The Appeal

If you have ought that's fit to sell. Use printer's ink, and use it well. PRICES OF FARM LAND INCREASE Jump 65 Per Cent in Five Years, According to Estimates of Secretary Meredith. FACTOR IN FARM OWNERSHIP While Reflection of Upward Movement of Commodity Prices, it indicates Increasing Scarcity of Farm Land. Washington.—During the last five years the selling price of farm land and improvements in the United States increased 65 per cent, according to estimates made by the secretary of agriculture in his annual report to the President. Between March, 1919, and March, 1920, the increase was 21.1. Although the data for the 1920 census are not yet available, it seems probable, the secretary said, that while the average price of farm land and improvements per acre increased only 20 per cent during the 40 years from 1860 to 1900 the price in 1920 is two and one-half times that of 1910 and five times that of 20 years ago. "The price of farm lands is one of the important factors in the problem of farm ownership," said the secretary, established between March, 1919, and March, 1920, increase in the selling price of farm land and improvements was 21.1 per cent. In the last five years the increase has been 65 per cent. Net Return Less. "In some sections the net return on the purchase price of farm lands is considerably less-than the ordinary rate of return on first mortgages and similar investments. The rental rate of cash leases, also, is frequently less than half the rate of return on mortgages. Studies made by the departments indicate that, in certain regions, the recourse a land has still further aggravated this condition. Such a situation is unfortunate, for it increases the difficulties of a tenant who is seeking to become an owner. "While the increase in land prices, is to some extent, a reflection of the general upward movement in the level of commodity prices, it must be regarded, in part, as an indication of the increasing scarcity of land available for agricultural use. "War conditions stimulated an expansion of the area devoted to crops, and the increase in the number of 101S, or an increase of 3.4 per cent in the capita acreage. This was effected by utilizing pasture land for crop production and by bringing into use other uncultivated areas. The expansion was particularly marked in the case of small grains. Since the armistice there has been a reduction in crop acreage. From 1919 to 1920 there was a decline of 5.4 per cent in the acreage of 20 principal crops. Apparently the reduction has been able to be achieved by pastures and by discontinuing the use of the low-grade areas which were temporarily utilized. What the War Did. "These changes should be instructive to those who would reduce the prices of farm products by bringing into use large areas of new land. It is clear that if prices had been extraordinarily remunerative to the farmer compared with the returns on capital and labor in industry, we would not witness this reduction of the acreage in cultivation, but, on the contrary, a diminishing adjustment it. While the war conditions temporarily increased the net cash income of the farmer and stimulated a temporary expansion of the crop area, this was due in large measure to the response of the farmers to the insistent call for more food, particularly wheat and rye, the principal bread grains. It is of no small significance that the contraction in acreage has been due to the increase in these crops, estimated at 31.5 per cent for winter wheat, 16.5 per cent for spring wheat, and 22.6 per cent for rye." SEEKS TO ENTER U. S. ON RAFT Austrian Stowaway Forced, However, to Call Help In News York Harbor. New York.—After bobbing around aimlessly in the harbor on a raft for several hours in the dark, Waste Ernst, an eighteen-year-old stowaway from the method of a riding Bike and officials and called dejectedly for help. While thawing out by a radiator, he told a tugboat captain, who found him after much searching, he had been informed that the way of stowaways entering America was hard and, consequently, when his ship entered the harbor he threw the raft overboard, jumped on it and hoped to be washed ashore. He was taken to Ellis Island for deportation. Children Unshod in Big Shoe Town. Brockton, Mass.—This city produces shoes for world-wide distribution and makes more of some kinds than any other city, but Charles P. Brooks, attendance officer of the school board, reported that many of its children are wearing stowaway shoes and children in the city who cannot go to school because they lack shoes, he said, and some of them have not been to school in weeks. HAS 9-EGG BREAKFAST "A Square Meal at Last," Says English Adventurer. Makes Three Months' Canoe Trip In Far North of Canada and Alaska. Winniple, Man—Hugh Kindersey, twenty-one years old, son of Sir Robert Kindersey, governor of the Hudson Bay company, has returned from a three months' canoe trip through the Far North of Canada and Alaska. With Capt. Tom O'Kelly, a veteran of the company's service, as his guide and only companion, he set out from Hudson Bay to the Appalachian canoe. He traveled by Athabasca river, Athabasca lake, Slave river, Great Slave lake and the Mackenzie river to within 90 miles of the Arctic ocean, visiting the old Hudson bay fur posts on his way. At Fort Good Hope he crossed the Arctic circle and was then in the region of the midnight sun and continuous daylight. As he says, he "saw no stars from early in June until August 7." Beyond Fort McPherson and Arctic Red river he ascended Rat river, a narrow torrent of rushing glacier water that drops as much in 60 miles as the Rocky mountains, with supplies completely exhausted, reached Fort Yukon August 13. "A square meal at last," wrote the young Englishman in his diary, "Never before have I eaten nine eggs for breakfast, not to mention ham, bread, jam, cake, coffee and whapling." From Fort Yukon he went up the Yukon past Dawson and White Horse, through the old Klondike gold fields and took steamer at Skagway for Van Dusen and ventureurs out constantly and the young scout the house of Kindersley became an expert camp cook. "While fighting our way up Rat river," he said, "mosquitos swarmed about in dense clouds. If I removed my gauntlets, my hands were instantly hidden with the insects. Stumbling through the tundra, I lost my mosquito-bar helmet and soon my face was covered with the blood of crushed mosquitos. But I enjoyed every minute of it." ONTARIO BUYS UP RAILWAYS Canadian Province to Pay $2,734,000 for Public Utilities In and Around Toronto. Toronto, Ont.-A deal, subject only to ratification by the Ontario govern- ment, was completed whereby the province will purchase virtually all of the MacKenzie power interests in and around this city for $2,834,000. Property concerned comprises, in addition to various suburban railways and power plants, the Electric Deve- lopment company at Niagara Falls, Ont., with its transmission line to Toronto. The deal marks the close of two years' negotiations between Sir Wil- McKenzie and Sir Adam Beck. It means that, with the exception of the Dominion Power company at Ham- ilton, all the larger hydro concerns in the province are publicly owned. Breaks Glass to Get Kiss; Finds Girl Wax Philadelphia—Louis Katraly came down from Coatesville, Pa., to see the city sights. He was passing a department store when he saw the beautiful figure of a girl in one of the windows, casting an alluring smile in his direction. He beckoned to her to come out and join him, but she did not move and kept right on smiling. Louis decided to pursue her. He smashed the window and grabbed the figure around the waist. He was about to kiss the wax lips with the frozen smile when a policeman grabbed him. FINDS $1,100 ON TRASH PILE Stolen War Savings Stamps Were Hidden in Old Valise in Guthrie, Okla. Guthrie, Okla.—Six weeks ago W. F. Davis of this city found an old valise under a house he was moving and threw it on a trash pile in the yard. It laid there until he started to haul the trash away and on close examination stamps under a L100 in War Savings Inquired the development of the valise was once stolen from in front of a local hotel last spring and belonged to David Secko, a traveling man from Enlid. The stamps were all registered in his name. Nineteen His Fateful Number. Madisonville, Ky.—"Nineteen" surely played a tragic role in the last days of Roscoe Ashley, buried at Grapevine. He enlisted September 19, 1917, was wounded September 19, 1918, died November 19 of the same year and his body arrived in the United States November 19, 1920. What Little Brother Bagged. Madisonville, Ky.—Roy Oakley, aged fifteen, will live, though 71 shot had to be picked from his body by a surgeon. He and his little brother, Tommy, went rabbit hunting. Tommy shot Roy instead of the bunny. THE APPEAL. ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.. SATURDAY, APRIL 16 1921 OPEN SHRINE TO DEAD EMPEROR Strange Ceremony in Japan, Including Vaudeville, Marks Two Days of Worship. BUILDING COST $10,000,000 Impressive Manifestations of Loyalty Featured the Solemn Shinto Ceremonies—Voices Silent During Worship. Tokyo.—After six years' labor and an expenditure estimated at $10,000, the national shrine to the late Emperor Mutsuhito was opened recently with solemn Shinto ceremonies, and amid impressive manifestations of loyalty. For three days the populace of Tokyo celebrated the occasion. Every street was decorated with bunting, and from the humblest door lanterns were displayed at night. The municipality gave a flower show and open air performances and theatrical performances in Hibiya park, but for the most part the festivities were co-operatively organized by the citizens in different wards. At hundreds of central points stages had been erected, where vandelle shows were given and there were fireworks both night and day. Thousands From Country Over 250,000 persons from the country districts visited the city during the festival. The shrine is a typical Shinto building of plain wood, and of the simplest possible construction. The opening ceremony was attended by over 2,000 persons and officials, and lasted about three hours. The central feature was the delivery to Prince Ichijo, warder of the shrine, of the name tablets of the late emperor, and their installation in the inner sanctuary. Prince Kujo, a relative of the emperor, delivered a commemorative oration to which Prince Ichijo replied. The shrine was thereafter opened to the least 500,000 people worshiped before it during the remainder of the day. The scene where these multitudes of people were paying their respects to the memory of the dead emperor was impressive. The main entrance to the shrine is by means of a new and very broad road about two miles in length. Along this road all the day and evening two great strings of people poured, one going to the shrine, the other returning. The whole of this roadway was brilliantly lighted and decorated with flags and ornamental lanterns. But once the toril at the entrance to the shrine had been passed a great change came over the scene. The modern gold and red ornamentation ceased and the rest of the way was made under the shade of gigantic pine trees, which might have been part of the virgin forests of old Japan. Pilgrims were admitted in groups of about 200. Their journey ended in a small paved courtyard inclosed with a low wall. The shrine, a low, severely plain building, was opposite the gateway, and by the dim light of two large paper lanterns about a dozen white-robed priests were seen moving slowly back and forth within the doorway. They were sweeping up the coins that rained continually on the steps of the shrine. Voices Are Silent. Not a sound could be heard except the light hand-clapping of the worshipers calling on the enshrined spirit of the emperor. No human voice was heard. There was not even an audible prayer; in complete silence the multitude paid their respects to the spirit of Meiji and passed on. On the two following days the shrine was again visited by hundreds of thousands, and the proceedings were enlightened by wrestling and other public entertainments near the shrine. The crown prince, on behalf of the emperor, worshiped at the shrine on the morning of the day it is intended to associate the young men of Japan especially with the Meiji shrine. A huge stadium will be built in the grounds of the 'shrine', and it is expected that the principal athletic events of Japan will be contested there in the future. BONES OF PILGRIMS MOVED Taken From Canopy Over Plymouth Rock, Which Is Being Reset to Shore Level. Plymouth, Mass.-The bones of some of the Pilgrim fathers were exposed for a time when the box in which they have been kept was taken from the canopy over Plymouth rock, where it had rested since 1880. The records do not identify the bodies, but the two relatively well-preserved skulls and other bones found in the casket are reputed to be those of members of the colony who died during the ordeal of the first winter. The canopy is to be removed and the rock reset under conditions that will bring it again to shore level. Heart in the Right Place. Anderson, Ind.-Firemen holested a 40-foot ladder to rescue a pigeon suspended over a high ledge of St. Mary's church. The pigeon was entangled in twine. Women in the crowd which watched the rescue amplified. CASH AND LOVE GONE Once Wealthy Man Brings Action Against Girl Wife. Aged, Husband Demands an Accounting for $50,000 Turned Over to Wife and Relatives. Atlantic City.—Pennilless and sixty-five years old, William P. Riffle, once a wealthy resident of Uniontown, Pa., appeared before vice chancellor Learning here in an action he has brought against his nineteen-year-old wife and her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mathews, formerly of New York, but for the past year residents of this city. He sues to compel the latter to give an accounting for $50,000 which he turned over to them. Riffle testified that two years ago Mrs. Mathews showed him the picture of her niece, then seventen, when he went to her hotel on South Illinois avenue, in search of health. He said that he became enamoured of the girl and Mrs. Mathews brought her to the hotel. They became engaged after he had promised to give her $10,000. Shortly afterward they were married. He testified that he gave Mr. and Mrs. Mathews nearly $50,000, with the understanding that the money was to be invested in real estate. After his money was gone, he charged, his wife said the furniture he had bought for their home despair his protest. She then gave him $10 of the proceeds to go to his home he added, and even tried, he sweo, to take that away from him before he left. The defense sought to show that the money had paid for $3,000 worth of clothes for the young wife, an automobile, diamonds and jewelry. Riffle admitted the money lasted only six months. Then, he charged, the Mathews sent him home to Union town, where the funds, but he had been unsuccessful. He declared that he was forced to leave his wife in March of this year, COURT O. K.'S HAIR PULLING Wife Justified in "Remonstrating" With Rival, Massachusetts Judge Rules. Lynn, Mass.—A hair-pulling match between a wife and another woman who is found with the husband is perfectly in order from the spouse's viewpoint, according to the ruling of Associate Justice Edward B. O'Brien of the District court here. He was called upon to render a decision at the trial of Mrs. Lillian Miner, a divorcee, charged with assault with a revolver upon Mrs. Catherine Curtis, the wife of a Boston policeman. Although it was charged that Mrs. Curtis made the first move in the hostilities, the justice said: "I think the wife is justified in reconstrasting, even to the extent of pulling hair, and if such a case came before me for trial I should rule in favor of the aggrieved wife." Love of Music Traps Robber of Poor Box Philadelphia.—It was his love for music which led to the arrest of Jacob Katz, twenty-four years old. Katz entered the Emanuel Lutheran church here shortly after midnight and found the poor box which he emptied of its contents, $3. Then he found the new organ. Katz had musical talent and he ran his fingers over the keys, then he became so absorbed in the moment that he forgot where he was, pulled out the diaphone and thundered away. The strains awakened the pastor, Rev. Rudolph Nielder, who lives next door, and he called the police. ROBBER OFFERS VICTIM $10 "You Need It Worse Than I." He Says to Holdup on Finding Man Penniless. Steubenville, O.—Daniell Cable, a pottery worker, reported to the police here that a robber, who had held him up while he was on his way home in a suburb, offered to give him $10 after the highwayman discovered that he was penniless. Cable said that the robber leaped upon, overpowered him, and then went through his pockets. Finding no money, Cable said, the highwayman reached into his own pocket, pulled out a roll of bills and offered to give him $10, saying: "Here, brother, you need it worse than I do." Cable said he was too surprised to accept the money. Labormr Gets $150,000 Anaconda, Mont.—From a laborer's task at the Washoe smelter to the possession of $150,000 was the realization here recently of Claude Shemuker, who received a telegram from an Eastern broker advising him that he had realized this fortune on the sale of oil stock. Shemuker immediately drew his earnings purchased a railroad ticket and started East. Shemuker conceived the idea of buying oil stock while in the army. While serving overseas with the Twenty-third division he was wounded, his original $300 of back money He intends purchasing a ranch in Owee he said. FOR PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS Wonderful Progress Made by the National Committee in That Direction. WORK IN PUBLIC - SCHOOLS Conservation of Vision Clases Grow- ing in Number as Educators Discover it Is Practicable to Open Classes in Small Cities. New York—More than 4,000 supporters of the work of the National Committee for the Prevention of Blindness were reported at the sixth annual meeting in this city. This report shows a remarkable increase from the 65 charter members in 1915. The work for the last year showed much progress for the conservation of vision in the public schools and colleges. The report continues: "Conservation of vision classes in the public schools are growing in number as educators have discovered, through the efforts of our committee, that it is practicable to open such classes even in cities smaller than the largest. The present census of such classes is 62, of which 12 have been established within the last year. So far as known, the classes which now support such classes include Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington. There is no more hopeful part of our work than this, and we are proud to have contributed a considerable part to the establishment of these classes. Blindness in Children. "The chief cause of blindness among children is due to ophthalmia neonatorum. The percentage this year is 22.5 per cent as compared with 15.7 per cent for last year of those who have newly entered the residential schools. This disease is an inflammation of the eye usually contracted by newly born children. The percentage is even higher in the public classes. We have reason to regret this unfortunate relapse. This is the first year but one that has not shown any decrease, but we are quite sure that the number is more accurate than in the years gone by, and possibly some of this increase is due to the greater accuracy of our reports. We must faithfully and persistently pursue our fight against babies' sore eyes and continue to reduce the number of children who need not have been blind. "Trachoma's victims (one of the most dreaded of contagious eye diseases) have been discovered in several states where it was not suspected this scourge could be prevalent. Not less than nine states have during this year initiated or renewed their fight against the spread of trachoma. In Illinois, particularly, there has been a resurgence of the forces for systematic operation in the outing out of this disease. In all cases it has been the function of this committee to serve as a helpful agency in this work. Caused by Wood Alcohol. "Wood alcohol poisoning still causes much blindness through drinking this substance masquerading as a familiar stimulant. This condition was not a surprise to us, and we had issued a warning which was used throughout the United States. Much activity resulted because of the newspaper accounts of the dreadful situation, and considerable work has been done by them toward eliminating this cause of needless blindness." H. F. J. Porter of the Society for Electrical Development delivered the annual lecture on the cause of Porter's address was "Through Life's Windows." He showed the great dependence of man on healthy and well-cared for eyes, which he compared to a pair of motion picture cameras. "Indeed, the motion picture camera is made in imitation of the eye," he continued. "The better the condition of the lens and the better the illumination of the object the better the result of the photographer's effort. Just so with the more perfect instrument, the eye, and it behoves every one to see that his eyes are kept in good condition and free from eyestrain to light. As it takes a longer time to a good light in poor light than in good light, so it takes longer to obtain a good conception of what is before us with poor eyesight and in poor light. Employers are wise who provide against accidents from poor lighting." Connellsville, Pa.—While a negro woman held up Mrs. Annabelle Gemas along the West Penn street car line, near the Gemas home, two negroes searched her, took her pocketbook, containing about $30, but returning a gold service medal which the woman's husband, the late Geman Gemas, had been awarded for service in the Spanish-American war. The trio halted Mrs. Gemas with the request, "Please give us your money, lady." Something Funny, All Right. Tiltownville, O.—There was something funny about the chicken dinner served Mayor Charles Beswick. He was guest of honor at a stag party where the chicken was served in liberal portions. On returning home Beswick found that 15 of his choice nuthats had disappeared. INCREASE OF ALIENS Net Growth in Immigrant Population for Year 193,514. Total of 633,371 Sought Entrance to United States in Last Fiscal Year. Washington.—Establishment of machinery overseas in co-operation with foreign governments through which aliens before breaking up their homes may determine whether they will be admitted to the United States and legislative consideration of the proposals of the second industrial conference are outstanding recommendations in the annual report of Secretary of Labor Wilson. The report shows that 633,371 aliens arrived in this country during the last fiscal year, as compared with 237,021 aliens before. Of the total arrivals, 11,795 were excluded at the ports where they arrived, 10,965 of those arriving 490,001 are classed as immigrant aliens and 195,575 as nonimmigrant aliens. Departures of aliens totaled 428,062, including 288,315 immigrant aliens and 139,747 nonimmigrant aliens, making the net increase in the immigrant population for the year 193,514. Japanese admitted number 16,174, as compared with 14,904 the year before. The total number of Japanese departing is placed at 15,653, making the report says, the indicated increase in Japanese population, 521. Of those admitted, 9,193 were males and 6,981 females. Besides the immigrants turned back at the port of arrival, 2,762 were ordered deported during the year on national warrants, as compared with 3,068 the year before. Of those deported, 499 were closed as narcotics and criminals. In addition, 591 others are awaiting deportation. During the year 519,003 aliens took the initial or final steps toward citizenship. Mr. Wilson urges legislative action to carry out the recommendations of the second industrial conference, proposing joint organizations of management and employees for prevention of industrial disputes and a comprehensive plan for adjusting such disputes when they occur. DIGGERS TURN UP TREASURE Sewer Worker Find Collection of Rings and Earrings in a Bos- ton Sewer Plugs. Boston.—A sever gang quit work at noon the other day with a valuable treasure trove. In the slime of an old pit near the Quincy house they had found three gold rings, coins, watches and other valables. Hotel employees suggested that the hotel had a claim on the articles, as the property probably of guests of bygone days. The police suspected that they were part of the loot of thieves. But when the men showed coins dating back to 1787, stamped with a pine tree on one side and "Massachusetts" the other, they insisted that the statutes limitations made the property theirs. With the ancient coins they found beer checks, which the foreman of the gang said he intended to keep with a "pine tree shilling," as a souvenir of the past. The foreman estimated that the deposit of mud in which the valables were found had not been disturbed in 75 years. It's No Fault of Mint If You're Shy of Coin Washington.—The mints established a record in collage during the last fiscal year, according to the annual report of Director Ray Baker made public. A total of 800,500,000 coins were executed, which, Mr. Baker declares, is a world's record. The figures show an increase of 446 per cent over 1915. Public demand for smaller coins, particularly pennies, is reflected in the report, which discloses that more than 512,500,000 coins in the record output were 1-cent pieces. KING SPLITS ROYAL ESTATE Spanish Monarch to Parcel Out 2,500 Acres of Land in Small Farm Plots. Madrid. — Instructions have been given by King Alfonso for the forma- tion of an agricultural syndicate, the object of which will be the parceling out of the king's royal estate at El Pardo, nine miles west of this city, for cultivation under the auspices of the Catholic Under the auspices. The property contains nearly 2,500 acres and will be divided into small plots. A plan has been devised which will permit laborers to acquire the land allotted to them. "The Yellow Ostrich Feather." Booneville, Ky.—Nancy and Cynthia Hale, aged fourteen and fifteen, respectively, who cook and wash and sew for six little motherless brothers and sisters, have made a quilt which they have christened "The Yellow Ostrich Feather." Neighbors thought so much of it that it was sent to Louis- ville to be sold for the benefit of wom- $2.40 PER YEAR VOODOOISM IS FAITH OF HAITI Admiral Knapp, Investigating Conditions, Tells Shocking Tales of Practices. KILL HUMANS. DRINK BLOOD Native, Is Strongly Superstitious, Fears Evil Eye and Stands, Great Awe of Voodoo Priesta and Priestesses. Washington, D. C.—That 95 per cent of the natives of Haiti believe in the African jungle faith of voodooism which requires the sacrifice of human beings and the drinking of human blood is declared by Rour Admiral H. S. Knapp in his report to the secretary of the navy on investigation of Haitian conditions. Admiral Knapp cites a shocking case of the trial of a voodoo priest, who is reported to have killed 13 children, whose blood was drunk and flesh eaten by persons present at the rites. "Voodooism is prevalent," says the admiral's report, "and the further one goes from the coast into the interior the more openly is voodooism practiced. Voodooism is essentially snake worship, and in its extreme rites it requires the sacrifice of human beings and the drinking of their blood and the eating of their flesh. Orgies at Sacrifices. "The human sacrifice is called the 'hornless goat'; minor sacrifices of goats are made. These religious celebrations, if the word 'religious' can be applied to such affairs, in disgraceful orgies of debauchery. It is very difficult, of course, to determine just how extensively the beliefs are held, but some Haitians themselves have asserted that probably 65 per cent of the total population believes in voodoism to a greater or less extent. "Of course, the contrary is strongly held by apologists for the Haitian character. It seems certain, however, that whether it be the effect of voodoism or not, the average Haitian is strongly superstitious—superstitious with the superstitions of the jungle. He is afraid of the evil eye, or, as it is called here, the 'ouanga', and stands in great awe of the voodoos priests and priestesses. It is also believed the educated classes are not free from much of this superstition, even where they deny belief in or the existence of voodoism. Voodoo Followers Feared. "Hattian officials high in place will not take action against persons accused of voodoism, whether because of their own belief in it or because of fear born of their own knowledge of the extent to which voodoism is prevalent among the population or of incurring emmities. A voodoo priest has been lately tried and sentenced, and the proceedings of the military commission are now in Washington awaiting action. "This man is said to have killed, at one time or another, 13 children, whose blood was drunk and whose flesh was eaten by persons present at the rites. The practice of similar voodoism is sufficiently believed by those most familiar with the situation in Hatti to be not unusual in the remote places, although it is very difficult to obtain any positive evidence in corroboration." OLD WOMAN MAKES QUILT Makes One for Her Grandson That Contains 5,760 Pieces of Patches. Medford, Wis.—Mrs. Jackson Moon of Perkinstown has just completed a quilt consisting of 5,760 pieces for her grandson, William Woods of Wausau, whose pieces were collected from friends and neighbors. Work on the quilt began last April. Two weeks of continuous sewing made Mrs. Moon's fingers so sore that she was compelled to abandon the work for a time, resting her fingers by spinning for a neighbor. Mrs. Moon. With seventy years old, does her own housework, entertains much company, helps with the milking, churns three times a week, markets her butter, and no sick rela- tion pleen can find a better nurse than she. In the past twelve years this in- dustrious lady has placed 12 quilts each made up of thousands of pieces, all sewed by hand, for Mrs. Moon does not like to sew on a machine. Baby Ostrich Scrappy. Vancouver, Canada.—Jonathan, the first ostrich chick hatchened in Canada, is progressing under the care of Zoo Manager F. Green in Stanley park. It was at first believed that the rare and valuable bird would not live, and it was taken from its parents and placed in the Green home. Appearance of weakness proved deceptive, for Jonathan quickly whipped the house cat and won a decision over the family spaniel. A Boom Soon Punctured. Washington, Courthouse, O—This city and farmers in the neighborhood of Point creek had the "thrill of oil" when it was reported all over the surface of the creek. It was learned later, that it was part of 8,000 gallons which had escaped from a wrecked J. Q. ADAMS, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER ST. PAUL OFFICE No. 301-2 Court Block, 24 E. 4th st. PHONE: N. W. CEDAR 5649. MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE No. 2812 Tenth Avenue South J. N. SEILLERS. Manager. Entered at the Postoffice in St. Paul, Minnesota, as second-class mail matter, June 6, 1885, under Act of Congress, March 3, 1878. 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Seek not to buy liberty with the blood of either friends or enemies; it is only man's own blood at last that counts in the purchase of liberty. Whatever may have been the true philosophy for more ferocious times, this is true philosophy for ours. Cast your votes, then, even if many of you die for it. Some of you have died, but in comparison how few; 300,000 white men poured out their blood to keep you bound, other 300,000 died to set you free, and still the full measure of American freedom is not yours. A fiftieth as much of your own blood shed in the inoffensive activity of public duty will buy it. Keep your vote alive; better nine free men than ten half-free. In most of the Southern States the colored vote has been diminishing steadily for years, to the profound satisfaction of those white men whose suicidal policy is to keep you in alienism. In the name of the dead, black and white, of the living, and of your children yet unborn, not as one party or another, but as American freemen, vote! For in this free land the people who do not vote, do not get and do not deserve their rights. These words were' written many years ago by George W. Cable, famous writer, and friend of the colored people, author of "The Freedmen's Case in Equity." It is as good and as true today as it was when he first penned it. And it is quite different from the advice given by certain jim-crow "leaders" and "great negroes" who sneer at "mere voting." THE SIN OF SILENCE To sin by silent protest makes co The human race ha test. Had no voice injustice, ignorance quisition yet would guillotines decide The few who dar speak again to rive many.—Ella Wheel To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition 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. THE RACE QUESTION. In his first message to Congress, President Harding said: "Congress ought to wipe the stain of barbaric lynching from the banners of a free and orderly, representative democracy. We face the fact that many millions of people of African descent are numbered among our population and that in a number of the states they constitute a very large proportion of the total population. "It is unnecessary to recount the difficulties incident to this condition nor to emphasize the fact that it is a condition which cannot be removed. There has been a suggestion, however, that some of its difficulties might be ameliorated by\a human and enlightened consideration of it a study of its many aspects and an effort to formulate, if not a policy at least a national attitude of mind calculated to bring about the most satisfactory possible adjustment of relations between the races, and of each race to the national life. "One proposal is the creation of a commission embracing representatives of both races, to study and report on the entire subject. The proposal has real merit. I am convinced in mutual tolerance, understanding, charity, recognition of interdependence of the races and the maintenance of the rights of citizenship lies the road to righteous adjustment." MR. HARDING'S CHANCE For eight years one-twelfth of the citizenry of the United States suffered from the humiliation of segregation in the civil service of the country. It was a condition forced by President Wilson, who while delivering his smooth talks about world democracy, used his great power to humiliate and degrade millions of his fellow countrymen. Wilson considered himself a superman, and his ambition was to be the president of a super-government and go down in history as the greatest man who ever lived. Repudiated at the ballot box by his countrymen, he is today, according to all accounts a physical wreck. And as he sits in his easy chair, his keen intellect is tortured by the spectres of his defeated ambitions. Mr. Harding, you have the power to wipe out the President Wilson's great wrong to the colored people. You have stated on many occasions that you believe in equality of citizenship. You have the power to issue an executive order abolishing segregation in the departments at Washington and in the Civil Service of the United States. Will you do it, Mr. Harding? THE WOMEN AT CLEVELAND. The National League of Women Voters at their Cleveland session formulated a plan to work for the "abolition of all sex discrimination that Congress has the power to deal with." Effort will also be made to have all state laws modified where they exist to the discriminatino of women. This is quite different from the national colored organizations which, without exception, compromise on some fundamental point and while in some cases pretend to be working to abolish segregation, are actually seeking to establish it in one form or another. The jimcrow colored leaders ought to wash their dirty hands and "come THE MAN WHO DARES I honor the man entious discharge o stand alone; the w intolerant judgment the countenances o averted, and the he cold, but the sense be sweeter than th world, the counten the hearts of friend I honor the man who in the conscientious 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. ce when we should wards out of men. has climbed on pro- been raised against e and lust, the in- l serve the law, and our least disputes. he must speak and right the wrongs of er Wilcox. clean," and then join their brothers who are fighting for the removal of all legal hindrances, by asking Congress to pass a blanket bill removing all racial discriminations with which it has the power to deal. SECRETARY JOHNSON OF N. A. A. C. P. CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT. Secretary James W. Johnson, Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People, in a recent conference with President Harding, emphasized the important fact that the national association was not interested in the parceling out of petty jobs, but that its interest was in the enactment of measures to relieve oppressive conditions affecting colored people. The specific points discussed were 1. Passage of a federal anti-lynching law by Congress. 2. A wide and thorough investigation of peonage conditions in the Southern states, to be made by the Department of Justice, followed by the punishment of the perpetrators of the peonage system. 3. An investigation of disfranchisement in the South and the right of the Negro to vote under the identical qualifications required of other citizens. 4. The appointment of a National Inter-racial Commission to make a thorough study of race relations. 5. Congressional investigation of both military and civil acts of the American occupation in Haiti. 6. The appointment of colored assistant secretaries in the Departments of Labor and Agriculture. 7. The abolishment by executive order of all race segregation in the Departments at Washington and the United States Civil Service. Some of the things asked for are good, but others are bad, as we shall endeavor to show editorially in our next issue. We also believe that point No. 7 should come first, as it is a matter which can be handled by the President without any discussion or suggestions from either his cabinet or the Congress, and we have it on the authority of William Monroe Trotter and others that the President when a candidate for the office promised that he would issue such an order. That is the fundamental proposition upon which everything else rests. Let segregation by the Federal government cease. NAUSEATING. It is nauseating to read the rot given out by R. R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee, as he travels through the South in jimcrow cars, stopping now and then to make speeches lauding his oppressors. If he were the only one to suffer it would matter little, but his words are promptly telegraphed all over the country, and every time he opens his mouth the colored people of the entire country sink lower in the minds of those who read. Many of his statements are wholly without foundation in fact. For instance in a recent lecture before the students of the University of North Carolina, the wires say he said: "The Negro race has advanced further than any similar number of colored people anywhere on the globe because it has had the privilege of coming in contact with the white people of the South." Could anything with a smaller amount of truth and a greater amount of servility be compressed into one sentence? The census of Brazil shows that The census of Brazil shows that there are about 22,000,000 people with more or less Negro blood in who in the consci- of his duty dares to world, with ignorant, ant, may condemn, of relatives may be parts of friends grow of duty done shall the applause of theances of relatives or that country, or nearly twice as many as there are in the United States, according to census figures. And the colored people of Brazil, although they were once slaves and were not emancipated until 1888, a quarter of a century after Lincoln's proclamation, have advanced further than the colored people, in this country because they have reached the point where color does not count. They are absolutely free from any civil or social discriminations. The color line does not exist in Brazil, and the blackest Brazilian is in every way the peer of the whitest of his countrymen. Principal Moton deems it a wonderful thing that his race "has had the privilege of coming into contact with the white people of the South." Here are some of the benefits of the contact: Two hundred and fifty years of slavery; enactment of the infamous Black Codes to retain slavery, in fact, after its abolition; segregation; denial of living wages; denial of equal school facilities; disfranchisement; jimcrow cars, etcetca. Why even Tuskegee Institute which furnishes Principal Moton his bread and butter is the gift of the North. Northern people have given 95 per cent of the endowment fund, and the greater portion of the running expenses is begged in the North. The state of Alabama gives the measly sum of about $3,000. Here is another gem from Principal Moton: "To the Southern white people we owe our language and our religion and all that we have learned and all that we have advanced in civilization." Think of a man who would say such things being the head of an institution which trains the youth. Is it strange that many of the students come out imbued with distorted ideas of their proper place in the world? Then Principal Moton came out in his persecution in which he said that "no Southern colored man wanted social equality." In that statement he showed his ignorance of the English language? He probably meant to say that the colored people were not seeking matrimonial alliances with white people. Principal Moton may not wish social equality, but there are millions of colored people who do desire it. Social equality means, "equality in the collective body composing a community, especially when considered as subjects of civil government." Here are some of the definitions of "equal": of the same degrees with another or each other; uniform in condition or action; of just proportion or relation; equitable, just, impartial, exact; of the same importance and concern; not distinguished by any ground or preference. Social equality means the right to vote, the right to equal and identical accommodations on common carriers, the right to service in public places of refreshment and amusement, the right to residence anywhere one is able to buy or rent a home, the right to attend the nearest public school, the right to a legal trial when charged with crime, and every other right which citizenship in a republic carries with it. Principal Moton's dear friends of the South have denied all of these rights to the colored people, every effort for advancement has been fought, in one way or another, even if conducted on jimcrow lines. The purpose of the South always has been and is now, to segregate the colored people from other citizens and make them a pariah class, despised by all others, and subject to the whims and caprices of a master class. In North Carolina, where Principal Moton made his speech, colored people are treated as a group apart from the white citizenship and subject to different treatment. They have suffered from all of the inequalities of citizenship. They have made progress not because of segregation, but in spite of it. If the Southern white people had not placed hindrances, including murder, in their path, they would have ere this reached the plane which has been attained by the colored people of Brazil. Some of Principal Moton's activities in the past should not be forgotten. Shortly after he succeeded B. Washington as the head of Tuskegee, his wife was ejected from a Pullman sleeper because she was colored. According to the associated press Moton made no attempt to defend her, at stated that he had advised her, not to attempt to ride in a Pullman. Just after the armistice in the world war Principal Moton was sent to France as the special representative of President Wilson, the arch enemy of the colored race. The Crisis and other periodicals and many colored soldiers asserted that instead of investigating and endeavoring to correct the outrageous treatment to which the colored troops were subjected, he rushed around, made a few speeches telling the colored soldiers to be "good" and then took the first boat for the U. S. "in order to attend a conference at Tuskegee." For a colored man to laud the brutal South, which has heaped unspeakable wrongs upon his people for hundreds of years, is a disgusting exhibition of servility. Imagine if you can, an Irishman approving the awful murders by the British soldiery; conceive if you can, a Jew condoning the pogroms in Russia, Poland and the Balkan states; think of an East Indian landing the English who blew many of his countrymen from the mouths of cannon. If you can visual ize these things then you can get a true picture of what it means for a colored man to laud the South. THE JEWS FIGHT BACK. The Jews are not like some of our jimcrow people who turn the other cheek when they are kicked and get another kick. Oh, no; they fight back when they are attacked. For some time past Henry Ford, the billionaire automobile maker, has been printing a lot of dirty stuff aaginst the Jews in his paper, the Dearborn Independent. The Jews have money and the influence which goes with it and they are preventing the sale of the paper. It has already been barred from the streets of Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Toledo and other large cities. That's the way to do it; fight-back. Capt. Sumner W. Kittelle, U. S. N. has been assigned to duty as governor of the Virgin Islands of the United States, and comandant of the naval base. He succeeds Rear-Admiral J. W. Oman as chief United States of ficial in the new American possession purchased from Denmark. The islands have a population of about 27,000—23,000 colored and 4,000 white. It is said that the Ku Klux Klan has about 7,000 members in Chicago. A Klan has been organized among the white servants of wealthy residents of Lake Forest, a suburb. Get One! NORTHERN SAVINGS BANK NO. 3 2008 THE & ROBERT ST. M. PALMINE NICKEL 100 Yes, get one of our handy banks. Put it in a handy place Watch your account grow! The Bank is Free-All you need is a dollar (or more) to start an account. When will you be in? Yours is here. Let us serve you NORTHERN SAVINGS BANK Robert at Seventh, St. Paul ```markdown ``` TEL. CEDAR 7995 JEWELERS AND OPTICIANS ADJUSTING OF FINE WATCHES A SPECIALTY 414 ROBERT ST. ST. PAUL, MN ST. 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Mail orders and repairs on all makes of machines our specialty. Open Saturday evenings, till 10:00 P. M. High Grade Pianos, Player Pianos, Grand Pianos and Phonographs on Easy Terms If it's on Record, we have it. DO YOU KNOW TMAT FOR SERVICE AND QUALITY THE Capitol Steam Laundry CANNOT BE SURPASSED We do French Dry Cleaning, Dyeing and Wet or Rough Dry Laundering. A trial will convince you that this is the laundry you want. PHONE AND A DRIVER WILL CALL CEDAR 4622 743 WABASHA ST. the "Saintly City" and Saintly City Polks—Neway items of social, Religious, Political and General Matters Among the People. SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1921 All newspapers now-a-days have the type for their reading matter set on typesetting machines. The cost used to be from 75 cents to $1.00 per hour for this work. Now the price has been raised to FOUR DOLLARS per hour. Just think of that when you wish something published as we must pay at that rate for every line set. Bear in mind that all social articles published, occupying more than Four Lines, must be paid for. Telephone this office, Cedar 5649, and arrange for the same. Mrs. Ida Combs, Thomas street, is ill at her home. Mrs. M. Clark, 375 Rice street, is quite ill at her home. Mrs. Mae L B. G. Graves, 783 Sherburne Ave. has been on the sick list for the past week. FOR RENT—Three furnished rooms for light housekeeping, 519 Fuller Ave. Elkhurst 0175. Mrs. Charles H. Miller, 428 Edmund St., is ill at her home, suffering from an attack of the Flu. Mrs. L. E. Willis, 1460 Sherburne Ave., has returned after a stay of several weeks in Chicago. Mrs. J. E. Murphy, 1354 Thomas St., entertained the T. S. T. C. club at dinner on Tuesday evening. Office: Cedar 0508 Res.: Dale 2947 Res.: 678 St. Anthony Ave. MRS. T. H. LYLES Successor to T. H. LYLE UNDERTAKING CO. 150 W. Fourth St. ST. PAUL Mrs. Mary Barnett, St. Anthony Ave, left Thursday for a trip to her childhood home, Louisville, Ky. Mrs. Bessie Roberts, 977 St. Anthony Ave, was hostess to the Ideal Club last Wednesday afternoon. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished rooms for ladies or gentlemen, 270 N. St. Albans street. Tel. Dale 8586. FOR RENT—Furnished room, suitable for light housekeeping of couple, 602 Aurora Ave. Tel. Tower 0425. If you need any painting, paper-hanging, interior decorating or pipe fitting, call C. H. Crane, Dale 9334. Rev. J. H. Morgan, father of Mr. T. R. Morgan, 418 Charles St., passed away at Bordentown, N.J., on April 2. Mr. J. W. Kelly, 950 St. Anthony, who has been quite ill for the past two weeks, is convalescing at his home. Mr. Geo. H. Woodson of Buxton, Ia., was a dinner guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Johnson, 863 Woodbridge St. F. B. SIMPSON GEO. W. WILLS Tel. Dale 1914 Tel. Dale 2541 Office Phones: Cedar 1024 Tri-State 24 240 SIMPSON & WILLS Undertakers, Funeral Directors and Embalmers Calls Answered Promptly Day or Night Lady Assistant When Desired Office and Chapel 234 WEST FOURTH ST. ST. PAUL The Handicraft Art Club met on Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Roy Goins, 410 Carroll avenue, who served them a dainty luncheon. Madam L. Peak, 322 E. Thirteenth street, uses the Poro System for scalp and hair treatments. Call in or call up, telephone Cedar 8431. The marriage of Mrs. F. Mayo to Mr. Emmett Hixson of Chicago, Ill., took place at her home on April 6, 1921. Rev. J. S. Strong officiating. Readers will, doubtless, notice that Messrs. H. W. and C. A. Schuck have some desirable homes for sale. See their advertisement elsewhere. When you wish to write a letter home, you can get paper and envelopes FREE at the "Gentlemen's cor." st. Anthony and Kent. Mrs. Blanche Wilkins Williams of Chicago, a former resident of St. Paul, is renewing acquaintances with relatives and friends in the Twin Cities. PIONEER LODGE NO. 1, F. AND A. M. meets first and third Monday in each M. meets first and third Monday in each and Kent streets, at 8:30 p.m. J. H. Dillingham, W. M. W. S. Archer, Seyc, 493 Carroll Ave. Mr. Bismark Archer, 314 Western Ave, who was taken very ill last Sunday with pneumonia, is recovering rapidly at the home of his brother. Mrs. E. H. McDonald of Hannibal, Mo., formerly a resident of St. Paul, is in the city on business. She is the guest of Mrs. Tolbert Bush, 543 Brunon street. Mr. Chas. V. Wilson, of Winnipeg, Can., once a resident of St. Paul, is in the city on business and is the guest of Mr. Jeff Lucky, 1191 Sherburne Ave. Master James Oliver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleat Oliver, 402 St. Anthony Ave., is confined to the house with mumps. Ladies who desire anything in the line of hair work, will do well to call on Mrs. Lizzie Talbert Allen, No. 100 Park Place and Summit Ave. Prices reasonable and satisfaction guaranteed. Mr. P. P. Phillips is now the chef at Ware Bros. Red Moon Cafe, 527 St. Peter street, and is demonstrating his ability as a cook to the satisfaction of the patrons of this popular place. NOTICE—For Madam C. J. Walker's Method of Hair Culture, for Ladies; also Wavo for men. Apply to Miss Zida Hightower, Resident Work, 668 St. Anthony Ave., Tel. Dale 3492. Paperhanging and Decorating Have your paper-hanging and decorating done at moderate prices. All work guaranteed. The latest styles in the 1921 catalog shown on request. Kalcimining, tinting and paper cleaning done reasonabe. Tel. Dale 6796, or call at 683 St. Anthony Ave. CHARLES HALL. Also agent for Indianapolis Ledger. All news must be sent in not later than Monday. Mr. S. L. Rogers, 718 St. Anthony Ave., is away on an extended trip South, visiting his mother in Binghampton, Tenn., his mother-in-law in Laurens, S. C., and his brothers in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. William England, St. Anthony Ave., received at their home on Thursday evening from 8 to 10, complimentary to Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Gant, their guests, who are en route to New York City. If your shoes need repairing take them to the SHOE REFAIR SHOP, 347 Farrington, where they will be fixed right. Work called for and delivered. Shoes for sale. Dillard Frazier, Prop. Tel. Forest 7427. Wholesale prices for woolens have been so reduced lately that K. D. Miller, the tailor, 429 University avenue, has cut his prices to the quick for made to-order suits and overcoats. Call to see him before placing your order elsewhere. The reception held at Bethel A. M. E. church, 196 Thomas street, on Thursday evening, following the installation of electric lights in that church, was well attended. Rev. J. S. Strong, the pastor, is well pleased with the interest shown. PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER — Mrs. Harriet E. Williams, stenographer for Atty. W. T. Francis, suite 329 Metropolitan Bank Building, corner Cedar and Fifth Street, will do typewriting for anyone desiring her services at reasonable rates. Tel. Cedar 8948. Mr. R. L. Dight, 279 Kent street, left last Saturday for Baltimore, Md. He was accompanied by his daughters Dorothy, aged 10, and Margaret aged 6 years, whom he will place in St. Frances Catholic Academy. He will remain away for two weeks. On Thursday evening of last week trustees of St. James A. M. E. church were elected as follows: For three years, R. M. Johnson, R. W. Allen, O. C. Hall; for two years, S. Williams, Thos. Neal, J. E. Johnson; for one year, J. W. Lynn, B. C. Archer, Jas. Thomas. The remains of Mr. George Chambers, who passed away several weeks ago and which have been in a vault since, were interred at Oakland cemetery on Wednesday, Mr. George H. Woodson, Des Moines, Iowa, a comrade of the Spanish American war and a life-long friend, was present at the burial. Mr. M. Love, proprietor of the Elk Tailoring Co, 310 Rondo street, has purchased the building next door to his former place of business. No. 306 Rondo street, and is better than ever prepared to supply the wants of his daily increasing list of satisfied customers. He invites old and new patrons to call. Put on the worst looking old law to Frankfort, Ky., for interment, clothes you have and go over to the "Tacky Dance" to be given by Minneaha Temple 129, Daughter Elks, at Elks Hall, Sixth Ave. N. and Lydale, Minneapolis, Friday evening, April 22. Prizes will be given to the tackiest couple. Mr. J. H. Lawson, proprietor of the tailor-shop, 321 Jackson street, has been appointed custodian of the Fletcher property, occupying the entire west side of Jackson street, between Third and Fourth streets. He has charge of the rent collections, hiring of employees, management of the property, etc. Mrs. Alice Chambers-Henry, beloved wife of Richard D. Henry, departed this life at the family residence, 1172 Thomas street, Wednesday, aged 33 years. She is survived by her husband and mother. Funeral this morning at St. Peter Claver Catholic church at 8:30 o'clock. Interment at Calvary cemetery. The Annual Sermon Committee of the G. U. O. of O. F. held its final meeting Sunday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. T. Stepp, 782 St. Mary's Church and made contributions to join Minneapolis in their Annual Sermon to be held Sunday, May 8th, 2:30 P. M., at St. James A. M. E. Church, 4th St. and 15th Ave. S., Minneapolis. The Adelphia Club met Tuesday afternoon at the residence of Mrs. J. B. Johnson, 863 Woodbridge St., with 17 members present, and Mesdames Gillard, Katie Harris and Anna Foster as visitors. Treasurer Mrs. Margaret Jackson, who is to leave soon to reside in Winnipeg, was presented a cut glass dish, Mrs. Alice Gooden making the presentation speech. MINNESOTA LEGISLATORS WOULD PREVENT LYNCHING Anti-Lynching Bill Introduced In The Legislature. The Everywoman Progressive Council earnestly requests the presence of every race-loving colored person at its anti-lynching mass meeting at St James A. M. E. Church, Fuller and Jay streets, tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. There will be addresses by Representatives Theodore Christianson, George Nordlin, John I. Levin, also W. T. Francis, Rev. H. L. P. Jones. Representatives J. W. Olson, C. A. Sivenson, J. B. Gislanson, W. D. Washburn, N. J. Lightener, S. Child; Senators Geo. Sullivan, O. Sageng, J. Cumming, Gillam, Nolan, Palmer, Denegere, Coleman, West and other good friends have been invited as special guests. The Everywoman Progressive Council requests your hearty co-operation at this meeting tomorrow afternoon. President Harding has spoken, let us demonstrate our appreciation of his and our legislators' actions. Let all race-loving citizens be on hand early to register our approval and appreciation of the interest our legislators have shown in suppressing lynching and thereby support the Johnson Federal Anti-Lynching Bill and Anti-Lynching Program of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. There will be some special music by the Junior Choral Choir under the direction of Mme. L. A. Crafton and Dr. Lillian Lewis will sing a solo. Everybody cordially invited. The Annual Joint Memorial Thanksgiving services of the Elks and Daughter Elks, of the Twin Cities, that were held in the Council Chambers of the City Hall, St. Paul, on last Sunday, afternoon, were the best ever held by the Order, and the audition was the largest. Every participant in the program performed his/or her part in an exceptional excellent manner and covered themselves with glory. Geo. W. Stewart acted as master of ceremonies. The program was as follows: Invocation, R. H. L. P. Jones; ritualistic services, Gopher Lodge; selection, Pilgrim Baptist Church chair; "Elkdom", George W. Holbert; vocal solo, Mrs. Eleanor Smith; Eulogy, Gopher's Dead, G. C. Shannon; vocal solo, Mrs. Gladys Brown; Eulogy, Ames' Dead, W. R. Morris; "Woman," Mrs. Natalie Johnson; "What of the Living," C. W. Wigington; vocal solo, Dr. Lillian Lewis; "Harmony," Mrs. Sarah Wellbourne; "Thanatopsis," Hector Hunter; semson, Rev. Jos. S. Strong; ritualistic services, Gopher Lodge; offering; song, Audience; benediction, Rev. Merritt. The offering amounted to over $117.00. MEMORIAL MENTIONINGS You can't get much good out of church attendance unless you are doing the best you can to come regularly and on time. God can't endorse slackers with His blessing. Services last Sunday were well attended and enjoyed. The young people's singing was inspirational as well as tait of the old choir. Mrs. E. H. McDonald, of Hannibald, Mo., was among the visitors present. MO, was among the visitors present. "The Highway of Holiness" is the subject of the sermon tomorrow at 11:00 a. m. Rev. Scott, of Duluth, will preach at 8:00 p. m. S. S. at 9:45 a. m. B. Y. P. U. at 6:30 p. m. Has a Delightful Supper Dance. A social function par excellence was the "Supper Dance" given by the Sterling Club at Union Hall on Friday night of last week. Upward of 150 of the club members and their guests were seated at small tables arranged in the auditorium and partook of a splendid supper. After the supper dancing was indulged in until midnight. The affair was strictly formal and the costumes of both ladies and gentlemen were an fat, making the scene very brilliant and delightful. The consensus of opinion of those who were so fortunate as to be present was: "It was well to have been there." Bishop R. A. Carter, A. B., A. M, D. D., of Chicago, Bishop of the Fifth Episcopal C. M. Dist., will preach Sunday, April 24th, at Grace C. M. E. church, cor. Rondo and Kent church. In the afternoon at 3:00 o'clock he will preach at St. James A. M. E. church, Fuller and Jy St. Monday night, April 25, at 8 o'clock, he will lecture at Pilgrim Baptist Church, Cedar St. and Summit Ave. Everybody invited to all of these meetings. Come and hear one of the greatest orators and preachers in this country. J. A. Foster, Pastor. Grace C. M. E. Church. Defective Page "OWN YOUR HOME" Is Good Advice No Matter From Home, Home, Sweet, Sweet Home. The people of the Twin Cities—who were here in those days—cannot but remember the splendid picture editions of THE APPEAL, issued in the years 1910, 1911, 1913, containing scores of cuts of the homes of the people of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Those papers were revelations to everyone that saw them; and, they doubtless planted the ideas into the heads of many whose homes were not show in them to_get homes who are the happy possessors of them. THE APPEAL is planning to issue a special "Own Your Home" edition in the month of May, and if purchases of homes since those dates desire to get their homes in the forthcoming edition, they will please get into communication with THE APPEAL by calling at the office. Only a limited number can be accepted, and those who come first will be considered first. The "Own Your Home" Edition will also contain the advertisements of real estate dealers, builders, building materials, money loaners and others who are absolutely essential if you desire to own your home. The time is near at hand, and if you really desire to Own Your Home, get the USEPALLEL office is in Court Block, 24 E. 4th St., Suite 301-302. Telephone Cedar 5649. The people who had cuts of their homes in the editions referred to and who desire to have them to appeal in the coming edition are also invited to GET BUSY with this office. We desire to tender our grateful thanks to the friends who tendered words of condolence and sympathy, and who sent floral tributes on the occasion of the death and funeral of our beloved brother Mr. Henry Black. I want to impress upon you that you have the making of one' of the finest of men within you. I want to encourage you to live above your past. The very failures of the past become stepping stones for the future when we get on top of them. The very mistakes of the past become guide-posts and danger signals for the future when we allow them to. The past is gone, whether good, bad or indifferent, and cannot be recalled. Well, let it go, except as it may help us to not make the same mistakes again. An ancient writer put it about right when he said, "Leaving the things that are behind and reaching on to that which is before, I press toward the work of the high calling which is in Christ." Jonathan, the son of Saul, called out to the lad, "The arrows are ahead of thee." If we may think of them as the arrows of opportunity, we may say they are ahead of us. The future is big with opportunity, for the man whose today is bigger and better than his yesterday. We may not reach the heights at a single bound, but steady climbing is the thing that gets there. Perfection is always above us, and ahead of us, but ew may be always hopefully on the way towards it. We may look THE STANDARD FRO THE STANDARD FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN MAKES HOME THE LOG CABIN SAINT PAUL REFRIGER Big Factory Sale Find out how much frigerator for down not to confuse porcel white paint enam come out and let much money we can purchase BOHN SYPHON (Seamless Porcelain) The refrigerator Standard by Company and BOHN REFRIGER Take Interurban Car— REFRIGERATORS Big Factory Sale Continues Find out how much you can buy a refrigerator for down town (but be sure not to confuse porcelain with inferior white paint enamel linings), then come out and let us show you how much money we can save you on the purchase of a BOHN SYPHON REFRIGERATOR (Seamless Porcelain Lined) The refrigerator adopted as Standard by the Pullman Company and all Railroads. BOHN REFRIGERATOR CO. Take Interurban Car—Get Off at Hamline Ave. CARD OF THANKS. Mrs. Martha Black. Mrs. Margaret Rolls. Mrs. D. E. Beasley. OPPORTUNITY. TOWLE'S LOG CABIN SYRUP ASSOCIATED WITH CHANULATED SUGAR AND MAPLE SUGAR CARRIER STREET, NEW YORK THE LOG CABIN PRODUCTS CO. SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA up rather than down and then go as look and thus make progress upward. In closing, I want to encourage you in the highest ideals and inspirations and aspirations of life. NORTH CENTRAL AFRICA. By E. W. Gilles. In North Central Africa, we have the great Sahara desert. It is not all desert, however, as there are numerous oases, large and small, where they have water and vegetation and people. So we are finding missionary fields in the midst of the great desert. Some railroads are being along the line of the chief caravan routes, because some of these interior fields are being accessible by railroad, and the camel, the ancient "Ship of the Desert," is not so much used. Across on the eastern coast of Africa we have Abyssinia, which is the ancient Ethiopia of the Bible. In the 8th chapter of Acts we read that the Ethiopian eunuch went up to Jerusalem to worship. He was, obviously, a Jewish worshiper, but not yet a Christian. On his way home, Philip, the Evangelist, fell in with him and got up into his chariot and preached unto him Jesus, and he was happily converted and baptized and went on his way rejoicing; and we homeily understand that he went home and preached the gospel to his own people, and the first Christian gospel preacher in the great continent of Africa. We also traditionally understand that the apostle Matthew lived and labored and died in Ethiopia. In the northeastern corner of Africa, we have Egypt. The descendants of the ancient Egyptians are still there. We know them as the Coptic people, and their church is Coptic church. They are Christians way, but not a very good way. They are religious organization, a system of priesthood a form of church worship, but not much Bible in it. This always results in weakness whether on the part of the individual Christian, or the local church, or the denomination, or the Christian world at large. The missionaries are going to these Coptic people with the open Bible, and reading it to them, and teaching and encouraging them to read it for them, and they are entering into better things. Mission stations have been established here and there for many miles up and down the Nile river. The Mohammedans are alarmingly active in Northern Africa, and this is one of our missionary problems. Cyrene is in Northern Africa, and as we do not know of any other Cyrene, we are confident that Simon, who carried the cross for Jesus, was from northern Africa. There is Christian activity in Northern Africa during the apostolic period, and also during the period of the church fathers. Among the great men of the early church in Northern Africa, there was Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, and Augustine, bishop of Hippo. Northern African has a mixed population, consisting of the native African people and people from Europe who form the majority that enlarges the missionary problem, the missionary viewpoint, we regard problems as opportunities. SUCCESS. By E. W. Gilles. Go to bed "with the chickens" Get up with the sun Work like the chickens do, Until the day is done. Dry Cleaning, Pressing, Dyeing and General Repairing A GIFT ELECTRICAL We are sure would be appreciated Make it Reading Lamp, Vacuum Cleaner or anything Electrical WE HAVE IT We will make delivery any date Minnesota Chandelier Co. 369 Jackson Street Special Unloading Sale REAL ESTATE IF YOU WISH TO BUY OR SELL WE SHALL BE PLEASED TO RENDER YOU WHATEVER SERVICE POSSIBLE 665 UNIVERSITY AVE. REAL ES CLARENCE A. SCHUCK IF YOU WISH TO BUY OR BE PLEASED TO RENDER SERVICE POSSIBLE CITY HOMES CITY LOTS WHILE YOU WISH TO BUY OR BE PLEASED TO RENDER SERVICE POSSIBLE ASTORIA -- SANITARY CLEANING REPAIRING Dry Cleaning Suits Sponged and Pressed New Collars 368 WABA Near Fifth St We Call and D PHONE Cedar 174 H. S. SAWYER, PROP. TEL. SUMMIT 2450 COSMOPOLITAN GROCERY R. J. SOLOMON, PROP. First Class Staple and Fancy Groceries Vegetables, Fruits, Confectionery, Ice Cream Cigars, Tobacco, Cigarettes. Strictly Cash and Carry System 558 St. Anthony Saint Paul A. B. S. KNOWN AS "THANN" ST. PAUL ELECTRICAL We would be associated Imp, Vacuum Cleaner ing Electrical AVE IT Make delivery any date Nova Chandelier Co. 59 Jackson Street Holding Sale Clapp Shoes $20 to $22 your choice at $14.85 SHOES T. RYAN HOTEL ALL AND DELIVER LER MILOR AND PRESSING SCIALTY ST. PAUL, MINN. TEL. ELKHURST 2956 TATE HUGH W. SCHUCK ELL WE SHALL OU WHATEVER LE STEEL PLANT LOTS FARM LANDS WAIT - - SYSTEM PRESSING HA at ver Shoe Repairs Dyed & Shined Laundry Agent Hats Cleaned SAINT PAUL J. H. QUICK SERVICI MARY SHOP MANAGER NG - CLOTHES FRENCH DRY CLEANING ADIES SUITS DRY CLEANED ST. PAUL, MINN. THE DOINGS IN AND ABOUT THE GREAT "FLOUR CITY." Matters Social, Religious and General Which Have Happened and are to Happen Among the People of the City. Mrs. Hester Keeyes is on the sick list. Mrs. Bland, Hoage Ave., is recovering from her recent illness. A great membership drive for the N. A. A. C. P. is in progress. Mr. Zack Johnson is now employed at one of the Fraternity Houses. Miss Estell Carter is employed as a stenographer at Maternity Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur White have purchased a new residence at 2741 11th Ave. S. Mrs. Robert Marshall 2930 Clinton Ave. S., entertained the Eureka club Friday of last week. The Clover Leaf Club had a very pleasant time at its after Easter Ball at Elks Hall Thursday night. Mesdames W. R. Godette, J. Q. Adams, R. H. Anderson, and Geo. A. Gooden of St. Paul were in the city calling last Tuesday. The work of altering and redecorating the Porters' and Waiters' club, 311 Hennepin Ave., is progressing finely and will sortly be completed. Mr. Willie Wicks is now the proprietor of the Polar Wave Tailor Shop, rear of Everette's barber shop, 631 Sixth Ave. N. Tel. Cherry 7076. The Inaugural Ball of Pioneer Club at South Side Auditorium last Monday night attracted quite a large crowd, and everybody had a delightful time. Mesdames Price and Smeddler, proprietors of the "Chicken Shack" on Sixth Ave. N., have handsomely painted and papered their popular establishment. Don't worry, just wait for the "Tacky Dance" of Minneaha Temple 129, Daughter Elks, at Ames Hall, Friday evening, April 22. Prizes to be given for the Tackiest couple. LADIES—Fo, the latest styles in millinery and accessories, you should call on Mrs. Lillian Burris, 702% 6h Ave. N., upstairs. Tel. Hyland 5320. She is showing some wonderful creations. The Combs Bros, tailors, 809 4th Ave. S., have a splendid location and are doing a fine business, in drycleaning, repairing, pressing clothes. Ladies' work given special attention. Their motto is "Promptness." They call for and deliver goods. Telephone Main 5040. Mrs. Mary Holbert has just completed the purchase of an elegant, all modern, 11-room house, 122 Highland Ave. No., and will be prepared by the 15th of March to accommodate a limited number of gentlemen roomers. The furnishings and appointments will be the most complete and up to date of any place of the kind in the Twin Cities. Everything will be under the personal supervision of "Mother," and that is sufficient guarantee that everything will be right. few choice rooms are still available. The house is centrally located in the north town section and convenient to all car lines. For further information apply to Mrs. Mary Holbert, 250 Plymouth Ave. N. Phone Atlantic 0049. Statement of the Ownership, Management, Circulation, Etc., Required by the Board of Congress of August 24, 1812, of Before me, a Notary Public in and for personnel of the AFOA, personally appeared J. Q. Mac- ho, having been duly sworn according to the terms of the AFOA, the owner of THE APBAL and that the following is, to the best of his knowl- ness, the ownership, management, etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date the Act of Congress of the date 24, 1912, embedded in section 443, Postal Laws of this form, to-wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, author, and owner are J. Q. Adams, St. Paul, Minn.; Editor, J. Q. Adams, St. Paul, Minn.; Managing Editor, none; Business Manager, none; owner is J. Q. Adams, St. Paul, Minn. 3. That the known bondholders, mortgages, and other security owners own or are holding more or of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: None. 4. That the two paragraphs next above holders and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholder holders and security holders, if any, but also the book of the company, but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company, other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom the book is owned, that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who cannot appear upon the books of the company, securities in a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant's person, association, or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the securities than as so stated by him. 5. That the average number of copies each issue issued, the publication sold each issue issued, the threeprint mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the publication is required from daily publications only.) ```markdown ``` YOU DON'T NEED THE CASH Meet Goodman, -Wear Diamonds ELGIN WATCH NEW MODEL ETERNIS WATCH CASE CO. ELGIN This Elgin Watch (exactly as illustrated) is a watch any man may be justly proud to own. It is beautiful in design and accurate. Fitted in a 20-year guaranteed gold filled case. Specially Priced $19.75 50c a Week Money Refunded if You Can Buy Cheaper for Cash CREDIT-CERTAINLY Goodman's -JEWELERS- 94. East Seventh St. 94 Largest Jewelers in the Northwest Extending Credit, Across the Street from Golden Rule. Tel. Dale 3985 Prompt Service Mym Carter's Express MOVING AND HAULING OF ALL KINDS AT REASONABLE RATES 348 Rondo St. Saint Paul Your Credit is Good at the GLOBE FURNITURE CO. A. B. CHURNISS, Mgr. 473-475 St. Peter St. The Leading New and Second Hand Furniture of the City. IF YOUR EYES REBEL SEE UBEL 478 WABASHA STREET TEL. CEDAR 8190 HAMMOND TURNER ATTORNEY AT LAW 321 MET. BANK BLDG. FIFTH AT CEDAR St. Paul Tel. Elkhurst 3987 ELMER MORRIS DRUGGIST Prescriptions Called For and Delivered. Drugs, Medicines, Soda Water Toilet Articles, Soft Drinks Candles, Cigars, Tobacco. Ice Cream by Brick or Bulk Dale & W. Central St. Paul MAKE NO MISTAKE, JUST SMOKE Sight Draft THE OLD RELIABLE 8 CENT CIGAR Ames Hall - Kistler Building Corner of Lyndale and Sixth Ave. No. LET THE AMERICAN ESTIMATE THE COST OF AN OUTFIT FOR YOU Sonora Phonographs On Easy Payment Terms. The American 22 AND 24 HOUSEFURNISHING EAST SEVENTH STREET --- A. E. "SAY IT WITH FLOWERS" I FLOWERS" SAFEMILK Phone: Elkhurst 3163 MINNESOTA MILK CO. Why Pay More? STANDARD FURNITURE COMM. WALK A BLOCK AND SAVE 20% THE STANDARD offers you the real opportunity to SAVE on housefurnishings of every kind. Take advantage of our low oper- ating expenses—low rent, etc., and SAVE. Get our prices before you buy. LIBERAL CREDIT TERMS. BOVE we illustrate our way of making it convenient to get acquainted with the pleasures of Victrola ownership—a pin-money payment plan for purchasing Victrola VI and an assortment of records. Victrola VI is really a beautiful little mahogany machine, entirely capable of reproducing fine music—music such as Sousa's Band plays. Grand Opera music, music such as Caruso and Tetrazzini sing, etc. Victrola VI and 6 records, $40.10; $4.10 down and $4 monthly. MARTIN H. HENSE PROP MARTIN AUTO LIVERY OPEN DAY AND NIGHT TOURING CARS AND LIMOUSINES FOR ALL OCCASIONS Limousine Service for Weddings and Complete Auto Hearse Funerals N. W. CEDAR 0555 Garage 453-55 Main Ave. Saint Paul. DIAL GA 1555 GARLAND LUGGAGE SHOP Sixth at Cedar ST. PAUL. MINN. Repairs to Fit All Makes of Stoves, Ranges and Furnaces. We are Experts at Installing Furnaces. TABLE and That's Why We Recommend and Sell the Hartmann Wardrobe Trunks. TAILORS Dry Cleaning, Repairing and Pressing Ladies work given special attention Work Called For and Delivered Our Media: Promplaces 809 4TH AVE. S. MINNEAPOLIS