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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper That's THE BEE VOL. XXXV, NO. 27 WASHINGTON, I. D. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1914 JOSEPH C. MANNING Stating Facts About the South. Joseph C. Manning, of Alabama, is in New England engaged in a discussion of Southern conditions from the viewpoint of a native Southern white man whose career has been out of sympathy with the dominating element. Mr. Manning asserts that the South is at the mercy of political repression, and that whites, as well as colored, are the victims of government by a minority. He discusses this phase of the Southern situation as broader than, and not to be associated with, the popular conception of a so-called race issue or alleged Negro problem. He declares that much of the agitation of the so-called Negro question, put forward by the oligarchy, is to thwart national intelligence from going deeper into these conditions in the South which must finally have the serious thought of the American people. Career of Joseph C. Manning. Humanitarian, writer and orator, Joseph C. Manning has been a foremost citizen of the South for twenty-five years. He is a former member of the Alabama Legislature, was a leader of the revolt against the old regime during the years from 1890 to 1896, which came near overthrowing the oligarchy; and, as president of the Southern Ballots Rights League, headed a movement which broke up the Black Belt frauds counting-out system; while in the meantime a specific achievement of this work was the unseating of over forty, counted in Bourbon Democratic members of Congress in 1896. Peonage practices in the South, a form of re-enslavement of colored people, was first exposed and attacked by Mr. Manning. This work resulted in investigations and prosecutions by the Federal Government, and the breaking up of this system. Mr. Manning's object in coming North is to state the facts about Southern conditions, so that public intelligence may consider this problem and its bearing upon the general national welfare, in the light of the information given by one whose lifework is a part of Southern affairs. It is the intention of Mr. Manning to be heard throughout the country. He has spoken, during the past several years, as a guest of honor before the Union League of Philadelphia, the Republican Club of New York, the Twentieth Century Club of Boston, and other notable political and civic organizations, and is recognized, South and North, as an authority on social, political and industrial conditions in the South. Mr. Manning's present address is: Care of the Crawford House, Boston, Mass, from which city he is propagating his views. NEGROES OF OHIO Will Fare Well Under the Incoming Administration. Special to The Bee. Columbus, O.—The election of Frank B. Willis and the Republican State ticket in Ohio November 3 has caused the 50,000 colored voters of that State to feel much elated. Never before in the history of the State was there so much attention given to organizing the colored voters. Among the many prominent colored men in Ohio, Hon. Thomas W. Fleming, ex-councilman at large of Cleveland, and the only colored member of the Ohio Republican State Executive Committee, was chosen by Chairman Edwin Jones to have direct charge of the organization of the colored vote in the State. Mr. Fleming has been a member of the State Committee for ten years and was familiar with the work. He at once set about his task, getting in touch with prominent colored men in every section of the State. Meetings were held, literature distributed and much personal work done, with the result that the 60 per cent of that vote who voted the Progressive ticket two years ago were all swung back into the Republican column and were solid in their support for the Republican State ticket. The ticket was elected by about 30,000 plurality, hence the colored vote was the balance of power and were it not for their support, the ticket would have been defeated. The successful candidates fully realize this fact and it is their intention to see that colored men get proper recognition in the different State offices. Already several prominent colored men of the State have been picked for positions. The Attorney General-elect will have a colored attorney in his office. There will also be clerkships given in the State Treasurer's and Secretary of State's offices, besides in other departments of the State government. Among the prominent colored men who assisted Mr. Fleming in organization work were: Arthur J. Riggs, Springfield, Ohio; Attorney Albertus Brown, Toledo; William Rogers. Xenia; Attorney J. T. Oatneal, Washington, C. H.; L. O. Harris, Circleville; Hon. E. T. Banks, Dayton; E. C. Berry, Athens; Attorney L. A Jones, Findlay; Rev. J. D. White, Marion; Hon. John P. Green and S. E. Woods, Cleveland; Attorney T. E Green, Youngstown; William Green, Portsmouth; Dr. M. P. Woodfin, Ironton, and many others. Mr. Fleming will keep the organization in tact until the campaign of 1016, when he hopes an Ohio son will be selected as the standard bearer of the Republican party, either Herrick, Willis, Burton or Harding. Politics will be boiling in Ohio during the next two years. 1329 T Street Northwest. Washington, D. C., Nov. 14, 1914. To the Editor Evening Star, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: I read with interest in yesterday's Evening Star of the White House incident in which Mr. Munroe Trotter, one of the leading editors of our race, figured, when, in company with some other representative citizens, he endeavored in a straightforward, manly way to tell President Wilson of the exact attitude of a large majority of Afro-Americans regarding the segregation of colored employees in the United States Government service. I noticed particularly that he openly disclaimed to the President any other intention than that of exercising the right of respectful protest, which is the right of every American citizen. As a constant reader of the Evening Star, which, in my opinion has endeavored more than any other daily published in the Nation's Capital to be fair to the Negro in dealing with public questions affecting our race. I deem it only just that representative Negroes of the District of Columbia and elsewhere should be granted space in your columns to refute the erroneous impression that has gone abroad and that was conveyed by the article in question, and therefore I wish to state emphatically that a very large majority of the members of our race unquestionably endorse in principle the manly fight which Editor Munroe Trotter and others are making against all forms, of racial discrimination, and all self-respecting Negroes are as a unit in expecting and demanding equal and exact justice, whether in the Government service, or on railroad cars, or attempting to exercise every right and privilege that any other American citizen enjoys under the Constitution of the United States, both the spirit and letter of which our honorable President and other Government officials have taken an oath to uphold. "Jim crowism," whether applied on railroad cars or by segregating colored Government employees (which undeniably exists in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in the Treasury Department, and other Government buildings in Washington City), is unAmerican, against the spirit is not the letter of the Constitution, and is so manifestly dangerous and reprehensible as a precedent that no one should wonder or be offended when a Negro editor and other genuine friends and leaders of our people speak out in thunder tones and in plain, unvarnished English against such evil practices which, if not checked and absolutely abolished, will tremendously increase race prejudice and constitute a serious and far-reaching menace to the welfare of this "Our Land and Country," where the whites and blacks of all sections are beginning to live together in peace, in harmony, and mutual helpfulness. I have been practicing medicine among members of my race in the District of Columbia and elsewhere for the past fifteen years and am thoroughly acquainted not only with the conditions complained of and the friendly relations which have existed for years (even under former Democratic administrations between white and colored employees in the Government service, but I am also thoroughly acquainted with the attitude of resentment and protest uniformly felt by all self-respecting Negroes with reference to segregation in the Government service and all other forms of discrimination which are manifestly based upon color and race prejudice. And the thing which we do most emphatically protest is that of allowing some irresponsible Negro, who is actuated either by fear of losing his job or by promise of promotion or other selfish consideration, to misrepresent our race in the columns of the press or upon the public platform, for our race will not tolerate any leader who does not believe unquivocally and absolutely in the Negro enjoying every right guaranteed to him and all other American citizens under the Constitution of the United States, and no true American who subscribed to the Constitution can blame us for taking a manly stand when such rights are denied or abridged. Trusting that you will grant space in your columns for the publication of our views, which will make all races understand each other and love each other more. I am respectfully, ROBT, B.TYLER, M.D. Another Richmond in the Field. The latest rumor is now that C. A. Patterson of Oklahoma, who was nominated for Register of the Treasury, will be named Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia. Mr. Patterson has been sent for, so it is rumored, and undoubtedly he will be named, so it is said. It is also claimed that Patterson will be the head and front of Negro Democracy, if there is any. M. COMMISSIONER F I SUDDONS Thinks Civic Duty Is Superior to Equal Rights. ST. LUKES FINDING The Finding of Trial Committee Set Aside by the Advisory Committee —Mrs. Bessie B. Anderson Restored. Some few weeks ago Mr. O. T. Taylor, of the Past Chief Council of the Independent Order of St. Luke's, preferred charges against Mrs. Bessie B. Anderson, field deputy of the order. For two days the trial committee was investigating the alleged charges against the field deputy. Mrs. Anderson was represented by six councils, and the Past Chief Council was represented by one attorney. The contest was a warm one. At the conclusion of the trial, which lasted two days, Mrs. Anderson was found guilty by the committee that came from Richmond to investigate, and Mrs. Anderson was ordered to be suspended. Rev. Garner and Attorneys R. R. Hainer and Zeph Moore noted an appeal from the findings of the trial committee. The entire case reached Richmond, Va., and was submitted by Mrs. Walker to the Advisory Committee, which reported as follows: "That in as much as the plaintiff failed to prove the charges alleged against the defendant in the case aforesaid, that we, the Advisory Board, feel and believe that the said Sister Bessie B. Anderson is entitled to a complete exoneration of all charges alleged against her by the M. J. H. M. H. M. B. JUDGE E. M. HEWLETT Asks a Few Question s—His Manly Letter. said Past Chiefs' Council 17, of Washington, D. C., and she is hereby declared so to be by us, with the hope that the R. W. G. Chief, the Trial Committee, the Past Chiefs' Council and all parties concerned will see the advisability of concurring in our opinion and thus unite all along the line for the peace and prosperity of our work at Washington, D. C., and throughout the jurisdiction of our organization in general. The decision of the R. W. G. Chief and the Convicting Committee that tried Mrs. Anderss: has been set 'aside.' The Advisory Committee states that so law exists that could have condemned Sister Bessie Anderson; that the report of the Trial Committee doesn't show that out of seven points in the charge against the accused, that the said committee found grounds for condemnation in two points only, and since there is no law to reach Sister Anderson, the committee alleges that she is not guilty, or further, when there is no law, says the committee, there is no transgression; "that the Trial Committee acted without jurisdiction." The committee charged, the Grand W. Chief, domiciled at the home of one of the accusers, which gave sufficient suspicion to believe that the verdict of the committee was biased. The Advisory Committee gives a scathing rebuke to the committee that convicted Mrs. Anderson and exonerates her of all charges. "Better go to bed without supper than rise with debts."—(German.) NOTES OF RACIAL PROGRESS. Furnished by the National Negro Business League. May, Stern & Co., the largest furniture dealers in St. Louis, Mo., have in their employ a young colored man, Clinton T. Walker. Mr. Walker started in as an elevator boy and is now one of their best salesmen. Each week Mr. Walker gives a plain, common-sense furniture talk through the colored papers of that city. The New York News has established a bureau of prominent colored women of New York who are interested in social uplift effort. The object of the bureau is to raise a fund to provide Christmas gifts for Harlem's poor and unfortunate. A group of enterprising colored men of Washington, Ark., have organized an electric lighting and traction company. Already, five miles of trolley road, it is reported, have been laid between Washington and Columbia. Mr. J. R. Davis is at the head of the firm. Chairman Joseph L. Jones of the Executive Committee of the National Negro Press Association has issued an announcement of the plans for the forthcoming wid-winter session of this body. Among the things to be discussed are a code service, advertising agency, subscription clubs and a National fraternal congress. The Tulsa, Okla., Local Negro Business League, at a recent meeting, appointed a committee to canvass among the colored people and urge them to clean up, paint up and beautify their homes and places of business. A-Thought for the Week.—"The business outlook for the Negro is great." To the wide-awake the light of truth sheds its rays over the horizon of the business world and opens to him possibilities never discovered before, but across this favorable sky emblazoned in bold stern reading is this one command—work. What the Negro Business League wants to accomplish is more customers and patrons for the business conducted by its members. Cleanliness is economy—dirt is wastefulness. Order invites business and trades. Dilemma resplies both."—C. A. Starke in an Open Letter to the Kansas City Local Business League. SUNDAY SCHOOL Convention of Mt Bethel Baptist Association The Sunday School convention of the Mt. Bethel Baptist Association met at Mt. Carmel Church last Tuesday night and organized a Teachers' Training School. The purpose is to prepare our teachers for more efficient work in the Sunday Schools. The following persons are elected to train the teachers, of the various classes: Kindergarten—Miss Della Hairis. Primary—Miss Lillian Robinson. Intermediate—Miss Mary E. Wilson. Advance—Mr. Emmett Preston. Senior—Mr. Chas. H. Williams. General Advisor—Rev. Jas. E. Ennis. Assistant instructors were appointed as follows: W. C. Turner, A. J. P. Taylor, W. M. Sulcer, J. J. E Harris and Mrs. L. King. Meetings will be held each Friday evening at 7 o'clock at Mt. Carmel Baptist Church. Instructions free. All are invited. Because the enemy will have his own way. Because there is a getting-off station. Because he will fall into the pit he has dug for you. Because the darkest hour is just before daylight. Because honesty of purpose will guide you in the right direction. Because the apologetic Negro correspondent will soon meet his Waterloo. Because promises made and not kept will react to the detriment of the "promiser." Because happiness only comes to the honest man or woman. Because The Bee will guide you in the right direction and make you happy. Mr. Pitt In Town; Mr. Geo. M. Pitt, confidential man to Hon. Geo. B. Cortelyou, who left the city about six years ago, has returned to the city. He was accompanied by his wife, and they are the guests of Mrs. Mary F. Partridge, the mother of Mrs. Pitt, who resides at 531 Nineteenth Street Northwest Mr. Pitt was dined Tuesday by Mr. Woolsey Hall, at Gray's. Mr. and Mrs Pitt will be in the city a week. Mr. Langston in Town. Mr. Langston in Town. Mr. Ralph Langston, of New York is in the city and spent Thanksgiving with his mother. Mr. Langston was a welcome visitor. Gov. Pinchback. Ex-Governor P. B. Pinchback continues to improve. He is becoming himself again. JUDGE HEWLETT TO MR. SIDDONS Nov. 21, 1914. Hon. F. L. Siddons, Commissioner, District of Columbia. My Dear Sir: I read in the Herald of to-day that you appealed to the colored residents of this District, in an address at a meeting of the Social Settlement, to think less of rights and more of civic duty. If you are truthfully reported, I regret that such a statement was made by you. I cannot see how any right-thinking man can advise any class of Americans to be satisfied with anything less than complete and exact justice. When a class of citizens is denied any right or privilege that is accorded all other classes of citizens, and quietly submits, it proves that the citizens quietly submitting to the outrage are not worthy of citizenship. It may be understood, once for all, that there can and will be no peace along this line, until the Negro is accorded every manhood right. Everything else is secondary to this. I cannot understand why any man should ask us to be less than men. No great reform was ever accomplished without agitation. The Irish and Jews have agitated for years. The women are now agitating their cause. Why should we think, feel, or act, different from everybody else? Yours truly, Armstrong vs. High School After essaying to turn the trick during four successive seasons, Armstrong on yesterday afternoon demonstrated superiority over M Street High School by the score of 6 to 0 in their annual football contest. Before one of the largest football crowds that has witnessed a football game between these two leading rivals, and under the most auspicious football weather conditions, the two teams fought for every inch of ground and the best team won by a score that was about the true measure of its superiority. It was the good luck and good playing of Augustine Parker to play M Street's line, and after a seventy-eight-yard run place the ball squarely between the goal posts of the enemy. All of the first quarter saw Armstrong within the shadow of her goal posts; one time being forced to kick out from the one-yard line. The second quarter found the teams battling near mid-field with Lacy and Brooke of M Street making substantial gains. Samuels kicked to a touchback, and when Tech lined up for scrimmage on the twenty-yard-line: the game was nearly won, for a two-yard gain by Bacon, Parker was given the oval and he responded with a touchdown. Lacy in the remaining play was alone able to gain for M Street until Simms was on the receiving end of a forward pass, which placed the ball eight yards from Armstrong's goal and seemed destined to shatter Tech's hopes, but after two rushes without result, the half closed. In the third and fourth periods the teams uncorked their bottled tricks and each eleven pulled off some dashing gains. Bacon, Brown, Parker, Lacy, Haig and Brooks were the feature performers in three plays. Captain Samuels of M Street put up a star defensive game and kicked well; but was weak on clinging to the ball, making some costly fumbles. Captain Brent did some pretty defensive work, and Hamilton tackled well. The teams were well conditioned, well trained, and never more evenly matched in the history of the two rivals. Coaches Miken and Francis are to be congratulated upon their work with green material, resulting in so finished an aggregation as that which represented Tech in the game, while Coach Douglass turned out a product at the M Street School which does credit to his coaching ability. Following is the line-up: M Street. Armstrong. Samuels... L. E. Hamilton Randall... L. T. Holcombe Robinson... L. G. Hill Miles... C. Holton E. Marshall... R. G. Brent, Capt. Brooks... R. T. Spriggs Simms... R. E. Duckett Poindexter... G. B. Bacon Lacy... L. B. Davis Haig... L. H. Parker Coates... R. H. Brown Referee—Mr. A. K. Savoy, principal Burville School. Umpire—Mr. M. P. Robinson, Oberlin College. Linesman—W. H. J. Beckett, secretary Y. M. C. A. Touchdown—Parker, A. M. T. S. Time of quarters—10 minutes. Dr. E. B. Gordon, manager of the Old Folks' Home, has decided to give a social reception night to all of the professionals in this city for the benefit of the Old Folks' Home. The following is the committee for this reception: W. Calviz Chase, chairman; Dr. C. Summer Wormley, Dr. S. M. Pierre, Rev. A. C. Garner, Rev. W. W. McCary, Attorney A. W. Scott, Rev. E. B. Gordon, superintendent. Full particulars next week. BIG ARMY GUARDS NATIONAL HEALTH WILL LESSEN DEATH RATE. Taft, Gorgas, Fisher and Other Prominent Men Associated With Institute That Inaugurates National Health Guard—Inspired by Lessons From Present European War. New York.—An army of 2,000,000, to be known as the national health guard, having for its object the up building of a more efficient nation physically as well as mentally, as the plan outlined in connection with an appeal "To the American People," is sued by President E. E. Kittenhouse of the Life Extension institute, recently organized by prominent men, including ex-President William H. Taft, General W. C. Gorgas, Professor Irving Fisher, Robert W de Forest, Frank A. Vanderlip, Dr. Eugene L. Fisk, Charles H. Sabin and H A. Ley To enlist in this newest army of defense one merely pledges "that I will, in so far as my circumstances and opportunities will permit, make an ear nest effort to do these things: "First.—To inform myself upon the subject of personal, community and household hygiene and to obey the laws of health. "Second.—To encourage the practice of individuals having periodic health examinations to uphold physical efficiency and to deploit disease in time to check or cure it. "Third.—To give support and encourage and to urge my friends to do the same to the public health service and officials who are laboring to protect the most precious asset of the nation. "Fourth.—To encourage schools, churches, social and civic bodies and employers to give as a patriotic duty all consistent help in stimulating public interest in and in spreading knowledge of the rapidly advancing science of health and life conservation. "Fifth.—To co-operate with and ad vise the Life Extension Institute in its P. E. E. RITTENHOUSE purpose to reduce life waste and to guard and strengthen the vitality and vigor of our race." "During recent years there has been an extraordinary growth of popular sentiment in favor of the conservation of health and life," says President Rittenhouse, who initiated the new organization "The National Health Guard will give the average citizen an opportunity to give his moral support and encouragement to this health uplift movement at the cost of very slight effort and without charges or fees for membership "The urgent need of upbuilding American vitality is especially emphasized just now by the conflict in Europe, where modern methods of warfare have made the most extraordinary demands upon the strength and endurance of both soldiers and noncombatants. This lesson is of special importance when we consider certain evidences of apparent decline in the power of our young, as well as older people to resist chronic disease. "Yesterday about 2,500 unnecessary deaths occurred-2,500 new and premature graves were filled-in the United States. A similar calamity happened today and will happen tomorrow and every day throughout the year. If these 2,500 premature deaths were scheduled to occur in a certain city or locality every day the needless sacrifice of these lives would suddenly become a great tragedy, and the newspapers would be overflowing with heart stirring accounts of the pending disaster. Then you would open your hearts and also your purses to any extent necessary to prevent the calamity. "The wars of our country are fought not with trained and muscular hardened regulars, but with soft and untrained volunteers, unused to duties calling for a high, order of physical endurance. They are taken from the ordinary walks of life, and it is upon the strength, vigor and physical endurance of these men that the future of our country may depend." WIFE IS EYES FOR BLIND LAWMAKER Ran His Automobile to 200 Towns and Acted as Personal and Political Guide—Will Now Go to Washington as Congressman's Secretary—His Oratory Is Fascinating. Minneapolis, Minu.—One of the new Minnesota congressmen will see public affairs through a woman's eyes. This is Thomas D. Schall, a blind lawyer, who enjoys the distinction of being the first representative elected to congress from the newly created Tenth Minnesota district. Mrs. Schall was the political and personal guide of her husband in the campaign, driving his automobile to the 200 towns where he spoke during the campaign. She will go to Washington with him as his private secretary "I am sure Mr. Schall will make a great success in congress," said Mrs. Schall. "His speaking ability and convincing arguments will win him prestige. Sympathy for his blindness may P. A. have won the campafl ing oratory "I know because"-the little woman hesitated and blushed and then added, "because it won me." Mr Schall white studying at the University of Minnesota won the northern oratorical contest securing honors for Minnesota for the first time against seven other states. But his oratory won him more than honor. It won him the admiration of Margaret Huntley, a Minneapolis girl then in her junior college year. Next day they were introduced and two years later were married, and they have been married twelve years. He is thirty-seven, and she is thirty five Seven years ago while fighting a clgar with an electric lighter Mr. Schall received a shock that destroyed his sight. Then the wife had to become his eyes. She went into his law office, read his books to him, wrote his letters and guided his physical as well as his mental footsteps. Then came the determination to strive for congress Mr Schall is a Progressive, and the territory of the new district is said to be normally Republican by 10,000. To defeat a Republican and Democrat in this field was the task undertaken by Mr Schall and his wife. He went into the campaign the first week alone. It ended with him almost exhausted and discouraged His wife then put her neck in the po- tical yoke. She sat at the wheel of his automobile and guided his steps She prepared his meals. She attended smokers and dinners with him. Wher ever he went his wife was by his side. The result was told in a dattering plurality. And Mrs. Schall modestly tried to disclaim credit for her share in the success, but her husband insists: "Through her I must see the world She is the light of my life That Is Its Name, and It Weighs Forty-two Pounds. Battle Creek Mich. One of the vegetables that weren't sold at the city market was a huge squash of the "whale" variety weighing forty two pounds and measuring nearly a yard long and twenty-nine inches in circumference. The mammoth squash was exhibited by Frank Linn who owns a farm in Battle Creek township three quarters of a mile west of Battle Creek. CANAL NEUTRALITY RULE Only Six Fighting Ships of Warring Nations May Pass at One Time. Washington--President Wilson recently issued a proclamation announcing the neutrality regulations for the Panama canal zone. It provides that all vessels of belligerent nations shall be allowed to pass through the canal in the order of their arrival at either end, but that twenty-four hours shall elapse between the departure of vessels flying the flags of two nations that are at war. War vessels shall pass through as rapidly as possible and shall not remain in waters adjacent to the canal longer than absolutely necessary. No vessel shall remain in the canal more than twenty-four hours. The docking and repairing facilities of the United States shall be used by belligerent ships only to make repairs that are necessary to their seaworthiness. War vessels shall not be allowed to provision in the canal zone except when absolutely necessary and then shall take on only enough to meet their needs until they arrive at the next port. Aeroplanes are forbidden to cross the zone or to make a landing at any point on the zone. Commanders of belligerent vessels are forbidden to embark or disembark troops in the canal zone except for the purpose of making necessary repairs. Not more than three vessels flying the flag of any belligerent nation shall anchor in the waters adjacent to the canal at one time, and not more than three, making six in all, shall pass through the canal at one time. MOUSE TIES UP WHOLE TOWN. Causes Short Circuit at Light Plant and Everything Stops. Hutchinson, Kun - An undersized mouse short circuiting some wires in the city electric light plant here stopped the street cars, put out all the lights in the city, shut down certain parts of the salt plants, chemical works, flour mills, strawboard plant, newspaper typesetting machines, one telegraph company and other industries depending on electric motors for power for an hour Edward Benson, assistant engineer at the plant, tried to get the mouse out with a pair of tongs without shutting down the plant, and the little animal jumped into a connection that electrocuted it, causing several thousand people to take a vacation until the burned out switches and wires could be repaired. Mr. Benson was badly burned about the hands, arms and face, but will recover PHYSICAL BLIGHT AS FRUIT OF THE WAR Offspring of Survivors to Be Weak and Crippled. Washington.—Over Europe of the future, no matter upon which side victory rests, declare medical men and scientists, will sweep the devastating hand of physical blight. Children with crippled forms, weak bodies and unbalanced minds will fill the cradles of every nation now at war, offspring of the men made unfit for parentage by the rigors of the great conflict. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of the National museum and noted anthropologist, is one of the savants who has studied the effect of Europe's conflict upon the children yet to be born. To him the present war presents a vastly different aspect with regard to future generations than any conflict has ever presented before. Since men of science first began to study the effect of wars upon the human races it has been admitted that whenever the best physical examples of a nation went to war to be destroyed the physical manhood of that nation suffered. Then it was discovered that for every man killed or fatally wounded four died of disease. As warfare approached its present modern character the number of killed and wounded in each engagement decreased, while the number who died from "natural causes" increased. Army physicians say that the percentage of mortality from wounds in the present conflict is likely to be far less than it has been in the wars of the past. But the scientists—both medical men and anthropologists—add to that statement their belief that the loss of the men killed in the war will not detract from the physical welfare of Europe's future sons one hundredth part as much as will the men who return unwounded from the field. because war is no longer primarily an munificator of life, so far as the calculations of science are concerned, but a shatterer of nervous constitutions, a creator of neuras, thenk wrecks weakened mentalities and sapped vitalities. REASONS WHY MEN DRINK. "Toothache," "Heavy Cold" and "Stomach Trouble." So They Say. Columbus, Ind. A survey of the causes that take men into the city court here shows that toothache is to blame more than anything else. Next to "toothache" is a "heavy cold," and "stomach trouble" runs a poor third. Nearly every man who is arrested on an intoxication charge has some such excuse. There are a few, however, who admit they get drunk just to be drunk and have no excuse to offer. THIS SQUASH IS A WHALE. The squash is "Whale" by name and whale by nature. Mr. Imus has other squashes that weigh as much as 100 pounds, but none measures as long as the yard long one. The "Whale" squash is better for ples than for use as a vegetable, though it is not as watery as the regular pie pumpkin its flesh is golden, and the shell is nearly as hard as the Hubbard squash. The vines bear heavily, many of them having several large squashes on the same vine. WILSON HELD UP BY HALLBOY. Youngster Insists on Announcing President Before Admitting Him. New York - President Wilson on a recent visit here decided to pay a brief visit to Mrs. Anna Wilson Howe, his sister, who has apartments in the Hotel Anderson. One of the proprietors of the house has had difficulty recently in impressing upon the elevator boys that no callers shall be taken up until they have first been announced to the guests. Recently the rule was violated by W. Biggins, a West India boy, whereupon Miss Anderson reproved him, and to impress upon his mind firmly that the rule was a fixed one, she cried: "Understand now, Higgins, no one is to be taken up until he has been announced first—no one, understand? Not even the president of the United States," she added severely. Higgins was on duty when two distinguished looking gentlemen, followed by several alert young men, entered and walked directly to the elevator Higgins promptly intercepted them. "The rule is to announce all gentlemen first," he said. "Very well," replied the taller of the two callers "Just say to Mrs. Howe that Mr. Wilson is calling." Higgins turned toward the telephone when one of the young men halted him; "It's all right, boy," he said. "This is the president of the United States." Higgins looked the party over, bowed, but continued on to the telephone. "Don't make no diffrune, boss," he said. "Mis' Anderson say even the president of de United States got to be announced first." The president burst into a hearty laugh. "That is perfectly right, my boy," he said. "Besides," he continued. "I find a certain sort of satisfaction in the fact that there is some one in New York who doesn't know me and to whom I have to be identified." EAGLE BOARDS SHIP; FIGHTS. Though Exhausted by Long Flight, It Injures Two of Crew. Philadelphia. - When the Longscar, the British tramp steamship, came into port from Huelva, Spain, her crew told how a brown feathered eagle measuring five feet from wing to wing had come on board in an exhausted condition when 150 miles from the Delaware canes and had given two of the crew a good sight before it was captured. Boatswain Smith had a cut over his left eye, and Seaman Hughes' right hand was scratched and cut. The eagle was seen astern Monday seen astern Monday a three hour flight urt itself for a final d on the foremast ck the bird up, when The fight followed. PARIS GAY AGAIN AS HER CITIZENS RETURN Streets Crowded and Schools Reopen After Months. Paris.—Paris is filling up again and appears to be getting back some small signs of being her old self. Her streets are fuller. shops are reopening here and there, the cafe terraces are less deserted, and the arrivals of whole families from the provinces grow in number daily. It is estimated that from a quarter to half a million people have returned within the last fortnight. Reasons for the return are not far to seek. In the first place, the fear of being shut up in a belemenged city is so greatly diminished as hardly to count in the calculations of those who fled when those "terrible Germans" were practically under our walls. Winter is coming on, and life in a metropolis in winter, especially when one is in one's own familiar home, is preferable to the discomforts and rigors of an unknown country-side or provincial town. Schools have reopened, and parents naturally wish to be with their boys and girls at this important period. Bombs from the enemy's Taubes are still ugly possibilities, to be sure, but reflection has led people to see that the chance of their being the individuals victimized is so small in a city of nearly 2,000,000 inhabitants as to be negligible. Consequently, though half or more of the shops are shut and nearly all the hotels are shut, though there are no motorbuses the city is beginning to look normal again, the sidewalks are crowded save at the sacred hour of dejeuner, and while the cafes are open, which is until 8 p.m. they are nearly as thronged as in the antebellum days. FINDS VOLCANIC REEF: Old Whaler Discovers Ledge Where Chart Calls For Plenty of Water. San Francisco.—A remarkable phenomenon in Alaska waters is reported by Captain C. T Pedersen, an old whaler and explorer, who returned to San Francisco a few days ago from the far north. He says that on the chart the depth of the stretch of water between Hoz island and Amaknok island is given as nine and a half fathoms, while now there are only two fathoms to be had at high water. Volcanic eruptions probably caused the reef to spring up. Captain Pedersen says. BEING WOUNDED HAS BRIGHT SIDE BADLY INJURED BUT HAPPY. Women Give Up Hope For Boys as They Go to War, and Their Return, Although Disfigured, Is Occasion For Great Joy—One Said, "I'm Not Disfigured; I'm Decorated." Calus.—"You can't imagine the joy of mothers and fathers when their boys come back to them from the war minus an arm or a leg or some other portion of their bodies. Human nature is a queer thing, and war brings this queerness into strong relief," says one of the American correspondents now at the front. "I witnessed the arrival of a Red Cross train here. The cars were loaded with young men fresh from the Belgian border. A soldier I talked to said, 'We gave them hell, I tell you—but we caught a few pellets ourselves.'" "From the looks of them they had indeed. Some hobbled out of the cars, their arms in slings or their heads tied up or a foot off the ground; others came on stretchers to be transferred to the channel steamers waiting at the dock. One soldier limped out on the platform. His head was bandaged all around so voluminously that he couldn't wear his cup. "One arm was in a sling; the hand was bandaged in a way betokening the absence of one or more fingers. "Near by stood a woman. She was looking for some one. Suddenly the much bandaged soldier saw the woman and started. With an inarticulate sound, partly anothered by the bandages, he touched the woman. "She uttered a cry and seached eagerly the bandaged face. Apparently her mother love, rather than her eyes, told her it was her boy. "My son, my son! she exclaimed, enraptured A Red Cross surgeon stepped up "Madam, he said, 'your son undoubtedly will recover, but I must tell you that most of his jaw is shot away' "Oh, I'm so glad, so glad! the mother cried, tears streaming from her eyes. "I see that sort of thing many times daily," the surgeon said. "When a mother sees her boy march away to war she gives him up for dead, she scarcely hopes even in her mother heart of hope ever to see her boy alive again. Always she lives in dread of the day when the brief announcement of the dead will contain the name of her boy So at last, when her boy comes back to her it doesn't matter how terribly he is shot up or disfigured. It is, the same with mothers everywhere, any time." "There is another cause for a mother's joy when her son returns malmed, broken physically, but alive. She knows the boy cannot return to the battle line, a mark for bullets and shrapnel that kill." "There is another strange thing to be noted while talking to the wounded. They are quite happy to have bad wounds about the face and head, much preferring disfiguring face wounds to lesser wounds in body or legs. "A train of wounded was on its way to southern France. When it halted at Boulogne those of the wounded who were able got out to walk up and down the platform. Among these was one whose face could hardly be called by that name. One eye was gone, the other was badly swollen until he could hardly see. Handages covered all but discolored parts of his face. "You poor dear," sympathized an Englishwoman who approached him timidly. "You poor, poor boy." "Madam, replied the soldier with as much pride and clearness as the bandages would permit, don't pity me. Pity my friends in the train there who got it where it won't show. "The Englishwoman couldn't understand. "Why--why--why," she stammered. "I thought you wouldn't like to be disfigured. "Distfigured!" the soldier replied, "I'm not disfigured: I'm decorated." OLD THIEF SAVES BOY PAL Found In House He Stays to Let Youth Upstairs Escape. Terre Haute, Ind. — Dan McCarthy, aged sixty one years, calmly waited for arrest when the police were summed to a house by a burglar alarm over a telephone. He stood in the hall, making no effort to escape. Later he explained that he acted as he did in order to give his pal, who was upstairs, a chance to escape. The pal, he said, was only a boy, the son of a Chicago saloon keeper, and the old man, did not wish the younger caught "dead to rights," which would mean a prison term. He said that he had served so many terms he did not mind another one. In the city court he said he did not wish a lawyer and waived examination, speaking as one acquainted with court procedure. He was bound over to the circuit court, where, he says, he will plead guilty. He talked freely about his career, telling of his various prison experiences. LONDON FULL OF WAR SPIRIT. Soldiers and Recruits March Everywhere or Drill in Parks. London.—Two months ago a London newspaper described England as "a nation half awake" and contrasted the unruffled aspect of London life with the transformation that war had cast over Paris and Berlin Since then England has become fully awake. This awakening has been more of an inner than a surface change, and only those who know England from within can realize how great the change has been. The most remarkable feature of recent British events has been the entire absence of excitement with which the country has passed from a condition of profound and thoughtless peace to a military status which pervades all the activities of life and seems almost to have brought upon the scene a harder and sober nation Sports, politics, "society"—the three absorbing interests of the population three months ago—have disappeared from the columns of newspapers, from the talk of the people, and have almost vanished from existence. All that is left of the absorbing passion for sport is the football games, and a majority of the first-class professional teams are drilling in the territorials and Kitchener army. And it would be a brave man of military age who would be seen carrying his bundle of golf sticks on the street these days. Streets and trains everywhere are filled with soldiers. Khakil is conspicuous in all the restaurants, the gilded and the cheap, and military equipment and uniforms fill the shop windows. Recruits are drilling in all the parks, in public squares, on the lawn of the Temple, where barristers work and live. In all the little open spaces among the stately law courts and in the courtyard of the National academy, sacred to art and science. Small boys accoutered with paper caps, wooden guns and drums also are everywhere. EDUCATE ONLY THE FIT, SAYS DR. BUTLER President of Columbia Urges Physical Examination. New York-If you would be a university student first prove that your muscles are good, your heart action right and your lungs sound This is the new idea advanced by President Nicholas Murray Butler of ```markdown ``` Photo by American Press Association. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER. Columbia university in his annual report. It is more than a suggestion. President Butler presents the physical examination as an obligation in these words: "The university is expending each year out of its endowment income immense sums to supplement the fees paid for tuition, in order to provide the best possible facilities for college and university instruction. "The university owes it to the public and to itself to see it that these colossal expenditures are made only upon and in the interest of those who are really fit physically, as well as mentally, to take advantage of the opportunities the university has to offer and to make appropriate return to the community in the form of personal and social service." A certificate of good health is now required in Columbia college, but President Butler favors a more rigid physical examination. He likens it to "that insisted upon in the case of candidates for admission to the military and naval academies maintained by the government of the United States." As is well understood, a relatively large proportion of the applicants for admission at Annapolis and West Point are refused as not physically fit. Atchison. Kan.-S. J. Blythe, a farmer, living just across the river, brought to this city a 100 pound pumpkin that is now on exhibition at a local bank. The pumpkin is as large as a bushel basket. BROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE-STUDY-ON "SMITTEN OF GOD, AFFLICTED." Mark 15:23-37.—Nov. 29. "Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrow; yet we did esteem Him strick- en, smitten of God, and afflicted."—Isaiah 53:4 DURING the three years of His ministry the Savior had given forth His vitality freely in the healing of diseases. Re sides this. He had been on a constant strain without sleep from the time He had sent His disciples to prepare the Passover. Now, condemned to crucifixion by those for whom He had sacrificed His Heavenly home and glory, He was additionally required to carry His own cross. He did so, until finally His weakness hindered, and a passing farmer was compelled to assist. Where were Peter, James, John and the others, that they did not volun the others, that teer assistance? Doubtless they were deterred by fear. Crowding around the Savior were weeping women. Turning to them, He said, "Weep not for Me, but for yourselves and your children." The Master's words mesnecting their A respecting their The Ransom Price seeking the mountains and hills for protection are assumed by some Bible students to refer to the great trouble which came upon the Jews thirty-seven years later, in the destruction of Jerusalem; and that this trouble fore-shadowed the greater distress which will occur in the close of this Gospel Age. "They Parted My Garments." While Jesus was dying, the stony-hearted Roman soldiers cast lots for His seamless robe, dividing His other garments amongst themselves. The attitude of the world is further represented in the two culprits who were executed at the same time, one on either side of Jesus, above whose head was the inscription, "King of the Jews." One of them railed at Jesus as a fraud, bantering Him to manifest whatever power He had by saving Himself and His associates. Little did he realize that if Jesus had saved Himself He could not have been the Savior of the world! The other thief befriended Jesus, declaring that He had been unjustly accused. Turning to Jesus, he expressed his faith in our Savior by asking a reward for his kind words. He said, "Lord, remember me when Thou comest into Thy Kingdom." The poor thief knew that Jesus claimed to be a King, and recognized that He was worthy to be one, so noble of character and of appearance was He. What if finally, in the great beyond, this One should prove to be Messiah? The thief would at least tell the truth, declare a word in His defense and ask kind remembrance if this One ever reached His kingly power. Jesus' answer seems to have been very generally misunderstood in the past. We thought that He promised the thief to be with Him that same day in the Kingdom. Yet we knew that according to other Scriptures Jesus Himself was not in the Kingdom that day, but in Joseph's new tomb; that He did not rise from the dead, from Sheol, Hades, the tomb, until the third day; and that even then He said to Mary. "I have not yet ascended to My Father." Evidently Jesus could not have meant that He and the thief would be together in Paradise that day. Paradise, lost six thousand years ago, will be restored by Messiah in His glorious Kingdom. The thief has been sleeping in death, waiting for the time when Messiah's Kingdom will come. Jesus' answer was in full accord with this fact—"Verily, I say unto thee today [this day when nothing seems more unlikely than that I shall ever have a Kingdom], thou shalt be with Me in Paradise." Jesus' Kingdom will quickly turn the world into a Paradise; and in the res- urrection of the hosts that have fallen asleep in death, that thief will be remembered, by the Master. Undoubtedly a great blessing will then be his; for his comforting words spoken on the cross indicated a tender, contrite heart, such as The Thief on the Cross. will be the first to the Kingdom. direction of the hosts that have fallen asleep in death, that thief will be remembered, by the Master. Undoubtedly a great blessing will then be his; for his comforting words spoken on the cross indicated a tender, contrite heart, such as have blessing in The Savior's Dying Words. The Master's cry, "My God! My God! 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One copy per year in advance.....$2.00 Six months.....1.00 Three months.....50 Subscription monthly.....20 There is great danger in the present-day Negro leadership. It is uncertain and impetuous. It advocates a policy of separation and independence this year, and the next year this same leadership admits that it has made a mistake. Ever since many of them have been given freedom and independence, by whom they well know, they have become discontented and advised the contented masses that a bill of separation is an absolute necessity. This has been the sad and universal spectacle for the last two or three years among those who have admitted their ignorance and duplicity. Whatever have been the faults of certain leaders in the Republican party no acts on the part of the Republican party have warranted the so-called educated colored representatives of this new leadership to advise the masses to betray those who have been responsible for their freedom and independence. This present-day leadership, with but a few exceptions, in the ranks of both the Republican and Democratic parties, has been treacherous and uncertain. It has aimed at self aggrandizement to the destruction of the masses. It has advocated a blind policy of selfishness for pecuniary gains. Has not this present-day leadership demonstrated to the masses its unfitness and inability to lead? Has it demonstrated, in the least degree, leadership? or statesman ship? There is not one that has been able to force recognition of the people who have been blindly led to support the foolish doctrine that has been promulgated. In 1912 the masses were told that it would be a wise act on their part to leave the Republican party and support a party that will see that their rights are respected. The masses "jumped out of the frying pan into the fire." And on one occasion it was remarked that the "Republican party is the ship and all else the sea," and would be the best thing to do to remain upon the ship and burn to death or jump into the sea and be damned." The advice of The Bee has always been to remain upon the burning ship and take your chances in reaching the shore. We have the Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Equal Rights League, the Afro-American Council, the National Independent League and no end to other leagues. What is now the result? All of these organizations have advised the Negro to leave the party that aided in the liberation of the masses and join the enemy. Now they all have come to their senses, after they have been caged in an asylum for the insane and had their senses-restored not until, however, they have become bankrupted and they are now appealing to the people they have betrayed, for money to keep them from their false gods. These are cold facts. It is too late, after you have been maimed for life to appeal to physicians to do something for you to enable you to return to your former physical activity. Hasn't the Negro been deceived enough by this new Negro leadership? What has been accomplished by all of these new propagandas? Take every Negro who has declared his allegiance to the Democratic party and sum up the result. Every one has had suicidal tendencies and many of them have accomplished the suicidal stunt. Many have met death and the few remaining are effected with a suicidal mania for the one office, remaining in this city, the recordership, which rightly belongs to a local man. What right has any outsider to this office, black or white? Yet there are many with an insane idea that they ought to have it. If a Negro should be nominated and there is grave doubts that one will be, will the Democratic Senate confirm him? The Bee is unable to see where the Negro Democratic politician gets it into his head that he should be named for a local office. Every Negro who supported the Democratic party, did it from personal and selfish motives. It was not to help the Negro race by any means. Every Negro Democrat has no doubt seen his folly, and many still have hopes of being rewarded. There is not one strong enough or draws enough weight to prevent the reduction of competent Negro clerks in the departments of the government. The uppermost thing in the minds of alleged Negro Democrats is how can he get an office or the recordership of deeds. They dare not oppose segregation in the departments, and as long as a Negro Democrat or a Negro Republican holds an office or is expecting an office, he will never oppose segregation in the departments of the government. Many of them are base apologists and there is where Negro leadership is dangerous. TO RECUR In last week's issue of The Bee was published a letter from Mr. Wm. Anthony Aery, in which quoted certain passages from a letter addressed to Maj. R. R. Moton, of Hampton Institute, by President Wilson. In prefacing the quotations, Mr. Aery assures us the quotations admirably indicate the attitude of the President "toward constructive Negro work." The milk of the quotations consists in the following: "I think one of the happiest circumstances of recent times is this co-operation between the white people and the Negroes in the South in intelligent efforts to advance the economic success and comfort of the Negroes and put them in a position where they can work out their own fortunes with success and self-respect." That the President's attitude is clearly stated in the above quotation there is small reason to doubt, and to that extent we certainly agree with Mr. Aery. But as to whether the President's attitude is the correct one, or whether it compacts with the actual conditions obtaining, in the main, at the South, or whether it is in harmony with the social forces calculated to produce the ultimate results he seems to desire, are questions upon which there is large room for differences of opinion. The supposition that the "economic success and comfort" of the colored people can be reasonably expected under the general policy of the South, which is being encouraged by the President and more and more rigorously applied than at any time since Emancipation, tending to discourage and repress every manifestation of aspiration for political and civil equality, becomes manifestly illogical, if not preposterous in the light of the true significance of "economic success and comfort." And what is meant by these terms when applied to the individual or to the most approved types of social organization? Do they mean the mere acquirement of houses and lands, of hog and hominy? Fire, famine and disease may destroy one or all of these and, mayhap, leave the erstwhile possessor helpless and besotted. Do they mean hoarded money? That may be legislated into comparative nothingness or depreciated out of all proportion to the effort expended toward its accumulation, by the tyranny of proscriptive economic combinations. Of themselves, these are as nothing; as exponents and adjuncts, they may become inestimable blessings. As the exponents of manliness, intelligence, well-directed acquisitiveness, an orderly social arrangement characterized by justice, equality of rights, they mean much; and they fail in respectability and power in just proportion as they fail to express these qualities. Property, real, personal or mixed, becomes a burden and a snare when it is purchased with flunkyism, obsequiousness, and at the expense of manhood, honor, and the sacred duty of contending for untrammeled citizenship; a veritable bugbear, when it is held at the sufferance of a capricious mob and may be ruthlessly destroyed, or taxed out of existence without our consent. Much has been said of the marvelous "economic" progress made by the colored people of the South, yet we seldom hear of the signs "niggers and dogs not admitted," "for white people only." "this car for colored people," etc., to be seen in public parks, public inns and other public places almost uniformly met with throughout that region. This would seem to indicate that "economic progress" for the colored people at the South is beng inter- preted by the whites as meaning that, while the former may hope to have a reasonable quantity to eat, drink and wear, they need not expect, and would be recklessly foolish to demand full and fair rights and privileges claimed and accorded by white American citizens. In other words, the white South have reluctantly consented to a modification of the old saw, attributed to colored folks, "you may have all the world, but give me Jesus," so that it may read "Yo' may hag all de wort," "ceptin' hog and hominy, and let me keep Jesus, please." To be sure, this is a generous contribution from the "generous South, and, in the light of President Wilson's latest exemplification, slightly more than we could reasonably have expected; but we have eliminated the latter from our estimate of the South's generosity. But the President amazes us when he expresses the opinion that the present conditions at the South will put the colored people "in a position where they can work out their own fortunes with success and self-respect." What does he mean by "their own fortunes?" If he means anything at all coherent, he must mean that by their own efforts they must "work out their own fortunes." The President is a great student and knows that, admitting its possibility under certain conditions, the present genius and composition of our social fabric render the proposition monstrous tomfoolery; it is simply a specious way of requiring the impossible. To cut the matter short, it may be safe to assert that neither the white people nor the colored expect any such thing. If the colored man progresses in a correct manner, he will do so just as other races have progressed and are progressing—by a liberal helpfulness, an exchange of the results of experiences, an acknowledgment of equal human rights and a ready, practical recognition of civil, political and economic privileges whenever and by whomsoever the same are accurately apprehended and appreciated. In other words, to act after the manner of the Romans, as cited by Lord Bacon, would be a just and successful policy for the South: "Their manner was to grant naturalization (which they called 'jus civitatis'—the right of citizenship), and to grant it in the highest degree; that is, not only 'jus commercii' (right of trading), 'jus haereditates' (right of inheritance), but also 'jus suffragii' (right of suffrage), and 'jus honorum' (right of honor), and that is not to singular persons alone, but likewise to whole families, yea to cities and sometimes to nations." By this wise policy the Roman Empire, "grew to the greatest monarchy," as Iacon says. Strange that a country which has grown to its present power and greatness largely through its policy of applying Roman ethics and jurisprudence should have overlooked this important practice! For our part, we will not be satisfied with "hog and hominy," though greatly to be sought after, toothsome and necessary, but will insist upon and be contented with nothing less than the free exercise of each and every right guaranteed to us by the Constitution of the United States, the palliative nostrums of the President and the prejudiced South to the contrary notwithstanding. SIMPLE JUSTICE The order of Judge Advocate General Crowder, disapproving the order for the dismissal of a clerk in the War Department, will meet the approbation of all fair-minded people. That honesty should be one of the requirements insisted upon by the Government, as well as mental qualifications, health, experience and the like, goes without saying. No man is fit to be in office who does not do all within his power to pay his just debts, and there is no character more to be reprobated than a confirmed "beat." But circumstances sometimes alter cases, and one of them is when a man or woman contracts a debt under favorable conditions and with the most honest intentions, but who on account of exigencies beyond control, is forced to change the original arrangement of payment. The high cost of living, an unexpected demotion, sudden and expensive illness have frequently operated to render one unable to meet payments agreed upon. When therefore, it is ascertained that an employee is really unable to pay as much as desired upon an indebtedness, but volunteers to do the full limit of his capacity, fairness and a due regard for the interests of the service both demand that said person be not branded as a thief and ruthlessly discharged from the service, thereby inflicting "probable suffering upon many innocent ones while not benefiting the creditor; but protected in his or her insist- ence upon a reasonable basis of settlemen. Too often it has happened that the unfortunate circumstances of a clerk are used as a pretext for reduction or removal, when, were the circumstances thoroughly analyzed, the clerk should have actually been promoted. Of course, this does not apply to the departmental dead beat, of whom there are too many. For them, the sooner they are removed, the better, as they tend to make it hard for those whose intentions are honest and who would, if permitted, go to the limit in the curtailment of their debts. We congratulate the Judge Advocate General and trust other officials will follow in his wake. IS IT JUST? Just why the Excise Board should grant 298 whiskey licenses to white dispensers of liquors and only five to colored saloon keepers. Then why should white bar rooms be permitted to exist in colored residential neighborhoods and not permitted to exist in white residential sections of the city? Why should colored bar rooms be closed in business sections of the city for no reason whatever and others of known reputations be permitted to exist? Moses Dade, at 1216 Pennsylvania Avenue, in a business section of the city, and who was closed because of an anonymous letter, the author of which was unknown to the party who presented it. Is this fair or just? Since there is a law permitting saloons to exist there is no reason why colored saloon keepers or such colored men who desire to conduct a business of this character, be given a square deal? The next Congress will have a good opportunity to investigate the gross discrimination that has been practiced in the distribution of whiskey licenses. We have about 100,000 colored people in this city and about one-tenth of them are temperance shams who will drink as much whiskey as those who haven't signed the pledge or advocate temperance. There is a greater sin than whiskey drinking and these temperance shams know it. What is a greater sin than debauching your neighbor's wife or daughter in attempting to degrade innocent and virtuous women? Lieing is as much a sin as drinking whiskey. A minister of the gospel will do more lieing than a whiskey drinker will devour whiskey. Who is the greater evil to society? An honest whiskey drinker is less dangerous to society than a man. If these temperance advocates would attempt to clear the residential sections among colored people, of saloons, then The Bee would have some faith in this temperance crusade against saloons. Let the colored saloon keeper have a square deal. Charles Daniels was arrested last week because he was upon the public streets in his usual street dress on a dress parade. The question now is, why was Mr. Daniels arrested? What justification did the officer have to make an arrest? Mr. Daniels is not crazy and neither did his conduct upon the public street at the time warrant his arrest. It is now claimed that he is crazy and must go to the Washington asylum for observation. Did Mr. Daniels need to be observed? He has a gentlemanly and polished air about him, and just why a white man thinks that a colored man is crazy because he is well dressed or a sport The Bee is at a loss to know. Mr. Daniels dresses well, but he works hard for a living. He does nothing that would warrant an arrest. He walks the public streets with an air that would put Vanderbilt or Rothschilds to flight or make Lord Chesterfield look shame. If a colored man dresses well, he is a sport or a "vag." If a white man dresses well and has no occupation and is without money he is styled a retired millionaire. Mr. Daniels is no doubt one among the best dressed colored men in this city, and why he should be placed under arrest because he was promenading the avenue should be investigated by his church. GOOD BYE. If Amos Pinchot, brother to Gifford Pinchot, can be relied upon as in any considerable degree expressing the situation, the Bull Moose party is certainly on its last legs. In the Masses Magazine, Mr. Pinchot uncovers a whole lot which has up to this time been hidden by Bull Moose leaders. It would be taking up too much space to follow Mr. Pinchot's numerous exposes, but this may be said of his article as a whole: It is a manly dismantling of a veritable scare crow, a dissection of the bone and sinew of the party and an honest confession of the soul, bringing out the double-dealing of many leaders, and the simple faith and party fealty of a much-abused following. Mr. Pinchot hears the death notes of the Roosevelt forces and prophesies the home-coming at an early day of the erstwhile supporters of the G. O. P. This, of course means the retirement of Democracy and its puny "Bull Moosism." Let the band play. CIVIC VS. EQUAL RIGHTS. Commissioner F. L. Siddons in his address at the meeting of the Social Settlement held in the Metropolitan Church last week, is reported to have said that the colored people should think more of civic improvement than of equal rights. Mr. Siddons is wrong in his premises as well as in his conclusions. One is no good without the other. We can't have civic improvement without equal rights. If the colored American is given equal rights his civic improvement will follow, and from the standpoint of The Bee the latter is more important than the former. There is no reason why a Negro should not enjoy everything that a white man enjoys, notwithstanding his color. There is one thing the Negro is not looking for and that is social equality. He wants equality of citizenship; all other good things will follow. FRIENDLY TO ALL CLASSES. There are men holding big positions under the present administration who are just and fair to all employees alike, namely: Secretary of the Interior, and a few others. Barking dogs are generally muzzled. The Bee is able to care for itself, notwithstanding occasional jolts. Read The Bee if you want a strong and fearless defender. More Bee's were sold last week at the news stands than any editions of any other Negro paper. The Washington people want a newspaper in their homes, and that paper is The Bee. The next member of the Board of Education will be a surprise to the natives. PUBLIC MEN . AND THINGS (By the Sage of the Potomac.) A few years ago Prof Ossler caused an upheaval in mature and old age circles by declaring that when a fellow got to be fifty he ought to be chloroformed. Now comes another one of them learned gentlemen, a professor with a lot of degrees hitched to his name, who says a fellow is not at his best until he gets to be sixty-five. Just because Prof. Ossler's advice wasn't followed by the authorities, we still have with us Judge Terrell, Doc Curtis, Bill Chase, Wyatt Archer, Gov. Pinchback, Dum Murray, Bob Pelham, Col. Arthur Brooks, Judge Hewlett, and a lot of other tarnished complexion gentlemen. If a man ain't at his best until he is 65, as this Prof. Louden says, they are still infants, morally, so cannot be censured for telling their wives they are going to the lodge, or such like. Now I've several jolly friends who are straight-laced, like Dr. Grimke and George Cook, have been criticised for their cook, but when these two devotees at the shrine of probity wake up and learn that a fellow ain't at his best until he is 65, these critics themselves will, perhaps, commence to pinch themselves to see if they are full of the blood, or just peramulating corpses. "A man ain't at his best until he is 65"—now wouldn't that jar you? Well I should worry! There wouldn't be no need of me pulling in home about 3 A. M., and telling this little bunch of brown I got tied to me. that I stayed 'out because I wasn't 65, or letting her catch me making google eyes to some high-brown dove who patterns her life after a Florodora sextet girl, and try to ease out of the mix-up by telling her I wasn't at my best 'cause I wasn't sixty-five years young. She just wouldn't fall for no such rakish stuff—not this little high-brown I got hooked on to me. And if she ever took me down afore Judge Pugh on the charge of contributing to the support of a seal-brown filly of doubtful reputation. Judge wouldn't take that 'ain't at his best until 65" either. I'm awfully sorry, though, other people don't look at it like this Prof. Louden does. \* \* A winsome young cap-and-gowner who attends our higher education factory, suggested to my wife last Sunday that we give a party for her and her palls, preferably a dinner party, and I guess she wanted us to have terrapin, and all the other ingredients that goes with a hang-up dinner. She left us a list of the names of her pals, Misses Ura Frost, Ima Gonner, Iva Notion, Needa Bath, and two or three others. But she failed to give us the street address of these other cap-and-gowners, and as it is customary to always send an invita- tion to a guests house, we will have to defer giving the dinner party for the reason we don't know where to send an invitation to Miss Needa Bath, and the other fade-aways. But wasn't that nerve, to come and ask us to go blow ourselves for a dinner party when coal is selling for $7.50 per ton, cash in advance? But for nerve, refer me to some of these seekers for higher education who blow in here on a rain check to take the arts and science course. The nerve of this little girl reminds me of what Billy Wormley once said to a fresh guy who after paying his bill for one night's lodging, asked if the bonfire wasn't to set' em up. Billy looked at him for full forty-five seconds, and then said: "Why you frazzled lobster, why don't you get somebody to sprinkle a quart or two of chloride of line on you?" ** A friend of mine was talking to Tom Jones the other day, discussing hard times, and putting up an awful holter about how hard it was for him to make ends meet. In the midst of his tale of woe, Tom reached down in his jeans, pulled out a roll about the size of an old-fashion rolling pin, and pealing off a twenty outside wrapper, remarked, sort of nonchalently—regular Tom Jones style—"I must stick this down in my vest pocket to remind me I must tip the wafter down at Grays today. I'll just hand it to him tomorrow." You know Tom does these things, every day or two, tips the wafter to ten and twenty dollars, after eating a ten cent lunch. It's just his style—most liberal cuss this side of Blue Plains. I heard that his trip last summer, just for a couple of weeks outing, cost him something like $1,500, exclusive of tips. And people wonder why that fellow has a law practice that makes Citron and Raisins turn green with envy. It's because Tom Jones don't no more mind spending twenty-five or thirty dollars for a dinner for two than he does keeping open house for Dancy, Jud Lyons and one or two others, when they experience a draught in the vicinity of their stomach. Course most of this money Tom spends, or squanders like a drunken sailor, is spent in his dreams, "bulieve me." \*\*\* Speaking about liberal spenders, none of them can hold the candle to my friend John Dancy. I've seen John, over at Atlantic City, put in a whole week at that fashionable, and costly retreat, on a dollar a week. I've seen him in Washington blow himself for as much as 15 cents for a fashionable dinner, and I have known him to pay as much as ten dollars for the most fashionable suit of clothes Eisman ever snatched out of a fire sale. John just cannot help being liberal, squandering his money, tipping waiters to toothpicks, and Mexican salve talk. A week or ten days ago I was with him and the Judge down at Jim Gray's, and bulleave" me if he didn't get so reckless that he ordered up two cold bottles and a couple of birds. I heard him order them as distinctly as I heard Bill Houston praise Armond Scott. But before Eddie, the waiter, could serve them I woke up. There is one man, however, John will sure go broke on, and that is Judge Terrell. They are like Simese twins—birds of a feather what like to flock together. There ain't nothing John won't do for Judge—he'll blow himself, go to the front, lay awake at nights thinking about him, or any old think And Judge hangs to John like a brother. Coming down from Gray's, discussing the friendship between these two, Gov Pinchback remarked: "Why Judge wouldn't take a drink without Dancy (water: of course) for nothing!" John's extravagance is what made Gray's place famous. ** Miss Merritt and Dr. Lucy Moton, I guess, both know what it is to have some one come around and hand you a lot of salve talk about being for you, and then wake up to learn that the salve-talker was agin 'em. Dr. Lucy Moton may not be able to hear a whisper when the storm is raging, but she has an ounce of two brains you can't fool, and she can see just as far in a millstone as the yellow who pecks at it. Miss-Merritt, who has delivered the goods as a teacher here, I guess knows now something about that old saw of "separating the sheep from the goat." Them what was after her goat she thought was for her. But she is wise now. Brother Calvin knew what he was doing when he went to their support. He just couldn't stand to see these two capable teachers double crossed, and jammed by smooth talk that meant nothing. I guess some people, after a while, will tumble and cease toying with truth. ** There was another little poker seance last Saturday evening. A star chamber session, with big 'ins setting in the game. All I got to say is, "that goblins 'ill git you if you don't watch out." \*\* P.S.-Sct me down for return of Capt. Oyster to the board. Well, the election is over out in the states, and it is most amusing to hear some of our near statesmen who have a vote, but did not go home to exercise the right of suffrage, dilate upon the results, and work off that old exclamation "I told you so." There were several gentlemen who didn't have the nerve to go home and vote who also had to hear them tell it, posted up the results three weeks previous to the election. When a hot political campaign is on, was awfully quiet like this year, some men as a rule, know more election possibilities than any living men since the days of old Herodotus, but this particular year, with a Texas cracker sitting on his destinies, and he wanting to draw his $2,000 per for four years more, just was so busy with reading that he didn't have time to even read the campaign news. Yes, sir, it is mighty funny how quiet as lambs these fuzzy lung statesmen become when they want to hold on to their jobs. Nothing like holding an Continued to page 5. The Week in Society Have your prescriptions filled at Board's Drug Store, 1012 1-2 Fourteenth Street Northwest and insure your health by getting the best in drugs and medicines of the highest grade. Your doctor knows this. To assure prompt service call up Telephone N. 2221, when a messenger boy will be at your disposal for both Miss Esther Christopher is very sick at the Columbia hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Thaddeus Taylor are home again after a pleasant stay with friends in Atlantic City. Mr. Harry McGowan, of New Jersey, will spend the winter in Washington with his mother, Mrs. Annie McGowan. The sacred recital and song service under the auspices of the Wesley Club last Sunday evening was quite a success. Those taking part were Nathaniel Guy, A. D. Smith, J. A. Wright, Jas. B. Lomack, Miss Charlotte Wallace, Mrs., Maud Dowling Deans, Miss Mayme Chase, assisted by the Harmonica Quartette (Messrs. Fred Sabbs, Richard Drew, Frank Wilson, William Cooper.) The Metropolitan choir will have to wake up. Miss T. Taylor, who has been in New Jersey since July, is home again. Miss Gertrude Hayes, of New Jersey, is in Washington for the winter. Dr. J. H. Love, a recent graduate of Howard's Medical Department, and A. B. of Class 1909, has been appointed interne in the Kansas City Hospital, Mo. His friends wish him success in this new opportunity. All members of the Blaine Invincible Club are requested to be present at their regular monthly meetings, the first and third Sundays. Business of importance. Miss Rosa B. Childs and Mr. Charles H. Baughman, of Indianapolis. Ind., will sail shortly on matrimonial seas. Rev. W. W. Barham, B. D. of this city, has been transferred to King's Chapel, Durham, N. C. Miss Pauline Tucker, of R Street Northwest, was recently married in this city. Miss Lucile Robinson, well known in theatrical circles, will winter in this city. Mrs. Carrie Pannell, after a brief stay in New Jersey, is at home again. Sixteen colored nurses and thirty-seven white nurses took the examination last Friday. Mrs. Nannie Bruce Wilson, of 940 T Street, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Blanche Ellis. Mrs. Bertha L Hansbraugh, of Chicago, Ill., who has been the guest of her mother and father for several weeks, will leave the city shortly tor home. She has been a very busy woman ever since her stay in this city. Mrs. Maria Smith Campbell, formerly of this city but now of New York, has been visiting her mother for several days. She returned last week. Mrs. Campbell was also entertained by her sister, Miss L. Tyler, of 1021 Twenty-second Street Northwest, while here. Attorney Thomas L. Jones was able to be out for a while Monday morning. Miss G. B. Maxfield, who has been sick with an attack of pleurisy, is able to be out again. Dr. Samuel M. Pierre gave a card party to a few of his friends last week at his home in Arlington, Va. Mrs. Daisy Miller, of 507 T Street, gave a card party to a few of her friends a few evenings ago at her home. Mrs. Miller is an interesting entertainer. The affair was most enjoyable. William I Lee, Esq. spent Thanksgiving in Atlantic City, N. J. He will also spend several days at his home in Virginia. Mrs. Lula Steele is ill at her home, 182 Fourth Street Northwest. Hot and cold sodas are popular at Board's Drug Store, on Fourteenth Street. They are simply delicious. PARAGRAPHIC NEWS. A convict who escaped from jail at Lydenburg, South Africa, recently was captured on a farm where he was masquerading as a policeman in search of himself. A Roumanian scientist says: "Age is due to a decrease in the amount of water in the human system." Rev. Barney Boone, a colored preacher of Noblesville, Ind., was elected a justice of the peace in a spirited contest. He will now dispense the gospel and justice. The widow of Joaquin Miller, the poet, says she holds communications with her husband, who is dead, and declares she has heard his voice, and he assures her "all is well with him" Her daughter, Juanita, corroborates her mother's statement. Lyman Beecher Stowe, a grandson of Harriet Beecher Stowe, visited Tuskegee Institute, spending a few days there recently. His talks to the students were mostly on the life of his grandmother. Selma, Tenn.—Nero Hurd, aged 76, died here recently. He was known as "Uncle Nero," and was one of the trusted slaves of the late Captain Fielding H. Hurst, of Civil War fame. Without your knowledge the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you as they have done already.—Cicero. A hosiery mill is being established by the colored people of Burlington, N. C. The Forty Song Book, for colored pupils of Boston, Mass., has been discarded by the Board of Education. The parents and scores of righthinking colored and white people protested against the "Book" as being offensive. Most of the songs contained such words as "nigger," "darky," "massa" or "missus." The band of the United States Soldiers' Home will hold their indoor concerts in Stanley-Hall on Mondays and Fridays at 3:30 o'clock and every Wednesday evening from 7:30 to 8:30 o'clock, at which time the public is invited. If the body of an ordinary man could be separated into the various substances of which it is composed, there would be fat sufficient to make seven bars of soap, iron enough for a medium sized nail, sugar to fill a bowl, salt to fill a shaker, lime to whitewash a chicken coop, phosphorus to make 2,000 match tips, potassium to explode a toy cannon, sulphur to rid a dog of fleas, and albumenoids to make a case of eggs. "When Eve brought woe to all mankind Old Adam called her woe-man: But when she woo'd with love so kind He then pronounced it woo-man: But now with folly and with pride. Their husband's pockets brimming. The ladies are so full of whims That people call them "whim-men" Mrs. Thomas R. Smith, of 203Druid Hill Avenue, Baltimore, Md., enjoys the distinction of being the first colored woman in Maryland to be granted a chauffeur's license. Her car is a Buick of handsome workmanship. Two hundred and fifty Negro farmers of Sumter County, in South Carolina, met recently and adopted resolutions to reduce next year's acreage of cotton by 50 per cent, at least. The Boss' Orders. Lady (entering country newspaper office): I've lost my dog and want to know the cost to advertise for him in the paper. Green Office Boy—Well, mum, my boss said to charge for advertising according to the size, an' when yer find yer dorg, if yer will measure him I can tell yer th' cost. PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS Continued from page : office, and when one of Ham's circuitious descendants gets one, as a rule, he lays down the burden of race leader, when the administration changes, and just navigates in a submarine, or walks about with gum shoes, and breathes through his feet, for fear the White House will get on to the fact that a left-over Republican with a seal-brown complexion is still on the pay roll. I notice that a lonely widow down in New Jersey, what has a dark complexion, advertised in The Bee last week for an able-bodied husband. One who can chop wood, build the fire, and just do the little pleasant errands of a dutiful husband. When I read her ad I instantly thought of Doc Will Davis. Doc Sum Wormley Doc Board and a few other bachelor chromosomes around here, and wondered why they didn't take the congressional limited and hasten to her side. If ever I get among the "care-free" crowd again, and some ebony-hued bump on log wearing dresses advertises for a fellow in his prime to do home duties for her, believe me I am off on the first traction car to hook up with her. Just at present, however, my spouse is not only healthy, but she is so vigorous I darsn't get five yards from home without a letter of credit from her. Now, Doc Will Davis ought to take this "last chance" same as a John Dancy takes "one on you." \*\* While I was at Bethel Literary last week, filling up on Harrison's Oklahoma oratory, a couple of breezy statesmen were sitting behind me picking flaws in his grammar. I reckon they were degree men, the excrestence of conceit, who thought they were especially ordained to criticise the whole darn output of the Nazarene. It sure does make me tired to hear some of these knowalls, who ain't got energy enough to work themselves into a job, sitting around criticising the 'grammar of men who do things. I well remember that Gov. Pinchback once said, at a seance of the Diamond Back Club, some steen years ago, that "a fellow what was chucked full of grammer never had two ounces of energy, and his common sense had gone on a long vacation." Mebbe Harrison did split his verbs, but that ain't no criminal offense, and verbs don't run into money, nohow. I heard a college professor once split a verb right half in two, but it wasn't because he didn't know better. It was just a slip. The couple of "knowalls" who I refer to belong to the Mu-So-Lit frayed out-at-the-ends club, and are constantly dreaming they are great. The next time I hear them criticise their betters, I'm going to give their names to Bill Chase, and he will do the rest. INCREASE SIZE OF DEPOSITS. Would Amend Postal Savings Bank Law to Meet Demands. Washington.—One of the bills now in congress that are being held up by the press of business due largely to the war in Europe and that are of peculiar interest to all sections of the country is the bill to amend the postal savings bank law. At present the bill is in conference, and when it will come out can only be conjectured. Alexander M. Dockery, third assistant postmaster general, who has taken great interest in the measure, had this to say about it recently, but that was before the war clouds broke in Europe and when the prospects of a speedy passage into law were brighter than now: "With the final passage of this bill so that depositors may put in $1,000 at one time I anticipate a big jump in the total deposits under this system. The deposits now aggregate approximately $43,000,000." Under existing laws persons can deposit not more than $100 in any one month and are limited to a deposit of $600. TO SELL PEACE BUTTONS. Boy Scouts to Have Charge of Circulating Petitions. Cleveland, O. - "America Wants World Peace" is the inscription on small buttons circulated by Boy Scouts of America. Thomas D. West, promoter of the sane Fourth movement and instigator of the peace badge which the members of the Cleveland Woman's club have been making in their club rooms, decided to use buttons instead of the ribbon badges to create world peace sentiment. The ribbon badges are changed from the form of a cross into a rosette on which the button will be plined. These are sold to women, while the men are solicited with the undecorated button. In addition to the sale of buttons, Mr. West is also pressing the boy scouts into the service of circulating petitions deploring the European war. Mr. West will have the petitions circulated throughout the United States. GOLD OUTPUT IN AMERICA IS LARGE California Breaks All Records Except One Since 1864. Washington.-The value of the output of recoverable gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc from mines in California in 1913, according to Charles G. Yale of the United States geological survey, was $26,812,489, an increase of $423,543 over the 1912 production. All the metals except zinc showed an increased yield, although the ore treated was less in quantity, and there were fewer mines reporting a production than in 1912. The total recoverable value of gold from California in 1913 was $20,400,-958, of which the deep mines produced $11,570,781, or 50.7 per cent. The total increase in the gold production was $693,480. of which $502,066 was in the yield from deep mines. The gold production was larger than in any other year except one since 1864. This great output was due entirely to the operations of the dredging companies and the larger deep mines, as the number of mines operated in 1913 was 245 less than in 1912. Of the gold recovered from placer mines the gold dredges reported $8,000,294, which was nearly 92 per cent of the total state yield in 1913. Since the commencement of gold dredging in California, fifteen years ago, the gold recovered from this source has amounted to $63,505,485. Most of this large yield has been derived from ground which could not have been mined profitably under any of the old methods of gravel mining. The 410 deep mines sold or treated 2.495,958 tons of ore, a decrease of 145,539 tons compared with 1912. Most of the siliceous ore, which amounted to 2.031,420 tons, was treated at gold and silver mills, yielding an average recovery of $5.61 a ton in gold and silver. The 448,439 tons of copper had a recoverable value of $1.84 a ton in gold and silver and $11.74 in copper. The 14,207 tons of lead ore treated had a recoverable value of $11.25 in gold and silver and $23.11 for all metals. 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But the bare statement by the President adds nothing to its truth or currency; for, as exemplified in his conduct toward a harmless, necessary, considerable, striving and truly deserving element—the colored people—there are good reasons to estimate with a grain of salt his sincerity, or at least to eliminate from the equation all favorable consideration of the last-named class of American citizens. We admit that there are some American citizens who are "prodigal in their gift of service," but we are not inclined to look for them among the relatives, friends and advisers of the President, if McAdoo, Burleson and John Shelton Williams are determining factors. The same treatment is applicable to the other great announce- And push up. Work while it is day. truth or cur plified in harmless, ne striving and "Who remembered us in our low estate, who redeemed us from our enemies, who giveth food to all-flesh; "O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth forever." ATTORNEY A. W. SCOTT. Attorney W. W. Scott will address the Masons at the Florida Avenue Baptist Church tomorrow evening—Sunday. TO OUR STUDENTS, PUSH UP. By Rev. L. C. Moore. Boys, when friends desert and enemies laugh, And the end is seemingly doubtful and long, Fear not the clouds that shade your path; Keep your eye on the star and lie strong. If father and mother be not your aid. Call out your nerve and strain the muscle. Be not discouraged or ever dismayed. At the close of school get out and You cannot draw water from empty wells: Waste not your time at the pump. There is nothing in the head that swells. It's only fit for trash on indolent dump. Push up. Let not pride; appetite, society and clothes Lay hindering blocks in your way And keep you from the head of your class. Look up, push up, get up and stay up. Get all in your head that brain can afford. Don't go out in the world like an empty cup. Be faithful and earnest, trusting in the Lord. HOT AND COLD. 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We have not lost all hope for the eventual acknowledgment of the rights and privileges common to all mankind, regardless of color or race, but so long as those in high positions talk large and act small, there is increasing need of fervently praying to enable us "to forgive those who trespass against us, and deliver us from evil." POST PAID ```markdown ``` THE WHITE HOUSE INCIDENT Verdict of the Negro Press—Jim- Crow Government Not Endorsed.* (New York Age) - Segregation by the Government in Washington is not yet wiped out. Not since the Civil War has there arisen anything that so. threatened our status as citizens as this color line drawn officially and sanctioned by the very head of the nation. - If such a vicious principle were allowed to grow and spread we shoufd ulti- mately be rendered to a state second only to slavery. (Afro-American, Baltimore, Md.) Whenever a Negro asks that his civil rights be respected, the South- ern white mari thinks or professes tc think that the Negro is after social equality. Would it not be a good thing if our Southern white friends would define what is civil rights and what is social equality. Perhaps the News will give us the information. | And well may Mr. Wilson disclaim any resemblance, however, remote, to .the great emancipator. There is as much difference between the two as between chalk and cheese. The for- mer performed far more than he promised, and the latter performed far less than he promised. Mr, Trotter and President Wilson. vette Seca Since’ Trotter's method in approaching President Wilson in regards to segre- ‘gation of Colored employes at Wash- iagton was absolutely wrong, but his theory was right. We are thankful to him, however, for “bringing out’ the real Woodrow Wilson. In the Advocate of November, 1912, we spoke of Mr. Wilson as follows: “As a lawyer, Woodrow Wilson drew up the first segregation law in Atlanta, Ga. As president of Prince- ton University, Woodrow Wilson again drew the color line, thercby closing this great institute of learn- ing to colored students, and as Gov- _ernor of New Jersey, Woodrow Wil- son also drew the color line, and the Negroes can expect no better from Woodrow Wilson if he becomes Pres- ident of the United States.” In spite of this record, Trotter and other so-called Negro Democrats vot- ed for Woodrow Wilson as President, Not only that, but even as late as November 2, of this very year, Trot- ter and his “crowd” gave support te the Wilson policies. In fact, Trottes even took the stump for. Democratic candidates, who were seeking offic on an indorsement of the Wilson ad ministration. Only a year ago wher a group of white citizens called o1 President Wilson in regard to segre gation of colored employees, he de nied any knowledge of such a thin, existing in| Washington, and o Thursday of this week, to a commit tee of colored men, not only did h acknowledge that segregation did ex ist, but he approved of it, and a: sured them 1t would continue whil he was in office as President. The Trotter-Wilson Incident. AP hi Cc. ee. et The peevish attitude taken by Pres- ident Woodrow Wilson when the views of others do not agree with his own came to the fore with its usual force Thursday. This time it was a Negro delegation. We believe at ‘times that the editor of The Guard- jan is a bit radical in his denuncia- tions of the wrongs committed sagainst the Negro; but we know it is the hurt from the wounds of oppres- sion that stings him to his radicalism. But if the press report is true there was nothing in Thursday's incident for the President to have worried over his official dignity about or any preconceived idea of his own knowl- edge regarding the Negro. The ques- tion was onc of government segrega~ tion, an injustice to the Negro em ployes of the Government, and shoulc have been treated on that questior alone and not on the personal opin ion of the Negro that the Presiden may have or which any _intelligen Negro knows he holds. The delega tion went there as American citizen: and the fact that Mr. Monroe Trotte disagreed with the President was no a good reason for the President’: | show of ill temper which was botl uncalled for and undignified for tht Chief Executive of the nation to. wards its citizens. It scems quee that after years of working togethe. the Negrocs and whites can fine nothing but friction under the Wil son administration. The explanation of the President was weak. Woodrow Wilson Will Not Do. RG a OAR ee The Trotter incident at the White House on last Thursday, when Presi- dent Woodrow Wilson declared his support of the “jim crow” govern- ment at the capital, served one great purpose to the American people. It revealed Woodrow Wilson. Hiding up until this time behind the cow- ard’s mask of official hypocrisy, Mr. Wilson has given the impression that his subordinates have been solely. re- sponsible for setting up segregation, He has let it be understood that his cabinet heads, through the unusual latitude he had given them, had “jim crowed” their departments; that he himself had not had the time, owing to the pressure of putting his legisla- tive program through, to interfere. Colored men had not been appointed to office—indeed, they had been be- headed—also he has declared to his rare colored visitors, that the South might not oppose his measures. ‘Munroe Trotter and other equally foolish and misguided colored Dem- ocrats called on Candidate Woodrow Wilson in 1912, asking the Southern seeker for the Presidency what would be his attitude if elected. The can- ‘didate told the delegation: “There will be no race prejudice. * * The Federal laws as to the rights of Ne- groes will be interpreted by me not only in letter and spirit, but with Christian fellowship.” Planet Knew It. (From Richmond Planet.) President Woodrow Wilson has done mighty well to have held out as long as he did before expressing him- self He did not have to express himself to us for us to understand: When a member of his Cabinet pro- mulgated a discriminating order on account of race and color, we knew at once he approved it. Hampton vs. Lincoln. Hampton Institute won over Lin- coln University football team by the official score of 1 to 0 in its contest of Monday at Hampton. The game was closely contested throughout, and not until near the close of the last period did Hampton's aggressive style of play put the team within striking distance of Lincoln’s goal. On a fourth down the ball rested on Lincoln's one-yard line from where Gayle of Hampton carried it to and beyond the goal line. The referee declared the ball dead, but Gayle was forced back. According to the foot- ball rules, a touchdown was declared for, although the runner was forced back after crossing the goal line, since the referee had declared the ball dead when it crossed, the play rests a touchdown, | Both sides tried forward passes, but were uniformly unsuccessful. Out of seven tried, Hampton made nonc; out of twelve attempted, Lincoln made one. For Lincoln the Young brothers played sensational ball, while Cayle and Wilde were stars for Hampton, Following is the line-up: ORREEE creo L. E, ..,U.S. Young Wildy 00000. E Tel... Trnett Givéns......... L, G. <..-., Wallace Stony........s6. C. Smith-Tompkins Martin-Coleman R. G. .....--.White Dixon......... Re T. -se++++-Burton Gayle. II RD EL 2.02, Barnum Jamison....... L, H. .....Patterson Flynt......c02 Fe B. ...-++.2. Wicks Dorscy....+..- R. H. ......Wheaton Bender........ Q. B. .-W.P. Young Referee—B. B, Church, Unmipire— M. P. Robinson. Timer—Lt. John- son. Score—Hampton 1, Lincoln 0, — z NEGRO GRANT LAND COLLEGE Conference of Educated Colored Men—A Classic Program Discuss: ed—Prof. Miller Presided. The Association of American Agri- cultural Colleges and Experiment Sta- tions held its 28th annual session in the New Willard Hotel of this city, Noy. 11, 13 and 13: Eleven Southern States were represented by delegates from Negro schools. The representatives from the Negro Schools held a special conference in the Library Hall of Howard Univer- sity on the afternoon of the 11th and 12th, The following program was carried out: Wednesday “Afternoon 2 O'clock, November 11. Meeting called to order by Chair. man Byrd Prillerman. Welcome—By Prof. Kelley Miller Dean of Colloge of Arts and Sciences Howard University. Response—By President W. C. Ja son, of Delaware. Brief report on the past year's work by a representative from each school ‘Thursday Afternoon, 2 O'clock November 12. . “What Standards of Scholarshir Shall We Expect of the Land Grant Colleges?”—~Led by President R. R Wright, of Georggia, and President R. S. Wilkinson, of South Carolina, “The Purpose of Industrial Educa- tion—Vocational, Educational, ot Both?"—Led hy President James B Dudley of North Carolina, President W. S. Buchanan, of Alabama, an¢ Prof. C. K. Graham, of Virginia. “What Industrial Courses are Most Profitable, Educationally and Voca- tionally?"—Prof. F. H. Cardoza, of Florida, and Prof. Thomas H. Kiah, of Maryland. “What Industrial Courses are Most Popular with the Students?’—Repre- sentative from each school., Address—W. O. Thompson, Presi- dent, O. SU. “What should be the Minimum Requirement in Scholarship for Admission to these schools?” “What Benefit will your school re- ceive from the Smith-Lever Biil?'— By a representative from each school. “AVhat is your school doing to bet- ter the conditions of Rural Life in your State ” Address—Hon, P. P. Claxton, U. S. Commissioner of Education. Hon. P. P. Claxton, U. S. Commis- sioner of Education, and President W. O. Thompson, of the Ohio State University, made able addresses, and manifested much interest in the work of this conference. ~ At the close of the conference Thursday evening dinner was served to the delegation by the deans of Howard University. Prof. Kelly Mil- ler. presided at dinner, and remarks were made by Prof. Byrd Prillerman on the Land Grant Colleges, Prof. Geo. Wm. Cook, and Prof, Turner, of, Howard University. Prof. Byrd Prillerman, President of the West Virginia Colored Institute was for the fourth consecutive time elected chairman of the conference, and Prof. Blueford, of the A. M. Col- lege, Greensboro, N, C, was elected secretary. Recently the Local Business League of Waxahachie, Texas, gave a “Free Smoker" to the tax-paying col- ored men of their city. A splendid program had been arranged and some of the results of this meeting were a doubled membership and co-opera- tive effort towards civic improve- ment and business “boosting.” Fol. lowing the exercises, refreshments were served. Dr. C. S, Diggs is the president of the Waxahachie Local League. ONE PECULIAR PROBLEM OF THE DEMOCRACY (From the Boston, Mass. Sunday Herald.) We have had only two Democratic Presidents since emancipation—Gro- ver Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson —one wholly a northerner in his point of view, and the other by birth and association essentially southern, But they are alike in finding the race problem very much more trouble- some than jt can be to Republican Presidents, énd it Is never simple of The National Religious Training School, Durham, N.C. ryan eye Se etre pe BOATS Gi hie See ge eee | eee se ees 7 4 Hot ae PID Ty ete RRS IIR OS oo SPAS Se * aren On. ae te a 7 BUST SERA? WR Se tt ad Neha Sea Bere wee» Me _ : Bp ESR ALOR EN SUES TS sa a cae eek, PES ee eg EOS SESS Agee GRE e EO cn Reet tae DRE So 2 SR ces a ais Ae Se Ee Meret re pS og hte SRE ee Ee ane Ses @haey Dae eS? rk} Pe aco Pt Sys ah aa Sal BR nia eens EA ee on a we AI “Dy i! " ae . ane na? aa ti J MET ce Nee Ties ieee. Rye Oe ene er panied se as en eee ac ss far ta lla A tt eM ca a oe Ca coe } Eve aniatens aaa na pcre amon os ee ; Bice ea pee eg aaa ee fee tg NOES Sake. Sissi a ee SE pore Onters superior advantages for the training of young men and women 4. Literary Department, in many departments of work. 5. Department of Music. 7 The following Departments are in successful operation: 6. Department of Literary Training. , 1, Department of Religious Training. This department is intended 7. Department of. Industries. . especially for the training of Y. M: C. A. and Y. W. C. A. Secretaries. 8. Extension Home Classes, : Settlement workers, Deaconesses, and for Home and Foreign Mis- There are special scholarships for deserving’ young men and wome sionaries. in the Departments of Theology and Religious Training. 2. Department of Theology, ‘ The next Summer School and Chautauqua will open July 3, 191 3. Commercial Department, For further information and catalogue, address —- eS — SSS solution, | a 7 a penne eee elsewhere naturally expect their point of view toward the Negro to prevail under a Democratic administration, And yet its head can hardly afford— purely as politics—to yield so much as that. Not only do the Negroes cast a large vote in states like In- diana and Illinois and Ohio, which is actually counted, but a considerable element of northern freetraders, of whom the New Fork Evening Post is the best exemplar, are keenly sen'si- tive to the wrongs of the Negro. Mr. Cleveland experienced no end of trouble on this score, Frederick Douglass was by him technically in- vited to a White House reception, at which he appeared with his Caucasian wife, to the great dismay +f the Southern people. The White House explanation of the episode was that a list of office-holders in the Blue Book had been furnished to the clerks for the issuance of invilations, and that, in carrying out this order, Frederick Douglass had been necessarily includ- ed. But the protests from the South were almost ceaseless. They pro- ‘voked most of the discussion of Mr. Cleveland's availability for rcnomina- tion in 18392, besides threatening to af- fect the electoral votes of some of the border states. No less a man than Fitzhugh-Lee took up the issue for serious conference. - The Northern Negroes, on the other hand, are quite invariably. dis- appointed with a Republican admin- istration because doing so little for them. This gives the Democracy a good many votes on the rebound, which that party does not care to lose at the next election. It is no Small misfortune to the country to have a considerable block of citizens in debatable states of the North quite regularly committed to voting against the party in power. Mr. Trotter was quite right in thinking they had de- serted the Democracy on November 3, but he would also be right in pre- dicting that they would as surely desert the Republicaus in 1918, were the party to be successful at the next election, because of slights sure to accrue in the meantime, And Mr. Trotter would be leading the meve- ment. The colored people turned against Mr. Taft primarily on ac- count of Brownsville, but also by reason of his yielding to the so-called “lily white” element of the party in the South, Plans now under way for reducing Southern representation in Republican conventions are essential- ly unfriendly to the Negro, since these signalize an acquiescence of the South's disfranchisement. Daniel S. Lamont, of far-famed tactfulness and skill, betrayed his Al- bany rearing in his attempt as pri- vate secretary to President Cleveland to settle the first controversy that came _ before a Democtatic national administration oh its return to power. Two factions of the’ colored race were struggling for official recogni: tion in the District of Columbia. It became a question which the Presi- dent should review in an annual pa- rade on the local Emancipation Day. To Mr. Lamont it seemed natural to assign his colored messenger to straighten out the tgngle, and so Ar- thur Simmons went to see W. Cal- vin Chase, the editor of a colored newspaper, and leader. of one of the factions. Chase was as readily of- fended as any other educated man would be. Passing out his card, he. said: “You tell the man who sent you here that this is my address, and that any time he wishes to commu- nicate with me he may do so in writ- ing and not through his black (sic) messenger.” There seems to be a pitifully small place for the Negro in our Caucasian civilization. In the South he should hold most of the offices to which he is entitled, under the law of percen- tages, and yet the Southern people will not let him do so- They will not tolerate him in the postal service, either as postmaster, letter carrier or railway mail clerk, Midnight ruf- fans murdered the postmaster of In- dianola, Miss. in the face of his wife and children, for no other offence han his venturing to accept such an office, and when Roosevelt closed it n punishment, they cheerfully ar- anged for the handling of mail at yersonal cost. The Southern people vill not let Negroes come to their loor with letters, out of fancied fear or the women, and their whites re- ist associating with the Negro in the nail cars. Republican Presidents ave beeni able to make exceedingly ew colored appointments, Most of he attempts become so celebrated |. hat the country knows of them, like \r. Crum’s designation as Collector |. A en ae ae ee : House & Herrmann . 7th and Eye Sts., N. W WHEN IN DOUBT ABOUT YOUK Beautiful Lounges ° Morris Chairs “Writing Dose Household Furniture Musi Boos Beds of alltkinds and description, Houseand Herrmann is the place | Fiv# Bedsteads and Mattresses to visit. There is no other house of its kind in the city If you want a first-class Bed-roon where the people can be satisfied. This is * “suite, call after you have house hat will satisfy you. . been elsewhere TEBRot LS GEen-...4") 2 - - Bo. oe ai ee : ae A! * If you knew . 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This experience has led to the manning of a few bureaus, like that of Recorder of Deeds of the District of Columbia, with colored helpers entirely. This is a common- sense arrangement which might to advantage be extended, although it does not accord with the idealistic standards of equal rights. The so- called segregation, against which Mr, Trotter made his recent protest, is only a local manifestation—and not a large one—of a general disease. And none of the doctors who profess to treat great national ills seem able to cure this one. It is a boast of Chauvinistic spell- binders that Americans settle all their problems; that they find a way out of all their difficulties. This sounds well, but it is not in accord with the facts. We have not found a way out of the race problem. It is highly complicated fifty years after the war, though in changed manifes- tations, since the Ku Klux Klan pur- sued its mad course. That organiza- tion would come back into power to- day, with its old-time virulence, if any Washington government saw fit 4. Literary Department, 5. Department of Music. 7 6. Department of Literary Training. r 7. Department of. Industries. . 8. Extension Home Classes, : There are special scholarships for deserving’ young men and women, in the Departments of Theology and Religious Training. The next Summer School and Chautauqua will open July 3, 1914. For further information and catalogue, address ‘to put political power back into the | hands, of the Negro as was attempt- ed in the days of reconstruction. We talk about education as a set- tlement of the problem. It ought to do so. But the educated Negro, rather than the hewer of wood and drawer of water, is the hard one to “place”-in our political system. It is the Negro in the Pullman car that provokes the disturbance, unless per- chance he is there as a servant. And still we must recognize how impossi- ble it will be for our civilization to continue if one large element of our population be deprived of all oppor- tunities for education and advance- ment and of all rights under the ju- dicial and legal machinery of the fovernment under which they must live. We should not forget that in thi situation Woodrow Wilson has z very serious personal problem. Asa ‘southern man he is expected to “un- derstand the race question,” a phrase applied in’ the South only to those who share its view as to the place of the Negro. He could very easily be defeated for renomination by a step which would have been tolerated in Grover Cleveland of Buffalo, by rea- son of his “invincible ignorance.” If ‘Mr. Wilson, for example, should in- vite Booker Washington to luncheon at the White House, he would never be renominated for the Presidency. On the other hand, he could antago- ‘nize the New York Evening Post and other Northern supporters to great disadvantage, to say nothing of the, Negroes of Indianapolis, many of, whom voted for him before because they did not like either Taft or Roosevelt. He has probably already done the latter. = Not least of Mr. Wilson’s troubles, therefore, is the necessity of exem- plifying two policies to suit two sec- tions of the country. A Republican President can play the Northern end, and so long as the South presents a solid wall of opposition to him no practical harm will be done. But the moment he wants any Southern sup- port he has got to yield to the South- ern view, Mr. Roosevelt recognized this in the organization of his aie. gressive party by refusing to admit a colored delegation from South Car- olina. He had hoped by standing with the people oF the section who were actually endowed with political power to split the South, a task in which the pepubliese party had failed. But in this Mr. Roosevelt has failed, too, as recent returns from Louisiana show. To the man who tells you that hef knows how to solve the race question in America, and that it is really very easy, you might appropriately reply that he “has another think coming.” OXFORD 3,000. GIVE THANKS FOR WAR OR FOR PEACE? Iany Confused and Perplexed Worshippers. low "In Everything Give Thanks." Knowledge Necessary Approaching Throne of Grace—Variant Praises and Thanks to God Throughout the World—The Solution of Our Perplexities—The Bible the Only Guide—The Spirit of a Sound Mind Rare—Hence Majority of Thanksgiving Vain Formality Unnoticed or Resented. Philadelphia, Nov. 22 — Pastor Russell, at Frank- ford Theatre, had for his text the words, "In every thing give thanks." 1 Theashlonlans 518 PASTOR RUSSELL Reviewing briefly the condition of the world, the speaker declared that it must be a difficult matter for the majority of people to determine correctly the nature of the thanks they would offer to God. Three hundred and fifty millions of humanity, our blood relatives, are at war, seeking to destroy each other. Ninety million Americans, deeply interested in them, are invited by our Honorable President and the Governors of our several states to render thanks to the Almighty. Truly, we have many causes for thanksgiving to our Creator; We itself is a blessing, a boon; our nation in many respects is the most favored on the face of the earth, enriched by God's bounty above all others, not the least of our blessings being our civil and religious liberties. Surely no one of even average heart and head has cause for other than great thankfulness to our Creator, "Our lines have fallen to us in pleasant places." Those who feel no gratitude are surely soured by discontent, the fruitage of ignorance, selfishness and sin. How appropriate, then, that each and all bow heart and head before the Giver of every good and perfect gift! To whatever extent this course be followed heartily, without hypocrisy, undoubtedly a blessing will result, individually and nationally. The custom is a beautiful one. There is a difference between thanksgiving and prayer. None have the right or the privilege of approaching the Throne of Heavenly Grace except those who have come into covenant relationship with God. The Jews came into covenant relationship with God through their Law Covenant by Divine arrangement through Moses. The followers of Jesus, who accept the Divine arrangement of the Gospel Age, are privileged thus to come into relationship with the Creator through Him. He is our Advocate, who has opened up for us a new and living way, through the sacrifice of His flesh. All whom the Father has accepted through Him—all whom the Father has begotten by His Holy Spirit—are Scriptural termed sons of God, children of God, sons of God, joint-heirs with Jesus, priest their Lord.—1 John 3:1; Romans 17. These are invited to come to their father and to address Him thus: "Our father who art in Heaven," and to ask for the blessings which God has willed for His children, according His Divine purposes and arrangements. But none others are permitted come to this Throne of Grace, because not in covenant relationship with E Savior, because in God's arrangement "There is none other name given Heaven or amongst men, whereby may be saved" from our sins, or brought into relationship with God. Thus we see that only a limited num- may enjoy the privileges of prayer expect answers to their prayers. it thank God, others may worship I bow down! "Come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our Maker." Many have privilege, and the exercise of it is to bring a blessing Whoever has bankful heart, which takes delight offering worship to the Giver of ry good gift, will surely receive a ex blessing. His love of righteousness and truth, holiness and goodness, mercy and justice, will thereby be strengthened; and so will be the probability of his some day reaching the point where he will see the wisdom and the desirability of giving his heart—his little all—to the Lord in consecration—to be a faithful footstep follower of the Redeemer. Giving Thanks For the War. Giving Thanks for the War. Very evidently the majority of mankind have an insufficiency of knowledge of God, of the Bible, and of the Divine Plan therein set forth, to thank God for the present state of war. But to the Church, whose eyes of understanding have been opened and who are able to see the lengths and the breadths, the heights and the depths, of God's Love in the Message of the Bible, St. Paul writes: "In everything give thanks!" Ripe Christians have learned to give thanks to God for the adversities of life in their own experiences, convinced that under God's supervision the direct of calamities may be overruled for good to His people and for glory to His name. But only the advanced, Church, is finished, the Divine blessing will proceed through The Christ—Jesus the Head, and the Church the Body—to the world. As it is written, "In thy Seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed." The Mystery of God is that the spiritual Seed of Abraham is not the Lord Jesus only, but also his members—the Church. Galatians 3:8, 16, 29. During Messiah's Reign of Righteousness, all nations will be instructed, enlightened, blessed. The merit of Christ will then be applied on behalf of the billions who have gone down into the prison-house of death—Sheol, Hades, the grave. The Church will constitute the First Resurrection. All sharing in it will attain life on the spirit plane. Later, during the Millennium, the world will return from the tomb, "every man in his own order." The process of resurrection will continue with them, in order that the willing and obedient may rise gradually towards perfection on the human plane and finally attain it. Meantime the earth will be rejuvenated and become the promised Paradise restored. "Give Thanks. For He Is Good." Looking down into the future, the Psalmist exclaims, in view of the Kingdom blessings promised the world, "O give thanks unto the Lord; for He is good! for His mercy endureth forever!" It is the mercy of God toward us—toward all who need His mercy and who desire it—that constitutes the ground for thanksgiving. It is true that praise must come from thankful hearts; and that, to be properly thankful, one must see more than is now visible to those who have not the eye of faith and the Divine revelation, of things to come. But these very opportunities the Lord's consecrated ones possess. As it is written, "Blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, or they heart." Not only so, but to the extent that we sees and hears of the grace of God he has responsibility. To possess the knowledge of God and to disdain it is to receive the grace of God in vain. God's people not only give thanks for future blessings received now by faith, but additionally they appreciate blessings granted them in the present life, and give thanks for these. The first of these is the knowledge of the goodness of God in releasing us by faith from sin and its penalty, so that without waiting for actualities we can now rejoice in the mercy which has justified us freely through the blood of Christ. The realization both of the rolling away of our sins and of our forgiveness by the Father calls for gratitude. All other blessings rest upon this one and all thanksgiving should properly include thanks for our justification by faith. After our instillation we were inducted into a still further grace, or privilege—that of becoming members of the Body of Christ. Through acceptance of this privilege we gain the opportunity of a change of nature—from human to Divine. (2 Peter 14:1) Our human nature justified, cleansed, made acceptable to God as a sacrifice through the merit of Christ, will be replaced by a spirit nature and glory, honor and immortality, joint-hefslship with our Lord and Head, if we faithfully make our sacrifice. (Romans 12:1.) What cause we have for thanksgiving! What shall we render unto Him for His benefits toward us? The heart that has come into faith union and communion with the Lord learns something more every day respecting the Heavenly Father's loving care for His children; and each fresh item of knowledge is a new wellspring of pleasure. "He satisfies the longing soul." "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness; for they shall be filled." "Surely goodness and mercy follow me all the days of my life." These are the experiences of those ripe Christians called upon by the Apostle to give thanks unto God in every matter and to know that this is the will of God in respect to all who are members of the Body of Christ. Thanks Through Tears Let us not overlook the fact that our text indicates that we are to give thanks for our sorrows, our trials, our disappointments, as well as for our joys and our pleasures; for the word everything includes all things. Nor is this the only Scripture to this effect. The Apostle elsewhere urges the members of Christ to rejoice in tribulation - not because tribulation is a joy-producer, but because tribulation works out additional patience, and patience brings additional experience, which in turn brings larger hope, until we are not ashamed of our tribulations, because thereby the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts.—Itom. 5:3-8:35. The basis of all rejoicing as respects both the future and the present is faith: First, that there is a God; second, that He has a noble character; third, that His Wisdom, Justice, Love and Power are perfect and are thoroughly coordinated; fourth, that all these attributes are enlisted in the salvation of the world; fifth, that this salvation began to be worked out by our Lord at His First Advent; sixth, that it is still working out in the selection of His Church; seventh, that shortly it will begin to take practical shape in the establishment of Christ's Millennial Kingdom; eighth, that through this Kingdom a blessing shall extend to every creature of our race. Then let every man to the extent of his enlightenment appreciate and confess the Almighty God and give thanks unto His name; for He is good, and His mercy endureth forever. Let those who have tasted of His grace go on, that they may grow in grace. In knowledge, in faith and in character-likeness to our God. Let His saints, who are addressed in our text, more and more appreciate their wonderful privilege, their high calling of God in Christ Jesus—to be heirs of God and joint-heirs with Jesus Christ our Lord. developed. Christian is able to give thanks under circumstances of severe trials and testings. Only those who have great faith, built upon clear knowledge of the Divine promises, can realize thoroughly that all things are working together for their good. Similarly, in respect to the great European war now in progress, its casualties, desolations and wounds, only the well-instructed of God's people may understand the Divine plans and arrangements so thoroughly as to be able to give thanks in respect to the war—and able to exercise confident faith that the outcome of it will mean blessings of instruction and preparation for future blessings. If the Scriptures did not foretell this time of world-wide "distress of nations," we might not know that God had foreseen it and had made provision for its results before permitting it. But the same Bible that foretells the war tells of its results, saying, "When the judgments of the Lord are abroad in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness." (Isalah 269.) If, then, the war is teaching the world lessons along the lines of righteousness and justice, it will be doing permanent good. Moreover, the same Bible tells that the war is merely the outgrowth of human selfishness, ignorance, superstition and false doctrine, and assures us that although it will lead on to revolution, anarchy and the utter wreck of the present order of things—the present civilization—nevertheless. God is prepared for the emergency. "Man's extremity will be God's opportunity." Great Cause For Rejoicing. The hour having come for Messiah to take the reins of government. He will stand forth in Power and Majesty at the proper moment, and exclaim to the raging elements of the restless human sea, "Peace! Be still!" And there will be a great calm. The lesson learned in the Trouble will be a lasting one; and the blessed opportunities of Messiah's Kingdom, which will be built upon the ashes of present institutions, will bring everlasting life and everlasting joy to all the willing and obedient. Those who see the war from this viewpoint may indeed in everything give thanks; rejoicing that the reign of Sin and Death will soon be ended! rejoicing that God's Kingdom will soon come, and His will be done on earth, even as in Heaven! rejoicing that soon the knowledge of the true character of God will be universal! rejoicing that then, in the light of that knowledge, "every knee shall bow and every tongue confess, to the glory of God!" rejoicing still further, that any who under all those favorable conditions will refuse to make a full surrender to the Lord, will be mercifully cut off from life in the Second Death! The Hope of the Resurrection. The explanation of the sorrows of the world is given in the Bible, which tells us that sin lies at the door, and that the mental, moral and physical blemishes which cause humanity such distress are incidental to the penalty pronounced against sin; namely, death. "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." When Father Adam was on trial representatively for his race, he sinned and came under the penalty for sin—"Dying, then shalt die." Therefore all his children share by heredity his imperfections and are likewise imperfect—sinners, as St. Paul explains. (Itomanus 5:12.) Thus, during sixty centuries, approximately twenty thousand millions of Adam's children have been "born in sin and shapen in iniquity." and have entered the world condemned and dying, mentally, morally and physically. Divine sympathy exercised toward this race of sinners provided a Savior, "who for the joy set before Him" sacrificed His life for the world. (John 3:16; Hebrews 12:2.) "Jesus Christ by the grace of God tasted death for every man." (Hebrews 23:9). Then, instead of setting up the promised Kingdom to bless the world, instead of saving the world, the Savior did something else; and that which He has been doing from the time of His resurrection until now is, as the Apostle explains, a Mystery. (Ephesians 3:3-8; Colossians 1:26, 27.) "The Mystery of God" the world does not understand; for He prefers to keep the matter from them. But "the secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him, and He will show them His Covenant." This Mystery is that God has purposed that the blessing of the world should be accomplished by our Savior in association with a select class gathered out of the world and especially prepared in the School of Christ during the Gospel Age. During the centuries required for the finding of this salutary class for whom the Lord has been searching with the magnet of Truth, various false theories have sprung up and found acceptance in the world. One of these is that God does not love the world and has never purposed its salvation; but that, on the contrary, He has predestinated all except the saints to suffer eternal torture, because He wished to have it so. Another of these false theories is that whilst God wished to save the world. He is unable to do so, because handlepapped by human self-will and by Satan's aggressiveness. This theory declares that God loves the world, including the heaten millions; that He longs to have the Gospel taken to them, but cannot do so except through human agency; and that He is baffled and disappointed because those who profess to be His people fall to raise sufficient funds. To rational minds these theories are no longer satisfactory; hence many are turned to infidelity. But leaving these errors of the Dark Ages and going back to the Scriptures, we find their teachings consistent; namely, that as soon as the Mystery of God, the Y. M. C. A. Boys Defeated St. Mary's of Baltimore. Baltimore, Md., November 14. On Friday, November 13, the basketball team of the institution journeyed over to the Monumental City to play the heavy team of St. Mary's Episcopal Church. When the whistle blew, there followed such an exhibition of passing and team work as was never witnessed in Baltimore before. The rush of the Washington boys was like that of Niagara. It completely demoralized the bigger, heavier team of St. Mary's. The game was just about one minute old when the old reliable "Newt. Miller" scored the first goal. So complete and clean was the dashing work of the forwards, Taylor and Miller, and so sure was the head work of Garner at center that St. Mary's was dazed into almost complete helplessness at their hands. The Y. M. C. A. scored at will. St. Mary's tried hard to make a field goal. Over and over again did Jones and Grimes smother their desperate attempts and when the first half ended the score was 18-2—the two points being made by St. Mary's on fouls. The second halt was marked with rough play. The St. Mary's team being much heavier, wore the Washington boys down. Mr. Beckett advised them to play safe and hold their opponents. St. Mary's thinking that they had about reached the end of their rope, jumped in and scored over and over again. The Y. M. C. A. bided their time just like a cat playing with a mouse. So far and nq farther would they allow St. Mary's. When hopes of victory arose for St. Mary's they were immediately crushed by a furious fusillade of shots from the Y. M. C. A. forwards. The game ended in a blaze of glory with three goals in succession for the Y. M. C. A. Time of halves: 20 minutes. Substitutes: Hayes for Adams; Tinsley for Beaman; Taylor for Scott. Referee: Mr. Jones, C. H. S. Scorer: Mr. Beckett. Timekeepers: Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Thomas. Score: 35-27. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. The "Week of Prayer" was observed during the past week with a good attendance and successful results. The spiritual life and tone was quickened in the men by forceful and inspirational talks by Revs. B. F. Watson, Grimke, Thompson and others. The men in the dormitories revived their organization by a reelection and showed signs of renewed interest by the spirit manifested. Messrs. N. M. Pittman, president; J. E. Boardley, vice president; R. H. Lewis, secretary; J. R. Henry, treasurer; F. Ford, sergeant-at-arms. The president selected Messrs. Wycks, Houston and Bolden as chairmen of promotion committees. The classes in the gymnasium are meeting regularly and it's an excellent opportunity for every man and boy in the city to give some attention to his health. Now is the time to conserve your strength. Mr. Wheeler, the new physical director, is a specialist on corrective and prescription work. Physical examination and prescription of needed exercise is included in a man's membership in the association. A schedule suitable for every man has been arranged. All the men of the city are welcome in the Y. M. C. A. Have you been there? The spirit is fine. Bowling and swimming seem to be the attraction of many men. Prizes are given to the highest scorer each week. Judge G. W. Atkinson of the Court of Claims addresses the public meeting Sunday, November 22, at 1:30, his subject being, "The Work of the Y. M. C. A. Miss Edna T. Gordon and Mr. Walter Aiken, soloists, and Miss Louise Howard, accompanist. This being Ladies' Day, a large crowd is expected. During the week a special program is presented for each night. Monday, exhibition of recreative games for men; Tuesday, membership social; Wednesday, dormitory men's concert and reception; Thursday, Y. M. C. A. orchestral concert; Friday, boys' gymnasium exhibition; Saturday, men's gymnasium exhibition. The public is invited each evening to inspect and enjoy the entertaining features offered. Secretary Beckett is a hustler and is becoming more popular daily. NEGROES IN THE WHITE HOUSE. (From the Buffalo (N.Y.) Express.) We judge from his remarks that the Negro who so aroused President Wilson's anger on Thursday is one of those misguided members of his race who voted for Woodrow Wilson for President of the United States. He complained that "he and others were now being branded as traitors to their race because they advised the colored people to support the ticket." If this surmise is correct, he has, only himself to blame for the treatment his people have received from the administration. The Negroes had good reason to be hostile to the last two Republican Presidents, Roosevelt and Taft, but how they could have hoped to mend matters by voting, as they did in large numbers, for a Southern Democrat is a study in the mysteries of the human mind. The visitors accomplished one thing, however. They forced the administration to come out in the open on the segregation question. 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Taft's for the rescinding of the segregation pressed his sympathy with the policy. He explained that it was not for racial reasons that he favored segregation, but for the orderly conduct of public business." It is curious, then, that this friction never was heard of until the incoming of the present administration. And doesn't separation mean that there must be practically a duplicate set of clerks in each department? Can that possibly make for efficiency and economy? The President was right when he told the delegation that "the thing to be sought by the Negro people was complete independence of white people," but he aroused their ire when he added that he "felt the white race was willing to do everything possible to assist them." This was construed as patronage, of which there has been altogether too much in the dealings of whites with blacks. 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Vocal solos were rendered by Misses Marjorie Ware and Thelma Hamilton. Words are inadequate to express the depth of feeling that was shown by their sweet and innocent voices. The Intermediates was presided over by Master Walter Jackson, who gave a splendid talk on the topic "Getting Out of Ruts and Keeping Out." Instrumental solos were rendered by Misses Ophelia Hudson and Madeline Williams. An excellent paper on the topic was read by Miss Mary Cox. The experience was a new one and the latter topic was indeed in keeping with the program. Two societies, two topics. Each society discussed their own topic. Every one joined heartily in the singing. A more beautiful service could hardly be desired, and certainly not more enjoyed by the boys and girls. This was truly one step towards getting out of ruts. The Junior and Intermediate officers and committee chairman found a most beautiful line reaching almost the entire length of the church. The installation address which is always instructive and impressive, was delivered by the pastor. Rev. Walter H. Brooks. Rev. W. H. Jernigan was the speaker of the evening. Among the many useful and helpful things that he said, special emphasis was put upon the Prophet Daniel, who became great by obeying God. He impressed upon the boys and girls the importance of being faithful in all things. By doing this, being faithful, it prepares you for greater service in the cause of Christ.