Muskogee Cimeter

No. 39 Vol. 18 In the Superior Court of Muskogee County, Oklahoma. Lula Marshall, Plaintiff, vs. No. 7292. Clarence Marshall, Defendant. The Defendant, Clarence Marshall, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named Court by the Plaintiff, Lula Marshall, for an absolute divorce, and that unless he answer the petition filed by the Plaintiff alleging extreme cruelty on or before the 1st day of July, 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 15th day of May, 1918. (SEAL) J. H. GAINES. (SEAL) J. H. GAINES, Clerk Superior Court By W. H. BALLARD. W. H. TWINE. Attorney for Plaintiff. We desire to go on record as being in favor of better pay for our school teachers. It is impossible to keep the best of teachers on poor pay. Some of our teachers at this time are being offered better pay in other places, and it is a fact that even the country schools are increasing the salary of their teachers. These trustees are aware of the fact that to keep efficient men and women that they must pay living salary. We heard a gentleman from Wybark say that in order to keep their present teachers they were raising their salary to $85.00 per month and we think they are doing the proper thing, and we hope our School Board in Muskogee will take the matter under consideration that these are war times and the cost of living has increased considerably and give our teachers the proper increase in salary. The big Red Cross drive comes off next week and every man, woman and child must do his bit. We must give until it hurts and then keep giving. We must remember that our boys over there are giving the best years of their lives and some of them life itself—and thus you see we are doing very little who give a few dollars. The Red Cross is entitled to all they ask for and every time they ask we must dig up and give. On last Saturday the white republicans of Muskogee held a star chamber meeting and elected delegates to the state convention, and they were all white. About fifty percent at least of the republican vote of the county are colored, and yet these fellows ignored that vote. When the general election comes these same fellows will be yelling for the Negro votes, but we will be too busy doing our patriotic duty to listen. We were busy last Saturday and will be busy every time a fellow who tries to pass segregation laws runs for office, even if he is a republican. The Colored boys at Tulsa taught that gang a lesson, and one is due here. The big barbecue given at Wewoka by the Colored Home Guards on the 10th and 11th was a success in spite of the rain. Capt. J. Coody Johnson had his forces well organized and the Langston band was there brim full of patriotic music. On account of the rain the speaking programme was pulled off at the Armory. The editor of this paper, and Judge Norvell of Wewoka and President Marquess of Langston were the speakers. Judge Norvell made a splendid speech, as did President Margueus. Wewoka is in the lead and our people in Muskogee must wake up and catch up. Our Red Cross is doing splendid, but we can do better and give out buttons like they do at Wewoka. EDITOR. The city administration is making a clean-up campaign and we are glad to see it. Chief The Muskogee Cimeter. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA, SATURDAY MAY, 18, 1918 Art Harris and his men will make the loafers go to work or go to jail. With Sam Lewis as patrolman in the north end, the loafers, thieves and thugs will march on to other fields. COLORED INVENTOR GAINS RECOGNITION NEW YORK, N. Y., May—L. A. Hayden, a colored inventor, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the Aviation Corps of the British Army, and the British Government has accepted and is using his stabilizer which he perfected and patented to prevent airships from falling. Lieutenant Hayden was commissioned an officer in the British Army some weeks ago. He is at present assigned to an aviation station on Long Island by the British Government and is giving demonstrations and teaching those prepared to do service in the air the practicability of the invention. The stabilizer invented by Lieutenant Hayden is not unknown to the United States Army officials, for months ago when Hayden was anxious that his Government give it a favorable consideration he went to Washington and gave several demonstrations. But he was unsuccessful in his attempt to get his invention adopted, it is said. Seeing that he could do notign with his stabilizer in the United States, Hayden went abroad, where he soon convinced the British officials of his invention's usefulness. The action of the British War Department in commissioning the American Negro shows the high regard in which he is held. Lieutenant Hayden is a native of Charlotte, N. C. BIRTH OF NATION BARRED FROM LYNN, MASS. Through Local Equal Rights League Chairman, Mayor and Council of Big Massachusetts City Withdraw Permission to Dixon's Race-Hatred Play Advertised to Appear. (Special.) Lynn, Mass., April 30, 1918. As we go to press the Colored citizens are very much exercised over the announcement of the Birth of the Nation at the Comique Theatre, May 6. Rev. W. A. Lynch, chairman of the Executive of the Equal Rights League in connection with Messrs. Jas. Ogden, Mr. Brown, Mrs. Murray and others have filed a protest and has been granted a hearing before the Mayor and board of common council. There is also a meeting to be held at the Mailey Street A. M. E. Church to devise other plans to crush out this breeder of racial prejudice. REV. W. A. LYNCH, Lynn, Mass, May 2, 1918. Mr. Wm. M. Trotter, Secretary: Dear Sir:I have the pleasure of informing you for the cause of Equal Rights of the race, we have succeeded in having the license for the appearance of the Birth of the Nation revoked. I appeared before the Mayor and Board of Common Council and protested. We have won a great victory. W. A. LYNCH. CALL FOR COLORED LIBER TY CONGRESS. At Washington, D. C., June 24- 29, 1918, in John Westley A. M. E. Zion Church—June 23rd to Be Liberty Sunday in Colored Churches of National Capital. All Colored Churches, Business, Civic, Literary and Fraternal Organizations and Societies Urgently Requested to Send Delegates. New York, N. Y., May 11, 1918.—To the Colored Americans of the Republic of U. S. A.: By virtue of the vote of the National Colored Liberty Conference in national convention as- sembled at Boston, Mass., June 13, 1918, to-wit: "The Aim and Object of this National Colored Liberty Congress is to pres she just claim of the Colored American citizens of the United States of America to share in the world democracy for which they are subject to fight under the flag of the Republic, and to take positive measures to secure from the Government guarantee of the abolition of disfranchisement and of all caste discriminations, civil and political." We now send forth this CALL to our fellows in Color and in proscription: To all Colored Churches, business, civic, literary and fraternal societies and organizations, greetings: The National Colored Liberty Congress is called to consider among ourselves and lay before U. S. Congress methods by which President Wilson and the Government may best carry out his great war slogan—"To make the world safe for Democracy, to make the world a fit place to live in." And we would also add to them—"To make Democracy safe for the world, to make the world a fit place for all people to live in." We know that the present contains the dargest hours of the world's history. The earth is full of violence, pain and sorrow; of bitterness and hate. Many people are in a state of perplexity; their hearts are failing them with fear because of the evils which stalk abroad by night and by day. Our people are trying to hold fast their faith in God and in our government. But to many God seems to be far away and the government strangely indifferent to many wrongs and injustices done to our peole. And it is certain beyond question, that neither culture, religion, nor even our boasted Christian civilization has saved our nation from many deeds and traits of autocratic barbarism. In the midst of much suffering and prejudicial wrongs for centuries, we have been patient and loyal to our country. In all wars for independence and a united nation, we have marched and fought in the front ranks. "When disaster clouded the Union's cause, we volunteered 200,000 strong, and served without pay for eighteen months till given that of white troops. Faced threatened enslavement if captured; were brave in action, patient under heavy and dangerous labors, and cheerful amid hardships and privations. Surely we have given to the nation and the world undying proof that Americans of African descent possess the pride, courage and devotion of the patriot and soldier." That is the compliment paid the Colored soldiers at the close of the great Civil War. We are no less patriotic and loyal today; we serve our country and its flag; we know no other. Representing as we do, more than one-tenth of the fighting strength of the U. S. we desire in Liberty Congress to be assembled, place and date as above aforesaid, to ask President Wilson and Congress at this time to remove from the statutes of our Country all proscription laws of race discriminations of whatever kind, that we may have at home for ourselves, our wives, our children and our posterity, that which we are fighting and dying in a strange land to secure for others. We are ready to fight to victory for a world-wide democracy which offers equal opportunity and equal protection, for every man, woman and child, American citizens at home and beyond the seas. With this covenant we stand ready to pledge to the government our fortunes, our lives, our wives and children, to the last dollar and the last man to win the war for world-wide democracy and to make the world a fit place for all people to live in. Meet in John Wesley Zion Church, 4th and Corcoran St., N. W., Washington, D. C. June 24-29, 1918. A. Clayton Powell. N. Y., Pres.; Allen W. Whaley. Mass. Nat'l Organizer; Marion F. Sydes, R. L., Recording Secre- tary; D. S. Klugh, Mass., Treas.; H. H. Harrison, N. Y., Chairman of Board; Mrs. J. S. Allen, Mass., Cor. Sec.; L. G. Jordan, Penn., Wm. Monroe Trotter, Executive Secretary. Executive Headquarters—34 Cornhill, Boston, Mass. THE NEGRO AND THE WAR. The Colored people are rallying to the call of patriotism all over the country. They are giving their sons, their money, and their energies to the task of mobilizing the Nation for the cause of democracy. For the Negro holds his citizenship high. The friends of the United States are his friends. Its foes are his foes. The United States draws no color line in the Army and Navy. It summons Negroes to arms just as it does whites. More than 700,000 me nof color registered, and already 100,000 of these have been called to the training camps to fit themselves for service. Thirty-six per cent of all the Negroes examined were certified as physically fit for the National Army, a ratio higher than the whites can show. In 16 cantonments scattered throughout the Northern and Southern States the dusky troops are being prepared to meet the Hun. In the old Regular Army of the pre-war days were four colored regiments—the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Infantry and the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry. These troops proved their value in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, just as they did in the Indian campaigns on the border. They are notably steady under fire, patient to endure hardship, cheerful and good-natured at all times. And they can fight. The War Department has organized a division of colored troops, known as the Ninety-second. To lead these men 750 colored officers were commissioned after a course of training at Fort Dodge, Iowa. Already a number of Negro chaplains have been named to serve with these and more are soon to be appointed. Three regiments of Artillery have been formed and a school for Signal Corps training has been organized. Howard University, an institution for colored people in Washington, D.C., will be kept open this summer to supply technical training to promising men of that race. At least 150 Negroes are engaged in Y. M. C. A. work in the Army. Some of these are now in France with the troops serving under General Pershing. Back of the actual fighting army is the army of civilians at home. The Negroes of the country have joined in every activity that evinces a spirit of patriotism. They show a whole-hearted desire to take their full share of the war load. They support the principles which President Wilson has defined for us, and they assume cheerfully the burden laid upon the country as a whole. The way that the colored citizen has taken hold of the Liberty loan is encouraging. Five thousand Negroes recently attended a patriotic meeting in a small North Carolina town and established a record for the quick purchase of war savings stamps. "This is good, but not at all surprising," comments the Charlotte (N. C.) Observer. "The Southern Negro has long ago proved his intense patriotism. In wars of the past he has shown that his valor is second to none, and in patriotic undertakings in civil life he has done his part when once that part has been made clear to him." The Mosaic Temple, with headquarters in Arkansas, subscribed $25,000 to the first Liberty loan and later invested an additional $50,000. Recently Secretary McAdoo telegraphed the Knights of Pythias of Florida, another colored order, his appreciation of their subscription of $25,000 for bonds. The Provident and Mutual In- surance Co. of Durham, N. C., put $5,000 of its spare funds in the loan. No figures are available to show the total amount of bonds and war savings stamps purchased by the colored people. As a rule they have bought at the banks where they did business, and no record has been kept of sales made particularly to them. But to show how extensive these have been it may be mentioned that Amos Scott, of Philadelphia, has sold to date bonds to the value of more than $80,000 to negroes of that vicinity. Both white and colored speakers have toured the country to enthuse the Negroes for the Liberty loan and the response has been eager and enthusiastic, an emphatic repudiation of the German propaganda which has attempted to stir up the colored part of our population to sedition. The organizations in charge of war recreation work have not forgotten the colored troops. As much is being done for them proata as for the white soldiers. The Commission of Training Camp Activities, which co-ordinates the work for the soldier done by the American Library Association, the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus, the Y. W. C. A., the Jewish Board of Welfare Work, and other organizations, looks out for the colored troops as well as the white. The "Y" huts and the Liberty theaters are open to all, and at For Funston, where the Ninety-second division is stationed, a Liberty theater for colored troops alone is soon to be opened. One of the most important facts is in gingering up the troops in mass singing, which has both a recreational and a military value. The singing of a song lifts the weary men over the last mile of a long hike and under the discomforts of camp life raises the spirits and breeds comradeship. The colored troops are the best singers in the camps. They have a natural gift for expression in song, and a spontaneous originality born of the joy they find in it. At one camp a quartet gave "A Perfect day" with responses in gospel-hymn fashion that brought down the house. The War Camp Community Service division, which takes care of the soldier in his relations to the adjoining community, serving the soldier regardless of color. It establishes hostess homes in the cities adjoining the camps for the use of Negro troops when off duty. Dinners, dances and vaudeville shows are furnished. From Washington, for instance, each week amateur or professional entertainers are sent out to Camp Meade to amuse the men. Recently the teachers of the Dunbar High School (colored) gave a French play and afterwards repeated the same drama in English. One of the purposes of the Community Service is to fight the German propaganda that has been busy trying to poison the minds of the colored people. This took the form of stories that the Negro troops are to be sent to France first and are to be sacrificed to save the whites. The whisper ran that many more than the proportionate number of colored men had been drawn for service. Leaders of the Negro race went out and answered these charges in meetings, explaining how baseless they were. The war council of the Y. W. C. A. is devoting $200,000 of its $5,000,000 war budget to its work among Negro women. The money is used to provide maintenance for hostess houses for the families of colored troops, for emergency housing and recreational work among colored girls in war industrial centers, for furnishing workers where there is no local Y. W. C. A. and for doing anything possible to protect colored girls in war time. The workers in these houses help the women relatives of men in the service and encourage them to take advantage Price $1:00 A year of the present unprecedented opportunities in the industrial world. Most of the Army camps already have hostess houses for colored troops. The one at Camp Upton is a training school for workers at the other encampments. Three large recreation centers for Negro girls have been opened in Washington, Brooklyn, and New York. The colored secretary of the national board of the Y. W. C. A. has charge of this work. Through her the Negro women are inspired to rise to their opportunity, and, as the white women are likewise doing, to maintain the wage and labor standards of the men whose places they are taking. The activity of colored women in Red Cross and other war work has been notable. At Washington, for an example, all Negro troops coming from Fort Meade are met at the trains and invited to the hostess house at 1634 Fourteenth Street, where food, amusements, reading matter, entertainment, and beds are supplied to the boys on furlough. The war has brought to the Negro a better chance for national self-expression than any event in his history, and he is making the most of his opportunity. Much of the best talent of the race has been absorbed in meeting the need caused by speeding up war industries. Graduates of colleges and technical schools have found a ready field for the use of their knowledge and trained skill. The demand for educated Negroes has exceeded the supply. No such impetus has ever before been given to education for the Negro. It is true that the illiteracy of the race has decreased from 90 per cent at the close of the civil war to 30 per cent today, but the necessity of wiping out ignorance has been called sharply to our attention by the demands which the war is making upon our man power. The proper training of the Negro is a problem which concerns both races. To leave one-third of the colored people undeveloped is failure to utilize the resources of the Nation. The Youth's Companion 52 Times a Year—Not 12 IT is more than 52 num- bers filled to the bride with delightful reading... it is an influence for all that is best in home and American life. 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No. 718, 723 and 725 S. Main street; No. 114 Westside Boulevard; No. 1722 Court street; No. 1134 North Third street; No. 517 North Seventh street; No. 1716 Court street. Three houses and lots on East street between Fifth and Sixth streets. If you want any of the above propositions, come to see me at once. Will trade for city property, country property, or oil leases. Phone 174—nights 2543. W. P. FIELDS. "No argument! Sign k, or political death for you." militarily over the past two decades most decisive defeats piles 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. IN "BONE DRY" LAND BEAN PINK RIVER PUBE FOR FUNY PROPS THE NUT SUNDAE CLUB BRINK NEVER BEER MANCHESTER SPIRITS OF WANILLA PHARMACY DRUG THE HAVEN LINE CANCEL ROUTE BALLOON EXCURSION TREE BAYS HAMBALLS SERVED BY UP YOU PUT THAT IN HERE 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-Salcon 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 convention remains unchanged, for the state legislature will not meet for two more years. However, at times the legislature will no doubt need the admission of their constituents and put forth force in the "wet" column. Another feature which contributed to the Iowa disapproval of prohibition was the anger of the Census Bureau, to the effect that many citizens have had that same sense it went "dry." The Iowa election will we doubt have an immediate bearing on the election to be held in Ohio on the same question on November 6th. The Gleananati Enquirer of October 17th, in a story dated at Des Moines. "Similarly unofficial returns and Maude's vote on an amendment to the Patch establishment providing custody to the juveniles tonight showed the Patch administration only 867 votes, and it seems obvious that an official recount would be necessary. The complete unofficial returns gave the vote as 214,004 against and 218,747 for the amendment. "Neither side claimed victory tonight, and with a total vote of 400,000, both the wet and dry factions pointed out, no such 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 7,004 Iowa soldiers at Mineola and Dexing." The New York World and other great newspapers recently predate that the tide was setting against prohibition when Virginia, after a year trial of the "drg" law, nominate Westmoreland Davis, a "wet" candidate, for Governor on the Democrat ticket. Inasmuch as the Demours control Virginia this is equivalent an election. The remarkable feature of the Iowa election is the fact that not sent was spent there by the Iowa interests for publicity or campaign work. The Anti-Saloon League expended many thousands of dollars and had Captains Richard Pearson Hebson, U. S. Sonia Cummine and other noted tames enog cruters as speakers. As Iowa election would have no mediate effect on conglitions but state, the wets completely land the Anti-Saloon League campaign. It was nothing else but a between the people and the Saloon League, and the people parently have won. Remarkable Success of These Talented Physicians in the Treatment of Chronic Diseases. Offer Their Services Free of Charge. The United Doctors, licensed by the State of Oklahoma for the treatment of deformities and all nervous and chronic diseases of men, women and children, offer to all who call on this trip, consultation, examination, advice free, making no charge whatever, except the actual cost of treatment. All thta is asked in return for these valuable services is that every person treated will state the result obtained to their friends and thus prove to the sick and afflicted in every city and locality, that at last treatments have been discovered that are reasonably sure and certain in their effect. A These doctors are among America's leading stomach and nerve specialists and are experts in the treatment of chronic diseases and so great and wonderful have been their results that in many cases it is hard to find the dividing line between skill and miracle. Diseases of the stomach, intestines, liver, blood, skin, nerves, heart, spleen, kidneys, or bladder, rheumatism, sciatica, diabetes, bed-wetting, tapeworm, leg ulcers, weak lungs and those afflicted with long-standing, deep seated chronic diseases that have baffled the skill of the family phyysicians, should not fail to call. Deafness often has been cured in sixty days. Your Country--and Mine According to their system no more operations for appendicitis gall stones, tumors, goiter, piles, etc., as these diseases are treated without operation or hypodermic injection. YOUR country's interests and YOUR interests are bound together—inseparable. YOUR duty is to YOUR country FIRST—yourself second. You can combine your country's interests and your own through the purchase of United States War Saving Stamps and United States Thrift Stamps. 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No matter what your ailment may be, no matter what others may have told you, no matter what experience you may have had with other physicians, it will be to your advantage to see them at once. Have it forever settled in your mind. If your case is incurable they will give you such advice as may relieve and stay the disease. Do not put off this duty you owe yourself or friends or relatives who are suffering because of your sickness, as a visit at this time may help you. THE UNITED STATES WAR SAVING STAMP COSTS YOU $4.12, THE UNITED STATES THRIFT STAMP COSTS YOU 25 AND IN FIVE YEARS HENCE THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PAYS YOU FIVE DOLLARS FOR EVERY WAR SAVING STAMP YOU HAVE. YOU ACCOMPLISH A DOUBLE DUTY-YOU HELP FINANCE YOUR COUNTRY IN HER TIME OF NEED AND YOU EARN MONEY AND SAVE MONEY FOR YOURSELF. If you can't buy the War Saving Stamps, buy the Thrift Stamps, at 25c each, and when you have 16 Thrift Stamps, exchange them with 12 cents in cash at your postoffice or your bank for the War Savings Stamp. Worn-out and run-down men or women, no matter what your ailment, consult them. It costs you nothing. Save your nickles, your dimes, your quarters, all the money that you generally spend wastefully and extravagantly—save all this money, buy War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps and in five years hence you'll get a goodly sum from your government, and besides will have learned the most valuable lesson of life—how to save. Remember, this free offer is for this visit only. Married ladies come with their husbands and minors with their parents. The United States War Savings Stamp pays you 4 per cent interest compounded every three months. Where can you find a better, a safer investment for your spare change? Enough fine lumber and other material to build you a home for cash or small monthly payments to reliable parties if taken out of my way at once. Also vacant lots on same terms, and all of the following houses and lots for sale for cash or payments like rent. Take your choice and come to see me. No. 718, 723 and 725 S. Main street; No. 114 Westside Boulevard; No. 1722 Court street; No. 1134 North Third street; No. 517 North Seventh street; No. 1716 Court street. Three houses and lots on East street between Fifth and Sixth streets. If you want any of the above propositions, come to see me at once. Will trade for city property, country property, or oil leases. Phone 174-nights 2543. W. P. FIELDS. DO YOUR PART—DO IT NOW—BUY THESE STAMPS AND ENROLL YOURSELF IN AMERICA'S GREAT ARMY AT HOME—THE ARMY THAT IS BACKING THE BOYS "OVER THERE." W.S.S. WAR LIVING GAMES MAINTAIN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT. NATIONAL WAR SAV COMMITTEE