DECORATORS 221 Fifteenth St., Denver, Colo. SHIRLEY J. LIGGINS MUSIC SHOP AND STUDIO Sheet Music, classic and popular, Octavo and Folios and music of every variety THE LATEST RECORDS Vocal Training and Piano Tuning PHONE MAIN 1536 2603 WELTON ST. Unsportsmanlike. Telephones in Europe First Golfer—"I have injured a ligament in my hand and the doctor forbids me to play golf for the next month or so." Second Golfer (with feeling) —"Oh! the bounder—what a shame!" If there were as many telephones in Europe in proportion to population as there are in the United States, Europe would have more than 62,022,660 telephones. As it is they have but 5,006,252. Father was explaining a not unusual winter sight. "You see, my son, the water in the river is so much warmer than the air that the vapor rises from it." "I guess," said Johnny, "I'd be warm, too, if I'd run as far as that river has."—Boston Transcript. Good Comparison. water in the river is so much warmer than the air that the vapor rises from it." "I guess," said Johnny, "I'd be warm, too, if I'd run as far as that river has."—Boston Transcript. When we see a man who can't accommodate himself to other people's points of view, we think of the farmer who wouldn't build a storm-cellar because he didn't approve of cyclones. THE COLORADO STATESMAN Mid-West Male Quartette will appear at Cameron White Recital, Monday, April 7, People's Presbyterian Church. CELEBRATION BIRTHDAY AND VERSARY Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Blakemore had as their breakfast guest Tuesday morning Dr. Robert W. Bagnall of New York, who is spending the week in Denver. MESSRS. T. CARTER and M. T. TURNER, formerly of West Virginia, were pleasant callers at our office last week. Their visit was very interesting. Rev. W. H. Thomas was called out of the city suddenly to attend a meeting of the Educational Board at Quindoro, Kansas, to take steps toward the rebuilding of Ward Hall, which was recently destroyed by fire. Mrs. Chas. Overton of Los Angeles, Calif., who has been the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Monroe Tompkins, several weeks, will visit a few days with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Mary E. Bradford of 2822 High street, before returning to her home. Monday, April 7, Clarence Cameron White, renowned violinist, People's Presbyterian Church. THEODORE ANDERSON (better known as Bubber, the ball player) left last Saturday for Washington, D. C., via Kansas City and St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Anderson has been in the professional baseball role for some time and has always given a good account of western representation. We wish him good luck for this season and much of honors to his team and the West. Mrs. Lizzie Thompson and her daughter, Miss Frieda Tiggs of Parsons, Kansas, are visiting in Denver for a few days, having been called to the city because of the illness of Washington Bradley at Fitzsimons hospital, who is a nephew and cousin. Mrs. Thompson and daughter are cousins of our fellow townsman, W. H. Brown, who has taken much pains to show them the beauty of Denver and Colorado through extensive auto rides. They expect to return to their home the latter part of next week. DR. BAGNALL WILL SPEAK IN DENVER CHURCHES SUNDAY Dr. Robert W. Bagnall, Director of Branches of the N. A. A. C. P. will speak at three of Denver's churches Sunday. He will address the members of Central Baptist Church at 11 o'clock and at 5 o'clock will be the principal speaker at the Vesper services held at the Church of the Redeemer. At night he will be at Shorter A. M. E. Church. Dr. Bagnall is an Episcopal Priest and a brilliant, fluent speaker. He has come to Denver at an opportune time and his counsels have been full of wisdom and of much aid. He leaves for the East on Monday. THE DENVER COLORED CIVIC ASSOCIATION The regular monthly meeting of the Denver Colored Civic Association will be held Wednesday evening, April 2nd, 1924, at Odd Fellows Hall, 2630 Welton Street. Mr. George E. Collisson, the newly elected business manager of The Denver Civic and Commercial Association will be present and address the association. All members are urged to be in attendance, bring your friends and any prospective applicants for membership. Famous Violin Virtuoso, Clarence Cameron White, People's Presbyterian church, Monday, April 7. SHORTER CHAPEL NOTES Sunday will be observed as "Ushers' Day" at Shorter Chapel. A special sermon will be preached to both boards of ushers at the 11 o'clock service by the minister; subject, "Four Classes of Men." The subject at the evening service at 7:30 p. m. will be, "Why Prayers Fail." Special music will be furnished by the choir at both services. Open Forum Thursday night. Good community sing, followed by debate. Everybody invited. CELEBRATION BIRTHDAY ANNI VERSARY Last Saturday evening the beautiful home of Mrs. Mary Hooper, 2325 Clarkson St., was the scene of a birthday anniversary celebration in which the lady of the house of "a few summers" of sixty years was entertained by her children; and amidst an abundance of beautiful spring decorations and an assembly of pioneer citizens who came to do her honor, Mrs. Hooper was very impressively reminded of her ascent on the ladder of life. A birthday cake studded with sixty candles presented a charming spectacle, and what with short, interesting speeches, delightful music and references to beautiful reminiscences in the life of the honored guest, the event marked an ever-memorable incident in the life of Mrs. Hooper, which will not be easily forgotten by herself and those whose good fortune it was to attend. The COLORADO STATESMAN wishes her good luck and the enjoyment of many more years. NOTICE TO KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS Notice is hereby given to all members of the Knights of Pythias in good standing, to assemble at Old Colony hall, Twenty-eighth and Downing streets, Sunday, March 30, at 12:30 p. m., and then and there proceed to Zion Baptist Church, Twenty-fourth and Ogden streets, to take part in the annual thanksgiving service. DR. ROBERT W. BAGNALL AT ZION CHURCH The dinner conference at Zion Baptist Church Monday night, under the auspices of the Denver Branch N. A. A. C. P., and complimentary to Dr. Robt. W. Bagnall of New York, was an event surposing in interest and enthusiasm the fondest hopes of its sponsors. The banquet room at Zion was beautifully adorned and a gathering of about 125 were seated at the tables. Dr. Bagnall proved one of the finest speakers and earnest thinkers Denver has entertained in many years. Every attention was given his remarks and at the close pledges well over the $500 mark were received for the work of the N. A. A. C. P. Many of Denver's most prominent citizens and leaders attended the banquet, giving to Dr. Bagnall every evidence of loyalty in the great work he is doing. Geo. W. Gross was master of ceremonies and introduced the distinguished guest to the audience. Mrs. Josephine Price Reads Remarkable Paper Before the Forum SAVE the surface and you save all" was the unique title given a paper read by Mrs. Josephine Davis Price before the Shorter Church Forum last Thursday night. Mrs. Price is a close student of human nature and wove a beautiful story around the young child life in a way so convincing that many comments of unusual praise followed her reading of the paper. The veritable lesson of saving the young child and you save civilization was brought out in a full, forceful and logical manner. Mrs. Price is a graduate of Fisk University and has had much public experience in Y. W. C. A. work, thus making her timely observations all the more valuable. PEOPLE'S MORTUARY FUNERAL NOTICES Johnson—James, beloved brother of Mrs. Callie Jones of Dallas, Texas, departed this life Wednesday, March 26, at the General Hospital. Services were held Friday, March 28, from the People's Parlors, Rev. A. D. Davis officiating. Hartlett—A. J., who fell dead last Wednesday at his late residence, 2011 Welton street. Funeral services will be held Sunday, March 30, at 1:30 p. m. from Central Baptist Church. Tickets for Cameron White Recital Monday, April 7, now on sale at Liggins Music Shop, 2603 Welton street; Negro Book Shop, 2723 Welton; Howard's Hardware Store, 739 East Twenty-sixth Ave.; Colorado Statesman's office, 1824 Curtis St., Room 25; Denver Star, 1024 Nineteenth St. Mrs. Henry Pinn, 1861 Curtis Street. Elite Drug Co., Twenty-first and Arapahoe Streets. BECAUSE IT'S LIGHT-WEIGHT AND EASY TO HANDLE Manufactured Anthracite It is economical, too, for its heat is intense and lasting. ORDER YOURS TODAY! Call Main 4000—Anthracite Dept. Public Service Company OF COLORADO ELEVEN DELEGATES NAMED FOR NEGRO CONVENTION Eleven delegates to the twenty-sixth annual convention of the Negro Educational Congress in Philadelphia, June 16 to 21, inclusive, were appointed last Thursday by Governor Sweet. The appointments were made in response to a recent request of J. Silas Harris, president of the congress. The following were selected: Mrs. O. T. Jackson, Deerfield, Colo.; the Rev. J. E. Murphy, Boulder; Dr. I. E. Moore, Colorado Springs; Mrs. Curtis Harris, Mrs. Kate Harris, T. K. Price and C. W. Buford, all of Denver; Sam McClure, Pueblo; Mrs. Cordella Boyle, Denver, John White, Denver, and Walter H. Pritchette of Denver. CARD OF THANKS In appreciation for the kindness and sympathy shown us in the illnes and passing of our beloved, we desire to express our thanks, and especially to thank Mrs. Taylor, Suggs, Blakemore, Allison, Mr. Jones and others, also the American Legion and the Mississippi Club of Colorado Springs for the beautiful floral offerings. (Signed) Mr. M. E. Proctor, husband. Mrs. U. Nickolson, mother. Mrs. A. J. Howard, Jr., sister-in-law. Silver Cord Lodge No. 104 meets 2nd and 4th Wednesday nights in each month at 2538 Washington St. REV. I. N. POWELL, Secy. P. B. SPEARS, W. M. Sunset Lodge No. 98 meets 1st and 3rd Monday nights each month at 2538 Washington St. Silver Cord Lodge No. 104 meets 2nd and 4th Wednesday nights in each month at 2454 Washington St. REV. I. N. POWELL, Secy. P. B. SPEARS, W. M. Sunset Lodge No. 98 meets 1st and 2nd Wednesday nights each month at 2538 Washington St. GEORGE A. LOGAN, W. M. ISAAC HODGE, Secy. Queen of Sheba Court No. 98 meets 2nd and 4th Tuesday nights each month at 2444 Washington St. Silver Cord Court No. 104 meets 2nd and 4th Thursday afternoons each month at 2588 Washington St. MRS. L. J. RUNNETT. M. A. M. Naomi Court No. 99 meets 2nd and 4th Tuesday nights each month at 2538 Washington St. LUCY C. LANDERSON, M. A. M. IRENE PENDLEY, Secy. NOTICE OF ADJUSTMENT DAY Estate of Christopher H. Hall, Dec. 16, 1927 All persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to present them for adjustment to the County Court of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, on the 27th day of April, 1924. ALICE W. HALL. Administratrix. E. E. Blakemore, Attn. Estate. First publication, March 8, 1924. Last publication, April 5, 1924. HAVE BETTER HAIR EVERYBODY LIKES TO LOOK THEIR BEST EVENHOUT LIES HEIR AIDS A GREAT HEIR ADDS A GREAT DEAL TO PERSONAL APPEARANCE. 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People's Presbyterian Church. 3 perfully Given ARNISHES MANUFACTURED PLATE GLASS CO. DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING CO. FUNERAL NOTICES "OUR MOTTO: "FOR THE SAKE OF HUMANITY" National Identification Bureau "ASK US" THE BLACK CHIEF (By Rev. W. E. Harris) He is a man, a great one, too, The man of New Orleans, Whom Harding told to take the rein And duties for Uncle Sam collect. His name before the Senate came During the late President's regime, To be chief o'er white and black In the Crescent City of the South. Behind closed doors the Senate said, This thing will never do, We can't afford to put him there, He is a colored man. Our President is wrong, said they, To do a thing like this; The South is white, not black, he knows, And white is white, and white must rule. With great defiance they turned Cohen down To appease the whims of Bourbon Big- otry. 'Twas not because he did not know, 'Twas simply because of race and skin. Opposed to this dastardly act Our press and pulpit did speak out; As citizens we did protest—our President heard, And did stand firm against all rabble cries The Senate's verdict did not change The views of him, although he's gone, While yet alive he said to Cohen, You are the boss at New Orleans. 'Tis in my power to make you chief, Although your name has been held up, That I will do against all odds, And hell from it cannot move me. Prevaricate, did he? O, no, He stood his ground until the last, Til cruel fate came her way And took him from this earthly sphere. But in his stead another rose, His policies to carry out, A scion of the East is he, A blessing to the human race. He loves the right and hates the wrong To one and all he has announced That justice must and shall prevail Within the bounds of this great land. This country in his hands is safe Because the law he will enforce; The Constitution he does respect And by it stands like Gibraltar's rock. Who is this of whom we speak? So firm, so brave, so true, so just— Coolidge, Coolidge, Calvin Coolidge, The President of U. S. A. The other day, like Harding, he Sent in the name of Cohen, too, Before the Senate to be confirmed Comptroller of the New Orleans port. Where justice should have held full sway. But their rejection, what of it? Is Cohen chief? O yes, 'tus true, He's chief because the President Would not send in another name. This action of the nation's head Did change some solons' minds, The seventeenth day of March they met, And by one vote gave Cohen his job. Now that he's chief, let us rejoice Who liberty doth love, Give God the praise in everything, A miracle surely has been wrought. PUBLIC TRUSTEE'S SALE 2415 Whereas, Clyde A. Atchison, by deed of trust, dated the 16th day of March, 1914, which is recorded in book 2545, page 16, is on the records in the office of the Clockkeeper of the City and County of Denver, Colorado, duly conveyed to the Public Trustee in and for the City and County of Denver, Colorado, the following described real property: Denver, Colorado, to-wit: Lot numbered Twenty-one (21), and the South Eight ft. Nine inches (So. 8 ft. 9 in.) of Lot numbered Twenty (20) in Block four of the City, which is the Public Trustee which deed of trust was made to secure the payment of one promissory note of even date with said deed of trust, for the sum of Nine Hundred and Twenty-five dollars of Annie E. Malcolm, three years after the date thereof, with interest thereon at six per cent per annum until due, interest payable quarterly, as is more particularly set forth in said deed of trust, for the sum of $3,000, thereby made for greater certainty, and Whereas, the said Clyde A. Atchison, and all persons claiming by, through payment of the principal of said note, together with interest thereon from March 16th, 1923, at eight per cent, and the legal holder of said note, having elected on account of said default to the said note unpaid, due and payable. Now, therefore, at the written request of Edwin N. Burdick, the legal holder of the undersigned, Public Trustee in and for the City and County of Denver, Colorado, do hereby give notice that I will, at the hour of 10 o'clock in the foreday, at TUESDAY, APRIL 29TH, 1924, at the Tremont street front door of the Court House, in the City and County of Denver, Colorado, see at public notice and assigns the indebtedness secured by cash, the said described premises, and all the right, title and interest of the said Clyde A. Atchison, his heirs and assigns the indebtedness secured by said deed of trust, and the cost and expenses of executing this trust, and will deliver to the purchaser a certificate of as provided by the Court House, Denver, Colorado. March Dated at Denver, Colorado, March 27th, 1924. EDWARD M. SABIN, Public Trustee in and for the City and County of Denver, Colorado. First publication March 29, 1924. Last publication April 26, 1924. Steer Requires More Grain. In a series of studies made by the United States Department of Agriculture, it has been ascertained that it takes about six pounds of grain and six pounds of hay to produce one pound of beef. About five and a half pounds of corn will produce a pound of live pork. The COTTAGE GARDENER To Supply Table With Vegetables Coldframe Is Advocated as Means of Providing the Kitchen gardens were a necessary adjunct to the home in the earlier days, but at present a kitchen coldframe is advocated as a means of supplying the family table with fresh lettuce, parsley, radishes, cress, and other-vegetables at periods of the year when it is too cold to grow these things in the open ground. While it is true that the coldframe may not give very good results during the winter months, especially in the northern part of the country, yet in the early spring excellent results may be had from its use, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. The construction of a coldframe is comparatively simple, as the side walls may be made of boards, brick, hollow tile or concrete. Where the construction is of boards, cypress lumber should be used, and it is a good plan to have the walls made double and some dry straw or planing mill shavings packed in the space between them. If the walls are of brick, they should be plastered, both inside and out, to make them air-tight. Hollow-tile / walls should also be plastered the same as brick. One of the best types of construction is simply to put in a little foundation, then set up frames and tamp in well-mixed concrete consisting of about three parts clean, broken stone or gravel, two parts sharp sand and one part cement. The ingredients should be placed on a mixing board or in a box and thoroughly mixed while dry, then water added gradually and the mass turned three or four times until it is thoroughly mixed and is of a consistency that can readily be tamped as it is put into the forms. The size of coldframe to build will depend upon circumstances. Standard coldframe or hotbed sash are 3 by 6 feet in size and the frame may be constructed to accommodate one, two, or even as high as five or six of these sash. The front or south wall of the coldframe should be about 12 inches in height, while the rear or north wall should be 24 to 30 inches high, and the ends sloping to correspond with the front and rear walls. Wooden plates, preferably of 2 by 6 cypress material, should be bedded on top of the wall and held in place by bolts ```markdown ``` A Well-Constructed Coldframe. that extend down into the concrete. Rafters upon which the sash rest are fitted to these plates. At the upper side of the bed a sort of overhung board should be put on in such manner that the end of the sash will slide up beneath it, making the bed tight. The lower end of the sash should extend slightly over the edge of the bed to carry off the water. In addition to the sash covering, straw mats, blankets or even old carpet may be used to keep out cold. Where the coldframe can be located on the south side of the garage, this will give it extra protection. A well-constructed bed of this character will provide lettuce and other salad crops without the application of artificial heat. Plants may be started in the living room during February and planted in the bed in March, giving a supply of salad for the table during the spring months or until outdoor lettuce, radishes and spinach can be grown. ORNAMENTAL BARBERRY Thunberg's barberry, one of the Japanese barberries, is a handsome ornamental and defensive hedge, plant. It will grow four or five feet high and as many broad. It may be left without trimming or be trained into a compact formal hedge. It bears an abundance of bright red berries that hold on the plant all winter, but does not harbor the wheat-rust fungus. Annual flowers especially responding to rich soil: Castor-bean, scarlet sage, balsam and china bean. May Have Lettuce for Every Season Lettuce has come to be a staple vegetable on the table. It appears in many families almost as often as potatoes and fills a dietary need quite as important. It supplies in cheap and most palatable form the vitamins A, B and C, which have been discovered to play so large a part in health maintenance. Next to Swiss chard, lettuce is the most profitable vegetable for the home gardener. It will be found even more useful than chard, for it will be welcomed on the table every day, which can hardly be said of chard. Every well-planned home garden should provide for a succession of lettuce crops which will provide the finest quality for the longest season, and this takes careful planning. Lettuce is a cool-season crop. When hot summer comes it runs to seed so quickly that from the last of July to the first of September it is possible HEAD LETTUCE COS LEAF. TYING LETTUCE TO HEAD IT. Types of Lettuce. only in shaded beds, carefully tended, which comparatively few will bother with. But during the rest of the garden year some variety of lettuce is possible. There are four types of lettuce generally grown in this country—leaf, butter-head, crisp-head and cos. All lettuces tend to make heads. In some sections it takes coaxing to make any of them head. It requires to be grown fast, without check, to produce the tender, sweet leaves that we enjoy. The sell, then, must be light, quickly warmed, as rich as possible, especially in nitrogen, and there should be a plentiful supply of water. The richest spot in your garden should be chosen for lettuce and then it should be manured, if possible, and additional feeding with nitrate of soda is advisable. The first variety to sow is head lettuce, which should always be started indoors. The plants may be set outdoors as soon as the garden soil can be prepared. Keep a reserve in case the first planting should be killed by a hard freeze. In very rich soil, with such an early start, head lettuce of these varieties should be ready in 70 days from date of sowing. When the head lettuce is set out sow seed of a leaf variety. This may be sown thickly and thinned out to one plant every two inches. Alternate plants may then be harvested half grown, until a spacing of six inches has been reached. All lettuce varie ties need at least six inches in the row to reach full growth, and some need more. Seed of a crisp-heading type, such as New York, the largest of lettuce varieties, or Mignonette, one of the smallest and surest to head, may be sown at the same time as the leaf varieties and the seedlings transplanted when they make true leaves. New York must have at least a foot between plants in the row. It will mature slowly, stand hot weather well and furnish the last crop of the first season. Cos lettuce, or romaine, which many esteem as the finest of lettuces, may be started indoors or outdoors to fit into the succession where one pleases. It matures in about 80 days. For the fall season omit the crisp-heads and start the desired varieties in a shaded seed bed in July to be transplanted when the cool weather comes in late August.—National Garden Bureau. Dandelions, Regarded as Nuisance. Fine Greens Yellow heads and green leaves of dandelions are among the first things to bob up on lawns in spring. They are so early that they usually come along in the footsteps of the robin, spreading over the entire greensward so rapidly that grass is frequently crowded out. "General nuisance" is the term dandelions go by wherever lawnkeepers have the experience of trying to kill them, but in many sections cooks find they add another variety to the list of early vegetables—"greens" and salads. Experts' tests have verified the opinion of the practical cook. Tender dandelions can be made use of in various ways, according to home economic specialists. One way to handle dandelions, according to Miss Katherine Howells of the home economics division, Iowa State college, is to cut off the roots, separate and thoroughly wash the leaves, dry them in a cloth, and "they should be marinated a few minutes before serving in French dressing seasoned with a few drops of onion juice." The leaves are also boiled in salted water until tender and served with butter and vinegar. They may be canned by the cold pack method. NATIONAL CAPITAL AFFAIRS Why Is Washington a "Deadly Dump"? Fifty Postal Bills Are Before Congress New Boast for the California Boosters WASHINGTON. —There has been a plan for several years to recognize the executive departments of the federal government—to take the whole thing apart and put it together again different. But it seems to be getting nowhere. One of the details of the plan is to abolish the Department of the Interior and establish in its place a Department of Public Works, in which would be grouped the constructive activities of the various departments, the other activities of the department to be transferred as seems fitting. The plan has been worked out to the last detail. The American Engineering council of New York is getting impatient for action. The council, composed of federated engineering societies throughout the country, makes public its official view that the Department of the Interior is an "outworn organization, which, owing to the employment of methods current in early days, is annually wasting millions of dollars." Engineers of international prominence in the council are urging that the department be abolished. They suggest that the supervision of public works be co-ordinated in one group, to eliminate duplication, and that the various bureaus and subagencies be regrouped into other departments. At I HAD a letter today that delighted me greatly, writes Clinton W. Gilbert in "The Daily Mirror of Washington," Philadelphia Public Ledger. I reproduce it here—without the name of the writer, since it was personal—in spite of the fact that I have had to sacrifice my natural modesty by putting it into print. It is: "Your daily column is a plp. Any guy who can write interesting stuff daily front that deadly dump deserves a diamond medal." The writer is a famous cartoonist. Now, why is Washington a "deadly dump?" Just because the crushing hand of uniformity has pressed it into the pulp it now is. When I first came to the capital a few years ago there were picturesque personalities still left in the senate and the house. There was Ollie James, bigger than any two men ought to be, with his frog's mouth, his gargantuan appetite, his rolllicking humor, the source of endless stories. There was Boles Penrose, another giant, with his feudal lord's contempt for the virtue, of respectability and a great stomach for life. There were John Sharp Wil- SUBMISSION to some general body, such as a congressional commission, of all proposals affecting increases in salaries and changes in conditions of employment involving increases in pay for postal service workers was recommended by Postmaster General Harry S. New to Chairman Grist of the post office committee of the house in a letter made public. Mr. New pointed out that there are more than fifty postal bills now pending in congress and it was probable a readjustment for the whole service along lines provided in the bills would involve an increase annually of $150,-000,000. In addition, he said, there are a number of bills proposing a reduction of postage rates. Certain classes of employees are not provided for in the bills, Mr. New said, and any readjustment of salaries must necessarily include the whole postal establishment. Consideration of the proposals for increases as wholly separate from the fiscal condition of the Post Office department seemed to him impracticable and an increased expenditure approaching that involved would render one of two things inevitable—either to increase the rates of postage or to meet it as other expenses are met, by draft on the general treasury. The postmaster general said the CALIFORNIA'S Native Sons have now another record on which to boast the state of their birth. A bulletin issued by the Department of Agriculture announces that the high-jump record for fleas is held by a California flea. The California insect also holds the broad-jump record. The department has neglected to state the name and pedigree of this flea, but does give that of the scientist who reported upon him—a distinguished entomologist named Mitzman. The high-jump record is 7% inches and the broad-jump, 13 inches. The bureau of entomology has paid a good deal of attention to fleas, but apparently has done so reluctantly, for it prefaces its most comprehensive report on the subject with the statement that "fleas have forced themselves on man's attention for many centuries." The report notes that fleas are annoying to mankind and are a source of considerable worry to dogs and other animals. But it also is stated that their presence is more se- present the secretary of the interior does everything, the council says, "from running hospitals, an institution for the deaf and a university, to keeping the Indians sober." In order to conduct its campaign more effectively the council has organized a congress of engineers to meet annually in Washington, together with an administrative board and an executive committee. The president of the council is former Gov. James Hartness of Vermont, who hopes that the engineers can give the government technical advice at all times. "Because of the Teapot Dome investigation interest in the administration of the public lands has been heightened," Mr. Hartness said. "Under the engineering plan of reorganization nine of the ten agencies having public land functions would be consolidated under one departmental authority, so that these closely related matters may have a common jurisdiction and not be distributed among three federal departments, as at present." The first meeting of the new administrative board will be held in Philadelphia May 23 and 24. At these sessions the public works plan and numerous other national questions, including reforestation, will be discussed. llams, Jim Martine and Uncle Joe Cannon at his best, and a little before that was the picturesque though really very regular and proper Theodore Roosevelt. These are only a few. Who is there now that it's really fun to write about? I asked Russell Barnes, who knows the house well, the other day, "Is there a picturesque or interesting or outstanding figure in the house?" He thought a long time. "Well," he replied, "there's So-and-So (I've forgotten his name already), who wears his hair a little longer than most people do." Why, I can't even think of a big man like Ollie James or Boles Penrose. It seems as if the collective will to make everybody exactly alike was even exercising its effect upon the pituitary glands. There isn't a really fat man so far as I know. Of course, there is Jim Reed who is a personality. But I'm going to tell him right now that Jim Reed will pay for his personality by not being nominated for the presidency. Caraway has a quaint, savorsome backwoodsness about him. Arkansas is the last outpost of individuality. deficit for the present fiscal year is now estimated at $30,000,000. Suggestions that the increases could be met by a revision of postage rates, especially upon fourth-class (parcel post) matter, he asserted, were not based on reliable information which would justify them. A detailed cost ascertainment, data for which is being checked, arranged and tabulated, will be ready within a few months, he said, adding that no readjustment of postage rates or fees for special services could be made intelligently until this report had been concluded. Readjustment of salaries, he declared, should not be made until it is possible to determine their probable effect on postage rates. C. P. Franciscus, president of the United National Association of Post Office Clerks, declared in a statement that the clerks should not be disheurtened over reports of opposition by President Coolidge as well as Mr. New to salary increases at this time. Postal salaries need not be paid from tax revenues, Mr. Franciscus insisted with reference to the President's objections, but should be provided through a revision of postage rates, especially on parcel post matter, which, he asserted, are "absurdly low" as compared with express charges. rious than mere annoyance; they are carriers of disease germs, particularly of the plague. Leprosy and other diseases also are declared to be traceable to the annoying flea. The government scientists did a thorough job of investigating fleas after they had forced themselves on their attention. They discovered that there are more than 400 different varieties of this tiny, predatory insect and that some creatures, notably rats, may be infected with at least twenty different species. There are only two kinds which usually pay any attention to man, fortunately. These are the human flea which has the impressive Latin name of pulex irritans, and the dog flea, ctenocephalus canus. The flea is produced from eggs of which some 450 are laid every day by the female insect. From two to twelve days are required for the hatching of these eggs. When first hatched the flea is not very active, lacking eyes and legs. Of course these embryo creatures are very small. THE COLORADO STATESMAN [Emblem] RELIABLE chronicle of their doingsgress; a faithful miracle their wants, their hope best aspiration. THE COLORADO STATESMAN equaled as an advertiser medium for the business of professional men and women. excellent family journey speaking to and for thousands colored citizens The Mouth-Piece of the People of Colorado and the Entire West ARELIABLE chronicle of their doings and progress; a faithful mirror of their wants, their hopes, their best aspiration. THE COLORADO STATESMAN Unequaled as an advertising medium for the business of professional men and women. An excellent family journal speaking to and for many thousand colored citizens. $2.00 A YEAR $1.25 SIX MONTH $.75 THREE MONTH THE GREAT ORG OF THE BORING MASS THE GREAT ORGAN OF THE DIL Housewife Should Exercise Every Precaution to Keep Foods Clean and Dry. (Prepared by the United States Department with particular care and used of Agriculture.) The moist, cut surfaces of dressed meats, poultry, and fish offer particularly favorable conditions for the growth of micro-organisms that cause putrefaction; therefore, every precaution should be taken to keep such foods clean, cold and dry, warns a new Farmers' Bulletin, 1874, entitled "Care of Food in the Home," which may be obtained by applying to the United States Department of Agriculture. Washing Meats Hastens Spollage. The bulletin goes on to say that cuts of meat from the market should be unwrapped as soon as delivered, any visible dirt wiped or scraped off, and the meat then placed in a clean, dry, covered dish in the refrigerator or cold storeroom. Washing draws the juices from meats and hastens spoilage and should never be done until just before cooking. The curing of meats on the farm is discussed in other bulletins. The edible organs, such as liver, sweetbreads, and brains, spoll more easily than the ordinary cuts of meat and should be handled Recipe Furnished by Department of Agriculture. (B prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Baked beans may be cooked in many ways. Here is a recipe furnished by the United States Department of Agriculture. Cook the dried beans gently until the skins begin to break, then drain off the water. Put a layer of beans in a bean pot or deep earthen dish, and on this layer, in the center of the dish, place a piece of salt pork ("streak of fat and streak of lean"), having the rind side up, using 1 quart of beans, a half pound of pork. The rind should be scored. Fill up the dish with the beans, add seasonings and water to cover the beans. The simplest seasoning for beans is 1 tablespoonful of salt and a half teaspoonful of pepper to a quart of beans. Mix the salt and pepper with the water. If liked, a tablespoonful of mustard may be added, as well as an onion and a tablespoonful or more of molasses. Instead of the pork a piece of salt or fat beef or mutton may be employed. In this case there should be from $1\frac{1}{2}$ to 2 pounds of the meat to a quart of beans. If fresh meat be used, add more salt to the beans. If salt meat is used, probably one teaspoonful of salt will be enough. When mutton is employed, trim off every particle of the skin. Bake the beans in a very moderate oven for 8 or 10 hours. Add a little boiling water from time to time, but never enough to bring the water beyond the top of the beans. Any kind of bean may be baked in this manner. However, the small pea bean is the best for "Boston baked beans." The lima and large white beans are best for the deep earthen dish. Do not cover the beans while baking. Other flavors liked with baked beans are those supplied by tomato sauce, tomato catsup, brown gravy and mushroom sauce. Roll of Grocer's Paper Very Useful in Kitchen The cook needs a piece of paper on which to drain the dried croquettes, the fritter, or the doughnut, and she reaches out for the brown paper that came around the meat. She turns to the same source when she wishes paper for lining a cake pan. A little reflection, the Department of Agriculture suggests, will show how far from cleanly is this practice. In every kitchen a roll of grocer's paper on its frame will prove useful. You are then sure of having paper that has not been handled since it was rolled up by machinery in the factory. Paraffin paper should be on hand for covering food, for wrapping up sandwiches for school lunches, and for similar purposes. Newspapers cut into pieces of convenient size or old catalogues, if used to place under kettles or pans, will save much scrubbing of the sink or table. with particular care and used promptly. Fish loses its fresh flavor and spoils even more quickly than most meats. Since the flavor is likely to be absorbed by other foods, it should be put into the refrigerator only in a tightly-covered container. Shellfish, with the exception of the kinds held alive until used, should be kept like other sea food, as nearly ice cold as possible. Undrawn Poultry Keeps Best. For marketing, undrawn poultry generally keeps better than that from which the entrails are removed, but under home conditions poultry should generally be drawn at once after singeing and thoroughly washing to remove dirt, oil, and flakes of scarf-skin. In drawing poultry, the contents of the intestines should not be allowed to come in contact with the meat, lest it become infected with dangerous micro-organisms. The bird or the pieces into which it has been cut should then be rinsed again, drained well or wiped with a clean cloth, and kept cold until cooked. AVOID SOGGY CRUST WHEN MAKING PIES Partially Bake Before Adding Any Juicy Filling. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) In making custard pies, or those containing juicy fruits like cherries or blueberries, a soggy undercrust can be avoided if, before the filling is put in, the crust is baked for about ten minutes or until the color starts to change, Soggy Undercrust Avoided. says the United States Department of Agriculture. It must not be baked until brown, before filling, lest the ple be dark and unpalatable. The fruit or custard should be heated and added to the partially baked crust while the latter is still in the oven; the baking is then finished as usual. Recipe for Custard Pie. 1½ cupfuls milk. ½ tea spoonful salt. 3 eggs. ½ cupful sugar. ½ tea spoonful vanilla. Prebake the crust for ten minutes or until the color starts to change. Put the milk and sugar in the double boiler and bring to the scalding point. Add the well-beaten eggs, salt and flavoring. Pour this into the previously baked crust. Place in a moderately hot oven (450 degrees Fahrenheit) and allow the oven heat to reduce to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Bake until the custard is set. All Around the House A few drops of lemon juice added to scrambled eggs while cooking will improve them. The white of an egg dropped into a pot of soup will gather to it all the impurities. When it curdles remove it. When making mustard, instead of using water, mix with a little milk and a pinch of salt. It keeps the mustard soft and makes it go farther. The Kitchen Cabinet (©, 1924, Western Newspaper Union.) It is out of silence that all the marvelous things of human action, all the splendid things of human courage, all the sublime offerings of human faith, have sprung. When the great tree falls in a sudden storm, we find that, for all its external bravery, it was decayed and weak within. The real strength of human life lies there also.—S. J. Barrows, D. D. PICK-UP MEALS In all families there are times when meals cannot be planned for or sudden emergencies call for hurried meals. It is a wise housewife who keeps on hand canned soups of various kinds, soup stock, beef extract or call for hurried meals. It is a wise housewife who keeps on hand canned soups of various kinds, soup stock, beef extract or bouillon cubes to be used in numberless ways. A chicken soup of the canned variety may be used with a slight thickening and addition of cream poured over hot toast well buttered, making a fine luncheon or supper dish. For stuffing green peppers to bake, use some form of good soup with bread crumbs, draining off the thin part of the soup and using for a sauce to serve with the peppers if so desired. Fricaseeed Eggs.—Take six hard-cooked eggs cut crosswise into four thick slices, one cupful of good stock, made from beef or canned consomme, one teaspoonful of butter, one small onion finely minced, one tablespoonful of minced parsley, two teaspoonfuls of flour, salt and pepper to taste. Cook the onion in the butter, stir in the flour, and when it bubbles add the stock. When it is boiling hot, lay in the eggs gently, not to break them. Cook three or four minutes, season to taste and serve sprinkled with parsley. Serve on strips of fried bread. Eggs in Nest.—Cut rounds of bread. Heap on the white of egg beaten stiff and drop the egg yolk in the white. Dot with butter, season well and place in oven to set the egg. The seasoning and butter may be added as it is taken from the oven. Scrambled Eggs.—Pour a cupful of rich milk into a saucepan, add as many eggs as are needed, stir and cook until the eggs are set and well broken. Season with salt and pepper, adding a generous spoonful of butter. Serve very hot with fried bacon. Out of the suffering comes the serious mind; out of the salvation the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance, faith.—Ruskin. HOUSEHOLD HINTS Canned pumpkin or stewed fresh pumpkin may be kept for some time in a cold place. Even if frozen it does not seem to destroy the flavor. Seasoned well with salt and spices in a warm place it will keep a few days. in a cold place. Even if frozen it does not seem to destroy the flavor. Seasoned well with salt and spices in a warm place it will keep a few days. Never store honey in a damp cellar. It absorbs moisture and will become thin and in time lose its flavor and sour. Where salt remains dry, honey will keep. If honey becomes grainy or candles, place the can or pail in hot water when it will become clear. Do not keep it too long in hot water as it spoils the flavor, color and aroma. When traveling with bottles of liquid, dip the corks in melted paraffin and the contents will never be spilled. One can carry a candle and always have them safely sealed. When making a meringue for lemon pie, take a tablespoonful of cold water for each egg white. This increases the amount without changing the quality. When the meringue is ready add a pinch of baking powder and beat well. This helps to keep it from shrinking, or falling when taken from the oven. The best cuts of meat will be seen and bought by the woman doing her own marketing. Best does not mean the highest in price, but best for the money. She will also learn from talking with the clerks and market men much about foods and from an intelligent butcher learn many things about choosing meat. Honey makes a good sweetening for cakes, cookies, and puddings. Grated lemon rind as well as orange rind is good with honey dishes. When making pumpkin pie use honey for sweetening and have a distinctively different pumpkin pie. During the early spring it is hard to find a variety in vegetable especially in the cold climates, as the winter vegetables which have been stored are losing their flavor and hot house foods are too expensive for the average pocketbook. Here is a dessert one may try for a change: Steamed Strawberry Shortcake.—Sift two and one-half cupfuls of flour, three teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one-fourth of a teaspoonful of salt; cut in one-fourth of a cupful of butter, beat one egg and add it with one cupful of milk and one-half cupful of sugar. Mix well, turn into a buttered mold, steam three hours. Serve with whipped cream and crushed strawberries. Nellie Maxwell (© 1924, Western Newspaper Union.) "Many people in ordinary circumstances are millionaires of cheerfulness. They make their neighborhood brighter, happier and a better place to live in. by their presence; they raise the value of every lot for blocks around them." WHAT SHALL WE HAVE FOR DINNER? When we lose interest in our meals it is time to consult a physician. It is necessary for us to have a proper respect for food and interest in it, to make eating it worth while. C Onions Stuffed With Ham—Peel eight good-sized onions, cover with boiling water and cook until nearly tender; drain, rinse in cold water and drain again. Cut out the center of each onion, leaving a thin walled cup. Sprinkle the inside with salt. Mix together one cupful of cooked, chopped ham, one cupful of bread crumbs, one-fourth of a cupful of melted butter, one-half teaspoonful of paprika, one tablespoonful of minced parsley, one-fourth of a teaspoonful of salt, and the onion that was taken from the centers, chopped not too fine. Fill the onions with this mixture, rounding it up well. Pour a cupful of thin cream or rich milk around the onions, place in the oven and cook half an hour, basting three times with the liquid in the pan. Mix three tablespoonfuls of melted butter with three-fourths of a cupful of cracker crumbs and spread the mixture over the onions. Return to the oven to brown the crumbs. Serve from the baking dish. Cabbage Imperial. Trim and fold back three or four of the outside leaves of a firm head of cabbage. With a sharp knife remove the center, leaving a thick wall. Take one cupful of cold seasoned meat, one cupful of sliced potatoes, one cupful of sliced carrots, and enough of the chopped cabbage to fill the head. Season well with salt and pepper, adding a few tablespoonfuls of butter. Press to mixture into the cavity, tie up in a cheesecloth and steam and cook in a small amount of water until the cabbage is tender. Cut in pie-shaped pieces and serve on a chop plate. If the stuffing in the center lacks flavor one may pour over a white sauce thickened with one cupful of grated cheese or finely-minced cheese. Serve hot. Gingerbread Custard.—Scald a plint of milk, beat the yolks of two eggs and add one-fourth of a cupful of sugar; add the milk gradually to the sugar and egg and pour this over gingerbread crumbs (a cupful or more) in a baking dish. Set in a pan of hot water in the oven and bake until the eggs are set. Cover with a meringue prepared from the egg whites and a few marshmallows and brown in the oven. Wherever a true woman comes, home is always around her. The stars may be over her head, the glow-worms in the night—cold grass may be the fire at her feet; but home is where she is. —Ruskin. For a hot dish to serve for supper there is nothing more tasty than a well-made croquette: Veal and Ham Croquettes.—Take a cupful of minced veal and half as much minced cold ham. Mix with three tablespoonfuls of fine cracker crumbs. Rub the yolk of a hard cooked egg through a colander and add to the above mixture. Season with Veal and Ham Croquettes.—Take a cupful of minced veal and half as much minced cold ham. Mix with three tablespoonfuls of fine cracker crumbs. Rub the yolk of a hard cooked egg through a colander and add to the above mixture. Season with pepper, salt, onion juice and moisten with gravy or butter. Bind with an egg beaten until light and form into croquettes. When ready to serve, dip in egg and crumbs and fry in hot fat. Milk Toast.—Prepare toast enough to serve the family. Dip in hot milk and butter well. Place on a deep platter and pour over a white sauce prepared by melting two tablespoonfuls of butter and the same of flour; when bubbling hot and well-mixed add a pint of rich milk. Cook until smooth, season well, pour over the toast. Potatoes on the Half Shell.—Bake large smooth potatoes of uniform size until done. Divide carefully into halves lengthwise, scrape out the interior without breaking the skin, mash the potato soft with a little hot milk and melted butter, salt and pepper to taste. Add a teaspoonful of grated cheese for each cupful of potato and return to the emptied shells. Set in the oven until hot and slightly brown. Serve in the skins. Egg Sandwiches.—Mash the yolks of hard cooked eggs and molten them with a few drops of oil and the same of vinegar. Sprinkle with pepper, salt, celery salt, and a dash of mustard. Mix well and make into sandwiches by spreading on buttered slices of graham bread. A Dish From Virginia.—Take three cupfuls of apple, three cupfuls of cormeal, one teaspoonful of salt and one cupful of water. Combine the chopped apple with the cornmeal, add water, salt and mix well. Drop by spoonfuls on a greased baking sheet and bake in a moderate oven until the apples are cooked and the pone brown. Serve hot with sipup. 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Even so, there are endless variations on these two themes in the spring modes. One example of the box coat and straight skirt is shown here. It is evident that it was intended for a taller person than the young woman wearing it, for skirts in street clothes are from ten to twelve inches from the 1 THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIES floor. Otherwise this plain, clean-cut, man-tailored suit of twill will pass as faultless under the eyes of the most critical. Besides twills and twill cords, the proper cloths for plain tailored suits are rep, covert cloth, camel's hair, certain crepe weaves, alpaca and flannel. But in the army of suits the box coat and straight skirt have allies that rival them in popular favor. There are coats with a little shaping or pinching in at the waistline, made in one-button and two-button models, others cut on box-coat lines but overlapping at the front, giving a diagonal line. Youthful, short, flaring jackets, fastened only at the neck, take the when strictly taller they achieve a better nothing less than a Hats of straw b and hats of silk an appear in the front designs for spring, linery fabrics that used. Ribbons, esp row widths, are not trimming, but the much restricted in signers have learned all trimmings to the Four hats picture of the diversity of At the top a fine with georgette and I THE FASHION THE HAT place of coats, especially in those suits employing a plain and a plaid material—the coat is of the plain goods with finishing touches in the plaid. Flaring sleeves introduce another grace note in the spring song of the suit. The wrap-around skirt, the military collar and the scarf collar are all important items in the styles. Navy blue has naturally come to the fore with the revival of the man-tailored suit, rivaled by black and oxford in dark colors and by belge, sand and certain brown shades in the lighter tones. The hair-line stripe appears to have more admirers than ever. Flat silk braids are featured in bindings and as trimmings on both tailored suits and tailored dresses. Several million souls with but one single thought and several million fine chenille and a faint at the right, a black petals of figured braid, applied to the facing of the silk. trim it. On a milan straw and a sash of can be done with one and ingenuity. And pears in the small with the upward turn. Rows of braid in stitched to it and the silk fashion the trim. Sailors, in both crowned styles, are among tailored hats, trimmings are like bindings of narrow bon strike a new r. JULIA (C. 1924, Western M. --- --- hearts that beat as one have made the tailored suit and the tailored frock star performers in spring's style pageant. Those women who have not already acquired a new tailored outfit are busy in the pursuit of one, and the confidence that nothing is more ap- proved lends zest to this business. The tailored suit requires a tailored hat—any other kind of millinery will prove a jarring note in the spring song of proper things for street wear. And obliging millers have provided tailored hats to meet the demand. Few of these are severely simple, even THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY when strictly tailored, and most of them achieve a becomingness that is nothing less than a genius for flattery. Hats of straw braids, hats of silk and hats of silk and braid combined, appear in the front rank of tailored designs for spring. Many lustrous millinery fabrics that look silky are also used. Ribbons, especially in the narrow widths, are most important for trimming, but the tailored hat is not much restricted in this matter—designers have learned to adapt almost all trimmings to the tailored mode. Four hats pictured here give a hint of the diversity of shapes presented. At the top a fine bangkok is faced with georgette and embroidered with S fine chenille and a few beads. Below, at the right, a black taffeta hat has petals of figured silk outlined with braid, applied to the crown, and a facing of the silk. Flat flower motifs trim it. On a milan shape rings of the straw and a sash of motte show what can be done with only two materials—and ingenuity. Another example appears in the small hat of taffeta silk with the upward turn in its front brim. Rows of braid in two colors are stitched to it and the same braid and silk fashion the trimming. Sailors, in both round and straight-crowned styles, are late arrivals among tailored hats. Strap and buckle trimmings are liked for them, and bindings of narrow silver or gold rib bon strike a new note. JULIA BOTTOMLEY, (©) 1924, Western Newspaper Union.) --- THE OLD RELIABLE DOUGLASS UNDERTAKING CO. INCORPORATED AND BONDED NOTARY PUBLIC Licensed Embalmer and Director Phone F414W Lady Assistant. Polite Service to all. Parlors, 2745 Welton Street. DENVER, COLORADO. 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