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A MILITARY PEDDLER —Photo by Paul Thompson, New York City. Filling up and emptying the old army canteen are favorite sports among the deugty French soldiers. A popular lad is the military peddler who dispenses wine among the warriors. EVEN THE PREACHERS HAVE TO LEAVE THIS "DRY" BURG When Wheatland (Cal.) Was "Wet" It Had Four Pastors Today There Isn't One-They Couldn't Make a Living In a Saloonless Town What may happen when a town goes "dry" is illustrated by the ensuing article from Wheatland, Cal., contained in the Maysville (Cal.) Appeal: When Wheatland_was wet Wheatland had four churches, four pastors pastors and four large congregations. The Dry advocates said that a dry town would mean an empty jail and a constable with nothing to do. Also Empty Pews. Their predictions came true with a vengeance. The jail was emptied when prohibition came. The pews in THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION Perhaps Brother Bryan opposes the peace league movement because with permanent peace there will be no market for a peace lecture. His Training. 【The Lamb, New York City.】 Manager: "Are you good at collecting money?" Collector (applying for job): "I couldn't be better if I was a popular evangelist." No doubt Secretary Daniels has already made sure that our navy is adequately equipped with grape juice. Haw. Haw! [Luke McLuke, Cincinnati Enquirer.] Nature plays jokes on some prohibitionists by giving them red noses, and fate plays jokes on some of them by giving them queer names. All of which to preface the information that Fuller Nall, of Elizabethtown, Ky., is a prohibitionist. "Bone Dry," Too. [Washington Post.] Mr Bryan will discover that he has a lot of unconscious competition when it comes to the question of preaching dry sermons. Not Worrying Over Beerless Leader. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer.] [LAST EDITION Post-immersion] What makes it seem improbable that William Jennings Bryan will be elected in 1920 is that the people generally are inclined to look on the pleasant side of things. Job Is Out of Harm's Reach. [Baltimore News.] Mr. Wilson being assured of another four years in the White House, there is, of course, no harm in Mr. Bryan's visit to Washington. The Muskogee Cimeter. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY FEB. 17 1917 the churches also got empty and one by one the pastors resigned. Today the fourth and last minister resigned. He is the Rev. F. J. Mattison of the Christian church. He couldn't make a living in a dry town. His resignation is effective in April. Dry advocates point with pride to the fact that Wheatland no longer needs a minister of the gospel, saying Wheatland dry dry has made minister a unnecessary. The "liquor interests" scoff at this explanation, saying since the town went dry the town has been too dead to support a church. NO GOOD CITIES IN "DRY" KANSAS All Have Places That Need a Cleaning, Says Penitentiary Warden The much-heralded claims of prohibitionists that Kansas is the "angel state" of the union and Topeka (Kan.) the "cleanest city in America," received a staggering blow in the home of its friends when the warden of the Kansas penitentiary declared there were no good cities in the state. The Topeka Capital, in reporting the warden's speech, said: That there are numerous places in Topeka that need cleaning up because they are recruiting stations for the penitentiary and that there are no good cities in Kansas were two assertions made recently by Warden J. K. Codding, of the Kansas penitentiary, in his address to the Rotary Club. The idleness surrounding the boys and girls in the schools in the cities was indicted by the warden in his arraignment of the social system that made criminals rather than lifted the fortunate out of the toils of sin "Every city in the state has places that ought to be cleaned up once and for all," Warden Codding said. "When my boys are paroled or released they do not receive a welcome into society; hence, there is always a temptation to go back into the old ways that lead straight into the penitentiary. On the contrary, my boys are received into the industrial plants when the average man can not land a place because they are well trained." Warden Codding found fault with the home life in the cities because there was nothing for the young folks to do to keep out of mischief. He welcomed the idea that is taking hold in all states that the penitentiary is not a place of punishment, but a "repair shop for broken and wrecked men." Judge Otto Rosalsky "While the white man sits today in judgement on the black man, tomorrow the black man will sit in judgment on the white man" Said Judge Rosalsky on Tuesday of last week in the Court of General Sessions in answer to Juror Magee's statement. He continued by saying that any man with Magee's idea should be disqualified from serving on jury. Also, "I shall order that your man be stricken from the list. I think that no man should sit in judgement on a human being in a case involving life and property who has a prejudice against a race. Such a man is not fit to serve as a juror. In this instance a jury was being paneled to pass judgment upon a colored man's life. Magee, as a citizen and a colleg bred man, declared his prejudice in the most unwonted manner. Judge Rosalsky, true and tried, just and righteously declared him with equal force and vehemence unfit for jury duty and for recent citizenship Few men are so charitativ as was Magee, few judges, as deter mined to enforce the law in common justice upon all men alike as Judge Rosalsky. The Judge's sense of duty has an appealing force upon his career now as heretofore and his sense of equal rights before the law, has never been denied. His rebuke of Magee and others was an open exposure to the guilty and a revelation of the true characters of those summoned to fulfill the highest functions of American citizens. Only a judge of Rosteky's kind, animated with a high sense of duty, patriotism and with due appreciation for law and American customs, would have so bodily and courageously relegated men like Magee and his kind. Is it not true that Magee is an educated jackass, subdued only by the mind of such men in judicial positions as Judge Otto Rosalsky Or are you a leaner who lets others bear Your portion of labor and worry and care? Dr. J. E. Hart, Surgeon Desease of women and Children a specialty. 228 1-2 N. 2nd St. Phone 410 228 1-2 N. 2nd St. Phone 410 Physicion and Surgeon Deseases of women and children a specialty. Residence 904 Denver, Office 200 1-2 S., Second Phones Resident 462 Office 461 There is a place in society for nearly all classes of men, but there is, and as it should be, no sphere in well ordered society for the mendacious expressions and activities of the hypocrite. The real diplomatist and pacifist are most certainly necessities in any kind of institution in which men of variant temperaments, ideas and ideals, create the sentiment of that institution. But when the diplomatist or the pacifist purchases peace and harmony with the price of rights and privileges to which the people are in all equity entitled, immediately that diplomatist or that pacifist becomes a cringing coward, and his place in the general scheme aimed at justice, equality and symmetry in society, is as if by one stroke, wiped out by the inamy and knavery generated by the transition from the real to the spurious. In whatever line of endeavor the weak-kneed opportunist is found,—the man who reaches conclusions out of fear that he may lose favor in the sight of these who have the power or the influenza to divert him of position or place; the man who would for the or position, attempt and subvert truth in its and unverning sweep of all the diverse, and who leans to the side of profit and wrong as against the side of personal loss and right, when he knows that by so leaning human hopes, ambitious and aspirations will be materially impaired, is at once the most selfish and meanest of men. Indeed, such a man is "unfit to live, and Gods knows, unfit to die." Very frequently during recent years, many men of our race have striven hard and long to convince the fathers and mothers of the Race that the eloquent youth stands in desperate need of an educational training different from that which is essential to the success of the white youth. These efforts to convince, in most instances, are created in the hearts of these men by purely personal pecuniary hosts. They soldmom find lodgment there because the man really believes in the doctrine that he preaches, instead, they are head-made and head-conceived princesses designed for the purpose of nurturing the heralds of such doctrines and princesses into prominence, in the judgment of that prodiganda of white men, who for more reasons than one, are just now more enthusiastic in their support of this peculiar kind of school-training for Negro boys and girls. The men of the Race who are so strenuous in their advocacy of this peculiar education for the Negro live almost entirely in that section of the country known as "the South." It should be readily understood just why the seed of this peculiar training for our boys and girls grows such a healthy plant in this section. Here, it is easily cultivated and developed, and while the seed will grow in the Northern section of the United States when planted and carefully cultivated by an expert sent from the South for that purpose, yet the very soil and the very atmosphere of the South contribute to the nurture, growth and development of seed and plant. The outgrowth of the seed is a hardy plant in the South, easily cared for, and when matured nets enormous profits. This, no doubt, accounts for so many hands that stand ready to engage in its cultivation. The doctrine of this peculiar kind of education, "Industrial Education," so-called, is for the most part urged by our "educators." They run up and down and through the country as fast as their willowy legs can carry that much personified buncombe, singing its virtues to any and all kinds of Negro gatherings, apparently unmindful of the fact that their very presence at such gatherings, is in most cases painfully distressing to their auditors. These "educators" are usually found at the head of "State Schools," where they perform the same kind of services that the wooden circus dolls "Punch and Judy," perform for the humorous and burlesque ventriloquist. Recently, our Oklahoma State School, Langston Agricultural and Normal University, has in some way acquired, or has been acquired by, an advocate and a champion of this doctrine who from this distance, and to our vision, bears a very marked resemblance in every way to "Punch" and "Judy." Since a certain article appeared in an Oklahoma City paper dealing with the ideas of the president of "Langston" concerning this single track education, we find it impossible for us to think of the man without at the same time drawing mental pictures of the little putty dog so commonly seen in display windows of music stores, listening through the horn of a graphophone to "His Master's Voice." The article to which we refer appeared in the Daily Oklahoma of January 7th. It purports to have been written by a "staff correspondent" of that paper, but bears its ear-mark of having been inspired by President Marquess. The correspondent was informed that when Marquess took charge of the school, he soon found that pupils and teachers were puzzling their brains too much over Greek and Latin roots, and not enough over corn roots. The article then goes on to say that Marquess The Editor at Oklahoma City Condition of Langston Mr. Dungee, Speaks of deplorable condition led the correspondent, who was supposed to be visiting the school at the instance of his paper, into a room that had been used as a chemist's laboratory and remarked to the correspondent: "Imagine a Negro boy, with no certain means of earning a living, beginning the study of chemistry, and spending several years puzzling his brains in an effort to master a subject that cannot be mastered by one white pupil in a thousand and the white pupil has at least thirty centuries of civilization behind him. This room has not been used since I have been here, and I don't know who used it first." Now Marquess knows full well that nobody has, or will try, to "master chemistry" in Langton. What he really meant by that statement was that the Negro boy should not study any chemistry at all. Marquess is specializing in cotton roots and should know, as he most certainly does, that some understanding of this science is essential in the working of a finished and thorough agit. *Lauterist*. Might as well deprive the surgeon of a knowledge of anatomy, or the mariner of a knowledge of the use of the compass. With the soil composed of varied elements, some of which will grow certain plants and vegetation, and some of which will grow others, this latter day professor has of his own volition suffered the laboratory at *Langton* to go un-used. And for the only reason that instruction in chemical formulas and equations composition and decomposition, for Negro boys and girls there, would extract from his maudlin ambition for prestige among a class of whites of the State, and lessen his chances to profit at the cost of the very soul of the Race. Think of a Negro president of a school for Negroes not only admitting the inferiority, in point of mentality, of the Negro boy and girl to the white boy and girl, but really attempting to prove it. He virtually says that the Negro student cannot learn chemistry because it is hard for the white student to learn. We do not believe that this android professor believes this, but we do believe that he would, if he could, by his hypocrisy, lead the Oklahoma Negro into fames of destruction. "Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whoseover shall swear by the temple it is nothing, but whoosever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor." Marquess may succeed in endearing himself to the element of whites whom he is striving so hard to please, but we want to say to him here and now that if he believes for one minute that his doctrine is looked upon with favor by the Negroes of this State, he has greatly misjudged us. The Negroes of the State of Oklahoma want equal facilities and equal opportunities in the schools of the State whether they get them or not. They believe that progress, development and expansion in every legitimate direction, is the very language of creation. Nor will we permit Marquess to fether our children as he would a drove of mules. Does not Marquess know that the perspective of the Negro The Editor of this paper was in Oklahoma City the first three days of the week and to our surprise we met number of leaders from over the state, and quite a number of the newspaper men, Dungee, of the Black Dispatch, Smitherman of the Tulsa Star, the editor of the Muskogee Cimeter' and others. There being so many newspaper men there an extra-ordinary session of the Press Association was called instanter and many things of benefit to the race was discussed. Among the matter talked over was the condition of affaire at Langston University and all agreed that things were in a bad shape there. Mr. Dungee, had been out to Lan, ston and made investigation stated that the pupils were in rebellion and that the president had stated to him that the curriculum at Langston was inferior to that of the colored high school at Kansas City Kansas where he formerly taught. Mr. Dungee, stated that things were in deplorable condition at the school. Mr. Smitherman of the Tulsa Star had also made a visit to Langston University and he is not at all enthusiastic over the progress of the PRICE $1.00 A YEAR fathers and mothers of Oklahoma on the horizon of achievement and attainment even for themselves, is no narrower than that horizon itself? How great then must be their prayerful and earnest solicitude for their children in this regard. school in fact he think the reverse is true. It came out that one fellow by the name of Page had been circulating libelous matter about one of the girls who is attending school and that a young man who is courting the girl heard of it and went to the cuss and compelled him to admit that he had lied. Were are informed that the president knew of this and yet the fellow has been kept on the pay roll, and we ask why? It may be that the fellow who makes a scurlious attack on a unprotected girl maybe a past master in cotton roots, and other roots, which will excuse any crime he may commit when the president is judge. In our opinion things are much worse now at Langston than they were under president Page, and probably it would have been better. "To bear the ills we have than fly to other we know not of" It seems now that we have the Heluva of a fellow at the head of the institution. 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This would help Kalamazoo and surely the man who was so keen to turn over THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION WELL, IT HELPED SOME. [St. Louis Globe-Democrat.] But Mr. Bryan cannot defend his resignation except on the ground that it was he and not the President who "kept the country out of war." THEY CALL IT THAT. [Philadelphia Enquirer.] Each man in Virginia is permitted to import one gallon of whisky each month. And that's prohibition! ACID TEST OF OPTIMISM. [Houston Post.] We are candid enough to admit that Bryan's prediction of a Democratic victory is a little disquieting. [Luke McLuke, Cincinnati Enquirer.] King Cole lives at Selma, Ala.; but he dassen't call for his bowl. If he did, the authorities would pinch him for advertising licker, by Hek. FROM "DRY" MAINE. [Fuck.] Woman—"Perhaps you would like a little whisky?" Tramp—"Ah, mum—you remind me of my good old mother—in Maine! his home to Billy Sunday while that individual was in Detroit, would no hostile in raising salaries, particularly now that the girls have added so much to their efficiency. Kalamazoo people will be very glad to learn that the salaries have been increased and hopes that there will be no unnecessary delay. It must be hard work to stand behind a counter in the five and ten all day until 9 o'clock on Saturday night and surely the added salary will be greatly appreciated by the girls employed there. The next legislature will be asked to consider an act fixing a minimum living wage for women. Eight dollars would be a safe, fair and sane amount according to local labor unionists. AMERICAN ISSUE GUILTY OF LIBELING ATTORNEY The following account from the St. Louis (Mo.) Star brings to mind the moss-grown saying about people in glass houses, and reminds our readers that there are various kinds of law breakers: The recent verdict of $8,583 as libel damages against the American issue, a prohibition publication and official organ of the Anti-Saloon League, and in favor of Thomas L. Sloan, an attorney of Pender, Neb., calls to mind a similar verdict for damages handed down in 1910. Three assistants of Rev. P. A. Baker, at that time general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America, were convicted of libel in 1910 and the jury assessed a verdict of $4,500 against them and their associates. It was charged they libelled Lieut. E. M. Reeve of the United States Army. The American issue is the organ of the Anti-Saloon League. It is printed at Westerville, Ohio. Sloan obtained his verdict In the United States District Court of Columbus, Ohio, September 29. He alleged the paper had made damaging statements against him—St. Louis (Mo.) Star. 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S. Kresge, proprietor of a chain of five and ten cent stores in Michigan, including the one in Kalamazoo, stated that in case Michigan went "dry" that it would add 25 per cent to the efficiency of his employees. Well, the state is dry. The Advocate now suggests that the pay of said employees be raised 25 per cent. That, as The Advocate, understands it, would mean an increase for the girl workers from $5 to $6.25 per week. This would help Kalamazoo and surely the man who was so keen to turn over THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION WELL, IT HELPED SOME. [St. Louis Globe-Democrat.] But Mr. Bryan cannot defend his resignation except on the ground that it was he and not the President, who "kept the country out of war." Each man in Virginia is permitted to import one gallon of whisky each month. And that's prohibition! We are candid enough to admit that Bryan's prediction of a Democratic victory is a little Disquieting. [Luke McLuke, Chelinnaid Etquirer.] King Cole lives at Selma, Ala.; but he dassen't call for his bowl. If he did, the authorities would pinch him for advertising licker, by Hek. FROM "DRY" MAINE. [Puck.] Woman—"Perhaps you would like a little whisky?" Tramp—"Ah, mum—you remind me of my good old mother—in Maine! his home to Billy Sunday while that individual was in Detroit, would not hesitate in raising salaries, particularly now that the girls have added so much to their efficiency. Kalamazoo people will be very glad to learn that the salaries have been increased and hopes that there will be no unnecessary delay. It must be hard work to stand behind a counter in the five and ten all day until 9 o'clock on Saturday night and surely the added salary will be greatly appreciated by the girls employed there. The next legislature will be asked to consider an act fixing a minimum living wage for women. Eight dollar would be a safe, fair and sane amount according to local labor unionists. AMERICAN ISSUE GUILTY OF LIBELING ATTORNEY The following account from the St. Louis (Mo.) Star brings to mind the moss-grown saying about people in glass houses, and reminds our readers that there are various kinds of law breakers: The recent verdict of $5,583 as libel damages against the American issue, a prohibition publication and official organ of the Anti-Sailor League, and in favor of Thomas L. Sloan, an attorney of Pender, Neb., calls to mind a similar verdict for damages handed down in 1910. Three assistants of Rev. P. R. Baker, at that time general superintendent of the Anti-Sailor League of America, were convicted of libel in 1910 and the jury assessed a verdict of $4,500 against them and their associates. It was charged they libelled Lieut. E. M. Reeve of the United States Army. The American Issue is the organ of the Anti-Saloon League. It is printed at Westerville, Ohio. Sloan obtained his verdict in the United States District Court of Columbus Ohio, September 29. He alleges the paper had made damaging statements against him—St. Louis (Mo.) Star.