Washington Bee

HOBSON IS RIGHT For a long time Representative Hobson, of Alabama, tried to persuade Congress to build ships in order to be ready for defense against any foreign enemy. Congress ignored the warning by that young man, and today this country finds it very necessary to wake up and run and rush to do the very thing that would have been done had it listened to the wise plea made by Mr. Hobson. In the time of peace is the time to prepare for self defense. This country is now in a great war with a powerful nation—a nation which for years, is said, to have been preparing for this present conflict. But while we are at war, it is clearly seen that more colored men, women and children are being killed right here in this country than American soldiers in the war. To say nothing of the East St. Louis murdering of colored people and the murdering of colored people at Chester, Pa., a few days ago, only last Sunday, the 29th of August, two colored young men, who were brothers, were taken from jail at Amite, La., and lynched. These young men were simply charged with the murder of a white man. Mark you, they were simply suspected of the murder. They were not given a trial before the court. They might have been able to prove their innocence, (I use the term "innocence" advisedly, because the law holds that a man is innocent until he is proven guilty.) The courts of justice and the door of hope is closed in America in so far as the colored man is concerned. But I am drifting from what I want to get at, I said that Representative Hobson endeavored to impress upon the members of Congress, some years ago; the necessity of a larger navy, etc., but was ignored. Now, it goes without saying, that the colored people in this country are law abiding. They are for peace, and there is no better evidence of these facts than the inability of the colored people to defend themselves against the lawless mobs which are attacking them today in all sections of this country, only to find them disarmed and thereby unable to protect themselves and their homes against the invasion of the lawless mobs. Yes, we are for peace. We are law-abiding, but since we are being pursued and shot down in the streets, and our homes are being destroyed by the miserable ruffians of this country, and since the authorities of the law refuse to give us the protection which is due us, the colored people are compelled, from this time on, to be prepared to defend themselves when their homes are being attacked by these ruffians. The United States is not down on her knees praying to God to deliver her from the powerful hand of Germany. No, she knows that prayers were never intended to do the work of bullets, so she has sent her vast navy and army across the seas to teach Germany that the Americans will not any longer tolerate her ruthless sinking of ships, and destroying the lives of American men, women and children. But before sending our soldier boys away the President called the nation to pray for the safe voyage of her soldiers. So we must pray first and then get up off our knees and proceed to do something, for prayers were never intended to do the work of bullets. Little David prayed before he met the mighty Gollath. He said, "I will go in the name of God," etc., but after he prayed he took his sling, and with it slew the mighty giant Gollath. Now, I have tried to outline to you, my colored brethren and sisters, the necessity of prayer, and the effectiveness of bullets. The one was never intended to do the work of the other. Now, respecting this wholesale murdering of our men, women and little children by these hellish mobs, the thing for the colored people to do is to provide themselves with guns and plenty of ammunition, in order to protect themselves and their homes when attacked by the rufillans who are bent on killing them and beating them for no other cause than that God has seen fit to make their skin dark. Be law abiding, as we have always tried to be, but you may as well make it up in your minds, now, that only a terrific hail of bullets into these mob gatherings is going to save you from the almost daily attacks by these murderers. Even the states, since they cannot, or will not, protect the lives and property of the colored people, should assist them in such a determination to rightfully defend themselves against these lawless mobs. Yes, get your guns! not to go out and raise any trouble with any white neighbors. No, be as you have always endeavored to be, kind and friendly to your good white neighbors, but, by the eternal, say to the mobs, "you've got to stop! We've had enough of this thing, and you must either kill less of us, or we will give you a chance to satisfy your blood thirsty desire to kill more of us." Mobs are made up of out throats, thieves and murderers, and the law abiding white people should be glad to get rid of such a class among them. See? Let us continue to gather at the house of prayer, and pour out our complaints to Almighty God, but don't forget that prayers will never do the work of bullets. Let us always be law abiding. Let us put our trust in God. But you'd better sleep with your loaded guns under your heads, for you know not what hour the mobs will attack you. J. C. CUNNINGHAM. WHAT-ER-YER A GONER-DO A-BOUT IT? INVESTIGATION OLD STUFF I HAD NO ORDERS SOUTHERN ILL DEMOCRACY FOR THE REDEEMION OF EUROPE EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL. ILLINOIS HA! HA! HE!HE! STARTED IT, ISAW HIM COMEING AND SET MY FAMILY BLOOD HOUND'S ON HIM The Tribune MEGRO EXAGGERATOR NOTION WHAT COULD I DO I TURNED UM, OUT THEY WILL THINK THE CONVENIENT BEHIND THEM, IF WE SOME THE REGULARS HEAD OF LUNCH F. McGoway SIN A POLY PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS [By the Sage of the Potomac.] Speaking about the Training Camp for Colored Officers, reminds me of the fox caught in a trap and was threatened to be thrown out in the snow. Sly fox said that he lived in the snow. Many of the volunteers for the training camp, no doubt would have passed the physical examination as it ordered by their admission to the training camp. Contest drilling for this month, we are to learn in that time, what it requires cadets at West Point to learn in four years, would certainly disqualify them. If they can't make a good officer, they can't make a good soldier. Those who have been discharged from the camp will not have to enlist and neither will they be drafted into the service. They have escaped the draft. Many of them are returning home. The latest news is of the tax that is being placed upon the poor employees of a certain insurance company, against their will, to purchase the manager of this company an automobile. These poorly paid clerks, or rather, many of them, will resign before they will pay this tax. Why should employees of any corporation be taxed against their will? All of them should resign in a body. Hundreds of young colored girls have been given positions in the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, and as fast as they are appointed they are relieved of the many-burdens that are imposed upon them by men who don't know the value of female labor. One of the greatest men in this city, and a level headed one at that, is Rev. M. W. N. Norman. As president of the Baptist Association, he ought to weed out of the association ministers who are of no benefit to the association. A certain Baptist minister who is more deceptive than he is honest, and who always shows his cloven foot, when he wants to accomplish something for himself, introduced a pneumatic faker to another Baptist association in Virginia, some days ago, and recommended his paper to those who didn't know of it. The people were well acquainted with the editor as well as the preacher and politely informed them both, that they preferred "The Bee," the argus "of the people, for the people, and by the people." "The Bee" recommends itself. It doesn't need a guardian or an introducer. "The Bee" doesn't cater to hypocrites and fakers. Honest people speak well of "The Bee." The guilty of crime doesn't want "The Bee." It is amusing to see an editor's face in his own paper. Some few weeks ago an editor's face appeared two or three weeks in succession in his own paper and under it was written, an enemy to evil doers. I wondered at the time if this individual knew his own record as well as some people knew it. (?) On another publication, some time ago, another editor's face appeared in his own paper with this description: "Editor John—John; the advocate of equal rights, and one of the greatest writers in the world." Some colored editors are like some colored ministers. All ministers of all denominations are "dubbed" as D. D. Every man whose name is at the head of his paper imagines that he is an editor. You will find more D. Ds among the Baptists than any other denomination. Dr. Norman should weed out some of the D. Ds in his association. If you would ask some of them what "D. D" meant, they would give you an answer similar to that a child gave a teacher, when asked what D. D. meant; O! said the child it means dood dood. With the return of the bachelors from the officers' training camp, our good friend Byers will be relieved of his arduous duties. The bachelors will take charge, which will be a great relief to Mr. Byers. Speaking about him, he is more sinned against than sinning. There must be something about him that commands attention, if there were not, he would not be so much in the limelight. A man in his position must be pleasant to his patrons. Some people mistake cordial poiteness and good jolly disposition for something else. It is not so. A large man is naturally jolly. A lean man, or a man with a hungry look, is looked upon with suspicion. Of course there are exceptions to the rule. The bachelors are returning fast, and they will receive from Ceasar the things that are Ceasar's, and since, there is no crime in marriage, or being classed as cowards, Mr. Byers will call the roll of his army of benedicts, soon to be, if they will respond. I never saw so many anxious to weed in all my life, well no, they are not so anxious now, as the provost marshall has declared that marriage will be no bar to prevent draft, hence the bachelors will now take a chance by remaining single. MARTINSBURG, W. VA., AND VICINITY NEWS. Rev. E. T. Johnson, pastor of the Dudley Baptist church motored out to Douglas Grove on the 5th Sunday where he preached.to a very representative audience, Rev. J. R. Davis, [Portrait of a woman] J. C. MANNING pastor. Tuesday night, July 31st, Rev. E. T. Johnson preached for Rev. Dr. S. R. Hughes, pastor of Mt. Zlon M. E. church. The Union Banquet held at the Ebenezer Baptist church, on August the 2nd was a grand success. Every church was well represented. The Martinsbuss Cornet Band rendered music for the occasion. The band plays.well. The Union Sunday School Plenic will carry everybody to Shenandoah Grove, Shenandoah junction on the 16th inst. Are you going? I am. Rev. James T. Reid, pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist church is having his anneversary. Monday night, August 6th, a sermon by Rev. E. T. Johnson, Tuesday night, a sermon by Rev. S. R. Hughes, Wednesday night, a sermon by Rev. Samuel Beane, Thursday night, a sermon by Rev. Dr. Taylor of the white M. E. church, Friday night, a sermon by the pastor. The Christian Alliance of this city met at the Dudley Sunday August the 5th, at which time Rev.J. R. Davis preached an excellent sermon. At the conclusion of the meeting on the behalf of the Red Cross Society of this city soliciting the aid of the members of our race, especially our women. The Dudley pastor has the laugh on the boys. He has a wife, thus many baskets of fresh vegetables find their way to the parsonage. He wishes to thank Sisters Trip. Cromwell, J. W. Corsey, P. R. Fletcher, L. Carter, Hanah Veney, Gaseway G. Sampson, Mrs. Fannie Jefferson, Jacob Williams, Jannie Jones, and others. Mrs. Georgia Sampson is on the sick list. We wish her a speedy recovery. Rev. Samuel Beane, a pastor here of M. E. Church for nine years has been seen about town very frequently here of late. MISS NANNIE H. BURROUGHS. In a published report some few days ago, it was stated that a hearing was given to a Colored Citizen. The only persons heard before the Committee were Nurses, Nannie H. Burroughs and Holtie Queen. Miss Burroughs carried 10,000 petitions from thirty-six states and the District of Columbia. She made a plea for Federal investigations and the passage and enforcement of laws that would make America a safe place in which the Colored American may live and labor. Mr. Dyer informed Miss Burroughs that the Committee was profoundly impressed and that members are recommending that the resolution be considered immediately. RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH DENIED. The Richmond, Va. Planet Barred From the United States Mail—Must Not Condemn East St. Louis Riots in Conjunction with United States Officials. Richmond, Va., Aug. 4, 1917—The Post Office authorities here held up to-days. Issue of the Richmond, Va. Planet, pending further instructions on account of the publication therein of an article from Uzzell Miner, former editor of the Howard University Journal, Howard University, Washington, D. C. Miner spoke for himself and gave reasons for not entering the United States Army as a volunteer. He called upon President Wilson to speak out against the East St. Louis; III riots as ex-President Roosevelt had done and wanted the Department of Justice to bring the guilty parties to a "strict accountability." Editor John Mitchell, Jr., upon enquiry was informed by Postmaster Hay T. Thornton that the action was not taken on account of any editorial utterances, but solely on account of the matter contained in this contributed communication. An attempt to secure the return of eighteen sacks of mail to-day was without result and the information was given that a final decision in this matter would be taken on Monday. Editor Mitchell is endeavoring to find out if the constitution guarantees of citizenship have been suspended and by what rule the management of the paper must be guided in the absence of an established censorship by the Congress at Washington. VISITORS TO THE BEE OFFICE. Editor John Mitchell, Jr., the editor, banker and politician of Richmond, Va., accompanied by two of the leading and most prominent citizens of Richmond, Va., Dr. E. R. Jefferson and T. M. Crump, Esq., were the guests of the editor of The Bee Tuesday afternoon. Editor Mitchell displayed council in the case of the hold-up of his publication, the Richmond Planet, because a certain article appeared in his paper written by a correspondent. Editor Mitchell and his friends left on the 7.15 Southern, Tuesday evening. The Richmond contingent had blood in their eyes. SPEAKS FOR RACE Joseph Man Lg. (white), former member of legislature of Alabama now living in New York city, has written a pamphlet, "The Autocratio South." He was born in the south, with a silver spoon in his month, a typical southern gentleman. He remained there as long as his conscience would let him. Mr. Manning became tired of the south's philosophy, "Down with the black man" and up with crime, burning, lynching, injustice, concubinage, Jim-Crowism, ignorance and barbarity. He delivered a speech before the Allen Christian Endeavor league, at Bothel A. M. e church, New York city, Sunday, July 15. It was one of the ablest addresses heard in the east for many a day. He defended the Race in no uncertain terms, and made a plea for fairness and justice in the courts, trades and business. Every true American should read this address. It is one of the best and most complete addresses on the Race problem ever uttered by an American citizen. He has gained prominence for fighting Bourbonism. Long ago he made a reputation for pitching into ballot box stuffers. Now he comes forth with renewed force fighting for members of the Race. A copy should be in the home of every loyal Race man. Send and secure a copy only 25 cents. The Defender urges the readers of good literature and those who love their Race to send for a copy. A PARADE OF PROTEST. Concerning the Parade of the Negroes in New York City, July 29.—As a Protest Against the Unspeakable Horrors Attending the Massacre of Innocent, Unoffending Members of Their Race by a Mob of White Savages, in East St. Louis, "The Public in New York, Says; "New York has seen many remarkable parades, parades of soldiers and civilians, aliens and citizens, parades of sadness as when a great man was gone, and of gladness for a victory won, but has it seen a parade of deeper meaning than that of last Saturday when 8,000 Negro men, women and children marched down Fifth Avenue in silent protest against the treatment accorded their race in this country. It was not alone on Fifth Avenue that they marched, to be seen by the crowds that happened at the time to be on that thoroughfare. Thanks to the press and the news service they marched throughout the country in the imagination of millions of people who will reflect with bitter humiliation that of all American's shortcomings in trying to live up to her ideals none is more glaring than the treatment accorded the Negro. It was the counsel of wise heads that promised this parade of silent protest. Such a demonstration is far more effective than any manifestation of force. It was an appeal to the conscience of mankind, and will not be without its effect. America will not be safe for democracy till a public opinion has been created that will insist upon even-handed justice for all. GUESTS AT HOTEL DALE. New Yorkers John A. Allen, Robt. Green, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Brown, Mr. Geo. M. Rae, Oscar Hammerstin, Jas. K. Europe, Miss Hankins, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wallace, and R. Dufree. Philadelphians. Chas. E. Adams, Jas. Morgan, Anna Greenfield, Wm. H. Bayne, Dr. and Mrs. G. A. Jenkins, Wm. A. Holt, Mrs. Mary Arrington, Florence N. Williams, B. McLead, J. Thos. Stanford, Dr. Leon F. Sarjeant, Dr. and Mrs. J. P. Lennon, Dr. and Mrs. Waller Sutton, Bertha D. Draper, W. L. Johnson, Silus King, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Jones, John W. Love, Chas. Anderson, Mrs. Blanche Pelaio, Mrs. Wm. Houze, Laura Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Butler, Mrs. E. L. Anderson, Mrs. Sadie Balyard, Miss Fleta M. Jones, Alohzo Nathan, Arthur Fauset, Jas. Lennham, E. Mae Huff, Marlan Fauset, Geo. Willianms, Mrs. G. C. Rush, A. W. H. Peterson and J. B. Johnson. Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Stanford, Mr. and Mrs. Preston Banks, Mrs. M. L. Lewis, Miss Clara M. Lewis, Chas. Wyatt, C. O. King, Wm. H. Bayne. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Thomas, Camden, N. J., Mrs. C. A. Thomas, Hanover, N. H., S. Mildred Beckwith, Harrisburg, Pa., and Edw. Brown, Wilmington, Del. THE INDUSTRIAL SAVINGS BANK. The Industrial Savings Bank is now open for business. President John W. Lewis has another big scheme in his head. Watch The Bee for it. Cashier Wm. Bowie and his competent assistant and the only Colored female assistant-cashier in the country, Miss Eiffle M. Middleton are doing well. Go to Madame Clark if you want a good up-to-date servant. POS8 HAIR GROWER. One of the greatest hair growers manufactures in the United States is the Posr College Company of St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. A. M. Pope Tumber Malone is the manufacturer. This little lady and her husband, Prof. Malone, have given more to charity than any other Colored institution in the United States. They have 8,000 agents in the field. Send for their hair preparation. St. Louis Riot Condemned. Whereas: The General Guy V. Henry Garrison number 9 A. & N. U. of the U. S. of America has learned how to secure the recently occurring at East St. Louis; III, which resulted in the murder and outrage of Negro citizens and the wilful destruction of their property and. Whereas, the cruel and savage incidents which have shocked the civilized world, do but emphasize the formidable strength of racial prejudices in the ebb and flow of our national life and. Whereas, the stern realities of war and the civic and industrial unrest, make it more than ever, even has and order and contained and the just abhorrence of citizens, regardless of race or creed be secure and inviolate. Therefore it is Resolved; That this Garrison of honorably discharged Negro soldiers and sailors most sorrowfully deplores the horrible incidents herewith referred to. It feels that while Negro men are being drafted to fight a foreign foe, the national authority should at least use every means in its power to secure and maintain at home his constitutional liberties in common with other citizens and when the same are violated as at East St. Louis and more recently at Chester, Pa., to direct judicial proceedings whose real purpose and result shall be the prosecution and punishment of the guilty whomsoever they may be. It is Further Resolved: That the President and the Congress be petitioned to the end that the organized strength of the Nation in all and every direction be mobilized to destroy the mob-spirit of America so that while our men both black and white Americans are fighting to "make the world safe for democracy," that this, the oldest Democracy in the world may also be made "safe" for its Negro citizens. COMMITTEE: WM. T. CONRAY, COMMANDER. J. CLAY SMITH, ADJUTANT. JOHN H. PAYNTER. PEROXIDE COMPLEXIONS. Peroxide complexions are ghostly, cadaverous, hideous. The enslavement of the Africans in America has produced a multiplicity of varieties of physiognomies and complexions among the colored people here. The physiognomies vary widely. There is no question that there are many types of handsome men and women among our colored people. There are several distinct ethnological groups belonging to the so-called Hamitic and Neo-Asiatic. The former occupy northern, and eastern Africa, the latter southern and western, but there has been much intermingling of races in Africa. The most of the glaves for America were taken from the west coast, the home of the true Negro types—the general region called Senegambia and Algeria. But the active slave trade in Africa was the main threat to themselves and the Arabs. brought to the west coast slave marts, people of every type residing in Africa. These included many Egyptians, Arabs and Madagascans. We see all these types in America today, some almost pure, others modified. The most virgin marts are of color, facial formation and texture hair. In this country, contact with the Indians and Caucasians have further modified these characteristics. The fashion in America is the fair complexion and nearly straight hair. The fashion is so strong and universal that it has come to be a practical matter. The main reasons are personal convenience, advantage and interest. There is no intrinsic reason, because these personal characteristics have no real utilitarian value, for the black skin and the curly hair have no real disadvantages. The artist recognizes the black color as a fundamental beauty. Many people with dead straight hair attempt to curl it artificially. But, notwithstanding, many colored people are not satisfied with their complexion and hair. They try to alter them, and they make a bad job of it. Usually the results are disgusting, horrible. Let us not try to alter nature. It cannot be done successfully. It is often possible to modify the phenomena of nature and to improve on them, but the fundamentals cannot be changed. There are certain harmonies in nature and art that cannot be solely accepted at the expense of monstrosity or naivety, which are just causes for ridicule. There is something wrong about the fashions and styles affected by our men and women. Dress and style should have some relation to the form and color of the object or person decorated. We know that this is a ticklish subject, and discretion warns us not to speak out too plainly. We therefore, will conclude with the recomposition of the local society recently organized to satisfy our give some study to the subject of dress and other personal adornment of the colored people. Is it not possible to evolve some distinctive styles of dress and adornment harmonious with our most prevailing physical characteristics, that would be as beautiful as they would be distinctive? Why can not the colored dress evoke a new and distinctive art? What is the usual and appropriate than that it should center around dress and personal adornment? COLORED OFFICERS IN CAMP. Many of Them Returning Home From the Training Camp Col. C. G. Ballou Makes a Statement in Defence of His Men. Fort Des Moines, la., July 31. When it was recently called to the attention of Colonel C. G. Ballou, Commandant of the Officers Training School for Colored men at fort Des Moines, that there was a tendency on the part of acquaintances to criticise candidates who are being discharged and returned home said: "Many persons seem to feel that failure to cooperate the perscribed course at an Officer's Training Camp carries with it a certain stigma approximating to disgrace. This is; in general, not true, and is only true in cases of men sent home by reason of misconduct. There is more dangerous and erroneous belief than that indulged in by many of our people, to the effect that any and every man can become a good military officer. This idea is almost equivalent to the notion that putting a uniform on a man and a rifle in his hands makes him a soldier. Both ideas are as incorrect and fundamentally absurd as would be the belief that putting a scapel in a man's hands converts him into a surgeon, or that putting on the cap of a naval officer qualifies a man to navigate and fight a battleship. Not the least useful result of our great training camps will be the correction of these absurd notions. I once mustered into service as an officer of high rank, a man who frankly said: "I don't know anything about military." I don't know how to get my regiment going, and so do not it going. I wouldn't know how to stop it again." Yet twelve hundred lives, and untold National interests, were made dependent upon this utterly unqualified man for purely political reasons. The mass of people have had very little idea of the danger and disaster that lie behind such appointments, but there are, nevertheless, many wives, mothers and sisters who are beginning to realize that they don't want husbands, sons, fathers and brothers ordered in battle by men who don't know how to give them the least show for their lives. And those training camps are going to vastly increase the appreciation of the whole burden under their needs to know his business just as does the surgeon, the lawyer, the sailor, the electrician and every other man of profession or trade. Furthermore, they will spread a conception of the fact that Army Officers, on whose competence or incompetence depends the lives of men and the fate of nations, require for the proper discharge of their grave duties, training and abilities of higher, order and more varied character than do men of any other profession in life. It is, therefore, only reasonable to expect that large numbers of those who enter Officers' Training Camps will find after a few weeks trial that they were not destined by nature for the duties and responsibilities of military command. This fact should involve no reproach. It is no more disgraceful to be a mistaken at an Officers' Training Camp than to be a similar misfit in training for the church choir. Real military leaders must be trained, and the unfit must be eliminated as ruthlessly as are the discordant aspirants for a place in the ochrehstra, and this elimination is not, evidence: that the rejected ones are not good men, brave men or patriotic men." LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. REMEDY FOR MOBS. To the Editor of the Bee. Investigators, writers and speakers having given the results of their investigations and vent to their feeling on the recent East St. Louis, Ill., massacre, is suprising, that they have not proposed a remedy, the appeal to the recurrence of such a horrible, heartrending and painstaking affair. Article 5, of the Amendments to the Constitution declares that, "No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law," and Article 14, Section 1, of the Amendments to the Constitution affirms that, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the laws of the United States, are citizens of the United States," and that, "No State shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." It is held, that the former is a prohibition against the United States, and that the latter is a prohibition against a State. It is my contention, that the former should be given a broad and liberal in lieu of a narrow and strict interpretation, construction and application in favor of a citizen of the United States, irrespective of his citizenship of a State, for the reason, that the individual is primarily a citizen of the United States, and secondarily a citizen of the State wherein he resides. This being undeniable, the United States owes a citizen of the United States, primarily, protection in the enjoyment of constitutional privileges and immunities, and a citizen of the United States; primarily, owes his allegiance to the United States, regardless of his citizenship of the State. Thus, if it is unlawful for the United States or a State to deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, for a much stronger reason, it should be unlawful for a mob in the United States to deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law, therefore, the Congress of the United States should enact a law compelling and requiring the County of the State or the States, in which a citizen of the United States is deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, to pay liquidated damages within a reasonably prescribed time thereafter, to the heirs-at-law or next-of-kin of the victim or victims. In other words, the unlawful taking of the life, liberty, or property, of a citizen of the United States by a domestic mob should be redressible in damages, just as the lawful taking of the life, liberty, or property, of a citizen of the United States by a domoreign mob is redressible by the payment of an indemnity. The Evening Star, of Saturday, July 7, 1917, editorially in part, edited: "It begs the question in part, toribute the infamy at East St. Louis either to economics or to the debasing influences of the whiskey doggery. Both share in responsibility for that tragedy. But the trouble goes deeper than either or both. It is the outgrowth of lawlessness which in the past quarter century has spread all over the country, and is not now confined to what are called the lower classes. Now is the time to call a law, a call is possible. War is on, and war calls for peace behind the battle lines. If order cannot be commanded in our city and criminal affairs; if the law is locked and saw breakers go unpunished we shall find ourselves as a people headed for hades, and not far from that destination." 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 orthopedies, 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. 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." 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The elimination of retail expenses by weekly workability and best quality of material issues life-long service at minimum cost. Insist on having the "NEW HOME", WARRANTED FOR ALL TIME. Known the world over for: superior sewing qualities. Not sold under any other name. THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE CO., ORANGE, MASS. FOR SALE BY Gustave Oppenheim, 800 street northwest, Washington, D. C. ROBERT ALLEN THE FAMILY STORE 1917. 14th St. N W This is the headquarters for the people. TO BANISH EGG SHAMPOOS. Barbers Say Plan Would Save 250,000,000 a Year. South Bend, Ind.-J. D. Kimerer, a barber of this city, has a scheme to save 250,000 eggs a year for the consumption of the people. He has put his plan before National Food Director Hoover and received from him assurance of its consideration. Kimerer would do away with the egg shampoo during the war. He says that on an average, which is considered low, each barber in the United States gives three egg shampoo a week, using two eggs. Recent statistics show that there are 300,000 barbers. Thus if the government placed a ban on egg shampoos for men it would mean the saving of 93,600,000 eggs each year, provided each barber averaged but three shampoos. But other barbers in the city say the average of three is too low and that it would be nearer six or eight. Figured at that rate, more than 200,000,000 eggs could be saved. It is a hard matter to get at the number of eggs used by women for shampooing, inasmuch as many do their own work. However, a hairdresser estimates that 50,000,000 eggs are used each year. UNUSUAL RELICS FOUND. New Light Cast on Pueblo Civilization by Discovery. Santa Fe, N. M.-An extraordinary find of historic pottery and relics has been made by Earl Morris, excavating Pueblo ruins at Aztec, San Juan county, with a force of twenty-five men for the American Museum of Natural History. The discovery includes sixty pieces of rare pottery, over 20,000 carved red and black stone heads, baskets, matting, knives, battlesaxes and other stone implements. The turquoise beads, mosaics and shell ornaments are classed as among the finest ever excavated in the southwest. Grains of corn with cobs, tassels and husks were found intact; as were also beans and bean pods, pumpkin seeds, pine cones, cotton fiber, yucca leaves, rushes, cotton yarn and cloth, sandals, snowshoes, beaver teeth and bones of animals and human beings. One skeleton in a sitting position indicated the man had been decapitated. The find was made in an underground communal dwelling buried for centuries. BEES MAKE HOME IN HOUSE. Store Honey - Unmolested For Three Years In Doctor's Residence. St. Louis - A swarm of bees has lived and made honey for three years in the brick wall at the home of Dr. Allen Wilson, Wagoner place. Dr. Wilson has never interfered with the bees, and they have never harmed him, nor has he ever eaten any of the honey. The bees' improvised hive is a cavity in the wall about halfway to the top of the two story house on the kitchen side. The entrance is a small hole apparently left by the bricklayer when placing the bricks around the anchor of an iron wall brace. Dr. Wilson said he had investigated and found that the cavity now extends into the wall about a foot, apparently having been hollowed out by the bees themselves. The swarm is not a very large one, and Dr. Wilson thinks it has not produced more honey than it needed. He does not expect to try to remove the bees. TRANSPLANTING BONE. That of Stockman's Leg Now In His Arm. Ringling, Okla.—Ten inches, of bone that supported his leg between the knee and ankle now is filling, that amount of space in the forearm of Jim Herring, stockman, of Grady, having been transplanted there by a surgeon as the only remedy that would save the arm. The leg, now bearing a silver plate, has healed, and the arm promises to be as good-as new before long. Ten months ago Herring sprained his arm. Not having ready access to a surgeon and, thinking the injury slight, he set the member himself. At length a bone trouble developed and continued to grow more and more malignant for eight months. Taking out the impaired bone was the surgical cure decided upon, and the space was filled with bone from his leg. COMES FROM A BIG FAMILY. Recruit is Six Feet Four and a Half. Brother, Taller, Also to Enlist. Springfield, Mr.-John F. Haley, a twenty-three-year-old farmer near Ozark, Christian county, holds the record for the tallest man accepted at the United States army recruiting station here since the declaration of war. He is six feet four and one-half inches in his bare feet. He had to stoop, when he entered the door of the recruiting station to enlist. "You fellows may think I'm big," he told the recruiting force, "but just wait till you see my brother. He's two inches taller than I. He'll be here in two or three days to enlist too. He hasn't quite finished helping dad with the planting." Wife Beater Ducked. Kansas City, Mo.—A new form of punishment has been devised by Judge Herrod of the city court for wife beaters. After sentencing George Martin to a hundred days on the rock pile Judge Herrod ordered the patrolmen who escorted him to the "farm" to stop on their way past the Missouri river and duck their prisoner three times. Martin beat his wife because she could not make the baby stop crying. WOMAN AT FRONT Mrs. Vincent Astor's Life Was Twice Endangered. German Artillery Fired on Party at an Observation Post—Visited Country Devastated by Germans In Their Retreat—Extent of Ruin She Saw Beyond All Conception. Paris—Mrs. Vincent Astor recently returned from a two day trip to the devastated region evacuated by the Germans in the retreat to the Hindenburg line and an inspection of the French front in the vicinity of Coucy La Fere and St. Quentin. Twice Mrs. Astor was endangered when an aerial battle was fought overhead, and the danger of falling shell cases after the anti-aircraft shrapnel had exploded round about the fighting ```markdown ``` Photo by American Press Association. MRS. VINCENT ASTOR. aircraft caused all the members of the party to seek shelter in an old underground dugout constructed by the Germans before the retreat and again when the party's presence upon an observation point commanding a view of the German line provoked activity among the Krupp batteries and several German shells whistled uncomfortably near. "I was scared both times," asserted Mrs. Actor, "and it was near enough to the actual fighting line for me."⁵ Mrs. Actor sold the wildest imagination could not visualize the destruction wrought by the Germans in their wanton attempts to lay waste France. "I cannot understand how the Germans spared the soldiers and explosives so completely" said Mrs. Actor. "I hope they won't be able to continue devastating the country as they are forced back out of France." Mrs. Astor visited Prince Eitel Friedrich's observation post near Noyon, where before the retreat the Germans viewed the activities along the old French line. This cleverly concealed position, offering a view of a wide expanse of the front and bearing innumerable evidences of its recent occupancy by the German prince and his staff, interested her greatly. She obtained there several souvenirs like shoulder straps of the German officers of distinguished regiments and buttons from the tunices of crack German units which she found among litter left behind when the invaders retreated. GOT 26 DUCKS IN 12 SHOTS. Yukon Hunter's Big Bag From Birds in Flight. Dawson, Y. T.-Ed Doran of South Dawson made, according to number of shots fired, a record killing of ducks on the Kliondike lakes near Jackson gulch. He left home with only seventeen shells, thinking from his past experience that number would be ample. At 1:30 a.m., m the ducks began to arrive, and in the dusk Doran fired five shots at indistinct forms without bringing any down. Then with seven shells he landed as many birds singly. By this time the ducks were coming in showers, and, it being impossible to select single birds, he began ground glutting them and with his last five shots laid out nineteen cold and wounded seven or eight more that got away in the brush and darkness. Doran says it was the greatest flight he ever saw, and if he had had enough shells he would have beaten Jack Lee's record of fifty-two ducks in less than one hour, which Jack repeated three times about ten years ago up the Klondike. SEEKKS LABOR DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF HIS DOG Los Angeles, Cal.-Hero, worth $20,000 and for a long time the pet of the children who frequent the moving picture houses in the west, was killed while in pur- suance of his duties the other day. So Harry Marks, who own- ed the cane, has applied to the Los Angeles labor board for pay- ment under the terms of the compensation law. Marks, with tears in his eyes, said that Hero was the sole support of himself and his invalid wife, and he wanted damages commensurate with their loss. National Guardsman, Broke, Couldn't Arrange For His Final Discharge. San Antonio, Tex.—Grover C. Weems, twenty-one years of age, a member of Company M, Second Florida regiment of the national guard, reached San Antonio the other day on foot, having walked all the way from Miami, Fla., to secure his final discharge from the militia and join the regular army. He walked, he said, because he wanted to transfer to the regular army, was broke and couldn't arrange for his final discharge from the company without coming here. He was arrested four times on the road—at Monroe, La.; at Jewett, Tex.; near Gulfport, Miss., and at Passigoula, La. While he wore his national guard uniform, he was arrested twice on suspicion that he had deserted. He was arrested twice for failure to register. He was released each time after showing that he was a member of Company M, Second Florida infantry, mustered out March 17 and held in reserve. He had the misfortune to be arrested once at Jewett, Tex., while stopping there to visit a young lady to whose father he was persona non grata. The people along the way, he said, treated him right. He was well fed and frequently given a lift by autoists. SOLDIER RISKS LIFE, WINS NURSE AS BRIDE Private, Injured In Burning Building, Weds Girl Who Took Care of Him. New York.—His heroism in rushing into a burning building and extinguishing the blaze may result in causing Leo Heck, member of Company H, Seventy-first regiment, national guard, to undergo an operation at Bellevue hospital, but it also brought him a bride. The girl in the case is Miss Helen Maud Lymer, a nurse, or Toronto. They were married at Hamilton, Ontario. Heck was in a military camp up state when he saw a fire in a big dwelling house. While he was fighting the blaze in the third story the floor gave way and he fell to the floor below. He was taken to a hospital near by, where Miss Lymer, who was employed there, was assigned to nurse him. Before he left the hospital the patient and his nurse had fallen in love. Heck recently came to Bellevue hospital on furthough to consult doctors and was told that an operation probably would be necessary. While awaiting an X ray examination he learned that his fancee had gone to Hamilton to serve as nurse in a hospital for wounded British soldiers. Heck left for Hamilton on the first train, and the pair were married by the Rev. W. B. Figle of the Hamilton Baptist church. Heck has returned here for the X ray examination. COWBELLS SAVE CHERRIES. Farmer Rigged a Water Wheel on Wife's Churn to Ring Them. Redding, Cal.-W. A. Bull of Igo has saved his big cherry crop with cowbells operated by a waterwheel. Bull has an orchard up South Fork creek. His cherries ripened, but as fast as they matured birds picked them off. Bull rigged up some ordinary scarecrows. They did well enough for a day or so, or until the wise birds detected the fraud. As a last resort Bull tied several cowbells in the treetops and to the tinklers attached strings, which he jerked from his front porch. The cowbells' jangling scared the birds away all right and bld fair to save the cherry crop, but Bull got tired of jerking the strings all day long. Now, he has a water wheel that runs his wife's churn. So Bull attached the strings to the churn dasher. As the water wheel went its rounds the churn dasher bobbed up and down, and the cowbells kept up their jangling in the treetops all day long. The birds were scared away effectually, and Bull saved his cherry crop. COAL MINE IN BACK YARD. This Man Doesn't Have to Worry About Next Winter's Prices. Roanoke, Va.-With the promise of winter coal being around $10 a ton, how would you like to have a coal mine right in your back yard? That's what P. H. Rover of Bluefield has just discovered. Mr. Rover's back yard runs north in the same way that north appeared to the little boy at school-toward the top of the page-or it is just a mountainside. A coal seam had been discovered on the opposite side of the ridge, and Mr. Rover thought it would be worth investigating on his side. But little digging was needed to reveal the seam, which was four feet in thickness. Old Man Climbs Windmill. Hiawatha, Kan.—Though Henry Adams of this city is eighty-two years old; he doesn't have to call in help when a little something goes, wrong with his windmill. Recently he climbed to the top of a forty foot windmill and made some needed repairs. 72 SIMON SIMPLE'S FIRST LESSONS IN LOWNISN THAT'S IT. SEE WHO CAN DO THE FUNNIEST STUMP OFF THE SPRING BOARD. IT WILL BE FUNNY VENI BOUNCE VERE ISIT DOWN YES. HA·HA·HA HA·HA·HA YOU FORGOT TO BOUNCE DUTCH IT'S YOUR TURN TO BE FUNNY. HOW? YES? IT'S YOUR EYE PEELED FOR ANY TRICKS. International Cartoon Co. N. WHY YOU CRAZY GALOOT ILL LAND ON YOU VILL DIS BE A TRICK? YOU LANDED YES? UND DEN YOU GO VAY FROM HERE—SO! HA·HA·HA VY LOOK WHO HAS COME BACK HERE HA·HA·HA WHY HE'S A REGULAR STAR PERFORMER The NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL, Durham, N. President, James E. Shepherd, Durham, N. C. The image shows a long, linear structure with a series of evenly spaced columns and a central building. The building appears to be a large institutional or public building, possibly a university or a government office, given its architectural style and the presence of a tower or a spire. The surrounding area is relatively flat with some trees or shrubs, suggesting a rural or semi-rural setting. "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 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 preign mission fields, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. secretaries and district nurses receive a comprehensive grasp of their studies under a Wellesley graduate and experienced co-workers and actual every-day practice through the school's SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT. A HIGH STANDARD COLLEGE DEPARTMENT has now been establish We aim also to create a better qualified ministry. Industrial training, advanced literary branches, business school. Thirty-two acres; ten modern buildings; heathful location. We can accommodate a few more earnest, ambitious students. Communities requiring social workers should write us. NEXT SCHOOL TERM OPENS OCT. 4, 1916. 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Tones up the Stomach, relieves indigestion and removes that tired feeling. HARRIS CHEMICAL COMPANY, Washington, D. C. build by all good drugstores. has been used for 100 years by men and women everywhere for dandruff, itching scalp and falling hair. Use it faithfully and prevent baldness and at the same time make your hair beautiful, lustrous and strong. Try one bottle. Ask your druggist. You can test ED. PINAUD'S by sending 10c. to our American Offices for a little bottle. Note how pure and fragrant it is. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year in advance ..... $2.00 Six months ..... 1.00 Three months ..... 50 Subscription monthly ..... 20 In our issue of May 26 we asserted that the Colored people, as a class, attach too low a value to the advantages of large possessions of property, and that this is one of the most marked differences between the white and black races. The evidences of this are abundant. When we compare the races of Europe and Africa we find that it is so. When we compare the white and black races in America we find that it is so. The colored man of America has inherited not a few of the racial ideals of his eastern progenitors, and among these is an almost contempt for property as compared to the white man. The reason for the difference was originally doubtless climatic. The harsh climate of the north forced the white Europeans to build substantial and tight houses to protect them from the blasts of winter, and to lay up stores of provisions to last them during long winter seasons. These buildings and stores, after the people ceased to live in caves and to subsist by fishing and hunting, became a necessity. This necessity began habits of thrift and saving. Substantial buildings and large stores of goods became the rule among them. It naturally followed that permanence of location and security in possession became necessary. This lead to stringent laws against pillage and theft. The rights of property became paramount among the white races. Consequently we observe that nearly all of their main laws related to the safeguarding of property. Property was as sacred as life itself. It is easy from this to trace the evolution to the attainments of the white man in architecture, engineering, the fine arts, and in the vast storing of products and the trading in them. Among the results have been great wealth in the aggregate and great individual wealth Industrial wealth affords a measure of leisure from the druggery of manual labor. Such leisure affords an opportunity for study and culture. Study and culture in turn afford a better knowledge of social and economic laws. The same total result today is that the white man of the cold north has mastered nature and the elements, and he is slowly but surely comprehending the true economic laws. The white man of America is simply an offshoot of the white man of Europe. He has the same ideals and aims. The native of Africa lived in a hot climate. He required little protecting shelter or clothing. The fruits of the soil were abundant the year round. There was an abundance of land. If one man stole from another it was not a great inconvenience. If one tribe enroached on another it was not a vital inconvenience to move to another locality. Property was held in relative low estimation. He made and enforced few laws for the safeguarding of property. His property consisted mainly in his huts, his weapons and regalia and his small flocks of cattle and poultry. The property was not of a substantial or a permanent character, and yet it was sufficient for his needs. Beyond the bare needs of subsistence and caution against sudden forays, he was chiefly interested in the supernatural, in mysteries and in social forms and regulations. His science related mainly to the metaphysical, to morals and religion. To what extent has the black man in America imported the ideals if his eastern progenitors with reference to the value of and the necessity for property? What does take a critical survey When we take a critical of the financial and economic accomplishments of our people in the political and industrial manhood, we cannot escape the conviction that they have a relative contempt for property. They seem to be content with small property, with limited wealth, and small economic accomplishment. This will not do in America. The climate is not congenial for it. The conditions as to competition with other races or classes are such that a tendency to abide in this attitude will be fatal. On this continent we must measure arms with all competitors in ideals, thought and endeavor. We must use the same weapons, the same tools, the same methods. If the proposed Commercial Exchange shall accomplish nothing else, it is to be hoped that it will make an awakening, among our local people on the value of larger attainments, especially in the securing and holding of more property. GRADUATES. In our issue of July 21, we spoke on this subject and promised to say more. We were speaking of the usual courses of study in our high schools and colleges. We do not advocate industrial and technical education in those schools. There should be special schools for that purpose. And we oppose any sort of special education for the colored youth as such. The idea of class or caste should never be permitted to govern in the curriculum of the colored schools designed for general cultural training. But we do contend that the general training of the youth of any community should bear some relation to their peculiar needs of that class of community. Thos peculiar needs are to be determined (a) by the preponderant occupation of the community or what it is likely to be during the next generation. (b) by the parental training of the youth supplemental to that of the school, (c) by the training of the youth by contact with the community during the period of his term in school and (d) by the probable nature and extent of his inspiration by contact after he has left school. There are many high schools and colleges whose students come from families of considerable wealth and culture; whose fathers are engaged in many forms of industry and trade, and whose associations are with people engaged in all sorts of technical and business occupations. After they graduate, if they design to go into business, there is open to them not only every opportunity for inspiration, but suggestion and opportunity for employment and practical technical training. One young man may enter his father's bank or factory or store, or that of a friend of associate of the family. His contact and conversation during his whole youthful career has already fitted him to enter naturally upon such a career Now let us on the other hand suppose a high school for colored youth. He enjoys no such advantages if he does not get them in school room. If he does not elect to prepare for a learned profession, what is the nature of his preparation for a business life? His first handicap is that he has no opening for business employment except a monial and non-lucrative sort. Would he succeed in business, he must make his own opening. His second handicap is lack of capital. His third and worst handicap is that he lacks a certain fundamental inspiration and knowledge to fit him to overcome the first two handicaps. He does not and can not get it at home or in society. He should get it in some way. The only recourse is the school. If he does not get some business inspiration in the school—unless he is a mental, phenomenor or a natural Napoleon of finance (and those instances are rare)—he will not get it at all. We are not an expert in pedagogy and the philosophy of education, but it would seem to require no expertness to see that every colored youth should receive some fundammal business training. Let our educators give some thought to this. Would it not be practicable to cut slightly the courses in Latin, French, German, Literature and mataphysics to make place for a study on economics, including production, trade, money and the mechanism of exchange? If the public school and the college does not consent to give some fundamental training in business, recourse should be had in private schooling. Perhaps the local Commercial Study Club and the Commercial Exchange can do something in this direction in Washington. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. We are trying to keep cool this hot season. But the other day we were almost hot in the collar. And the funny thing about it was that we did not become "het up" until some time after the provocation had passed. We were-trying to justify to a certain man why we have given so much support to the proposition for a business awakening here in Washington among the colored people, and why we want the proposed Commercial Exchange. "It will require a Booker T. Washington for that," was one of his luminous observations. In fact, this was his parting shot. His other observations, mostly obstructive suggestions, were on a par with this, though not so clear and pointed. We only had time to remark in reply that Mr. Booker T. Washington had had an exceptional opportunity to do a work of the sort we are advocating, but that he never did any practical work of the sort—none whatever. We have no quarrel with Mr. Booker T. Washington. Requiescat in pace. De mortuis nihil nisi bonum. He did the work he undertook to do very well, viz, he made an eminent personal success and he raised considerable money for educational purposes. But we give fair notice to the deciples of Booker T. Washington that we will not much longer submit to such talk as that quoted above. If we are forced to speak out plainly and give reasons we will not shirk the task. It is a pretty pass that no one can now advocate practical business progress for the colored people without being told that Booker T. Washington has already put them on the road to progress, or without being reminded that Booker T. Washington is dead. Absurd! OPPORTUNITY. It is probable that the Colored race will never again meet with such a splendid opportunity for industrial and commercial independence as it finds today. By today we mean in the next ten years. These are epoch making days. Great changes will follow the present war. There will not be so much political changes as industrial and commercial. While the war is in progress and while the wounds are healing and readjustments are taking place, there will be more than ever before an even opportunity for all classes and races. After that time—two allow for it about ten years—new considerations will begin to crystallize. We shall never again have bodily slavery in the world. The danger is in industrial slavery, hateful proscriptions, commercial warfare. If that condition comes, the first sufferers will be those who are unprepared. Preparedness will consist in owning some land and possessing some capital in other forms. The Colored people in many parts of the country are now in position to earn a good deal of money in wages. Let them save it. Let them save it. Cut out extravagance. Cut out frivolity. Let them save it. "Put money in thy purse." "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads out to fortune." "Opportunity knocks at least once at every man's door. It is the deaf and the irresolute who pass it by." Save now. Be prepared for the opportunity that is sure to come. CHARACTER The crown and glory of life is character. Character is power and influence: Character in the men of a nation is of more importance than the form of its institutions. Character is what a man is; reputation is what one is thought to be. A man's character, being himself, must be molded by himself alone. "Genius," says Bulwer, "is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose." Every man who is steadfastly resolute and a vigilant observer can attain success. Strength of character is resolution. "The truest wisdom is a resolute determination," said Napoleon. The man of strong character is he who achieves success in business. Character does not consist alone in honesty towards others, but also in honesty with ourselves. We want more men and women of character. The man who can master himself can easily control events and men. AMERICAN NEGRO AND WORLD DEMOGRACY WORLD DEMOCRACY. The Richmond Planet, edited by our distinguished friend, John Mitchell, Jr., of Richmond, Va.; was barred from the mails last Saturday, August 4, because it contained an article written by Uzziah Miner. The Captions was "American Negro and World Democracy." The editor of The Bee has read the article and he sees nothing in it except a defense of the Colored American against unfair treatment in this country. If the time has come that an American citizen cannot defend himself against oppression and criticise those who fail to do their duty in upholding the Constitution, then it is about time for the Colored American to wait until the resurrection of Christ and allow Him to judge those who come before Him and sentence them according to the deeds they have committed against humanity during their natural life. The article in question is a masterly defense of the Colored American. Notwithstanding the treatment the Colored Americans are receiving they are loyal to the republic and will defend their country against the Common Enemy. All that the Colored man wants is fair play. MISS SUSIE ROOT RHODES. If there is one honest, fair and noble woman in official life in this city, it. is Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, member of the Board of Education and Director of the Washington play grounds. She is a true defender of the oppressed. When The Bee says "opposed" it means the Colored American because they are the only, oppressed class in the country. Mrs. Rhodes advocates, and believes in fair play. She believes in giving all classes irrespective of color equality of citizenship when it is consistent with good government. As a member of the Board of Education the Colored teachers and the Colored schools would not wish a better champion. She will not be a party to deception and neither will she permit the innocent to be stabbed in the back without notice to the victim. She denounces the demagogues and upholds the righteous be invited to address the Colored citizens of Washington. SPECIALISTS. Now-a-days nearly every man must be a sort of a specialist. He must know some one string well. The day of the jack-of-all-trades is past. All kinds of work are equally important, equally honourable. The day is fast coming, when skill and proficiency will be equally rewarded. WEST WASHINGTON. WEST WASHINGTON Rev. T. W. Brooks is now the acting pastor of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, 29th street, northwest, during the absence of the regular pastor, Rev. D. M. D. Tuepeau, who has been granted several weeks leave. Rev. Brooks will preach Sunday morning. Rev. Charles P. Corner, late acting pastor of the First Baptist church, will preach a special sermon Sunday morning, 11 o'clock, August 19, 1917. All are invited. Woman's day will be celebrated Sunday morning at Jerusalem Baptist Church, P street between 26th and 27th streets, northwest. A very interesting program will be rendered. A choir of fifty women will be a feature in the program of exercises. Rev. Geo. Harris, pastor; Mrs. M. F. Coldwell, presiding; Mrs. M. F. Thompson, misses of exercises; seats free. The closing exercises of the Reny Philips Building, N street, took place Friday afternoon and was largely attended and the entire program, one merit and pleasure. Misses Mc Daniel and McNeal, teachers, are to be congratulated in the art of games and amusements and needle work, taught during the summer. Refreshments were served by a committee of young misses of the Play Ground and the parents who were presented the teachers thanks for the interest taken by him during the session. The grim monster, death, has again suddenly visited the ranks of the waiters in this city. Its last victim being Mr. William Green who was overcome by the heat and died on last Friday morning at ten o'clock. Funeral services were held Tuesday, August 7, at 1 o'clock, from the Chapel of Joseph I. Bailey and Co., undertakers, Third and K streets, northwest. Rev. W. J. Howard, officiating. Mr. Green was long employed at the Mept Hotel. A beautiful wreath was sent from the waiters. Mr. Robert Green, of Md., brother of the deceased came to the city and made arrangements for the funeral. Supposed to Be Hidden In Railroad Labosers' Camp. Lincoln, Neb.—In a box car camp of Greek railroad laborers' somewhere along the line of the Union Pacific railroad there is a priceless marble head of the Greek goddess of health, carved by a Greek sculptor of the fourth century B. C., and stolen from the museum at Tegea, Greece, where the balance of the statue of the goddess still stands. The governors of Nebraska and Wyoming have been asked to investigate and see if they cannot locate the missing head. The request comes from Secretary of State Lansing and is made at the request of the Greek government at Athens. There are thousands of Greek laborers on western railroads, and some one of these is thought to have stolen the head of the goddess before he left Greece. The request, from the state department does not give the details of the theft. The head is thirty centimeters in height, according to the description inclosed in the request that a search of the railroad camps be made. HALF OF U. S. DOCTORS ARE UHFIT FOR ARMY More Than 70,000 Will Be Eliminated by the Standardi- Washington.-Of the 140,000 physicians in the United States less than one-half are available or desirable for medical duty in the military service, in the opinion of the New York committee of the medical section of the Council of National Defense. Therefore it proposes drafting of physicians selectively upon a basis of federal classification by a medical census. These views have been laid before the general medical board by Major Karl Connell and other members of the New York committee. The committee also set forth that there is a decided shortage of physicians ready to volunteer for war work. The committee on standardization of medical and surgical supplies and equipment, which has been at work on the problem of overcoming the shortage in surgical supplies and instruments due to the large percentage of this material which has hereof been imported from Germany, reported that through co-operation among American manufacturers, substantial progress had been made in increasing the output for war purposes. The committee is rapidly perfecting a complete standardization of all medical instruments and apparatus, through which the simplest type and the smallest number of styles of instruments consistent with scientific performance will be turned out by all manufacturers. INDICT BERKMAN FOR MURDER Anarchist Accused of Plotting Fatal Bomb Explosion. San Francisco--Alexander Berkman, anarchist, was indicted by the grand jury here for murder in connection with the bomb explosion here last July, in which ten lives were lost. He is accused of taking part in the conspiracy, which, the state charges, culminated in the explosion. Mrs. Rena Money was put on trial here for one of the bomb murders, and her husband, Thomas, and Warren K. Billings are under sentence of death and life imprisonment respectively for murder, growing out of the explosion. growing. Berkshire, now serving two years in the federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., for conspiracy to defeat the draft law in New York city, with the aid of Emma Goldman, also sentenced to two years' imprisonment, published an anarchist paper called the Blast about the time of the explosion. District Attorney Flickert said efforts will be made to bring Berkman here for trial before the expiration of his sentence. REMOVES MEN'S HATS. Patriotic Young Woman Member of Band Adopts Forcible Methods. Defiance, O.-Miss June Spelser, a member of the Girl's band of Defiance, took an unusual method to teach respect for the national anthem to an audience at Florida the other evening. The band was playing "The Star Spangled Banner" in a street in Florida when Miss Spelser noticed that the men in the audience did not remove their hips. their nails. She put down her born in the middle of the selection, walked toward the audience and removed the hat from the head of the first man she met. Several others were treated to the same dose, and finally all hats came off, and there was great applause for the patriot little lady, who is sixteen years of age. 6. Red, White and Blue. Hogs of Red, White and Blue Hutchinson, Kan.-One Hutchinson swine raiser, L. E. Griffith, is patriot to the limit. All of his hogs are red, white and blue. He has Duroc Reds, Chester Whites and the new breed of blue hogs known to breeders as the Sapphires. Griffith, who is nicknamed Red for obvious reasons, declares, that there is nothing blue about him, although he is sh ping in corn at $1.65 a bushel to feed to his red, white and blue hogs. Rancher Injured by Fall Shows Gameness Getting to Neighbor's Cabin. Laramie, Wyo.—An idea of the gameness of some of Wyoming's ranchers was gained recently, with the arrival in Laramie of Bob Holcombe, a rancher in the Sand creek country, who went eighteen hours with a broken leg and no medical aid. He crawled one mile on his hands and knees with a broken leg dragging after him. He made another mile on improvised crutches made out of a one inch plank and then put on his own splints with a broken up cracker box and five empty flour sacks Holcombie was working a bunch of cattle about four miles from his ranch and two miles from the nearest house. The horse he was riding slipped and fell on Holcombe's right leg. It snapped between the knee and ankle. Knowing there was no help within two miles, the gameness of the man asserted itself. Suffering excruciating pain, he crawled on his hands and knees for a mile, where he had noticed a one inch plank. With the ald of a knife he broke this plank lengthwise and, putting one piece under each arm, used them as crutches and traveled a mile to the cabin of a friend. Here he broke up a cracker box and with his knife whittled out some rough splints. With the ald of five flour sacks he bound on the splints. The friend then telephoned to a neighbor for a car and brought the injured man to the city. NOVEL MANY YEARS AGO PREDICTED A WORLD WAR Old World May Be So Depopulated and Impoverished That It Will Never Recover. Basel, Switzerland. — Nearly thirty years ago, in 1888, a novel was published in Leipzig under the title "Surya." In this book the following prophecles appear: In 1904 the first clash between western and eastern countries will take place. "In 1012 the Balkans will be drenched with blood and the corpses of hundreds of thousands of slain men will cover the battlefields. From this bloody struggle the most fearful war of all history will develop. The entire civilized world and even savage tribes will be drawn into the horrible conflagration, which will turn all Europe into a howling wilderness in three years. The war will continue until all of the bellgirents are exhausted and the armies in the field rebel against the awful slaughter. It will end with a general uprising of the masses. The revolution will start in one of the largest countries engaged in the war and bring horrors which may make those of the French revolution appear like child's play. Within a few months the revolution will spread over all Europe, and when it ends the old world will be depopulated and so impoverished that it may never be able to recover." The first two of these prophecies have come true, and the third one is partly fulfilled. In 1904 the war between Russian and Japan started, and 1912 brought the first Balkan war, which was followed at once by the second. From these struggles the present horrible world war developed. Almost the entire world is fighting. Revolution has overturned the government of Russia. Will the general revolution, the horrid climax predicted by the writer, also come? HONOR FOR ONE REDHEAD. Dr. Marion Leroy Burton To Be a Life Member of the Association: Alexandria, Ind.—A life membership in the National Association of Redheads probably will be voted to Dr. Marion Leroy Burton, president of the University of Minnesota, a redhead, when the organization meets in Indianapolis. The Minnesota educator worked in a drug store in Minneapolis twenty-five years ago, delivering packages at a salary of $0 a week. To his friends he was known as "Redhead" and "Bricktop." Now he receives $10,000 annually as the head of the state university. Plans for the annual meeting of the Redhead sootility in August will be made in a short time. Virgin Islands Postal Order. Washington, - Postmaster General Burleson has issued an order making the domestic postage rates and conditions applicable to mail exchanged between the Virgin Islands, formerly known as the Danish West Indies, and the United States. GETS LETTER MAILED SIXTEEN YEARS AGO Salem, Ore.—Sixteen years on its way a letter has just reached E. M. Croison of Salem, Ore., from J. Sutton Burns of Booneville, Mo. Mr. Burns had crossed the plains in 1846 with Mr. Croison's parents, and the son wrote the pioneer in 1910. He had given him up for dead until the letter came. It had apparently been lying somewhere in the hands of the postoffice department. The Week in Society "Broken through all previous records this season in the sale of soda water and ice cream soda is a fact we are pleased to tell our patrons," declares BOARD'S DRUG STORE at 1912% 14th Street, N. W. This shows that the public appreciates a refreshing, invigorating and wholesome beverage. When you feel tired and languid there is nothing that will restore your vitality and spirits as a glass of cold, sparkling soda water, or a sunday with that luscious, rich fruity flavor served at Board's Drug Store on Fourteenth Street. Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Pinkett and their little daughter, Louise, left the city last Sunday afternoon to spend several weeks with the parents of Mr. Pinkett, at Luray, Virginia. With them were the two sisters of Mr. Pinkett, Mrs. Daisy B. Gordon of Beatrice, Nebraska, and Mrs. Carrie Bell of Atlantic City, N. J. P. Burrell or Atlantic Mr. Pinkett's parents celebrated their Golden Wedding on last Tuesday, and Mrs.Gordon and Mrs. Burrell, were enroute home to join in the celebration. bration. Mrs. W. Calvin Chase, Jr., and daughter, Rosalyne, Mie Charles T. Terry, Jr.; Miss Gertrude Smallwood and Miss Andrey Wooden left the city last Monday evening to spend some time at Cross Roads; Charles County, Maryland. The Bee is the peoples paper. Fourth Anual Picnic, Oldest Inhabitants at Green William Park Wednesday, August 15. All Washington will turn out to this grand social gathering. Do you intend to attend the picnic of The Oldest Inhabitants at Green William Park Willow Park. Miss Alberta Johnson, who has been conducting the social columns of The Bee with a degree of satisfaction and who has a great social acquaintance to the paper is now taking a vacation. Miss Homegilla Ricks, who has been managing the business end of The Bee, on account, of the illness of her mother was compelled to give up the management temporarily. Miss Ricks is not only an accomplished lady but a thorough business one who's services, were a loss to the paper. Misses Green and Walter succeeded Misses Ricks and Johnson. Ricks and Johnson. Mr. John H. Dorsey, who has been sick, is out again and is spending the summer at Colten's Point for his health. health. Mrs. Martha-Ricks, of 1523 Church street, northwest, is visiting her eldest son, the Rev. Edgar E. Ricks, now at Roonoke, Va. pastoring at Roanoke, Miss Julia Dixon has been sick at the home of two friends, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. R. Bell, 409 O sreet, northwest, for several weeks. She hopes to go to her home, Christiansburg, Va., as as she is able to travel. soon as she is the Mr. and Mrs. Fair, of Jersey City, N. J., was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Chestnut, 303 L street, northwest, last week. After a pleasant stay they left in home. Saturday. for their studies. Rev. W. D. Battles, pastor of Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church, accompanied by many Zion ministers of the city and Miss S. J. Jenifer, who represents the National Sunday School, left for Chicago Monday night to attend the Bishops' Council that convened in that city on Wednesday. Miss Jenifer will be gone till September as she is to visit many friends in the city before returning home. west before returning Miss J. H. Foster and baby have gone to the home of the mother of the husband and Mrs. Foster is in Fairview, Va., where they will remain until September. until September Mrs. Louise K. Harrison, wife of Mr. E. S. Harrison, of 1101 Que st., northwest, left Saturday, August 4, at 4:10 a. m. on the Memphis Special via Southern Ry. for Helena, Arkansas then to Marvell, Arkansas to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kendall, her brother, Dr. E. A. Kendall and his wife, Mrs. Lillian Kendall, her sister, Mrs. F. E. Byrd, matron of Shorter College, North Little Rock, and a host of relatives, also her husband's parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. H Harrison, of Brinkley, Arkansas. She will be away the entire month of August. August. Miss Margarite Brent of 1306 W st., northwest, is in Pittsburgh, Pa., visiting relatives. She will remain away till fall term of school begins. till fall term of school. Hon. Andrew F. Hillyer, of this city, is planning to visit his son, Attorney Gale P. Hillyer and wife, at 2820 Du pont Ave., South Minneapolis, Minn. pont Ave., South Kearney Mrs. Lucy Burwell has returned to her home in Raleigh, N. C. While here in the city she attended the marriage of her son, Dr. H. R. Burwell. Miss M. E. Kelly, of this city, was called to Claremont, Va., on account of the illness of her mother. Miss M. E. Brent, of this city, is visiting Mrs. Gerteud Brooks| of North Side, Pittsburgh, Pa. the South Side Mrs. E. Butler, wife of BenJ. W. Butler, was the guest of her sister and brother-in-law. Rev. M. M. Sunningham, of 1331 S. May st. W. Phila., Pa. has returned to the city after a very long stay. pleasant week-end stay Mrs. Benjamin W. Butler, of 1229 nth st., northwest, is visiting her sis Dr. James E. Shepard, president of the National Training School, Durham, N. C., and Prof. William G. Pearson, principal of the Whitted High School, same city, were in town last week, en route to New York City. route to New Rector T. J. Brown, of St. Lukes P. E. Church is very favorably mentioned for vacant suffragan Bishopric church. of his church. Mr. John Elcock, a student of Howard University, died suddenly a few days ago in Montreal, Canada. His remains were taken by his father to the family home in Trinidad, British West Indies. graving and printing Mr. Andrew J. Payne, of the Treasury Department, begins his annual leave today. He and his family will spend the remainder of the month at Midland, Va. Mr. Payne was recently honored with a merited promotion; being advanced to $1,500 per annum in the office of the Supervising Architect. Mr. George J. Dawson is preparing a volume of poems. to issue a volume of poetry Mme. E. Axalla Hackley is to return to the city in October for a season of Queens' Pageants and folk-song festivals. ter, Mrs. Lucy Meredith, at Manassas, Na. Miss A. A. Shaw, one of our prominent kindergarten teachers, has returned to the city after a pleasant vacation in Philadelphia, Ocean City, and Alantic City. Miss Shaw will leave the city in a few days to join her sister, Miss Lucy B. Shaw, who is summarizing Harmer's Ferry, W. Va. mering at Harper Miss Toledo Burnside, of 418 U st., who has been very ill, is greatly improved. proved. Miss Florence Murry, a student of Howard University, is visiting her classmate, Miss Ruth Peggram, of Lake, N. J. Spring Lake, N. Miss Minnie Wright has returned to her home in Newark, N. J., after a delightful visit to this city. delight Mr. Earl Brown, a student, of Howard University, who has traveled extensively, since the close of school, now in Saratoga, N. Y. is now in Strategy Mrs. Maria Banks, of Newark, N. J., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Carrie Terrell, of Deprees St., Northwest. rell, of Depress St. N. Norwalk, Mrs. Gregg, of Sherman ave., northwest, is visiting at her home in Atlan- town. ta, Ga. The mother of Dr. Harry E. Ross, who has been quite ill is recuperating in Luray, Va. Mr. F. Miles., of 12th St., northwest, has returned to the city after a pleas- ant visit to Canada. ant visit to Canada. Mrs. Fannie B. Vance, is again house- keeping in a charming little apartment at 1769 Oregon, where she will be pleased to see her many friends. pleased to see her many Mrs. Howard D. Brown, of Seattle, is expected in the city soon on a short trip. short trip. Mrs. Wm. O. Gibson, a cooking school teacher at the Whittier School, of Phoebus, Va., has returned to her home, after a pleasant stay of three weeks in this city. weeks in this Hon. Archibold H. Grimke and Miss Angelina Grike of this city are spending their vacation with Mr. and Mrs. of Roxbury, Mass. E. E. Brown, of Roscoe C. Bruce, Mrs Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe C. Bruce, Mrs Blance K. Bruce, Miss Mary Burrill, Mr. Neval H. Thomas, Mrs. John W. Johnson and Miss Clara Bruce of this city are to motor to Boston next week and will be the guests of Mrs. Mary Ross Dorsey. Ross Dorsey Miss Ida Spencer, of this city, is the guest of her sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Greene, of 22 Walters, Boston, Mass. pole st., Boston, mass. Rev. W. H. Jerngln and his two daughters left the city for Atlantic City, N. J. Monday morning. City N. J. Monday Mrs. Mayme R. Green of Houston Texas, will spend the summer with her son, Jesse A. Green, a trusted employee of the Treasury Department of city. this city. Miss Gladys Landers of 9th street N. E., left Monday to spend her vacation with Miss Edith Dickerson at Colten's Point Md. She was accompanied by Mrs. Florence Green of Bushwood. Bushwood, Miss Alma Rheay who has been visiting in Bristol Va., has returned to the city to the city Mrs. L. M. Jackson and daughter, Miss Ida May of Philadelphia, are visiting relatives in this city and virginia. Virginia. Mrs. Wm. H. Yorbes of Sharon Hill Pa., has returned, to her home with her boy. While here a successful operation was preformed, having her son's tonsils removed. ABOUT PEOPLE YOU KNOW. Mrs. Bessie Waters Nicholson will spend the later portion of August with her husband, Mr. Harvey S. Nicholson, at Atlantic City. at Atlantic City. Mr. Frank Jackson, of Jackson arks in the city. and Akers, is in the suggestion of Dr. John Van Schaick, Jr., for president of Howard University is taking like wild-fire. He is just the man for the place. He would put the much-needed "pep" in this institution. this institution. M1 Thomas J. Calloway will represent the local Business League at the Chattanooga meeting of the National Negro Business League, which opens next Wednesday. next Wednesday. Mr. Solon S. Chivis, of the appointment division, Treasury Department, has been promoted. has been promoted. Mrs. Daisy W. Iverson, the wellknown poetess, is acting as secretary of the Clarks Training School. She will soon have a volume of selected poems ready for the press. Her recently published memorial tribute to Booker T. Washington has enjoyed a large sale. a large sale. Mrs. Ella Barnett has purchased a fine residence at 909 Westminister street northwest street northwest. Misses Vivian Lucile Thompson and Phoebe Purce were among the young ladyres recently promoted to the exam- ining division at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. West Indies. Miss Male A. D. Madre delivered a forcible address at the meeting of the Northeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs last week at Stamford, Conn. She represented the District of Columbia branch of the National Federation. She was unanimously elected seventh cive-president of the Northeastern Federation. Northeastern Federation Miss Henrietta Winton Davis is preparing to give a series of dramatic recitals, her itinerary to cover a number of the leading churches of the city, prior to undertaking a long tour of the West India Islands. of the West India Island Mme. C. J. Walker and Mrs. M. C. Lawtow, two of New York's most public-spirited women, came to the city last week to call at the White House as representatives of the "Silent Parade," participated in by 10,000 of the best colored people of the nation's metropolis. nation's museopolis. Mrs. Milly Kersands, bringing a message from the golden era of the Negro on the minstrel stage, is at the Howard this week. She is the house guest of Mrs. Ella Barnett, 909 Westminister street. ter street. Dr. W. H. Davis is building a handsome home at Rosecroft, Md. Miss Velma Geen is making a splendid record at the Government Printing Office. ing Office. The American Glee Club, Prof. J. Henry Lewis, director, is to give a song recital at the Officers' Reserve Training Camp at Fort Myer before the close of the season there. They are to appear also for the benefit of the children at Camp Pleasant. NOTES FIRST SEPARATE BATTALION. On July 28th the First Separate Maryland Company from Baltimore was attached to this battalion and ordered to Pittsburgh for guard duty. Major. Walker spent Friday in Baltimore making preparations and seeing that these men got off all right The Company presented a very good appearance and bids fair to make a record of this battalion. record of this battle. On August 4th the recruiting station for the battalion closed after little over two months work. The records show that the work of the recruiting officer and party has been exceptionally good, having added over two hundred men to the ranks of the battalion in the time which they were on this duty. We however need a trifle over thirty men to bring the organization up to its full war strength, but shall have to secure these thru the regular army recruiting work. ing work. Numerous questions have come to the headquarters office as to when the First Separate will move. The Commanding officer has received no information as to when or where the organization is going. In the meantime, the men are going about their regular duties as guardsmen of the Capital in the same soldierly manner that has been the especial characteristic of the battalion. They are also ready to go anywhere they may be ordered. It seems to be a situation where "to move or not to move" is of little importance, they are willing to do either and are ready. PUREAU NOTES. BUREADE NOTES. Mrs. Sarah E. Taylor, of 1813 13th street, northwest, the wife of Robert Taylor, of the Examining Division, whose illness was reported, is very convalescent at the family residence. Relief Association held The Bureau Renter Association a very interesting meeting Sunday afternoon at the Y. M. C. A. building. The organization now numbers over three hundred members. The recent Picnic Committee reported sixty-five dollars, clearing all expenses and a five hundred dollar bank account. Mr. Jno. W. Boston, Pres.; Mr. Jas. L. Turner Secy. Turner, Secy. Mrs. Dyson and Mrs. Ogle, have returned to the Press Room as printer assistants. assistants: The following were recently appointed: Mrs. Effe Hill, Miss L. G. Nesbitt, S. C. Richards, M. Harod Josie Brown, Estella Jackson, Burda Schumack, E. V. Bryant, Bessie Thomas, Ester Dorsey, Ethel Coldwell. A very delightful outing by the Printers' Assistants and friends has been arranged for Saturday afternoon on the beautiful lawn of Mr. John George, Fairmount Heights, of which a fine account will appear in our next issue. LAWN FETE. A beautiful lawn fete, for the benefit of. Camp Pleasant, was given August 1 and 2 upon the beautiful lawn of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Jones, under the supervision of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Jones, under the supervision of Mr. John S. Quondon and a committee of ladies as followers: Mrs. Jennie Hird, Mrs. Green Davis, Mrs. Marie Edwards, Mrs. Christy H. Smith, Mrs. Julia B. Price, Mrs. J. S. Quander and Mrs. Jeannet B. Brooks. The entertainment was largely attended and a little sum was realized from the Camp. realized from the Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jones were tendered a vote of thanks for the use of their beautiful lawn and residence which is beautifully located at 1200 Eye st., northeast. Both Mr. and Mrs. Jones are two genial hosts and hostess. PETER GROGAN SONS AND COMPANY. If you want anything in the line of furniture, the firm of Peter Grogan Sons and Co., should be visited. This is one of the greatest firms in the city and terms arranged to suit our customers. Mention the Bee when you call. The HOWARD THEATRE 7th and Tea Streets. Northwest Andrew J. Thomas Theatre Co., Props. Entire Week Starting Monday, August 13th. With Special Matinees Tues., Thurs., Sat. at 3 o'clock sharp Edgar Lewis' Greatest Achievement of Motion Picture Art. Frank Lewis presents "A Mighty Indictment of Race Hatred" "The Bar Sinister" In the eyes of God all men are equal. The wonder of the age showing the good and evil in all races First time shown in Washington As a lover of your own race and people you will miss the treat of a life-time should you let the "BAR SINISTER" pass you by THE STATELY ELK. It Is the Most Beautiful of Our Re- maining Wild Animals. Now that the buffalo survives only in a few preserves the elk is the most interesting as it is the most beautiful of our remaining wild animals. In this day of Americanism it would be a fine thing if this typical American animal should come to be known by his Indian name of wapiti. The wapiti is the largest of the red deer family and closely resembles his smaller brother, the European stag. The wapiti is not properly an elk, as the European elk is more closely allied to the American moose. The wapiti is now numerous only in the states of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana, though nearly 4,000 head are thought to remain in Colorado, and considerable numbers are scattered through western Canada. The Campfire Club of America and other organizations and individuals are working for its preservation. The favorite home of the elk is the Yellowstone National park, where he has no rifle to fear and where cougars, coyotes and timber wolves are kept under control. In the park and its vicinity are probably 50,000 head, distributed in two main herds. During the summer months the elk live high up in the mountains, generally at an elevation of 8,000 to 11,000 feet. The grassy plateau offers an ideal summer range. Even on the wooded sides of the highest ravines there are parklike glades where the elk late in the afternoons come out to feed. It is difficult to imagine a more beautiful sight than is then afforded by these stately and graceful animals. Although their number in the park may sometimes reach as high as 60,000.head, it is rare for visitors to see a single specimen. Visitors are taken in stages around a regular route arranged for viewing the natural phenomena that great outdoor museum. of that great outdoors. The elk dislike to be pursued by tourists with cameras and keep away from the stage routes. If visitors would leave the highways of the park and seek out its byways, either on foot or by pack and saddle trips, they would have a marvelous opportunity to study the greatest exhibit which survives of our mountain wild life—not only the elk, but mountain sheep, deer, beaver and many other animals. LUMBER INDUSTRY ASLEEP. Forester Says Substitute Materials Are Injuring the Business. Kansas City, Mo.—W. B. Greeley, assistant government forester, spoke of the lumber business as "an industry asleep" in a talk he made to the Southwestern Lumbermen's association at the Hotel Muehlenbach. He said the trade had permitted other building materials to be substituted for wood without making any effort to find new uses for its products, according to the Kansas City Star. has City "All social movements," he said, "affect the lumber business one way or another. The safety first movement has caused a demand for steel cars, fireproof buildings and a revision of the building codes in almost all cities to the detriment of the lumber-business. detriment. "The industry in a sense has been asleep. Substitute materials for lumber have been popularized by the manufacturers. Cement and steel have displaced wood, and the manufacturers of those articles have been delving constantly to find new uses for them. The lumber industry has made no effort to keep itself in the field by finding new uses for its products." "8" ON FISH BACKS. Dealer Reports a New Species Caught Off the California Coast. Los Angeles, Cal.—Cliff Oliver, who markets the fish caught by the Japanese and Russian fishermen of the fishing village north of Santa Monica, claims that for this almost fishless season there has been a fair catch of hallbut and sole. He said further: "The strange part of this catch is that every one of the fish had a perfectly marked 'S' on its back. I have handled hundreds of tons of these fish before and have never seen one that was marked in this way. Maybe it is some new species, but if so it is just like the others that have been caught around the bay, only the 'S' has been added." MONUMENTAL ORCHESTRA Prof. Chas. Hamilton Director GatesOpen 2 P.M. ADMISSION 25 CENTS 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 TO WHOM WILL YOU TRUST YOUR EYES? Did you ever hear of a skilled, reliable physician having Bargain sales, offering to cure diseases for one week only at half price? Does not mean to try on glasses from a trayful until you find a pair that seem to fit. It means, first, that an examination of the interior of the eye must be made; second, that each eye must be examined separately (few eyes are both alike); third, that modern optical science and apparatus must be employed—not salesmanship. be employed—not salesmanship. Dr. Block has spent years in the study and practice of optometry. You may, therefore, feel entirely safe in intrusting your eyes to his care. Our prices are as low as is consistent with the best service. If in need of eye help, don't delay—your eyes are too valuable. Madame Walker's Goods We have the exclusive Wholesale Agency for Madame Walker's Preparations Wholesale and Retail AGENTS SUPPLIED Peoples Drug Store - Agency 7th & M, N. W. KATZ' MARKETS. 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 Average N. W. Lincoln 4940 JUSTH'S OLD STAND. The full success of this business is due to our trade sticking to us. They get full big value and some buy new and slightly used suit cases from us at $1.00 to $4.00 and go off and have a good time besides there's slightly used suits at $5.00 and new pants at $1.00 to $3.00 to save a lot of cash. Justh's Old Stand, 619 D Street. Proposed to Increase Force by 1,500 Men. HUNDREDS. ALREADY ADDED. Secretary Daniels' Recommendation For $7,500,000 Contemplates Building and Machinery, and Large Number of Experts is Expected to Be Called For. If Money is Granted. Washington.—This city's greatly augmented number of government employees since the beginning of war preparations is to be still further added to should congress grant an appropriation for $7,500,000 asked for by Secretary Daniels to increase the capacity of the naval gun factory at the Washington navy yard. While the immediate need of this appropriation is for buildings and machinery, the nec for building essary men to operate the machines will be required in due time, and it is estimated that from 1,000 to 1,500 expert machinists will be added to the present force. present force. To date more than 500 men have been added to the force at the Washington navy yard since the United States declared a state of war to exist between this country and Germany, and Secretary Daniels' request for a larger gun factory means that a much larger force of men will be needed here. of men who Guns, mounts, torpedoes, mines, telescopes, sights, optical instruments and miscellaneous ordnance supplies are to be made at this gun factory in large numbers. The proposed work includes the construction of a six story machine shop for mines, mounts and torpedoes, a five story pattern and wood working shop, an extension to the power plant, a new brass foundry, an extension of the steel forging plant, an optical shop, range finding towers, administration buildings, quarters for enlisted personnel under instruction and the extension of the yard service system to supply adequately these new structures. Buildings are estimated to cost $5,000,000 and equipment needed will amount to $2,500,000. Daniels Discusses Plan. Discussing his recommendation for the appropriation, Secretary Daniels said: "The naval gun factory, possessing as it does a complete organization and a large working force, is readily adapted to increasing its facilities for delivery of guns, mounts and other munitions. To develop any other source is not only expensive, but involves a matter of long delay. It is therefore considered to the best interests of the government to increase at once the capacity of the Washington navy yard." LOCKED DOG IN TOWER. He Stopped the Clock, and There Was No Time. Rome, Ga.-The big city clock in the 600 foot tower on College hill here was stopped by a dog. When City Timekeeper Williamson went to wind the clock two days before, as he does every week, a dog followed him on the winding stairway, and when the timekeeper left he did not notice that he had locked the dog in the clock when he closed the door that leads to it. the door. For two days, without water or food, the dog whined and barked 600 feet above the city, but of course was not heard. Then people of the city looking at the clock saw that it had stopped, and some one notified the timekeeper, who went to see what was the matter. He saw the dog lying against the big pendulum, snarling savagely. A policeman brought the animal safely to earth. It was almost starved by its two days' fast, but has recovered. DRAFT NUMBERS TO BE SOLD. Red Cross Will Get Proceeds From Sale of Souvenirs. Washington—The original numbers used in drawing the new national army have been turned over to the Red Cross. by Provost Marshal General Crowder for sale as souvenirs, the proceeds to be turned into the Red Cross fund. The first eight numbers and the last one, however, will be put back in the bowl and placed in Independence hall, Philadelphia, beside the Liberty bell. The bowl has been donated for this purpose by its owner, Charles R. Morris, a veteran war department clerk. FAMILY IN SCHOOLHOUSE. Could Not Rent Any Other Place and So Moved In. Smith Center, Kan.—In nearly every town in northwest Kansas an overcrowded condition prevails, and many families are unable to find homes to rent. So acute became the lack of houses to rent in this city that a newly arrived family, after importing the school board, was allowed to begin housekeeping in one of the six rooms of the schoolhouse. Now other families seek the same privilege, and the school board may have to yield. Relics of Old Indian Camp. Pierre, S. D.—Between four and eight feet under the surface of the ground C. D. Deland has found pumpkin seeds in good condition, also a piece of pumpkin rind and evidence of an Indian camp at least 100 years old. The soil was windblown and it required many decades to cover the relics. The Indians of the period indicated were agriculturists, not warriors, like the later Stone. EVERYBODY SHOULD DO HIS PART IN THE WAR Should Set For Himself the Highest Standard of Efficiency. Washington. - When you ask the average man, how he thinks the war is being handled he will answer: is doing it. "Oh, we're doing a lot. We're get- ting a lot right." ting along all right. It's an easy answer. But is it the truth? What is "getting along all right?" says Porter Emerson Browne of the Vigilantes. of the Vignantes. In war there is no such thing as getting along all right. There is only one thing that is all right—that is, perfection. Perfection is not human. Humanity has always and will always make mistakes. In war mistakes cost blood and suffering and human lives. Consequently to say we're getting along all right is to condone error and to condone suffering. done suiciding A senator quibbling over some political advantage may cause delays that will mean the death of his own son. will mean a representative too narrow minded to grasp the public weal may squabble over some silly prerogative that will mean the widowing of his own daughter A cabinet member or department head wavering in the winds of indecision may postpone and put off and procrastinate until the price will be the orphaning of his own grandchildren. It is for every man and every woman in the United States of America to set himself the highest standard of efficiency possible and then do his and her utmost to live up to that standard umost to live up to. When mistakes must be paid for in the blood of those we love, the best that is in us is none too good. WRECK OF EXPRESS IS AVERTED BY HER HAT WRECK OF EXPRESS IS AVERTED BY HER HAT Greenwich, Conn. — The next time your wife breaks the news to you that she has bought a new hat it might be wise not to call the hat any names until it has had time to prove what sort of hat it is. There is a remote possibility it might be a heroin hat like the one that Mrs. M. Fillmore Bowen, Christian Science reader of this town, bought. She did not buy it for a heroin hat, but the hat revealed its abilities when she wore it for the first time by preventing the wreck of an express train on the New Haven railroad near Port Chester. Mrs. Bowen boarded a train for New York. At Port Chester she walked through the train looking for a friend. The hat blew off when she was crossing a platform. She notified the conductor. He telegraphed back, and before the Grand Central terminal was reached informed Mrs. Bowen that the hat was waiting for her in the freight station in Port Chester. station in Port Chester. When on her return Mrs. Bowen got the hat she was told that a bootblack at the station had found the hat on the ties beside a split rail. He had run back, she was informed, and reported the split rail. An approaching express train was switched to another track. The split rail was replaced. TO AID WAR DOCTORS. Physicians Taking Their Practice to Give One-third of Fees. Indianapolis—The Indianapolis Medical society has passed resolutions recommending that one-third of all fees collected for professional work by physicians who remain in Marion county during the war from families who were formerly served by physicians in active service of the government be turned over to the absent physician on his return or to his family during his absence. An effort will be made to make the new movement national in time. its scope. The society has 336 members, and at least fifty of them are expected to be called soon. A number of others expect to go later. DIVORCES QUOTED HIGHER. War Makes Lawyers Agree to Increase Their Fees. Canton, O.-Divorce decrees in Stark county are now quoted higher. Feeling the pinch of war prices, the County Bar association has boosted the price of nearly every kind of legal work. Formerly a matrimonially disappointed husband or wife could get a divorce for $25. Now the same kind of a decree will cost $35 if there is no contest. If a fight is made the seeker for marital liberty will have to pay $50. EVEN LIONS FEEL THE HIGH COST OF LIVING San Francisco-Mountain lions evidently have found the high cost of living a hard proposition in the places about Mentone, Cal. Two of them came down from their haunts the other day and killed a couple of burros near the Edison power plant at Mill Spring. One of the jacks was torn to pieces, but the other put up a stiff fight before he became a table d'hote for the itinerant and hungry mountain lions. Enemy of Progress Mortally Wounded, Says Painleve. FRENCH HAIL UNITED STATES. Declare That Entry of America Is Companion Piece to Marne Victory In Assuring Defeat of Germans—Finances of France In Splendid Shape, Says Joseph Thierry. Paris.—Militarism, the great enemy of progress, actually has been mortally wounded by war itself. This summarizes the progress of the last three years, according to Paul Painleve, the minister of war, in reviewing the war. Minister Painleve's summary follows: "Three years of war: imagination at first conjure up mourning and demonstration. However, we dare to say that humanity has progressed during these three years. The great enemy of all progress, militarism, actually has been wounded mortally by war itself. The ideal of the nations of peace expresses itself very precisely against the brutality of nations of conquest A. Photo by American Press Association. PAUL PAINLEVE. and gains little throughout the entire world. Despite the vicissitudes this ideal will triumph. ideal will tradition. "While the curve of German forces has sunk, the curve of the strength of the allies has risen year by year, and the entrance of the United States into the war has given it a sudden and formidable impetus. Germany's fate is determined. determined. "Henceforth France particularly can show with elation its balance of the last three years. Bleeding, still invaded, she is not only greater and more glorious, but she is stronger militarily and politically than on Aug. 2, 1014. If Germany, stripped of its hegemony, ruined in its commerce and reduced to an alliance with several groups of adventurers, today compares itself to France it will show what three years of may have cost it." Joseph Thierry, minister of finance, said; "On the third year of its entry into the war France has the right to assert that it has maintained and is maintaining its financial situation in a shape that no one would in advance have considered possible had one been able to foresee the duration and development of the conflict. or the conflict. "In addition to maintaining a military effort without precedent in history and without analogy in present times, in addition to the mobilization of its active population in larger proportion than any, other people, in addition to having submitted and submitting still to the invasion of parts of its territory, it has raised its fiscal receipts to a point which at present constantly exceeds its peace time product." FINDS BOYHOOD WEALTH. Oregon Farmer Digs Up Coin Buried Sixty-five Years. Salem, Ore. — Sixty-five years ago when John Carpenter, now a farmer east of this city, was five years old, he had hoarded together $1.85. His parents, needing some ready money, borrowed a dollar from the boy. Fearing they might want more, he buried the other 85 cents—a half dollar, a quarter and a dime—in a field on the farm. But he forgot wher he buried the money, and all his boy...h searches proved futile. The other day while plowing Mr. Carpenter turned over the half dollar, and a little search revealed the other two coins. He is in Salem displaying the long buried treasure. One of the pieces was coined in 1774 and another in 1830. The third is so badly worn the date is obliterated. Makes Bomb of Pencil, Loses Hand. Lorain, O.-Aspirations to be a real munition worker just like some of his grown up companions, cost fourteen-year-old John Katonak his right hand and lacerated his knee. Johnny took the lead from a pencil, filled the low tube with powder and plugged in with a dynamite can in each end. He attached electric wires to set off the charge, and when the wires became crossed the explosion followed. 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If you go to England today you are met on the quay at every port by women; your luggage is handled by women; you see women steyedores lifting and moving heavy cargoes; you drive in taxicabs run by women; you board a tramcar driven by women; a woman ballhop carries your valise; a woman clerk registers you in hotels; a woman runs the "lift." If you visit a "pub" a woman waits on you; if you inspect factories you see women working everywhere, and the managers tell you that women have improved the output 90 per cent. A tour into the country shows women at work in the fields—sowing and reaping the harvest which enables the British government to furnish food to its fighting forces. Such is the modern interpretation of "Amazon"—women are now the driving force behind the every-day duties which confront conditions at home when the country is at war. But Englishwomen were slow in becoming the efficient body they are today. Upon England's declaration of war with Germany women volunteered by thousands for service, but many for the same service, and it was months before women realized that to be efficient and of practical assistance to their country they had to subordinate their desires and individualities to the common weal and accept the service assigned them. There is one word which gives the cue to women's success in England and France—teamwork. American women should heed England's experience. Don't all volunteer for the same line of work, but all do the work nearest at hand. And if an American woman finds that in the government work assigned her she is 1 round peg in a square hole she must never complain, but square her shoulders and go to it. In this crisis confronting the United States every women's organization should co-operate for national service and every woman remember the word teamwork. It is teamwork that wins. MESSAGES FLOATED YEARS. One of Three Bottles Found Was Set Adrift in December, 1914. Washington. — Several instances of messages in bottles having floated about the Pacific for years before being recovered have been announced by the United States hydrographic office. A bottle set adrift by Captain S. Naguse of the Tamba Maru (Japanese) Aug. 17, 1015, 900 miles cast of Kamchatka, was recovered May 15 last near Moell. Wash. Another bottle set adrift in December, 1914, of Cape Corrientes, Mexico, was found Feb. 22 last 240 miles north of Christmas island, in the latitude of the Hawaiian Islands. A third bottle, tossed from the schooner W. H. Marsten by Captain E. Wann Feb. 14, 1915, 2,040 miles east of Chile and 600 miles south of Easter island, was picked up Jan. 21 last four miles south of Wanganul island, New Zealand. ETHAN ALLEN ENLISTS. He is Direct Descendant of Original Ethan Allen of Revolutionary Days. Butte, Mont.—Ethan Allen, a dir ct descendant of the original Ethan Allen of Fort Ticonderoga fame, was accepted for enlistment in the United States marine corps here. He has been principal of a school in this state for the last three years and has also taught in Ohio and North Dakota. Allen's enlistment recalls the early days of American history, when Fort Ticonderoga was held in turn by the French and British until finally captured by his illustrious ancestor in 1775. It is another reminder of the wiping out of old differences between nations, happily now serving together against a common enemy. AVIATION STUDENT DROWNED. Brooklyn Man Falls With Plane Into Delaware River. Wilmington, Del.—Allen Ashley Smith, twenty-five years old, of Brooklyn, a student at the aviation school maintained by the Du Pont Powder company at Claymont, Del., was drowned in the Delaware river when the airplane in which he was flying fell into the river near Marcus Hook, Pa. It was to have been Smith's last day in the training course for an aviator's license. Plums Canned Twenty-one Years. Abilene, Kain—Plums that were canned twenty-one years ago were served at the wedding of their granddaughter. Miss Wisman, by Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Whitelee of Abilene. The plums were canned soon after Miss Wisman was born. They were placed in a two-quart glass jar. Californiane Fit Out Expedition to Recover Long Lost Treasure COVER LONG LOST TREASURE Oakland, Cal.-Gold bullion contained in strong boxes on the long lost Brother Jonathan, which was wrecked off the Mendocino coast, is the quest of an expedition headed by Martin Lund, which went to the coast from San Francisco bay in Lund's forty ton gasoline freighter the President. Until Lund and his associates, consisting of a diver and eight men, had outfitted at Sausalito and their vessel was towed to sea by a steam schooner they managed to guard their secret. It has become known, however, that they will attempt to raise the sunken treasure ship Brother Jonathan, which for many years had been regarded as a total loss. When the Jonathan was wrecked she was southbound from the northern gold country with a fortune in her strong boxes. The exact position of the vessel was undetermined, but Lund stated that he had the proper position and hoped to salvage the gold. Tackle, equipment and supplies, together with the machinery necessary to lift the gold bullion from the depths, were taken aboard the freighter. Lund hinted that the Brother Jonathan was only one out of three possible objectives. It is believed that some of the crew have been taken into Lund's confidence and are to share in the gold if it is recovered. COOP TO TABLE QUICK. Caught, Killed and Cooked Hen In Less Than Five Minutes. Philadelphia.-George Rudicille holds the record for being the champion chicken phaser and cooker of Philadelphia. To prove his superiority over other contestants he caught, killed, cleaned and cooked a fowl in four minutes and 35 seconds. It cost one of the patrons of the restaurant in which he is lord of the range $10, but it was worth it. The patron asked for fried chicken, and George brought it in in ten minutes, crisp and browned to a turn. "Dat's suittingly good time," said the diner. "Good time nuffin," replied George. "I can do the trick in five minutes flat." The money was put up, and George slapped a piece of lard in the frying pan, and while the grease was heating he just naturally mobilized that chicken, choked it to death, turned it inside out, substructed its interior and tossed it in the pan. Clockers timed him at 4 minutes 35 seconds. HUGE PROFIT IN COINS. Men Who Invested In Pioneers' Society Sale Made Money. San Francisco. Two local business men who bought a collection of 2,000 old coins from the Society of California Pioneers for $8,000 and recently sold two of these for $10,000, with the expectation of realizing approximately $50,000 more on the remainder, have created something of a sensation among the Pioneers as a result of the speculation. The Pioneer society had for years kept its coin collection in glass cases in the United States mint here, where thousands of persons have viewed it. Six months ago Secretary McAdoo of the treasury department wanted more room in the building and ordered the collection taken out. It was explained at the office of the society that it was deemed best to sell the collection for $8,000 rather than move it into its building, with watchmen, insurance and other expenses. WALKS MILES TO ENLIST. Man From Iowa Joins the North Dakota National Guard. Dickinson, N. D.-Robert Ryan of Cedar Rapids, Ia., joined Company K of the North Dakota national guard here the other day after a hike of 124 miles, which he said would put him in shape to begin active service. Ryan was at Glendive, Mont., when he decided to enter the federal service. Ryan took an account of his funds and decided to walk to the recruiting station rather than ride. When he arrived he was given his physical examination and immediately accepted and sent on his way to Fort Lincoln to join his company. He averaged thirty-one miles a day, making the trip from Glendive to Dickinson in four days. DOG SAVES OWN LIFE. Doomed to Take Gas Route, Designate Official Watchdog of Pound. Los Angeles, Cal.—Fannie, a stray collie, doomed to take the gas route at the city pound, won life and a home for herself the other day. While Humane Animal Inspector Wilson was repairing his auto the dog, which because of evident refinement of breeding had been given the liberty of the yard, dashed up to him, barked repeatedly and pulled at his coat. Inspector Wilson finally followed Fannie, only to discover the cookhouse in flames. The blaze was quickly extinguished. Fannie was presented with a collar and a ribbon and at the same time was designated official watchdog of the pound. Farmers Help Neighbor Centralia, Wis.—Merritt Baker of Ford's Prairie has been too ill this spring to put in his crops. The outlook was not very promising until recently when a number of his neighbors took charge of the situation. They plowed, put in the crops, trimmed the berry bushes and left everything in good shape for Mr. Baker to take hold as soon as his strength permits. HONORED BY CHINA Battling Aviator Lufbery Awarded an Oriental Decoration. GOT IT BEFORE PRESENT WAR. Premier Air Fighter In Lafayette Escadrille Officially Credited With Destroying Ten German Airplanes and Having Actually Shot Down Sixteen Tunic Liberally Decorated. Paris—Victor Raoul Givas Lufbery, second lieutenant in the French army and premier aviator in the Lafayette escadrille, being officially credited with destroying ten German airplanes and having actually shot down sixteen, is entitled to wear one other medal beside the Legion d'Honneur, Medalille Militaire, Croix de Guerre with four palms and British military medal, which he carries on the breast of his khaki tunic. He is the holder of a Chinese medal with a lengthy, unpronounceable name given to him before the war when, with Mare' he, a pioneer French MILITARIA Photo by American Press Association: LIEUTENANT LUFBERY. avilator, he went to Indo-China and then to China and flew in the principal cities there. This particular Chinese medal, which is in the form of a heavy gold slug, larger than a twenty dollar gold piece, and attached to a yellow and purple ribbon, entitles the weaver to the services of eight servants, all of whose wages are paid by the Chinese government at any time when the carrier of the insignia is on Chinese soil. "No; I haven't been wearing my Chinese medal during the war," said Lufbery, "but if China comes in as an ally I suppose I will wear it. The trouble is it's so heavy that I'm afraid it will make me round shouldered." Before the war-Lufbery lived in Wallingford; Coun., and his father still resides there. He has a brother in the French infantry and another in the artillery. He began in the French army as a mechanician and then was attached to the original American escadrille as a mechanic's helper. His qualities as a pilot were discovered one day when he obtained permission to make a flight, and then when he disclosed that he was an American citizen the American aviators insisted that he be accepted at once as a sergeant pilot. He made a series of flights next day before several aviation officers and was brevetted immediately. Swallowed by the Earth. Scranton, Pa.--While Mrs. Theodore Barton of 1107 Hampton street was pulling weeds out of her garden the earth suddenly began to settle, with the result that in an instant she was precipitated into an old mine working, eighteen feet below the surface. When the earth gave way the woman called for aid, and several neighbors responded. They managed to rescue her with the aid of a rope and ladder. She was uninjured. EVEN, SQUIRREL5 FEEL HIGH COST OF LIVING Altoona, Pa.—Altoona squirrels know a good thing when they see it, and Herbert C. Hoover has nothing on them for food conservation. 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"He requires less labor, less equipment, less capital, makes greater gains per hundred pounds of concentrates and reproduces himself faster and in greater numbers than any other domestic animal. As a consumer of byproducts the hog has no rival. No other animal equals the lard hog in its fat storing tendency. There is no animal which produces more meat and meat products than the hog. "Very near 50 per cent of the total value in dollars and cents of the meat and meat products slaughtered in the packing houses of the United States is derived from the hog. Three-fourths of the world's international trade in pork and pork products originates in the United States in normal times, and the war greatly has increased this proportion." The statement then points out that there was a decrease of 313,000 hogs at the end of 1916 compared with the previous year and adds: "If we expect to continue to provide meat to foreign peoples as well as our own people every farmer must put forth the best effort to produce more hogs." Uncle Sam's Men In Training Camps Say That Fashion Saves Time In Shaving. Camp Funston, Tex.—Mustaches are coming back. If the fashion which the young men of the army are setting is adopted by the civilian populace the hirsute adornment of the upper lip by the men of the country will become quite general. It was not with the view of adding to their personal appearance that the soldiers and prospective officers have returned to the style of their fathers in the matter of wearing mustaches. Necessity created it. The style first started about three weeks ago at the officers' training camp at this place, and it has spread to the younger officers of the regular army at Fort Sam Houston and to the officers of the national guard at Camp Wilson. "It is not because I thought I would be any better looking by wearing a mustache," said a student here, "but it is a time saver. You see, it is like this—we are put through such a strenuous pace here that every minute we can save is that much help. It takes the ordinary young man three or four minutes perhaps to shave his upper lip. Well, three or four minutes is some time in this camp, believe me." THIS SKELETON HORNED. It Looks Like Satan and Is Dug Out of Cave by Boys. Wheeling, W. Va.—The skeleton of a prehistoric man or animal that closely resembles the Satan usually pictured was unearthed here on Repman's hill by several boys. The skull of the skeleton is much like that of the present human race, with the exception of two horns, which project from just above the temples on each side. In life the creature was about four feet high, with a long tail. There are four powerful legs or arms, each of which has four fingers. The chest is broad and undoubtedly was heavily muscled in the flesh. The skeleton was located by boys who were digging a cave. Scared by the appearance of their gruesome find, the boys ran down the hill yelling, "We found the devil!" Several workmen went to the cave and dragged the skeleton out. Local authorities on prehistoric mammals and man being at sea, the skeleton was sent to Chicago for classification. RUBBER BOOTS SAVED HIM. Barn In Which Kiplinger Was Standing Struck by Lightning. Charlotte, Mich.-The fine new large barn on the C. B. Lamb farm, west of this town, in Carmel township, which is occupied by Grant Kiplinger, was struck by lightning, and the siding was torn off from top to bottom on both gables, the barn being about fifty feet in height. Mr. Kiplinger was standing in the barn at the time, and the stable doors, within two feet of him, were slivered, and he was stunned, but not hurt, by the shock. The fact that he was wearing rubber boots probably saved him from instant death. Grayfish on Market. Seattle, Wash. - Kippered grayfish and sablefish have lately been added to kippered salmon and cod in northwestern fish markets, but the bureau of fisheries is sending an expert through Alaska coast towns instructing the fishermen on the Scotch method of kippering herring. A few years ago the herring of the north Pacific had only the slightest value. Some were used for bait by fishermen, and same were barreled and salted and shipped to the orient. The poorest policy we can imagine would be the offering of credit to induce people to buy beyond their means. We make credit a help to you by arranging small weekly or monthly payments that will enable you to afford the qualities that will give you the longest and most satisfactory service. CHARLES S. HILL, ATTORNEY SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, HOLDING PROBATE COURT NO. 23,885 ADMINISTRATION. This is to give notice: That the subscribers of the District of Columbia have obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of administration c. t. a., on the estate of Julia F. Marston, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscribers, on or before the 20th day of July, A. D.; 1918; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefits of said estate. day of July WALTER H. BROOKS, 1105 New Hampshire Ave., N. W. SARAH E. EVANS, Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court—Estate of John E. Anderson, Deceased—No. 23,850—Administration Docket 55. Application having been made herein for probate of the last will and testament of said deceased, and for letters testamentary on said estate, by John W| Lewis it is ordered this 30th day of July, A. D. 1917, that Henry Ellyson and Harriet G. Anderson, non residents, heirs at law and next of kin of the said deceased and all others concerned, appear in said court on Tuesday, the 11th day of September, A. D. 1917, at 10 o'clock A. M., to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the "Washington Law Reporter" and Washington Bee once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentioned, the first publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day. J. HARRY COVINGTON, Chief Justice. Attest: JAMES TANNER.. Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. ZEPH P. MOORE, Attorney. YOU CAN HAVE LONG STRAIGHT HAIR If Anxious to Improve Your Hair and General Appearance Read This Carefully There, are so many so-called hair growers on the market a large mumber of high are nothing more than perfumed grease, it is no wonder people get discouraged and lose faith in all hair tonics. In deciding on what to use on your scalp be sure and get a remedy of proven merit. Seeby's Quinade is a highly medicated pomade that has stood the test of time. It is the invention of a New York chemist and is made under the personal supervision of a licensed pharmacist of many years' experience. Quinade stimulates and nourishes the roots of the hair, causing a natural growth of long hair. It makes the hair soft, smooth and glossy, and easy to put-up in the style desired. To get the best results from the use of Quinade the scalp should be shampooed at regular intervals with Seeby's Quinasoap. 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We make it possible for them to buy the very best values right at the start, and to have all the furnishings needed for a comfortable and attractive home at once. ```markdown ``` NINETY-ONE YEARS YOUNG. Ohio Irishman Challenges Any Nonogenarian to Compete With Him. Cleveland, O.—Uncle John Flannagan, ninety-one, of Defiance, O., arose at 5. tended to two teams of horses, did all the other chores around the house, did a day's work on the streets, went home, had supper, then walked down town to a meeting of the Elks and felt so good he issued a challenge for an endurance contest to all the other young men of advanced age in Ohio. Flannagan is proud of his vigor and confident of his physical strength, and in issuing his challenge he will place himself under a year's handicap in age and permit any ninety-year-old in Ohio to compete with him. The British Cabinet. It is the inflexible unwritten rule of the British cabinet that no member of the cabinet shall take any note or record of its decisions except the prime minister, and he does so solely for the purpose of sending his written report to the king. SPECIAL NOTICE. SPECIAL BAPTIST MISSION Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention will meet this year in annual session at Richmond, Va., beginning August 29, 10 a.m. at Ebernezer Baptist church, Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph. D. pastor. Stokes, Ph. B. Delegates and visitors who propose to attend the meeting can add to their entertainment and comfort by informing the local committee. Direct cards of information to Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph. D., Ebernezer Baptist church, Richmond, Va. The large city auditorium holding 5,000 persons will be secured for the Annual Missionary Mass Meeting, Friday night, August 31, when returned missionaries and visitors from Africa and Haiti will speak. 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