Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE RACE RIOT IN CHIGAGO. JUSTICE TO THE NEGRO NEAR AT HAND COMING! "The Little Giant," will appear in this Hodges Park, Monday night, July 7th. Nem Bethel Mounds, Wednesday night, July 9th. Friday night, St. John, Mounds, July II; Saturday night, July 12th Mound City; Future City, Monday night July 14th. Baptist church. Subject, "The American Negro, and the World War." Come out and hear this noted Orator. Don't forget the date and place. A Reception. A reception was given in honor of Mr. and Mrs. James Baker, of Brookport, Wednesday eve, by the members of Unity Baptist for faithful service rendered, Mrs. Ida Martin, was manager of the affair. They left Thursday for Chicago. They wish to extend thanks to all who donated to them in any way and the kindness will be rewarded is their prayer. A two course luncheon was served after prayer meeting in the basement, and a short address was made by the pastor. The plot fixed by some few of the preachers a few weeks ago to slay the editor of the Gazette hip and thigh at the S. S. Convention in order to kill his influence as pas- tor and moderator was failed before it was pulled off and the plotters were known to the intended victim, their ambition will be curbed and their disbelief deeds punished: 'Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.' We have a few old skeletons we found behind the door the other yeek in Harrisburg, Pulaski, and some other points we will not mention now, we expect to exhibit if that bunch persists in their attack upon us. Ex-Senator D. W. Helm, fell from the hay loft of a barn of his farm. Monday where he was assis-ing in placing some hay and broke a rib and otherwise injured himself, but as we go to press he is doing nicely. We wish him a speedy recovery as he is one of our true and tried friends, also of the race JUL 7 1919 LIS NOTTO: "HEW ETROPOLIS, RIO THE LIS WI TO: "HEW TO THE LINE, LET ROPOLIS, ILLINOIS F IOT THE NE MOTTO: "HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY." The Color Line "Bobs Up." The color line turns up now a-day in every turn of the Negro's pathway. The latest to uncover its hideous and venomous form is a hand bill circulated for the 4th of July celebration given in honor of the soldiers who fought in any of the great wars. This bill reads: "White soldiers." The large posters read "All soldiers," and for fear that Negro soldiers might think that it meant them and venture too near to hear our own Senator W. A. Spence, speak of the valor of the American soldier in France or ask for a cup of ice water, they "got" him told that he was not wanted. The Negro is O.K. in the time of war but not a citizen in times of peace. The fellow who would stoop to such a little thing s to issue a bill as the one referred to, his soul is less than a mustard seed if he has one and should be shunned by every loyal, decent, race loving and intelligent Negro, and he should be branded as an enemy not only of the Negro but of the Constitution which purports to guarantee Equal Rights to All. Special Privileges to None. He should be looked el upon as a nonentity upon the escutcheon of Illinois, where such man as Lincoln, Lovejoy, Grant Logan and Yates are the synonyms for "Democracy" talked so much about and that our race fought so nobly and died so freely for. We would like to become acquaint el with the man or man who demonstrated so much wisdom in drawing up such a sensible bill. He would do to send to the U. S. Senate or to the State Constitutional Convention. Let us have your name at once, we are for you. NOTICE TO TEACHERS The State Examining Board has set the date for the next teachers' examination for July 17 and 18. The last legislature passed a bill eliminating the Third Grade Certificate. Anyone must now have four years of high school or two years at a normal school or two years at high school and one year at normal school to even be able to enter an examination for a second grade certificate. However, those applicants who have some grades that are above 75, earned in either of the last two examinations, may enter this next examination without the above qualifications. There is no provisional certificate in the new bill. In as much as the legislature gave the teachers seventy dollars for their last term and eighty dollars thereafter where the assessed valuation of the districts will permit it, if the levy is made to the limit of the law. I ask all who will consider the propo-crease as rapidly during the next examination if you are at all eligible to enter it. If the requirements imposed upon teachers continues to increase as rapidly during the next ten years as it has in the past ten yrs. there will be few young people who may enter a better paying occupation to begin with than that of teaching shool. If you are a high school graduate please come and help us out as we need about twenty more teachers. Ontrue Cowper, is making improvements on his residence by adding a new room. --- Negro Justice *ear at Hand* CHICAGO, June 24 — A careful survey, covering the entire nation, has disclosed to the Associated Negro Press the fact that there is a new awakening for justice in behalf of the people of our racial group. In speaking of this change of sentiment, the outrages of various sorts, are not overlooked. It is a fact, however, that there has been more written and spoken truth, in the last six months, relative to the inju-tices heaped upon us, than has ever before occurred since slavery was abolished OBITUARY. Mrs. Lillie Agnes Toles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Long was born in Metropolis, Ill., Aug. 26, 1890, age 28 yrs. 10 mos. 4 days. She profiled a hope in Christ Oct. 1907, in a revival conducted by Rev. J. B. McCray, assisted by Rev. N. H. Halsey, of Paducah, Ky., was baptized by pastor J. B. McCrary, and united with Providence Baptist Church, Belgrade, and proved a faithful and active member working in every department of the Church and Sunday School until she joined the First Baptist Church, of Metropolis, where she continued to labor for the Master's Cause and the uplift of fallen humanity. She was a member of the choir of the 1st Baptist Church when stricken in Nov. 1918. She was married to Harry Toles who is now in France, at the residence of her parents at Belgrade, Ill, Sept. 7, 1911. To this union two children were born, Honer and Loren, who survive her. She said to Rev. J B McCrary, in April while talking to her about religion, that she was ready and willing to go should the Lord call for her, as she had fixed that with Him a long time ago. Saturday morning June 28, she said to Rev. McCrary that religion had enabled her to bear her sickness and if the Lord called her, she was ready to go. In her death the parents have lost a loving and obedient daughter, the children a loving and devoted mother, the sisters and brother a kind and affectionate sister, the church and choir an active and useful member, Queen Isabelle Chapter, O. E. S., Brookport, a loyal member and the city a useful citizen. Peace to her ashes. Card of Thanks. We wish to thank our neighbors and friends for kindness, shown us during the illness and death of our dear father and husband, Chas. Thomas Roberts, and the beautiful floral offerings, also Rev. S. B. Jones, for his consoling remarks. Mrs. Amanda Roberts WHITES AND BLACKS GLASH. Hundreds of Police Called Out as White Army Masses Against Blacks In War. (By Associated Negro Press) CHICAGO, ILL, June 25.—A Race war, threatening for weeks, assumed sinister propositions on Chicago,s South Side last night, when 200 extra police were rushed to Washington Park district. One Negro is dead; another was said to be dying last night. Both were victims of a small army of white men who, early yesterday, set out with the avowed intention of "cleaning out the blacks." Plan Night Battle. Information was generally distributed among both whites and Negroes that a big fight was to be waged some time during the night in Washington Park. Police of the South Park board 200 strong were rushed to the park and kept an all-night vigil. Several hundred reserves were ordered on duty at the Englewood, Fiftieth street, New City and Stock Yards stations. A special police guard was established at Kenny's undertaking establishment, 5428 South Halstred street, where the body of the slain Negro was held. Negro Stabbed and Shot. The Negro killed was Robert Robin-on, 514 West Fifty fourth place. Robinson was simply walking to his home. There had been no fight or disturbance. A gang of savage hoodlums attacked him. He had been shot several times, stabbed repeatedly in the back and beaten over the head with billiard cues. The murder occurred shortly after Saturday midnight at Fifty fifth street and Princeton, ave. Ollis Harris, 5647 Grove ave., is the Negro said to be dying. He was shot through the stomach, stabbed and beaten, at Fifty-seventh street and Lafayette avenue. Both Blacks were attacked by the same mob. Persons questioned by the police say the whites numbered 150 men. Lieutenant Guerny of the Stock Yards station and a squad had arrested about two score of suspects yesterday, but only eleven were being held last night. Lieutenant Guney refused to give the names of the men held, because, he explained, the Negroes might obtain vengeance by attacking the homes of those held. Won't Discriminate Alcock. "The situation is most serious." First Deputy of Police Alcock said last night. "We had better meet it now than later. I have instructed the precinct commanding officers to see that their men do their duty. There will be no discrimination." Battle Prearranged. Yesterday morning's excitement appeared to have been prearranged At 12:30 a.m. the Stock Yards station received a telephone call that a white mob was "out to kill all blacks." A small squad of police was rushed out, but failed to connect with the gangsters. Knives, razors, billiard cues, clubs and several revolvers were picked up along the trail taken by the whites. Yesterday's developments convinced police, city officials and others who have studied the racial problem that Chicago must deal with one of the most difficult situations in its history. The actual conflicts between whites and Negroes come, it is pointed out, as to be expected climaxes to the series of bomb out rages perpetrated on the South Side in the last few months. None of those who yesterday discussed the matter believed any policy of Negro residence segregation would offer solution. Juli s Rosenwa'd, who has given much time and money toward a development of the Negro people, said: "The racial problem in Chicago has been left too long awaiting solution. The newspapers can perform a big service by bringing the public to a realization of the seriousness of the problem. $ ^{1} $ "I have no panacea. This question is too big to be so solved with an off-hand word. It is our duty to begin studying it at once, for the situation is critical. "Of one thing I feel certain—any policy of attempted segregation is out of the question." Our own leaders are inclined to blame the rough elements among the recent immigrants from the South, for the increasing evidences of friction as well as the tough whites who are encouraged by the sensational daily newspapers. Movements are on foot among leadi g white and Colored organizations to get together in an effort to cope with the situation. Sworn Statement. Metropolis, Illinois, July 2nd 1919 I, George C. Schneeman, Cashier of the City National Bank of Metropolis, Illinois, being first duly sworn, do depose and say that Rev. George W. Rowlett, treasurer of the Livingston Normal and Industrial Institute has in deposit in the City National Bank of Metropolis the sum of $1229,28 One Thousand Two Hundred Twenty-nine Dollars and Twenty-eight Cents, which sum is at interest payable semi-annually, which is added to the principal. I farther state that Rev. Rowlett is faithful to his trust and is looking after these funds in his care very diligently. GEO. C. SCHNEEMAN Cashier City National Bank. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2nd day of July, A. D. 1919. THOS. LIGGETT, Subscribe for the Gazette. Page Two Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, . . . . . . ILL. MRS. M. J. McCRARY, MANAGER. GEO. L B. McORARY, EDITOR FRIDAY JULY 4. 1919. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Enterered as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. B.Address all communications to J. B.MoCRARY, 903 Pearl St. Metropolis, Ill. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity week TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year.....$1.50 Six Months.....80 Three Months.....40 Single Copy.....05 In Advance ADVERTISING RATES. made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. state of Ohio, City of Toledo, Lucas County, ss. Frank J. 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We deserve your patronage. We have a full line of cards, Letter Heads, Envelopes and other material. Let us do some of our work. Remember, the paper is $1.50 er year. The paper has taken other raise, postage will be gher, 3c for stamps and 2c for post cards. please pay up. We can furnish you with a single column cut for card or newspaper work for $2.00 Just send your photo, and check or Post Office order for $2.00 and will do the rest. A Post Card Photograph of yourself will do. We intend to get out a Xmas edition of the Gazette, if we get enough encouragement. We would like to have a short biography of every prominent minister together. We would like to have cuts of churches' residences, the owners of same. Write for terms, and tend in your manuscript, with their photo. We make reasonable rates for printing same. Walker's Indigestian Cure. Rev. J. B. McCrary is age"f for Dr. Walker's Sure cure for Indigestion and Dyspepsia. 50c and $1.00 bottles. $1.10 by mail. We can cheerfully recommend it. You have seen our Job Office and know that we are prepared to to first classwork. Send us your hurch work, bills, cards enve- lopes, and etc. Have a little more Race pride "Parson." All manuscript with a list of names should be accompanied with $1.00 to secure publication. The way that seemeth right unto men often leads to death. It depends largely as to the view once takes to right, and wrong, much depends upon one's training. Mr. Thos Roberts, who passed into eternity last week was buried from the St Paul A. M. E. church Sunday afternoon. The Odd Fellows and Knights of Tabor had charge of the body. A splendid eulogy was given by pastor S. B. Jones portraying the good deeds during the life of the deceased. Thos Roberts was a worthy citizen, one much loved and repected by all who knew him. In his demise the community sustains an irreparable loss, the widow a loving husband and the children a splendid counsellor and a kind father. Rest in peace. Mrs. Pearl Carter, of St. Louis Mo., is in the city visiting her mother Mrs Mollie Claybrooke, and sisters Mesdames Lena Phillips, Bessie Cork, Love Renfro. Miss Myra Scott, of Cairo, is in the city at the bedside of her uncle, Rufus Mitchell who is not expected to recover. Mrs. Beatrice Yarbrough, of Shady Grove, spent Tuesday in the city at the home of G. W. Long, where she assisted the family in arranging for the funeral of their daughter Lillie. Mrs. Lou Barnes and children left for Gary, Ind, Saturday for an indefinite stay with her husband and Hellen Buchanan went with them as far as Chicago, to visit her aunts. Mrs. Silas Kivil, of Paducah, Ky., attended the funeral of Mr. Thos. Roberts, Sunday. Church meeting at Unity Baptist church, Saturday night Brookport,. Regular services Sunday. Capt. H. G. Burke, is at home for a brief period from West Baden Ind., where he is undergoing treatment for a wound. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Hodge, returned from Birdsville, Ky, where they visited relatives. Rev. Wm. Moody, returned from Carbondale, Monday. He informed us that he has been called to the pastorate of the Rock Hill Baptist church, Carbondale, at an increase in salary. It is likely that he will accept. Mesdames. Carrie Buchanan, of East St. Louis, and Mrs. Capitula Tinsley, and Mrs. Dora Brown, of St. Louis, Mo., are in the city to attend the funeral of Mrs. Lillie Toles, niece of two former and acousin of the latter. Memorial Services will be held in memory of Robert Lassiter, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lassiter, who died over seas while enroute to France, will be held Sunday afternoon at 3:00 at Belgrade, Rev. J. B. McCray, officiating. Everybody invited to attend. Mr. and Mrs. Wallece Bell. Geo. Whittaker and Mrs. Rosa Baker, spent Monday night in Joppa, at the bedside of Jessee Bradley who died Tuesday night after a short illness. The mother and other relatives have our sympathy in this their sad hour of bereavement. Silver Crown lodge, No. 26, Masons observed St. John's Day the 4th Sunday in June, and several masons came down from Brook- port, and took part. Rev. Thos. Morris delivered the sermon. Mr. and Mrs. C. D Lassiter of Belgrade, were in the city Wednes- day. Mrs. Myrtle Lassiter of Bel- grade, was in the city Thursday. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. Notice. The Gazette Publishing Co., has secured the services of Rev. Wm. Moody, the successful pastor of the First Baptist Church of Metropolis, who is an authorized agent for this paper. He is duly authorized to take subscriptions and receive money as our agent and receipt for same. We want good, and reliable agents, men, or women in every community to represent the Gazette. Good commission allowed. Write 903-Pearl, St., Metropolis, Ill., for information. 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CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for their kindness and assistance shown us during the illness of our beloved mother, daughter and sister Lille A. Toles. Also we wish to thank the pastor, choir and the different auxiliaries of the First Baptist church. Also for the many beautiful floral off rings, Queen Isabella Chapter O. E. S. No. 43, Brookport, and Jeptha Chapter No. 14, Metropolis, Ill. Your kindness shall never be forgotten and should such sorrow come to you, we will be ready and willing to assist you. Respectfully yours, HOMER and LOREN TOLES MR. and MRS. G. W. LONG, FAMILY and RELATIVES. R presentative Claud F. Lacy, who underwent an operation last week at Murphysboro, we are glad to report that he is much im- proved. This will be good news to his many friends. There are some as good white people in Metropolis, as ever drew the breath of life, and then on the other hand there are some so mean that the Devil will have to be coaxed into receiving them. Mr Alfred Cowper, is in the city to spend the summer with his nephew, Ontrue Cowper. IN MEMORIAM. Brookpôté, ill., June 30, '19. In loving memory öt our beloved daughter and sister LEDORA A. DAVIS who died this day two years ago, June 30, 1917. "She is gone, but her memory liveth She is dead, but her example is here The sweetness and fragrance it give eth, will linger for mauy a year." Mother, MRS. MARY B. WIMBLY Sisters, MRS. ICIE JOHNSON " ELLA KELLY " MATTIE SHELTON " OCIE CALDWELL Rally There will be a 50 and 25c rally at Unity Baptist Church Sunday. The men are asked to give 50c and the women 25c. Please bring or send that small amount. Read The Gazette. Card of Thanks. I take this method to express to the messengers and friends of the Mt. Olive B. Y. P. U. and S. S. Convention of Southern Illinois for their kindness shown me during their recent setting in Brookport, Especially do I thank the pastor, Rev. J. B McCrary for pressing my claim to the people and for their able assistance in having my eyes treated, and if it is the Lord's will, for me to receive my sight, there will be nothing to keep me from giving He, and you the praise, and if impossible I shall always love and cheerish you just the same, because you have done just what you could. Not only have you been of assistance to me financially, but you have done me good Spiritually. Your very presence, songs prayers sermons etc., have "planted me on Higher Ground," and if I never meet you again in another annual session, I pray to meet all around God's throne where we may have a daily session, and God shall have the Glory. James Baker, Deacon of Unity Bapt. Church. Centralia. Ill. We beg leave to report that we heard a strong gospel sermon preached Sunday morning delivered by pastor Rev. W. H. Carter. Rev. Anderson, preached in the evening We are sorry to report the death of two of our members, in persons of Mr. James Skinner, who passed away Thursday and Mrs. Bessie Edwards, who died Sunday. We mourn their loss and the church extends sympathy to the relatives. We had quite a few distinguished guests with us Sunday. Mr. Corneal and wife of St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. C. Harding, of Indianapolis, Ind., and Miss Taylor, of Kansas City, Mo. We enjoyed the lectures they gave us. We remain yours in Christ, Rev. W. H. Carter, Pastor. J. Scott, Clerk. THE NEW YORK TIMES Rev. H. A. Boyd, Secretary of the National Baptist Congress which met recently in Bessemer, Ala., reports a great meeting. No trait of a girl's character is more prized than a sweet and happy disposition. It makes the home life bright, it smooths away the little roughnesses, and it as like a ray of sunshine that brightens the darkest cornea and drives away discontent and gloom. The happy girl makes the happy and contented wife, who will bring her girlhood's endearing qualities to make fresh sunshine in her new homes. -Home Notes. Daily Health Hint Understand that if you are mentally suffied with sickness, old age and death no amount of desire or affirma- tion can make you well, young, or long lived. To be healthy, you must be mentally in unity with health; to remain young, you must be mentally one with youth, and to live long, you must be mentally unified with life, says Wallace D. Wattles in the Nau- tillus. Jim Buckley Finally Proved Truth of Saying That He Was Fond of Repeating. "Thar ain't nothin' in the world but is good for somethin'" is one of the favorite sayings of Jim Buckley of Bear Lake. Buckley is a thrifty soul. He farms in summer and traps in winter and between wheat and ruts he is growing rich. One morning his wife was cooking breakfast. She broke a rotten egg into a skilllet and was starting toward the door to throw it away when Buckley stopped her. "Woman, don't throw that egg away," said Buckley. "But it's rotten," protested his wife, "Makes no difference," declared the philosopher, "Thar ain't nothin' in the world but—" "James Buckley," exclaimed his wife, "I've heard that a thousand times." The wolf never sniffs at the doors of the prosperous farmers of the Peace river country. But foxes are different animals—here is something you don't know—rotten eggs are rated as an epicurean tibbit in vulpine menus. That night Buckley set a trap in a poplar grove near his home and baited it with the rotten egg. He hoped to catch a red fox or perhaps a coyote. But when he went out to his trap next morning, what do you think he found? The biggest silver fox Buckley ever had clapped eyes on. He said the pelt in Peace River the other day for $346. "A right nice lot of money to hatch from a rotten egg," remarked Buckley, as he stuffed the money in his pocket. "I've allers allowed that that ain't nothin' in the world but is good fer something!"—Chicago Post. ONE GOOD THING FROM WAR Cocone Nut, Hitherto Considered Only na Nulance, Has Been Made Arti- Before the war the cocone, which grows freely in the Southern Americas, on large trees of the palm family, was literally such a hard nut to crack that its vegetable oil had no place in commerce, and the tree was known chiefly as a botheration to banana planters when they wished to enlarge their plantations. Eighteen hundred pounds' pressure is required to crack the cocone nut, and there was no machinery for doing it. Then government experts said that nothing else in the world would provide such good carbon for gas, masks as the cocone nut, and the United States financed the creation of machinery for cracking it, thus starting a new and important industry. Hereafter it will be well worth while breaking the shells for the vegetable oil inside them, valuable for cooking, lighting, and the making of nut butter; and the shells, happily no longer needed for masks, can be used as fuel or in the manufacture of gas. And so, out of an effort to prevent the expansion of autocracy by conquest, the Southern Americas find opportunity to expand by commerce—Scientific American. Aristocrate in Gutter. We hear rumors of grand dukes and other members of the old nobility of Russia driving cabs and peddling bootlaces in Petrogrand. This is no new thing in Europe. In England the descendants of the great Plantagenets have been found in very lowly occupations. A few years ago a lawsuit proved that a genuine Bourbon was then hawking vegetables in the streets of Paris. A few years earlier a son of a cousin of Empress Josephine, Napoleon's first love, was sent to prison for petty larceny. In 1802 the Marquis DeFoligne was an omnibus conductor; the Conte de la Marche was a house painter; the Marquis DeTorcey d'Estalilde kept a small inn at Carnac, and the Marquis d'Hauteroche, a descendant of the nobleman who, at the battle of Fontenoy, called out to the English: "Tirez les premiers," was a gendarme. Antimony in the Transvaal. A new body of antimony is reported to have been opened near the Komati river, in the district of the Stenysdorp gold fields. Transvaal. As the ore is found to be valuable, a mining company is now carrying on smelting operations on the spot. Three shafts have been sunk to a depth of 50 feet, besides open workings. One is continuous throughout. A furnace capable of smelting ten tons of 88 per day is in operation and it is stated that there is sufficient ore in sight to keep the furnace working while developments are being made. Scientific American. Roberts Predicted Foch's Victory. When Lord Roberts was in Canada ten years ago at the dedication of the Plains of Abraham park and playground he made this prediction: "They refuse to believe me, and we are asleep under a false security, for I do not hesitate to affirm that we will have a frightful war in Europe, and that Great Britain and France will have the hardest experience of their existence. They will, in fact, see defeat very near, but the war will finally be won by the genius of a French general named Ferfland Foch, professor in the military school in Paris." Little Rivers Important In his war ode Dr. van Dyke remains loyal to "tittle rivers." In his book, "Little Rivers," he has already made little rivers as interesting as the little drops of water that make the mighty ocean. Freedom begins at the source. Mrs. Nancy Brooks. of Dewmaine, Illinois State Missionary of W. E. & M. of Gen'l. Baptist Assecia- tion of Illinois. THE WORLD'S FIRST WOMAN TO SUCCESSFULLY RETURN TO HOME FROM A FILMING CAREER Commission. Mt. Vernon, Ill., May 27, 1917 To the Women's Educational and Missionary Circles of the Missionary Baptist Churches of the State of Illinois, Greeting: This is to certify that Sister Nancy Brooks of Dewmaine, Ill., is duly appointed to organize and install Missionary circles wherever needed, revive those that are inactive, and solicit membership and solicit membership and money for the State Work and report the same to the executive board quarterly. Each church visited is requested to pay the travelling expenses. We pray you may give her due consideration, as we are soliciting the membership of every regular Missionary Baptist church and society to join us and make the State work what it should be. Yours for Christ, Bettie Wilkerson, Pres. Coultrenville, Ill. M. B. Taylor, Cor. Sec. Colp, Ill. A man in a suit sits at a desk, his head resting on his hand, with a stack of papers in front of him. Stop That Headache! 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It is a remarkable fact that, in all the opposition that has come out to the ratification of the peace treaty containing the draft of the league of nations as it stands, scarcely a single responsible American statesman has come out flatly against the principle of a league to enforce peace. Many have expressed serious doubts as to whether or not it would work. Others have said that this was not the time to establish it, and that it should wait until after peace was signed. Still more have pointed out this difficulty and that; and, because the American people are very largely headline readers, the impression has gone out that a great number of senators are unattributably opposed to any sort of a league of nations whatsoever. There is no doubt that some of these objections to the ratification providing for a treaty are sincere. Some of them may not be. But the fact remains that nearly all these statesmen who depend upon the people for votes have left open a way of retrent so that, if it finally develops that public sentiment demands the league it can never be shown that they were unalterably against it. There are many, on the other hand, who have so definitely committed themselves to the idea of a league of nations that they leave no loophole through which they may erwil if the idea is not favored by American voters. They have the courage of their convictions. They are so sincere that they are ready to stand or fall on their records. Such a man is William Howard Taft, formerly president of the United States. By no stretch of the imagination could he be considered as backing a league of nations favored by President Wilson through partisan motives. Here is what Mr. Taft had to say in a public speech at Helena, Mont., the day after he had had the opportunity of reading the draft of the constitution of the league of nations as cabled from Paris: "As lovers of your country and as lovers of mankind I ask you to use all your influence with our senators to have the treaties embodying the league of nations iden ratified. It is a real league of nations. It is not all that I washed, but comes near. It is a great deal better than I helped. It contains within its terms provisions for its own growth. Indeed the exigencies of the European situation in the sphere of the league will probably require additional and more stringent provisions in some respects than appear in the present plan." "There should be no doubt of its approval by the senate when it is embodied in the treaty." Mr. Tatt evidently is convinced that the league will work. President Wilson believes it will work. Lloyd George believes it will work. Even Clemenceau of France believes it will work. It has the complete support of the Italian government, which believes it will work. The little nations turn to it as their only hope of safety. They believe it will work. If all of these people and these nations believe the league will work how can it fail to work? The only apparent ent chance of its failing to work would be in case there were enough strong powers against it, while it is young and untried, to keep it from working. But here you find the powers all for it. Who is going to try to upset it—some power like Liberia, or a beaten and helpless Germany? Why, even Germany now hopes it will work and work in a hurry, for without it there is no limit to the penalties that victorious neighbors might impose. 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They may be of good cheer, and you may rest at ease, too, because, if by any chance this league which everybody wants should fall to work, there is nothing to prevent you fighting for your rights just as you did in the past. The United States faced a world in arms with very little preparation for war. She can face a world leagued for peace with an army or navy just as large or small as she chooses. There is not even the most remote probability of the United States ever fighting the league, unless it, too, becomes insane and needs a licking. If it does become necessary for her to fight nations which cannot be controlled by the league, there is nothing to prevent her from doing so. Further information regarding the league of nations, including pamphlets of the covenant of the league and speeches made in its behalf, may be obtained at the office of the Illinois state branch of the League to Enforce Peace, 342 Monadnock block, Chicago, IL. is fully done when he purchases the securities. 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