The Appeal

If you have ought that's fit to sell, Use printer's ink, and use it wen. OUR ARMY FORCES Defense Council Figures We Can Raise 4,778,050. ARE FIT FOR MILITARY DUTY. Still Greater Number Might Be Put Under Arms in Emergency by Recruiting Older Men, Lowering of Physical Standards and Placing Women in Men's Jobs. New York—An army of 4,778,050 of men between eighteen and forty-five years old fit for military service is available in this country, according to the estimate of an investigating staff of the executive committee of the mayor's committee on national defense. A still greater number might be put under arms in a serious emergency, according to the committee's report, by the recruiting of older men, by the lowering of physical standards and by the employment of women in occupations now open only to men. The task of estimating the total resources of the nation in men available for military service between the ages of eighteen and forty-five, inclusive, is complex. For into this calculation there enter many uncertain factors. In addition to the morbidity rate and the physical rejection rate there is to be considered the dependency of families and the need of men of mature years in the business and industry of the country. In 1910 the males from eighteen to forty-five years old in the United States numbered 1,217,071. Although approximately 1,800,000 were aliens and therefore ineligible for military service, the officials of the census bureau consider that the increase in population between 1910 and the summer of 1916 has about compensated for these. Through a deduction of $2\frac{1}{2}$ per cent for morbidity, the total of 21,071,070 becomes 20,544,300, and through a deduction of about $12\frac{1}{2}$ per cent for physical defects there is a further reduction to 18,007,080. The census tables showing the number of men in various occupations—farmers, factory workers, miners, physicians, lawyers, railroad employees, clerks, public officials and so on have been carefully examined, and the effort has been made to reach an approximate estimate of the number that could be spared for military duty in a serious emergency. This leads to the estimate that 17,606,000 out of the 30,901,564 employed, or 58.5 per cent could be brought into service if needed. And this percentage applied to the 18,007,080 physically fit between eighteen and forty-five years old gives 10,535,940. Still unconsidered, however, is marital condition or dependency. Though unmarried men have dependents, there are married men who are in such circumstances that they can do military service without imposing hardship upon their families. How nearly the latter come to offsetting the former cannot be stated even approximately. In this calculation all the single, widowed, and divorced men are assumed to be available and all the married men unavailable. Of the 21,071,076 men from eighteen to forty-five years old 45.35 per cent are single, widowed or divorced (43.35 per cent being single). If this percentage be applied to the 10,535,940—the figure arrived at after deductions for sickness, physical defects and industrial necessities—the number available for service becomes 4,778,050, or 22.7 per cent of the entire number of males from eighteen to forty-five. This is about one out of five. In the attempts to estimate a nation's human military resources it has been borne in mind that the result depends upon highly elastic factors. Upon the seriousness of the emergency which faces a nation must depend in a great degree the proportion of exemptions from military duty. The executive committee is composed of Willard Straight, chairman; Cleveland H. Dodge, William D. Dykman. Major Francis G. Landon, John Mitchell, George W. Perkins, ex-Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Alfred E. Smith and Alexander M. White. WANTS CHAIR PAINTED RED Socialist Assemblyman Asks It; Also Suggests Ear Trumpets. Albany, N. Y.-Socialist Assemblyman J. I. Whitehorn of Brooklyn has suggested to the clerk of the assembly that seat No. 149, which he occupies. "be painted red." "When I drew the seat at the beginning of the session," he explained, "I was told it was occupied by Socialist Assemblyman Shiplacoff of Brooklyn last year. So I said why not paint it red and reserve it for any Socialist who may be elected to the assembly in the future." Whitehorn, who complains that he cannot get favorable action on a resolution instructing the Public Buildings Commission to improve the acoustics of the assembly chamber, now suggests that each assemblyman be supplied with an ear trumpet at state expense. Goose's Crop Held $10.27. St. Louis - When John E. P. Ernst killed a gift goose he found in its crop a half dollar, twenty-six quarters, twenty-six dimes, thirteen nickels and two pennies. This two legged bank was a Christmas bonus given Ernst by the employees of a grocery store where he is chief clerk. There was no refund, as Ernst considers the gift of a goose includes the ballast. The total of the goose's savings was $10.27. FOUND IMAGE IN CAVE. Crude Stone Idol Probably Antedates Indian Mound Builders. Madisonville, Ky. — E. L. Littlepage of the Morton Gap country brought to this place recently a stone image that is a curiosity and probably of historic value. Mr. Littlepage found it at the edge of a cave on a high elevation in North Christian county, Ky., while investigating some prospective oil land belonging to him. The cave is located in a wild and broken section of land uncultivated and but thinly inhabited. The image is rudely carved out of a tough, ferrous sandstone. It is about six inches in height and is well preserved, except for a slight injury on one side of its head and slight weathering of one arm. The figure is in a sitting position, with its legs doubled under its body and arms extended in front, with hands resting on its knees. The image is evidently a relic of an idol worshiping people and antedates any old Indian relic found in various Indian mounds in western Kentucky. WIDOW SAVES TREES. Turns Commissioners From Those Planted by Her Husband. St. Cloud, Mich. "—Woodman, spare that tree; touch not a single bough." that tree; touch not a single bough." Thus quoted Mrs. Mary Spicer, widow, as she pleaded for the preservation of trees planted by her husband, long dead. It was three years ago that Mrs. Spicer started her battle with city officials over the maintenance of this arborian inheritance. She was called upon to enter another skirmish the other day when sidewalk bids were opened, in which provision was to have been made for the removal of the trees. Mrs. Spicer's "pets" fringe a lot on which her modest little home is built. "Wait until I am gone and you may remove them," she told the city commissioners, who took her words to heart. When sidewalk bids were opened there were proposed contracts on other jobs, but on the Widow Spicer's property—not a word. EIGHTY, WANTS HEART BALM Woman is Deaf, Has Lost Right Eye and is a Little Lame. Utica, N. Y.-Mrs. Almira Kingsbury is just a little on the right side of eighty years old. She is rather deaf. She has lost her right eye and her left thumb. Besides she is a little lame. But she took the stand to testify that Robert Roberts of Trenton, seventy-six years old and a farmer, had been so smitten with her charms at first sight that he urged her to marry him. Then she said he broke troth and she sued for breach of promise. They met at an employment agency where he sought a housekeeper. Judge Hazard told Mrs. Kingsbury's attorney, "I think your client is clearly entitled to about 6 cents." However, the case was held open for more evidence. MUSKRATS CUT MEAT PRICE Serve as Substitute In Many Families of Moderate Means In New Jersey. Alloway, N. J.-Muskratks are cutting the high cost of living in this region. With the price of meats hitting the high spots, there is an unprecedented demand for their carcasses, commonly known as "water rabbits." Trappers, who this season are securing on an average of nearly $1 each for muskrat pelts, are adding considerable extra revenue to their usual season's profits by selling the meat to villagers and to outside buyers. It is estimated that an average of 3,000 "water rabbits" are disposed of every week in Salem alone, where they serve as a substitute for meat in many families of moderate means. BOTTLE DRIFTS 6.600 MILES Determines Currents Off South American Coast. Seattle, Wash.—After drifting 6,600 miles in the south Pacific a bottle containing a position report from the steamship Eureka of Seattle thrown overboard off the Peruvian coast by Captain J. E, Guptill, the vessel's master, Feb. 9, 1915, was found March 1, 1916, on the beach at Tamasua, Yasawa group, Fiji islands. There has been a difference of opinion among mariners as to the set of the current off the coast of South America, and the finding of the message is of great value, as it determines the direction of the flow of ocean water in that part of the world. HOGS CLIMB ORANGE TREES Fruit Diet Pleases the Swine Best, but Not the Orchardist. Riverside, Cal.-W. H. Bacchus has chased his hogs out of his orange grove. He's tired of having them climbing in the orange trees. After some oranges were blown from the trees by the wind the hogs passed up the usual pasture and, standing on their hind feet, ate all the golden balls they could reach. Then some of them began to climb trees. "Nix on this orange fed pork," said Bacchus as he arranged for a new pasture. Minister Travels by Submarine. Paris.-General Hubert Lyautey, the minister of war in the new French cabinet, arrived in Paris after a voyage full of incidents from Morocco, where he was French resident general. The new war minister crossed from Tangier to Gibraltar in a submarine, and his train was delayed by the snow in Spain, thus obliging him to decline King Alfonso's invitation to dinner. THE APPEAL SEES LOST HUSBAND IN NEWSPAPER PHOTO. Brings Ray of Hope to Mrs. Lucy Zadler, Polish Refugee. Albany.—There was a ray of hope in this Yuletide for Mrs. Lucy A. Zadler, a comely Polish woman of thirty, that she may find her prison in some of the armies or prison camps in Europe. He was taken from her more than two years ago, and she has heard no tidings of him since. The ray of hope was brought about by the illustrated supplement of a Sunday newspaper. Mrs. Zadler's Sunday knowing her hatred of the Germans and Austrians, tossed the supplement to her with the remark, "There are some Austrians for you." As her eyes fell upon the picture she screamed and exclaimed: "That's him! That's Joseph, my husband." Her journey to this country from her home in Lublc, Poland, she says, is like a dream and is still hazy in her mind. When the war broke out her husband, who had saved a little money, decided to come to America and live in peace. He purchased railroad tickets to Rotterdam and steamer tickets to New York. They had proceeded on their way for some distance when at a railroad station, Mrs. Zadler says, some soldiers took her husband in custody, telling her to proceed on her journey and that he would meet her at the ship. Where the station was or its name she has not the slightest idea. Neither could she say what was the nationality of the soldiers who kidnapped her husband. WOMEN LAWYERS TOO KIND FOR BIG FEES They Can Make a Hit, However, by the Free Defense of Criminals Criminals. Chicago.—Pretty women lawyers by the score met in the rooms of the Brownleigh club to bear Clarence Darrow encourage them in their profession, but when he got through they were much discouraged. "You can't be shining lights at the bar," said Mr. Darrow, "because you are too kind. "You can never be corporation lawyers, because you are not cold blooded. You have not a high grade of intellect. "You can never expect to get the fees that men get. I doubt if you ever make a living. "Of course you can be divorce lawyers. That is a useful field. And there is another field that you can have solely for your own. You won't make a living at it, but it's worth while, and you'll have no competition. That is the free defense of criminals." HURT MAKING WOODEN LEG. Cuts Artery In Arm While Whitling Artificial Limb. Cumberland, Md.-John W. Dean, a legless man, barely escaped bleeding to death a few days ago from having cut an artery in his arm while working on an artificial leg. He was whithting out the opening, which fits tightly, when the knife slipped. There was no one near at the time and Dean lost blood rapidly. He became so weak he could not utter a cry. His sister, who was absent from the house, returned and summoned Dr. George P. Paulman, who stopped the flow of blood. Dean lost both legs in a fall from a freight car while in the employ of the Western Maryland railway. CELL COSTS $2.45 NIGHTLY. No More Free Police Lodgings in Baltimore After Jan. 1. Baltimore.—The high cost of living has struck the western police station, and after the first of the year men arrested more for safe keeping than for punishment will not get their lodgings free. The announcement was made by Magistrate Johanssen while hearing the case of Charles McCauley on a charge of being drunk. "I warn you that the rates have gone up because of the high cost of living." said the magistrate. "Police stations cannot afford to put you up, and after Jan. 1 the rate will be $2.45 a night. That does not include a bath, unless the guest's condition requires it." BUFFALO HERDS INCREASING Number of Animals on Government Reservation Grows. Washington—The buffalo, once threatened with extinction, is increasing in numbers on government reservations, according to the annual report of the biological survey. Five big game preserves and sixty-seven bird reservations are maintained by the survey. The report urges that more tracts of land not suitable for agricultural purposes be converted into breeding grounds for birds. Many thousand acres of marsh land, it declares, could be turned easily into breeding grounds for waterfowl. May Inherit $15,000,000 San Francisco.-If Sally Nickel, the one-year-old great-grandchild of Henry Miller, shall be alive at the death of the late cattle king's three grandchildren she will become the richest woman in California. She will inherit an estate valued at $15,000,000. Defective Page CHICAGO PAYS HIGH Mayor Gets $18,000 a Year and Seventy Aldermen $3,000 Each. NEW YORK IS NEXT IN LINE. Gotham Ailows Its Chief Executive $15,000, Philadelphia $12,000, Boston, St. Louis, Newark, N. J.; Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh $10,000, Indianapolis and Seattle $7,500. Washington—Chicago has the highest priced mayor in the country. He gets $18,000 a year, reserves four years. New York comes next, with a $15,000 mayor, whose term also lasts four years. Philadelphia, third in the list, gives its mayor $12,000 a year for four years. Boston, St. Louis, Newark, N. J.; Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh pay their mayores $10,000 annually, the term being four years in Boston, Pittsburgh and St. Louis, and two years in Cincinnati, Cleveland and Newark. Indianapolis and Seattle pay their mayores $7,500 a year; San Francisco, Baltimore and Minneapolis $6,000 each; East St. Louis, Louisville, New Bedford, Detroit, Kansas City, Buffalo, Mount Vernon, Rochester, Columbus, Scranton, Providence, San Antonio, Tex., and Richmond pay $5,000 each. The aldermen, who share with the mayor and certain other officials the responsibility of government in American cities, cost the taxpayers varying sums. Chicago has seventy aldermen, at $3,000 each; Boston, nine, at $1,500 each; St. Louis, ninety-nine, at $1,800 each; Newark, thirty-two, at $500 each; New York, seventy-three, at $2,000 each; Cincinnati, thirty-two, at $1,150 apiece; Cleveland, twenty-six, at $1,200 each; Philadelphia, forty-eight select councilmen and eighty-three common councilmen, all serving without salary; Pittsburgh, nine aldermen, at $6,500 each; Indianapolis, nine, at $600 apiece, and Seattle, nine, at $3,000 apiece. The only cities that have an upper and a lower house of aldermen or councilmen are Hartford, Conn.; New Britain, Conn.; Atlanta, Louisville, Portland, Me.; Baltimore (thirty-three in all, at $1,000 each); Brockton, Mass.; Cambridge, Mass.; Everett, Mass.; Malden, Mass.; Fitchburg, Mass.; New Bedford, Mass.; Pittsfield, Mass.; Springfield, Mass.; Worcester, Mass.; Kansas City, Mass.; Manchester, N. H.; Buffalo (thirty-six in all, at $1,000 each); Lancaster, Pa.; Philadelphia, Pawtucket, R. I.; Providence, R. I.; Wonsocket, R. I.; Lynchburg, Va.; Norfolk, Va.; Portsmouth, Va.; Richmond, Va., and Roanoke, Va. The commission form of government, which takes the place of mayors and aldermen, involves a smaller salary outlay. In Washington, D. C., the three commissioners get a total of $15,000; in Denver, $25,000; in San Diego, $12,000; in Topeka, $9,000; in New Orleans, $9,000; in Salem, Mass., $10,000; in St. Paul, $31,500; in Lincoln, Neb., $10,000; in Atlantic City, $15,000; in Bayonne, N. J., $10,000; in Hoboken, $10,000; in Jersey City, $25,000; in Trenton, $15,000, and in Harrisburg, $13,000. In some of the commission governed cities a mayor is elected as such, while in others he is chosen by the commission. Sometimes he gets an extra allowance as chairman of the commission, but this rarely exceeds $500, and is included in most of the above totals. While most cities employ assessors to fix the valuation of property for the purposes of taxation, those of some states have no assessors, but report to the county the amount required to be raised for city purposes. SEVERED MUSCLES TRAINED. Stumps of Amputated Arms Made to Operate False Hands. Zurich—Three professors of Zurich university have been experimenting in the hope of training the muscles in the stumps of amputated arms to connect with artificial hands in such a way as to open and close the fingers. Professor Sauerbach, one of the professors, says in a German medical magazine that the anatomical difficulties have been overcome so effectually that all that is now required for complete success is a somewhat better artificial hand, and he expresses expectation that this soon will be invented. Wetmore, Kan.—In the E. W. Thornburrow yard in Wetmore is a large bunch of blue grass growing in the fork of an elm tree ten feet from the ground. Every fall the residents of Wetmore, who are watching this curiosity, expect the grass to be winter killed, but every spring it shows up green and strong and matures seed. The grass has been growing in the tree for three years. Movies Draw More Than Church. Belleville, Kan.—"Where the People Go" is the title of an interesting compilation prepared during the social survey taken in Belleville. It shows that during the year 105,000 attend the moving picture show, 93,000 religious services, 8,868 socials and picnics, 12,400 the county fair and farmers' institute, 5,600 the Chautauqua and 2,870 go to ball games. Wouldn't Say "Votes For Women." Chicago.—Because it could not be taught to say "Votes for women," a parrot which had been recently taken to the headquarters of the woman suffragists is now back in the bird store. Grass Grows In Tree. CHINESE HAVE PLAN TO RID HOUSE OF GHOSTS Urge Novel Method of Taking Haunt From American Legation. Washington.—A legend has gone around Peking that the American legation is haunted; that the shade of an officer who lost his life during the Boxer massacres of white men in 1900 is in the habit of occasionally visiting his old quarters in the legation, greatly to the discomfort of the occupants. This aroused considerable interest among the Chinese in Peking. Their own spooks, being daily or rather nightly companions, do not excite much attention. But a foreign ghost is quite a new thing. A Chinese gentleman named Hsu Nai Hsun has taken the matter seriously to heart and has felt moved to write to the American minister expressing his sympathy for the affliction which the legation is undergoing in the matter of a haunted room. He says that experience has shown in China that the way to rid a house of ghosts is to remove the roof of the building, leaving the interior of the room exposed to the sun and air for some ten of days, after which the roof may be restored and the ghost will no longer frequent the place. Mr. Hsu said that he humbly offered this suggestion, "as foreigners may not be familiar with the proper method of handling ghosts in China." If congress, says the Tokyo Advertiser, is asked to appropriate a sum for the recoiling of the legation at Peking the American people will now understand what it is all about. FINDS HIDDEN ROOMS IN HOUSE OF MYSTERY Carpenter Work on Old Place Reveals Apartments None Knew About. Chicago.—At 3624 Ellis Park is an old three story frame building that was a home when Ellis park was a woodland. For the last eight or nine years, in a remodeled form, it has been an apartment building. A few days ago a carpenter, tearing away old planking to build a porch, broke through a wall and made discoveries which made 3624 Ellis Park a house of mystery. Between the second and third floors he found a hidden apartment, of which not even John Chamales, new owner of the building, knew. Carefully Frank Wilder, the carpenter, entered through the hole he had made in the wall. He found a complete set of rooms running from the front to the rear of the building. The walls and ceiling were unfinished. There were no windows and no visible means of exit. There was a small table in one corner with a few dishes on it and an old copper lamp. Rust covered, with a frying pan of ancient days still on it, there was a stove. Some straw in a corner seemed to indicate where the mysterious occupant of the mystery chamber had slept. A piece of wire between two walls served as a hanger for an old coat. Over everything was a thick layer of dust. In hunting for an exit Wilder came upon a panel in the wall fastened with a hinge, two big iron hooks and a bar that fitted into iron clasps. It opened upon the staircase and so matched the paneling that it was invisible from the outside. SAYS HE BURIED GOLD. Old Man on Way to English Workhouse Tells of it. Corning, Cal.-Mrs. T. L. Barkle of Newlyn, England, in a letter to her son, the Rev. T. J. Barkle of this city, states an old man named Kempe, who came from California less than a dozen years ago, was found on the verge of starvation and taken to the workhouse. Among the old man's effects was found nearly $5,000. This was all made in California, and on the way to the workhouse Kempe said he had buried about $2,000 in California in a hole five feet deep, but never could find it. Little is known of Kempe except that he was a miner in California and returned to England eleven or twelve years ago. Somewhere in the mining district of California a bag containing $2,000 is buried. PRIZE DOG SAVES MASTER. Barks an Alarm When Auto Pins Dr. Hair Against Garage Wall. Bridgeport, Conn. - Dr. James E. Hair, widely known in this country and Canada as a dog expert, probably was saved from death by one of his prize pets when the automobile he was cranking shot forward and pinned him against the wall of the garage. The barking of the dog brought neighbors, who found Dr. Hair unconscious. He was severely bruised in the abdomen, but is expected to recover. Apparently he had thought the engine neutral and had started it without setting the brake. Shot at Movie Picture Hammond. Ind.-Patrons of the Lyric theater were thrown into a panic here when John Sebastian, a foreigner, whipped out a revolver and killed the villain, who was choking the beautiful heroine in the movie. The shot punctured the arch fiend's breast. "He was choking the lady," said John, as a policeman led him away. In business, fortunes are not realized Unless your goods are amply advertised. INCORPORATE SOCIETY TO GUARD RICH ESTATES Vincent Astor, Frederick Vanderbilt and others In the Organization. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.—Warren Delano of Barrytown, Colonel Archibald Rogers of Hyde Park, Tracy Dows of Rhinebeck, Herman Livingston of Greendale and Thomas Hunt of Clermont, as directors, filed a certificate of the incorporation of the Upper Hudson Protective society. The purpose of the society is to guard country estates of wealthy New York men against burglaries. Among the leaders in the society are Vincent Astor, Robert P. Huntington, Frederick Vanderbilt, William B. Dinsmore and John I. Roosevelt. Arrangements have been made to engage detectives and watchmen. The formation of the society is the result of the burglaries last spring, which culminated in the killing of a burglar on Astor's estate by detectives. Most of the wealthy residents of the county have placed their silverware in safe deposit vaults and are using plate. The society will "co-operate with local, county and state officials" to enforce law and offer rewards for the arrest of criminals. BOY SIX YEARS OLD IS MATHEMATICAL PRODIGY Child With Unusual Mental Powers Discovered In Findlay (O.) School. Findlay, O.-A child wonder, with unusual mental powers, has been discovered in the first grade West State street school by Miss Helen Gaskill, the teacher. He is Master Roy Fork, aged six, son of F. L. Fork, well driller, residing on Franklin avenue. While bright in all his school work, the youngster is a prodigy in mathematics. He knows the calendar by heart and, although given the most severe question with regard to days and dates, never makes a mistake. If you tell him your age he can tell in a second the year you were born, and if you give him the date of your birthday and ask him what day of the week it comes on he replies at once, correctly and without fall. His ability cannot be attributed to mental telepathy, for in many instances he tells the day of dates in last year's calendar, which, when you look them up, you find are right. Although not customary to teach children the months and abbreviations of months, Roy had them mastered when he went to kindergarten, and the remarkable feature is that he was never taught. He is also lightning fast in problems which deal with addition and subtraction of the calendar, and catch questions are easily solved. LEPERS IN REVOLT They Refused to Leave Havana Hospital For Another Home. Havana.—The lepers of San Lazaro hospital revolted when the officers of their institution tried to transfer them to Mariel, and it was several hours before they agreed to leave. When the inmates raised a flag saying they would be removed only by violence the health officers hesitated, having heard rumors that the 174 lepers had arms and would use them. After a promise had been given that they would be removed to a new hospital now being built as soon as it is finished the lepers entered the ambulances prepared for them, many of them weeping as they went. There is a report that more than twenty of them escaped from San Lazaro during the parley. GIRLS, HERE'S JULIA! He Wants a Wife, but Name Bars Him at Home. Boston.—A. Julia Shearp, a prosperous farmer of Derry, N. H., is unable to find a wife at home because of his middle name, so he has come to Massachusetts to look for one. Recently he was "looking them over" in Hollyoke. "I am twenty-seven years old, am making good money and wish to have a real home." he said to a reporter there. "If there is a girl who is looking for a man like me I would be glad to have her write to me." HER 105TH BIRTHDAY FEAST. Mrs. Bennett Entertains Three Generations For the Holidays. New York.-Mrs. Alice Bennett, who celebrated the hundred and fifth anniversary of her birth in her home in Brooklyn recently was somewhat tired, but not so much that she did not celebrate Christmas. She carried out her daily routine of life and then had dinner with her son and daughter, seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. All except her daughter live out of town and were her guests in Brooklyn over the holidays. County Jail Empty Jefferson City, Mo.—There is not a prisoner in the Cole jail. The last prisoner was discharged recently. According to the records of the jail, this is the first time in seventy-five years that it has been without an occupant. As a rule there are from five to twenty-five prisoners in the jail, and at this time of year it usually is filled. $2.40 PER YEAR. WOMEN RUN TOWN They Hold All the Offices In Umatilla, Ore. TOOK CHARGE FIRST OF YEAR. Executed Campaign Coup Which Left Men Gasping—Elected Mayor, Four Members of Council, Recorder and Treasurer—All New Officials Are Married—Promise Many Reforms. Kansas City—Woman has come into her own in Umatilla, Ore., says the Kansas City Times. Umatilla now has a woman mayor, four councilwomen, a woman recorder and a woman treasurer. They went into office Jan. 1. The only thing left for the men is the office of town marshal, and he or she is appointed by the mayor. The men are hoping for the best. A campaign coup which has left the men gasping swept the women into office. It was not until 2 o'clock the afternoon of election day that the men realized the women had a ticket in the field. Down at the town hall, where the destinies of Umatilla are shaped, the politicians laughed at the "rumor." It was a joke. The smiles vanished when the ballots were counted, and the men still are wondering just how it happened. The women won't tell. They won't say whether it was "framed" at some sewing circle, bridge club or church social. All they will say is: "Now we're going to show the men what a strictly business and economical administration really is." E. E. Starcher, who was running for re-election to the mayor's office, was defeated by his wife by twenty-eight votes. All efforts to interview Mrs. Starcher have failed. However, after a conference in the kitchen Mrs. Starcher came to the door and gave out this statement: "As yet the women have nothing to say as to their future policy or as to why they desired control, but from the best information we are able to obtain they were dissatisfied with the past administration, claiming inefficiency and a general lack of business ability so far as the running of the city was concerned." Umatilla is a railroad town. All morning election day the women remained at home, busy with their daily duties. In the afternoon they put on their bonnets and began a whirlwind campaign. They met the trainmen in the yards as they came in from their various runs." Buttonholed them and carried them off to the polls. Despite the fact that Mr. Starcher is chief dispatcher at that place, he did not swing the labor vote. All of the officers are married. Out of a possible 200 votes 174 were cast. The defeat was decisive. GETS LICENSE ON CREDIT. Has the Time, the Place, the Girl, but No Money. Macon, Ga. — Simon Cox had the nerve and the girl, but not the money to get married on. Cox took his troubles to Attorney Hubert F. Rawls, who stood in good stead in city court a few months back, and Rawls agreed to stand good for the marriage license. Together Cox and the attorney went to the ordinary's office, and after explaining things Rawls got a license for Cox and Miss Ella Hardy of East Macon. "I'll pay you in a few days," Cox told the ordinary as he walked out of the office with the license in his hand. TRAIN ROBS HOLDUP MEN. Mail Carrier Beaten by Thieves When Hook Snatches Letter Bag. New York—Alfred Lorenzo, a Yonkers mail carrier, notified the police that a pouch filled with registered matter had been saved from two thieves by the projecting hook on the mail car of an express train used to take mail bags on the fly, which grabbed it from his hands as the train flew past at forty-five miles an hour. Lorenzo was at the depot putting the pouch in position on a small crane for the train to take it. Two thieves beat the mail carrier on the head. He held the pouch tightly far above his head. Presently the train came along, saved the situation, and the robbers fled. CAN'T FIND ANY POOR. Utopia (Flushing, N. Y.) Hasn't One Person Who Is in Need. New York—Utopia is just nine and seven-tenth miles from Manhattan. It is sometimes called Flushing. In this Utopia is a Jefferson Democratic club, which looks after the wants of the poor in its vicinity around Christmas. The members contributed $1,500, and a committee was appointed to hunt out the needy that they might be supplied with holiday baskets. The committee, after investigating, reported there were no needy in Flushing, and the Democratic club has $1,500 on its hands with which it doesn't know what to do. Fifty-cent Offer For $11,000 Gems. New York—An offer of 50 cents for $11,000 worth of Brazilian diamonds was the best Washington Force could obtain. He admitted stealing them from the steamer Vasari last week, the New York police say. Disgusted with failure to find a buyer, he left the gems in a laundry and wrote the company. He is held in $5,000 bail. THE APPEAL AN AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ISSUED WEEKLY | 4. Q ADAMS, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ST. PAUL OFFICE No. 301-2 Court Block, 24 E. 4th st. 5. @. ADAMS, Manager. MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE No, 2812 Tenth Avenue South 4. SELLERS, Manager. 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The month just drawing to a close that was the birth month of a number of good men notably among whom were George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and last but not least Fred- erick Douglass. These men live in history and in the hearts of their fel- low men because of their uncomprom- Ising stand for justice under all cir- cumstances. It is such men as these whose memories are ever kept green, and who deserve to live in the hearts of men. William Lloyd Garrison did not com- promise with slavery. He said he would not compromise and he never did, He did not hesitate to denounce the constitution of the United States. He was mobbed in Boston but that did not deter him. He did not compro- mise, and he fought slavery until freedom came, Charles Sumner was another of the uncompromising men who lives in tie hearts of those who believe in the Brotherhood of Man. In recent years J. E. Spingarn took a stand for human rights that seemed to put him in the Garrison-Sumner class but lately he has said and done things that have weakened the faith he had inspired. Now he has come out and advocated the establishment of a jim crow military training school where colored men may (if they will accept the situation) haye an oppor- tunity to prepare themselves to be- ecome officers if this country is plunged into war. West Point and Annapolis is good enough in which for any men to prepare to risk their lives in defense of their native country and there is no need for any jim crow compromises. Spingarn is a Jew. His people have suffered for hundreds of years from the persecutions of alleged Christians. He is the last man on earth who ought to advocate any com- promise on the rights of any human THE MAN WHO DARES I honor the man who in the co entious discharge of his duty dar stand alone; the world, with igno intolerant judgment, may cond the countenances of relatives ma averted, and the hearts of friends ; cold, but the sense of duty done be sweeter than the applause of world, the countenances of relativ the hearts of friends.— Charles Sun (et ST I honor the man who in the consci- entious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends.— Charles Sumner. being. As Spingarn said in writing about DuBois recently, “unpurchasable leaders do not sell their souls”, neither do they compromise the rights of their people. Spingarn the Jew, is classed as a white man in the United States. Theré is no Jewish problem here. Now that he is out of Russia, from whence he came, leaving the ghetto behind, he Js willing to put the colored man in the ghetto here. What is the differ ence between the segregation in the departments at Washington and segre gation in the training of black Ameri jeans, who are to fight for their coun try. What is the difference between the separation of the soldiers of this country and the jim crow cars—the only place on earth where such things obtain, You cannot defeat prejudice by com: promising with it. SOUTHERN REPRESENTATION. The Chicago Tribune, which was a copperhead sheet during the Slave- holders’ Rebellion and has since been a persistent enemy of the colored people has started a little movement to cut Southern Representation in Congress. We quote some of its editorial slush, which if carefully read, will be found to contain in itself a sufficient answer to the Tribune’s punk ideas of politi cal morality. “Nevertheless it is the duty of every American, regardless of party, to at- tack a condition which not only runs counter to the principles of represen- tative government, but also is demor- alizing ‘to our political morality and the right development of our national policies. Doctrinaires and sentimentalists in the north demand the enforcement of the right of franchise of the Negro in the south. There is no such demand {in the north generally, for it is recog- nized that political domination by the Negro is not desirable. It is realized ‘that the premature enfranchisement of the slave was a misfortune to all concerned, however justifiable as a war measure. Intelligent opinion in the north is in harmony with intelli gent opinion in the south in desiring for colored people defense from ex. ploitation and conditions of orderly progress. Thinking men and women jin both sections realize that these desiderata are retarded, not advanced, by pressure for full political privileges and the fear it keeps alive among southern white men. “But if we do not adhere to dog. mas, which, by the way, is one of the weaknesses of the Jeffersonian Democ. racy the south helps to perpetuate, it We sympathize and support the south’s determination to deal with its prob- lems as conditions, we do not waive our right to protest and it possible prevent the south from making its necessity a cover for unfair political profit,” ‘THE HYPOGCRITICAL TRIBUNE, In another editorial THE APPEAL has called attention to the hypocriti- cal fight the Chicago Tribune has started to cut down Southern repre- |sentation. In another issue the Tribune claims to be actuated by a desire to correct ‘& condition “incompatible with prog- ress and democratic society.” And m the same editorial it throws off its vaask and says: ‘An intelligent majority of the north can ve relied upon to defend the south from colored domination. There ought to be a more energetic cooperation to try to work out for the colored “HUMAN NATURE My ear i My soul is sick with ev Of wrong and outrage, There is no flesh in mar It does not feel for mai Of brotherhood is seve That falls asunder at tl He finds his fellow guil Not colored like his ov To enforce the wrong, 1 Doaome and devatac hit “HUMAN NATURE’S FOULEST BLOT.” My ear is pained My soul is sick with every day’s report Of wrong and outrage, with which earth is filled. There is no flesh in man’s obdurate heart. It does not feel for man: the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colored like his own: and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. * * * * * * Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys: ’Tis human nature’s broadest foulest blot. —Cowper.. American a special status in which, at least during what may be called his political and social minority, he could be protected in his civil rights and assured conditions of develop- ment, though not granted the politi- cal privilege which would make him in his present condition a weight upon southern progress and a cause ot anxiety or race feeling. The political genius of America ought to be able to work out such a compromise.” ‘The Tribune's words are so “in- compatible” with the genius of de mocracy that they answer themselves. ‘Think of the Tribune proposing 2 “special status” for the colored Ameri can, after the Supreme Court of the United States, headed by a Southern Chiet Justice, has thrown the “grand father clause and other Southern political schemes into the scrap heap! ‘THE SLAVEHOI.DERS’ REBELLION ‘The national order of United Daugh ters of the Confederacy, recently i annual session at Dallas, Texas passed a resolution urging upon th people of the United States that here after they refer to the war of seces sion as the “war between the states.’ ‘and not as the “civil war” as has beet ‘customary. The ladies have a lot o nerve like Southerners v. the mal persuasion. For many years tae} have been telling us that the Soutt was right and the North was wrons in the great struggle and to a grea extent the North has accepted tha ‘view of the case so that nowaday: ‘there is very little respect even it the North for the Northern soldie who fought to preserve the Union, It is disgusting to any believer i real democracy to note the ascendenc; ot the people who rebelled and sough to destroy our great Nation, Th Southern ‘people ‘were rebels in th true sense of the term and they de sired to perpetuate slavery. ‘Th Proper designation for the grea struggle from 1861 to 1865 is th SLAVEHOLDERS’ REBELLION. ‘That is what THE APPEAL ha: called it in the past and we shall con ee to call it by that name. | ghaaeeas bia. According to the annual report of Armour & Co., meat dealers of Chi cago, made public last week, the net earnings were $20,100,000 or 20 per cent on capital stock and 14.7 per cent on investment., The report also says the year was the most prosper ous in the history of the company. As this company is only one of many such companies, who, it is reasonable to Presume made the same proportional gains, does it not follow that the out. Tageously high prices that have been |and now are being charged for meats, are thus shown to be little short of wholesale robbery. When people are compelled to pay, in many instances, three times as much as they formerly paid for the same meats, does this not show conclusively that such con- cerns as Armour & Co. are largely responsible for the high cost of liv- ing that is driving people to suicide. There should be some plan by which such concerns should be prevented from lining their coffers by imposing their unfair and uncalled for prices on the public, for the necessaries of life, =—_— “WHY AMERICANS FAIL.” It is & notorious fact that In spite of Pan-American congresses, long-winded editorials in American newspapers, etcetera, the United States is far be- hind Germany, Great Britain, France and Spain so far as trade in Latin. America is concerned. A book by A. Wyatt Verrill on SPRAL Gvojsoury [89D paw qynog,, Conditions of Today,” recently issued by Dodd, Mead & Co. New York, has this to say under the heading, “Why Americans Fail:’ “Race or religious prejudice, con- descension, discourtesy or bluff have no place in Spanish America. The Latin-American is:a gentleman first, last and all the time. He has never acquired our habit of being a gentle- man in private life and a boor in business and he expects others to be a8 courteous as himself and if they fare not he judges them accordingly. He may be white, brown, yellow or black, but he remembers that one of ‘his ancestors was probably, a plumed grandee of Old Spain. You may scoff at his ideas, you may laugh at his faith, you may curse at the “lazy Greasers,” and through it all he may smile, treat you with respect and po- Mteness and greet you with expres sions of the greatest pleasure, but in his heart he despises you for an {Il bred “Yankee pig” and thanks God that he is of Spanish blood. On: the other hand treat the Latin. American h, courtesy, praise the buildings and“industry of his town, admire his beautiful women, visit his places of interest, and speak his lan guage and you may command Tespect, admiration and true friendship and every entertainment and comfort wil be yours.” THE APPEAL has printed a number of editorials along this line showing that Americans have lost millions of dollars through their jimcrow methods and it is a great satisfaction to have this view upheld by a great authority thoroughly familiar with conditions, Race prejudice is an expensive Proposition for those who indulge {1 It. CHARITY MAKEs COWARDS, “Charity makes for slaves, cowards ‘and sycophants,” said “Mother Jones" of Colorado mine field fame, recently. Her words are true, ‘Men cheat their employes out of what fs their just due and become rich and when they have accumulated mil: Mons they pose as “philanthropists” and endeavor to perpetuate thelr names by giving money for libraries or “charities,” or Christian (2) asso. ciations. Instead of being great philanthopists, jthese men, in many cases, are simply thieves who really ought to be in prison for having robbed their fellow men. No class has suffered more trom the “philanthropies” of these rich thieves than the colored people and their ne farious work has been aided by so called colored leaders who have taker the role of public mendicants and have begged for money to organize jimcrow institutions and thus prevent thelr own class from securing their rights as American citizens, The product of the segregated inst! tution {s usually a crop of young col ored people with slavish instincts; cringing cowards, servile sycophants. Great God deliver the people from such charity and give them justice. LET THE CONSTITUTION ALONE. Wind Jammer Bryan, elated with the undeserved success of the Demo rats in the recent national election, 4s asking a little too much of his party In a speech at a dinner recently given in his honor at Washington he urged the adoption of nation-wide prohib tion and woman suffrage which is a little more than the average Democrat ean stand for. He also advocated the passage of an amendment for the election of the President by direct popular vote and to amend the con stitution so as to make that instru ment more easily amendable. This latter suggestion would undoubtedly meet their hearty approval as_ the fourteenth and fitteenth amendments to the constitution have been worm: wood and gall that they would ike very much to get rid of and in their place put something that would further outrage and crush the colored people. We have got to stand the Democratic administration for the next four years Dut we most sincerely hope that after that this beautifal land of ours will not be cursed by their domination any longer. ‘AS OTHERS SEK Us. “O, wad some power the giftie gi’e us, To se oursel’ as ithers see us.” Bobby Burns was, what we would call now-a-days, a “wise guy.” We Americans think we are the “whole show,” but are we? Sir Rabindranath Tagore, the fa- mous East Indian poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, doesn’t think we are, and recently criticized us most unmercifully. He said we are building ugly cities, are too self. assured, are nationally conveited and are forgetting the fine simplicity of Mfe in our mad rush for money, and We must admit that he is about right. He says, there is more to life than just making money. Life calls for leisure not machinemade days of ‘Mmoney-mad activities. “You hurry 80 you forget chat life at its best is just simplicity, taking time to get the things that money can never buy. “Like a popeorn wagon are your modern ideas of life. Everything is Popping and bursting in different di- Tections, no peace, no poise any- where.” Needed by Colored Leaders. (From the Richmond Planet.) Manhood 1s an asset that every in- dividual should be proud to possess. HAMPTON AND TUSKEGEE, The Following Article is Taken From The Cleveland Gazette, and is Only One of Many Such That Have Ap- peared From the Trenchent Pen of Rev. William A, Byrd—Read and Ponder. ‘That Hampton and Tuskegee have done much good for the colored race and the country at large, no sane man will deny, but there is a serious ques- tion as to the harm they have also done. Hampton in Virginia empha- sizes humility for colored men. Tus- kegee in Alabama emphasizes non- Tesistance and deep respect for “southern traditions.” Such men as Seth Low and many others have built and do maintain ‘Tuskegee because they hope through it to uplift the colored race and in a measure solve the race problem. ‘The trouble with this policy is its one-sidedness, ‘These men constantly advise the colored Tace to be patient while the white men ‘continually heap upon them more and grievous burdens. Colored men are continually reminded that the southern white man is his “best friend” and this white “friend” is continually showing his friendship by oppression, violence and death. Be- sides these evils both Hampton and Tuskegee stand for the kind of edu- cation the south is half way inclined to tolerate—industrial training, “toaching the nigger how to be a good servant.” From Tuskegee a sen- timent of this kind goes out over the country. ‘The head of Tuskegee must stand for this sentiment or fight like @ man and quit; or acquiesce like “a 00d nigger and be allowed to re- main. No one can sit and hear a lecture from Hampton's teachers with- out being impressed with the fact that all of the effort of that institution is to make the colored people patiently receive whatever the whites or the south may give them. ‘They are fos- tering a sentiment of inferiority of the black man to the white man, urg- ing the colored youth to accept this as a fact and prepare to make useful his life under such conditions, ‘THIS 18 WRONG! Within Hampton itself, this inferiority of the colored to the white is emphasized. We are reliably informed that even a little advance agent, white of course, secured for Major Moton, after he was chosen head of Tuskegee, a very humble stop. ping place in Syracuse, N. Y., but he himself stopped at the “Onandaga,” the most expensive and exclusive hotel in that city. When a protest was made against such, he said that he regretted it, but did not want it Dublished. He should have been more of a man than to have done such a thing where discrimination is unlaw. ful. “For Major Moton to stop in the same hotel with him would be too much like equality of the president of Tuskegee N. & I. Institute with an “agent of Hampton, who chanced to have a white skin.” Mind you, a1 agent begging the public for a chance to present his black school progeny Major Moton was very wise when. he told his New York audience a. few days ago that he did not aspire to be the leader of the colored people ir this country. No southern man whe must live and make his living there can be this leader! Major Moton mus suppress his own resentment at. in justice in order to do what good he can for his race. Heads of southerr schools cannot be the leaders in civic and national matters pertaining tc colored people. In church and stat schools these teachers must accep the southern policy. The colored race 1s unalterably opposed to accepting anything as its portion which an} other self-respecting race would no accept. The danger of Hampton anc Tuskegee is their building up a man hood of weaklings and non-resistants They are making colored youths be eve that they are right when thes humbly take southern sand and sa} they have sugar. ‘These institutfon should remain and be encouraged BUT THEIR POLICY SHOULD BE CHANGED. ‘The colored youth should be taught to shun bullylem, but love to embrace those principles of cour Jageous manhood which resent wrong When wilfully and maliciously given ‘The weight of these institutions will be sought to stem the tide of emigra tion from the south. We hope. they will speak out and utter the. truth ‘The colored people of the south have nothing to fear by leaving there. ‘They may die by reason of the cold {in this section (and this it not at all probable) but that is more mereiful than dying by the rope and at. the mouth of the shotgun. Here in the north their children can receive the education any child receives, and their ambition will not be curtailed by making them believe and. recognize the fallacy that they are inferior to some one else. If the south desires the black people to remain there let them lift the embargo on education, Voting, protection of lite and prop: erty, “and discontinue “‘jim-crowism,” Segregation and general cussedness. Black people are insulted when they are asked to accept such as’ theit Portion. The trustees of Hampton and Tuskegee should recognize. the fact that thelr work must fail if they continue to try to build up a race that is too weak and cowardly to demand its rights. ‘These white trus. tees should demand for their wards a greater degree of freedom. of thought and action than. they now have. ‘The pandering to the wishes of the south is not making it better for the colored race but it is firmly establishing a policy which the whole Tace will be asked to accept. Now, the colored people not in the south: erm states will NEVER accept. the policy of the South. Colored men working there have the sympathy of those of us who are not there, but we will not stand for any loud: mouthed proclaiming that the colored Tace should accept the policy as taught by Hampton and Tuskegee. Major Moton is wise in doing the best he can under the most unfavor- able conditions so far as real man. hood is concerned, but he is unwill. ing to advocate what he has to accept as the policy of his race. We take off our hat to him in this. ‘The time ta ting tne Rhek iebitoe ee There have been 53 Saturdays in the year 1916 and as THE APPEAL has appeared on each one of them our sub- seribers have been given one extra copy as “lanieppe” as they say in New Orleans. Defective Page THE SIN OF SILENCE To sin by silence when we protest makes cowards out | The human race has climbed test. Had no voice been raised injustice, ignorance and lust, quisition yet would serve the | guillotines decide our least d The few who dare must spe speak again to right the wr many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on pro- test. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the in- quisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. WALLER AGAINST “NEGRO” Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says It Causes Mental and Physical Segregation. (From Amsterdam News.) Editor Amsterdam News: Sir: I cannot too heartily congratu- late you on a recent editorial discour- aging the use of the word “Negro.” There is no greater delight enjoyed by the white people of the United States today than the spreading use of this unfortunate term. Why? They real- ize that it 1s the most potential fac- tor at work at the present to bring about both a physical and mental ‘segregation of the people of color. Its use is on the increase only because our speakers and writers, especially Do Bois and Washington feel that its repetition, ad nauseam, is necessary to retain the good will of the masses. The term “Negro” is not only absurdly in- Accurate as applied to millions of col- ored people, but it is also alarminly injurious, for the following reasons: &. It has never stood historically or In the present, anywhere in the world, for anything noble or uplifting. Most high-grade Africans repudiate it. b. In Africa and out of Africa it was never applied to the higher types, but to Guineas, Sudanese and Senegam- bians only. ©. Its derivatives, “Negroism,” “Ne grofy,” and its compounds, Negro-head, Negro-fiy, Negro-monkey, are all clear. ly, in thelr associations, degrading. 4. Its feminine form, “Negress,” {s fustly and correctly ‘used to define your wife and daughter and eweet- heart, if you favor the use of the mas. culine term, e. It has been the word used by the Southern whites for two centuries, when formally speaking or writing about an unworthy or criminal man ‘or woman of the race. For when he speaks of the worthy he invariably says “colored.” f. It {s not differentiated in the mind and thought of the whites from thel: favorite and generally used (among themselves) terms, “Nigro” and “Nig ca" &. As stated by an eminent Japanese diplomat it has an unquestioned in fluence in cutting us off from the thought, sympathy and co-operatior of the millions of colored Africans, As! atics and Islanders of the Yonder world. Very truly yours, OWEN M. WALLER, M. D Hates the Term “Negro.” “I hate the term Negro because it is being used in terms of hatred. It ig the cause of the segregation of the Negro; it is being used in contempt in public places; it is an excuse for Gistratichising him; and it is an ex- cuse for lynching’ him. Only one- tenth of one per cent of the colored people in America can trace their descent to Africa, and there is no more right to call all colored people Negroes than to call all white people Turks or Armenians.”—Ex-Assistant United States Attorney General Wm. H. Lewis, Boston, Mass, ‘Must Judge A Group by Its Best. (From the Christian Register, Boston, Mass.) No one can be said’ to know any class of people who has not been in ‘ntimate and sympathetic relation with ‘the best as well as the worst of the class, | We compare many persons who live in the South, and think they know the colored race, with others who have had no such contact, but who have come into intimate and’ sym pathetic relations with large numbers of that race whom thelr Southern friends have never known; and of the two sets of people wo should say that the second knew the colored people better than the first. They know asp!. rations among them that the others do not know, or, knowing, do not enter into and appreciate; they know capabilities by direct contact with the best of the race which others are obit vious of; they know qualities which only respect and sympathy can bring out; they know possibilities to which others by their very acquaintance are blinded. “If those who know the col ored race through the mass and by observation merely could know what Individual possibilities are. demon- strated in growing numbers of the elect, and would be courageously can. did with themselves, they would re. vise their judgments and possibly sof. ten their prejudices. At any rate, they ought to credit to those on whom they charge ignorance of the colored race the values that come from know- ing how many of that race are the equal of any members of the dominant race in the highest abilities and In the GOD GIVE US MEN, God give us men! A time like this dem: Strong minds, great hearts, true faith ; Men whom the lust of office does not ki Men whom the spoils of office. cannot bu Men who possess opinions and a will; # Men who have honor—men who will no Men who can stand before a demagogu # And damn his treacherous flatteries wit Tall men, sun crowned, who live above. 4 In public duty and in private thinking. i ao Gh fi i a God give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; ‘Men whom the lust of office does not kill; ‘Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor—men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Tall men, sun crowned, who live above the fox In public duty and in private thinking. —J. G. Holland. ‘That we much rather be, and asso ciate among ourselves, is a saying by Colored Americans that has become almost trite. That is a mistake; it is a feeling of avowed cowardice and innate inferiority. It is an utter in Dossibilitay for the two races to sub- [scribe to'a common government, ant, at the same time, each race work ov: its own salvation. The “theory” has been tried and resulted into a ghastiy failure; instead of making for har mony ‘and cordial good feeling be- tween two races, it has increase! race hatred and antagonism in leaps and bounds. We have heeded too long the advice from false and treach- erous leadership that resistance is wrong, that it only breeds race hat- red and antagonism; that the thing for us to do is to get property and other rights will inevitably folluw. ‘We have followed this “advice” fal:t fully and have been rewarded In terms of residince segregation, street segregation, confiscation and loss of property, anti-intermarriaze—which is all of the blackest pleces of legis- lation, since that it leaves our women defenseless and at the mercy of white brutes — separate schools, jimcrow cars, and even legislating to exclide further Negro immigration. These are the evils resulting from “non- resistance” and “rather be by our. selves.” ‘That with the same degree of effontry and terrible legislatior with which our property is taken ana confiscated, with this same effontry and legislation will our political ana manhood rights be taken from us ‘That ts a fact, Every congress of. fors legislation degrading and inimi cal to our well being. Race preju. dice, therefore, can only be worn down by ‘attrition. We must send onr children, and go ourselves. to mixed institutions and other places where we can mix with the other races and consequently become accustomed tr one another. ABOVE ALL, THINGS WE MUST WELCOME AND PRAC TICE JUXTAPOSITION. (Gerald Stanley Lee in Mount Tom.) Tam a human being. I do not pro- Pose to be cooped up or shut in in my love and criticism to mere geographi- cal streaks or spots of people on a planet. This planet is small enough aa it is, when one considers the helght and depth—the starry height and depth—of the human spirit that wavers and glows through us all— Wagner and Shakespeare, Tolsto! and Moliére! ‘Though the cathedrals quar- rel together and sing praises with siege-guns to their own little foolish national souls, and rain bombs on each other's naves, I take my stand by the great bells ringing in thelr towers, by the souls of their poets overriding the years, by the prayers and songs of thelr heroes, artists, in- ventors, by the mothers and the little children, ‘We are all in the same world. We aro all alike. I will not say of any one nation what I will not say of the others: and I will not say of any man what I will not say of myself. Agreed to Be “Set Aside.” \*rom the Hagle, Washington, D. C.) | No: the colored delegates to the M. E, General Conference, held at Sara. toga Springs, N. Y., recently, did not “walk out.” “They simply assented to arrangements to be “set aside"—to be Segregated into a colored general conference, to be presided over by a white bishop, being denied the privi- lege of directing their own labors in the Master's vineyard. Two years from now the two wings of the M. F. ehureh, North and South, will unite and the separation of ihe colored membership and the refusal of bishop: ric honors to the 350,000 colored com- municants are designed to clear the Way for the approaching “love feast.” There is verity in the assertion that, in its primal manifestations, the church is a social organization, with religion as a by-product. Not Worthy of Freedom. (From the Richmond Planet.) When a race or an individual sub- mits uncomplainingly to oppression. it {8 a practical demonstration that the race or the individual is not wor- thy of freedom. Of One Blood. MINNEAPOLIS THE COINGS IN AND ABOUT THF GREAT “FLOUR CITY." Meriars Social, Religious and General Which Have Happened ana are 10 Happen Among the People of the city. JN. SELLERS, MANAGER 2812 Tenth Avenue So, Tel, N. W. South 3872, “SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1917. Mrs. Gloria Shull and daughter Miss Edna, left last Friday for a visit to St. Louis, Mrs, Donald Brady of Minneapolis, entertained the Afternoon Art club on Wednesday afternoon at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Loomis, 874 ‘Marion St. The T. S. 7. C. club of the Twin Cities was entertained at dinner on Friday night by Mr. B, S. Smith, at his home, 3358 Oakland Ave. ‘The’ dinner was followed by a discussion of Mexi- co by the twelve men of the club. At torney W. T. Francis making the special address of the ‘evening. MURRAY'S ORCHESTRA Ottis Murray, Director MUSIC FURNISHED FOR ALL OCCASIONS. Tel. Dale 36851 Tel. Main 2634 ST. 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AND A a Hae Se meted Mery pa Rene Sete ae age ee Hacer aE NE Raltan PERFECT ASHAR LODGR NO. 4 F gQCRG™ AEA Longe, 80.83, Ready te ac gentn a GOTH GaeeRteate aed RON toe a ey Br Sen A Sash WME, Sea ie Kone sented soeiiatae RETIRE CHAPTER NO, 24,8 A.M. ene CRAEEPENG, Aaa Randi ofstoiar'at dal, Gag corner Aurora and Kent Streets. at 8:06 eee ri Sherted Bee a Beal beer AS nds atoe FUCKIN COMANDERY NO. 2 Ue Ra SOME Se cm MEU TL mE Bog BOE, Sah tsaie sea ab Rondo Street, ial FEZZAN TDMPLE NO, 26, NOBLES oie Wee aieie, Bead AQP ES iat of fusgePtne eiye aoa ta 5 Fane, OB yaasa este att gy fn Pe ad YY | suits me - | absolutely ODD FELLows MARS LODGE NO. 2202, 6. U, 0. OF 9. F Srects second and foutin Woinge dayip each month at Uiges Han Renee, and ‘Keene ‘Streets, at 00" prey, AROS Ransom, N. G.; J. Wesley Kelly, Bos”, S80'St "Anthony Avene! EREDERICK DOUGLASS LODGE No. 3008, 6.10, 6. of 0. i imeste aeosud NSA fourth Monday in each momen Gate a gotmer-qurape and Rene sete at 00 pom, W. B Lewin N. Go Somes HLF eT SES ST PAUL PATRIARCHY No. 114, Meets Uilrd'aronday tnveach mNosen Ai Gales Bal gormer, Murora” and Ket RVR ES Augusta Sones We Be OMe HOUSEHOLD OF RUTH No. 553, 6. PB; 0. of OK. meets the third Mesady in each month at Union tial eonene ay Aurora and Kent atrets at sc00"S" Sf Mrs. “bitdle "Himh Mt Re Go hee Carrie BO Lindsay! We RN’ 918" wae: Bridge street stnnenpottx NQUSGHOLD OF RUTH NO. 716 6 Y. 04,0: F mects second and feed Tuesday’ in each month at rear qe Ble Hall, Gor. Fourth street ates Ee Ave. Solith, "Mia. 8. Duroper "a. Wem Miss Core’ Napier, We Re aaah: 2/3: enone GOPHER LODGE No. 05, FB, P. 0. ; of the World Rieets second Wedie: day" tn "each month at User caeih ones neh Aurora, and eKene sen Hall, cor. Hau, “Bi: Re abs Sonnass> Secy?” 6G Kent Stet JOHN H. HAYES LODGE No.e. Meet edad ihea Zack GEE day ‘in’ each, month at BE) Saati it aa Ph (Oe) BE Peri BA) Fetlng t Ronlas eave SY) ininea ote’ rele Ne eeneee a ae ee Seo skas Ee and 8 301 shaban oda Fea er FIDELITY, copuT 9F cauaNyun NOI ACR BF ACARD tees ent aa “nits Siodiad” as, onthe or GE Monday, eam Bree? ationeaponm, "ait, Ph, ptennety Barett We aa nen dood ROPE, Be wasted NAg TURNER LODGE NO. 2. x. o¥ Fygatimeapols “ORG NO. 3 Xo fourth "Thursdays “In” ‘Sank! month at Eibor unple’ ode, ‘tetoometthy at Server Rourke areal ing Oe Hee ue’ outh at sat. ane Riphah ate: Up rood atanaigg' abs WoicAul, Hehe Woldan S680 we Soleo halos Bat WEatingion Were ee GhUncues. PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH, CE- dar street ana Summit aveniec unity Eidigein, Basieintea ata, mead Jy, Sunday ‘school at 126 pe Be Seis prey "phcoh ot lied Be, chiolr’ rehearsal, "Wednesday fap 34 Funsrais “ang weddings Trosieny” oe tended" Rev. Boon earuPremPay, ate Hes; 653 West Central avenue’ peSttoh, study at church, Tel Sahu Bae MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH, comer Rice and Fuller streets Sundey services: Preaching, 11 a.m. and sc ma; Sunday School 12:46; ‘Deaconecs meeting 7: B. Y.'P. U. 7:80 p.m. Pate Me cordially invited, Rey. Bi. ate Donald, pastor, 651 W. Central cvomne. SE JAMES A. M. B CHURCH, con Euller and Jay” streets “Gunaay COM teva: 11:00 ang 730 D. me ene, Brayer meeting, 00.9, m." Paster say a glonday tid Teunay, at hare West nesday “ana “Thureday.”” Weagie, 92 Parsonage 436 Jay street: “Hors, 'p, Sims, Pastor. Jones, ‘Pastor. S. PHILIPS EPISCOPAL Mission corner Aurora avenue and MaScON street, Sunday services:” “Boi ageeele tion ot Holy Bucharist 7:30 a se ota celebration "of Holy Bucharint ‘fate third Sundays, 11:00 am Sfeting sacs and fourth Sindays, iii9o ane’ gecand school, 12:20 ‘p.m.’ ‘Brotherhooa sat “3? Andrew, 6:00 Dm. Vespers go of St Week services, Wednesday's, ooniignmatin. lage OR py, eclaya, evonge prayer §:00" p.m!" Saturdays “ixoie Becpeay ae 3:00, a. my Rev. A. FE, Lealtad Sheet 380" Thomés Be aerington and Se Antena UR ot Say ervtcea pena carne BSR San, $06 Bate stnday' Sehgal te ti. BS Young Peoples mecting. 7:00 PMs aM: Week" mecting, Weaneigay, 8.002, Mi Rev. G'WavCamp, pastor, “Manse i ‘Setlcsion hac’ OVER 65 YEARS" ( EXPERIENCE Trioe Manne Gonvrisitac qahatgraaterial auch ce ee Oras PRR ean osc, Hee eh ele Sct Pee eight side ib Scientific American, Atursrapagsiacragt ne Lares pa haansrieaiya aecnies 36 1Broadway, MUNN § Co,2ere~stn. New York