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IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper That's THE BEE 1 THE GREAT QUEENS' RALLY PAGENT. Vermont Avenue Baptist Church and Choir Achieve the Triumph, of the Season—Mrs. Maria Johnson Willis Wins First Glories as "Africa"—Crowned Queen of Queens—Brilliant Affair to be Repeated. The history of past glories and the present achievements of nations and races is being most effectively told through the medium of pages. The pomp of power, the triumphs of faith, the uplift of mankind and the advancement of civilization are all most vividly impressed by accurate picturization, surrounded by the spectacular atmosphere of heraldy. a and executive ability widely shown in the recent rally Pageant at the Vermontist Church, is to yield t request of her hos' of friends, and will repeat the brilliant spectacle at an early date. It is conceded by all hands that the Queens' Rally Pageant directed by Mrs. Willis, was one of the most successful affairs ever held in this city and market an epoch in the financial and social life of the splendid Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, over which her eloquent and energetic husband presides with such dignity and distinction. In such a congenial setting it is no wonder that Mrs. Willis' labors shine with a luster that illuminates all that comes within her sphere of influence. The Queens' Rally.Pageant That Was. The Bee is reminded by this announcement of some of the particulars of the recent pageant that were overlooked at the time. A gorgeous affair it was too, ranking with the best that has been given anywhere in the land, and establishing a new pace for entertainments of this type. Fifteen nations were represented by their Queen, Lords and Ladies-in-waiting. The costumes were especially designed from fashion models of the approved styles of the people impersonated. The flags of the various countries and faithfully reflected nations were artistically displayed and their national anthems were sung as the Queens and their royal retainers passed in triumphal review. The walls of the church were decorated with the American colors everywhere, entwined with the emblems, banners and ensigns of the nation's allies. The Queens typifying America, England, France, Italy, Russia, Japan and Africa which came in for the most enthusiastic applause, and they and their cohorts were compelled to give frequent acknowledgment of the acclaim along the crowded line of march. Patriotism was the order of the hour and our people gave evidence at every turn that they are 100 per cent Ameri cans and in hearty accord with all the nations that stand with us in the international crisis. Mrs. Willis Wins First Prize. In the close race for the golden crown of "Queens of Queens," the first honors went to Mrs. Maria Johnson Willis, who brought in, as her queenly contribution the handsome total of $100.00. She was given the royal diadem amid tumultuous applause and bore her honors with characteristic graciousness. Mrs. Willis has made an enviable record in this community as a religious, educational and social factor. She is the daughter of Mr. Robert Johnson, for many years a valued member of the Deacons' Board of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, and known and loved in every section of this cosmopolitan center. She is vice-president of the church's missionary society, a worker in the Sunday School, a member of the District Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, chairman of its religious services, and devoted to all of the civic movements designed for the uplift of our people in all walks of life. For twelve years she was an efficient attaché of the Bureau of graving and Printing. In 1911 she was married to Rev. James E. Willis the beloved pastor of the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, and their domestic circle is a model of happiness and felicity. Mrs. Willis is a real helpmeet to her husband, a loyal friend, and a vital force for Christiaity in the capital of the nation. She wins her way by the power of her cheering personality and her success in the pageant is but another of the great achievements that have been brought about by her in the years she has labored in the Master's Vineyard. In this work she enjoys the sympathetic and helpful support of her intellectual and experienced husband. Mrs. Willis' lord was Mr. Wade, and her attendants were: M. Griffin, H. Washington, O. Davis, A. Mack, L. Fox, Q. Daniels, J. Jackson, U. Johnson, L. Frazier, S. Burke, Lucy Rice, Mrs. Wade, M. J. Willis, Lessie Budd, Lucy Wood, R. Brooks, S. Tinsley, R. Tompkins, M. Riley, M. Green, M. White and Laura Wood. How the Nations Limed Up. Miss Fannie Griffin, who represented "America," was an attractive figure in the procession, and like those who followed, was beautifully gowned. Her "Lord" was Mr. Ulysses Lyons, and he presented an imposing appearance. The ladies in waiting or "maids" were, Mrs. Mary Artis, Priscilla Proctor, Anna Washington, Susie Davis, Lattemia Booker, Josephine Mitchell, Sallie Scurr, Laura Dandridge, Mrs. Jackson, Alice Gravett, Beulah Diggs, Frances Bowman, Priscilla, Proctor, Hannah Sorrell, Mary Perry, Lucy Davis, Cora Carter, Anna Minor, Amanda Gray and Mrs. Thornton. Mrs. Robert Harris was Queen of Japan. Her lord was Mr. David W. Clark. The Maids were: Sadie Wade, Hattie L, Taylor, Jeanette Thornton, Fannie Francis, Ida Sands and Bell Jacksons. *Miss Lillan Ferguson was Queen of China, and was attired in the costume of the Orient. Her attendants were: Mary J. Tolliver, Secretary; Ruby Ferguson, Ellen Ferguson, Bertha Daison, Greatna Bell, Louise Strange, Grace Lewis, Mary Gode, Ruth West and Bessie Ewell. Miss Lillian Nelson was Queen of France, with Mr. Lovedale Lewis as lord. The attendants were: Irene Johnson, Columbus Stranger, Fannie Pleasant, Rosa Fields, Lizzie Wood, Lily Woodford, Elenor Atkins, L. Daye, Sadie Page, Rosa Ware and Carrie Taylor. England's Queen was Mrs. Fannie Carpenter, and her attendants were. Miss-Annie Redmond, Miss Elizabeth Lanier, Mrs. Annie Morton, Mrs. Ella Wilkins, Mrs. Rinia Gogins, Mrs. Jenie Moore, Mrs. Lizzie Poinoxter, Miss Henrietta Brewington, Mrs. Beste Smith, Miss Marrie Willis, Mrs. Bertha Potor, Miss Mignonette Davis and Emma L. Dickerson. The other Queens and their attendants made an appearance not less in keeping with the high quality of the occasion. The proceeds were for the benefit of the choir and its activities, and for the new organ. Those responsible for the success of the great function, in addition to Mrs. Willis, were: David Clark, William Slater and Mrs. Jesup, who were chairmen of the various departments, all in touch with Rev. James E. Willis, pastor. All deserve unintended credit for their successful arrangement. The announcement of Mrs. Willis's next pageant will be awaited with interest. DEATH OF MRS. MARTHA SCOTT. Mrs. Martha Scott, aunt of Dr. J. W, Morse, who lives in Culpepper, Va. died a few days ago. She leaves a husband two daughters and two sons. Exports from the United States, for the first time in the history of the country, exceeded 6 billion dollars in the twelve months ending with April, 1917, against less than 4 billion dollars in the same period of 1916 and 21-2 billions or less in previous years. Practice economy, but not parsimony; cut out waste, but maintain the American standard of comfort. The difference between one man and another is not mere ability—it is energy. WASHINGTON, D.C..SATURDAY,AUGUST 25,1917 ASK TO END OUTRAGES Prof. Kelly Miller Calls for Fair-Play For the Negroes - Urges the President to act - Declares that Colored Race Is Now Practically Without Voice in Government - Perplexing Race Question an Issue Which Must Be Met by Real Statesmanship. Prof. Kelly Miller, of Howard University, perhaps the foremost scholar of the colored race in America, has written an open letter to President Wilson on behalf of his wronged and mauntreated race. Referring to the recent occurrences, at East St. Louis and Memphis, he says he feels that the issues involved are as important as any questions now pressing upon th. President's attention, and calls attention anew to the irritating race problems, of which those outbreaks are but eruptive symptoms breaking forth ever and anon with Vesuvian violence. Prof. Miller's letter reads in part as follows: "For fully a generation American statesmanship has striven to avoid, ignore or forget the perplexing race problem. But this persistent issue will not down at our bidding and cannot be shunted from public attention by other questions, however momentous or vital they may seem to be. "There are 10,000,000 loyal citizens of African descent in the United State. They are rigorously excluded from a voice in the government by which they are controlled. "Black Cabinet" Inside of Circle. "Under former administrations there was a small appointive official class of negroes. Though derisively designated as the 'black cabinet', they were on the inside of the circle they had ready access in presenting the claims of the race. "Several weeks ago a delegation of colored men from the state of Maryland sought an interview with you concerning the horrible crime of East St. Louis. The failure of all other methods is my only excuse for resorting to an open letter as a means of reaching' you and, through you, institution at large concerning the just grievances of 10,000,000 loyal American citizens. No Voice in Government. "The negro feels that he is not regarded as a constituent part of American democracy. This is our fundamental grievance and lies at the basis of all the outrages inflicted upon this helpless race. It is the fundamental creed of democracy that no people are good enough to govern any people without their consent and participation. "As long as the black man is excluded from participation in the government of the nation, just so long will he be the victim of cruelty and outrage on the part of his white fellow citizens, who assume lordship over him. Public Opinion Against Negroes. "These periodic outbreaks of lawlessness are but the outgrowth of the disfavor and despite in which the race is held by public opinion. The evil is widespread that the remedy lies in the hands of the national government. "Mr. President, negroes all over this nation are aroused as they have never been before. It is not the wild hyster- MEDITATORS PICNIC A GRAND SUCCESS The Meditators sixth annual picnic held at Greenwillow Park Saturday August 18th, was another grand success. Their many patrons were present to dance and enjoy the latest selection played by Mr. Louis N. Browns' Society Orchestra. FALLS CHURCH, VA., NOTES. Mr. and Mrs. W. Lee, leave on their vacation, Saturday, August 18, to spend the hot season with Mrs. Lee's sister, Mrs. Johnson at Luray, Va. Mrs. Blanche Gregory and husband of New York, are visiting Mrs. Gregory's father, Deacon James Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory had as their guest, Sunday Aug. 12, Miss Etta Johnson from Washington, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory will leave for their New York home Saturday. Mrs. Jennie Robinson and Miss Gussie Smith left for the mountains of New York Tuesday 14th inst., for a four or six weeks' stay. On Thursday night, Aug. 9, "the Stork" visiting Mr. and Mrs. La Fayette Bradley and Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Henderson, made glad these homes. There is a fine boy visitor in consequence in each home. quince "Great," for "wartimes," Mr. Harrison Chew, of our most worthy young men was called to report at Richmond, Va., on the 13th inst., for preparation for the front. Our prayers go with him. Miss H. Lynette Shaw of 422 Elm St. northwest, Washington, D. C., has returned to the city after having spent three delightful weeks with her aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Williams. Mr. and Mrs. Williams also had as guests on Sunday, Aug. 12, their sisters, Mrs. Shaw and Mrs. King, and their niece, Miss Cora King, the two last named of 456 Mass. Ave., N. W., Washington, D. C. The family regrets most deeply the loss of their father, Mr. Henry Williams whose death, at 87 years of age occurred at Balley's Cross Roads, Va. He was one of the first settlers there, coming to that part in 1869. The "Mens' Meeting," at Second Baptist church, Sunday night Aug. 12, was a pleasing closing service for the vacation period. Communion services during day. Rey W. R. Manly, pastor at Merrifield, Va., assisted Rev. Dr. Powell. There were many visiting persons from the city, among whom may be mentioned, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Harper of Washington, D. C., Mr. and Mrs. E. Bradley of same place and the two aunts of Mrs. Lillian Marshall of Baltimore, Md. The pastor of Second Baptist church, Rev. Dr. G. W. Powell, will assist Rev. W. R. Monley in his rally at First Baptist church, Merrifield, Va., Sunday, Aug. 19, and both will attend the annual session of the Northern Baptist Association at Manassas, Va., August 22-23 and 24. THE GREAT CALAMITY IS NEAR. The world is standing on the very edge of judgment. Now and hereafter the people of this world have been too evil and God is sending judgment upon them. Thousands will die from hunger and freezing; peace will be found brought by death. Every one should get themselves ready; the world is in its last age. The world is nothing but trouble marked by mobs and riots throughout. There will be ten and twenty years of trouble. The sign was shown on moon and sun. We cannot get and have peace without God. Instead of being lead into light we are being lead into darkness, and the gloom of dark days is upon us. I send warning to all. HOTEL NEWS. B. DeReef Miller. The system of "robbing Peter to pay Paul," which has grown almost nation-wide among diners in restaurants, cafes, the dining car, and even the small colored lunch room where the price on items have been increased on account of the long-talked-of high cost of food, has caused the poor waiter or waitress a part of his or her tip to pay for that increase which entirely unfair. The price of the meal regardless of the cost is paid, but when the servant is tipped generally it is said, "This is war time and we can't afford a larger tip," but at the same time the individual thinks that he can afford to pay the fancy prices for fancy dishes, but not for the service he gets. This is but one phase of the present false economy which spells starvation to hundreds of American restaurants workers throughout the country. The public will be educated to the above mentioned facts some day. The Washington Times and the New York Evening Journal have never dodged the issue on the tipping question. Mr. Leon Thompson has returned to the city after several weeks at Greenwoods Inn, New Hartford, Conn. Greenwoods nth, New Haven. Mr. Davis, chief steward at the New Ebbitt, has been needed by Mr. Morrison, host of the Monticello Hotel, Norfolk, Va. Mr. Davis is now connected with the stewards' de- signment of the New Willard. Mr. Morrison, with his two assistants, Messrs. Burnett and Haines, is making many improvements in the service at the New Ebbitt. The funeral of Silas Love of the culinary department of the Senate restaurant, was held at Israel Church Sunday, August 12. Mr. Love was an ardent hotel and restaurant worker and a member of various fraternities. Many floral pieces were contributed by the employees of the local hotels and restaurants, to which he has been connected. Mr. Love was the uncle of a prominent head waiter at Danville, Va., and also of Edward W. Love, treasurer of the New Ebbitt Waiters' Association. Mr. William Hope, of the department of Justice, is spending his vacation at Atlantic City, N. J. The famous colored orchestra of the New Ebbitt Cafe is now playing at "The Inn" at Charlesvolx, Mich., making a big record. Mr. John R. Robinson has returned to Washington from the Thousand Island House, where he has had a very busy season. Mr. Robinson is connected with the dining department of the New Ebbitt. Messrs. John Mayo, and Milton F. Green, the two colored captains of the New Ebbitt Cafe, have just returned after spending a pleasant vacation. Colored American Elected A National Committeeman. The State Republican Executive Committee of Mississippi in call session here today to fill the vacancy on the National Republican Executive Committee caused by the death of the late L. B. Moseley, unanimously elected Hon. P. W. Howard to fill the position. This is a deserved and very signal honor coming to a worthy member of the race. CHAS. BANKS, EMMETT J. SCOTT. Prof. W. G. Craig. Prof. W. G. Craig, who has headquarters with Mr. Hopover, the food administration Department, is making a great record. He holds a responsible position in this department and his ability is recognized. RACE CONFERENCE Colored Americans "Brought to Thein Feet" by Memphis, E. St. Louis, and Chester Outrages—Local Equal Rights Committees Being Formed. (Special.) Boston, Mass., August 23, 1917:—That the Colored people of the country have been "brought to their feet" by the Memphis lynching, East St. Louis massacre and Chester riots, is shown by the instant interest taken in the Call issued for a "Speedy Getting Together" at New York by Rev. Byron Gunner, President of the National Equal Rights League. Already President Gunner has received word from representatives in a dozen different states who will attend the 10th annual meeting of the League and 2nd Annual Race Congress under the League's auspices, which will be held 3 days, September 18, 19, and 20, in Mother Zion church, W. 136th street New York City. Colored newspapers all over the country are anbuncing this National Colored Equal Rights Convention in their columns, and the editors are working with success for the formation of local "Equal Rights Committees" that are to send delegates. The "Call" has been given such wide publicity, the invitation being open to every organization as well as the Equal Rights League, the oppressed in every country in the civilized world have met as a group and put forth their case and their demand, except we Colored Americans thoughtful citizens everywhere see that the race will be judged by the attendance at this National Race Congress Every community that has not already formed a Citizens' Equal Rights of the hour, but a determined purpose that this country shall be made a safe place for American citizens to live and work and enjoy the puruite of happiness. suit of naphtha "Mr. President, 10,000,000 of your fellow citizens are looking to you and to the God whom you serve to grant them relief in this hour of their deepest distance." disress. Committee to send delegates is urged to do so. Three full weeks remain in which to do so. The last Race Congress, brought men and women of all associations and all organizations together and increased co-operation. It is ten times as critical now for the race as then. then. Pres. Byron Gunner, of Hillburn, N. Y., and Corr. Secretary Wm. Monroe Trotter of 34 Cornhill, Boston, are receiving many letters in the convention and will answer all inquires. Philadelphians. Chas. Douglass, Elizabeth Sellows, Mrs. M. J. Gordon, Willie and Mary Cozzie, Wm. Corbett, Allel W. Smith, Geo. W. Smith, Helen Smith, Sylvester-Schenk, Allie L. Hughes, M. H. Chalk and wife, Curtis Washington, Mrs. J. B. Bready, D. S. Hagan, Clemintine Mole, L. V. Campbell and wife, Rev. F. M. Healyman, J. T. Moseley, Grace Chinn, Mrs. E. Webb, mr and Mrs. Murray, Mr. Richard Bias and family, Miss Carrie Ross, Geo. H. White, Mrs. Thos. Blackwell, Mr. Jno A. Clark, Mrs. Potite, Irene' C. Briggs Geo. Hill, Annie Jarratt, A. J. Morton and wife, J. B. Johnson, Mrs. Annie Gaskins. New Yorkers. Mr. and Mrs. G. Watkins, Mr. and Mrs. Brown, W. E. Dubois, Geo. L. Johnson, Mrs. J. E. Earle, Miss Vera Earle, Mrs. M. Scott, Dalsy E. Hutcherson, Mrs. M. Green, Miss Mary Rowland, Mr. and Mrs. J. Eagle, Mr. Samuel Dash of Boston, Mass. Washington. Mrs. H. L. Johnson, Mrs. S. A. Fisher, Mrs. Arthur James, Estelle Elector, Miss Susan B. Cook, A. Payton Cook. Atlantic City. Mrs. Wm. Anderson, Louis Cozart, Mrs. Wingfield Cozart, Harry C. Johnson. Baltimore. Geo. Hill, Dr. H. S. McCadd, wife and daughter. Cambridge, Md. Mrs. Blackburr, Mrs. Pauline Smith, Sara Everette, Mrs. M. E. G. Woolfolk, E. W. Bishop, T. W. Bolden, of Pitts, Pa., W. B. Johnson, Riveton, N. J., Chas. Stultz, Bethlehem, J. J. Joned M. D., Hampton, Va., Miss Irene Hagan, Asbury, Miss Bordley Essington, Edw. Gholson, Ocean City, Geo. James. GREAT EVANGELIST. Come and Hear Two Great Sermons Rev. Dr. C. LeRoy Butter the great Evangelist of South Bethleham, Pa., are to preach at the Walkers Memorial Baptist Church, Sunday August 26th at 11, o'clock A. M. and 8: o'clock P. M. FOR RENT. A fine store suitable for any kind of business 1107½ Eye street northwest. A good business center. NEWS NOTES HERE AND THERE. The rally at Calvary Baptist church, Fairfax Courthouse, Va., Sunday, Aug. 12, was quite a success. Rev. Dr. M. D. Williams, pastor and Moderator of the Northern Va., Bap. Assn, with his most worthy assistant, Rev. Dr. E. T. Lewis, conducted the services. In the afternoon, Rev. Lomax preached. Rpv. Pope and other visiting bretheren also assisted. The wife of Pastor Lewis, Mrs. L. A. Lewis and her mother; Mrs. Burrell were also present lending sunshine to the occasion. The choir rendered splendid music, and Bro. Wm. Clark and his corps of assistants handled their end of the occasion well. This church is one of the leading churches of Northern, Va. Mrs. Lorena Pollard, of East Arlington, Va., leaves Saturday, Aug. 18, to visit her aunt, Mrs. Grace Newman, in New York City. She takes a 10 day vacation. At the ice cream parlor of Mrs. Virginia McMillan, Radio, Va., a "donkey and porch party," given for the benefit of the Mt. Olive Baptist church of Clark's Station, Va., was a very enjoyable occasion. There would have been greater success had not the rain interfered. Miss Pearle Smith, of Ohio, also niece of Mrs. Peter Dade, is at home on her vacation from Freedmen's Hospital. Miss Edna, sister of Mrs. Frank Dade, is visiting her at Radio, Va., for a couple of weeks. The Little Ark. Baptist church of 441Washington St., N. W., Washington, D. C., of which Rev. W. A. L. Morton, B. Th., is pastor, is holding a stirring one-week meeting there, starting Sunday Aug. 12, and ending Sunday Aug. 19. McKinley Memorial Baptist S. S. had a very pleasant entertainment Monday night, Aug. 13. Rev. L. C. Moore and Mr. E. V. Carter spoke, Dr. Lamkins, pastor. BUREAU NOTES. Misses Sylvia Garner, Helen Garner, Martha Gray and Frances Braxton are appointed at the B. E P. Mrs. Matilda Canty received a promotion in the Examining Division, also Mrs. Minnie Forrest. Misses Lillian Alexander, Agnes Adams and Alberta Johnson wore recently appointed at the B. E. P., and are on the night force. There is a large force of colored girls in the B. E. P., and they are creditable workers. Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Turner and Mr. Stanley Cook spent Sunday in Hamilton, Va., the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Cook, parents of Mr. Stanley Cook. Misses Bernice Sewall and Minnie Wilson are spending a delightful vacation in Hamilton-Va. MISS MADRE SPEAKS. Miss Marie A. D. Madre drew a large and appreciative audience at the 4 o'clock meeting Sunday last, of the Woman Wage Earners' Association, at their headquarters, 704 Tea street, northwest. Her subject was "Co-operation between Employers and Employees." She insisted that those who work for others get the best results in the long run by efficient and polite service and by studying the best interest of those for whom they work. She related several cases where employers had taken advantage of their help and not only refused to give them the usual "reference" but prosecuted them on trump-up charges. The able paper was discussed by Mrs. I. N. Ross, wife of Bishop Ross, Mrs. M. E. Jones, Mrs. Martha Cheeks, Mrs. Viola Kaufman, a white socialist-suffrageette; Mr. John H. Marshall and others. At the regular meeting Sunday afternoon, there will be a general discussion of the subject, "Value of small Economics in the Home." The matinee at the Blue Mouse Theatre at 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, for the benefit of the Association, and Anna Lee, a victim of the East St. Louis Riots, was interesting and instructive. and instructor Miss Josephine G.bson, S street and Miss Estelle Hawkins left for Atlantic City, N. J., Saturday. ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH. Crowded to the Doors Sunday. The New Antioch-Baptist Church, 220 Mass. Avenue northwest, of which Rev. Peter Aller is pastor, was crowded beyond its capacity Sunday morning, afternoon and night. Rev. Batts preached in the morning. Rev. Smith in the afternoon and Rev. Peter Aller, delivered the annual sermon to the great labor organization. It was an interesting and instructive sermon and all present enjoyed it. Rev. Aller gave a brief history of the organization, and showed what power an organization can have by united action and how important it was for brothers to live in tribute to labor and the organization that contests labor. He showed that labor is dignified and the time had come when the world was made to respect labor. Several musical selections were rendered with Mrs. Adams assisting. ANNOUNCEMENT Dr. S. S. Thompson, 1st Lieutenant Medical Reserve Corps, U. S. A., of 337 R St. N. W., having been called to duty, wishes to announce that Dr. J. Francis Dyer will have charge of his practice. Dr. Dyer is maintaining Dr. Thompson's office as usual in addition to his office at 208 O St. N. W. SATURDAY SERMONS By Unus. "And he payed on a harp of a thousand strings." CONVERSATION. In my last Saturday sermon I promised to say something more today about Conversation. I said that conversation is a usage of particular interest to our people because the most of their exchanges of thought by that medium. are by make. There has been a great deal of nonfiction written in books on this subject, and, strange to say, the fashions for conversation have changed from time to time. The most of the treatises written on conversation have been based on the notion that the chief end of conversation is to make a good impression for the speaker and to please the listener. That is a very good, but it is a shallow view of it. In earlier times it seems to have been assumed that conversation was an art only for learned or elegant people. And so, it was taught as one of the elements of good breeding, and was mixed with innumerable frivolous laws of etiquette—the whole dependence on intimate acquaintance with the ever-changing mode or fashion. Pure nonfance! Pure honesty. The world has become more utilitarian. With the advance of the republicanism (the rule of the plain people) the frivolous practices of kings and courts and empty-headed society no longer govern any mare in etiquette and conversation than in many other practices. Social intercourse is now based more on common sense, on kindness, and on respect for the innate dignity of every man. And I hope to show that, so far as conversation enters into it, it can also be associated with some forms of utility. Utility is something that counts. As a sample of some of the etiquette taught not very long ago, it was laid down in a popular book that our conduct in society should consist of "a happy medium between well-directed insolence" and "the subordinating of our own vanity to the vanity of others." Tommyrot! There is no mystery about the rules and usages of conversation. It requires no artificial manner, but it should, as far as possible, be accompanied with natural ease, grace and correct language. I wish to view conversation mainly as a utility. When it can serve no useful purpose I believe it ought not to be inadulged in. We ought not to talk for talk's sake. There is too much of that. 1. conceive that the main, if not the only uses of conversation are: 1. To make oneself agreeable in company. 2. To gain legitimate information. 3. To impart useful information. The situations in which conversation usually take place are: lions usually attend Historical meetings. Social appointments. 2. Social appointments. 3. Business appointments. 2. Social 3. Business appointments. 3. Business 4. Table talk 4. **Aim:** In every haphazard meeting it is used to make the best impression possible, shed some kindness, and get away as soon as the conversation promises to serve no further useful purpose. At every social appointment which sometimes involves a haphazard meeting, the rule of conduct should be similar, though the visit may be prolonged. At all such meetings the main object of the engagement should be kept prominently in view, and the conversation directed mainly to that object. At every business meeting the main object of the appointment, if the meeting is by appointment, should be the first matter of consideration. There are several obvious reasons for this: there will be more time for the particular business in view; either party may have another early appointment or other pressing business. If you have oty ten minutes for the interview, do not preface it with a long review of the news of the day, or with a discourse of the race question, or with an anecdote. Let these come last. What is better still, is to ascertain early how much time the other party can spare for the interview. If you are the caller, it is better to keep your hat in hand, or in easy reach. If you are the guest, do not fail to allow the caller convenient chances to part gracefully. Do not detain him. Table talk may include any or all of these. Conversation at the table is the severest test of good sense and good breeding. There is the greatest necessity for kindness and forbearance. At the table, people of diverse thoughts, tastes and moods are forced to spend some time together. What is the one time and please good move, more than how to please. Little more need be said here about conduct and conversation at the table. It is the one place where small talk is preferable. Short funny stories and anecdotes are always in order. With these general observations on the use of conversation, I am now prepared to suggest a few specific examples. I will give some next Saturday. Strange to say, no one ever wrote a scientific treatise on conversation. That is to say, there is not a single manual on the subject of practical character. I once searched the Library of Congress in vain for such a book. There is none, certainly not in the English language. There are a number of essays on the subject, among them a little book on vertigo, offwards a Tailleyrand, the famous French prelate and politician. Tailleyrand was perhaps the most astute politician of a high order whom history records. He was not an honest man. His sole aim in life was personal-success. Naturally any book he wrote on conversation was tinged by his character and ideals. For instance he said, "The main purpose of lan guage is to conceal thoughts." Tallayrand has many decipies today. I am sorry to say. What is very much needed is a manual on conversation analogous to "Robert's Rules of Order" for pari-tiamentary practice, and "Stephen on Pleading" for legal practice. Here is a field for some bright colored man or woman. Such a book, if well done, would make fame and fortune for the author. Each one of us sacrifices some of his life for a living. A SINISTER PARALLEL. New York, N. Y.—The New York World, stalwart of stalwarts, points out in an editorial review a sinister parallel, which deserves the careful reading of thoughtful men and women everywhere. The World says:— Had it not been for the insistent determination of the Slave States to extend their "peculiar institution," the Civil-War would never have been fought. *Had the advocates of slavery been content to leave slavery to the States that wanted slavery, the issue could ultimately have been adjusted without the loss of more than 600,000 lives and the wasting of billions of the treasure. treasure. The Southern States are now undertaking to do what the slave States once unsuccessfully attempted. They are recived to extend their prohibitory system to the rest of the country and to override the States that are opposed to Federal regulation of the supertyptual habits of the people. The Senate yesterday voted to submit the amendment to the Legislatures of the several States, and unless reason triumphs over fanaticism in the House the country will be torn for the next six years by this unnecessary and highly dangerous controversy. highly danger. At a time when the most solemn duty of Congress is to promote American unity and concentrate its energies on the winning of the war, a new subject of national discord is created by the failure of the Senate to measure power to regulate the manufacture and sale of all alcoholic liquors. They can license it, they can restrict it, they prohibit it as they please. That is how it should be. That is how it must be if the fundamental principles of the Government of the United States are not to be overthrown and the Federal authority made the dictator of the personal habits of every man, woman and child in the United States. Mrs. Josephine Hearn returned to the city Thursday, after a six weeks stay at Midland, Va. Mrs Hearn left Monday the 20th for Richmond, Va., as a delegate to the St. Luke convention. Mrs. Robert A. Goodin and sister, of Baltimore are visiting relatives here. Rev. De Witt Turpean, was the week end guest of Rev. G: W. Allen, of Baltimore. Mr. Davis Moore who has been in Washington for several weeks has returned to his home in Charlotte, N. C. Mr. T. M. Dent and wife, were in New York for a few days. Mrs. H. Grant Irving, is visiting friends in Morristown, N. J. Mrs. G. G. Bowles, of New Jersey is the guest of Mrs. Robert Brown. Mrs. Georgia Niek and two children, in City. are visiting in Mountain City. Mrs. R. T. Nelson, of this city left for Albany, N. Y., to join his husband, Fra. Hawkins, of Baltimore, motor- craft week. ed to Washington last week. Mrs. Charles Redwood, of Cincinnati, Ohio is spending a fortnight in Wash- ington. Mrs. S. J. Jonifer is visiting Mrs. Green in Chicago, IL. Mrs. Mary Hightower, of Louville, Ky., is to be the mother of her sister-in- law, Mrs. Marle B. Jones, Mrs. Jones, of Philadelphia, left for a few weeks visit in Washington, Baltimore, and Lynchburg. timore, Mr. and Mrs. Hatcher and daughter, of Connecticut, are visiting relatives in Nolean, Va. Their many friends were used to see them. glad to see them. Miss Helen Dunkett, of this city is in Philadelphia, looking after her business's store. brother's store. Mrs. Gillie Ferguson, of Roanoke, Va., has returned to her home after a very serious but successful operation at the Freedmens Hospital of this city. Mrs. Mary Lare, of Roanoke, Va. will leave Wednesday for Charlottes- ville, to take her eldest son to the Hospital, after which she will visit relatives in this city. relatives in Miss Roe Mae. Weatherless, of this city spent the week end in Roanoke, Va., guest of Miss Nellye Larson. Myers. Mr. Tom Bailey, of this city is visit Jp. Boanoke, Va. ing his mother in Routledge. Miss Leona Mae Webster, of Florence, S. C., is visiting friends of this city. city. Miss Moreland and Miss Brent, of this city, sisters of Jno. E. Brent, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Brent, of Buf. N. Y. falo, N. Y. Prof. Geo. W. Cook, of Howard University, and Rev. B. E. McDellon, of this city, were visitors at the Pineau, Montclair, N. J. hurst Inn, Monroe Mr. and Mrs. Scott, of Wasback Avenue, Chicago, have as their guest, Mr. J. C. Dancy, of this city. Mr. J. Mrs. Martha James, of this city sport two weeks in Norfolk, Va. She will visit Atlantic City, Philadelphia, and New York for the next two weeks. CHARLES COUNTY MARYLAND. Special to The Bee. Charles County, Ma. land, was visited by many persons from Washington recently attending the colored fair. Mr. George Simbly, well known here arrived in time to help save the life of a colored woman who was hurt in an automobile accident which occurred here in one of the bad places the road. Many accidents have happened on the Maryland Automobile Roads this summer in which seven occurred from drivers' speed-dangers on drivers' curves. mg among the persons motoring to the fair safely were Mr. Willis Lanier, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Simbly, and Mr. Harrison. Smallwood, all of whom witnessed the great automobile accident which occurred near here. THE TUSKEGEE COURSE IN AGRICULTURE. Tuskegee Institute, Alabama—Booker T. Washington preached farming, living on the farm, growing more food products; indeed becoming independent through farming. Three or four years after he had espoused this doctrine, the United States Government, the food specialists said the whole world began to preach the same for all people. What the Negro statesman preached abroad, he sought to practice at home. He always maintained a flourishing garden. Indeed one of his past times when he was at home, was gathering and sending out to neighbors vegetables from his own garden. He kept hens, geese, ducks, all kinds of fowls and allowed nobody to gather the eggs but himself. He kept pigs, which were his favorite animals, and he fed these himself. Doing the thing first himself, he insisted that the Agricultural Department of his school keep to the forefront in all farming activities. It is only in these trying days that the Tuskegee Institute farm appreciates his rigid insistence on up-to-date farming. Seeing this and realizing the pressure of the times, the department of Agriculture of the Booker T. Washington school is driving in the spurs, intensify the studies in each of its courses; to make farming in all its branches very practical and attractive, to turn out leaders in community and state farming No Negro school is better equipped for the purpose. A three story Agricultural Building, with class rooms, office rooms, assembly rooms, laboratories, agricultural Museum, a large farm, raising all the products common in the South, except cotton; a truck garden raising every variety of food stuff; an orchard, a swine herd with several varieties of the best breeds of pigs; a dairy herd with the leading breeds of cattle; a horse barn with mules and horses, a poultry yard; a Veterinary Hospital to study the lilies and cure of animals; an experiment station, to examine the lilies and cure of plants, these make up the great laboratory in which to train the Negro boy and the Negro girl as scientific and practical farmers The course of study covers a period BEE-6. BEE-6 of four years. In a broad way, it gives plant study the first two years; animal study in years three and four. Beginning with the Junior class the students of the Agricultural Department spend one half of each day except Saturday in the study and practice of agriculture. Marking off the two main divisions as mentioned of all farming, namely, plant and animal life, the department of Agriculture gives the subjects and the phases of subjects by grades as best suited to the classification of the student. While pursuing Academic subjects which correspond roughly to the seventh grade, the Junior studies in Agriculture, Soils and Fortilizers, Farm Crops and Agricultural Drawing during the first half year, adding Dairying the second half. In the Middle year, the classes study seed and seed testing, garden crops, farm crops, livestock, during the first half year and fruit culture, market and marketing, with farm crops the second half. In the A. M. old class the students add to their courses feeds and feeding, farm engneering, agricultural bacteriology and farm sanitation, insects and spraying fruit and entomology, canning. The Senior Class adds agricultural chemics try, farm management, farm accounts landscape gardening, agricultural extension work, such as is done under the Smith-Lover Bill, corn club and pig club farmers have more to do than to farm. The tools and implements of the soil have to be kept in shape, homes have to be built and kept up. Hence short courses in Mechanics are required in the four years study of Agriculture. A Junior studies woodwork, A. B. Middler studies iron work and leather work, and an A. Middler painting, cement and brick work; the Senior, farm Mechanics, in addition to regular Agricultural studies already outlined. Again in their literary work, the courses of the student of the soil take on a certain twist to supplement work in Agriculture. His English composition, his grammar, his rhetoric his public speaking, his economics, his course in Education, his Arithmetic, all have for their theme farming. His sentences are on farming. His arithmetic problems deal with farming. His course in Education studies Burbank, Knapp and Morrell and the Smith-Lever Act, rather than Aristotle and Pestalozzi. Along with the routine work there are two main sources of inspiration for the students in this department. The first is a weekly assembly of all classes in the department. Gathering in the assembly room of the Milbank Agricultural Building, the students -no unseen sojourns-que nous agriculture problems and discussions, listen to inspirational lectures by outside men and by experts in various branches of farming. These experts are not always men from the schools. Often they are men and women who have made their reputation as practical farmers and farm business men; or they are frequently men and women who are studying a few weeks side by side with the students, studying the two months course in soils and plants or in animal and animal products, which the department is offering. To these individual cases are added what for years has been known as the Short Course and the Farmers' Conference. Here again in a great inspiration as well as much knowledge in agriculture. The student sees men who with all kinds of limitations in education, in money, in locality; with all sorts of odds as prejudice and injustice, against them, have triumphed, wrested money, intelligence and wealth from the soil. Thus is no and women have succeeded. In spite of ignorance and poverty, how fair most be the way for skilled in many branches of the subject and having knowledge of the business of farming, the chemistry of the soil and an acquaintance with the demands of the markets. Reverting to his specific training in agriculture, the student finds his work set off into two main divisions. He has his study and practice in a prescribed area, then goes into the productive departments of the school to increase his efficiency. Thus in the study of drying he has in his class a cow or two. He studies in general the figure of the animal, the eyes, the ears, the horns, the mouth, the chest, the trunk and the udders. He learns the kind of body a good dairy cow should have. He learns how to curry and clean the cow; how to treat her to get the most milk; how to feed her in various seasons to get the most milk and the best yield of butter, cow to cure her more common ills. He learns what breed of cow is best or all round use. When his knowledge is thus perfected in handling one, two, five cows, he is sent to the school's large Dairy Barn. of fifty or more cows to apply on a large scale what he has learned in a sort of a class room laboratory. So he does with the pig, with the chicken, with the horse, with farm crops, with fruit trees, with trucking, studying intensely isolated cases first, then applying his knowledge to the large group. Further, before the student is granted a diploma he must pass one more course. It is a course of work on the farm. All the studies thus far, though on a large scale have about them the idea of school. The student must pass the test in an actual situation. Thus before he can gain his diploma he must have completed twelve months work on the actual farm. This time may be spent on the school's farm or on some farm or plantation approved by the school. This with the regular academic work pursued by all students in the school gains him a diploma; and it is hoped that he will be in a measure what Dr. Washington eagerly wished for all such students, a skilled farmer, an intelligent livestock man, a good teacher and a rural community leader and builder. LINCOLN, MD. Rv. Parks and wife of Phila. and her sister Miss Lizzie Ramy of Clarksville, Tenn., are the guests of Mrs. Carrie Johnson at Lincoln Cottage. Mr. H. L. Steward and wife or Steward Cottage are visiting in Brandon in Warrenton, Va. Mr. Olivia Steward has a visitor in the person of Miss Pearl Wilson the youngest daughter of Attorney Wilson of Sparrowpoint, Md. Last Saturday night the Citizens Association gave a grand reception at the residence of Rev. Daniel P. Seaton everybody had a good time and lots of good things to eat. The aunt of Dr. C. W. Childs, who was enroute from the West to this city and died on her way, was buried from his home last Friday afternoon. THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL (INC.) offers an excellent opportunity for the woman who desires to enter the business world, by taking up a course in BEAUTY CULTURE. Nobody nowadays can say, "I have no chance." There are and always will be new lines with each woman whether she will be one of those to create and take advantage of the opportunities that THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL OFFERS. We teach the following courses: Hair Dressing, Facial Massage, Manicuring, Scalp Treatment, Instantaneous Bleaching, Electric Treatment for the Face and Scalp. There is a constant demand for THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL'S GRADUATES. THE ABILITY TO USE AND CREATE OPPORTUNITY DEPENDS UPON INDIVIDUAL VALUE, and value depends on training, and training depends on earnest, well directed effort to increase skill. THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL'S branches are taught from five dollars up. COME IN AND REGISTER. DAY AND NIGHT CLASSES. MME. AGNES J. SMITH, Principal. NEWHOME "I'll get it for my wife" NO OTHER LIKE IT. NO OTHER AS GOOD. Purchase the "NEW HOME" and you will have a life asset at the price you pay. Repair, maintain, or own a workmanhip and best of material injuries life-long service at minimum cost. Insist on having the "NEW HOME". Gustave Oppenheim, 800 H street northwest, Washington, D.C. TO BANISH EGG SHAMPOOS. Barbers Say Plan Would Save 250,000, 000 a Year. South Bend, Ind.-J. D. Klimer, a barber of this city, has a scheme to save 250,000,000 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. Klimer 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 shampoos a week, using two eggs. Recent statistics show that there are 800,000 barbers. Thus if the government placed a ban on egg shampoos for men it would mean the saving of 03,000,000 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, insnusch 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, battleaxes and other stone implements. The turquoise beads, mosaics and shell ornaments are classed as among the finest ever excavated in the southwest. the south 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. 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. Springdale, Mo—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. station to him. "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 Bester 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 patrolman 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 cry. HE WALKS MILES TO ENLIST IN CAVALRY National Guardman, 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 Pascagoula, 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 auto-ists. 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, of 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 furlough to consult doctors and was told that an operation probably would be necessary. While awaiting an X ray examination he learned that his dancee 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 tinkers 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 stripes 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. PROF. FAKEM. THE. NATURALIST. AH, MY HUMBLE FRIEND, THOU DOST INDEED REQUIRE A STOUT SHELL TO DEAR THE FAKE. THAT ARE LAID ON THY BACK, EVEN THE WORLD ITSSELF WAS ONCH SUPPOSED TO REST THERE ON WHAT'S THIS. AN INSCRIPTION? UM-M-MM BILL JONES, FRIEDAY THE 13TH 1996 INCREDIBLE! EVIDENTLY SOME UNSCRUPULOUS SEA-MAN HAS BEEN TRYING HIS JACK KNIFE AT A LITTLE NATURE FAKING I WILL SOON FRUSTRATE THE AMBITIONS OF MR. JONES, WHO EVER HE IS, WITH A FEW WHACKS OF MY OWN BLADE-UM! I MUST HAVE LEFT MY KNIFE AT !? 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These he obtains usually by labor, sometimes by finding and sometimes by theft. Of these labor is the only means we need consider here. In actual practice the economic, political and social status are never separated; they are always more or less intermixed. They vary with climate, race, soil, natural resources and other circumstances. The most primitive man, the savage, lives from hand to mouth. He seldom lays up large stores of food or other goods for future use. He attaches small value to time and property. He has little economic machinery. He does not build substantial houses. He is usually migratory. He makes little, use of art. He news little of science. Most savages have now in some measure become somewhat "civilized," or have migrated to civilized countries. Whenever a civilized people occupy the land of a primitive people migrate or are bodily transported to a civilized country, one or more of the following things result: 1. The primitive people are exterminated, or 2. They are enslaved or held in a condition of industrial peonage, 3. The two peoples will coalesce and, become homogeneous, or 4. The subject race will maintain its individuality while adopting the customs and methods of the dominant race. The most anomalous instance in history of racial transplanting is the bringing of numerous people from Africa to America. There is no near precedent in all history. What the eventual outcome will be is an enigma. But the following propositions seem to be reasonable guesses: The Colored people will not be exterminated from the United States. They will never dominate the white race except in limited areas and situations. The day when they will coalesce with the whites by miscegenation is too remote for serious consideration. This leaves for practical consideration only two of the four general propositions viz: the colored people will either be reduced to a status of industrial peacage or they will maintain their racial individuality while adopting the customs and methods of the whites and, as a class, will develop a sort of economic and social autonomy and independence. We know of no exact precedent for the last alternative, and yet this seems to us to be the destiny of our colored people for many centuries to come. Their case is not exactly analogous to that of the Jews, because the colored people have no distinctive religion of their own; because they have no race egotism and pride; because they will not themselves elect to remain a distinct race or class, and because they will always take their ideals from the white man and imitate him in great measure They will never turn to Africa for their precedents. But there is one dangerous possibility. As a matter of fact, for a long time to come many of our col-bred people as individuals will remain in a condition of practical industrial slavery whilst others, adopting the method of the white man, will rise to measurable heights of wealth and culture. The danger is that this will give rise to class distinctions among the colored people themselves. Already we see many signs of this tendency. We repeat, this is dangerous. It is calculated to be fatal to the colored people as a whole. It is therefore a pernicious tendency. We must have no caste among our selves. There is only: one serious race problem in the United States, and that is a problem of the colored people themselves. So far as the whites are concerned, there is not much of a race problem. The colored people aid them and do not endanger them. enlarger threat in the United States is: How shall the colored American reach a state of a measurable industrial and commercial autonomy and independence? The answer to this question lies upon the colored people themselves. The answer is to be in action not in mere words. The main responsibility rests on those who are better educated or in better circumstances. They must study scientific agriculture, they must open factories, they must operate stores, they must conduct more scientific and economical schools they must study money and the mechinsm of exchange, they must learn origination and co-operation. They must do less idolating. They must do these things not for race pride but for race existence. It is a stern necessity. JOB EXPERTS. We have already explained our attitude on the matter of colored men getting and holding jobs. By all means get them, fill them well and hold on to them as long as it is well. But we have also pointed out that this must not be the main aspiration of the colored race. For a long time this was necessary. A child must crawl before it can walk. It was necessary for colored men and women to have jobs. Job hunting became the main field of diplomatic activity among colored men. The situation even developed job brokers. The astuteness of men came to be measured by their skill in landing desirable jobs for themselves, relatives friends or henchmen. friends of federal jobs outside of the civil service were the prize plums sought; next, good-paying church jobs or assignments; next, the more desirable school-teaching jobs, especially in Washington city. Job landing-has among our people come to be the main politics. It is peanut politics, yet it is about the only politics now open to us. Merit is usually a minor consideration; interest is always the first consideration. Periodically there has been as much maneuvering to fill the offices of Recorder of Deeds, Register of the Treasury, Fourth Auditor and the like, and as much wire-pulling and throat-cutting as in the division of the spoils of a conquered empire. When President Wilson was elected, the colored Democrats held a formal convention in Washington at vast personal expense, to determine who should be recommended for Recorder of Deeds. During the Roosevelt regime, when B T. Washington was the political referee, Mr. Washington was a sort of uncrowned king among the colored office seekers. It is said that no bishop was elected without his O.K. It was all very small business. It was querile ridiculous. was puerile. These are now lean years for the colored job seekers and brokers. They are looking around for new fields to exploit. They are now bent on controlling the presidency of Howard University. For God's sake let the job brokers keep their hands off our educational institutions. Let us draw the line there. It is alright to pull strong, and all together now for officers' jobs in the army, and in the civil service, but let us keep our colleges and school beyond jockeyy and jugglery. For them at least let it be the sole test. Let us rather turn to a study of industrial and economic problems. Let us use our talent to more dignified and worthy ends. THE BOOLOAY. We have not heard yet where the Boolay stands on the question of the presidency of Howard. If the report is true that the Boolay makes a specialty of securing jobs for its members, it is safe to say that the Boolay has a finger in the pie. One of the present prominent candidates is a Boolay, though, strange to say, not a graduate of a Northern college. This does not mean that the Boolay society favors his election. The Boolay society has, we learn, admitted to membership some men who are not graduates of Northern colleges. We know of one or two members of it who are not graduates of any academic college. And yet one of the basic requisites to membership, so all reports say, is that a man must be a member of a Yankee college. This exception is easy to explain. What is the constitution between friends? The civil service law, our military laws and the rules of the Church are very specific as to who are eligible to preferment. This is got around by the process known as the "dispensation." The rule is suspended temporarily, or the watchman looks the other way, and the trick is done. Why does the Boolay society sometimes admit non-graduates to membership? Answer: the Boolay wants results. It often needs here and there a shrewd wire-puller with plenty of leisure. He is a useful man. He has no knowledge of the Greek language, but he is a true Greek in battle. He is an expert schemer. 'As mild mannered a man as ever cut a throat or scuttled a ship.' He is nominated for membership. Perhaps some member of the "Council" objects and quotes the constitution. They have the blackball system in the Boolay council. It is necessary to quite this objector. It is only necessary to explain to him the qualifications of this candidate. A certain Congressman once, in opposing the civil service law, said: "One of the best postmasters in my district spells God with a small "g." It may be depended on that the Boolays are interested in the presidency of Howard. If they do not favor this particular member for president, it is certain that "there is a reason." A band that is out for the sports does not usually care anything about the fortunes or fate of any particular member. They sometimes cut a throat or stick a stiletto among themselves. This on the principle of the summum bonum (the highest good). For example, the Boolay society may have another Boolay (a dark horse) in grooming for the presidency of Howard. Or they may prefer the present to secure a majority of the Board of Trustees. CHAOS. While it is not absolutely true that the social condition of the colored man is chaotic yet to all practical intents and purposes this is his condition. He is not himself a social machine. He is merely the cogs and rivets in somebody else's machine His status and function is scarcely higher than that of mere material or live stock. His situation is analogous to that of the epiphite, of which the mistletoe and the dodder are instances. The epiphite does not take root and grow and stronger plant. It cannot stand alone. All epiphites are parasites. All parasites are not equally bad or useless, but all forms of parasitism are to be deprecated. It is not to be hoped for or desirable that the colored people in America should constitute an industrial and economical machine, or entity, separate and apart from that of the whites. That is not possible even All races and nations and classes are now more or less dependent on one another. The thing desirable is that to the degree that the colored people here are denied equitable fruits profits and benefits of the white man's social, industrial and commercial organization. The colored people should have their own organization, their own social or economic machine. This they have already done as to their intimate social life and their religion. They should extend it in like manner to include the industries commerce and banking. The reason why colored people have not more extensively turned to manufacturing, trading and banking is easy of explanation. They have nearly all been content to be mistletoes on some white oak tree. They are thereby scattered so far as unity of purpose is concerned. Enabled to exist, merely exist, with little root and soil of their own, they have been content. To all practical purposes this is a condition of social chaos. Fortunately, while the analogy of the mistletoe is apparent, the similarity is not entire. It is in the power of the colored people to take root themselves in the soil and themselves grow into big trees. Let them come down from their comfortable perches on the white man's business tree, and themselves become trees. To transform 10,000,000 industrial epiphites, or job holders, into a condition where they can measurably stand alone in business will not be the work of a day or a year. It must be gradually done. It is always a slow process to bring order out of chaos bring order First, let us establish order. Order means organization. At every step there must be reflection, study, experimentation. Let us take the army for our example and model of organization and discipline. We shall do well to study the army organization and discipline for our model. THE BUSINESS-SMITH. THE BUSINESS-SMITH In our issue of August 11, 1917, we used the word "Businesssmith." So far as we know, this was the first use of the word in print. However, the word and the notion that it connotes has been in our mind for some time past. We are certain that we put it down in our commonplace book several years ago, and that we used it in a written address (never delivered) in April, 1917. Lexicographers and dictionary makers, please take notice. Here is a tentative definition of the term Business-Smith: 1. Generally, a person having knowledge of comprehensive business and of managerial affairs; adept in applying that knowledge to practical ends, and imparting it to others. 2. Specifically, a person having profound practical knowledge of any particular line of business especially, one who is adept in imparting his particular business knowledge to others. Director Ralph of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing has made a record of which the world is proud. The few sore heads under him should be removed. The same complaint is made against Secretary McAdoo, the greatest financier this government ever had. Vardaman of Mississippi ought to take a tumble. He is suffering with nervousness. The Bee was under the impression that the prayers offered for Trilman would have him curbed. The next time the prayer for this old has been will be hung up for posterity. The colored people are just attending to their business and giving the President all the help he wants not withstanding the lynching segregation and other brutal acts to which they are subjected by the Southern mongrels. Rev. Norman is one of the greatest pulpit orators in the United States. You should have heard the great Norman Wednesday evening. CLARKE TRAINING SCHOOL 1600 Thirteenth Street, Northwest Washington, D. C. Once the home of the Chilean Legation MRS. ADDIE R. CLARKE, Manager A WORD TO WOMEN Learn Dressmaking and Millinery the Easy Way. Are you aware that there is a growing demand for Dressmakers, Hair Dressers and Seamstresses, and the demand is far greater than the supply? Well it is a fact. To overcome this we are offering to allow you to learn Dressmaking, Plain-sewing, Hair Dressing and Millinery a special inducement. Now if you are anxious to fit yourselves for the work of life and real usefulness; size this opportunity, DECIDE . NOW, never mind what obstacles you may have to overcome, WE WILL HELP YOU in every we can. You may trust in the fullest confidence and rest assured that we never advice we give will be based on the sincere desire to be you. MRS. CLARKE has had twenty-five years experience in teaching dress-making, cutting and fitting, designing, blending. And has so simplified the art that the average women can learn in this school. Mom would be as efficient as one would in any other place in a three year course. We have positive proof of this for we have many of our graduates now making from nine to fifteen dollars per week in this city and many other parts of the country, also others are teaching in some of our best institutes. Hairdressing. The Hairdressing department is under the supervision of one of the most accomplished Hairdressers. Music. Elementary music is another branch taught. Those desire to take the higher course can do so—Excellent teachers. Work Plentiful. All sorts of employment furnished to those seeking the same through the Mode Employment Bureau, in the same Building. A Long Felt Need Met- A Long Pen Strangers coming to Washington, D. C., need not any longer wonder as to where they may stop or secure any information—Just call up North 1955 or call at 1600 13th Street N. W., corner of 13th and Q and the Bureau of Information—under the Supervision the of Colored Women's Clubs of the District of Columbia, located in the Clarke Training School Building will furnish the same; information sought through the mail, it will be gladly fur- nished. MISS MARIE A. D. MADRE, LL. B. LL. M. President. MRS. JULIA MASON LAYTON, Secretary, PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS The Sage of The Potomac By the Sage of The Potomac. I am indebted to the editor for the information concerning the visit of the chairman and secretary of the Capital Benefit Association made to the Bee office a few days ago. I wonder if these gentlemen are very anxious for me to tell everything I know concerning the treatment of the employees in that corporation. Is this gift to the manag- Well the training camp for colored reserve officers will close shortly and they will return home to be commissioned. The real fighting in Europe hasn't begun as yet. When the Ameri- soldiers get on the firing line in "Old Dixie." Vardaman has broken loose again. If he is such a brave general, why doesn't he shoulder his gun and prepare to fight. Vardaman can do a great deal of talking at long range. I have never seen a mean southern democrat man enough to give worthy colored Americans credit for what they can do. He only asks to be given an opportunity. The democratic administration might as well come to it, the colored soldier will be needed in this conflict. They were needed in the late civil war, but, not until the South was about to lick the North. When the enemy gets the better of the contest, the black man will be called to save the day. It is not necessary to worry. It will be come necessary to call him, by the thousands. Don't worry because the time is fast approaching when the colored American will be a necessity. Dr. Geo. W. Cabbiness is in Iowa, paying for the boys. He is at the of the Y. M. C. A. What the doctor fails to inject in them the government will My good old friend Thomas L. Jones has purchased himself a Dort. It cost him over a thousand bucks. And he is driving it. It is a fine machine. Thomas expects to take a spin to Atlantic City and Cape May. It is a beauty. The Sage has had his for some time. Those who failed to go to the Howard Theater this week missed a rare treat. Now, next week will witness the Smart Set Company. I have seen no pay to come up to Broadway Rastus. It is the best show of its kind on the stage. It cannot be surpassed. My good friend Jerome A. Johnson has decided to do that which others are afraid to do, notwithstanding the war. So many young men married after the draft until it was decided to draft the married as well as the single. Marriage was no bar. It is claimed if physicians are able to practice their profession they are able to go to war. That of course will depend on the physical ability to serve. By the way, Perrie W. Frisby is thinking of getting an automobile. He says that he has been walking enough. The latest sensation is the coming Elks' Convention at Cleveland, Ohio. It is going to be a central royal. The friends of Bundy declare that they have a look in although the Scott forces claim a tie-up or a muzzle for Bundy. Harry Tignor says that he has one thousand to put up. When he gets no doubt he will be able to talk business. There will be some money spent. The picnic of the Oldest Inhabitants at Green Willow Park last week was largely attended. President Eugene Brooks and his assistants deserve credit for the success of the affair. Some of the beauties of Wash-turned out. ing Mir. Ella Faster and baby are doing well in Fairview, Md. well Hov. W, H. Jernagin has returned from Atlantic City. from Atlanta Look out for the clean sheet edited women by clean women. One of the most successful business women in this city is Mrs. Mae Rich-den ardson. Attorney Zeph Moore and his most accomplished wife will take a trip in a few days. UNITED STATES MANKIND'S SAVIOR. Christianity vs. Apostasy and Paganism—Democracy vs. Autocracy. 1914 Net 1844 the Time. The United States will undoubtedly be mankind's satirist, and continue to be the leading nation financially, commercially, and industrially, by defeating Germany and the central powers and successfully competing with Great Britain and her allies for commercial leadership, after this, the world's most gigantic, colossal and untouched struggle. magnitudinous. Since the vision of Nebuchadnezar which was interpreted by the prophet Daniel and Daniel's visions which were interpelled by himself, except the 2300 days and 70 weeks referred to in Daniel 8 ch. 13 vs. and Daniel 9ch. 24 vs., there has been unusual interest manifested in what the future will bring forth concerning Christianity, apostasy and paganism, but just as Christianity overcome ancient paganism, when the leading powers of Europe gave up their attachment to that institution, namely, France and the other powers of Western Rome, Christianity will inevitably overthrow apostasy, and present day paganism. At the conclusion of this stupendous conflict, beyond per- adventure Christianity and democracy will be accelerated and apostasy and modern paganism will be greatly retarded, if not nearly eradicated. The part that the United States proposes to play in the present crisis, is to lead the world in establishing, promoting and perpetuating Christianity, humanity, liberty, justice, civilization, freedom and democracy the world over, as opposed to apostasy and latter-day paganism, inhumanity, oppression, injustice, barbarianism, slavery, and autocracy, although the other nations participating in the present universal upheaval have failed in the past to live up to these cardinal principles. Without exaggeration, there is not a nation in the world, that has granted more liberty to native-born, naturalized and those who have declared their intention to become citizens, than is granted by the government of the United States, although, at too frequent intervals, the lawless element in this country commits some of the most heinous offenses, and the authorities utterly fail to perform their sworn duty, either preventing the commission of the violation of the law, or apprehending and punishing those who are responsible for making a mockery of the law and a subterfuge of justice. legislation. In the past and at the present time there has been undue laxity in the enforcement of the law of the land, nevertheless, in the future there must be a radical change for the protection of the guaranteed rights of American citizens, in every conceivable aspect. Thus, all good citizens desire, wish and hope from now until the end of time that life, liberty, and property rights will become so inviolable in this country, that we can proclaim without reservation, that not only has the government enacted law for the protection of the citizen, but that its law officers have indiscriminately administered and enforced these laws impartially, justly and equitably. In spite of the numerous injustices that have been perpetrated upon American citizens, it is unquestionably the duty of each and every citizen, to stand behind the President, the Congress and the government of the United States at this the times of times, as firm, not only as Gibraltar, but as impregnable, as impenetrable, and as invincible as an asbestos wall constructed upon an adamantine foundation for all that Christianity, humanity and democracy represents, and most assuredly, there will be an awakening that will bring forth the desired relief to the oppressed, presecuted and massacred of all races, irrespective of the absolute failure of the past administrative offices of the government in this and other countries, to have done their duty when they were entrusted with plenary power to recommend the necessary legislation and the executive power to enforce the laws on the statute books and the organic law of the land. The consecutive avent of the world's history have culminated in this: "Humanity's Super-War," which ought to put an end to the persecutions of paganism; to the intolerant, turbulent and diabolical oppressions of autocracies, and forthwith and forever, to the inequalities, injustices and inhumanities of democracies. The conflict of conflicts that has transformed Europe into the world's slaughter house, undoubtedly, is the beginning of the cleansing of the sanctuary, preparatory to the coming of the Kingdom and the second advent of Christ, referred to in Daniel 8 ch. 13 vs. and Daniel 9 ch. 24 vs. The literal 2300 days and 70 weeks three spoken of in all probability means 2370 prophetic years dating from about 456 B. C. time that Artaxerx issued a decree to Ezra to recreate build Jerusalem, which time would expire about 1914 A. D. the time of the beginning of the worst calamity, "Humanity's Super-War," that has befallen mankind since creation, except, the Deluge. This time 2300 literal days or 2370 prophetic years of Daniel 8 ch. 13 vs. exclusive of the time 70 literal weeks or 70 prophetic years of Daniel 9 ch. 24 vs. which ended about 1844 A.. D., most certainly was not the time as contended by many learned commentators, for the beginning-of the cleansing of the sanctuary, paraparatory to the coming of the Kingdom and the second advent of Christ, nevertheless, they have offered, as they have done for the failure of all of their biblical theories, interpretations and constructions. If the present human slaughter, in conjunction with the numerous signs of the times, namely, artificial-battling under the sea and in the air, as well as, on the sea and on the land and natural—earthquakes, shocks, tornadoes, cyclones, intermittent thunder, lightning, wind and hall storms, accompanied by unusual heavy rain falls and uncertain, sudden, and spasmodicmatic changes, together with the indiscribable and uncheckable diseases, ravages and plagues of the present war of wars, which began in 1914 A. D., and which continues unabated and in increasing violence, is not enough to convince any sane man that about. 1914 A. D., or 2370 prophetic years from 456 B. C., was the time for the beginning of the cleansing of the sanctuary, prepatory to the coming of the Kingdom and the second advent of Christ, written in Daniel 8ch. 13. vs. and Daniel 9 ch. 24 vs. I am unable to comprehend what will convince him. H. A. Clarke, 206 N. Y. Ave, N. W. Washington D. C. JUSTHS' OLD STAND. Workingmen: There seems to be somewhere in some store a big bargain in a suit to fit you, but the trouble is, you can't find that store. Did you ever try us? Do so, and see the new uncalled-for suits. They sell fast at $8 up. JUSTHS' OLD STAND, 619 D. Mr. H. Teagle King has just returned home after spending a pleasant vacation with friends in Jamaica, L. L. Montclair, Orange, New York City and Philadelphia. 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 sundae with that luscious, rich fruity flavor served at Board's Drug Store on Fourteenth Street. Rev. J. D. Pair left Tuesday to fill an engagement to preach this week at Smithfield, Va. Before he returns he will visit friends in Newport News, Norfork, and Portsmouth. Misses Alberta Johnson and Agnes A. Adams have been appointed in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Mr. John S. Buonder, of the Bureau Mrs. Eugene Brooks who has been visiting her daughter. In the East has returned to the city. She went to Saratoga, N. Y. and had a most delightful time. Mr. Joseph Jackson and Miss Pearl Solad of Baltimore, Md., were the guests of Mrs. Rose Arter, Monday and Tuesday. Mr. Jackson is the brother of Mrs. Arter. Mrs. Elizabeth Bell of Elizabeth North Carolina who spent a week as the guest of Mrs. Hanah Chesnut 303 L. st. northwest, left Monday for New York, from there she will go direct to her home. She stated that her stay in the Capital City was delight- full. Rev. Dr. Walter H. Brooks, our greatest pulpit orator and scholar, left the city to spend a few days in Atlantic City, N. J. tic City, N. J. Mrs. Helen Early of 1328 ae St., N. W. and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Magruder of Thirteenth St., spent a few days in Pittsburgh last week. Baltimore last week. Miss Elen Lee of Tea street northwest was recently appointed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Wyckes of Tea Bureau of Engraving in Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Wycks of Tea street northwest returned after a very pleasant stay in Baltimore, Md. Garner pleasant stay in Baltimore Misses Sylvia and Helen Garner, daughters of Rev. Garner of the Plymouth Congregational Church, received appointments at the Bureau.of Engraving and Printing last week. David H. Evans left the city last Mr. David H. Evans went week to join his wife and daughter, Mrs. Evans and Mss Lucile, who have been in Atlantic City quite a while visiting their son and brother, Dr. and A. F. Evans. Mrs. A. F. Evans. The Misses Annie Henderson and Therese Joyce are at the Government Visiting Office. Printing Office. Mr. Joseph Settlers, 406 E street northeast spent a few days in Balti- t last week more, Md., last week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Williams will leave for Atlantic City, N. J., the last of this month and spend Labor Day there. They will also spend some time in New York City. Mrs. J. Arthur James left the city last Friday for Cape May, Atlantic City and other Eastern points. Mrs. C. C. Smith of 1812 Ninth St., N. W., who was recently called to the bedside of her friend, Mrs. H. H. Haxter of Wilmington, Del., is expected to return to the city next week. Miss Fay Hershaw, a Kindergarten teacher in the public schools of Princeton, New Jersey, and who has been attending the summer school of Columbia University, studying advanced kindergarten work, is at home, 2215 13th street, norrthwest for a few Miss Minerva Ware has returned to the city after a pleasant stay at her home in Waynesboro Virginia. ST. LUKE'S P. E. CHURCH TO GIVE FALL PICNIC. One of the greatest events for the fall season which is being looked forward to by hundreds of Capital Residents who will be home in the next few weeks will be the Annual Fall Picnic of St. Luke's P. E. Church which will be given under the auspices of the vestry. Mr. Richard Reed, the well-known funeral director, has rejoined Mrs. Daisy W. Henson as business manager. Miss Daisy Martin is the new leading lady of "The Smarter Set." Harry Brown, singing cartoonist, and Akers and Jackson are at Dud this week. Mrs. M. W. Claire is preparing to repeat in October the Historical and Missionary Pageant, given at her church June last. The pageant is in two parts. Part 1. Indian Life. Discovery of America. Chant. Te Deum Laudamus. Landing of the first slaves. Landing of the Pilgrims. Phyllis. Plantation scenes and melodies. Harriet Jones. Solouraer Truta. Part II After the Civil War—Primitive school, recitations, singing. The work of the Women's Home Missionary Society in the development of the Negro Race and other races in America and therefore striving to bring its aim to fulfillment in America for Christ. Mrs. Clair is noted for her originality and fine style. Profit and pleasure in store for all who attend. MRS. HARRIS. Mrs. Roberta Harris, the beauty cultured of 510 Florida Ave., N. W., has returned to the city after attending the funeral of her late sister, Mrs. Mary Lenord, at Lewisburg, N. C. Mrs. Harris is the wife of James H. Harris chairman of the Sick Committee of the New Ebbitt Walter-Association. Elder Lewis C. Sheafe the Noted Evangelist of Nation wide reputation of being one of the greatest Bible Students preached to a large and appreciative congregation at the M. E. Church here Sunday Aug. 19, 1917. A large-collection was taken. Elder Sheafe is much loved here by all the people irrespective of denomination or race. He was invited to preach here by Mrs. Queen V. Coalman an unassuming Christian lady who is always devout and never tiring in her service in the Sunday School, Church and Community. THE TOWN IN A PARAGRAPH. Miss Vivian Lucile Thompson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Thompson, was married August 6 in Alexandria, Va., to Mr. Walter Scott Turner, Jr., of Philadelphia, Pa. The ceremony was performed by Rev. S. M. Johnson. Mr. U. S. M. Maxwell the well known business man and fraternity leader, has returned from a lecture town of the Middle West. Mrs. Samuel. T. Henry and children have gone to Delaware City, Del., for the remainder of the summer. Mr. Richmond Reed is again business manager of the undertaking firm headed by Mrs. Daisy W. Henson. Mrs. Eunice B. Chaney is visiting in Fall River, Mass. Fall River, Mass Mrs. Ernest Davidson Washington (nee Miss Edith Meriwether,) is dividt time between her mother at. 1211 S street and her sister, Mrs. E. B. H. Henderson, at Falls Church, Va. Mr. R. W. Thompson, the general correspondent, is to attend the convention of Mme. C. J. Walker's agents in Philadelphia next Thursday and will also look in on the annual session of the National Association in the same city. He will visit New York City later, where he will be the guest of Mme. Walker in 136th street. The 13th and T street tennis grounds would make an admirable site for a high-class apartment house for colored patrons. Mr. E. C. Buchanan, a graduate of New York City, is visiting old friends here. Mr. Buchanan has traveled extensively in Europe South America and other sections of the globe. globe. The District branch of the National Federation of Colored Woman's Clubs, of which Miss Marie A. D. Madre is president, has opened headquarters at 13th and Q streets northwest in connection with the Mme. L. R. Clark Training school and Industrial Center. The local branch of the National Negro Business League is to be revived. With Mr. Daniel Freeman at its head, this organization can be made a power for great good along commercial, civic and patriotic lines. Mr. Henry P. Slaughter, editor of the Odd Fellows, Journal, grows in strength as an aspirant for the post of Grand Master of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, for which he has done such constructive work. It is thought E. H. Morris will retire at the New York B. M. C. next year, if so. Mr. Slaughter is next in line of promotion, and will be elected "hands down". Mr. Frank A. Byron has returned from a trip with the naval committee of the House of Representatives. Mrs. Roberter Harris the beauty culturest of 510 Florida Ave., N. W. has returned to the city after attending the funeral of her late sister Mrs. Mary Leonard at Lewisburg, N. C. Mrs. Harris is the wife of Mr. James H. Harris of the Sick Committee of the New Ebbit Waiters Association. HOWARD THEATRE The High Class Vaudeville at the Howard theatre just as Mr. Andrew J. Thomas, the manager announced in the Bee' last week surpasses any that has ever been at the Howard Theatre. Mr. Charles Anderson the most wonderful singer upon the American stage. He is a genius. The other participants are equally as good. Don't fail to enjoy the new Vaudeville acts at the Howard Theatre. Dr. James E. Shepard, of Denham, N. C., accompanied by his most accomplished wife and two daughters, Miss Ano Day and Marjorie were in the city last week from Atlantic City, N. J., where they had been for a while. While there they were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Lee, 120 Pen street northwest. A good deal of social attention was paid them by their many friends. They visited many of the public buildings and the Freedman Hospital mans Hospital. They received many automobile rides through the Speedway, Rock Creek Park and Soldiers Home. Creek Park and Solomon Wednesday evening before they left for Denham, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. Lee and their daughters tended an informal reception to which there were many callers. They left on the ten forty five for their home. DAVIS-HERNDON. DAVISHER Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Edna L. Herndon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Herndon, of this city, to Mr. Peirre H. Davis, of New Haven, Conn. Davis, of New Haven, The wedding took place on Wednesday evening, August 15th, at 7 o'clock, at the home of the bride's parents, 609 You street northwest, the Rev. Walter H. Brooks, of this city, officiating. A number of relatives and friends witnessed the ceremony. nessed the coroner. The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, wore an ivory silk and lace gown, with a beautiful bouquet of white rose buds. The three sisters of the bride, Misses Viola, Lillian and Pearl, were her attendants. Each wore gowns of pink and white. Mr. I. G. Bolley of this city, was best man. Bailey, of this city, An informal reception was given following the ceremonies. Among the guests out of town were: the two aunts of the bride, Mrs. Annie Dean and Hattie Garland of Richmond, Va., and the mother and sister of the groom, Mrs. Julia Davis and Miss Addie Davis of Margo Haven, Conn. New Haven, Conn. Friends in and out of the city gave many valuable and useful tokens in honor of the occasion. honor of the occasion. After the reception, the couple left for New York on their honeymoon. After September 1st Mr. and Mrs. Davis will be at home, 258 Dixwell Ave., New Haxen, Conn. THE "SMARTER.SET" at Howards. (NOWLY THE SMART SET) A show that is attracting general attention this season from the lovers of both music and clean comedy, is the "Smarter Set" better known as the "Smart Set" headed by Salem Tutt Whitney and J. Homer Tutt, who are supported by the strongest troupe of Afro-American actors ever assembled and presenting a new musical creation called "My People" in Music and Mirth of a Race, which will be the attraction at the From information received from our exchanges our theatre-goers can rely on witnessing a bright, sparkling, refined musical play, combining the best singing, dancing and amusing situation, devoid of the slightest trace of anything to offend. It is also highly commended for its quick action, as there is nothing dragging or tedious about it, for it goes along with a hearty vim from the start to finish. It is undoubtedly a meritus attraction. (FORMERLY THE SMART SET) During the theatrical season past the box-office proved a severe critic and forced many a show to an early demise. This criti: however gave to the "Smarter Set" better known as the "Smart Set" headed by Salem Tutt Whitney and J. Homer Tutt the very highest endorsement, and when the endorsement of the press and public have been secured further struggle is unnecessary. But the Management is not satisfied with these laurels, they have secured a stronger company for this season, with many new features and will be the attraction at the on THE "SMART SET." (FORMERLY THE SMART SET) "Life is Symphony." "William Henry Channing" says: "To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respected; and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to hear all cheerfully, do all bravely, awa't occasions, hurry never—in a word, to let the spiritual unbidden, and unconscious grow up through the common. The Management of the "Smarter Set" better known as the "Smart Set" headed by Salom Tutt Whitney and J. Homer Tutt, further adds that a perfect "Life's Symphony" would be incomplete without the joy of the sensuous-music which is the delight with the 'Smarter Set's' new musical creation called "My People" in Music and Mirth of a Race, which will be the attraction at the Howard Theatre next week. (FORMERLY THE SMART SET) Always justly noted for the completeness of its productions the "Smarter Set" better known as the "Smart Set" headed by Salem Tutt Whitney and J. Homer Tutt, the Management has this season outdone itself in the way they have staged and costumed their new musical creation called "My People" in Music and Mirth of a Race, which comes to the Howard next week. Nothing finer scenically or artistically has been seen upon the American stage in years than the spectacle which will greet theatre-goers when they view this fastest effort of the "Smarter Set" in which it is said that they have upassed their former efforts. Delegates E. W. Bundy, William H. Toliver, Harry L. Tignor, and Walter T. Dixon, representing Columbia Ledge of Elks, leave tomorrow Sunday, for the Grand Lodge Convention to be held in Cleveland, Ohio. On their way home, they will visit Niagara Falls and Pittsburg. Nigel Master Clarence Tignor, the son of Attorney Harry L. Tignor, is spending the hot season in Northumberland County, Virginia. Mrs. Sadie T. Henson, probation officer at the National Training school for Girls, Conduit Road, D. C., will be in Philadelphia during the session of the Medical Association. Miss Marie K. Brown, will spend her vacation in Atlantic City, N. J. Before returning home, she will visit Niagara Falls. Dr. C A. Tignor, will motor to Philadelphia to attend the sessions of the Medical Association. He will have The HOWARD THEATRE Andrew J. Thomas Theatre Co., Props. August 27th MATINEE: Tue ERPRISES, INC., PRESENTS Amercas G "The Smarter Set" (Formerly the Smart Sht By SALEM TUTS WHITNEY and J. HOW Presenting the Seasons newess Musical Co "MY REOPLE" Face. A Glorious Jubilee of Clean Comedy 25, 35 and 50 Cents MATINE Entire week Starting August 27th MATINEE: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday THE CORWELL ENTERPRISES, INC., PRESENTS Amercas Greatest COLORED Show "The Smarter Set" THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK IS SHaking Hands WITH A MAN IN A TUXEDO AND A TOPHAT. Madame Go We have the ex Dudley Theatrical Enterprise, with headquarters at 1223 7th street, over the Mid-City Theater. Mr. Charles Ost is again holding forth as house manager at ludley's U street Theater, after an absence from the city. The Local agents of the Mme. C. J. Walker. Chemical Company are to attend in a body the national convention of the Company at Philadelphia August 30 and 31. The local Business League is to be called together by Mr. Daniel Freeman at an early date. Washington needs an aggressive "Board of Trade." an abg Rev. Thomas E. Davis, of Indianapolis, Ind., now stationed at Columbus, N. M., succeeding Rev. Washington W. W. Gladden, retired. The new chapain is of the Baptist denomination. 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. with him as his guest, his mother, Mrs. Lottie Tignor. Dr. William A. Tolson, accompanied by Mrs. Tolson, will attend the annual convention of the Medical Association; to be held in Philadelphia during the week of August 27th. Mr. James Howard, deputy United States Marshal, assigned to the Police Court, is taking his annual vacation. He had as his guest over Sunday, his son, Roy Howard, of Harrisburg, Pa. Burg, Pa. Attorney Royal Hughes has just returned from a visit to his old home, stead. Richmond, Va. NATIONAL NEWS NOTES. Brief Bits of News and Comments On Men and Measures. LIBERIA OPPOSES GERMANY. Baltimore, Md.,—Dr. Ernest Lyon, Liberian Consul-General, resident here, states the announcement that Liberia has severed diplomatic relations with Germany has greater significance than may appear, at first sight, to the average reader. The Republic is neither a military nor a naval power, but its capital, Monrovia, a place with a population of about 6000, has, since 1910, been a station on the cable route between Germany and Brazil. There are also wireless facilities in Liberia which the Germans have made use of in communicating with certain of the South American republic, and, probably, with Mexico. Liberia can do its bit. Announcement is now made that the State Department at Washington has been notified that Liberia has declared war against Germany. It is said their object is to intern German merchants and sympathizers who are active in aiding the cause of Germany against the allies. JUSTH'S OLD STAND. MATINEES: All Seats 25 Cents Many inquiries are being made as to whether there will be a second camp for the training of colored officers. The best authorities say that the formation of a second camp depends upon circumstances. The matter will be determined after the results growing out of the present camp are known and the number of competent officers commissioned. Along with this must be ascertained or estimated, at least, how many colored soldiers will be drawn from the concession system. If the volume of col- Madame Walker's Goods You all know what the Block Optical Co. means in the optical world. Few concerns have made the studies they have. Naturally there's a reason. This coupon brought by a member of one family entitles them to an examination and a reduction of $2.00 on any pair of glasses. 7th and Tea Streets. Northwest All of the Washington boys at the Fort Des Moines officers' training camp are said to be doing well, despite the fact that many of them had not been accustomed to hard physical work for many years prior to their advent into army life—if ever. The going has been pretty stiff, but with their reputation at stake and a glorious future of service in store, the carpet knights, students and professional men have buckled down to business and it is expected that a big bunch of commissions will be handed out about September 15. Of the upward of 1,500 men at the camp, seventy-two are from Woohington. ored troops seems to require more officers than are found available, provision will be made for the training of another group. Miss Marle A. D. Madre, president of the local branch of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, is planning a drive for the Federation this fall that will lay the foundation of much important civic work for this community. Miss Madre intends to make the Federation the most useful organization of our women in this section of the country. Mr. A. E. Manning, editor of the Indianapolis World, left for home Wednesday, after handling some important matters in connection with the National Council for Defense. It is said he carried a snug federal commission in his inside pocket as he journeyed toward Hoosierdom. He has always been a consistent follower of the party of Jefferson and deserves any recognition-with in the gift of the Wilson administration. Will Be Called by Local Boards Five Alternates Will Be Named From Each Registration District and Will Be Held In Case Any Fails to Show Up Either the mailing of notice or the posting of the list containing his name as prescribed herein shall constitute the giving of notice to each of the persons named on the lists so posted and shall charge each of such persons with notice that he has been selected for military service and that he has been ordered to hold himself in readiness to report for military duty at a time and place specified in a notice to be posted in the office of the local board. Upon notice from the provost marshal general to furnish at a specified time or times the net quota of the state or any proportion thereof the adjutant general of the state shall give timely notice to each local board in the state from which any part of the state quota is to be called to assemble for transportation to the mobilization camp to which the particular local board is to furnish men. Boards to Assemble Men. Boards to Assemble men. Upon the receipt of notice from the adjutant general of the state to assemble a specified number of selected men at a convenient point of entrainment not later than a time specified in such notice each local board shall determine the hour and place of entrainment under instructions from the adjutant general of the state. The board shall forthwith make from the names on all the lists referred to in sections 2 and 3 hereof, which have been posted by the local board as prescribed in section 3 hereof, a list of names of the exact number of men required by the adjutant general, to be furnished as prescribed in section 4 hereof. The list shall contain an order to the selected men named therein to report to the local board for military duty at the office of the board and at an hour and date named by the local board in the notice, which named house shall be between 8 and 5 p. m. and not more than twenty-four hours nor less than twelve hours in advance of the hour of entrainment on the date specified by the adjutant general of the state for entrainment. The local board shall at the same time, by mail directed to the detailed addresses of the men so ordered to report to the local board for military duty, notify each man whose name is contained in the lists so posted that he is ordered to report to the local board for military duty at the time and place specified in the list so posted. From the time specified for reporting to the local board for military duty each man in respect of whom notice to report has been posted or mailed shall be in the military service of the United States. Subsistence and Lodging. In ample time prior to the date upon which selected men are ordered by the local board to report for military duty the local board should make arrangements with hotels, restaurants or lodging houses in the vicinity of the office of the board for the accommodation of the number of selected men who are to be under the orders of the local board during the period preceding the hour of entrainment and who have not received permission from the local board to spend that time at home. Meal and lodging tickets will be furnished local boards for this purpose, and the arrangements should include an agreement on the part of such hotels, restaurants or lodging houses to accept, in payment for subsistence and lodging, meal tickets redeemable in cash at the office of a distributing officer of the war department. In ample time to allow for their careful and accurate preparation before the date specified by the adjutant general for entrainment each local board shall prepare the papers that must be sent to the mobilization camp. The local board will, except on the last installment of the quota, personally notify at least five other selected men to report to the local board at the hour and on the day specified. These additional men are intended to serve as alternates in case any of the men notified fall to report as directed and in order that the local board may not be placed in the position of failing to entrain the exact number of men called for with the promptness and precision that should characterize all matters relating to the formation of the armies of the United States. Assembly of Men. At the time and place specified on the lists for the selected men to report for military duty the local board will itself be present and should be attended by a number of reliable assistants sufficient to perform the duties hereinafter prescribed. Each assistant should be provided with a memorandum showing one lodging house and the precise number of men to be accommodated there. As the men report they will be checked off the list of those ordered to report and the hour at which each man reported will be noted thereon. Alternates will also be checked off on the memorandum to report and the hour at which each man reports. As soon as the number of men to be lodged in any one house have reported the assistant who has the memorandum for that house shall note a memorandum of the names of the men assigned to that house and shall leave a How Draft Army Into Service Commander Will Be Chosen From Each Contingent and Will Be In Charge Until the Party Safely Arrives at Camp OUTLINE OF REGULATIONS FOR THE CALL TO COLORS The first 200,000 men of the national army will be sent into training on Sept. 5. Local boards will provide lodgings and meals at mobilization points for Sept. 1. Departure of command will be followed by roundup of stragglers by local board, which will recommend the best army post degree of culpability. Physical examinations by army doctors made on arrival at camp. pleted its plans for the first call to the colors of men for the new national army to be formed under the selective service law. The governors of the states have been notified that each state will be called upon to furnish one-third of its quota on Sept. 1. Each of the 4,657 local districts will be expected to furnish one-third of its quota on Sept. 1, and the men will be mobilized at training camps between Sept. 1 and 5. The rest of each district's quota will be mobilized later in September. Regulations governing the plans for this great mobilization of 687,000 drafted men have been issued by President Wilson through the office of Brigadier General Enoch Crowder, the provost marshal general. These regulations direct the local and district boards in great detail how to proceed in designating the men to be entrained in the first call of one-third of the quota to the colors. The regulations provide for the listing of the men to be called, for the posting and notification of those called, for their assembly, lodging, subsistence, entrainment and transportation to the mobilization camps. General Crowder will specify the number of men to be mobilized at each camp. The local boards are expected to entrain men for these camps at the times specified. The adjutant generals of the states, will call on the local boards to send selected men to the mobilization camps. The local boards will fix the time of assembly and order the drafted men to military duty. They also will arrange for subsistence and lodging and for the transportation of the men to the camps. They will make arrangements with hotels, restaurants and lodging houses in their neighborhoods for the lodging of the men assembled for entrainment, but the rules contain a provision by which the men may spend their last night in their homes with their families by making application to the boards. Posting of a man's name or notice to him by mail will serve as his orders to report for military duty. Should he fall to report when posted on the list of those embraced in the assembly list he will be subject to arrest. The names of all ribsentees are to be reported by the local boards direct to Brigadier General Henry P. McCain, the adjutant general of the army at Washington. If the local board knows the whereabouts of the absentees it must call on the police to arrest them as deserters from the army and to deliver them to the nearest military station as prisoners. The following is in part the text of the regulations for the assembling of the first section of the national army issued by Provost Marshal General Crowder: District Boards Prepare List. Each district board shall prepare daily a certified list in quadruplicate of persons called by each local board who have made appearance in person or otherwise in the local or district board and who have not been exempted or discharged. Such lists shall contain a notification to the persons named, the reason they have been selected for military service and a direction to them to hold themselves in readiness to report for military duty at a time and place to be thereafter specified in a notice to be posted at the office of the local board by the local board having jurisdiction. Separate lists shall be made in respect of the persons called by each of the several local boards within the jurisdiction of the district board. One copy shall be sent to the adjutant general of the state, and three copies shall be sent to the local board having jurisdiction of the persons whose names are entered on the list. Notification of Eligibles. Upon receipt of the certified lists each local board shall, by mail, directed to the address shown on his registration card or filed therewith, notify each man whose name has been certified that he has been selected for military service and shall direct him to hold himself in readiness to report for military duty at a time and place to be thereafter specified in a notice to be posted at the office of the local board. The local board shall at the same time post one of the lists, so certified from the district board in a place accessible to the public view and shall make one copy available to the press, with a request for publication, indorsing on each of such lists the date of its posting. PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER A SUPPLEMENT FOR WHITENING BASIC SKIN WHITENING JOHNSON TOWNSIDE ATLANTA, O. DR. FRED PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER Whitens dark, or brown skin. Bleaches and clears sallow, complexions, removes all blemishes and causes the skin to grow whiter. See that you get the genuine. 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Manipulation of this explosive produces a light dust, which gets into the mouth, nose and eyes and sets up a painful soreness, accompanied by headache, nausea and an almost intolerable itching. Curiously enough, individuals vary very considerably in their susceptibility to tetryl poisoning. Some workers are not all affected by it or only in a very slight degree, while others can hardly enter a room in which it is being handled without suffering severely. Luckily tetryl poisoning does not endanger life, nor are the symptoms in any case so severe as those due to T. N. T. poisoning. Tetryl possesses the annoying property, however, of staining the skin and hair yellow, but means have been found of largely counteracting this if the workers care to avail themselves of them. Other industrial diseases of a similar nature more or less prevalent in muntion works are due to handling fulminate of mercury, to exposure to the fumes of a substance known as tetrachlorethane, to inhalation of various other noxious fumes and dust generated in the workshops by the different processes carried on there and also from lead poisoning. Yet another danger the muntion worker is exposed to is acute poisoning due to the accidental escape of nitrous fumes into the work places. Many of these cases are apt to terminate fatally; for the gas is extremely deadly. TERMS CASH Phone Main 7590 Bundy CALL DIRECTOR LMER t, Northwest Reasonable Prices Lady Attendant Residence Phone N. 1213 Manager AL SERVICE CORPORATION. FOOD DICTATOR ENIGMA TO FOES SERVES NATION WITHOUTPAY Born on an Ohio Farm and Left an Orphan, He Graduated From College and Was One of the Greatest Figures in the Mining World Before the War Provided New Duties For Him. What sort of human being is Herbert C. Hoover? So long as the war lasts Hoover will have more to say about what we all eat and what we pay for it than anybody else. Hoover will be an uninvited guest at every American dinner table. He will be a steady boarder for the period of the war in every American home. Everybody knows something about what Hoover has done. Books have been written in praise of his work as head of the C. R. B.-the commission for the relief of Belgium. The story of his business career has been told, with its last chapter, prior to the war, locating him in London as mining engineer, with branch offices in New York and San Francisco and mining interests scattered over half the world. But what about Hoover the man? What does he look like, talk like, act like? What are his pet amusements, what are his chief faults, how are we all going to be impressed by him when he walks into every dining room three times a day until the war is over? It isn't easy to give any clear idea of Herbert Hoover. There is no single conspicuous feature to hang the picture on. If Hoover only had long red whiskers, if he wore his hair long, or had acquired a monocle or an English accent diving his long residence in London, the job would be easy. But he possesses none of those accomplishments or adornments. He is of medium height and his figure is square and sturdy. He is smooth shaven, his face is broad rather than long, and his features are straight and regular. He looks younger than his years, which are only forty-three. He has a thick thatch of brown hair, and he has not even begun to show the silhouette signs of becoming baldheaded. Well Droosed American. One would not turn to look twice at Hoover in a crowd. If he did he would conclude that here was a well dressed, well to do, good looking, young American business man—his nationality could not be mistaken. He looks, too, like a western man—which he is—and not at all like a Quaker—which he also is, by inheritance, at least. Chatting with Hoover one needs, listen closely, for he talks in a tone a little lower than that usually used in conversation. That is not an affection. There is no affection about him. His chief characteristic perhaps is directness. He seems to know exactly what he wants to do and to have a good idea of how to get it. And he talks straight to the point. It was direct, straightforward talk, in his low voice, that Hoover used in persuading, arrogant German generals and haughty dignitaries of the British foreign office to permit him to buy, ship and distribute food for the Belgians across barred waters and through lines of battle. "What Is He After?" So far Hoover has been a distressing puzzle to the cynics of Washington. When a new man comes down to the national capital the first question they ask is "What is he after?" They have no idea that Mr. Hoover is in search of social prestige, for they have learned that no man is more careless of social conventions. In British social circles Hoover was known as "the rudest man in London." In Washington, even when he has guests at dinner, he is likely to leave the table suddenly to telephone, and he not infrequently quits a party of guests without explanations in order to write down something that has occurred to him as worth recording. Declined British Post. But the best proof of all is found in the fact that his great abilities as an organizer, being well recognized in Great Britain, when in the early days of the war he was offered a post of great responsibility in the British government which would have necessated his giving up his American citizenship, he declined the offer without the slightest hesitation. To have accepted it would have meant a certain "Sir" before his name and the probability of a peerage after the war. A man who turns down chances of that kind has surely not been bitten by the society bug. And finally when it was learned that Hoover's oldest son, a boy of fourteen, is attending the public high school at Palo Alto, Cal., the cynics gave up the social prestige theory as an utter impossibility. Born on a farm in Iowa and left an orphan when a small boy, he has supported himself since he was thirteen. At the age of twenty-five, four years after he had graduated from the Leland Stanford university, he was appointed director and chief engineer of all the mines of the then empire of China. He took a leading part in the defense of Tientsin during the Boxer rebellion. He has managed mines in all the continents but South America. He has played a big part in the business world of copy of the memorandum with the local board. He shall cause the men whose names are so noted to form a line, and the local board shall instruct them by order of the provost marshal general: First.—That they must report in person at 5:30 p. m. to the local board for retreat roll call. Second.—That they are to report in person to the local board at a specified hour on the day of entrainment, which hour shall be fixed by the local board at least forty-five minutes before train time, plus a sufficient time to reach the railroad station from the office of the local board. Third.—That they are now in the military service of the United States and that unpunctuality and failure to report are grave military offenses in time of war. Fourth-That after they have been conducted to the assigned lodging house they are at liberty until the hour of retreat roll call at 5:30 p. m., when all must be present at the office of the local board. The assistant shall then personally conduct the group of men to the assigned lodging house and remain with them until each of them is assigned a bed and is informed about meal hours and sanitary arrangements. He should personally inspect the accommodations furnished to insure that they are satisfactory and in complete compliance with the agreement made. Retreat Roll Call. At retreat roll call at 5:30 p. m. the members of the board should again be present. The roll of selected men who are to be entrained on the next day should be called from the list, and the roll of alternates should be called from the memorandum of alternates, and any absent men (not alternates) should be promptly sought out and a statement of their delinquency written and forwarded with the papers. The board should then designate one member of the party who, in the opinion of the board, is best fitted by reason of experience, age, character and personality to be in charge of the party from that time until arrival at mobilization camp. This person will be instructed to be at the office of the local board next day before the hour specified for the rest of the party to be there. Final Assembly. Upon the arrival at the office of the local board of the selected men of the party and the alternates the person so placed in charge will promptly at the hour specified for assembly and under the supervision of the board cause the assembled men to form in line and will call the roll from the list and the memorandum of alternates, causing each man to answer "Here" as his name is called and to take one step forward. Thereafter the men will be required to remain in one group except as it may be necessary to break up the group for transportation, and no man will be allowed to leave the group without permission. The local board will caution the men that the person designated is in command of the party, that it is their military duty to obey his orders and instructions and that disobedience of orders is the most serious of all military crimes. The local board will then inspect the party to see that nothing except light hand baggage is carried. The person designated will then, under the supervision of the board, designate a second in command, to take charge of the party during any necessary absence of himself, and will conduct the party to the railroad station. At the railroad station the board will present a transportation request to the ticket agent and obtain the necessary number of railroad tickets for the number of men who will actually compose the party. Fifteen minutes before train time the roll will again be called from the list only. If any men are absent their names will be canceled from the list, their cards and reports of physical examination will be removed from the group of cards and reports, and the names of a sufficient number of alternates to fill the deficiency will be written, and their cards and reports of physical examination will be inserted. Duties of Commanders. Upon arrival of the train the person designated as in charge of the party will supervise the entrainment, if necessary dividing the party into two groups, one under charge of himself and one under his assistant. He will himself keep in his personal possession the railroad and meal tickets of the party. He will accompany the conductor through the train, identify the men of his party and furnish the necessary tickets. He will likewise make the necessary arrangements at eating places, identify the members of his party and furnish the purveyor of meals with meal tickets for meals actually furnished. He will make frequent inspections of the cars and will take every precaution to see that no liquor is furnished to the men of his party and that none of his party is left at stops along the road. Account of Quotas at Camps. At each mobilization camp there will be kept an account of quotas with each local board which furnishes selected men to that mobilization camp, showing the balance of the net quota due at the end of each third of each month. Separate sheets will be kept for each state from which men are sent to the mobilization camp. Only men actually reporting and finally accepted as physically qualified for military service will be entered on the account as credited to the quota of any local board. The entries in the direct columns will be made under the date on which the list was certified back to the local board and from the total reported on the list to the local board as accepted. SAYS HE'LL DIE IF SENT TO THE FRONT TUMULTY GIVES GOOD ADVICE On the Other Hand One Comes From a Family of Fighting Irish and Will Go to Any Extreme to Get Into the Army—Some Humor Relieves the Tension at National Capital. Washington, worried by war and weather, pacifists and prohibitionists, contractors and conscripts, slackers and suffragists, aviators and alarmists, food and firearms, loans and liabilities, taxation and talk, the cabinet and congress, has not enjoyed a good laugh in a long time, or, rather, felt in the mood of indulging in one. Here and there, however, the development of war preparations has brought to the surface incidents that show that American humor is not to be suppressed, even by grim visaged war. There is, for instance, the case of young Mr. X., who took his troubles to the White House and related them almost tearfully to Mr. Tumulty, the secretary to the president: "I am a slacker, Mr. Tumulty, and I just can't help it," said young Mr. X. "I can't fight, and I know it. It isn't here," pointing to his heart. "I couldn't hold a gun in hand and shoot a man, and I would run like the dickens if anybody shot at me. If they grab me and put me in a trench I will just die, that's all there is to it." Has Been Drafted. "Have you been drafted?" asked the president's secretary, with solicitude. "Yes," replied, the honest slacker, "and I've got a feeling that they're going to nail me." "Oh, I wouldn't be too sure about that," said Mr. Tumulty consolingly. "You look to me. to be a little bit under the prescribed height." "No; that's where my hard luck comes again," said young Mr. X, dolefully. "I'm just a half inch over." Oh, well, they'll find something the matter with you," reassured Mr. Tumulty. "How about your general health?" "Not a chance," mournfully said the honest slacker, wiping perspiration from his brow. "My health is fine. Honest, Mr. Tumulty, there ain't a thing the matter with me except I am afraid. I tell you I can't fight. I wake up in the middle of the night and see myself under a pile of dead men, with the cannon blasting all around and every bullet coming my way. It isn't that I don't want to be a soldier, but I just haven't got the goods; that's all." "Well, what do you want me to do?" asked Mr. Tumulty. "I don't know. I just want you to get me out of it some way.. I thought maybe you could drop 'em a note telling 'em to stick me in some place, counting cans of beans or signalling up in the Rocky mountains or something like that so long as it's as far away from the firing line as possible. I just can't fight and I know it." Mr. Tumulty's Advice. "Well, I'll tell you what you do," advised the president's secretary. "Just write a frank statement of your case to the exemption board of your district and tity'll let you off." "No; I don't want to do that," remonstrated young Mr. X. "Because if I do all the boys and girls I know will get on and hand me something worse than the kaiser's bullets. I thought maybe you had a place around here handy that I could fill. How about running errands for the president or doing something like that, where I'd be safe?" The case of young Mr. F. of an Ohio town furnishes a study in military psychology. He applied for admission to the training camp for reserve officers "because he looked well in uniform" and some of his girl friends "dared him to get into the army." He got in and is in a fair way of being promoted to the grade of first lieutenant. Less than a month's discipline, however, has taken all the martial spirit out of him, and for three weeks he has been pleading to officials of the government by telegraph and letter for permission to quit. The report of his superior declares that he is fitted in every way to be a suitable officer, and the indications are that he will continue to "look well in a uniform." The case of Mr. K., who comes from a "family of fighting Irish," shows that he has inherited the spirit of his tribe. 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Chesapeake Station DRUGS, SODA WATER, CIGARS Phone Lincoln 3136 LEFT BEHIND What a world of desolation, Now, you've taken you from me! Taken you—"to save the nation" Over there in bleeding France. Will they bring you back, by chance O my dear, across the sea? What an empty house to care for With no lad to come to me! None to put the dinner there for— Empty chair and empty bed And that dread of you as—dead, O my dear, across the sea! You so tender—in the trenches! How you used to pamper me! Sun that scorches, storm that drenches— Stubborn, though the guns are loud. You will do your little bit In that hall, I'm sure of it; And your head will be obeyed; And I know you'll dream of me; And we'll win—and oh, I'm proud Of my dear across the seal! By Ruth Wright Kauffman of the Vigilantes. TO OBEY ALL ORDERS IS A RELIGION IN THE ARMY Author, an Ex-soldier, Gives Some Sound and Kindly Advice to Drafted Boys. By HAPSBURG LIEBE of the Vigilantes. The writer of this little message to you boys has himself been an American soldier, and he is very proud of that fact. He knows army life, and he has seen redhot fighting, and he knows the ways of officers. I will put it like this: I will simply tell you what I would do if I were going into the army again. First, I would go into it with the rock firm intention of whipping Germany. I would look at the matter just like that. Save that I would certainly not discount the importance of anybody else, I would believe, so far as it were possible, that it was up to me—to me myself—to give Germany, the earth's pariah nation, the licking that is going to make all nations safe in a world democracy. And the moment I was sworn into the service I would resolve that, no matter whether it suited me or not, I would obey orders very strictly and to the letter. That is the magic phrase—it is the religion of the army—obey orders. During my time in the army no man who lived up to that as his motto could go through with a term of enlistment without having a chance of being made a corporal or a sergeant or even a sergeant major. There are few commissioned officers who will overlook the enlisted man who never disobeys an order when promotion becomes necessary. And in this war men-from the ranks are going to win commissions; boys. Remember that! But every man of the company, or the troop, or the battery, or whatever it happens to be, cannot be advanced, you say. And you are right. But every man can be a soldier. How much there is bound up in those three little words! You'll know yourself after awhile. A real dyed in the wool American soldier, of course, is a gentleman too. * * * However, there is bound to be a chance for you to win your chevrons. I've never yet seen the man who tried hard for promotion, if he tried honorably, who came out of it a private. In spite of their bluff military manners, officers are just like you under the skin. They are quick to recognize, and they are most heartily glad to recognize, the golden qualities of a soldier and a gentleman in an enlisted man. Remember that too. Also remember this: You are in the service to fight for your country and not to make soldiering a trade. You are going across the Atlantic for the purpose of wipping Germany and for no other reason. So long, boys, and good luck to you. And may the good God of our fathers bring you back to us! FIRE CHIEF USES AIRPLANE. Finda Air Route Is Much Quicker Than Old Methods. The fire department chiefs of every city of this country have their eyes on Chief Louis Almgren of the San Diego (Cal.) fire department. Chief Almgren has discarded the horse and buggy and the automobile and now races through the air in an airplane when chasing fires, says Popular Science Monthly. When a fire box is pulled in an outlying section, the chief jumps into his flying machine and is at the scene of the blaze before the horse drawn equipment gets around the first corner or the fireboat is going full steam ahead. His is the first aerial fire fighting company in the world. In test flights made with the new airplane, which is a one hundred horsepower machine of the hydroplane type, trips that ordinarily took the fireboats from twenty to thirty minutes to make were made by airplane in from two to five minutes, counting the necessary time in getting the engine started. Desperate Efforts to Be a Slacker. A Pennsylvania man, "No. 258," after passing physical examination, held up man for watch, blackjacked old woman, stole a horse and fought police, which he thinks will keep him out of the army for awhile. A Fine Place to Roost. After going twenty miles in their auto the other night, a Sayville (N. Y.) family discovered two hens roosting on the car radiator. The biddles stayed there until they returned home. Between the Devil, Etc. Defense of man sued for breach of promise is that he did not want to wed and be called a slacker. Mrs. Billy Kersands is the top-notch attraction on the Dudley circuit in this section of the country today. Her stay in Washington has been a continuous success. She delighted large audiences last week at the Howard and is at the Foraker this week, taking many encores nightly. At the close of her engagement here, Mrs. Kersands, who bears a great name, so worthily an artist in her own right as well as the widow of the race's foremost comedian, goes to New York City to fill dates at the Lincoln and other leading theaters. She is a genuine 'box-office attraction.' Mrs. Stella Barclay and Mrs. Lena Wilson, of Bowling Green, Ky., have been, royally entertained by Washing-tonians during their fortnight's visit here. Among those who have given functions in their honor are Mrs. Elbert Williams, and Mrs. Warren Polk, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Thompson, and Mr. and Mrs. James E. Buckner. The ladies leave for home today. Mme. C. J. Walker, of New York City, came to Washington Tuesday to call at the White House as a representative of the "Silent Protest Parade" committee. Lawyer Armond W. Scott, Grand Exalted Ruler of Elks, was handsomely entertained last night at Annapolis, Md., by the Ancient City Lodge of Elks of that city. He was accompanied by a delegation of Washington Elks and others of the antlered herd of Baltimore attended the function. Mr. Scott will be re-elected for a second term at the annual convention of the order at Cleveland the last week in August. He speaks before the St. Lukes in Richmond next Tuesday night, representing the secret organization of the country. Rev. A. C. Garner, Grand Worthy Chief of the Independent Order of St. Luke, goes to Richmond, Va., Monday to open the "Golden Jubilee" of the order. He has had a brilliant year as the official head of the St. Lukes, and will doubtless be re-elected. Salem Tutt Whitney has begun the rehearsals of "The Smarter Set" in "My People" and is surrounded by a company of capable artists. The stage of the Howard Theater is being used. Several of the old favorites will be seen in the new production and there will be many new faces not less known to the mimic world. "My People" is a melange of music, comedy and dancing, supplemented by gorgeous scenery and dazzling costumes. The new show will open on the 27th at the Howard. Mr. William W. Johnson, of the Treasury Department, is undergoing treatment at Garfield Hospital. 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DIAMONDS WATCHES ON CREDIT Economy lies in purchasing a good watch at a low price. Here is the watch, 15 jewel Q 16. size Rockford watches that will pass railroad inspection, only $25. Terms $1.00 down, 50 per week. This is an unparalleled bargain in a 15 jewel movement, adjusted in five positions, double stratagold filled case. Guaranteed 25 years. Ralph E. Evans, with Castelberg's National Jewelry Co., 935 Penn. Ave., N. W. A postal will bring sample direct to your home. The congregation of Mt. Zion M. E. church was largely attended on Sunday morning and listened to a very intelligent and eloquent sermon by Rev. Chas. P. Comer, subject "Ownership" Mrs. Rev. William Chase who was present in the interest of the Public Grounds highly complimented the young Pastor who received the congratulations of the many present. At 8 o'clock Mr. Thomas Henderson local Elder preached his first trial sermon and created favorable impressions on his hearers. The funeral of Mr. John Stewart whose death occurred Thursday took place Saturday afternoon from Ebenezer A. M. E. church. Rev. R. A. Green officiated assisted by Rev. Armstead Jones. A solo "He giveth His beloved Sleep," by Mr. R. E. Rencther was affectly rendered, many floral offerings; interment Mt. Zion Cemetary. Dr. U. G. B. Martin, who rerently joined in the training camp has made rapid-studies and has been transferred to the Medical Corps ranking as 1st Lieutenant and receiving the congratulations of his many friends BUREAU NOTES Mrs. Susie Parker of Sec. 6 Printing Division who has been ill at her residence 1250 22nd st, northwest, is now convalescent. Messers. Chas. H. Turner and Geo. Sinsmons Printing Division have returned from their pleasant vacation look well and healthy. Mr. Silas Richards of the Numbering Division is enjoying ten days of the annual leave. Mr. David Evans of the Welling Division is enjoying his annual leave of Engraving and Printing, left Tuesday for an extended vacation to Atlantic City and Cape May. He will spend two weeks on his vacation in Atlantic City, N. J., accompanied with his family. SPECIAL NOTICE. Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission Convention will meet this year in annual session at Richmond, Va., beginning August 29, 10 a.m. at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Rev. W. H. Stokes, Ph. D., pastor. 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., Ebenezer 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. The outlook for the largest attendance of delegates in the history of the Convention and visitors is most encouraging. --- FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS AND PRINCE GEORGE CO. MD. The Board of Education of Prince George's County Maryland, held a meeting at Upper Marlboro Maryland, Thursday Aug. 16, 1917. The Boaard ordered the the public schools open Monday September 17, 1917. The trustees of the schools throughout the County are directed and urged to put their school houses and grounds in order. Teachers will notify trustees the assignments of teachers to the Colored Public schools as as follows: District No. 1; School No. 1, J. F. Hill; Ammendale. School No. 2; Mary A. Thomas, Rossville. School No 3, Daisy B. Pierce and Blandina L. Smith, Lakeland. District No. 2, School No 1, Mamie B. McIntosh and Estelle Lee, Bladenburg. District No. 3, School No 1, J. E. Diggs, Lillian V. Clarke and Ruth Tuell, Upper Marlboro; School no. 2, Jessie W. Dysen, School No. 3, Theresa Griffith, Croome Station. District No. 4, School No. 1, Mabel B. Williams, Croome (Holly Grove); School No. 2, L. Gertrude Greene, Croome; School No. 3, Gertrude Moxley, West wood. District No. 5, School No. 1, Cora L. Haykins, Sharpersville; School No. 2, Mary H. Smith, Chapel Hill; School No. 3, Estelle Brooks, Accokeek. District No. 6, School No. 1, Mae F. Turner and Geneva Hardy, Forestville; School No. 2, Wm. A. Culver, Camp Springs. District No. 7, School 1, Helen Young, (Mt. Nebo) Mitchellville; School No. 2, Ruth I. Spriggs, Collington; School No. 3, Florence B. Burroughs, (Neyton Hill) Mithchellville. District No. 8, School No. 1, M. F. Glascoe and Lillian M. Dashield; School No. 2, Mary T. King, (Black Swamp) Poplar Hill. District No. 9, School No. 1, Willie J. Clark. District No. 10, School No. 1, Mamie L. Brown and Esther McLendon, Laurel Maryland. District No. 11, School No. 1, Margaret L. Briscoe and Blanche Clements, (T. B.) Brandywine; School No. 2, Florence Scott; School No. 3, M. E. 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We have a mutation for carrying only the most rudimentary comparison will show you that our prices and in many cases lower than you can there; and time will prove to you that our carpets and rugs give all the service possibly be expected from them. Some furnishings until they have visited our suit privileges. What we are more considerate in arranging who have lately come to Washington to cover expenses in establishing a home and Sons Co. Street N. W. Clarke Training S It brings you comfort and happiness. It enables you to buy the best qualities and pay in such a way that you can afford them. Your credit is of the greatest value here. In every instance we consider the individual circumstances of the customer and arrange for small weekly or monthly payments that will suit their convenience. We require no notes and charge no interest. This form of helpful credit enables one to afford the best and the most economical. We have earned a reputation for carrying only the most reliable goods; comparison will show you that our prices are as low and in many cases lower than you can find elsewhere; and time will prove to you that our furniture and carpets and rugs give all the service that could possibly be expected from them. The Clarke Training School 1600 13TH STREET NORTHWEST 13TH AND QUE STS. ENTRANCE PHONE N. 1955 Mrs. Addie Clarke begs to announce two very helpful courses to be inaugurated at her Training S now open for registration. die Clarke begs to announce two very es to be inaugurated at her Training S registration. Mrs. Addie Clarke begs to announce two very attractive and helpful courses to be inaugurated at her Training School. Books now open for registration. DRESSMAKING AND MILLINERY Plain Sewing, Children's Cloth. Evening Garments a specialty, incl ing Wraps. Material furnished free. Morning and Evening Classes, while training if so desired. living, Children's Clothes, Ladies' Tailoring ments a specialty, including the most el- Material furnished free for millinery. and Evening Classes. Work furnished g if so desired. Plain Sewing, Children's Clothes, Ladies' Tailoring; Street and Evening Garments a specialty, including the most elaborate Evening Wraps. Material furnished free for millinery. Morning and Evening Classes. Work furnished for students while training if so desired. A. T. BRONAUGH, Pharmacist S. W. COR 7TH and P STS. N. Prescriptions Filled Promptly. Patronize T AGENTS FOR ALL Preparations, Soaps, Bleach, Hair BRONAUGH.— Agents for G Temple Grower and Glossine; Agen Hair Dressing and Powder. R. 7TH and P STS. N. W., WASHINGTON mens Filled Promptly. All the Leading I Patronize This Store AGENTS FOR ALL HIGH BROWN Locks, Soaps, Bleach, Hair Perfumes and F UGH.— Agents for Grower, Shampoo, Water and Glossine; Agents for Fred Palme ing and Powder. S. W. COR 7TH and P STS. N. W., WASHINGTON, D. O. Prescriptions Filled Promptly. All the Leading Physicians AGENTS FOR ALL HIGH BROWN Preparations, Soaps, Bleach, Hair Perfumes and Face Powder. BRONAUGH.— Agents for Grower, Shampoo, Tetter Salve, Temple Grower and Glossine; Agents for Fred Palmer's Whitener, Hair Dressing and Powder. BRONAUGHS, 7th and P STA N W. BLICK BROTHERS BUY YOUR COAL FROM BLICK BROTHERS BLICK BROTHERS BUY YOUR COAL FROM BLICK BROTHERS 8TH AND FLORIDA AVE. N. W. DR. W. L. SMITH'S INDIGESTION REMEDY. This remedy will relieve all forms of Indigestion, Catarrh of the Stomach, Heartburn, Sour Stomach, Flatulency, Pain in the Stomach, Water Brash, Acid Fermentation, Gaseous Accumulations and Mal-Assimilations of Foods. When taken in the Stomach it thoroughly digests the albuminous foods, relieves the indigestion, by resting and assisting the stomach until normal or natural digestion is restored. DIRECTIONS Take a teaspoonful in a little water after meals or when suffering. Repeat in an hour if necessary. W. L. SMITH, Druggist. 801 Florida Avenue N. W. Where you may purchase the genuine article. announce two very attractive and ed at her Training School. Books thes, Ladies' Tailoring; Street and including the most elaborate Even free for millinery. es. Work furnished for students N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. All the Leading Physicians This Store ALL HIGH BROWN Hair Perfumes and Face Powder. Grower, Shampoo, Tetter Salve, agents for Fred Palmer's Whitener, ROTHERS COAL FROM ROTHERS A. RELIABLE PHARMACIST is the one you can always depend upon to use no substitutes, but compound prescriptions from pure and fresh drugs, with accuracy and care. The real test of drug store's capabilities is its prescription department, and ours is perfect. We fill your physician's prescriptions to the letter and no mistake is possible. PLUMMER'S PHARMACY ROBT. F. PLUMMER, Prop. Accuracy, Service, Quality A. D. S. Remedies We Pay Particular Attention to Our Prescription Department Telephone Your Wants Phones, Main 4094, Main 5981 801 H St. Cor. 3rd St. N. W. Washington, D. C. Advertisement.