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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 NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL Durham, N. C.-Program of Commencement Exercises, Avery Auditorium, 1917. April 20, 8:00 p. m., Oratorical Contest-Young Women. April 27, 8:00 p. m., Oratorical Contest taset—Young Men May 7, 3:00 p. m., address before joint literary societies—Mr. Joe Mitchell Chappele, editor National Magazine, Boston, Mass. May 13, 3:00 p. m., commencement sermon—Rev. Daniel H. Clare, D.D., pastor First Baptist Church, E. Orange, N. J. May 13, 8:00 p. m., President's address to undergraduates. May 14, 8:00 p. m., address before joint religious societies—Rev. Daniel H. Clare, D.D., E. Orange, N. J. May 15, 8:00 p. m., annual musical. May 15, 3:30 p. m., class day exercises. May 16, 8:00 p. m., alumni reunion and reception. May 17, 10:30 a. m., commencement address—Rev. Howard. J. Chidley, D.D., pastor First Congregational Church, Winchester, Mass. May 14-17, Exhibit in Domestic Science and Domestic Art departments. To all of these exercises you and your friends are cordially invited. CLARENCE M. DeVEILE. Sells a Fine House to Dr. Evans. Mr. Clarence M. DeVille, agent and Real Estate Broker, of 1014 W street n. w., has just sold the three story brick at the northwest corner of 12th and You streets n. w., to Dr. Elias G. Evans of 1113 You street n. w. This makes the fourth house sold by Mr. DeVeile this month. Dr. Evans will remodel the house and use it for both office and residence in the future, and will have both electrical and gas apparatus in all parts of the house as well as in his office; and with his present well equipped office his future office should be an CLARENCE M. DeVEILE A Progressive and Active Real Estate Dealer and Claim Agent—A Mem- ber of the Bar. CLARENCE M. DEVEILE A Progressive and Active Real Estate Dealer and Claim Agent—A Member of the Bar. Mr. Clarence M. DeVille is licensed by the Honorable Commissioners of the District of Columbia, to engage in all phases of the Real Estate Business and to loan money on real estate. He has houses, lots, farms, flats, garages and stables to rent and sell. Mr. DeVille is one of the most successful men of his profession. His highest ambition is to work for the good and the interest of his clients, and to always treat them fairly: Call and see him; his office is at 1014 W street n. w., phone, North, 1644. Open from 9:00 in the morning until 10:30 at night. The Lee wishes him continued success. WHY I GO TO THE PICTURE SHOW —BY ONE WHO KNOWS. Art, Travel, History, Romance, Science, Comedy. There are a great many reasons why I go to the motion picture show. To begin with, I can sit at ease in a comfortable seat and see before my eyes the whole great world pass in review. I can see the Turk at his mosque, with his arms stretched toward Mecca; the explorer battling against the might of ice and snow, the Arab on the burning sands of the Sahara, the mighty trees of California, the blackskinned natives of the tropics gathering coconuts and fruits, the beasts of every jungle and forest and plain, the fish of all the waters of the world, the marvels of nature, the wonders of savagery and civilization. I go to the motion-picture show because, as a common man, I can learn more of science than from the reading of countless books, or by months of travel, or from courses of lectures delivered by whispered savants whose technicalities confuse rather than inform. I go to the motion-picture show because it repeats for me the great events in history. I can live in the times when the crucial scenes were enacted and escape centuries of commonplaces. I can see Babylon toter to its fall. I can be one with the kings of Egypt, and watch the building of the Pyramids. I can march with Caesar and his Roman hosts, and be a spectator with the throng at the Circus Maximus. I can follow the lion-heart-Richard against the Saracens; I can see Alexander in his greatness, Napoleon in his pomp and his exile. I can be at Bunker Hill and at Manilla Bay, at Port Arthur and at Portsmouth, and with the master fragments of the world's events I can construct a living history that will be with me forever. I go to the motion-picture show because it brings to me from every land and every people in the world the things that are tremendously interestign; the vital things that make for progress, the picturesque, the bizarre, the unique, the strange, the beautiful so that I can enjoy the ripened fruits of energy, enthusiasm, ability, wealth and art. I go to the motion-picture show because I can see the master dramas of all time done better than their authors dreamed. I can see the great fictions brought to life and enacted rather than told. I can experience the tremendous and appealing griefs, mourning with the stricken and sorrowing with the bereaved to my soul betterment. I go to the motion-picture show because I can laugh at the comedies old and new, the hurly-burly and the gracious, the slapstick and the subtle, until I am refreshed and made anew and better for it. I go to the motion-picture show because it is a great magician whose wand makes dreams into living facts, and facts into splendid fancles; because, while greater than the spoken drama, it is not at war with it; while mightier than the written story, it does not encroach upon its dominions. I go to the motion-picture show because it is the greatest work of man, great as an educator, as an influence to better things, as an entertainment beyond comparison, as a wonderland of truth and fiction, of tragedy and mirth, an all-encompassing, international avenue wherein all peoples of all tongues may walk side by side and understand. I go to the motion-picture show because it constantly grows better in its art, finer in its grasp of human things, greater in its appeal to the heart and mind, mightier in the splendor of its themes and loftier in its ideals; because it comprises the sum total of human achievement and brings it all where I can reach out and feel and know it. THAT MOTON-SCOTT BANQUET AGAIN. April 25th. 1917 To the Editor of the Washington Bee. In justice to myself and to set the public ever right I wish to correct a statement which appeared in the Bee of April 21, signed by a committee: F. D. Lee, Chairman; W. H. Scott, Secretary; Wm. H. Robinson, Treasurer. First the statement read that the committee engaged me to serve the said banquet, etc. I want to say that I do not know Mr. W. H. Scott whose name appeared as Secretary, to my best knowledge I have never seen this gentleman. The statement further reads that the committee engaged me to serve the said banquet for 80 per cent with a guarantee of not less than 50 persons but it did not say that Mr. Lee gave me a positive guarantee of 80 guests. Nothing was said in the statement how much if anything I had been paid. Mr. Lee and Mr. Robinson called at my office on Saturday night, March 17th and told me they wanted me to serve a banquet on March 20th. After going over the details and the amount, they could afford to pay. I said that they might call this a Luncheon and not a Banquet. We agreed on $20.00 deposit which amount he, Mr Lee, told me to call at his home 923 R St., on Monday morning 19th and it would be there: I called but did not receive a cent. About 10 o'clock Monday March 19th Mr. Lee and Mr. Robinson called at my office and deposited the amount, $20.00. Mr. Lee then read to me 84 names of persons who had subscribed. I said I knew all of them and anybody can depend upon 'every one of them whether they attend or not. It was at this time Mr. Lee said, "I will guarantee, $8 guests," and I said, "If you pay me for $8, I will, as is my custom, allow your honored guests and the number the statement spoke of free. At the same time I did insist upon the gentlemen that I would demand every dollar of the guarantee, $8, before I serve, that I had never been paid for serving a reception to the late Principle of Tuskegee over three years ago, of which Mr. Lee was one of the managers. On the night of the banquet I did hold up the service but Mr. Lee positively promised me that he would pay me every dollar stating that he would give his check for $100.00 if necessary. He did not keep his promise that night but promised to call at my office next night March 21st not later than 8 o'clock. I have THE WORLD'S FIRST WORLD WAR The South's Greatest Educator—What Durham, He Made It—The Rece Greatest in the History of t Next not seen him since but Mr. Robinson the Treasurer, did call on the night of 21st and made a third payment and about 10 days later Mr. Lee sent me $3.00. I still claim a bill of $11.00 unpaid. I would like to know from this honorable committee if this sworn statement is misleading. W. W. MARTIN, Caterer. 1822 12th St., N. W. Personally appeared before me in my office this 25th day April, A. D., 1917. W. W. Martin and made oath that the facts and things set out in the foregoing are true as stated. SYLVESTER L. McLAURIN, Notary Public, D. C. W. E. CANSIE, EST., KO. Whose Address Appears in Another Column of the Bee RINGGOLD HART BEGINS NEW DUTIES FOR D. C. Former Secretary to Maj. Pullman Becomes an Assistant Corporation Counsel. From The Star. Ringgold Hart, formerly secretary to Maj. Pullman, superintendent of police, became an assistant corporation counsel for the District of Columbia. Appointed Monday by the Commissioners to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George R. Taggart, Mr. Hart Tuesday morning entered upon his new duties. He will be assigned to Police Court. Mr. Hart's promotion in the District service has been rapid and his service in the police department is thought to have especially equipped him for the Police Court work. Graduating from Business High School, Mr. Hart entered the District service as a stenographer in 1906. He studied law at Georgetown University and received his diploma in 1911. His promotion to secretary of the head of the police department was made in October last year. He was born in Washington and has resided here all his life. J. T. Laws, formerly, of the public utilities commission, was appointed to succeed Mr. Hart as secretary to Maj. Pullman. He entered upon his new duties Tuesday morning. Mr. Laws, who is married and lives at 425 4th Street N. W., is a native of Washington. He is a graduate of Eastern College, of Front Royal, Va., and served with the District public utilities commission about a year ago. He resigned to accept a position in the office of public buildings and grounds, which he held at the time of receiving his appointment in the police department. The Bee-congratulates Mr. Hart. He is a gentleman and "void of bombast. He will do his duty as he sees it. Not a better selection could have been made. The various propositions which are now being made for the use of children in farm work lend interest to the English experience with farm labor of children. England is putting her all into this war, and if she has found, in spite of the increasing strain of the passing months, that children's welfare has been needlessly sacrificed, surely the testimony of her officials is timely and important for us. England has been granting special exemptions from school attendance. Between the outbreak of the war and the first of May last year, 28,000 children of school age had been excused from school for farm work. What do the English official records show about the need for these children's help and the effect upon them of their employment? The granting or withholding of exemptions has been in the hands of the Local Education Authorities and their policy has not been uniform. Many of them in all sections of the country have consistently refused to excuse children from school. The farmers of these districts have clamored as loudly as others for child helpers, but it appears from available reports; that they have managed without the children when the school authorities stood firm. The Board of Education, during the first year of the war, advised the Local Authorities as follows: Exemptions should be granted only to individual children after personal investigation of each case; on general breakdown of the laws in any district was intended; the employment of children of school age should be regarded as an exceptional measure and should be allowed only where the Authorities were satisfied that no other labor was available. The Authorities were to ascertain that application had been made to the Labor Exchange with an offer of adequate wages. In no case were the Authorities to excuse children if older children past the age of compulsory attendance were available; the Authority should secure particulars of the work, the wages offered, and the period for which the labor was required; the work should be light and suited to the capacity of the child. A year later the Board of Education urged a stiffening of these conditions. They laid special emphasis on the fact that the urgency of the need for the child's help might be tested by the amount of wages offered; also, they said, a register should be kept of children exempted, and exemptions should be reviewed at least once in three months to ascertain that the conditions under which they were granted still existed. In spite of this, the latest report of the Chief Medical officer of the Board of Education says: "The Board have already expressed their concern to Local Education Authorities at the large number of exemptions which have been granted far too freely and without sufficiently careful ascertainment that the conditions of exemption prescribed by the government were fulfilled." The British Board of Trade speaks of various other ways in which the shortage, of men for farm labor has been met. Older children have been employed. Women have volunteered for farm work. Machinery has been increasingly used. The Labor Gazette refers also to the low wages offered by farmers. And in the Parliamentary debates on child labor in agriculture the farmer's liking for a boy who will work for sixpence a day is given by some members as an important reason for the demand for child labor. Unofficially it is stated that in those parts of the country where rural wages are highest the least use has been made of children. That the best interests of the children themselves have been sacrificed is recognized. As the Chief Medical Officer of the Board of Education puts it in his last report: "To withdraw the child from school at an earlier age than that contemplated by the attendance by laws is to arrest, his education on the threshold of the years when he is probably just commencing to assimilate and consolidate the instruction he has received and is receiving at school. His introduction to labour at this time renders him liable to conditions of strain detrimental to his physical well-being." A fuller statement of the English situation with quotations from the English reports can be secured from the Children's Bureau, U. S. Department of Labor, Washington, D. C., upon application. CHURCH EXTENSION MEET The annual session of the Church Extension Board of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, held in the headquarters, 1535 Fourteenth Street, N. W., in Washington, Wednesday, was far reaching and accomplished much for the race. An important step was taken by the members of the board looking forward to the religious training of the people who are leaving the south in such large numbers seeking the north. The board was called to order by Bishop L. J. Coppin, D. D., of Philadelphia, who conducted the opening, calling on Bishop W. H. Heard to make the opening prayer. The failure of the bishops to appoint the board in time to be confirmed by the general conference last May, made it necessary for the old board to meet, elect their successors in office and resign. Hence, after the opening, Bishop Coppin resigned and Bishop Heard was elected chairman. The other officers and members of the board are: Revs. B. F. Watson, corresponding secretary; Charles Bundy, Ohio, vice chairman; William H. Peck, Missouri, recording secretary; A. Jones, Illinois; A. J. Wilson, North Carolina; J. T. Hall, Georgia; L. A. Logan, South Carolina; A. R. C. Durden, Mississippi; J. B. Carter, Alabama; G. B. Young, Texas; J. M. Wise, Florida; James Jones, Arkansas; W. H. Jones, Canada; Thomas W. Haynes, West Africa; W. B. Forton, South Africa. Both of the bishops spoke, and then followed resolution, unanimously adopted, calling for the appropriation or $5,000 and asking each other board to appropriate a like amount to provide for the church house for the people who are making it to the north. Also for the employment and payment for ministers to preach to them. The report of secretary B. F. Watson, D. D., showed that wonderful progress had been made during the past 12 months, and the church was building and bringing into the fold men and women from every walk of life. Dr. Watson was patriotic in his preliminary remarks, and then got right down to his report showing that there had been collected during the fiscal year closing March 31, 1917, $24560.06; balance from 1916, $12747.61; total $37308.21; disbursed $16565.25. The meeting was judged a love feast, and much good was accomplished. The members of the board were loud in their praises of Secretary Watson. WOMAN WAGE-EARNER'S ASSOCIATION "The necessity of a New Element of Strength Among Women," was the subject of an address by Mrs. Bossie B. Anderson. District Deputy of the Order of St. Luke, last Sunday afternoon at 704 Teag Street, N. W. "Mrs. Anderson spoke at length on the necessity for organization among colored women; and said among other things, that there never was a time in the history of the country when the colored women needed the protection of Associations as they do today; that other race groups of women are organizing for their mutual benefit, and congratulated the Woman Wage-Earners' Association upon the splendid work they are doing, from which they have received many good results. Other speakers were: Dr. Julia R. Hall. Major Charles R. Douglass, M. W. H. Jolly, of New Port. R. L. and Miss M. A. D. Madre. Professor Wellington A. Adams, of Columbia Academy Conservancy, sang a solo. The meeting was largely attended. All women are invited to the meeting of the Association on next Sunday afternoon, at 4 o'clock, at the above address. BETHEL LITERARY Bethel Literary will take on a distinctively patriotic air next Tuesday evening when the Committee of One Hundred Colored Citizens' consisting of many of the leading men of the city, will present a program. If you are thinking about the world war, this meeting will prove an excellent place to crystallize your thoughts. It promises to be one of the most interesting of the season. THE PEOPLE OBJECT THE PEOPLE OBJECT Has Bishop Johnson Any. Respect for Public Opinion? Thousands Kick. The people in this city and the members of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church are wild in their denunciation against Bishop Albert. Johnson for ruthlessly removing Dr. C. H. Stepteau, the popular and able pastor of the Metropolitan Church, who has the respect and confidence of nineteenth of the membership of that church and the people in this city. From present indications it looks, for the first time, that there will be a revolution in this church. Letters from all the leading ministers in this city were filed with Bishop Johnson, asking that Rev. Stepteau be reappointed. It will be remembered that part of the membership formerly left the A. M. E. Church and DR. C. H. STEPTEAU, Popular with the Masses—A Split in the Church Looked for. DR. C. H. STEPTEAU, Popular with the Masses—A Split in the Church Looked for. joined the Lincoln Church. No man in the A. M. E. connection is any more popular that he is. The transfer of Rev. Stepteau is regarded as a piece of favoritism the Bishop Tanner. His son has no claims whatever on the people. Outcome of this whole matter will be a split in the Metropolitan congregation. With but a few exceptions the entire church membership requested his return. Bishop Johnson ought to know that this same crowd of disgruntlers opposed him and it is a surprise to one that he fell into the trap of the kickers. Bishops who can't see beyond the end of their noses ought never be elected to the bishopric. DEATH OF WILLIAM GIBSON The sudden death of Mr. Wm. Gibson on the 18th inst., was a great shock to the entire community. He cagged to this city about five years ago, from Hartford, Conn., and made his home with his sister, Mrs. A. R. Clarke. He was gentle and unassuming, but very thorough and dependable in his business, as his employees testified by their beautiful floral tribute. Mr. Gibson was a member of Peter Ogden Lodge, G. H. O. The funeral was conducted by the People's Funeral Co. Mrs Richardson managed it in a very systematic manner. Rev. Withrow preached a beautiful sermon—full of God's love for humanity. His sisters, Mrs Clarke and Mrs Blanche Thomas, have the deepest sympathy of their host of friends—telegraphs came from far and near, rich and poor. Friends can only show these little signs of love. Only our heavenly Father can heal a broken heart. To his tender care we commend them. HOWARD THEATRE. Photoplays Becoming Popular. The Tree should have stated last week in its comment concerning, the Howard Theatre that the Frank Montgomery show, the Quality Amusement Company wanted to send to the Howard Theatre. The same cast that was to have appeared in "Get Rich Wailingford" played in "Monti Christo" during Christmas week at the Lafayette Theatre. New York, date the same cast was to have played at the Howard, which can be seen that the Quality Amusement Company had no idea of sending the cast to the Howard. No theatre manager has done more to please the people in this city than Mr. Thomas. He is a polished gentleman, and honest in his business dealings with firms. The enemies of the theatre have done everything to misrepresent him, but his friends are numerous and will stick to him and support his theatre. EDUCATIONAL AND OLD FOLKS HOME DAY Sunday, April 29, 1917, at m. T. Carmel Baptist Church, Third and I streets northwest, Rev. W. L. Washington, resident worker of social settlement of southwest. Washington, will preach the educational sermon at 11 a. m. The institutions in which the church is interested will be represented by different speakers. German Army Composed of Neighborhood. Lada Who Had Spent Much Time Drilling — Maurice Hallway. Would Have Nothing to Do. With Game Unless on American Side. New York — Maurice Hallway, as loyal a patrol of nine years as ever stood four feet two inches in stockings, lost his life valiantly defending Fort America against an onslaught of Ger- tic infronty. man hut The fort was an irregular shaped bowler weighing upward of '800 pounds set into an eighteen foot embankment on the south side of One Hundred and Eighty-sixth street, 100 feet west of St. Nicholas' avenue. The embankment sloped down from a vantage lot on which the boys of the neighborhood play and had his foot close to the cement sidewalk. The German army was composed of neighborhood lads, who since the United States entered the European war have spent much of their spare time drilling and playing war games. Many of them would play they soldiers on one side or the other, but not so Maurice. He must always be on the American side or he would have nothing to do with the game. His one great fear was that the war wouldn't last an orchard for him to get into it. long As usual, the lot was filled with small soldiers intent upon trench warfare, assaults in the open and aerial observation by means of kites. The cock served as Fort America, and, as usual, Maurice was a member of the bequearded garrison, making a last desperate stand. When the great assault came Maurice was standing on the big rock, a wooden sword in his hand. Beside him were Donald Williams, fourteen of 567 West One Hundred and Eighty-sixth street and another lad of the same age. Suddenly as the assaulting army-was charging up the stone loosened and started down the decline. Young Williams and the other lad jumped, and the army scattered. Maurice was either too small to make the leap or too frightened to move. He tried to keep his footing, failed, and the rock shot him forward to the sidewalk. In an other instant it was upon him, planting him beneath. The screams of the boys brought Policeman Gibney of the West One Hundred and Seventy-seventh street station and Maurice's father, John Halloow, a real estate operator, of 533 west One Hundred and Eighty-sixth street. The men, with the help of other policemen, lifted the rock and removed the crushed form. He was dead. "NEVER AGAIN SOCIETY." Formed to Defeat Congressman Who Opposed War Resolution. Milwaukee, Wis.—A new national society, the Never Again society, has been formed, with its first branches in Milwaukee and Madison, and the name of the branch wherever formed is to be that of the words "Never Again" with the appended name of a congressman who voted against the president's war declaration. Tb society was first formed in Madison as the Never Again Nelson branch, and in Milwaukee there are two branches, one named each for Congressmen Cary and Stafford. Buttons will soon be displayed by those pledged never to vote for either for congress. The leaders will try to have similar clubs formed in the other districts of the country whose congressmen voted against the president. GIVES FOUR SONS TO ARMY. Meriden Woman Proud to Do Her Duty to Country. Hartford, Conn.-If all the mothers in the country were like Mrs. J. W. Cyphers of Meriden the ranks of the army and navy would be filled and the United States would have several armies holding the trenches in France. Mrs. Cyphers' father was in the Union army in the civil war, and her husband served in the navy. Three of her four sons have left for the regular army training station at Fort Scocum, N. Y. The fourth boy is already a member of the Second Connecticut infantry. The mother, as proudly as any matron of Sparta, said she was happy to know she was doing her duty to her country. HEN LAYS EGGS IN TREES. Disastrous For Passerby and Fatal For Eggs. Washington, N. J.—A hen named Anastasia, which belongs to Dr. Thomas L. Deckrill, has formed the habit of laying her eggs in trees, a method as fatal for the eggs as it is disastrous for the passersby. She has already destroyed 100 eggs in this manner. Waited For Her Fifty Years. Scranton, Pa.—"This is the woman I've wanted to marry for fifty years," proudly declared Eran R. Jones, seventy-two, recently when he called on the marriage license clerk with Mary Ann Deacon, seventy. Both are residents of this city. They were married by the Rev. W. R. Edwards of the Tabernacle Congregational church. PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS By The Sage Of The Potomac. I have been discussing the talking patriots. I mean those who look hind closed doors, surrounded by enthusiastic listeners, while the Shuas in glittering generalities. It is today of ratators to listen to the talk what is best to be done, but never say what they are willing to do. I understand that there are some able bodies in the Mu-Su-Lits Club, who are anxious to go to war. Col. Walt J. Singleton, who has been so patriotic on all occasions, will be given a commission. Col. St gleton is a great taker. Just how much fighting he is willing to do will be told when the Col. leads the Mu-Su-Lits to battle. Professor Grant M. Lucus, who has been willing for some time to change his title from Professor to that of Home Guards, because he doesn't lie in remaining at home. He be lives in fighting. Grant is a good soldier on paper, what he can't say on paper is not worth reading. Dr. Williston claims to be some fighter Home Guards. At this time, he doesn't think it will cross the ocean on account of the many submarines. Rev. Bennett, in the northeast, like many others, is anxious to convince his neighbors that he is patriotic by placing patriotic flags on passers by. You don't have to cry from the house up that you are patriotic. We grew out our records. know Speaking about the Mu-So-Lit; my first Jim Cobb, the legal advisor of the Club, when it is in a contest, will be a 'high officer, and he, being a bachelor, will not hesitate to enlist, Cobb is anxious to fight. He wants to make a fine leading soldier, Probate Col. Arthur Brooks will be the recruiting officer, if so, he will inspect the roster of the Mu-So-Lit and all other clubs. He will see that every baked potato in the clubs join the Colors. There are some wide mouth preachers, school teachers, and other individuals more than anxious to be in the lime light. An opportunity will be given these braves: to show their patriotism. Declaring your patriotism looks well on paper. The Colored Man has been in every great war in which this country has participated, and today he is no better off than he was when he first started. The country come when the Colored Soldier will be a necessity. He must come. No wrong can exist. I have never known any unintentional act to succeed, no man too small. Meanness and attitude may last for a while, but there is a turning point. The professors of Howard University, who have been preaching from the house tops to persuade others to enlist, have not signified their intention of joining the Colored Camp. There are room for room for them, then are needed who have been doing the most talking at long range. I am loyal to my Flag and my Country. The South would have the North to believe that the southern colored man is easily influenced. The so-called German plot to arouse the Colored man in the South against the white people, is all rot. It is not to be believed. I don't believe that any German agent has been South. He couldn't exist five minutes, if it were known that such an agent was in the South, endowing to arouse the Colored people. There is not enough money in the United States Treasury to incite the Colored man to rebellion. The South would like to inaugurate a pretext to put the Colored man where he was in 61. This will not and can not be done by any subterfuge. When the call is made for Colored volunteers, the Colored man will not be "weighed in the balance and found wanting." IRA FREDERIC ALDRIGE. Attorney Fountain Peyton Contributes An Item Attorney. Fountain Peyton of the local bar has contributed a valuable and interesting piece of literature on M. the life of Ira Frederic Aldridge the only and greatest Colored tragian of his time. This year Colored actors played with some of the most eminent actors in the world and won a reputation that posterity applauds. Mr. Peyton is to be complimented for the valuable information he has given to the literary people of this and other nationalities. THANKSGIVING SERVICE OF IN DEPENDENT ORDER OF ST. . The Independent Order of St. Luke, over 2,000 strong in the District, and exceeding 40,000 in the country at large, held a monaster Thanksgiving rally Sunday at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church. This immense auditorium was packed and many were standing. District Deputy, Mrs. Bessie B. Anderson, presided and her graceful and timely speeches and tactful direction of the affair were among the brightest spots of the evening. A forceful sermon was delivered by Rev. James E. Willis, pastor of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, taking for his subject, "True Zeal," inspired by Paul's epistle to the Galatians. Rev. A. C. Garner. Right Worthy Grand Chief of the Order spoke briefly Lukes are doing for the race, both in a spiritual and in an economic way. According to Dr. Garner, the St. Luke's Order has a bank in Richmond; the only bank in the world presided over by a colored woman—with a paid-up, nonassessable capital stock of $50,000. It has $103,000 in property, bonds and cash, and gives employment to 52 men and women of the race. The main office of the Order is at Richmond, and it has a payroll covering 25 colored persons. The 40,000 members of the Order are to be expanded into 50,000 by next August, when the golden or 50th anniversary of the St. Luke's is to be celebrated in elaborate style. He complimented the work of the women, and confessing that four out of five members of the Order are women and that the same proportion is true of the church, it is also true that there are four or five men to one woman in the penitentiary. "Let the women go on in the good work," concluded Dr. Garner. The Thanksgiving offering amounted to $87.30 which was satisfactorily distributed. 'Sister Mary Sewell, head of the James E. Willis Council, was a prominent figure in the evening's proceedings and her organization will tender a substantial sum to the church in the name of the Order. The meeting was a record-breaker in the annals of the Order of St. Luke. MT. CARMEL BAPSTEIT CHURCH. The church and its auxiliaries, under the leadership of Dr. Jernagin who is capacitated far beyond the ordinary leader, is using his superior tact and push for the best interest of his church and the community at large. Sunday, April 22, 1917, the Sunday School services under the leadership of Mr. W. F. Turrer, superintendent, was very busy. Among the troops were some of Howard University's bright students who promised to come regularly to the Sunday School. One of our teachers, who is of Howard, Mr. Clay, was presented a diploma from the Teachers' Training Institution of Pennsylvania. The pastor has been conducting examinations from time to time for the Institution in the interest of Mr. Clay. In presenting it the pastor said the necessity of the high calling is being considered wisely when we prepare ourselves for the great task of instructing and directing the mind toward God and that very soon the modern Sabbath School will demand teachers who have prepared themselves for the work. In acceptance Mr. Clay said that he felt that the work has just begun and that the Mr. Mt. Church shared a great sense of help in helping him attain the work of distinction. two of the Mt. Carmel students will recite at the Sunday School Convention that will convene at the Metropolitan Baptist Church on the 29th, Little Ralph Steward and Little Lena Carter'. The 29th is also Educational Day at the Mt. Carmel Church. A. M. Jordon will read pass on Education in the Sunday School and at eleven o'clock. W. L. Washington of the Metropolitan Settlement School, southward will deliver a sermon for the occasion and at night a sermon by the pastor, W. H. Jernagin. The offering will be used for the Institution of learning and charity with which the church is connected. 'The B. Y. P. U.' social entertainment was quite a success last Friday night; potato salad, chocolate, cream and other things were served. The Mrs. A. G. Brown, who will she can for the development of the Union. The Miss Emma Davis, deserves credit for the success of the social. On the 25th of April a sermon will be preached by the pastor to the Deaconess Board, this being their third anniversary. Watch for further notice of the big Queen's Convention on the direction of the Carmel Church which is to be one of the largest Christian gatherings ever held in this city. Dr. Jernagin is preparing to carry a large delegation to the National Baptist Sunday School and J. B. Y. P. U. Congress to be held in Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. W. H. Jernagin's scat is sedulon vacant in the church and probably this is the reason he makes such incitations in his serenades. Mrs. Brockenburgh also is regular in her attendance and sees after things around the church. As you come to the church notice on the corner stone this inscription: "Strangers Are Welcome," and come. Mr. J. W. Hamilton and friends toured to Baltimore on Saturday, returning to this city today. In the afternoon, Florence Clark, Miss Lizzie Lee, Miss Ida Washington, all of this city, visited New York during the Easter Holidays. W. E. CAUSIE, EST KO. His Address on Behalf of the. Committee. Mr. W. E. Causie, Est Ko, one of the leading Odd Fellows in this city and P. W. G. M., in his address on behalf of the committee appointed by counsel, P. W. G. M., David Warmer; P. W. G. M., Wm. H. Rose; P. W. G. M., Joseph Manning; P. W. G. M., Rev. Z. Z. Tyler, said in part, April 13, as follows: Respected 'Worshipful Grand Masters of Council No. 4, Officers and Officers' Brothers of the G. U. O. of O. K.: Greetings: I deem it a great honor and privilege, a high and exceptional one, to stand here tonight and address my father, yea, may I say the son talking to his grand-father or his great grand-father? not only in society but in church; but he has been a member of the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church since he was ten years old. He was organized in Mother's home, which was in the rear of its present structure and at that time known as the Union Bethel Church. He was initiated in Union Friendship Lodge No. $91, Jan. 5, 1855. He helped to organize John F. Cook Lodge No. 1185 Jan. 6, 1856. The Lodge was named after the Rev John F. Cook, father of J. F. Cook, Jr., and Geo. F. Cook. The former was for many years District Tax Collector the latter superintendent of our Colored Public Schools. The Lodge was organized with thirty members, the only one alive to this date is our P. W. M. John A. Sinimus, Sr. W. He was employed at the Navy Dept. twenty-five years. Later he designed this position and excepted an appointment in the State and War Dept. Here he has been for forty-three years making a total of sixty-eight years under the government. He is still employed at the age of eighty-six and has held many prominent positions, such as Commissioner of the Alms House and is now Commissioner of the Washington Asylum Hospital. He was examiner of elections when he closed the vote here. He was a member of the first M. C. held by the G. U. O. of O. P. held in the District of Columbia, at which time he had to write to President Lincoln and ask for soldiers to follow along the route so as to protect the Odd Fellows while marching. There are many other things of which P. G. M. John Sinimus, Sr. will tell you later. A. Simmons Tonight we have left our places of obejo and wended our way to a building dedicated to Friendship, Love and Truth; and thus we find ourselves in these consecrated walls and it is through the mercies and blessings of an overruling Providence that we have the privilege to meet here and give honor to one who has walked with us; talked with us; shed tears with us; drank sorrow when we drank; took the bitter with the sweet; sympathized as we sympathize; and rejoiced as we rejoice; sang songs of praise as we sing and praise of Thus to-night we meet an honorable character face to face; hence the present is the time for rejoicing and congratulations; and thanks given to God for the preservation of our lives and the lives of our brothers who are unable to be here to-night. Yet we are led to believe that so far as human might can penetrate into the future that we were present to speak to us, they would say, "Let, Thy will be done, not mine," thus we say to Past: Worshipful Grand Master Simmons, that our assembling here night is one of God's ways of opening the hearts of these, brother, to honor him who we love respect. Welcome Word of God! which shall outlive the rock rubbed mountains which shall stand when the earth) shall wither; and even the Heavens have passed away. Welcome, Word of God! with the divine benedictions "In as much as we have done it unto one of the least of my brother, we have done it unto Me." As I stand before you brethren here, and look down the line of the past, I can imagine I see, Peter Odgen and his conferees leading; yea, I see Downing, Myers, Fields, Gordon, Bowers, Bowser, McCummel, Burr, Fauset, Forester, Curtis, Bustill, Holmes, Manning, Wright, Freeman, Wilkinson and many others who, before they left this House of Clay, bought to make this order what it is to-day; as did our brother, John A. Simms, sr., who I know knew these brethren I have mentioned and have associated with them during their lives as he is here with us to night. Yes, I say to you, Grand Masters, why not honor such a King as he who sits in our midst; yet, I am forced to say that in his early days he was a beacon light to this old shill which has handed brother, cared for many widows, nursed the orphans and buried her death in the bond of F. L. and T. night I am standing before the highest branch of our orders, the Council, which is composed of Past Grand Masters, or such as may be honored with the degrees of meritorious service, eligible only to those stations in their subordinate lodges. There are some additional qualifications which are indispensable to admission, which require, a working familiarity with the texts and mysteries of proceeding degree. It is the embodiment of merit and power. Each of our Past Grand Masters is to be subordinate lodge and an assistant to the Order. In this effect the council is the setting apart and consolation of worthy members for a higher sphere, like one to sit here to night. Brother J. A. Simms, sr., with holier ties and more sacred obligations, under column acts of the subordinate Lodge with the endorsement of "Well done good and faithful servant," and from the council's chamber comes the well come salutation; "Enter into the joys and mysteries prepared for the loya and progressive." Upon the knowledge and fidelity and discretion of the P. G. M.'s, measurably depends the destiny of the order. Unlike our English brother, we have separate the Patriarchie from the Council and constituted it as the highest of the order in America. In England the Patriarchie consists of degrees in the Past Grand Council, in this country a distinction seems to have been demanded through the operation of external influence and nomen vigorously resented it has come an accomplished act. Its object is to reward P. G. M., have meritoriously contributed to the Order in America, with the eminent title of Patriarchie. The Badge which we are about to present to our worthy and esteemed character, John A. Simms, sr., the oldest Odd Fellow in this Council, as well as in Washington city and perhaps one of the oldest in the committee's reason for selecting the Badge of Honor. It is endowed with representations of the various gradations of office. A man's reason is Nature's most forcible language. The earth on which we move and have our being, "the moon our walking nightly queen, the stars moving in perfect order in their ceaseless round of grandeur, germinating the concaves of the Heavens, with their glittering glory;" the sun sets in the center of this system dispensing light and life; are all symbols of interesting energy, obedience to laws and the greater glory of the Eternal Son, who created all things. They speak as a million voices saying: "The Heavens declare the glory of God." They speak to us in the language of silent reasoning and revelation, saying: "The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made." Specifically speaking, what are our symbols? The all seeing eyes as you THE EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER Will promote a Full Growth of Hair. Will also Restore the strength Vitality and the Beauty of the Hair. 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They laid the foundations deep and wide. They made their own immortal plan, And reared on lines before untried And made a home for you and L. They fortified each 'sacred' right. They shielded all from fraud or wrong. They curbed the power of selfish might. And armed the weak against the war. Upon them-selves they put restraint, they begin questions gave range Upon them-serves the Lost lusty passions gave range Should silence reason with complaint, And bring some needless, harmful charge Through storm and stern, through many fears. military Through the war of strife and domes- tic life Down through the lapse of changing YEAR. years They guarded our laws, our life and rights. our rights. So with anthems of praise we come to flight To Him who is Lord alone;~ Whose mercies have filled our flowery ways And saved from sorrows unknown. For gifts of His love our hearts rejoice. For shoes that kindling glow. Our lives have aroused to nobler choice. And spread their graces below. Their tuneful tongues with grandest praise His excellent name to sing; His Fatherly care our steps surveys And every blessing will bring. Many years yet in Store His goodness And every blessing Many years yet in store His goodness Offer own. And filled with life divine. Prove string for the Cross and then use as Crown. When all His Jewels shall shine. Now Sir. Past Worshipful Grand Master. John A. Simms, sr., in behalf of the committee appointed by the Past Grand Master's Council I present to you as a token of respect, this Badge of Honor. And as wear it may you think as Moses did when he lifted up the serenit in the wilderness, "That if he lifted up I will draw all men unto me". So with you, Brother John A. Simms, sr., we trust you will wear this badge and as you meet them from time to time and as they look upon it they may be im- pressed with a lesson of a true and tried Old Fellow. May God's divine blessing rest, rule, and guide you in the future as it has in the past. 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With its vision we are held in proper bounds; the emblem of Justice with her even balance scales and sword sheathed; the star of hope looking her brow and illuminating her way; the King of beast, as a representative of strength; the Easel and Sculpture as a symbol of art; the Globe and Telescope as an emblem of science; the bright petaled flowers silently sign their perfume and bloom as the representatives of beauty; the Harp which fills the earth with harmony, as an emblem of music; the Ship as the representative of commerce and the oneness of nations; the Bale as an emblem of merchants; the Wheat-sheaf and fruit as an emblem of plenty; the flock grazing on the meadow and the crook in place of the Shepherd; the Plow as a symbol of honest industry; the Mirror as a teacher of self-inspection; the Shield with its guest as our special Lodge lesson; the widow and thephan represent our cares; the blazing torch like the fire on the never gutted and its enveloping coil telling us of its intelligence, vigilance and eternity; the fire on Mount Ararat resting above the storm and the waves of Deluge; the dove with the olive branches and rainbow, the emblem of promise and peace, is the symbol of life. The skull and cross bones the emblem of death; the folded swords the weapons of defiance; the pen lighter than a sword all explain to us the lessons of friendship, love and truth. This golden chain, which I have past recited, reaches around the whole world. Its links are the emblems of the three fold cord, "Annittin. Armor et Veritas", Friendship Love and Truth. What does this symbology teach us or imply? It implies that in this wide, wide world, "True Friendship" is exotic and that it needs here a new exemplification, implies that love born in the heart of God who is Love, is even rarer than friendship; and that we the representatives of this chapter, council and patriarchie are using justice which implies Friendship, Love and Truth. With wisdom and with patent skill Wide learning and profoundes THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL (INC.) offers an excellent opportunity for the woman who desires to enter the business world, by taking up a course in BEAUTY CULTURE. 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It is not a new proposition, however. It is one that is on the mind and tongue of nearly every thoughtful, colored man and woman in this community. In one form or other the idea of co-operative effort and movement in this direction has been brought forward repeatedly at intervals within the last quarter-century or longer. But the idea herebefore has never taken definite shape or attained effective momentum. Many thoughtful men and women among us are convinced that there is no substantial obstacle to the consummation of the work contemplated by this idea, but, on the contrary, that the absence of success in the past has been due to mere negative causes—to a general lack of a comprehensive adequate plan. Some of the more notable plans of the past that failed were inadequate for general results, because they were instituted to merely further special objects, or particular enterprises. The lives of communities, no less than of individuals, are but a succession of experiments and experiences. The failures should not be wholly deplored, but should be esteemed as data and guide-posts for the future. A whole community, much less than an individual, can ill afford to relax determination and effort on account of some failures of the past. The Commercial Exchange idea, as now advanced, promises to embody the long sought for solution of the deflorable economic situation among the colored people of Washington. We have here of a total population of about 300,000 approximately 100,000 people, or one-third. Under normal and logical conditions any such segment of a total population would naturally control one-third of the money, and business of the community. There are obvious reasons why we could never expect to earn and control one-third of the money of this city, but there is no substantial reason why we should not earn and control a much larger proportion than we do now. How much of the annual business of this District, measured by dollars, do the colored people now control? Is it one-tenth? Is it one-twentieth? Is it one-thirtieth? Who knows? Should it reasonably be one-tenth or one-twentieth? Who has ever studied question scientifically? The proposed Commercial Exchange, we are informed, will be designed: 1 To study the local industrial, commercial and other social conditions that effect the people financially. 2 To gather and collate statistics and other practical information on the subject, and utilize that infor- mation for practical purposes. 3 To discover the causes of industrial and commercial stagnation, or the causes of the absence of enterprises that should exist. 4 To attempt to apply practical remedies in every field where it is possible to apply them. 5 Particularly to attempt to provide capital for needed new enterprises. 6 Particularly to teach and preach the doctrine of self-preservation and the gospel of co-operation. It is understood that the Commercial Exchange will be incorporated under the beneficial or charitable section of the code of the District of Columbia, and will be composed of men and women representing every legitimate occupation, trade and profession now existing among our local population. Here is a movement of the right sort. Here is a movement in the public interest that promises to be absolutely public spirited and of far-reaching importance. The local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. will render a notable public service by lending the weight of its influence to the furtherance of this proposition. It is to be hoped that all other influential local bodies of our people will render similar assistance. In our next article we shall discuss some of the special aspects of business inactivity and stagnation among our local colored population, and some of the ways in which a Commercial Exchange could improve that condition. POLITICAL HYPOCRISY. Never before in American history has it ever been necessary for the colored man to declare his loyalty to his government. What does it mean? It means that a number of political hypocrites, too cowardly to present themselves to the recruiting station, declare that it is necessary to form an organization of colored citizens for defense purposes. What hypocrisy! When the government is in need of colored men or any other kind of men, it will say so and the colored man will respond if he is wanted. If conditions are what they seem they will be wanted and needed. This city is a bed of political hypocrites and demagogues, who are forever trying to impress all administrations of their importance. It is not necessary to organize the colored people. It is not necessary to draft them, because, if the government calls, the loyal colored Americans will answer the call, and those that don't respond is an evidence that they have grave and sufficient reasons. Who, ever heard of a traitor in the ranks of colored Americans. They have fought against those who endeared to liberate them, and protected the wives and children of their oppressors. Was there ever a traitor among them? Why then, should the colored man organize? If he is wanted, he will be called. To draft any citizen means to enslave him, if he hasn't patriotism enough to defend his country against foreign invasion, if his services are needed, then it will be time enough to draft him. There are always a few political nonentities springing up to show their teeth and grey hair, because they are too cowardly to do otherwise. Those enthusiastic advocates of loyalty should first set the example and go at once to the recruiting station and offer their services. If they are over the age limit, there is a great deal for them to do aside from carrying arms. They need water carriers, cooks, potato cleaners and thousand of other things they can do without taxing their minds or bodies. If they are in earnest and mean what they say, they will go at once to the recruiting office. Men who will do the real fighting are not saying a word. It is only the grand-stand orators who are doing the talking; the silk glove gentlemen; the silk stocking, citizen who remains at home discussing home politics with his wife; the book gentleman; the lobster and crab eater; the quail admirer, and the ice cream supper friend. Those hypogrites will call meetings and tell the real fighters what is best to do, but, they are too cowardly to do themselves. Away with such political hypocrisy. REV. STEPTEAU. There is one man in this city who has won the confidence of the people and who regrets his transfer from the Metropolitan Methodist church to some other church in Baltimore, Md. He is to be succeeded by the son of Bishop Turner. It is claimed that the Bishop's son was placed there as a favor to his father. There are always people in a church who fail to run the pastor, and the moment they fail, one pastor gets their ill will and the light begins. Dr. A. H. Hussey, now Bishop Johnson, will rate any foolishness. He weed so far as to turn the entire management of the Metropolitan Church over to the clique, but at that failed to satisfy this disgruntled element, so Dr. Johnson had to leave. The only person who has succeeded in knocking out this slique is Miss Madre. This female politician and orator is a strong factor in this city and it doesn't take her long to put a quietus on knockers and kickers. Rev. Stpeanu is a fighter and he doesn't ask favors from any one: There are always favorites among church men, who are more or less ruled by politics. The Bee, as well as the people, regret his transfer. GATEMAN HELD The Colored man who unintentionally raised the gates at Hyattsville a few nights ago which caused the death of two citizens was held for 5000 dollars bail for criminal negligence in raising the gates too soon while the engineer who was driving the engine that killed the parties was unmolested. Awakel O Thou Men, Awake to Right- ousness and Justice to All Humanity, as True, Loyal and Pathetic Americans and God Will Uphold the Nation, and Give Us Victory In this War Upon Land and Sea. Don't fall to read this digest for your information and to hear these grand lectures. THE By the Honorable Aaron P. Prioleau, a contestant before Congress, from the State, of South Carolina, who sacrifices his money and property, and almost his life, contending for the civil and political rights of the colored Afro-American race. There will be a series of grand lectures delivered by the Honorable Aaron P. Prioleau, one of the most well informed and ablest, national speakers of the colored race. He will speak in the various states of the union. Do not fail to hear him upon matters herein contained. By his information and observation in Congress as a contestant for sixteen years upon the most vital questions which are uppermost to the colored race of America and the American people; which are eating up their very life and soul, are the following evils: Sec. 1. An appeal of grievances and charges against the great American Congress of the United States for violating the rules and laws of the Congress of America, to openly suppress and discriminate against the rights of the colored Afro-American in contending for their civil and political rights. Sec. 2. The speaker will show that the conditions, demand that the colored voters of the country should vote for fair minded men whose ideals are for righteousness and justice and who are not afraid to champion their cause in state and nation, and who will vote for an amendment to the Constitution of the United States in the Congress for universal suffrage and enact such laws equally and applicable to all citizens, for said enforcement, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Sec. 3. The urgent rights of Afro-Americans' agencies stationed at the Capitol to represent their interest as all other races and nationalities do, is shown by the white women suffragettes and the Indian tribes camping at the White House and the Congress contesting and contending for their right to vote, while the colored Afro-American's rights are suppressed, denied and deprived, by Congress of the United States by violating the rules and laws governing election contests to stop colored contest by openly discriminating in the payment of contested election contest expenses against Afro-American race by paying the two thousand dollars allowed under the law to the white Democratic and Republican contest and contestee, and appropriate to pay the only one colored Afro-America one hundred dollars for these players here at intervals, and it his expenditure of seven thousand, five hundred dollars due to this contest. Receipts and vouchers are on file with the Sixty-first, Sixty-second, Sixty-third and Sixty-fourth Congress, shown by the record of clerks of the election committees of the House in strict compliance to the law. See U. S. R. S. from Sec. 125 to Sec. 30, of the Act approved by Congress, March 2, 1887. Sec. 4. The colored American's loyalty and patrolism to the flag of the United States is known by the history of all the wars and conflicts of this government upon the land and sea, and that we are ready now at the command of the President to defend the rights of our country against any nation. Sec. 5. The nations of the world have violated God's command by suppression of the weak and poor man's rights, and the penalty is death, and the very soul and life, of their country. Their armies, and navies cannot protect them against God's judgment unless they recede from these inhuman acts. Sec. 6. The remedy for the evils among nations which cause wars and conflicts, and for the substantial peace and tranquility of all nations will be made known by the speaker from the Bible. Sec. 7. The cause of the colored race emigrating from the South. Their lives and properties are not protected and their civil and political rights are taken by suppression and nullification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution. The speaker will present editorials of the fair minded white citizens of the southern states condemning the treatment of the colored races on the farms and other departments. Sec. 8. The division among the colored race and the real supreme necessities of the immediate co-operation in a national union, males and females, in every state, district and territory of the United States, in order to regain the race standing and rights in the government. will be shown by the speaker. Sec. 9. The establishment of cohesion co-operations of large enterprises in union to command respect and more independent and not depending for help, and to give employment to those unemployed, and positions of dignity and honor to the males and females of the colored race, graduating annually from the schools of the country, will be shown. Scc 10 The presentation of the history and record of six regularly contested election cases before the Congress of the United States, contending for the civil and political rights of the colored American citizens against the disenfranchisement and violation of the Constitution of the United States and Acts of Congress, June 25, 1868, prohibiting the seceding states from making certain changes in their Constitutions, and the violation of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. That the great Supreme Court of the United States uphold which are the laws under which these contests were made that are the supreme laws of the land will beshown and the persecutions will beshown and the persecutions sacrifices and ordeals sacrifices and ordeals that the speaker has under dergone because he contended for the right guaranteed to the colored race under the Constitution of the United States, before the legal power of the land, legally and peacefully will be shown by the speaker, all of which for the consideration of the great American people as on matters of unity and to the Congress for righteousness and justice to all humanity. AARON P. PRIOLEAU, Contestant. Information Bureau Reformers Union Hotel Glover, 15 E. Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. P. S.: All editors are requested to reproduce, and friends write their Congressmen and oblige fair deal Washington. Because of the war situation and the general unrest the police are anxious to keep a watch on criminals and take into custody such as are at large. Crooks have often been able to slip through the hands of small town police forces which lacked a finger print system. The army and navy are now taking finger prints of all men who enlist so that in case of death or illness the victim may be identified. The police department at one time aided the government in this work, but today the army and navy have their own print system. "Any one," Inspector Faurot of New York said, "after a little instruction and practice can take a person's finger impressions successfully. To learn how to classify them, however, is a different matter. It requires a knowledge of finger prints. Our department has reached such efficiency that in four minutes we can take a prisoner's impressions, make a research for his former impressions and place his typewritten record before you." Inspector Faurot told of a prisoner who was brought to headquarters. When his assistants looked up the prisoner's record they discovered his prints had been sent from Belgium, where he was wanted in an $80,000 enebez娶ment. Finger impressions of a man arrested in Sydney, Australia, for the shooting of a policeman there were sent here. His impressions revealed that he was wanted for murder in Boston. Many employers of labor today have finger prints taken of their employees for identification. Laborers who work in ditch gangs wander from one place to another so that their identities frequently become lost. 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 knows 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. Pnck. HANGING BOY WITH FIGHT WITH SQUARE Glant Bird Gives Up the Battle At an Hour's Terrific Grueling. Santa Rosa, Cal.—A battle between giant buzzard and a fifteen-year-old boy clinging to the root of a shrub 25 feet up a straight ledge of rock was won by the boy, who is now recovering from an experience that rival Poe's fictional terrors. The boy is Hans Mierbach, and he hung high above a pile of jagged rocks for four hours. He was walking on the brink of a preface when his foot slipped and he fell over. Twenty feet below he caught a root and hung on. With his handkerchief he tied his left wrist to the root and then wrote a note to a boy friend bidding him farewell and saying that no one was responsible for his predicament. Just as he finished writing a huge buzzard flew down upon him and started to peck at his head and body. The hungry bird inflicted deep wounds in the boy's flesh. Young Mierbach fought the buzzard with his free hand for over an hour. He had been tormented to a frenzy and was about exhausted when the bird gave up the fight. At nightfall a searching party found the boy and rescued him. He had nearly lost consciousness from his experience and loss of blood. EFFECTS OF THE WAR ON CHILDREN OF ENGLAND Juvenile Delinquency Has Increased 34 Per Cent Since Great Struggle Began. Baltimore—Drawing a terrible picture of war's effects on children in England, Owen R. Lovejoy, general secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, told the conference on child labor here this country must take drastic steps to protect its little ones. Concerning conditions in Great Britain he said: "Last fall in the English parliament Sir James Yoxall said: 'A large portion of our elementary school system is in ruins—I will not say as desolate as the ruins of Louvain, but there is to some extent a likeness.'" "In one area 17,000 children out of 41,000 have been displaced from school because the buildings have been taken over for military purposes. Teachers have enlisted and government economies have lowered the efficiency of the schools; special classes, evening classes, medical inspection, free lunches have been reduced or stopped. In addition some 500,000 children between twelve and fifteen left school to enter industry in 1915 and probably more than that in 1916. Between 150,000 and 200,000 children eleven and twelve years old are at work. "Juvenile delinquency in England has increased 34 per cent since 1914, and delinquency of boys twelve and thirteen has increased in greater proportion than in any other age group." DOG SAVES GIRL'S LIFE. Animal Drags Her From River to a Sanitarium. Green Bay, Wis—Madeline Denny, aged ten, of Little Rapids, owes her life to the courage and faithfulness of Brewster, a bulldog owned by Miss Helen Scheller, superinfentent of the Brown county tuberculosis sanitarium. Madeline was crossing Fox river when she fell through a hole in the ice. "I clung on to the edge and screamed," she said. "Brewster was standing on the bank. He ran to me, grabbed my sleeve and pulled until I was able to extricate myself. Then he dragged me by the collar to the sanitarium grounds." The grounds are about 200 yards from the river. Brewster will be given a new collar, properly inscribed, just like herole humans get Carnegie medals. FORTUNE TO POLICEMAN. Brooklyn Patrolman Goes to California For Legacy. New York.--A nineteen days' leave of absence was granted by Police Commissioner Woods to Patrolman James F. Gafney of the Bedford avenue police station. Williamsburg. The policeman started for the Pacific coast to claim a fortune left to him by an aunt. Gafney, who is thirty-five years old, married and lives at 124 Oak street, has been a dozen years on the force. The inheritance ranges all the way from $50,000 to $100,000, and the first knowledge the policeman had of his good fortune was 'when he received a letter from a San Francisco attorney. TO BAR TOWN CLOCK. Hotel Keepor Seeks Injunction Against City Timepiece. Wichita, Kan.-S. J. Smallley, proprietor of the Coronado hotel, across the street from the city hall, employed a lawyer to obtain an injunction to prevent Mayor Bentley and the commissioners from installing a clock in the city hall tower. For years citizens have petitioned administrations to obey the unsightly boarded up tower with a clock, and the Bentley administration let a contract for a $1,500 clock. Smallley alleges that the striking of the clock will wake up his guests every hour at night. 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The Week in Society A Spring bracer is the delicious, sparkling soda water, flavored with pure fruit juices, served at BOARD'S DRUG STORE, 1912% Fourteenth street. It is a tonic that will relieve "that tired feeling" when the shopper or business man feel jaded in their routine. They have all the palate tickling flavors, phosphates, ice cream sodas and other cooling and delicious beverages, such as Jupiter never tasted in his nectar on high Olympus. Advt. Mr. and Mrs. Rawlings of this city are the guests of Miss Isabel Thomas of West Philadelphia. Mrs.' Clara Daniels of Wildwood, N. J., is being entertained by relatives in this city. Mr. Rudolph Brown of Morristown, N. J., spent the week-end sight-seeing in this city. Mrs. Frank and son of Langhorne, Pa., have returned to their home after spending a very enjoyable time in this city. Miss Rose Beckman, who has been apending a pleasant stay in this city and in Baltimore, has returned to her home in Cumberland, Md. Mr. Richard Mullen and Mr. William Glick of Cumberland, Md., have returned to the Catholic University in this city. The Lyric Quintette, rendered a beautiful selection, "Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose," led by Mr. J. W. Hamilton, at the midnight show, Howard Theatre, Friday last. Mrs. R. Alice Daniels, formerly of this city, but now of Cleveland, Ohio, is in the city on a visit, the guest of Mrs. Frank T. Bundy, of 2814 Dunbarton Avenue. Mrs. F. E. Parks, of this city, recently visited New York. Dr. Robert Carroll was the guest of Geo. W. Allen during his delightful stay in New York City. Many social events have been planned by Mrs. E. H. Tolliver, of New York City, who has as her guest Mrs. Jeanethe McCoy, of this city. Mrs. D. Jones, of this city, passed through Springfield, ill., enroute to Chicago. Mr. Ellis Fairclough, of Howard University, visited New York recently. Mr. Edward Hawkins, of Hot Springs, Va., who was called to this city, on account of the illness of his wife, has returned to Hot Springs, since Mrs. Hawkins' condition is much improved. Miss Mollie Sheppard Childs has returned to her home in Staunton, Va., after a very pleasant stay in this city. Miss Lillie Anderson, after a delightful stay in this city, has returned to her home in Ridgewood. N. J. Mrs. Robert Marshall has returned to her home in Saratoga Springs, N. Y., after spending a very pleasant winter in this city. Mrs. Valtina Brown, formerly of this city, but now a resident of Pittsburg, has been in the city visiting her mother, Mrs. M. Murray. Mr. J. W. Mahoney, of Pittsburg, has been called to this city on account of the serious illness of his father. Dr. Carey of Chicago, is in this city agitating the appointment of Race Officers, for Race Regiments and Battalions. Miss Mary Tucker, Miss Madeline Wesley and Mr. Thomas Prvor, of this city, have been on a delightful trip to Florida, passing through Florence, S. C., enroute to this city. A. E. Taylor of Howard University is back in the city after spending an enjoyable week with his parents, in Troy, N. Y. Mr. Pollard, of 121 R Street, N. W. father of the late Attorney W. L. Pollard, has been confined to his bed for the past two weeks, but is now showing gratifying evidences of improvement. Mrs. Rosina Alexander Jackson, who has gone to Atlantic City for the summer, is in New York City this week on business. Friday evening, April 27, Miss Marie A. D. Madre, president of the District of Columbia Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, will deliver an address at Asbury M. E. Church, Annapolis, Md., in connection with a meeting under the auspices of the Maryland Federation of Christian Women, of which Miss Ida R. Cummings, of Baltimore, is president. Lawyer Armond W. Scott, Grand Euler of the Elks, is a busy man these days, and is put to his wits end to find time in which to fill the many speaking engagements that he is being urged to enter into. Last Sunday he spoke at Hampton, Va. Next Sunday he will be with the Antiured Herd in Pittsburg, with other points during April and May. June 5, Mr. Scott is to have the distinguished honor of delivering the commencement address at his alma mater, Biddle University, Charlotte, N. C. The occasion will mark the 50th anniversary of this historic institution, which has sent to the country some of the ablest men of the past two generations. Mr. Scott will do the institution full justice and live up to his own lofty reputation as an orator and barrister. Prof. George W. Cook: of Howard University, insists that provision should be made for competent colored nurses to enter the work of the Red Cross Society in relieving the needs of the colored soldiers who go to the front. He does not ask for a separate branch, as quoted, but wishes to have the skilled Negro woman take her place on equal terms with her sisters in this sacred and patriotic service. His letters to the Washington dalles have been widely read and have met with general commendation. The Oldest Inhabitants' Association, Eugene Brooks, president, received in honor of their friends, Thursday evening, at the Catholic Beneficial Hall, 18th Street, and installed their officers for the ensuing year. The presentation of Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford's playlet, "Tradition," at Dunbar High School on the 12th, will be treated in our next. It is worthy of a more extended review than is possible at this writing. Mrs. Helen Morris-Early, was appointed at the Bureau Engraving and Printing, this week. The Relief Association of the Bureau of Engraving is doing commendable work. Sixty eight or more members have recently joined. This association should be appreciated and encouraged. A special meeting will be held the first Sunday in May, at the Y. M. C. A. building. Mrs. Florine Jenkins-Johnson was tendered a farewell party by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Goo. G. Jenkins, 1443 S Street, N. W.; Saturday evening prior to her departure from the city. Relatives and friends were present. Mr. and Mrs. Roger N. Brown, of Twenty-third Street, N. W., are continually receiving presents and congratulations from their many friends. Mrs. Brown was formerly Miss Beatrice McGuinn, popular in social and church circles. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dean, of 424 Q Street, N. W., will leave the city the first of the month, for their future home, Denver Colo. We are wishing them a bon voyage. Miss Lucie Evans, of Tea Street, left the city last week to visit her sister, Mrs. Eluine Evans-Koffey, of Blackstone, Va. The great north grocery store, 1644 Monteilo Avenue, N. E., opened two weeks ago, much to the wishes of the citizens in that section of the city. The store was jammed with buyers from the time they opened till they closed it. You find in this store every variety of vegetables to be found in the Center Market, and just as cheap. Groceries are delivered free to all customers. H. Katz & Co., are some of the best friends the colored man has in this city. Mrs. A. Alice Daniels, of Columbus, Ohio, was in the city last week. She is a relative of the late James F. Bundy. Mrs. C. E. Haley, the evangelist and city missionary of 3232 South State street, Chicago, Ill., is in the city. She is stopping with Mrs. King of 1912 N street northwest. On April, the seventeenth, the stork visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Stannard of 1648 Florida Avenue northwest, and left a fine baby girl. Mother and daughter are doing well. Magnus L. Robinson, 33rd deggree, Past Imperial Senior Recorder of the Mystic Shriners, has been called to Atlanta. Ga., as witness in an important law suit. Noble Robinson leaves here on the 27th for Atlanta. Miss Juanita Miller of Alexandria and Washington is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Daisy Hawk, of 65 West 131st street, New York. She will be at home, 2135 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, Washington, after May 15, next. Rev. and Mrs. J. D. Pair will soon move to their new home on Girard Street, N. W., which they have recently purchased. Miss Elvin Coats and her two sisters Miss Atlanta and Miss Madeline Coats had a very fine up-right piano given them last week by their parents, of 4th Street and Dean Avenue, Deanwood, D. C. Rev. Dr. Walter S. Jackson, of 2253 Sherman Avenue n. w., the faithful and loyal pastor of Simpson Memorial M. E. Church, is spending a week's vacation in Philadelphia, Pa. He will return this week, prepared to deliver the gospel message and soul-stirring sermon as usual to his devoted congregation, Sunday. SILVER ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Lomax of 1611 Corcoran street northwest celebrated their silver anniversary on Tuesday, April twenty-fourth. Mrs. Lomax received in silver georgette crepe over pearl satin. Their daughter, Miss Lomax, of Philadelphia, helped receive the guests. She wore pink and white georgette crepe. Their son, Mr. George B. Lomax, also helped them receive. Quite a number of silver pieces were received. They had as their guests Mr. and Mrs. Willis; Mrs. Willis wore white chiffon over white satin; Mr. Harman Hunter and Miss Grinnell; Miss Grinnell wore black net with gold trimming; Mr. John Green and Mrs. Quander; Mrs. Quander wore black crepe de chene-with white trimming; Mr. Ambler and Miss Ferrell; Miss Ferrell wore pink charmeuse trimmed with cream lace; Mr. Minor and Miss Maze Smith; Miss Smith wore black satin; among the others were Mr. and Mrs. William Prather, Mr. Woodard and Mrs. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Butler, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. James Ward, Mr. and Mrs. John Butler, Mr. Stewart, Wm. Boyd and Mr. Riley. Mr. Hugh Broton rendered the music for the occasion. MISS GIBSON ENTERTAINS. Miss Josephine Gibson, one of our charming members of the social set, entertained at an After-Theatre-Supper in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Williams, out of town guests, Monday night. WEST WASHINGTON. First Baptist Church Woman's Day. Woman's day exercises will be celebrated at the First Baptist Church, Twenty-seventh and Dumbarton avenue northwest, Sunday, April 29, 1917. There will be three services during the day, 11:00 a.m. 3:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. A very interesting program will be rendered at each service. A choir of one hundred voices will sing, including special solos, etc. Rev. Jas. L. Pinn will deliver a special sermon; among the many prominent churchwomen speakers will be Mrs. Julia M. Layton, Mrs. Eva Jackson, Miss M. A. D. Madre, Mrs. Rev. A. Reed, Mrs. Ida Turpeau, Mrs. Dr. Cabanis. Solos by Miss Virginia Williams and Miss Martha Harris; recitation by Miss Mason. The following are the presiding officers: Mrs. C. Pinn, Mrs. Eleanor Worrel and Miss Sadie Gaskins. At the evening services 50 virgins carrying lighted candles will march in processional. All are invited. Seats free. Rev. Jas. L. Pinn, pastor. The B. Y. P. U. of the Alexander Memorial Baptist Church held a very interesting meeting under the presidency of H. T. Redman, with the officers of this body Sunday at 6:30 p. m., and an unusually pleasing program will be presented tomorrow evening. Mr. David Fry, chorister; Rev. J. Garfield, pastor. The Boys' and Girls' Day exercises of the young church of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, recently organized by Rev. D. D. Turpeau, will take place Sunday, May 13, 1917. The pastor is endeavoring to make this one of the most instructive and interesting-gatherings of the young church since the organization. Full particulars will appear in our next issue. Rev. R. Allen Green has been returned to the pastorate of Ebenezer A. M. E, Church. O street northwest, who are much pleased in the actions of the conference; he has successfully conducted the parish for two years, canceling a large indebtedness and making many improvements in the church, with an increase of membership. Golden Wedding Anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thompson were tendered a reception at their residence, 417 Eighth street southwest, on Wednesday, April 25, 1917, and received many presents and congratulations from their host of friends. Mr. Jos. Thompson for many years has been doing business here as a wheelwright and blacksmith, and is a well known citizen in southwest Washington. During their marriage six children blessed their happy union, Mrs. Francis E. Payne, Mrs. Manie Terry, Miss Eiffle Thompson, Mr. Leon Thompson, Mr. Frederick Thompson and Mr. C. Thompson, deceased; and twelve grand children. Among the many present were Rev. and Mrs. David Johnson, Mrs. S. B. Throckmartin, Dr. J. P. Turner, Miss M. I. Thorckmartin, Miss Frances Thompson, Mr. J. C. Winthrop, Mrs. E. A. Wright, Mr. J. W. Butcher, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dorsey, Miss Minnie Lucas, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Young, Mr. H. A. Stevenson, New Jersey; Miss Helen Smith, Mr. Wm. Wills, Miss Amy Brown, Miss Mitelda Collins, Mrs. Jennett Beckwith, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Davis, Rev. and Mrs. L. M. Beckett, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Tome Mrs. Rebecca Manning and Jas. L. Turner. SOUTH WEST. WASHINGTON. Metropolitan Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church—D Street, Between Second and Third Streets—Rev. H. J. Callis, D. D., Pastor. There was a marked improvement in the attendance at both services in our church on last Sunday. It was rally day and the offering for the day $755.00, with several of the workers yet to be heard from. We wish to thank our many friends for the generous help in this time of need. We are glad to welcome the return of our friend and brother, Rev. David Johnson to the St. Paul A. M. E. Church. The arrangements for the home coming week at our church are nearly complete and will be published in this paper next week. We are pained to chronicle the death of Brother Albert Dorsey, who passed to his reward after a brief illness, on last Monday. He was a member of our Usher Board and one of the best Christian young men in our church. He will be greatly missed. Our pastor, Dr. Callis is preaching some very interesting sermons and you will do well to hear him; he will give you something to think about. At 10:30 a.m. Sunday he will preach on "Conviction". Our Sunday School is growing in interest. It meets at 1:15 p.m. Christian Endeavor meets at 6 p.m. and evening service at 7:30 p.m. A. FAREWELL PARTY. The home of Mrs. Mazie Robinson- Dean, 424 Q street northwest, was April 19, 1917, when her friends 'and co-workers of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing tendered her a surprise party ere her departure for her new home in, Denver, Col. The young ladies who so royally entertained Mrs. Dean were Misses Helen Butler, Mattle Stewart, Ella EVERY DAY AND NIGHT THIS WEEK. ADMISSION From 1 to 6:30, 5 cent feature pictures. From 6:30 to 11 pm., 10 cent feature pictures and vaudeville. Best of order. Come out and see what a change we have made. LONG HAIR THAT IS SOFT, SMOOTH AND GLOSSY Quinade, Invented by a New York Chemist, Stimulates and Nourishes the roots of the Hair. Just as a good fertilizer nourishes the soil and produces a rich crop of wheat or corn, so will the proper remedy create a healthy condition of the scalp, and promote the growth of the hair. QUINADE stimulates and nourishes the roots of the hair, thereby causing a healthy growth. QUINADE was invented by a New York chemist, and is made under the personal supervision of a registered pharmacist of over 25 years' experience; this is a guarantee that QUINADE is as near pharmaceutically correct as can be. The ingredients are selected with great care, and nothing enters this high class preparation unless it is of the highest purity. Seeby's QUINASOAP, the ideal shampoo, is an excellent aid to QUINADE in keeping the scalp in a clean, healthy condition. It should be used about every two weeks. 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. Thompson, Mary Ewell. Lula Freeman, Beulah Morse, Marlon Whitley, Mesdames Pearl Getts, Alnora Hawkins, Susie Rhone, Rosa Myers, Ida Mae Boardley, Belle Conrad, Mary Richardson, and Wilma Green. After an evening of cards, dancing and several musical selections from some of our masters, the happy gathering repaired to the dining hall where a sumptuous repast was heartily indulged. Each young lady's heart was gladdened when they found how well her true efforts were appreciated. Mrs. Dean was formerly Miss Mazie Robinson of this city, a beautiful young matron of high ideals, quiet and unassuming, loved and esteemed by her friends and co-workers. *Walking here, in twilight, O my friends,* I am hearing voices softened by the I hear your voices, softened by the distance. And pause and turn to listen as each sends. Rev. W. H. Jernagin, will leave Monday for Jersey City, N. J., where he will conduct a series of meetings for Rev. R. C. Judkins, pastor of Salem Baptist Church. On his return he will present to the city the greatest Queen's Rally at the Convention Hall over given in the city. Rev. Jernagin was the first to present a Queen's Rally to Washington, last December, and did not have standing room in his church for the people who desired to see it. And raised over $800.00. Now that the ancient prejudice which has existed in the theatre against the Negro people has been removed, we will undoubtedly see the birth of a folk drama in America, which will bring many writers of charm and imagination to the front. Indeed, it is possible that we may produce, a man in this country who will do for the American, Negro what the author of "Riders of the Sea" and "The Play Boy of the Western World" did for the Irish peasant. UNION WESLEY Rev. G. M. Oliver, master of the Union-Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church, surpassed all other churches in this connection thus far in the rally. Rev. Oliver raised over seven hundred dollars. FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS, MD: On April 21, 1917, a reception was given by a number of gentlemen of Fairmount Heights, Md., at the Fairmount Heights' Hall. The hall was beautifully decorated with national colors. Music was furnished by the Randall Orchestra. Refreshments were served. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. David W. Utz, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. 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DEFENSE OF COLORED AMERICANS. Editor Calvin Chase to Speak Here, Martinsburg, W. V., April 21: Rev. Ed. T. Johnson, pastor of Dudley Baptist Church, a leading pastor of Martinsburg, W. Va., in conjunction with the leading citizens, is making preparations to receive and entertain W. Calvin Chase, Esq., a member of the Washington Bar, and Editor of the Washington Bee, Sunday, May 27th. His subject is "A defense of Colored Americans, and their position in the present crisis." ANOTHER BOY Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ware, of the firm of Ware's department store, was surprised last Tuesday morning by being presented with a 14 pound boy. All indications show that the baby is handsomer than Richard Ware. Jr., and he is named as one of the most handsome babies in the city. The Bee extends its congratulations THE COMMUNITY CLUB ENTER TAIN THEIR PRESIDENT. A farewell party was tendered Mrs. Florine Jenkins-Johnson, Friday evening last, by the officers and members of the Mt. 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Accompanying this pattern were two pairs of the finest imported silk gloves, with trimmings silk and every thing to match. The entire outfit is valued at not less than one hundred and fifty dollars. "My boy." "Yes, dad?" "In wooing success"— "Yes, dad?" "Remember that's a girl you gotta sit up nights with."—Kansas City Journal. Extremely. Rare. Tommy—Poe, what is meant by the 'sense of humor?' Father—The sense of humor, my son, consists largely of knowing when not to be funny.—Philadelphia Record. Vivisection. Vivisection was practiced in the Alexandrian school during the first centuries of the Christian era. Whatever government is not a government of laws is a despotism, let it be called what it may—Webster. GALBRAITH BALLY. Last Sunday was rally day at Galbraith A. M. E. Z. Church. Dr. W. B. Battles, the pastor, sent out 600 postal cards to his members to bring in their two dollars; only 15 cards were returned and the members responded to the rally in good shape, and Lawyer Augustus Gray, chairman of the trustee board, smiled all over as the new crisp two ($2.00) dollar bills fell on the collection table. Tomorrow night a grand candle service will be given under the auspices of the Young Ladies' Bible Class; Mrs Clara Brooks, teacher; Rev. F. F. Martyn will preach and the ladies have arranged an attractive program for the evening. TRICKS IN THE AIR Ruth Law Urges Stunts to Train War Aviators. SAFE WHEN PROPERLY DONE. Man Who Is Better Dodger, Who Has Most Tricks Up His Sleeve, Is Man Who Is Going to Win—Declares Advanced School For Flying Is Absolutely Essential. Washington. — That sort of flying which most Americans regard as daredevil trick work is, according to Ittah Law, holder of the American nonstop record, who recently returned from three months spent in French aviation centers, absolutely necessary to the man who engages in a battle in the air. "There really is a crying need in this country for the establishment of a school of advanced flying," said Miss Law. "Before an aviator is prepared to engage another flier in battle he should know how to loop the loop, do a THE MAYFIELD Photo by American Press Association. RUTH LAW. nose or vertical dive, execute a tail spin, a tail slide or any other of the so called stunts." Miss Law is herself an expert at all these stunts, which have caused spectators to gasp in awe at her daring. And so her next remark seemed rather surprising. "None of these stunts is dangerous when properly, done," she continued. "I went to the French flying center at Pau, where some 500 or more aviators are learning this sort of air work. This is the only school of advanced flying in France, and it is from here that the fighting air men are graduated. All the aviators in France have advance work before they are sent to the front. It would be suicide if they hadn't." "Fighting in the air is fighting for position. Consequently it is largely a business of dodging. The man who is the better dodger, who has the most tricks up his sleeve, is the man who is going to win. I have seen men stop controlling their machines altogether and simply fall through space for several thousand feet. "The point of this, of course, is to give the opposing flier the idea that the plane has been struck. The opposing aviator, thinking he has put his enemy out of commission, will start away. Then the plunging air man will switch on his power, regain control of his machine and overtake his enemy without the latter knowing he is approaching. Such tactics naturally are used at great altitudes." MUST TILL THE SOIL. German Sailors at Fort McPherson Help to Feed Themselves. Atlanta.-The 411 German sailors who are now prisoners of war at Fort McPherson will soon be engaged in tilling the soil in order to increase the production of food crops in this country if present plans are carried out. It was stated that the authorities are only waiting until all arrangements can be made for compensating the Germans for their labor, as required by international law. A strip of land will be given them at the fort or near by, and every effort will be made to raise at least enough food to feed the prisoners, and enough to care for United States soldiers, too, if possible. The Germans now no longer salute Old Glory, as was the case when they first arrived. Since the declaration of war they keep in their quarters when the flag is lowered. Bible Stops a Bullet. Follansbee, W. Va.-The Rev. Arthur C. Palmer. Free Methodist minister here, owes his life to his Bible. This developed when he turned over to the police several threatening communications promising to "get him sure" if he does not cease his efforts to reform the city. The Rev. Mr. Palmer was shot from ambush as a result of these threats, the bullet lodging in his Bible, which he carried under his arm. BATTALION OF GIRLS TO PATROL JERSEY COAST Governor Accepts Offer of Services Made by an Instructor. Trenfon, N. J.-New Jersey will probably be the only state in the 'Union this summer to have a coast patrol guard composed entirely of young women. Miss. Ethel A. Grosscup, daughter of State Purchasing Agent Edward E. Grosscup, will be in charge of a battalion of 200 girls who will have a camp at Seaside Park and who will spend the entire summer in coast patrol duty and training in Red Cross work. Miss Grossup is a teacher of physical training in Hollins college...Hollins. Va., one of the largest girls' schools in the south. She is already drilling daily a battalion of girls, using the Major Moss military code. She has volunteered to Governor Edge and Adjutant General Barber to establish a camp at Seaside Park and to patrol the coast during the summer months. during the Governor Edge and Adjutant General Barber have already approved of the plan and have agreed to furnish camp and garrison equipment. The camp site will be on land owned by Miss Garrison. Miss. Grosscup's offer was accepted by the governor and adjutant general, and the girls have received the permission of their families to take part in the service. Miss Grosscup has been at Hollins college for the last year. Previous to that she studied in Madrid and made the trip home through the barred zone. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH TO BEAT GERMANY IS URGED Washington.—An appeal for an international mobilization of scientific research facilities to aid in the defeat of Germany has been addressed to the scientific societies of England, France, Italy and Russia by Dr. George E. Hale, chairman of the National Research Council, recently created to work out with the Defense Council technical features of military and industrial problems. Dr. Hale, who is foreign secretary of the National Academy of Sciences, sent this cablagram to the Royal Society of England, the Academie des Sciences Paris; the Academie des Sciences, Petrograd, and the Academia del Lincei Rome. "The entrance of the United States into the war unites our men of science with yours in a common cause. The National Academy of Sciences, acting through the National Research Council, which has been designated by President Wilson and, the Council of National Defense to mobilize the research facilities of the country, would gladly co-operate in any scientific researches still underlying the solution of military or industrial problems." Leading textile experts have offered to the Council of National Defense their services in mobilizing the country's textile resources for war. Alex ander H. Meyer of New York has put forward a plan to make available for the council a vast amount of information concerning textile supplies. Letters have been sent to 600 department stores asking if their buyers may serve as advisers in purchasing and inspecting government supplies. BABY IN A BASKET. Congressman Doolittle Reachies Home With His Wife and Infant. Cottonwood Falls, Kan.-Congressman Dudley, Doolittle of this district arrived from Washington recently. Mr. Doolittle was accompanied by his wife and baby daughter, Beverly, who was born at the capital and is just two months old. When Congressman and Mrs. Doolett left Washington they were in some what of a dilemma to arrange for the baby's comfort on the long journey home, until finally they hit upon the plan of carrying her in a market basket. The big market basket was pur- chased and a soft bed of pillows and quilts made in K. The scheme must have struck little Miss Beverly's fancy just right, as she slept most of the time in it on the trip. Boy "Holdup" Gets Spanking. Danville, Ill.-A youthful highway- man who undertook to hold up Theo- dore Swindall, a resident of the south side, was taken across the knee of the intended victim the other night and spanked. The boy was about thirteen or fourteen years old and confronted Swindall as he was on his way home. FIND $50,000: HIDDEN IN HOME OF RECLUSE Haverstraw, N. Y. - Although Frank Grimes, a recluse of Grassy Point, near Haverstraw, was believed to have died pen- less, relatives who searched his house found $25,000 in money and securities and realty deeds worth as much more. The search- ers dug up seven dust covered bank books. They will continue the hunt for further treasure. FISK WINS IN DEBATE WITH HOWARD. First Time Howard Has Ever Lost to Fisk in the Forum. In a battle royal whose dramatic clashes and final outcome will not soon be forgotten here, Fisk, in her eleventh Intercollegiate debate, on April 13, 1917, upholding the affirmative, won the decision from Howard University on the subject, "Resolved, That the National Government Should Require Compulsory Arbitration of Disputes-Between Capital and Labor, the Constitutionality being Waived." Significance of the Victory Significance of the Victory. Although this was Fisk's eleventh intercollegiate debate, and the fifth triangular debate with Atlanta and Howard Universities, Fisk has never before won from Howard and has lost almost consistently in these contests with the other schools. Feeling that these defeats were not due to lack of ability on the part of Fisk men, but, rather to the fact that Fisk has had, no coach for her teams as is true of the other schools, depending almost entirely on the regular courses in argumentation, the students last year requested the new President, Dr. F. A. McKenzie, to provide a coach for Fisk. The President asked Isaac Fisher, the well-known prize essayist, if he would, in addition to the other duties he had agreed to perform at Fisk, coach the debating teams. This was agreed to and the Fisk team faced Howard for the first time with the same preparation for debate which Howard always has. Teams And Judges. The Fisk team was composed of Chas, N. King, '17 and Henry Hugh Proctor, Jr., '17, with James A. Berry, '19, as alternate. Howard's line-up was composed of M. A. Jackson, '18 and J. S. Heslip, '17, with R. E. Carey, '18 and J. C. C. Johnson, '19 as alternates. The judges were Judge A. G. Rutherford, of the Circuit Court, Dr. H. B. Schermerhorn, of Vanderbilt Law School, and Mr. Arch Trawick, prominent business man of Nashville. Opening The Battle. The program was begun, with a solo—"Song of the Flag," DeKoven, by Mr. W. L. Daniel, after which the presiding officer, Pres. McKensie, made certain requests for the debaters and announced the first speaker, Chas. N. King of Fisk. A great crowd had gathered—the whole Fisk contingent and a great crowd from the city. For the first time the school itself did not know the battle lines and had little idea of the kind of preparation her men would show. Interest, therefore, was above fever heat. Mr. King, easy, graceful, the pink of courtesy, and with a power never dreamed of even by his college mates, carried his audience with him from the start. He supported compulsory arbitration on the ground that existing conditions in the industrial field demand a remedy, and that compulsory arbitration is necessary to preserve the Union. The outstanding arguments in Mr. King's presentation were the proof he gave that strikes and lockouts had steadily increased in the face of all voluntary methods of arbitration of disputes between capital and labor in the United States; his mistler indictment of strikes and lockouts as "menacing the perpetuity of the American Government;" and his definition of the phrase in the subject, "require compulsory arbitration." He showed that under a right definition of the phrase, the States might set up and operate their own boards of compulsory arbitration if they cared to do so, thereby preserving their own sovereignty in the matter; but if they did not, the Federal Government would establish boards in all such cases and would erect superior boards to arbitrate infestate disputes. This system, analogous to the Federal and State Judiciary, has not been advocated current literature and discussions, and it therefore took the Howard team by surprise, being especially a stumbling block in the way of Howard's fighting Heslip, a warrior indeed. Mr. Jackson opened the case for the negative; and it was seen from the first that he intended to demolish Mr. King's argument and disturb his balance. But the latter had already upset Mr. Jackson who in leaving his major argument to attack Mr. King's arguments, lost his poise and frantically propounded a series of questions for the affirmatie to answer. His main contention was that voluntary arbitration is the proper remedy and he sought to minimize the evils of strikers—Proctor and King sat improved and smiling. Henry Hugh Proctor, Jr., son of his father, closed the main arguments for Fisk. No one had ever heard of his being disturbed in an argument; but even Proctor was a revelation to the audience. Turning to Mr. Jackson with a smile and the most polite kind of bow he said to him: "If the gentleman will not grow excited before the close of this debate he shall be answered touching all questions which go to the merits of this debate." He proceeded next with the most exasperating coolness to complete the case for compulsory arbitration on the one ground that it is next logical step. Ordinarily, Mr. Proctor's style is purely argumentative; but on this occasion, as he warmed to his subject he grow eloquent and persuasive, while his gestures were easy and pleasing. His overthrow of the argument that compulsory arbitration would reduce labor to involuntary servitude cut the ground from under his opponent's feet, particularly the speaker who followed him, and was one of the clearest expositions of the doctrine of the freedom of the will over heard in a student forum. In J. S. Hesilp, Howard sent a mediator of unusual power. In advance, he had been picked out as the man who must be overcome if Fisk was to win; and he fully justified all fears; for, a veritable body of facts, figures, sarcasm and energy, he arrained the affirmative with a power which made Fisk sit up. CONSULT US FIRST ALL KINDS OF PRINTING Linotype Composition Electric Power Presses TRIANGLE PRINTING CO. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING QUICKEST BEST TERMS CASH 1109 Eye Street, Northwest Phone Main 7590 Thomas Graduate FUNERAL AND EMBAL Thomas Frazier Graduate FUNERAL DIRECTOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Lady Attendant 723 Tea Stre Proctor and King Sat Unmoved and Smilling. On the ground that compulsory arbitration is unnecessary and violates the principals of liberty, Mr. Hesilp pleaded his case with skill of a trained lawyer and often, with finger pointed at the smiling King and Proctor demanded that they answer the series of questions which he propounded. Proctor and King Sat Unmoved and Smiling. The failure of compulsory arbitration in New Zealand was presented as a moving argument against the erection of the system in the United States, and it is believed that the failure of the affirmative to touch this phase of the question prevented Howard's use of the great volume of documents which they had piled upon their table at the beginning of the debate. By this time, the cold, unswerving methodical machine which Fisk had prepared had unserved Howard's more dynamic team. Mr. Jackson, on rebuttal, simply recapitulated his main arguments. Mr. King, with the little smile which by this time Fisk was loving, attacked Mr. Jackson's arguments and carried the affirmative side a little nearer to victory; and then the battling Heslip - sprang to his feet. Seldom does one hear so many facts and figures, compressed within so few minutes as he put inside of seven minutes; but the statement of Fisk's case by two men who could not be moved by any tactics employed, and the fact that the calm Proctor was to close the debate had unsettled Mr. Heslip and he ended his rebuttal with an impassioned appeal to the judges, demanding that the affirmative answer his questions. I promised the gentleman that all questions that go to the heart of this debate should be answered before we closed," said Mr. Proctor as he ```markdown ``` Business Phone NORTH 7796 Rebuttal. A WONDERFUL HAIR DRESS / One thousand agents wanted. Good every city and village to sell THE STAR furful preparation. 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The Howard speakers dwelt particularly on the calm Fisk "machine" which they could not overthrow. The Washington men are a splendid group and Fisk is glad to have known them. CARE FOR TROOPS Red Cross Has Prepared For Army of Million. DEPOTS IN ALL BIG CITIES Agents to Report on Needs of Men and Supervise Distribution of Supplies In Every Training Camp, Every Military and Naval Hospital and Also at Every Army Base. Washington — The American Red Cross is rushing to completion preparations for service. At a moment's notice, according to Miss Mabel T. Boardman, head of the Red Cross, enough nurses and supplies would be available for an army of 1,000,000 men. Announcement was made that the Red Cross supply service, with central depots and warehouses in all the principal cities of the United States, has been organized. Its purpose is to forward and distribute all gifts and comforts for American troops and military hospitals. Branch headquarters have been established in New York, Boston, Chicago, Denver, New Orleans and San A. Photo by American Press Association. OTTO T. BANNARD. Francisco. From these centers the collection and preparation of supplies in smaller towns and cities will be directed. All the work is under the direction of the American Red Cross through the department of military relief. The new service will be at the disposal of any individual or organization seeking to aid those who enlist. In every training camp, every military and naval hospital and at every army base there will be agents to report on the needs of the men and to supervise the distribution of supplies. The New York branch of the Red Cross supply service will be under the direction of Otto T. Bannard, a banker, who will devote all his time to the work. Bolind the field organization will be bureaus for collecting and forwarding supplies. These will act under the direction of a central office in Washington, which will be in close association with the war and navy departments and with the Council of National Defense. By this plan it is expected to eliminate much waste from misdirected or uncentralized effort. Effort will be made to prevent overproduction of certain articles and shortage in others. Through reports from the field agents at the distribution points the central station will now where supplies are insufficient and where there is a surplus. The Red-Cross supply service is offered as a convenience to patriotic and relief societies throughout the country. Such societies may distribute supplies according to well outlined specifications. Attention, as far as possible, also will be paid to orders or requests for special articles. Raw materials purchased will be obtained from the central depot nearest their destination. GUARDSMEN WEAR RUBBERS. Army Shoes of Bay State Troops Wet By Through by Snow. Boston.—The Massachusetts national guardmen were supplied with rubbers for the first time. Rubbers are not ordinarily part of a guardman's equipment, as the heavy army boots are deemed sufficient protection in all kinds of weather. The shoes, wever, were wet through by a fall of snow, and at the request of the commanding officers the men were supplied with rubbers by the Massachusetts committee on public safety. ○ AT 120 GAY LOTHARIO ○ IS WOOING A WIDOW Wheeling, W. Va.—One hundred and twenty years press lightly on the heart of John Drysdale of Guyandotte, W. Va., who is "sparkling" a widow, with every chance of success. Drysdale, with the fervor of a Romeo, declares the object of his affections is "the puriest gal in the neighborhood" and wants "call the boys" to see him "pitched." "POTATO PATRIOTS" NEEDED. Woodcraft League Urges Boys and Girls to Help Nation. Ernest Thompson Seton, chief of the Woodcraft League of America, has sent an appeal to the members of the league asking them to shoulder the hoe and "hoe your country's way to victory" in the campaign to increase the food supply of the nation. The league believes that "potatoes may decide the great war" and urges boys and girls wishing to become "potato patriots" to join the Woodcraft potato clubs. Each patriot will agree to plant and raise not less than fifty bills of this very necessary vegetable and donate the receipts to some worthy war fund. Those who join will receive a club button and complete instructions for planting and caring for their potato crop. An American flag and a Woodcraft League Potato club pennant will be given to the patriot raising the best crop from 250 square feet. Groups of five will receive a charter personally signed by Ernest Thompson Seton. Free seed potatoes for planting twenty-five hills will be given to the first hundred applicants. BOARD FOR WAR METALS. Members to Deal With Supply of Brass and Aluminum! Washington—To deal with problems of brass and aluminum supply for the army and navy the Council of National Defense created two committees to act in conjunction with the raw materials committee of the Civilian-Advisory Commission. The two new committees are expected to bring highly valuable technical information to the army and navy. Committees to deal with other raw materials vital to the conduct of the war are being formed and will be announced later. The two committees announced follow: Brass—Charles F. Brooker and C. D. Goss, Waterbury, Conn.; Lewis H. Jones, Detroit; Barton Hazelton, Rome, N, Y., and F. J. Kingsbury, Bridgeport, Conn. Aluminum-Arthur F. Davis, New York; E. E. Allyne, Cleveland, and Joseph A. Janney, Philadelphia. JAIL DE LUXE, BUT EMPTY. Westchester Offers Marble Baths, Eto, but Can't Get Convicts. New York.-V. Everit Macy, multimillionaire commissioner of correction of Westchester county, has taken over the new penitentiary de luxe at East View, but he cannot get any prisoners to fill it. There are plenty of Westchester men serving sentances—200, in fact—but they were committed to Blackwell's island for their full terms, and there seems no legal way to transfer them. New York would like to let go of them, but can't. Mr. Macy needs at least forty at once or there will be no garden truck in the summer, there being no one to plant the garden. The prison has marble shower baths, writing desks, real linen for the tables and pretty much all the comforts of home except freedom. BOY STUCK IN BIG GUN. With the Help of a Rope. He Came Out All Right. South Bethlehem, Pa.—The Bethlehem Steel works recently forged the first sixteen-inch gun for the United States navy, the second made in this country. The first one, also cast here, guards the Atlantic entrance to the Panama canal and can fire a shot almost sixteen miles. A slender apprentice wanted to have the honor of having crawled through the sixteen inch naval gun. It wasn't an easy job to work himself along, and halfway through he got stuck and yelled for help. Some of the men wanted to pull him out backward, but one of the mechanics sympathetic with the boy and pushed in a rope from the front. He managed to get it around his shoulders and eventually landed head foremost. NOVEL RECRUITING METHOD Premier of Australia's Plea Given Dramatic Effect. London.—Dispatches from Australia describe a scene that occurred in Sydney while Premier Hughes was addressing a crowd of 20,000 people and appealing for recruits. As he was speaking some troopers of the light horse led into the square fifty riderless horses carrying white cloths inscribed, "Who will fill an empty saddle?" "You are living," Mr. Hughes pleaded. "You are Australians. Your country is in danger. God will be with you." Within twenty minutes every horse had a rider, and the jangling bits and the clattering hoofs had roused the crowd to a state of intense excitement. It is expected that this dramatic incident will help in stimulating the recruiting campaign. EVERYBODY. KNOWS. HIM. Lloyd George Now Discovers He Had Hundreds of Schoolmates. London.—Lloyd George told a friend the other day that he was beginning to think that he had had almost as many schoolmates as there were passengers on the Mayflower, which carried the pilgrim fathers to the American coast in the seventeenth century. The premier made this observation after the amusing discovery that he had thousands of schoolmates when he was a schoolboy in Wales. He said the attendance never exceeded thirty, but that almost every day his mall includes a letter from somebody who begins by saying, "I was once at school with you." CLEW TO BURIED COIN. Will Shows Where It Was Buried and Offers Half to Finder. Centralia, Wash.—"This is a will of my own construction, and as a man of good health and sound mind do $k_{2}$ W. F. Bryan, colored, give and bequeath to the finder of this will one-half of a gallon glass jugful of gold coins which lie buried five feet deep and thirty feet east of the section corner of my old homestead. "The finder must publish this before any work begins on its recovery, but the finder must get another party to dig for it, and the digger gets one-half. I do this to keep my lazy kinfolk from getting it. If they make any fuss about it after it is found, give them $1 each. There is also another jugful burled a few rods west of the old dwelling house. I can't locate it, however, as the mark is lost. Dated this second day of October, 1888. "W, F. BRYAN." Bryan, who is well remembered by the old residents of Centralla, died in the early nineties. Allan Millan, a present resident of Centralla, was a nephew of Mrs. Bryan, who died about six weeks ago. GIRL SIX FEET TALL. She Is Only Twelve Years Old, but Has Grown Phenomenally. Baltimore, Md.-A girl who has been growing for the last three years at a phenomenal rate and is now over six feet tall, although only twelve years old, is being given the expert attention of medical men of the Johns Hopkins hospital, who expect to see her become a prodigy, a veritable glantess, without loss of mental powers. For the last three years her growth has been phenomenal, surpassing all records at the hospital. Until she was nine years old she was simply a large girl, but not likely to attract attention. Occasional pains accompanied her sudden growth, but her health remained unimpaired. She weighs 117% pounds. Developing a fondness for books, she has read many more than an ordinary child of her age, and the severe test of her intellect made by the experts in that line at the hospital gave this verdict: "She is above the average in intellect." DOG RESCUED IN NET. Fell Into a Well In an Abandoned House. Greenfield, Ind.—Passing a vacant house in this city some time ago Samuel Bulkin heard a dog barking, and a week later, passing the place again, he heard a sound as of a dog in distress. He and others went on a search of the premises and found the animal in an abandoned well eighteen feet under the floor of the house. Boards had been placed at that depth to hold the pump stock in place, and the dog was on these boards a few feet above the water. The men lowered a basket into the well, but this failed, and they finally contrived a net that brought the animal to the surface. After expressing his thankfulness to his rescuers in a dog's way he ran with all strength remaining to the north part of the city and to a two-year-old baby in the home of parents that had been advertising and looking for the playmate of their children. PUPILS OUTSPELL PARENTS. Scholars Defeat Their Elders In a School Contest. Tacoma, Wash.—Members, of the eighth grade of the Jefferson school defeated their parents in a geographical or "railroad" spelling match held in the school. Mrs. Clarence Bitney, who had stood alone on her side for thirty minutes, retired when she could not think of a geographical name, beginning with "G" after her daughter Ruth, on the opposite side, had finished spelling "Darling," one of the largest rivers in Australia. When the match was over three of the eighth grade pupils were still standing. These were Johanna Madsen, Rene Lechner and Ruth Bitney. LONG TRIP ACROSS ATLANTIC. Gales Stripped Ship Westgate of Can- vey, but Ship Got Here. New York.—After a passage of 110 days from London, the British-full rigged ship Westgate arrived here recently. She was loaded with chalk and sailed Dec. 11. Encountering gales, almost all her sails' were blown away, and she drifted about the Atlantic, finally managing to make Barbados. There she was fitted with new canvas, with which she put to sea again. She was off Barnegat March 24 and she tried day after day to get here, but failed. Captain Steele finally decided she was tired out, and he bailed the tug Marion Lee, which towed him here. One of the crew was taken off at quarantine suffering from fever. BEAR INVADES FARMS. Kills Sheep and Pigs and Escapes Into a Swamp. Shelbyville, Del.—A large cinnamon bear is terrorizing the inhabitants of Costen Station. In several instances in the past few weeks the bear has made its appearance at farmhouses, frightening the women and chasing away the men. The weather evidently has cut off its food supplies, and it is killing sheep and pigs on many farms. It has been hunted several times, but its trail invariably leads to a swamp which is practically impervious to man. It is supposed that the bear is one that escaped from a circus about seven years ago near Princess Anne. ```markdown ``` ATLAUX GOOD DEALERS 50+ UP STYLE 4523 Beautiful Bust and Shoulders are possible if you will wear a scientifically constructed Bien Jolie Brassiere. The dragging weight of an unconfined bust so stretches the supporting muscles that the contour of the figure is spoiled. put the bust back where it belongs, prevent the full bust from having the appearance of fabrics, and, in line with the dressing machines, and, online the flesh of the shoulder, giving a graceful line to the entire upper body. 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Germans Using Big Beasts For Hauling in Berlin Streets. Berlin.—Of the extraordinary sights seen in the snow blocked streets of Berlin the employment of huge working elephants for traffic purposes is certainly the strangest. The animals belong to a circus, and every morning they may be seen on their way drawing heavy carts loaded with iron boilers each weighing 33,000 pounds. PUREDRUGS 63rd & Eastern Ave., N.E. Chesapeake Station DRUGS, SODA, WATER, CIGARS Phone Lincoln 3136 Berlin.—seen in th Berlin the ing elephau certainly t belong to o they may ing heaviy ers, each w No eight move these gantic pack play. If th No eight horses would be sufficient to move these huge wagons, but to the gigantic pachyderms, it seems as child's play. If they find an auto bus stuck in a snowdrift, with panting, exhausted horses trying to pull it out, the working elephant leans a friendly forehead, and in a trice the stranded vehicle is afloat again. Is the paper that should be in every home in the city. It is the people's paper. Read The Bee if you want all the news. ROBERT ALLEN Chicago.—A movie house is no Pullman, the Chicago police have decreed. For months down-and-outers have obtained lodging for a nickel by entering an all night movie house and snoozing while villains pursued heroes across the screen. The police broke up the practice by arresting seventeen of the sleepers. Buffet and Family Liquor Store Phone North 2340 1917 14th Street, N. W. Washington, D. C. --- --- --- BIEN JOLE (BLAN JOLE) BRASSIERES PUT ELEPHANTS TO WORK. Can't Sleep In Movies. HOUSTON APPEALS TO NATION FOR BIG CROPS Intensive Cultivation : Greatest Aid Farmers Can Render Country. Washington. — Secretary Houston again appealed to the country to make every effort to raise adequate food crops this year not only for the United States' needs, but to meet the requirements of the entente. "The importance to the nation of a generous food supply for the coming year cannot be overemphasized in view of the economic problems which may arise as a result of the entrance of the United States into the war," said the secretary. "Every effort should be made to produce more crops than are needed for our own requirements. "Many millions of people across the seas as well as our own people must rely in large part upon the products of our fields and ranges. This situation will continue to exist even though hostilities should end unexpectedly soon since European production cannot be restored immediately to its normal basis. "It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops. Because of the shortage of such crops practically throughout the world there is no risk in the near future of excessive production, such as sometimes has resulted in unremerative prices to producers. This is particularly true of the cereals and of peas, beans, cowpeas, soy beans and buckwheat." BRITAIN NEEDS 5,000 AMERICAN FARMERS London. — "Five thousand skilled American farmers on English soil would go a long way toward combating Germany's plan to starve us into submission through her submarines," Sir Arthur Lee, head of the newly formed food production department, told an American newspaper correspondent. "I told you recently," Sir Arthur continued, "that we intended to bring from America some 2,000 tractor plows for right plowing. We need the skilled American farmers to supplement them." Sir Arthur knows America. He married an American, Miss Ruth Moore, daughter of J. G. Moore of New York, and he has spent many years in the United States, having been British military attache with the United States army during the Spanish-American war and later military attache at the British embassy in Washington. He has seen service in the present war. His present post is an outgrowth of the intensified submarine warfare begun on Feb. 1. Sir Arthur is charged with the gigantic task of making every available foot of soil produce its maximum amount, of food. "I have great respect for the ability of the American farmer," said Sir Arthur. "I have seen him at work, and I know that everything he does spells efficiency. That's why we would like to have so many of him in the present crisis. "Your farmer has revolutionized farming methods. Like the American in all other walks of life, he is continually on the lookout for a more efficient way in which to do things. The result, is that he has the most modern agricultural implements in the world. With these and his natural bent for industry he gets the most out of his soil." SOLDIERS ABOARD VATERLAND German Infantry, Artillery and Cavalry Found on Big Steamship. Hoboken, N. J. - Twenty-five German soldiers in full uniform were found on the big liner Vaterland in Hoboken. They were discovered by a customs guard in a cabin of the liner. Some of them were infantrymen, others artillerymen and a few cavalrymen. But—they were made of tin. The box of them, which had apparently been left behind by a youthful passenger on the liner's last trip here and put aside by a steward to delight some future small passenger, was taken to the pier with other articles, and Collector Malone was notified. The collector decided to present them to Commodore Hans Ruser, Jr., son of the Vaterland's captain, who is living with his mother in Hoboken. Young Commodore Hans was delighted with the gift. When he opened the box he asked if it was Christmas. HEARS HIS WIFE PREACH. Overworked Minister's Place Taken by Spouse, Congregation Is Pleased. Chicago. Most married men hear sermons and are glad they are delivered in private. But the Rev. O. Fairlee Jordan, pastor of the Evanston Christian church, probably is one of the few men who ever sat back in peace and comfort listening to a public preachment by their wives. Mr. Jordan faced the task of a "double header" after a week of nightly sermoning. He was a necary. His wife sympathized. "I'll take your place in the pulpit this evening," she offered. She did it not only to friend husband's satisfaction, but to the pleasure of an overflow congregation. In These Days of Universal Anxiety You'll Appreciate the Relief Given By Our Helpful Methods Every one is studying ECONOMY—striving to husband every resource in case of need—watching the expenditure of every dollar. It's the time of all times when you should investigate and take advantage of the kind of help we're glad to give. You can come here for everything needed to make your home comfortable and attractive. You'll find immense stocks from which to choose; qualities that are thoroughly reliable, and prices that are as low as the lowest, to which not one penny is added for the helpful credit privileges. Purchases are simply charged on an open account, without notes or interest, and small weekly or monthly payments arranged to suit your individual circumstances. ATTORNEYS SCOTT AND MARTIN. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court—No. 23,607, Administration This Is to Give Notice: That the subscriber of the state of New York has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters testamentary on the estate of Lucy L. Dorsey, 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 6th day of April, A. D. 1918; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 6th day of April, 1917. A. W. SCOTT and W. C. MARTIN, Attorneys. A. W. Scott and W. C. Martin, Attorneys. Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court—No. 23498 Administration. This Is to Give Notice: That the subscriber of the State of New Jersey has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters testamentary on the estate of Thomas W. Holcombs, 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 Mar. A. D. 1918; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 14th day of March, 1917. JAMES E. H. ABRAMS, 60 Jewett Ave., Jersey City, N. J. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. A. W. SCOTT and W. C. MARTIN, Attorneys. Supreme Court-of the District of. Columbia, Holding Probate Court—Estate of Benjamin Mabre, Deceased-No. 23,529—Administration Docket 55. Application haying been made herein for probate of the last will and testament of said deceased, by Simon Mabre, of Newark, New Jersey, it is ordered this 28th day of March, A. D. 1917, that the three (3) children of Rosa Mabre, deceased, whose names and addresses are unknown to the petitioner, and all others concerned, appear in said court on Monday, the 7th day of May, A. D. 1917, at 10 o'clock a. m., to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the "Washington Law Reporter" and "Washington Bee" once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned, the first application to be not less than thirty days before said return day. WENDELL P. STAFFORD, Justice. Attest. JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the Dist trict of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. CHARLES P. FORD, Attorney. WM. O. DAVIS, ATTORNEY Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court No. 23,610, 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 Harriett Lee, 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 12 day of April, A. D. 1918; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 12th day of April, 1917. HENRY P. SLAUGHTER, 2236-13th St. N. W. Attest: JAMES TANNER, Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. WM. O. DAVIS, Attorney. Mrs. J. Henry E. A. Osborne THE HOME CAFE A. Meals at All Hours Hot Bread for Every Meal 1409 T St., N. W. Wash., D. C. A There is a heavy storm curtain from the back of the hood to the body, which keeps the wind from driving dust into the carriage. The reed is heavy and finished with a shellac that resists the wear to which the carriage might be subjected. All metal parts are enameled and rust-proof. Deep, Reed-Body Carriage $2 Cash o Compare this with carriages fo HOTEL NEWS. J. Since the newspapers have been advocating planting seeds and cultivating vegetables in order to check as far as possible the raging food shortage, city farming has become quite a fad among people of all classes, it is gratifying to note that the colored people are very much alive to such a movement in this connection. Recently many of our hotel friends and restaurant workers are taking an active part. William Tompkins, formerly of the New Ebbitt Cafe, is now connected with the dining room of the Birkshire Hotel at Reading, Pa. Dennis Carroll for many years private waiter for the family of Mr. G. F. Shitt proprietor of the New Ebbitt and National Hotels of this city is still indisposed at his residence 1515 26th Street, N. W. Friends of Mr. Carroll are urgently requested to call. The shortage of colored waiters and hotel workers in general has become very acute in all parts of the country. The hotels of Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia have had a better supply than most of the large cities and hotel towns. Mr. Leen Thompson has been appointed on the Sick Committee at the New Ebbitt under Chairman Harris. Mr. James Coleman is out after several weeks illness. Dr. Royal G. Mundy, of 445 O Street, No. N. W., wishes the Bee to announce Linc that he has no intention whatever, of and R.: DeReef Miller. Peter Grogan & Sons Co. Every Article in Our Store Is Plainly Price-Marked With Figures You Can Read. Baby, who sheds a golden sunlight throughout the house, is deserving of the best treatment you can afford. And with the low credit terms we arrange, you can afford this fine reed carriage. And when you take baby out in it you will feel well repaid for the expenditure. $25 Cash or Credit riages for which others ask at least $32.50. living, or having his office in the Four Thousand Dollar, Three Story brick house on 12th street, near the corner of You Street, N. W., which he purchased last week, through Mr. Clarence M. DeVeile, Real Estate Broker and Money Lender, of 1014 W Street, N. W., that he only bought it for an in- vestment, while he had several hundred dollars in cash. Dr. Mundy wishes Mr. DeVeile continued success, and advises all persons to consult him before entering into any business transaction. It is not every man that is looking for "bargains." They are saitified to pay a profit and that's how we do business. We are in the low rent section and it takes a smart man to find this store with the old style porch front, but when you get here we show you new uncalled for tailored suits. low as $9. JUSTH'S OLD STAND, 619 D. OPEN TODAY, APRIL 7TH the Great Northeast Grocery Store 1644 MONTELO AVENUE H. KUTZ AND CO. Goods Delivered Free A-7-4t 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. DRAMATIC MIRROR, APRIL 21, 17. Friday night. April 6th. should be recorded in the theatrical history as the date on which true democracy was achieved in the American Theatre. It was the night when the Negro Players opened a season that is to all intents and purposes a "Broadway season," since it is operated upon the regular scale of prices of Broadway playhouses, and on the orchestra floor Negroes and white people were seated indiscriminately. They say—those who were there—that Mrs. L. M. Better Than You of New York and Newport sat right next to Abraham Lincoln Johnson of 138th street, sah. and didn't seem to mind it a bit. --- This Three-Piece Duofold Suite $52.50 A woman is holding a book under a canopy. She is surrounded by two chairs and a rocking chair. In the foreground, there is a bed with a blanket. Make your living room do double duty—do away with the necessity of paying rent for an extra spare room. If you have heretofore felt dismay at the news of a coming visitor, purchase this Duofold suite—it is hardly more expensive than an ordinary living room suite of this quality. The sanitary Duofold opens in a minute to a full-size, comfortable bed and is fitted with a first-class mattress. PANAMA TO DEFEND CANAL. German Residents Will Be Interned if Involved In Plots. Panama.—The president of the republic of Panama, Dr. Ramon Valdez, signed a proclamation committing Panama unreservedly to the assistance of the United States in defense of the canal. The president also canceled the exequaturs of all the German consuls in Panama. The proclamation declares: "Our indisputable duty in this tremendous hour of history is of a common ally, whose interests and existence as well are linked indissolubly with the United States. "I therefore declare that the Panaman nation will lend emphatic co-operation to the United States against enemies who execute or attempt to execute hostile acts against the territory of the canal or in any manner affect or tend to affect the common interests." It is announced that Germans resident in Panama will be interred if they give any evidence of being involved in plots. AN AUTOGRAPHED EGG, GETS HOME TO ROOST Pittsburgh.—His name, and the date, "July 15, 1916," written on an egg shocked Lawrence Kendall of Mansfield, O., when he emptied a case of "strictly fresh" at a hotel here. He remembered marking the hen fruit while a packer last summer, but the shock occurred when the eggs, which left him at 21 cents, came back, at 55 cents a dozen. KATZ'S MARKET Two Stores in One Ninth and Florida Avenue N. W. and the Great KATZ'S MARKET Is the Cheapest Store in the City Ninth and Florida Avenue N. W. Groceries Delivered Free Most leather used for furniture upholstering is "split" leather, and not having the natural surface, it usually peels or cracks with a little wear. This imitation leather is guaranteed to do neither. And in appearance it is so nearly like leather that had we not mentioned that it is a substitute, you would not have known it even after a close inspection of it! Phone, Lincoln 2400 SUNLIGHT 1439 MOD FAMILY INCUDING THE MEN I AT MOD 1439 MORRIS ROAD S. E. FAMILY WASHING INCUDING THE MEN FOLK'S COLLARS AND SHIRTS AT MODERATE PRICES LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S WORK We Use no Machinery BLICK BROTHERS BUY YOUR COAL FROM BLICK BROTHERS 8TH AND FLORIDA AVE. N. 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