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We are glad that numbers of our people are giving to the Red Cross fund. Keep it up The Musiogee Cimeter. Vol.18 No.23 PASSING OF THE COUNTY NORMALS. By Prof. J. E. Mason, A. B. Now that the curtains are about to ring down for the discontinuance of all County Normals, it is quite appropriate, proper and fitting that the mission of these Institutes be made known. As you know, the last Legislature put an end to Summer Normals, thereby forcing all Negro teachers in the state to spend several weeks each year at Langston. This of course, works a hardship on the Negro teacher by having to go so far and the expenditure of quite an amount of money. We hope, however, that this tenure will be obviated by having a branch Normal at Tulahassee. This matter is feasible, consistent and it is in keeping with the economical condition of colored teachers. The whites are so supplied in Normals until the distance of none is over fifty miles apart. Since the whites have ten, there could be no tangible reason or objection in allowing the Negro teachers of the east side a branch Normal. I have been promised by nor representatives and part of the Board of Education that they would lend their influence to this end. Since this means the discontinuance of Normal Institutes, i would be a remiss of duty to fail in delineating upon the presen County Normal that is now in session in the City of Muskogee. The present County Normal is the best that we have ever had. It is the best from several angles. We are now upon a new era in this county; a wonderful change has been wrought. We have a new Superintendent, Faculty and two-thirds of the teacher students are new. Mr. Battles, our new Superintendent, has an extensive record as an educator. Since he has taken office, many progressive ideas along school lines have been put in operation. In fact, he is the best, most liked and respected than any Superintendent we have ever had. Thisis not confined to the Negro, he is popular with his own people. In fact, he is a typical Superintendent honest, competent and fearless. His attitude is inviting, kind, patient and is zealous to promote the schools of the county. The atmosphere in his office is not hard, chilly, nor repugnant. The spirit of conviviality prevails. You are made welcome and given a respectable hearing. He is big enough, broad enough to give all the teachers a consideration. He is not a political maverick. He does not mistreat Negroes to be called a good Democrat. He has never changed political coats to get office. He does not operate a detective agency to create or whip teachers into submission. Mr. Battles has been in this county over twenty years, coming from Indiana, where he was foremost in educational work. He possesses much real estate in the City of Muskogee, farm and ranch near Porum. This Normal has for its conductor, one of the strongest young men in the Southwest. Everybody just loves John Tyler Smith. He has won his position by rugged honesty, coupled with rare ability. He has never prostituted his manhood for a position, nor has he allowed himself to be a tattler, compromiser in order to ingratiate himself in the estimation of the School Board. Mr. Smith is conducting the MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMSATURDAY JUNE. 23 1917. most proficient, congenial and satisfactory Normal we have ever had. Teachers from all over the state are here. At present there are one hundred and twenty-four attendants. Everybody is working hard, and satisfied with the surroundings. This Normal is not a certificate mill, it is a school of methods where men and women are being taught how to apply the textbook for the greater uplift of the child. There is no coercion, threats nor intimidation to force respect for the faculty. Each member of the faculty has been given his or her "hobby" to teach. Along with their splenddi ability and congeniality mixed with patience and enthusiasm, we have a constant flow of information that will redound to the great good of the profession. This faculty possesses that rare virtue of making you feel welcome and glad that you at tend. The interest manifeste in all the recitations portray the wonderful system recentl organized. THE NEW YORK TIMES Finished Public Schools o. Muskogee. Finished Central High School in Lawrence, Kan. Took College work in the University of Kansas and in the University of Chicago. Finished the Teachers' Course in the University of Chicago with A. B. Degree, 1914. Was instructor in Manual Training High School in 1916. G. W. BROOKS Born in Kentucky. Is 57 years of age. Was educated in the Public Schools of his native state, in the High School of Evansville, Ind., and at the Kentucky State Normal. Has taught 36 years. Was Principal School at Marion, Ky., for bears. Came to Indianritory in 1905. Has taught the last 12 years at Ft. Gibb Okla. MRS. L. C. CLAIK Mrs. L. C. Clark, the subject of this brief sketch, was born in Natchez, Mississippi, and passed the girlhood period of her life in the well-known family circle of the Johnson, relatives of the son, John R. Lynch. She began completed it in Natchez and Gaines' High School of Cincinnati, Ohio. Her musical career started in childhood and continued under the highest priced and trained instructors at both Natchez and Cincinnati. She was awarded a degree and diploma at the Chicago School of Music several years ago. As a teacher, Mrs. Clark began her experience in the St. Joe, Louisiana, schools, then as first assistant in the Owensboro, Ky., Colored High School; first assistant and then principal of the Douglas High School at Columbia, Mo. For the past six years she has served as Supervisor of Music in the Muskogee Colored public schools. The various clubs under her training have won a statewide reputation. As instructor in the Muskogee County Normal, Mrs. Clark holds a State Instructor's Certificate, and by her work in the class room shows she possesses a high degree of preparedness to successfully impart instruction. She has held several offices in the State Teachers' Association, and is the first woman to have been elected President of that educational organization. MRS. W. SCOTT BROWN Reared in the United Presbyterian School at Knoxville, Tennessee. Also took Academic work in the Cheyney School of Peensylvania. Took special work in the Teachers' Department of Hampton, Howard, Emporia, Kans, State Normal, and spent the last summer, 1916, in the Teachers' Department of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Mrsl Brown is a teacher of 12 years' experience, 9 of these in the Muskogee Public Schools and three yeras in the Freedman's Aid Schools of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She is a present Director of the teachers' Normal Training Department of the Manua lTraining High School of Muskogee. President Wilson, speaking at Arlington, gives expression to more of the typical Wilsonian emptiness of utterance when he informed his listeners and the worlds through the press, that "America once more has an opportunity to show the world that she was born to serve mankind. Has there not been a long relay of just such opportunities during the last four and a half year of Mr. Wilson's occupancy of the White House? And has the man who now speaks so glibly about America's destiny under his guidance showed heretofore that he cared a fig about "serving mandkind?" Has he ever parted his lips to denounce the lynching, segregation, Jim-crowism and other persecutions savagely met out to a considerable portion of mankind in the South. Why now his interest in "serving mankind" and his late discovery of America's mission? Would mandkind be any less served by extinguishing barbarism in America than by untieing the racial Gordian knot of Europe? But observe how Mr. Wilson contradicts his own actions and the plain history of the country. We have said in the beginning that we planned this great Government that men who wish freedom might have a place of refuge and a place where their hope could be realized, and now, having established such a Government, having preserved such a Government having vindicated the power of such Government, we are saying to all mandkind, "We did not set this Government up in order that we might have a selfish and seprate liberty. How charmingly idealistic! How nobly atrulistic! And how damnably and utterly false! How raspingly and obviously a lie! To what grand-stand is Mr. Wilson playing? Where is this great freedom to be enjoyed of all mankind? Where is this place of refuge? In the South, where millions of colored people are repressed and presecuted, lynched and insulted at will? In the North where industrial and racial intoleration prevail, and where minor injustices are as rampant as lynching and jim-crowism are in the South? Or in Washington, D.C., where even government employees are segregated? Mr. Wilson has queer ideas about liberty in Europe and liberty in America, and peculiar ways, to say the least, of serving mand-kind." Why not establish general liber- ty for all Americans before we attempt to dictate to Europe what is freedom and what is not. Why not pick the beam out of our own eyes before we cross the ocean to pick the mote out of the Kaiser's eye? Has Germany or Germans ever committed anything so revealing barbaras as the burning alive the other day of Eli Persons before a holiday crowd of ten thousand men, women and children in Memphis Tenn.? Have Germans ever in times of peace done anything that could even compare to the lynching bees and the policy of frightfulness that the South has unreubaked indulged in for many years past! Or can we picture the German ruler, the German intellectuals, the German church and the German press maintaining a dark conspiracy of silence while one-tenth of the population of Germany (not a rebellious nationality, but a part essentially loyal to ideals and ideals of the nation) was being cuffed and kicked, lynched and raped, segregated and repressed, as the shameful conspiracy of silence that has been maintained in this country by the Federal Government and by the Northern intellectuals, press and public? Serving mandkind at home might be less spectacular, Mr. Wilson, but in the end wiser Europe will be readier to listen to an American with clean skirts and bands than to one on whose forehead still rest the mark of Cain. Amsterdam News. When Eli Person was tortured and burned by white friends on May 22 in Memphis, Tenn., it was not merley a helpless colored man that was murdered by mob law. The crime committed was not against an individual alone, but against the entire race of the mob-murdered man. It might easily have been any other of twelve million colored people. It could have been you, or you son, your mother or your wife, your brother or your husband. Any one of us! In Tennessee or in any other State! Eli Persons was not atrociously tortured and murdered because he was an alleged self-confessed murderer, but because he was a friendless black man. White men are rarely lynched in the South. A mob is the most cowardly thing on earth, in air or sea, and the fear that the victim's friends mighet in turn become lynchers is a powerful deterrent to the lynching of white men. No such fear exists in the case of the colored man. The crackers know that the colored man will only talk his head off and there let the matter drop. They know that cowards as they are they have the colored man bluffed to a standstill. They are quite aware that the most that will result from the inhuman wrong committed against the race will be mass-meetings, outburst of rhetoric and oratory, with perhaps a naive request to the Southern head of the nation that troops be dispatched to stamp out lawlessness in his dearly loved and much admired Southland. The white mob strikes with impunity at the colored race because the white Southerner knows the colored man will talk, talk, talk here others would act! He often sees colored men in the mob as idle witnesses to a crime in which they themselves may be the next victims. He rarely sees such a display of courage as that of the colored chauffeur who tore in shreds a flag that in his opinion never exercises its power and authority to protect him and his. The question aroused by the savage murder of Eli Persons is not what will the President do, not even what will the North say? It is first and last. What will the colored man do about it? That and no other is the real question! On the white man's head the sin, but in our hands must be the saving power! The colored race should protest not only to the President, but to the entire nation, to the world. But protest without action would be as ineffective now as in the past. We are all loyal Americans. We are all sympathizers with the fight to make "democracy safe for the world." But before we help to make democracy safe for Europe we must make it safe to live in America, therefore, until this latest crime is punished, until guarantees are given against the petition of such crimes and against any kind of organized prejudices or unpunished terrorism, let every colored man, woman and child go on a national protest. We do not advise that they stand aloof from all war preparations, or that they put away in camphor balls the flags and the bunting now so generously displayed in all of the colored residential districts, or that the orchestrats in the colored theatres and in all colored social affairs stop the playing of the national anthem. But make it a worldwide and effective protest. Arouse the better class of Americans and all the people of the world to the intolerable conditions in the South. The colored man has a country to defend, it is true, and he would be the last to consider collusion with the enemy but if the white savages of the South are allowed to continue their murderous attacks on colored life and property it might very possibly and at no far distant date be inconsequential whether we have a country or no; Charred bones scattered to the winds will not be particular about their resting place. Bon-Ton Tailor Shop is doing a big business. Blan is a live young man, and knows how to make friends and business. "He stick to it." Lawyer Twine, was in Okmulgee and Tulsa, Monday and Tuesday. Twine is one of our best lawyers in the state, and there is no better race man in the country, when the race entrest is at stake, Twine is "Jonnie on the spot." MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION The Cimeter is the only Republican paper in the City of Muskogee. The only Phoenix is sometimes Republi- can and sometimes independent but at the present time it claims to be inde- pendent, such a changing is not worth three whoops in h—1 to any political party and yet Bixby, its editor, got atch at the Republican pie scounter. What base ingratitude. It is always easy to find where the Cimeter stands on any subject. We always make our fight in the open and whole sometimes we may be wrong, yet you always known which way our musket is pointed. Some fellows are cussing us about our stand in the Langston matter but it is plain we have not given any one the double- Rev. U. S. Mingo, is a great revivalist and is now making a tour of the state of Louisiana and other southern states representing the Muskogee Climester the best newspaper in the Southw.st. Whatever information is desired about Oklahoma and her Negro towns can be gained by interview with Rev. Mingo. He will be through your town and community and he will tell you the truth about Oklahoma, about farms and city property. See him if you are interested in Oklahoma. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In the District Court in and for Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma. Nettie Crawford, Plaintiff, vs. No. 5751. Edgar Crawford, Defendant Said defendant, Edgar Crawford, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, upon the ground of abandonment and that he must answer the petition of plaintiff filed therein on or before the 14th day of July, 1917, or said petition will be taken as true and a judgment for said plaintiff will be rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand as Court Clerk of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma, and affixed the seal thereof, this 1st day of June, 1917. J. H. GAINES, (Seal) Court Clerk. By JOHN ZUFALL, Deputy. A. G. W. SANGO. Attorney for Plaintiff. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In the District Court in and for Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma. E. M. Dennis, Plaintiff, vs. No. 5750. Mamie Dennis, Defendant. Eald defendant, Mamie Dennis, will take notice that she has been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, upon the ground of abandonment; and that she must answer the petition of plaintiff filed therein on or before the 14th day of July, 1917, or said petition will be taken as true and a judgment for said plaintiff will be rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have bereft to set my hand as Court Clerk of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma, and affixed the seal thereof this 1st day of June, 1917. J. H. GAINES, Court Clerk. By JOHN ZUFALL, Deputy. A. G. W. SANGO, Attorney for Plaintiff. GREAT BRITAIN'S LIQUOR PROBLEM New York World Commends England's Proposed Plan To Compensate Dealers In considering by what means the liquor trade may be best regulated in the interest of the nation, the British Government turns instinctively to the preliminary method of purchase by the state. Primarily it is a question of how the transfer shall be financed, and what measure of compensation the public houses and their backers shall receive in return for their consent. anything like a summary suppression or seizure of the liquor trade as a development of its war policy is wholly foreign to its general policy. It assumes that it is dealing with vested interests, whose rights in a sense are superior to the Government's even in war-time and which are entitled to exact full indemnity if forced to quit business. Nothing could be further from the practice of this country in handling the liquor-traffic problem. If the people of a state at any time see fit to adopt prohibition by amending the constitution, that ends the matter. If they suddenly close all sabbons within a limited area under the local option system, that is a change they make at will where state laws permit, and the dealer and his landlord have no redress. The brewers, the distillers and the liquor-sellers can obtain no damages because they have suffered losses or their places of business have been closed. They have no choice but to submit to the enforcement of the law, with no consolation of payment for the property they have been compelled to forfeit. It is this radical difference between American and British theories as to the exile system that makes it difficult for people in this country to understand the reluctance with which the British Government approaches any plan for the regulation of the major trade.—New York World. IT'S VERY SIMPLE EVEN IN EUROPE! STILL GET THEIRS IN BAN NER PROHIBITION STATE Contemplate Law Against "Snake Bites" — Legislator Consults Lieutenant Governor Regarding Plan For Solons To Have Liquor in Homes; For Many Thirst. In the following story the Chicago Tribune calls attention to conditions in Kansas, the "star" prohibition state: Topeka, Kan.—(Special.)—Kansas has had a real "bone-dry" law in effect for a month now. The thing is so new that Kansas is having a lot of fun out of it. While most folks in the state are accustomed to a drought in the way of intoxicating liquors, there are a few who still want a drink and they do not want to make a trip to Missouri to get it. So, of course, there is some business for the bootleger, who is willing to take a chance on a long time in jail for a little profit. Real whisky is worth $7 a quart in interior Kansas now. That is the price one chap said he collected last week for ten quarts he had smuggled into the state. He was sent to jail for three months. It is unlawful to have liquor in one's possession in Kansas. A few days ago, just after the Santa Fe "plug," a popular local left Kansas City, a man suddenly appeared at the front end of the smoking car. He yelled to the brakeman to close the rear door and let no one escape. "Gentlemen," he said. "I am the sheriff of Johnson county. I have been informed that the liquor laws are being violated on this train. It, therefore, is necessary for me to investigate. Each man will set his grip out in the aisle and open it and I will see if there is any contraband." Smash! Three windows of the car were broken at one time as three grips were thrown through them. Then the alleged sheriff laughed. He was only a traveling man having fun. The three grips full of liquor they were taking home and they thought the man was a real sheriff. The Great Trunk Mystery. A large and entirely new trunk was dumped off a train at Hutchinson one day. The baggageman was careless and let the trunk fall with a thump. Then a policeman noticed that the trunk was leaking. He confiscated it. The trunk was filled with forty-eight quarts of whisky. A man had purchased the goods and a new trunk and then checked it as a baggage. But for the careless baggageman he might have secured the liquor. At Niles two greasy, dirty barrels were rolled off a freight train. They were billed as kerosene, but to a man who had never used that much kerosene in his life. The town constable, who meets all trains in all small Kansas towns, noticed that the grease did not appear to be just an accumulation of dirt, such as would ordinarily appear on a barrel of coal oil. He decided on an examination, so he bored a small hole through the bung and found that both barrels contained only whisky. At Pittsburg the other day the police noticed an unusually well dressed man driving a load of hay through town. He had none of the appearances of a farmer. His hands were too white and soft and there was no sign of tan on his face. The police became suspicious and "plucked" the load of hay. They found forty-eight pints of whisky two barrels of bottled beer, two kegs of beer, and a bottle of gin in the middle of the load of hay. ) Getting Worried. Shortly after the law went into effect a member of the legislature sought a state official. "Is it true," he asked, "that members of the legislature are immune from arrest for ordinary offenses while the legislature is in session?" "Yes." "Would there be any objection to the legislature taking a recess for six months?" "I suppose not. But why?" "We couldn't be arrested then for having a little liquor in our house, could we?" W. Y. Morgan, lieutenant governor, received a letter from a man in western Kansas, asking about the "bondry" law and whether it prohibited a person having liquor for personal use. "If this is true," said the letter, "what on earth are we going to do in case of a snake bite?" "I guess you are up against it," Morgan wrote in reply. "However, if it will help any, I will have introduced a law prohibiting snake bites, and I think it will be passed."—Chicago Tribune. TRIED TO PROKIBIT AMERICAN SOLDIERS FROM USING LIQUOR U. S. Senate Passed Amendment To Army Bill Making it Criminal Offense For Allies To Give Yankee Warriors Drink, But Finally Modified Prussian-Like Decree Under the title of "Prohibition or Nothing," the Louisville Courier Journal exclaims: "It had been assumed, for a while apparently with good ground, that the great war on which the United States has entered had wiped out all party lines and factional divisions in Congress on all matters relating to that war; that for the time and the work falling to it we had a Congress not of Democrats and Republicans, Progressives, Prohibitionists, Socialists, but of straight Americans. "But it was not to last. The one smallest and most tenacious of fams was unequal to the test. The fanaticism of prohibitionism has proved stronger in those whom it obsesses than all other considerations. And in this it has simply proved true to its nature and its history. The prohibitionist is distinctively a man of one all-dominating idea. Held Up BILL. "Thus they held up the Army Bill, which should have been put through with unbaling expedition and" without whose passage the country is absolutely helpless in the struggle which is upon us, determined that it shall not become law unless it carries a provision making it a misdemeanor to sell, furnish or give away any intoxicating liquor, including beer, ale or wine to any officer or member of the military forces while in uniform, also making it unlawful to have these liquors in camps or military posts. "This provision was passed and insisted on by the Senate and it was rendered professives that it was finally agreed to modify it by striking out the ban against furnishing or giving liquor to men in uniform. Thus, in a crisis when it is essential that we shall organize an army as expeditiously as possible, the prohibitionists of Congress tell us that we shall not have an army at all unless the sale of liquor to it shall be forbidden. It is more important, they say in effect, that the sale of liquor to army men shall be prohibited than that we shall have an army to defend the country in the most fearful war mankind has ever known. "The prohibition provision of the bill as passed by the Senate went to the ridiculous extreme of making it a criminal offense for a French soldier, to whom light wine is served by his Government, to give an American soldier a drink of wine; for an English soldier, to whom ale is served as part of his regular ration, to share a glass with the American soldier by his side; for one in a land where water is frequently unobtainable, to give an American soldier a drink stronger than water; for anyone to give a stimulant to an American soldier lying wounded on the field of battle without first striping from him his uniform. "So preposterous was this proposition, so ridiculous would it have made us appear in the eyes of the world, that the conferees finally consented to the elimination of this feature of the provision, and the bill at last agreed upon in conference carried the prohibition of the sale, but not of the gift, of alcoholic drinks to soldiers. "Take that, the prohibition patriots say, or get no army bill at all. "It would be incredible if anything were incredible of the prohibitionist in the practice of his trade or under the virus of his craze. The bill whose acceptance by the conferees he has finally forced will place this nation in the astonishing attitude of going into the war of democracy against autocracy, the avowed champion of liberty against kaiserism, yet undertaking to fight that war with an army of men to whom it denies absolutely the rights of personal liberty." BLAMES DRY LAW Charleston, W. Va.—Attorney Geo. I. Neal, representing the Ohio Valley Electric Railway connecting Huntington, W. Va., with Cattlettaburg and Ashland, Ky., told the Board of Public Works today, during a hearing on the valuation of public utilities, that the revenues of interurban line were $3,000 lower during the first week of May than during the same week of May, 1916, due to operation of new law against importation of intoxicants—Cincinnati Enquirer. WOMN HELD "BONE DRY" ATLANTA, GA. BYSHERIFF MUST PAY HIGHER TAXES CHARGE WITH SMUGGLING CITY LIQDR INTO "DRY" ARKANSAS Little Rock Officials Round Up Man Alleged Violators of Profibition Law — "Sweet" Cide Generously 'Spiked' Arkansas is "bone dry," but liquor is still bought and sold. The following stories dealing with bootlegging appeared in the Little Rock (Arkansas) Gazette: When Mrs. A. J. Clark, 822 East Capitol avenue, alighted at the iron Mountain station about 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon, she was carrying a heavy, and a small hand grip. Her husband met her, took her baggage and she left him, going in an opposite direction. Deputy Sheriffs J. J. Hawkins and James Drake, who were at the station spied Mrs. Clark as she alighted, and searched the grips. They say they found three and a half gallons of whiskey, gin and alcohol. The liquor was confiscated and Mrs. Clark was arested, charged with violating the bone dry law. She gave bond to appear in Municipal Court today. Mrs. Clark told the officers she had no intention of violating the law, but that she could not resist the offers of four men who gave her $15 and bought her a round trip ticket to Monroe, La., to buy whiskey for them. She said her husband urged her not to make the trip. Expecting that she would have to spend the night in the county jail Mrs. Clark asked Deputy Sheriff Drake to see that there were plenty of chairs in her cell, because she is afraid of mice. More Arrests Made. Charles and Louis Wilson, brothers, room 215 Fulk building, were arrested yesterday by Detective E. J. Jones and Sergeant J. L. Bonnett, and eight charges of selling liquor were docketed against each. No whiskey was found in their room, but officers said they have evidence that both have sold whiskey in Little Rock. W. E. Hurst, an employee of the Iron Mountain, was arrested at Capitol avenue and Main Street by Patrolman E. J. Thompson, suspected of having knowledge of liquor sales, but was'released. The Wilsons were released on bond. Dr. A. Hicks, negro, who conducts a store in Eagle township, about 10 miles below Scotts, was arrested yesterday by Deputy Sheriff Geo. Rison, charged with selling liquor. He was released on a $500 bond to appear in court Tuesday. Reports that Hicks had been selling intoxicants reached the sheriff's office, and Deputy Rison went to investigate. He found a large quantity of cider, in bottles and in barrels. He secured samples of each, and an analysis showed they contained from six to eight per cent alcohol. Four barrels of the "spike" cider was confiscated and will be destroyed. ALAS! ALACK! Montgomery, W. Va., June 7.—Sixteen thousand bottles of bootleg liquor, valued at $20,000, were found in an abandoned part of Eagle Mine here today by E. M. Parry, a policeman, and Deputy Commissioner Keadle. The liquor was destroyed.—Cincinnati Enquirer. RECOMMEND INCREASE IN PRICE 0 FOR AT LEAST FIFTY BUSINESSES IN THE COMMUNITY Proposed Boost Will Add $25,000 a Year To Treasury- Same Old Story, Municipality Misses Income From Liquor Industry In his vigorous speech at Philadelphia on Monday night Mr. Hughes made an observation that should keep his countrymen thinking soberly every day until election morning, the seventh of November. "We cannot say now in what particular sort of mess we shall find, things in March next." Here is room for disquieting speculation. The Government is in feeble hands. It is never prepared to act. In emergencies it does not know what to do, or how to begin. It is the sport of circumstances. It waits for something to turn up with a guilty feeling of incapacity to deal with untoward events. Mr. Wilson, inconstant and vacillating himself and unable to learn from experience, can obtain neither inspiration nor support from his Cabinet, which is the weakest that any President has called together since "BONE DRY" AT MUST PAY H CITY OFFICIALS RECOMMEND LICENSES FOR AT LEAST IN THE CO E EVEN RAISE THE COS Up of Proposed Boost Will Add $25. at Same Old Story, Municipal d' From Liquor Atlanta, tla., went "bone dry" recently. Now, in addition to the prospect of paying war taxes, business men of Atlanta are confronted with the necessity of having the cost of their licenses boosted, of which the Atlanta Journal declares: The city tax committee, at a meeting Friday afternoon, agreed to recom- ment to tender an increase in the licenses charged to at least fifty Atlanta businesses. The proposed increases would bring about $25,000 more a year into the city treasury. The revision proposed by the tax committee will be acted on by council at its next meeting, Monday week. Among other changes, the committee recommends that the license charged to labor agents be increased from $300 a year to $300 a day. This would go a long way toward stopping efforts that are being made in Atlanta to induce negroes to leave Georgia and go north. An even more radical change recommended is that costs in recorder's court be increased from 75 cents to $1. If this change is made, the well known fine will no longer be $5.75, but $6. In explaining the action of the committee, Alderman Jonas H. Ewing, chairman, said Saturday morning: "Our purpose in making this recommendation is simply to equalize the licenses charged in Atlanta. We want those businesses that are successful to bear a larger share of the city's burdens than those which aren't so successful. We weren't trying to raise a sum of money for any special purpose. The whole reason for our recommendations is to balance the scales, to make the license lists fair to every one. I don't believe there will be objection to a single increase proposed." Businesses Affected. Following is a list of the changes recommended by the committee: Circuses which charge more than seventy-five cents for admission shall pay $750 instead of $500 for each day or part of a day they show here. Theaters with a seating capacity of 1,000 or more shall pay $250 a year, instead of $200. Theaters with a seating capacity of less than 1,000 shall pay $150 a year, instead of $100. Amusement devices where balls are thrown at figures shall pay $100, instead of $50 a year. Machines for testing the strength of the lungs, etc., shall pay $50 instead of $25 a year. Costs on each fine collected in recorder's court shall be increased from 75 cents to $1. Abstract, land title or warranty companies shall pay $100 a year, instead of $50. Advertising agents shall pay $50 a year, instead of $30. Advertising novelty concerna shall pay $25 a year, instead of $20. Boxing clubs shall pay $25, instead of $10 for each exhibition where 50 cents to $1 for admission is charged; $50, instead of $25, where $1 to $1.50 for admission is charged; $100, instead of $50, where $1.50 and over for admission is charged. Automobile agents shall pay $100, instead of $50, a year. The Earl said. The point of the Dear Public Administration is not as much watchful as fearful waiting. It is fabby, timid, procrastinating, always undecided. So anything may happen to the nation, any disaster, any disgrace. Mr. Hughes is right: we don't know "in what particular sort of mess we shall find things in March next." The country is helpless to prevent blunders and imbecilities which may involve it in an unwelcome war or tornish its honor; but the people can see to it that an American President with character and stamina as well as with brains is in the White House on March 4 to pilot the country through the rapids, and the people can give him a Republican Congress to provide the legislation he asks for to carry out his policies. The people can be in no doubt that the Cabinet Charles. Evans Hughes selects will contain only abe and effident men, the best the country affords.—New York Sun. ATLANTA, GA., HIGHER TAXES END INCREASE IN PRICE OF EAST FIFTY BUSINESSES COMMUNITY STS IN COURT CASES $25,000 a Year To Treasury Municipality Misses Income Uor Industry Bag manufacturers shall pay $100, instead of $50, a year. Dealers in barbers' supplies, where the business amounts to more than $25,000 a year, shall pay $50, instead of $25. This Isn't All. Cotton mills shall pay $200 instead of $100. Dairy supply companies shall pay $25 instead of $12. Dealers in guns or pistols shall pay $160 instead of $50. Hardware dealers shall pay $100 instead of $75. Dealers in hides, wool and fur shall pay $50 instead of $25. Cold Toward Him. Ice houses or agencies shall pay $100 instead of $50. Ice manufacturers for each plant shall pay $100 instead of $56. Labor agents shall pay $300 a day, instead of $300 a year. Moving picture shows shall pay $150 instead of $109. Pawnbrokers' shops where pistols are sold shall pay $200 instead of $200. Persona who sell watches, clocks and jewelry at auction shall be charged a license of $1,000 a year. This shall not apply to pers engaged in business continuously for dye years who wish to close out their stocks. Seed dealers whose annual sales are more than $100,000 shall pay $100. Wholesale shoe dealers doing a business in excess of $200,000 a year shall pay $100, instead of $50. Spring bed manufacturers shril pay $50 instead of $40. BAPSTISTS OPPOSE SENDING CIGARETTES TO SOLDIER A dispatch from Chicago to the Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette says: Resolutions objecting to putting cigarettes and other tobacco in comfort bags intended for soldiers and sailors were sent to President Wilson as head of the American Red Cross today by the Chicago Methodist Ministers' Association. At a meeting of the Baptist Ministers' Union, the Rev. Elmer L. Williams advocated the interning of brewers during the war. "The brewers are a menace to the nation," he said, they ought, therefore, to be interned. --- Wanted 500 Agnts At Once 1234567890 Dudly's Polish makes old harness look NW Wanted at once 500 agents to sell Dudly's H Class Fair Leather Polish for Auto. Bugg Pianos, guaranteed to do the work or mo refunded. Will buy all worn out harness and leather where in the state. Cash paid on delivery. We Can Serve You Far and Near We Can Save You Money 323 N. 2nd. 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The police are unable locate the owner of the liquor. Arrests, Arrests, Arrests Fred Carter, age 51, broke a mechanic, was arrested peacefully 6. p. m. on the Divisional by Motorcycle Patrolman the man on a charge of carrying weapons and of having liquor --- That segregation ordinance introduced in the City Council recently is without cause or reason and is the devil's broth served by the most prejudiced unpatriotic minion of that ever disgraced a public office. We say there is no cause for the ordinance because Negroes cannot now purchase property in white neighborhoods. (Unless they are minors.) The originators of the proposed law are playing a game of cheap politics and making a grand-stand play at the expense of the Negro. Real big, aggressive and progressive white men are proud of the efforts the Negro is making to improve his condition and will not place a single obstacle in his path, but always gives him a helping hand. It is the cowardly slacker in the body politic that wears a white skin, but has a heart as black as hell and a dagger in his hand to stab the Negro. The slacker is not a real man; he is belongs to that class of immoral lepers who join in the mobbing of Negro males. Dante in his description of hell had this kind of monstrosity in view, because is so full of them that their pedal extremities stick out of the window. While our boys are rushing to join the colors and offering their lives to protect the flag, placing their lives on the altar for the country's good, these cowardly slackers are passing laws to impose upon, degrade and steal the liberty of the fathers and mothers of the brave, gallant and patriotic soldier boys. We don't believe that the better element of the white people of our city approve of this attempt to confiscate property, but whether they do or not it is a duty of the Negro to proceed along safe and sane lines, prepare and fight Our boys at the front will harlots until hell freezes over and continue the battle on the NOTICE. Okmulgee, Okla., May 31, 1917. To the Stockholders of the Adams Oil, Gas and Development Co.: Notice is hereby given that, by virtue of authority vested in me as President of The Adams Oil, Gas & Development Company, a special meeting of the stockholders of said company is hereby called to assemble at Washington, D. C. (Street and number to be designated upon applying to the Secretary or President at No. 1216 You St., N. W., Washington, D. C.), on Thursday evening, June 14, 1917, at 8:30 p. m., for transacting the following business: 1. To so amend Par. three (3) of the Articles of Incorporation of said Company as to re-establish a main office of said Company in Oklahoma, and to abolish Washington, D. C., as a branch office altogether. 2. To change the present fiscal year of the Company to the calendar year beginning Jan. 1st and ending Dec. 31st of each year. 3. To consider and act upon the matter of holding an Annual Meeting of the stockholders of said Company immediately following an adjournment of the special meeting called herein, for the purpose of electing Directors of said Company to serve until Dec. 31, 1917, should the fiscal year be changed to the calendar year, beginning Jan. 1st 4. For considering and acting and ending Dec. 31st of ecah year. upon such other matters as are deemed timely and of special interest to the said Company. SPENCER ADAMS, President. Do you get up at night? Sanol is surely the best for all kidney or bladder troubles. Sanol gives relief in 24 hours from all backache and bladder troubles. Sanol is a guaranteed remedy. 35c and $1.00 a bottle at the drug gstore. Indian minors should invest in the Liberty Loan. There are many colored minors whose guardian would be doing a patriotic act to make such investment. Without taking any part in the Manuel controversy we desire to go on record as saying that Judge Enloe Vernor, our County Judge, has the confidence and respect of the citizenship of this County regardless of political leanings. He is a splendid official and all who have business in his court get a square deal no matter what their race, color or creed may be. The Negro lawyer gets the same courtesy in this court as other lawyers. The colored people of the County have the greatest confidence in Judge Vernor because he always gave them a square deal. We have known the Judge for many years and knew him long before he went upon the bench and we know he has always been fair with our people, many of whom were his clients in U. S. days. W. Scott Brown, W. H. Twine, Jr., Prof. S. E. Williams, C. Byard, Eddie Isby, Herman Austin and Prof. Dade, all of Muskogee, passed examination at Fort Sill and will go to the officers' training camp at Des Moines, Iowa. Muskogee will watch these yuong men and will be proud of the record they make, because we know they will make good and wherever fortune sends them they will have the prayer and good wishes of the citizenship of their home town. Negroes who failed to register are very few, but there are some under the advice of broken-down political hacks and preachers, failed to do their duty and when they are arrested as slackers the cusses responsible should and will be arrested with them and we will take pleasure in seeing to it that the real curs in deviltry and hellishness get their just dues. People whose sons have registered are not going to stand idly by and let these slackers escape service. It is a duty we owe to ourselves and our country to inform the U. SfI marshal who the slackers are that they may be dealt with according to law. Many young men not quite 30 who jumped to 32 and those who were 21 and backed up to 19 are slackers that need strict attention. We advise the boys who though not quite 21 got in the ranks and got their certificates; they are patriotic and if they stretched things a little will be forgiven and the recording angel when she writes it down will drop a tear on it and blot it out forever, but the slacker will catch liquid hell in big doses now and hereafter and deserves all he gets. The City and County officers should clean up the thieving, murderous elementtnt, both white and black, that infests our city. The loafers, thieves, thugs and bums of all descriptions should be made to know that their room is better than their company. A Negro who murders a white man for money will murder a Negro for the same and the same is true of the white fellow. Every time there has been a near-lynching in this city the cause has been traced to a worthless Negro, a thug or a thief who has committed crime and who would commit the same crime against the Negro. These thugs, white and black, have no color line, they commit murder indiscriminately. Our position is, that the country ought to berid of these parasites, but do it lawfully and not by the mob route. Our people should notify the officers of the dens where these black thieves hide and help rid the city of the undesirable. It's a duty we owe ourselves and the community. The preachers and other race leaders should help in a general clean-up campaign; this would be far better than advising our boys to be slackers, as we understand some worthless preachers did. After reading the address of the Farmers' Congress which appears in this paper, we conclude that they, too, are opposed to the retention of Marquess as president of Langston University. He is a huge joke and deserves his walking papers instanter. His retention would mean that the great body of people on the east side of the State as well as those on the west side will send their children elsewhere and Langston will remain at the tail end of the procession until some time in the distant future. We, the members of the State Farmers' and Educational Congress in convention assembled at the Flipper-Key-Davis University, Tullahassee, Oklahoma, May 30, 1917, do issue the following address to our people and the country: We believe in and are working for the preparedness of Negroes for universal service, and we hereby call upon our people and our friends to bend every possi- ble effort toward this great end. We realize our importance to our country in this particular crisis, and we take this opportunity to re-affirm our faith in ourselves, in our possibilities, and in those who believe in us. We call upon our government to recognize the Negro soldiers' past records and achievements. Such service, typified by unexampled loyalty from Boston, common to Carrizal, points the source of a part of America's best soldiery. It will be the part of simple if belated justice to call to the colors such potential heroes, officered by men of Negro blood. No Negro has ever run from service, none have harbored treason in their hearts, and although our enemies would seem to suspect that we feel, we have just reason for disloyalty, we recognize no condition in loyalty at this supreme hour of need. We call uopn our men to answer the call to the colors, or report to God the reason why. We believe, with all cur hearts, in thoroughness of preparation for the tasks which we are to assume and in developing every resource, physical, mental, and spiritual, to rthe accomplishing of these great and necessary objects in human service. We believe in physical preparation. Whether our people live in city or country, it is our solenm duty to struggle for sound minds in sound bodies. In the cities we need organization for sanitation, that we may better use the Negro doctor, the Negro nurse, the Negro preacher, the Negro lawyer and the Negro teacher, not so much for curing disease as for preventing it. It is the sacred duty of all trained Negroe sto aid in conserving racial physical disability, as we need every item of manhood and womanhood to fight our battles. Pure air, clean houses, good food, exercise and unnecessary worry should be persistently and consistently fought for by our trained men and women. True education presupposes a willingness to assume responsibility. In the open country we deem it our duty to fight for better health conditions, better conveniences for women, and better attractions for bloding the interest of younger people to the advantages of farm life. Now that our country calls loudly for the assistance of all, not only in a military, but in an industrial way, we are called upon to furnish physical stamina not only for a time of peace, but a time of war. We must stress temperance in all things, in eating in drinking, in spending. We must use every physical means, personal and real, for the production of more and better food, for its proper saving, preparation and use, in order that our bodies may neither be underfed nor overfed. We call upon our people for mental preparation for the struggles and duties to which we are heirs. We need all sorts of education, and especially do we need competent in spirit, mind, and body to train our people in the trades and the professions, including the teaching profession, to prepare our people to answer the great industrial call made to them from the North and the South, as well as to serve ourselves and the South in construction, agriculture, and other services of the common professions. Especially do we call for men and women with trained hearts men and women who can feel what all of us feel, recognize the justice and injustice of demands made upon us, and stand with all the powers of their beings for what we know is necessary to sound and lasting racial development. We see keenly the need of "men whom the lusts of office cannot buy; men whom the spoils of office cannot kill." We deprecate with all our souls the truckling, hat-in-hand policy of some Negro leaders who would barter for a mere mess of potage the birthrights of generations yet unborn. When "diplomacy" resolves itself into skillful, polite lying, we call loudly for stamping out the so-called diplomat, and substitute for him a man of sturdy simplicity. We call for men who believe in working together, but we would warn our people that cooperation means a giving up of some of our personal preferences, especially when those preferences mean a stubborn reaching out for a personal following for personal gain in any way whatever. The worst sir from which we suffer is the sin of selfishness, which substitutes men pull for men of true power, places men with political power in the place of men with proper pedagogical principles, substitutes financial force for Christian courage, and fools the youth of our race into believing they know how to swim educationally, whereas they have merely been playing around the edges of the stream of power. Co-operation means service in season and out of season, long hours and short pay, with often nothing in sight but the "well done" of the appreciative few who have prophetic vision enough to look into the future and see the benefits to accrue to those who shall yet rise up and call us blessed for the supreme sacrifices we have made. O. R. Tucker, Chairman; H. S. Murphy, Secretary; C. E. Smith, W. L. Haywood, M. D., J. H. A. Bressleton, J. T. A. West, J. E. Toombs, W. E. Day, Rev. G. T. Sims, Rev. T. H. Wiseman, L. E. Nelson, M. W. Austin, Mrs. L. S. Forte, Mrs. M. L. Brookins, S. T. Wiggins, P. M. DeLancey, E. D. Jefferson, R. J. Patton, Rev. T. W. Kidd. While Atlanta, Ga., was being destroyed by fire and property worth millions going up in smoke the people near Memphis, Tenn., were having a lynching at the stake. Of course he was bee and burning a human being a Negro and while his pitious cries were ascending heavenward the barbarians shouted in great gless. Many Negroes lost property and were sufferers in the Atlanta fire and many white persons it will be found are the sufferers who attended the Negro burning because many of them were women and some doubtless in delicate health and when that child comes in the world it will come branded with the mark of a Cain and all through life the sin of its parents who participated in the barbarious and hellish murder will be visited upon it. God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform. The Stella Manuel case promises to be as interesting as that of Luther Manuel. The young woman is the owner of property easily worth a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars and there are others of the race equally as wealthy. Oklahoma has many colored people made wealthy by reason of her rich deposits of oil, coal, gas and other minerals. Give the young colored man a chance of being trained for officers. It is a duty our Government owes to its loyal colored citizens. If there is any colored prejudice lurking in the cuticle of the administration it should be eliminated instanter. The war if won at all must be won by the loyal sons of the Republic, regardless of race, color or creed. Read the advertisements in this paper and patronize those who advertise with us; they deserve your trade. Our subscription is $1.00 per year. Agents wanted. Good commission paid. Write us. It is guaranteed to any woman who will use Sanol Eczema Prescription will find a perfect complexion. It will cure any eruption on the skin. It is a skin Tonic. Sanol Eczema Cure is a household remedy. A trial will convince you. Get it at the drug store. On account of her fair treatment to all of her citizens France stands in the front rank of the Nations of the world and her loyal black patriots are her saviors and they come from the most remote parts of the domination to fight and die for France. The United States should profit from this example. 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