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Big Movie Some Big Surprises. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Turner Capture the Lead. Interesting Story of the Contest. VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 34 Big Mo PICTURE CONTEST CLOSE Some Big Surprises. M ter Turner Capture the ing Story of the Contes The big movie picture contest closed Monday night at 12 o'clock. Mrs. Vivian Thompson Turner taking the lead for the women with 5210 votes, and her husband, Walter Turner, taking the lead for the men with 5082 votes. Miss Isadore Kenney dropped to second place with 3985 votes, while Miss May Miller, with 3057 votes cast on the last day, jumped into third place, and Miss Valeria Chase, who had been third, by polling 1450 votes Monday, passed Miss Estelle Collier and secured a firm hold on fourth place. Prof. J. Henry Lewis, who had been leading the men, and who had made a gallant fight, was forced to yield first place to Walter Turner, who came in with a rush Monday with 4850 votes, thus securing the coveted right to take the "lead" in the great Washington scenario with his vivacious little wife. Capt. Harry Atwood's loyal friends unlimbered their heavy artillery Monday and backed up by a splendid, line of infantry made a gallant charge, capturing 3057 votes before 12 o'clock, landing the handsome Captain in third place, thus assuring his being seen in this wonderful patriotic movie picture that will be shown throughout the United States. Lieut. Merrill Curtis, because of friends being a little slow in getting their 72-centimeter guns in action, dropped from second into fourth. test was a most spirited day there was the liveliest interest shown by the friends serious contestants, and the roaming was fast and furious. As predicted from rumors current throughout the city, there were some surprises. One of the big surprises was Mrs. Vivian Turner coming from ninth place into first, and her husband coming from sixth place among the men to first, but the two, working together, each devoted to the other, just as they swore to do at the marriage altar, turned the trick by securing and having cast for them 4850 votes on the last day of the contest. Another surprise was the jumping of Miss May Miller, who had been tenth in the race into third place. One gratifying thing in connection with the contest was that every one of the contestants was more actuated to make it a success because of the worthy object than they were to secure a place in the cast. They were, one and all, really working to help along the fund being raised by the National Soldiers' Comfort Committee for the relief of the dependents of our brave boys called to the colors. Those who made a fight for place, whether they secured it or not, are satisfied that their efforts resulted in increasing the fund for dependents of colored soldiers. Not only did Mrs. Vivian Thompson Turner succeed in landing in first place among the women, but by her selling the highest number of votes she will receive the handsome silver trophy cup that has been on exhibition in the Industrial Savings Bank window. Mrs. Thompson thoroughly organized her forces; she started out by saying she was going to boost the two million-dollar fund for the relief of the dependents of colored soldiers by selling all the votes she could possibly sell, and she never abated her interest until the final hour for the decision of the contest. closing of the The contest was a fair one—em- imently fair. Monday, January 14th, at 12 o'clock midnight, was the day and hour fixed for the closing, and not a single vote was accepted after that hour. The National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee had no favorites; it was immaterial to its officers who won; all they were interested in was, by making the contest fair and open, service funds to relieve distressed dependents of colored soldiers. Any contestant who desires to see his or her coupon books and figure out again their own standing is welcome to call at the office of the committee, when they will be gladly shown every coupon book used for each and every contest in the contest. Marc Edmund Jones, the writer of the Washington scenario, proposes to make it one of the best, if not the best, yet written. It will provide for four splendid characters for women and four for men, and a number of others besides. It will especially show the wonderful and appealing devotion, fidelity and patriotism of the colored woman. In short, it will prove to be a movie picture that will advertise the colored people of Washington as they never were advertised before, and it will shatter the possible effect of that harmful movie, "The Birth of the Nation." In a few days the movie picture men having the contract for taking and making the Washington scenario will be in Washington, and soon thereafter the public will have an opportunity of viewing a beautiful film with all local Washington colored young people in the cast. Ralph W. Tyler, secretary of the National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee, and who managed the contest here, stated today that all the participants are entitled, and have the thanks of the committee. Especially, he said, is Miss Isadore Keney to be thanked for being the first to put pep into the contest by interesting all her friends; that though she failed, to hold the lead to the end, like the splendid young woman she is, with a brother at the front, she accepts the result graciously, knowing she has been instrumental in helping along the fund for the relief of dependents of colored soldiers. The final standing for Women: Mrs. Vivian Thompson Turner 5210 Miss Isadore Kenney 3985 Miss May Miller 3794 Miss Valerie Chase 3575 Miss Estelle Collier 3252 Miss Julia Jenkins 2645 Mrs. Georgia Jones Tucker 1801 Miss Emma Lee Williams 1180 Miss Adella Park 940 Miss Lillian Evans 861 Mrs. Emily J. Taylor 806 Miss Edna Murray 780 Miss Gladys Moran 776 Miss Phyllis Terrell 755 Miss Grace Williston 732 Miss Jeannette Carter 714 Mrs. Rachel Guy Moore 704 Mrs. Jennie Brown 680 Miss Dorothy Pelham 627 Miss Marie Madre 590 Miss Elizabeth Brown 581 Miss Margaret Reynolds 579 Miss Annie L. Lucas 571 Miss Pearl Brown 545 Miss Esther Freeman 525 Men. Walter Turner 5082 J. Henry Lewis 4568 Capt. Harry Atwood 4074 Lieut. Merrill Curtis 1253 Lieut. Grover Harding 1147 Delano Williams 923 Lieut. Jay Clifford 905 Barrington Guy 857 Andrew J. Thomas 831 Lieut. Eugene Davidson 797 William Welch 731 Arthur Hayes 723 Prof. W. A. Adams 640 William J. Curry 635 Thomas Gardiner 615 General Forrest 605 Alston Burleigh 597 Harry Williams 525 DECLARATIONS OF THE TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL NEGRO CONFERENCE The Tuskegee Negro Conference MR. WALTER TURNER. through its twenty-seventh annual session, held at Tuskegee, Ala., January 16, 1918, takes pride in the record of loyalty and patriotism made by the Negroes since America has entered the war. Notwithstanding our many handicaps, the Negro has given freely to the Red Cross and other war relief appeals, and this conference voices the expression of the earnest desire of the Negro to do his full share in helping our country in the great struggle. it is so bravely making for liberty and justice. Whether on the farms, in the mines, as workers behind the line or in the trenches, we pledge ourselves to do our share. To the Negro farmers of the South this conference repeats what it has been saying for the past twenty-five years: "Stay on the soil, buy land, improve your farming, diversify your crops, raise and save more foodstuffs and thus help the South to feed itself; make your home more comfortable so that your children will be contented and will not leave the farms. Improve your schools and give more support to your churches." Because of the unusually high prices which farm products of all varieties are bringing, farming offers greater opportunities now than ever before. During the past year you have, with few exceptions, been blessed with abundant crops and with high prices for your cotton, peanuts, velvet beans, and all other products of the farm. The conference advises that in the midst of this prosperity you do not waste your money. Invest in lands, buy homes, buy farm machinery so that you may do better farming, and add to the property which you already have. The conference also urges the Negro farmers to buy more and better live stock, especially hogs and cows, in order that more butter and pork may be produced to meet the increasing demand. You can help to win this war by investing some of your surplus money in Thrift Stamps, War Certificates, and Liberty Bonds. This conference warns our people that, in spite of the high prices of cotton which have been paid during the current year, it will be wise next year to continue to diversify, rotate and give special attention to the planting of food crops. With reference to the farm labor situation, the indications are that in the North and in the industrial centers which are rapidly developing in the South, there is going to be an increasing demand for labor, and that efforts will be made to continue to attract a great deal of this labor from the farms of the South. To those who employ farm labor this conference suggests that every effort be made to keep the laborers comfortable and contented. It will be necessary to pay higher wages and to make more liberal contracts with tenants, especially in the matter of the amount of cotton or other products which shall be paid. Tenants and farm laborers can be made contented by being provided with better living conditions, good school buildings, and longer school terms. This conference regrets to find that there are still many communities in which the school terms for Negro children extend only three or four months. Full protection in the courts and just treatment in all dealings, business and otherwise, will also help to make these tenants and laborers contented and more inclined to remain on the plantations. THE WORLD'S FINEST WOMEN This conference notes with pleasure the increasing amount of money that is being paid by States and counties to improve Negro rural schools, particularly to aid in erecting Rosenwald school buildings. It is also gratifying to note how the white people of local communities and the State Legislatures are appropriating money and co-operating with the Federal Government under the Smith-Lever Act, and the Smith-Hughes Act, to educate the Negro on the farm and to make of him a more intelligent producer and a better citizen. This conference is pleased to note the increasing number of instances where representative white and black people of various communities are coming together and are having a better understanding with reference to their common interests, and are co-operating and working out their problems, and meeting the difficulties which this world war has placed upon the South. FRENCH DEMOCRACY UPSETS SOUTHERN NEWSPAPER WRITER. The Independent, a local white weekly, published the following article in its issue of November 13, contrasting the Southernner's idea of democracy with what obtains in France. The French have one idea of democracy, and Americans another, the result of which is confusing and embarrassing to American white soldiers who are now in France to help carry on the war for democracy. Democracy in France, where democracy had its birth, knows no color line. What this means to American troops is brought out in a letter received by Miss Mary Gurley this week from a soldier friend now with the colors in France. The soldier boy says: "It certainly gets a Southerner's goat to see how the races mix up on this side. It's not an unusual sight to see a big black Negro walking down the street with his arms around a pretty white girl, and then to see him reach over and kiss her, regardless of who may be looking. This is a regular thing in the concert halls and cabarets. It is getting to be quite a problem with the Y. M. C. A. in Bordeaux. They have a reading room and restaurant which is open to all soldiers. The 'Nigger' soldiers are about to take possession of the place and the Y. M. C. A. officials don't know how to go about drawing the color line. The American girls that are running the restaurant are refusing to wait on the 'Niggers' and the association is getting right up against it. Of course this will be worse when the American 'Nigger' soldiers and white Southern soldiers get together over here. "The French people seem to have a very high regard for a 'Nigger' and they intermingle right along. The La Tourraine, which left Bordeaux last Sunday, carried over seventy-five officers who are to train the American troops at the cantonments in trench warfare. One of these officers is carrying a 'Nigger' along with him. Understand he has been assigned to some camp in Texas. His social position out there will be about duce high." BETHEL LITERARY. The meeting of Bethel Literary last Tuesday evening was marked with unusually interesting features. Two speakers were scheduled—Rev. D. D-Witt Turpeau and George H. Woodson, Esq.-both of whom were present and delivered interesting addresses. Rev. Turpeau spoke of "The Negro's Attitude on National Prohibition," and Mr. Woodson on "The Patriotic Duty of the Negro in the Present Crisis." Mr. Woodson possesses a wealth of first-hand knowledge; on matters touching this subject and his hearers were eager to receive his advice. The climax of the evening came, however, when Rev. Turpeau, in the course of his address, stated that he was in possession of statistics showing that in a period of ten years, from 1889 to 1899, not a single colored boy of Washington City rose above the average of the ordinary corner loafer. Immediate exception was taken to this statement from all parts of the house, Mr. Woodson stating that for a portion of that period he was a resident of this city and felt quite sure the facts had been greatly exaggerated. Men and women sought opportunity to refute the charge. Mr. Turpeau stated that the figures were not his and that he would be glad to have them disproved. So keen was the interest in this matter, and the hour being late, the president of the association asked that further discussion be foregone until Tuesday evening, January 29th, when he would arrange a meeting at which free discussion might be had, stating that such a charge should not go unchallenged. The choir of Mt. Zion M. E Church furnished the music. EVENTS TO HAPPEN. Jesse H. Foster and his enemies have a love feast. Simon P. W. Drew and the Catholic Church join hands. Andrew J. Thomas and the girl of his choice marry. William A. Bowie, cashier of Riggs Bank. Dr. A. M. Curtis and England's famous surgeon, working together. Thomas L. Jones and J. M. Ricks organize a law firm. A. W. Gray and L. M. King erect a law building. Kelly Miller, president of Howard University. The Washington Bee with fifty thousand paid-up subscribers. Judge Alex. Mullowney reappointed Judge of the Police Court. L. M. Hershaw a member of the Board of Education. Miss Jane M. Cropper reinstated in her school. *** An immediate investigation in the affairs of the Deanwood School. At the January meeting of the MuSo-Lit Club the following new members were declared elected: J. Percy Bond, Jesse M. Mitchell, Alan LeRoy Locke, John P. Quander, J. D. Baltimore, Harry A. Nugent, Cedric A. Francis, W. R. Hawkins, J. R. Quiller, W. H. Lewis, Jr., Mortimer M. Harris, John W. Davis and J. William Butcher. HOWARD THEATRE. There was a diversion at the Howard Theatre this week. Manager Thomas treated his audience to high-class vaudeville and classic motion pictures. Notwithstanding the severe weather Monday night, which was society night, a fair audience greeted this theatre. Michael and Mack, Joe Sandifer, Fvelin and De Lvons and Ford and Ford were especially well received. Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper That's THE BEE GIVES FIRST RELIEF Given by the National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee Goes to a Widow. The National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee this week sent a generous sum to Mrs. Gertrude Young for her relief. Mrs. Young is the widow of Risley Young, one of the thirteen unfortunate colored soldiers executed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The committee received a very pathetic letter from Mrs. Young saying that she was ill and without funds and sufficient clothing. Immediately a check was sent her to take care of her immediate wants. Colored people throughout the country are responding to the committee's appeal for funds to help relieve distressed dependents of colored soldiers. Clubs are being organized for the raising of funds and churches and societies are contributing. Under the leadership of J. C. Gilmer, Phil Waters and C. H. James, the colored people of Charleston, W. Va., by an entertainment, raised $117.26, and sent it on to the committee for relief work. Not only are the colored people contributing, but white friends, unsolicited, are sending in checks to help along the two million dollars the committee set out to raise. BETHEL LITERARY. All meetings of Bethel Literary will be held in the Y. M. C. A. Building until further notice, beginning next Tuesday night. This meeting will be addressed by the Secretary of the Y. M. C. A. and solos will be sung by Miss Martha A. Harris and Mr. Frank Johnson. MRS. WILHELMINA WATERS SHELTON PASSES AWAY. Mrs. Wilhelmina Waters Shelton passed away Monday, at 6 p. m., at the home of her parents, Samuel J. and Fannie Gaskins Waters, 311 V Street N.W., after an illness of several months. She is survived by her husband, George N. Shelton, and two children, George, Jr., and Earlena Shelton, and two sisters, Mrs. Bessie E. Nicholson and Mrs. Annie Johnson. Mrs. Shelton was a lovable young woman, barely past the threshold of matronhood, and her untimely death is mourned by a large circle of devoted friends. She bore her illness with a fortitude that was remarkable and was the soul of patience throughout the long battle with the Grim Reaper. The funeral services were held on Thursday afternoon at the Church of Our Redeemer (Lutheran), Eighth Street, Rev. D. E. Wiseman officiating. The casket was covered with choice flowers, and the altar was banked with beautiful designs. The remains were taken to Wellington, Va., for interment. MANAGER: THOMAS. Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 12.—Mr. Andrew J. Thomas, of the Howard Theatre, Washington, arrived in this city from New York last evening. He met his house manager, Mr. Rufus Byers, who has been here a short time looking up vaudeville productions. Mr. Byers is a whole-souled fellow and popular wherever he goes. Manager Thomas is a thoroughgoing business man and a high-class entertainer. Mr. Byers left this evening for Washington, while Mr. Thomas is detained for a few hours longer. DR. SHEAFE SENDS CALENDAR The Bible Scholar Remembers The Washington Bee Dr. Lewis C. Sheafe and wife, who are in Jacksonville, Fla., are doing well and are highly respected by the people. The Editor of The Bee has just received a very useful calendar for the years 1918 and 1919 from this distinguished Bible scholar and preacher. NOTICE. No rejected manuscript is returned. { : ntee a Fj sy fy gia Uy Org ee Re? By, Unus, SATURDAY SERMONS. Luck. - comes a reader Of this Papel, wi asks if I don’t think-the horseshoe i lucky. It is a-long jump from art t Juck,. but I.am glad this question i asked, Re No. The horseshoe has no influ ence on the turn of fortune; nor ha any other trinket, sign “or omen Luck is au‘absurd notion when it re fates to the future-or to a cause. A to the present or past, good, bad o: middling luck is simply good, bad 0} middling fortune. .So, whatever there is of luck is seen in the actual resul attained—something experienced, not prophesied. . Really, the term” “luck’ has no scientific. or business ‘value because the notion “tick” is mythical, vague or-ambiguous. S Good, bad or middling fortune is the result either of pure chance or-of antecedent causes (often. not ascer- tainable) or of ‘these two combined. . From very early times man was taught by medicine men and prophets that some divinity shapes our ends, and this -belief has always - mixed with some form of superstitious» be- lief in trinkets, signs’ and omens. Later on, in Greece, man was taught that it is destiny that shapes our ends. These. two opposing theories the world has been debating ever since, and reached no conclusion, But ev- ery man of common sense will settle the question for himself. As to in- fluence of divinity—wise men now believe that fate favors the’side that is the best prepared.’ As to the force of destiny—I don’t pretend to under- stand its.power, but I will repeat an old joke: “The man Who sat. down on a: buzz-saw:thinks there is some- thing besides destiny that shapes.our ends.” Wise men shift-their sails ‘to suit he winds. Wise men avoid buzz- saws.. Thereby ‘they “improve their chances." . Chance can very often be regulated or. controlled: by discretion—gump- tion, foresight, preparation. But there are «many strokes. of chance over which man can exercise. no ‘con- trol or’ influence.. To that extént chance plays a large part in fortune. That kind of chance I call “blind chance.” | All “fool. chance” is a sub division of blind cliance, . Every firm peliever in the power of the horse- shoe ‘and rabbit's foot or luck should make a’ thorough’ study of. chance. | Certain theories and laws of chance ire now recognized by scientists. The best exposition: of the subject 1 wer saw is one by John Stuart Mill n the chapter on, “Calculation ‘of chances”: in his great book, “System § Logic.” In the same ‘connection | hould be read the two preceding} hapters, “Empitical Laws” and Chance, and: Its Elimination” The subject of chance is more often iscussed by writers under the head |' >robability, which is a science ‘relied |' n by*many lines of business, notably |) fe insurance.’ The basis of proba-|' ility is the average, which in turn s ‘based on’ trustworthy records of! ast experience. Probability is of |' he nature of prophecy; -when based |' n past facts and accurate mathe-|' matical calculation, it amounts to}! ractical certainty. “0 Following are two :typical iflustra- || ions of results ordinarily supposed |' o result from charice: E ‘ First. I turn up a particular card |! nthe pack. I hit upon: it because |« f its place in the pack. Tt was in }t hat place. because of the way the)’ ards were shuffled, or of the order|: n which they were played in ‘the last |! ame, or because that card had been |. pecially put there by ‘some’ “ore. sither of these three causes may in|; urn have been the.-effect of prior | auses. If. had “had an accurate’) nowledge of the causes in existente |, t would have been possible to. fore-|; tall the effect. ‘ This a skillful player], vith 3 good memory can do,:to some |, xtent, | . Second. I) throw a penny. It ia! qually probable that head or tail’: vill turn up, because it, is’ an even! hance, and experience has shown!, hat the two events are of equally requent occurrence. A single throw $ pure chance, but if ‘I throw a cer-|' ete oh ge we cee there is little or no chance where one throws a thousand times. The. great risk (hazard) is in-the singte throw or a very few throws. This.is one ‘of the very few even chance games, The sweat-board -(or~ hazard-board) and the faro game are: modifications, but in all games of the two. classes last mentioned the percentage of odds is-on one side—in favor of the pro- fessional: player. ° “s The two foregoing illustrations are typical of the most of the, so-called chances of liuman life. In the first operation (turning the card) I might lave improved my’ chance: by, some trick.or by ‘knowing the “ran of the cards,” which might have been dis- honest. .In the second operatién (tossing the penny), where the chances are even, the gnly way to be-assured of a meastire of certainty is, by persistence~throwifig the coin, maybe a thousand times, and in-the same way;-but éven in the long run it js seen that one. ‘cannot win, but simply quit about even. < ‘The first example, which is asso- ciated with causes, shows the folly of tisk (hazard) unless we. have some ‘knowledge: of the conditions, or causes, or can control them. The sec- ond example shows the danger. of a single agtechance hazard and-the fu- tility of persistence in it—becaose if one does not lose in the long run, neither does he win, oe ‘The man who believes fn “luck” is the: man who depends on “blind chance” and: ‘who takes chances in one or two ventures, or a very few ventures, of the. same sort. He is what the professionals call a “piker.” I hope to ‘say something more about the piker another. day. I will now close with the following conclusions: “1. Place no reliance on luck, Where the odds are against you, you are sitre to lose in the lomg run; where the odds are even, there is no substantial gain in the long run, Phere is-no-charm that will help you. 2, Chance is .governed mainly by aws—the ‘laws of probability. Be- ore you take a chance first try ‘to scertain’ and weigh the probabilities, if you, can control.any cause or num- jer of causes likely‘to ‘turn a result n your favor, by all means.do so. in. other words, improve your chance. 3. Fortune favors-him who is best eady for the opportunity: Fortune avors the bold—which means cour- ige and promptness to’ seize oppor-| unity, Ventures make merchants, | mut the real’ merchant is the discreet man, not the foolhardy one. -Discre- ‘ion means to weigh the odds, to neasure the. probabilities, to count. he costs; ire: 4 TO MAKE THE HAIR BROW LONG - There are so many so-called: hair- growers on the market, a largenum- ber of which are nothing more than perfumed grease, it is no wonder peo- ple. get discouraged and lose faith in all hair-tonics. In decidit.z what to uge'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. 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Further information upon request by addressing the president. In L. Edward Milliner Renovating a Specialty 21 T Street, Northwest Brodt Alexander G. 1911 Ninth Street Northwest. Pnone North 2637. Washington, D. C. Musical instructions in Vocal Culture (four-year course), Solfeggio, Piano, Violin, Mandolin, Guitar, Clarinet, Pipe-organ, Harmony, Musical Form, History of Music, Composition Our course in vocal culture is modern in every respect and perhaps unequalled in any colored institution of music; pupils taught from the beginning to the final preparation for the concert The reason of our success is the fact that the courses taught are CLEAR, ATTRACTIVE, EFFICIENT and MODERN. Open all the year. Further information upon request by address ing the president. Ruth L. Edwards Milliner Renovating a Specialty 721 T Street, Northwest Our $2.00 Derbies and Soft Hats Have No Equal ARE OF THE HIGHEST STANDARD "From Maker To Wearer" FACTORY AND SALESROC 419 11TH STREET, N. W. 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There is a constant demand for THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL'S GRADUATES. THE ABILITY TO USE AND CREATE OPPORTUNITY DEPENDS UPON INDIVIDUAL VALUE, and value depends on training, and training depends on earnest, well directed effort to increase skill. THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL'S branches are taught from five dollars up. COME IN AND REGISTER. DAY AND NIGHT CLASSES. MME. AGNES J. SMITH, Principal. DR. W. L. SMITH'S INDIGESTION REMEDY. This remedy will relieve all forms of Indigestion, Catarrh of the Stomach, Heartburn, Sour Stomach, Flatulency. Pain in the Stomach, Water Brash. Acid Fermentation, Gaseous Accumulations and Mal-Assimilations of Foods. When taken in the Stomach it thoroughly digests the albuminous foods, relieves the indigestion, by resting and assisting the stomach until normal or natural digestion is restored. DIRECTIONS Take a teaspoonful in a little water after meals or when suffering. Repeat in an hour if necessary. W. L. 8MITH, Druggist. 801 Florida Avenue N. W. Where you may purchase the genuine article. Washington, D. C. BLICK BROTHERS The best place in this city to purchase coal is Blick Brothers, 8th and Fla. ave northwest. Send in a deposit now. one of the most reliable firms in this city. Katz's big grocery store 1644 Montelle, Ave. N. E., is attracting new customers every day. It is one of the best grocery stores in the North East. Everything strictly fresh and at prices to meet the high cost of living, people living in that section don't have to go to Market. This store is really a * MRS. S. J. TAYLOR Furnished rooms by the day, week, or month. Transient accommodations a speciality. 128 F street northwest, Washington, D. C. One block from Union Station Telephone, Main 10129 WARREN If you want a first-class photo, go to Warren, 803 Florida Ave. N. W. Ask for Mr. Warren and he will do the rest—Advt. AMERICAN ARMY NOW 1,360,000 Grows in Few Short Months From Force Numbering Only 110,000 Men. OVER 300,000 ARE REGULARS Officer Personnel Numbers More Than 80,000—Equipment of Men Much More Diverse Than in Any Previous War. Washington.—The latest official figures put the number of enlisted men in the armies of the United States at 1,360,000. This is the force that has grown in eight months out of an army which on April 31 numbered only 110,000 men. Most of them are still in the training camps. Many of them are not yet disciplined troops, fully equipped and armed for battle. But there they are 1,360,000 of them, already one of the biggest factors Hindenburg is reckoning with for the campaign of 1918. To lead them, there are over 80,000 officers. When the graduates of the second training camp get their first orders the number will be over 100,000—as many officers as there were privates nine months ago. JOSEPH S. GRAVES' CAFE Ice Cream and Soft Drinks of All Kinds Oysters in Every Style Opposite Government Printing Office Phone Lincoln 4571 16 G STRRET N. W. Washington, D. C. COAL DIVERSIONS TO MEET EMERGENCIES. To overcome the hardships of the recent frigid weather thousands of cars of coal have been diverted while en route, under orders from the Fuel Administration. Demands coming from Cincinnati for coal for use of hospitals, hotels and domestic use resulted in the diversion of from 150 to 300 cars. Seven hundred and fifty cars, halted behind Pennsylvania congestion, were forwarded to New England for distribution, while 500 cars from same source were taken for the use of the United States Shipping Board. Three boat loads of bituminous coal at Toledo have been turned over to Michigan authorities for distribution. Urgent demands in North Carolina were taken care of when 300 cars were diverted while in transit to Hampton Roads, where weather conditions were hampering the loading into vessels. Four hundred cars from Western West Virginia were diverted for local distribution in Ohio. ALL WORK GUARANTEED Mary DR. O. E. JOHNSON 633 T Street N. W. THE BEST PLACE TO EAT EVERYTHING FIRST CLASS Hot Bread Morning and Evening Home-Made Desserts Cigars and Tobacco. Rooms for Rent Open All Night Of the new American force over 300,000 men are regulars. In all the world only two regular armies remain—the American and the Japanese. The others have all been swept away in the flood of war. When the first American onslaught takes place German Landwehr and Landsturm troops will find themselves opposed to an army of professional soldiers. Behind the regulars are the 400,000 soldiers of the National Guard, regulars in experience, many of them, thanks to our neighbor of the South. After the Guard come the 600,000 men of the new National army. The whole military establishment, with the marines and the auxiliary forces thrown in, numbers a million and a half. The expansion that has taken place is as if Grand Rapids had grown in eight months to be virtually as big as Philadelphia. Diversity of Equipment The first thing to be done for the new army was to provide them with shelter and clothing, food and warmth. That large undertaking is all but accomplished. Equally great is the task of providing arms. To arm an infantry division in the Civil war meant to provide as many muskets and as many bayonets as there were men in the command. In the present war the job is more complicated. There are rifles and bayonets to be furnished now as formerly, but there are also grenades and gasmasks and helmets and trench mortars to be seen to. Each of the four infantry regiments in a division must have 480 trench knives 192 automatic rifles and three one pounder cannon. The 768 men of the machine gun battalion and the 5,068 men of the field artillery brigade must have machine guns and three-inch guns in numbers that would stagger an artillierist even of so recent a period as the war with Spain Spain. Two hundred and seventy-five thousand troops were made ready to fight Spain in 1898, though only 60,000 of them were actually engaged. LOGS KEPT.FOR A CENTURY House Torn Down in Indiana Shows Timbers to Be in Perfect Condition. Aurora, Ind.—Newton J. McKim has had an old loghouse that was constructed by his wife's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Preston J. Conaway, more than 100 years ago on the bank of South Fork torn down and has sold most of the large logs. The house was constructed of large black walnut logs and they were almost as sound as when they were cut from trees. Mr. and Mrs. Preston J. Conaway were early settlers in southwestern Indiana, and the wealthiest farmers and stock raisers in the Laugherty Creek valley. The old house, which stood sentinel like for more than a century, was given the name of Gray Gables, and a number of years it was used as a dance hall, conducted by Deloss J. Elker and had an orchestra of old-fashioned fiddlers. HUMBLE PRUNE TAKES THE PLACE OF SUGAR Derby, Conn.—The sometimes despaired and often ridiculed prune has come into its own here. When the sugar famine struck the town someone discovered that the sugar in a dried prune was sufficient to give a semblance of sweetening to a cupful of tea or coffee. The prune dropped in a cupful of coffee is soon rendered soft by the heat and the sugar and sweet is extracted in a short time. It is claimed that the caffeine in the coffee offsets the taste of the prune so that the process is not objectionable in any way. It is being extensively tried here by many persona. SPY OUTWITTED BY OLD WOMAN Curiosity Aroused by Actions of Foreign Gentleman on Aberdeen Express. DOES SOME SWIFT THINKING Looking Stupid Is Her Specialty, and When Officers Grab the Spy He Looks at Qid Lady and Sighs. London.—The best spy story in a long time comes from a medical officer, one of the big guns of his corps and profession. It is all about the Aberdeen Express, one of the world's quickest long-distance runs. You leave London after the theater, go to bed in the train, have a cup of tea in bed at Edinburgh, and breakfast in Aberdeen, 600 miles from town. Northward from Edinburgh there are stops a while on the Forth bridge, from whence you look down onto the decks of first-class battleships, and at Dundee and Montrose. dee, and Mountains. The old lady boarded the train at Edinburgh and the porter shoved her into a non-smoking compartment of the day coach. The other passenger was a foreign gentleman—of what nationality it would be hard to say, but foreign. As to the lady, she seemed a harmless old thing some fifty-three years of age. The point is that one of the two was really a German spy, and anyone's first suspicion would point to the old lady. She owned up frankly that she enjoyed a gossip, and found the foreign gentleman quite a good fellow. As to his nationality, the accent gave no clue. She pumped him perseveringly. him persevering. A few stops from Edinburgh the train stopped on the Forth bridge. From the trains one looks down upon a naval base of first-rate consequence. A spy, making rapid summary of the capital ships in full view, might pick up important information. The foreign gentleman stood up, filling the window, shutting out the view, and annoyed the old lady, who also wanted to have a look. Moreover, she saw him go through a long fumbling procedure which puzzled her extremely. What on earth was he up to? The only thing she saw was the last swift movement which emptied the bulgy part of his overcoat. And she caught the glimpse of a wing. Now the whole thing was clear; there must have been a message scribbled rapidly, folded and made fast and then sudden release of a carrier pigeon. The Old Lady's Specialty. And then the foreigner flashed round to see if the lady had noticed anything. No, evidently not. She looked vacant, nodding and half asleep. asleep. "I looked stupid," she said afterward, "but that's my specialty." She must have done some very swift thinking before he had time to turn round. Her first impulse was to run along the corridor and find the guard or rouse the first soldier she saw. But then the foreigner would see by her first movement he was in danger, and she did not want to be strangled, thrown out of the window, and drowned in the Forth estuary. She became affable, wondering what had delayed the train so long. He expressed noble sentiments concerning the allies and contempt for Germany. and contempt for the old lady. But as the train pulled into Dundee the old lady expressed her conviction that the morning papers would be for sale by this time at the bookstalls. She felt that a little run on the platform would ease her limbs after the cramped compartment. She would buy a paper for the foreign gentleman also. Half-way to the bookstall she met a porter. It would be natural to ask him how long the train stopped. him how long the time "Don't be seen speaking," she said, as she passed the porter. "There's a spy in my carriage.' Send the station master to me at the bookstall." master to me When the station master came behind the lady spoke into an open newspaper just as though she were reading aloud. "Don't be seen speaking with me," she said. "There's a spy in my carriage. The train stops at Montrose next, eh? Well, wire Montrose." rose" She paid for her bundle of papers and back to the carriage. and walked back to the carriage. The spy seemed unsuspicious, sitting where she had left him, much obliged for the newspaper. The plucky old lady sat opposite to her spy and entertained him until they reached Montrose. No Stranger. Then came to their compartment a British officer with an armed guard and a detective, who greeted the spy at once like a long-lost brother. at once "Why," said be, "I've been searching for months." for you for more The spy, looked out through the window eastward and saw an armed sentry waiting on the metals in case he attempted escape. Then he looked at the lady—the artful old lady—and stared. Later the old lady received an official communication of warm congratulation on her patriotism, courage and high intelligence, begging her to accept the inclosure, memento of a fine deed done for her country. It is believed that, to an enormous extent, the bed of the ocean is covered with lava and pumice stone. Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. FOLLY. "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin." We often think to paraphrase this line of Shakespeare by substituting the word "folly" for "nature"—"one touch of folly." If there was ever a time in the history of mankind when there was a need to, be serious this is the time. If this observation applies to the whole of the civilized world, it applies no less forcibly to the colored people in the United States. Heretofore, since the war began, we have taken several occasions to caution our people that this is a time when they should make special and extraordinary preparation for "new things." An old Roman writer used the expression "new things" to mean revolution. No, we do not anticipate a political revolution in this country as a result of the war, but we predict some forms of industrial and commercial revolution. These will be associated closely with new political policies. Some forms of so-called socialism are likely to obtain a permanent footing. There may likely be a marked readjustment of ownership of the national wealth There may be in a few years a period of financial depression accompanied with industrial stagnation. Some now-existing theories as to the natural rights of man may give way to radical notions. No one can predict what a great world war to the death will result in. It took the French people nearly a century to reduce their affairs to a stable condition after their terrible ordeal that began in 1789. Indeed, they have not reached that stability yet, for the present war is but a bursting of the smouldering fires. But while we cannot predict any specific outcome of the present war on our own affairs, we can safely predict the necessity for preparation for the worst. When the long plague in Egypt was foreseen, Pharoah, on the advice of that shrewd economist, Joseph, laid up stores to guard against famine. We cannot now lay up great stores of food to last us several years, but we can lay up money. Our present advice to every colored man, woman and child in Washington is: "Put money in thy purse." Cut out extravaganze. Do not buy trash. Do not waste anything. Do not hoard money in your stockings—put in the bank (all of our banks are safe) or invest it in Government bonds or certificates or stamps. Above all, do not spend money in the pursuit of folly. Folly is usually, some pursuit of pleasure. Do not seek and pay for pleasure as a distinust aim or end. The main instinct of life is to preserve one's existence. Next to that the main aim should be freedom from pain—sickness, hunger, any form of inconvenience or unhappiness. Aristotle, the wisest of all men, taught us: "Not pleasure, but freedom from pain, is what the wise man will aim at." But if we follow Aris- totle's advice we will find that we also have abundant happiness and much pleasure. To seek pleasure as a main aim is always pure folly; to pay a price for it is a double folly; to buy it at a stiff price in these grievous times is. an unpardonable sin. The Bee has been advocating certain sorts of co-operation for the colored people. In doing this we have used some lessons that should be necessary only for the primary grade. But we thought it best to go back to the A-B-C's, because all of our people may not have given an equal amount of study to the subject. Co-operation is not a new theory. On the contrary, it is one of the most prominent principles adhered to in the organization of human society. Its practice is one of the things that has given the human race the mastery over the brute world and a large mastery of the natural forces of nature. Turn in any direction and we see the monuments of cooperation. Indeed, what do we see anywhere that is worth while that is not a product of co-operation? Evry custom, law, regulation, profession and trade is an instance of co-operation. It was more or less the case centuries ago; today it is more so than ever before; in the near future it will be perfected and practiced to an extent never before dreamt of. The present great war has forced co-operation to be viewed in aspects never before witnessed. The Government has arbitrarily taken control of many utilities and industrial activities. The end of this is not yet. And, marl our words, the pendulum will never swing back to its former position. It often requires some great calamity to force men to adopt some of the simplest dictates of common sense. Such a calamity sometimes visits whole nations, sometimes individuals, sometimes classes. It rarely fails of some good permanent result. We do not wish for any calamity to our colored race, but we pray that some power will give them a "great awakening" to their industrial and economic condition. "O wad some power the giftie gie us to see oursels as others see us." And Paul tells us: "Be not drunk with the wine of indifference wherein is excess, but be filled with the spirit." In the absence of some such awakening and some such spirit, we would welcome some form of compulsory co-operation. COMMISSIONER LOUIS BROWNLAW The nomination of Commissioner Louis Brownlaw by President Wilson was a deserving compliment to a competent and loyal official. No man has served the people better or has been more loyal to the administration than Commissioner Louis Brownlaw. He has no respect for classes, black or white; he knows no man by the color of his skin, and he has always endeavored to give the black man a square deal. He is not the man to take advantage of political treachery to satisfy the venom of the demagogue. He has exercised the office of Commissioner without fear or favor and as he sees it. Such a man at the head of an elective government in the District of Columbia would be satisfactory to the masses. He has more gratitude in his heart today than many thousand pretentious Republicans, who want the colored vote to pull chestnuts out of the fire. This is not Mr. Brownlaw's politics. The Ree congratulates Mr. Brownlaw and extends its thanks to the President for appointing a man who is not afraid of the colored vote; but would resign if it became necessary and cast his destiny with the people of whom he has no fear. SOMETHING WRONG When a colored man calls upon the colored race throughout the country to set aside a certain day for prayer "for more loyalty" to the Government, that man must be suffering with delirium tremens. Great God! Under all the conditions that are now in existence, is there any race of people more loyal to the President and his administration than the colored American? Here are white traitors in the very army who murder and rob banks. Out of an army of the worst crooks, blacklegs, murderers, assassins in the black race, not one can be found that would raise his hands against the President and his administration in this crisis. Why then, ask for prayer? Why ask for a day to be set aside to pray for more loyalty to the Government? Let the enemies of the black man be removed from our Government and the traitors to the administration will be powerless. The great trouble is, the black man has been doing too much praying for his own good. IT SHOULD KNOW. Of what benefit is a Board of Education that mechanically adopts, the recommendations of the superintendent. of schools without making a personal investigation itself? The case of Miss Janet M. Cropper is a good example of a school blunder. Here is a lady who has been teaching for thirty years in colored public schools in this city and who was dismissed on the recommendation of the superintendent of schools. The Board of Education took the recommendation of the superintendent of schools and his colored assistant, in the face of the protest of the citizens of Deanwood and the parents of certain children, who assembled in the board room two weeks ago to testify to certain irregularities alleged to have existed in that building. The people are asked to be patient, as "all's well that ends well." BILLY SUNDAY. In one of his sermons recently delivered, Billy Sunday declared that people didn't have the right kind of faith. He believed in preaching what was right. The Bee has watched and read excerpts from his many sermons, but it has failed to see any condemnation or criticism against lynching, which seems to be a holiday among certain classes of Southern people. Of course, Mr. Sunday has faith in the justice of the acts by his silence. "What fools we mortals be!" THE POLITICIANS. The colored politicians, both Democratic and Republican, are factors of the past. Their usefulness for good and for evil has passed into oblivion. Their opportunities have fled like chips in a running stream, only to be gathered by the shore walkers after years have passed. They have been menaces to one another. Colored Democracy has spent its time, with drawn daggers at each other's throats. Colored Republicans, with but few exceptions, took no advantage of their opportunities, but like selfish, ambitious place hunters, their history will be one of lost opportunities. Let's pause for a moment and see what each political factor has accomplished by affiliating with political parties. Deceptive platforms of both political parties have been the protective walls to deceive the voters. No pledge has ever been kept. Every promise has been a shadow and every shadow a sign of deception. The black politician has been living and existing upon false hopes. They have gone to political conventions and noted men in power and the remuneration they receive is a continuation of broker promises. Thousands of the old school politicians have passed in their checks and their records have been so bad and their promises so rotten that St. Peter failed to find one redeeming feature among them. A BIG THING. The movie picture contest, conducted by the National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee, which closed this week, will put colored Washington on the map as it never was before. Other cities have been watching this contest. The movie picture, when completed, will be shown throughout the country, and thus will those who have parts in the scenario be seen in hundreds of movie picture theatres by thousands of people. The Bee can vouch for the fairness of the contest. The managers knew no favorites. The system that prevailed made unfairness impossible. The coupon books used tell the whole story, and establish the results without question. This movie picture will prove the biggest and best advertisement Washington colored people ever had, and, incidentally, it will prove a big winner for the Comfort Committee, and a source of funds for the relief of dependent of colored soldiers. LUM HARPER DEAD. The death of Sam Harper, the veteran clerk at the Police Court, was a distinct shock to thousands of his friends and admirers. It is believed that the enforced retirement of his good and devoted friend, Judge James L. Pugh, was the cause of his sudden breakdown. He loved Judge Pugh, who was his friend and adviser. Mr. Harper was loved by all who knew him. He was always willing and ready to extend a helping hand to the lowly and unfortunate. The Bee extends condolence and tears to the memory of a good man, whose devotion to duty will always be a monument to his successors. Some people may say that Dr. Simon Peter Drew doesn't know what he is talking about. There is one thing certain about Rev. Drew—he has the happy faculty of having some of the most distinguished and ablest statesmen at his church. Rev. Drew asks the President to appoint a few colored generals and colonels. Why is he wrong? Colored men are in this fight and are loyal and will fight, notwithstanding the prejudice against them. Dr. Drew denies that he has asked for a day of prayer for more loyalty among colored Americans. TELL 'EM WE'RE RISIN'. This is the caption of a unique calendar by Thomas Wallace Swan, received by the Editor of The Bee this week from his good friend and contemporary, Thos. Wallace Swan, of Philadelphia. CHELSEA THEATRE. The Chelsea Theatre, under the direction of Charles Skinner, is becoming a popular resort. Up-to-date pictures are being shown at this theatre. Lation Scott, 30 years old, was burned to death in the presence of 8,000 people, men, women and children, for an assault upon a white woman, which, it is alleged, he confessed. * * * * The French Army has two colored generals and four colonels. No discrimination on account of color. * * * * The Eighth Illinois Regiment will be known hereafter as the 370th National Guard Infantry. * * * * Colored votes of Boston, Mass., defeated the Democratic mayor for re-election because he indorsed "The Birth of a Nation." Colored Americans who migrated from the South to the North on account of oppression, will not return again. It is reported that several colored lawyers in this city will leave for the North shortly. Major James E. Walker, who has retired from the First Separate Battalion as major, has the regret of thousands of Americans. The colored citizens of East Tennessee have filed a protest against removing colored insane persons to Nashville. A Fostoria, Ohio, restaurant keeper was fined $100 and costs for displaying a sign, "Colored Trade Not Wanted." * * * Ben Grenlee, 120 years old, died at his home in the Gurley Hill Addition, Tulsa, Okla. * * * A mob of Austrians stormed the jail at Pueblo, Colo., and attempted to take a colored soldier out and mob him. WOMAN GUARDS A CROSSING Takes Man's Job as Watchman for Railway Company and Likes the Work. South Bend—Women are filling men's positions in Europe and some are already doing it in the United States. Among the women here who are doing men's work is Mrs. Helen Stackman, watchman at the Vernon street crossing of the New York Central railroad. Mrs. Stackman is enthusiastic over her new job and says, while she believes woman's place is in the home, she feels perfectly at home in Ler little watch house. She has two small children who spend most of the day in school and the rest of the time with their mother at the crossing. Many persons who live in the neighborhood of the crossing believe that Mrs. Stackman earns her monthly salary every day in heart ease for the mother, whose children must cross the railroad to and from school. The little watch house provides the children with a sort of half-way place between home and school, and already this year they have taken advantage of the opportunity to stop and warm themselves. MR. THOMAS IN NEW YORK. New York, Jan. 8.—Mr. Andrew J. Thomas, the little Napoleon of theatrical productions, is being entertained in this city by his friends and admirers. Every social attention is being paid him. He will leave in a few days for Philadelphia, Pa. DR. AND MRS. MAXWELL RETURN HOME. Dr. and Mrs. A. D. Maxwell, who were in the city for the holidays visiting Mrs. Maxwell's mother at 2226 Twelfth Street N.W., have returned to their home in Sumter, S. C., where Dr. Maxwell has a very large practice. Mrs. Maxwell was formerly Miss F. E. Purnell, a teacher in the public schools in this city. Oliver W. Wright James A .Head and Co. Wholesale and Retail Meats and would be pleased to see his old friends. Stands 10 and 11 Q Steet Market EDITH CAVELL'S COUSIN IN ARMY Seeks Vengeance for Brutal Murder of His Boyhood Companion. NOW IN THE SIGNAL CORPS Rejected Many Times by Recruiting Officers in United States and Canada on Account of Small Size —Wants Blood for Blood. Camp Gordon, Ga.—There is one lan wearing khaki in this camp who entered the army with a fixed determination to avenge a deeply scaled private wrong. He is Lawrence R. Cavell of Chicago, first cousin and boyhood companion of Edith Cavell, the English Red Cross nurse whose execution at the hands of a German firing squad in Brussels sent a thrill of horror through the world. It was no easy matter for young Cavell to break into the army. Not until after several valnt attempts, both in the United States and in Canada, did he succeed in getting himself straightened out on the first quarter of the course which he expects to lead to the satisfaction of his desire for revenge. At the time of the murder of his cousin he was only eighteen and small for his years. His father had been engaged in business in Chicago since he had transplanted the family from the native heath in the county of Kent, England, some years before. Kent was also the ill-fated nurse's home, and as a very small boy young Cavell had developed an admiration and affection for his cousin, some ten or fifteen years his senior, that bordered almost on adoration. Rejected by Canada. Inexpressibly shocked by the news of his cousin's atrocious death, the boy immediately presented himself to the agents of the Canadian recruiting forces in Chicago for enlistment in the overseas service, but he was rejected on account of his age and size—he was many pounds underweight. He even went to Canada and brought all the political influence he could compass to bear in order to carry out his purpose, but again was turned down. No one could have hailed the entrance of America into the war with more real joy than he. It would give him his long awaited opportunity to gain some recompense for the murder of his cousin, he thought. He was again doomed to disappointment. A recruiting officer told him that he was too small. Nothing daunted, he carried his case to Washington in person and the matter was placed before the war department through an influential army officer in Chicago. Permission was given him to volunteer in the signal corps, and this he did in Chicago last June. He has just been transferred to Camp Gordon as a member of the outpost company of the 817th signal buttallion under Major Hemphill. Eagerly devoting himself to his dufes and apt to learn; he already has been scheduled for the rank of top sergeant in his company. He also has developed his physique until now he is as hardy as the best soldier in the army. He hopes for a transfer to the aviation section, as it is the goal of his ambition to hurl bombs on the Roches from the air. A visitor to Camp Gordon this week to see his son, Cavell's father called on Captain Allen of the outpost company and recited the story of Lawrence's long baffled determination of revenge, a thing the boy himself had been too modest to do. Like Older Sister to Him. The father said the lad had been brought up in the same house in Kent with Miss Cavell, and that her relationship to him was rather that of a devoted elder sister than of a cousin. "It matters not what branch of service I am in," the boy told his father. "I shall die satisfied only when I have drawn blood for blood, and I pray God to live to see that day. I expect to. He will answer my prayer. "Edith was murdered without a hearing in cold blood by the kaiser. She was an English girl, and they sang the hate song over her dead body. I expect to sing the song of hate over the dead bodies of Germans. No sacrifice is too great, no punishment too severe, no hardship too trying; death itself a coveted reward, just so I am permitted to put bullets into German hearts as that firing squad under orders put them into my cousin's heart. I am in the war for a purpose and I shall accomplish it." Deeply grained as his hatred of the Teuton race had grown, Mr. Cavell said that his son had no quarrel with individual Germans. Scores of them in Chicago, he added, had expressed to his family their horrified resentment of the execution of Miss Cavell. Chance to Marry Free. Lorain, O.—Mayor L. M. Moore of Lorain has been mayoring two years, and has not yet performed a marriage ceremony. Now he wants to marry some couple before he becomes an "ex" and before his powers as a matrimonial splinter empire. monitor spencer engineer "I have read up on the requirements and believe I can do a good job." said the mayer. "All that I need is a couple. To the first applying I will marry them fine, and give the bride a present." The Week in Society QUIT BARKING and making yourself and everybody else miserable, by getting a bottle of BOARD'S COUGH REMEDY—a cough mixture that stops a cold and clears up the throat and lungs in a short time. BOARD'S Laxative Cold Tablets are famous for breaking up head colds and la gripe in short THREE—The Bee order. Sold at Board's Drug Store, 1912½ Fourteenth Street N.W.—Adv. Mrs. Jesse H. Foster, accompanied by her baby, left the city last week to bury her father in North Carolina. Both mother and child returned Monday suffering with an attack of pneumonia. Miss Fannie C. Chase, who was seriously ill last week, has sufficiently improved to be able to sit up. Mr. Andrew J. Thomas, of the Howard Theatre, has returned to the city, after a two weeks' vacation in New York City. Have The Bee sent to your house. Mr. Rufus Byers, house manager at the Howard Theatre, made a trip to Philadelphia, Pa., last Thursday on business. Dr. Smith, 801 Florida Avenue N.W., has the medicine to cure indigestion. Dr. Plummer, Second and H Streets. N.W., has an up-to-date pharmacy. Fresh drugs always compounded. Miss Marie Wade is in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Mrs. White, wife of Mr. John H. White, is ill with pneumonia. Lieut. E. R. Gaither has temporarily suspended the operations of the Stove League of Baseball Fans until the robins begin to sing. The Midcity Theatre will be able to start the work of enlargement as soon as material can be secured. Miss Desdemona Barnett is pushing the contractors vigorously. Lieut. Arthur Leo Curtis was an honored guest of the Mu-So-Lit Club last Friday night. He made a very interesting speech. Mrs. Annie Lawrence Lucas, of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, has been promoted. Miss Leanna Johnson, of Norfolk, Mass., has been appointed to a desirable position as clerk in the War Department, Supply Division. She is stopping temporarily at the Y. W. C. A., Fifth and T Streets N.W. Mrs. W. H. Davis, of Roecroft, Md., has been on the sick list. Every colored regiment is to have a chaplain of its own. Mrs. E. S. Roberts, of North Carolina, is a new appointee at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Miss Maggie Thomas, of Ithaca, N. Y., is visiting relatives in this city. Miss Lillian Evans is in Philadelphia, and, from the Philadelphia Tribune, she is receiving a royal reception. Miss Consuela Coleman, of Howard University, is now in the city. Mr. Howard Hughes, of Howard University, is back in the city. Mr. C. J. Wall, who has been living in Washington, came home a few days ago and is very ill. Mrs. Howard, of Washington, was entertained at Mrs. S. S. Booker's residence in Baltimore, Md. Mr. William H. Lacey, Jr. has resumed his duties at the Capitol, after a pleasant visit to New York and Philadelphia. Capt. Louis H. Patterson paid the city a brief visit this week. He is one of the stalwarts of the First Separate Battalion and will be in the forefront of the fray when his troops go "over there." Miss Marie A. D. Madre has recovered from her recent illness and is actively engaged in pushing the work of the woman's auxiliary of the War Service Committee and of the District Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. Mrs. Grace Green Harris, of 307 Efm Street, continues to improve. The danger point has been passed. Mr. Gordon Turner, of Wallach Place, has, returned to New York City. Miss Desdemona Barnett, manager of the S. H. Dudley Theatrical Enterprises, has been suffering from the "grip," but is able to manipulate the affairs of the race's greatest amusement booking agency in the land. Mr. R. W. Thompson is back at his desk at the Treasury Department, after a long confinement at Freedmen's Hospital, where he underwent two serious operations. He has also resumed his journalistic work. Dr. Samuel Naylor, of 1133 Twentieth Street, continues to improve. Miss Julia Jenkins came in at the last hour and came out No. 6. Had she worked from the start as she did at the finish she would have left all competitors. Mrs. L. S. Goldsbery, formerly Miss Lucinda S. Chase, is in the city the guest of her sisters, Misses F.C. Eva A. and Idá R. Chase. She will remain several days. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Birckett, of Philadelphia, Pa., were the house guests of Mrs. Birckett's mother, Mrs. Florence T. Walton, of Eleventh Street N.W. Mrs. Rosa Piper Lewis, of Fifteenth Street N.W., has been recently appointed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Miss Rosa Stokes, one of our popular and efficient school teachers, is rapidly recovering, under the skill of her physician, Dr. Carson. Mrs. Sarah Hawkins, of 38 N Street N.W., of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, has been recently transferred to the Treasury Department. Mrs. Hawkins is an estimable and deserving lady. EDITOR SLAUGHTER DINES ODD FELLOW LEADERS. Last Sunday, Mr. Henry P. Slaughter, editor of the Odd Fellows' Journal, enereated at dinner at his beautiful home, 2236 Thirteenth Street N.W., a group of leaders of the G. U. O. of O. F., who were in the city en route to Philadelphia to attend the session of the subcommittee of management of the Order of Three Links. In the visiting party were Dr. I. L. Roberts, of Boston, Grand Director; Dr. C. C. Johnson, of Aiken, S. C., one of the Grand Auditors; R. E. Pharrow, of Atlanta, Ga., a leader of the Order in that State. During the afternoon many well-known citizens called at the Slaughter homestead to pay their respects to the distinguished gentlemen. Grand Master E. H. Morris was expected to be present, but was delayed by the blizzard which struck Chicago as he was about to leave for Washington. Mr. Slaughter was assisted in "doing the honors" by his local co-workers, Messrs. L. M. Hershaw and John N. Goins. The menu, and "trimmings" at the dinner were up to the epicurean standard for which Editor Slaughter has long been famous, and the affair was one of the most enjoyable of the series of fraternity feasts given by him at the Washington headquarters of the G. U. O. of O. F. MANAGER DENT IN THE CITY. Mr. W. M. Dent, business manager of the Detroit Leader, Michigan, and son of The Bee's distinguished townman, Thomas M. Dent, Esq., is in the city with his wife, the guest of their father and mother. Manager Dent is a public accountant also, and one of the leading business men in Detroit. He paid The Bee a visit Wednesday and informed the Editor that the colored Americans in his State and city are doing well, and particularly The Bee's good friend, Samuel G. Thompson, who has made a record as a civil lawyer. Mr. Dent is a graduate of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and a most brilliant young man, of whom The Bee is proud. He will remain in the city several days and carry back with him a bouncing baby girl. who is the idol of Grandpapa, and Grandmamma Dent. Painters Disguise Craft to Deceive Foe Lurking in Enemy Waters. CAMOUFLAGE IN THE NAVY Even Dreadnaughts Made to Appear as Something but the Monsters They Are—Navy Men Like Gray the Best. By J. M. DAIGER. Correspondent Chicago News. Norfolk, Va.—"And what is that old tub lying over there, captain?" "That happens to be a brand new torpedo boat destroyer that has just arrived to be manned and put into immediate service." The thing that made me call the new destroyer an old tub is the thing that makes the commander of a German U-boat look through his periscope and remark: "A fine morning, but not a ship in sight." If the next instant finds the submarine banked straight down into Davy Jones' locker, it is because the commander failed to launch a torpedo at the "fine morning" and because the "fine morning" got in its shot first. It is the naval camouflage—the painting of ships to look at a short distance like what they are not and at a long distance like nothing at all. Even a Superdreadnaught Impossible as it might seem to make superdreadnaughts appear anything but the monsters, they are, there are nevertheless processes of camouflage for them. It is obvious that details as to what designs are being used on various types of ships are not for publication, especially in view of the fact that experimental schemes for having ships sail in false colors—not under them—are constantly being tried out. I saw one of the largest of the naval collers, which has several times crossed the Atlantic since America's entry into the war, that had a very simple-scheme of camouflage in which only grays were used. Simple in conception and execution, apparently, but it had an amazing effect on the appearance of the ship a short distance at sea, and from what happened at that short distance I have no doubt the collier was lost to the eye when it got much farther away. The older naval officers incline to the opinion that the regulation navy gray by itself is better than any camouflage that the artists have invented, and they are frankly skeptical about these riots of color and freak designs that the scientific application of one of the fine arts is smearing over their ships. The camouflage used by a great many merchantmen is familiar to everyone who has observed the shipping in the harbors along the Atlantic coast. These vessels close up look like scrambled rainbows or like the palette of an artist in his cups. The weather has much to do with the power of these gay colors to create optical illusions. It is almost impossible for people living comfortably in large cities to imagine the hardships which the men who watch our coasts are suffering at this time of year. Twenty degrees below zero in the Rocky mountains is not so cold as the weather around the capes. The government has supplied the hundreds of men on the patrol boats; the submarine chasers and the mine sweepers with their allotment of winter clothing, but they need knitted articles. Sometimes Must Let It Sink. Should disaster overtake a ship the rules in the district office at Norfolk say the first consideration must be the war needs of the country. One vessel must not risk danger to save another. The conservation of ships and of men, not the chivalry and the courage and the herolism of the sea, must guide the decision of those who would save a shipwrecked crew. If the number of lives involved is very great—great enough to justify the risk of a smaller number of lives—then the rescue may be attempted. But if there is doubt that a rescuing party will itself return from a perilous journey to save a small number of lives, then the war time rule is firm. Early every morning the ships go out in pairs, sister ships, with their huge "broom" stretched across from one vessel to the other, to make clear the path for the merchantmen and warships that must pass through the capes and out to sea and for those that come in during the day. Do they find any German mines? I don't know. But if there are German mines to be found near our coasts, the work of the mine sweepers is a risky business indeed. Even if there are no German mines, I suppose it is quite possible for an American mine—there are thousands of them planted in the district—to break loose from the great mine field in Hampton Roads, or elsewhere, and drift in the way of unsuspecting ship. And there is always the possibility of the enemy within doing what unceasing vigilance in the naval district is trying to prevent him from doing. Golfers Buy Sheep to Mow Links. Arkansas City, Ark.—Combining patriotism and economy, members of the Country club have purchased a stock of sheep to mow their links. I'm Jealous of You J. Rosamond Johnson's latest and best song hit Also Howard Theatre Song Hits—"Girl from Rector's and "Smarter Set" of recent date Song Hits—"Are You from Heaven?", Over There"; beautiful. ballads, waltzes, stirring marches; best blues and rag hits. Violius, Mandolins, Guitars, from $5.00 down Strings, and other accessories. Ask for what you want, we'll sell it. W. A. Adams (Uptown) Music House SPECIAL NOTICES. Metropolitan A. M. E. Church, M Street between Fifteenth and Sixteenth Streets N. W.—A big welcome for you. Services: Preaching, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.; Sunday School, 9.30; Allen C. E., 6.30 p. m.; prayer meeting, Wednesday, 8 p. m.; class meeting, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. Strangers always welcome. Rev. C. M. Turner, D. D., pastor. Parsonage, 1444 Q Street N. W. Phone, North 1825. Bethel Literary will resume its sessions January 15th, when participation will be had in the celebration of the eighty-third anniversary of the church. MU-SO-LIT CLUB GIVES PRESIDENT SINGLETON A THIRD TERM. The Mu-So-Lit Club at its annual meeting Friday evening of last week broke all, records and honored a presiding officer with a third term, the first time in its history of more than a dozen years. On but one occasion prior to this has a member been elected to a second term, and those terms were not consecutive. The lucky man in this instance is Walter J. Singleton, and he was re-elected, as upon his two other races, by a unanimous vote. Mr. Singleton is an experienced parliamentarian, fair in his rulings, courteous in his treatment of all and an administrator of pronounced executive ability. He has given the Mu-So-Lit a progressive administration and stands pre-eminently for a club home and for a higher standard of efficiency as an instrument for civic advancement. The other officers were also re-elected by acclamation, thus giving the Singleton administration a blanket endorsement of the heartiest kind. The roster for the ensuing year, besides Mr. Singleton as president, stands. First vice-president, L. M. Hershaw; second vice-president, R. W. Thompson; corresponding secretary, F. Morris Murray; financial secretary, J. C. Burlls; recording secretary, Charles P. Ford, and treasurer, A. N Scurlock. Charles M. Thomas continues as chairman of the executive committee. Quarters for the club will probably be secured for the time-being in the Y. M. C. A., and will be open to members every evening. The principal speaker at the last meeting of the Mu-So-Lit Club was Mr. Emmett J. Scott, special assistant to the Secretary of Wah, and his address, outlining the policies of the administration in its dealings with the colored soldiers, was a gem of clear statement and gave information that was valuable and inspiring. Mr. Scott's services were lauded highly by many members, including Messrs. Hershaw, Pelham, Cobb, Thomas' and Wilson. Splendid music was furnished by the Howard University Glee Club, led by Roy W. Tibbs, and accompanied by Henry Lee Grant. MARTINSBURG, W. VA., NOTES Despite the fact that Martinsburg is mildly handicapped on account of the high cose of foodstuffs and the scarcity of coal, there have been many features of pleasantry, rounds after rounds of socialities, punctuated with plenty of good eats. Mr. and Mrs. Lovett, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Corsey, of West Burke Street, have returned to their home in Winchester, Va., after spending a most pleasant stay in our city. Mrs. Irvine E. Johnson, the wife of Rev. E. T. Johnson, pastor of the Dudley Baptist Church, has returned to Washington, where she is employed in the Government Printing Office. Mrs. Maggie Tolliver, of the Dudley Church, is still on the sick list. Sister J. F. Carter is rapidly recov- Violins, Mandolins, Guitars, from $5.00 down Strings, and other accessories. Ask for what you want, we'll sell it. MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED ering from an operation upon a very painful foot. Sister L. Blakey, of the Ebenezer, underwent a very serious operation. Though not yet out of danger, she is slowly on the mend. Miss Lillian Carter, the daughter of Deacon J. L. Carter, has been indisposed for several days. She is being attended by an anxious mother, who is doubly anxious on account of the fact that her son Branson Carter has received his questionaire—and there are many anxious mothers and wives hereabouts. God knows best, mothers, dear, and wives ought to be the least concerned when those with dependents stand such splendid chances of exemption. The following persons attended a social given at the residence of Mrs. Emma D. Turner of the Mt. Zion Church by Miss Lola West in honor of her brother and his wife of Fairmont, W. Va.: Revs. S. R. Hughes, E. T. Johnson, J. T. Reid, Mrs. N. Ross, Prof. F. R. Ramer, F. Brisco, Mr. and Mrs. James Hutton, Mrs. H. Folks, Emma Johnson, Bertie Cook, Edmonia Lewis, Stella Stewart, Nora Harris, A. Gaseway, M. Nathan Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. Ike Phoenix, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Carter, Mrs. Francis Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Crane, Miss Mary Becks, Messrs. William Marshall, Reiley Brown, Lewis Green, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Moxley, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Cheirs, Rev. and Mrs. Dodson of Mariboro, Md.; Mrs. Berkley Fairfax and Eudora Williams and Mr. and Mrs. Crumwell. Aside from a tasty little repast being served, Rev. S. R. Hughes acting as toastmaster for the occasion, several persons were introduced who made short but timely speeches and several sweet solos were sung. "Just the kind of social that the churches might safely indorse," says Rev. Johnson, "and to which the unconverted would find pleasure in coming. In the past few years it has seemed well nigh impossible for our people to give any entertainment without turning it into a hop, the church people taking a large hand, for which reason God is showing His displeasure." Rev. Reid spoke concerning the war and how it is being brought home to us. Mr. Moxley dwelt at some length upon the achievements of our people. This was followed by a solo by Mrs. Sadie Crane, "Swing Low Sweet Chariot," all joining in the chorus. Time and space will not permit further insertion. But thus ended a most pleasant occasion. Shaking Mr. and Mrs. J. E. West's hand, everyone was sent back to Fairmont with good cheer. DR. DREW SAYS THE NEGRO SOLDIERS CAN CATCH GERMAN KAISER. Dr. Drew Asked President Wilson to Appoint Negro Generals, Colonels, in the United States Army—Gives as His Reason the French Army Has Two Generals, Four Colonels and One Hundred and Fifty Captains in Their Army—And It Is Smaller Population Than Twelve Million Negroes in United States... Dr. Simon P. W. Drew, pastor of the Cosmopolitan Baptist Institution- + al Church, N Street between Ninth Phone North 2367 1911 NINTH STREET, N. W. There Is Nothing Else In Which Service Meads So Much As In Examining Eyes DON'T BE SATISFIED WITH CLAIMS —not even ours. Find out what is behind the clams. Investigate the record of the men who examine your eyes. TEN YEARS -examining eyes and fitting over 20,000 people with proper glasses is Dr. Block's record. We examine your eyes, write the prescription for glasses and make them in our own shop, all for one charge—a reasonable one. We examine each eye separately in a perfectly dark room. And our prices are consistent with good work and service. BLOCK OPTICAL CO. Exclusive Optometrists and Opticians. 737 7th St. N. W. Four Doors from H Street JUSTH'S OLD STAND. Workingmen, everything is all right with us, and business moves right along in the good old way. Our good hustlers trade, sure spend the "mon" and are sure buyers of fine grade slightly used overcoats at $5 up. Get wise. Try us. JUSTH'S OLD STAND, and Tenth Streets N.W., president of the White Cross Free Employment Bureau; president of National Evangelical Ministers' Alliance of America, and president Henderson National Civil Rights League of America, and a man of the "hour," issued appeal to all pastors, ministers, editors, doctors, teachers and leaders of the race to observe a national prayer day Sunday, February 10th, in the United States, returning to the Almighty God thanks for the great victory—the highest court of the land declaring unconstitutional the segregation laws—and the appointment of seven hundred Negro commissioned officers in the army. Mass meeting to be held Lincoln's birthday, February 12th, and Washington's birthday, February 22nd, at Cosmopolitan Baptist Church. Principal speakers: Congressmen Herald Knutson of Minnesota and Louis W. Fairfields of Indiana. Campaign to be started for five million membership February 12th for the White Cross Free Bureau—gentleman bringing the largest number of members will be awarded a gold watch; lady, a gold watch. All old folks will be given a pail of coal free February 12th who attend the meeting. Dr. Drew has asked President Wilson to allow Negroes to organize a regiment and appoint generals and colonels, and they will catch the German Kaiser. Dr. S. P. W. Drew, 1317 Corcoran Street N.W., Phone, North 3608. White Cross Free Bureau—Branch offices to be opened in every city in the United States. 02 WIAOM “ZIAPLE ¢ AND: “BEReGAL” - fe mon | i = THAT LAZY Ba | GET UP THIS. ———————— SI] MORNING , C S| ALRIGHT. SS X : Bae S Cal AS ce, WS x8 \ ae 8 i eA 1.3" \— SS Pat: XQ LA i; Pe SS r) Al wil ann. « eras MS A 2 ae PUBLIC MEN AND’ THINGS ‘The’ Sengalese failed to have thei appointed feast this week, and as’ < result there, is considerable kicking It seems, from hearsay evidence, tha’ the Grand | Chef, Thomas L. Jones who is an authority on constitutiona law, on looking up the ‘statutes, dis covered that all wet goods shippec into the ‘Disfrict’ must -'be labelec “Whiskey.” As the menu preparec by him for the first grand feast of the Sengalese included: importec wines, thé Grand Chef found it ex- pedient to find. out if French and Italian wines came under the head of -whiskey.. ‘Barrister’ John . Collins the.Grand Referenda of the Senga- lese, on ‘being asked an opinion, ‘was of.the opinion that even French’ and Italian wines, carted into the ‘District in any, Way saye inside of the abdo- men, would’ be regarded as. whiskey, under the assumption that the Sen- galese ‘couldn't afford such high- falutin’ stuff. There was an unusu- ally farge meeting this week, every imember. being present, and the ante- room crawded with applicants; who, thinking this was to be a feast night, were .present to be adinitted as full members. * The’ steering committee, on investigating the applicants, found that every one’ of: them had been’ re- jected’ by the Booley, and that all of ‘them had three or four degrees tack- ed on to their names, which they had ‘secured "surreptitiously. and other- wisé. : eR Among the applicants was Royal Hughes. There was a fong and acrimonious debate, over admitting Royal, many of the members claim- ing that he was-a trifle too “yaller” ever, in spite of his color, and that he -has never had his hair straight~ ened, it flowing down on his shoul- ders just as nature accidentally gave it to him, -he was admitted, and on motion of Gus Gray, was placed on the committee on. morals. Royal was delighted with beifig placed on this important committee, for, as he stated, in his speech: of: acceptance, “morality-is today the issue between decericy and. indecency, betwéen' ap- probrium ‘and’ dissiaption; between conscience and disillusion.” Royal made some -speech. of acceptance, and had not the Grand Publicist, Dick ‘Thompson, reminded hitn that. his chain of papers had notified him that they could only take four columns of matter about the. Sengalese this week, Royal would be, right this: min- ute, doing the LaFolletteact—break- ing the record for long speeches. When ‘Royal sat down, Tom Jones, with tears streaming down his eyes, or rather from his eyés, rushed over to him-and congratulated him. Wil- lidm Calvin,-with an Iago ‘strut, and a Richard III stride, and a, half- ‘haked, Cleopatra cast of countenance, arose and moved that the steno- graphic copy: of .Royal Hughes’ speech, taken by the Rev. Simon [Peter W,; be transcribed, printed in de lux, and transmitted by’ parcel ‘post to every hatnlet in the country. Morality,” exclaimed Editor Chase, ‘excitedly, “is a burning question. Brother Royal Hughes is an exem- dification. of morality, or he couldn’t have broke into this: organization with a burglar’s kit.” : At this juncture Aaron Gaskin, who gracefully bears the: honor of having the ‘degree Bachélorrof: Mix- ology, arose and asked’ Brother Chase at -what time in the night did he discovér morality .was a burning proposition.” A trifle nonplussed’ at lirst, Chase recovered his equilibrium, just like Walter. Johnson. recovers himself after the opposing team has nit him for: a total of ten bases in one inning, and replied, in. the purest English, ‘that he discovéred morality was a burning question the: day: the halo was: placed upon his. billiard ball as a sign of distinction and devotion to pure morals. Chase's sally, that cut through the assemblage the. same as if it was oné of Hal Chase’s grass-' cutters sizzling across the diamond between first and second, was relish- ed by all present, including John Col- lins, the author of “Pure Morals and How She Is Conducted.” Forty members were taken in at this meeting, and about twenty appli- cants were instructed to file addition- al’ endorsements as to their moral standing before a, final vote could be taken on -their applications. Gus] Gray, just as a feeler as to whether Jim: Cobb..and Rosco Bruce had a semblance of chance being admitted, offered a motion to amend the*con- stitution. so .as to provide that forty or fifty black balls be required to re~ ject an applicant.“Immediately fifty prothers were on the floor to object, many” claiming that there was, a trick in Brother Gray’s motion, and a dark, sinister “sleeper” hid in it to. pave the way for, the admission of “either. sien Cobb.or Rosco Bruce, or both. . © “You can’t steak ‘into this organi- zation under false pretenses no act- ive, up-to-date _spiketail-coated gen- tlemen,” exclaimed John Collins.- Lord Martin; Viscount of :503 D Street, with all the dignity and sol- emnity of “Lord Chesterfield before his ‘third marriage to the Princess of Coniac, arose and, steadying himself, just like Cicote steadies himself be- fore pitching a rapid inshoot, said- ‘Gentlemen, why- this’ elasticity of = rile eget | ah ee uN Pans AM i YY | ae : Oe or TN ; - | ny en, LE ZB iL ey NEP | bit os * KH! HHA = ae RES WY mt ESO = ea Le ASAE 7 . Wetiedlathonat Garigen CaeW.We. sv 2 - Ne your temperaments? Why this. re- volting , intrusion* of excitement? Why this unburdening of the spas- modic. ebulitions of the’ denizens of the jungles?” % ' At this juncture Royai Hughes, tossing his long black locks over either shoulder, called for the pre- vious question, and the: Grand Dia- tribe,. Judge ‘Hewlett, informed ‘the excited assemblage. -that Brother Gray’s miotion had received'no sec- lond; that it didn't have no more | chance of getting a second that Ger- {many. Schaffer had to “come .back” in. baseball, or John Dancy to become a lavished spender. Whereupon quiet was restored and’ things took their ordinary rambling -course. After settling all legal points ré- ‘garding the feast, it was decided ‘to give the initial feast, next Tuesday ‘night without fail, and ‘all members were instructed to regard this event ‘as a hint to’ take the customary Sat- urday night bath as ‘an extra precau- tion against indigestion and. nausea. Bill, Houston” moved adjournment, and -Rev, Simon -Peter, stepping to the front of, the sanctuary with a Billy Sunday stride, and a Rev. Will- banks’ ‘ cast of ‘countenance, pro- nounced the benediction in such a powérful manner, that Dick Thomp- son exploded with “Amen.” é After_that-the third meeting of the Senigalese became a matter of vital history, to go thuridering down the ages just like Milan racing for third on an infield -hit. THE BLACK POPE. As.the colored race—be it said ‘to their patriotic .credit—has never pro- ducéd’a spy or. a cowardly traitor to- ward this Government, I was greatly surprised to see in. one of the daily papers .an “order” by our good friend, the: Rev. Dr. Simon. P. W. Drew, ‘calling upon every Negro preacher, teacher and’ leader to. observe. Sun- day, February 1oth,‘as a day of pray- er. The race.is “ordered” by this chief pastor in Israel, or the Black Pope of the United States of Amer- iga, to pray on the Sunday above mentioned for “greater loyalty-to the cotntry and Government.” Think of itt oS . . Now, in the name of twelve mil- lions of loyal, brave and patriotic men and women: of this much-persecuted race, I am going to ask this highly respected and much noted Black ‘Pope ‘of the United States of’ Amer- ‘ica, how, and when, did it appear to ‘him that the colored race has become derelict in its loyalty to the country and: Government? “No, race of | peo- les here on, the-Americdn ‘soil has seen moré loyal to this country and Government than.the race for which sis Gi oP) cast. pies | = wa Every reader ofthisbaper Shee | <= eer OAM EE Beek | 8) QAI a pe a Dee DURHAM DUPLEX RAZORCO=- Jarsny City, NJ. <4 Dr. Drew. presumes to be sponsor ‘Then, too, if ‘the Rev. Dr. Drew’s or. der to prayer .was really necessary, i would give the lie to the Negro’s pas: and present loyalty to this country and Government: And while praying before the footlights of this country for-.a little costless. notoriety, the Rev. Dr. Simon P, W. Drew should study well his subject before coming before the public, less He gives the efiemy a stick with which to crack his own, head. : When Dr. Drew calls, oriorders, ‘special day for such a prayer: as he proposes he little. thinks that - he niakes a serious charge of disloyalty to this Government on the part of the race. Of course, there is alway: room’ for improvement, and if the Black Pope can show how, and why, the colored race can improve along the line of patriotism, we shall be very much delighted to be one of' the students at his feet. For to be loyal to this Government has been the chief aim Of the. colored man and brother from its very foundation to the present day. I do not think. the good Lord would hear such a. prayer as has been ordered ‘by Dr. Drew, and I for one will not. bother Him along that line. © 2 When calling for such a prayer as the good Rev. Dr. Simon P. W. Drew proposes, he must have had the other fellow in mind. Certdinly not the race with which he is identified. When a man usurps the authority to speak for others he. should at least steer clear of the Path of fallacy. . i J, C. Cunningham, HAMPTON DEFEATS HOWARD, : arto 18 * The Hampton Institute basket ball team met and defeated the Howard University quintet in‘ the Hampton gymnasiunr on January 12th, The game was closely contested by both sides, but the. Hampton boys proved too fast for the heavy Howardites. The: game began with a rush. Howard pocketed ‘the first goal and seemed to play the seasiders off their feet’ in the first few minutes. They succeeded in keeping a lead, and at the end of the first. half the score = art ® %O eo wwe) rae ae > aa [e SUC ame eT en aT Sj Fee ama | IN THE. ea lie 2 | : an _ceoser. Jay c GR Se ay uff ANG A oe Oe SS 2) Ba aat A eo. y > fo 4 Wf : of : 7 (STMT 0000. \ihp_ Mie . » ASS Oe stood 14 to 9 in the Howard team’s favor. . of . In‘ the second ‘half the high passes and long shots of the Washington- ians were ‘not: so successful-as they had been if the first half. Soon the scoring. began to change, for Hamp- leon was slowly but surely gaining. on her opponent. Phillips of Hampton was shooting with deadly precision, and the ‘superior condition of ‘the Hampton team was beginning to show up. , Finally the score became tied, and the qudience went wild with enthusi- asm, Then Howard took the lead again, but it was not for long, as they were soon overtaken. When the whistle ended the game thé score was 21 to’ 18°in Hampton’s favor. ‘The line-up follows: vs Hampton—Gurnoe, .rf.;° McLaren (captain), If.; Phillips, c.; Jackson, rg.; Wright, Ig. ‘Howard—Miles (captain), rf.; Wil- liams, If; Garner, ¢; Davis, rg; Wright, Ig. Substitutes: . Withers for Jackson. Referee: Mr. Robinson, ‘Timekeep- er: Mr. Johnson. Time:. Twenty- minute halves. Score: Hampton, 21; Howard, 18. goth . i —Whmn. Everett Clark, - FAIRMOUNT HEIGHTS, MD. The Prince George County colored ‘school teachers ‘have been called to meet at Fairmount Heights, Md., on Friday, February 1, ‘1918, at 9 a. m. sharp. The : trustees of colored schools’ and’ the colored farmers are invited and urged to attend the meet- ing. Addresses will be made by noted ‘educators. Among them. will be the following: 7 Prof. E: S. Burroughs, ‘county ‘su- perintendent; Prof. J, Walter Hiuf- fington, State supervisor of schools and State agent representing the General Eduéational “Board, New York City; Hon. Emmett J. Scott, secretary of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute’ and- special assistant secretary of War. . —James F. Armstrong, Read The Bee if you want tu know who is in the city. * a, , ESCAPED FROM GERMANY eS = ; oe Ror BS ae bee be e a gm ee’ eS. 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M. Daily Sunday 1 o'clock Open Day and Night Livery and Chapel JOHN T. STEWART, Undertaker and Embalmer. 30 H Street, Northeast. Main 1124 Washington, D. C. CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF THE COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE Article I. 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. Section 2. The particular business and objects of this society shall be to encourage and foster vocational edu cation, 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. Article IV. 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 theresiter 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 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 made shall not be changed without the participation and consent of the members of the society. Section 2. The Board of Governors shall have power to make rules and regulations in addition to and 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. BRODT. The greatest hat manufacturers in the United States and the most fashionable are Karl F. and Alexander G. Brodt, whose factory and sale stores are at 419 Eleventh Street N. W. and 503-5 Ninth Street N. W. If you want an up-to-date hat for a Christmas present or a fine winter hat of any description, go and see the new hats at Brodt's. Mention The Bee. 1,200,000 Men, Women and Children Starved, Robbed, Enslaved or Deported by Turks. The Hague—One-half, or 800,000 of the Armenian people who were under Turkish rule at the beginning of the war have been slaughtered or starved to death by Turks, according to an indictment issued here by several influential Hollanders, among whom are A. F. de Savornin Lohman, the Dutch minister of state, and Dr. Anton van Gyn, formerly Dutch minister of finance. In all, they assert, the Turks have deported 1,200,000 Armenian men, women and children, robbed them of all they possessed, massacred the men, carried off the women and girls to Turkish harems and Kurdish villages, sold the children in the slave market and abandoned the remainder to slow death by starvation. "This remnant of the Armenian people in Asia Minor," says the statement of these neutrals, "is a starving begar people, consisting in the main of old men and women and children. The number of children who, separated from their relatives, lie along the caravan routes or wander about the towns like dogs runs into tens of thousands. It is scarcely credible that in the twentieth century the extermination of almost an entire people under such terrible circumstances was possible. But entirely trustworthy evidence of neutral consular officials, of German and Swedish missionaries and teachers is available and puts the matter beyond all doubt." DOES HER BIT AT 95 MARHS & EWING Mrs. Thomas Edwards of Oberlin, O., at the age of ninety-five years has supplied her four sons and numerous grandchildren with enough canned stuff from her own garden to supply them for the winter. She did all her garden work except the plowing, and canned her products under the direction of manuals furnished by the national emergency food garden commission. JANE ADDAMS SEES VISION Saya Sympathies of Women Will Be Developed by Demand of Human Needs. Washington.—That the sympathies of women will be developed by the tremendous demand of human needs is the opinion of Miss. Jane Addams: "The response of women to an international situation which calls for daily, uninteresting, horesome conserving, will re-orientate the notions of what human relations mean," she said in a talk before the national council of women in Washington recently. "Look beyond the petty details, of food saving, and see a vision of the wonderful chance of responding to human needs, feel enlisted in the service of internationalism, while following the routine of conservation," is Miss Addams' message to American women. She is speaking twice a month, in different parts of the country, for the United States food commission. 'FAMILY HISTORY' LOSES SUIT Cold Spring, N. Y.—Justice J. A. Young of the supreme court, denied in Dutchess county an application made by Mrs. W. A. Deyo of Verplank, for a separation from her husband, whom her sister accused of flirting with her. The justice refused a decree after the plaintiff's sister, Lillian, admitted Mrs. Deyo was the fourth of their family to bring marital actions, two sisters having received divorces and two having sued for separations. The plaintiff's sister declared that on two occasions when she called on Mrs. Deyo, Mr. Deyo forced his attention on her and made proposals to her. Mr. Deyo absolutely denied the accusations of the sister-in-law, who was divorced some time ago from her husband, and he won the action. GERMAN CALLS ON COUNTRYMEN TO OUST KAISER Bitter Arraignment of Hohenzol- lernism Written to Be Read by Germans. EMPEROR ALONE TO BLAME Senseless and Extravagant Lust for War Plunges World Into Sea of Blood and Tears—Soldiers Urged to Join Entente and Wrest Land From Claws of Destroyer. This article was written by a German to be read by Germans. It was circulated in Germany through the efforts of German republicans in Switzerland who are working for the overthrow of Hohenzollernium and the establishment of a German republic. A copy has just been received in this country and has been translated for the use of the press. COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION. BY SIEGFRIED BALDER. Comrades in war Three years have passed since the German emperor plunged the world and his people into this most groundless, senseless and implious of all wars, to a sea of blood and tears. Trained from childhood to be a soldier, brought up amid the perverted views of the junker and officer caste, dreaming of the laurels of the conqueror as the highest ideal, counselled by generals, befriended by war contractors, and even with a financial interest in their profiteering, he has since 1905 systematically paved the way for the war. He desired this war, he permitted the systematic cult of war in Germany by the Pan-Germanists, and he has encouraged it. He supported and fomented the almost daily quarrels of the other powers through the Pan-German press by his inflammatory speeches. Last of all he affixed his signature to the various declarations of war; he is fully and entirely responsible for them. For nine years the diplomacy of our neighbors, consistently anxious for peace, succeeded in averting this disaster from the world. This was the policy which was falsely presented to your ignorance as the "isolation policy," in reality, a peace policy in which Germany was always most heartily invited to participate. Germany was not isolated, but the German government, and in its wake the Austrian government, deliberately and maliciously withdrew from the circle of civilized nations, as criminals from human social circles. But not only the diplomatic circles of foreign states, but also German men of insight and lofty ideals have placed themselves firmly in opposition to the emperor's senseless and extravagant just for war, in spite of his wrath, and have sacrificed their positions rather than their convictions. This was true. M. England's titled men and women are in this war to win, and are actuated by the same motives and feelings as the humblest Tommy. 'The noblemen of England have as a whole gone into the army or navy and have proved their courage and sacrifice as evidenced in the day's citations and casual lists. The women are also doing their bit. Few of England's prominent women are not enrolled and actively working in the various service leagues assisting the government. The Duchess of Abercorn has two daughters in war service. One is working in a munition factory and the other is in the Red Cross service. Hohenzollern loved them; and the honor and welfare of my fatherland stand above all else, and are the only lodestars of my destiny. I know the war, the events leading up to it, its causes, and its progress—more than the kaiser's government likes. I assure you that the welfare of the German people demands that you come over; aye, that you turn your cannon around, that you join the entente and march with them to the Rhine and over it, and wrest our land from the claws of its destroyer, for now and for all times. FREE MANKIND FROM Comrades, I pledge you by all that we hold holy, I am a son of the German people, I love them with every other of my being, more than ever a in the case of the president of the Relchsbank, Doctor Koch, and even of the emperor's brother, Prince Henry of Prussia. On the 81st of July, 1914, he urged the emperor to desist from the war, and when he failed in his attempt he flung at the emperor's feet his commission as grand admiral and commander in chief of the German navy. FACTS NOT GIVEN Up to the last moment (England even held out until noon of the 4th of August, 1914, when the German army had already swept like a torrent over the boundaries of the neighboring countries on every side) the rulers, ministers and diplomats of England, Russia, France and Serbia did all that Lay within human power, even to the utmost self-abnegation, in order to preserve peace for the world. This fact is clearly manifest; the documents concerning it set it forth in black and white to the gaze of the world. They are acknowledged as authentic by the German government, but they are naturally withheld from the German people. No one wished to attack us, either then or at any later time. All that Austria could ask of Serbia with even the slightest semblance of justice was freely granted. Thus from the very beginning of the war the sympathy of the entire world belonged properly to our neighbors who had been so wantonly attacked. But it did not stop at sympathy; the scoundrels who govern you and control you, by the colossal atrocity of their methods of warfare, by such brutality as in itself to be a menace to the whole neutral world, by disregard of all established treaties, managed step by step to enrage all civilized humanity to war against us. to war against us. If a bloodthirsty maniac should be let loose on the streets those whom he attacked would defend themselves. All peace-loving men would hasten to their rescue; only cowards would silkk timidly away. This is today the attitude of the world toward Germany. There will be no peace, and justly so, until the murderer is imprisoned and shorn of his power to harm. THIS MURDERER GERMAN EMPEROR. Comrades in war, this murderer is the German emperor and his government; that is to say, the men whom he himself has chosen for his infamous plan, without consulting the people, and without regard for their wishes; and these are accomplices he has selected after men of honor have refused their services. In the spring of 1914 by an overwhelming vote of lack of confidence, the reichstag showed its distrust of the only man whose signature the emperor needed for mobilization and declaration of war, Bethmann-Holweg, his imperial chancellor. In no modern civilized state would it be possible for a minister to remain in office after being openly branded by the representatives of the people as unfit, but in Germany any criminal may become and remain imperial chancellor at the will of the emperor alone. Punishment has already found him out. Another lackey has been promoted to Jackey-in-chief., without consultation with the German people and their representatives. This murderer is the German emperor with his accomplices; but, not the German people, the poor people defrauded and exploited by their government; not the poor soldiers, who are driven to slaughter by these knaves under the iron shackles of military law, like the miserable galley slaves of old. Comrades, how long is it your wish to put up with this? When will you rouse yourselves? When will you take arms on the side on which every man of honor must now fight; on the side of humanity and civilization against this gang of slayers? When will you free our poor, down-trodden, farnished people from its tyrants, and again establish justice, liberty, morality, reason and civilization in Germany? Why not come over to fight, on the side of justice, of truth, of freedom, all of you; the side on which all civilized nations as well as the noblest and most far-seeing of your own people have taken their stand? I know the reasons which hold you back: 1. Your ignorance; the false doctrines with which you were inoculated in your school days in all matters of history, civil life and politics; the pretentious lies of the German press, whipped into line by a military dictator; your implicit confidence in your "God-given" leaders. 2. Fear of your masters, especially of the officers. But these hangmen of the kaiser are cowardly and hide themselves in time of danger behind cover. Shoot them down like mad dogs if they get in your way. Rather that they die than the hundreds of thousands of honest, industrious fathers of families whom they have already hunted into the jaws of death; a hunt which day by day goes on. 3. Fear of committing an unpardonable crime, and of being unable to return home even if you escape punishment. BUT THE LAWS BY WHICH THE MURDERERS MAINTAIN THEIR POWER AND MAKE YOU TRUCKLING SLAVES SHALL BE BLOTTED OUT BEFORE THE WAR IS AT AN END, AND YOU WILL BE JOYFULLY WELCOME HOME WITHOUT DISGRACE, AND MORE THAN THAT, WITH THE HIGHEST HONOR, AS TRUE HEROES AND LIBERATORS OF YOUR COUNTRY. 4. Fear of injuring our fatherland if you go over to the French and English, and more than that if you fight on their side, which is a matter for your own choice. FREE MANHUNT AN INSANE CRIMINAL There are only two possible ways of ending this war: Either humanity, without you, without the co-operation of the German people, will annihilate Prussian junkerdom, and will starve out the German people that thus they may free mankind, for now and forever, from a curse which rests upon them with the weight of Alpine snows; from any insane criminal on a throne who, by a stroke of the pen, may change millions of men into corpses and cripples, and ruin the industry and welfare of a nation; either this or you yourself will assist in the task of freeing mankind. PEACE WILL NOT COME ONE HOUR BEFORE THIS GOAL IS REACHED, BUT NOT ONE HOUR LATER. But if this goal should be reached without you and in spite of you you will be ground down into ruin, and what is more, the people of our German fatherland will be given over to the will of the conquerors. Then your intellectual and political leaders, the true leaders who are not the lackays of the emperor, will have no right and no opportunity to interpose a word concerning the future order of the world and of Germany. But if you co-operate, and that with all your might, to carry out this purpose, the honor of the German people, which is today scorned as merely an insensate tool in the hands of murderers, will be restored; and more than that, you will have a voice in the establishment of the new order of the world and of Germany. And take my word for it we shall have peace, and we can have it on such terms that the German people will be happier in the future than they ever were before the war. But leave us in the lurch, and we must recognize with sullen rage and scorn that we are the fellow countrymen of hope lessly deluded slaves, upon whom will rest the blame for their own ruin and for the annihilation of Germany. for the ammunition of EMPEROR WICKEDLY DECEIVED YOU. Comrades in war, you have taken an oath of allegiance to your flag. But the emperor, too, took an oath at the beginning of his reign, an oath of allegiance to the German constitution. The confederation which forms the German empire was established according to this constitution, "TO PROTECT THE UNITED PROVINCES AND THE LEGAL RIGHTS THERE OF, AND TO PROMOTE THE WELFARE OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE." To guard it is the foremost, indeed the only, duty of the German emperor. If this purpose cannot be accomplished without war, then the emperor may declare war, but not until then: But the emperor wickedly, wantonly, by deceiving the German people, by misrepresenting facts and by forging official documents, by breaking sacred treaties which he as the defender of justice should have observed, has overthrown Belgium, declared war on Russia, France and Serbia, and has thereby violated the laws of justice and the constitution; has hurled the German empire down to ruin and has wrecked the welfare of the German people. The oath which you have taken means allegiance merely to an emperor who is the protector of the German people, the guardian of their constitution, the true preserver of their welfare; it does not mean allegiance to burglaries, murderers, rascally drummers for greedy cannon makers. But you took no oath against the German people whom it was this emperor's duty to protect whom you must now protect without him and against him, a miserable wretch who betrays his country in the hour of greatest danger, who either from stupidity or from cowardice works against the good of his people. KNIFE AT GULLET OF Let every man who loves the German people and the German fatherland come over! The password which is to be given at the French posts is: REPUBLICI He will meet not only French and English and Americans, but also German patriots, whose concern it is that our fatherland, the fatherland so shamefully and treacherously sold by its rulers by divine right, should not be annihilated; and he will be welcomed with honor by the French if he gives this password, and will be well treated. Comrades in war, the knife is at the gullet of the soundreels who rule you, and they would rather starve and bleed the German people to death to the last man than make peace, or even make known the object of their war. For they know very well that the hour of reckoning has struck for them when they can no longer suppress the truth beneath their martial law, and trample freedom in the dust. Before we make peace, therefore, and in order to make peace, we must first reckon with them. Dog Saves Three. Altoonn, Pa. A barking dog saved Mr. and Mrs. Scott Steele and their baby from probable cremation recently, when their home at Lakemont was burned. The dog barked, whined and scratched at their bedroom door until the family was awakened. The lower portion of the house filled with smoke, Steele had just time to guide his family to safety when flames cut off the airway. OMFORT REDIT ONVENIENCE Furniture by everlasting home comfort for your charge account in such a way that you is to our interest to enable you to afford with this object in view we make them at the circumstances of each individual. Endous stocks of homefurnishing variety of attractive patterns. There are; also the better grades that range up of the different periods. Every article is marked in figures added for the credit help that enables you to have it at once. Specially easy married couples, and we are very willing just come to Washington to enter the Gov. Grogan & Son 17 to 823 Seventh Street UNCLE SAM'S FIRST FUEL C Keep Your Rooms at 68° Uncle Sam Credit will buy everlasting home comfort for you. We arrange the terms of a charge account in such a way that your credit becomes your greatest help. It is to our interest to enable you to afford the better qualities in Furniture, and with this object in view we make the small weekly or monthly payments suit the circumstances of each individual customer. We have tremendous stocks of homefurnishings in which you will find endless variety of attractive patterns. There are plenty of lines at very low prices; also the better grades that range up to the expensive qualities in patterns of the different periods. The price of every article is marked in figures you can read, and not a penny is added for the credit help that enables you to have what you really want—and to have it at once. Specially easy terms are always arranged for young married couples, and we are very willing to do the same for those who have just come to Washington to enter the Government service. LET'S HELP KEEP WHOLE W SEVERAL WAYS TO SAVE SU Our Law Sugar is the most甜 Do not Lose the Beverage Outline The flags flag, cony of SHOP FOR SALE. Mr. Hoover and his followers tried to catch the Washington restaurants asleep at their posts last week, on wheatless day, by ordering wheat bread and posing as men who had to have what they wanted, regardless of price, war or anything else. One patriotic head waiter informed the party that it was time for them to learn how to eat rye bread, at least once a week, as long as the war lasted, not knowing that Mr. Herbert Hoover was the head of the party. After seeing for themselves that the laws of the Food Commission were being carried out to the letter, Mr Hoover presented his card and congratulated the management. The annual meeting of the New Ebbitt, Waiters' Association will be held at 2.30 p. m., Monday, January 21, 1918, for the election of officers. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wilson were the host and hostess of a house party at their residence, 1011½ You Street, last Tuesday evening. Among those present were Messrs. William Lacey, J. L. Britt, James H. Harris, Thomas Morton and J. Thomas Parks. Mr. John Mayo, of the Virginia Hotel at Lynchburg, Va., is completing plans for taking over the head-waitership of a leading hotel of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr. A. J. Choates has resumed his position at the Ebbitt Cafe. Every hotel and restaurant in this and other cities that are living up to their obligation made to the Food Commission, will be presented with a "food flag" in the near future. The New Willard has received its flag, which is hung from the balcony of the main entrance. We help charitable institutions we help them to get shoes for the poor ones that are in need. So we appeal to the public to give us all the old shoes that it does not want. If you have a penny, kindly send it to us, as we can use it in buying leather, tacks, rubber heels, etc. Please help us. You may have to get on the poor list yourself, and then we can help you. Keep Your Rooms at 68° SAVE COAL Uncle Sam NEEDS it LET'S HELP KEEP THE WHOLE WORLD SWEET SEVERAL WAYS TO SAVE SUGAR-WHICH IS YOUR WAY? Do not Leave Sugar in the Bottle of the Coffee Corp. For We Grow in Earth! Every American householder can help win the war by saving a shovelful of coal a day, according to the United States Fuel Administration. At the end of a year the saving would amount to fifteen million tons. Although we have faced a famine in sugar, and have shipped an amount over and above the amount of our shortage to our Allies, the price of House and a large lot in the northwest. Rented for $18 per month Small cash payments. Address 516 Q. St. N.W., Washington, D. C. This would keep five million people warm all winter. It would keep 7,500,000 soldiers warm all winter in cantonments. It would send a fleet of twenty-five battleships three thousand times across the Atlantic. KEEP THE WORLD SWEET SUGAR-WHICH IS YOUR WAY? sugar has not advanced, through the co-operation of the patriotic people of the United States and the Food Administration. JUSTH'S OLD STAND. WORKINGMEN, if it were not for the fact that this store shows remarkable selectons at all times for any man who makes it a point to save a good bunch of cash; some buy slightly used overcoats, fine grade—they are $5.00 up. JUSTH'S OLD STAND. 619 D.