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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. XXXVII, NO. 42 WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1917 A Speech that Should be Read Ex-Congressman Geo. W. Murray at Florida Avenue Baptist Church Florida Ave. Ave. f l rune to hear ex- Congressman, Geo. W. Murray, deliver his famous and all-important message to his suffering race, on "Why the Afro-American is producing an undesirable man in his native environment," or as we are impressed, on "The man vs. the mechanic and scholar, or the messenger of the oppressive body," at an avenue: Baptist Church, on Thursday night last. The speaker was introduced by Mr. W. Calvin Chase. He introduced his subject by declaring that as thoughts produce and maintain the bundle of units, of influence, of which the controlling man of the composite body is, composed, known as spirits, wrong thoughts are the worst enemies of the human race; as they not only closed the gates of Paradise against the race of Adam, but also as every war, or controversy, since had between individuals, races, or nations, is the direct result of spirit, or disposition, developed in wrong thoughts; and that no people had ever been supplied with more, if as many, wrong thoughts as members of his race since their introduction to America. He takes the position that, regardless of race, or grade of civilization, nature supplies all men, as well as other members of the animal kingdom, with thoughts to develop dispositions in favor of themselves; or to develop the spirits of self-appreciation, self-service, and self-defense; and that in order to change this natural order of nature, and to produce white-appreciating, white-serving, white-preserving, and white-defending, spirits in black slaves of white masters, ancestors of his race had to be deprived of the thoughts, with which nature supplied them to develop and maintain the natural spirits of self-admiration, self-service, self-preservation, and self-defense; and had to be supplied by the institution of slavery with a different character of thoughts to develop the unnatural spirits, or dispositions, to admire, serve, preserve, and defend. white masters, or physically white people on the one hand; and to depreciate, and to oppose serving, preserving, and defending, each other, or physically black people, on the other; and that such harmful and self-destroying thoughts became the thoughts of their descendants, and have since been handed down from generation to generation in their race, and are still producing the self-depreciating, self-opposing, controlling man of their composite body, which is the only real barrier to their progress today. He declares that the composite man is a trinity, body, soul, and spirit; that the office and function of his physical, or mechanical, member are to supply his house and tools; those of his soul, or living member are to supply his life, or motive power; and those of his spiritual, or ruling member, are to supply his government; that man can only transmit his physical, or spiritual, to another transmit his life, or spirit; birth; as his life is an invisible and intangible but eternal and universal, force, or element, which can only enter the physical gorm, or body, when physical operations have produced conditions favorable to its entrance; and as spirit is also an invisible and intangible, but eternal and universal, force, or element, which can only enter the soul, or living element, after its mental operations have produced conditions favorable to its entrance; which he says, precludes the truthfulness of the ancient doctrine of the transmission of spirit or disposition, which is only transmitted by thoughts through birth. He further declares that man enters the world in possession of only two members of his trinity soul and body, which are in all in all that his spiritual, or ruling, member, which is produced by his own thoughts, is acquired after he enters the world; in proof of which he submits the fact that because he is not yet in possession of his controlling, or directing, member, his infant control, or direct, his own composite body, which has to be guided and directed by the controlling man of some other composite body, in which he has been developed, until after his own spiritual, or governing, man shall have been produced by his own thoughts; and that his disposition proves that the government of his ruling man always corresponds with the character of thought-impressions with which he is supplied and which he cultivates; therefore, since the institution of slavery supplied the ancestors of his race exclusively with thought-impressions to produce the spirits, or self-governing principles, desired in black slaves of white masters, which have become the traditional thoughts, their native instincts, their only means of producing the governing member of their composite body, they can not fill the requirements of the new order of things imposed by their physical emancipation, as the same old, slavish thought-impressions remain to develop the same character of controlling man in their composite body, which was required in the black slave; and their continued low condition and bad treatment prove that his government is practically defeating, or nullifying, the results of the labors of the most highly developed mechanic, or scholar, in their composite body; that Afro-Americans, or members of his race, require two different kinds of new thought; one kind of thought is desirable controlling man; of the cause of his production; and of the harm, which he is doing them, that they would make untold sacrifices to rid themselves of him; and another kind to develop the spirits, or units of influence, of which the spiritual member, or ruling man, of the composite body of free men, is composed. As the means of practically showing how their undesirable ruling man is still produced, and maintained, in their native environment, how they may rid themselves of him; and how a desirable controlling man may be produced in his stead, he compared the thought-impressions, in which the controlling man of the composite body of the offspring of other races, is developed in his native environment, with those in which the controlling man of the composite body of the offspring of members of his race, is developed in his native environment; and in order to completely arouse the consciousness of his hearers, he went the rounds of customs, manners, expressions, and actions, which supply the thought-impressions, in which the desirable controlling man of the composite body naturally developed people, is developed; and those, which in which the undesirable controlling man of the composite body of the unnaturally trained members of his race is generally developed. He closed his address in a sublime and inspiring peroration, which time and space fall us to even feebly describe; but which is designed to carry such thoughts as would produce, the desired self-controling man in the composite body of his race. Finally he said that what he claims in relation to the harm of the unfortunate development of the controlling member of the composite body of his race, in thoughts of black slaves of white masters, is equally true in relation to the harm of the unfortunate development of the controlling member of the composite body of the descendants of white masters of black slaves in the traditional thoughts of white masters of black slaves, on the other hand; but that freeing the environment and spiritual man of descendants of black slaves of white masters of their harmful traditional thoughts and spirits, will result in freeing the environment and spiritual man of the descendants of white masters of their harmful traditional thoughts and spirits; and that ways and means should be specially provided for getting his message to, and so keeping it before every member of his race, as to arouse the consciousness of such all-important truths, until it shall have fulfilled its mission in not only freeing him, but also every member of the white race. from the accursed thoughts and spirits of the institution of slavery; for while they remain, they will continue to produce an order of man, in white and black slaves, in white and black man in all naturally developed peoples, which renders them in harmony with each other only as white masters and black slaves. A FIGHT, AGAINST SEGREGATION IN FALLS CHURCH, VA. Falls Church is the largest town in Northern Virginia. It is named for the "Falls" Church, built in 1734, still extant and in which services are still held. George Washington and many illustrious Virginians have served as vestrymen. The white townsmen are to a great extent office, holders who have preferred suburban buildings and are natural products. The Colony people are of the laboring class and many are descendants of ante-bellum families on the plantations of the "Lees" "Filthughs," "Masons," "Fairfaxes." They have always been friendly and neighborly with all in the Community. Among former residents of Falls Church were the Beckleys, Ewings, Fearings, Dr. Cabaniss, and Captain Norman. Some of the best property in the town is owned by Colored people. Colored people who live on the hills of the town have homes on the most desirable sites. As I have stated, the relationship between the two races has been generally cordial, although at times some few certain citizens of one race have 2 MEMORIAL FOR WALTERS. Fifty Thousand Dollars to be Raised for a M Dr. Sylvester L. Corrothers, the president of the claation and vicinity, and chairman of the Walters L to the press this week a prospectus program of the to be held at John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Ch March 16th. The program includes: one cabinet of Congress, a distinguished colored bishop, the press versity, and representatives of all other professions. Letters have been sent, inviting a delegation organization in this city to participate. Three hand have been invited to sit as vice presidents. The one of the most imposing and far-reaching memorial Zlon churches in this city. Dr. H. J. Callis, pastic A. M. E. Zion Church, southwest, is the chairman publicity, and in a few lays this country will be fully Brown is the treasurer of the committee; Dr. G. M. of the committee on printing; Dr. W. D. Revie tion. Dr. E. H. Curry, one of the best known pulpity try; Rev. Logan Johnson, Rev. Charles Ashton, Rev C. H. Stevenson, Dr. W. H. Crump and many other all working to make this event a national affair. The publicity committee embraces W. Calvin and 17 other citizens. thousand Dollars to be Raised for a Memorial to R. L. Corrothers, the president of the Zion City, and chairman of the Walters' Memorial week a prospectus program of the great John Wesley A. M. E. Zion, Church of the program includes: one, cabinet officers, engraved colored bishop, the president, presentatives of all other professions and he been sent, inviting a delegation from his city to participate. Three hundred pounds to sit as vice presidents. The occasion imposing and far-reaching memorials in this city, Dr. H. J. Calls, pastor of the church, southwest, is the chairman of the a few lays this country will be fully informer of the committee; Dr. G. M. O. on printing; Dr. W. D. P. on curry, one of the best known palatit orat Johnson, Rev. Charles Ashton, Rev. W. Dr. W. H. Crump and many other promisake this event a national affair. committee embraces W. Calvin Chasezens. Dr. Sylvester L. Corrothers, the president of the Zion Preachers' Association and vicinity, and chairman of the Walters' Memorial fund, handed to the press this week a prospectus program of the great memorial meeting to be held at John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church Thursday night, March 15th. The program includes: one cabinet officer, one member of Congress, a distinguished colored bishop, the president of Howard University, and representatives of all other professions and denominations. Letters have been sent, inviting a delegation from every fraternal organization in this city to participate. Three hundred prominent citizens have been invited to sit as vice presidents. The occasion promises to be one of the most imposing and far-reaching memorials in the history of the Zion churches in this city. Dr. H. J. Callis, pastor of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion Church, southwest, is the chairman of the committee on publicity, and in a few lays this country will be fully informed. Dr. W. C. Brown is the treasurer of the committee; Dr. G. M. Oliver, the chairman of the committee on printing; Dr. W. D. W. Secretary of the association. Dr. E. H. Carry, one of the best known pulpit orators in this country; Rev. Logan Johnson, Rev. Charles Ashton, Rev. W. H. French, Rev. C. H. Stevenson, Dr. W. H. Crump and many other prominent zionists are all working to make this event a national affair. Arab-like, envied property belonging to certain Colored citizens but until the hateful tool of home segregation was discovered and used by the might and power of prejudiced southerners, the grassing of teeth, has been but a private worry of theirs. About this time several Washington citizens of color desired to purchase suburban homes in this state, the home of so many authors of Freedom and began to look around at some real estate. A large farm that was for years looked like a home to people was purchased by a syndicate of these Washington citizens. Colored residents of the town began to install modern conveniences in their homes and some built modern country homes, all of which further incited the cracker element. The best citizens of the place were out of sympathy with segregation. 9 9 A. H. SENATOR JOHN W. WEEKS --- raised for a Memorial Building. President of the Zion Preachers' Association of the Walters' Memorial fund, handed the program of the great memorial meet- M. E. Zion Church Thursday night, one, cabinet officer, one member of shop, the president of Howard Uni- er professions and denominations. For a delegation from every fraternal group. Three hundred prominent citizensidents. The occasion promises to be seeing memorials in the history of the J. Callis, pastor of the Metropolitan church of the committee on jury will be fully informed. Dr. W. C. Cutter; Dr. G. M. Olivier, the chairman D. P. Devine, secretary of the associat- known pupil orators in this councils Ashton, Rev. W. H. French, rev. many other prominent zionists are al- affair. W. Calvin Chase, John C. Dancy The Town Council was prevailed upon to pass the law that had been successfully thrust down the throats of the citizenry of Richmond and Baltimore and lesser towns. We held a Council meeting and protested in speeches by the wryter and local ministers and citizens, with a result that the act was recalled and tabled, but with the provision that the voters of the town should express themselves. After a hard fight and against arguments in places we could not reach, our friends lost in a close large vote. We organized the Colored Citizens' Protective League, and laid plans to make the enactment of the law on obvious performance. Lawyer Thomas Jones and Lawyer Virginia Legislature that had passed the enabling act of Segregation were called into consultation and we proceeded to test certain 10 --- phrases of the law before the Circuit Judge at Fairfax. On the day of the hearing, colored and white citizens assembled at Fairfax. The Judge was very fair and gave us every consideration. Lawyer Jones in summing up our case gave one of the most masterful pleas, ever heard in the court room. So impressive was his oratory that the judge in the face of a growded calendar, allowed Jones to speak on indefinitely. The Judge visited the town and practically ordered the Council to condemn other property to comply with the law, and said he did not expect to render a decision in view of the fact that the Supreme Court was to pass upon the constitutionality of the law. The fight we made, was of great benefit to the people of our race in the community. Never before have they been so united. Men and women, sacrificed money, title and health to make it known to cemeteries of the race that we were slaves who live in the local area or crime or disorder since the people became interested in this sort of civic enterprise 2 years ago. The churches and their pastors have loyally supported their flocks in the effort to better live conditions. We have separated from us that distinct and almost extinct type of fateful negro who is a traitor to the best interests of the race by advocating segregation in cars, homes and all things in public life. We have gained some true friends in the community and in us as loyal citizens. We have been able to cause nearly all taxpayers to register and vote at county and national elections. For miles around the Colored people have been proud of the fight we are making, and many advantages have accrued to them. By possessing votes, advocates of bond issue propositions have seen fit to favor us with attention. Little sources of graft at the expense of ignorant old colored people have been unearthed and publicity shed upon the transactions. The hypocrisy of Christian types of money-makers has been exposed, and religion seems to be understood for what it is worth and not blindly as in the devotion to the white man's religion in the past. We have successfully taken up matters dealing with irregularities in carrying out provisions for separate cars, etc. In all we are proud of the fight we made in interest of our own self respect and feel that we have added a droon to the tide that we hope will soon, in light of world events, bring us into our own in this country and our country. Chief among our citizens who are still contesting for what rightfully belongs to us are Rev. George Powell, Rev. Julius Johnson, Mr. Joseph Tinner, League president, Mr. Geo. Simmons, Mr. Robert Evans, Mr. Fred Foote, Mr. Melvin Tinner, Mr. Charles Tinner, Mr. Henry Taylor, Mr. Sam Thomas, Mr. Otis Wade, Mr. Floyd Evans, Rev. Barnett, Mr. William Henderson, Mr. James Lewis, Mr. Henry Edmonds, Mr. Charles Coates, Mr. S. E. Compton, Mr. G. C. Wilkinson, Mr. Wesley Lewis, and many others not here mentioned. How eager should the boys and girls of today be to get all the education possible. While our problems are different from the boys and girls of the other race, yet we must be prepared for opportunity, that may present itself, for our years ago we would not have had such privilege as we had a few days. Every courtesy was given us and the pupils are not only grateful to their Principal, who gave them permission to go, but to those in the Capitol who made it possible for them to have the best seats in the gallery. The deportment of all thirty of the pupils was good. And as a final word, I would say that deportment has more to do with our advancement than color, hair, position or any of those things can possibly have. WAGE EARNER The Woman Wage-Earners' Association, at its meeting last Sunday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, at 754 Tea St. N. W., after listening to a lengthy report by the President, Jeannette Carter, who represented the Association at a meeting of the Federated Women Clubs, of the District of Columbia, at Library Hall the previous Friday, afternoon, invitation of Commissioner General of Immigration. Cammetti, who addressed the Association several Sundays ago, decided to cooperate with the Bureau, in its work securing employment for women and girls. The Wage-Earners' Association was the only colored organization represented at the meeting of the Federated Women Clubs. There will be another meeting of Federated Women Clubs at Library Hall, March 23, to further consider the question of the unemployed. An interesting program is being arranged for next Sunday. All members are earnestly requested to attend the meeting and bring a friend; all women are invited. Admission free. STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING. To all persons holding Certificates of Stock in the colloy Groves Mining and Mining company—You are hereby notified to meet at the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Third and I Sts. N, W. Monday evening March 19, 1917 at 8 p.m. And bring your certificate. The president and manager of said company will be present to address the Stockholders. W. H. JERNAGIN. Send for The Bee when you want the news. A TRIP TO CONGRESS A TRIP TO CONGRESS Bv Mary Curtis Pd B By Mary Curtis, Pd.B. What could be more interesting, exhilarating and instructive to pupils of the middle school, than a visit to Congress! While it may seem strange, yet it is a fact, that there are thousands of men and women in this city who have never been to Congress. It was my good pleasure to chapernor thirty pupils of the eighth grade of the John F. Cook School, of which Miss Sara C. Lewis is principal, to the Capitol about ten days ago. Although the school room is attractive to most pupils, when an opportunity arises itself to throw off the restraint of the regular relation of school work and get a little relaxation, with what jubilance and eagerness do pupils seize such a welcome opportunity. It had been raining-all week. On Wednesday morning February 28, the day set to take the first group of fifteen pupils, it was still raining and bid fair to rain the rest of the week. As that was the last week of the Sixty-fourth Congress I went to the school for fifteen pupils; ten girls and five boys. Leaving the building at 9:40 A. M., we reached the Capitol at ten o'clock, where we met Mr. Harry Parker, an employee of the Capitol, through whose good graces we were shown the lobby of the House, the Gold Room and the floor of the House of Representatives. We were also shown the pictures of the different speakers of the House. Passing through the lobby, we went through the corridors leading to the Ways and Means Committee Room, where we spent a few minutes noting especially the chair in which the lamented William McKinley used to sit. Speeding on from there, we were shown the picture of an under ground railroad, about which we read so much and know so little. We were forced to wait several minutes before entering the gallery of the House as there was some anticipation of the President coming to Congress that morning. After some minutes we were notified that we could enter. No time was lost in securing scats as there were many visitors in the Capitol, who had come to attend the Migration. We all were comfortably seated. The memoir was rapidly published and changing greetings with each other. The pupils eyes fell interestingly upon the pages who were very busy in all parts of the House. Then came a rapid fire of questions from the pupils. When do these pages go to school? How much money do they get? How old are they? How do the representatives call them, when they need them? How long do they work? Can a colored boy be a page? If not, why not? Of course I had to answer all of these questions and one pupil would pass the answer to the next questions. Is it possible that questions pupils ask on such trips, especially those who make use of their eyes and ears. Many of them had paper and pencil and noted the most important things. Keen interest was manifested by them to see the Speaker of the House. A few minutes before eleven o'clock, the Speaker Mr. Champ Clark, entered and began, shaking hands with many of his colleagues. Two minutes before eleven the pages took their places at the doors, at eleven o'clock* the Speaker sounded the gavel and the blind Chancellor of the House implored the blessings of God upon the deliberations of that body. Then the Reading Clerk attempted to read the journal of the preceding day, but there was so much confusion, the Speaker had to rap a number of times for order. This seemed to be very puzzling to the pupils, as they could not understand why they did not take their seats and behave as they would be required to do in school. Leaving the House side we went through Statuary Hall, looked into the Supreme Court room and then to the Senate galleried room, where we nearly in that they saw that every one of us had a seat. We remained here about an hour and a half, when we left to report back to school. How 'deeply these, young folk had been impressed by what they saw and heard at Congress was evident, when the word was 'passed along to get ready to start for school.' So many of them wanted to remain there. How eager should the boys and girls of today be to get all the education possible. While our problems are different from the boys and girls of the other race, yet we must be prepared for any opportunity that may present itself, we would not have had such a privilege as we had a few days ago. Every courtesy was given us and the pupils are not only grateful to their principal, who gave them permission to go, but to those in the Capital who made it possible for them to have the best scats in the gallery. The deportment of all thirty of the pupils was good. A final word. I would say that deportment has more to do with our advancement than color, hair, position or any of those things can possibly have. Prominent Youths Want to Serve Country In War. FRANKLIN K. LANE, JR., IS ONE Vincent Astor Some Time Ago Declared Willingness to Aid Defense—Admiral Peary Declares Aerial Patrol Should Consist of One Hundred Stations Along the Coast. Washington. There has been the liveliest interest in aviation as a means of national defense and almost every day some prominent man signifies his willingness to aid his country by joining the aviation squad. It is only a short time since Vincent Astor, one of the wealthiest youths in the country, declared that he'd serve in the air brigade. Now, Franklin K. Lane, Jr., son of the secretary of the interior, is preparing for war at Newport News, Va. Mr. Lane is only nineteen years old. All over the country there has been intense interest in acrobatics. Rear Admirals Robert E. Peary and Bradley A. Fiske, U. S. N., were the chief A. FRANKLIN K. LANE, JR., JN AUSTIN, speakers at the "Congress and Aerial Defense day," observed at the pan- American aeronautical exposition recently. Charles R. Witteman spoke of a scheme whereby the regular Whitehead auto torpedo may be launched from an airplane as effectively as it is launched from a destroyer. Mr. Witteman said: "The aviator approaches, his target from a great distance and high up in the air, and when say six or seven miles away he volplanes toward the water, runs above the surface of the water a short distance, heading toward his target and when ready simply pulls a lever. The action of pulling the lever releases the torpedo, which is rigidly held under the airplane, and at the same time throws back the starting lever, with the result that the torpedo falls into the water in the same way as if it had been dropped from a destroyer. "I received private information from Europe about a year ago that a lieutenant in the British navy made four flights over the land into the sea of Marmora in an airplane under which a Whitehead torpedo was secured, and sank four Turkish vessels, using fourteen inch torpedoes weighing 731 pounds each." Admiral Peary said an aerial const patrol should consist of 100 stations along the coast from San Diego to Cape Flattery and Eastport to Brownsville, from each of which aeroplanes would patrol as far out to sea as 100 miles. DOG LOCATES BOY'S BODY. Faithful Animal Leads Searchers to Victim of Shooting. Carlisle, Pa.—After a party, headed by his father, had searched all night a faithful dog brought them to a point where Chester Nelson, aged seventeen, of Doubling Gap Springs had been accidentally shot. The boy went hunting for raccoons, and when he did not return a search was instituted. While the party were in the mountains the dog, which had accompanied the boy, met the party and led them to where his body was lying. The boy had found a raccoon, and in an effort to get it out of a hole in the rocks his gun had been accidentally discharged, the entire charge entering his heart and causing instant death. WOMAN GETS A FARM. Mrs. Reagan Went to California With Her Parents in 1853. Oroville, Cal.-"Once a pioneer, always a pioneer," said Mrs. Charlotte Reagan, seventy years of age, who proved up on a homestead claim near Bloomer mountain recently. Five years ago Mrs. Reagan filed a homestead under the old law and since then has lived almost continuously on the tract of 160 acres. She has built a home, planted an orchard and developed an irrigation system. opened a new school. In addition, she has enrolled as a student in one of the correspondence courses of the University of California. Mrs. Reagan came to California with her parents in 1853. DARING FEAT IN THE AIR SAVES BRITISH FLIERS With Plane Wrecked by Shells Observer Climbs Out on Wings. With the British Armies in France; via London.—One of the most thrilling flying episodes of the war was recorded when the British observer in a two seated machine which had been damaged by German shell fire climbed out on one of the wings and steadied the airplane while the pilot brought it safely to earth. Two young aviators were leading an offensive patrol when an anti-aircraft high explosive shell burst just behind the right lower wing of the airplane. The machine was completely riddled. Three of the stay bags were cut, one blade of the propeller was blown away and all the controls except the elevator were put out of action. The machine was further smashed by the broken propeller, blade and became uncontrolled. realizing the situation, the observer did not hesitate, but climbed out threequarters of the way on the right wing tip in order to balance the machine. The air craft continued to fall in spirals, however, until it was about 2000 feet above the earth. Here the observer succeeded in balancing it, and the machine glided down evenly. When about 200 feet from the earth a slight movement by the man on the wing caused the machine to spin again, but the pilot was able to control it when just ten feet above the ground, and the air craft landed with neither man injured. New York.-Major General Wood, commander of the department of the east, announces that training camps for civilians in the department will be held this summer at Plattsburg, Plum Island and Portland. The Plattsburg camp will be for the senior division and the other two for the junior division. The senior camp contemplated at Fort, Oglethorpe, Ga., is still under consideration. There will be four camps at Plattsburg—june 2 to July 1, July 7 to Aug. 5, Aug. 11 to Sept. 9 and Sept. 15 to Oct. 14. Men between eighteen and forty-five are eligible. Applicants from forty-five to fifty-five must obtain special permits to attend and do so at their own expense. The junior division for boys from fifteen to eighteen will hold two camps at Fort Terry. They will be from June 30 to July 29 and from Aug. 2 to Aug. 30. Two camps will also be held at Portland for the same periods. Plans are being made for a camp for negroes on Plattsburg lines. If 200 possessing the necessary qualifications apply for membership, it is intended to begin instruction in June under the direction of regular army officers, assisted probably by noncommissioned officers from the crack negro regiments in the service. WOMEN CROSS HUDSON ON ICE Five. From Highland Falls Make Peri- ilous Trip In Safety. Albany, N. Y.-On a dare five young women, including Miss May Strebbing of Highland Falls, safely walked across the ice on the Hudson river recently, they jubilantly reported, from Highland Falls to Manitou, Putnam county. Although the ice could be heard cracking and rumbling in places, they hurried across safely. Few men have crossed the river south of Newburgh this winter on the ice, and no such ventures have been made by women. With Miss Strebling on the risky trip were Miss Nora Connors, Miss Annie O'Malley, Miss May Fuller and Mrs. Mary Cook of Highland Falls. "PRINTLESS NEWSPAPER." Matters of Public Interest Are Sent Out by Telephone. Vevay, Ind.-What is believed to be the first "printless newspaper" in America is now a flourishing institution in Switzerland county. tion in Switzerland. The "newspaper" is a daily telephone bulletin furnished to the subscribers of a telephone company. At a certain hour each day the exchange operators in all parts of the county call the subscribers to the telephone and report news developments of interest. Weather forecasts, births, deaths, weddings, accidents, serious illness, clopements and divorce suits are reported. BARS JOKING FINN AS UNITED STATES CITIZEN New York.—The United States has lost a citizen in Gustave A. Johnson, a Russian Finn, who applied in Jersey City for his final papers. "What is the constitution of the United States?" asked the judge. The reply came. "Rugged and healthy, I should say." Johnson also said the country could go somewhere, whereupon he was sent somewhere—to wilt, to jail. PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS By The Sage Of The Potomac. By The Sage Of The Potomac. Those who saw the fifth division of the Inaugural parade, must have congratulated the chairman on his good judgment in selecting the individuals who had that part of the affair in charge. Some white people have an idea that their servants represent the better element, or as good an element, of colored people that can be found. This is where they make a mistake. Because a colored man or woman is a good house or office servant is no evidence that they are placed on social equality with the better element of Colored people. This so called Colored Committee of Colored Republicans, who don't even represent its own party; published that certain New York and Chicago Colored Democratic Clubs would take part in the Inaugural parade. Those organizations had no idea of coming on the invitation of this quasi, colored democratic contingent that didn't represent itself, or any one else. When some white people get into their heads that all colored people are not alike, any more than all white people, they will be able to discriminate between what is good, and what is bad. I don't hear much of Grant M. Lucas, who went hunting for his head after he was elected president of the MuSo-Lit Club. That sudden election caused Grant's head to leave his neck, and go to parts unknown. It didn't take very much for Grant to lose his balance and tumble overboard. With all of that, Grant is a good fellow when he is asleep, and is not disturbed by the noggs of his oppressors Speaking about head loseings, my old friend, Walter J. Singleton, never knew he had a head until after his election to the presidency of the Mu-So-Lit Club. Walter couldn't keep his head in a correct position with brains. He is some Chesterfield among brother Gardners brothers. You can never tell whether Walter is coming or going, you must wait until after his arrival. He is some sure enough diplomat. He had. Doc Williston fooled to death. The indorsement, by the Young Men's Protective League last May, was a black eye to the other members of the medical profession. Of course Walter knows how to talk, and when to talk, and he knows how to come back notwithstanding his several defeats. He doesn't care about what people may say about him except when the Sage jokes with him. He takes the jolly of the Sage seriously. There is a quiet investigation going on in the schools. There will be a bomb, from a submarine, in a few weeks. These submarines are dangerous when they can get the right aim. Don't you know I miss my friend, Ralph W. Tyler. He had a great faculty in manipulating a submarine. Ralph was a whole souled fellow. There was one thing about Ralph, when he was in town, he never, lost his head, and was always ready and willing to serve his fellow man. When such men as Prof. L. M. Hersh are placed on the board of education, you can degend on it that the teachers and the schools will receive a square deal. You may take a sham individual and put him in a responsible position, but the moment you invite him to the evening eats, his brains become paralysed. It must either be the eats, or the dazzling appearance of the female denizens that influence his predetermination. Some men are appointed to positions with a determination to stand with the people, but they are captured by the ring before it turns around twice. The old school trustees, while they too had their cliques and rings, would give you a square deal, after their pets were cared for. I have twisted and broken the necks of many school rings, but the present regime is the toughest proposition that I have handled for some time. however I have succeeded in bending its neck almost to the broken point. It is bound to snap, notwithstanding its props. It is a hard proposition to select men who have opinions of their own. I have been interested in my chief's sentiments on shams. This here town is a sham town. You can meet shams upon every corner, of the street. You can detect a sham the moment he or she opens his or her mouth. A sham woman has lots to say against her female companions, so it is with meh. Watch the man or woman who can tell you the pedigree of other people. A guiltless man or woman speaks well of his neighbors. The way to find out the leading man or woman in a town, find out the man who is most abused. Dissect what his accusers say about him, and then ascertain who the man is, who abuses such a person, if he is not a bankrupt or a crook, my name is not the Sage, and I am willing to forfeit my right to the name by which I was christened. San Diego pet canny bee high. With Ham. Glassford, county at at the North Island aviation school. was emated and then taken aboot in an army biplane by Instructor Albert Smith and scattered to the four winds from an altitude of 5,000 feet. FOOLING HENS, THEY LAY MORE THAN EVER Los Angeles.-About 120 hens on the California state farm at Davis no longer know night from day, and, as for sleep, that's out of the question. Professors, experimenting to increase egg laying, light the lights in the coops at 5:15 a.m. and burn them until sunup. At night they burn the from sundown to 9 o'clock. And the poor, deluded hens have laid more eggs than ever! SEEK MANY GIRLS Thirty-five. Hundred Disappear Yearly In New York. Recent Search For Ruth Cruger Recalls Case of Dorothy Arnold and Others. Police Assign Among Reasons Family Troubles, Failure at Business, Disappointed Love. New York. B-z-z-z-z. It's the telephone on the lieutenant's desk at police headquarters. "Hello, _____" "_____ is missing." The lieutenant jots down a few words, the description is flashed to every detective headquarters, and the search for "another missing person" is on. Ruth Cruger; pretty high school girl, was sought by the police. Leaving her home, happy and contented, she was swallowed up in the swirl of the great city and no clews to her whereabouts had been unearthed. Because her family is of prominence and because of her father's insistence the case was widely discussed and given much publicity, but the case of Ruth Cruger was only one of hundreds. one of whom there are 3,500 missing persons in New York, according to police estimates. Most of the missing persons are girls—pretty, happy girls, youthful and of good home training. They are swallowed in the highways and byways, of the mammoth city. Most of them never return, and the public hears of the disappearance of but very few. but very few. Dorothy Arnold went shopping on Fifth avenue one afternoon in 1910. No one saw her leave a certain shop she entered, and the four corners of the globe have been searched for her. They still seek her. They said she needed a job, and she answered an advertisement. Her battered little body was found days later, and a neer do well, Wolter, was later put to death for her murder. The hacked up body of Anna Aumiller was found in the river. Hundreds of anxious mothers and fathers viewed her body, believing it might be their daughter. Her slayer was also executed. These are but a few of the hundreds of missing. Why missing? Police answer-white slavery, lack of courage to face disgrace, failure at business, family troubles, broken faith, disappointed love, wanderlust and the lure of adventure. Do they come back? Police say of the 3,500 or more who disappear each year perhaps a little more than half return or are found. The other half? They seem to vanish. The telephone, bell of the lieutenant's desk at police headquarters buzzes--another addition to the hundreds of missing. PITCAIRN ISLAND MAIL. First Dispatch From United States by Steamship Australplain. Washington.—For the first time since its colonization in 1789 by mutineers of the British warship Bonny and Tahitian women Pitcairn island, a dot in the Pacific about midway between Panama and New Zealand, is to receive mail from the United States. The historic event is announced in the usualiry, formal mail notice as follows: IOWS. "Postmaster Moran advises that the steamship Australplain will sail from New York on or about March 15, 1917, via the Panama canal for Pitcairn island, being due to arrive there within twenty-five days of the date of sailing. He issues this notice in order that the patrons of the postal service may take advantage of this unusual opportunity for the expeditions dispatch of mail for the place named." It is not likely that the mail to Pitcairn island will be a heavy one, since only one Pitcairn islander, Miss Emily McCoy, has ever visited the United States to make friends here. Miss McCoy left the island about fifteen years ago to study nursing. Probably she will be the only person in the United States to whom the mail service to Pitcairn island will be of interest. There are about 170 men, women and children on the island. INDIANS FORCED TO WED. Young Chippewas Rush to Judge to Avoid Arrest. Deer River, Minn.—This village was visited by a large defection of young Chippewa Indians from the Bowstring country, who came to be married by Justice Cahill. In accordance with the ruling he made that he would give them a week in which to get married subsequent to many arrests by the sheriff of Itasca county on complaint of the Indian agent at Bena. It is not the intention of the department, it is said, to interfere with the marital rights of the older natives who may years ago under tribal laws, but it is the younger members, and in most cases the well educated ones, some of whom have college educations, the department officers are watching. Twins Run In the Family. Evansville, Ind.—The sixteenth birthday of Elisle and Ethel Brady, who are the second of three pairs of twins in one family, was celebrated at their home at 1 Randall street. The mother of the girls is a twin sister of Mrs. Izora Young of Rockport. The younger sisters of Mrs. Brady are the third twina. THE EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER Will promote a Full Growth of Hair. Will also Restore the strength Vitality and the Beauty of the Hair. If your Hair is Dry and Wiry, Try EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER If you are bothered with Falling Hair, Dandruff, Itching Scalp or any Hair trouble, we want you to try a jar of EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER. 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Of course ground is cheaper, and a home may be purchased sooner in suburban subdivisions, but for the real suburbanite who wants chickens, pigs and a cow or two, it is better to get further out, walk further to the railway station and get more ground, or get near to unimproved land, that later can be added to one's holdings. To me it seems folly to exchange the occasional hardships of a semi-pioneer's life for the streets, walks, gas, lights, cars and numerous municipal providers for luxuriant ease, unless recompense was found in the delights of a large freedom, as indicated throughout this line of thought. The endless process moves ever and on, in and out of city and town, and so many might not have suffered devastated hopes and blighted prospects had the wily ways of advertising real property brokers been more carefully considered and the little rule applied of seeing through a winter season what so fondly we dreamed through in the summer's glorious sunlight. There's the test. You may want to know about the crops. Field corn was raised from the start with a moderate degree of success. This crop was planted and tended by others when we were in the last days of our school term, but it needs most care and cultivation in the summer, and this is the time we add our labors to the making of the crop. Corn cultivation is one of the most pleasant tasks, and at the same time a splendid trainer of the mind and body. Why and how this is so, would take more time than I can spare to tell. Last season on ground not over well fertilize. I made more than ten corn harrows to the acre. had all sorts time, times no four barrels after formalde- sprays of bor- Tel. North 4017. 935 R St. N. W. Washington, D. C. With potatoes we have had all sorts of success, including some times no success. Once we planted four barrels of late potatoes and after formaldehyde treatment, various sprays of bordeaux, cultivating often, we harvested only four barrels. We did not know the cause, but we believe a delay in transit of seed purchased from the north caused over heating of the tubers in the car and hence poor vitality. Another season we planted two barrels of early potatoes and secured a yield of fifteen or twenty barrels and sold the lot on the market at the wholesale price of $1.25 to $1.50 a barrel, hardly the cost of production. Sugar corn has met our appraisal as a table vegetable well worth the trouble of raising it for the table, and we and our friends have appreciated the toothsome home grown product. We have sold large quantities. Some times we have gotten a price of five cents a dozen and at other times we have secured fifteen to twenty-five cents on the wholesale market for the same quality of corn. In the former cases we have often found it more profitable to feed hogs sweet corn. Our lima beans proved so delicious an article of diet one summer that several boarding house keepers took our entire supply with acidity. our entire supply. Threshing time of wheat and oats was a period anxiously looked for each season, and many pleasant days have been spent in the bustling period of threshing. Just now I am endeavoring to prove that there is no need to suffer ancient discomforts associated with farm and country life. Running water an' adequate swerage can be installed at reasonable cost, and it is a distinct advantage to secure cool or cold water direct from the earth when city water is naturally an insipid drink. Ho. water heat has proven a boon to my family. Electric light fixtures were installed during the erection of the bungalow, and when war prices on copper have subsided I will be connected with the town's line. Roads are steadily being improved, and I have looked forward to the step when a little Ford will be in my poses on, not only as a pleasure car, but a necessity that will be a profitable investment. Gustave Oppenheim, 800 E street northwest, Washington, D. C. in investment. A hobby that lately I have taken up is landscape gardening. Not enough is it to live out, but renders the community a distinct service by adding to the beauty of one's environs. Nearly a quarter of an acre of open lawn massed on each side by borders of shrubs in approved fashion was not so stly, but simply a matter of plans. I learned that it was wrong to plant individual shrubs hee- and there about the open space but rather is it proper to keep the lawn large in extent and place your plants around the foundation of the house and along the borders of the lawn. Too many nurses are willing to lend aid in plan- lend aid in plan. Concluded. E. P. 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THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL'S branches are taught from five dollars up. COME IN AND REGISTER. DAY AND NIGHT CLASSES. MME. AGNES J. SMITH Principal. NEWHOME "I'll get it for my wife" NO OTHER LIKE IT. NO OTHER AS GOOD. Purchase the "NEW HOME" you will have at the price you pay. The imposition of payment by superior warehouse and best material insurance is included. Inset one having the "NEW HOME" WARRANTED FOR ALL TIME. Keeps the world over four years warranty. Not sold under any other. THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE CO., ORANGE, MASS. FOR SALE BY ning your home-grounds, so there is no excuse for using judgment in planting that defies all principles of art. Finally community efforts in a small township meet with greater appreciation and with freer responses. It seems to me, than the same sized efforts in a big metropolis. To live in a house by the side of the road, and be a friend to your many city friends, whose life demands the inspiration of a country side visit, is a big part of my desire to live out, from the maddening crowd. With all the foregoing ideas and practices, the work of my profession as a school master has received my best efforts, and the surplus energy that in the city might have been idly spent, has created some few practical benefits for myself and others. Concluded. 122 SIMON SIMPLE CONVERTS PATO SPIRITULISM POP DON'T BELIEVE THAT SPIRITS CAN MAKE TABLES CHAIRS AN' THINGS DANCE HE'LL BELIEVE IT WHEN I'M THROUGH WITH HIM! Ouch! THERE ISN'T A SOUL IN SIGHT - IT'S UNCANNY! International Cartoon Co., N.Y. I'LL PEEP OUT BEHIND AND SEE IF ANY-THING HUMAN OID ME! HELP! HELP! GEE-HE'S WHITE AS CHALK - I'LL BLAME EVERYTHING I DO NOW TO SPIRITS! HA! MA! HA! HE BELIEVES IN SPIRITS NOW I'LL BET! I- I- HATE T- T- TO BE BELIEVE IN SPIRITS - BUT THERE'S NO DENYING FACTS! The NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL, Durham, N. C. President, James E. Shepherd, Durham, N. C. "I cordially commend the school's interest and needs to all who believe in the Negro race and in our obligation to help promote its intellectual, moral and religious uplift."—Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, New York City. IT IS MORE THAN A MERE SCHOOL—IT IS A COMMUNITY OF SERVICE AND UPLIFT Its influence is destined to be felt in all sections of the country in improved Negro community life wherever our trained workers locate. Settlement workers, missionaries for home and foreign mission fields, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. secretaries and district nurses receive a comprehensive grasp of their studies under a Wellesley graduate and experienced co-workers and actual every-day practice through the school's SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT. A HIGH STANDARD COLLEGE DEPARTMENT has now been established. We aim also to create a better qualified ministry. Industrial training, advanced literary branches, business school. Thirty-two acres; ten modern buildings; heathful location. We can accommodate a few more earnest, ambitious students. Communities, requiring social workers should write us. NEXT SCHOOL TERM OPENS OCT. 1. 1916. For catalog and detailed information, address: PRESIDENT JAMES E. SHEPARD NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL Home Cafe LEE'S LUNCH ROOM Geo. H. Lee, Prop. 1231 E Street N. W Meals 15c and 25c Cafe CH ROOM e, Prop. et N. W and. 25c LL HOURS Buffet and Family Liquor Store Phone North 2340 1917.14th Street, N. W Washington, D. C. Open Day and Night Livery and Chapel MEALS AT ALL HOURS It is an up-to-date Lunch Room It is the Sanitary Lunch Room where you and your family are requested to come. Electric fans Send Her Wherea'out to The Bee. The whereabouts of Nancy Massey colored, whose malden name was Alice Jones, is earnestly requested by Granville Belle, P. O. Box 7, Leavenworth Kans. When last heard from she was living at Okmulgee, Okla., but when last heard of was in Lincoln, Neb. Any information which will lead to her location will be gladly received at the foregoing post-office address or to --- 1231 E Street Northwest Phone Main 3631 E. SHEPARD DURHAM, N. C. A SKIN LIKE VELVET smooth, clear, free of wrinkles. Use the exquisitely fragrant cream of the beauty flower of India and be complimented on your complexion. Your dealer has Elcaya or will get it. CRÊME ELCAYA J. H. Dabney and C. F. Adams Funeral Directors With an experience in the business of 40 Years 227 K St., N. W. Phone M. 8273 ROBERT ALLEN JOHN T. STEWART Undertaker and Embalmer 30. H Street N. E. Washington, D. C Phone Lincoln 3718 Phone North 2751 HOTEL WORK A SPECIALTY J. K. ROESSLER Merchant Tailor Reparing, Aletring, Scouring and Dyeing 1755 L Street N. W. Washington, D. C. DURHAM. N. C. HARRIS TRADE MARK ASB NEW EROD TOMIE REGISTERED It's an awful thing to lose your hair! One of the first signs of unhealthy hair is dandruff. You must get rid of it or your hair will suffer. ED. PINAUD'S HAIR TONIC has been used for 100 years by men and women everywhere for dandruff, itching scalp and falling hair. Use it faithfully and prevent baldness and at the same time make your hair beautiful, lustrous and strong. Try one bottle. Ask your druggist. You can test ED. PINAUD'S by sending 10c. to our American Offices for a little bottle. Note how pure and fragrant it is. Parfumerie ED. PINAUD, Dept. M ED. PINAUD BLDG. New York Hosiery WONDER C. For all bili and in best blood, stomach, liver tonic on earth. Sick atigation, wind and pain disordered liver and kidney pure blood, boils, pimples ingestion, etc. It is marvelous in its effect stomach, enabling it to obtain the food taken the elements mary to create flesh and muscle bone structure, and pure blood. It contains no more other mineral substances injurious to the system. Tones up the Stomach, rejuvenation and removes that tired ug. HARRIB CHEMICAL COMP. Washington, D. C. Sold by all your THE BEE Published at 1139 Eye St. N. W., Washington, D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR Entered at the Post Office at Wash- ington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year in advance ..... $2.00 Six months ..... 1.00 Three months ..... .50 Subscription monthly ..... .20 WHEN HE IS NEEDED. Governments and parties are like people. Some people are great in the estimation of one another, when they are needed to pull chestnuts out of the fire. A woman never wants a man only when she is hard up or in a hole. Very often both bite, and sniffle to return when it is too late. to return when it is too late. The colored American will be greatly needed in the coming conflict. He will play an important part, no matter where he may be placed. He will do his duty to his country under all conditions and circumstances. There is always a good sign of trouble and uneasiness among the American white people and that time when you don't have the word "Negro alias the nigger." The time that you will hear these beautiful sentiments is when there is a lull in the war cry. Vardaman is to be placed on the District Senate Committee and undoubtedly you may hear his sweet voice if the Japanese or Mexicans don't invade his territory. It all depends. You will never hear his silvery(?) speeches if his dear old state of Mississippi is not invaded in the near future. Secretary Lane, who is a man of good and sound judgment; who has a heart as well as consideration, pajid the colored people a most deserving compliment in his address at the 50th anniversary of Howard Uniiversity. The colored people are aware that they have some stunnch friends in the country in the white race, as well as some damnable mean ones. The colored brother doesn't seem to understand himself. He lacks something, and that something is beautifully defined in the new propaganda of ex-Congressman Geo. W. Murray. Mr. Murray has the right conception of what the colored man needs for his advancement in the body politic. White men and colored men, cultured and the educated, have the wrong conception of the colored American. The white man is proud of his race, while the colored man is ashamed of his race. This is evidenced by a great number of them trying to hide behind a white mask, and those who don't do that, make an effort to hide their identity by saying that they have so much percentage of Indian blood, so much of Italian, so much of the Japanese, but not a drop of so-called "Negro" blood. Great Scott! Is not this kind of philosophy coming from would be white(?) people, otherwise a conglomeration of what is it? This is the only race upon the globe that attempts to hide its identity with any other race. The white man, as Mr. Murray stated, prepares his race from the eradle and when it reaches manhood and womanhood it is competent to face the world with all of its hardships. The colored brother enters the world and continues to grow in his same comatose state, and after it reaches manhood and womanhood, it does nothing but agitate and resolute to remain just where he was dropped when he came from the human incubator. There are more race organizations in this country than you can find in any other country in the world and does less for the material progress of the masses. The colored man is needed when he can do, and does something, and not until then. CAR STRIKE. The Americans, will wake up one of these mornings and be convinced that the colored race is the truest and most loyal race in the world. With the oppression of the superior race; with legislative discrimination on account of color, the colored American can be depended on to do his duty to his country and to his God. Because a government or a party in power controls the machinery of the government, make discriminatory laws against a weaker race, is it right or just? Notwithstanding, the colored man is safer to be placed in a position where the lives of so many are involved. The very idea of a corporation not having the necessary protection to operate its machinery is a disgrace to modern civilization. Here is a strike of car men. The strikers defy the corporation to operate its cars at night. The local government is not strong enough to give the corporation the necessary protection. It is not the fault of our local government, but the fault of Congress in not giving the city ample police protection. This, is evidence of the importance of putting colored men in positions where the life and liberties of the people are involved. The colored man doesn't believe in strikes. He asks to be let alone; he asks for protection of his life and his property. RACE PRIDE. RACE PRIDE. You must give credit to those who deserve it. Some so-called representative and so-called intelligent colored people have been and continue to follow in the wake of his more fortunate white brothers and sisters. It was Miss Naimie H. Burroughs who first instilled in the hearts and minds of colored Americans the importance of teaching colored children to play and carry colored dolls. Before this it was a common occurrence to see black children with large white doll babies, with flowing straight hair, in their arms. Colored dolls were novelties and looked upon as a mockery. Miss Burroughs continued to offer colored dolls for sale as well as to teach her children genuine race pride. Today we see colored dolls in the arms of colored children, except the "jim crow" colored child who is taught "jim crowism" by colored parents who are making every effort to hide their race identity. The white people have no respect for the colored man or woman who is ashamed of his own people and who are making every effort to be recognized as any other race except his or her own race. In this city, the colored people have begun to realize the importance of supporting their own enterprises, to some extent. The drug stores are about the only institutions that they support as a people. They will support their own theatres as long as the white theatres continue to "jim crow" them, and then the "jim crow" colored child of "jim crow" parents will steal into the side entrance of these "jim crow" institutions. Just why the colored people insist on patronizing these "jim crow" enterprises is surprising to The Bee. Our only department store, coindicted by Mr. and Mrs. Ware at 1832 Fourteenth street, doesn't receive the support it should. One hundred thousand colored people in this city and not one-tenth of this number patronize this department store. It is not that their goods are not first class. In many instances they are better. There are three papers in the city edited and managed by colored editors and if colored patrons cannot get a whole page gratis, they will say, "O there is nothing in a colored paper." "There is a great deal in it when you receive it an entire year and at its expiration you send a bill; you are told that your paper was not ordered by any one in the house to which the paper is addressed, and has been delivered for a year. Many of these deadheads and dead-beats would rather support and pay for a paper that abuses them than to support a paper that defends them and their race. The lack of pride is what is affecting the colored brother and sister. MUST BE BORN AGAIN. MUST BE BORN ACKNOWLEDGE When Christ said to one of His disciples that he must be born again, he looked at Christ in amazement. He wondered to himself how he could enter again into his mother's womb. You must be born again, said Christ. Christ meant that he must be spiritually born. So it is with all philosophers and race advocates who claim to teach colored Americans. The doctrine taught by them is the wrong doctrine. The colored man has been taught and is being taught the wrong doctrine. There must be a new man and a new woman. The present generation consists of trimmers and apologists. Women don't care to marry now. Why? Because they have more sense than the man in some instances. The womanly woman, the affectionate woman wants the manly as well as the affectionate man. She wants the man who will share her troubles and toils. She is looking for the new man, not the man that she has got to divide her cash with. The new man is to be born again, not in body, but in spirit. He must shake off the garments that have been worn so long by the trimmers and apologists. Men to some extent are influenced to marry by passion. When that has taken flight, love leaves the body. He becomes ambitious for money. He soon forgets his duty if he is compelled to give her proper support. The cheap man doesn't want to see his wife dress. A last year's dress suits him, while he is at liberty to change his suit twice a season. Cheap purchasers meet the fate of misers. The liberal man is bound to succeed, no matter what his color may be. In this day and generation man must be born again. OUR BOARD OF EDUCATION. The Bee most certainly, extends its congratulations to the president of the board of education for the manner he is weeding out of the schools undesirable individuals. What is most necessary at this time, and for the benefit of the schools is an investigation of that famous Relay escapade last spring. The Bee stands ready to give to the president of the board of the board of education what information it has, on the subject, which will; no doubt, satisfy the president of the board that a few changes in the schools should be made immediately. The small frogs have been receiving their execution while the big fish swim around in deep water out of sight. The condition of the colored schools needs a radical overhauling, and at once. NO ONE PRECINCT. Captain Henry Flathers of No. 1 prenetet deserves special credit for the manner in which he handled the strikers at the corner of Ninth and F streets this week. He was on the job and he gave the strikers and the mob to understand that the law had to be respected and that the people had rights that must be protected. TEACHERS' MEMORIAL An Excellent The Teachers' Memorial Service observed by Bethel Literary last Tuesday evening takes an enviable place among the successful Memorial Nights of the Association. The weather was most forbidding, but in spite of snow and rain friends of departed teachers and followers of Bethel Literary braved the elements and constituted an enthusiastic and appreciative audience. The program was introduced with a song by the Lyric Quintet, under the direction of A. Russell Wooding. So impressive and pleasing was their singing that they were compelled to respond to an encore. Miss. Rosetta E. Lawson made an address commemorative of the services of Miss. Martha B. Briggs. Her intimate acquaintance with Miss Briggs enabled her to bring such information as could not otherwise be obtained, which made the address rich, with learning. The teachers who died during the past year and in whose especial honor the annual memorial meeting is held, were divided into two groups. The Grim Reaper has dealt with unusual severity in the teaching corps during this period, claiming as his fourteenth man, "the man who taught man, and young womanhood." Those who answered the call and whose memory Bethel Literary paused last Tuesday evening to honor are: Arthur T. Albert. Arabella Beason. Bertha E. Cole. Jennie Cornell. Grace Dyson. Mary V. Dickerson. Maria L. Jordon. Eliza C. Johnson. John T. Layton. Alfred P. Lewis. Brittanna C. Reed. Louise A. Smith. Ellen Truman, and Parthenia Woodson: As a tribute to the memory of John T. Layton, the choir of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, which he directed so long and well, rendered one of the distinguished leader's compositions, and Miss Julia R. Bush, a coworker with the late Mr. Layton sang an impressive solo. Bethel Literary feels that it has honored itself in thus kneeling at the bler of this galaxy of heroes and placing thereon a rose. WHAT GOODS COST EIGHTY YEAR AGO. (From the Oswego Philadium). From an old journal that was kept in 1815 by a merchant of Oswego, it would appear that it cost the citizens something to live in those days. Anthracite coal was unknown, and for illuminating purposes, candles and whale oil was used. Salt in those days was as much as a necessity as now but it cost $1.25 per bushel or $5.38 per barrel: whiskey_was worth $1 a gallon. rum. $2.75 a gallon; tea. $2 a pound; corn. $1 a bushel; tobacco. 44 cents per pound; sugar. 26 cents per pound; loaf sugar. 31 cents a pound; cambric. $1 a yard; dimity. $1 per yard; molassas. $1.44 per gallon; sinks. 50 cents per pound; sheeting. 38 cents per yard; potatoes. 44 cents per bushel; rye and wheat. $1.50 per bushel; red flannel. 88 cents a yd; oil. $1 per gallon. per guillem —From an Old Scrap Book. UNGROUND CRAIN BREAD. It Saves Labor and Waste and Gains in Nutritive Value. One reason advanced for the high cost of food abroad is the shortage in manual labor, a result of the war. An ingenious method of dispensing with a large part of this, it is considered necessary before the grain in the field can appear in the form of bread upon the table, has been invented in Italy. According to Agribultura Toscana an excellent bread, not only highly nutritious, but delicious in flavor and appetizing of taste, is made from wheat which has never been milled. It is important that the grain should be of good quality and free from foreign material. It is first carefully washed, and sifted, and then placed in tepid water to soak for a period of from forty-eight to sixty hours, according to the degree of hardness. At the end of this time it has become "vitalized"—i. e., it has begun to germinate, and has therefore become quite soft and tender and has undergone profound chemical modifications. When the proper degree of vitalization has been attained the grain is directly into a kneading machine, where it is triturated and kneaded till it is ready to be molded into leaves. It is then allowed to ferment, or "rise," for the proper length of time, whereupon it is placed in the baker's oven. The bread is gray in color and, being made of the whole grain, is much richer in food value than bread from flour, containing a higher percentage of mineral salts, health and vegetable pepsin. There is a saving not only in manual labor, but in wastage, so that a given weight of grain yields a considerably larger number of leaves when unground than when convected into flour. Another advantage is that there is less risk of adulteration than when flour is used. THEY. WANT STRAIGHT EYES. So Natives in Japan Are Resorting to the Surgeon's Knife. You think that it is impossible to mistake a Japanese on account of his almond eyes, peculiar to the yellow race. Do not be so sure, for it is quite likely you are wrong. Of recent years a curious fad has taken root in Japan. This is nothing more or less than the alteration, by the surgeon's knife, of the shape of the eye, so that in future the Japanese will not be distinguished as one of the "almond eyed" races. The operation is said to be simple and quite painless. The surgeon takes a scalpel in his right hand and, stretching the skin with the forefinger of his left hand, makes an incision on the outer point of the eyelids in a straight line for the barest part of an inch. The lashes are then drawn into shape and held firmly by a piece of chemically prepared sticking plaster. The wound needs no further dressing, and the subject of the emperor of the Flowery Kingdom goes on about his business as if nothing had happened. In a few days it is entirely healed, when the surgeon is visited and requested to remove the plaster, and with the plaster comes the fee. The Japanese say that their eastern, not to say Mongolian, appearance is a disadvantage to them in their commercial and other relations with western races. Whether this is so or not, it is a positive fact that some of the highest officials in chrysanthemum land have fallen in with the popular fancy, and European medical men out there are making lots of money by the use of their scalpels. One authority states that the miliko himself has had his eyes "westernized." Mouth Wash. Dr. A. B. Wadsworth, director of the division of laboratories and research of the New York state department of health, recommends a mouth wash made as follows: Sodium chloride, half a dram; sodium bleachate, ten grains; distilled water, two ounces; glycerin, one ounce; alcohol, five ounces; thymol and menthol, one gram of each; oil of wintergreen, three drops; oil of cluconan, two drops; oil of eucalyptus, five drops; tincture of cudbear, one and a half drums; tincture of rhubarb, half a dram. Dissolve the salts in water before adding the alcohol. For use add an equal part of water. Oldest Infantry Regiment. Oldest military line regiment in the world? The distinction is held by the Royal Scots who have been nicknamed "Pontus Filate" the bodyguard. They were raised in 1625 for the service of Sweden in the thirty years' war, passed into the service of France after the death of Gustavus Adolphus and were present ed by Louis XIV, to Charles H. on the restoration - London Answers. One Kind of Thrift "Why do you give your little son only a penny at a time?" "I'm trying to encourage thrift and economy. He kniws that he'll have to save five before he'll have enough money to buy a movie ticket."—Birmingham Age-Herald. Not Identified. Teacher- When did Horatius hold the bridge? Pupil- Nobody of that name has given any bridge parties in our neighborhood for several years. Puck. Unkind. Author- Some of my brightest thoughts come when I am asleep. Editor- Your great trouble is insomnia. New York Times. SEEKS CROESUS' WEALTH. Professor Butler Will Dig For Treasure Buried In Sardis. Peckishill, N. Y.-Croesus, king of Lydia and the world's first great financier, escorted a committee of his subjects through his palace one afternoon in February, 77, and after the committee had looked at Croesus' heaps of gold one of the visitors, the first muckraker evidently, said it was wicked that any one should have so much wealth and that something was going to happen. It did. Half an hour later most of the big mountain overhanging Sardis buried the city, and when the earthquake was over Croesus' wealth was buried below mining depth. Professor Howard Butler of the department of art and archaeology in Princeton university announced that he was going over to Asia Minor very soon to resurrect the buried treasure. In 1900 Professor Butler headed an expedition to Sardinia, though he found only bronze statues, his excavations were of great scientific worth. His decision to return was made following the receipt of a message at his home in Croton Falls sent by Consul George Horton at Smyrna, which asserted that Professor Butler's old excavations were unharmed notwithstanding war operations. HE "MINES" MUSHROOMS Expert. Uses Deserted Coal Mine at Farm With Success. Morgantown, W. Va.-The queerest the place selected for a mushroom garden the finer, it seems, is the growth of this popular table delicacy The last word in a mushroom farm however, is such a garden placed in the depths of a deserted coal mine hundreds of feet below the ground. Not far from Morgantown there is located this old coal mine, known as the Pittsburgh coal seam, in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Theodore F Imbach, an assistant in the state agricultural experimenting station at Morgantown, obtained a permit from the owners of the property. He encamped on the first level and made chemical analysis of the rocky soil. He found it was rich in moisture and its constituents exactly those needed by edible fungi for their quickest and most luxurious growth. He therefore started a mushroom farm and found the spot was ideal for his purpose This "mushroom mine" makes large shipments weekly to the city markets HELPING THE IMMIGRANT. Los Angeles Plans Methods of Practical Assistance. Los Angeles, Cal. — Fifty thousand clubwomen of Los Angeles are co-operating with the Federal Immigration Commission and the school board in initiating new standards of education for the foreign population. Instead of teaching the alien patriotic hymns he will be instructed how to call a doctor in an emergency, talk to the corner policeman and similar usages. The first step will be the opening of eighteen night, schools for the foreign population. The general movement is the outgrowth of a social survey made of the city under the direction of the State Commission on Immigration and Housing, the first scientific analysis of the kind made by a western city in this country. The new night schools will be maintained the year round. WHITE MICE SET FIRE. But Then They Give Alarm by Scam snooping Over Sleepers. New York. -- Some practical jokes turned loose twelve white mice in a Brooklyn store. As a result there was a fire. "Twelve families were hurried to the street, and one man was nearly reoffeted. The first door is occupied by James Rigby, a cigar dealer. He slept in the rear of the store. When the mice scampering across beds, awake sleepers women seized and ran into the balls. Somebody outside heard the gelling and simulated a policeman. It was then the fire was discovered. Rigby was found unconscious. He was revived by Dr. Harper of the Brooklyn hospital. The life did $500 damage. The police believe mice gnawed a box of matches to the cigar store. COLONEL HAS A FIRE TRUCK New Apparatus Allays Oyster Bay's Fear of Incendiaries Oyster Bay, N. Y.-Fear of incendiarism which has filled the residents of this section for the last few months resulted in the putting into service by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and other wealthy men of a modern fire truck. The machine is guaranteed to make the steep run up Sagamore Hill in record time, and the new apparatus gives Oyster Bay the best fire protection on Long Island outside of Brooklyn. There have been many disastries on the residents of the north shore recently. Among those who joined Colonel Roosevelt in contributing toward the new fire truck were W. R. Coe, C. K. G. Billings, J. Stuart Blackton, Colgate Hoyt and Mortimer L. Schiff. And Still Eggs Are High. And Stirling. W. Island - Eloslie is the name of a Rhode Island Red ben owned by I. P. White, a farmer of Birch Run, Kanawha county. She has laid an egg every day for two months, each of which is much larger than the ordinary egg. The last and largest of these measured eight and one-half inches the long way around and seven inches in the other largest circumference. Eloslie is less than one year old. 300 YEARS OF SLAVERY. An Appeal to the Government. Galveston, Texas, March 9th, 1917. Editor The Bee: Dear Sir: There seems like war is in our door. I wish to say I have been wronged, and my race has had injustice heaped upon it for 300 years. With all this I have a loyal spirit. If the government would send the Ninth and Tenth Cavalry and 2nd Infantry to Gaudelbusk, Texas, and break all the peonage slave farmers I would join that move without hesitation. It is 20 miles northwest of Coleman and 20 miles from any R. R. I for one would like to see those poor colored people free. They are ignorant, but they have souls and were free born! The Department of Justice knows all about this slave farm, as I reported to that department with legal facts. I am, respectfully, REV. E. C. BRANCH. 317 25th St. DEATH OF MRS. MONTGOMERY. The funeral of Mrs. Martha Montgomery, beloved wife of Joseph R. Montgomery, who departed this life March 6, 1917. Funeral held from Third Baptist Church of which she was a faithful member for 43 years. Service conducted by Rev. Chas. Cushberry, acting pastor, assisted by Rev. Loving, Howard D. Washington and others. She was a most loving, kind and devoted mother, doing all she could for the comfort of her family. She leaves to mourn their loss her husband, Joseph Montgomery, two sons, William H. and Thomas Montgomery; two daughters, Mrs. Eva Carter and Mrs. Irene Fletcher; three grand children and two adopted children. Mary Beatrice and Ernest Montgomery, two sons-in-law and one daughter-in-law, and a host of friends. Among the beautiful floral tributes were; Mrs. Parcett and family, wreath; Mrs. A. Makell, spray; the employees of the U. S. Senate, wreath; Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Robinson, spray; Mrs. Murray and family, spray; Mrs. Annie Kelly, cross; Third Baptist Sunday School, spray; Mrs. Louise Holmes and Mrs. Harris, wreath; Miss May Pickett and family, pillow; Mrs. Susie Johnson and family, cross; Mrs. Mollie Fletcher and family, spray; Mr. Chas, Williams, Mr. Hunter, spray; Mrs. Desie Parker and Mrs. A. Gray, spray. One of the most popular summer resorts, on the Atlantic, is Hotel Dale at Cape May. This great hotel is visited by the best known Colored Americans in this country. Mr. Dale will open for Easter, which is one of the greatest occasions in that section of the country. Write for accommodations at once. Hotel Dale, Cape May, N. J. Young Mother of Triplets. Baltimore. — Probably one of the youngest mothers of triplets ever in this city is Mrs. Lena Stockman, who is only eighteen years old. Three baby girls recently arrived at her home. Their father, Lawrence Stockman, is but nineteen years old. Mrs. Mary Herr, mother of Mrs. Stockman, has recently been hired a teacher at her own. She is only three years old. LEVANUS King of Chairvoyants, of Baltimore County, Maryland. Read your life from cradle to grave without asking a question. The greatest born and most gifted medium the world has, ever known, even greater than the greatest of Egypt, India and on all matters of Business, Courtship, the far East. Can be consulted daily Love, and Marriage; Changes, Luck, Advice on Horse Racing, at track or by wire, and all other games: Hours 9 to 9 daily and Sunday. By my advice I remove bad influence and unite the separated. Never fail, no matter what your troubles may be or what you wish to know Prof. Levanus can help you. No matter if you are hundreds of miles away, readings and advice are acknowledged by both the press and public to be of the highest order. If you are going to see a kukun, why not see the best. 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Remember Prof. Levanus transacts all business at his office. I also sell the 6 and 7 books of Moses, Egyptian secrets and the witches Dream book. Fees moderate. Bring this card with you. No sign. Look for the number. Use side entrance. 520 S. Highland avenue. First street Highlandtown, Md. Take Roland Park car to Eastern avenue and First street. Don't be mis-directed. Look for Levanus, phone Wolf 5141-W. PROF. LEVANUS Will be in Washington every Friday from 10 o'clock a. m. to 8 o'clock p. m., at 1107 1-2 I street northwest. The Week in Society BOARD'S DRUG STORE At 1912-1-2 14th Street N. W., for pure, wholesome and delightfully flavored beverages and ice cream. It is the place where people who are particular about what they eat and drink go in great crowds. Sanitary surroundings and sanitary service go hand in hand here with delicious, healthful beverages. Meet your friends at Board's Drug Store. A miscellaneous shower, was given by The Thimble Sewing Circle, for Mrs. Dr. Maxwell, vice president of the club, at the residence of Miss Lillian Burke, March 8.—1826 Thirteenth street. We were well entertained by our hostess and sisters. Miss Olive Reed, student of Storer College, Harper's Ferry, W. Va., was the house guest of Mrs. Sadie Nelson, 400 You street, N.W., Inaugural week. She was tendered a luncheon on Tuesday March 5. Miss C. Whiting, of Baltimore, was house guest of Mrs. Will Waters, 2239 Thirteenth street, during Inaugural week. A delegation of seventeen from Arkansas, was tendered a banquet, March 6, by the Daughters of Sphinx and Nobles of Mystic Shrine, at their temple, 1717 Pa. avenue. A delightful program was rendered by local talent, and Dr. Amos, of Arkansas. Miss M. E. Janifer, of 1167 Sixth street, N.E., had as her guest during Inaugural week, Miss Lula M. Springgs, of Providence, R. I., who was so favorably impressed, with this her first visit to the Capital city, that she rather reluctantly left for home, expressing an intention to return in the near future. Miss M. E. Janifer entertained at dinner Friday evening, Mrs. Ida Atkins and Lennie Parker, of Hampton, Va., her sister Mrs. Georgia Janifer Peterson, of Newark, N. J., Mrs. Lillian Moore and others. The table and dining room decorations were red, white and blue. The dinner was served in eight courses. Music was furnished during the evening by Prof. G. E. Lewis. During inaugural week, Miss S. J. Janifer had as her guest, her sister, Mrs. George A. Peterson, of Newark, N. J., also Mr. Halsoy Francisco, of Newark, N. J. Mrs. Josephine Sampson of Philadelphia, Pa., is visiting her sister in this city. Miss Louise Harris was called to this city by reason of the illness and death of her uncle. Mrs. Susie Bishop is the guest of friends in this city. Miiss Rebecca Caldwell of Philadelphia, Pa., spent several days here during the inaugural week. Mrs. Laura Brown of Frankfort, Pa. was in the city for the inauguration. Several weddings among prominent folks in the social world are expected in June. Mrs. J. W. Rose of New York City was a visitor to the city for the inauguration. Mrs. Mary Gray, of 24 Free street, who has been ill several weeks, is improving. Mr. George Radcliff of California is visiting his sister, Mrs. Hattie Whiting, of 69 N street northwest. Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Barrett of Wellington, Del., were in the city last Sunday, the guests of Mrs. Burrett's sister, Mrs. Julian Stephenson. Br. Arthur Woodward of Pottsville, Pa., spent Sunday in the city, the guest of friends. Mr. Fred Miller of Knoxville, Teinn., is now living with his brother, Mr. James Miller, in this city. Miss Nellie H. Roberts of Baltimore has been visiting her aunt in this city for the past week. Mr. James' Watty of Atlantic City was in the city for inauguration week. was in the city for inauguration week. Dr. and Mrs. Edward Ramsey of Kansas City, Mo., have been visiting friends in the city. They are now making a visit in Baltimore. Mrs. Samuel Johnson of Jersey City is the house guest of her, cousin, Mrs. Charlie West, of Ivy St. southeast, for a few days. Dr. James W. Parker, a graduate of Howard Medical School, and who is practicing in Red Bank, N. J., was in the city twice recently to bring patients to the Freedmen's Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Felix Cheatham of 1506-1-2 S street northwest were host and hostess at a beautiful tea on Saturday. March 10th, in honor of Mrs. Samuel Johnson of Jersey City, N. J. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. Bor. Mr. and Mrs. Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Jasner. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie West. Mrs. Edith Johnson and Mr. D. Wright. The evening was pleasantly spent, the house beautifully decorated and the guests indulged heartily in all the delicacies of the season. Mrs. Eliza Lyons, mother of Mrs. Bessie B. Anderson, who has been quite ill at her home, is somewhat improved at this writing. Mrs. Marie Piper Barnes of 2200 Twelfth street northwest has been sick for four weeks with the rheumatic fever. She is still confined to her bed. Mr. Ino. Drew of Pennsylvania was the guest of Mrs. Archer, Seventeenth street northwest. Mr. Theodore Shorter, formerly of this city, but now of Chicago, Ill., paid a two-weeks' visit to his mother, Mrs. Cynthia Shorter, sister and brother, Mrs. Lucinda Shorter-Walker and Mr. Chas. Shorter, of 1406 S street northwest. While here Mr. Shorter was extensively, entertained by his former playmates and friends. Mr. E. T. Johnson spent Sunday in Martinsburg, Va. Mr. Jno. Smith Wesley, one of our city boys, has just returned from the war zone. He is now stationed at Norfolk, Va. His many friends are glad to learn of his return. Miss Jennie L. Clark, of 1013 Nineteenth street northwest, now teaching in Chesapeake City, Md., spent the week end in Philadelphia, the guest of Mrs. Duckrey, 2219 Oxford street. They motored to Atlantic City Sunday, spending a delightful time there. Miss Clark comes of an old and prominent family of our city. Miss Blanche Taylor, daughter of Rev. W. A. Taylor, who has been quite ill, is slowly improving. The central attraction at the Indoor Lawn Fete at the Florida Avenue Baptist Church was the mock marriage which was quite enjoyable. The contracting parties were Mrs. Roberta Hooper and Mr. Adam Grant. Mr. Hooper was the minister. Messrs. H. Teagle, Harold Dean, Dr. J. C. Williams, Miss Katherine E. Irving and Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Matthews spent a delightful evening Sunday at the beautiful residence of Mrs. M. B. Irving and Miss Helen Butler, Arlington, Va. Mr. and Mrs. Fredrick Brownhill of New York city were the house guests of Mrs. Wm. Magruder, 1616 Swann street northwest. The many friends of Mrs. Mary Butler-Irving of Hunter's Station, Arlington, Va. are delighted to hear that she is rapidly improving. This young matron was the recipient of tender reminders from her friends, fruits, flowers and books. Mrs. Josephine Butler and Mrs. Mary C. Butler spent the afternoon visiting in Nauck Station, Arlington, Va. Mrs. Anna Jasper, who has been ill for the past five or six months, is improving slowly. The Misses Lovett of Harper's Ferry are in the city. Mrs. Thomas L. Anderson, of Shelton, Conn., who has been visiting her cousins, Prof. and Mrs. J. D. Baltimore, for the past two weeks, will leave today for New York where she will spend a few days prior to going home. While in this city Mrs. Anderson was the recipient of much social attention. Her pleasing manner won for her many friends. Mr. J. Austin Bell spent a week, ending February 25, visiting in Atlantic City, attending the basketball contest between Armstrong of D. C., and the Vandal Club of Atlantic City, and was the guest of his aunt, Mrs. C., B. Overhall, and his cousin, Miss Pearl Jones of Tyrone. Pa., who is a principal of a school at Atlantic City; he also stopped over in Philadelphia and made a flying trip to Media, Pa. on Sunday evening and was the guest of Miss Bessie Campbell of Media. He returned home Monday a. m., in time for school Dr. and Mrs. Yandavell have moved in their beautiful new home at 616 North Sixth street. Waco, Texas. Miss Eva M. Burrell, a teacher in Raleigh, N. C., was in the city last week. Miss Burrell was on her way back to Raleigh after having visited Newark, Brooklyn and New York city. Ex-Congressman Goo. W. Murray addressed a large audience in Culpeper, Va., Monday and Wednesday evening and Friday night, he spoke in Warrenton, Va. He is also booked to speak again in Warrenton tomorrow, Sunday afternoon, and will return to this city Monday. His reception has been most cordial. Miss G. B. Maxfield who has been sick with a severe case of grip is up and out again. A SOCIAL STAG. A. Lincoln Myers of New York Guest of Honor. One of the most enjoyable events that has taken place in this city was the social stag given by Mr. J. R. Bell of 409 O street northwest. He had as his guest Mr. A. Lincoln Myers of Syracuse. N. Y., during the week of inauguration. He came down by invitation to attend the reception of the Oldest Inhabitants of March 6th. Mr. Bell entertained his guest at a stag on March 7th. Those invited to meet Mr. Myers were some of Mr. Myers' old friends: Mr. John Paynter, Mr. J. Henri Lewis, Atty. W. Calvin Chase, Mr. A. Harris, Mr. J. A. White, Mr. Richard Wills, Prof. L. M. Hershaw, Mr. Thomas Sayers, Mr. Walter Wilborne, Judge J. M. Ricks, Mr. Jas, L. Tyree, Mr. A. Lincoln Myers and Mr. J. R. Bell, the host. From the several speeches made by the gentlemen every one seemed to have had a delightful evening. All expressed their gratitude at having had the pleasure of being present and regretted, that the hour 3 a. m. Mr. Richard Wells escorted our guest of the evening, Mr. Myers, to the dining-room at 10 n. m., March 7th, and at 3 a. m., March 8th, after 5 hours of enjoyment, the gentlemen bid good morning. Mr. Myers extended all a cordial invitation to visit him at Syracuse, N. Y., and he assured them if one or all came they would be received with pleasure, and that he would leave it to them to say whether they had or had not enjoyed their trip. THE WM. LLOYD GARRISON Junior Chapter.of the N. A. A. C. P. of the District of Columbia. The members and friends of the Junior Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. were interested listeners to a delightful and helpful address from Mrs. Pendleton, president of the Social Purity Society. Mrs. Pendleton's subject, was "Truthfulness, Purity and Bravery." The juniors entered heartily into the discussion of the topic. Miss Charlotte Hunter's topic was "Selecting a Leader," showing how important it is. This branch celebrated its first anniversary last month. During that time $10 have been sent to the Anti-Lynching Fund. PORTER-MAGROUSE Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Porter announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Martha Elizabeth, to Mr. Wm. C. Magruder, September 13, 1916, at Rockville, Md. THE ENTRESEE' ART CIRCLE ENTERTAINS. The original Eniresee' Art Circle gave its first formal reception at True Reformers' Hall, Thursday evening, Mar. 8, 1917. The hall was most beautifully decorated with American flags, palms and evergreen. The ladies of the circle were gowned as follows:— The president Mrs. Josephine Smith wore a taupe crepe de chine gown embroidered in gold, the secretary Miss-Elizabeth G. Cole wore mode duchess satin and georgette crepe, the treasurer Miss Maggie E. Janifer wore accordion plaited caryl chiffon and tulle, Miss Esther Jones wore white taffata silk and tulle, Mrs. Florence Scott wore pink embroidered net over satin, Miss Constance Smith wore blue taffata silk with bodice embroidered in gold, Mrs. Rose Adams wore pink accordion plaited satin and net, Mrs. Corayle McLane wore silver lace over pink, Mrs. Edna Hunter wore blue velvet and georgette crepe, Mrs. Jaunita Slaughter wore black silk and chiffon, Mrs. Mamie Vawter wore blue duchess satin and silver lace. The out of town guests were: Mrs. Eva Sampson of Pittsburg, Mrs. George Peterson of Newark, N. J., Mrs. Ida Atkins and Mrs. Lennie Parker of Hampton, Va., Dr. Spillman of Ala., Mrs. Maud Boswell and Mr. Chas. Carrol of Balto Others present were: Mr. and Mrs. Bernard, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. John Janifer, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Blunt, Misses Elnorá and Hattie Minkins, Lenora Bailey, Louise Bradley, R. Southernland, Mrs. Marie Hartfield, Mrs. Cook, Mr. Thomas Brooks, Mr. A. J. Gaskins, Mr. J. T. Rhines, Drs. Wright, Taylor and Houston, Mr. Eugene and Mr. Arthur James', Mr. Chas, Minkins, Mrs. John Benjamin, Mr. Wm. MonroeMr. Wm. Ellis, Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Eddie Smith, Mr. Larie Adams, George Davis, Vernon Talbert, Mr. Clarence Williams, A Rankins, Mr. Finley Wilson, E. F. Johnson. The orchestra played pleasing music until 2:15 A. M. then so pleasant was the morning all were loathe to leave. The chaperons were Mrs. Sarah Jones and Mrs. T. A. Lewis. WEST WASHINGTON. WEST WASHINGTON The Woman's Day exercises at Mt. Zion M. E. Church on Sunday was a decided success, bringing together more than two hundred women who sang in the chorus with pleasing effect. The three services of the day were very appreciative with an interesting program and addresses by Mrs. Bishop W. F. McDowell, Mrs. Mary B. Hughes, Miss Nannie Barber and Mrs. Mary Church Terrell. Solos by Miss Martha Harris, Mrs. Ethel Bolden. The services were under the direction of the pastor. Rev. D. D. Turpean, who is now closing his 1st year's pastorate at Mt. Zion which has been very successful, both spiritual and financially. The congregation expects his return for another year. The annual conference is now in session at Baltimore, Maryland. The Ehenezer A. M. E. Church, Q street northwest; held a very successful trustees' rally on Sunday. The pastor, Rev. Green, is now completing his second year's pastorate of the church, having made many improvements in the church and a large increase of the membership. It is anticipated that he will be returned for another conference year. The special improvements which have been under construction at the First Baptist Church have been completed and the congregation will occupy the main auditorium on Sunday during the day with very appropriate exercises and special music by the choir, Rev. Jas. Pinn, pastor. All are invited. Personal. Mrs. Laura Freeman announces the marriage of her daughter, Miss Laura Belle Freeman, to Mr. Jesse A. Lewis. Reception from 8 to 10:30, March 21, 1917, at the residence of the bride's mother, 1233 Twenty-second street northwest. DEAN WOOD Rev. F. W. Olson of Washington is doing a great work in our neighborhood. He is pastoring the Beulah Baptist Church and on last Sunday he baptized several persons. Miss Blanche Tibbs, who has been quite ill for the past two weeks, is improving. Mr. Marvin J. Chavis, who has been detained at home for the past few weeks owing to a serious injury he received about the eye while at his work, is able to be out again looking the picture of health. Mr. Chavis owes his perfect recovery to the skillful treatment of one of Washington's most efficient young eye specialists, Dr. E. A. Robinson, of Thirteenth street, and Miss Violet Burwell, nurse, of Deanwood Heights. Mr. S. H. Dudley, the great theater promoter has purchased the Mid-City Theater from Mr. Sherman Mason, who will travel in the interest of Colored Moving Pictures. Mr. Mason and his wife have been very successful in the operation of this popular theater. It will continue to hold its high standard under the new management of Mr. Dudley, who has a chain of theaters throughout the country. The Bee wishes the new manager continued success and regrets the retirement of its friends, Mr. and Mrs. Mason. MADAM E. AZALIA HACKLEY Director FOLK SONG FESTIVAL QUEENS' PAGEANT Two Hundred People in Action Fifteen Queens of Different Countries The Most Popular Queen Will be Crowned Queen of Queens Maids of Honor, Lord Chamber- lains, Guards SUPERB NOVEL ENTERTAINING For the Benefit of BETHEL LITERARY ASSOCIATION TUESDAY NIGHT, APRIL 10, 1917 ADMISSION TWENTY-FIVE CENTS METROPOLITAN A. M. E. CHURCH M ST. Bet. 15th and 16th Sts. N. W. MISS MARIE A. D. MADRE, Manager MME. E. AZALIA HACKLEY, Director ARCHIE PINKETT, Pres. Bethel Literary RFV. C. H. STEPTEAU, Pastor Mr. William Bush of Mechanicsburg, Pa., spent the inauguration holiday here as guest of Miss Blanche Tibbs of Sixty-first street. Mrs. J. L. Jenkins, accompanied by her son and Mrs. M. Peck of Baltimore, motored over for the inauguration. She was the guest of her sister, Mrs. M. B. Chavis, at her home on Clay street. After seeing the sights of the city, the party was entertained at luncheon by Mrs. Walter Singleton of Thirteenth street northwest. Mrs. Alberta Johnson, of Dix street, who was operated upon last Sunday by Dr. W. A. Warfield, assisted by Dr. Norman, Harris and Dr. E. D. Williston, is doing nicely. She is under the skillful care of our brilliant young nurse, Miss Violet A. Burwell. NORTHEAST There is to be a marriage in this section shortly. It has been looked for a long time. Mrs. Violet Plummer, who has been quite ill, is up again. Dr. Pope continues to hold the social center at his popular drug store. The handsomest baby boy in the Northeast is the new baby of Mr. and Mrs. Violet Plummer, who will be christened in April; at the same time Calvert Plummer is to be. The coming bazaar at Rev. Bennett's church is looked forward to with great interest. Mr. John Kiffle who has been ill for several weeks is out again. There are a few bachelors in this section and equally as many young maids who have decided not to marry. Many of them believe, that is the females, that a regular salary in school is better than to be tied up with a stingy man. Girls in this section have learned some sense. HAPPY MINISTERS The two happiest preachers in town are Rev. W. H. Dean, of Ebenezer, and Rev. Jackson, of Asbury Mission. These two divines are not only progressive, but they have the confidence and respect of the people. Rev. Jackson is beyond all doubt a believer in his people, and one of the most honest and one of the cleanest ministers in the pulit. Rev. Dean carries to his conference, above all indebtedness, one thousand dollars. Rev. Jackson also meets the requirements of his conference, and he received the unanimous vote of his church for his return. Both ministers are doing good work. DEACONS ORDAINED. Elder S. F. Richardson, pastor of the Massachusetts Avenue Christian Church, preached an ordination sermon Sunday, March 11th, at 11:30 a.m. Bros. Eugene Williams and Charley Blackwell, were ordained. Eldern Geo. F. Hughes, S. F. Tyree, E. A. Osborne and W. C. Smith officiated in laying on hands. This is the first colored Christian church in the city. All are welcome to its services. DR. F. F. MARTYN The Greatest Pulpit Orator of the Age Will Preach the opening sermons Y, MARCH 18TH, 1917, at 3 and 8 P. COSMOPOLITAN BAPTIST CHURCH BETWEEN NINTH and TENTH ST. days' $100,000 campaign for the public church, to be known as the Cosmopolitan leadership of Dr. Simon P. W. Drew, with initial endorsement of leading clergymen of foreign nations. The Trustees propective of creed or color, to aid this m. QUEENS' RALLY WILL BE HELD EVENING, APRIL 16 For Further Information, Write or DR. S. P. W. DREW, CORCORAN STREET NORTHWEST The Greatest Pulpit Orator of the Age Will Preach the opening sermons SUNDAY, MARCH 18TH, 1917, at 3 and 8 P. M. AT COSMOPOLITAN BAPTIST CHURCH N STREET, BETWEEN NINTH and TENTH STS. N. W. Benefit of the 90 days' $100,000 campaign for the purpose of building a national institutional church, to be known as the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church. under the leadership of Dr. Simon P. W. Drew, who has gained the friendship and substantial endorsement of leading clergymen of the United States, and diplomats of foreign nations. 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DIRECTIONS Take a teasponful in a little water after meals or when suffering. Repeat in an hour if necessary. W. L. 8MITH, Druggist. 723 Florida Ave., N. W. Washington, D. C. Their Weight Gives Some of Them a Curvature of the Spine. In Some Cases the Flexure is Great Enough, if Not Allowed For, to Affect the Accuracy of the Weapon—How the Defect is Corrected. The newest American dreadnaughts are to be armed with sixteen inch rifles, and the layman takes it as a matter of course that these monster weapons are merely bigger brothers of the fourteen inch gun. But this offhand conclusion is decidedly at fault. The sixteen inch gun is a more exacting engineering problem than the fourteen inch weapon; and just because of its greater length and girth and weight it is a more difficult piece to make precise in its action. The bigger the gun the more it is prone to develop troublesome characteristics, and the ordnance engineer has his cunning heavily taxed in order to neutralize or to minimize these inherent tendencies. To begin with, the sixteen inch gun, without its mount, represents an outlay of $175,000, that being the price paid for the materials used and the skilled workmanship. Unless fabricated with exquisite regard to accuracy the weapon is neither safe to fire nor capable of standing, up to its work during a relatively short active career, measured by something like a couple of hundred rounds. It must be remembered that a sixteen inch shell weighs about a towh—to be exact, 2,100 pounds—and the powder impulse exerts sufficient energy back of the projectile to start it from a standstill and to send it hurting from the weapon's muzzle at a velocity of 2,800 feet a second. It would not do to have that speeding shell jam in the bore of the rifle, because if suddenly arrested it would probably fracture the weapon if it did not cause a graver disaster. Therefore the ordnance engineer must see that the path represented by the bore is as nearly a straight line as it is mechanically and physically possible to make it. A twelve inch gun of 45 caliber is forty-five feet long, and except at the single supporting point the heavy mass of the extended weapon is without any sustaining help. These monster pieces of ordnance are virtually single pivoted girders, and their power to resist bending or deformation depends essentially upon the strength of the materials employed and the distribution of the mass. Clearly, then, the bigger the rifle the greater becomes the disposition to droop toward the muskle, and not only does this impair the shooting accuracy, but in time the weapon becomes a source of danger to its own people. The weight of some of the big guns now in use in the navy causes them to droop at their muzzles as much as half or three-quarters of an inch, and this if not realized and allowed for in sighting, will make the shooting inaccurate, the inaccuracy increasing with the length of range. In fact, the projectile on leaving the gun is directed by the last six feet of the muzzle. That is to say that if the rifle has a droop the shell follows the curvature instead of taking the line assumed by the gun pointer at the telescopic sight. The bureau of ordinance in Washington has been working at this problem as guns have grown in length and diameter of bore. At the present time the great fourteen inch weapons have an appreciable droop of only .3S of an inch. This droop is not enough to endanger the life of the gun or to impair its range, provided the sights are adjusted to it. But there is another influence at work which tends to affect this droop and to cause it to vary some hundredths of an inch from time to time. This is the weather. For instance, a gun will droop when the sun shines fiercely upon its upper side, while the under side is shaded. But so long as this total deflection does not exceed half an inch there is no danger of the shell jamming in passing along the slightly curved bore. In the latest of our big naval weapons this droop has been still further reduced by extending the jacket or hooping further out over the forward part of the gun. This serves to stiffen the gun so that the sun has not as much deforming effect as heretofore. It may be asked, "What about the other guns now in service that have not been so re-enforced to check drooping?" The bureau of ordnance has resorted to a very simple expedient in correcting this curvative. The deformed weapon is simply rotated in the recoil sleeve of the mount until the underside of the rifle is uppermost. The muzzle then, instead of dipping actually, is curved skyward. In time the natural elasticity of the metal asserts itself, and the overhanging weight of the outstretched muzzle gradually presses the chase downward and straightens out the piece.—New York Sun. Well Balanced Tires. "Balance in a tire means that the tire must be so built as to wear evenly in all parts," said a manufacturer recently. "It would be foolish to produce, for instance, a trend so excellent that much of it would be left after the carcass had worn out and equally foolish to provide side walls that would outlast every other part of a tire. The ideal is a tire that will wear out uniformly in every part." Time ripens all things. No man is born wise—Cervantes. HELPING THE CHILD. Some Don'ts For Mothers to Turn Over In Their Minds. A few don'ts might well be conspicuously posted in many a mother's mind. Don't consider it necessary to systematically underrate your child. Your adult friends will know you do not mean it, but the child will not, and probably more characters are weakened by the lack of self confidence engendered by such a process than by the vanity which follows the silly bragge of overfond parents. Don't think that the moment you are alone with your boy or girl, you must find fault or endeavor to improve the occasion by a little moralizing, no matter in how loving a spirit. This is the hardest of all, for no one is so anxious to help a child toward perfection as its parent, yet it surely leads to 'an avoidance of the moments alone together, which should be times of happy confidences. Don't correct, the child before others. Never mind if a well meaning relative does say: "My dear, I am surprised that you do not show more force of character. Your children are suffering from a lack of discipline." Pass the matter over until you and the small offender can have it out alone. If the circumstances are such that it cannot be passed over take him out of the room. Lastly, laugh often with, but never at your child. This takes self denial, but it pays. Make up your mind that whatever others may say he can depend upon you for a quick, sure understanding without quibble or joke at his expense. This does not mean that he must not take his share of harmless fun. It is wholesome, and too much sheltering would make him oversensitive, but the mother who lets her child know that she never makes fun of him will be surprised at the confidence with which he relies upon it.-Mother's Magazine. STREET. CROWDS IN MOVIES. Strategy Used to Keep People From Spoiling the Effect. Street crowds are notoriously difficult to handle for the movies. They will never do what you want, and even when you are sneaking them there is always some smart Aleck in the foreground who insists upon looking into the camera and cracking his foolish face. On one occasion Donlon wished to get a close up picture of a crowd looking skyward. It was to be used as a cut-in for an aeroplane story. To hire a lot of extras might have cost a couple of thousand dollars, so he took a chance of getting what he wanted without paying for it. Knowing the psychology of crowds, Donlon took three cameras downtown, where he set one on the sidewalk for the purpose of taking a close-up profile of the crowd he was to assemble, one in a second story window, shooting straight into the people's faces, and one on top of the building, also shooting down. When all was ready Donlon stood in the middle of the street with a megaphone, and began to call directions to one Ben, who stood on top of the building. The crowd assembled immediately and, seeing the cameras, began, as usual, to rubber right into them. Then Donlon called out: "Is Ben ready to jump?" And Ben called back: "Just a minute, Ed. I'm a bit nervous. Wait till that yellow car gets by. I think I'll try for the top of that big Pasadena car. It's wider." Back and forth they called excited warnings and directions, and the crowd was right on tiptoes. They didn't know what was going to happen, but it promised excitement. All this time the camera men clicked that fool crowd into celluloid immortality—Rob Wagner in Saturday Evening Post. Decimating an Army. To say that an army is decimated means, strictly speaking, that it loses a tenth of its men. If, then, an army is decimated ten times, what is left of it? An English publication that raised the question, because war correspondents so frequently misuse the word "decimate," was astonished to find that many of its readers think there would be nothing left of it. In point of fact, an army of 100,000 decimated ten times would still number 34,870 men. Figure it out for yourself.—Youth's Companion. High Cost of Living. The researches of Professor Mead of the University of California show that 310 men own 4,000,000 acres of the best land on the continent and one railroad owns 5,000,000 acres. The report of the secretary of agriculture shows that less than half of the arable land in the United States is under cultivation. Here is a suggestion for those seeking the cause of the high cost of living. -St. Paul News. Borrowed Books. Whenever you lend a book, jot down in a small blank book kept in a convenient place for that purpose the date, the name of the person to whom the book is lent and the title of the book. This will prove a safeguard against losing books or forgetting where they are to the person who allows many books to be taken from his library. Tyranny. There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful. Power is nothing but as it is felt, and the delight of superiority is proportionate to the resistance overcome.—Johnson. In the march of life don't heed the order of "Right about!" when you know you are about right.—Holmes. THE WAY TO SUCCEED. Charles M. Schwab's Advice to Young Men Starting to Work. In his book "Succeeding With What You Have" Charles M. Schwab says: "When I took charge of the Carnegie works at Homestead there was a young chap employed there as water boy. A little later he became a clerk. I had a habit of going over the works at unusual hours, to see how everything was moving. I noticed that no matter what time I came around I would find the former water boy hard at work. I never learned when he slept. "Now, there seemed to be nothing remarkable about this fellow except his industry. The only way in which be attracted attention was by working longer hours and getting better results than any one else. It was not long before we needed an assistant superintendent. The ex-water boy got the job. When we established our great armor plate department there was not the slightest difference of opinion among the partners as to who should be manager. It was the youth with the penchant for overtime service. "Today that ex-water boy, Alva C. Dinkey, is head of a great steel company and very wealthy. His rise was predicated on his willingness to work as long as there was any work to be done." "If a young man entering industry were to ask me for advice, I would say: Don't be afraid of imperiling your health by giving a few extra hours to the company that pays you your salary. Don't be reluctant about putting on overalls. Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things no matter how small or distasteful. The man who counts his hours and licks about his salary is a self excited failure. "It may be in securing' unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the labor run. When you go into your customary barber shop you will wait for the man who gives you a little better shave, a little trimmer hair cut. Business leaders are looking for the same things in their offices that you look for in the barber shop. "The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others. Many business men fail in this, because they are thinking only of personal glory." Our Land Extension. Great Britain is no longer, the only nation that can say the sun never sets on its territory. Since the United States acquired the Danish West. Indies it can make the same boast. Hiltherto the little island of Culebran, which is virtually a part of Porto Rico, has been our most easterly point of land and the island of Balabac, in the Philippines, our most westerly point. The distance between them is just a little less than 180 degrees, or half the circumference of the earth. St. Croix, in the Danish West Indies, is thirty-eight miles farther east, than Culebran, enough to bridge the gap. Just as the sun is rising on St. Croix it is setting on Balabac. Youth's Companion. The Opposing Room. If you had spent fifteen of the best years of your life listening to the composing room tell "why they can't set it," had grown hollow in the checks listening to limotypers tell you you didn't know what you were talking about and had grown the stringhult from standing first on one foot and then on the other while you listened to the foreman make objections; you wouldn't have blamed us for hugging a dirty faced kid, with freckles bigger than a nickel, who looked up into the editor's whiskers and said, "Mister, where is the opposing room?"—Buffalo News. Take This Any Way. You would not allow another man to snub you, to be discourteous to you, without resenting it. Neither will the other fellow permit you to treat him shabbily without letting you know what he thinks of it. Some days you feel cross, cranky and irritable. And did it ever occur to you that on these very days you seem to see others as others seem to see you? Did it ever occur to you that others are bound to treat you as you treat them? Take this anyway you want to, but take it. -Silent Partner. His Needs. "If you please, mamma," asked Clarence, aged ten. "will you kindly lend me a pencil?" "But," said mamma, "I left a pen and ink for you to do your lessons with on the nursery table. Why don't you use those instead of a pencil?" "Well, you see," Clarence explained, "I want a pencil to write and ask the editor how to remove ink stains from a carpet." Pearson's Weekly. "A man should take an interest in his home." "Yes," replied Mr. Meekton, "but he shouldn't devote too much of his life to being keeper of the canary bird and custodian of the rubber tree."—Washington Star. "People should marry their opposites." "Most people are convinced that they did."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He Had None. 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"The worst money panic I ever saw," was the reply, "was when a fifty cent piece rolled under the seat of a street car and seven different women claimed it"—Exchange. Shrewd Woman. "I am encouraging my husband to buy an automobile." "They cost an awful lot." "That's just it. If he pays $2,500 for the kind he wants he won't be able to preach economy to me for quite awhile."—Boston Transport. Snubbing Science "I hear old Shudge's doctors have given him up." "Yes; he is getting well in the natural way." - Baltimore American. "I certainly do. All my children got all their bad traits from their father's side."—Detroit Free Press. FOUNDER'S DAY EXERCISES AT SUNDAY, APRIL FOURTH TUSKEGEE, APRIL FIFTY Teachers of Colored Schools Invited to Hold Memorial Exercices on This Day and to Ask Children to Contribute to Memorial Fund. Tuskegee Institute, Ala., March 12.—One of the very impressive tributes with which Dr. Booker T. Washington's memory has been honored was the contribution of the colored school children, on April 5th, 1916, to the Booker T. Washington Memorial Fund. When called upon, the children responded with nickels and dimes and in some instances where they were unable to bring money, they brought butter and eggs which their teachers converted into cash and forwarded to Tuskegee Institute for the Memorial Fund. Such a popular demonstration of love and loyalty has not been exhibited since the campaign was launched, and it has been suggested that the colored schools be again invited to contribute to the Memorial Fund and also to conduct suitable Memorial Exercises on April out of this year. Founder's Day exercises will be held at Tuskegee Institute on this date and we invite teachers in all the colored schools to hold similar exercises in their schools on this anniversary of Dr. Washington's birthday. The collection will afford those children who were unable to contribute last April to their part in helping to perpetuate the work which was founded here at Tuskegee Institute for the industrial advancement of the Negro race. A certificate which may be framed, showing Dr. Washington's picture, a picture of the house in which he was born, and Tuskegee's most important building, will be sent to each individual and school sending $5.00 or more. Local Memorial Fund Committees are also invited to conduct appropriate exercises on April 5th. Such an occasion would be an opportunity time to direct the attentia of the various communities to the work and purposes of the local Memorial Fund Committees. Pamphlets containing some Memorial Addresses delivered since Dr. Washington's death which may be used in suggesting Memorial programs may be had by addressing the request THE STAR HAIR GROWER PESSER AND GROWER. Good money made. We want agents in HAIR HAIR GROWER. 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INDIAN WIGWAM HERB REMEDY ESTABLISHMENT. like to think that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Crisis had-something to do with the bold and manly way in which colored opinion is now beginning to express itself. But I know that in the end they will realize I am right. In any event, they may be sure that I shall never desert their cause until I am dead. Northern Branch, 113 Clark St., Evanston, Ill. to Emmett J. Scott, Secretary, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, in charge of the effort to raise funds among the colored people, to whom also contributions should be promptly forwarded. EQUALITY OF CITIZENSHIP. Is This a Nation of Beings or Cattle? Segregation the Root of All Evil —Equal and Exact Justice. March 10, 1917. Editor of The Bee. Dear Editor! The question of a separate training camp for colored officers in U. S. army is a mooted question among colored people. My opinion is best shown by enclosed letter to Dr. Spingarn and his reply to me, which must be published entire, if at all. Neither Dr. Spingarn nor myself will consent for these letters to be merely quoted from. It is too important a matter and too easily misunderstood. WM. PICKENS. Dr. J. E. Spingarn, 9 W. 73rd Street, New York City, N. Y. Ny. Dear Mr. Spingarn: Your circular calling for colored men to volunteer for a training camp for colored officers in the volunteer service of the United States, has been received. I recommended it to our students and will recommend it to others, because I believe in the wisdom of it. With separate colored military units, like those that already exist in the United States army, a distinct training camp for colored officers would be logical, and what is more than logical, it would be a decided advantage to the promotion and rise of colored men in the army. As more scattered individuals in a white training camp, any white man could be easily jumped over their heads. With a separate and distinct, proposition, such as the one you mention, this species of discrimination would hardly be possible and would at least be much less of a temptation. I hope the thing will succeed. I can see no more possible menace in it than I can see in the existence of the Tenth Cavalry. Yours truly, WILLIAM PICKENS. Dean William Pickens, Baltimore, Md. Dear Dean Pickens; Dear be, I am delighted with your letter, and I shall use it in the way you suggest. It is good to meet common sense in a courageous fighter. I should like to think that I have both qualities, too. You cannot imagine what anxiety and thought I have given to this question of a training camp for colored officers. I hate segregation; I believe it un-American and wrong. But if there is war, there is likely to be conscription of all able bodied men; and I felt that I could not forgive myself if I saw black millions serving in the ranks and had not lifted a finger to help them to positions of leadership. It seems to me that at this critical moment there is no service greater than fitting the best colored, men for leadership in the event of war. When the colored resentment was formed here in New York I did all I could to have as many colored men made commissioned officers as possible. But the answer in most cases was irrefutable: there are not any men who have had sufficient training to be commissioned. There and then I determined if there were war, the military authorities would not have the same excuse; there and then I determined that the colored men must have the training at all hazards and in any effective and speedy way possible. With two or three hundred properly trained officers, we can make a fight for a wide open army; we can fight against segregation itself if we only have the men to put forward to fight it with. I am proud that the first reaction of some of the colored paners is unfavorable to my proposal, for I should 1728 7th St. N. W. Faithfully yours, J. E. SPINGARN CHINESE IN FRANCE Thousands Imported to Work In Munitions Factories. OTHERS EMPLOYED ON FARMS. Contracts Provide For.Double Oriental Wages and Return of Bodies of Dead. Exportation Has Been-Going on For More Than Year—Only Biggest Men Taken. Chicago—The pick of Chinese skilled and partly skilled laborers is being sent from Tientsin, China, to France at the rate of more than 1,000 a week, and from Indo-China to France in at least equal numbers, mainly to work in French munition factories, according to a representative of one of the largest British manufacturing and trading concerns in China, now on a visit to this country. "They are carried over to France at the rate of between 2,000 and 3,000 a ship," he said. "It does not take a large ship to carry 2,000 Chinese, for they go practically as freight. A Chinese can flourish in a space that would hardly do a white man for his grave. "Only the best selected stock is going to France from Tientsin. A large percentage of the men are six feet tall. For the most part they are Chinese who have learned something about machinery in British mills and factories or in construction camps. Some are agricultural laborers, taken to France to increase food production. 'The exportation of Chinese to France has been going on at Tientsin for considerably more than a year, and the number of Chinese now in France, including those from French China, is probably more than 100,000. Before they can be induced to leave China these Chinamen all insist on a contract providing not only for their wages, which are small enough, but binding the French government to ship their bodies back to China for burial if they die in France. It also provides in detail for the apparatus of a Chinese burial. Every Chinese who dies must have a new set of clothing for his appearance in the future world and for the food which goes for the spirit of a Chinese of his class, from rice to roast goose and pig. He must be assured that other funeral ceremonies will be faithfully observed, such as the burning of a string of tinfoil imitations of Chinese money, the burning of a paper house, a rotten chain or carriage. "In our factories in China we pay Chinese workingmen who have some mechanical knowledge 12½ cents a day, American money. The contract which induces them to go to France provides for wages of 20 or 25 cents a day, and that is enough to recruit the Chinese as fast as ships can be found to carry them out." HE MADE GOOD: Man Released on Forgery, Charge Is Now a Wealthy Landowner. Los Angeles. Cal.-Furnishing proof that he had made good since he was released on his own recognition thirteen years ago, after his arrest on a forgery charge, Charles Ross was given permanent freedom recently by Judge Willis and his case dismissed. Mr. Ross now is a wealthy landowner of Mexico. He was released by Superior Judge B. N. Smith in 1904 and told to get out in the world and make good. THIS DOG IS GIVEN AN AUTO FUNERAL Philadelphia. — Wrinkles, the sixteen-year-old fox terrier, of Professor Mauritz Leefson of Forty-fifth street and Osage avenue. West Philadelphia, was buried recently in Fred Triplett's animal cemetery, 1718 South Tenth street. Camden. It was an automobile funeral. Wrinkles had made four trips to Europe and was known to many West Philadelphia residents. The body of the dog was in a raftin basket. BOY SCOUTS TO PLAY A PROMINENT PART IN WAR C. H. Livingstone Says Half Million Are Available For Various Duties. Washington.—In the Boy Scouts of America the country has a well trained "peace army" of 202,000, backed by reserves of 350,000 "veterans," the former well qualified to take the place of police in guard duty, to give "first aid" and to do the work of older men in many things, and the latter particularly well qualified to serve their country in any capacity required of a citizen, according to Colin H. Livingstone, president of the national council of the Boy Scouts of America. "The Boy Scouts of America is not a military, organization," said Mr. Livingstone. "Primarily its aims are character building and citizen making. Our boys get an outdoor training, and with them it is a case of playing soldier in the field and camp, getting a handy training for the duties of citizenship, building up health and mind. "I told the boy scouts of Buffalo recently that they were part of a militia of service. In the event of war they will perform all the services that can normally be expected of them. For instance, they will be able to relieve the police of guard duty over waterworks, reservoirs, public buildings, bridges, and so on. They will look after families whose heads have gone to war and help relieve any suffering." WANTS DOCTORS, TOO, TO PREPARE FOR WAR WANTS DOCTORS, TOO, TO PREPARE FOR WAR Medical Journal Tells of Qualities Needed In an Efficient Military Surgeon. "If War Comes" is the heading under which the New York Medical Journal says editorially: "Modern warfare demands the complete mobilization of every resource of the countries involved. Defent is the price paid for unpreparedness, and the conquered pays the bills for both sides. Therefore it pays to be prepared. Every war in, which the United States has taken part has accentuated the necessity for and the deplorable lack of preliminary preparation. "Surgeon General Lovell in his report for the year 1817 says of the war of 1812: 'There could be little doubt that where one man had died from improper medical treatment ten had been destroyed from want of a knowledge of the many duties peculiar to an army surgeon.' The same comment could 'have been made at the close of the civil war and of the war with Spain. "In no direction is preparedness more important than in the medical departments of the army and the navy. The public and a large part of the medical profession erroneously assume that because a man is a qualified medical practitioner or surgeon he will therefore make an efficient medical officer. This is not true. The military surgeon is much more than an efficient surgeon or a competent practitioner. He must also understand sanitary tactics; he must be familiar with the organization of the medical department and know how to handle men and material. Without this knowledge he cannot perform the full measure of his duties. "Therefore every patriotic physician should at once enroll in the medical department of, the reserve officers' corps, where he can learn the essentials of military medicine by devoting a few hours a week to home study without interfering with his practice. Then when the need comes he can serve his country acceptably and with credit to himself and his profession. Applications for enrollment in the corps should be addressed to the surgeon general 'of the army, Washington." GIRL WOULD BE SOLDIER. Writes a Letter Asking to Enlist In the United States Army. Municle, Ind.-The following letter has been received by Sergeant Joseph R. Finney of the local recruiting station: Union City, Ind. Captain Finney, Army Recruiting Office, Municle, Ind. Dear Sir-I sent in my application to the army recruiting office several months ago and I was told to write you about it. I wish to join the United States army. Whatever way you may see fit to use me I shall be willing to give you my best service. My present position is clerking in a grocery store. Now, if you see any way to use me let me know. If it is to be on the firing line I am willing even to go there. Hopeless I am from you soon. I am, sincerely yours. MISS MINNIE HARMON. R. R. 2 Union City, Ind. Sergeant Finney, after an investigation, said the young woman who sent the letter is a pretty girl who clerks in a country grocery near Union City and that she is in earnest about desiring to be a soldier or to enter the army in any capacity. Sergeant Finney has written to her that he has not the authority to enlist women for any purpose, but that she might find army work with the Red Cross association. Hot Springs, Ark.—Claiming he is a "hoodoo" and practices sorcery, an old negro was given five days to leave the town of Earle, Ark., by three negresses, who recently beat him and pursued him through the streets with brooms. Their belief is said to be based on the fact that the old man's skin has turned white, except for a streak about the eyes, giving him an uncanyable look. KEEP OUT OF DEBT KEEP OUT OF DEBT If You Are In Debt You Are a Fly Glued to the Fly Paper. LITTLE CHANCE TO ESCAPE. The More You Struggle the Tighter You Stick—Soon Your Courage Is Gone and You Are a Dead Fly—Be Wise and Shun That Fly Paper. More than half the people are in debt—that is to say, they are living beyond their means or they are spending every cent. And the man who is spending every cent he gets is actually in debt and running in debt, for he is running in debt to his old age, when he won't be able to make and won't be able to spend and when the spending of today means debt later. Those that are in debt know what debt is. There is no need to tell them about it. First you owe $50 if you are a little man—or $50,000 if you are a big man. And then you owe $100—or $100,000 if you are big. For awhile you struggle and plan. You are going to pay it off soon. It is a good thing to use "O. P. M."—that is to say, other people's money—in the effort to get ahead. You tell yourself that all the big men have used their credit and borrowed and gone ahead rapidly. It all sounds very nice and plausible. But remember, that you keep getting in deeper. The fly lights on the fly paper, perhaps with only one leg at first. He says this is nothing and puts down the other leg to push himself off. And then he is stuck fast. And then he says to himself, "I will fly away from this fly paper," so he begins flapping his wings. And both of his wings stick to the paper. There he is with his feet stuck and his wings stuck and only his head free. That fly feels about as independent and hearty as you do if you are in debt. And he says: "I can get off of this paper easily enough when I get ready. I'll just put my head down, and push myself off." He buzzes for awhile. Then he puts his head down on the fly paper to push himself off. Then his head sticks tight. He begins to choke. By and by he rolls over on his side, he sinks into the sticky surface—and there is another dead fly. So it is with men in debt. So it will be with you if you stay in debt. The only hope for the fly the moment he feels one foot on the fly paper is to use both wings and fly away, not putting in the other foot, flying off as quickly as he can. And a billion times wiser and better is the occasional rare fly who sees the other flies sticking to the fly paper and says, "I don't like the look of those flies; I'll stay away from them." Look at the people in debt. See their worry. See the anxiety of the mother, reflected in the children. See the back of standing, the extravagance and the poverty mixed together. You can't mistake the human fly stuck on the fly paper of debt. Since you cannot mistake him why not keep away from that fly paper? Debt makes everything worthless. If you owe $1,000 it seems rather foolish to save ten or twenty. You feel that you might as well spend it; it won't make any difference. And so it goes if you owe $2,000. And then it isn't worth while to save twenty or forty. And you become a failure. You put down your feet and then your wings and then your head, which is ambition, and by and by you roll over and you are a dead fly. Keep out of debt.—From the New York Evening Journal. 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"What did the surgeon do when he started to vaccinate the regiment?" "I suppose he ordered them to present arm."-Baltimore American. Read The Bee if you want all the sent arms." news. e if you want all the best wines. the best at this. Bien Jole IN AN JOULE BRASSIERES Natural Command. Japanese Contribute $75,000 to New Mission Structure. Tokyo. Announcement is made that the fund of $500,000 for the construction in Tokyo of the new St. Luke's International hospital has been completed at a luncheon given by the Japanese advisory council. The Japanese contributed $75,000, including $25,000 from Emperor Yoshihito. The remainder has been either contributed or pledged in the United States. The proposed hospital will replace the present St. Luke's hospital, which was founded by the American Episcopal mission-many years ago and which has achieved a reputation throughout the far east. Dr. R. B. Teusler, its present director, will have charge of the enlarged institution, work upon which will be started as soon as a proper site is decided upon. The hospital will be international in scope. It is hoped later to add a training department for doctors and for nurses, and to that end an effort will be made to secure further assistance in the United States. The proposed hospital will probably be the most complete modern medical institution in the far east. HOLD AN ODD FUNERAL: Salvation Army Takes Charge of Obsequies for Victim of Diphtheria. Chicago.—A band of Salvation Army workers stood in the alley in the rear of a dilapidated house in the slums and sang "Lead, Kindly Light," "Nearer, My God, to Thee," and then knelt in the mud while the adjutant offered a prayer. Face pressed against the dingy window, stood a blind man and a tearful woman. As the prayer ended the basement door opened and a little white casket was quickly carried out, placed in a hearse and hurried away, unescorted, to a cemetery. Such was the unusual funeral accorded Josephine Tomaszewsky, six, diphtheria victim. Her parents' home was quarantined because her two little sisters and one brother were lil from the same disease. The mother ingested upon a funeral ceremony for Josephine, and the Salutation Army bit upon holding it in the alley as the way of overcoming orders of the board of health against entering the house. RULING FAVORS TEACHERS. Justice Levy Sets Basis of Pay "Docking" For Absence. New York.—Schoolteachers, absent from work. In the past have been "docked" one-twenty-fifth of a month's pay for each day lost. Justice Auron J. Levy of the municipal court ruled that the proper basis is to deduct 1-365 of a year's pay for each day's absence. His decision was returned in the case of Mary A. Broughton, teacher in public school 198, who lost eleven days' work because of illness in October, 1915. The decision also holds the signing of a receipt for pay "in full" is no bar to action for recovery. The battle is an old one which the teachers and principals have been waging against the board of education. Years ago they were "docked" only one-thirtieth of a month's pay for each day lost. William G, Willeox, president of the board, pointed out that under the Levy ruling the teacher could be absent 190 days, a full school year, and still demand almost half a year's pay. PHONES FUNERAL SERMON. Preached at Long Distance Because Storm Held Up Railways. Fond du Lac, Wis. - A funeral by long distance telephone was conducted the other day when the body of the Rev. Frank Millar of Oakfield was sent to its last resting place through the drifts about the village where Mr. Millar had been a pastor. The storms tied up all railroads leading to Oakfield from here, a branch line of a few miles in length, and with the main line in trouble no effort was made to resume traffic. The country roads were also drifted so deep that the village and countryside adjoining had been isolated for half a month. The Rev. Robert S. Ingraham of this city was, to conduct the services over the body of his Methodist colleague, Ingraham being the district superintendent. Trying to reach Oakfield by road, he was stalled and worked his way back to the nearest farmhouse; where he arranged to read the service by wire. A listener at the Millar home took his words and repeated them to the mourners. RICHEST VILLAGE TO BE CITY. Glen Cove, N. Y., Votes to Incorporate in the Third Class. New York—First steps toward the incorporation of the richest little city in the United States were taken when residents of Glen Cove, N. Y., in a test voted to incorporate the village as a third class city. The vote was more than two to one in favor of incorporation, which will include a population of 10,000. Glen Cove is considered the largest metropolitan colony in Long Island Among its residents are J. P. Morgan J. T. Pratt, H. L. Pratt, G. D. Pratt, Captain J. R. De Lamar, Percy Chubb, H. W. Maxwell, Edward L. Young, Justice Townsend Scudder, F. W. Woolworth and Harvey S. Ladew. $50,000 For Two Daughters. Greensburg, Ind.-Isaac Sefton, one of Decatur county's wealthiest residents, presented each of his two daughters with valuable farm land as gifts. The gifts comprise 461 acres of land that is said to be valued at $50,000. MAKING HIGH EXPLOSIVES. Dangers of Poisoning to Which the Workers Are Exposed. The making of modern manitions of war has brought into prominence several types of industrial diseases hitherto almost unknown. One of the most troublesome of these is that commonly known as "T. N. T poisoning," due to exposure to the fumes of tri-nitro-toluol or to the inhalation of dust generated in mixing certain high explosives of which it forms a constituent. Unusual drowsiness, frontal headache and eczema are the first symptoms of T. N. T poisoning, and workers so affected are promptly given some other occupation, when the symptoms quickly disappear. Less dangerous, but very troublesome, is tetryl poisoning. Manipulation of this explosive produces a light dust, which gets into the mouth, nose and eyes and sets up a painful soreness, accompanied by headache, nausea and an almost intolerable itching. Curiously enough, individuals vary very considerably in their susceptibility to tetryl poisoning. Some workers are not all affected by it or only in a very slight degree, while others can hardly enter a room in which it is being handled without suffering severely. Luckily tetryl poisoning does not endanger life, nor are the symptoms in any case so severe as those due to T. N. T. poisoning. Tetryl possesses the annoying property, however, of staining the skin and hair yellow, but means have been found of largely counteracting this if the workers care to avail themselves of them. Other industrial diseases of a similar nature more or less prevalent in mutilation works are due to handling fulminate of mercury, to exposure to the fumes of a substance known as tetrachlorethane, to inhalation of various other noxious fumes and dust generated in the workshops by the different processes carried on there and also from lead poisoning. Yet another danger the muntion worker is exposed to, is acute poisoning due to the accidental escape of nitrous fumes into the work places. Many of these cases are apt to terminate fatally, for the gas is extremely deadly. - Pearson's Weekly. EXERCISING AT HOME. How One Wise Man Utilizes His Open Air Sporting Outfit. "I didn't know your business allowed you much time for sports," said the visitor as he glanced around at the athletic paraphernalia displayed on the walls of his friend's den. "It doesn't—much," replied the middle aged business man. "When I get a chance I sneak off to a gymnasium or to the country club, but most of my exercising I do right here in this room." "Surely you don't use the basket ball or the ice skates or that rifle here," said his friend, with a smile. "You're wrong; I go," said the busy man briskly. "See that hook in the ceiling? I string the basket ball up, put on that pair of old kid gloves and bang it around for ten minutes every other morning or so. Best punching bag I ever tried. "Those ice skates are just the right weight to use as dumbbelis in some very quick exercise. Any one of those golf sticks makes a wand such as they use in gymnasiums to take the quirks out of the muscles of the arms, chest and back. "Those tennis balls are invaluable for strengthening the grip of the hands and the cords of the forearm. Take one in each hand and squeeze it about fifty times as hard as you can every day." "With that hunting rifle, I haven't used in four years I go through the same stunts, including the manual of arms that Uncle Sam has worked out to keep his soldiers in good trim. I must admit that that tennis racket has puzzled me. I can't think of a thing to do with it except practice strokes with one of the balls against that clear part of the wall."—New York Sun. OFFERS A CONVICT REGIMENT. Commissioner Lewis Would Recruit 1,200 From City Prisons. New York.—New York gangsters may yet rival the exploits of the apaches of Paris on the firing line, and the American gun man and the French blue devil may yet be fighting side by side. Burdette G: Lewis, commissioner of correction, announced that he had been in consultation with Major General Leonard Wood regarding the advisability of recruiting a regiment of workhouse and penitentiary inmates in the event of war between the United States and Germany. Commissioner Lewis also consulted with Major General O'Ryan, commanding the national guard. Commissioner Lewis spoke of the exploits of the apaches of Paris, the outlaws of the boulevards, who are comparable to the gun men and gangsters of New York. In the fall of 1914, when the German army was almost at the gates of Paris, a force of apaches so distinguished itself for desperate fighting that it won the sobriquet of the blue devils. The commissioner of correction believes that the same reckless individuality and excess of physical exuberance which enter into the personality of gang leaders and gang men would tend to make New York's workhouse and penitentiary population a valuable fighting force if officered by strict disciplinarians. Kansas Legislature Appropriates for Colored School. A bill has just passed both branches of the Kansas Legislature appropriating the sum of $73,850 for the maintenance of the State Industrial Department at Western Univ., Quindaro, Kansas, for two years. Dr. H. T. Kealing, the president, states that out of this appropriation a new department will be opened in the fall, giving instruction in Auto Repairing and Machine Construction. The school has recently purchased a motor truck from the firm of C. R. Patterson and Sons, the Colored builders of motor cars at Greenfield, Ohio, and will purchase others shortly. While no moneys were allowed for new buildings, the appropriation carries with it increased maintenance equipment of departments and supplies. THE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL The inauguration is over at last to the satisfaction of many leaving hundreds of tired and worn out hotel employees to tell of their experiences during the rush. The man who was out of work in Washington from March 1 to 7 was practically hidding from it. Help from Alexandria, Baltimore, Harrisburg, and even York Pa., was given employment in the hotels of this city that were crowded with inaugural guests. Washington and Atlantic City will be the big spring centers for tourists coming from the southern resorts as the time is drawing nearer every day for the season to end at Palm Beach and the East Coast Resorts. The boys at Palm Beach are handling many of America's New Millionaires and they are very liberal with the cash the colored chair pusher, waiter, bell hop and musicians have made big seasons and are getting home-sick for the north according to a Southern Correspondent. Washington's Street Car Strike has made a great hit with bad time makers in many of the down town hotels 'the longer the strike lasts the longer the "Car Excuse" will be in force. The team of "Hancock and Marshall" played in Washington during Inauguration Week. Mr. Marshall has been confined to his old home in Georgetown on account of illness. Mr. George Simbly of the New Ebbitt Cate has been on the sick list for the past week. Mr. Luther P. Carter has resumed his duties in the Street Saloon at the Ebbitt, after making many changes in positions since his arrival from Danville, Va. Rapid progress is being made on Hotel Washington, opposite the Treasury Department. 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Your home won't be complete SUNLIGHT HAND LAUNDRY 1439 MORRIS ROAD S. E. FAMILY WASHING INCUDING THE MEN FOLK'S COLLARS AT AT MODERATE PRICES LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S WOR We Use no Machinery CLARENCE J. TIGNOR, ATTORNEY; Supreme Court of the District of Columbia Holding Probate Court— No. 23,365 Administration. This Is to Give Notice: That the subscriber of the District of Columbia has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters testamentary on the estate of Mary L. Taliaferro, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber on or before the 14th day of February, A. D. 1918; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 21st day of February, 1917. LESLIE TALIAFERRO, Stanton Ave., S. E. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the Dis- trict of Columbia. 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Both articles are sold by druggists and dealers at 25c each, or will be sent direct by Seeby Drug Co., 79 E. 130th St., New York City, on receipt of price. Write for sample of QUINADE, mentioning the name in this paper. KATZ'S MARKET -is the cheapest store in the Ninth and Florida Ave. Northwest FOR RENT OR SALE. A large eight-room house in Arlington. Va.; beautifully situated upon a mound; concrete collar, attic; water at the door, and a sulphur well. All kinds of fruit trees in first-class condition. This place can be rented for $S per month, or can be purchased at a reasonable price. It can be reached by two lines of cars. This is a bargain. Call or address, care of The Bee. 1109 I street northwest. MADE FOR HAIR ANDRUFF SAMPLE ASOAP HAMP00 SOAP ANSES THE SCALP COMB AIGHTENER O DRYER 50¢ QUINASOAP 25¢ BUGGISTS NEW YORK CITY. N. Y. A. AVE. N. W. pick of the new stock of Wines your home won't be complete curry's Special. Open and New Year. A. AVE. N. W. WASHING TS COLLARS AND SHIRTS TE PRICES LDREN'S WORK Machinery LEGAL NOTICES. We'll give you Purchased with small Peter G 817 Purchases charge with small weekly Peter Grog 817 to 823 Purchases charged on an open account with small weekly or monthly payments THE LEADER SPECIAL FOR EARLY BUYERS Ladies' Coats, $2.98 up; Boys' Suits and Overcoats $1.98 up; Skirts 98c to $8.00; Furs at reasonable prices. We carry a full line of Men's and Women's and Childrens' furnishings. Phone North 5542 1250 7th St. N. W. HOLMES NEW BUFFET J. OTTOWAY HOLMES Fine Wines, Liquors and Cigars 211 SEVENTH STREET N. W. Opposite Center Market Phone Washington, D. C. KATZ MARKET 9th FLORIDA AVE. N. W. KATZ MARKET 9th FLORIDA AVE. N. W. The Cheapest in the City Everything Fresh Daily Two Stores in One EDW. L. ROTHWELL WM. ROTHWELL & SON Flumbing, Heating, Tinning and Locksmithing Furnaces and Ranges 1120 EIGHTEENTH ST. N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. Telephone North 4142 FURNISHED ROOMS. Three nicely furnished rooms for rent. Hot, cold water and bath; 533 T street northwest. For rent, room, nicely located at 620 R street northwest. M-10-3t Two unfurnished rooms for rent, also one nicely furnished room suitable for gentlemen. 1643 10th St., N. W. m-3-2t HOUSE FOR RENT. House for rent. Five rooms, all modern improvements, 1614 11th St. N. W. Call any time from 9 am. to 4 pm... A PRINTER WANTED. WANTED at The Bee Office—A printer; one who knows the business. Write or call, 1109 Eye Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. Prices are always lowest with us; conditions are such that we can always give our trade best value, and well they know it. We keep busy; it's a humming hive of business. "Sales" do not bother us. None can compete with a good wool tailor-made suit, low as $5; slightly used. See us. JUSTH'S OLD STAND, 619 D. --- —the finest qualities —the lowest prices —the greatest selection —the easiest terms —the best treatment uses charged on an open account nall weekly or monthly payments Irogan & Sons C 7 to 823 Seventh Street FUNERAL DIRECTORS and EMBALMER Authorized Capital, $25,000; Common Stock, $10,000; Stock, $15,000 First Call Wagons and All Other Livery. Chapel Se- Officers: R. C. Richardson, President; G. M. Oliver, Vic- Mary J. Hall, Secretary; C. H. Stepteau Corres- Secretary; John Lewis, Treasurer. Members Walter Dorsey, Greenwood Washington, C. R. W. Williamson, George Brown, Mae J. Richa- Henry W. Hall, Theodore Williams. Advisory Board. Shares Each: W. O. Speak, A. O. Susie R. Saunders, John Porter, Lola Walls, Mary Goodrich, Alexander Willbanks, Special Field A L. A. Carter, J. Jackson, Alexander Hawk James R. Walls, Ella M. Boston, John C. Bel Address All Communications to the resident, R. C. 1700 Vermont Avenue, Corner of R St. North Authorized Capital, $25,000; Common Stock, $10,000; Preferred Stock, $15,000 First Call Wagons and All Other Livery. Chapel Service Free Officers: R. C. Richardson, President; G. M. Oliver, Vice-President; Mary J. Hall, Secretary; C. H. Stepteau Corresponding Address All Communications to the resident, R. C. Richardson, 1700 Vermont Avenue, Corner of R St. Northwest. DR. FRED PALMER'S SKIN WHITENE Whitens dark or brown skin. Bleaches clears sallow complexions, removes all b ishes and causes the skin to grow wh See That You Get the Genuine I have used one box of your Dr. Fred Palmer's Whitener and I like it fine. Indeed, my skin is whiter and is clear of pimples. I will ask you to send another box of it; also send me a bar of the soap. Yours very truly, PEARL MOOR DO NOT ACCEPT IMITATIONS Sold by druggists, or sent direct, for 25c, paid. Write Jacobs' Pharmacy, Atlanta, PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER May Be Purchased in PEOPLE'S DRUG STORES; as Follows: PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER May Be Purchased in all the PEOPLE'S DRUG STORES; as Follows: STORE No. 1, 7TH and K STS. N. W. STORE No. 2, 7TH and E STS. N. W. STORE No. 3, 14TH and U STS: N. W. STORE No. 4, 7TH and M STS. N. W. STORE No. 5, 8TH and H STS. N. E. Phone. Main 5435 --- PEOPLE'S SERVICE CORPORATION ORS and EMBALMERS Common Stock, $10,000; Preferre- $15,000 Other Livery. Chapel Service Free Resident; G. M. Oliver, Vice-President; C. H. Stepteau Corresponding Lewis, Treasurer. Lewood Washington, C. H. Stockton Brown, Mae J. Richardson; Theodore Williams. W. O. Speak, A. O. Washington Oter, Lola Walls, Mary Susan Ibanks, Special Field Agent; Jason, Alexander Hawkins, M. Boston, John C. Bell. To the resident, R. C. Richardson Corner of R St. Northwest. PALNER'S SKIN WHITENER A SUCH SPLENDID BEAUTY CLEAR THE COMPLEXION BALLOW THE MARK SAIN: JACOBS PHARMACEUTICAL CO. ATLANTA, GA. SKIN WHITENER KIN ENER own skin. Bleaches and xions, removes all blem- e skin to grow whiter. Get the Genuine Whitens dark or brown skin. Bleaches and clears sallow complexions, removes all blemishes and causes the skin to grow whiter. See That You Get the Genuine Kingston, Georgia, December 4, 1916 your Dr. Fred Palmer's Skin e. Indeed, my skin is much es. I will ask you to send men me a bar of the soap. PEARL MOORE. CEPT IMITATIONS ent direct, for 25c, post- Pharmacy, Atlanta, Ga. R May Be Purchased in all the STORES; as Follows: I have used one box of your Dr. Fred Palmer's Skin Whitener and I like it fine. Indeed, my skin is much whiter and is clear of pimples. I will ask you to send men another box of it; also send me a bar of the soap. Yours very truly, PEARL MOORE. DO NOT ACCEPT IMITATIONS Sold by druggists, or sent direct, for 25c, postpaid. Write Jacobs' Pharmacy, Atlanta, Ga. HARRAY C. TALBERT Wholesale Wines and Liquors 332 14TH ST. S. W. WASHINGTON, D. C. Jacobs Pharmacy Co. Atlanta, Ga. Gentlemen: