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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 WASHINGTON. D.C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1917 © MAYOR'S RECEPTION COMMITTEE. PHOTO BY UNDERWOOD UNDERWOOD, N.Y. SEPT. 27, 1917. VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 19 RECEPTION TO JAPANESE MISSION MAYOR MITCHELL RECEPTION COMMITTEE TO THE BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION. HON. AETHUR J. BALFOUR, MARSHAL JOFRE - EX-COLECTOR CHARLES W. ANDERSON AND OTHERS DISTINGUISHED GUESTS. GUESTS. Blushing honors are falling thick and fast upon Hon. Charles W. Anderson these days. After having served on the different committees appointed by Mayor Mitchel to receive and entertain the British High Commission with the Right Honorable Arthur B. Jalufour at its head; the French Commission with Marshal Joffre and Premier Viviani; the Royal Italian Commission with Ferdinand of Savoy Prince of Udine and Signor Marconi; the Russian Commission and the Belgian Commission, he was accorded fresh distinction by being appointed a member of the committee to receive and entertain the Imperial Japanese Commission, headed by His Excellency Viscount Kikujiro Ishii, Japan's leading statesman. At the City Hall on last Thursday the ex-collector was placed next to Baron Isamu Takehisa, Vice-Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy, by Judge Elbert H. Gary, president of the U. S. Steel Corporation and chairman of the entertainment committee. Eight hundred of the most distinguished citizens of the city of New York were present at this reception and twenty-five of the most prominent of them were grouped immediately around the guests' dais. Henry Clews, the great banker, was placed next to the collector and the Marquis of Aberdeen was stationed next to Mr. Clews. The historic pageantry was lavishly decorated with chrysanthemums and dwarf cedar trees with the Japanese and American flags gracefully draped around the entire room. It presented most impressive scene, perhaps the most elaborate that has yet been set for the entertainment of famous visitors. Mr. Anderson attended the luncheon given by the Chamber of Commerce; the dinner at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, the dinner at the Hotel Astor and the monsterial banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria, long those present at this last-named action were Chancey M. Depew, ar Admiral Nathaniel R. Ushler, Baron iro Sato, the Ambassador of Japan, John Purry Mitchel, and El E. Huyches t H. Gary, Hon. Charles B. m. William H. Taft, Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves, U. S. A.; Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University; Brigadier General James A. Irons, U. S. A.; Major General Sugano, of the Imperial Japanese Army; Commander Ando, of the Imperial Japanese Navy; Hon. Martin W. Littleton, Lieutenant Colonel Mizanicha, E. H. Outerbridge, president of the Chamber of Commerce of New York City. It was a very hopeful sign to note the complete elimination of the seating arrangements of this banquet. At the table with Mr. Anderson were the Marquis of Ito, who of the famous Premier of Japan; Lord Aberdeen, Isaac N. Soliglion, the great banker; C. G. La Farge, the sculptor, and Mr. Rodman Wana-maker, son of the noted Phildelphia mer- chant. On last Saturday the Imperial Commission visited West Point and were met at the Government dock by a detachment of the Tenth Calvary and escorted to the headquarters of the Commandant. Speaking of this visit, General Sugano told Mr. Anderson that he had never seen a finer looking body of calvarymen which acted as the escort at West Point. Viscount Ishii also complimented the colored soldiers and inquired as to the number of regiments of them in the regular army of the United States. He informed the collector that he was greatly interested in the colored American citizens and expressed regret that his tour of the country did not permit him to visit the Tuskegee Institute. He said that he had long desired to meet the date Dr. Booker T. Washington, but missed his only opportunity to do so or the occasion of Mr. Washington's visit to Paris, owing to illness. The Viscount was at that time the Japanese Ambassador to France. Collector Anderson was the recipient of a further piece of race recognition last week when, together with Mayor John Purry Mitchell and Judge Freschi, he was elected an honorary member of the Italian Loyal Legion, of which Chevalier Pissaro is president and Mr. Caruso is the secretary. Mr. Anderson has been appointed a member of the Mayor's Catskill Aqueduct Celebration Committee by John Purroy Mitchel, and is already in receipt of an invitation to attend the banquet to be given in celebration of the completion of the Catskill Aqueduct on Friday evening, October 12th, at the Waldorf-Antonia Hotel. Pudge Elbert H. Gary is the chairman of the dinner committee of this celebration. of the new Catskill Aqueduct which will supply water for Greater New York, is the largest civil engineering project ever undertaken by a city in the history of the world, and is second in size only to the Panama Canal. It brings water from the Catskill over one hundred and twenty miles from the city of New York and passes it under the bed of the Hudson River before it is distributed to the various boroughs. It has been completed within fifteen years, which was the time allotted to it, and within the appropriation of one hundred million dollars. The celebration will occupy three days. The decorations and illuminations will probably be the most gorgeous since the days on the Hudson Fulton Celebration, and the varied public ceremonies will conclude with the great official banquet at the Waldorf-Astoria. PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS. (By the Sage of the Potomac). When I was told that Andrew J., hommas and S. H.-Dudey would begin business again, I was glad in my heart. *matter*s and *heart*. ness again. I woke up. Both men are theatrical necessities and one can help the other. There is no use spoiling a pretty face without cause. Dr. George W. Cabanis is way out in Iowa. Besides praying for the boys he is administering to their wants. When they take sick, Dr. is a mighty consoling man, anyway. I passed in the vicinity of bottom boy this week and I saw Armond Scott, A. G. Bundy, Captain Smith, who has taken from his chin those military whiskers, and Charles S. Williams. Well, they talked it all over and Buddy and Scott decided amon gthemselves in the presence of the other three that it is well for friends to dwell lin peace and harmony. After discussing with Mr. Pat O'Connor, who decides all fistic fights, he concluded that it was a draw between Scott and Bundy and he would give all interested parties a sample of his largest rye. Of course, there was no objections to the Charlie Williams or Captain Smith, who has lost his Chesterfield mustache. Armond and Bundy are two good chums now, notwithstanding Bundy's intentions to hand the National Excaled Ruler over to Cleveland, Ohio. I am not certain that Bundy will attempt it now, since Scott and Bundy have tasted the fire of Pat O'Connor's. water or the OCE bank. Fire water gives you life, but when it dies out the promises you made die with it. It may be as draw after all. Speaking about the Napoleon of the Industrial Savings Bank, I said some time ago that you must give it to him. If you don't think that he can't count the long greens, call and ask him to cash a certified check for you. He has not failed as yet with any of his enterprises. His latest and next advent will be his new hotel. A hotel is needed in this city, and you can just stake your life on it that it will be some hotel. I don't know whether Will Bowie will look after the funds of the new hotel or not. His fingers are seen in every ple that is cooked by the Napoleon of the Industrial Savings Bank. Christians continue to object to a black preacher coming to their churches. I speak about two Baptist churches with out ministers and the membership is divided on the question of color. Certainly these good Christians expect to go to heaven where there is no discrimination on account of color. How they will pass through the gate with St. Peter as the gatekeeper, the Sage doesn't know. St. Peter draws no color line in his kingdom, and if any of these Baptist people think that their bright complexion will pass them, they are mistaken. There is no discrimination in heaven or hell and when you go to either you will be convinced, perhaps. Dr. Norman with his selected flock will be in to settle the color question. I am of the opinion that Rev. Jarvis will take part in the controversy, and the whole question will be settled by a ministerial conference with Rev. Simon Peter Drew. presiding judge, provided that Rev. Norman decides to yield the chair. Lord Chesterfield Martin is very quiet on all public questions. Just why I don't know. He hasn't decided to purchase an auto as yet. He finds walking a wholesome exercise. The bar association has decided to resume itself with Royal Augustus Hughes still presiding. They all should join the bottom club, because they are never reached until old Thomas. Rye goes to the bottom of their food bag, Royal has decided that Thomas Jones and L. M. King shall not be given an opportunity to divorce themselves from the legal bottom club. It is proposed to have the therewith to reach the bottom of all members regardless of the cast. HOTEL NEWS. With the appointment of Mr. John A. Sorrell head-waiter at the Union Station Restaurant, succeeding the white head-waiter, was the talk of the town for the past week. Mr. Sorrell had had charge of the lunch counter department at the station for years and his promotion is a worthy one, not only to the colored waiters of the Union Station but to the race he represents. Mr. Sorrell's able assistant is Mr. Henry Baily, who is well known among hotel and restaurant throughout the city. There every reason to believe that a great im-provement will be made at the station to the traveling public, regardless of color with a man like Sorrell at the helm. Mr. John Eighmile, one of the old timers at the lunch counter, has succeeded Mr. Sorrell of the counter. Sorrell at the Mr. W. W. Woaver is head-waiter at the Catholic University for this heason at is having a great deal of trouble enough help. to secureures Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wilson have returned to the city from Atlantic City several weeks ago, and are now located at 1310 Wallach Place, N. W. at 1310 Wallace Place, Mr. W. L. Smith, a former captain at the New Ebbitt, has returned to Wash- ington for the winter. ington for the winter. Mr. W. H. Breas of the New Ebbit service bar, who returned to his duties after fall fall vacation. Mr. Glingus is now his assistant bar-tender. Nutt is now in charge of Chairman George F. Hatton, of the reception committee of Morning Star Lodge No. 40, I. B. P. O. E. W., deserves great credit for his masterly way of conducting the Elks' reception on last Thursday evening at Odd Fellows Hall, which was a big success after weeks of hard worg by the arrangements committee. Morning Star Lodge will have one of the best Elks' homes in the East if the present team-work seems up which she has been producing for the past several years. Plans are being made now to bring back to Washington all of the laurels from the Baltimore convention next summer, when the grand session opens there. She brought back from Philadelphia her Grand Exalted Ruler and had him rescued in Cleveland. The membership of Morning Star Lodge conists of the men who do bthe ig things Mr. Haywood Blake was a visitor to this city several days ago on his way to his home in Virginia. Mr. Blake is a very busy man these days, making his final plans for his wedding at New Asbury, reduced day evening, October 17, the night he bids farewell to old bach- clor later Mr. Daniel Freeman, the local photographer, took an excellent picture of the constitution committee of the Colored Waiters Union Local 726, consisting of nine representative men of the local restaurant business here, which will be shone in the Crisis and all leading colored journals at an early date. nails on Mr. C. H. Johnson, of the hotel and railroad division of the Food Conserva- tion, is now connected with the dining department at the New Ebbitt. Read the BEE for all hotel news. TAYLOR. Sacred to the memory of a loving husband and a devoted father, the Rev. J. Anderson Taylor, D. D., former pastor of Trinity Baptist Church, who departed this life one year ago to-day, Saturday, October 6, 1917. He was asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep, He whom we all have loved; God in His infinite love will keep in those realms above. Twelve moons ago from the same fort God bid him leave our shores and come within His heavenly court and rest for me. evermore. By his wife, Mrs. Annie E. Taylor, and children: Mrs. J. Taylor Nickens, Mrs. Annie Taylor Hawkins, John A., Arthur G., Harvey W., David E., Joseph and Robert B. Taylor. Sunday, Sept. 30, 1917. Mrs. Mary Manning, of 537 North Bond Street, and Mrs. Ella Dockings, of 1529 East Madison Street, Baltimore, Md., were the guests of Mrs. Carrie John- son Mrs. Melissa Steward, of Lincoln, left Monday last enroute to Pittsburgh, Pa., where she went to spend the week with her sister, Mrs. Emma White. her sister, Mira. Dora A. Joyce, of 1605 S Street, has returned to her home after an extended trip to Portland Me. Returning she stopped over in Boston, Mass., and New York City. She speaks of returning to New York City in a few days. Mr. George Mays and Mr. Robert Fisher, of St. Louis, Mo., are in the city and are employed at the same building with Messrs. Walter Jackson, Hubert Summer, Wilbur Kenney, Wellington Scott, Henry Hall, Earl Bradley, Clarke Hall and Billy Peyton. WEST WASHINGTON. Mr. Moss, Chairman of the Christian Endeavors' Workers Conference, delivered a very excellent address to the Christian Endeavor Society of the First Baptist Church on last Sunday evening. After the address the following officers were installed by the pastor: Mrs. S. G. Slaughter, president; George A. Parker, vice president; Miss Hattie Williams, recording secretary; A. S. Pinkett, corresponding secretary; Miss Sadie A. Gaskins, treasurer; Edward Chives, chorister; Miss Mayme Hewlett, pianist; Lawson Jefferson, librarian; French John son assistant librarian; Mrs. Loui Chloe, junior superintendent, and Mrs. Lucy Ford, intermediate superintendent. The annual address of the president showed the society to be in a flourishing condition. The committee chairmen for the year are: Miss M. A. Walker, Miss Lelia Johnson, Mrs. M. E. Howard, Mrs. Rosanna Strother, Mrs. Carrie Bell, Mrs. Nlora Tyrion, Mrs. Eleanor Worrell, Edward Chives, Mrs. M. B. Allen, A. S. Pinkett, Mrs. Martha Butler, Mrs. H. W. Taylor, Miss H. Z. Alexander, Mrs. L. R. Ferguson, Miss M. A. Brewer, Miss M. E. Hewlett, William Smiht and Miss Sadie A. Gaskins. If you want the BEE, go to Pride's Pharmacy, 28th and P Streets. Every citizen of note in this section reads the BEE. CHURCHES A SOCIAL CENTER. THE BEE EDITORIAL COMMENDED—WORSHIPING MINISTERS INSTEAD OF GOD—EXPENSIVE CHURCH BUILDINGS—MINISTERIAL PARASITES, FALSE PROPHETS AND MONEY—REV. SHEAF THE APSTLE OF COLORED AMERICANS. POUR KEROSENE ON 'EM AND ORLIKE MATCH. (From the Waxhaghchic, Texas, Meddler, Washington, D. C., so it appears by the esteemed BEE of that Mecca of big blows and little "dust," is troubled with an Afro-American holler that wants "a clean" colored man's newspaper for circulation in that little old town of much more mouth than brains. That is to say, what he, she or it (whatever the case may be) seems to want is a race newspaper, clear (clean) of all typographical errors, split infinitives, mixed figures, logical fallacies, so-called, etc. The hell you say! Well, all the same, for one thing there is no sich er animal; and for another thing, if there were any such paper, they who hollered loudest to see, such a one, would shell out least or nothing at all to keep it alive; and, for another thing (and this is the fy that spoils the ointment entirely) such a newspaper would not be "interesting" at all. at all. There was a newspaper once printed here in Texas that was mostly typographical errors and violations of common canons of composition, rhetoric, and logic. You had to look at everything in it twice or three times to see what was the matter with it, and it made it very "interesting" indeed. Everybody "took" that paper to sit up and notice the They were news. errors. They are some of the most interesting things that ever get into The Meddler, for instance, are typographical blunders, rhetorical and logical bulls of one sort and another. We ourselves often wonder how in hell we came to do it, but nevertheless we keep on doing it, and it makes our little newspaper "right interesting" sometimes. sometimes. Intention, facts, sense, ideas are what wide awake people look for in speech or writing, regardless of the dress or concatenation it may appear in. Two amusing typographical errors adorned pages of The Meddler last week, but were obscured the facts, sense, intentions or ideas in the least. tions or images 2, after the paper had been eroded that we discovered we had printed ba instead of because. At first sight of it we were tempted to swear so softly; but in second look it ever, it appear to be very interesting—suggestive, so to speak. We might have gotten it in in any one of five possible different characteristic root vowels. What difference but six of one, half dozen of the other any way? Because, because, because, because—same thing, only different. That word is pronounced more different ways than that every day of the world, but it always signifies but one idea and just that. The other one (typographical error) on page four, 'mellon' for melon was also interesting and suggestive, too. If el be double in hell, why give hell more et than any other good thing? We don't stand for that kind of partiality. STAND TO THE MORAL: Brother Bee—When ants bother your flower beds, pour kerosene on 'em and strike a match. LETTERS TO DR. CABANISS. MEN WHO HAVE MADE A RECORD. 17th Prov. Training Regiment. Ft. Des Moines, Ia., Sept. 18, 1917. Dr. George W. Cabaniss, Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Chau, It is with feeling of genuine regret that am leaving the Fort Des Moines Training Camp. I had hoped to remain with the graduation of the class. until the grade The espirit de corps and discipline of this regiment have been incomparable. All were keenly disappointed at not being commissioned at the end of their three months' training. Notwithstanding this, they have proved their mettle and soldierly worth by their determination to stick it out. The candidates at this camp are as able and efficient leaders as three months' training can produce in any people; their character is of the finest and highest type; their reputation in the community most enviable. community I want you to know that the only reason for extending the period of training is a desire to use to the best advantage the time intervening before the majority of colored conscripts are to be called for service. Very sincerely yours, (Signed) JAMES L. FRENE, Captain 36th Infantry. Commanding Co. 7, Instructor. PRINCE GEORGE CO. SCHOOLS EIGHTEEN SCHOOLS CLOSED ON ACCOUNT OF SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS—BOARD DECIDES TO INCREASE PAY. FGairmount Heights, Md. There are eighteen schools closed in this county on account of the shortage in teachers. Miss Cark, who taught at Clinton, Md., has resigned and is now teaching in West Virginia, where she is receiving sixty dollars. Miss Thomas, who taught at Westford, was at Laurel, is now teaching near Baltimore, Md., at a salary of forty dollars per month. per month. The supervisor claims that all the schools in the county have teachers. He also claims that the Board of Education passed an order increasing the salary of all the colored teachers in the county who have taught in the county one or more years. years. For further information address the supervisor of colored schools, box 81, Seat Pleasant, Md. DEVOTES A "PERFECT" MAN TO AIR CORPS Abernethy Graded by Muensterberg as 100 Per Cent Mentally. Boston—Thomas James Abernethy of West Pembroke, Me, whom the late Professor Muensterberg found to be mentally perfect, is one of 999 New England candidates selected for instruction as aviators. He heads the list, but it is arranged alphabetically. It is arranged upward. The man with the 100 per cent brain selected by the professor will now learn the best methods of fighting in the air against the country which sent Professor Muensterberg to Harvard. Abernethy had planned to enter business with his father at West Pembroke. After the test, Abernethy said: er the test, Mr. Muensterberg told me several times that I had a good mind, but that I was lazy and should do better in my classes. He said I couldn't earn my salt as a salesman, but recommended my entering the canning business." The tests were made on site and attended the professor's classes in psychology. ____ Problem of Aiding Our Disabled Soldiers Is Discussed by Therapeutic Experts. New York.-The problem of finding occupations for American soldiers who will return from the war permanently crippled forms the chief topic of discussion at the first annual meeting of the National Society For the Promotion of Occupational Therapy, held at the Russell Sage Foundation building, Dr. W. R. Dunton, attached to the staff of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt hospital in Maryland, declared that immediate steps should be taken by the government to meet a situation fraught with serious economic and social difficulties after the invalid soldiers begin to return from the front. gin to refer to Dr. Dunton, the problem was one which concerned the community as much as the government. It was highly important, he said, to plan a system of vocational education whereby crippled soldiers while in the convalescent hospitals might be taught to make themselves useful with occupations to which they could adapt themselves with proper instructions, despite their physical disabilities. Certain forms of arts craft, such as cabinet making, designing and wicker work, were mentioned by Dr. Dunton as being suitable for the purpose. Work of this kind, he said, could be done by cripples even if they were confined to a chair, and, of course with much greater success after they were well enough to command freedom of movement. "For instance," declared Dr. Dunton, "there certainly will be many men in the army who will have had some training as carpenters. Granted that a carpenter has both his legs taken off by a shell, there is no reason why he could not very easily be taught to do a kind of light carpentering with his hands which would have a real commercial value and yet require no undue exertion, if it's nothing more than building bird cages." STEEL FROM HIS LEG. Patient Thinks He Got It In the San Francisco Earthquake. Philadelphia, Pa.—Bernard Hughes, an inmate of the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor at Eighteenth and Jefferson streets, felt a sharp pain in his right ankle the other day, and later physicians extracted a piece of steel two inches long and one-eighth of an inch thick. Hughes, who is seventy years old, told hospital attaches he believed he had "picked up" the piece of steel as a souvenir of the San Francisco earthquake. quarrel. "During the first heavy shock," he said, "I remember I was struck in the right ankle by something. Guess the steel must have entered my leg then. It gave me little pain, and I paid no more attention to it until it began hurting." NEW PRECAUTION BY FRANCE. Citizens Warned Not to Give Picture Cards to Prisoners. Paris. — The French government is alive to the fact that on many occasions the Germans have tried to procure postcards representing views of the coasts of France, her ships, mutilation factories and cities which could be bombed by airships. broucher de la government has just warned citizens not to comply with requests from German prisoners in France for these illustrated postcards, since the requests are probably inspired by the German authorities. It is also suggested that no such postcards be sent into neutral countries maintaining friendly relations with Germany. Keep Cool to Study Well. Keep Cool to Boston.-Coal saving not only as a matter of economy, but in the interests of the health of pupils and teachers, is urged upon the principals of Boston schools in a circular which the superintendent of schools, Franklin B. Dyer, has distributed. He says that "fresh air and cool temperatures are favorable to study as well as healthful, as long as the temperature does not fall below 60 degrees." A BETTER CHANGE FOR COLORED AMERICANS, INDUSTRIAL, AND COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITY AT NEWPORT NEWS, VA. AFTER INVESTIGATION DR. HAYNES REPORTS FAVORABLY ON OPPORTUNITY. NEWPORT NEWS SHIPPINGLING AND DRY DOCK COMPANY OPPORTS STEADY WORK, HIGH WAGES, FAIR TREATMENT. One of the best industrial and community opportunities has just been brought to light at Newport News, Va. The National League, on Urban Conditions Among Colored Americans has been looking out for these fields of labor where colored men are offered a man's chance for a real future. Dr. George E. Haynes, a secretary of the league, has recently made a survey of the conditions surrounding the colored workmen of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. He has found that this company employs over 7,000 men; about 3,500 of these are colored men. Hundreds of colored men have been working for this firm from three to twenty-five years and the investigation showed that these employers are treating the workmen with a fairness that makes every colored man employed feel at home. For instance, the president of the company has appointed a colored man over each department, through whom the man agement can learn of anything affecting the welfare of the men. Besides, any man, no matter where he works or who his job, can see any of the head official up to the president about any matte where there is any trouble or disasiat faction. Dr. Haynes also found that the company recognizes that good pay is one of the best ways to attract and hold colored men of character who want steady jobs. This company is now beginning men on rough labor on 24 cents an hour and after four weeks' trial, if a man stays, he is raised to 25 cents an hour. After that pay is increased as a man shows ability up to 48 cents an day. The men work on an eight-hour day and are paid for overtime at the rate of time and a half. For example, men working nine hours get nine and one-half hours' pay and men working hours get eleven hours' pay. ten hours. Man who have any skill or experience as drillers, blacksmiths, carpenters, and the like are started at from 25 cents to thirty cents per hour. Whenever a man proves he has such skill or develops it he is given piece work and paid for what he does. This always enables a man to earn more than he would on a time rate. A careful inspection of the pay that men are now receiving showed that apt men of experience are now getting from 27 to 30 dollars a week as riveters; 20 to 22 dollars a week as drillers; 22 to 33 dollars a week as anglesmiths; 17 to 18 dollars a week as yard riggers, and from 15 to 18 dollars a week at other work. This does not take into account pay for overtime, which in many cases makes the earnings of the man much larger. the housing and neighborhood conditions are one of the most interesting features about the Newport News opportunity. The managers of the shipbuilding company have shown great interest in these conditions surrounding their men. Just now a real estate firm encouraged by the shipbuilding company is opening up a suburban residential district. This place is on the street carline with a 2½-cent fare for working men to the shipbuilding. Twenty-two new houses have been completed in this suburb, which is known as Garden City. About 70 other houses are already occupied. The new houses all have electric light, gas, and running water. Baths and inside toilets may be put in at small cost where wanted. The most attractive thing about these houses is that they are offered to reliable workmen at the shipyard at very reasonable opportunities on easy terms about as follows: $50 cash, the balance as monthly rent. The house range in size from 4 rooms to 7 rooms and in prices from $150 to $1,700. Another residential section in walking distance of the shipyard has been spoken of and planned as soon as there is demand for the houses. One of the attractive things about these neighborhoods is that there can be no saloons, as Virginia is a dry State, and that only persons of good standing can buy houses in these neighborhoods. There is a good city school in Newport News and a country school near Garden City. Also ground for a new school in Garden City has already been offered and as soon as they are enough people to make the effort they can probably get a school of their own. There are 15 Baptist churches, 3 Methodist churches, and several other denominations in the city of Newport News. There is a Y. M. C. picture, a ball park, and a moving picture show for spare hours of pleasurable ure. Bay Shore, a bathing beach on Chesapeake Bay, is within a short canoe mobile ride. or best features of its opportunity in that the Newport Nows Building and Dry Dock Company is seeking colored men of intelligence and character for their work of building steel ships for the United States Navy and private owners. Mr. H. L. Ferguson, president and general manager of the company, says, "this company probably employs, under satisfied conditions, a larger number of skilled Negro men in iron working trades than any other company." During the next 12 months the company is enlarging its plant to increase labor force about fifty per cent. So desirous is the management to get a high grade of Negro labor that they have employed Mr. Paul G. Prayer, who will make his headquarters at Newport News, Va., and work under the general supervision of the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes in helping to develop in this southern center a community of intelligent, steady, capable Negro iron workers. Anyone interested in knowing further about this unique community should write Mr. Prayer at 2300 Madison Avenue, Newport News, Va., or to Dr. George E. Haynes, Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD. Note: This is one of the several articles that I contemplate writing, in an effort to arouse the interest of those who should have sufficient Race pride to patronize all business establishments which, conducted by members of the colored race, meet every requirement, without paying a premium for such service. There are some small miscellaneous reasons that have actuated me in trying to intel- lize. gently impress upon the public thought the vital necessity of giving more consideration to the business enterprises that are now being operated by our people. One reason is found in the fact that present conditions judged from any angle warrant a closer cohesion, a more centralized effort to perpetuate any deserving institution that will make for race progress in any given line. The second reason is found in the fact that there are very often interior and possibly ulterior motives at work, publicly and privately emphasising, error and failure, and the failure fall to; to the detriments and disadvantage of worthy and legitimate ventures. If, then, I can by any means arrest your attention and divert your preconceived ideas into the channels of behavior, by purpose will not have been vain. Suppose you had a sum of money that is to be deposited, and there is a bank within easy access of your residence or business; suppose the above bank every facility and meets every requirement necessary to effectively regulate and control it, being the time under supervision of the United States Treasury; Department; what, if any, excuse could be offered for not at least placing a partial amount there to your credit The Industrial Savings Bank now located at the corner of Eleventh and You Streets, in all respects fulfills the ditions as heretofore pointed out, therefore only vague and useless reasons can be advanced in establishing financial elsewhere. Admitting, as I do, the bank does not do much paper business (for reasons obvious), it is fully prepared to loan on readily marketable securities, first deeds of trust and will consider bonds of the highest grade. The present status of the bank has been maintained because it has steered clear of personal notes. The Industrial Savings Bank, in addition to the payment of interest on all accounts, will extend to the public several new features in banking which is confidently believed will promote attractive and convenient banking to the institution and its modern, progressive methods to the favorable consideration of the Few people know that the Industrial Savings Bank, with seventy-six hundred other banks, is regularly inspected without notice by Government examiners. When a bank examiner finds anything he regards with suspicion or not clearly within the laws and regulations in quarterly, semi-annual, or annual examination, of a bank, he reports in twenty-four hours to the Controller of the Currency, who sends another expert to verify the report. If the second report confirms the first, the public reads in the newspapers the next day this simple announcement: "The Comptroller of Currency has closed the Bank." Bank. The Government issues national charters to the banks and accepts full responsibility for them. Under such circumstances it hardly seems plausible for an intelligent person to entertain much apprehension about the safety of the money in the Industrial Savings Bank. I do not deem it sufficiently important to narrate in detail the growth of this remarkable institution, the phenominal growth of which really starts when you stop to consider the incredibility, opposition, and antagonism encountered institutions of this character. This is essentially a day when results count. On September the 12th, 1916, the report of the condition of the bank shows its condition to be $41,686.65; one year later, or to be specific, a similar report under date of September the 11th, 1917, showed that the resources totaled $91,283.65, a net increase of $50,542 for one year. Mr. John W. Lewis, the President, claims that if the bank can get ten per cent of the money deposited by our people, a half a million dollars will soon be a reality. Get in on the ten per cent drive which is a small consideration per person, but fraught with momentous possibilities as a whole. Remember along with the increase in the volume of business will go the consequent increase of employment, a very potent factor in our economic life. Mr. and Mrs. John H. Patterson celebrated their ninth anniversary of their marriage at their home, 57 H Street, N. W. A family dinner was prepared with the dainties of the season which was appreciated by the couple. The parents of Mr. and Mrs. Patterson were present and many good wishes were bestowed upon Mr. and Mrs. Patterson. Mrs. Andrew E. Moss has left the city for her home in Chicago, Ill., after a pleasant stay with her mother, Mrs. Dangerfield, of this city. TO "KEEP AND BEAR" ARMS NOT ILLEGAL. GUARANTEED BY SECOND AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION—NATIONAL, STATE AND MUNICIPAL DEFENSE MUST BE ADQUARE—WHITE AND COLORED DEFENSE LEAGUES URGED—SELECTIVE DRAFT LAW CONSTITUTIONAL. (By H. A. Clarke.) The "National Defense" has been most seriously considered since the beginning of the great international conflict. The Nation's unpreparedness to defend itself, as well as its failure to institute other governmental reforms, was not only a national disgrace, but a reflection upon past officials of the government—due either neglect, inefficiency, or inexperience, who pried to and since the entry of the United States into the constituted the incessant and chronic battles of the present administration. These individuals have been responsible for the appropriation and expenditure of millions of dollars for decades, for their "individual defense" and their "personal welfare," instead of for the "common defense" and the "general welfare," so explicitly set forth in the Preamble and in Article 1,章 8, Scheme 1, of the Compact on Contemporary with building of an adequate National Defense" should be built a strong "State, Municipal, and Personal Defense". The old theory that a large standing army is dangerous to the liberties of the people has rapidly vanished, since the beginning of the present conflict, in which millions have been killed, maimed, and ravaged by oneway and fiends at home and onward, forcing so-far as the "Personal Defense" is conceived as the second amendment to the constitution provides that "A well regulated militia is necessary to the ase feeling. These trouble-mongers resemble certain foul birds who enjoy no food except carrion. fer from any. The fact of the matter is that there is no reason whatsoveree for supposing that the extension of this camp to October 15th was caused by any considerations of relative fitness of candidates, and there seems every reason for believing that this had nothing at all worth the matter. to do with the material. There are, unfortunately, some people whose stock in trade is trouble-making, and whose one desire on learning of the extension of. this camp was to twist the facts so as to create discontent and ill. curity of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." This amendment being a part of the American Bill of Rights, which the States that were called upon to ratify the Constitution insisted the same, is one of the constitutional guarantees of the fundamental rights of the people, and is nullwork against disarming patriotic and is nullwork against disarming patriotic American citizens. otte and toy. Heretofore the authorities—National, State, and Municipal—have opposed a large standing army and the right of patriotic and loyal citizens to keep and bear arms, as guaranteed by the Constitution, in defense of their absolute and relative rights, the result being that the Nation collectively and individually was ridiculously unprepared to defend itself when Mr. Wilson became President. There is not the least doubt that thousands of the maltreated in Europe, especially the females; would have been more able to defend themselves against the soundcalls at home and the ravishing invaders, and the population been better prepared for "Personal Defense." Moreover, if the citizens of the States on the Mexican border had not been as well prepared as they were, the bandits, murderers, cut-throats, ravishers, and outlaws would have killed, ravished, and stolen to a much greater extent than did they did. Both white and colored patriots should prepare to defend their country at all hazards and at any cost, their neighbors and their property and themselves and their property, by and through the organization of "common defense" and "general welfare" leagues, as no one knows what will develop before the end of the present calamity. Let patriotism and loyalty, together with an adequate national, State, municipal, and personal defense, be our watchwords. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." THE SELECTIVE Whether the selective draft law is constitutional or judicial was tried in the United States Court for the Southern District of Georgia recently by Judge Emory Spencer. The court decided the law to be constitutional. In this decision all lawyers will concur. In my judgment the selective draft law is as legal as the Constitution is the organic law of the land. In brief, the Preamble to the Constitution declares, in part, "We, the to * * * provide for the common defense, * * * do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, 2, 12 and 18, of the Constitution, respectively, provides, in part, "The Congress shall have power to provide for the common defense * * of the United States, redeclaring the provision of the Preamble." "To declare war, to raise be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers." execution. The above powers were expressly delegated to the Congress when the Constitution was adopted. Thus, the expressed powers conferred in Clauses 1, 2 and 12 may become operative and effective by the passage of a law or laws by the Congress, at any time, in pursuance of the expressed authority conferred by Clauses 15. What is war? War is that state in which a nation prosecutes its right by force, for its common defense, whether on its own soil or on the soil of another. That is, whether at home or abroad. To raise armies means what? It means to impartially draft, conscript or enlist citizens by force of law or to let them voluntarily enlist, for the purpose of prosecuting and conducting the war. Who shall be chosen? When and how they shall be selected, and where they shall prosecute and conduct the war that is whether at home or abroad, in by opinion, is absolutely within the expressed and not simply the implied powers conferred upon the Congress by the Constitution. The thirteenth amendment to the Constitution is inapplicable, and the common-law cannot be invoked, as held by Judge Speer in the Georgia case. If those sought for enlistment are citizens of the United States, the fact that they are members of the State Militia or the National Guard will not exempt from Federal service, for the reason that they owe their allegiance primarily to the United States and secondarily to the State. Section 1, of the fourteenth amendment, provides, in part, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside." Hence, there can be no question as to the constitutionality of the selective law, without reference to any decision whatever. FALSE CHARGE Dr. GEORGE W. CABANISS RECEIVES LETTER VINDICATING COLORED OFFICERS. Colored Citizens' Training Camp, Fort Des Moines, Iowa, September 14, 1917. Dr. George W. Cabanis, Washington, D. C. Chicago. My Dear Mr. Cabanah, I was very much surprised to learn that anyone could construe the one month's extension of this training camp as an indication that the colored candidates for commission required more time than white candidates, and that the month's extension was made in order to bring them up, to the standard of the white camps. As a matter of fact, no one is in a position to institute any comparison between the proficiency of the colored candidates and the whites, as no one has had an opportunity to compare their work. The Inspector General of the Army visited all of the training camps, and could therefore institute comparison as to the little practical work he observed in his brief training, and also as to their apparen discipline, "set up," and smartness of appearance. I am convinced of his remarks that the candidates at this camp would not suffice such comparison. There was not one word or figure in the report and recommendations of the classification boards at this camp could possibly have indicated to the War Department, or anyone else, the slightest reason for believing that the colored candidates were not as well qualified for commissions as were the white candidates. divides. The War. Department has not felt it necessary to explain its action, and it should not be necessary, but the following may explain the matter to those who something sinister in everything they do it understand. don't underestimate the. The men conscripted under the first call are to be actually mobilized in several increments. The reason is obvious. To dump thirty or forty thousand men in a camp at once would be so create confusion if not chaos, and to entail much actual suffering. Most of the officers who are to handle these conscripts are the briefly instructed men of these three months' training camps. They can't be expected to handle such big matters efficiently till they have had a little experience with smaller ones. Then there is the vast problem of supply. The machinery needs time to get it to run ping at maximum speed and efficiency. It needs speed up and to begin at rather low speed. low speed. The colored troops are to be organized in units by themselves, and not mixed with whites. Since the colored officers' training camp did not begin until one month after the white camps, the white officers were graduated and only one month before the colored camp could be. That the white regiment should therefore be the first one mobilized, is as simply logical as that two and two make four. It will be well along in October before the last of the several white increments can be called out and cared for. What is the sensible thing to do meanwhile with the colored candidates for commissions? Any man who knows anything at all of the necessary qualifications for an officer knows that three months are not one-tenth of the time really necessary for his training, and that not one of our officers of three months' training has more than a slight beginning in learning his duties. If time were available they would all be kept in training for a much longer time. Now, is it the part of common sense to graduate these colored candidates a month or two ahead of the mobilization of the units' they are to organize, feed, equip, and train, and let them idle away the interim, or is it good business sense to continue their preparation by an extra month of work specially selected with a view to enabling them to avoid the very mistakes now being made by the less fortunate officers who, however sadly they may need an extra month's training, were not so fortunate as to get it? No one but the above mentioned troublemakers can have any doubt either as to the wisdom of this extra month's work, under the circumstances or as to it being absolutely devoid of any reflection whatsoverever of the colored candidates. canfuse you are at liberty to make any use you see fit of this letter. NATIONAL NEWS NOTES. BRIEF BITS OF NEWS AND COMMENTS ON MEN AND MEASURES—NEGROES DISCUSS THEIR RACE RIGHTS. New York, N. Y. —Last week's session of the tenth annual convention of the National Equal Rights League of the second national congress of all colored Americans were devoted to discussions of the Negroes' rights and the steps necessary to obtain their proper recognition. Ating under the conviction that 'so heavy grows our burden and so galling our sake that patience on our part will soon become a crime against ourselves,' the delegates are planning to representatives to a meeting of Negroes in Washington in December to convene when the national Congress, opens and to remain there until congressional recognition is given to their demands which have grown out of the East St Louis and other race riots. The session here aim to fix public attention on the Negroes' claims for a full measure of freedom from discrimination of all kinds. The need of a united effort by the race is felt and the avoidance of false leadership is desired. COL. WATTERSON FLAYS A SMALL CONSERVER. Louisville, Ky.-Col. Henry Watterson, famous editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, has no patience with small Southerners, with that large number, who are so provincial that they can discuss nothing except the Negro and the provincial questions of the South. He has just paid his respects to Senator Morrison Sheppard of Texas in this peppery title. style: "It is a matter of common observation that the debates in Congress are not very elightening. But when the average Congressional spouter gets on to a religious text, or a moral topic, he fairly concludes the Dutchman who every spring bored holes in his cellar door, he said, 'to let the darkness out.' The latest example of this is. Senator Shepard, of Texas, who believes in pumping virtue into the people by legislative pro cees. He is as pious as Satan when rebukeing sin and as orthodox as Barebones himself. His theme is temperance, his method intemperate. The constant activity of the liquor interests is a porl to free institutions, according to the Chinese statesmanship which would burn the house to roast the pig, while alcoholic liquor is a matter of the nation's health, morals and efficiency. Organized labor, cried the gentleman from Texarkana, has been asked to oppose prohibition because bartenders and brewery and distillery employees are members of the And then he blathered thus: "Labor is asked to imperil its very existence, to take food from the mouths and clothes from the backs of women and children to sustain a traffic meaning hunger, disease, insanity and death for the masses with liquor barons live in luxury. If liquor is to be eradicated, the aid of the Federal Government must be invoked. The partnership between the liquor traffic and the Federal Government is one of the most frightful stages of the Civil War. The man of Senator Morris Shepard is stunted intellectual growth and limited mental vision the yawp of the CHARLES P. FORD, ATTORNEY. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, Holding Probate Court—No. 23,952, Administration. This is to Give Notice: That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, Letters of administration c. t. a. on the estate of Andrew J. Laster, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 28th day of August, A. D. 1918; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 28th day of August, 1917. Attest: W. C. TAYLOR. Deputy Register of Wills for the Dist district of Columbia, Clerk of the Probe court. TWO YEARS. FORED. Wm. O. Davis, Attorney, Supreme Court of the District of Col- umbia, Holding Probate Court—No. 23984, Administration. 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But men of his environment—the first State wilds of Texarkana, where a gentleman who gets drunk in Arkansas may sob up in Texas, and vice versa, escaping the sheriff of each vicinage the while—could profit by nothing he might read in the doubtful event that he ever read at all. Such a person in the Senate of the United States recalls nothing we can think of except Mrs. Foyser's cook that thought the sun rose just to heath him crow. Obviously Mr. Sheppard is the original son-of-a-gun from Bitter Creek, high-up and north side." RE BDITSTER STEPLIVELYZ wr The NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL, Durham, N. ~ § Ser sea’ 3 ‘President, James E. Shepherd, Durham, §. C. 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Bikery-Beers Company, tac. : WHOLESALE 183-161 RAST 34ch ST. > NEW YORE ee eC Teh edt eee bee Peeee Se) eG Ot P W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR Entered at the Post Office at Wash ington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1820 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year in advance.....$2.00 Six months.....1.00 Three months.....50 Subscription monthly.....20 CHURCHES AS SOCIAL CENTER (No. 3.) We might as well recognize the fact that the colored Protestant church congregation of to-day is very largely a social club. In this it does not differ radically from the white Protestant church congregation, but only in degree. The white people have many other agencies and much other machinery for social contact. The whites have numerous clubs housed in spacious quarters. Some of these clubs are devoted to ostensible social aims, some to avowed business aims. In some respects they are nearly all social clubs; in other respects they are nearly all business clubs. Who can prove the proposition that practically all social organizations composed of white adults do not have for their real ultimate object the furtherance of individual and collective business aims? The candidate for office, the doctor, the grocer, the tailor and the wife and daughter of each lets no social occasion escape to make a good impression and improve business prospects. That honest Jew in Georgia who was debating as to which colored church he would join, explained that he desired to join the one "dot vill pring de mos pishness." The probability is that that sensible white man after joining the colored church was the only member. fho reaped the full advantage of the opportunity afforded by the contact in that church. The most successful cooperation in business enterprises really has its greatest strength when associated directly or indirectly with some form of social unit. We might as well recognize the fact that only one-half of the mission of the present day colored church congregation is the promotion of religion and preparation for heaven. This fact is not a matter for regret, but the contrary. It is our duty to utilize the other half of the church's power for practical earthly purposes. We respectfully offer the following advice to our Washington colored Protestant church congregations: 1. When yo uhave power to select your own pastor, select him with reference to his business knowledge and public spirit no less than for piety, intelligence and oratory. Select your trustees on the same principle. 2. Promise your pastor a fair salary, as much as you are reasonably able to pay. Then pay him promptly, so that he will never have to preach for money. 3. Buy a parsonage for your pastor near the church. 4. Discontinue the policy of building or buying expensive church buildings and parsonages out of all proportion to the average wealth of the members. 5. As fast as practicable, quit all artificial catch-penny schemes for raising money for the church, such as begging by means of coin cards and "gleaners," bazaars and suppers. 6. Institute a system for recording and accounting for all small sums of money collected. We do not advocate a cash registered, but something "equally good." 7. Beg your pastor to preach you a sermon on practical business at least twelve times every year. Jesus preached such sermons. 8. Institute free lecture courses in your church on general and practical subjects, and frequently have men and women of your own congregation deliver such lectures. 9. Establish a small select library and, reading room in your church, not composed mainly of religious literature. 10. Organize among your own church members (or the members of two or more neighboring congregations can combine in this) a small building and loan association, and a credit union to facilitate the ready borrowing of small sums by persons temporarily in need (after the plan advocated by the Russell Sage Foundation, 130 East 22d Street, New York).. 11. If the congregation is large and the members live mostly in the same section, establish a cooperative store for the supplying of groceries and fuel at near wholesale prices. 12. Organize in the congregation a small corporation for the purpose of buying sanitary houses to be rented to the members or sold to them on easy terms. These are not Twelve Commandments, but they are our Twelve Prayers for the churches. FAREWELL TO MRS. ANDERSON. A USEFUL CITIZEN LEAVES FOR WEST AFTER MANY YEARS OF USEFULNESS IN THIS CITY AND ELSEWHERE—HER GRACEFUL PRESENCE WILL BE MISSED. To the Editor of THE WASHINGTON BEE. Dr. John B. Anderson, formerly of this city, but now permanently located in Butte, Mont., where he has a lucrative practice, spent a week with his family. The doctor, after disposing of many urgent and pressing business engagements, left last Thursday for Butte. He was M. accompanied by his beautiful and beloved wife, Mrs. Bessie B. Anderson. Mrs. Anderson, who has been in public life in this city for the past twenty years, has enshrined herself into the hearts of entire Washington. The city has lost one of its most useful citizens. The numerous friends who went to Union Station to bade her goodbye, did so with tear-stained eyes and sad hearts. All who were fortunate to know her could not help but love her. We can only say for Mrs. Anderson, in the language of the poet, "Absence is the tombstone of true affection." She was a woman who could have sailed under false colors, but was prouder of the African blood that flows through her veins than she was of the Caucasian. The departure of Mrs. Anderson from this city was a great surprise to her numerous friends and admirers. She was a remarkable woman. The BEE wishes her success in her new field of labor. SATURDAY SERMONS BY UNUS And he played on a harp of a thousand strings. One curious reader having searched his Bible concordance, writes to inquire where I got my text, "And he played on a harp of a thousand strings." He can't find it in the Bible. Neither did I. I did not mean to take a text from the Holy Scriptures. The Bee is not in competition with the church, and it might seem sacreligious for an unordained layman like me to take his text from the Holy writ. Our text is a part of the text of an imaginary sermon supposed to have been preached near Natchez, Miss., by an Indiana trader and fatboatman, who was an exhorter, over half a century ago. The full text of that famous sermon, which widely published and read about that period was, "And he played on a harp of a thousand strings; the spurits of jest men made perfec." That sermon was chiefly remarkable for the earnestness and assurance of the exhorter, for its great discursiveness (because it constantly wandered from the text) and for the great number of interesting topics, that it covered. It is not a long sermon, and, if Editor Chase lets me, I will give it from this pulpit before long. The dealers will then be better able to judge of the appropriateness of my standing text. CRUMBS. I often think of that saying somewhere about feeding from the crumbs that drop from the rich man's table. Crumbs are the poor man's opportunity. The colored people as a class are poor people. They are exceedingly poor, measured by the present day standards. But while they are poor as to accumulated wealth, they are not so poor as to opportunity. The rich man, the great builder of business, the great operator, can not give much attention to small-odds and ends. Many odds and ends, trifles to him, he must ignore and neglect. These are the crumbs, these are the poor man's opportunity, these are the logical basis of the poor man's fortune. Let our folks not dispise its crumbs—the second-hand house, the second-hand Abi Your Credit Is a Power for Comfort In Your Home We give you the opportunity to make CREDIT your most helpful and valuable asset. We enable you to use it in such a way that you may have whatever is needed; to have all that is needed; and to have it at once. Then, by small weekly or monthly payments, the account can be settled without your feeling a heavy call upon your resources. Don't hesitate to come in and ask us about arranging a personal charge account. Tell us what you'd like to have to make your home comfortable, and tell us what terms would suit your circumstances. motor car, the second-hand bicycle, the second-hand cart, the cast off overcoat or hat. Some very well-to-do have learned this secret and act upon it. I sometimes meet them at Jusiti's Old Stand. I shall never forget that fine investment a friend of mine made in shabby looking frame house in a coming neighborhood. It was a good strong house, but wanted a coat of paint and a bath tub. Everybody else dispised it. It looked mean in comparison to some fine mansions near by. My friend bought it for $2,500, $500 cash; spent $500 for alterations and paint. The place now cents for $420 a year, and this lot is valued now at $10,000. But I have not given the whole reason. The original lot was too narrow for a mansion site, and once did not interest a rich man seeking a building site. There was adjoining a vacant lot also too narrow for a mansion site. My friend bided his time and bought the vacant lot. The two lots separate was of no particular value; now combined are of great tactical value. Here were two crumbs in real estate which rich men despised or overlooked. A poor man picked them up. In less than four years, combined, they were worth three times their cost. VACANT LOTS. Be slow to invest money in vacant lots. Usually it is a very bad business. Often they decrease in value, or if they increase in value, the rate is seldom over 5 per cent. a year. They bring in no rental returns. They are hard to sell. Here are two good rules about buying vacant lots: (1) Buy only about when you are ready to build. (2) Buy sometimes to round out or improve a place you already have own. (3) Do not be too readily attracted by a building prospect. Poor men should seldom build houses. A house already built can often be had at about one-half the cost. Remember old man Grammer's motto: "Fools build houses and wise men buy them." Of course Mr. Grammer's rule does not apply to experienced builders or to those who operate on a large scale. Y. M. C. A. NOTES. "The Silent Campaign" for members will start soon. One hundred men will work to get five men each during the month. Mr. Gibson, new Physical Director, is putting "pep" into the gym, work. The business men are geecting so that they can bend over. Some of them could hardly walk at the start. Mr. W. R. Williams, Boy's Work Director, is organizing an Association of be in this association. They will study the bay's needs, etc. Dr. A. M. Curtis, with his live Educational Committee, is doing much to tie up the Y. M. C. A. and the community. Fifteen men were in the gymnasium for work the first week. Washington vs. Cincinnati in a "Bowling Tournament." Get ready, boys. We must have four teams. See Mr. Gibson at once. Dr. J. Hayden Johnson is chairman Joseph I. Bailey AND Co. Undertaker and Embalmer (Formerly with J. H. Dabney) 227 K STREET, N. W. Corner 3rd and K Streets, N. W Joseph I. Bailey, Manager Credit Is Fighting Liberty's Battles Phone Main 8273 Joseph Undertak (For 227 Ca Jo Chapel Service Free of the Boy's Work Committee. Dr. Johnson, Mr. Benjamin Washington, Mr. G. W. Moore and Mrs. W. R. Williams make a strong team for the boys. Roots, Bones, Herbs. Luck, Load Stones, Hypnotism. Great Book of Magic Arts. Sond 10 cents for secret instructions. Address—A. D. Spriggs, 15 S. Pink St. This famous shoe company has been in the shoe business over forty years in this city, and is known to most of the colored people of Washington, of whom they have been some of the best friends the race has. Coming again this season with the latest styles in men, women's and children's shoes, and as usual with the best quality of shoes, and at prices that can not be equalled for the same quality of shoe. What colored child in Washington doesn't know where one of the three stores of Hahn & Ca., 7th and K St., N W., or 1914 Pa. Ave., N W., or 233 Pa. Ave., S. E. Any of these stores are household words to thousands of the race that patronize these stores. There's no drawing the color-line in Hahn's Shoe Store, no cast-off goods shown you; you are not asked to wait when you are first. All are treated alike; no favorites at Hahn's stores. This shoe company has always contributed to the charitw and the uplift of the race. There is not enough actual cash in circulation throughout the entire world to finance the great struggle for universal liberty which is being waged in Europe. Without the extension of credit to the nations engaged in warfare civilization would be trampled into the dust. When the great nations of the world look upon credit with favor certainly the individual has every reason to feel the same way toward the system that enables him to supply the comforts of home which are his privilege and do so at his own convenience. We're glad to talk these things over with you; glad to take the time to show our tremendous lines of Furniture and explain wherein they embody extra value and reliability. You'll find qualities in every department that are inexpensive, many that are really very low priced, but they're dependable and they'll give you long and satisfactory service. The higher prices are fully justified by the values for which they are asked. Every article is plainly price marked with figures you can read—you can make your own comparisons. Nothing is added to these figures for the credit privileges; there are no notes to sign, and no interest is charged. Carriages For Hire Madame Walker's Goods We have the exclusive Wholesale Agency for Madame Walker's Preparations Wholesale and Retail AGENTS SUPPLIED Peoples Drug Store - Agency 7th & M, N. W. No one knows what they have done for FOR RENT the race better than the many women Room with hot and cold baths, gas and men who have charge of part of and electric lights, telephone service the race's welfare. Let us buy from Men only. No students need apply. the friends of the race. 937 R Street, N. W. The Week in Society The most prosperous season in twelve years, is the report that comes from Board's Drug Store at 1912 1-2 Fourteenth street northwest. The reason for the ever increasing popularity of this firm consists in satisfactory service. They dispense only fresh, pure and reliable drugs, medicines and household essentials. They carry a line of goods that are always dependable, efficacious and absolutely trustworthy. Quality before everything else is the motto at Board's Drug Store from ice cream to physician's prescriptions. Prof. T. M. Gregory is in the city this week on special leave from the Officers' Training Camp, Fort Des Moines, Iowa, representing the men of the camp at the War Department. Mr. and Mrs. David Sheppard, of this city, were suddenly acled to Baltimore to bury a relative killed in railroad accident. Miss Carrie Stovall is one of the new appointees on the night force at the Bureau. Miss Nellie Terrell, who has been visiting in this city, has returned to her home in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Seward, of Springfield, Ohio, will spend the winter in this city. Mr. Samuel E. Franklin, of Boston, will visit this city, spending about three weeks. Mr. Chauncery Gilmore, of Arkansas, will arrive in this city to pursue his studies at the Howard University. He will be, with his father, Mr. William Gilmore, who holds a position here in the Government service. Mr. Edward Carter has returned to his home, Wareneck, Va., after a visit to this city. Miss Lucy Peyton, of Hick's Wharf, Va., will spend the winter in this city. Mr. Daniel Martin, of Washington, Pa., is spending a few days in this city. Mrs. Sarah Tanner, of this city, spent the week-end with her aunt, Mrs. N. D. Temple, of Canonsburg, Pa. Mrs. Robert Peyton, of Pennsylvania, arrived in this city to enter the Dental Department of Howard University. Mr. Berkley Harrison, of Danville, Va., will arrive in this city to attend the Howard University. Miss Mabel Oliver, of Danville, Va., has arrived in this city to enter the Howard University. Mr. and Mrs. William Lewis, of this city are visiting in Roanoke, Va. Mr. Morgan S. Brown, the assistant choir leader of the Mt. Zion M. E. Church, has been appointed permanently as a clerk in the Government Printing Office. Mrs. Florence Marshall, of this city, spent a few days visiting in Annapolis, Md. Mrs. Delia Ridgley, of this city, its visiting her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Ridgley, of Annapolis, Md. Miss Carrie Webster's friends are glad to learn she has been made probationary at the Government Printing Office. Miss Cleo Desmond, the leading lady of the Quality Amusement Company, playing last week at the Howard Theater in "The Silent Witness," was the recipient of flowers Monday night from Miss Greene and Friday night from Mr. John Carpenter. Misses Florence and Marietta Harrod are still rendering useful service at the Metropolitan Baptist Church choir and Sunday School. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Patterson celebrated the ninth anniversary of their marriage last Wednesday evening at their home, 57 H Street, N. W. A family dinner was prepared with the dainties of the season, which was appreciated by Mr. and Mrs. Patterson. The parents of Mr. and Mrs. Patterson were present and many good wishes were bestowed upon Mr. and Mrs. Patterson. Miss Marie A. Carter, formerly of this city, is now located at 1508 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, with the Associated Colored Embroyees of, America, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Woodburn, of West Chester, Pa., spent three days in this city visiting. Mrs. Andrew E. Moss has returned to her home in Chicago, Ill., after a pleasant stay with her mother, Mrs. Dangerfield. The Inter Se Club began its fall season Friday, September 28, 1917, meeting at the residence of Mrs. E. W. Harrison, 1101 Que Street, N. W., where it was organized one year ago. The following officers were reelected to serve another year: Mrs. A. V. Thornton, president; Mrs. H. Parker, vice president; Mrs. M. J. Key, secretary; Mrs. A. F. Reed, assistant secretary; Mrs. E. W. Harrison, treasurer; Mrs. William Jumper. Others present were Mesdames J. Boyd, E. S. Haywood, J. H. Green, J. H. Myers and W. H. J. Beckett. Refreshments of cream and cake were served and al lenjoyed a pleasant even- Mr. Charles H. Anderson, cashier of Anderson and Co., bankers of Jacksonville, Fla., was in the city last week the guest of Mr. William A. Bowie, cashier of the Industrial Savings Bank at this city. Mrs. Harriet G. Marshall left for New York last week. Miss Effie M. Middleton, assistant cashier of the Industrial Savings Bank, who has been to New York for two weeks on a visit, returned to the city this week 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 We Advise and Furnish Glasses only when they aid or improve vision, holding your eyes and our profession above selfish interest. OUR AFTER SERVICE IS EVER READY in the many little details that mean so much to those who wear glasses, irrespective of whether we or some one else furnished them. 737 7th St., N. W. 4 Doors from H St. Open every evening until 7 P. M. Saturdays until 9 highly pleased with her trip. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Jackson, of Lexington, Ky., left Sunday to visit this city. Among the Kentuckians who have arrived here to enter Howard University are Messrs. George Brown, C. H. Parrish, Jesse Lawrence, P. C. Christian, Russell Price, H. F. Jones and John R. Nurse. Mr. John DeHasen, an employee of the Treasury Department, has been called to his home in Louisville, Ky., on account of the serious illness of his father. Mrs. George M. Pierson has returned to her home in Pocatello, Idaho, after a pleasant visit in this city. Miss Janie Greene, of Boston, Mass., is in the ciey on business, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. David Sheppard. Mrs. Williams, of 25041/2 P Street, is convalescing very favorably after undergoing such a severe operation at the Freedman's Hospital. Miss Anita Brown is one of the recent appointees at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Miss Brown's friends are proud of her success. St. Mary's Chapel is to have its fiftieth anniversary celebrated this month. Mrs. Gertrude Shelvy is still doing good work with Mme. Walker's system. Her patrons speak well of her work. New equipments have been added to this winter's work rooms. Miss Lucy Kidrick is still making good at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Miss J. B. Patton has returned to her home in Atlanta, Ga., after a delightful visit to this city. Miss Olive C. Lester is to return to her home in Thomasville, Ga., when her visit is complete in this city, New York, and Boston, Mass. Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Campbell, of Colorado, spent a few days in Chicago, enroute to this city to accept an appointment in the Government service here. Rev. H. G. Hoose, pastor of Nazareth Baptist, of Washington, Pa., made a short trip to this city last week visiting friends, Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Walters, 1425 Que Street. Mr. J. Lesslie Kelley, of McLean, Va., has accepted a position at the Navy Yard. Mrs. Effie O. Jones, of Philadelphia, is visiting her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Walters, of this city. Recent appointments at the Bureau are Miss Edith Henderson, of Herndon, Va., Miss Geneya Runnels, of New York, and Miss Mabel Surydam, of Fairmont Heights, D. C. The newly organized choir of Galbraith A. M. E. Zion Church, 6th Street, N. W., will appear at tomorrow morning services for the first time in their robes. This is the first time in the history of Galbraith that her choir contains such good talent: Miss Ada E. Chestnut, leading soprano; Miss Henrietta Shaw and Miss Emma Wallace, altos; with Mrs. Edith Johnson, Iabella Prestley, tenor; William Anderson, Benjamin Williams, A. Swiggart Williams, tenor; Prof. H. Wythe Lewis, director; iMiss H. L. Perry, organist. Prof. Lewis should be congratulated for having selected such a splendid talent for his next choir. They will be on hand at the 3 o'clock service, when the Rev. Mary Taylor, of Yonkers, will preach. Rev. Taylor, in company with Miss Norman Red- YOU CAN HAVE LONG STRAIGHT HAIR YOU CAN HAVE LONG STRAIGHT HAIR If Anxious to Improve Your Hair and General Appearance Read This Carefully There are so many so-called hair growers on the market a large number of hich are nothing more than perfumed grease, it is no wonder people get discouraged and lose faith in all hair tonics. In deciding on what to use on your scalp be sure and get a remedy of proven merit. Seeby's Quinade is a highly medicated pomade that has stood the test of time. It is the invention of a New York chemist and is made under the personal supervision of a licensed phiarmacist of many years' experience. Quinade stimulates and nourishes the roots of the hair, causing a natural growth of long hair. It makes the hair soft, smooth and glossy, and easy to put up in the style desired. To get the best results from the use of Quinade the scalp should be shampooed at regular intervals with Seeby's Quinasoap. Quinasoap is made entirely out of vegetable oils, principally cocaoan oil, and contains no animal fat of any kind. It lathers very freely and is a thorough cleanser. Quinasoap leaves the hair soft and fluffy, and imparts a refreshing feeling to the scalp, unequalled by any other shampoo. Do not accept any substitute, but insist on getting Seeby's Quinade and Seeby's Quinasoap asking for them by the full name. If your druggist or dealer does not stock these two articles, ask him to obtain them for you from his wholesaler. The price is 25c each Write to Seeby's Drug Co., 79 East 130th street, New York City, for sample, mentioning the name of this paper. PEOPLE'S DRUG STORES. Quinade and Quinasop are sold at all of the People's Drug Stores, as follows: Store No. 1. 7th and K Sts. N. W. Store No. 2. 7th and E Sts. N. W. Store No. 3. 14th and You Sts. N. W. Store No. 4. 7th and M Sts. N. W. Store No. 5. 8th and H Sts. N. E. man, came to Washington Friday in their touring-car, and is stopping with Mrs. H. E. Chestnut, 303 L Street, N. W. By a resolution passed by the members of the Eldor Men's Relief Association, they are requested to meet Sunday afternoon, October 7; at 4 o'clock sharp at Peace Baptist Church, H Street between 13th and 14th Streets, N. E. Mrs. Lucy Freeman, well known in our city is appointed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Mrs. Gertrude Walker-Cain, after a very severe illness, is able to be out again. Miss Helen B. Williams has returned to the city after a delightful two-weeks' stay visiting friends in Bowie, Md. Attorney John E. Collins was confined to his home owing to a serious attack of la gripe. His many friends are delighted to learn of his recovery. A delightful gathering of young folks was entetained at an afternoon dance at the residence of Miss Florence Younge, 815 Third Street, N. W., Saturday afternoon. Miss Mamie Young, og Florida Avenue, N. W., entertained at a luncheon Sunday last. Miss Lydia Montgomery, of Eleventh Street, was appointed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Mr. Wilson A. Gray, of Corcoran Street, N. W., has returned to his duties at the Treacury Department. Mr. Gray spent a delightful time in Dexie. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Carter, who were married Saturday in New York City, arrived in this city, the guest of Mr. Carter's father, of 2559 15th Street, N. W. Mrs. Mollie Smothers, of Princeton W. Va., spent a week with her daughter and Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Lewis and family, at Fairmount Heights; Mr. Lewis and Mrs. Smothers were playmates in old Virginia. She left for her home Monday. .Howard Theatre. 7th and Tea Streets, N. W. Andrew J. Thomas Theatre Co., Props. Monday, October 8. Matinee the Musical Comedy of the Season Jeans From 35-Peopls-35 Marjorie Sipp, Jim Burrine, Eddie Gray Chorus. 20—NEW S : 25c, 35c, 50c Matinee: A features Combined—"On Trial" and "W Alberg Diamond Collection of Diamonds we've be starting a sale in which thousa ing offered. This is the diamon ned a 70-year reputation for re Entire Week Starting Monday, October 8. Matinees: Tuesday, Thursday Saturday The Musical Comedy of the Season With Lanky Law Peyton, Marjorie Sipp, Jim Burrine, Eddie Gray. And a sure Fire Singing and Dancing Chorus. 20—NEW SONG HITS— Night Prices: 25c, 35c, 50c Matinee: All Seats 25c Next Week—Two Features Combined—"On Trial" and "Wrath of the Gods" THE WORLD'S FINEST CINEMAS A Castelbe An immense collection arrived. We're starting a nary values are being offered ington. It has earned a 70 DIAMONDS In Any Style of Mountings A Castelberg Diamond Sale An immense collection of Diamonds we've been expecting has arrived. We're starting a sale in which thousands of extraordinary values are being offered. This is the diamond house of Washington. It has earned a 70-year reputation for reliability. HORSE RING Our Terms 50c a On All Purchases $25 or $25 to $50... $50 to $75... $75 to $100. "The Largest Credit Jewelers in the World" 935 Pa. Ave. ASTELBERG'S LET'S HIT! AN UP-TO-DATE CAFE Open Day and Night ```markdown ``` THE LARGEST CREDIT JEWELERS IN THE WORLD 935 PA AVE. CASTELBERG'S COLORED HELP WANTED. --- --- 56c a Work on C25 $4.25 300 Young Women. 200 Girls. 200 Young Men. 200 Boys. for all kinds of work in the department stores in this city. Positions secured FREE. Apply at WHITE CROSS ASSOCIATION; Dr. S. P. W. Drew, President, 1317 Corcoran Street, N. W. Office hours, 9 a. m. to5p.m. No Office hours, 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. No charge-gor positions, or at Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, N Street, between Ninth and Tenth Streets. MUSIC. STUDIO. Miss Edna T. Gordon will reopen her music studio September 22nd. For further information, phones or call at 1329 Wallach Place, N. W. $25 All Kinds of of Game and Oysters in Season Hot and Cold Lunches for Travellers PRINTER WANTED. Wanted at The Bee office a printer; a lady to do special correspondence and story writer. Special Hundreds of these stones will be sold for $25, set in 14-kt. gold mountings of any styles desired for men or women. They are pure white, perfectly cut and of a size that makes them the greatest diamond value that can be bought for cash or credit in this city. erms to All a Week ases Amounting to or Less ...$1.00 a week ...$1.50 a week ...$2.00 a week Larger Amounts in the Crime Prepo. Con Convenient to All Leading The atres. Unsurpassed Service Mr. Robert L. Pratt Pratt's Restuarant Druid Hill Avenue at Paca Street Transient Boarding and Lodging to Select People Phone, Mt. Vernon 6402 Opposite Smith's Hotel BALTIMORE, BABIES CARED FOR Children of Soldiers Are Looked After at Creche. FOUR NATIONS REPRESENTED Home For Convalescent Babies Under Two Years Old Open All the Year Around—Founded by First General Secretary of Charity Organization Society of New York. New York.—If your daddy had gone away to war to fight for his country, and you were something under two years old, and mother wasn't sure where the next mug of bread and milk was coming from, and like as not mother wasn't even there to worry about it at all, wouldn't you think it was pretty hard lines for a young soldier just starting out in the battle of life? You would. And, while you might not frame it up in just those words, you would open your mouth and your lungs and let the whole crowded, hot, smell filled tenement which constituted your world know about how miserable you were, even if you were a soldier's baby and supposed to be brave. That is just why, out over the Hudson and away beyond the beautiful, broad sweep of the Englewood Country club golf links on the western slope of the Fallsades, the Memorial Home of the Edgewater Creche is today endeaving to open its hospitable doors to take in and care for the little children and babies of soldiers, sailors and of women who could thus be released for THE CHILDREN'S CENTER CHILDREN AT EDGWEATER CRECHE. war work, in addition to the usual groups of poor mothers and little ones sent there by social workers. Any one who passed along Edgewater, N. J., the town that nestles under the Palisades opposite One Hundred and Thirteth street, four or five years back remembers that creche, because it stood on the river road there for many years after its foundation by Charles D. Kellogg, first general secretary of the Charity Organization society of New York city, who first established it beside the site of the statue of Liberty and called it Bartholdt Creche. There it had averaged 6,000 to 10,000 visits of mothers with children in a summer. In the fifteen years or more it stood at Edgewater the creche averaged 12,000 visits a summer from mothers and children from the crowded tenement districts of New York. Removed now to a beautifully rolling and well wooded site of six and a quarter acres, at Broad and Van Nostrand avenues, on the outskirts of Englewood, the creche occupies the unique position of being the only home for convulsive babies under two years old in and about New York city, that is open the year round. And in its effort to do its bit by giving preference to the babies of soldiers the creche does not stop at American babies, but cares for the babies of allied fighters as well, at least four nations being represented among the twenty babies' now there — America, France, Russia and Italy. Adopt a Baby Wolf. Rochester, N. Y.—The Proper brothers, who live on a farm six miles west of Naples, in Ontario county, found a baby gray wolf in a hollow log in a piece of woods on their farm. They took the little creature, whose eyes were not yet open, to the house and are making an effort to raise it on a bottle. A search is being made for the rest of the wolf family. GIVES CORK LEG AS SECURITY FOR LOAN Raleigh, N. C.—A chattel mortgage has been recorded in the office of the register of deeds of Durham county, N. C., in which a $50 loan was made and an artificial leg taken as security. The leg was valued at $100, and R. O. Everett, a Durham lawyer, declares it his intention of reconveying the property to himself unless the mortgagor redeems the claim. The loan was obtained to purchase the cork leg, and the debt is to be paid within fifty-two weeks. TO FEED UNCLE SAM'S SOLDIERS IN TEXAS Dealers Planning to Deliver 4,395,000 Pounds of Potatoes. Fort Sam Houston, Tex.—An enormous quantity of foodstuffs will be required to feed the thousands of soldiers who are soon to be stationed in different military posts and camps in Texas. This is shown by the quantity of potatoes and onions upon which bids have just been received at the chief quartermaster's office here. These bids do not include the supplying of the new national guard camps, but are only for the troops at Fort Sam Houston and on the Mexican border. They call for the delivery during September and October of 4,395,000 pounds of potatoes and 649,500 pounds of onions. The potatoes and onions must be delivered during September and October. The potatoes will be distributed as follows: Fort Sam Houston, 4,000,000 pounds; Brownsville, 75,000; Corpus Christi, 40,000; Del Rito, 45,000; Eagle Pass, 100,000; McAllen, 40,000; Mercedes, 35,000; Sam Fordyce, 80,000, and San Benito, 30,000. The onions will be distributed: To Fort Sam Houston, 500,000 pounds; Brownsville, 10,000; Corpus Christi, 5,000; Del Rito, 6,500; Eagle Pass, 10,000; McAllen, 5,000; Mercedes, 5,000; Sam Fordyce, 4,000, and San Benito, 4,000. SEES THE END OF WAR IN A YEAR AT MOST British Officer Thinks It May Come This Winter, Due to Germans' Hunger. New York.—On a British liner which arrived at an American port from England were six men, headed by Sir Stephenson Kent, who will assist Lord Northcliffe's mission here. A British officer who arrived on the liner and who requested that his name be not mentioned said that a majority of the British officers in France believed that if the war does not end this winter it will within a year. His impression, as well as that of most of the other officers on the western front, was that increasing hunger among the Germans, with a combination of another winter and numerous blows, would surely bring about the end of the struggle. He also spoke of the American export embargo as one of the strongest weapons of the war. As to the aerial side of the war, he said that aviators are wanted more than machines right now and that this country could do nothing better than to train fliers and send them abroad. Lieutenant Ernest Hargett of Washington, an officer in the British army who served two years at the front, came to this country to join the American forces. Lieutenant S. LaM. Metcalfe, a Canadian who served in the Boer war as well as the present one, also was a passenger. He has two medals, one of which he won by capturing a German machine gun crew. HUNDRED CANDLES ON CAKE. Aged Man Celebrates His Birthday With Family. Wauseon, O.-Lucius Palmer Taylor, Fulton county's oldest man, has celebrated his one hundredth birthday at his home in Pike township, near Winameg. At noon there was a Taylor family birthday basket dinner, with a huge cake bearing 100 candles. In the afternoon friends and neighbors were received by the aged gentleman, who still has a very accurate memory, has a fairly strong voice and is able to walk about. Mr. Taylor made a few reminiscent remarks. He was born in Buckland township, Franklin county, Mass., Aug. 18, 1817, and came to Fulton county, O, seventy four years ago, establishing a farm in the wilderness on which he has ever since resided. He raised a large family, was one of the founders of the first Fulton county fair and gave two sons to the country in the civil war. SHOOTING RANGE ATOP HOTEL Roof of New York Hostelry to Have Rifle Club Next Winter. New York.—The roof of a well known hotel is going to be converted into a shooting range next winter, with a club that is to be composed of men, women, boys and girls to do the shooting. Since the war came to America nearly everybody wants to learn how to shoot, and the keepers of rifle galleries have been coining money. Miss Martha Maynard is to have charge of the new organization, and Miss June Haughton, who is a world famous shot, will supervise the actual firing. An architect has been directed to convert the roof into an English shooting ground and lodge, with provision against any possible danger from stray shots. Fox Dog Comes Back. Ocada, Mich.—Bill Biggerstaff's pet fox dog has returned. The last Bill saw of the dog was in December, when he started a fox. He never was known to return without the fox before, some times being out as long as a week. But this time he ce me back in a baggage car crate, with a note from a man near Grand Marais, 250 miles away, who found the dog there starving two weeks ago. Bill will send the dog out this winter after the same fox. M. B. PATTERN SKIN WRITTENER PATTERN SUPPLIES CO., INC. 518-745-5177 SALON OF BEAUTY JOHNSON PRINTING CO. AT 47TH AVENUE, DAYTON PATTERN SUPPLIES SKIN WRITTENER PATTERN SUPPLIES CO., INC. 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In his announcement Van H. Manning, director of the bureau of mines, says it is estimated the United States army will need 350,000,000 gallons of gasoline for airplanes, trucks, tractors, etc. The N. A. O. C. is calling upon all manufacturers in the country and upon about 27,000 dealers, 24,000 garages and 13,000 repair shops to help in the movement to save gasoline. It has prepared a placard to be hung on the C. W. VAN H. MANNING. walls of service stations, garages and supply stations urging users to economize in the consumption of gasoline in the following ways: First.—Do not use gasoline for washing or cleaning—use kerosene to cut the grease. Second.—Do not spill gasoline or let drip when filling—it is dangerous and wasteful. Third.—Do not expose gasoline to air—it evaporates rapidly and is dangerous. Fourth.—Do not allow engine to run when car is standing. Cars are fitted with self starters, and it is good for the battery to be used frequently. Fifth.—Have carburetors adjusted to use leanest mixture possible—a lean mixture avoids carbon deposit. Sixth.—See that piston rings fit tight and cylinders hold compression well. Leakage of compression causes loss. Seventh—Stop all gasoline leakage. Form the habit of shutting off gasoline at the tank or feed pipes. Eighth—See that all bearings run freely and are well lubricated. Friction consumes power and wastes gas. Ninth—Protect the radiator in cold weather. A cold engine is hard to start and is short in power. Tenth—Keep tires fully inflated. Soft tires consume power. Eleventh—Do not drive at excessive speed. Power consumption increases at a faster rate than speed. Every car has a definite speed at which it operates with maximum fuel economy. Twelfth—Change gears rather than climb hills with wide open throttle. It saves car and gas. Thirteenth—Do not use cars needlessly or aimlessly. By exercise of forethought a number of errands can be combined so that one trip to town or elsewhere will do as well as two. Fourteenth.-Reduce the amount of riding for mere pleasure by shortening such trips or cutting down their frequency. The government is not contemplating any drastic action to compel car users to give up riding, and if there is a general and concerted effort to save gasoline it is believed there will be ample to meet all reasonable requirements. POTATOES AND TOMATOES. Grafting Process Brings Both on Same Vine. Scranton, Pa.—Joseph M. Stephenson, secretary of the Agriculture Preparedness league of this country, which has been encouraging the farmers here to plant increased acreage this year owing to the war, has succeeded in growing tomatoes and potatoes on the same vine. Early in the spring Mr. Stephenson took five healthy tomato plants and a like number of potato plants and grafted them. The hybrid plants thrived, and to date thirty fine large ripe tomatoes have been picked from one of the plants, while investigation of the root of the same plant revealed a cluster of fine potatoes. Next season Mr. Stephenson declares that he will have plants for sale to all that care to try them, arguing that double crops on the same ground are better than a rotation of crops. MAROONED ON ISLAND. Says He Lived For a Long Time Upon Water. Cody, Wyo.: David Grootch, a stenographer of Jonesboro, Ark., who was found on a small island in the Shoshone river, near here, by Underersheriff Walter Barber, told a weird story of having been marooned for twenty-two days on the island within sight of a wagon road, over which people were constantly travelling. During this time, he said, his only nourishment was water. Grootch said he had been working on a ranch here and came to Cody for a visit. He set out for a walk toward the river when his memory left him. When he regained consciousness he found himself on the island, 200 rods below a wagon bridge. He could not swim, and the current was too swift for him to wade. Finally, Grootch said, he became so weak he could not stand and lay helpless in the underbrush until a passerby saw him. BEDROOMS FOR GRANARIES. A Bumper Crop Makes This Move Needed. Neodosa, Kan.-Wilson county will produce an enormous wheat crop this year if the early returns from the harvest are any indication for the county as a whole, and they probably are, as the condition of the crop at threshing time was about the same over the county. William Rankin, one of the largest growers, will thresh more than 10,000 bushels, and others will do nearly as well. On the farm of Mrs. Dora Long the yield was 7,500 bushels, and after the barn and outbuildings were filled two bedrooms in the farmhouse were used to store the grain. Many reports are coming in of yields of from forty to forty-four bushels to the acre, which is an exceptional crop for this county, and at prevailing prices this year's wheat crop means thousands of dollars more than ever before. Oats are yielding from ninety to ninety-five bushels to the acre. NEED WEATHER FORECASTER General Pershing Will Be Glad to Place One In France. Washington.If any one can find a competent weather prophet General Pershing will be glad to place him among the fighting forces in France, according to word received at the war department. General George O. Squiler, chief of the signal corps, told of Pershing's need for a meteorological expert in testifying before the house appropriations committee. "We have learned to our surprise," said General Squiler, "that there are certain new and highly scientific branches of war being developed in France, and the signal service is called on to develop them here. "General Pershing has decided he must have some one to forecast the weather, and the signal corps must develop that man. He must also have the special equipment which the French and British armies use for weather forecasting." "DID MY BEST FOR IRELAND." William Redmond Leaves Statement of His Purpose in Fighting. London. — William H. K. Redmond, brother of John Redmond, the Irish leader, who was killed in action in Belgium, left the following statement in the care of his solicitor in Ireland, dated December, 1916. "If I die abroad I will give my wife my last thought and love and ask her to pray that we meet hereafter. I shall die a true Irish Catholic, humbly hoping for the mercy of God through the intercession of His blessed mother, whose help I have ever invoked all through life. "I should like all of my friends in Ireland to know that in joining the Irish brigade and going to France I sincerely believed, as all the Irish soldiers do, that I was doing my best for the welfare of Ireland in every way." INDIANA WOOD. IN FRANCE. Used There In Aeroplanes and to Make Gun Stocks. Noblesville, Ind.—Airplanes, the wooden part of which are made from walnut trees from Hamilton county, are flying over the battlefields of France, and gun stocks made from the same kind of wood cut from the same territory are in the hands of the British who are fighting on the western front. D. I. Neher, who operates a sawmill in this city, is filling an order for the British government for walnut timber. The contract calls for thirty carloads, and all the lumber is to be used in the manufacture of airplanes and gun stocks. Neher has contracted with A. L. Pursel for 25,000 feet of walnut timber in a strip of woodland in the vicinity of Nora. It brought the top price, $6.50 a hundred feet. Digging Up Mores and Marconi. Scranton, Pa.-Archie Reeves and Burgess Richards of Lansford, Pa., were arguing as to the merits of their respective countries. "Ah, weel," said Archie, "they tore down an auld castle in Scotland recently and found many wires under it, which shows that the telegraph was known there hundreds of years ago." "Ah, ah," said Burgess Richards. "They tore down an old castle in Wales quite recently, and, mind you, there were no wires found under it, which shows that they knew all about wireless telegraphy in Wales hundreds of years ago." 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. 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Stoking the engines far down below sea level, where they cannot possibly escape if the ship is torpeded; serving as mess boys, cabin boys, common sailors; no glory, very often not even a uniform to advertise what they are--doing their bit without the glimmer of a hope of reward. That is why the Seamen's Church institute of New York, which nightly harbors 500 of these seamen in its big building at 25 South street, is making a strenuous effort to give them a good time while ashore. And as the most of them are in such terror of the dangers of the land that they won't venture from the water front unattended, a rubberneck trip through the wilds of New York was deemed the thing that would hit the spot. The first one came off recently. George B. Vanderpool gave the $30 which took forty tired, lonesome, friendless scafarers for a jolly three hours' trip through Riverside drive; Central park and other places of interest and gave them the time of their lives if the way they whooped and sang chanties was any indication of their feelings. Such rivalry was there among the 500 men in the building for the chance to go on the first trip that the Rev. Carl Podin, who managed it, had them "draw" for the privilege. The hope was held out that there will be at least two such trips a week for a time, else there is no telling what might have happened to the forty who drew the lucky numbers. The "tubberneck car" left 25 South street at 2 o'clock in the afternoon; sounding like a tower of Babel as it went. For there were all nationalities aboard except Germans. There were Russians with the funny red cockades at their caps; there were lubberly Swedish stokers in overalls; there were lean, grave eyed British seamen; there were Dutch, Norwegians, Italians—oh, all kinds. Scarcely a nation that has a ship in the harbor but had a representative. Youngest of all were three little Dutch cabin boys, under fifteen, who made their way to New York from California, where they were stranded, and will be sent back to Holland at the first opportunity. Some of the lads aboard that rubber-neck don't own a thing in the world except the clothes on their backs. They are the ones who have been saved from some torpedoed ship—saved without a rag of luggage. Will they go back to the sea? Sure. It is the only life they know and to their minds the safest. "Would I work on land? No, it's too dangerous," one big Briton said in reply to a question. "If I was to be a carpenter now a beam might hit me. If I was a motorman a car might run into me. The sea for mine." There was one woman aboard, Mrs. Jeannette Roper, who is housemother at the institute. It was hard work to keep her from giving up her seat to some of the disappointed seamen who crowded around, but it was the sense of the committee that the boys needed a chapel, so she was it. DOG LIVED UNDER ICEBOX. Pet Poodle Sought a Cool Place and Found It. Philadelphia.-Betsy is a little poodle dog who was spending her first summer in Philadelphia. The dog was born on a ship bound to this country from Norway, and she could not become accustomed to heat. As soon as the mercury climbed above 80 Betsy became uncomfortable and then ill. She refused to eat and spent the day and night looking for a cool spot. A short time ago the poodle crawled beneath the refrigerator in the home of her mistress, and in a twinkling she had solved her difficulty. Since then Betsy spends about twenty-three hours out of every twenty-four under the ice box, and even her meals are served there. The dog drinks the ice water from the pan under the refrigerator. Choked Cougar to Death. Portland, Ore.—In a desperate fight with a mad cougar, with his bare hands as his only weapons, J. Donovan of Bend, Ore., was the victor, according to his story as he was undergoing the Pasteur treatment at a doctor's office here. Donovan says as he was working in a stony field on his ranch the beast sprang upon him from behind a rock where it had lurked. With its 100 pounds weight it bore Donovan to the ground. He managed to get a firm grip on the animal's throat, and although scratched and bitten, he slowly choked the breath from the beast. Cat Hunts Rabbits. Alexandria. Ind.-J. F. Merker, fire chief of Alexandria, is the owner of a rabbit hunting cat. In two nights Tommle brought to the rear door of the Merker home two big rabbits. Friends of the Merker family have asked for the use of the hunting cat when the hunting season opens. SOUTHERNAIDSOCIETY of Va.,Inc. 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TOTAL SICK BENEFITS DRAWN DURING SIX AND ONE-HALF YEARS MEMBER- SHIP, $217.50 DEATH CLAIM PAID $500.- 00, MAKING TOTAL PAYMENTS OF $717.50 PREMIUMS PAID TO SO- CIETY TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY DOLLARS AND EIGHTY CENTS. Richmond, Va., July 2, 1917, TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: This is to certify that my wife, Mrs. Lelia V. James, 1104 Chaffin Street was a member of Southern Aid Soc- ety of Virginia, Inc., for six and one-half years. during this time, she was sick on several occasions, and ```markdown ``` 1907 Southern Aid Building, Richmond, Va. MIRCELIA PATRICIA SALVATORE CO. VA. MAY LANE CO. BUILDING Virginia Beneficial & Insurance Co.'s Building, Norfolk, Va. whenever she reported her illness to the Society she received her sick dues promptly. Her last illness extended from the latter part of November 1916 to June 1917. The Society sent her money to her bedside each week from Dec. 6, 1916 to June 6, 1917; and at her death paid over to me the Death Claim of $500.00. I take great pleasure in recommending the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., to anyone who wants a sure policy of protection all through life. FOR INSURANCE THAT PROTECTS THE INSURED EVERY WEEK OF LIFE, AND THE WIDOW AND ORPHANS.AFTER DEATH, TAKE OUT A POLICY IN SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA, INC. HOME OFFICE: 627 N. 2ND ST., RICHMOND, --- Payments made on a perpetual paying Sickness, Accident and death insurance policy—are merely the acculating of assets for your future use. Carrying Fire Insurance is prudence, but it is an expense item Health and Life Insurance is a necessity and the payments are but a saving account. Your building may never burn, but all must take sick, get injured or die! --- SICK TWO YEARS, DREW $300.00 SICK BENEFITS AND THE FULL DEATH CLAIM. Farmville, Va., April 26, 1917 Southern Aid Society of Va., Inc., 527 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Gentlemen: I take this opportunity of expressing to you my sincere thanks for the kind treatment given to my brother during his long illness. I also want to thank your agent, Mr. Jackson Glaze, who was so business-like in his dealings with him and his family. My brother, Ben Woodson, was sick in his last illness nearly two years, and according to your policy he was paid each and every week during the whole period. He received about $300.00 in Sick Benefits. Notwithstanding this fact, we received the full amount of his death claim. I therefore take great pleasure in recommending to the general public, the Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., and that its policy is superior to all others I know of. AUGUSTUS WOODSON. Witness: P. W. Moore, Jackson Glaze. ALL SICK CLAIMS AND $600.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPTLY PAID. 222 Railroad Ave., Franklin, Va., Aug. 24, 1915. Southern Aid Society. Gentlemen: I take very great pleasure in writing you to thank you for the promptness in paying the death claim of my wife, Mrs. Lizzie Jenkins, who died Aug. 13, 1915. You lost no time in paying my claim, for as soon as my claim reached the home office your check for $500.00, in full settlement, was given to me by your superintendent, Mr. W. R. Thomas. The Southern Aid Society is second to none in this country. I wish you continued success in your good work. Very truly yours, WILLIAM JENKINS. week with SOUTHERN AID SOCIETY of Ice Co., Inc., at Norfolk, Va. Read a few office at Richmond, Va. PAID MOTHER SICK BENEFITS FOR NINE MONTHS AND $250.00 DEATH CLAIM PROMPTLY. Southern Aid Society, Petersburg District Gentlemen:—I wish to express many thanks for the promptness in paying my payment of the death claim of $250.00. I shall always speak in defense of your company. PAIR 20 WEEKS' SICK BENEFIT AMOUNTING TO $87.00 AND THE DEATH CLAIM ON $65.00 PROMPTLY. 1020 Palmer Street, Portsmouth Va. May 30, 1917 1020 Palmer Street, Portsmouth, Va., May 30, 1917. Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc., 527 N. 2nd St., Richmond, Va. Gentlemen: On behalf of myself and children I wish to thank you for your very courteous and prompt attention to my beloved husband, Edward Garland, policy No. 93247, who was sick for twenty weeks consecutively from January to May, prior to his death. Paying him during that illness $87.00 in weekly sick benefits and the death claim of $65.00 promptly without any deductions. In all my dealings with your superintendent and agents, I was shown every courtesy that could be desired. May God ever bless you and enable you to continue the good work. Very gratefully yours, MRS. MAGGIE GARLAND. $500.00 DR. THOS. A. STEVENS' DEATH CLAIM. Southern Aid Society of Virginia, Inc. Richmond, Va. Gentlemen: Kindly accept my sincere thanks for your check of $500.00 in full payment of death claim of my husband, Dr. Thos. A. Stevens, who died February 6, 1917. The above named check was delivered to me Thursday, Feb. 8, 1917, by your superintendent, Mr. R. D. Burton. I shall always speak in the highest terms of your company, and pray God's blessings upon the work. Respectfully, MRS. THOS. A. STEVENS. VA. DISTRICT OFFICES OR AGENCIES IN ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS: A. D. Price.....President Edward Stewart.....First Vice-President Jas. T. Carter.....Second Vice-President B. A. Cephas.....Third Vice-President Thos. M. Crump.....Secretary, Manager B. L. Jordan, Assistant Secretary, Manager and Auditor Walter E. Baker.....Treasurer W. A. Jordan, A. Washington, Chas. N. Jackson, W. E. Randolph. J. T. P. Cross, General Manager, Virginia Beneficial & Insurance Co., 526 Queen St., Norfolk, Va.