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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 --- Great and grand! That's the ver- Bank this week. This beautiful and list of all who were so fortunate to costly trophy is to be presented, suit- Lawyers Distinguish Themselves in the Criminal Court—Attorneys H. L. Tignor and Fred D. McIntosh Secure the Release of James Davis. Attorneys Harry L. Tignor and Fred D. McIntosh, two of the younger members of the District bar, distinguished themselves last week in Criminal Court, No. 1, when they secured an acquittal in the case of James Davis, indicted by the Grand Jury for housebreaking. The case attracted unusual attention owing to the fact that Davis was first arrested as a suspect in the Brandon murder mystery, and held several days in connection with the Annapolis investigation. 1. ATTY. HARRY L. TIGNOR. One of the Successful Members of the Local Bar. While he was being held, however, Officer H. K. Wilson identified as his a pair of shoes carried by the prisoner. This resulted in an indictment charging Davis with housebreaking, and he was released after his attorneys had arranged a $500 bond for him. Several days before the trial the bondsman became anxious about the matter, and surrendered the prisoner. But Davis was not to be daunted. After a conference between him and his attorneys, he took from his pockets nearly eight hundred dollars, and a cash bail of five hundred dollars was deposited with the Clerk of the Court to insure his attendance at the trial. ATTORNEY FRED McINTOSH. Who Was Associated With Attorney H. L. Tignore. Finally, when the case was reached, Justice Stafford was presiding in the court, and Assistant United States District Attorney William Leahy was representing the Government. After a trial lasting a day, the case went to the jury. The jury was out two hours but finally came in with a verdict of "not guilty." The five hundred dollars deposited as bail was ordered returned to Davis. The Bee is pleased at the success of these young attorneys, and congratulates them upon their success. COLUMBIA CONSERVATORY RECITAL A BIG SUCCESS. be present at the Twelfth Street Y. M. C. A. last Tuesday evening, December 18th, when the mid-sea on recital of the Columbia Conservatory, Wellington A Adams, president, was held. Washingtonians have witnessed many surprises, but this one eclipsed them all in point of uniqueness and classification from a music standpoint. Numbers were heard upon leaving to remark that the recital was worth all the way up to a dollar, and right they were, as I, too, have heard many a program which could hardly measure up to such a high standard as this one in particular. Almost from the beginning of the program one could see manifested the adept hand of a master musician such as that remarkable genius Wellington Adams, who is waking up Washington from a dead level to a standing perpendicular, and with all respect to the older heads round about. This conservatory is delivering the "punch," if I must say, to the "puncher," which is a good and right way to make it nowadays. Conservatories may come and go, but this one is destined to do great good in this city. They seek out the hidden talent and then shine it up nicely and present it, and that is more than most places do. The rule is always to get a known quantity for a "pull" and then boast of their prowess, but not so with the Columbia Conservatory, which started from the ground up, digged up its talent and then produced the goods. That's exactly what occurred last Tuesday evening at the Y. M. C. A. There's the Mr. Baker, violinist—who ever heard of him in these parts?—and Miss Wade, elocutionist. My, but didn't they open our eyes with their work—like artists as they undoubtedly are! That conservatory talent was right behind them in point of service. Here, my friend, read this program for yourself and judge accordingly ere my review gets too lengthy: (1) Piano, Traumerei (Schumann), Mrs. John H. Myers; violin accompaniment, Mr. Adams. (2) Vocal, The Bird and the Rose (Horrocks), Soprano, Miss Wade. (3) Piano Classic Breezes (Selected), Mrs. Alice E. Harrison, of Chicago. (4) Violin (a) Souvenir (Drdla), (b) The Swan (Saint-Saens), Mr. Baker. (5) Piano (Selected), Miss Wade. (6) Vocal (a) Winds in the Tree (Thomas), (b) It Seems to Me (Lloyd), Soprano, Miss Hazel Clagett. (7) Piano, Everybody's Darling (Eilenberg, Op. 25), Miss Geneva Holmes. (8) Vocal (a) An Old Garden (Temple), (b) Little Shawl of Blue (Hewitt), (c) Day and Night (Williams), contralto, Mrs. Mattie Johnson. (9) Violin (a) Bercuseuse, from Jocelyn (Goddard), (b) To a Wild Rose (McDowell), (c) Minuete in G (Beethoven), Mr. Baker. (10) Vocal (a) The Sands of the Desert (Ball), (b) The Heart Bow'd Down (Balfe), Baritone, Mr. Frederick Brown. (11) Instrumental Duet, Spanish Dance (Moskowski), Primo, Miss Geneva Holmes; Secondo, Mr. Adams. (12) Reading, Zingerella, the Spanish Gypsy Girl, with vocal introduction, Miss Wade. (13) Vocal (a) In Sweet September (Temple), (b) The Dawn (D'Hardelot), Soprano, Mrs. W. Roberta Dudley. (14) Piano, La Harpe Eoliene (Smith, Op. 11), Mr. George Thompson, of Connecticut. Mr. Edward Baker, violinist, of Kansas City; Prof. William G. Braxton, piano accompanist; Miss-Beatrice Ione Wade, elocutionist, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and pupils of the Piano and Vocal departments. BEAUTIFUL TROPHY CUP To Be Presented to Person. Selling Highest Number of Votes in Big Movie Picture Contest—Cup on Exhibition in Window of Industrial Savings, Bank. A handsome solid silver, gold-lined loving cup, sixteen inches high and half a foot in diameter, was placed in the window of the Industrial Savings Bank this week. This beautiful and costly trophy is to be presented, suit- M. H. ably engraved, to the lady or gentleman who sells the highest number of voting coupons in the big movie picture contest. Every one in Washington should drop around and take a look at this cup, the most handsome ever offered a colored Washingtonian. Take a look at this handsome trophy and then drop into the office of the National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee, 1105. You Street, and secure a book of coupons and start selling coupons for your favorites immediately. Draft of the scenario written for this movie was submitted to Mr. Tyler this week by the scenario. It will be a beautiful thing, splendidly showing the patriotism and loyalty of the race, and giving fine opportunity for devotion, valor and heroism, in acting, on the part of those to be in the cast. penny received for votes will the dependents of our colored s and a good sum of it will go to vide relief for the sorrowing de ents of those thirteen unfortun ored soldiers executed and forty-one sentenced to life im pment. Duty by those unfor men who made martyrs of them and sympathy for their de famiies ought to induce ever ored person to vote in this mov ture contest and vote often. B ing is the standing of the nominees up to and including the mas night: Women. Miss Isadore Kenney Miss Estelle Collier Miss Valeria Chase Mrs. Georgia Jones Tucker Miss Emma Lee Williams MOVIE PICTURE CONTEST. Miss Collier Right on Heels of Leaders. With: Miss Chase. Close. Lieutenant Merrill Curtis Crowds Captain Atwood Out of Second Place—Everybody Seems Interested. As the great movie picture contest approaches the home-stretch, interest in it fairly grips the colored people of Washington. Everybody is talking about it, and friends of the several nominees in the contest are beginning to hustle for votes for their favorites. Due to Tuesday, reporting day, being Christmas, a number of the contestants were unable to make the weekly report of all votes given them. The race for first place is still a hot and close one between Miss Isadore Kenney and Miss Estelle Collier, but friends of Miss Chase, Miss Williams, Mrs. Georgia Tucker and others now that their favorite will take the poll and be next week's leader. Miss Collier this week crept up to within 12 votes of Miss Kenney, who has been in the lead in the race from the start: Lieutenant Merrill Curtis, who was fourth last week, by a fine spurt, went into second place for the men this week, forcing Captain Harry Atwood into third place. Prof. J. Henry Lewis still holds first place, but, judging from efforts friends of other candidates are making, will have to get all his forces hard at work to hold the lead. Lieutenant Jay Clifford this week, by increasing his lead slightly, goes ahead of Andrew J. Thomas, the popular owner and manager of the Howard Theater. The contest has now but a short time to run, closing in January, so it behooves all to put forth every possible effort to secure a place. There will be four good parts for women and four for men; and those ailing to secure first place will still have an opportunity to get in this wonderful and realistic movie picture with an all-colored cast of Washing- penny received for votes will go to the dependents of our colored soldiers and a good sum of it will go to provide relief for the sorrowing dependents of those thirteen unfortunate colored soldiers executed and those forty-one sentenced to life imprisonment. Duty by those unfortunate men who made martyrs of themselves and sympathy for their dependent families, ought to induce every colored person to vote in this movie picture contest and vote often. Following is the standing of the several nominees up to and including Christmas night: Miss Isadore Kenney 2041 Miss Estelle Collier 2029 Miss Valeria Chase 1490 Mrs. Georgia Jones Tucker 1285 Miss Emma Lee Williams 1180 Miss Lillian Evans 811 Mrs. Emily Jennifer Taylor 806 Miss Edna Murray 780 Miss Gladys Moran 776 Miss May Miller 737 Miss Grace Williston 732 Miss Jeannette Carter 714 Miss Phyllis Terrell 705 Mrs. Rachel Guy Moore 704 Mrs. Jennie Brown 680 Miss Adella Parks 630 Miss Dorothy Pelham 627 Miss Margaret Reynolds 597 Miss Elizabeth Brown 581 Miss Anna Lucas 571 Miss Pearl Brown 545 Miss Esther Freeman 525 Miss Hattie Cook 525 Miss May Harper 500 Miss Hannah Cook 500 Miss Annie Payne 500 Miss Ollie Kibble 500 Miss Martha Ailer 500 Mrs. Lizzie Jones 500 Mrs. Vivian Thompson Turner 500 Miss Julia Jenkins 500 Miss Marie Madre 500 Men. Prof. J. Henry Lewis 1772 Lieut. Merrill Curtis 1235 Capt. Harry Atwood 967 Lieut. Jay Clifford 905 Delano Williams 873 Andrew J. Thomas 831 Barrington Guy 857 Lieut. Eugene Davidson 797 William Welch 731 Arthur Hayes 723 Prof. W. A. Adams 640 Alston Burleigh 547 Thomas Gardiner 615 General Forest 605 William Curry 585 Harry Williams 525 If you have not called at the office of the National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee and secured a book of coupons to get votes for your favorite, do so at once. It costs nothing to secure a book of coupons. A pretty well authenticated rumor is current that next week friends of Lieut. Merrill Curtis and Miss Estelle Collier among the teachers and students and at Tuskegee Institute, will next week plunk in a large number of votes for these two favorites. This means that friends of other candidates who desire to keep their favorites in the lead, or put them in the lead, must get a hustle and a wiggle on themselves. Get busy for your favorites, and thus help dependents of colored soldiers, especially the families of the victims of Fort Sam Houston's tragedy. MRS. BRUCE Grandmother Bruce, mother of Messrs Wm. H. Carl and Monte Bruce, and Mrs. Frith and Mrs. Malvin, celebrated her ninety-ninth birthday anniversary Christmas Day at her home, 937 S Street, surrounded by her children, grandchildren, nephews, nieces and other relatives. The old lady, in spite of her many years, is still in reasonable health, and as vigorous of mind as when but fifty years young. She was the recipient of many presents and enjoyed the day immensely. The only absent child was her eldest son, William Bruce, who is very ill at his home, 941 S Street, but two doors from where his mother—perhaps the oldest citizen in Washington—resides. It is the wish of all that Grandmother Bruce may live to see another Christmas, when she will be a centenarian, and many others thereafter. A NEW BATTALION. Under authority of the Secretary of War and the approval of the Adjutant General of the National Guard of the District of Columbia, Col. J. A. Dapray, U. S. A., an additional battalion to be composed of colored men is to be organized in the District of Columbia. Quartermaster Sergeant Jacob C. Smith, retired, of the Quartermasters' Corps, U. S. A., would like to have all men between the ages of 18 and 45 years meet at the Pythian Building, Twelfth and U Streets N. W., at 2:30 p. m., Sunday, December 30th, when the whole scheme will be explained. Colonel Dapray, Lieut. Col. Brooks, and Judge R. H. Terrell of the Municipal Court, and others, will be present. NEW YEAR'S GREETING. Service. I fain would serve Thee, Lord, If I could know What service aught I have I'd best bestow. I'll fight to conquer self, That longs for its own, And pour what e'er I have of Thine Before Thy throne. I'll strip my heart of its longing For worldly greed, And haste to find and meet My brother's need. Thou knowest, Lord, what service I can fulfill, Pray use my life to do Thy life will. CHRISTMAS CANTATA A Christmas cantata was given by the Galbraith A. M. E. Church on Sunday, December 23rd, in the presence of a large audience. The program was beautifully rendered, especially the soprano solo by Miss Ada F. Chestnut Others who acquitted themselves well were John Butler Mrs. Cora Jackson, Messrs. Lewis and Penn, Miss Henrietta Shawa Messrs. Williams, Anderson, Butler, Webster, Lewis and others. GIVEN A GOLD WATCH. Mt. Zion Baptist Church Remembers Her Pastor. Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Fredericksburg, Va., gave her pastor, Rev. Daniel L. Reed, a handsome gold watch and chain for his Christmas present, with his name engraved in it. It is a worthy gift to a worthy pastor. Miss Rachel Ferguson presented the watch on behalf of the church, and Deacon George Ferguson presented the chain on behalf of the Board of Deacons. APPEAL TO BOARD Mothers' Protective Society of Deanwood, D.C., Appeals to Board of Education. To the Board of Education: The citizens of Deanwood feel that the crisis has been reached in the Deanwood School, and we appeal to your generous consideration in the matter of considering the reinstatement of Miss Jane Cropper in the system. Miss Jane Cropper, the former teacher of the Deanwood School, has been dismissed for a charge of incompetency, and we beg to say there has been some mistake in taking this action. It has long been considered by the parents and citizens of this community the necessity of a change in the Deanwood School. The parents have received but little co-operation in this section. We seek for uplift of the race through the training of our children. They have accused Miss Cropper of poor discipline, but it seems that poor discipline is an epidemic in the Deanwood School. We are in possession of sufficient proof that the removal of Miss Jane Cropper was through no fault of her own, but because she stood, for the protection of the girls as a Christian lady. She stood out as a living example of morality, and in her we found a safe guide for our children and an inspiration to this race, whose feet are clinging to the ragged path of progress. Miss Cropper stood firm for any movement in this community that made for uplift of the race. Gentlemen, we are asking you to consider this good woman, who has fought a good fight, but has won no glorious reward. We have reason to believe the discipline of the entire building has been lacking; it appears that efforts have been to tear down rather than construct. Respectfully, Christiana Moody Briggs, President. Louisa Billingsley, Vice-President. M. Hayes, Secretary. PRAISES WORK OF DR. DREW. Celebration of the fifty-second anniversary of the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, thirteenth anniversary of Dr. Simon P. W. Drew, founder and pastor of the Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, was held December 16th. Senator Thomas Sterling of South Dakota delivered the principal address. He paid a high tribute to the work of Dr. Drew, and presented to him a set of Dr. Lyman Abbott's books regarding the strides made in America by the colored race in the last fifty-five years. Dr. Abbott succeeded Dr. Henry Ward Beecher as pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church. A great city-wide evangelistic campaign will be held in Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, commencing December 31st. Dr. R.-C. Williams, pastor of Thirty-first Street Baptist Church, of Richmond, Va., will preach on the "Handwriting on the Wall." Dr. Drew announces that 2,500 people have already obtained positions from the White Cross Free Employment Bureau this year. WEST WASHINGTON. Rev. D. DeWitt Turpeau, pastor of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, delivered one of his excellent sermons at 5 o'clock Christmas morning, after which a real merry Santa Claus made his appearance in a sleigh drawn by a spirited team of reindeers and presented the pastor with a purse of thirty dollars, a remembrance for his wife, and each child, and a large supply of provisions. Miss Mary Mallory, the only daughter of Mrs. Cross, whose residence is 1512 Twenty-sixth Street, is very ill at this writing. Mrs. Alice Jones, a faithful member of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, is on the sick list. Miss Victoria Williams, a kindergarten teacher, and Mr. Tinsley Disham were married this week. Mrs. Mary Wright, an old inhabitant of this section, died recently. turns without any cost to them for the service. the service. How many income-tax payers will there be in the District of Columbia? If you can guess how many married persons living with wife or husband will have net incomes of $2,000 or over and how many unmarried persons will have net incomes of $1,000 or over this year, then you know. The Collector of Internal Revenue estimates that there will be 7,500 tax payers in the District. They will be ready and willing every day to help persons subject to the income tax make out their re- SATURDAY SERMONS BY UNUS Two weeks ago, in a talk on this subject, I said we ought to have about ten public baths, conveniently distributed over the city of Washington. Why so many? The number is not the essential thing; it is the convenience. Convenience is one-half of the incentive force of life. How many persons would go from two to five miles daily or even weekly simply to take a bath? Convenience is a powerful temptation-for good or bad. We ought to offer as many temptations for useful and becoming acts as useless and unbecoming ones. becoming ones. But let us not quarrel if we first have in Washington just one large central bath house. Others will follow. The idea of the public bath is one of my old hobbies. That hobby has culminated into a scheme for ideal public baths for "Beautiful Washington" (note the quotation marks). The expression "Beautiful Washington" sometimes suggests to me the Scriptural figure of the whited sepulchre, and what we boys used to call a "Dutchman's shine." The latter was a shoe shine where only the front part of the shoe had been polished; the heel untouched. The prophesied "Beautiful Washington" should be neither a whited sepulchre nor a Dutchman's shine. "Beautiful Washington" can never be a reality until we provide sanitary houses for all the poor and an abundance of bathing and laundering facilities. The subject of bathing and the bath is an interesting one, and the historical and scientific literature on the subject is abundant. Particularly do we find allusions to bathing and baths in the literature of those enlightened and refined ancients who resided about the Mediterranean Sea—those dark-complexioned people sometimes called Mediterraneans. Those peoples reached a pinnacle of refinement not since surpassed, if ever equalled—as thinkers, as fabricators of social theories and practices, as artisans, as artists. The Mediterranean were frequent and fastidious, bathers. No doubt there was some relation of cause and effect between their habits of bodily cleanliness and their cultural attainments. They held that pre-eminence until they were conquered by the unwashed barbarians of Northern Europe. It is not imaginable that any people can shine who live under unsanitary conditions. As pointed out in my recent sermon, Northern Europe was slow to adopt sanitation. It is a significant fact that Northern Europe was in the same time backward in taking on a high state of refinement. Here again we seem to see some relation of cause and effect. Sanitation was the cause. While it is true that nearly all denizens of warm climates are frequent bathers, it is not a racial characteristic. Transport a man from Egypt to Siberia and he is less likely to bathe in winter than a native of Siberia, unless provided with convenient artificial facilities. Today we have in our country (cold in winter) numerous poor people born in or descended from natives of hot countries. And it so happens that the majority of them are ill provided in their homes with facilities for bathing. This is a condition that affects the whole population of our country. A nation cannot attain a high stage of refinement that is half washed and half unwashed. Neither can the city of Washington. of Washington. Washington is far behind the times in sanitation, and particularly in facilities for bathing. INCOME TAXES. Federal Income Tax Officials Will Be Located in This City Next Month. In a communication received by this paper, Joshua W. Miles, Collector of Internal Revenue for the District of Maryland, announces that Federal income tax officers will be sent to this city and will be located in the Legal Building, Eighth and G Streets N. W., from January 2nd to March 1st, 1918. Returns of income for the year 1917 must be made on forms provided for the purpose before March 1, 1918. Because a good many people don't understand the law and won't know how to make out their returns, the Government is sending in this expert to do it for them. But the duty is on the taxpayer to make himself known to the Government. If he doesn't make return as required before March 1st he may have to pay a penalty ranging from $20 to $1,000. In such a case he also becomes liable to prosecution; the payment of a fine or to imprisonment; but the Collector insists that in the Maryland district taxes on incomes made higher to carry on the war will be cheerfully paid, and there will be no necessity for prosecutions or the imposition of penalties. Of course, persons resident in other counties may, if they want to, come and see the income tax man at the above location. The Collector suggests that everybody start figuring up now his income and expenses so as to be ready with the figures when the expert arrives. Expenses, however, do not mean family expenses, money used to pay off the principal of a debt, new machinery, buildings, or anything like that. They mean what you spend in making your money—interest, taxes paid, hired help, amount paid for goods sold, seed, stock bought for feeding, rent (except for your dwelling), etc. Income includes about every dollar you get. The District of Columbia is in the Internal Revenue Collection District of Maryland, and all persons here liable to income tax are required to file their returns with the Collector at Baltimore or with some of his deputies. Buy now, before the Xmas rush. Terms: Up to $25.00, $1.00 down, 50c. week. Larger amounts in equal proportions. Drop me a card and I will call with samples. RALPH E: EVANS With Castelberg's National Jewelry Company, 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, Residence: 1917 Vermont Ave. TO MAKE THE HAIR GROW LONG There are so many so-called hairgrowers on the market, a large number of which are nothing more than perfumed grease, it is no wonder people get discouraged and lose faith in all hair tonics. In decidir, 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 a real scalp food; it stimulates and nourishes the roots of the hair, causing a natural growth of long hair. 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If a colored man is arrested for some crime, no matter whether it be first degree murder, a plain drunk, or for an auto accident in which the injured one's negligence was responsible for it, the race is featured in big, black-face headlines as "Negro," "Negress," or "Colored," and suitable space is given the article to, perhaps, increase anti-race sentiment. But if a splendid civic movement is promoted; if some colored man or woman does something really worth while, Washington's dailies, as a rule, crowd it into a few lines, and bury it among "local briefs," or more frequently give such no space at all. Why feature the unworthy and ignore the worthy? Why headline, sensationally, petty offenses committed by colored men while massing the same offenses when committed by whites in a few lines devoted to police courts? In proportion to their numbers, the colored people of the District are as numerous and reliable reading patrons of the white dailies as are the whites. As patrons they should have consideration, rather than insults and ignoring. This mighty world war that is toppling over thrones, changing dynasties, creating new boundary lines, and making it possible for a realization of the Biblical injunction, "the first shall be last, and the last shall be first," ought to prompt the two-thirds of this city to a conservation of the interests of the other one-third, and ought to, since this one-third is splendidly represented in this war "to make the world safe for democracy," at least influence the daily newspapers to a fairer treatment of the race. The high intelligence of the colored people of Washington, their civic pride, their patriotism, and their obedience to law, as a class, commands respect, rather than insults. Let us hope that during the coming new year the newspapers of Washington will cease the practice of making "Negro," "Negress," and "Colored," black-face 18-point type feature of headlines every time one of the race is so unfortunate as to be arrested for some petty offense. Let us hope, in return for the forming of a large reading clientele of their publications that the white dailies during the coming new year will cease burying, or ignoring altogether, things worth while achieved by the race in a secluded part of the paper, and condensing same in two or three lines, when a similar achievement, among the whites, is given a front page space with a No. 1 head. Colored people of Washington only ask fairness at the hands of the white dailies. The Bee would advise the colored people to support their own papers, and then they would have no cause to complain. Give The Bee a circulation of fifty thousand and it would make Rome howl. It pays to advertise in The Bee. Ask several of the most successful and reliable merchants of Washington who have bought large space in The Bee for many years. But the best proof is that they keep it up. Because the Bee is the organ of over 100,000 colored people in Washington and vicinity, it has what is technically known among advertisers as a "class circulation." Because it is supported and read by the most intelligent and well-to-do local colored people, it has also what is known as a "quality circulation." Either class circulation on quality circulation singly is always to be desired by advertisers who have particular kinds of goods to sell, but where both classes of circulation are combined in one paper, as in the case of The Bee, the advantage is twofold. But what is still more in its favor, The Bee enjoys what most advertisers desire, and that is "quantity circulation." With a single exception, that of a Chicago paper, The Bee has the largest circulation of any colored paper in-the United States. So far as the colored population of Washington and vicinity is concerned, considerably over 100,000 people, The Bee thoroughly covers the field. It is estimated that a single copy of every Bee circulated is read by an average of ten people. Of course, we could wish that many of these readers did not practice thrift in this way, and would buy instead of borrow; yet such thrift suggests that they save money to buy goods. While The Bee in the main has a class circulation, its readers are by no means confined to the colored race. Our subscription books and other evidences show that it has a large number of white readers. Those who have something to sell or desire in any way to reach the colored people of Washington should consider the advantages of The Bee as a means of publicity. The essential to reach a large body of colored people is to advertise in a paper that has a big circulation and that is read by most of those people. This is the opposite of a weak charge of powder and scattered shot. The essential thing in advertising is to hit the bull's-eye. It pays to advertise in The Bee: SIXTY YEARS. Hail the New Year! Exit 1917; enter 1918. We are ever concerned about the near future. We act only in the living present, but most of our serious acts are an attempt to shape the future. Mere periods of time count for but little in progress, which is measured by deeds, not years: During the thousand years ended with the fourteenth century the European world stood still or retrograded. Yet the periods of time marked by years possess an interest. They are pages and chapters of human history; they are convenient means of reckoning progress or stagnation or decline. Let us out of curiosity turn back the pages of a few decades. Ten years ago, from 1918, saw the inauguration of W. H. Taft as President and the beginning of a succession of political blunders that all but wrecked the "grand old party." Twenty years ago saw the Spanish War, in which the colored race took a conspicuous and honorable part. Thirty years ago saw the election of Benjamin Harrison and the temporary return of the Republican party to power. Forty years ago Hayes, then our President, surrendered the South to the recent actors in the rebellion. The Russo-Turkis War ended with the Treaty of Berlin. The Washington Be. was established about that time. Fifty years ago Andrew Jackson was impeached. Grant was elected President. That year saw the proposal to adopt the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. In the previous year suffrage for the colored people of the District of Columbia had been proclaimed. Sixty years ago saw the gathering of the clouds that soon burst in the Civil War, which marked the end of body slavery in the United States. These sixty years have been momentous in the history of the United States and of the colored inhabitants thereof. It is needless here to trace the ups and downs of the latter in that period. There are those who say they have made "marvellous strides"; others deny this. What of 1918 for our country and our colored people? We cannot decree the future, but in some measure we can shape it by present action guided by wise forethought. Our own race we admonish: Do your bit to help win for us the war; live more frugally than ever before; put money in thy purse; study and practice cooperation These are "parlous times." The like was never known in our country. Former ideals, customs, habits and prejudices should give way to stern necessity. The great concerns of today are economic good sense and results. This is no time for unworthy prejudices. We hear much about a scarcity of clerks in the Government departments, of salesgirls in the department stores, of operatives at the telephone boards. Here is where foolish prejudice should stand aside and gumption step in. There are in Washington City enough colored youth, male and female, to supply every one of these pressing demands. They are capable; they, can learn the work; they want the employment. PRIVATE WARD'S FATE We have not seen or heard the full evidence in the military trial of Private Ward, of the District Colored Battalion for the shooting of a white man in discharge of duty, and neither did we see nor hear the evidence in the trial of a white private last week charged with a like offense. However, we do know that Private Ward, the colored man, was given a three-year sentence in the Atlanta (Ga.) prison, while the white private was exonerated. We are not advised as to whether the evidence was dissimilar, or whether, as is so often the case, the color of one militated against him, while the color of the other militated in his favor. We cannot help but express the regret that Private Ward, who enlisted to serve his country in war, should be dishonorably discharged, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment, for doing what he believed was in line of duty, before he had had an opportunity to face the enemy he enlisted to fight. Anyway you consider it, the race seldom gets an even break. HIS TYPE OF LEADERSHIP The white man's type of colored American leadership is a man who will cringe and play the monkey. We have such type of leadership among us today. Administrative powers generally select men of this type. It is strange that some colored men so soon change from manly principles to that of monkeyism. In they possess manly principles today, those principles are so changed when these men are given social recognition by the fellow who wants to use them. Our public schools within the last few years have been prostituted by such men and women. The sham society of this city is made up of a class that becomes intoxicated by the white man's leadership. The real people in this city very seldom place themselves in a position to be used or humiliated. It is the shams who like to play second fiddle to superior powers. This is the kind of leadership that generally forces itself ahead of the real people. If the colored people relied more upon themselves they would have no cause to complain. The "Jim Crow" colored citizens continue to visit the "Jim Crow" moving picture theatres. Stand at the corner of Seventh and M and watch the Jim Crow brothers and sisters enter the stalls. We have a reliable bank, operated by colored men and women. Why don't we support it? Heflin of Alabama declared that this was a white man's war and colored men were not wanted. What does he think of the loyalty and patriotism of the colored American in comparison to those whose virtues he has extolled? Secretary McAdoo finds in the colored American hidden virtues and should he become the next candidate for President thousands of colored Americans will support him, notwithstanding the declaration of Commissioner Gardiner, who should be man enough to resign. SPECIAL NOTICE. At John Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church, corner Fourteenth and Corcoran Streets N. W., on Tuesday, January 1, 1918, at 8 p. m., the Sons of Rush will present Prof. S. C. Suggs, A. M., president of Livingstone College, Salisbury, N. C. Prof. Suggs is an educator of great ability, a close student and a pleasing and instructive speaker. He is a man with a message, and all should hear him. The Emancipation Proclamation will be read. Music will be furnished by the choir of John Wesley A. M. E Zion Church. Silver offering at the door. J. Louis Taylor, president; S. M. Dudley, secretary; J. M. H. Young, chairman of program committee. IN THE SOCIAL WHIRL Miss Georgia E. Lewis, of Philadelphia, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Lewis, of Philadelphia, spent a delightful and pleasant Christmas in the city as the guest of Miss Rosie Ailer, 43 Pierce Street N. W. Christmas day a dinner was given in her honor by Rev. and Mrs. Rosa Ailer; Wednesday a luncheon and dinner were given Miss Lewis by Mrs. D. E Pryor, 3101 Twelfth Street N. E Her stay here was a most enjoyable one. She left for her home Wednes day evening to resume her studies. One of the most interesting features of the occasion at the dinner given by Mrs. Ailer was the many Christmas gifts received by little Victoria, who is a wonder for her age. Mr. Herman E. Cunningham, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cunningham came over from Camp Meade and took dinner with his father and mother on Christmas day. Mr. Cunningham is expecting soon to join the gallant colored boys "over there." MRS. BRIGGS. One of the most valuable females to a community is Mrs. Christiana Moody Briggs, of Deanwood, D. C. The Bee will have more to say about her next week. Resources of United States Searched as Never Before to Meet New Demands. RIVER TRAFFIC IS INCREASED Upper Reaches of the Miesesippl Help Relieve the Congestion on the Railroads—Strontium Ore New York.—One of the most interesting and important developments in the United States at the present time is the manner in which commerce and industry are gradually adjusting and tensing themselves under the full load of the war strain; curbilling activities here, speeding up there, and reaching out at some points, under the pressure of new needs, to create entire new industries. In industry the resources of the United States are being searched as never before to meet the new demands, and mineral wealth which has always been there against the time of need, but never before called upon, is being developed, while in commerce new processes, new economies and new efficiency, involving no new discoveries, but latent possibilities in time of peace, are being permanently added to the wealth of the nation under the pressure of unprecedented demand. The whole process is too vast and varied to be seen clearly at one time, but there are several means by which occasional glimpses can be gained. One of these is by the reports of the department of the interior on the mineral resources of the United States, which continually describe the development of new mining activities in metals and chemicals, whose deposits have been known for years, but whose possibilities had not been fully recognized. Another is in the pages of the various technical journals, in which, every week, there is at least one story of a new commercial or industrial idea which has been added to the national machinery. On the Mississippi. In new traffic channels it is Iron Age which reports that for the first time—only a short while ago, moreover—the upper Mississippi has been opened to ore and coal traffic on a big scale. The Mississippi has been big enough, for years, to carry far more heavy, slow traffic than its upper reaches, as far as St. Paul, the head of navigation, than ever, apparently, anyone thought of putting upon it. Ore trains and coal trains have moved along its banks for years, moving the freight at a cost per ton mile far beyond the demands of the river, but it took the war to make people realize the full value of the stream. But now that war has come, and the railroads of the entire country, are under such a strain as they never before had to bear, people in St. Paul, and all the river towns as far down as St. Louis have suddenly perceived that the old Mississippi must do her share. And quite recently six new steel barges, carrying 3,000 tons of coal—the largest cargo ever hauled to the head of navigation on the river—arrived at St. Paul, the vanguard of a new fleet. The development of an entirely new mining industry within the United States, under pressure of the war, is told in a recent bulletin of the Geological survey, on "Strontium in 1916." For many years large deposits of strontium ore, in the form of celestite crystals (strontium sulphate) and strontianite (strontium carbonate) have been known to exist, often beside beds of limestone which were being actively quarried, in Michigan and Ohio along the shores of Lake Erie, Schoanville county, New York, in West Virginia and Texas, and in California and Arizona. Strontium salts were used in beet-sugar refining, but far more in the manufacture of fireworks, because of the brilliant crimson flame they gave. Market for Strontium. Before the war, however, the market for strontium was so limited, and being confined, moreover, to the Atlantic seaboard, imports of strontium ore from Europe were cheaper than the freight rates from California and Arizona, the only deposits which had ever been worked commercially. The war, however, changed all this in two ways. In the first place, it created a new and tremendous demand for strontium, magnesium, and barium, for vast quantities of signal rockets, flares, etc., both at the front and on the sea. Moreover, here at home the increase in freight traffic on our railroads, due to war demands, necessitated a considerable increase in the use of signal flares here also. The new industry was getting on its feet in 1916. In 1914 about 2,000 short tons of strontium ore had been consumed by American fireworks manufacturers, the commonest form of the refined product being strontium nitrate at around 10 cents a pound or less. Of this 2,000 pounds, the proportion of domestic ore was so small as not to be worth reporting. In 1916 the consumption of strontium ores had risen nearly a 100 per cent; the price had caused the huge strontium deposits in California and Arizona to be opened and worked for the first time in earnest, and upward of 250 tons of strontium ore had already been ablown. Farmers' Wives in Oklahoma Are Advised to Turn Pest to Good Uses. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma—Jack rabbit sausage will be a new delicacy in Oklahoma as a result of the war. In fact a few farmers in the western part of the state last winter found a substitute as palatable as the real article. At a meeting of farmers' wives in Kloka county, Mrs. Ida Gregory, county woman agent, discussed the efficacy of canning soy beans. One woman suggested that the beans were hard to raise owing to the raids of rabbits. This objection was quickly discounted by another woman, who exclaimed: "Keep the rabbits away until your beans are a foot high; then get a shotgun and let them come. Last year we had jack rabbit sausage the season through. By mixing a bit of pork the sausage really is better than that made entirely from pork." STEAL MORE CHINESE SEALS Prominent Official of the Republic Disappears With the Presidential Stamps. Peking.-Peking is much agitated over the disappearance of official seals When President Li Yuan-hung was forced to give up the presidency, Gen Ting-Kwan, the keeper of the presidential seals, took them to Shanghai. Another prominent official has now disappeared with the seals of the house of representatives. When the attempt at monarchial restoration had been defeated and Premier Tuan Chihui declared the republic had been restored, there was much consternation because of the disappearance of the seals of the republic. Gen. Ting Kwan was arrested in Shanghai, and after a hard legal struggle was brought back to Peking, together with the missing presidential seals, and is to have hearing before a Chinese court. SCORNED, MAKES SPY CHARGE Wildow Provea Undoing of Kampman, Formerly in German Consulate in Chicago. Los Angeles.—A scorned woman and an elderly one at that—proved the unwolding of Dr. Maximilian Kampman, aged only twenty-eight, formerly of the German consulate in Chicago, who was arrested here on a presidential warrant as a German spy. At least so declared Dr. A. S. Ash of Los Angeles. "A year and a half ago Doctor Kampman was treating a wildow," said Doctor Ash. "He took a great deal of interest in trying to restore her health—so much that it seemed she became infatuated with him. He tried to wave her aside, but in vain." Copyright Underwood & Underwood A striking example of the value of women in helping America in the great fight is Miss Antolinette Funk, a member of the woman's committee of the council of national defense. The photograph shows her hard at work in her office in the treasury building where she is doing wonderful work in the interests of the Liberty loan. She is executive vice-chairman of the women's Liberty loan committee, of which Mrs. McAdoo is the chairman. She was asked to take the post by Secretary McAdoo because of her powers of logical appeal, her ability as a speaker and her uniting activity in any work connected with the great cause for which America is fighting. Health of Dr. Michaelis Bad. Amsterdam—A. Berlin telegram to the Rheinische Westfalische Zeitung of Essen says that the state of health of the German chancellor, Doctor Michaelis, "leaves very much to be desired." eas Yr , 3 cane mae NN Be Base anys id \ i eae LY CAG em ; Se ase ae i) WE aaa ZS ya} . a! naw ss - Choice Christmas gifts of elegant atility in perfumes, candies, station- ery and toilet essentials are always acceptable, But the perfumery, should be of. the finest quality, fra- grant and lasting, the candy high grade and elegantly boxed, the. sta- tionery distinct and clasay, the toilet articles -Handsomely- designed and useful. Such an assortment is now displayed for sour . selection at BOARD'S DRUG STORE, 191256 Fourteenth Street ‘N. W. And the prices are right. . Miss Jeannette Carter, who has been suffering with neuritis for the past few weeks, has gone to Harris- . purg):Pa., to be treated by her broth- er, Dr. €. Lennon Carters” Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Lee, of 923°R Street, entertained at dinner Christ- mas Day First Lieut. Harry Wheeler and First Lieut. Grover Horden of the’ 368th’ U.S. Infantry, of Camp Meade, Md. Other guests were Miss Cora B. Mason and Mr. Chas. Reeder ofthe War Department: ‘- Mr. Arthur L. Macbeth, the famous photo-artist- of Baltimore, Md, was in the city a few weeks ago on offi- cial business with ‘the War Depart- ment. : MraeBessie Gray McIntire and her cousin, Mrs. Ednor Wood, ‘of New York City, are in the city to spend the holidays with Dr. O. E. Johnson; 633 T Street N. W. ° Col..S. M. Lewis-has been ill with a'severe cold. °° Miss Olah Memory, a student at the “Bordentown Industrial School, of Bordentown, N. J., is spending the Christmas’ vacation with “her - ‘aunt: Shé returns to Bordentown Thursday, January 3, 1918, B “Mrs. Florence’ E. Gaither, of De: troit, Mich., is spending the holiday with her mother, Mrs. C. Burnside. sof 418 You Street: . Dr. Walter N. Hibbert sailed’ fast Saturday for his home in the West Indies, where he will remain indefi nitely. Mr. T: -Blackman, a student of Howard University, is spending the holidays with his parents in North Carolina. Mr.< Frank DeMan, of Gresham Place, is visiting friends in Baltimore: Miss “Homoselle Racks, .of 2709 Sherman Avenue, is spending’ the holidays in New York City. : Mr. Benny Bruce, of Norwich, Ct, spent Christmas here, the guest ‘of hig father, Mr. Monte. Bruce. . A BEAUTIFUL WEDDING. St. Cyprian’s*Church, corner Thir- teenth and C Streets 'S. E., was the scene of a beautiful and: interesting wedding Monday evening, December 417, 1917, at 7 o'clock p.m. The bride was Mids Bertina Jones, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jones, of this city,,and the bridegroom: was. Mr. John W. .Rudisill: “After. the cere- mony. a reception was tendered to their host of relatives and friends at their newly purchased home, recently bought by Mr. Rudisill, 1208 C Street S. E. Sunday, Décember 23, 1917, Mr, and Mrs. John W. Rudisifl enter- tained a large number of their friends at their ‘new and cozy residence from 4to6p.m. The contracting parties were °the: recipients of. many hand- some, ‘valuable -and: useful presents. ‘The: ceremony was performed by the Rev., Father P. J. Ritchie, of St. Cyprian’s Church. * id 5 : : DEATH OF MRS. THOMAS. ‘Mrs. ‘Anna Thomas, wife of Mr. W. T..Thomas, “of 4310 Ridge Street N..W., who died'at the Freedmen’s Hospital Thursday, ‘December 20th, was buried from the Plymouth Cort gregational Church Sunday afternooh, December 22nd. Frazier & Bundy, ‘the. well-known funeral directors. of 73g T Street N..W., furnished a hand- some automobile service. - “When’ did age dave your pletur ‘taken?.. At-*Warren’s;. 803 . Florida Avenue N. W.-Advt. - i ae - DESCENDS IN ‘BURNING PLANE ‘British Airman Recovers From in furles Received ‘After 1,000- ; Feet Drop. i London.—After one of: the most miraculous escapes of the war, Major Bannatyne, D. 8. O., is today recovers ing from his injuries in the Circen- eester hospital,. While flying alone at & height of more than 1,000 feet his en- gine caught fire. He headed:the ma- chine toward the ground. Soon the finmes reached his feet. He climbed out of the seat and crawled along the body of the plane toward the tall while the blazing -plane plunged to- ward the earth. -The flames reached him again.’ He swang himself off. the frame and hung by his hands under the machine—now ‘a mass of flames, He fell into a plowed field and was picked up suffering from a-broken arm, scores of cuts and with all his hair scorched to a crisp. TO CURE DEMENTIA PRAECOX Form of insanity Hitherto Regarded @s Incurablé Conquered - by Physician, ‘Huntington, W. Vas~Two patients formerly afflicted by dementia pratcox, @ form of. insanity hithérto. regarded as incurable, have been discharged from the Huntington State hospital as cured, Bxperiments devised by Dr, L. V. Guthrie, the superintendent having proven successful: ~ Whe “curéa were effected by the use 6 an {ntravenous infusion of normal salt solution. ‘Other cases’ similarly treated are showing improvement, The treatment is based on ax analysis of the blood of afflicted persons showing a deficiency of sodium chloride, PROUD OF HER RECORD. i" > ee fey 4 a Gai be aa ie 1 Up Q Tia yy Ss H Mile @ Le ‘ as ce. oS e Members of the National party, re- senting the suggestion that their. White House pickets are not as patriotie- as fome of thelr less militant sisters, are pointing out the record of Miss Hleanor Hill Weed, granddaughter of the late Representative . Ebenezer J. Hill of Connecticut. Miss Weed, who assisted in picketing last spring, was one of the 12 Vassar college girls who spent last summer on a farm, accomplishing a sum total of products suflicient to feed 1,500 persons all winter.and 20 head of live stock until next year's crops are ripe. Miss Weed is‘n sopho- more at Vagsar this year. - , JAMES E. BROOKS. In loving meinory of our dear son and brother, who was ‘So. suddenly taken away December 28, 1916. Though in, gloom we wander-now, This blessed: hope is given: That though we are Severed here below, .. . We'll meet some day in Heaven. ~. By His Devoted Family. - “To live in the hearts of those we leave behind, is not to die.” * » \—By a Dear Friend. MARATHONRUNNER DISPATCH BEARER Henri St. Yves, Famous Sprintry ” Now Carries Messages for , Frenoh Army. . HAS MANY HARROW ESCAPES sietied by Germans wii Garston Orders; He. Remains in Water Filled. Shell-Hole for Five Houre—Wants to Fly. TOR eae er eee Re care een eat mer marathon: runner and now a dis Batch bearer-in the French army, hao returned toParis for a special 24; hour furlough, granted him because of a-particularly peritous. nilssion” which he carried out In the course of his du- tles in the trenches in front’ of Saint Quentin, . While trying te carry ordcts from the advanced French trench Une to a French-machine gun, crew which had’ established Itself ina shell hole in’ the middle of “No Man’s Land" half-way between the opposing lnes, Saint Yves was “spotted” by two Ger- man machine-gun: crews, also holding shell holes, ‘They opened a cross-fire on the fory ‘mer’ long-distance runner and he dropped into the nearest shell hole, which was almost full of rain water, Saint Yves rematned in the water, with just his head’ above the surfacq to enable him to’ breathe, for fivg hours, or until after darkness, They he crept out and made his’ way to the French machine-gun position, dey livered the orders to. the leutenant in charge and made his way to tha trenches agaln, ‘ Sent to the Hobpital. ; Balint Yves had to goto a hospital tor ten days, however, as the shell hole ‘water in which he had been ‘immersed ‘so Tong was “gagsy,” having seimilat- ed the poisonous properties of the gas shells from both aldes which-had been ralued down in “No Man's Land.” Sev: eral hours after Saint Yves. emerged from the-shell hole the polsonous: way ter got In its.effect. : Saint Yves was wounded in thé-leg last May, but has entirely recovs from that and asserts he will be abl to run as well as ever if the war ever ote and he gets back into civillan Re i The marathon runner ‘has applied for a transfer to the aviation, and his superior officers have indorsed his rer quest. He expects to be called to ap aviation school to.begin his training at any time, . Saint Yves ‘will try to be brevetted as-a fighting pilot for-fiying in single-seated machines. * “I hear-that poor old Tom Longboat has beer killed with the Canadtans up near Lens,” said Saint Yves, “Well, ‘Tom was a wonderful runner, but no man ever lived that can run.as fast as the Boche bullets. “Our sector at the’ front—opposite Saint Quentin, where the Germans re, treated to the Hindenburg line—is sup- posed to be qulet all the time, but wo had a little fight up. there a few weeka ago. that was pretty lively. I was as- signed as dispatch-bearer, carrying messages from the :colonel up to the line, beeatse the German bonr bardment had plowed up all, the ground behind our first. and second line of trenches and torn up the tele: gréph and telephone wires, and their artillery: had also wrecked a lot of our wireless, z Had Narrow Escapes, | “I had several close shaves in cross ing out in the open, with the German snipers potting at me from 1,000 me- ters away. A couple -of big shells dropped pretty near me, too, but then, you get used to shells, whereas max chine guns and rifles always annoy you. : . 1, “Pretty soon I hope to be in thd aviation service and after I_get broy vetted as a pllot and have some ex, perience of fiying at the front, I'm golng to apply to be sent to America: as an instructor for United States army aviators.” wee | ‘The wife and family. of Saint Yves are now at Dieppe. Contrary to gen- cral belfef, Saint Yves was never 8. walter In a Paris cafe. Born in | Rouen, he lived and worked there as ; u bicycle repair man prior to going | to the United States eight yqers ago | nS a long-distance runner. } SURGERY ,CAN. CURE CROOKS Michigan Judge Declares Half thé ‘Criminals in the U. 8. Might ‘Bo Saved, Chicago—“Fitty. per cent of the ‘gviminals in ‘this country under thirty years Of age can be restored to good peel ‘under proper surgical: at- on”. : : Judge George W. Bridgeman of Ben tm Harbor, Mich, made that state: fuent at the dinner of the American Association .of Orificial’ Surgeons in the Hotel La Salle here. “Seventy-five per cent of the crim- Sgals brought ‘into the courts of this country are between the ages of TH: teen and twenty-four years and 80 per cent of them suffer from physical dis- ability," sala Judge BAldgeman, “In most of these cases this’ disnbifity 1° responsible for mental dishitity, ma~ | fested.in ‘crime, and it is capnbie || correction.” * @ 7 8 eeccaa a . , . mth and Tea 3treets, Northw:st po ee: Tape ae tease Theaiee Co.,Prepis . >, - Entire Week Starting Monday, ecember. st” oF Matinee: Tuesday, ihurstay and Sated.e - ’ . 7 «. THE GREAT YULE TIDE PLAY. Caps ‘, Z _ o The Servant Il: 1h. ‘ouse . A Play that will hold-you Spellbound «1d make you Fetters: d women : A play that teaches you “Brotherhood sf Mian’ — Regardis so! sr or creed ye : ‘phe iack of brother is at the bottom of the.anrest of the ui ir iietioa) 5.8 Prices: Night 25c, 35c, 50c. Matinz: 41! S:a's 25. +k wail “hs ooh * _ 8 - On Saturday evening, December 22, 1017, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Lacy gave in iarriage’“their’ daughter, Evelyn Addie, to Benjamin H. Hun- ton, Lieut, U, 3. A. at their resi- dence, 1910 Thirteenth Street. The cereriony -was ‘solemnized’ at -8.30 oiclock, with the Rev. Father Oles of St Augustine's Church - officiating. This was followed immediately by a reception; which continued. until ro tock, daring which time the bride’s popularity was evidenced by the great cpcotrse of Washington’s elite who attended. Instead of wearing the conven- tional black suit, the groom and “his attendants were -attired.in military uniforms. Dr. Arthur Curtis, Jr, act- ed as best man. ‘The bride was: attired in white satin with pearl bead trimmings. The-veil, which fell in. graceful “folds, was draped with pearls, orange blossoms and lilies of the valley. She carried a shower bouquet of white roses. The bride's attendant was her sister, Miss Rosina Lacy, who was. attired in pink silk, She’ carried a’ large bouquet of pink roses. . - The young fadies who served the delicious repast with which the dining room table was burdened were Misses Stella Arrington, Mary ‘Cook, “Mamie Lewis, Dorothy Johnson, Estelle Col- lier, Mesdames TT. J..Houghton and ‘A. M. Curtis, Jre 44. ‘The bride and groom are‘spending a fortnight in Brooklyn, N. Y¥., as guests of the groom’s aunt, where they dre being highly entertained. ‘Thé decorations were beautifully in harmony, with the colors’ of the : $ sas! x | Christmas season, consisting “of palms, “ferns, holly, mistletoe and other greens. : “a “In: the receiving ‘line, besides the; wedding party, were Mrs. Rosa Lacy; the mother of the bride; Miss R. E.| Bell and Mrs. H. B. Cardozo, ‘the aunts of. the bride;and Mrs. Benja- min Hunton, Sr., the mother of the groom. Mrs. Hunton is from To- ronto, Cariada, and-is spending the Christmas holidays‘in the;city as the guest of Mrs. Rosa Lacy.. On her return. she. will visit Détroit. and. BRR RRR R eee . sThe Closing Davs of the Remarkable * - x SPECTACLE and ETEGLASS a x By the Block Optic: 7 z WH © coeeof 737 7th St. NW, : Hy Qa = SW” 2 ZA — S a wi Ca ALCS =O a x Coy Yi A Cog gi St Ye : ml Our Lineral Offer Is Meeting With Popuar Favor. = gz Positively the Last Week. “Our Supply z WE cusses ttre we . : ol age m =0 25 i ee a ae . (al | Fe => im ca = - BBE) ies craitiee” obtomegeints — a | HB | bese, ss, Wergtind our feneee visk ie your presence. "| BY HE erin ee, OT a Il Bw Finger Piece Mountings 5 a a {pIOCK OPTICAL Gay EXCLUSIVE CPTOMETRISTS & OPTICIANS " frnsr (O07 SO NW. esse al Open Eves. Daring This Sale Until 5 p. m. Saturdays, 16 pm. a PE EPEELELEELELE LA wi Peek re ee eo a ae BOR eae a: Te s . = a So anes Se a eh. te weit, Venter ecueaeen ;. . inane eey Pei. See ec Brooklyn. . The attendants were Dr. -Lucius Butler, T.. Houston, Reginald Wil- liams, Horace Dowling, DeReef Hol- ton, John. Williams and Miss Martha Mitchell, of New York City. CITY BRIEFS. “Prof. Wellington A. Adams, chair- ivan of the Music Committee of the oy sil ’ i |Garnet Community Center, thas been inyited to assist in the Community Christmas Carol Song Service of the Miner Normat Center on next Sun- day afternoon at Howard University. He wifl_sing a new national anthem untieatd here before, entitled “Amet- ica: My Country,” which is a mysical sensation all over the country. “This. ‘song. is on safe at, the Adams’ Music House, ior Ninth Street NeW. ° st ssi Boies o> siccianeia < e Y PUBLIC, EW AND THINGS By the Sage of the Potomac. ‘Tom Jones, outside, of being a ; soisteridg: good lawyer, is a mighty entgrtaining fellow when he gets’ in a rethiniscent mood. _ Having nothing to:do,the other évenig, and knowing his’ téputation for hospitality, and appreciating the dryness: of this ‘par- fieular parcel post zone, I dropped in for an evening confab with Tom. “As usualy he began his reminiscing with the late and iMlustriousJohn M. Langston. For Tom, John Langston is one of them patron. samts—just like old St: Patrick is for the Irish.” Of course, Tom started the conversation off by offering me’ about a jitney of water. After we had Consumed the: water, merely a8 extraneous ‘matter, he began on’ Langston, then regaled me with his run for Congress down in old Virginy, adding a little water— merely extraneously—every time he quoted from his speeches in. every county in the district. Well, consid- ering all things from the viewpoint of sociability, to say nothing of profit, I spent a mighty pleasant evening with Tom, But when my head struck the entrance to 7d; beautifully fur- nished "biidwab, sid my wife heard the firs: savor of Old Jérdan, she ‘re . marked: “Umpht See you have been to Baltimore -again, Well, I should think you would get tired paying rail road fare back and forth to Baltimore just for distilled stuff.” I told her crossed my heart as I did it, that ! had been no'place but at Tom Jones getting first-hand account of Tom's running for Congress in Virginia She wouldn't stand for that, becaus knowing that Tim is a double-jointe pillar in a. submersible church tha ‘helieves in submersion;, she coulda’ believe that [could get any Balti more elixir at his house, so I had t stand convicted of being at Baltimor when I was just spending a joll good evening with the slowest chau! feur in the District, Tom Jones, wh is constantly being intercepted fc blocking traffic—never for exceedin the speed limit—like: Ed. Bundy. eae 2 Ana speaking about Ed’ Bundy, saw him last Sunday, just, after. 1 had réturned from one, of those a ‘Taft’ swings. around the country, vi iting Elk lodges. Ed says that never saw the people—the real pe ple—so intefested in his running § the first term as Grand Exalt Ruler, as he did on this trip. He si that everywliere he went they t him that-if he didn’t run the’ Or __ would be all shot to pieces. , Edw: listened attentively to their pleadin and ‘then returned -home, and nounced to his: special, legal advi Harry Tignor, that a fellow’s a f who doesn’t listen, to the call of people. “Every time, I’ wanted - sun,” Bundy ‘said, “I listened for voice’ of the people. Twice I fodled because it wasn’t just disti enough, but this time I believe have heard it.” One thing about that you must admire; and that when. he thinks he hears thé pec calling, he just goes out, make swing around the circuit, and vinces ‘them with’a lot of swell populi oratory that the people m call loud, loud"enough to be hear every Elle lodge in the country, if any of them feel that their v is not strong: enough to, reach, he furnish each 1and every one wil megaphone. If any. of the “w voiced brothers should:happen to on Ed during this dry, dusty spe Washington, and be invited to alittle den for a.stay of ten min or 80, V'll wager a year’s subscrif to The Bee against a pass to Howard supper show that when “emerge from that curio-decorates _ they will have a voice so stron tan be heard away up in Ha Ed kas the right dope about g¢ ‘a Hinderman-Leuderdorf hold ¢ call .of the.-people. And he bought himself a fine steel filin to file away all the calls of the-y so they won't get moth-eaten t John Collins, Ricks, Martin, Tom Jones, Chase and 2 few other notable Pleaders at the bar—District bar, I mean, for all others are closed—find- ing that after’ five years of waiting they ain't no nearer’ breaking into the “Booley” than they were. when that assemblage of distinguished and extinguishable gentlemen began hold ing monthly feeds, ‘have. about de cided to start something on their ows hook. To this end a committee or grievance has been appointed to sug gest ways ‘and means. : John Collin rather objected ts the incorporatin ‘of “means” in the instructions,’ bu sehen: that Chesterfieldian ‘of the Dis trict- bar; Lord Martin, Viscoutt .0 593: Street, explained “‘most-'su clnetly that “means” did not mex Sf had. to. contribute immediatel; : John was. ready.to vote on-the que: Son Chase. moved that’ a. scoutin; eee committee be appointed to discover how'much tHe real, simon-pure: Boo ley” spends on a. feed, and soared that ‘Tom Jones constitute thabicom mittee; since it would be the’ edt- ‘census‘of the crowd that Tom .énter- tain first. Everything, at, the Zhirst meeting, got a good start, and ubless John Patterson blows in here-and_in- sists on being taken in, it is possible that this ‘new organization organized to make the “Booley” look: like. a ditty dozen, will’ be a headliner next season. When William Calvin Chase, in a rather: florid, éxpostulating and corrogated. address, urged upon all present that only, men of the highest respectability ,be allowed to, ‘come into this new organization, which is to be.known as “The Séngalese,” Charley Williams’ brought down’: a thunder of applause when he replied; saying: “I think Mr. Chase is out of order. The fact that ‘we’ -here assembled constitute. the nucleus of the Sengalese makes it superfluous to drag in that scarecrow ‘highest re | spectability’” Gus” Gray’ was- in || clined ‘to become indignant, thinking Chase was figuring, on his being | barred, and John Collins looked nerv | ous, too. Now watch out for “Th |Sengalese.” * : 48 : 1] Phere is an old: French saying -| something: like this:- “Qui va 1 1| chasse, perd sa place.” ‘Translated i i] English, according: to the best lexi -| ographers, like Rufus. Byers, Genera | Forest et al., it means “He who goe ,| on a chase, loses his place.” Now, I] quoting this delightful bit of Frenc | wisdom, my, mind intuitively rin s|amuck among a lot of grenadie ,.| guards around this here old bail ¢| ick, who are. going:on" a chase $ 4| Baltimore’ every whipstitel To t| Smith, and Def Washington, “ov tl there,” are delighted with your cor i-| pany so Jong as you bring along t! ‘0. amount you ought to-pay on the ne r¢| installment for your Liberty Bon ly | and either or, both of them will ta f-|your old “Liberty” at face value f o}as -much “sweat goods” as it w or|buy. But did it ever occur. to ¥ 2g| that, this here “Back, back to'\Bal more” every few days puts a piffle your savings". account—takes 1|"Wia" out’ of your kidney—makes he| sieve out of your bladder and kno ta|the lining out of your stoma is-| Well, it does, and,’ besides, ‘your bi he|is keeping a tab on the number eo-|tintes you,,run over to New ¥: for|Avenue to. take a ‘rattler for } ted| Washington's adopted berg. 3 ays| kriow, old: pal, and when I-say “pal old'| mean you bunch of conscripts der| whom applies this“qui-va ta cha ard|perd sa place,” the requicin has’ d .g9;| sounded: for spirits fermenti: and an-| of his‘cohorts. Washington is g¢ ser,|to be bone dry afore this year’s ‘oot |and the whole darn countty will the | bone dry in three years, so. get r t6| for it. Never mind the sigh you | the] coming. from the Municipal Cc was} and the North Carolina weep: wi inct| Zion tear moisture; they. both | » 1] got use to it, like the rést of Ed] ins,” and feel better for it. t is|.Governor told me the other day ople| he went on the water wagon Ww s’a|before Barry ran up the.white son-| But, say, if you are lookin’ for vox | oasis, look'in the directory and el Glanohter’s niumiber. OUR SCHOOLS, The Néeds of Dunbar High Schoo! . Set ‘Forth. ‘The character of the work done by the pupils, in response to the stimu- lus directly and indirectly by teach- ers, other students, and the outside world, determines the- ‘status of a school. An American’ High School is an institution peculiar to the gen- ius of this nation, and eaéh one va- ries from every other ‘to the exten that it meets” its own problems ‘There is, however, a standard for al aceredited high schools, established | rortunately or ‘otherwise, by the col | teges for which they prepare so smal ,Ja. percentage of their pupils. Tha ,| condition -is one that, is met in th | best ‘high schools in tbe, country b -| making a straight andy direct ‘roa from the high school through: tk State college for practically all st n| dents. Judged by the sticcess of i e| graduates entering colleges fro 1| Dunbar, it is, meeting the needs 1-| its student body in, that respect, a1 g|is not a colored high school of low o| standards. Parents. and prospecti n|students need ‘to kriow that fact a 1d} to govern themsetves accordingly. 4.) Judged by-the careers of the gr: e-|uates of the parent “school. old mn} Street High, Dunbar: meets the ne on | of, the local life of its students, | g-| cause those graduates are found ns | Oreponderating ‘numbers in. local ng|loymient and. activities. Dim! wut | must discover and prepare for ‘Io is-| ctivities beyond-those now . op ‘of |and must foster the initiative. xc-| leadership which will seek to. 0 ani | new fields of endeavor, and succes: iz-| _ Tdzed-by the age of its pur es-| Diinbar is a- high school, and n ng | meet’ the needs of thie’ péculiac Greetings of the Season! “Phe world is engulfed in the red ruin of war. The present titanic con- ict is not due to the inhefent devil- try of one nation or-the innate good- ness of another. The accumulative ethical. energies of society for gener- ‘ations have been dammed up by. the barrier of hatred and greed. ‘The stored up, power: is” now. breaking through ‘the’ barrier with’ cataclysmic Gutburst. The social fabric is ‘being shaken:to: its very foundation. - As ——————— Eee determining period’. of youth. tel must stimulate youth to vexpend its! enthisiasm with restrain, :yet with” freedom, the’ freedom af, obedience to simple. but. necessary. - e@gulations. ‘Dunbar needs-to..steér between, the proscriptions which will ‘be broken because ‘thay cannot be enforced and the “lidense* which -follaws new .and trained tberty. aes . Youith-loves to dance, and: there is no good: reasoi’ why daacing’ should | not be its reward for-duty done in’ the, .best manner, but “there: is “in youtti tio satisfactory criterion for its dancing, and, unless trained and directed, its dancing in school will appear to -have'the restraints which are not in fact present. “Dancing in school should be oily by approved styles and in restricted numberg for work well done. Dancing which al- Jiows outsiders’ to enter for that oc- | casion’ even when ‘they have. been | dismissed for cause at an earlier date | docs “not teach the place of pleasure Jin the scheme of life. Education .| should teach, that pleasure’ folldws la- | bor, and happiness comes only from :|duty” performed, otherwise youth ‘|comes to. mistake: pleasure-for happi- .| ness and to regard it as a right above ‘Yall else. ¥ ‘Dunbar needs to establish it place ,|in the mind of Washington student: ;|youth ‘through some other attach: ; ment ‘than the freedom and-pleasur "| of the periodical dances, necessar} 1 though they. be. 3|, Dunbar needs adequate ground n take its students from the streets. T nlis unfair to deprive youth of the re | stricted privacy ‘of a recreation are: ; [Forced upon the streets, they com ;.| tract the very habits from which a g| society is trying now to break th m|Ameriacn youth, with its new fre¢ ‘| dom ang ifs privileges of intimate s¢ 1-| cial intercourse. . 'c| ‘The famous. Jane Addams of Hu <t | House, in Chicago, is responsible fc 3, | calling our attention to the fact th: ce| colored parents do not oversee the or girls and safeguard them as do th iii| foreigners who come here and li gufhere. Those of us who have acer ti-Jéd. the responsibility of youth as jn {charge and solemn obligation knc he | this ‘all too well. | Dunbar needs. every agency and i eg| fluence which ‘will build up in © 4h? | boys and ‘girls the notions of mutt yes] Fespect. and admiration for wort ‘of| while characters, not continue srk ever break down the crudé ideals Dal | the present. rou| ‘The needs of Dunbar are both n rq |terial, and spiritual... Being pew, to [has formed no idea peculiar to its sse; stitution. ‘That must .come,. and one .will come, only when parents, ¢ ail Zens), teachers and educators al ing, hold high the standards of the sch out, and speak and labor to maint be; them. ady| ‘The very youth «and inexperic wear of the students suggest their nee¢ ure, [ideals ‘Their inexperience does Th | provide materials, and >the crow rave selfish life of a complex city does vie provide’ selected examples, he ihe they. need contact with virile | that and women who have done thing ees’ the world anid who are now di flag. their part. .They need. pictures oan the Walls of their buildin, pict fana| With a'history, with an idea, pict representing the. vital ideas. of civilization and of all time. Dunbar needs a library. Brow + land burrowing through a ibrar ool one, of the’ surest ways of sper a slymbering scholarship. ‘There .e by| many yaluable books in the pr Himu-| tele citizens here which © cach, | Provide opportunities for researc Tide Dunbar's students: American, hi OF 2{ material, English and A ° rican Shool|ary materials, biographies, n ‘gen-|8faphs,, perioificals—all “may oya_| value’ in the hands of a devel tent | student skillfully guided. ‘feme,| _ Dunbar needs the convenience lem; |apparatus -with which to proy TO TEN. MILLION . COLOREI CITIZENS OF THE UNITED 7 STATES. VEO040044000009007077 OO —i‘“—S—s—s—e eg Da Madame Walker's: . Goods = | | We have the exclusive Wholesale oS Ageney for _ . : Madame Walker's Preparations f *Wholgeald and Retail’; - _” AGENTS SUPPLIED’ Peoples Drug Store”- Agency 7th & M,N. W, st ee PURER UUEEO sdicdund OE ‘the = Wat: the -veadjugt- more radical*than that “effected by the “French: Revolution. ‘ The’ trans- igrming effect upon:the states of the Negro will be scarcely less momentus | than. the Emancipation: Proclamation. ‘Mie, demmocratizattor: of the vortd, cbined:a8' a fitting .phrase, willbe)’ translated iit actiiality. ‘The’ Dedla- ration of Independenté;-ponucd by a) |slaveholder, sounded the death knell) "of slavery, although three-quarters of |1 afcsatury: elapsed between promise |, [aia fulfillmient.. The démocratization | ‘of the world is but a:restatement of this: doctrine in terms of present-day attitude -of the world: Political au- tocracy and: race autocracy will’ be buried in the'same gtave. Hereafter no énation, howevér~strong, will be permitted to, overvide a weaker neighbor by sheer “dominance of. power, and no race will be permitted t6 impose a ruthless regime upon the weaker breeds of men through sheer \assumption of superiority. . Here- | after England will treat the East In- | dians, Tarkey the Aremenians, Rus- |sia the Jews, and America the Ne~, |groes with @ fuller meabure of jus: ,|tice and consideration than hereto-' fore. . 2| ‘THE peoples of all lands who ‘are -|neavy laden and_overborne will be -\ the: chief -beneficiaries of this’ war. she Negro problem is involved in y\ the problem of humanity. ‘The whole is greater than any of its parts. ‘The o| Negro will share in the general -mo- t| mentum imparted.to social welfare. -| “Already he has :been admitted to ..| industrial opportunity in the. North, .-| with manifest reaction upon the harsh I1| regime inthe South. | National prohibition, which is borne «| forward on the wave of the world »-| war, will “immensely” improve his moral status. Eighty thousand Negro | soldiers have been. enlisted, and or| seven hundred Negroes have beer at | commissioned a8 officers in the Arm; ir |of the United States. “A Negro-ha: hel been made assistant. Cabinet officer Ve | whose function-is to adjust-harmoni t-| ously the races’ relation fo ‘the perid ling struggle. w| ‘The improved attitude of, thé whit __|race towards the Negro is apparer in: lin two affitmative decisions. rendere url by the Supreme Court of the Unite sal] States with “unanimous concurrence. th-|" ‘The Negro will emerge Grom th or| war with a double portion of privileg of] and opportunity. Every Negro. should. be. loyal an na-| patriotic, although there are’ inju -it|tices and discriminations. which: t in-]our souls. If we .overcome, the . it} trials and tribulations will: work © iti-|q moré exceeding weight of adva like] tage, But if we allow them to ove ‘ool | come us, woeful will be our lot, i tain | deed: To stand sulkily by in plait ive alopfness, because of just gri¢ nce| ances, would be of the same kind i of folly as to réfuse to help extingui not}, conflagration which’ threatens t ded,| destruction of oné’s native city ! not} cause he has-a complaint against 1 ence| fire department. Let us help put « men| the conflagration which threatens | 3 in| world, ‘and then-make the world « oing | fasting debtor. We must stand sho on|der to shoulder with our white | ures |low citizens to fight for the, freed ures | of the world, outside of our own | our| tional circle, and then wesmust h __ [them to moral consistency of’ mé sing| taining. a just and equitable regi 'y 18] inside of that circle. Democracy, ‘king | charity, should begin at home, or = are|least it should prevail there. Let ivate| fight to the finish to-the effect 1 yould|no nation. shall hereafter dare tf." | tempt to make an international tre story} scrap of paper. It must there: liter-| follow then, as corollary, that no 1ono-|tion will henceforth: allow its. have| constitution. which is an in oping | national. treaty, to be made a-s of paper. . ane ‘The tide of democracy is swee ide} through the world like a mighty r ment: | ‘rhe gace problem and other s ae ills are but as marshes, backwa a ie stagnant pools, estuaries, which aon shut off from free circul LEGAL NOTICES. . a —_—— * W. CALVIN CHASE, Attorney. Supreme Court of the District of Cor lumbia, holding Probate \Court— No, 24,188, Administration. * This Is to Give Notice: 4 ‘That the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, fas obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Co- lumbia, Letters Testamentary on the estate of Martha E, Washington, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned té exhibit the sime, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the substriber, on or before: the. 7th ‘day of December, A..D. 1918; otherwise they may by: law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 7th day of December, 1917-, Gonevia Blyden Maxfield Pierre, 2124 I, Street N. W- Attest: — M. J. Griffith, ~ : fi Deputy, Register of Wills. for th ‘ District of Columbia, Clerk ¢ i the Probate Court. W. Calvin Chase, * "Attorney. WM. 0. DAVIS, Attorney. | Supreme Court of the District.of Co- tumbia, Holding. Probate Court— No. 24177, Administration. This Is to Give Notice: i ‘That the, subscriber, of the District ‘of. Columbia, has obtained. from the Probate Court of the District of Co- jumbia, letters testamentary on the ‘estate of Charles E; Talbert, late of the" District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned: to ex hibit the ‘same, with the . vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subseriber, on or before the 21st day of December, A, .D. 1918; otherwist they. may by: law be excluded, from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 21st day of December, 1917. - . l Mattie I. Talbert,” te roar Twenty-second Street. | Attest: * |W. Clark Taylor, Deputy Register of Wills for th District of Columbia, Clerk 0 .| ° the Probate Court, f William O. Davis, | - Attorney. with the main current, But the fresh- et of freedom is now overflowing its bed and purifying-.all the stagnant waters in its onward sweep to. the ocean of human liberty and brother- hood. Fortunate, indeed, are we to be borne forward upon its beneficent bosom at such a time as this. - Kelly Miller. Howard University, ‘Washington, D. C. : ‘CHAS. H. JAVINS & SONS DEALERS IN. mee = Soren FISH, OYSTERS, TERKAPIN, POULTRY, GAME, ETC. * CentER MARKET ‘Wasuincton, D. C. + BRODT. The greatest hat manufacturers: tn the United States and the niost fash- ionable are’ Karl F, and Alexander G. Brodt, whose factory and-sale stores are atarg Eleventh Street N. W. and 503-5 Ninth Street. N. W.. If you waiit an up-to-date hat for a Christ: mas present or a fine winter hat o! any description, go and see the nev hats at Brodt’s. Mention The Bee. ‘Adie, Berton, Tels: of ‘eth: "ys <ogts -Adopted.to Foil << ‘ISON VENTION. 1H USE ‘pesike ‘Bombs ® and Smoke Sereene | A aage Eimployed to Surprise” Ing Extent. _ ‘Washington.-An encouraging a evunt of the success of tho devices ae ‘or destroying Ger’ man submarines is given by aostal ‘Benson, chief of operations of the navy Several’ of’ th"methods under trial at present, one of them the Invention of ‘Thomas A; Edison, the admiral regard ed as inadvisable to describe, but he pena ‘reserve the devices, ‘on merchant : naval vessels,” Eating ane | Tt was admitted that the naval ‘yoy furnished the most effective safe: guard against the submaritie. . Admiral Benson thought that the number ‘otf “conyoyed ships sunk was even lesy than the’ average up to @ month ago, when it was estimated that only one half.of 1 per cent fell victim to the submarine. ‘The impossibility of con: voying more than a small per cent of | the merchant fleet leaving American shores, however, has made necessary “ the adoption of other protective meas sures. _ \ Devices Employed. * | ‘among those most in use on mer ghant abips, ‘the admiral sald, were “gmoke. bombs” and smoke screens, _ Camonfiage also fs belng employed to | @ sarprising extent, but particularly on navel ‘vessels: ‘The smoke bombs - gre merely containers filled with chem | feats which when... cast overboard > ‘throw off a dense black smoke, obscas ; ing the ship from an attacking submar , rine. i | A great variety of experiments In | camouflage “have ‘been tried on naval ,| vessels. “They hive been painted ev | ery hue of the ratnbow that mlebt tend to merge the ship in Its back: ground dnd make it indistingulghable fo -igvestigating periscopes. Admiral ‘Benson sald many of these devices had een ‘demonstrated to be of great | wert. Warabips,. teo, are equipped ¢ with detectors which indicate the prox: if Amity of other ships. ‘More and more of the merchant ishtps; of course, are belig armed 60 as ito be able to give a good account of fhemselves In encounters with the \v-boats, and experiments constantly ‘are going on in the nowy to improve the . weapons * of. offense. ‘employed h- ggatnst the submarine. A special en ts “geavor i@ belng made to perfect the nt operation of deptcharges so that | he may be possible more frequently t re Tipot” the U-boats as they submerd [or as they ran along with only thel to . periscopes showing, -P‘Batloons are-employed on the: ship tor observation purposes, but thelr us te not at allnew. =” |. qe was sité-today, In, contradictio | of a recent fateresting story, that p <Thvention had been perfected tn t (United States navy which. would e! {ole an attacked ship to defect 1 | Qourse of a torpedo once it was fire | his report, according to Admiral Bo ‘son, had no foundation whatever. 4 | © Bigger Subrharines. ” {| Another report which hus been ms N, tng the rounds ts that German fu marines recently have-been making @ practice of sparing all passeng | futpe they encounter. ‘The only bes | forrthis bellet, it was sald, 1s the fs that fewer passeriger ships have be gunk. ‘They have been attacked, ho ‘ver, but in most cases have escape: ‘There have been no German subm rines near the American coast sir in this nation-entered the war, 60 far wah- the navy department has learned. WG, submarine has-been sighted neatly pres mid-Atlantic, but that is the. near ores . approach one is Enown to have mad "The navy department has evider YOU shat Germany 18 increasing the size rist- er submarines nearly to the prop t ol ton of small cruisers. This evide new was obtained by ocular observation ne” Dart, and also from the fact that OSbmarines iow ere mounting suns —«- nearly six inches jn bore. Fragme ly six inches 1p ee echant 8b HAS PERFECT BRAIN; BECOMES AN AVIATOR Boston—Thomas James Aber- nethy of West Pembroke, Me, ‘whom the’ late Professor Muco- ‘sterberg found to be mentally perfect, 1s one of 990 New Eng- Jand candidates selected for tn- straction as aviators... He heads fhe Iist—but it fe arranged al- phabetically. = ‘Spee tee of War Prices. Kansas City—It Is a rather extregt finery fact that {i some parts-of the Bouthwest wheat is fed to hogs, being pheaper than corn—which in now $2.05 a bushel, end scarce at that, This prac- tee is not general, however, ax’ there in a sentiment\against using wheat for gach purposes. Pec will also believe in the Its influence is destined to be felt in all sections of the country in improved life wherever our trained workers locate. Settlement workers, missionaries for home and foreign mission fields, Y. M. C. A. a secretaries and district nurses receive a comprehensive grasp of their studies under graduate and experienced co-workers and actual every-day practice through the so SERVICE DEPARTMENT. A HIGH STANDARD COLLEGE DEPARTMENT has now been established. We aim also to create a better qualified ministry. Industrial training, advanced literary branches, business school. Thirty-two acres; ten modern buildings; heathful location. We can accommodate a few more earnest, ambitious students. Communities requiring social workers should write us. NEXT SCHOOL TERM OPENS OCT. 4, 1916. For catalog and detailed information, address: 8TH AND FLORIDA AVE. N. W. A. T. BRONAUG S. W. COR 7TH and P STRE Prescriptions Filled Promptly Patroni Agent for Mada AGENTS FOR Preparations, Soaps, Bleach, BRONAUGH.— Agents for simple Grower and Glossine; air Dressing and Powder. A. T. BRONAUGH, Pharmacist R. 7TH and P STS. N. W., WASHINGTON Uses Filled Promptly. All the Leading Patronize This Store Agent for Madam Walker's Goods AGENTS FOR ALL HIGH BROWN Uses, Soaps, Bleach, Hair Perfumes and F GH.— Agents for Grower, Shampoo, Her and Glossine; Agents for Fred Palm- ing and Powder. S. W. COR 7TH and P STS. N. W., WASHINGTON, D. O. Prescriptions Filled Promptly. All the Leading Physicians BRONAUGH.— Agents for Grower, Shampoo, Tetter Salve, Temple Grower and Glossine; Agents for Fred Palmer's Whitener, Hair Dressing and Powder. BRONAUGHS, 7th and P N Carter's Li You Cannot Be Constipated and Happy Small Pill Small Dose Small Price ABSENCE of Iron in the Blood is the reason for many colorless faces but ON FREE TRIAL— NO DEPOSIT, NO EXPENSE, we will send you a new Acousticon. This is the small instrument that has positively enabled over 300,000 deaf people to hear. GENERAL ACOUSTIC COM THE EAST IN ter's Little Liver cannot Be released happy A Rem Wo Genuine b hose all Price of Iron in the reason for horless faces but CARTER'S LITTLE IVER PILLS. CARTER'S IRO will greatly help most pals FREE TRIAL— You Can the Carter's Little Liver Pills You Cannot Be Constipated and Happy A Remedy That Makes Life Worth Living Genuine bears signature Small Pill Small Dose Small Price ABSENCE of Iron in the Blood is the reason for many colorless faces but CARTER'S IRON PILLS will greatly help most pale-faced people. 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It by Mail, 50c; 10c extra for Postage S. D. Lyons, Gen. Agt., 314 East Second St. Oklahoma City, Okla. u Can Hear, With the Acousticoon — hear conversation of your friends, music — every sound — just as you used to. We guarantee it or you can return the Acousticoon at our expense without its costing you cent. Write at once for ten days free home trial. Building New York ```markdown ``` Beautiful Bust and Shoulders are possible if you will wear a scientifically constructed Bien Jolie Brassiere. The dragging weight of an unconfined bust so stretches the supporting muscles that the contour of the figure is spoiled. put the bust back where it belongs, prevent the full bust from having the appearance of fibbines, eliminate the danger of dragging muscles and confine the flush of the shoulder, giving a graceful line to the arm body. They are the hardest and most serviceable garments to manhandle—in all materials and styles; Cross Back, Hook Front, Surplice, Bandae, etc. "Boned with" "Walohn," the rustless boning—permitting washing without removal. Have your dealer show you Bien Jolle Brassters, if not stocked, we will gladly send him, prepaid, samples to show you. BENJAMIN & JOHNES sl Warren Street Newark, N.J Hosiery Value at ANY Price—Silk; Lisle or Cotton 55c to $5.00 per pair Beers Company, Inc. 53-161 EAST 24th ST. NEW YORK National Dairy 612-618 O Street, N. W. Telephone North 1436 Milk Absolutely Pure J. W. GREGG Perfectly Clarified Milk and Cream Office Closes 5:30 P. M. Daily Sunday 1 o'clock "Onyx" You Get GOOD Value at ANY 25c to $5.00 Emery-Beers Co WHOLESALE 153-161 EAST Lincoln 4940 "I'll get it for my wife" NO OTHER LIKE IT. NO OTHER AS GOOD. Purchase the "NEW HOME" and you will have a life naset at the price you pay. The elimination of repair expense by superior workmanship and best quality of material insures life-long service at minimum cost. Insist on having the "NEW HOME." WARRANTED FOR ALL TIME. Known the world over for superior sewing qualities. Not sold under any other name. THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE CO., ORANGE, MASS. FOR SALE BY Gustave Oppenheim, 800 street northwest, Washington, JOHN T. STEWART, PLUMMER'S PHARMACY ROBT. F. PLUMMER, Prop. Accuracy, Service, Quality A. D. S. Remedies We Pay Particular Attention to Our Prescription Department Telephone Your Wants Phone Franklin 2703 and 28 301 H St. Cor. 3rd St. N. W. Washington, D. C. Advertisement. THE BEE The Bee is a representative organ of the people. AT ALL GOOD DEALERS 50% UP STYLE 4523 KATZ' MARKETS. Two Stores in One Ninth and Florida Avenue N. W. and the Great NORTHEAST GROCERY, 1644. Montello Avenue N. E. Goods Delivered Free H. KATZ AND CO. Is the Cheapest Store in the City Ninth and Florida Aver 3e N. W. NEWHOME BIEN JOLE (LE-AN JO-LER) BRASSIERES Open Day and Night Livery and Chapel Undertaker and Embalmer. 30 H Street, Northeast. Main 1124 Washington, D. C. A RELIABLE PHARMACIST is the one you can always depend upon to use no substitutes, but compound prescriptions from pure and fresh drugs, with accuracy and care. The real test of drug store's capabilities is it's prescription department and ours is perfect. We fill your physician's prescriptions to the letter and no mistake is possible. Is the paper that should be in every home in the city. It is the people's paper. CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF THE COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE Section 1. The name of this society shall be the COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE. Article II. Section 1. The term for which this society is organized shall be perpetual. Article III. Section 1. The general business and objects of this society shall be to promote the education, industrial, commercial and social welfare of the people of the District of Columbia and vicinity, and to counsel and encourage those in other communities in the same direction. Secton 2. The particular business and objects of this society shall be to encourage and foster vocational education, skill and efficiency; to stimulate and encourage industrial and commercial enterprises in and near the District of Columbia and to assist in the establishing of such enterprises; to encourage and promote co-operation in business; to establish and maintain a technical economic library in the City of Washington for public use; to promote the establishment of gymnasiums, baths and recreational centers; to promote better household and community sanitation; to encourage improved landscape architecture and gardening for the adornment of home surroundings; to assist poor and needy persons. Section 3. In addition to the power to pursue the objects enumerated in Sections 1 and 2 of this Article III, this society shall also have the following corporate powers, to wit: to foster and regulater any number or branch units in the District of Columbia and vicinity having like objects, which shall be integral parts of this society; to affiliate itself with any national society having similar aims and objects; to accept gifts of money securities, goods, material and real estate for the promotion of its objects; to print and disseminate such literature as may be deemed calculated to advance its objects. Section 4. The powers granted in this charter shall not be construed to exclude any other powers reasonable for the promotion of the public-spirited and charitable objects of this society and consistent with the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia and the laws of the United States. Section 1. The affairs, funds and property of this society shall be in the general charge of a Board of Governors of not more than twenty-four members of the society, who shall be assisted by a Supervisory Committee of three members of the society no, one of whom shall be a member of the Board of Governors, and by such executive officers and other employees as may be provided in the bylaws. During the first year the number of Governors shall be not less than twelve. Section 2. The first Board of Governors and first Supervisory. Committee shall be chosen by the persons who sign this certificate of incorporation and thereafter, the members of that board and that committee shall be chosen by ballot by the general body of members at the regular annual meetings. Section 3. The by-laws shall prescribe which of the executive officers, if any, shall be also members of the Board of Governors. Section 4. At the first annual election all members of the Board of Governors and the Supervisory Committee shall be chosen anew by the members of the society, and one-third of the members of that board and of that committee shall be chosen to serve one, two and three years, respectively, and after one year following the first annual election the persons chosen to serve one, two and three years, respectively, and after one year following the first annual election the persons chosen to fill vacancies in those bodies shall be chosen for the term of three years. Section 5. During the first year, or previous to the first annual election the executive officers of this society shall include a President, at least one Vice-President, a Secretary and a Treasurer. But the by-laws may provide additional or other executive officers to be chosen at the first annual election of officers and thereafter. Section 6. All officers and employees charged with the custody or handling of the funds or other property of the society shall be required to furnish an adequate indemnity bond for the faithful performance of their respective duties, and the amount of any such bond shall be prescribed by the Board of Governors. Article V.. Section 1. The Board of Governors shall immediately after its appointment make such prudential by-laws as they may deem proper for the management and business affairs of this society, and thereafter any by-laws as made shall not be changed without the participation and consent of the members of the society. Section 21. The Board of Governors shall have power to make rules and regulations in addition to anil in conformity with those embodied in the by-laws, and to amend or abolish the same at will, but while in force such rules and regulations shall have all the force of by-laws. JOYOUS CHRISTMAS. By Mrs. Salle Craig Swann, a Manassas Graduate. Now the time has come to hand, From our bounties we must lift, And join in the merry band With our joyous Christmas gifts, Shall we sing the angels' song— Peace, good will to all mankind; While the world in battle struggles For right against wrong? Now the time has surely come For all to earnestly pray For protection of our homes: Lead us in the holy way! With the angels we may sing Peace, good will to all mankind, For the great victory be won For right against wrong. Now the time is surely here To forsake the evil way, And our Lord will surely hear If we earnestly pray: Thy will be on earth today As it is in holy Heaven: Thy will alone can save us now, For right against wrong. Let us learn with Father Time To recognize God's own law, Since might, power and the mind Cannot win the unholy war, Thou, who save Thy life for men, To us Thy own glory send: Let love and good-will bring peace For right against wrong. With time the world will submit To the good will of God be done, Give up their evil and wit While thousand years of peace reign And all the battles will be o'er For right against wrong. Then we'll sing with the angels Peace, good will to all mankind, Ring the merry Christmas bells, For every heart and mind Shall be filled with love divine, While we joyfully shall sing, For love shall be the conqueror For right against wrong. WEST WASHINGTON. The assistant choir leader of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, Mr. Morgan S. Brown, and Miss Herbert Bruce, of North Carolina, were happily married recently by Rev. Turpeau. The newly organized choir of Mr. Zion M. Er. Church, under the leadership of Mr. Archie Harrod, rendered with success a Christmas Song Service on Sunday night, December 23rd from the book entitled "The Prince of Peace," which was as follows: "Sing, O Heavens," chorus, by the choir; "Heavenly King," baritone solo, by Mr. Charles Freeman; "Hark, Hark, My Soul," solo and chorus, by Misses Olga White, Wilhelmina North and choir; "There Were Shepherds," soprano solo, by Miss Elsie Richards and male chorus; "Fear Thou Not," tenor solo, by Mr. Morgan Brown and chorus; "Behold Yon Star," duet, by soprano and alto, and "March of Magi," by the male voices. The choir deserves much credit for the short while it has been under the leadership of Mr. Harrod. It is as good, if not better, than the former choir, and promises for the future great success under the leadership of Mr. Harrod. CITIZENS OF DEANWOOD. Almost every citizen in Deanwood, D. C., has joined the Citizens' Association, headed by Mrs. Christiana Moody Briggs, and have requested the Board of Education to make a change in that school. There will be a protest filed against the retention of the successor of Mr. Cardozo. The coming investigation into the conduct of that school will be sufficient cause for a change in several of the official heads. Mrs. Briggs is one of the most-active workers in that section, and the people are supporting her. She is entitled to the respect and confidence of the community for the work she is doing. A few resignations in that building would be acceptable no doubt. BRIEFS. The Bee is in receipt of a copy of a pamphlet entitled "The Negro American Alliance: Its Principles Purposes and Aims." This pamphlet is issued by Attorney James A. Lightfoot, of the New Jersey Bar.