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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" ESTABISHED 1882 What constitutes Real Education In a New Jersey town, a day or two ago, a man was arrested for begging in the street. He had no home and no money. Taken to the police station, he said he could read and write ten languages. He appeared to think it was a very hard world which would deny a living to a man so highly educated. It is very likely that, despite his ability to write and speak so many languages, this man was not educated at all, in the real sense of the word education. "The only possible position for which the ability to speak and write many languages—and that ability alone—could fit a man would be interpreter, and in a country where one language is almost universal, very few interpreters are needed. "You might add to this man's accomplishments, and still not add to his usefulness. He might be familiar with all the classics, with the ancient and modern philosophers, and still be unable to earn his living. And he might, on the other hand, be barely able to read and write in one language and still prosper—perhaps make a fortune by the application of useful knowledge. "More learning is far from wisdom. It does not necessarily indicate ability. And it is ability that counts in the fight for existence that every human being ought to make. You can stuff a boy with Latin and Greek in a college—he can take all the prizes for languages and still be a cumberer of the earth when his course is finished. Unless education is complete, unless it develops the mind in every needful direction, it is not good education. The best service that any college can do is to awaken a thirst for knowledge, to take a student far enough along this or that path to interest him in following it. After that, if he has intelligence, he can go on his way, and reading and experience will teach him far more than he could learn from any professor." The point that we make in this connection is, that the young educated men of the race must turn their education into real racial uplift, by touching and elbowing his fellows at every angle and do those practical things worth while. Get a job, stick to it and make of it what you want it to be.-J. C. Lindsay, in Savannah Tribune. WE SUSPECT HE'S ONE OF OUR TRIBE. The recent retirement of the Rev. John Clifford from a London pastorate of fifty-seven years is an event worthy of comment far beyond the confines of the Baptist Church to which he nominally belongs. The Christian Commonwealth speaks of his amazing energy, his unsurpassable devotion, his large heartedness and breadth of mind, his championship of unpopular causes, his readiness to help individuals and movements as be- ing the adequate explanations of the gratitude of countless thousands. At the farewell service Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd George sat on the platform. Dr. Clifford welcomed his successor, the Rev. S. W Hughes, as coming to a home, not simply to a church but to a Brotherhood. THE NEGRO FRANKS. In my little summer retreat in the Jersey Hills I am reached by the horrified outcry against the murderers who lynched Leo M. Frank, a white Georgian. I want to assure you and your readers that I am fully in accord with all those who now condemn the Georgia mob law. I am somewhat more consistent than the prominent people who now express their indignation so vehemently against the "lower element" of Georgia whose prejudices were inflamed by designing agitators. How about the inflamed passions in the thousands of cases where Negroes, men and women, were murdered by lynching mobs, generally even without the chance of a trial? And not only in Georgia, the home of Tom Watson, but in many other states? Are Negroes not also human beings entitled to the full benefits of civilization? Why get excited only over the Frank case, and not equally over the many Negro ones? Why should the press not give as much space to the outrages against Negroes as it devotes to the Frank case? Is it a case of class psychology and race prejudice only? Perhaps Leo Frank, in his death, may serve the cause of social justice by calling attention to the real influences that stand back of the revolting injustice under which our colored brothers and sisters are suffering terribly. - Moses Oppenheimer in The Crisis. 'TWAS EVER THUS As told in our issue of last week, the hunt for the assailant of the Mt. Healthy girl brought no result, as everybody was looking for the Negro in the case thereby giving the white man a chance to escape. The search ended a few days ago. After the bloodhounds following the trail leaped upon a cot in the camp of some white man who had never admitted colored men, the lame excuse was made that possibly "the Negro" had slept in that cot while escaping the officers. A rumor became current that the Negro had been seen on the road several mornings, eating tomatoes, by the daughter of a rural mail carrier who was carrying mail for her father during his vacation. She was directed to sound the alarm if she saw the Negro again. The next morning, lo and behold, there sat the man under a tree eating tomatoes! She gave the alarm. The guards and citizens in hot haste responded. They surrounded and closed in on the Negro. Then the surprise came. Instead of being a Negro, he was a dark white man, well known, had formerly been in business and had acquired the habit recently of taking an early morning walk and refreshing himself upon tomatoes. That ended the search for "the Negro." —Cincinnati Union. The Power Of The Submarine The testimony of science as to the revolution that is going on in methods of defense illustrates, in the following passages, the need of delay and caution before we rush into the expensive and futile policy of creating a great army that would be needed to defend ourselves "only from Canada and Mexico." In the "American Magazine" for August, Herbert Quick, in an article entitled, "The Submarine as a Peacemaker," presents arguments that should have wide consideration. He says: "At the moment, sea power is functioning just as the galleys functioned at the battle of Lepanto, for the last time. * * * The submarine is the negation of sea power. It equalizes things between nations. It creates a universal stalemate at sea. It can sink any other warship except another submarine, which it can not see nor follow. It can prevent the transport of troops by water, thus putting an end to conquests like many of those of the past. * * * It makes peace at sea the only practicable thing. It makes real war at sea impossible, literally so, just as debating between a blind man and a deaf man is impossible. These statements are somewhat anticipatory; they relate to the very near future when submarines will be as plentiful off every defended shore as moving buoys in every yacht harbor. The future history of the world will be far different from what it would otherwise have been because of the submarine. The mastership of the seas has passed from every nation. Defense is made perfectly practicable against overseas expeditions everywhere. Japan and Great Britain are forever safe from invasion once their submarine forces are developed, but they are capable of being starved by their enemies. We, of continental position, are in better case than ever before as against transmarine foes, actual or potential. The submarine gives us only two possible enemies on whom we can wage war - Canada and Mexico. * * * It carries out over all the seas a stalemate as complete as that which exists in the trenches in France, a stalemate in which real battles are impossible, in which destructive war on commerce is raised to the ninth power, and in which world intercourse must be based on peace, or insofar abandoned as to make the very existence of the insular commercial nations hazardous." Nikola Tesla, in an interview in the New York Times of August 1, enlarges on the marvelous possibilities of the near future. He says: We can maintain peace for ourselves and help to maintain it for the world by adopting methods radically different from those that have so signally failed in Europe. Hitherto it has been humanity's plan to preserve peace by creating forces for defense. But I am sure that the United States can do more toward promoting the world's progress and insuring its own tranquility by making itself invulnerable than by making itself invincible. $ \cdot \cdot \cdot \cdot $ We already have means at hands, not merely theoretical but demonstrable, and in a measure experimentally proved, which, if consequentially employed, would make it impossible for any hostile force to imperil our tranquility. "Even now wireless control from the shore of crewless, and therefore of doubly offensive vessels, is a possibility, though with their automatic engines, automatic steering gear, and automatic weapons they will be well out at sea. "It is my belief that we should install numerous wireless controlling plants under the command of competent officers, and that to each should be assigned a number of submarine, surface and aerial craft. * If we were properly equipped with such devices of defense, it is inconceivable that any battleship or other vessel of an enemy ever could get within the zone of action of these steel automatic craft, without incurring a risk of annihilation amounting almost to certainty. And such a danger would never be braved." This testimony, together with Norman Angell's trenchant article in the August number of the "New Republic" on "A New Kind of Warfare," is to be commended to those who are now considering new and drastic methods of compulsory training of our boys. - Lucia Ames Mead, in Unity. TURNS BLACK WHITE Dr. J. W. King, of Bradford, Penna., told a number of his colleagues at a recent medical meeting how he turned a Negress' skin white as the result of an accident. He treated a Colored woman for lumbago by freezing one leg from the hip down to the ankle with ether. "After a week or so," said Dr. King, "she returned to my office and said: "Doctor, the lumbago is gone, but I think I shall have to prosecute you for mistreatment. You've done more than you said you would." "The leg I had treated was perfectly white and is so today." Some of the other doctors present agreed that ether freezing had been known to remove the pigments in the skin, but they say Dr. King's case is unusual. NEGROWINSHIGHHONOR Seattle, Wash.—Only 45 years of age, William A. Vrooman, regimental quartermaster sergeant of the 9th cavalry, retired on September 12 after thirty years continuous service, with pay amounting to $67.50 per month. His entire service was with the Ninth. Vrooman enlisted in 1886 at Buffalo, N. V., when only 16 years old. He served in the Indian campaign of 1890-1891, was at Santiago; also the Philippine campaign of 1900-'02. He qualified in 1894 as distinguished marksman, the high- NO. 31. Things That Are Untold Things That Are Untold Of the making of books there is no end. Tons of them emerge daily from the laboring presses. What innumerable things they tell? Yet much more they leave untold. There are thoughts men do not write down, but hide them as their shame. Every author has visions unrecorded, fears unsaid, hopes not breathed. If his silent soul should become vocal—what a book! The world is full of vast reticences. There is the dark half of the moon, forever unlit, unseen. There are the crowded mysteries of the stars. Of them we get but tiny points of light. What is going on in those globes, many of them colossal beside ours? No entertaining correspondent has ever sent us any news. We and stellar folk gaze wonderingly at each other, forever dumb. Your duty looks at you with such eager eyes. How he longs to grasp your meaning. And to us he and all animaldom as a dark pit. What do bees and birds think? Beneath the mirror surface of the ocean are more lives than in our air; between us a shut door; all their business an impenetrable secret. We human beings are enigmas to each other. Even in love's confessional is a residue unspoken. There are things in you that you have never told a soul. You have had suggestions whispered to you by your inner self which you have hurriedly rejected, amazing impulses you have promptly clamped down; you refuse to admit even to yourself that you have had them. What beast-hungers, what crime-forces, what incoherent anarchists, what wild cries are there, happened down under the hatches of your soul! Two that have lain side by side for years have each concealed in the heart, locked up in the mind's keep, weird, pale prisoners of memory that only peer out through grated windows, in dreams or in morbid moments, and shall die with them. We know but the surfacos of souls, but the symbols of things. None of us was ever present at the wedding of hydrogen and oxygen, or even saw an atom-dance, or was ever present at the birth of conscience. The significant affairs of the world take place behind veils. Let us be very loath to judge one another, and avoid harsh and hard estimates, for we know little of what passes in the deeps of souls. est qualification in the army Sergeant Vrooman received his retirement papers at Douglass, Arizona, where the Ninth is stationed, on Sept. 12, and the next day he was escorted by the regimental band and a large number of his comrades when he took the train for Cheyenne, where he visited before coming on to Seattle. He will make his future home in Seattle. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va., as Second Class Matter. J. H. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 860, and Bell 'Phone 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1915. The Pioneer Press cheerfully agrees to the proposition of the Detroit, (Mich.) Leader, that the Negro press can and should get busy in raising the $4,000, the amount of indebtedness on the Frederick Douglass home. Let a unific effort without delay be started. It can be done and the four thousand dollar debt be raised within three months. A dispatch from Bowling Green, Mo., states that Speaker Champ Clark and his son were recently among a rescuing party which kept back a mob, intent on lynching a Negro charged with the murder of a white farmer. The timely aid of the Sheriff and his posse saved the life of the Negro until justice can be rendered by the Courts. Rev. E. P. Moon, of Charles Town, deserves the thanks and united support of every colored man and woman in Jeffeason County for his fight against separate waiting rooms and jimcrowism on the Norfolk and Western railroad. Neither is allowable in West Virginia, and only exists on account of the lack of manhood. Sure as sin is punishable, the most of our annoyance obtains because of our lack of manhood. What a pity for any nation to grow new generations with the blessings of the old ones forgotten. When a boy almost every country house had a spinning wheel, flax wheels, looms and splendid weaver. Cloth was woven, cut and made into clothes by a woman who had been taught to cut and sew. All the women and some of the men and boys could knit socks and stockings. From flax they made linen clothes, sheets, table clothes, thread &c. Sheep, and fowls of all kinds; hogs, horses, cows—in short everything needed to make independent happy families. Those who owned a few acres had "sugar camps," and made the best of "maple sugar and molasses. Beautiful coverlets were woven, and all kinds of pretty quilts made and their carpets were woven. They are lost arts to this day, pity they are. As a man's color is not required to be described to vote or pay taxes, why should any one be required when a man wants to get a hunter's license, take up a medical life, get license to marry &c? The State Medical Board of Ohio, made it obligatory that applicants for certificates to practice therein, should state their race and complexion and furnish a photograph, but Governor Frank B. Willis, at the suggestion of that ardent race champion, Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor of the Cleveland Gazette, struck the whole thing a solar plexus blow and it died abornin.' Why can't Governor Hatfield stamp out the same things in this state. The idea of license to hunt and fish having the color of hair and skin on them. Knock it out Governor, and we'll knock down the party or parties that will try to knock you out of office. The Civic League recently inaugurated, for good men, has a wonderful field for labor. We fear, however, it may fall into ruts like churches. It's a sad admission, but true as the Savior's parables that a preacher, as a rule, is after all the money he can get, and to be surer of getting it he is more interested in quantity than quality. How can a leper cure a leper? Why not start it with a few of the best and add to it cautiously? Our model for selection is Dr. H. F. Gamble. The editor of this paper is bad enough as he is, one thing he will not do - mix and mingle as "brother" with known church hypocrites, nor will he be a party in any other plan of redemption that has worse fellows in it than can be found out of it. Relative to the Bar Association, some good may be accomplished let us so hope and work. We believe in one faith, one baptism, one free school, one blood-brothers, one ballot-box, one State Bar Association, one equal rights code and one State University for God's children. --- Through the persistent and continued efforts of the editor, the public will be glad to learn that Arthur Harden who was doomed to spend his life in the penitentiary, is a free man and with his dear old mother to whom we pledged our word and honor to give him back to her, and we have and not a penny do we ask of him or her. In turn we ask that faithful old christian mother to take our noble Governor to God in thanks for his extended mercy and may showers of blessings reward him. His letter: 28" September, 1915. My Dear Mr. Clifford:— I am pleased to inform you that I have passed favorably upon the parole of Arthur Harden, the boy in whom you have been so much interested in for a good long time. Hoping that this will meet with your approval, I am, with best wishes. Yours very truly. If our preachers would only stop talking so much about heaven and hell, and do their very best to teach the beauty and duty of life and its living by precept and example, death would take care of the ending—for to all who live a beautiful and dutiful life—death can be nothing more than a gateway of somewhere to some elysian fields. Whence we came and whither we go no one knows. Evidently we came from something, and it's our belief that that something is susceptible to improvement and if that be done, our return carries blessings, otherwise, otherwise. Does the average white man really believe there is a God? If so, does he believe He has favorites because of color of skin and hair? If freezing by ether changes black to white, what better evidence do you want than heat darkens, and is not this theory sustained the world over? Suppose a dozen persons—half white and the other colored die, and they all be skinned, is there a man living who could tell who had white or dark skin? No! and no again!! Of course you believe in God, and pretend to worship him, but how can you reconcile your conscience that He favors and accepts your service when you hate his darker children to that Triumphal Chorus and Procession FROM VERDI'S CELEBRATED GRAND OPERA extent, that you refuse them church association, deny them railroad rights, hotel and restaurant privileges: give them the poorest school chances—even take their taxes to help build high and grammar schools and colleges, but refuse colored children admission therein, and in death they bury or have themselves buried 5 or 6 feet deep in "white graveyards," from which by law colored people are barred, and then when colored persons commit crimes they are punished as though they had equal chances in life. Men of brain power and scientific research, can analyze all parts of man, tell whence they came and where they'll go and of what material they are made; but what does or can he know of the mind or soul of man? Nothing! 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The water is moving so rapidly that it has no time to yield beneath the stroke and in consequence is like a bar of iron. A small boat cannot be made to contain what is large. A short rope cannot be used to draw water from a deep well—Chinese Draught. "What success did you have raise chickens?" "Very little. Some escaped, thieve stole others and a large number died of a mysterious disease." "That was tough luck." "However, I beat the flux to the last one." "How was that?" "Before anything could happen to it I had it killed and put in a plex"—Bjr mingham Are there! Published by AMERICAN MELODY CO., New York. They come larger, stronger, live clean er and think more clearly than city boys do. Besides, the majority of them have the right idea in view. They want to get money to buy a farm. "Twenty, yes, ten years ago the major league baseball teams were recruited almost entirely from the larger cities. Cincinnati led in production for years, then Boston, then St. Louis. A dozen years ago 50 per cent of the major league players hailed from New England and from the Atlantic states. Now more than 60 per cent of all major league players come from farms or from small villages, and the farms produce a greater number of good players than come from any other place. "Rube Waddell, Rube Marquard, Rube Ellis, Rube Benton—a score of rubes have shows in major league baseball, and their nickname once was one of ridicule. Not now. Managers of major league baseball teams are looking for rubes, and when they say Rube they mean, not the uncouth or the awkward recruit, but the clean cut, clean living boy from the farm." Triumphal Chorus and Procession from Aida — 2d page LOCAL NOTES Diphtheria is prevalent hereabouts, and anyone having a sore throat should consult a competent physician at once. Mrs. Florence Braxton, and little daughter Annie, have gone to Hagerstown, where they will visit the former's mother. Mrs. Christina Smith,well known and highly respected in this entire community, is in the Kings Daughters hospital for treatment. Mr. W. M. Hollis and Miss Nellie, his daughter, once our neighbors, but now of Washington, D. C., were pleasant callers on us a few days ago. Mrs. Margaret Graves, was taken to Pittsburg by her sister for special treatment in one of its best hospitals. It is hoped she may receive benefit as a result of her trip. Irene Balls, aged 17 years, died at the home of her parents, on Henry Street, early Wednesday morning after an illnesss of several months duration. The deceased girl was of a likable disposition, and bore her suffering in patience. Funeral services were held over her remains at Ebenezer Memorial Baptist Church yesterday afternoon, Rev. Carter officiating. After a lingering illness of some weeks Mr. Howard Blakey, passed away Friday morning at his home on W. Martin St. He leaves a widow and several grown children who did all that loving hands and kind care could do to relieve his suffering. Retold For Choir Singers. One of the wealthy members of a fashionable church in Boston approached her pastor with the complaint that she was greatly disturbed by one of her neighbors. "It's positively unbearable," said she. "That man in the pew in front of us destroys all my devotional and pious feelings when he attempts to sing. Couldn't you ask him to change his pew?" The good pastor was sorely perplexed. After a few moments' reflection he said: "Well, I naturally would feel a little delicacy on that score, more especially as I would have to give a reason. But I will tell you what I might do." Here the pastor's face became illuminated with a happy thought. "I might ask him to join the choir."—Harper's Magazine. Hard Luck. "People can talk of their troubles," said Mrs. Wagleigh, "but I think Mrs. Jones has the hardest luck of any one. She is absolutely deprived by nature of enjoying a woman's greatest pleasure. She's a deaf mute and can't talk. She can only use her hands. Now, if that isn't awful tell me what is?" Mr. Wagleigh looked up from his evening paper. "I met her husband this afternoon," he said, "and he was tickled to pieces. His wife cut her fingers with the bread knife yesterday, and now she can't talk at all."—New York Telegram. A CLEW TO HER PAST. She Knew Entirely Too Much, As a Close Observer Discovered. She looked rich and acted rich, and every one knew that she was rich because she had married a rich man, yet the Sherlock Holmes of the tea party discovered that she had once been poor. "Take it from me," she said, "that there was a time, and that not so very long ago, when she was as poor as the rest of us." "Marvelous!" exclaimed the other four girls. "How did you discover that?" "Through her knowing so absolutely where I keep all my housekeeping things. She knew that the tea caddy was in the writing desk, that the cheese, biscuits and other edibles beloved by mlee were in that tin box under the sofa, that the alcohol for my stove was in the corner behind the washstand, that the butter and milk were on the window ledge and that the eggs and other raw foods were in a box on the bottom shelf of the wardrobe. "When we were cooking she went straight to the spot and got every one of those things without once asking where they were, which is something that a person who had not had a wide experience of housekeeping in one room could never have done."—New York Times. Not to Be Thought Of. Certainly some might be foolish enough to call Athens. Thermopyline and Marathon the most famous Greece spots in history, but it would be dangerous.—Judge. Cf Course Not. "Beauty is only skin deep." "That's enough. You only want to kiss a peachy check. You don't want to bite it."—Louisville Courier-Journal. 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