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War Savings Stamps are better than money because they Help Your Country and, whenever necessary, can be exchanged for money. Your government asks you to buy them. Your country needs your help. They are as easy to buy as postage stamps—for sale at Post Offices (or carriers), Banks, Stores and many other agencies. For the $4.13 you put into them this month, you will get back $5.00 January 1, 1923. Or if you need the money, you can get it back any time. If it is easier for you, begin with a 25-cent U. S. Thrift Stamp and when you have saved 16 of them, exchange them, with a few extra pennies for a War Savings Stamp. This space contributed by REV. GATEWOOD, and REV. A. R. NORPIS. THE HABIT THAT MAKES MEN RICH— Saving is a habit—the habit that makes men rich. While the Government needs the money that will be invested in War Savings Stamps, there are other, and simpler, methods that could be used to raise this $2,000,000,000. The greater purpose of War Savings Stamps is to give every man, woman and child a personal part in financing the war for freedom and to teach the most beneficial habit in life—the habit of Thrift. So that when the war is over the people will have saved, out of the high wages of these days, some part of their income, as a provision for the future. Look out for your personal future. Make certain of it by buying War Savings Stamps now, while you can. They pay 4 per cent interest, compounded quarterly, and are backed by the strongest treasury in the world. War Savings Stamps are sold at the ost Office (or carriers), Banks and mother other agencies. This space contributed by E. D. NICKENS, and H. R. EDWARDS. THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS- President Wilson has said: "No individual in this great country can now expect to be excused or forgiven for ignoring the national obligation to be careful and provident of expenditure, now become a public duty and an eblem of patriotism and honor. I suppose not many fortunate by-products can come out of the war but if this country can learn something about saving it will be worth the cost of the war; I mean the literal cost of it in money and resources." Save and serve your country by buying War Savings Stamps. The ost Office, any Bank, and many other authorized agencies. This space contributed by P. R. PRICE, and G. W. PARKER. HOW ANYBODY Buy a U. S. Thrift Stamp for 25c. Paste it on the Thrift Card which you will get free with the first stamp. That card has spaces for 16 stamps. Save every spare quarter you can by buying more 25c stamps. When you have filled the card you can exchange it, with a few added pennies, for a U. S. War Savings Stamp for which the Government will pay you $5.00 on January 1, 1923. If you have not begun this patriotic saving, get started now—just show yourself what Thrift can do. War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps are on sale at this The Muskogee Cimeter. MUSKOGEE. OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY MAR. 30 1918 store, the Post Office, any Bank, and many other authorized agencies. Thi sspace contribute dby J. W. SEPPES, and J. T. TRIMBLE. PRESIDENT WILSON PRAISES OKLAHOMA Says Creation of Community Councils Is Advance of Vital Significance. GREAT WAR CONFERENCE PROVES BIG SUCCESS Will Result in Unification of Patriotic Activities Throughout Entire State. COMMENDATION FROM NATION'S EXECUTICE President Woodrow Wilson has sent the following telegram to J. M. Aydelotte, Chairman of the Oklahoma State Council of Defense: "Your state, by extending its national defense organization by the creation of community councils, is, in my opinion, making an advance of vital significance. It will, I believe, result when thoroughly carried out, in welding the national together as no nation of great size has ever been welded before. It will build up from the bottom an understanding and sympathy and unity of purpose and effort which will no doubt have an immediate and decisive effect upon our great undertaking. You will find it, I think, not so much a new task as a unification of existing efforts, a fusion of energies now too much scattered, and at times somewhat confused, into one harmonious and effective power. It is only b yextending your organization to small communities that every citizen of the state can be reached and touched with enthusiasm for the common cause. The school house has been suggested as an apt, though not essential center for your local council. It symbolizes one of the first fruits of such an organization, namely, the spreading of the realization of the great truth that it is each one of us an individual citizen upon whom rests the ultimate responsibility. Through this great new organization we will express with added empsasis our will to win and our confidence in the utter righteousness of our purpose. "Sincerely yours. "WOODROW WILSON." Oklahoma City, March 19. (Special.)—The big war conference, held here March 11-12, and attended by delegates from every part of the state, already is showing results in an increased enthusiasm and unification of purpose throughout. Oklahoma. There was enthusiasm, plenty of it at the conference, but it was above all practical. The delegates came to learn how difficulties had been met in other communities, he wrote you could speed up war work in their own. County Council Meetings. One of the splendid features of the conference was the meeting of members of county councils. Meetig with them were the county chairman of the Third Liberty Loan, county agents, Fuel Administration, county chairmen and other county war workers. At this conference J. Burr Gibgons, chairman of the Tulsa County Council of Defense, outlined the method whereby such a high level of efficiency had been attained in that county. L. C. Craig, Secretary of the LeFlore County Council, told how enforcement of the letter and spirit of th eloyalty pledge had been made a very real matter by the addition of the federal judge, the county attorney and the sheriff to the County Council. "Now Talking in Jail." "One pro-German thought he could talk as he pleased on the street" added Mr. Craig, reflectively as he recounted results of this action. "Now he is doing his talking in the jail at Muskogee. An dthere were others." Ten subjects directly bearing on practical phases of county war work were discussed at this conference, every one of them by men who had learned by doing the thing needed with the mean at hand. Boys Working Reserve. Boys Working Reserve. One of the especially timely talks at the conference was that of A. L. Farmer, of Tulsa, Chairman of the Boys Working Reserve. This week is being devoted to that work throughout the nation and Mr. Farmer showed how Oklahoma is doing her part, and explained in detail to the delegates the working of the system in use here. PRESIDENT FORCES SEGRE- GATION ON PORTO RICO. Unanimous Petition of House and Senate Disregarded; Porto Ricans Bitter—Division Hitherto Unknown. (By F. B. Parden, Returned War Correspondent From Europe.) SAN JUAN, P. R.—A flame of indignation swept through the length and breadth of the Island of Porto Rico on being told that the United States timeodious custom of racial separation in the army would be put in practice upon them. A petition in the form of a resolution was introduced in the house of representatives by Mr. Manuel F. Rossy, one of the white members, setting forth in detail and eloquence the injustice and inhumanity of forcing discrimination on a country wherein it was hitherto unknown. The resolution was not only adopted unanimously by the lower house, but passed the senate without a single dissenting vote. Petition Ignored. The resolution was presented to President Wilson and it was ignored. The Porto Rican Regiment that was formerly mixed was cut to pieces and men of color put in separate division; all the draftees have been separated and shoved into quarters according to color. Porto Rico has no higher appeal; it is bitter, indignant, but helpless. Introduced by Republican Leader Introduced by Republican Leader Representative Mr. Manuel Rossy, who introduced the resolution is the leader of the republican minority in the lower house. In studied and telling language Mr. Rossy presented the reasons why Porto Rico objected to division in the army, based on color. All the debate and communication in the legislature of that country is carried on in Spanish and much of the original dignity and beauty of the expressions is lost when translated into English. Here follows a translation of the resolution as it appeared in EL TIEMPO, leading daily paper of San Juan: "To request from the President of the United States that no racial difference be made between Porto Rican privates and between officers. "WHEREAS, it has just been completed in this island the recruiting of the 12,833 men that correspond to Porto Rico, and who will form part of the Great Army of the United States." "Which has for its duty the spread of democracy and the spirit of liberty throughout the world, and which will try to maintain the regime of democracy so that nations may govern themselves and men may live in happiness: "WHEREAS, the rumar has spread throughout the island that an order might be given out by the national executive for separating the Porto Rican officers and soldiers in groups as to ghetre they belong to the white or colored races. "WHEREAS, this rumor has caused a great consternation in the minds of all Porto Ricans, because so far fortunately, there exists no division among them. neither by radical origin nor by their religious beliefs, existing here therefore among our Porto Ricans there is but one fraternity where in we labor together for the welfare of Porto Rico. "WHEREAS, there exists in this sense a tolerance which is greater than in any other country of the world, because of the radical differences among men have never been taken account of here because there rests in the heart of our Porto Ricans here the spirit of a great democracy." Mr. Rossy Quotes Christ. "and also the spirit of the doctrine preached by esus Christ in order that we may all be brothers for we are the children of God." "THEREFORE, be it resolved by the house of representatives of Porto Rico to request the President of the United States that no division be established o naccount of races between Porto Rican officers and soldiers who are to form a part of the great army of the United States. and it would neither be humane nor political to establish these differences which up to the present time they have not established themselves, nor wished to establish." * * * Porto Rico has long been celebrated for the unity of the races here, Members of the darker race are in every branch of industrial and civil life. The largest department store in San Juan, the capital, is owned by a Negro. The senior member of the senate who has held his seat for four consecutive appointments by the President of the United States and by an open election, is a Negro. The judge corresponding to our circuit judge and having under his jurisdiction the metropolis of Porto Rico, San Juan, is a Negro. The Commissioner of Trades and Labor is a Negro. The Minister of commerce terms The Mayors of numerous towns of Porto Rico are Negroes. WHAT A GUARDIAN CAN DO Mr. Wm. Fields was appointed guardian of Sidney Kernal some years ago when the boy had nothing but 40 acres of land, renting for $80.00 per year. Mr. Fields has handled this estate in such a way that he has kept his ward and ward's family well, besides he is now building one of the prettiest bungalows in Muskogee at No. 320 North Eighteenth street in Muskogee for his ward's family to occupy. It will be absolutely complete in detail when finished about April 10th next, it will be ready for occupancy. Besides this pretty house and lot. Mr. Fields has for his ward about $10,000.00 in United States Bonds, cash and other securities; also, he has procured $12,000.00 life insurance payable to Nancy Kernal should Sidney Kernal not return from the war, as he is now training at Camp Sherman. Ohio, as a volunteer. Mr. Fields has made his ward rich from nothing, and he is the kind of a man to hadle minor estates if they wish to be well cared for, and their interest handled in such a way that they are getting richer all the time. A colored boy. (Adv.) BY WHAT HE DID. I ain't much on religion, an' I can't expound the creeds, But I guess the Lord will judge us at the finish by our deeds, An' I reckon that he'll ask us when our flag of life is furled To count the contributions that we made unto the world. I don't fancy that He'll bother, when we're gathered with the dead, With the fine and fancy phrases an' the shams by which we bid A lot of selfish dealing, an' He'll ask us what we did. I ain't figurin' on bluffin' when it comes my time to go: I ain't mark' calculations they perhaps the Lord won't know; I ain't riskin' my salvation on the theory that I May keep my sinnin' hidden from His ever watchful eye. with the record of a shirk. (Copyright, 1918, by Edgar A. Guest.) What the matter with the Colored Red Cross? What's the matter with Flipper-Key-Davis College? Do your duty to your country now and settle the differences hereafter. BOSTON BARS 'BIRTH OF A NATION. Great City's Honor Redeemed by Mayor Peters. Boston, Mass., March 4. Last week was a great week for the race in Boston. The disgrace of permitting the nefarious "Birth of a Nation" in 1915 was wiped out by the newly-elected Mayor, Andrew J. Peters. Through the sole activity of the Boston Branch of the National Equal Rights League, the Dixon play was barred by the Mayor. It was being advertised at the movie houses to be given today at the Glove Theatre. Secretary Trotter of the National Equal Rights League was informed of this on Wednesday and that afternoon sent a protest to Mayor Peters. On Thursday at the close of the court session, where U. S. Commissioner W. A. Hayes rendered John Johnson of West Virginia a free man a case started and promoted by the League, a delegation waited on the Mayor. Those present were Pres. E. T. Morris. Mrs. Jane Posey, William D. Bingham, our white friend, Dr. A. B. Lattimore, Prof. Allen W. Whaley, Dr. J. Silas Taylor and William Monroe Trotter, secretary Mayor Petters said he had, on receiving the League's protest sent for the manager of the Globe Theatre and was having the law examined and would do his utmost to prevent the play, which he characterized as most objectionable. Friday morning's daily papers announced that the Manager of the theatre had been to see Mayor Peters and had acceded to his request not to produce the play. Now Boston, instead of being used as our indorser of this "Birth of a Nation" can be used against it. All honor to Hon. J. Peters. TWINE SAVES LIFE OF TOWERY BOY. Wm. Towery, Sentenced to Die In Electric Chair, Will Now Serve Ten Year Sentence The case of Wm. Towery, who, with his brother, was convicted for the murder of a white farmer near Eufaula two years ago and sentenced to death in the electric chair, has been finally disposed of and the condemned man will now be a free man if he lives to serve a ten years' sentence imposed upon him last week when his lawyer, W. H. Levine of Muskogee, succeeded in getting a new trial granted whereupon he had his client's former plea set aside and entered a plea of guilty of manslaughter. This case has been fought from start to finish by Lawyer Twine without compensation, he even paying his own railroad fare to McAlester and to Oklahoma City, where the case was argued in the supreme court, and a new trial obtained. The other convicted Towery boy was electrocuted more than a year ago. Still another Price $1.00 A year brother lives in Tulsa and is a prominent worker in one of the churches here.—Tulsa Star. MY SOLDIER. Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, God bless my brother gone to war, Across the seas, in France, so far. Oh, may his fight for Liberty, Save millions more than little me, From cruel fates or ruthless blast And bring him safely home at last." This paraphrase of the universal child's prayer was first given utterance about the time of the news of the death of the first Oklahoma soldier at the front. It would be a beautiful and powerful thing if all the little brothers and sisters of the Oklahoma men "across the seas in France" were taught to pray "God bless my brother gone to War." Help "save millions more than little me" by saving and investing your savings in "Baby Bonds!" THE THRIFT POCKET A Thrift pocket is a character builder—it tests your capacity to resist. You will find it as alburing as the penny bank you had once on the mantlepiece. Select the pocket—any one will do—and then select the coin. Suppose your Thrift coin is a nickle. You cannot borrow from the Thrift pocket or lend from it. Experience proves that it isn't wise to even make change from it, and it is a failure if you are honest, scrupulously honest with it. Every time it gets overheavy, put it into the Thrift Stamps and convert the Thrift Stamps into War Savings Stamps. Buy War Savings Stamps. If you can't get out and fight, Buy Stamps; If you would uphold the right, Buy Stamps; If you want the U. S. A. To be winner in the fray, Then buy, and buy today, Buy Stamps. If you would defeat the Hun, Buy Stamps; If you loathe what he has done, Buy Stamps; If you want to do your share For the boys "over there" With the money you can save If you love your native land, Buy Stamps: If you want the Kaiser "canned," Buy Stamps; Buy Stamps; When your country calls on you, Do the best that you can do For the "old Red, White and Blue." Buy Stamps. Only one man, Rev. Nicholson, was denied the right to vote in the primary election on Tuesday, March 19th, and this was wrong, because Rev. Nicholson is a citizen and possesses all the qualifications of a voter and has showed his loyalty by giving his time in working for the Red Cross and doing his duty wherever called. At no other precinct in the city were men denied the right to vote. Ward 3, Precinct 11, is the banner ward in Muskogee to practice disfranchisement. Those fellows forget or don't know that our boys are in the trenches in France fighting for the freedom of the world and not that their fathers may be denied the rights of citizenship? In our opinion the fellow that denied Rev. Nicholson the right to vote is the smallest man in the U. S. Is it fair to ask the Negro to die for his country and then deny him the right to vote? A real big white man won't do it. --- MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION IN THE SUPERIOR COURT IN AND FOR MUSKOGEE COUNTY, STATE OF OK. LAHOMA. Willie E. Berger, Plaintiff, vs Kent Berger, Defendant. No 7167. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. The Stat e of Oklahoma to Kent Berger, Defendant. Greeting: Berger, Detendant, Greeting, the defendant, Kent Berger, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, Willie E. Berger, for an absolute divorce on the grounds of gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty, and that unless he answer the petition of the plaintiff, Willie E. Berger, on or before the 4th day of May, 1918, the allegations set forth in said petition will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Superior Court, this 21st day of March, 1918. (Seal.) J. H. GAINES, County Clerk. By TOM L. FULLER, Deputy Clerk. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF MUSKOGEE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. Emma Neely, plaintiff, vs. Oscar Neely, Defendant. No. 7164. The Defendant, Oscar Neely, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named Court by the Plaintiff, Emma Neely, for divorce, and that unless he answer the petition filed by the Plaintiff alleging abandonment on or before the 6th day of May, 1918, the allegations contained in said petition will be taken as true and confessed and judgment rendered accordingly. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand as Clerk of said Court and affixed the seal thereof, this the 20th day of March, 1918. (Seal.) J. H. GAINES, Clerk Superior Court. By C. H. RICARD, W. H. TWINE, Attorney for Plaintiff. Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, etc. Required by the Act of Confess of August 24, 1912. Of The Muskogee Cimeter, published weekly at Muskogee, Okla., for April, 1918. State of Oklahoma, County of Muskogee, ss. Before me, a notary public, in and for the State and County aforesaid, personally appeared W. H. Twine, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the editor of the Muskogee Cimeter, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to-wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are: Publisher, W. H. Twine, Muskogee, Okla. Editor, W. H. Twine, Muskogee, Okla. Managing Editor, P. R. Price and W. H. Twine, Jr., Muskogee, Okla. Business Manager, W. H. Twine, Jr., Muskogee, Okla. 2. That the owners are: (Give names and addresses if individual owners, or, if a corporation, give its name and the names and addresses of stockholders owning or holding 1 per cent or W. H. Twine, Muskogee, Okla. more of the total amount of stock)— 3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: None 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company, but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing the affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds, or other securities than as so stated by him. 5. That the average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date shown above is _____. (This information is required from daily publications only.) W. H. TWINE, Editor. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 21st day of March, 1918. (Seal.) F. J. GORDON, Notary Public. (My commission expires June 9, 1920. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION In the District Court of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma. Eddie Westmoreland, Plaintiff, vs. Earnest Westmoreland, Defendant. The State of Oklahoma to the Defendant, Earnest Westmoreland, Greetings: The defendant, Earnest Westmoreland, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named Court by the plaintiff, Eddie Westmoreland, for an absolute divorce on the grounds of desertion, abandonment and gross neglect and that unless he answer the petition of the plaintiff, Eddie Westmoreland, on or before the 18th day of April, 1918, the allegations set forth in said petition will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said District Court this the 4th day of March, 1918. J. H. GAINES, Clerk District Court. By W. H. BALLARD, Deputy Clerk. JOHN WATKINS, Attorney for Plaintiff. When you have Backache the liver or kidneys are sure to be out of gear. Try Sanol. it does wonders for the liver, kidneys and bladder. A trial 35c bottle will convince you. Get it at the drug store.—Adv. Give our colored boys a chance to join the aviation corps and Uncle Sam will benefit by it. They will make just as good a record as our soldier boys and our sailors. If the government will establish an aviation camp for our boys, they will make good. Give us a chance. Some years ago in the south the slogan went forth to invite foreigners into the country to take the place of the negro. Time has proven the mistake. There are now about fifteen million foreign-born people here, many who are disloyal to our government. There are about eighteen million negroes who were born here, and all of them loyal to our Flag. All of these foreigners who desired could vote. In some parts of the country none of these loyal negroes could vote. This error must not be made again. 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.—Adv. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION In the Superior Court of Muskogee County, Oklahoma R. B. Browning. Plaintiff, Vs. No. 7153 A. L. Browning. Defendant. The Defendant A. L. Browing will take notice that he has been sued in the above named Court by the Plaintiff, R. B. Browning for an absolute divorce, on the grounds of abandonment and cruelty, and that unless he answer the petition of the plaintiff on or before the 29th. day of April 1918 the allegations set forth in said petition will be taken as confessed and judgement reudared accordingly. IN WITNESS WHERE-OF, I have here-unto set my hand and and affixed the seal of said District Court this the 12th. day of M arh 1918. J. H. Gaines, By W. H. Ballard, Deputy H. T. Walker Attorney - for Plaintiff..... THE NEGRO AFTER THE WAR. "What is to be the condition of affairs after the war?" is a question now largely of sepculation, but nevertheless it is a question of consideration of which is most important. From the close study of other wars and post war conditions, many helpful suggestions may be derived. We know there must be a reconstruction: a reorganization of business and industry, a readjustment in politics, and, though more subtle, a readjustment of morals and religion. Of course most of the nations at war have assigned high altruistic motives. But whether it is to make democracy safe or to get more world trade, the moral reaction must be great. What will be the effect on the Negro? The whole war like all wars will be educative. The boys who come back from France will be different from those who went. They will have learned to an extent a different language, seen new landscapes, heard new music and learned new customs. Particularly will it be true for the Americans. The white soldier will learn to respect the black man more on the one hand and on the other his hate will be directed more to other whites—Germans. At present the white man's hate goes out to blacks only, while all whites are his friend. That is the color line divides friend and enemies. The war will undoubtedly destroy this in that the circle of hate will know no color line, and the circle of friendship will include some blocks, and the longer the war lasts the more. Again, this war will teach that a black man can be above white men. With seven hundred Negro officers in the army, there will be seven hundred men with higher ranks than a quarter of a million whites. As the war progresses there will be more and higher officers, and army discipline will demand that they be respected, and should the war last long, this discipline will tend to habit. The Negro will get great education out of this war. He will find less color line in France than anywhere else. He will find a grateful heart in the Frenchman, such as he does not find here at home. This will tend to make him hold up his head, stand on his feet, and remember that he too is a man. And when he comes back to America, whether our arms are victorious or not, he can never forget this lesson. Let us send a big army to Europe—to help the Allies. But more to educate ourselves from our narrow bigotted provincialism to a broader international and human point of view: the bigger the army the better, and the longer the war lasts the better still. "God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform." The Readjustment After the War. In the readjustment after the war which we are fighting "to make the world safe for democ- racy," what part shall we play? Obviously our hope is that out of the war sentiment may come to make America safe for democracy. We hope that here at home, democracy may mean something more than a sham; that it may mean that governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed, whether they are white or black; that South Carolina and Mississippi have no more right to intimidate and virtually disfranchise its black citizens than the Germans have to rule Belgium without her consent. That the Constitution of the United States with the Amendments thereof, is no more a mere "scrap of paper" than is a German treaty; that lynching, Jim-Crowism, and other illegal discriminations against the Negro are no more righteous in America than Kaiserism is in Europe. We hope the war will clarify the vision of America, and nerve us to set about to make the democracy of which we boast more than a mere by-word. In fact, we believe that since we have entered the world politics, Europe will be quick to see our hypocrisy in reference to our so-called democracy. In the adjustment the chief factor upon which we are to depend is the Christian Church. If our democracy is to be made more than a sham, it will be because of the Church's influence. If the Brotherhood of the Church is to mean more than white men it will be because of the influence of the Negro Church. Our task is to interpret the Negro into the Democracy of this nation and into the Christianity of America. At present we are brother-in-law-in-Christ, but not brothers in fact and practice. As a noted historian wrote some years ago when questioned regarding a certain Negro's great explorations, "Historians have not searched history with an eye to the deaths of Negroes," so Christianity in America has not yet been practiced with an eye to the welfare of Negroes. And as a group of aggressive Negroes has turned the attention of historians to the great mines of Negro history, so a group of Negroes must put it up to Christianity of the nation to consider the Negro as Jesus intended. What is the fact? Take the religion of the South, and nowhere in the nation is there a greater proportion of church members than in the South. Nowhere is there more religion. Yet there is the worst practice of religion toward the Negro. All preachers in the South are fond of the individual Negro; they as a rule like to preach to Negroes; many of them give money to Negroes; some help to educate Negroes. But they do not do the most necessary thing. What Negroes need more than alms, or occasional sermons to them, is: 1. Security of Person: A sentiment in the community which holds as Negro's life as dear as a white man's. 2. Security of Property: If a Negro works for property he ought to hold it until he disposes of it, and no amount of intimidation ought to force him to dispose of it. 3. Equality before the Courts: The scandal of America is that the Negro cannot get justice, especially in the South, when a white man is concerned. 4. Fair Laws: The brains of the South have been too long devoted to endeavoring to make laws to rob Negroes of their rights. 5. The sanctity of the Home: The Christian South has never honestly faced the subject of racial interbreeding. It has made a lot of fuss about intermarriage and thus encouraged the greatest moral scandal in our nation. We might mention other things which the Christian Church should consider sincerely, frankly, honestly. When it considers these things honestly, and ceases to evade, there will certainly be improvement. There are 100,000 white preachers in the country. Perhaps not one out of 100 preachers for a wider Christianity for Negroes. But if it were possible to get 25,000 of these to preach five sermons a year on the Negro's claio mto Christianity: say on (1) Shall the Negro have justice in the Courts of Our Democracy? (2) Lynchin; (3) Shall the Negro Women be Protected in their Virtue? (4) Democracy, Christianity and the Negro, are they compatible? (5) Are we doing our part toward educating the Negro? If 1,000 white preachers should preach these or similar subjects, vigorously, we should have much better conditions. But what is the Church doing? Almost nothing, except a few great souls here and there. But should we Negroes not insist that it is a part of the white man's Christian duty to treat these subjects? Should we not insist that the white clergy cannot be true to their Master and longer ignore these subjects? Should we not seek to cultivate friendly relations with the white clergy and poin't out to them the great need of the hour? KEEP MR. OF NEGRO IF YOU The Colored Man the Bars and Kill White People The Negro haze has reached should decide to do every conceivable that go to make a powerful people vantage of our stupidity and be still, feathering his nest. The fact, everything should be done by a white man has in invading Negro people his wares, etc., that he will with. We do not mean to convey enemy to the white man, to the for every assistance he's given uningly against the freedom accord are scores of white men who groes cheap insurance, rugs and of homes of our race are frequent hit the nail on the head: we are the bars up, and keep the white-tured, high-class white man new desire to transact business with his office; that other bunch should be allowed in them. The writer with the white man: when he's his home, to converse with his wing to accord him the freedom. There are several Colored insurance can get just as good or better prey they can be by being in a white must meet the requirements of laws, and it's all "puppy-rot" that "Negro insurance companies decency should prompt the Colon once, and deal the visiting of wipexus blow. The sacredness of that struggling Negro young man sacrificed to secure an education, ing that if all the money spent companies in Oklahoma were spared give employment to 1,000 of our Negro stand in his own shadow to live in luxury and case, simple eyes wide enough to see, nor hard opportunities that belong to us? We have wiped out more than 80 per to allow white young men and long to us? There are several be put to the frequent visits of trust every man, who claims a spdown" to the women of his home visits at once. If you can't get in man visiting Colored homes, do far better. We are not only after are after all who make a living or in the woodpile" with us, but for our people. A great many of our insurance that they frequently s thing, but I am saving this money white insurance man go to his sell our race its insurance. We Muskogee, and in the State of Oheed same, because what holds good in practically all the town let us make the Negro home the guard them with the same interest Break up the habit we are compl MR. JOHN NEGRO HOME IF YOU PLEASE! Colored Man Must Paint Bars and Keep Out Of White Peddlers, Etc. Mr. John has reached that stage of civilization to do every conceivable thing it can and make a powerful people. The white man has our stupidity and business lethargy, and has his nest. The Negro pulpit, the Negro king should be done to break up that ban on invading Negro homes, and unbrings, etc., that he wouldn't dare go to the not mean to convey the idea that The white man, to the contrary we are gracious, he's given us, but we do stand up for the freedom accorded him in the Negro's white men who have amassed fortune, insurance, rugs and other junk; and even our race are frequented by these white men: the head: we are appealing to Negro and keep the white man out of our homes; mass white man never visits the Negro; contact business with him, you'll have to meet other bunch shouldn't, under any circumstances. The writer is perfectly willing to man: when he's in favor of allowing converse with his women, then we are ready to him the freedom of the Colored home; several Colored insurance companies in which good or better protection, by insuring being in a white company. All insurance requirements of the State's insurance are all "puppy-rot" they hand you when insurance companies are no good." Commend prompt the Colored race to act in the visiting of white men to Negro home. The sacredness of the Negro home demands Negro young man and young woman to secure an education, demand it. We vouce the money spent by Negroes with white Oklahoma were spent with Negro component to 1,000 of our own race. How can his own shadow and grin, allowing the hurry and case, simply because we haven't enough to see, nor had enough sense to get belong to us? Will our men and our men more than 80 per cent of our illiterate young men and young women to live off? There are several strong reasons why we frequent visits of white men to our home, who claims a spark of manhood, will women of his household, and put a stop to if you can't get insurance, without having Colored homes, do without the insurance. We are not only after the white insurance who make a living off the Negro race; too good pile" with us, but we simply want that. A great many of our women are so proud that they frequently say: "I would do such saving this money for my insurance man face man go to his own homes, and let us insurance. We pray that every Colored in the State of Oklahoma will read the cause what holds good here, along this literally all the towns throughout the State the Negro home the most sacred place of with the same interest the white man habit we are complaining about, and do KEEP MR. JOHN OUT OF NEGRO HOMES IF YOU PLEASE! The Colored Man Must Put Up the Bars and Keep Out Cheap White Peddlers, Etc. The Negro hace has reached that stage of civilization that it should decide to do every conceivable thing it can along all lines that go to make a powerful people. The white man has taken advantage of our stupidity and business lethargy, and has, and is still, feathering his nest. The Negro pulpit, the Negro press; in fact, everything should be done to break up that baneful habit the white man has in invading Negro homes, and unloading on our people his wares, etc., that he wouldn't dare go to the white home with. We do not mean to convey the idea that The Lantern is an enemy to the white man, to the contrary we are grateful to him for every assistance he's given us, but we do stand uncompromisingly against the freedom accorded him in the Negro home. There are scores of white men who have amassed fortunes selling Negroes cheap insurance, rugs and other junk; and even today scores of homes of our race are frequented by these white vendors. To hit the nail on the head: we are appealing to Negro women to put the bars up, and keep the white man out of our homes. That cultured, high-class white man never visits the Negro home; if you desire to transact business with him, you'll have to see him at his office; that other bunch shouldn't, under any circumstances, be allowed in them. The writer is perfectly willing to go 50-50 with the white man: when he's in favor of allowing us to visit his home, to converse with his women, then we are ready and willing to accord him the freedom of the Colored home; not before. There are several Colored insurance companies in which the race can get just as good or better protection, by insuring in them, than they can by being in a white company. All insurance companies must meet the requirements of the State's insurance and banking laws, and it's all "puppy-rot" they hand you when they tell you that "Negro insurance companies are no good." Common sense and decency should prompt the Colored race to act in this matter at once, and deal the visiting of white men to Negro homes a solar plexus blow. The sacredness of the Negro home demands it; then that struggling Negro young man and young woman who have sacrificed to secure an education, demand it. We vouchsafe in saying that if all the money spent by Negroes with white insurance companies in Oklahoma were spent with Negro companies, it would give employment to 1,000 of our own race. How long will the Negro stand in his own shadow and grin, allowing the white man to live in luxury and ease, simply because we haven't opened our eyes wide enough to see, nor had enough sense to grasp the opportunities that belong to us? Will our men and our women, who have wiped out more than 80 per cent of our illiteracy, be willing to allow white young men and young women to live off the bread that long to us? There are several strong reasons why a stop should be put to the frequent visits of white men to our homes, and we trust every man, who claims a spark of manhood, will "lay the law down" to the women of his household, and put a stop to these visits at once. If you can't get insurance, without having the white man visiting Colored homes, do without the insurance; it will be far better. We are not only after the white insurance vendors, but are after all who make a living off the Negro race; too, it's no "nigger in the woodpile" with us, but we simply want those positions for our people. A great many of our women are so proud of the white insurance that they frequently say: "I would do such and such a thing, but I am saving this money for my insurance man." Let the white insurance man go to his own homes, and let the Negroes sell our race its insurance. We pray that every Colored person in Muskogee, and in the State of Oklahoma will read this article and heed same, because what holds good here, along this line, also holds good in practically all the towns throughout the State. Friends, let us make the Negro home the most sacred place on earth, and guard them with the same interest the white man guards his. Break up the habit we are complaining about, and do it now! Colored Democrats. The Colored Democrats in the influence with the white wing of car of the powers that be; so more Negro Democrats, until he commigdigings, were rare curiosities, to understand how a Colored mancrat, but possibly they can, howe able to harmonize with the prinse see it as our Colored Democratie notion," said the old sister, who a calf. Too, prior to coming to these gentlemen who were star party. Oh, well, "wise men chan Democrats for principle's sake, are one because you desire to b Democrats! red Democrats in Oklahoma are said to be the white wing of the party, and are allvers that be; so mote it be! The writer coerats, until he commenced to hobnob around the rare curiosities, because we have neverhow a Colored man can be a true-to-goobly they can, however, our manhood hasize with the principles of said party, aColored Democratic brethren. "Everyon the old sister, who pulled off the kissingior to coming to this state, we've knowmen who were standard-bearers in theell, "wise men change, but fools never."principle's sake, all well and good; howuse you desire to be trickster, to h— The Colored Democrats in Oklahoma are said to wield much influence with the white wing of the party, and are able to get the ear of the powers that be; so mote it be! The writer confesses that Negro Democrats, until he commenced to hobnob around in these diggings, were rare curiosities, because we have never been able to understand how a Colored man can be a true-to-goodness Democrat, but possibly they can, however, our manhood has never been able to harmonize with the principles of said party, and we can't see it as our Colored Democratic brethren. "Everyone to his own notion," said the old sister, who pulled off the kissing act with the calf. Too, prior to coming to this state, we've known some of these gentlemen who were standard-bearers in the Republican party. Oh, well, "wise men change, but fools never." If you are Democrats for principle's sake, all well and good; however, if you are one because you desire to be trickster, to h——l with your Democracy! And what better time is there than now, when Christianity seems to be on trial? When men are realizing very where the serious consequences which a false Christian practice has brought upon us? Should we not do something? What shall we do? When the war is over, how shall we harness the results and give the Negro his share of the victory?—From The Christian Recorder, Dec. 13, 1917, R. R. Wright, Jr., Editor. 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 store. —Adv. JOHN OUT NO HOMES PLEASE! Can Must Put Up Deep Out Cheap Midlers, Etc. And that stage of civilization that it avoidable thing it can along all lines lead. The white man has taken ad- business lethargy, and has, and is Negro pulpit, the Negro press; in broke up that baneful habit the Negro homes, and unloading on our couldn't dare go to the white home, by the idea that The Lantern is an contrary we are grateful to him, but we do stand uncompromised him in the Negro home. There have amassed fortunes selling Ne- other junk; and even today scores rented by these white vendors. To appealing to Negro women to put man out of our homes. That cul- ter visits the Negro home; if you in him, you'll have to see him at couldn't, under any circumstances, is perfectly willing to go 50-50 in favor of allowing us to visit women, then we are ready and will- of the Colored home; not before ance companies in which the race protection, by insuring in them, than company. All insurance companies the State's insurance and banking they hand you when they tell you s are no good." Common sense and raid race to act in this matter a white men to Negro homes a solar the Negro home demands it; then man and young woman who have demand it. We vouchsafe in say- by Negroes with white insurance with Negro companies, it would our own race. How long will the and grin, allowing the white man may because we haven't opened our and enough sense to grasp the op- Will our men and our women, wher cent of our illiteracy, be willing ing women to live off the bread that strong reasons why a stop should white men to our homes, and we mark of manhood, will "lay the law household, and put a stop to these insurance, without having the white without the insurance; it will be for the white insurance vendors, but if the Negro race; too, it's no "nig- we simply want those positions our women are so proud of the white day: "I would do such and such a for my insurance man." Let the own homes, and let the Negroes may that every Colored person in oklahoma will read this article and good here, along this line, also holds throughout the State. Friends, most sacred place on earth, and rest the white man guards his training about, and do it now! Oklahoma are said to wield much the party, and are able to get the be it be! The writer confesses thatenced to hobnob around in these because we have never been able can be a true-to-goodness Demover, our manhood has never been triples of said party, and we can't brethren. "Everyone to his own bulled off the kissing act with theais state, we've known some of hard-bearers in the Republican age, but fools never." If you are ill well and good; however, if you be trickster, to h——l with your IT ASSAILS DEMOCRACY OPINION OF HENRY WATTERSON, IN LOUISVILLE COURIER-JOURNAL WALLOPS CONGRESS Also Whacks State Legislators, Charging Most Are Politicians, Without Power to Elect U. S. Senators, But With Power to Amend Federal Constitution Under the heading "Democratic Tyranny," the Louisville Courier Journal descants thus: Congress has voted to submit to the Legislatures of the States a constitutional amendment for national prohibition. If three-fourths of the Legislatures vote to ratify the amendment then it becomes a part of our organic law and one year thereafter no man in this country will have the right to make, sell, transport, export or import intoxicating liquors. In other words, three-fourths of the State Legislatures will have denied the other states the right to legislate for themselves and will have denied millions of citizens of all the states the personal liberty to make a drink or take a drink if they choose. No Majority Rule. Advocates of this proceeding affirm that it is in accordance with the rule of the majority in our system of democracy. But it is not in accordance with the rule of the majority; though even if it were it would be inconsistent with the spirit of real democracy, which never infrenches, except in extraordinary emergency like war, beyond certain lines on the personal liberty of the individual. If this amendment be ratified as required by the Constitution it will not have been sanctioned by a majority of the people, who will not have voted on it at all directly. In the case of Kentucky if the present Legislature ratifies the amendment the people of Kentucky will never have voted on it even indirectly, and in the cases of the Legislatures which are to be elected the question of the approval of this amendment will not be popularly voted on unconfused with other questions and the personal equations of the candidates, always largely influential in the election of a Legislature. Our experience in following our own theory of democracy has proved that the founders of our system, to the extent to which they meant the functions of our Legislatures to be a medium of democracy rather than a check on democracy, made a mistake. This mistake has been acknowledged and corrected in the method of our choice of United States Senators. The evils of delegating to Legislatures the prerogatives of the people were so clearly demonstrated that we changed the Constitution, took away from the Legislatures the power to elect United States Senators and imposed it directly on the people. An election by a Legislature and one by popular vote are notoriously very different things, both in methods and results. The Legislature, composed in the main of politicians, is so small, comparatively, as to admit of manipulations and influences difficult or impossible in the larger field; and the "logrolling," the "pork" trading, the wheels within wheels and the many indirect, unrelated and sinister factors which enter into the final result of a vote by the Legislature are often not only not representative of the popular will, but positively misrepresentative of it. Rapa State Legislatures. That is why we have taken away from the Legislatures the power to elect our United States Senators. But we have not yet taken away from them the power to amend our Constitution. This plays peculiarly into the hands of those who subordinate all else to prohibition; for the devious ways by which Legislatures are worked are just the ways the prohibitionists like most to employ and with which they have been most successful. The manner in which they have worked our National Legislature at Washington to submit this amendment is pertinent to this point; for nobody pretends that Congress has reflected popular sentiment in this matter as even reflected its own sentiment. A constitutional amendment establishing national prohibition will deprive millions of American citizens of their rights without even the ascertained approval of a majority of American voters.—From The Courier-Journal Lenoxville, Ky. LET 'EM GO TO— Luke McLuke, in Claimnatt Enquiries If we shall know each other in Heaven, a list of Probationists will be perfectly mislead when they dis- cover that they have to associate with a list of people who believed in personal Liberty when they were in poverty. NO, I WON'T GIVE YOU A CENT! WE ARE FIGHTING HELL AND THE DEVIL AND HAVE NO TIME FOR YOUR PUNY LITTLE WARS! THE ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE NEEDS YOUR MONEY THREE CHEERS FOR HARD CIDER IF 1,000,000 PEOPLE LOSE THEIR JOBS THROUGH NATIONAL PROHIBITION —LET THEM GET OTHER JOBS. WHAT DO WE CARE FOR THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, VOTE DRY! When Colonel F. W. Galbraith, commanding the First Regiment, Ohio National Guard, who then was President of the Cincinnati Business Men's Club, recently asked James A. White, Superintendent of the Ohio Anti-Saloon League, to call off the campaign for a prohibition amendment in the Buckeye State and give to the Red Cross the money which the Drys plan to spend for the election in November, the suggestion was promptly turned down. Lewis H. Gibson, Manager of the Ohio Home Rule Association, on behalf of the "Wets," agreed to donate this sum to the worthy cause. The reason for the Drys' refusal is best explained by the words of the Rev. Hovey Matthews, of Montclair, N. J., who wrote a letter to the New York World, criticising the efforts of that great paper to remove the blockade raised by the Anti-Saloon League in insisting that a national prohibition clause be included in the Federal food bill, while the life of the nation was at stake. The irate preacher wrote: WE ARE FIGHTING HELL AND THE DEVIL AND HAVE NO TIME FOR YOUR PUNY LITTLE WARS." OHIO FEDERATION OF LABOR VOTES AGAINST PROHIBITION Buckeye Workers Declare Proposed "Bone-Dry" Law Is Unpatriotic and "Will Mean Complete Elimination of Our Cherished American Institutions" State-wide "bone-dry" prohibition was given a jolt at the session of the Ohio State Federation of Labor, held at Eagles' Halt Wednesday morning, when the following resolution, introduced by John Gilliam, of the Cigar Makers' Local Union No. 4, after being given twenty-four hours' consideration, was adopted with only one disenting vote: "Wheroes, Our country, having adopted a war-time policy of conserving all resources and providing for the revenues necessary to meet the enormous financial obligations incident to a state of war, need not only the loyal support of a patriotic and a united people, but demands the vigilant preservation of all sources of revenue; and. "Whereas, in spite of the crisis fronting our nation and state, and not withstanding the fact that the allied nations, during the entire war period, have not found it necessary to hamper or destroy the sources of dependable FOUR ARRESTED ON WHISKEY TRIP U. S. Agents Trail 18 Gallons of Liquor to Dry Virginia Three hundred and fifty dollars, not counting incidentals, is the price Bate Ellis and a trio of friends from Wilson County, N. C., will have paid, as the police charge, for a trip to Virginia with 18 gallons of whiskey are they return to the Tarheel Stata. Ellis and friends were arrested in Alexandria. Thursday, by Department of Justice agents. The specific charge against the quartet is that they transported liquor into a dry territory. When the four man were arrested the price of their release was fixed at $50 each. Ellis alone could furnish the price. He went away with the anounced determination of getting $150 more to free his companions. Up to 7 o'clock last evening he hadn't returned with the cash, so his friends spent the night at No. 9 Police Precinct—Washington Post We Know it. "You would not prevent (by Prohibition) the drinking of liquor or the it's that grow out of it, but you would destroy the supervision of the liquor traffic by local authority. You would destroy this revenue, and the evils of intemperance would still exist."—Congressman Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama. revenue, or curtail the personal liberties of soldier, sailor or civilian, while we are confronted with 'bone-cry' prohibition, which the sponsors for prohibition are endeavoring to foist upon the people of Ohio, and, "Whereas, The success of this social and industrial menace can not but foster strife and unrest among the people, destroy a means of livelihood of thousands of our fellow workers, eliminate dependable sources of enormous revenues of state and nation and increase the burden of taxation upon the workers: therefore be it "Resolved, That the Ohio State Federation of Labor, in keeping with the patriotic and economic demands of the time, urge upon its members and the voters of Ohio to resent this attempt to hamper the nation and the state by voting against prohibition and thus eliminate a menace which, if permitted to continue, will mean the complete undermining of our cherished American institutions."—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. LIQUOR ARRESTS TO GRAND JURY "Parson" Jones Among Those Held By Judge In Alexandria. Virginia A dispatch from Alexandria, Va, to the Washington Post says: "Alleged violators of the state prohibition law were in the police court yesterday passed on for further consideration by a grand jury in the corporation court. The 'Rev,' Jacob Jones, a street exhorter, who, the police say, had eight pints of ardent spirits in a sack when he alighted from a trolley car from Washington on Saturday, pleaded that the liquor was for home consumption, but it did not avail. A man giving the name of John T. Buras and his destination Richmond, who had five pints of liquor in his suitcase when he was rested at the union station, failed to get off on a plea that only a part of the liquor found in his possession be longed to him. A Temperance Sermon "I simply say that wanton denunciation of alcohol does more harm than good; that we should honestly teach temperance and not dishonestly proach Prohibition; that we should above all, tell the truth and abstain from lies, and remember that, after all, each man must control himself and if he uses liquors be temperate in their use."—Andrew J. Barchelae spended and their alcoholic contents. Another feature which contributed regulated by the President. The battle may be fatal. It is hard to the Iowa distrust of prohibition by liberty that 30 states will agree towars the report of the Census Bureau, control all the states in the matter of liquor. The question of the right of each State to govern the conduct of theft that state since it went "dry." own citizens in the use of liquor, which The Iowa election will no doubt have does not arrive in State campaigns for prohibition, will appeal to many volon an important bearing on the election on, particularly in the dry South. to be held in Ohio on the same questions enforcement would require an arrection on November 6th. The protest of Representative McArthur from the dry State of Oregon on the ground that the fight over the amendment would divide the people into hostile camps and distract their attention from war activities was a sound and potent argument against throwing this bone of contention among the States: To inject a question, such as national prohibition, will not tend to solidify the people of the country in support of a common cause, but will so upset business, economic and political conditions, that the war will become of secondary importance in the minds of millions of people. If this amendment is approved by Congress and sent to the states for approval or reaction, the question of standing by the administration and supporting the war will become secondary in the minds of several million radical prohibitionists and extreme anti-prohibitionists when next year's elections are held. The general fitness test of loyalty to the government will be lost sight of in the campaigns that will hinge on the attitude of candidates on the question of prohibition. Mr. McArthur gave a well deserved rebuke to the Anti-Saleen League and other prohibition agencies which are pushing this measure when he said that they would be better employed in constructive movements against the violations of the anti-liquor laws we have and in conducting campaigns of education against liquor than in force ing "a question that will create flie-feeling and reckermination among millions of our people." The amendment is not a war measure because at least three years and possibly seven will be required to settle it. It is an anti-war measure because the fight will take place during the period of the war and will seriously interrupt national unity in war work and war measures. It will divert vast sums of money to the pro and anti propaganda and campaigns which ought to be expended in the support of the war. Congress has adopted ample legislation for the control of the manufacture of liquor during the war. Whisky-making has been prohibited and the main structure of beer and wine may be suppended and their alcoholic contents regulated by the President. A "DRY" SPREE FANATICISM --Brooklyn Eagle UNOFFICIAL RETURNS GIVE VICTORY TO IOWA "WETS" RE-COUNT WILL BE NECESSARY — LIBERALS MADE NO FIGHT—DIDN'T SPEAK OR SPEND ONE SOLITARY NICKEL PEOPLE VS. THE ANTI - SALOON LEAGUE Citizens Tire of Prohibition That Doesn't Prohibit and Rebuke Legislature Which Created Odious Law—"Drys" Use Immense "Pork Darrel"—Hobson Fails Indications are that the prohibitionists have received their most decisive defeat in years by the complete unofficial returns from Iowa which show that the Hawkeye state has gone against the proposed constitutional "dry" amendment by a small majority. Although it is possible that the official returns may balance the scales to the other side, nevertheless it is apparent prohibition in Iowa has received a tremendous rebuke. On October 15th Iowa citizens voted on the adoption of a prohibition amendment to the Constitution. Iowa is now a "dry" state. It has been so since January 1st, 1916, by act of Legislature. The prohibitionists and the Anti-Saloon League were not satisfied with this, but made an effort to fasten prohibition into the Constitution. Iowa being "dry," no sales of liquor could be made in the state, and, no matter what the result of the election, the state will remain "dry" until the present law is repealed by the Legislature. Under these conditions the brewers, distillers and liquor dealers of the country could do nothing to open up the state for sales. They were, therefore, not interested in the outcome and no effort was made by the distilling, brewing or liquor dealing interests to influence the campaign. If Iowa has gone "wet" the situation remains unchanged, for the state legislature will not meet for two more years. However, at that time the legislators will no doubt heed the admonition of their constituents and put Iowa back in the "wet" column. "Complete unofficial returns from Monday's vote on an amendment to the Iowa constitution providing statewide prohibition, tonight showed the wets leading by only 887 votes, and it seems obvious that an official recount would be necessary. The complete unofficial returns gave the vote as 214,634 against and 213,747 for the amendment. "Neither side claimed victory tonight, and with a total vote of 400,000, both the wet and dry factions pointed out, so small an advantage would not be allowed to stand without a recount. It probably will be 10 days before the result is determined officially. "It developed that part of the soldier vote, polled under the absent voters' law, had not reached County Auditors in time to be included in the count. There are about 7,000 Iowa soldiers at Mineola and Deming." The New York World and other great newspapers recently predicted that the tide was setting against prohibition when Virginia, after a year's trial of the "dry" law, nominated Westmoreland Davis, a "wet" candidate, for Governor on the Democratic ticket. Inasmuch as the Democrats control Virginia this is equivalent to an election. The remarkable feature of the Iowa election is the fact that not a cent was spent there by the liquor interests for publicity or campaign work. The Anti-Saloon League expended many thousands of dollars and had Captain Richmeed Pearson Hobson, U. S. Senator Cummins and other noted temperance craters as speakers. As the Iowa election would have no immediate effect on conditions in that state, the wets completely ignored the Anti-Saloon League campaign. It was nothing else but a fight between the people and the Anth Saloon League, and the people apparently have won.