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A HAPPY NEW YEAR THE EMPORIUM QUALITY CANDIES - SAINT PAUL The SANDMAN STORY VOL.38 NO.52 MR. FOX thought that he would try singing to Miss Henry Plump to see if he could not entice her to come out one night as the door of her house was locked and he could not get in. "You can come out through the window that is open over my head," said Mr. Fox, looking up with longing eyes at Miss Henry through a small crack in the wall of the poultry house. "You need not be afraid, my dear Miss Henry," said Mr. Fox, "I will be right here to catch you if you fall." "And if Idon't you will catch me, too, Mr. Fox," said Miss Henry, "I wonder if she suspects my plan?" thought Mr. Fox, but he did not ask. Instead he said, "I will sing for you here in the moonlight while you are flying up to the window, then you will know I am patiently waiting for you to appear." But Miss Henry Plump knew all about smooth-talking Mr. Fox and Mr. Fox Began to Sing. she knew, too, that she was safe so long as she stayed inside her house, so she flew up closer to the window, where she could look down at him, but she did not go out. Mr. Fox began to sing with his eyes fixed upon the window, but when he saw Miss Henny looking he stopped and asked why she did not come down. "Oh! Mr. Fox, you are so wonderful." she said. "There are a few harsh tones that should be smoothed out and when that is done I am sure that all who listen will be so charmed "What's in a Name?" BY MILDRED MARSHALL Facts about your name; its history; meaning; enhance it so devoid; significance; your lucky day and lucky jewel BERTHA BERTHA, signifying bright, has an extraordinary ecclesiastical flavor. In old German chronicles the feast of Theophania is translated by a word meaning brightened night, and the root of that word is "peraha." How peraha, or beraha, became an individual character is too involved for space here, but it is sufficient to say that Peraha, or Bertha, was a sacred being, called, in an old Alasatian poem, the mild Berchute, in whose honor all young farmers dance, ring cattle bells and blow whistles throughout the night of the feast. She is pictured as an old, white-haired woman, with a long nose, who creeps into nurseries and comforts little children neglected by their nurses. In other stories, she is used as a figure of terror to frighten children and is the avenger of idle spinners. Beruf Bertha is undoubtedly the impersonation of the Epiphany, though there is an idea to connect her with the old mythical Harp or mystologist believers her to be another god of the Goddess Freya, wife of Odin. One of the most famous Berthas was the wife of Pepin and mother of Charlemagne, known as "Bertha aux grands pieds." Another Bertha of historical fame was her daughter, supported herself spinning until her son won recognition from his powerful uncle- Because of Queen Bertha of Switzerland, the name has always been very popular there. It has also had great vogue in England since the Norman conquest, and even before that time it was in use, having named the daughter of Chilperic, king of Paris, and wife of Ethelbert of Kent, who smoothed the way for St. Augustine's mission. It is used quite commonly in France and Germany, and in Dante's time was so frequent that you may have seen him with Ser Martino as the chief of the gossips. Southerly gave it additional vogue in England by so-called one of his heroes, and it even penetrated Greece by the marriage of a German princess of that name to a Greek emperor. Bertha's tallisman stone is the beryl, which is said to keep its wearer amenable and with incongruous charm. Wearing a beryl will reawaken love in married people. Sunday is her lucky day and 2 her lucky number. Hla Opinion. that they will be unable to refuse anything you ask." Mr. Fox began to feel flattered. "What can I do to smooth those harsh tones?" he asked. "I really should not tell you, for it belongs to Mr. Dog, and he thinks his voice the best in the world, but it is all on account of what he uses to make it smooth," said Miss Henny. "Tell me what it is, Miss Henny," pleased Mr. Fox forgetting about warning her for his breakfast. "Walt, you will promise not to tell anyone I tell you what he takes to make his voice beautiful," Miss Henny replied. Of course Mr. Fox promised and crossed his heart not to tell and Miss Henny told him that in a pall right by the barn was some very black-looking oil, but that he must promise also not to eat it all or Mr. Dog would be very angry, indeed. "I am sure a little will be all you need to take, Mr. Fox," said Mrs. Henny. Mr. Fox did not wait to hear any more. If it was something that belonged to Mr. Dog he would eat every last drop of it, for Mr. Fox did not care for Mr. Dog the least bit. Mr. Fox poked his head in the bait. It did not look very nice, but it would make Mr. Dog angry when he found it gone and so he did not stop until he had licked the bottom of the pail. Then back to the poultry house he ran and sat down and began to sing. He had hardly began when he commenced to feel queer about his stomach. "I don't feel quite well. I think I'd better run home," he told Miss Henry. "I guess you had, Mr. Fox," she replied, "for you are going to be very sick, very sick, indeed. That was grease the farmer uses for the wheels of his wagon and you will not care for poultry for a long time." But Mr. Fox didn't hear the last of Henry'senny said. He was hurrying home as fast as he could, for every little wile he had to stop and lie down he was so sick. "I wish I had that Miss Henry," he began "Oh, no, I don't. I never want to see a chicken or hen again. Oh! I am so sick. Oh, dear, what should I do?" © by McClure Newspaper Syndicate Mothers Cook Book We climbed the heights by the zigzag path, and wondered why-until We understood it it was made zigzag To break the "force of the hill" A road straight up would prove too steep For the traveler's feet to tread: That the road kind is its wise design Of a zigzag path instead. HONEY DISHES THOSE of us who are not bee keepers will not feel that it is economy to use much honey in cookery, but rather as a sweet, and as an occasional treat; however, those who have it in abundance will enjoy a few of the dishes made famous by the wife of Maurice Maerterlnick who has written very entertainingly of the bee and its habits. Honey and Sour Milk Ginger Bread. Blend one cupful of honey, one-half cupful of sour milk and one-half cupful of butter; two well-baten eggs, two cupfuls of flour, one-half teaspoonful of cinnamon, the same salt of one, and three-quarters teaspoonfuls of soda, one-half teaspoonful of ginger. Heat the honey and butter and when just at the boiling point remove from the fire and add the sour milk and the eggs and dry ingredients. Bake in a sheet and coat with a thin icing. Baked Apples With Honey. Core large apples, fill each cavity with honey and top with pieces of butter. Bake in a moderate oven, baking occasionally. Pears are also delicious (using lemon juice with the honey) baked in this way. Ham: Cured With Henny To every 50 pounds of ham use a brine of four pounds of coarse salt, one ounce of saltpeter, two pounds of honey and two gallons of water. Blend well, pour over the hams and let them stand for six weeks. They will be found delicious in flavor. Oatmeal Honey Bread. To a cupful of rolled oats add three cupfuls of hot water, half a cupful of honey, a tablespoonful of butter, a teaspoonful of salt. When cooled to blood heat add a dissolved yeast cake. Stir in flour till a suitable dough for kneading has been made. Raise again and make into two loaves. Raise again and brush with one teaspoonful of honey and two tablespoonfuls of milk just before going into the oven. Honey is a natural sweet and should be given to children to satisfy the craving for sweets which is natural to childhood. Fresh preserves are quite different when prepared with honey instead of sugar. Quinces are especially delicious when preserved with honey. Served with whipped cream they make the most delectable dessert. THE APPEAL. ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 30, 1922 New Year's Dream By Egelyn Heath (NOTE—This article, printed in the Boston Globe in 1922, predicted many things which have become a reality in much less time than anticipated.) HIS New Year's eve while I lounged with nothing else to do I scanned each column of the Globe and almost ere I knew a growing dimness "They are not human, mother, dear; they're only tame gorillas." Much as I feared the tunnel then, I feared gorillas more, and glad was I to come again back to our beloved shore. "When home once more my son remarked: 'You'll want to see the play at the Olympian theater; it is their mattee.'" "I think I'd like to say, indoors," I said, "and rest awhile." "Oh, well, you need not leave the house," he answered with a smile. "We do not go to theaters like the canale. I hope. Just darken the room, open the discope and you will see the actresses, and the coffices, and Where Your Taxes Go How Uncle Sam Spends Your Money in Conducting Your Business By EDWARD G. LOWRY Author "Washington Close-Day," "Banks and Financial Systems," etc. Contributor Political and Economic Articles to Leading Periodicals and the Writers' Ward, for the National Government's Business Methods. Copyright, Western Newspaper Union XXIII. WHY GOOD MEN QUIT Go today into the Treasury department, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Commerce, or into any other establishment of the government doing important technical work. 1943 HIS New Year's eve while I lounged with nothing else to do, I scanned each column of the Globe and almost ever I knew a growing dimness stole across the printed page; I drew it nearer, and behold! 'twas yellowed o'er with age. My hands, I found, had wrinkled grown, myocks were changed to gray; my form bent, my vision dim, my teeth had pared, way as I gazed I heard a voice, "Good morning, grandma, I wish you many, many times a Happy, Glad New Year." Then tall men said they were my sons, and daughters fair to see told me this wasn't ninety-three, but nineteen forty-three. Said I: "My memory has failed; how goes the world today!" "You shall go out this afternoon and see the town, cried they. At that the tears flowed down my cheeks, Quoth I. "The days are ended when these poor eyes could see the sighta." "Oh, ne! we'll have them mended." A grown-up son then seized a knob and gave, three, nulls, upon it; pulls upon it: "The car will be here at once, mother; put on your bonnet." And the spouse "coupe the coupe" was wonderful to me, how faster than 'een fabled horse was electricity. My son just turned and touched a screw; you'd think I lost my mind if I should tell how fast we flew, for we left the wind behind. We went to see A the surgeon first. "The lenses crystalline have grown too fat with age," he said. "We must put new ones in." With that he hypnotized my mind in some peculiar way, such rare sweet visions floated by, then quickly passed away. I woke, my eyes were strong and well, and hastening to depart we paid the fee and entered next a gallery of art. But as to pictures, when I turned, so very strange they seemed, I thought the artist must have sketched the stone he had dreamed. "We never painted on art, now my guide said, with a laugh. "These are but landscapes in the moon, taken by photograph." "What! are there people in the moon?" "Oh, yes, indeed!" said he. "Here is a lunar telescope; look through and you will see." I gazed, and to my great surprise distinctly saw them walking. I listened at another tube and there I heard them talking. "You see," said he, "we've learned to catch such swift, intense vibrations in the thin ether that we hear their slightest inonations. You look surprised," my son went on. "Till show these eyes of yours a sight worth while, our famous scheme that beats the Paris sewers. These little gutters ramify through all the streets and streets and catch the rain and hall and melting snow. These tiny gritings match, conducting down to pipes before straight towards the center of the earth, where the great heat, you know, will turn it into steam of course, and up it comes again, by other pipes, to spin and weave and cook and print for men. It feeds the factories through the land with no expense for fuel; it polishes for artisans full many a precious jewel. We laid large pipes through all the streets to warm the winter weather, so rheumatism's out of date and done with all together. "Now, mother, we will go and lunch on Arican's sunny clime," and drawing out his watch he said, "I see there's ample time. The sub-Antibal tunnel's done; we'll take it over there. The cars are sent through every hour by the force of compressed air." He added the tension within an egg-shaped car, suspended in iron tube. I felt a sudden jar, and to, the my astonishment, conscious of nothing more, I found that we were standing upon the further shore. And soon we reached a city near the Mountains of the Moon. (They told me Ethiopia would be admitted soon as one of the United States for China late had been.) We found a place to order lunch, by three tall men brought in. They served us well, but spoke no word, while gravely bowing low. Qnoth me: "I thought that slavery was done with long age." "So 'tit' said he. "Then who," I asked, "are these three stalwart fellows?" "They are not human, mother, dear; they're only tame, gorillas." Much as I feared, the tunnel then, I feared gorillas more, and glad was I to come again back to our beloved shore. "When home once more my son remarked: 'You'll want to see the play at the Olympian theater; it is their mathee. A "I think I'd like to stay indoors," I said, "and rest awhils." "Oh, well, you need not leave the house," he answered with a smile. "We do not go to theaters like the cannelle. I hope. Just darken, close the drawing - room, open the discoscope and you will see the actresses, the corioles, and freeze. Beside it stands the telephone and you can hear with ease. "What is a discope?" I cried. "A small, objective lens, so placed as to command the stage (as all the world now kens), connected by electric wire with yon white plate of glass that's framed in panel on our wall, and over this will pass the scenery and actors both until the play is through. By electricians it was tried in 1882. But that is quite old-fashioned. So I show you something new. You'll want to ride in my balloon directly after tea; I take you, if you're not too tired, up to the Polar sea." His kindness overpowered me, and I began to weep, when someone shouted in my ear, "You are crying in your sleep." The Globe had fallen on the floor, the lamp was growing dim, so what my son might yet have said is known to none but him. BANISH THAT STRAW MAN Supposing you thought you had been able to ward off all bad luck during the coming year by merely throwing a straw image out of your house on the last day of December. You would have thrown out not only one image, but a dozer. And supposing that with the discarding of the straw effigy you would throw away all your sins. This is why the far-away Kawaii believe. On the day he hatched the wise and far-reseeing head of family carefully makes a rough image of straw, which, with great ceremony, is taken to the door and thrown away with all the vigor a man would exert when he threw away ill fortune. NEW YEAR OF ANCIENTS The ancient Egyptians, Phoenicians and Persians began their new year at the autumn solstice (September 21) and the Greeks, until the Fifth century, B. C., began the year at the winter solstice (December 21). In 432, B. C., the Greeks changed the festival to June 21, the beginning of summer. THE JULIAN CALENDAR In the Julian calendar New Year day occurs 12 days later than in the Gregorian and the countries in which the Greek church predominates observe the holiday on January 13. Uncommon Sense By JOHN BLAKE LET'S NOT DESPAIR TAKEN generally this world is about what may be expected of it, considering the sort of people who are in it. Mourning for the dead, dead days of long ago has a sentimental value, but otherwise is pretty useless. Man was not born to become perfect in a hurry. He isn't perfect now, even after some millions of years of opportunity for development. But he is more nearly perfect than he was two thousand years ago, or for that matter, a hundred years ago. In other words, he's progressing. He isn't war-proof yet. He hasn't found any means of settling his biggest quarrels except by taking up arms. But he doesn't burn witches any longer, and he accords his fellows more right to their opinions than he used to. Incidentally his morals are better than they were in the time of Rome, and he has done considerable to add to his comforts and to his education. We have better means of understanding each other than we used to. We know what is going on in Sydney Nome and Tokyo, and can go to elephants a plin' in Australia. This makes for education, and as H. G. Wells tells us, education eventually means perfect civilization. It may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it is the best world that people now living have experienced. And we think it is getting better. Anyway, just because women wear short skirts, and crowds go to prize fights, let's not despair. We're improving, let's slowly but surely, and by and by we can work out our own saliva when there is more going on than there has been before, is surely a good time in which to be living. How Uncle Sam Spends Your Money in Conduct- ing Your Business By EDWARD G. LOWRY Author "Washington Close-Up" *Banks and Financial Systems*, etc. Contributor Political Parties and a Writer of Recognized Authority on the National Government's Business Methods. WHY GOOD MEN QUIT Go today into the Treasury department, the Department of Agriculture, the department of Commerce, or into any other establishment of the government doing important technical work, and they will tell you that their chief difficulty is to retain competent employees in the supervisory and technical positions. Their turnover is abnormally high in these positions. Every day men leave the service to accept private employment at materially increased salaries, so that the departments are continuously going through a process of selecting and employing and technical employees, only to be as they become really valuable, on account of the inadequacy of their compensation. The second factor which contributes to the present ineffectiveness of the government as a business establishment is found in the improper organization of the executive branch of the government for effective service. You are familiar, at least in a general way, with the defects of the present administrative machinery. You know for example, that the Interior department now has jurisdiction over a great number of bureaus of a miscellaneous character that have nothing to do with each other or with the functions which the Interior department was originally established to perform. You know that many agencies have been located in the Treasury department, the great fiscal department of the government, which are purely non-fiscal in character, such as the coast guard, the public health service, the supervising architect's office and the bureau of war risk insurance. You know that the great bulk of the civil public works of the government are executed under the supervision of the War department, although the bureau of public roads is located in the Department of Agriculture, and the reclamation service in the Department of the Interior. You know, furthermore, of the independent existence outside the jurisdiction of any of the great executive departments of some 40-odd boards, commissions, offices and bureaus. These are merely examples of a condition that would require volumes to describe fully, but it is generally known that the executive branch of the government is at the present time illogically and uneconomically organized, and particularly partisan. It should be remembered, however, that even with an ideal personnel and a perfect organization it is doubtful if the high degree of economy and efficiency that characterizes private business can ever be attained in the government offices. This is so because economies made by government officials are not transformed into dividends for themselves as they are in private business. There is an impression in congress and throughout the country that men of great ability are not found in government service; that the salaries are not sufficient to attract and hold them. On the contrary, there are a great many people of distinguished ability in the government service. One is more and more impressed by that fact, especially since the war sent to Washington so many men of large means and famous names that the government could be convinced. The comparison was time and again to the advantage of the government employee. But the salaries are not the attraction; it is the work itself. This is well understood by some eminent observers of public life. Secretary of State Hugh Declared himself as follows before the advisory committees of the war risk insurance bureau: It has been my experience that with the higher officers, the officers of greater institution, the officers of greater representation—while the field is a limited one because of the great opportunity to men of ability—it is still entirely possible to draw to the public service by the purpose of while resident because of the desire to render public service, and the number of men who are available for the purpose while resident. The pointing officer wants men of that class. In order to obtain them, however, he must obtain a free field. He must not inquire into the administration tendencies and must permit them to be given the reward which a well-conducted office of importance will give to its incumbent in the public estates. Now the difficulty increases when you pass those heads that get the credit and the money. You have to get to do the regular work and upon whose efficiency the operation of the department finally depends. These men are little known. The public hush time even when they are working in work to a degree of being willing to make sacrifices. The competition for men of brains and great ability of that sort, and the government will never be served unless it pays the price for those men. Now I think that is a plain situation. You must have a good team. The ream of war risk insurance for $5,000, or for year of all at all, but you cannot get an actuary. You cannot get in touch with your dependents. That would be a wretched job. CUPID OPENS U. S. GATE Russian Refugee Stowaway Permitted to Enter Country. First Officer of the Manitowoc Falls in Love With Girl He Found in Hiding on Ship—Passports Are Waved. Washington—Love came to Anna Viddenko, a Russian refugee stowaway on the high seas, after she and her companion, Evguenia Bonar, had been discovered hiding on the American steamship Manitowoc, bound from the Black sea to Baltimore. When John Baskin, first officer on the Manitowoc, ordered the trembling girls to emerge from their hiding place, he little thought that before the voyage ended he would have plighted his troth to Anna. But this is exactly what happened, and the bureau of immigration, Department of Labor, has set aside the recommendation of deposition made by the board of special inquiry at Baltimore, and admitted them for eight months. The State department, "for humanitarian reasons," waved humanitarian requirements. Anna and Evguenia were the former a vocalist and typlist, the latter an actress, were employed on the dock at Neverscice, Russia, when the Manitowoc arrived for cargo. They conspired to stowaway on the American vessel and seek fame and fortune in the new land. Two Russian boys, with whom they had worked, were taken into the secret, and the four found a black hole big enough to accommodate them all. Two days out they were discovered, and their problem became the problem of Capt. Waldemar Knudsen. The captain decided to put the boys ashore at Messina, Italy, but the girls pleaded so piteously to be allowed to remain that his heart softened towards them. So, when Soviet soldiers searched his ship at other Russian ports he found a hiding place for the ship and brought them to the United States. The barrier of language did not prevent John Brakek from speaking to Anna in the language of love, and before the ship reached Baltimore she had consented to become his wife. Anna sang small parts in Russian grand opera and Erguebia was an actress of ability, their papers show. Anna is nineteen and her companion twenty-one. Brakek is forty-one. When they reached Baltimore the girls' combined wardrobe consisted of three pieces and one hat. CHINFSE WOMAN SOLDIER COLLEGE OF SCIENCE In the South, where China's radicals are concentrated, the women, feeling that the Canton government holds out the best hope of the emancipation of their sex, are volunteering in unparallel numbers to serve in the southern armies. This photo shows one woman, standing as they are called, standing on guard. One of the government buildings in Canton. ART BRINGS $1,500 IN 4 YEARS English Painter Says the American Public Will Buy Only Dead Masters' Works. London—An income of $1,500 in four years from the painting of pictures has been confessed by C. R. W. Nevinson, an artist known both in England and the United States. Across the water the study of art is more demeaning, worse than in England. Mr. Nevinson, an artist of the American public buys only the gilt-edged dead masters," he said, "America is admittedly only interested in the antique, so she might as well close her art schools." Slides on Banana Painting London—William Bdgerty sued a street painter artist for damages owing to a broken leg. Bdgerty claimed that the artist used greasy chalk, causing him to slip on a drawing of a banana on the pavement. $2.40 PER YEAR U.S.FILM SHOWS DANGERS TO ELK Campaign to Save Majestic Member of Deer Family From Fate of the Buffalo. STARVATION GREATEST FOE Adequate Winter Grazing Ground Are an Absolute Necessity—Winter Snows Drive Herds into Forests where Poachers Get Them. Washington.—The question of whether the elk—a noble American animal and the most majestic of the deer family—is to follow the buffalo into near-extinction is asked in film form in a new United States Department of Agriculture motion picture, "When Elk Come Down." Up in the highlands of Yellowstone National park dwell the remaining big herds of this animal. In the park where they are well protected there is an abundance of feed in the summer time. But in the winter, when the big snows sweep down on the Rockies, the elk are forced from the mountains and out of the park, to the lower levels where there is less snow. In this annual migration many of the elk pass into the national forests which surround the park. Thus they become a source of concern to the forest species, which, in co-operation with the Montana state game department, is responsible for the new film. To Protect the Elk The film story opens when a big snow is due. From a ranger station, forest rangers and a state game warden start out to protect the elk from "tooth hunters." Up in the mountains "Six Prong," a great bull elk, sniffs the coming snow and starts to lead his clan to the lower country. Sam Bilk Most Majestic of Deer Family. ier, a notorious poacher, also senses the coming of "elk weather," and he and a companion leave their cabin for the open ranges, knowing that the elk will be easy to trail and kill when they are handicapped by snow and hunger. The adventures of the three elements in the triangle are then shown, up to the trailing and killing of an elk by Biller and Biller's arrest by the rangers. The story ends with the statement that the elk can be protected from poachers, but that starvation, the animal's other dangerous foe, can be permanently thwarted only by the provision of adequate winter grazing grounds. The available winter range in the national forests is far too limited in area to support the great bands that migrate to Yellowstone park. The greater part of the winter feeding grounds is, also, not within the national forests but under private ownership. The solution of the elk lem, it is said, lies in the purchase of these private lands either by the government or by popular subscription. Cold Photography. "When Elk Come Down," was photographed last February in the Absaroka national forest, Montana. The camera work was done with the thermometer twenty and thirty degrees below zero. There are many scenes in which the elk appear on the snowcovered mountains. Good "close-ups" of the animals were obtained by the use of telephoto lenses. The picture, two reels in length, will be distributed and exhibited largely through the co-operation of organizations interested in perpetuating the elk and other game animals. Prints may be borrowed from the department, or may be bought at the manufacturing cost by authorized institutions. Crow Rides With Mallman Norwich, N. Y. — John Cheehy, rural mall carrier, has pet crow named Jim, which rides with him on his mall route. The crow has never offered to fly away and may be seen every day riding with Sheehy in the latter's automobile. Often the crow is perched on Sheehy's shoulder when he goes to the post office to make up his mail for delivery. The crow was taken out of a nest and is about two months old. Two Men First to Climb Mt. Victoria, Lake Louise, Alberta. — Val A. Flynn of St. Louis, noted amateur mountain climber, and Rudolph Aemer, Swiss guide; succeeded in climbing the face of Mount Victoria in the Selkirk range, 11,600 feet. This is the first time this feat has been performed. Flynn has tried it three times before. PHONE: N. W. CEDAR 5649. MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE No. 2812 Tenth Avenue South J. N. SELLERS, Manager. Entered at the Postoffice in St. Paul, Minnesota, as second-class mail matter, June 6, 1885, under Act of Congress. June 3, 1885. SINGLE COPY, One Year.....$2.40 SINGLE COPY, Six Months.....1.25 SINGLE COPY, Three Months......65 SATURDAY DECEMBER 20, 1923 HAPPY NEW YEAR Before another issue appears the year 1923 will be on, and so THE APPEAL takes this time to wish its readers and contemporaries a happy and prosperous New Year. With this issue, THE APPEAL closes its thirty-eighth year of service to the colored population of the Twin Cities. The events of those years have been faithfully mirrored in its columns; the wrongs and injustices of those years have been fearlessly and vigorously denounced in its editorials. Always has it endeavored to serve the best interests of this community and of the colored people in general. Into the thirty-ninth year of its existence THE APPEAL is prepared to put even greater effort and service to the end that the people may prosper and progress and continue to evidence appreciation and support. MR. HOWARD'S REPLY This week THE APPEAL publishes Perry Howard's reply to certain charges in its entirety only because the charges had been so published. His attack on the National Association heads we leave to that body, except to say in passing that any public speaker may see in Mr. Howard's "case" the old debate tricks of argument ad hominem and ad populum. The real issue has scarcely been touched. It is in his argument on the support and defeat of so-called friends of the race that Mr. Howard slips into a fallacy that is not so obvious as the one name above. He, with many others, assumes that anybody bearing a Republican label is by that token a "friend" of the colored man. Upon this false premise he builds the argument that a non-political organization which fights Republican opponents of its policies becomes political and democratic! In the heat of his letter the defeat of seven Republican "friends" is laid to the N. A. A. C. P. This is misleading in the extreme. Of at least two of the defeated ones, Townsend and Kellogg everyone knows the facts. Townsend was beaten on the Newberry question and Kellogg was defeated because of Newberryism and corporation legislation. One of these days Mr. Howard will wake up and see that the party did in 1865 carries little or no weight the voter of 1922. We hope he will live to see the day when black voters will repudiate parties and men who pass out one or two $5,000 jobs and hoodwink the mass of colored citizens out of money and rights by maladministration of government business. A HORSE OF ANOTHER COLOR The double mob murder at Mer Rouge, La. is a "ghastly incident" and an "atrocity" according to the editorial writers of the St. Paul Dispatch. It is gratifying to know definitely what the Dispatch thinks of lynching, but it is rather odd that its writers should have waited this long to express themselves. The mystery is now solved. Compared to any one of a dozen lynchings readily called to mind the Mer Rouge episode fails to measure up as an "atrocity." Georgia, Alabama and Texas mobs have set the atricity standard too high. The two men were merely murdered and thrown into a lake. Hundreds of colored men have been shot, burned and disembowelled without eliciting a peep from the Dispatch. When two colored men were lynched within a week in Florida the Dispatch did not solemnly affirm that Florida "will be in disgrace with the sisterhood of states until it vindicates justice and itself." Perhaps it will be contended that the nature of the colored men's alleged crimes makes the difference in comment. But no—from its pinnacle of righteousness the Dispatch makes a pronouncement that eliminates this excuse. It says: "The character of the offense charged . . . is, with the question of guilt or innocence, entirely outside consideration . . . government under law has been challenged." This leaves but one cause for the sudden indignation of our big daily: the victims were white. The paper even ventures that if Louisiana fails in this case there will be a demand that the central government take a hand in the exercise of the police power of the states. And this, too, following an editorial denouncing the Dyer bill as an usurper of the police power of the states! Opinion of this sort is of little value except as filler. If the Dispatch, or any other paper wishes to be believed sincere by thoughtful readers, black and white, it will condemn all lynchings, regardless of the color of the victim, for the sole reason that all mobs challenge government under law and "set the reign of law at naught." Wizard Evans of the Koo Koos says, "it makes little or no difference what Gov. Allen says and what he means even less." Alexander Howatt, now enjoying the hospitality of a Kansas jail, once had the same idea as Wiz Evans. Perry Howard says he read "with amusement his letter to Senator Dupont. That's just how the darned thing struck us when we read it.—Pittsburgh Courier. LYNCHING EVERY 48 HOURS AFTER DYER BILL DEATH LYNCHING EVERY 48 HOURS AFTER DYER BILL DEATH National Association Places Blame For Mob Outbreaks Squarely on Senators The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth avenue, New York, today made public an "open letter to every United States senator," setting forth that four lynchings have occurred in the eight days from Monday, December when the Senate dropped the Dyer anti-lynching bill, 100 days later. The letter charges the Southern senators with being directly responsible for the "outbreak of harborman, anarchy and degenerate bestiality" which followed the abandonment of the Dyer anti-lynching bill, and expresses the hope that there will prove the sufficient statesmanship in the congress of the United States to cope with this threat to civilization. The letter follows: An Open Letter to Every Senator of the United States. The Herald says that after the race riots of 1919 the reds rushed secret agents into this country and the African Blood Brotherhood was the enemy. The Herald avers further that the A. B. B is the organization with all the bolshiev trappings and propaganda. What is claimed to be the program of the A. B. B is quoted at great length. The article closes with a statement that a number of educated race men have been preaching violence and have been preaching violence ever since. The Herald concludes: "During the first year of the organized activities by the communists among the Negroes a number of educated Negroes, most of them from Harvard, were found discontented and sufficiently excited to join the riot. They enlisted in the work and from that time have been preaching violence on every occasion to the Negro element." Still Hope For Dyer Bill Still Hope For Dyer Bill Washington, D. C, Dec. 29—President Harding still hopes to do something for the Dyer Bill, according to the following letter sent to William Monroe Trotter, of Boston, by George B. Christian, secretary to the President. The letter reads: "I have before me your message of December first, to the President. As you know, the President has made a promise to me to measure its present status is not a promising one, but it is still hoped that something may be accomplished along this line in the near future." The Birth of the New Year 1923 Perry Howard Denies Charge That He Blocked Dyer Bill Mississippian, in Long Letter, Loses Bitter Attack on Du Bois, Johnson and N. A. A. C. P. Washington, D. C., Dec. 29—I have read with amazement the release from the N. A. A. C. P., under date of December 8, charging that I defeated the anti-lynching bill. I want to denounce the perfidy of those responsible for this release for disjointing my letter and leaving out documents that were written to make it distasteful. No honorable man would do this; and I challenge them to publish the letter in its entirety. First I want to say that any student or administrator in any way, directly or indirectly, defeated or contributed to the defeat of the anti-lynching bill is a lie, and there is not a sane man in the country who believes this, including the man or men who released the article so charging. Second The reference to the Li'erian loan is inuendo, and, therefore, unworthy of notice. It is well known by the author of this release that for two years I have worked incessantly, together with other friends, to get an ant-lynching bill on the federal statutes; with other friends, to get appreciation and cooperation on the matter; and with Mr. Weldon Johnson, our efforts were resented by him because it was interfering with his one aim, and that is to exploit his importance and keep in the limelight. I have every reason to believe that he would prefer that the bill be passed, so that it will in any wise dim the luster of his vanity or self-exploitation. Our activities for the anti-lynching bill, or any other movement, have been consistently opposed by Mr. Johnson and Mr. DuBois with his help he has freely used to belittle and minify our activities in every way. I cannot see what places upon Messrs. Johnson and DuBois the responsibility of passing the antl ynchilling bill unless it be a popular act, but I cannot see why A. A. C. P, and for them increase salaries; for they give the most luxuriously salaried gentlemen who are doing charity work, whom I know. I know of no colored man perhaps in the country who would not be delighted to have their places, which reason I am not sure on the other hand, furnish every facility for ease and comfort—Mr. Johnston to sit in the gallery of the Senate and look on at the activities, prepared at any moment to step down one flight and indulge in the cake duck duck on the pages of Mr. DuBois strokes his Chesterfield beard and incidentally takes his "Crisis" in hand and fires a desultory shot at a supposed enemy. Of course, their release will be published in "The Crisis," but no word is given on the pages of Mr. DuBois' magazine. I have no word of censure for the Sues For $10,000; Settles For $10 Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 29 — The mother of little Arthur Mack, aged 8 years, who was run over by L. H. Hodge's automobile last November, murdered needless Christmas money badly hurt her. The couple have settled a $10,000 damage suit out of court for the paltry sum of $10. Hodge, of Scrivens, Ga., was on his hodge, of Ga., on business it is alleged he was driving at a curve on the state highway near here. He went to the magis- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People per se and its earnest members who mean well and are doing their best; but I do object to these autocrats exploiting themselves at the expense of the institution and seeking to belittle those who do not pay homage to them. It has been presumed from the beginning that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was a non-political organization. But true to my political faith I can argue that the institution is variably lining up otherwise and misleading their followers into killing off some of the few friends we had in the Senate. I resent this with all my soul. I especially resent their actions towards Senator Du Pont, who has been a friend of the N. A. A. C. P. and whose friendship for and fidelity to us have never been questioned, and in his stead they elected a senator who already has voted with the Democrats, on every roll call where any matter of interest to the Negro was a stake. When the special session of Congress defeated Senators Du Pont, Frelinghuysen, Townsend, Kellogg, New France and Calder. This gives us seven less votes for the Dyer bill. Then, may I ask, by what process of reasoning can we conclude that we are expediting the passage of the anti-immigrant bill, those who would vote for it and those hostile ones in their stead? At the hearing last Tuesday afternoon before Justice of the Peace Greenberg, Mr. Hodge was exonerated on the charge of cardless driving. He was charged with assaulting a boy he entered civil suit for $10,000 damages against Hodge. The matter was said to have been settled out of the court when Hodge and his attacker were arrested. The trouble it would be to conduct a case of this kind and the enormous cost involved and that she the money for competent lawyers, would have to spend a lot of money for competent lawyers, would have to get most of the money would be on practically of the best counsel for her to do would be to settle the case out of court and get it without to the tune of $15,000 to keep it in existence, to import Democratic leaders to Wilmington to defeat Senator Du Pont. I said no word for Layton, who voted against the anti-lynching bill. Billing him as a member of our group would arouse the war at stake to have Layton back in the House for two years and make certain of Du Pont in the Senate for six years when we know that Du Pont has stood pat on every roll call where instead of having in his state, who can be depended upon to vote against us on every roll call despite his protestations of what he would do if elected. I feel that Jim ought to go to these Democrats, whom they helped to the anti-lynching bill, since the anti-lynching bill since embarrassed us Republicans who were doing the best we could. I think that I am in position to say that the bill would have fared far better if there had been less of Johnson's挂盟套 tactics. Johnson, and the people's money lavishly under the insurance that this bill would pass, and, upon its failure, he seeks a "goat." Instead of contributing to the defeat of this bill, I was the author of the Gahn bill introduced by Con. Johnson, and Ohio to whom I was introduced by Mr. D. Brasher, and had the Gahn bill introduced with a view to forcing the proponents of the Dyer bill to encourage certain fundamental features into their bill to give it teeth. Mr. Brasher, when we went before the judiciary committee of the House for a hearing. "Jim" further knows that when the sixty-seventh congress recessed in September, on the last day there of he met Henry Lincoln Johnson and myself in Senator Lodge's office and scurrying trying to get action on this bill before adjournment of Senators Du Pont France, Lodge, New, and others who were busy on this proposition. "Jim" knew all this when he let loose this diabolical and malicious release, which was solely for discrediting my friends and me and bolstering my himself, and when he saves that there are astounding revelations of my activities to defeat this bill he takes himself out of the pale and category of decent men in uttering an infamous falsehood, and I defy him to preduce one scintilla of proof to sustain his malicious allegations. The only difference between "Jim" and me on the anti-lynching bill is that is growing rich while I am growing poor in trying to put it through. Regardless of whether in the change of changes bad persons, labeled Republicans, crop into office, still I am a Republican without apologies, and if this be treason, then make the most of it. PERRY W. HOWARD. trouble and notoriety. So the woman said that $10 would suit her since it would put an end to all the bother and trouble. BLIND MAN MADE WEALTHY BY OIL LANDS Wright Rock of Louisiana Becomes Near Millionaire Over Night. Sheveport, La., Dec. 29—Sitting in the blackness of eternal night, for many years ago he lost the sight of both eyes Wright, Rock of De Soto parish, 75 years old, on whose land KU KLUX CALLED INSULT TO WHITES KU KLUX CALLED INSULT TO WHITES White Southern Editor Says Soldier Dead in France Vindicate Americanism of Colored Man. The Ku Klux Klan is being repudiated in the South, according to extracts from an editorial of the Greensboro, North Carolina, Daily News, of December 18th, made public by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York. "The existence of the Ku Klux is an insult to the white race" says the editorial. "It is an admission that we cannot defend ourselves except by a coward's weapons. "And when that order preaches the poisonous doctrine that the colored people are not entitled to the rights of the white people, and to the equal protection of the law, he is not 100 per cent American, we think of those huddled crosses in the moonlight by one of the rivers of France. And when officials of the government ally themselves with that government judge on the bench charged with the crime of objection to justice, will not deny that he is the head of that reptilian order, we think of those graves in France. And our impulse is not one of pity for the colored people, for the colored themselves. Our fear is for the national authorities to abandon its own dead. God help a country that could be so vile!" Chicago Woman Named Assistant Prosecutor Chicago Woman Named Assistant Prosecutor Chicago, Ill., Dec. 29—Chicago may point to itself with pride as the city having the first colored woman as assistant prosecuting attorney. Miss Violette N. Anderson has received the appointment, to take on January 1. The honor to Miss Anderson comes in direct line with the prosecuted part women of both races are playing in political and civic affairs throughout the country. One woman has been elected to a state supreme court, another has been appointed a federal district attorney by Attorney General Daugherty. In the recent elections a woman was a candidate on the Farm-Labor ticket by theary of state, and just last week a woman who campaigned only two days came within six votes of being elected an alderman in the city of Mound Bayou, Miss. Miss Anderson conducted a court reporting agency for a number of years. This work took her into various roles of the state. She began the practice of the defense. She is today the first and only woman of her race in active practice before the Illinois bar. Many Colored People In Missouri Industries Jefferson City, Mo., Dec. 29.—A survey of colored employment conditions made by Secretary R. S. Cobb of the Missouri Industrial Commission, now being completed shows that 86,786 men and women are employed various industries, presenting approximately 48 per cent of the total 178,241 colored people of the state; of the number 57,984 are men and 28,796 are women. In the classifications of colored workers, that of servants leads with 10,660 women and 2,942 men. The report lists, 12,980 laudresses and agricultural work, 11,892 men and 394 women among other classes are barbers and dressers, 767 men and 268 women; porters, 4,332; waiters, 1,191 and 243 women. Among occupational other than industries are included physicians, 120; clergymen, 476; nurses, 36; school teachers 902; musicians and music teachers 159. PRISONERS SPIRITED FROM UNGUARDED JAIL Pilot Point, Tex., Dec. 29—Two colored men detained in connection with the theft of two horses were missing from jail at the roll call. An unsigned note was found on the door of a local newspaper office, which read: "Both Negroes got that was coming to them. Let this be known to the Negro grove looters get a job or leave town." Two colored men disappeared from the Pilot Point jail in a similar manner several months ago and nothing has been heard of them. The jail is located in a backwoods and unguarded at night. Colored people here blame the Ku Klux Klan. Since the men have been kidnapped, scores of men, children have left the vicinity. The men have many colored people here and opportunities for employment are scarce. SUBSTITUTE FOR DYER BILL HELD NOT ACCEPTABLE Senators Told Commission to Investigate Lynchings Is Inadvisable and Unnecessary. ESSENTIAL FACTS KNOWN N. A. A. C. P. Holds Out for Revision of Senate Rules and Passage of Dyer Measure. New York, Dec. 29—Proposal by Republican senators to institute a commission for the purpose of investigating lynching in the United States has elicited a sharp letter to Senator Frelenghuius, author of the resolution, from James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Science, who notice is served that a substitute for the Dyer anti-lynching bill will not be acceptable to our people. Facts Are Known Mr. Johnson's letter asserts that the essential facts concerning lynching in America are known through the information that a commission to "investigate" will provide as a plan to delay action and to "hull the nation and the Negro with false hopes." The letter in full is as follows: "I have carefully examined your proposed joint resolution establishing a commission to investigate a case of constructing a general inquiry into the subject of lynchings in the United States, including the number occurring and the causes thereof. "We would interpose no active opposition to any steps leading toward the establishment of a proposed crime of lynching, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in this case as in a half dozen similar proposals in the past is unable to see my necessity whatsoever for such a commission, nor can we propose a measured measure as a substitute for the proposed bill. Such a commission as you propose could gather only statistics and facts such as have already been presented by this association and other agencies and which have been repeatedly and at great length read in the public record where they are available to be cited States Senate as well as to other citizens. Commission Ineffective "The essential facts in regard to lynching are well known and undisputed. The gathering of such facts for an additional year would have no predictable effect upon the question. The commission plan, with its year of investigation, only as a further delay to the one thing we believe to be essential in the circumstances, and that is legislation giving the federal government jurisdiction where states have had in the past 35 years, to have issued a decree of crime trial by due process of law, or to prosecute and punish members of mobs. "This commission plan therefore, seems calculated only to delay action on the nation and the Negro with false hopes. "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will not be actively interested in a commission to investigate lynching. Rather, we insist on a revision of Mr.ite's rules of procedure and the passage of the Dyer anti-lynching bill." Senator Meill McCormick of Illinois had a similar measure before the Senate, but withdrew it pending the vote and committee action on the bill. His bill authorized the appointment of a commission, composed of both races, to handle the investigations on mob violence. COLORE MEN EAT TOO MUCH; GETTING FAT Chicago, Ill., Dec. 29.—Colored men are getting fatter to the detriment of vest buttons and longevity, according to a survey just completed, by the organization. The expansion of the survey, dife to overeating and indulgence in sweets. "Men who used to treat guests, friends and customers at bars now entertain them at meals, buying pastries and sweets," the report said. Except in the rarest instances, colored men who live to ripe old age are thin. CHICAGO RIOT TO COST CITY $500,000 The City of Chicago must dig up a half million dollars to pay the expenses of the race riot there in 1919. Eighteen death claims aggregating $11,000 were approved yesterday by the city's finance committee. The city previously had paid $20,-800 for five other deaths. Fifteen death claims remained unsettled. Damage to property was not included in the estimated figure of $500,000. During the riots, according to an investigating commission, 543 people were injured -178 white, 348 colored people and 17 of undetermined race. 1 STAND FOR THESE THINGS By E. W. Gilles. I stand for the entire Bible, though I cannot understand or explain it in many of its parts as I would like. I stand for the Trinity and for the trinitarian gospel. It is the message in the name of God the Father, and God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, that reaches the hearts and lives of men. I stand for the Bible doctrines as the average man would understand the meaning of the Holy Ghost under the direction of the Holy Ghost. I stand for the properties and courtesies of the Christian Life. I stand for either sympathetic cooperation with others or withdrawn from them. WEEK'S RECORD OF HAPPENINGS IN MINNECOTA'S CAPITAL. The "Saintly City" and Saintly City Folks—Neway Items of Social, Religious, Political and General Matters Among the People. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1922. THE APPEAL ASKS AS A SPECIAL FAVOR THAT ITS READERS GIVE PREFERENCE TO THE ADVERTISERS 'WHO SEEK THEIR PATRONAGE. BY ADVERTISING IN IT. SHOP IN THE APPEAL BEFORE SHOPPING ELSEWHERE. WISH ALL OF OUR READERS A HAPPY NEW YEAR Mr. Hutchinson Inge went to St. Louis for the holidays. The St. Paul Universal has moved to 411 University avenue. FOR RENT — Five-room second floor flat. Call Dale 7557. Miss Bella Taylor went to Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago for the holidays. FOR RENT—Nicely furnished room, modern conveniences. Call Dale 7955. Miss Minnie Tobie of 990 Gaultier street, who has been sick the past two weeks, is convalescing. Mr. and Mrs. J. Follings of 418 Rondo street, entertained fifteen guests at dinner Christmas. Mrs. M. A. Johnson of 975 St. Anthony avenue, was hostess to the Ideal club Wednesday afternoon. INSIST ON GETTING CLOVER LEAF BUTTER TILDEN PRODUCE CO. CHURNERS PIONEER LODGE NO. I. F. AND A. M., new first and third Monday in each month at Masonic Hall, 1688 Rondo St., at 8:00 P. M.; K. H. Turner, W. M.; J. W. Thomas, Secy., 515 W. Central—Advertisement. Mrs. G. Harvey of St. Albans street, who has been visiting relatives in Chicago has returned to the city. The dance given by the Unity club at the Coliseum Tuesday evening was the event of the week and was well attended. The Christmas club held its annual Yule party at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lee, 646 W. Central avenue. Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Johnson, 975 St. Anthony avenue, entertained at a Yuletide dinner. Christmas covers were laid for twelve. Messrs. T. Crosthwaite, Raymond Cannon and Howard Shepard went to St. Louis for the Alpha convention during the holidays. Office: Cedar 6068 Res.: Dale 2947 Res.: 618 St. Anthony Ave. MRS. T. H. LYLES Successor to T. M. LYLB UNDERTAKING CO. 150 W. Fourth St. ST. PAUL HOUSEHOLD OF RUTH NO. 553, G. U. O. of F. O. meets the third Monday in each month in Hall, corner of Aurora and near streets 600 F. M. Mrs. Delia Williams, M. M. G.; Mrs. Carrie E. Lindsay, W. R. 426 Rondo street — Advertisement. Mr. and Mrs. A. Gilbread, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Pickett and Mr. and Mrs. J. Green were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Jones on Christmas at dinner. Mr. Roy Wilkins left Friday night for a short visit to Chicago and Columbus, Ohio. He will return home Thursday and resume his studies at the university. Mr. and Mrs. C. Roper, Miss Edith Gillard, and Mr. Hammond Turner were dinner guests Christmas at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lee of W. Central avenue. Rev. W. D. Wilkins, pastor of St. John A. M. E. church of Kansas City, Mo., was in the city last week visiting Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Williams, 906 Gaultier street, and his children, Roy, Armeda and Earl. A HAPPY NEW YEAR. THE STATE SAVINGS BANK 93 E. FOURTH ST. CASE CAR SERVICE—Persons desiring motor car service for any occasion may get the use of an elegant new seven-passenger Case sedan, by calling at 528 W. Central avenue or calling up Dale 8412. Rates reasonable. There are still a number of our men out of work, and it is to be hoped that anyone hearing about work of any kind will report same to Hall Bros. barber shop, Pittsburgh Bld., corner Fifth and Wabasha Sts. They are helping our people find jobs and charging no fees. The Oak Park Gophers, under the auspices of the St. Paul Universal, will give a matinee dance New Years day and also a dance in the evening at Union Hall. Elaborate plans and preparations have been made to make the two affairs enjoyable for everyone. Entertaining music by Moore's orchestra. You are invited. New Year's Greetings New Year's Greetings As usual the Oak Park Gophers of the class of 1916, will entertain and serve luncheon at Union hall, Monday, January 1, 1923. Matinee and night at their annual dance. Both halls upstairs and downstairs will be open. You and your friends are cordially invited to attend. Entertaining while you eat, by Martin Jones, Buster Lindsay, and Roy Webb, Alas, that will get it." Mr. and Miss So-and-So" with Moore's orchestra. What's next "anesure?" Ask us. Auspices of St. Paul Universal club. President Cyrus L. Lewis. DULUTH NEWS Mrs. Marie T. Coles has been confined to her bed for several days. L. B. Greer left the city last week for an extended trip through the Eastern cities. Mrs. P. Shackford left the city last week for Marquette, Mich., where she will spend the holidays with friends. Mr. and Mrs. A. Zeigler of Virginia, Minn., passed through the city Sunday en route to Oklahoma for the winter. Earl Wilhite's orchestra will be at the Elks' Xmas dance at the Foresters' hall on Monday evening, December 25. The members of the Pleasure Seekers' club gave a surprise party on their president, Eugene Waters, at his residence, the occasion being his birthday. Emmit Wilson of Grand Rapids, Minn., was in the city last week for a few days as a house guest of his cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Windfield of Park Point. The Sunday school members of the St. Mark's A. M. S. church held their Xmas exercises Monday evening, December 25. The program was in charge of the superintendent, George H. Adams. The Rev. W. W. Smith, who arrived in the city to take charge of the St. Mark's A. M. E. church and after making his appearance in the pulpit of the church, was given a ticket and paid in full and returned to Chicago. Soldiers' Schools In Tuberculosis Sanitoria The U. S. Veterans' Bureau, C. D. Hibbard, district manager, maintains three schools called Occupational Therapy Centers, in tuberculosis sanatoria for the benefit of disabled soldiers who are undergoing treatment. This institution has erected a special building in which to carry on this work. Recently the Red Cross donated a memorial fireplace for the soldiers' building. A splendid radio outfit is to be soon installed. The school already has a phonograph and a fine collection of records. The patients publish a newsy little weekly paper, "The Tickler." They also have a community club organized to carry on welfare and recreational work for the patients. Weekly discussion and debate programs are held. There is no question but that this center is doing much towards the rehabilitation of the ex-service men who are at the sanatorium for treatment. Government Insurance Benefits Persons who were in the military or naval service during the World War may obtain death and disability insurance from the government up to the amount they carried in the service, maximum ten thousand dollars. Some of the benefits of government insurance are: 1. War term insurance may be converted into permanent standard forms of government insurance. 2. No charge is made in the premium for total disability benefit in the policy. 3. No limit is made as to age in case of a disability. 4. No restrictions as to residence, travel, occupation, military and naval service. 5. Dividends are accumulated through excess interest earnings over three and one-half (3½%) per cent plus any mortality savings, and paid to all those whose insurance has been in force more than one year. 6. In case of illness, premiums may be waived by insured until recovered, if proper application for same is made. 7. No matter what a man's disability may be, or its degree, provided it is due to his military service and he has not been declared a permanent total, he will be accepted, on payment of all back payments due from date of lapse, plus five per cent interest, compounded annually on a twenty-year endowment, the extended insurance value would take care of all payments of premiums for the remaining sixteen years, BUT, by so doing, the insured would draw only the face value of his policy. A man is hanging from a rope in a dark cave. Below him are jagged rocks. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SAINT PAUL offers exceptional facilities for the handling of accounts of responsible firms, corporations and individuals in its Commercial, Women's and Savings Departments Small depositors receive the same courteous at- tention and considerate service that is extended to those carrying large balances. THE BIG BANK FOR THE SMALL DEPOSITOR JACKSON STREET BETWEEN FOURTH AND FIFTH MARTIN HENSE PROP MARTIN AUTO LIVERY OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Blue Cab Line AMBULANCE SERVICE CARS FOR ALL OCCASIONS Wedding and Funeral Cars TEL. CEDAR 0555 Garage 453-55 Main Ave Saint Paul. TEL. CEDAR 0555 A SECRET SANCTUARY IN EVERYBODY'S heart, screened from the gaze of intimate friends, there is a secret sanctuary to which he or she retires when the outside world becomes irritating and overbearing. You may call your sanctuary the place of dreams, or the refuge of rest and reflection, but whatever name you may give it, there are times when you like to retire to it and be alone with your gifts far from the turmolls and haunts of men. It is in this retreat that the soul finds its comforter, its better self and its nobler faith. It is here the beautiful flowers of thought are watered and kept in the sunlight, jealousy screened from inquisitive eyes, meddling tongues and fingers. You may retire to it in the midnight hour when the world is still or when the storms are rattling the casement and the rains are beating against the panes, but whenever you visit it you find the tranquility you crave and the new strength to help you carry your heavy burdens. Courage, hope, ambition and resolution are nursed back to life in this asylum and given a new meaning. Fear of poverty, loneliness and even disappointment in the failure of some long-cherished plan, lose in this sacred spot their uncount forms and poisonous stings. Hearts that were breaking under hard strains become normal again and function with their customary vigor, though perhaps with less dependence on themselves. To review ourselves in this sanctuary is to make ourselves better, more patient, charitable and considerate of our fellow-beings. If we search our souls, scan our follies, frailties and shortcomings in candor, we emerge from the solitude with less selfishness and envy. It is through these dear intimacies with our ragged conscience that we find the truth, get our bearings and thus discover whether the path we are plodding is taking us to the right or wrong destination. The impulse which prompts us to visit our hidden sanctuary is that which will in time make of us better men and women, better qualified in every way to help ourselves and to encourage and assist others. McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) The Friendly Path By Walter L. Robinson IF ONE must be a pessimist, let him keep his pessimism to himself. It is sufficient to make one's self unhappy without loading gloom on the others in the world. There always are more reasons for gladness than for sorrow, and if one cannot find happiness for himself he's an ungrateful and unkind individual if he tries to take the gladness away from his fellow men. In a big city rooming house, a lifewearman, previous to trying suicide, penned a note in which he said: "The world has grown corrupt. It is no decent place to live in. One has to be a thief, a whisky runner or inebriate else he is no good any more." A poor excuse to remove himself from this life of sunshine and gladness. But he had even less excuse for unloading his pessimism to disturb the lives of thousands who are finding this a pretty good old world in which to "carry on." The man didn't succeed in removing himself from this life, and when he recovers it is quite probable that he'll prize his breath and the privilege of living more than he ever did before. But he'll only do so when he engages some of his time and attention in the task which belongs to everyone—that of making the world better, more beautiful and its inhabitants more happy and thankful to their God. No one can answer the question without a lengthy thesis as to how fast the world is growing better. But no one can delve into history even a little without admitting that most people abhor sin and are more ashamed of sinning than people were not very long ago. Thomas Edison, also camping with Henry Ford and H. S. Firestone recently, said that "Every man will revert to barbarism if given half a chance." But he contended that civilization is gaining, though he estimated that 15,000 years would have to pass before him "will have reached such a high point of civilization where he cannot, or will not want to go back to the barbaric life." So you see we're moving in the right direction and following the right path. Then let us forget our complaining and not block traffic for others with foolish pessimism, for there is need of more optimism to bring the charlot of happiness through successfully, even though we're engaged in a tortoise race. UNION HALL KENT AND AURORA STREETS JANUARY 1, 1923 Matinee 2 p. m. to 6:30 p. m. Evening 8:30 p. m. to ? ENTERTAINING Moore's Dance Orchestra Under the Auspices of St. Paul Universal Club YOU ARE INVITED. Katherine MacDonald A Handome "Katie" MacDonald, the "movie" star, was born in Pittsburgh in 1892. She received her early education there, afterward attending Blaireville college. Her screen career began, without previous stage experience, in support of Douglas Falkbanks in a popular production. She is five feet, eight inches tall, weighs about 134 pounds, has light hair and large blue eyes. She is considered one of the most beautiful women in America, being known as "The American Beauty." Mr. A. preached a splendid sermon. He stuck to his theme so closely as to make it apparent that everything he said was relevant to it. His illustrations and citations were all from the Bible or from history or from other authentic sources, and so appealed to the people in a real religious way, rather than sounding smart funny or fishy. He did not fishy all in the way of self-praise or in condemnation of others, but set forth great appealing principles that gripped his audience and produced results. RONDO PHARMACY R. W. HERDIG, PROPRIETOR Registered Pharmacist Always Prompt Always Courteous Service with a smile---Phone your wants Fast, free, furious delivery ANNIVERSARY SHOE SALE A Year ago we started our big and successful reorganization sale we are now going to give you the same big values as then. Our stock is complete and up-to-date. 10 The Edwin Clap Values $14 and $15 $11 STANLEY - RE 400 ROBE RYAN HOTEL. The Edwin Clapp High and Low Shoes Values $14 and $15 $11.85 and $12.85 A DIAMONDS Your Credit i FRANK 478 W N. E. Anderson G. W. WEDS WED Your Credit is Good at UbeL FRANK A. UBER 478 Wabasha St. RY OPTICAL 06 GARR FUL STOVE & FURNACE REPAIR W Manufacturers and Jobbers Dairs to Fit All Makes of Stoves, Ranges Ences. We are Experts at Installing Furn STOVES STORED RD ST. ST. PA Your Credit is Good at Ubel's ST. PAUL STOVE & F Manufacture Repairs to Fit All Make Furnaces. We are Expe STOVES 105 E. THIRD ST. ST. PAUL STOVE & FURNACE REPAIR WORKS Manufacturers and Jobbers Repairs to Fit All Makes of Stoves, Ranges and Furnaces. We are Experts at Installing Furnaces. "Say It With Flowers" HOLM & OLSO OLM & OLSO HOLM & OLSON SAFEMIL Phone: Elkhurst 3 AFEMIL SAFEMILK Phone: Elkhurst 3163 JEWELRY CEDAR 1206 are constantly appearing and they come here first. We want you to share in the pleasure of seeing their new beauty, their increased effectiveness. Come when you can and see how the modern home is lighted and made beautiful by the latest ideas in fixtures. Let Us Wire Your Home. Seven Corners Electric Co. 208 W. 3d St. Phone Cedar 8395. Opposite Wilder Public Baths. N. E. Anderson G. W. Swanson Good at Ubel's A. UBEL oasha St. OPTICAL GOODS LURNACE REPAIR WORKS and Jobbers S of Stoves, Ranges and Bals at Installing Furnaces. STORED ST. PAUL, MINN. OLSON MILK WATCHES GARFIELD 2918 MINNEAPOLIS 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. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1922. Mr. Wm. Horton went to Bolivar, Tenn., to visit his mother who has been very ill. The Bachelor gave a very delightful party Christmas night which was well attended. The funeral of Mr. Thomas Walton was held at the beautiful parlor of W. Squire Neal December 19. Interment at Crystal Lake cemetery. Ames Lodge No. 106, I. B. P. O. E., will celebrate New Year with a big Ball at Elks Hall Monday, January 1. The usual good time for everybody, Music by Stevens orchestra. The Anti-lynching Crusaders' headquarters are located at 501 Kasota Bldg., phone Geneva 4484, resident phone Dinsmore 7255. We would appreciate the co-operation of all interested in the passing of the Dyer bill and especially the women of the Twin Cities and vicinity. The card party and dance given by Minnehaha Temple Wednesday evening though not as well attended as was expected was quite an enjoyable affair. Mr. Wm. Miller won the first prize of a ton of coal and the other prizes were won by Mr. Irving Rhodes, Mrs. L. B. Smith, Mr. John Williams, Mrs. Corinne Johnson and Miss Bessie Sherrill. MRS. CECIL SERRALL WEST BURIED Mrs. Cecil Serrall West, wife of James West, died at St. Mary's hospital December 17. The funeral was held from the beautiful undertaking parlor of W. Squire Neal who had charge of the arrangements. Interment at Crystal Lake cemetery. Mr. West wishes to thank his many friends for their kind words and clock during his recent bereavement, especially his wish to thank the Northwestern Telephone Company and for the beautiful floral offerings. CITATION FOR HEARING WILL State of Minnesota, County of Ramssey, in the Matter of Proving the Alleged Last Will and Testament of Sylvester J. Belle森, Dedication The State of Minnesota to All Whom it May Concern: F. W. Gosewish. Clerk of Probate. W. T. Francis, Attorney. (12-16-22) ORDER TO PRESENT CLAIMS WITHIN THREE Letters of Administration of the Estate of Philip H. Anderson, deceased, late of the State of Minnesota, in the County of Ramsey and State of Minnesota being granted to Lola Anderson. It appearing on proper proof by affidavit made and filed herein, as provided by law, that the debt exists against the estate of said deceased: It is ordered, that three months be and the same day, after the date of the date of this Order, in which all persons having claims or demands against the said deceased, if any there be, are required to file, the same form of Probe Court, County, for examination and allowance, or demand, in it is further ordered, that the first Monday in April 1923, at 10 o'clock A. M., at a General Term of Probe Court, Court, St. Paul, in said County, be and the same hereby is appointed as the time and the Probe Court will examine where the said Claims and demands, further ordered, that notice of such hearing be given to all creditors persons interested in said Estate, by forthwith publishing this Order once in each week of the month, in a legal newspaper printed and published in said County. St. Paul, in said County, Dated at St. Paul this 18th day of December, 1922 By the Court: Howard Wheeler. Judge of Probate. (Seal of Probate Court.) R. A. Walsh, atty. SUMMONS State of Minnesota County of Ramsay Judicial District. Ellen Simpson, Flintuit. L. EISENMENGER MEAT CO. Established 1870 THE MARKET OF BIG VALUES PURE, WHOLESOME SAUSAGE 34 VARIETIES 455-457 Wabasha PATRICK H. SOUTHALL BURIED WEDNESDAY Ames Lodge Conducts Impressive Service. Patrick Henry Southall, prominent in fraternal and social circles, died December 22 in a local sanitarium, where he was under treatment for paresis. He had been seriously ill about two weeks. The news of his illness and death was a surprise to his friends. Funeral services were held at St. James A. M. E. church on December 27, which were conducted by the Elks, Knights of Pythias and Railroad Men's Union 548. He was a Past Grand Esquire of the Elks and one of both branches of the Pythias. Rev. R. E. P. Joseph of St. Paul and Rev. T. B. Stovall as assisted the pastor, Rev. Carlyle F. Stewart, who preached the sermon. W. R. Donovan represented the railroad men and delivered a fitting P. H. SOUTHALL eulogy. Brig. Gen. W. R. Morris conducted the ritualistic service for the Pythians and Exalted Ruler T. B. Carey presided over the Lodge of Sorrow of Ames Lodge of Elks. "Thanatopsis" and "O! Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud?" were read by W. R. Morris with effectual impression. The floral tributes were beautiful. Undertaker W. Squire Neal arranged and conducted the funeral very creditably. The yew casket and gray plush covered couch casket and was reviewed by many friends of long standings. The pall bearers were Geo. W. Holbert, David L. Lyles and Harold R. Roache of the Elks and Fred Thomas, E. H. Payne and Joshua T. Monroe of the Pythians. St. James choir rendered appropriate music. P. H. Southall was born in Eau Claire, Wis., and was 45 years old. He had lived in the Twin Cities about 30 years. He had a pleasant disposition and was an eloquent and impressive speaker. He is survived by a sister. Miss Mabel Southall, a brother, Edward, and other relatives. The FLORSH A style that is For the conser- dressed man- has designed styles that gi fort and elega is surprising satisfaction re Florsheim 421 ROBERT ST. FOR THE MAN THE STANDARD FRO The FLORSHEIM SHOE The Chester $10 A Straight Last A style that is always correct For the conservatively well dressed man FLORSHEIM has designed individual styles that give both com- fort and elegance. The price is surprisingly low for the satisfaction received. Florsheim Shoe Stores 421 ROBERT ST. 16 W. SEVENTH ST. FOR THE MAN WHO CARES Florsheim SHOE THE STANDARD FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN TOWLE'S LOG CABIN SYRUP QUALIFIED SOY AND WATER LUBER MAKES HOME THE LOG CABIN SAINT PAUL 10 Madame Nazimova is recognized as one of the most distinguished "movie" actresses. She was born in Russian Crimea, in a small town called Yalta. At twelve she played the violin in public, later taking up stage work. As leading woman of a Russian stock company she played nearly 200 parts in a wide variety of productions, in most cases learning her new roles on the day of the night it was to be played. TEL. CEDAR 7995 O. H. AROSIN CO. JEWELERS AND OPTICIANS ADJUSTING OF FINE WATCHES A SPECIALTY 414 ROBERT ST. ST. PAUL, MINN. St. Paul Steam Laundry "The Sanitary Laundry" Works: 289-291 Rice Street near Summit Branch Office: 443 Broadway St. W. B. Webster, Mgr. St. Paul HEIM SHOE The Chester $10 A Straight Last always correct invariably well FLORSHEIM and individual we both com- nance. The price very low for the received. Shoe Stores 16 W. SEVENTH ST. heim SHOE WHO CARES HEIM OCEAN TO OCEAN SWEET HOME N PRODUCTS CO. , MINNESOTA MUSIC & ENTERTAINMENT NIGHTLY THANN'S 40 E. THIRD ST. ST. PAUL CAFE OPEN AT ALL HOURS We Make A Specialty of Southern Dishes Tables Reserved For Parties Call Cedar 9088 The newest and latest PARAMOUNT AND BLACK SWAN RECORDS Get them from JAMES FRACTION Paramount and Black Swan Records for sale. Come in and hear the records played over. 311 Wabasha Street Tel. Cedar 9282 PHELPS HOTEL AND CAFE MRS. SYLESTUS PHELPS, PROP. 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