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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 A OL. XXXVIII, NO. 6 WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1917 VAULT DEDICATED NEW VAULT AT CEMETERY DEDICATED WITH ADDRESS Ralph V. Cook Traces Society's History Which Donated to Washing- ington Work Fund in 1862. ton Monument Fund in 1852. A receiving vault which has been built at Harmony cemetery was dedicated June 24th afternoon with appropriate ceremonies, John A. Simms, president of the Columbia Harmony Society, being master of ceremonies for the occasion. The dedicatory address was made by Henry Johnson: Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: This being—since October 22, 1857—the first occasion in which persons interested in the Columbian Harmony Society have assembled for a common purpose, I deem it advisable to present a brief sketch of the early history of Columbian Harmony Society—and I may state that I am indebted to the original minutes in possession of the Society for the matter presented. At a meeting, held November 25, 1825—ninety-two years ago—at the Western School room in the City of Washington, attended by free colored persons a Society for the mutual benefits of its members was organized, and a Committee—consisting of Francis Datcher, J. W. Prout, and H. D. Smuters was appointed to draft a Constitution. At an adjourned meeting, December 3, 1825, held at the same place, the following report was adopted: "Throughout their labors your Committee have looked forward to future generations by the forming of this Society as well as to those who shall unite together in the forming of this Society. Hoping the time is not far distant when we shall all act together as children of one common parent struggling together for the perpetual welfare of each other, your Committee have endeavored to set guards at every avenue to prevent the introduction of vice or immorality or the deporture of vulture from among us and they inimude the hope that their errors may be considered of the head and not the hart. Trusting you will accept the better part of their labors and impute the bad to the intentions, we submit the accompanying Constitution for your mature consideration." Signed: JOHN W. PROUT, FRANCIS DATCHER, HENRY D. SMUTHERS, Committee. The Constitution presented, contained a preamble, which as a reflect of the subject-matter contained therein, I reproduce: "Whereas, it is a moral duty incumbent on man to endeavor by honest and prudent method to make provision for himself and family against infirmities incident to age, disease or accident and actuated by no other motive than those which blind man to man by the tender ties of fellowship and mortal duty, and believing that much good may result by uniting ourselves together into a Society to be known and distinguished by the title of Columbian Harmony Society and do blind ourselves to abide by and support this Constitution." Francis Datcher, Wm. Costin, John B. Hutton, Wm. Jackson, Andrew Foote, George Bell, Joseph Warren, George Hicks, John B. Bull, Joseph Colston, Thos Smith, Nathaniel Hurbert, John W. Prout, William Tilghman, H. D. Sounthers, Aaron Sims, Wm. Wormley, John B. Butler, Ralph King, Wm. Lonax, Lloyd Nichols. The first regular meeting; Dec. 10, 1825, was organized by the election of Francis Datcher President, for one year from January 1, 1826; Wm. Costin V. P.; Wm. Jackson, Treas; John B. Hutton, Secy. Board of Directors; George Bell, George Hicks, Joseph Warren, A. Foote and John Bell. At a meeting held Jan. 7, 1826, the following gentlemen qualified (each paying $5.00) as members: George Bell, Wm. Costin, Joseph Warren, Francis Datcher, John W. Prout, Wm. Tlighman, John B. Hutton, Aaron Sims, Andrew Foote, John B. Butler, Joseph Colston, Thomas Smith, Wm. Jackson, Nathaniel Hurbert, Henry D. Smuthers, John B. Bull, George Hicks, Ralph King, and Wm. Wormley. The original purpose of the Society as indicated through its Constitution and By-Laws was beneficial and charitable: Sick benefits to members; financial relief in case of death in member's family; money loans to financially embarrassed members; money appropriated yearly, for relief of the City's poor; advances made to struggling churches, and last, but not least, contribution to the Washington Monument. (August 12,52). The Society confined itself to its original purpose up to April 17, 1828, when at a regular meeting on that date, M. Datcher offered the following resolution: "Whereas, The main object in organizing this Society was that its members might share more largely each other's good council and moral instructions and whereas the many and ungenerous charges against us, as a body, and with a desire to avert these charges therefore be it resolved that this Society do inquire into the expediency of purchasing, an entire expediency of ground—provided—the same can be purchased at any point N. of R. st., W. of 5 st., and E. of 22nd st., within the bounds of Washington City. Resolved--that there shall be provision for each member and his family in said burial ground and the remainder be sold for the use of the Society." In accordance with the above M. Datcher, chairman of the committee on site, reported Nov. 6, 1828, that partial arrangements had been made with the U. S. Commissioner for the purchase of Square 475, that same being due North of the Central part of the City of Washington(bet. S st., and Fla. ave. and 5th and 6th sts. N. W.) and recommended that a sum of $100 be paid the Commissioner for which a Deed in Fee would be given." The Committee report ended as follows: "Viewing the magnitude of the measure and its benefit to ages unborn, and trusting that the God of Hosts will guide us in this great work, we recommend concurrence." The report was adopted and money appropriated to purchase the Square movement for locating the "Columbian Harmony Cemetery." November 11, 1828, on motion, Mr. Datcher, the president of the board of directors, was authorized to draw up a code of By-Laws to govern the burial ground. At the same meeting money was potted for enclosing the grounds. At a meeting held September 3, 1829, on motion of Mr. Foote, "next Sunday week was fixed for the Dedication of the burial ground. At the same meeting, Tuesday next at 4 o'clock was set apart for laying off the ground—the members to take lots in the ground in the order in which they stand enrolled on the Constitution" No further record appears until Aug. 1, 1830. The members of the Society continued their organization and usefulness with a definite purpose in view, to wit: looking after and relieving the sick and worthy and paying—as the records show—proper respect for the dead. Neither time nor space will permit further delving into the valuable records—92 years old—of the Columbian Harmony Society. I will, however, state that the ground purchased, Sq. 475, was held and used as a burial ground until the tide of City improvement forced the Society to sell the ground and the proceeds thereof were made the nucleus for the purchase of this site, which was dedicated October 22, 1857. Friends: I have trenched upon your time and patience to bring home to the present generation the foresight, ability, and energy of the God-fearing and faithful men—all of whom held certificates from the "University of Limited Opportunities and Hard Knocks," procured in the atmosphere of slavery, who, 92 years ago, planted the seed, fostered and nourished it until, through successive generations, it has expanded into this beautiful and extensive grounds and appliances. In the dedication of this Cemetery sixty (60) years ago, Rev. William T. Catto, after an address of profound interest and exquisite taste, closed with this beautiful peroration: "Gentlemen, you have raised here an imperishable monument of what energy and perseverance can accomplish. Cease not your struggle until the cap-stone to your efforts shall be put on and perfection crown your labors." In like spirit, Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, with more than passing pride I point to that beautiful Mausoleum as the cap-stone. Its exterior is befittingly chaste, and modest. Its interior, with its pure white marble finish, is in harmony with the purity of the dead who will, temporarily, rest there before being consigned to mother earth. In daytime God's sunlight will cast its beautiful reflecting rays to temper the sorrow of friends. In the night the Angle of Mercy will keep guard and be watchful. We now dedicate this beautiful Mausoleum in the name of Father Son and Holy Spirit—setting it apart as a temporary resting place for the dead. At the conclusion of the address a vote of thanks was voted Mr. Johnson for his excellent address. On Wednesday June 20, a lovely wedding took place upon the lawn of the home of Mrs W. A. Tibbs, when her only daughter, Blanch E. Marle, became the bride of Mr. Wm. Busch, of Mechanicsburg, Pa. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. M. W. D. Norman, beneath a bower of roses and ferns. Just before the bridal party appeared, Miss Violet A. Burwell, in her sweet bird-like soprano voice, sang the bridal song "O Promise Me." She wore a canary silk mull, grecian style, and garden hat of canary and white tulle, and stood upon the rose covered porch, from whence came sweet music all during the evening, played by Mrs. Mary B. Chavis. She wore black and gold net over blue, with garden hat of blue and gold tulle. Miss Saddle White, in silver cloth draped in chiffon, was the first bride's maid—followed by Miss Cliffa Hill, in gold cloth and gold chiffon as second maid. Mrs. Rebecca Julus, of N. Y. city, was matron of honor for her niece. She was charming in silver lace over pink chiffon and taffetta. The attendants carried pink roses. The youthful bride wore an exquisite gown of white duchess satin draped in silk net caught, with rhinestones. Her vel blossoms. She carried white lilies, was drained bonnet and cape style and 1 HON. MARTIN B. MADDEN. The Nation Appeals to the Representative from Illinois for an Immediate Congressional Investigation of the wholesale Murder of Colored Americans. M. B. Mrs Tibbs, the bride's mother, were pink satin overdraped with beaded chiffon. Among the out of town guests were: Mrs. W. J. Carter and sons, family of teh bride's uncle, W. Justin Carter, a prominent lawyer of Harrisburg, Pa. Mrs William H. Busch and son, of Mechaniesburg, mother and brother of the groom; Misses Maggie and Sophia Tibbs, aunts, from New York, and Mrs. Julius, of New York. The valuable presents represent some of the best people of both races, and were numerous. TAKES HIS PATENT. Attorney George W. Ellis, Lawyer and Author in Town-Will Appeal to Court Attorney George W. Ellis, formerly secretary at the Liberian Legation, Monrovia, Liberia, is in the city for the purpose of laying before the Congressional representatives from the State of Illinois. Martin B. Madden, James R. Morris and Wm. E. Mason, the claim of Elbert R. Robinson, a Colored American and an inventor of the attachment to steam cars which is said to be the greatest invention of the age. Mr. Robinson claims that the Chicago City Railway Company and the Wills' and French Company have infringed upon his patent, in other words have deliberately taken his patent which is netting those companies millions of dollars. The claim has been carried through all the higher courts of the State of Illinois and while it is claimed that his patient is all right, he is overruled otherwise. Mr. Robinson will now through Attorney George W. Ellis, appeal to Congress and ask redress through his state representatives. It is a very interesting case and in the near future The Bee will publish its history. Attorney Ellis is stopping at the Young Men's Christian Association. "DAMAGED GOODS" The Play, Which Comes to the Howard Theatre Next Week Should Arouse Far Greater Interest Than Any Play Yet Has Done in That Theatre. There is no uncleanness in facts. The uncleanness is in the glamour, in the secret imagination. It is in hints, half-truths, and suggestions the threat to life lies. This play puts the horrible truth in so living a way, with such clean, artistic force, that the mind is impressed as it could possibly be impressed in no other manner. Best of all, it is the physician who dominates the action. There is no sentimentalizing. There is no weak and morbid handling of the theme. The Doctor appears in his ideal function, as the modern light-priest of truth. Around him writhe the victims of ignorance and the criminals of conventional cruelty, he towers over all, as the master. This is as it should be. The man to say the word to save the world of ignorant wretches, cursed by the clouds and darkness a mistaken modesty has thrown around a life-and-death instinct, is the physician. The only question is this: Is this play decent? My answer is that it is the decentest play that has been in New York for a year. It is so decent that it is religious. The play is, above all, a powerful plea for the tearing away of the veil of mystery that has so universally shrouded this subject of the penalty of sexual immorality. It is a plea for light on this hidden danger, that fathers and mothers, young men and young women, may know the terrible price that must be paid, not only by the generation that violate the law, but by the generation to come. It is a serious question just how the education of men and women, especially young men and young women, in the vital matters of sex relationship should be carried on. One thing is sure, however. The worst possible way is the one which has so often been followed in the past—not to carry it on at all but ignore it. MISS L. M. BUTTLER. Hear this great treat by Miss Luh May Butler, Queen of Sacred Songs of Galveston, Texas, Supported by some of the best local talent, at Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, M street between 15th and 16th streets north- west, Monday night, July 16, 1917. General admission-15 cents. One hundred patron seats. 25 cents. Rev. Carlton M. Tanner, Pastor. Brookside, 16 ft. of the church. Sudden Death of Mrs. Rosina Perry, June 27th. The funeral services for Mrs. Rosina Perry, who died suddenly June 27, was held Saturday, June 20th from her late residence, 1032 New Jersey avenue northwest. Rev. Carroll, pastor of Miles C. M. E. Church, and Rev. Clark, pastor of Isabel C. M. E. Church, of which the deceased was formerly a member, officiated. They both spoke eloquently of her Christian career, covering a period of more than fifty years, her devotion to her family and her estamble standing in the community, she having been a native of this city. The obituary was read by L. H. Peterson, music was furnished by the choir of Miles Church and solo by Dr. Jones, accompany Mrs. Mary Dixon. A number of beautiful floral tributes were sent by members of the family and friends. Mrs. Dixon is survived by two daughters and one son, Mrs. Victoria Scott, Mrs. Fredella Madden, and Mr. Wm Perry, several grand children, one of whom is Miss Beulah Scott, a teacher in our Public Schools, and a host of friends. Rev. E. B. Gordon Defeated. Rev. E. B. Gordon, who was a candidate for reelection as pastor of Walker Memorial Baptist Church, was defeated last week by the members of his church and Rev. S. S. Crockett of Morristown, N. J., was elected. Rev. Crockett will preach Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Rev. S. S. Crockett has been called to this church. He is a young and brilliant young pastor, who will be a great acquisition to this city and a benefit to this church. WORLD WAR. 10 the Editor of I. MISS KIBBLE APPOINTED. Miss'Ollie E. Kibble of 128 S street northwest was appointed. in the Municipal Playgrounds as an assistant to Miss Price, who is the principal. In compliance with instructions from the War Department, at the request of the Hon. John H. Small, First Sergeant Robert H. Cheeks, Co. D., 1st Sep. Bn. D. C. Inf. N. G. has been designated by the Commanding Officers Maj. J. E. Walker, to go to Washington, North Carolina for recruiting duty in the South. Sergeant Cheeks left for Washingto on the 6:30 boat, Monday afternoon, July 3rd. At 7 o'clock on the evening of July 4th there was a celebration of the first anniversary of the departure of the First Separate Battalion for the Mexican Border, July 4, 1916. Officers and men at both camps of the Battalion participated with reminiscences of their Border experiences. It is particularly pertinent at the present time, when East St. Louis, Ill., is being torn by Rue riots in which colored men have been killed and Negro houses burned and when the National Guard troops, of Illinois, who have been called to the scene have failed to maintain law and order, that the First Sep. Battalion D. C. Infantry N. G., composed of Negro troops, has been called upon to protect most the largest and most important. Railway interests in the country. These colored troops were called upon July 3rd to protect the train yards of the Washington Terminal, during the strike of employees of the Terminal Company and are now protecting all railway interests in the District. The work of this battalion has in no wise been spectacular but the people should not think that it has been any the less important. From the President's Call on March 25th until the present date, the protection of every vital interest in the city has been entrusted to these Negro troops. Thru losses from discharges because of dependents, the Battalion has lost about two hundred men and despite the fact that recruiting has been carried on at a lively rate and with the utmost energy, the organization still lacks about 170 men of being at full war strength. It is the desire of the Commanding Officer that this number be made up within the next two weeks. The record of the Battalion warrants the attention of every young man in the city and it should be the pride of the people of Washington to see this body of Negro soldiers complete in every detail, men as well as equipment. Atlantic City's great wooden way, the board walk, has practically turned into a great work shop for women, for everybody is knitting or learning how to knit. This season, shows a great change in conditions. The women are really doing their bit and the beauty of it all is that many of the hand work instructors are young colored girls, yes really teaching their white sisters how to work with their hands in the most fashionable section of the beach. A. Smith Rankin, head waiter at the Greenwood's Inn at New Hortford. Conn., was in Atlantic City several days last week hunting for a new chef cook for the inn. When seen at Scotts Hotel Mr. Rankin said that his assistant, Mr. C. J. Turnell, had charge until he returned. Thomas Harttsfield of Washington is booking agent at Atlantic City for Mr. C. T. Fergerson, head waiter at the New Cape May Hotel, Cape May, N. J. Fitzgerald's Auditorium on Kentucky avenue is undergoing many improvements. The Smart Set Orchestra plays at the dancing class every Monday, and Thursday night. The colored cabarets are very artistic throughout the colored district, equipped with high-class entertainers and singers, especially at Scotts, the Horse-Shoe Mansion, and a the Philadelphia House the entertainment is of a very high standard and their patrons are among of the most refined people who visit the resort. Ashbury M. E. Church, the big new colored edifice of Atlantic City, was crowded last Sunday morning to hear the Rev. Miss Reid, a woman evangelist, whose sermon was so full of gospel truths. It caused one of the largest men in the congregation to collapse. By quick work of a number of the church officers the, stricken man was revived. Ashbury is by far one of the most beautiful churches in America. It is decorated with fine art paintings and equipped with every modern electrical device for the modern church. It has uniformed lady ushers, two choirs and a late model pipe organ. Among the many people from Wash. spending their vacation at Atlantic City are: Dr. Childs and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wilson, Miss Elizabeth Robinson, Mr. Philip T. Gren, Mrs. Willie Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Smith and many others whose names will appear later. Christopher Hoffman Wins W. C. T. U. Prize The Women's Temperance Union No. 2. of the District of Columbia presented a prize of $6 in gold to Christopher Hoffman, son of Elzie Hoffman, a well-known local musician. Young Hoffman received the first prize in the essay contest, subject of which was "Alcohol and the Effects It has Upon the Human Body." Master Hoffman is a brilliant pupil of the 13th Division of the Local Public Schools. AN APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC BY THE AMERICAN WORKMEN INSURANCE FRATERNITY. Friends: For $1.00 to $2.00 monthly, we pay upward to $6.00 benefits, and death, $1.000.00 to beneficiary. You need real protection and help while living. You should make substantial provisions for your wife, mother, father, sister, brother or husband, while you are living, so that they may not have to depend upon charity for bread for the sustenance of life, when you are dead or disabled from sickness or old age. I hereby appeal to you to unite in the support of this strong, mutual, patriotic protection and benevolent Insurance Fraternity, composed of male and female, the doctrine of which is that, God is our Father, man our brother, and woman our sister, all races of people, regardless of color. Such union is the real supreme need of all humanity. You are invited to, join this great Insurance Fraternity, organized under the Laws of the District of Columbia, said Laws were enacted by Congress and approved by the President of the United States "for the purpose of uniting together in a Fraternal Beneficial Association under the lodge system, both sexes between the ages of 18 and 55 years," with a ritualistic form of work and a representative form of government, and for the sole benefit of its members and their beneficiaries; also for the establishing of a system of mutual benevolence and relief in case of SICKNESS, ACCIDENT or DEATH and to uplift the moral and material advancement of its members. The Government of this Association is vested in its "Supreme officers, and a Board of nine Supreme Trustees." Home Office, Washington, D. C. John B. Harrell, Supreme Councilor, C. A. White, Supreme Vice-Councilor, Rudolph T. Harrell, Supreme Clerk. I, as a member and Deputy of this Grand Fraternal Insurance Society, most highly commend the Company to all persons, regardless of race or color, to be the most liberal and the best Protective Insurance known, whose policies are all that could be desired, for the accommodation of all American Citizens alike, and I most earnestly solicit your hearty general cooperation. We need many honest and intelligent agents, male and female, to write up the applicants for membership, and also to organize lodges. We want live and vigilant agents, who will earn from $2.50 to $6.00 per day and probably more, and also secure a lifetime income by giving their full time and attention now, while we need a certain membership to warrant in establishing a large building for our National Headquarters, and Auditorium for the, use of the members; mental and religious attainment. We invite you to call or write for full particulars for any desired information pertaining to the appointment of agents in the District of Columbia, to Headquarters District Deputy. AARON P. PRIOLEAU, Deputy and Sup't of Agents, D. C. Hotel Glover, 15 E Ss., N. W. Washington, D. C. NEWHOME "I'll get it for my wife" NO OTHER LIKE IT. NO OTHER AS GOOD. NO OTHER LIKE IT. NO OTHER AS GOOD. Purchase the "NEW HOME" and you will have a life asset at the price you pay. The elimination of repair labor by superior workshop and best quality of material insures the "NEW HOME" minimum cost. Included with the "NEW HOME" WARRANTED FOR ALL TIME. Know the world over for superior as well qualities. Not sold under any other name. THE NEW HOME SERVING MACHINE CO., ORANGE, MASS. FOR SALE BY Gustave Oppenheim, 800 E street northwest, Washington, D. C. AT ODDS OVER NEGROES. Stumbling Block In Way of Reunion of Methodist Churches—To Tell of Red Cross Work—The Rev. Dr. Surtell Prentice Will Speak at First Baptist Church—Sunday's Aide Here. The joint commission on unification of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; which held its first session in Baltimore in December, will meet again Wednesday at Traverse City, Mich. The Rev. Dr. John F. Goucher, the only Baltimore on the commission, has already left the city for a series of conferences before going to Traverse. Ever since the adjournment of the Baltimore meeting, controversies have been raging in the church papers and many apparently contradictory statements have been made even by members of the same commission. Some hold that the commissions have plenipotentiary powers, while others consider the powers strictly limited by "instructions." It is practically all centered around the problem of the negro in the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Southern Methodist General Conference advised that, an independent Negro Methodist Church be established; with fraternal relations with the United white Methodist Church. The Southern Methodist commissioners are almost unanimously in favor of this method, but the Northern Methodists are very much disinclined to "cast the negro into the cold" and are insistent on keeping the Methodist Church "open to all races and conditions." A few of the writers are inclined to give up the whole problem of unification as hopeless, but the majority still is determined at least to thrash the matter out thoroughly. EX-KING IN RED CROSS. Manuel Heads Orthopedic Section of British Organization. Liverpool—Manuel, former king of Portugal, has just been appointed by the British Red Cross society as head of its section of orthopedics, relating to the treatment of deformities in wounded soldiers. The former king has for several years been interested in work of this character. He is now engaged in a tour of inspection with Colonel Robert Jones, inspector general of orthopedies in the British army, of all the institutions in Great Britain where wounded soldiers are receiving treatment of this character. One of the largest of these institutions is in Liverpool, and Manuel spent three days there, devoting one day to the surgical wards and operating rooms and acting as an assistant at an operation in a hospital. Washington.—A group of Washington citizens has formally "adopted" the French town of Noyon. These patriots have pledged themselves to raise $10,000 to restore the devastated town through the French restoration fund. ROSES ON AN APPLE TREE IN DELAWARE Wilmington, Del. - While it is seldom one hears of garden flowers growing on fruit trees, there is an apple tree in Kent county which blossoms each spring with pink roses, exactly like those grown on the average rosebush, with, the exception that they grow in clusters like cherries. This tree stands in the front yard of the Joseph Zavis farm, on the state road, near Donnyms Corner. The tree was planted years ago by Jillian Emerson. He experimented at grazing, and his whim led him to try growing flowers on fruit trees. He grafted a rosebush on the young apple tree, but did not live long enough to see the result of his experiment. This year Mr. Zavis has plucked hundreds of roses from the apple tree. It is an apple tree in nature only, for it will never bear fruit. Snake Under Horse's Foot. Monterey. Man. White camouflaged in getting tint off the wood on the hill. Monterey C. Wallman and I also heard a rattlesnake, but could not see it. After a search they found one of the horse's feet. The hoof be pinned it down so that it could rattle, but could not coll to strike. The men killed the snake. 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Main 5670, Store 1, 7th and K N. W. Main 900, Store 2, S. W. Cor. 7th and E N. W. Main 3140, Store 3, 2002 14th N. W. North 3228 Store 3, 2002 14th N. W. North 2398, Store 4, 7th and M N. W. Lincoln 3496, Store 5, 8th and H N. E. Lincoln 2789, Store 5, N. E. Cor. 811 H N. E. THEYANKEEPUNCH "Put It In the War," Says General Squier. AIRPLANES WINNING FACTOR. Regiments and Brigades of Winged Cavalry Could Blind the Eyes of Germany Until Her Gunners, Deprived of Range Finders, Would Be Put Out of Business. Washington.—"Put the Yankee punch into the war," is the way Brigadier General Squiler, who directs the aviation service, expressed it in discussing the great airplane program which, if passed by congress, will involve the appropriation of something like $000,000,000 in the beginning. By "Yankee punch" General Squiler means "a characteristically American way of working to get big results." "Airplanes," said General Squiler, "are the logical fighting machines for Americans, because we are an ima- [Name] intive people, and when our imagination-strikes fire nothing can stop us. The game ideally suits the American temperament, and every young American worthy of the name should be keen to join our flying army. "An army in the air, regiments and brigades of winged cavalry, mounted on gas driven flying horses, could blind the eyes of Germany until her gunners, absolutely deprived of range finders, would be put out of business by the allied artillery. The magnificently obvious thing is to knock out Germany's eyes by a thrust through the air. But my idea would be something vastly larger than a thrust. An inundation of airplanes would better express the idea in its magnitude. "Sweep the Germans from the sky, blind the Prussian cannon, and the time would be ripe to release an enormous flock of flying fighters to raid and destroy military camps, ammunition depots and military establishments of all kinds. The firing upon troops by machine guns from airplanes is becoming commoner and more accurate. Once given an upper hand the flying machine becomes a frightful engine of destruction." TWINS PUZZLE TEACHERS. Eight Pairs Prove a Source of Worry to Teachers. Omaha, Neb. — Whether Jimmy is Jimmy or his brother Johnny and Johnny really Johnny or just Jimmy is the question that constantly confronts teachers at the Webster school. Eight pairs of twins in the school are the cause of the complexity of the situation. Three pairs are boys, three girls and two "fifty fifty." In Miss Elline Jeskallek's third grade class are three pairs—Newell and Donald Davis, Lucile and Lillian Poulson and Walter and Wade White. In each case the twins are as much alike as boys in a pool. In confidence it is whispered that the twins have changed seats in their classrooms without any one being a bit the wiser, excepting themselves. The seating arrangement, Miss Jeskalek admits, is the only means by which she can tell one of a pair from the other. Choctaws Volunteer For Services: Mobile, Ala.—One hundred Choctaw Indians in Baldwin, Escambia and Monroe counties, Ala., have volunteered their services to the army. J. W. Roberts, postmaster at Raburn, Ala., came here to arrange for the muster in of the troops. Chicago. - Fifty years ago Walter Bushnell of Carrollton, Ill. planted a walnut on his farm and announced that he would have his collin made from the tree. Three years ago he had the tree cut down and sawed into slabs. Bushnell is now. eighty years old. The walnut wood, having been properly aged, has been made into a coffin. TOMMIES DO FARM WORK Glad to Spend Leisure From Trenches Satisfying Fun at Home Cultivating, Evacuated Land. Behind the British Lines In France.—A special department attached to British headquarters has been created to superintend agricultural operations in the areas evacuated by the Germans. Work in the fields by soldiers is largely voluntary. As details of soldiers leave the trenches for the rear they are invited to spend their leisure in agricultural work, which in the spring air and sun of France is one of the pleasantest recreations imaginable. Soldiers who who have once lived on a farm or done farm work "back home" generally jump at the opportunity, and many city men are eager to work in the fields, even preferring it to sports, such as football and field athletics. The soldier-farmers are well provided with hoeses, usually artillery or transport horses from the reserves. The British agricultural military staff has gone so far as to secure its soldier-farmers cultivators and machinery of British models which are familiar to them. Seeds and fertilizers are also provided in abundance. The army will cultivate something over 30,000 acres this year in the liberated Somme area alone. FIFTH SON TO UNCLE SAM. Charles Brickley, Football Star of Harvard, Is One of Them. Boston. — Mrs. William J. Brickley, mother of the Harvard football star, has given four of her five sons to the country and says that as soon as the youngest is a little older he'll go too. William J. Brickley, Jr., the oldest son, is a ymcan at Commonwealth pler. South Boston; Charley Brickley, the second son, whose toe has won many a victory for the crimson team. is training with the Harvard reserve officers' corps; George Brickley has joined the medical reserve corps as hospital apprentice, and Joseph Brickley is in the army, unit at Norwich university. So much has been written about the athletic prowess, of Charley Brickley that New Englanders to a certain extent have overlooked the ability of the other boys on the field and in the gymnasium. Especially has little been heard about Bill the oldest son. The heavyweight champion of the naval reserves at Commonwealth Pier issued a challenge the other day to all comers. The first acceptance was from Bill, and the bout was arranged. The mill was fast and furious and ended in Bill scoring a knockout. FIND NEW SLACKER GAME: Federal Agents Believe "Farmers" Ought Not to Be Employed. New York.-A new "slacker" ruse was found when it was learned that federal agents have recently been investigating the payrolls of a number of farmers of Newtown, Flushing and Great Neck, N. Y. Certain farm hands are wanted who are supposed to receive $6 a week for playing golf and tennis and living on the farm. The farmers, it is said, have received compensation for "employing" young sons of the rich Long Isand set, who believed that by registering as farmers they could escape conscription. The farmers; it is believed, have in certain cases given away their own game, fo, they got tired of "the young swells who didn't know the difference between a grub hook and a cultivator" and began to talk about their "employers." TO USE WIRELESS PHONE. Scientists Say It's Practical, and Even Aeroplanes May Converse. Washington.—Experiments with wireless telephony have proved its practical value to such an extent that it will be used by the navy in its war operations along with wireless telegraphy. A statement issued by the public information committee says that engineers and scientists working with officials of the navy in developing the wireless telephone have made "important progress," but does not go into details. The National Research Council and the Naval Consulting Board have devoted much attention to the subject, working on telephone communication with airplanes, new wireless methods and apparatus for detecting the presence of submarines. CORNELL MEN URGED TO WAR. Character Will Count, Pastor Says in Baccalaureate. Ithaca, N. Y.—"The nearer you come to theiring line the more will your character count," said the Rev. Charles Whitney Gilkey in Cornell's annual baccalaureate sermon. Dr. Gilkey was clad in his suit of khaki, having come here from Fort Sheridan, Ill., where he is chaplain of the training camp. Only one-third of the university's senior class attended, the others being engaged in the war service. Dr. Gilkey said that the youths now in training camps had been moved to do their bit because every one else was doing his, that they had been quick to act because their nation called and that they would only find their real aim in this war after they had crossed the ocean. Flag Landed in Night Mattoon, Ill.—A patriotic freak of a recent storm was the carrying of a flagpole from the home of G. M. Metcalf four blocks to the space swept clear of the home of Raymond Coon, where the staff was planted in the soft earth with the Stars and Stripes still flying. Bodies, Skulls and 'Weapons Found, Sometimes Near the Surface. Jefferson, Ind.-The search for the reported De Soto treasure started by Vol Kelly of Clarksville many years ago is said to have been reviewed, as numerous holes have been dug along Nagle's creek, in the vicinity in which Kelly used to search. The identity of the new seekers is not known, as the digging has been done at night. Kelly believed treasure was hidden because of an ancient record concerning De Soto. The tale is that his treasurer, Fernandez, deserted him, taking the money chest, and that this was buried not far from the falls of the Ohio when he was attacked by Indians. Kelly used a divining rod which was supposed to dip at the presence of gold. Another old legend is that a Spanish knight appeared, clad in black, with helmet and armor, and danced a fantastic dance in the moonlight, the theory of the superstitions being that it was Fernandes, who glanced over the failure of those who sought to find his gold. Treasures revealing or suggesting long forgotten or unknown history are not uncommon here. Bodies, skulls and weapons are among the things found, sometimes near the surface. A few years ago a resident discovered what were supposed to be bodies of chiefs, their heads surrounded with beautifully worked spear points. DEMOREST GIRLS SEND SWEETHEARTS TO ARMY DEMOREST GIRLS SEND SWEETHEARTS TO ARMY Demorest, Ga. — The girls of this place will be mighty lonesome for a long time, but have more than proved their patriotism. The conscription officer did not visit Demorest, because there are but four young men in the little city who are of marriageable and conscriptional age where formerly there were, counting them carefully, twenty-three prospective bridgderooms. Nineteen of the twenty-three now wear the uniform of the United States army and the numerals of the Seventeenth infantry. It is more than a simple story of patriotism among the boys. Each of them had a second party to consult, and each received the same answer. It was: "Go. Your country needs you." "Hall to Demorest, first city of Georgia!" Captain G. Y. Heidt, army recruiting officer said. "The army is proud of Demorest and of girls who gave up their sweethearts to Uncle Sam. That is the greatest record that has come to my attention since I have been on recruiting duty. The entire state can afford to boast of this little city." SCHOONER RIDDLED BY SHELL Long Missing Rebecca Palmer Attacked by Submarine. New York.—American shipping men who have been wondering why the big five masted Yankee schooner Rebecca Palmer, which arrived at Liverpool from Savannah last December, had not returned to this side of the sea, had the mystery solved for them when some, of her crew landed at an American port. They said the Palmer, was attacked by a submarine off the Irish const in the middle of December and so badly damaged by shell fire that she was forced to lay up. The British docks were filled with shipping, so it was impossible for her to repair, and she may remain in England until after the war. EDISON: PLEADS FOR WORK Says All Must Do Their Bit to Help Win the War. West Orange, N. J.-Thomas A. Edison in his laboratory at his plant here said: This nation has assumed an obligation which practically amounts to this: We have, agreed to save democracy from despotism, no matter what the cost may be. The nation is not a third person; the nation is ourselves. The nation's obligation is our obligation, and each of us should work a little harder than he has ever worked before and produce a little more than he has ever produced before in order that he may be the better able to discharge his share of the obligation which the nation has assumed. MAY CHANGE SCHOOL YEAR. Coal Shortage May Cause Schools to Close During Winter Months. Bridgeport, Conn.-A radical change in the school year, due to difficulty, in getting coal, is under consideration by the local public school authorites, it was learned. The proposal is to close the schools during the winter and keep them open during summer. By this means, it is pointed out, the necessity of heating the buildings will be avoided and the health of the children be much better conserved than would be the case in winter in buildings which might lack proper heating. While the regular summer vacation will begin this month, the change, it is said, may be made next winter. Increases Prices and Makes All Food Products Scarce. ENGLAND HAD ITS LESSON. Newspapers Held Up to Scorn Both Hoarders and Merchants Who Had Catered to Them, and Government Threatened Penalties—Many Perishable Foodstuffs Spoiled. New York—The government is worried over hoarding of food supplies by individuals. So run the dispatches from Washington. Can it be that we are going to witness the same disgraceful exhibition of selfish folly that marked the opening days of the war in England? I hate to believe that our countrymen are so dull or so heartless. But selfishness, like patriotism, knows no country, and it may be necessary to shame the self centered into decent behavior here, as was done in England in August, 1914. Just to wake up those who act in mere thoughtlessness it may be pertinent to mention the experience of an American couple in the first days after England entered the war, says Charles J. Rosebault of the Vigilantes. They were living in a tiny village twenty-four miles north of London, and their main food supplies came up daily by motor truck from one of London's large department stores. Rumors that there might be a scarcity had penetrated even to their backwater retreat, but they declined to be ruffled thereby. So the order for the morrow went to the department store as usual, only a bit larger than ordinary, as it was for the week end, and guests were expected. It included fish and meat and a variety of fruit and vegetables, as well as some canned goods. The follow- ing day the big truck rolled up to the door at the usual hour and dis- charged—a package of washing soda and some clothes pins! The motorman was apologetic, but the department store had to admit it self beaten. The day before a horde of panic stricken Londoners had ad- rived in motorsaws and had simply swept clean the counters, shelves and reserve bins of that huge shop. The other shops had met with the same experience. All the greedy ones had acted as with one impulse. It was as though London was already besieged and the enemy had it in its grip. First come first fed appeared to be the slogan of those with money to buy and no regard for their fellows. The senseless fright was short lived. The newspapers held up to scorn both the hoarders and the merchants who had catered to them. The government took a hand and threatened penalties. The shopkeepers, stung by the almost universal condemnation visited upon them, took their revenge by refusing to take back anything. Many perishable foodstuffs spolled on the hands of the purchasers. The flavor departed from others long before they could be used. There was some poetic justice, after all. But there was also a darker side to the incident. Prices of food had jumped overnight, and those of slender purse were the sufferers. Anxious housewives found themselves with empty harders and lacking means to replenish them. There was much hardship and nobody, not even the guilty ones, a gainer. If there is one proposition which cannot be gainslud it is that hoarding always has only one result—to increase prices and make scarce the articles hoarded. If everybody will be sensible and purchase only what is required for immediate use there will be neither scarcity nor inflated prices. STUFF THAT MAKES HEROES. Michael McNamara Braves Submarines to Fight For Flag He Loves. Washington.—There's a little spot in Ireland that Michael McNamara had in his "mound's eye" for a long time—thirty years, in fact. All that time Michael was obeying orders, drilling, campaigning and doing the hundred and one things that fall to the lot of the American marine. Michael finished his time, retiring with the rank of "sarjint major, no less," and went back to that little spot in County Mayo. Then came our participation in the war. Did Michael stay retired? He did not! He came right back on the steamship St. Louis, paying his own fare, and went directly to the United States marine corps headquarters to volunteer his services. McNamara could have signed up with some Irish regiment, for despite his fifty old years he is still a "fohe broth av a boy." Instead he braved the submarines to fight under the flag that for thirty years he had called his own. Michael has a bit of the stuff of which loyal Americans and heroes are made. Turtle With Many Initials. Brainerd, Minn.—Twenty-two years ago Joseph L. Hartell, Brainerd blacksmith, carved his initials and the date 1895 on the shell of a turtle. A few days ago that same turtle was found in Pillager, bearing so many initials that it resembled a travelling autograph album. Other initials deciphered were: Gat Lasher, 1900, and George Parks, 1910, W. H. Parks, W. W. Lee and J. F. McGuire added theirs when they released the turtle after its most recent capture. SIMON SIMPLE'S FIRST LESSONS IN CLOWNISN NOW WATCH AND SEE IF YOU CAN DO THIS DUMBELL STUNT AS FUNNY AS I DO. OH! OUCH! HA·HA DOT VAS FUNNY I'll bet I can make that act funnier than that. NIT! WAY UP WITH THEM AND THEM DROP THEM. ON SOME OTHER FELLERS TOES!! GEE! BUT HE'S GOT A JEALOUS DISPOSITION! The NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL, Durham, N. President, James E. Shepherd, Durham, N. C. "I cordially commend the school's interest and needs to all who believe in the Negro race and in our obligation to help promote its intellectual, moral and religious uplift."—Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, New York City. IT IS MORE THAN A MERE SCHOOL—IT IS A COMMUNITY OF SERVICE AND UPLIFT Its influence is destined to be felt in all sections of the country in improved Negro community life wherever our trained workers locate. Settlement workers, missionaries for home and foreign mission fields, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. 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But the sins we mention are not secret sins. They are well known to our white neighbors. They are the common talk among ourselves. When we speak of lack of thoroughness, in this connection, we mean shallowness. We do not refer to common inefficiency. Inefficiency is a general term for any sort of failure for any reason to fill the bill. Shallowness could, but won't. Our shallowness begins with our public schools, where we "spare the rod and spoil the child." Next we see shallowness in our colleges, where the students spend four years in devotion to a lot of fetishes and fads; to football, to argumentation and debating, and to learning a lot of outlandish words, like "boule" for example. And out side of the schools we also observe shallowness at nearly every turn. We are strong on oratory and essay writing, but orations and essays are usually shallow—they do not purport to be scientific, and they seldom contain the results of any independent individual research. Our orators and essayists seldom gather, or compile any useful statistical data. They seldom formulate any useful civic propositions. They are copyists and rehashers, with a very few exceptions. This is necessarily true of writers who make no original investigations and do no original thinking. The most they can do is complain of wrongs, make irresident prophecies and boast of the "phenomenal strides" that we have made us a class. If such performances are not evidences of shallowness, then they are evidences of hypocrisy. The plain, unvarnished fact is that in the last fifty years we as a race have not done nearly so well as we could and should have done—not in scholarship, not in the fine arts, not in science, not in the industrial arts, not in trade, not in finance. And the main reasons for it are that we have been too frivolous, we have wasted too much time, we have squandered too much money—we have been content with shallowness. It may seem strange but shallowness has a close relation to jobhunting and jobbing. As printed out in a previous article in this series, job-hunting is the principal enterprise of our people. Any class of people who are almost exclusively wage-carners or salary earners are also shallow. The job-hunting habit begets shallowness, and shallowness in turn necessitates jobhunting. Our "educated" class are a typical class of job-hunters. A peculiar situation resulting from this fact is that thousands of societies, organizations and cliks have grown up amongst us whose main reason for existence is to provide jobs and pulls for the members, principally the members. Those not yet offi- cers hope to be. Thoroughness, efficiency or real ability is not a consideration. Few, if any of these organizations have any charitable elecosynary or evangelical aim. They are not altruistic. The word "thoroughness" is not in their dictionary. The interest of the general public is a last consideration. The main thing is to have a pull and land a job. Show us a single colored organization or movement in Washington in the last twenty-five years that was not based on these shallow principles. How many can you show us that were formed on a purely unselfish basis for the betterment of the whole of the colored population? We need some such movement and organization in Washington at this time. We need an organization that will stand for something other than shallowness, something other than selfish individualism, something other than mere jobbing and job-hunting, something other than the industrial and commercial chaos that we are now in. We believe that the proposed Commercial Exchange should fill the bill. MUSIC AND ART. We note a recent movement among the colored people of this city to stimulate an increased interest in art. We suspect that the aim is to stimulate an interest in those branches of art known as music and drama. We hear that an organization for this purpose is to be formed to be limited to one hundred members. Hence we presume that it is to be a private organization, although a preliminary meeting was held in the Miner Normal School building, which is a public building. No one has sent us a report of the purposes and plans of this new organization, and so we are not in position to discuss these. We already have the Mu-so-lit Society, which, as its name indicates, stands for music, oratory and literature. The Muso-lit Society was always a source of amusement to us. We wonder if this new organization is to be an equal source of merriment. The funniest thing about the Mu-so-lit is its name. The next funniest thing about it is that it presents the spectable of about one hundred brawny men, the most of them of mature years, forming an organization (a close corporation at that) with such a lady-like object—we had almost said such a youthful object. No, we do not mean puerile object, for youthful is not exactly puerile. The members of the Mus-o-lit include some of the very pick of our "educated" men. They are all respectable. There is nothing intrinsically wrong or absurd about such an organization for men, except the name; but the real absurdity is seen when we consider that in a population of 125,000 intelligent people this is about the only organization of the men. We have among our men not a single general organization, in which there is any active interest, devoted to civic betterment, or social uplift, or business improvement. This absence is the more noteworthy because of the great need among our people here for organizations of this character. Literary and musical societies are alright for groups of young ladies, sometimes for groups of very, very, young; but it is a curious sight to see the sage paper families of any community devoting their main spare moments to such pursuits. The pursuit of art for art's sake is a pure luxury. That pursuit is have reached the flowering stage, if not the full fruiture of their industrial and business development. In short, it is for people who have attained a sufficiency of wealth. Until a person or a class has attained that stage of development. (which the great bulk of our people have not), much attention, to art for art's sake is a pure frivolity. It is a pernicious waste of time, because it distracts attention from more important things. The colored people need no stimulus to love and study music. Already they give relatively too much time to music and singing. The dark races do not need to prove their capacity for the other fine arts, for they gave the the world its architecture, sculpture, drama and painting, many centuries ago. It us not make art a main object—certainly not until some other more important things have been done. We would rather see a bath tub in every colored home in Washington than a piano. We would rather see every colored home equipped with fly screens than a multiplicity of paintings. THE FIRST SEPARATE BATTALION. On March 25, 1917, President Wilson called to the service of the government certain troops of the National Guard organizations, among which was the First Separate Battalion, D. C. Infantry, National Guards, composed of colored troops. On March 26, 1917, this battalion responded to the call of the President almost to a man and within four days, it had been mustered into the service of the United States and had taken up its duties, being assigned to guard some of the most important places in the National Capital. Notwithstanding the very inclement weather during part of this time, these men have performed their duties in a business like and soldierly manner without even a murmur. At present the greater part of the battalion is encamped at Potomac Park, D. C. This camp comprises company A, C and D. It is complete in every detail, having various athletic contests and a Y. M. C. Association for their benefit. Company B is encamped at the west end of the Penna. Avenue Bridge at 17th and Penna. Avenue, S. E. Here too, camp conditions are par excellence and at both camps strict military life is the rule and the men are being whipped into shape for service by stiff and daily drills. This battalion is commanded by Major J. E. Walker, one of our Wash. boys who by hard work and close application has rapidly forged his way to the front in both educational and military affairs. He possesses rare tact and executive ability and is honored and beloved by his men because of his high sense of duty, and honor and his devotion to everything which pertains to military affairs. It has been said by some that colored troops could not be successfully commanded by colored officers, but Major Walker's skillful handling of these men has proven the fallacy of such an argument. The people of Washington have just cause to be proud of Major Walker and his brave soldiers. Even upon the hot and sandy plains on the border of Mexico, they proved themselves men and soldiers and were ever on the alert to face the enemy to protect Uncle Sam's property. Shortly, these brave men will be called to actual warfare, perhaps in the trenches of some foreign country, we know not where, but we rest assured of the fact that they are prepared to face all dangers and emergencies and if need be to lay down their lives for their country. Recruiting for this battalion is being carried on at the Armory, 12th and U Streets, N. W. About one hundred men have been honorably discharged because of dependents, but these vacancies are rapidly being filled up by recruits. It is the hope of the commanding officer that maximum war strength will be reached before the battalion takes the field, and all young men are urged to at least consult the recruiting officer if contemplating military service. Don't wait for drafting. Enlist at once. In this connection, Lieut. Newman should not be forgotten. He has made a record of, which his friends are proud. All honor to the brave boys of the "First Separate Battalion." OUR GOVERNMENT. The conduct of the brutal mob in East St. Louis is an evidence how this government protects those loyal Americans who can always be counted on to defend the flag in the hour of need. If colored Americans were permitted to carry arms and have them in their homes there would be less mob invasion. The colored American is able to protect himself and the time is fast approaching that he will defend himself when his government fails to do so. O this bloody riot and murder of innocent men, women and children. O for a government that is able to protect all of its citizens irrespective of color. How long is this mob violence to last? Is every friend of the colored American dead? If the government is too weak to protect him give him arms and tell him to protect himself. There is not a drop of cowardly blood in the colored American and the present conflict will surely demonstrate the valor of the black man. France will protect her black soldiers, and promote them when merit demands it. There is an effort The Bee understands to retire Lieut: Col. Young and why, because he has but a short distance to go to become a colonel and then a brigadier general. The colored man is bound to rise notwithstanding the prejudice against him. There are some loyal white people in this country who believe in the colored Amer- ian and will protect him. Why should fire arms be taken from the colored citizens and not from the white citizens? By whose authority were the Colored people disarmed? Let the colored people be protected or allow them to protect themselves. COLORED AMERICANS TO ACT. Race Riot in St. Louis to be Considered: A joint meeting of the National Federation of Colored Women, Miss Nainnie H. Burroughs, and the National Colored Congress, Rev. W. H. Jernigan, president, will be called to convene in this city within a few days at Convention hall to consider the brutal killing of colored Americans in East St. Louis this week. Representative men of the Nation will be invited to speak. RACE CONGRESS. The National Race Congress will convene in this city October 3rd and 4th at the Florida avenue Baptist Church, Rev. W. H. Jernagin, president and W. Calvin Chase, national organizer. Illinois will meet its Waterloo someday, so don't worry. There is no difference between East St. Louis and the South, Dr. R. R. Morten to the contrary notwithstanding. The colored race is being humiliated by colored apologists and trimmers. Vardaman's occupation has about gone. The colored American may yet sing the doxology. What has become of the 9th and 10th cavalry? Are rumors true? If not, let some one answer. The country is in the midst of war, so we must make the best of it and support the President. Beware of impostors who claim to represent the Old Fölks' Home, in Corcoran Street. Any information furnished that will lead to the apprehension and conviction of the impostor will be paid for. DENUNCIATION. Continued rumors come to our attention almost daily that, a party, or parties are soliciting contributions in the name of "The Interstate Old Folks' Home." The National Charity Club (Incorporated) was forced to organize to take over the above Home to prevent it from being broken up by a decree of court to satisfy a certain judgment; changing the name thereof to the "Corecoran Street Old Folks' Home." Persons soliciting money in name of Interstate Old Folks' Home are doing it at their own risk and without authority. We request the public to report such persons to the Club. AN APPEAL An appeal to the public is being made by the new management of the Corcoran Street Old Folks' Home for contributions. A few good women of the Vermont Ave. Baptist Church were forced to organize, to take over the Interstate Old Folks' Home; the former management having failed. There are twenty-one inmates in the Home. We need money badly. Please mail your contributions to the Office of the Bee, which is authorized to receipt for same. NATIONAL CHARITY CLUB, INC. IOWARD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT. In a recent article we suggested that the next president of Howard University should not be a colored man. The president of Howard has always been a white man. The burden of proof rests with anyone who favors a change in this custom at the present time. We have never seen a formal argument in favor of the proposed change in policy. Th sage of the Potomae, our esteemed contributor, dissents from our view but he advances no reason in support of his view. The Bee will gladly print an argument from the sage of the Potomac, or any one else, in favor of the proposition to select a colored gentleman for the next president of Howard. The conditions are that the argument shall not exceed one thousand words, and that if any reply is made, it shall not exceed that length. Let us have light. MARVELOUS STRIDES Some time ago Professor Kelly Miller, of Howard Univ., asserted in the Star that in the last fifty years the colored race has made "marvelous strides along all lines." We promptly challenged the assertion and called on our good friend the professor for a-bill of particulars. We offered him the use of our columns to explain his meaning. 'We have not heard from him. The invitation is still open. We shall be glad to hear the talented phrase maker and Prince Rupert of the quill. MRS. SUSIE ROOT RHODES. The colored people in this city need to be congratulated in having such a friend at the head of the public play grounds and on the Board of Education as Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes. There is not a truer defender of the rights of the people irrespective of color than this distinguished lady. It is the intention of a number of representative colored citizens to invite Mrs. Rhodes to address them on a question that pertains to the best interest and advancement of the colored citizens in this city. The public schools have a true friend in this lady. The masses will turn out to hear her. Mr. Henry P. Slaughter, editor of the Odd Fellows Journal, grows in strength throughout the country for the office of Grand Master of the G. U. O. of O. F. Although the election is more than a year off, the leaders of the Order of Three Links are doing some active thinking as to this important matter, and sentiment is crystallizing day by day in favor of Mr. Slaughter, because of his great work for the fraternity and his zeal in pushing forward progressive movements. The next B. M. G. to act on the subject will be held in New York City, September 1918. Mr. Slaughter declines, to discuss the matter from any angle. Manager Robert A. Levy promises an early production of Dumas' great emotional masterpiece, "Camille," with Abbie Mitchell as "Marguerite Gauthier" and Walker Thompson as "Armand Duval." Nathaniel Guy, the master of legitimate acting, is to rejoin the Quality Amusement Company at an early date. A play is now being looked over with a view of featuring Mr. Guy in the line of classical work in which he particularly shines. Mr. Guy and his son, Master Barrington, recently scored a big hit in Pittsburgh. S. H. Dudley is preparing to spring a sensation in the arena of stage journalism by launching an illustrated monthly paper, to be called "The Amusement Adviser." It will deal in current news of the theatrical and kindred professions, sports and athletics, making note of the celebrities in the public eye and keeping the people in touch with the advancement of the race in the artistic world. The staff is being organized, the "dummy" has been prepared by a well-known designer and the "Adviser" will probably make its advent before the summer is over. THE WOMAN'S WAGE EARNERS' ASSOCIATION In the past there have usually been five main troubles with colored "beneficial" organizations: (1) The leaders have selfish ends, or are incompetent; (2) There is no definite or adequate aim, or else the real aim is concealed; (3) The by-laws or rules, where there are any, are crudely and loosely drawn; (4) There is no proper system for the handling of money and auditing accounts; (5) The officers have too much power. The woman's wage-carners' association, which was announced over six months,age as a public beneficial movement, promises to be an illustration of all these bad features. So far they have adopted no by-laws and have not affected a permanent organization. They have been making collections at public meetings and raising money in various other ways, but we are informed that they have no system of accounting and auditing, and they now have no money in the treasury. We also are informed that a recent demand has been made by some of the members for a correction of these bad conditions, but that the handful of leaders are making a determined effort to prevent this. These leaders have met the demand for a set of by-laws by an attempt to railroad through and force on the association a devised set of by-laws, which contain no provisions whatever for the accounting for money, and which would put absolute power into the hands of the president. We want no more such organizations in Washington. There is no doubt that the most of the members of this association are intelligent, honest, well-meaning women. We are determined that they shall not be deceived and made fools of. If they will keep their eyes open or take matters in their own hands, they will be in no danger. There is a need in Washington for such an association properly organized and managed. 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Miss Ollie Kibble spent the 4th day of July in Atlantic City. She had a most enjoyable time. Mr. J. T. C. Newson, who has been ill, is up and out again. Dr. James E. Shepard, of Durham, N. C., arrived in the city Tuesday morning. Mr. Jesse H. Foster continues to improve. President John W. Lewis, of the Industrial Bank, was in Baltimore, Md., last week. Miss Anna Hurley has left the city to visit her sister-in-law, Mrs. Granville Hurley, of 2243 Federal Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Madamo Hackley gave a Pageant in Chicago, Ill., last week. The Wilson-Koontz wedding, last week, had as some of its out of town guests, Dr. C. C. Bell, wife and daughter, of Philadelphia, Pa. Emsirdell Stone, proprietor of Washington Theatre, Indianapolis, is again at his post after having spent several weeks visiting in the city. Miss Katherine Brown, of 927 S street northwest, left the city Friday for Pennsylvania, where she will spend the summer. Miss Josephine Gibson and Mrs. Marie Hurbert, have been reappointed at the Bureau of Engraving. Mrs. Annie Jasper had visiting her June 29, Mr. and Mrs. Minnis and sister-in-law from Baltimore Md. Miss Francis Cornish, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Cornish, of 56 Harrison Ave., Jersey City, N. J. Mrs. Nannie Marshall and daughter, a) the guests of Miss Fannie James, o' 174 W. Hunter street, Atlanta Ga. Attorney Clifford H. Lavernier, is in Chicago, Ill., and residing at the Y. M. C. A. He contemplates making Chicago his future home. Mrs. Ivy Lee, of 210 N. Blair street, Madison Wis., is visiting relatives and friends in this city. Mr. M. H. Dawkins, spend the weekend in New Port News, Va., visiting his brothers-in-law and sister-in-law, Messrs J. A. and W. S. Cooke and Mrs Mattie Melvin. Miss Marguerite Hart is spending the summer at Sound Beach, Conn. Mr. A. E. Manning, editor of the Indianapolis World, is in the city on a hurried business trip. Mrs. Audie G. Lewis is acting as postmistress at Arundel-on-the-Bay, Md. Rov. E. A. Osborne has been appointed to a position at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The Amphilion Gleo Club, under direction of J. Henry Lewis, is to organize an instrumental section, to work with the vocal section. A big entertainment is being planned for the early fall. Frank B. Williams has composed a very creditable march song entitled "Loyalty" and has set to music the words of Paul Laurance Dunbar's poem, "Conscience and Remorse." Rev. Robert A. Hart, of the office of the Comptroller of the Treasury, has been promoted to a clerkship and assigned to the office of the Auditor for the State and other Departments. Miss Henrietta Checks, of the United States Treasurer's office, has also received a substantial promotion at the hands of Secretary McAdoo. Mrs. Adele Minor Moody, of Hanover Street, has gone to Detroit, Mich., after a brief sojourn at Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrss. Enoch Vawter(nee Miss Fannie V. Wormtie) who are making their home in Wallace Place, were treated to a "shower" by admiring friends this week. Mrs. Geogria Jones Tucker, daughter of Lawyer and Mrs. Thomas L. Jones, has been appointed to a place in the Government Printing Office. Mrs. Ella Barnett has purchased desirable property at 909 Westminster street northwest. Her sister has also purchased a beautiful home almost opposite at the corner of 9th and Westminster streets. S. H. Dudley is to launch a theatrical paper called "The Anusement Advertiser." Lleut. Ernest R. Galther, of the Treasury Department "week-ended" in Atlantic City last week. Howard University, although aided by a congressional appropriation, is not a government institution, according to a decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury. Its employees are, therefore, not entitled to the five and ten per cent salary increase allowed by Congress. Mme. E. Azalia Hackley is in New York City. YORK CITY. Judge Robert H. Terrell 'Sundayed' at Arundel-on-the-Bay. Miss Virginia Wheeler, of "The Smarter Set," is to spend July in Atlantic City, returning here for the rehearsals of the company early in August. The show will open at the Howard Theater August 27 in "My People." Miss Wheeler will have a congenial part. She has developed into an artist of quality. Col. Phil Waters, of Charleston, W. Va., will visit the city soon. Mr. T. Thomas Fortune has gone to Harrisburg, Pa., to take service on the Pennsylvania Post. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Trigg, 1306 V street, celebrated their twenty-fifth marriage anniversary informally last Friday evening. Mr. Trigg was at one time an alderman at Knoxville, Tenn., his former home. Plymouth Council, No. 847, Order of St. Luke, will give a social on the 20th at the residence of Mrs. Mildred Prioleau, 750 Gresham street northwest. The double picnic of the Order of St. Luke, posponed, from last Monday, on account of the storm. Mrs. Arthur Brent motored to Washington from Metuchen, N. J., on a visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Brooks, on the Syphax Estate, Syphax Station, Va. Mrs. Brent will be in Arlington one month. Mrs. Nannie C. Jackson, domestic science teacher of Charlottesville, Va., who is visiting her daughter and son in law, Prof. and Mrs. James Carter of 404 You street northwest, was entertained by his uncle and his daughters, Mr. Jesse and the Misses Alice and Georgia Scott. After completing a special course in domestic science at Columbia University Mrs. Jackson will join a party of friends on a motoring tour to Canada, returning to her home by September 1. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor of 2205 N street, northwest entertained Mr. Charles Simmons of New York, July 4th. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. Wells, Mrs. Robinson, Mrs. Sarah Gibson. An Entertainment was given last Tuesday evening at the residence of Mrs. Adams in Pierce St. for the benefit of Antioch Baptist Church of which Rev. Peter Aller is pastor. A large number of Co. B, District National Guardsmen, were present and enlivened the occasion. George Frazier Miller, Jr., son of Rev. Mr. Miller of Brooklyn, N. Y., is spending the summer in Washington. Mrs. Mary Parks, mother of J. T. Parks of Anacostia, a well known hotel man, arrived in the city to spend several weeks with her son. Mrs. J. T. Parks is very ill at the present time. Mrs. William Burwell, of West Point, Va., after spending several weeks with her daughters, Mrs. Fannie Jenkins, of Baltimore, and Mrs. M. B. Chair, and Miss Violet Burwell, of Deanwood Heights, left Saturday for an extended trip to Chicago, to visit relatives. Miss Alma Wesley, of 5th Street, who has been quite ill, is convalescing, Mr. Clinton Warner, instructor at Morehouse Cottage, Atlanta, Ga., and Miss Alice Lyons, a stenographer, were guests of Miss Violet A. Burwell last week. Mrs. Hoffman in New York. Mrs. Marvelline A. Hoffman of Anacostia is spending her vacation in New York City, the guest of her sister, Mrs. Mamie L. Cooke of Harlem. CALLERS AT THE BEE OFFICE. George W. Ellis Esq., of Chicago, Ill. Formerly Secretary to the Liberian Legation. TOWN TAIK. Mrs. Ella Cooper, of 1806 Wilthburger street, is to spend a week with friends in Philadelphia. Miss Regina Jones has returned to Detroit, Mich., after visiting friends here for a month. Mr. Gobert Macberth, son of Mr. Arthur L. Macherth, the popular photographic artist of Baltimore, has been appointed to a clerkship in the War Department, as the result of a civil service examination. Will Walker and Miss "Babe" Brown, a top line vaudeville team, are at Dudley's U street playhouse this week, with the Howard to follow next week. Rufus G. Byans is looking after the financial interests of Manager A. J. Thomas this week at the Orpheum Theater in Baltimore, where the latter is presenting Irvin C. Miller's "Broadway Rastus. Mr. Louis Minor and Miss Marie Boyd were united in marriage Thursday of last week at the residence of Father Griffith, of St. Augustine's Catholic Church, the ceremony being preformed by this well-known priest. Mr. and Mrs. Minor are making their home at 1221 s street northwest. Mr. Harry Brown, of Indianapolis, Ind., the famous singin' cartoonist, is in the city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Thompson, 1223 S street, northwest. The Smarter Set closes its long and prosperous season tonight at the Howard Theater. Salem Tutt Whitney announces that the new play to be offered by the company for next season is to be "My People" a medley of music, comedy, and drama. Rehearsal will be conducted in this city on the stage of the Howard and it is expected that the opening of the new season will be about the middle of August. Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis, the premier elocutionist, is to give a series of recitals in various sections of the city. She is being urged to undertake the establishment of an industrial school for young men and women in Jamaica, for which there is a great demand in that island. The field is an inviting one and Miss Davis is eminently qualified to do the work desired at her hands. Miss Marle A. D. Madre, is planning a lecture tour, to cover points in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and Pennsylvania. Miss Virginia Wheeler, the dashing singing comedienne of "The Smarter Set," is to spend the summer at Atlantic City. Mr. William H. Lacy, Jr., attended a banquet in Baltimore last week. Mrs. Daisy M. Iverson, a poetess of much ability, has written a fine memorial tribute to Booker T. Washington in the form of a post-card, carrying a ten-verse poem entitled "Our Hero." The local Tuskegee alumni have order a goodly number of the souvenir and Mrs. Iverson expects to circulate the card throughout the country. She is to issue a volume of selected poem at an early date, and has a number of songs in the hands of publishers. Dr. E. D. Williston may be prevailed upon to enter the military service as an attache of the medical corps, and Dr. C. Summer Wormley is being considered for the dental unit. These two public-spirited gentlemen would add vim and vigor to the labors of the race in defense of our country, and would be of the greatest benefit to humanity. This time next year they may be "Somewhere in France." Miss Velmar Green has been appointed to a position in the Government Printing Office. Mrs. Margaret Younger Brannon is a new appointee at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Mr. Davis D. Rogers, of the Treasury Department, has returned from a delightful visit to relatives in North Carolina. He divided time between Fayetteville and Raleigh. Miss Vivian Lucile Thompson, is on detail in the examining division at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The Wage-Earner's Association has leased the building, at 704- T street northwest and will use it as their headquarters. Miss Fannie V. Wormley, of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, was married Wednesday evening at the family residence in T street to Mr. Enoch Vawter. The cermony was preformed by Rev. Walter H. Brooks. Mr. and Mrs. Vawter are light-housekeeping for the present at the home of Mr. Walter Turner, in Wallach Place. Mr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary of Tuskegee Institute, spent a few hours in the city last week enroute to Phillips Exor Academy in Massachusetts, to witness the graduation of his son, Emmett J. Scott Jr., who finished there with high honors for his entire course. The youag man, a "chip off the old block" won numerous prizes and scholarships for brilliant work, in competition with the soils of the best families in the land. Dr. A. M. Curtis, has received word that the convention of the National Medical Association has been changed from Memphis, Tenn., and will be held the last week in August at Philadelphia instead. A portion of the session will be held in Atlantic City or Cape May. It is understood that Manager: Dale, of that model hostelry, Hotel Dale, has extended a cordial invitation to the Association to its guest for at least a day. The Amphion-Glee Club is planning to introduce instrumental music along with their vocal work. Prof. J. Henry Lewis has some ambitious projects in incubation. A "Greater Amphion Glee Club" is in prospect. Attorney Armond W. Scott was the orator of the day at the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Daughter Elks at Norfolk, Va. Mr. Scott made one of his inspiring speeches and placed the race and the P. B. O. E. and its sisterhood high upon the scroll of honor. The Grand Exalted Ruler was given a royal reception. His reelection at the Cleveland convention in August has long been assured. Lawyer L. Melendez King is constructing, leasing and selling so many apartment houses all over Washington that he is being dubbed in real estate circles as "the colored Harry Wardman of the District of Columbia." The title fits the situation ambirably. Open-air weddings are the latest fad in white society circles. Our colored society folks have not essayed the al fresco nuptial ceremony, but a function of this up-to-date character may be looked for at any moment. Mrs. Lelia Coleman Walters, widow of the late Bishop Alexander Walters, is expected in the city shortly for a brief visit to friends. The boys at the Fort Des Moines training camp report that they are living the strenuous life, but are pulling for commissions and are doing their level best to abide by the rigors of army fare. Society buddies, school teacher, and desk habitues fine it pretty tough with 5:30 as the rising hour in the morning and a continuous going until 9:45 at night, with but few rest intervals between. It is whispered that a few may fall by the waysid, a d return to that "Dear U street" stroll. Mrs. Mary B. Talbert reports that she has succeeded in collecting half of the amount due on the old Douglass Homestead at Aracostia. She has turned over to the financial officers of the Frederick Douglass Home Association $2,000. She is to inaugurate another "drive" with a view of raising a like sum, to liquidate the $4,200 mortgage. The campaign is under the auspices of the National Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, of which Mrs. Talbert is president. The president of the District of Columbia Federation is Miss Marie A. D. Madre, who has rendered efficient service in promoting the work of the national body, while caring for special needs and interests. The HOWARD THEATRE Entire Week Starting Monday, July 9th. Mat.: Tues., Thurs. and Sat. Abbie Mitchell, Inez Clough, Susie Sutton, Cleo Desmond, Lillian Gilliam, Estelle Hilton, Tom Brown, Walter Robinson, Walker Thompson, Andrew Bishop and Babe Townsend. NEXT WEEK—Return Engagement "BROADWAY RASTUS." Fifty People. WHY SUFFER WITH YOUR EYES We Make Eyesight Perfect Read our liberal offer we have for you BLOCK Optical Co. 737 Seventh St., Northwest Importance and effect of Glasses properly fitted and adjusted cannot be too highly estimated We offer every facility for correcting the errors of vision. A staff of optometrists to give you an eye service that means the best. Every modern device in eyesight examination is here without one cent cost to you and we FULLY GUARANTEE all our work. Dr. David S. Block, formerly of Baltimore, an optometrist of high standing in this city and whom we have brought here to take charge of our fine optical store, has charged $5.00 for an examination alone in his private practice. Here we offer his services free to you for a limited time. We want the readers of The Bee to come to our store with the same ease of mind and comfort that you have in your own home. Many people don't realize the conditions their eyes are in. Let us tell you. That's our business. We don't sell jewelry or anything, but examine eyes and furnish glasses. Glasses as low, in any style frame or eyeglass mounting you desire, with our good Crown glass lens, as ONE DOLLAR. Of course, some are much higher, but we shall give you the lowest possible price. Come and meet Dr. Block. Let him personally examine your eyes—you'll like him. And a written guarantee with all his work. written guarantee with all his work. Exclusive Optometrists and Opticians, Eyesight Specialists. 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Excellent Artesian Water, Famous for Restorning the Kidneys to Their Perfect State. Two Stores in One Ninth and Florida Avenue N. W. and the Great NORTHEAST GROCERY, 1644 Montello Avenue N. E. Goods Delivered Free H. KATZ AND CO. Is the Cheapest Store in the City Ninth and Florida Avenue N. W. SUMMER BOARD. Boarding by day or week. On Chesapeake Bay near Bay Ridge. Secure your dates now. For information write MRS. DAISY L GROSS, Annapolis, Md. Motor Route A, Box 206 A. By the Sage of the Potomac. I never would make a soldier. When I was a boy, I never played soldier as other boys, I loved baseball and marbles. There are lots of soldier boys now. There is something in being a soldier and playing soldier to go to war. There is a difference in beng a soldier and playing soldier. Before the government had any ideas of having or going to war, thousands joined the National Guards. It looked pretty to see the boys on dress parade. When volunteers were called for, little over eight thousand enlisted out of seventy thousand. The colored brother means to be killed just the same as the white brother. The South doesn't mean to kill off the men there. The Southern Confederate is of the opinion that he has fought and lost enough in battle. His fight is to keep his colored competitor in check. The colored brother means to fight just the same, no matter what you may do to him. to him. The chairman of the board of education has the highest report for the secretary of the examining board, Prof. W. E. Weatherless, and also Miss Briggs, the other colored member. Applicants for positions in the schools will get a square deal. There is some talk of elevating Prof. Weatherless. I would like to see him go higher up. Now that Dr. Bruce Evans has doctored the editor of The Eagle to such an extent as to enable him to run the boil off his neck, no doubt Finley will now join the Home Guards. Dr. Evans had to hustle last week, for his sick friend, Finley is not inclined to go on the firing line, he thinks that the Home Guard to the best organization to join. is the best. Speaking about the officers' reserve corps and those patriotic citizens who left to prepare themselves for the front, I am just wondering what they will do if they should run up against the German submarine. Some of them may be brave, but I bet you a grasshopper leap, that when they arrive on French soil they will sing the song of by gone days. The American colored man is no coward. I am proud of the spirit of the American colored man. I am sure that he is able to fight when he takes it into his head to fight. I have heard nothing about the advocate of patriotism. I see no more long articles in the daily press urging slackers to join the forces. forces. I am one of those who believe that the present war will settle forever the color question in the United States. There will be no North, no South, no East nor West. The black man will be recognized and be treated as a man and a brother. He will make a record of which the world will be proud. be pro- vided. The Sage will then record the valor and patriotism of those who have never been traitors to their govern- My friend Royal Hughes has decided to discipline the members of the bar association. Royal says that the number of hot air artists in the organization rather impedes, instead of increasing its membership. Don't you know that J. M. Ricks is one of those hustling individuals who never moves until he sees the coin. He may not have many cases, but those he does have are paying ones. Brother Ricks is a good farmer also. Hog killing will not begin until tall and then he will not make the necessary peraparations for war times. He is not inclined to take up arms in defense of his country-perhaps he will join the Home Guards. Harry L. Tignor will leave for Cleveland. Ohio, soon, to sharpen his axes for Elks decapitation. There are a few heads, he says, that must be trimmed. Just how Harry intends to trim those heads is a question that must be considered. There is to be a lively time when the Elks meet in Cleveland. Ohio. The Abbyssinians have good sense. They know how to rule and crown their rulers without the interference or attendance of white Europeans. Some day the American colored man will be able to rule in a manner that will be an honor to his ancestors. Don't you know that Bob Allen and Adair Gaskins are head quarters for war discussions. If you want to find out what is going on in the European countries and just how the war will end don't fall to walk into either one of these liquid refreshments, resorts. Science, religion, politics and all other kind of nerve tonics may be purchased without extra pay. WHY NEGROES GO NORTH AND WEST Land Monopoly Said to be the Cause. (People's News, Service.) New York.—Industrial centers of the North are today threatened with an influx of negroes in such numbers as to menance wage standards, and union organization. Half a million colored laborers are said to have deserted the southern States, attracted north by the higher wages and the employers' demand for cheap labor. What is wrong in the South, where the negro is at home among his own kind, and where the agricultural industries of that section should provide him with suitable employment? The question is answered by an editorial in the Hartford Courant, reprinted by the New York Evening Post Says the Courant: "It will be remembered that the 'submerged S5 per cent.' of the Mexican people were greatly on President Wilson's mind a few months ago. They had no fair chance to get so much of the Mexican land as was needed, for their physical support. But our Southern negros are in the predicament, or at least this is the testimony of Taylor Kennerly, a white Southerner born and bred, most of whose life has been passed in the South, and who is now, we believe, managing editor of the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, one of the oldest and best newspapers of the Old South and of the New South. South and of the In a published article over his own name, dealing with the movement of Southern negro labor to the West and the North, Mr. Kennerly declares that land monopoly by the white man has virtually put the laborer, especially the negro, into industrial slavery. He says that this is the basic cause of the negro exodus. It is not the social distinctions, nor the political conditions, that has started this migration, so much as it is that 'the average negro farm-hand gets little' more for his work than the very mule he ploughs with,—that is something to eat and a very poor place to sleep.' Mr. Kennerly adds to this that 'in many instances, especially when it comes to food, the mule fares better than the negro.' In other words, Southern negroes are coming North for the same reason that farmers' boys have been for years deserting the country to compete against each other in industrial centers; for the same reason that our farmers are being turned into tenants; for the same reason that the "hired man," respected in the old days as a future farm-owner, is today a migratory farm laborer owning nothing but the clothes on his back and never hoping to own anything else; for the same reason that industrial workers in the cities pay out all they earn in rents to the landlords—their own landlord and the landlord, of their butcher and grocer, the same landlords who exact such enormous fixed charges as rents or interest from industrial enterprises as to leave less than living wages, and who take toll of those scanty wages after they are paid. In that reason lies the most glaring of all social and economic injustices,—the private ownership and control of land and other natural resources put here for the use of all men. Said Frank W. Garrison in a recent article in the Atlantic Monthly: "Well may the conservationist ask himself if the bounties of nature were stored during the ages for the special benefit of the Morgans, Rockefellers and Carnegies, their heirs and assigns. Large sums are readily obtained to fight consumption, to build hospitals, to further temperance, to care for the victims of a city's vice. But show that consumption results from land monopoly slum conditions, and from tariff monopoly, which makes the price of warm clothing prohibitive; point out that intemperance is largely the result of poverty and taxation; reveal the landlord (whose name may head the list of charties.) drawing his rentals from resorts of vice; demand the repeal of privilege in any of its manifold form and its beneficiaries raise a loud cry of spoliation and declares that vested interests must not be disturbed. interests are rich are slow to see that they are in truth the great recipients of charity. Blinded by custom, we detect no irony in the fact that the laboring class is synonymous with the poor, and the idle class with the rich." and that Mr. Garrison's proposal is the same as that urged upon the Federal government by President Gompers and by the 20,000 farmer members of the Washington State Grange,—to place a tax on land values. That tax should be high enough to provide all the expenses of government except such as are provided by high income taxes. Income taxes are necessary to break up the huge fortunes based on monoply and privilege. When the government strikes at privilege by taking in taxes what now goes to the landlord in rent, as in the case of mines and railroads, and oil wells, income taxes will no longer be necessary. President Wilson and Congress are now being urged by those who see land monoply as the greatest injustice to strike this blow at privilege by initiating a scheme of land value taxation. NATIONAL NEWS. NOTES. Brief Bits of News and Comments On Men and Measures. COLORED EXODUS IS INCREASING. Desire to Earn Higher Wages and for Better Conditions Socially—Presents New Problems to Both South and North. Chicago, Ill.—The exodus of Negroes from the South to Northern manufacturing points stronger within the last month or so, is regarded as likely to increase considerably as the season advances, and to continue throughout the summer. Not more than a quarter of those leaving the South, it is expected will return. The condition is totally without precedent since reconstruction days. since recolonized. As to the situation in Chicago, A. L. Jackson, executive secretary of the Wabash Avenue branch of the Y. M. C. A., says: "The Negroes are coming into Chicago pretty regularly, and in larger numbers now. I had a man watch the railroad stations recently for 10 days, and the Police Department also had a man take a careful census. In one week they found 500 arrivals and in another week from 1200 to 1500. All of course do not stop in Chicago. Many go on, to Waukegan, Indiana Harbor and Gary, Detroit, Moline, and various other manufacturing centers. In two days my agent found two parties of from 50 to 75 Negroes using Chicago as a transfer point. The flow has been very steady through good weather." "The real reason for the migration, continued Mr. Jackson, himself a Negro, and an authority locally, "is the desire of the Negroes to better their conditions. The exodus is coming for school, housing, social and sanitary the most part from Mississippi, Georgia, and Louisiana, with Mississippi leading, and also from South Carolina, Mississippi is leading because of two conditions—lynch law and peonage. In Alabama and Virginia, so-called 'good' States, they are feeling the Negro migration, but in the states with lynch law and poor schooling, they are leaving in large numbers. The readjustment of the Negro population and higher wages will help them all around thinks Mr. Jackson. In the North better wages will raise the standard of the negroes; and in the south the shortage of them will make their labor more valuable and increase their bargaining power, assuring them more consideration in those questions of law enforcement, schools housing and conditions, of cleanliness. and conditions New York, N. Y.-The Wall Street Journal, the most influential publication among bankers, brokers, corporations, and financial organizations of New York, says: Given time enough, even when talking too much, as it, customarily does, the United States Senate is a deliberative body which will correct the foolishness of the lower house, most of the time, but unfortunately, not all of the time. It is sometimes foolish itself. But at least it killed the amendment tacked on, without rhyme or reason, to the esplonage bill by Senator Cummins, prohibiting the use of grain in the manufacture of alcohol. This amendment was calculated to kill some hundred millions of tax-paying capital in the brewing industry, without attaining any of the objects which are supposedly at the heart of the prohibition party. The manufacture of whiskey, and of all spirituous liquors, is based on age; and the longer stock can be accumulated in bond, the better the investment of the manufacture of spirits becomes. But the manufacturer of beer doesn't profess to sell old ale in any quantity to be worth taxing. The logical consequence of prohibiting the use of grain on the Cummins' amendment would be to set people who drink a comparatively harmless beverage, to drinking whiskey and other hard spirits. WAR WITH GERMANY. The following resolution was passed west, District of Columbia, at the lecture of Hon. Aaron F. Prioleau, June 4, 1917. WHEREAS, the United States of America is now at war with Germany to protect and defend all the rights and dignity of our Country and citizens upon land and sea; AND WHEREAS, by the Act of the Congress of the proclamation of the President of the United States, all persons and citizens between the ages of twenty-one and thirty are called upon to be loyal to protect and defend the Nation and our homes by enlisting in the Army and Navy; AND WHEREAS, ten million men are needed and should be registered on Tuesday, June the 5th by the proclamation of the President; AND WHEREAS, the colored citizens of America always did and willingly, by the help of God, the Supreme Ruler, defend the rights of America, and her flag: AND WHEREAS, with all the money, produce, property and the wealth of the American Government, she cannot make real success in the prosecution of this war without food and bread stuff for men and beast from the agricultural states of the Union: AND WHEREAS, the American Workmen and Laborers irrespective of race or color have been forced to abandon the farm which is the very life of the Nation for safety, defense and preparation in time of war, by being unable to meet their obligations: AND WHEREAS, millions of acres of agricultural lands are left idle, and millions more that have not been cultivated are still idle in the Agricultural states: AND WHEREAS, we believe, that two-thirds of these idle lands were owned or were planted by the poor white and colored farmers of the South: AND WHFREAS. it is commonly known that these lands were taken from the poor farmers by the merchants and noney lenders for debts which they failed to meet and the merchants that take these lands were unable to cultivate it, and the poor farmers refused to lease or plant these lands for the merchant upon shares on rent: AND WHEREAS, we believe that the American Workmen and Laborers will return to the farm and raise all the bread and food stuff that may be needed for the people and beast of the United States, also for exportation and save two-thirds of the present price that the people are now forced to pay for bread: AND WHEREAS: the Federal Banks and rural credit system do not help the poor farmers to buy homes and pay off mortgages and trust upon their homes and lands as it purported to do, for them to return to the farm, to labor; AND WHEREAS, there is no real preparation and defense of more vital and importance than this in the present war than for, the Congress to provide money to loan the American Workman, laborers to pay off the mortgage on their land and to buy farming land upon long terms to secure the greatest weapon to bring success in this war and in time of Peace; AND WHEREAS, we believe, that universal suffrages to male and female and equal protection of the life and property with righteousness and justice to all American citizens or persons in the United States by the Government of the people, for the people, by the people will re-establish the mutual unionist and the belief that God is our Father, man our brother and woman our sister, that all men and women upon the face of the earth must confess this Sin and deal rightly fair and justly with his neighbor, that God may bring protection, peace and tranquility to the whole Nation of the earth in one day, that each nationality may return to their home and all be prosperous, for it is the unrighteous and unjust deeds of the Nations that cause the loss of the millions of lives and the billions of treasures in this war, and billions of dollars and tons of treasure still to be expended. THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that we stand united with the Congress and the President to protect and defend the United States upon land and sea with all our soul, life and treasure: AND BE IT RESOLVED, that we do earnestly urge all persons, races, and citizens in the United States to see that each member of their family be registered on June the 5th as loyal patriotic Americans with faith in God; AND BE IT RESOLVED, that we herein make this our appeal and Petition to the Congress of the United States respectively to enact such law upon the matter mentioned in this resolution and petition that will give freedom, and equal rights, protection of life and property and universal suffrages and the rights and privileges to vote with no discrimination, deprivation or denial of account of race or color; that the American, Workmen and Laborers, male and female may return to the farm united in the effort to support and feed the Army and Navy in war and the people in time of peace or war; 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 M. B. Lady Attendant 723 Tea Stre Business Phone NORTH 7796 E. W. Bundy, Assistant Lady Attendant Open All Night 723 Tea Street, Northwest Business Phone Resident Phone N. 121 NORTH 7796 AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution and Petition, be sent to the Senators and Congressmen and all of the Public Press, urging all true, loving, loyal that each member of their family and patriotic citizens in America to write the members of Congress to duly consider the matter herein referred to as the most needful action of that Body to secure the defense of the Nation with righteousness and justice to all humanity, that God may be pleased and bless the United States with power to unite the Nations of the earth in Brotherhood Fraternity. All of which, we your Committee most respectfully submit. SAM H. HARRIS. STEWART W. CAMPBELL. REV. W. J. HOWARD. AARON P. PRIOLEAU, Chairman. MARTINSBURG, W. VA., NEWS. The children of Martinsburg, will now be granted a little breathing spell; the school is out and the Children's Day has passed. The Children's Day exercises held at the Dudley Baptist Church Sunday, June 24th, were very well rendered and a good collection raised. The church was beautifully decorated for the occasion. The parents gathered in large numbers to listen to their children sing and recite, and they were full of praise to the sisters who deserve much credit for the success of the evening: Mattie Carter, Jannie Jones, M. E. Corsey, Daisy Taylor, and the pastor's wife, F. E. Johnson. The program for Installation week has been arranged. Sunday, July 5th, Rev. W. D. Javis, D. D., pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church, Washington will preach, Monday night Rev. James T. Reed will occupy the pulpit while his choir will render the music followed by Rev. S. R. 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Open All Night et, Northwest Resident Phone N. 121 Manager, North 4326-j ending Friday night with a song service by the Dudley choir and friends, after which everybody will retire to the spacious basement for refresh- menths Miss Etha Kirk is on the sick list but improving. Mr. Albert Johnson is very sick. Mr. and Mrs. Elkins Corsey lost the little bouncing girl. Dr. S. Gray, Md. brought home his bride amidst the many congratulations of his many friends. Rev. C. Johnson, pastor of the Cedar Creek. Baptist church for 45 years was taken to the hospital in Richmond last week, to undergo a slight operation; his son, Rev. E. T. Johnson, the pastor of the Dudley, is somewhat uneasy about his condition. We hope for him a speedy recovery. MRS. F. E. Johnson believes that a wife's place is with her husband; thus, she has resigned her position at the Government Printing office, Washington, D. C. to devote her entire time to the care of home, and directress of the church choir. THE BEE Is the paper that should be in every home in the city. It is the people's paper. Read The Bee you want all the news. ROBERT ALLEN Buffet and Family Liquor Store Phone North 2340 1917 14th Street, N. W. Washington, D.C. 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. Nobody nowadays can say, "I have no chance." There are and always will be new lines with each woman whether she will be one of those to create and take advantage of the opportunities that THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE, SCHOOL OFFERS. We teach the following courses: Hair Dressing, Facial Massage, Manicuring, ScalpTreatment, Instantaneous Bleaching, Electric Treatment for the There is a constant demand for THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL'S GRADUATES. THE ABILITY TO USE AND CREATE OPPORTUNITY DEPENDS UPON INDIVIDUAL VALUE, and value depends on training, and training depends on carnest, well directed effort to increase skill. THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL'S branches are taught from five dollars up. COME IN AND REGISTER. DAY AND NIGHT CLASSES. MME: AGNES J. SMITH, Principal. Promptness, Neatness, Politeness THE PRESIDENT WILLIAM M. DAVIS Undertaker and Embalmer High Class Work, Reasonable Prices Life-like Features Restored Free Funeral Parlor 2053 GA. AVE. N. W. Phone. NOBTH 4068 Undertaker and Embalmer 30 H. Street N. E. Washington, D. C. Phone Lincoln 3718 Phone North 2751 An Organization Proposes That They Work In Rush Season. Topeka, Kun.-If the plan adopted by the Clay county Ministers' union is put into action in the counties throughout the state of Kansas it will put 8,000 skilled laborers into the fields during the rush season. The plan outlined in Clay county is set out in a letter to Governor Capper by the Rev. J. Ashton Davies of Clay Center. Mr. Davies says: "During the month of July and August the ministers are to work on farms, going out to that work Monday mornings and returning Saturday evenings, just as our boys are doing at the officers camp at Fort Riley. "We may arrange to leave one minister in town, a different one each week, who shall devote his time to the interest of all the churches. The churches will, of course, continue to pay the ministers' salaries, and the wage received from the farmers will be turned over to the henevolent boards of the churches or to the Red Cross society. "If this plan could be adopted throughout the state it would send 8,000 skilled laborers into the fields." MAKE BEARS FEEL AT HOME Reproduction of Cliffs and Bowlers In City Park Pits. Denver—Not satisfied with having mountain scenery within a few miles of the city, Denver has sent out into the Rockies and brought it into the city limits by the earlborough. The scenery is not paintings or photographs, but actual reproductions of rugged cliffs and majestic bowlers selected for bear pits at City park. Agents of the city spread a gelatinous material over the most striking cliffs during the day and removed it in the cool of the morning, thus retaining an accurate impression. This was converted into plaster of paris casts, in which form the reproductions have been brought to Denver. The molds will be constructed in concrete and shot, with cement guns, in colors and tints to simulate the original rocks from which they were taken. FARMERS CAN INSURE CROPS. Massachusetts Plan Guarantees 10 Per Cent Profit. Worcester, Mass.—The first general farm crop insurance ever afforded the farmers of the United States was put into effect by, the Worcester county farm bureau. Farmers who take out policies will be assured of a clean profit of 10 per cent over and above the cost of production on all of their 1017 crop which exceeds in volume the crop of 1016. Business men have subscribed a fund of $100,000 to guarantee the insurance. The farmer must maintain certain standards. The insurance applies to all winter staples. The crop must be marketed in Worcester county. SHAVING FUND BUYS BOND Travelers' Joke Sixteen Years Ago Results in Saving $3,000. Waterloo, Ia.—At the grand council of the Iowa United Commercial Travelers sixteen years ago, F. W. Houch of Sheldon lost his wallet. His friends, as a practical joke, instructed all the banks not to cash a draft for him. He was in need of a shave. A fund was raised for this purpose, but meanwhile Houch succeeded in cashing his draft. The fund was turned into the treasury and maintained by annual contributions of a penny from each member. It now has passed the $3,000 mark. The council voted to invest the fund in the liberty loan. DOG CATCHES DESERTER. Holde Man by Trouers Leg Until Offi- cors Arrive. Leavenworth, Kan—James Thompson, special officer here, owns a police dog whose abilities as an apprehender of criminals frequently has been scoffed at by Thompson's friends. The dog has vindicated himself. William Payne, a deserter last summer from the Missouri national guard, while stationed on the Mexican border, had escaped from the disciplinary barracks at the army post here. The dog captured the feeling trusty, holding to the man's trousers leg and impeding his flight until officers subdued him. LYNN JUDGE FINES. MAYOR. School Board Also Punished For Violating Labor Law. Lynn, Mass.—Milroy George H. Newhall, Dr. Nathaniel P. Breed, Elmer E. Boyer, Mial W. Chase and S. Walter McDonough, members of the Lynn school-board, were fined $5 each by Judge Henry T. Lummus. The members were charged with a violation of the eight hour law in allowing janitors of schoolhouses to work more than that time daily. Assistant City Solicitor Jacobs appealed in their behalf, and they were held in their own recognition by Judge O'Brien for the superior court. Topeka, Kan.-If all the twlgs on an apple tree on the farm of George H. Krelders, near Lyndon, had as many blossoms as one twlg had, and if every blossom became an apple, the tree would have supplied an apple a day for several thousand persons. The "freek twlg" has put forth half a dozen blossoms instead of the customary one. Krelder declares it a "freek of nature" and states that in all his experience as a fruit raiser he never before saw so many blossoms on a twlg. Y.M.C.A.AT FRONT Francis B. Sayre Appointed to Serve as Secretary. WORK IS ALL IMPORTANT. Men Sent In Response to Cabled Requests From Paris—Immense Amount of Equipment Necessary In Tents and Camps Already Established Abroad. Washington.—Francis B. Sayre, son-in-law of President Wilson, has been appointed to serve as a Y. M. C. A. secretary with the American troops in France and will sail shortly with about twenty-five other men who have been chosen for this work in response to cabled requests from Paris for such help from America. "My decision to enlist under the red triangle and do my bit in the war is a direct result of what the Y. M. C. A. accomplished on the Mexican border," said Mr Sayre. "I spent a good part of last summer in assisting in the association work at Mary and John MR. AND MRS. FRANCIS D. SAYRE. Camp Llano Grove and other huts between Brownsville and San Antonio. I regard this work as one of the most important elements of military service to be performed, and it attracts me as the biggest thing open for a man like myself to do, in so far as I am too old to be acceptable for military service under the selective draft. "The great body of our men at the front and in the training camps must be kept clean morally as well as physically, and this is the service the Y. M. C. A. is eminently well fitted to perform. The American soldier is a clean fighting man, and he should be kept so." The rapid development of Young Men's Christian association activities in France and in England necessitates the early sailing of this important contingent of association secretaries who are to serve the American soldiers and sailors. The magnitude of the amount of equipment necessary to this service is indicated by the following list of supplies purchased for buildings and tent in camps already established. This list contains only twenty-four of the seventy-five items necessary for a full equipment of a single building: A hundred moving picture machines, 100 talking machines, 5,000 records, 500,000 phonograph needles, 300,000 feet of films (rented), 4,000 quarts of ink, 504,000 pens, 100,800 penholders, 100,800 pencils, 500 baseball gloves, 400 baseball bats, 300 basketball, 5,000 baseball, 7,000 sets of checkers, 3,000,000 sheets of letter paper, 1,500,000 envelopes 20,000 testaments, 50,000 gospels, 10,000 hymn books; 2,000 blankets, 500 camp kits, 150 cash registers, 100 typewriters, 1,200 magazine holders. FROZEN EGGS FROM CHINA. Millions of Them Reach United States by Way of Pacific Coast. Seattle, Wash.—Frozen eggs, shipped from China without shells, are helping commont the high cost of living on the Pacific coast and throughout the middle west. In the ports of Seattle and San Francisco 34,500,000 eggs arrive annually in tin cans containing fifteen to thirty pounds each. One egg weighs two ounces. A. L. Knisley of the United States food laboratory here says that a much smaller percentage of bad eggs are found in these shipments from China than in the local commodity. Two companies, one English and one American, shell, pack and freeze the eggs in China. The eggs cost at least one-third less than locals, it is said, because of the smaller cost of production—not on the part of the hens, but the laborers who gather, pack and distribute them are paid only small wages. Remarkable Work Shown In Putting Vacant Lots Under Cultivation. Trenton, N. J.—More than 25,000 persons in Jersey City have planted gardens, and the movement throughout New Jersey has gone to unprecedented proportions, according to reports made to Charles Lathrop Pack of Lakewood, president of the National, Emergency Food Garden Commission. These reports are coming from various agencies which are keeping official tabs. In Hackensack 11,000 gardens have been planted; Camden, 10,000; Morristown, 1,800; Trenton, 2,000; Edgewater, 350; Lakewood, 633; Glassboro, 250; Netcong, 450; Westwood, 300; Sussex, 300; Hightstown, 408; Rutherford, 250; Hopewell, 265; Washington, 200; Milford, 100; Hackettstown, 600; Point Pleasant, 500; Perth Amboy, 250; Carlsstadt, 500. These are all the official reports so far turned in. In Newark the vacant lot committee members have set out 5,000 gardens, and the number in the whole city is unofficially estimated at 30,000. In Paterson 7,500 garden patches are under cultivation; in Elizabeth, 6,000; in the Oranges, 16,000; in Montclair, 6,000; in Atlantic City, 10,000 to 12,000; in Caldwell, 1,000; in Plainfield, 7,000. These are all unofficial estimates from local sources. In Camden the increase is 1,500 per cent; in Newark it is 1,400 per cent. School boards, civic clubs and women's organizations have promoted the campaign. The commission is furnishing to every community up to date advice on canning, drying and preserving. WAR SHOWS VALUE OF TUBERCULOSIS FIGHTS Hardships Have Brought France, Which Never Attacked Disease: 400,000 Cases. 4. New York.—The war has added one more proof of the value of the English and American anti-tuberculosis, fresh air campaigns. While France is staggering under an almost unbearable load of 400,000 cases, of tuberculosis, England has raised an army of 5,000,000 without any new or sudden tuberculosis problem such as that which has left France with her armies devitalized. Fresh air, out of door work and sports, open windows, good food, rest and treatment have kept England and America relatively free from tuberculosis. The French, who have almost entirely ignored the value of anti-tuberculosis campaigns, now find themselves with no facilities for caring for the thousands of new cases which the war has brought upon the country. French peasants have few windows and an almost ineradicable aversion to fresh air in the house. French doctors have only in a few cases given special attention to tuberculosis problems. At the outbreak of the war the well trained physicians of Great Britain eliminated from the army all those who had the faintest taint of tuberculosis. The lesson for America is written so all may read. Only through increased efforts against the white plague can the huge army which the United States must raise be kept free from the scourge which is weakening France. WOMAN CAN SHOOT. She Is Eighty-nine Years of Age, but Put Herself On Record. Seattle, Wash.—Mrs. Helen E. Taylor, eight-nine years old, walked into the headquarters of the National League For Women's Service in the Cobb building and said she wanted to register under the head of sharpshooter. "I am a woman experienced in service for my country in war as well as in peace," she said. "I can qualify for nurse, cook or sharpshooter. 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The first time the League had met since the burning of Ell Persons, and the beginning of the exodus of the Negro from this city and section; more than 3,000 people packed themselves in the Auditorium, while hundreds were turned away. No organized condemnation of lawlessness had been heard; no word of advice had been forthcoming from the leadership, and no speech of hope and courage had been uttered. And the people said their cup was running over The pent-up feeling of the patriots and patriarchs, together with a thousand women, found expression in a burst of cheers when Robert R. Church Jr. President and founder of the League took the gavel. What the people expected is exactly what they got. H. Edgar Lewis PURE DRUGS After his speech dealing with routine business, Mr. Church read the resolutions prepared by the Executive Committee on the death of great Foraker, and launched into a declaration against lawlessness. "I would be untrue to you and to myself is your elected leader if. 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Work, head of the Division of Records and research of the Tuskegee Institute, that in this period there have been 14 lynching. This is 11 less than the number, 25, for the first six months of 1916 and 20 less than the number, 34, for the first six months of 1915. In 10 instances, through the bravery of officers of the law and by other means, mobs were thwarted and lynchings prevented. Of those lynched, 13 were Negroes and 1 was white. Four of those put to death: 1 white and 3 Negroes were charged with the crime of rape. One of those put to death was a Negro woman, reported to have been of unsound mind, who in resisting 'arrest wounded an officer of the law. 63rd & Eastern Ave.,N.E. Chesapeake Station AID OF GOVERNORS National Defense Council Issues Warning Against Hysteria. STATE CENSUS IS OPPOSED. Areas Likely to Be Theaters of War Operations Designated and Recommendations Presented For Road Building-In Certain Contingencies May Fix Food Prices. Washington.-Governors who sought advice from the Council of National Defense concerning their war activities at the national defense conference received their instructions in a detailed statement which covered a hundred phases of the work necessary to get the country in shape for a successful war against Germany. The advice was in the form of answers to stated questions on industrial and military subjects. There ran through the document an apparent warning against hysteria in action which might hamper rather than accomplish the desired results. Here are some of the important points made: First—The national council recommends that the state councils shall encourage economy and discourage extravagant living and the purchase of luxuries among the people of their respective states. Second—In regard to the postponement of state or municipal works now under way and not of pressing importance the council, "generally speaking," advises that nothing now under way should be abandoned except under pressing necessity; nor should new projects be started not of pressing importance. Third—The council has not made any suggestion for the postponement in any state of work on co-operative highway projects to such an extent that redistribution of public money will be necessary. Fourth—The taking of a census by states of men for either military or industrial service, supplementary to federal registration—a step which has been contemplated in some other states—was discouraged. On this point the document says: "The council does not desire such a census for the present. It is not needed just now and when completed and ready for use would soon be obsolete owing to rapidly changing industrial conditions." Fifth—The council may in certain contingencies fix either or both minimum and maximum food prices if authorized by law, but holds that until legislation is passed it is impossible to make a definite statement. In reply to advice in regard to the road building which would make the location and character of the highway better suited for military purposes, the council furnishes a copy of a letter from Secretary Baker to Secretary Houston giving in detail the areas likely to be the theater of war operations and presenting recommendations as to road building for military purposes. The areas in question are: (a) The area about Long Island, including most of the states of Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York. (b) The area about Chesapeake bay, including much of the states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and Delaware. (c) The, Pacific coast area, including (d) The Mexican border. Including the southern part of the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. (e) The great lakes area, including the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota. COULDN'T SCARE SAILOR. Officer Told Threatening U Boat Captain to "Shoot Away." London—Douglas Duff, the fourth officer; and the only survivor of the steamer Thracia, sunk by a German submarine on April 27, says in depositions that three hours after the ship was sunk the German submarine approached the capsized boat, the stern of which had been blown off, to which he was clinging, and asked him the usual questions regarding the destroyed steamer and her destination. It was 11 o'clock at night and very dark. The submarine commander first threatened to 'shoot Duff, says the fourth officer, who quotes himself as replying, "Shoot away." The commander then said, according to Duff, that he wouldn't waste powder on an Englishman and left Duff to his fate. He was picked up twelve hours later by a French fisherman. ARMY NEEDS GENERALS. Promotions Expected to Be Made Only Upon Merit Basis. Washington.—The new national army will require about twenty-nine new major generals and more than 100 brigadier generals, according to officials of the war department. There will be a total of thirty-six divisions, each of which will have one major general and four brigadier generals. The army act empowers the president to appoint general officers at his discretion. The belief prevails that the president and secretary of war both are determined only upon merit and special fitness. This policy would coincide exactly with those of France and England, which are advancing younger men to the higher commands. COLLEGE TO SEND OUT MEN TO AID FARMERS Each Agriculturist Taking Student Must Cultivate Extra Acrea. Philadelphia. - The University of Pennsylvania will be the first of American colleges to tackle the food supply problem, which has recently taken on a serious aspect, according to plans announced at the university by Dr. J. Russell Smith, professor of industry, who has charge of the movement. Students are to be sent out in squads of from five to fifty to all sections of the country to assist farmers in planting and cultivating spring crops. Every student signing will be given credit for his year's work and be sent out immediately. Students will be placed on farms at a minimum salary of $20 a month. In each one of the battalons there will be a captain, who is to have charge of the men in his community, referee all disputes between employer and students and report each man's progress to the university. Each farmer upon accepting one of the students as helper must promise to cultivate twelve acres more of land than he has heretofore. Dr. Smith claims that at a conservative estimate each man sent out will thus be responsible for 420 extra bushels in the corn crop alone, which means that the first fifty men who leave for western Virginia will add some 21,000 bushels of corn to this year's crop. General Barnett Says He'll Have No Trouble Raising 30,000 Men Washington.—American marines will insist on their right to be the first United States soldiers in the European tranches, Brigadier General George Barnett told the house navy committee, explaining the reason for the proposed increase from 17,400 to 30,000 in the marine corps. General Barnett, commandant of marines, said the morale and spirit of the men would be seriously affected unless they were "first men" as usual of the United States expeditionary armed forces. He said he would have no difficulty in getting the 30,000 men. "We are getting them as fast as we can digest them now," he said. Bear Admiral Palmer, chief of the bureau of navigation, explained the navy's needs for an increase from 87,000 to 150,000 men. "The navy will need 5,000 men for aviation," he said. "Twenty men are needed for each submarine chaser. From twenty to forty men will be needed on each armed merchant ship. There must be full crews for all auxiliary and reserve ships." MAKES HIS OWN COFFIN. Spent Weeks at Work; When Completed Weighed 700 Pounds. Lafayette, Ind.—William Watkins, fifty years old, for many years proprietor of a sawmill at Kentland, learned a few months ago that he could not live long. He proceeded to build a coffin for himself, using solid black walnut. He spent weeks making it. When completed it weighs 1 more than 700 pounds. Watkins was brought to St. Elizabeth's hospital, find recently he died. The coffin was shipped from Kentland, and his body has been placed in it. He was buried at Delphi, his former home. The weight of the coffin made it necessary to use a large force of men to lift it on and off the train. Watkins' widow, and four children survive. SEARCHING FOR MOTHER. She Has Been Missing Eighteen Years, but Daughter Tries Again. Los Angeles, Cal.-A search for her mother, when she has not seen for eighteen years, was started in this city the other day by Mrs. E. Stephens, who was Miss Bessie Dent of San Jose and who is with her husband at the Hotel Austin, Fifth and Crocker streets. The mother is now Mrs. Frank Fagable and formerly was Mrs. Joseph Dent. Mrs. Stephens and her husband intend to establish their home here, and both of them wish to find Mrs. Stephens' mother. CRIBBAGE UNDER GROUND. Game Lasted Six Months and Was Played in a Mine. Woodrow, Ann.—A cribbage game played in the bowels of the earth and running up to 100,000 points was finished the o'r night by Gus Raymond, a mine and William Gabriel, pumpman, of the Wilcox mine here. The sitting lasted six months. Raymond won by 107 points. The game was played in the pump house, 250 feet underground. Gabriel once held a "twenty-nine" hand, which cribbage math maticians say happens about once in ten years of continuous playing. Offers Fifteen, Sons to Nation. Crystal Springs, Miss.—"I have not one, but fifteen sons, to give to the army and navy and will willingly do so," said John Taylor, a farmer living near He. He is the father of twenty-two children. All the fifteen sons will come within the military age limit and are willing to go. So is Mr. Taylor. LEGAL NOTICES. THOMAS WALKER, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia Heiding Probate "Court—Estate of Rebecca Reeves, Deceased — No. 23664 — Administration Docket 55. Application having been made herein for probate of the last will and testament and of said deceased, and for letters testamentary on said estate, by J. Milton Waldron, it is ordered this 27th day of June, A. D. 1917, that Alonzo Reed, Otto Reed, Robert Reed, Carrie Carr, and Joe Reed and all others concerned, appear in said Court on Tuesday, the 7th day of August, 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 the Washington "Bee" once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned—the first publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day. WENDELE T. STARK Justice. Attest: WM. C. TAYLOR, Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk o. the Probate Court. THOMAS WALKER, Attorney. SIX SHIPS SINK UNDER SAILOR; STICKS TO SEA Twenty-year-old Cook Was Torpedoed, Mined, Made Prisoner, Hit by Bullets. New York.—Stewart Springer, was eighteen years old when he sailed from here on Aug. 6, 1914. He has returned an old man, broken in health and with battered nerves. Few lads of twenty—and few grizzled veterans of the sea, for that matter—can boast or beowald the experiences, through which he has passed since his last visit. Springer is cook of the British freighter Pearlmoor, now docked at Montagus street, Brooklyn. Back in Cardiff, Wales, he has a wife. The ship on which he last left New York was captured and sunk by the Karlshrube. After forty-eight days aboard the raider he was landed with other prisoners at Teneriffe. His next adventure came on May 1, 1015. He was aboard a French bark-bound for England when, off the Scilly isles, he witnessed the sinking of the American tanker Guilflight by a submarine. On July 22, following he was a member of the crew of the British freighter Aldenwing, which struck a mine in the Bay of Biscay and went down. The next month he was on a French freighter, again in the Bay of Biscay, when she was torpeded. Shortly before Christmas, 1915. Springer had shipped on the Norwegian freighter Frankstream. She was torpedoed in the English channel. A few weeks later found him a member of the crew of a British transport at the Dardanelles during the evacuation. The transport was torpedoed, and the captain was compelled to beach the vessel under fire from the Turkish positions. Two machine bullets struck Springer in the knee. Ils last experience was aboard a transport in the North sea at night. This time the boat struck a mine. HOME OF THE PEOPLE'S FUNERAL SERVICE CORPORATION: TREE OVER 150 YEARS OLD. INDER JACKS Rings Show a Walnut Had Become That Old Before It Was Cut. Shellyville, Mo. — W. J. Norris, a dealer in walnut lumber from northeast Missouri, is completing a remarkable harvest near Shellyville. The timber is being taken from a 160 acre tract of land belonging to G. W. Hope and will make approximately 50,000 feet of lumber. It is unusual to find so many trees of such superior quality on so small an acerage. As determined by the number of annual rings, the average age of the trees was forty years. One large tree showed 152 annual rings, measured forty-two feet to the first limb and cut out two sixteen-foot logs thirty inches in diameter. The last large logs and the bases are to be used making veneering, while the other logs will be used for airplane lumber. Automobile Service is no more an experiment, it has proven a complete success and our hearse and cars have been tested in many of the Washington Cemeteries, as well as in the rural districts. We have not encountered the slightest hitch and all parties concerned have been well satisfied with the excellent service rendered them. 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