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VOL. XXXVIII, NO 36 COMMISSIONER GARDINER Will He Grant the League Vice-President an Interview?—Ex-Judge E. M. Hewlett's Caustic Letter to the Head of the Local Government, Who Is Afraid of the One Hundred Thousand of His Colored Citizens. Hon. W. G. Gardiner, Commissioner, D. C. My Dear Mr. Gardiner: On January 8th, I received your reply to my request for a ten-minute audience of a delegation of four or five citizens from the Washington Branch of the National Equal Rights League. You stated that you had referred my letter of the 7th instant to the Secretary of the Board of Commissioners for attention, and I would no doubt hear from him in due time. On January 11th I received a letter from Mr. Donovan, in which he states that you ask him to request that I will please inform you of the object for which the interview is desired. I then sent the following in reply: January 12, 1918. D. J. Donovan, Esq., Setretary, Board of Commissioners, District of Columbia. Yours of January 8th, in reply to my letter of the 7th to Commissioner Gardiner, was duly received. In reply will state that the Washington Branch of the National Equal Rights League, of which I am Vice-President, requests me to state that the small delegation of citizens and taxpayers desires to see the Commissioner for a very few minutes (not over ten) on a public matter of importance to the race. In reply to this I received the following on January 17, 1918: Sir: The Commissioner of the District of Columbia direct me to say that they will take under consideration our request to receive a delegation of four or five citizens as soon as you shall have advised them for which the interview is desired. It seems to us that we stated enough when we asked for an interview. There ought to be nothing more required of reputable citizens and taxpayers. But, out of courtesy, we did state what our object was. This last letter we consider a positive result, and cannot believe that it was written at your request. If the Commissioners do not intend to grant us hearing without further controversy, please let the League know through (Signed) E. M. Hewlett, ice-President, Washington Branch of National Equal Rights League. OLORED AMERICANS The Billy Sunday campaign, now in progress in Washington, D.C., is not eating the amount of interest norawing the crowds that were expecta- For quite a year plans were be- laid for his coming, but at no one were the Negro churches or pastors given any recognition allowed to have any part in the eps taken for the success of the settings. The committee of arrangements en went so far as to declare that, ther than allow any of the Negroes have any part, the whole campaign could be called off and Mr. Sunday did to stay away. Some of the colde people also remember that during his campaign in Atlanta they are at first denied admission, and her segregated, and also that Mr. Sunday always steers clear—is sort gun shy—of the race question, and her alludes to lynchings, injustice oppression of the Negro in many nations of this country, and they deed to simply wipe their hands out of the whole matter. So, when M. J. Waldron came with an intention to the Ministers' Alliance, of which Dr. M. W. Clair is chairman, stating that Mr. Sunday was now ready to preach to the colored people in some of the letading colored churches, the Alliance promptly and emphatically said, "No, thank you," by the following resolution: "It is the opinion of the Ministers' Alliance that, under the present arrangements of the Billy Sunday campaign, we do not see our way clear to arrange for or advise the holding of any special service for the colored people of the District of Columbia." Rev. C. M. Tanner, D. D. A SLANDEROUS CHARGE REFUTED BY FACTS. Dr. Turpeau Is Called to Task by Bethel Literary Society. The assembly room of the Twelfth Street Branch of the Y. M. C. A. was crowded to its doors last Tuesday evening, to hear a discussion brought about when the Rev. Dr. Turpeau of Mt. Zion Church made a statement at the Bethel Literary Society on Tuesday evening, December 15, 1917, from an old speech made by a member of Congress, whose name he has positively refused to divulge, to Judge Terrell and several persons who took part in the discussion on last Tuesday evening. Mr. Benjamin Murray cited sixteen cases, which record has been turned over to The Bee office, to substantiate that the young men of Washington at the given period, were far above the average "street loafers," as the divine gentleman stated. Among the persons entering the debate were Rev. Walter Brooks of Nineteenth Street Baptist Church; Mr. Hirshaw, Judge Robert Terrell, Secretary Davis of the Y. M. C. A., Miss Madrie and the Rev. Mr. Pinn. Rev. Turpeau styled himself as the colored representative of the Anti-Saloon League. Rev. Turpeau used his now infamous statement to show that Washington was only famous for drunks and vice for a given period of ten years, which was masterfully threshed out by the above mentioned speakers. A gentleman by the name of Lee informed the audience in the presence of the speakers that Washington citizens did not need a newcomer to inform them of such untruthful conditions. Many of Washington's oldest inhabitants were out to respond to their call, according to George F. Cook, tax collector for that period. It was stated $25,000,000 worth of taxable property was owned by the Negroes of the District of Columbia. Instead of Bethel Literary Society giving a vote of thanks to the reverend gentleman, it would have been better to reprimand him for bringing such a statement, penned by some of the Antebellum statesmen, at the time, and he is to be held as guilty as the author, for he protects his name from the people he has so grossly insulted. Here are some of the colored men who have made good during the last ten years: P. B. Williams, R. C. Bruce, Benjamin Washington, Major Walter Loving, James A. Walker, Charles Tignor, Henry W. Freeman, D. I. Renfro, J. Hayden Johnson, Boynton C. Dodson, John Christopher Jordan, Archie Ray, Clay Wormley, James Lucas, V. D. Nixon, Francis Hall, Perry H. Riley, and thousands of others. A glance at the list of those who took part in the debate gives some idea of the interest manifested: Judge R. H. Terrell, Rev. W. H. Brooks, Rev. H. J. Moppins, Rev. W. C. Brown, Rev. J. L. Pinn, Messrs. J. W. Davis, G. C. Smith, L. M. Hershaw, A. Russell, Ferdinand Lee, Miss M. A. D. Madre and Mrs. Rachel Guy Moore. In the course of the remarks by Judge Terrell a new angle was given and new interest engendered when, in recalling his relation to the old M Street High School, he pointed to one of the young ladies present and came dangerously near disclosing that ever delicate secret of her age. The Judge knows how to get out of a close place and redeemed himself with grace. Prof. Hershaw convulsed the house when he compared the debate to a Baptist revival From the sound of the gavel opening the meeting until the motion for adjournment the liveliest interest obtained and the most kindly feeling BY HODGE F. M. HEWLETT EX-JUDGE E. M. HEWLETT, permeated the discussion. Dr. C. Sumnier Wormley, accompanied by Miss Mary L. Europe, seemed to reach the heart of his audience with the two solos which he sang. The meeting recalled the palmy days of Bethel Literary, when Douglass, Langston, Miller, Cook, Chase, Greener and men of that type made the old forum ring with their matchless eloquence. COLORED NEWSPAPERS. What Has Been Their Mission and What They Have Done and Why They Died—Jealousy and Prejudice the Diseases That Have Killed Them—Field Is Broad—How the White Merchants Have Supported Colored Papers. This city has been a graveyard for newspapers edited and managed by colored men and women. Most all of them have failed because their missions have been dishonesty, prejudice and bad management. Perhaps one of the potent newspapers that has ever been published in this city was the National Era, edited by the late Frederick Douglass. This paper had money, character and influence behind it, but it had to succumb to petty jealousies of those who were connected with it. No man was a more liberal contributor with his money and time in supporting it than Mr. Douglass. The Era was a great race paper. The Commoner sprung into existence. This paper was edited by Geo W. Williams, the colored historian. It died. The New South came upon the scene under the editorship of the late Arthur St. A. Smith. Mr. Smith was not only a good writer, but a first-class printer. It died. The Exodus, edited by John D. Buggwell, devoted its time to the exodus of the colored men from the South. Then came the New Era, an offspring of the New South. Its existence was short. Mr. Henry Johnson, formerly a member of the School Board, and subsequently Deputy United States Marshal, was connected with it. The Argus next came upon the scene, edited by the Oty brothers. This paper was controlled by a board of trustees. The editors were removed and the paper was placed in the hands of W. Calvin Chase, present editor of The Bee, who soon changed the name of the paper to that of the Free Lance. The paper was successful under the editorship and business management of L. Graham Fletcher. The directors were all officeholders who became frightened at its policy or the attack the Free Lance was making upon the sham policy of a Republican administration, so the new management was removed. And three weeks thereafter it died—not under the editorship of Mr. Chase. The Bruce Grit next came upon the scene, which was edited by John The Bruce Grit next came upon the scene, which was edited by John E. Bruce. It died. The Item was the next that came. This paper was edited by S. S. Lacy. Mr. Lacy's Item died soon. Mr. Lacy's Item died soon. The People's Advocate, edited by John W. Cromwell, was no doubt one of the mildest papers ever edited, except when the editor made an attack on the editor of The Bee, who put it out of commission under the Cleveland administration: Mr. Cromwell was a good, classical writer. The Bee, founded by Dr. L. King DeLeon as editor, in 1880, and W. Calvin Chase as city and chit-chat editor, finally came under the control of Mr. Chase, and is existing today. The Bee is largely read by white and colored patrons and has been largely supported by white advertisers. The Bee has always been outspoken, regardless of politics. The Colored American, edited by the late Mr. Cooper, was largely supported by the late Booker T. Washington and every colored man of national reputation. The declaration of this paper—and all others that followed it—was to put The Bee out of commission. The Colored American died after ten years of successful publication. It was followed by the Washington American. It died. Then J. Finley Wilson and Julia P. Coleman's paper came to fill a long-felt want. It died. The Eagle was next born. It came to fill a long-felt want. The Bee and the Eagle continue to exist. The Bee has never wished the downfall of any publication. There are nearly one hundred thousand colored people in this city who have been clamoring for a daily paper, but they don't properly support a weekly. The Bee wants to see all colored publications succeed. It has no malace against any paper. Last, but not least, is the Odd Fellows' Journal, with a circulation of eight to ten thousand. Henry P. Slaughter is the editor. He is a man who attends to his own business and he has tried to allow everybody else to attend to their own. There is not a more genial and more popular editor in this city than Henry P. Slaughter. With the greatest organization in the United States behind it, the Odd Fellows' Journal should be better supported. It has a plant unsurpassed so far as colored newspapers are concerned. The Bee has succeeded because the white and colored merchants believe in it. Some of the greatest white firms in this city support The Bee. It brings results. The colored members of the Bar believe in it. The first publication of legal notices was presented to the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by that Chesterfield of the local Bar, W. W. Martin, Esq. Every colored member of the local Bar with but two exceptions publishes his legal notices in The Bee. The Bee is the exponent of the rights of colored Americans, and by the help of God it will continue to defend the rights of American citizens, regardless of consequences. This city has been a graveyard for colored papers. Enough money has been spent in colored newspapers to erect a monument as high as the Washington Monument. The Bee continues to ask for the support of the people, regardless of all that may follow and fill a long-felt want. With a record of thirty-nine years under one management, speaks, well for The Bee and its editor. Has there been any other publication in this city with such a record in which it has been in so many combats? The people know its record. The management hopes to celebrate its fortieth anniversary this year. Who will celebrate with it, should life last? CAPTAIN GREEN. Captain William Green, of Cleveland, Ohio, the organizer of the Cleveland (Ohio) colored troops, was in the city last week en route for his home. While here he was the guest of Mr. Wm. H. Clifford, The Bee's genial and popular townsman. Before Captain Green departed he paid a visit to The Bee office. Captain Green is one of the most popular men in the State of Ohio. He is the son of ex-State Senator John P. Green of Ohio, and one of the most brilliant lawyers in the State. HOME DEFENSE LEAGUE The declaration of war is the introduction of the Home Defense League for the District of Columbia as a home guard. With a territory of more than sixty-nine square miles in the District of Columbia, it is impossible for the police of about 800 to properly protect. The league furnishes every citizen an opportunity for service. There is no age limit—service is voluntary. The League is under the jurisdiction of the Honorable Commissioners of the District of Columbia. The membership at present is between 6,000 and 7,000. Out of that number between 300 and 400 are colored. The two chief officers are Major R. W. Pullman and Dr. W. A. Warfield, captain of the Volunteer Guards. The league meets every Thursday in the drill room of the Dunbar High School, and is composed of representative colored citizens. It is the desire of the league to increase the membership to 1,000 or more. Capt. M. Grant Lucas, 420 T Street N.W., is the acting captain, and Captain Rhea of the Treasury Guards, military instructor. Major Webster of the Pension Office is inspector of rifle practice. SMALL CHURCHES CLOSED. Most all the small churches were ordered closed last Sabbath and all the large churches opened. A Bee representative met Rev. Norman a few days ago and he gave the following explanation: "It was thought best to open the large churches and allow the small churches to worship in them, instead of having so many small churches in operation." There is mild indignation among the small congregations. Many of the small churches assert that they object to this one-man power, and especially do they object to ministers who don't represent them. Rev. Norman, it is claimed, is the leader of the Baptist Union and ought to be consulted. COLORED SCHOOLS. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People protest against the Commissioners' cut in the estimates for schools. Full particulars next week. BETHEL LITERARY. The Rev. Dr. Howard B. Grose, Vice-President of the United Society of C. E., will address Bethel Literary in the Y. M. C. A. next Tuesday evening. All Christian Endeavorers should hear Dr. Grose. HOWARD UNIVERSITY HOWARD UNIVERSITY A Colored President Is Demanded Good Material From Which a Proper Man May Be The ten million or more colored people in the United States out of which there are thousands of colored educators with business and educational qualifications enough to manage the affairs of Howard University. There is no reason why a colored man should not be elected president of that institution. If there was concerted action on the part of the colored people in this country, a colored president of that great institution for colored people would not be a question. Co-operation and race pride are greatly needed among colored Americans. There have been several men mentioned for the presidency of this University. Will it be possible for concerted action? Among the leading educators in the United States who would fill the bill so far as education and executive ability are concerned are: Dr. James E. Shepard, president of the National Training School at Durham, N. C., a man of great executive ability and large experience, a scholar, orator and diplomat. Dr. DuBois, a scholar and a thinker, teacher and independent; an honor to the colored race. Prof. Kelly Miller, a man of national reputation, a scholar and an orator. Prof. L. B. Moore, at the head of the Teachers' College of Howard University. Prof. George W. Cook, a man of business and possessing great executive ability. Mr. Emmett J. Scott, secretary of Tuskegee Institute, Ala., known throughout the country to the leading educators and philanthropists. He, like Dr. Shepard, can get the money, which is greatly needed at Howard University. Will the colored trustees of Howard University demand the election of a colored president? Have they manhood enough to tell the white trustees that Howard University is for the colored people and a colored man should be elected president? Other colored institutions throughout the United States are managed and successfully controlled by colored presidents. Why not Howard University? FRATERNITY MAN AND BASEBALL STAR ILL. John F. Rose, the well-known local baseball player and fraternity man, is confined to his home by illness. Mr. Rose was formerly captain and first baseman of the Asbury Browns' all-star baseball team. He is also secretary of the Trustee Board and Home. Fund of the Columbia Lodge, No. 85, of Elks; vice Chancellor of Paul Lawrence Dunbar Lodge, No. 8, K. of P., and has been for the past three weeks ill at his home. He sends greetings to his friends and brothers and informs them that he is able to sit up. OLIVER W. WRIGHT. James A. Head & Co., a retail and wholesale meat company with stands in the O Street Market, have in their employ Mr. Oliver W. Wright, a colored expert meat cutter. Mr. Wright was formerly in business for himself, but on account of sickness he relinquished his business, and after he regained his health the firm of Head & Co., knowing the value of Mr. Wright and his popularity among people, and having an eye to usiness, employed him as a full-fledgedg clerk and assistant manager of their business. As an evidence of the firm's good judgment, the colored people flock to this stand. He is treated like a citizen and respected as a man. The very best meats are sold from these stands—meats that you pay high prices for elsewhere can be purchased from Head & Co. for less money. The Bee suggests to its readers to patronize Head & Co. The Bee congratulates its friend, Mr. Wright, and those who call will please mention The Bee. SATURDAYS SERMONS BY UNUS And he played on a harp of a thousand strings." Some time ago I condemned Trash. I pointed out many kinds of trash that are being constantly manufactured, bought by foolish people, and soon consigned to the junk heap. I might have excepted and justified just one kind of trash—the toys for the children. Is not every interest in trash childish? I sometimes wonder which is the worst economic bane of our day—the traffic in trash or the wastefulness of valuable things. The main forms of waste are in the forms of loss of time, attention, labor and material. I except here the loss of money, which requires a special consideration, because most forms of money have but little intrinsic value. Time, attention and labor are often convertible terms in economy, because they can usually be converted into one another. To waste time is to spend it to no useful purpose. To waste attention is to let one's time be robbed by frivolous interruptions and diversions. The waste of labor is a complex thing, because honest labor can often be misapplied, and to that extent it is wasted. The waste of labor is a large subject. The great problems of human industry are to try to find out how to prevent waste of labor. But I started out to speak more particularly of the waste of materials. This will be the greatest economic problem of mankind from this time forth. The earth is fast coming to be filled up with people. The raw materials are becoming scarcer. Take petroleum, for example. The matter of its consumption has been left solely to the caprice of the private individual—the speculator, promoter and get-rich-quick fakir—with the result that instead of seeking ways and means to save petroleum, we have sought for new ways to use it up rapidly. When our supply of coal oil is gone it is gone forever! The same is true of coal and iron—of nearly all minerals and metals. Wastefulness is the anonym, or opposite, of conservation, although we commonly use the latter term to refer to the natural resources in the forest and mine. Conservation is a larger problem than that, and our country and the world must soon grapple with the whole problem. The problem must be viewed from the source of the stream to its mouth, from the mine to the fireside, from bung to spiggot. The problem involves world economy, national economy, household economy. These three aspects cannot be separated. I think the prevention of waste is a proper and peculiar function of the Government, by means of "sumptuary laws." For over a century past sumptuary laws have been unpopular in Europe and America, due to special and transitory reasons. But all the leading nations of the past have found it necessary at times to adopt and enforce sumptuary laws. The food and dietetic laws of the Jews were notable. The abuses of the Roman sumptuary laws did much to inculcate a popular prejudice against such laws. Later in France and England such laws became obnoxious to the masses because they were based on class distinctions and tended to aggravate those distinctions. In the United States the idea of the sumptuary law has nearly always been anathema; first, because heretofore we have had relatively but little need for such laws, and, second, because of popular ignorance and illusion. We have heretofore had plenty to eat and wear—and as much to waste. Here the swillers of strong drink and the profiteers in the drink traffic have persistently fostered the doctrine, "We want no sumptuary laws." Indeed, the rum drinkers and rum sellers have repeated this slogan so often that the term "sumptuary law" has come to be with us almost synonymous with "prohibition." The fact is, that the term properly includes the governmental regulation of the production and consumption of numerous materials and foods. It is natural to consider the problem of waste of materials under the three heads: Household (domestic) waste, national waste, world waste. In future talks I purpose to discuss each of these subjects. ATLANTIC CITY GETS NEXT SESSION OF BUSINESS LEAGUE. Tuskegee, Ala., Jan. 26—Emmett J. Scott, secretary of the National Negro Business League, has been authorized by the Hon. J. C. Napier, president, and Dr. Robert R. Moton, chairman of the executive committee, to announce that it has been decided to hold the next meeting of the National Negro Business League at Atlantic City, N. J., August 21, 22, 23, for 18. During the meeting at Chattanooga, Tenn., in 1917, invitations were read from various cities, including Atlantic City, and it was decided then to leave the matter of selection of the meeting place for 1918 to a special committee consisting of the president, chairman of executive committee and the secretary of the league. In the telegram which came from the Mayor of Atlantic City to the secretary of the league, he said: "We cordially extend you invitation and offer the city keys and unequalled hospitality for next meeting of National Negro Business League." A committee consisting of some of the officers of the local Negro Business League at Atlantic City went to Washington recently and conferred with Mr. Scott, the secretary of the league, where he is temporarily located as special assistant to the Secretary of War. They outlined their plans for the entertainment of the guests, and the outlook is most promising for a good and helpful meeting. The meeting will afford an unusual opportunity for combining business and pleasure, Atlantic City being known as the "world's playground." SOLDIER'S WIDOW. Thanks National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee. The National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee here has just received the following letter of thanks from a widow of one of the unfortunate colored soldiers executed at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, recently: Galveston, Tex., Jan. 21, 1918. Ralph W. Tyler, Secretary, National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee, 1105 You Street N.W., Washington, D. C. Dear Mr. Tyler: I am just in receipt of your very kind-letter enclosing me the committee's check for my immediate needs. I cannot begin to tell you how very much I thank your committee for this assistance. It is certainly a blessing that the race have such men as compose your committee who will organize to help the poor of the race who, like myself, have had a husband so suddenly and so sorrowfully taken away. I thank God for your organization and for the great assistance rendered me. Respectfully, (Signed) Gertrude. Young. 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It leaves the hair soft and fluffy and imparts a refreshing feeling to the scalp unequalled by any other shampoo. Do not accept any substitute, but insist on getting Seeby's Quinade and Seeby's Ointment, asking for them by the full name. Price is 25 cents each. If your druggist or dealer does not stock these two articles, ask him to obtain them for you from his wholesaler or send us the price and we will mail them to you. Write to Seeby Drug Co., 79 East 130th St. New York City, for a sample of Quinade, mentioning the name of this paper. PEOPLE'S DRUG STORES. Outside and Outhward are sold at all of the People's Drug Stores, as follows: Store No. 1. 7th and K Sts. N. W. Store No. 2. 7th and E Sts. N. W. Store No. 3. 14th and You Sts. N. W. Store No. 4. 7th and M Sts. N. W Store No. 5. 8th and H Sts. N. 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Transient. ac- commodations a speciality, 128 F street northwest, Washington, D. €. One black from Union Station Telephone, Main 10129. t= GL Py east ies ss eC] Every reader ofthispaper! seiihees || THE SS ment =| $5) AMUMLEX SS | penile es POF Ta Donna: S DURHAM DUPLEX RAZOR CO- Jenscy City. NJ.< WARREN. ‘i If you want a first-class ‘photo, go to Warren, 803 Florida Ave. N. W Askj for Mr. Warren and he will.do the irést—Advt. 3 MEXICAN LOVER “PLAYS BEAR” Must Be Possessed of Unlimited Pa tience for Courtship Is Slow and Difficult Process ‘This is the manner of courtship it | Mexico, says the World ‘Outlook. A young: man sees a young lady on the street whom he admires, and follows her home. Having-reached her casa, he begins to “play the bear,” by walking back and’ forth’ in front of ‘the: house or standing on the etreet withhis eyes fixed upon her windows, for hours at a time, day and night allke, 6. a The Mexican young woman. is coy, and, even if greatly interested, ahe will remain betk of the curtain, By the slightest movement of thé cur- ‘tains or blinds she gives sign that she 1s not ‘entirely indifferent. after -a doy or. two she may even show her face or wave her hands es a further mark of encouragement, and, after several days, she may appear on the balcony for a few moments, If she goes to church the lover is probably not far behind, and an occasional smile or glance from her eyes of mid- night 1s given him as a reward for bis falthfulgess. Next come daily salutes and siniles. when the lover .appears. Flowers in which notes are concealed are cent by the ald of the water car riers or charcoal vendors, ‘When the courtship. has so far ad- vanced that the lovers may talk, the moonlight nights are devoted to. the lovemaking and several pairs‘ of lov- era can be seen on almost any street— he on the sidewalk, she at the window. Perhaps 1a the most casual way imag- inable she may let her fingers’ slip through‘ the bars, for there is just a chance that mamma’ may be asleep. Later he may be invited to call at the house by the father oF mother aft- er a family council, if his antecedents are all right, for of course they have been investigated by. the sagacious parents. * ONE WAY TO COLLECT BILL Surgeon Makes Wealthy Man Pay for the Burlat of Brother Who ‘ Died in Arizona, . An embalming Incident occurred in Arizona in 1808 when the Chicago ex- position was in full blast. Billy; a be- loved’ but impecuntous citizen, passed In his checks. Doctor Biford, an old army surgeon, attended him tn his Inst iMness, and . afterwards, . embalmed the boily, placed it in a metallle. cas- ket, and made ready to ship it'to John, a wealthy brother of the deceased, who' lived in Chicago, But'the rail- road company refused: to recelve the casket unless the freight was-prepald. "The doctor telegraphed to the Chicago brother, who replied, refusing to remit. ‘Thereupon the resourceful phyalcian had the front of the casket painted and inscribed: “In this casket reposes Billy. His brother John, who lives in Ghicago, welched’ on the embalming Dill and cost of transportation. Where- upon this casket with its contents has been sent'to the Chicago exposition to be placed on exhibition In the depart- ment of curios. In order to pay, the cost of embalming and transportation, this cabinct and remains will be raffied for. Five hundred tiekets at 50 cents. a ticket. Buy a chance. The winner can start.a dime’museum with Bidy.” Doctor Biford had a’photograph taken of the casket and sent tt to Brother John, and Brother John pald up and ordered his brother: tobe decently buried at Tucson. ue - Bad Habit. © Don't call the children kids; A kid 4s gont and, while géats are all right in their way, children are'better. ‘The dictionaryAays “kid” applied to a child fs slung, And so It ts, It depreciatées the child, ‘There ts no sense In taking away the diguity of a child by calling him an animal, says the Columbus (0.) State Journal. We must kep up the human relation, where regpect, sym: pathy, love dwell. ‘The’ older~ people may overlook the false appellation, but it stays with the child and- makes him feel, after all, that he 1s only a little goats and that his fond delight jg.in eating old rags and paper boxes. Renily, the child {s an angel, rather than a goat, and {8 entitled. to the sweet considerations that belong to & human belng; and..if he does not get these it Is very likely he will be a sort of goat all his life. So drop the “kid” vocabulary: and give the. child every chance to be @ true human, ‘The Squirrel Dog. | ‘There {s,no accounting for that un- canny‘ faculty that’ enables a homely, long-legged, sad-eyed pup to go: wn- erringly to a lofty oak tree in whose higher. branches -a bit of animated brown far is secreted. Another dog. of the same or more prepossessing ap- pearance and of a better-breed. might trot unconcernedly past: that same onk tree without so much ns a casual sniff. But not so with the real “squirrel dog.” He'd pick out the right tree in. the ‘@ensest grove a hunter ever penetrat: ed. And if that squtrret started leap- ing from tree to tree, that dog would follow. it over 2 square mile of tim ber. a: a: se ne Wasted Words. * . ‘What do you do when your wife ‘asks you for money?” " ‘uy deliver a lecture on the high cost of living, the. folly of extravagance and my limited income.” m3 svat does she do?” iughe-hums a little tune” ~~ | «Then what happens?” , . oy hand her @ check for the desirod ‘qmount.” . EVOLUTION OF THE ALPHABET \t Grew From Pictures By Which Men ‘ ivey wrsts and Required Ages \ Fer Its Completion. _ . No one really knows all about where the’ alphabet came from, because It grew very slowly, like ehildren and every other good thing in the world. -But we know quite well that no fa- genious map sat down and made the alphabet, and we know quite Well, too, that the alphabet began as pictures. ‘Just as a child reads or takes things ‘in by pictures long before it can read letters, so men used.to read and write by pictures; and. then these pictures swere gradually made simpler and sim- pler untit at last they.could be used in ‘every and any way, as our letters cap, We know that the letter O was at first the pleture of an eye, and that gradually men made the picture plain er, until at last they drew'an O. Tha letter I was onde a picture of a house: and very likely a capital’ A may have deen at first the picture of a pyramid. Ages and ages ago in Egypt men used both kinds of writing, says the Kansas City Star. The priests used the oldest kind, which was: the pic tures, This was. called the sacred writing, in which the pletures were turned Into’ letters. Not very many years ago men tried in vain to read the old sacred picture writing of the Egyptians, but they could not. ‘Then they found the wonderful Rosetta stone, and this had- written upon it the same thing three times—once in the pictures and once in the letters, and also-once.in other letters, and £0 men got the key to picture writing, and now {it can be read easily. TOOK PARROT BY -MISTAKE Country Gentleman Who Had Dined ‘and Wined Too Well Couldn't Fiad His Lantern: In Morning. A certain gentleman lving in the country, who was something of a bon viveur, was {nvited to dinner by a neighbor. The night was very dark, and in order to guide him on his way he took with him the stable lantern,’ a clumsy old thing bound round with wires. The gentleman reached his friend's house in safety and enjoyed himset extremely. The dinner was good antl the wine exeelleat. Presently. the hour for the refirn journey arrived. He forgot to relight its lantern, but though the moon re- fased to shine he arrived home. all right. On the following morning he could not find his precious Jantera, so he sent his gardener with a note to his friend couched in the following terms: “Dear Jones: Will you kindly retyra to the bearer the atable lantern which Tieft at your house last night? =” “Yours slngerely, “J, R, ROBINSON.” He recetved the following reply: “Dear Robinson :'I am returning the lantern, but will you kindly send back the parrot and its cage you took away with you last ‘aight instead of your lantern? Yours sincerely,” _ “B. P. JONES.” America’s Panorama. See New York with her skyscrap- ers that lust for the clouds lke the Tower of Babel; Niagara ronring in exultation and shining in the crisp winter sunlight through a yell of dia- mond dust; the Pacific pounding op the golden Sands of: California; Pitts- burgh with her furnaces: glaring at night against the April: rain clouds; the Mississippl, mighty as the mlght- fest of gods, surging past sleepy south- ern villages, where of a Sunday morn: ing the church bells stir the heart to vague, sweet longings; New Orleans with Canal street gay of a ‘Saturday night. and the moonlight’ shimmering on the white excursion boats beside the levee; Mncltinncs’ white fort op the hilltop and the whisper of the Michigan pine, woods; old Charleston, the clock of St. Bfichnel's chiming the hours bout the churchyard; Bostoo and Lexington and Coifcord, where at every turn there fs a token of the pride thnt cannot dle; West Point when the. sunset gun echoes from tha hills und the fing comes down— Charles Phelps Cushing in Travel. : Net All So Haimiess. . .* The part of Father Christmas may be easily overacted, as a certain town counellor would be the first to admlt He had been asked to take part in the annual trent to the old folkt-at the lo- cal workhouse. Made up as the an- clent gentleman beloved of the chil- dren," he’ went, and for a time his pranks ana antles delighted the com pany. : . Then a strap’.of conversation he chanced to overhear scarcely added te the worthy councllor’s enjoyment. - “ain't 'e enjoyin’ of hisself?” re marked one aged inmate. to’ another. “Wot a‘ treat it Is for the likes o’ he! But why ciin’t they let all: the Ioonter out on a night lke this?” “wei,” came the reply, “mebbe they ain't all so harmless as this'n.” % Be Quiet. . “Study to be quiet"—that is, study to dismiss all bustle and worry out of your inward life, Study also to. “de your own business,” and do not try te @o the business of other people. 4 great deol of “creaturely activity” Is extended In trying to do other people's business; It is often hard to “sit still” when we see our friends, according te our dens, mismanaging matters, and making such dreadful blunders. But the divine order; as {t is also the best human order ns well, 1s for each one of us tc do ovr own business, and to re frain. frog: meddling with the bust ness of-anyone else.—Exchange. LISZT RUINED BY ; SUCCESS Molized Piano’ Virtuoso Grew to Live _ >. Gnty for the Admiration ands : ‘Adalation of Women. Tt fs only whem we remember Liszt's profession that we can read the riddle he. presents, writes Paul Rosenfeld to the Seven Arts, Frow childhood up, he was the idolined piano virtuoso. Hé was petted and adored all his life. He was successful from the heginning. He was smothered all his tfe under the adulation showered upon him in every capital of Europe, showered upon bim in very tangible form by women of the Highest socfety. His was not a char ‘acter profound or fine enough to right iteelt.. He never managed to develop ont of that stage, to contact with traly nourishing things, On the contrary, he becdme eompletely uprooted, came to exist entirely In this modern Capua, came to love it and to crave the rose leaves and the clouds of perfume. His music fs largely “an aspiration toward It, an attempt to perpetuate about him the admiration and “adulation, the glowing eyes and half-parted lps, the heaving bosoms. It Js 1 mechanism for procuring for himself the’ Pascha- power he - desired.” Indeed, beside Liszt, Chopin, seems a veritable ‘an- chorite. ‘Trae, Lisst interested himself” in music for another reason. If It served to procure him the particular. “place in the sun” that he craved; {t furnished him also with.a most engaging pas- time. He interested himself in music as one roight interest oneself in @ sport that becomes more engnging as one becomes.more proficient’ in it. He studied its roles, its technique, its tricks. With what keenness he mas- tered them, his compealtions show. But that interest was only.minor, ‘The oth er was the major. HAVING A’ PURPOSE IN LIFE Untess One Aims at Certain:Goal, He Je Likely to Drift With Current and Be Swept Out to Sca. . To have a purpose in life afd stick to it has: long been @ cardinal prin- elple of right living, and it does not seem that any man or\woman could ever lack a real object. for which to strive. It {s hard work which tells in this world, not-merely the perfunc- tory efforts with which so many per- sons hope to-win success, Unless we are animated. by the desire to achieve a certain goal, we shall most probably only drfft with the current and in the end be swept out, to sea along: with other wreckage, says’ the Charleston News. The longer we live the more thig fact is Impressed upon. our minds, but it frequently takes ‘some great emergency to bring it home*to7us In’ an unmistakable way. Of course,; there are men and women everywhere i in all walks of life who are actuated i by noble impulses and lofty ambitions, : and who, because they persist in work-: ing for the attainment-of a high ideal, : are doing inuch for ‘the uplift of the! world, On the other hand, observay: tlon clearly shows that not all men and women recognize thelr full-duty in Ife. Such persons are, as a rule, far removed through fortunate circum- stances from the necessity of haviig to work for their living; thelr wealth und high worldly position have placed them beyond the threat of privagion, and they are content to stand by idly and:let thelr nelghbors do the neces- sary work of the world. : Giances, : Wherever people comé together ‘the air is full of glances and yet for the most part they are stolen, for the un- written law in such éases is that one person shall. not look openly into the eyes of another unless some” mutual acquaintance has uttered. the nieaning- less ‘but -extraordinary ' Important words of introduction.---Perhaps St Is because. custom demands, that antong strangers glances’ of shy appraisal or. frank interest, must be stolen thnt they are so intense, so furtive ind, In the main, so Interesting. The principal dif- ficulty In learning about them. from observation is, of course, that In order to observe one must of necessity steal a few glances, What one cin learn In a.brief glance is Ilitle, but with prac- tice It becomes greater, anda skilled obsefver, used to thinking quickly and to point about what he sees, can see and:.learn mtich without making a brazen nuisance of himself—Indian- apolis News, : 1 lnht of the Bloon.” £ The phrase “the fight of the moon” {S tin indefinite. one, not used by scl- entists and used by others in a mistak- en.and mislending sense. The moon has no light of ‘its-owa, and the only light that comes from It {s the reflected. light of the sun, without any warmth or life-giving quality or any effect on vegetation. As loosely used by many persons, the expression “iight of the moon” means a few nights in. each, month preceding and a few nights fol- lowing full moon. , Bfany persons think this “Night of the moon’, period hns an {mportant bearing on seed germination and plant growth, but that is @ mis- take. : : ~All Plants Once Wild. It would be interesting if we conld know the history of-the various fruits and vegetables that-we eat. Of course, all of them—or, at least, their unculti- vated ancestorn—were once wild ;"gust a8 We, -or, at.least. our savage fore- bears, were once wild. And, of course,/ the cultivated garden vegetables, many af them, bear no more reseinblance to thelr uncultivated prototypes, some of them, than we do. to the missing Mnk or his immediate descendants. . The Be : Published a at . s409 Eye Streot, N. W., Washington, D.G oOo W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR ——_— “Ratered at the Post Office at Wask- ington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ° — ESTABLISHED 18%. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION ° One year in advance.,.........$2.6 SHX months 2.2... .,eceeeeeer see 1:00 Three months .......0eceereeee, 58. Subscription’ monthly ........-. 20 * one ALLEY Law. | “We. hear. that the Emergenc; Housing“ Association has reachet the coriclusion that’ it will-be im practicable by:-next July to pro vide, enough houses on ‘regula’ Streets to accommodate. the . fif teen :thousand alley -population + Thé Bee assiimes' that that asso: cjation has made a thorough ‘study -of the question, :“and Speaks. in “good faith; although ‘we ave’. s¢en no specific an- nouncement from the association. . We ttave for some time been calling attention to the alley law and urging its prompt and strict enforcemént. Of course, we have not meant to urge anything that is utterly impracticable, The ‘spirit and purpose of the _ alley’ law are in every way com- -mendable, but several factors have stood, or now stand, in the way of‘ its prompt enforcement. First, the law was hurriedly en- acted and is very drastic, Sec- ond, theré has been a fixed deter- mination on the part of owners of alley houses, real estate agents and local capitalists generally to defeat the law by hook or’ by ‘crook. Third, the local colored people have unconsciously played into the hands-of these profiteers by their own’ inaction. Every- body for many months went to sleep on the job,-and much nec: essary timie of preparation was wasted. Fourth, owing to. ‘the existing’ war conditions it will be a difficult feat to, provide the nec- essary houses in.the short time now remaining until July 1st. Now comes the . District’ Sur- veyor with 4 recommeniation to the Commissioners of the Dis- trict designed, it is claimed; to afford a temporary solution. of the problem: He recommends some’ modification of the present law, and some delay. Werseserve judgment for the present on any and all dilatory propositions with” reference ‘to the enforcement of the alley law, which enforcement means the abolishment of . the’ disgraceful housing conditions now. existing. Be it remembered that there has been all along; and still ex- ists; an organized policy on the Part of the alley. house owners and real estate agénts to perpet- uate the alleys of Washington as ‘residential ‘sites. . Alley houses in Washington~bring an’ enormous return on the investment. The conditions are highly advantage- ous to‘owners, agents and capi- talists, These interests really do not favor any reformatory law, unless it be one accompanied with a proviso to pay them fab- ulous: prices for their property. Naturally, they do not core out flatly and state their real -atti- tude. Just’ now they would not be as frank &s was a certain agent and specylator who a few years ago said at a private meet- ing, “We want to keep the nig- gers in ‘the alleys.” ‘These peo- ple. are influential. hey know how to.command many kinds of devices and tools to servé their purposes.” Their own-arguments and those they inspire must ‘al- ways be viewed with suspicion. We eraen tha TRetelios Crmneate. forms ‘of evasive and dilatory: ar- guments and tactics... We: pray that whatever is done shall. not fall short of what is intended’by the present alley. law.in the way of..sanitary and’ moral results. We contend that there ‘shall -be no long delay. a | COLORED PUBLIC ‘" OPINION. < lente ettinur smemne’ Bases ¢ _'opinion without some form « ” public forum. The colored: pec - ple of Washington suffer fror this ‘want. They think as ‘ind » viduals, and where they do some ? times act, they act as individual: > That means “individualism. In . dividualism means social stagna "tion. zi - | Social ‘progress must be th | work of many individuals—o “many minds as well as ‘many hands, . The mind. must take th¢ jlead.. Pe te < ee | All real’ group: progress: (going forward) is the’ result’ either, 6! |mere .good fortune to the group jor good co-operative. planning land execution, | Since. the” sum “of. all good and -bad fortiine about offset*each ther, if neces- [sarily follows’ that forward group | movernents must depend, on.‘co- ‘eperative ‘planning and: execu- dom, The colored: people .of . Wash- ington are-a social group for most social purposes, including the higher economic ideals... All schemes “for social better- ment afe at best: merely ground- ed on hope—prophetic. If they are good schemes they are rea- sonable probabilities. , The de- gree of feasonableness of any probability can best ‘be detér- mined’ by. experiences—the past experience ‘of all mankind, the past experience of the particular group... All group propositions are necessarily tentative, experi- |mental.- No single mind has. a full knowledge or distirict recol- lection. of past ‘human experi- ences;-hence, in all group plan- ning’many. minds are more effica- cious’ than- a single one. One mind recalls what another over- looks; oné mind corrects the er- 'rors‘of. another. This is what it means to give and take counsel in council. . “Take, for example, the Boolay (the word means ..Council); While that society is perhaps not founded on the altruigtic princi- ple,, yet it. evidently recognizes the value of counsel. And they are successful in théir narrow egoistic ideals: Their main busi- ness’ is to, “take counsel,” al- though, like Queen Année, they “sometimes take: tea.” To: take counsel is ‘to exhort, inform; ‘to listen; learn; to cor=| rect, be corrected; to inspire; be inspired,—in short, to'fuse many minds and aims into a: single mind. and’aim. This done, it re- mains only ‘to translate . the thought into action. The public fortim is the best agency for educating and shap- ing public opinion... “Word of mouth”: is’ the best’ instrument for conveying ~ the _ ‘nimble thought; like the wizard’s wand, it‘can best turn conviction’ into deeds. Three main agencies'are need- ed in Washington to produce the desired ‘group consciousness” among our people and the desired group activity. - The first is the’ public forum, which is needed for the reasons herein-stated, and to rivet the: attention of the many who are not habitual readers and thinkers, The second main need is. a commercial exchange—to translate. thought .into action. COLOR PREJUDICE. In some departments’ of. the Government there is’. disposi- tion ‘to ignore colored appointees on accoutit “of- race prejudice. This prejudice ddesn’t’ obtain’ in | every department .of the Govern- | ment. There are a few holdover Republicans.who are more inim- ical to colored officeholders than Democrats, In spéaking toa colored print- er in the Government. Printing Office a few days ago, the Editor was informed by him that the colored help in the Government Printing Office fare better under thé. administration of “Public Printer Ford. than they ever fared under any Republican ad- ministration, This speaks vol- sumes- for Public Printer. Ford, and The Bee is more than pleased to let the world know what col- ored men and women think off the Public Printer under a’ Dem-] ocratic adininistration: There are hundreds: of colored men and Woien. in this department, and they all. speak highly of the man- ner in which they aré treated. * Color prejudice doesn’t, dbrain in :this .department-..of.. theGove| eramieae ce, oe tent» Let.the. colored men:and Wwom- en be'loyal to those.avho are Joyal (o ‘them, “and by’ all’ means’ be loyal to their Government, BILLY’S RELIGION. - Billy Sunday informed certain col- ored ministers, or the Colored: Min- isters’- Alliance, he would name a certain, day to preach to the colored people in this city,.and also preach in certain colored chiirches. When: God created ‘man, The Bee fails to see where He treated the black man and the white man on separate days. ‘The Bee doesn’t believe that there is a separate heaven and separate hell for whites and blacks. At a meeting of. the Colored Ministers’. Alliance the invitation of ‘Billy's was discussed and rejected with thanks, If Billy: has one religion for white and another for colored people, we colored Christians don’t want to see or hear Billy, and neither do they want his kind of. religion under any ‘circumstances. © ; At the. resurrection of. Christ there. were no color prejudice drawn, but Christ was comforted by one of his disciples, Doubting Thomas, and He was also betrayed by: one—and they-weré not colored. men.“ .* If Billy believes in, thé Bible that he is expounding. he undoubtedly found no colored traitors or colored Doubting Thomases, and when he dies, whichever place he goes, The Bee-ié-cohfident that there will be no color line drawn. . The colored people ‘aré , satisfied with their religion, and all who be: lieve in one God and one feligion— where there is'no color line. ‘The colored people are not, anx~ ious to see or hear you, Billy,“ and neither do they. appréciate-your’ reli- gious propaganda. If you believe in God, .you must know that He doesn’t discriminate: on account of color. Why should the colored people be’ preached to separate and apart from other people? They are part of this common country. Why, at this par- ticular time, is there ‘so much racial discrimination? A worm will tur sometimes. No Billy Sunday—for The Bee or its Editor. 7 THE JEANES FUND. “New York, Jan; 28.—The- annual meeting of. the Board of Trustees of the Colored Rural’ School Fund, Anna T. Jeanes Foundation, “was “held: in the offices of\the General Education Board, 61 Broadway, New York City January 26th. Present at the meet- ing'were Dr. James H. Dillafd, Char- lottesville, Va. ‘president; George Foster Peabody, New York - City, treasurer; Dr. Robert R. Moton, Tus: ‘kegee Institute, Alabama, secretary; a David’ C. Barrow,. chancellor. of the University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.; John T.. Emlen, president of the ‘Hampton League,. Philadelphia, Pa.; Dr. Samuel C. Mitchell, president of the University of Delaware, Newark, Del.; James. C. Napier, former Reg- ister of the United States Treasury, Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. Talcott Wil- ‘liams, ditector of the Pulitzer School f Journalism; New: York City, and ir. Emmett J. Scott, secretary. of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee” Institute, Ala- bama. - te - Chancellor Barrow presided at the meeting. Reports. submitted by Dr. Dillard, president, ‘and’ Mr. George Foster “Peabody, :treasurer,-.showed DR. JAMES E. SHEPARD. |. The Bee has always maintained that the most progressive and | best educators among the colored’ Americans come from the South. ‘The Southern colored man tias. been oppressed ever since he landed [at Janiéstown as a slave.’ Notwithstanding his oppression, he is today the greatest: factor in the American “body politic; as his lachievements will demonstrate. 4 ae i \" “There is today many educatbrs in the United States who /have [bees either appointed or elected to ‘contro! great educational. insti- tutions for colored Americans. In every instance these, colored ‘educators have been educationally-and financially successful... Rob- ,ert R. Moton, the, successor of the late Booker ‘T. Washington, is [et the head of one ofthe greatest educational institutions: in the United States; Prof. D.C. Suggs, president of Livingstone -College, Salisbury, N.C., is a.man of learning; R. R. Wright, president of the Industrial Cone. of Georgia; Prof. Scarborough, of Wilber- force; Prof. J.B. Dudley, of Greensborough (N; C.) A. and’ M. College, are men of great intellectual attainments and business qualifications, . But thé man who today stands at the head: of all colored educators in the United States, not only as an educator, A diplomat, orator, scholar and business man, is James E, Shepard, of Durham, N. C., who conceived a new propaganda—a new depart- ure from the old school.e¢ucatots—and gave the country a national religious training school which covers everything in the line of edu- cation; and today he is regarded and’ recognized by ex-President Roosevelt and othét. great men in the country as the South’s great- est educator. No:man has met with greater impediments than this Napoleon. of’ industrial arts and civilized advancement of the*col- ored people in the United States. : As an educator he has no-equal among his people, and:he is equal to many, of-the:race'that is-alleged to be superior in-his line of work.) Asa diplotnat in dealing-with men of the superior race in education, no-colored: educator equals -him. His manners :are charming; -his. dealings With: men and measures are. recognized. General. Julian Cafr, of- Durham, N.'C.,:an- ex-Confederate general who has: done much forthe advancement ofthe colored people in the South and. a’ Detndcrat; Speaks of Dr. Shepard as the greatest educational factor amdnig his people. sees ge . Dr. Shepard has accomplished in three’ years, at Durham, N. C., what. no‘ other’ living’ rian df'‘his race has accomplished. Three years agovhis great plant at Durham had a mortgage indebtedness | of nearly ‘fifty thousand. dollars.- Two friends in New: York, seeing the overwhelming need~of this great institution, gave the entire! amount, and today. this magnificent property, wotth over $150,000, is entirely free from debt. The white citizens of Durham. all stand squarely behind ‘him. The representative colored men, such. as John Merrick, Prof. Pearson Spaulding, Dr. Moore, anda host of uthers, are working with’ hint ‘to eStablish a still greater institution. If this is.his record within threé years, and clear of debt, what will be his accomplishments in ten years? He had no plant when he launched his-new propaganda. Others of whom The Bee have mentioned had their beds made up; their farms plowed ‘and houses srected by otha aands.- Dr, Shepard purchased’ his own land, erected his 0° u houses and: plowed his.own land. The Bee chal- enges any otner educator. with such a record. The Bee is correct then when it says that the greatest colored educator in the United | States.cémes from the South, and his name is Dr. James E. Siecerd,| und when the history of the great educators in this cotintry. shall be written, and their records compared, this Southern prince of -edu-| sators will stand at the head of the ine and be crowned the great- est benefactor the-Colored race has produced. -A humanitarian, a man who speaks. well’ of his fellow man, a man who, turns away wrath, hate and prejudice with acts ‘of. kindness, a patriot and al ‘oyal supporter of his Government and a genius among‘men. ‘The Bee, then, presents to the country the unpublished merits | of the -great prince of educators, of whom the race is proud—Dr. James E. Shepard. . - ¥ *, | that effective work is being done un- der the direction of. the Foundation, and that far-reaching’ results are. be- ing secured .in arousing’ interest throughout the South in Negro edu- cation, Two: hundred* and_ twenty- three colored men and women aré serving as * supervising’ teachers: in 214 ‘counties in 14 States of the South. The Jeanes Fund last year expended ‘$42,443.50, and ‘through its éfforts secured an additional sum from public; funds, supplementing the funds appropriated by’ the Jeanes Fund amounting to $31,396.47, a total expenditure of $73,839.47. ~ Because of the death of Dr, H. B. Frissell, late principal of the Hamp: ton Norinal: and Agricultural -Insti- tute, and the continued illness ‘of Mr. ‘Belton Gilreath, of Birmingham, Ala., the Board glected to these vacancies ‘Bishop T. D. Bratton, of Jackson, Miss, and Dr. W. P. Few, president of Trinity College, Durham, N. Cy two . broad-gauge Southern white men, deeply inteersted in the educa- tion of all the children of the South. Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of ‘Tiiskegee Institute, was elected chair- man of the’ executive committee in succession to Dr. H. B, Frisell, and Mr. John ‘T. Emlen was elected sec- retary of the’ Foundation, succeeding Dr.“Moton. Mr. Emmett J. Scott was elected a member of the Execu- tive Committee, succeeding Dr. Jas. H. Dillard, who is an ex-officio mem- ber of, the Executive Committee by right of being president of the Foun- dation. Mr. John ‘T. Emlen was elected a member of the Finance. Committge in succession. to Mr. Bel- ton . Gilreath.--Committee was ap- pointed to draft suitable resolutions | in commemoration of Dr. H. B. Tris: anit: @ FIELD ARTILLERY. Good Men Wanted for the Service— Now Is the Time to Join a : Great Company. Headquafters 3e9th Field “Artillery, "Camp Dix, New Jersey, January 24, 1918... + Dear Brother:. qt At the suggestion of our Colonel, Daniel T. Moore, I am addressing vou this letter.’ He desires that our reople be informed and also aroused so the splendid apportunities now be- ‘ore them in the Artillery-branch_ of he service. The 167th: Brigade of Field Artillery, with headquarters at Camp Dix, N.J., is the first organiza- tion of its kind to be formed in this country for our people. And as such we cannot ‘afford to let this organi- zation fail in its purpose or. even fall below the standard previdusly set. But in order to do this we must have immediately: a large number of skilled men to enlist in the service. Our success will be determined: by the men we can obtain for the vari- ous lines- of .work, namely, elec- ticians, machinists, clerks, sténog- caphers and experts in‘the care and handling. of horses, and <players of ‘rass and wind instruments. “At present the men who apply ,nust be over or under the draft age. They should go to the nearest re- stuiting office ahd enlist for ‘service ‘n the. 349th Field Artillery at Camp Dix, N. J: 5 We have at present forty officers in this regiment and there is a splen= did chance for promotion, We therefore appeal to you to give this matter as much-publicity as pos- sible in order that we may secure the needed men dnd succeed in this new field:, . * Very respectfully yours, Arthur E, Rankin, Chaplain z40th Field Artillery. COLORED FOLKS FLAG. By Nanette C. B. Schlatter. (Copyright, 1918) Who says the colored folks baven’ . | a flag of their. own? , Ohy yes, they have, and. ’tis one o! renown. Its broad red and white stripes; its stars on blue, : Is as much to. my colpred friends as it is, my white friend, to you. Tell me who was it that fought and is fighting still? ie How about the.“Negro” at San Juan Hill? : 2 Did his face'turn pale? Did he trem- ble and shake? 4% And his blood turn to water? Did fie quiver or quake? Not he,.dear friends. With a broad .' gtin and quick yell” ‘i They went up that 1M with its hot shot and. shell— = And they would -have captured it, tho they had gone thru hell! They’ have. fought, bled and died without a groan;. i Gone the way ‘their fathers have gone. ie Oh, they fought well and bravely, xs ~* gallant men should; Gave’ of their liberty as any. white "man would; Gave up their sweethearts, children and wives, Gave to our flag their body, blood and lives. ~ | [ once ‘had’ a good, true friend, and, - tho she was black, = Uve often. wished she could’ come | back To comfort: me in.my sorrow and woe, : But God knew. best—she had to go. And how about Booker Washington and the fame he so hardly won? Both. white and colored give hint tbs. . due, now his work is done, Yet it lives, and’ will live, and wif always ‘thrive . ‘As long as there is one of his cacelf alive; . So please don't say the colored fotks haven't a flag, 1 Else I'll renounce mine own, as a dishonored rag; And I'd ave. you,all remember this— | Kt: wasn’ta. colored man that be- trayed: Christ. with a kiss. HOW- INDIANS CATCH SALMON Equipment, Consisting of | “Grab- ., Hooks” and Long Poles t@ Crude But Very Effective. ‘The Indians fish for salmon with a) “grabhook,” a.large iron hook fastened. to'a pole by:a loose cord three or four: feet:long. A hole at-the blunt end of the hook that slips over the tip of th: pole keeps it in place until the fish | hooked. Then the hook is’pulled off th, pole and the cord gives the fisherman chance to play his fish ts necessary be’ fore dragging tt ashore. The hooks are made by the blacksmith, but the: poles, about twenty feet in length, the Indians make themselves of red fir, the Southern’ Workman ‘says, ete ‘Taklug:a rough plecé of dry wood of the required length, they patiently: avork at It with drawsbave and knife until it Ig the right size and tapered to Suit.the workman. Then {t is usu; ally hardened {n the. conts before: put- ting on the cord, which they” brald themselves. If a pole, breaks, as oftett happens, the broken parts are lashed’ together with string, pitch 1s smeared; over and melted by belng rubbed with a hot stone, which’ makes the pole as strong as before. ‘The Indians general- ly fish from. the bank or, from. plat, forms bullt over the water. They, trust the long pole out across. the rive: as far as they. can.and let the eurgat carry it down and into the bank, tras‘ Ing to chanee and a quick Jerk to hook the fish if they feel one in the water. ™ Great Men_Died Learning. It 1s well to remember that the very greatest men died learning, like Ba- on and Pasteur. Socrates was eniter- tng old age“ when he drank the hem. tock, but I do not think anyone wuld. soy that his last words were, there- fore, of no worth. ‘The greatest bene- factions to humanity,.the greatest services to human ‘thought have not all Been bestowed or rendefed by men under twenty-five or even under ‘forty years of age, a fact sometimes worthy of remembrance. Do not, then, fall vletims to over-confidence.and close your mind. The injunction is as im- portant for youth as for age; easy of attainment for the former, difficult for: the latter; possibly for both. The past’ Gnd ‘the present, youth and age, sew and old, all have their place in the sun; all are needed for the widest learging, for the highest achlevement, for the best development of mankind.: —Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. _ .. Her Memory -Faulty. She was middle-aged, sty gowwned and apparently sane, And she was looking at the paintings in the Sorcoran Gallery, of, Art throvgb gold-framed lorguette, ‘that dangled from a jeweled gold chain, : _ Another woman was standing before a canvas, and, in a desire for informa- tion, or, perhaps, for'the sake.of goclal interchange, the lady of the lorgnette Ingulred, affably? “Ig that a picture of the death of the Lord?” *No, madam; it represents the mar tyrdom of St. Sebastian.” “gh, I see, Ihave the poorest mem- ory. I knew that, they killed the| Lord, of course, but I’ disremembered fast how.”—Washington Star. Pay, Pray and Peg Away, In a Long Island village thero UT to be and still is a group:of people: who” thought a good deal’ of each other. fo spite of what they sald, which .was frequently of an: unsympathetic n° ture, acconiing to the New York Sun. The group existed under various self- impoped names and had # ‘semt-bumor- ous motto which ran, “Pay, pray and peg, away.” * ‘All the members of this little asso- lation are still alive, kicking. end good-natured. : é Now seems_an apt time to suggest that thelr motto be made public and nrged for more general adoption.” : " MASONICS. (This. special column will be edited. by Mr. J. Thomas Tascoe. Masonic news asd aews of the Chapters will be addressed directly to’ him ia care: of'The Bee) ~~ *: The Week in Society 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 order. Sold at Board's Drug Store, 1912% Fourteenth Street N.W.-Adv. Miss Ada Howard, of 1339 S Street N.W., who has been ill, under the care of Dr. Mundy, is improving rapidly, and expects to leave the city this week for Pennsylvania. Mrs. Georgia Young, one of the faithful and loyal members of Zion Baptist Church, Deanwood, D. C., who has been seriously ill at her new home, is now able to be out again. She thanks her many friends for their visits and beautiful flowers. Mrs. Rosa Harden, of Deanwood, has refused Government employment. to devote all her time to her church, home and the Red Cross Society. Mrs. Carrie Felton, who has been ill, is now better and able to resume her duties in the Government department. Miss Maude Cole is quite ill at her home, 633 Rhode Island Avenue N.W. Mrs. Mary Kibble is confined to her home with a cold. A Queen Rally will take place at Trinidad Baptist Church February 25th for the benefit of Antioch Baptist Church, Rev. Peter Ailes, pastor. Miss Eleanor Brown, of Frankfort, Pa., is visiting her relatives in this city. Mr. Arthur Bristol, of this city, is viisting in Frankfort, Pa. Prof. W. H. J. Beckett, of St. Louis, Mo., was called to this city on account of the illness. of his wife. Prof. Harvey Pearson, of Newport News, Va., is visiting friends in this city. Mrs. Susie Harris, of Charlotte, N. C., is visiting friends in this city. D. O. Bernard King, of 1523 M Street-N.W., has returned to his practice after attending the funeral of his brother at Norfolk, Va. Mrs. T. H. Dwelle, of Augusta, Ga., spent ten days in this city visiting friends. Mrs. John Preston, of Pine Street, Columbia, S. C., is visiting friends and relatives in this city. Mr. Raymond McLane, of Philadelphia, was in the city last week on account of the death of his brother- law Mr. and Mrs. George Minor, of Northeast Washington, have a fine son. Mother and baby are doing well. ncisely. Mr. Edward McLane, of New ```markdown ``` PROF. J. HENRY LEWIS QUIT BARKING WEST WASHINGTON. Mr. Charles H. Brown, of 2813 Dumbarton Avenue, who is employed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is very sick. At this writing Mr. Charles Woolford, an official of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, is ill at his residence, Twenty-seventh and N Streets. Mrs. Alice Jones and Mrs. Pannie Smothers are still on the sick list. Mrs. Maggie Taylor, of 1518 Thirty-second Street, one of First Baptist Church's faithful members, is still very sick in Pittsburgh, Pa. Mrs. Helen Martin, of 2401 M Street, is spending the season in Florida. The funeral of Mr. John H. Lewis, who died suddenly January 24th, took place Sunday from Mt. Zion M. E. Church, of which he was a faithful member. He was a member of Potomac Union Lodge, No. 892, G. U. O. of O. F., who had charge of his body. Mr. Lewis was also a member of the Elder Men's Association and the Queen of Sheba Household. Rev. D. D. Turpeau officiated. Interment in Mt. Zion Cemetery. At First Baptist Church, on Sunday morning, a protest was drawn up by an appointed committee of nine, which stated that First Baptist Church of West Washington would not close its doors to the public, wherein they worship God, in order to save fuel.. The church is willing to be patriotic in all its motives, but not willing to close its doors, as service to God is needed at all times. Miss Ollie V. Vanderlippe and Mr William H. Grisby have announced their marriage on February 6th. Rev. James L. Garfield, pastor of Alexandria Memorial Baptist Church, occupied the pulpit Sunday morning and preached an appreciative sermon. At 3 p. m., Rev: James P. Robinson of Antioch Baptist Church of Virginia delivered an eloquent sermon to the King of Spain Club at Alexandria Memorial Baptist Church. At the night services, preceding a fervent prayer by Rev. Smith, Rev. Thomas of North Carolina preached a splendid sermon, subject "In His Name," after which the closing remarks and benediction were pronounced by Rev. C. N. Pryor. In no department of the Government are there so many colored people employed as in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. No greater opportunity has been offered the colored men and women than in this department of the Government. These colored men and women have an excellent opportunity for making a record commendable to their ability. The new chief who was appointed by Secretary McAdoo is a man who believes in giving those under him a square deal, and it is up to them to make good. His assistant, Mr. Ferguson, is known to everyone. He is kind-hearted and doesn't believe in imposing upon any employee, white or colored. Hundreds of the High and Normal School graduates of color are in a position to demonstrate to the chiefs of this great department of the Government that they will make good. Colored young women should be careful and do nothing that will tend to show that they are not worthy of the position to which they have been appointed by the administration. It makes no difference what may be said by others, that necessity or the cause of the war is the reason that they have been appointed in this Bureau. Eliminate such thoughts and come to the conclusion that it is the ability of every colored employee that the Government respects and not so much a necessity. All emergency employees should remember that the war will not last forever, and only the most efficient will be retained in office when necessity will cause a reduction in the force. Remember, also, that colored office holders are on trial, and it is up to them to make good. Be loyal to your chiefs, and to the Government, is what The Bee would suggest. BUREAU NOTES. Mr. Royal Hawkins was out for a few days. Mrs. Nettie Langston Harlán is assigned in the Printing Division. assigned in the Printing Division Misses Ina Fowler, Edna Thompson, Rachel Waddleton, Mrs. Anna Dismukes, Mrs. Julia Dodson Matthews, Ellen Lee, Tulip Cook, Nettie Langston Henderson, Sadie Sumner, Lena Payne and Vallerie Turner are pursuing their work diligently and commendably. Miss Edith Burgess is detailed on the night force. Mrs. Annie Lawrence Lucas was promoted to the Examining Division. Mr. Joseph Lawson has returned to his duties, much benefited. Miss Susie Parker, an efficient agent of the Bureau Relief, deserves great credit for her energy and untiring efforts in bringing in so many new members. Miss Mary Booker, one of the efficient workers of the Stamp Perforating Division, has returned to work, to the delight of her co-workers and friends. Miss Corinne Ashton, counter and examiner in the Surface Division, was out a few days. Mrs. Ida Botts, a competent operator of the Hydraulic Division, was out a few days this week. Mrs. Bertie Gordon is now detailed on day work on the platen press. GOVERNMENT PRINTING Miss Florence Burgess and Mrs. Florine Jenkins Johnson are now detailed on the 12-hour shift. Miss Alice Waddleton received her permanent appointment several days ago. Miss Waddleton is a capable young lady. Miss Jennie Winfield is still pursuing her duties diligently. Mrs. Georgia Jones Tucker stood seventh on the list in the moving picture contest. MARTINSBURG A BUSY CITY. Martinsburg, Va.—The snow is knee deep, nevertheless the churches were well attended Sunday. The pastor of Dudley preached a soul-stirring sermon, using for his subject "Leadership." The people of this city are beginning again to turn their faces toward Zion. That is right, brother; the war and severe winter are quite suggestive of God's Rev. J. T. Reid, pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, has just returned from a midwinter vacation. Among the places visited were Baltimore, Richmond, Norfolk and Portsmouth. At the latter he visited his brothers, Attorney William Reid and Dr. W. E. Reid, M. D. On his return he stopped off in Washington to hear Billy Sunday. He gives a glowing report of his trip. Rev. S. R. Hughes, pastor of Mt. Zion M. E. Church, is making a grand showing, coming in on the home-stretch preparatory to the Conference. On Friday night of last week a musical was given by the Store College Girls, which was a treat. The main auditorium was crowded by both white and colored. During the absence of Rev. Reid, Rev. E. T. Johnson, pastor of Dudley, officiated at the funeral of Mr. .Howard Theatre. Entire Week Starting Monday, Feb. 4th. Closed Tues. Only A Play With A. Punch In Every Line Right of Broadway First Time. By Any Stock Company THE KNIFE THE KNIFE All Star Cast: Abbie Mitchel, Inez Clough, Susie Sutton, Alioe Gorgan, Babe Townsend, Chas. Olden, J. Frances Mores, Will Cooke & A. B. De-Comtharie Night Prices 25 35 and 50c Mat. all Seats 25c I'm Jealous of You J. Rosamond Johnson's latest and best song hit Also Howard Theatre Sorg 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. Violins, Mandolins, Guitars, from $5.00 d Strings, and other accessories. Ask 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. Tanner, D. D., pastor, Parsonage 1444 Q Street N. W. Phone, North 1825. William Mason, which was held at the Ebenezer Church. He leaves a very sad widow and family. very sad widow and Mr. Lee Ransom, a well-known citizen and one of Dudley's staunchest workers, died early Sunday morning of heart failure. His funeral will be preached at the Dudley Church on Wednesday by the pastor, assisted by Reus Hughes and Reid. The Red Cross Chapter, under the leadership of Sister M. E. Corsey, is going right ahead. A banquet will be given at Spears Hall, February 7, under the auspices of that organization. Many of our young men are already in the camps, and a bunch are awaiting the word. May God bless our country, boys and churches. HOWARD NEXT WEEK. "The Knife," the Latest Broadway Success: The coming week at the Howard Theatre should prove a record breaker, for the theatre will house one of the best plays that Washington has seen in years. "The Knife" was chosen as the opening play for the opening of the New Bijou, one of the handsomest theatres in New York. Below is the New York Times critic's review: "The Knife" is no mean example of Eugene Walter's knack for vigorous and effective playwriting. It has the virtue of not sailing under false colors. It is out-and-out drama. Leaving all considerations of delicate taste aside, it sets out deliberately to give the audience a thrill, and it does not fail in its purpose. As an example of smooth running theatrical machinery, "The Knife" is bound to stir a great amount of admiration. Its story does not seem much more preposterous than a great many happenings in metropolitan life which are faithfully reported in the newspapers. The characters give the effect of life-likeness—even if they are not. Every situation is framed to observe the purpose known in rarefied art circles as the "punch." The dialogue is pared to the bone— Violins, Mandolins, Guitars, from $5.00 down Strings, and other accessories. Ask for what you want, we'll sell it. not a word is wasted. Under the circumstances it is not strange that even the most sophisticated of first-nighters awaited breathlessly to find out how Dr. Manning would wreak revenge on the kidnappers of his Virginia sweetheart, Kate Tarleton. She had come to New York to buy her trousseau. Believing in fortune-telling, she had put herself in jeopardy. An admirable opening act communicated these necessary details. The excitement increased when the abductors were run down in the second act. The scene was tense enough in itself, but the doctor was ready with an added wonderful note. Manning, the doctor, was at the point of discovering an antitoxin which would bring a great boon to humanity. He needed two healthy subjects on which to perform his experiments. So he decided to use the pair of criminals to serve science and wreak revenge. But why am I trying to tell the story of this wonderful play, when I know full well it must be seen to be appreciated The Howard management is doing its aimst to duplicate its success in New York. CITY BRIEFS. The employees of the Industrial Savings Bank have been given an increase. The citizens of Deanwood, D. C. indorse The Bee. Mr. M. C. Maxfield, who has been confined to his home with a severe cold, has returned to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Mrs. B. L. C. Hill, of 1251 Walter Street S. E., gave a private musical last week. Madame Hill is one of the most accomplished musicians in the country. Prof. Wellington Adams, the rising musical composer, is preparing a march which he intends dedicating to The Bee. Two boys are wanted at The Bee office to run errands. Miss Elsie Richards paid a visit to her aunt and uncle in Baltimore Md., last week, where she spent a most enjoyable time. She returned Monday. The Bee is the people's paper-so have it follow you. One of the up-to-date business women of this city is Miss Hammond, the Howard Theatre cashier. THE SMITHS. Madame Smith, of 905 You Street N. W. will be pleased to see her friends. It's Great You best song hit LY "Smarter Set" of recent date dolins, Guitars, from $5.00 down and other accessories. Ask for want, we'll sell it. NDED Phone North 2367 1911 NINTH STREET, N. W. There Is Nothing Else In Which Service Means 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 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 O Steel Market Madame Smith, of 935- R Street N. W., is prepared to accommodate all who may call. Dr. W. L. Smith, 801 Florida Avenue N. W., has the medicine that will cure indigestion. Read The Bee if you want to know who is in the city. YAW! YAW! SUCH A FUNNY MUNKIE VAY ME ISS - YAW! YO'DONE TRANSFERRED YO' AFFECTION TO DAT PICKLE SO I'D DONE WIF YO'! YES? SO!! SAY FAITZ - YOU GO AND BRING MOSE BAK - I DIDN'T MEAN TO NURT HIS FEELINGS! I COMES FOR YOU, YAW - GET MIT DER BAG IN! YO' HAB - HAB, YO! OUCH! HERE'S WHAR' YO' GIT IT IN DE SNOOT' INSTID! YAW! ME NOW GET DER MUNK! YO' DONE WILL WILL YO'? GUESS DIS PACE AM HOT & NUFF TO' YO! I JES' WISH ME'D TRY AN' GIT ME NOW! DIDN'T I SEND YOU FOR MOSE WHERE IS HE? YAT? GEE! I'M GLAD TO SEE YOU MOSE - I NNEW YOU COULD NOT STAY AWAY FROM SIMON! NERE IS IT - YES- SO! PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS By the Sage of the Potomac. Well, the first feed—or to be more exact, the first feast—of the Sengalese is now a matter of history, to go vibrating down the corridors of time with all the dash, zest and spectacularism characteristic of Ty Cobb racing to home plate while the pitcher is winding up for the delivery of a third strike with two out. The place of rendezvous, or to be more exact, the place where the banquet was held is regarded as a secret, for fear the German spies might get on to it. It has been variously stated that it was given under the subdued lights and surrounded with artistic settings at the New Willard, the Ebbett, the Raleigh, and a pig's foot joint in the bosom of Sbuth Washington. By a system of spying, shadowing and sleuthful following that would make Billy Burns look like an amateur in a brush league, we, or to be more exact, I, personal pronoun "I," have learned what the bill of fare was, and who were present, and the toasts responded to. The menu consisted of the following, served in courses of three or four condiments on the plate at a time: Near oyster cocktail, a la adulterated; Fillet of pig's feet, slaughterhouse style; Potatoes, a la North of Ireland; Sparerib of pork, Hooverized; Chitterlings on toast, apricot dressing; Blind robin, shredded; Victory bread, eatless; Dried kale, mystified; Navy, beans, with average aftermath; Hog jole, cabbage garnishee; Variegated salad, Tuskegee dressing; Frozen pudding, a la imagination; Coffee, a la Postum; Cigars, Halfanna. The wine list consisted of Sauturn, Bryanized; White Seal, Clicquo, and Piperheidsick, served in Bruin, Bevo and Sarsaparilla labelled decanters. Everyone present did ample justice to the viands and vintages, and, running the affair up one side and down the other, tout ensemble, as Walter Singleton would say at a Mu-So-Lit evaporated spread, everyone present thoroughly enjoyed the gastronomic layout, which totaled, more or less, fifty rubles per plate. After the dishes had been cleared away, the waiters tipped with munificent tips suggestive of food conservation, and the smoke from the Halfannas had arisen, encircled and camouflaged the banquet hall, the Grand Diatribe, Judge Hewlett, arose from his improvised throne, and prefacing his remarks in a way-suggestive of Babe Ruth camouflaging the ball with saliva, and paying high tribute to the Grand Chef, Tom Jones, he announced that toasts were in order, and introduced Bud-Harris, who responded to the toast, "The cigarette-finger-stained barber." Bud was at his best—never, not even in his early days, when he used to paint the suburbs ruby red, did he rise to such sublime-heights. He told of the narrow-chested, one-lunged species of barbers, who with fingers camouflaged with cigaraette stains, and an odor that left a trail of spinal meningitis behind, was killing the barber business by forcing boss barbers to raise the price of shaves to 15 cents and the use of soiled towels. The applause that greeted his perioration was like that which comes from the bleachers when Eddie Ainsmith strikes out. Melendez King, with a Doc Cherry cast of countenance, and a deliberation that marks one of Hal Chase's flies to deep left field for a home run, arose to respond to the toast, "The virility of the Knights of Malaciah." Never did old "Silver" King, the one-time Chicago pitcher, do himself so proud as did this distinguished member of the bar with an Abyssinian-like front handle to his name. Forgetting the auspiciousness of a cherry lined $10,000 suit for the alienation of affection, or some other raucously funny litigation, he waded into his subject just like Larry Lajoie wades into a straight-ball offering. He recited the good that the Knights of Malaciah had achieved—for him; now it had spread its pinions over Panama; how it had grown, like a green bay tree, from a simple idea of his to a state of inoucuous desquetude or something like it. He brought tears to the eyes of all when he recounted his personal sacrifices to build up the order as a monument as enduring as the pyramids to King advancement. He even brought tears to the eyes of the Grand Diatribe, and had the Grand Chef hanging upon every word that fell, silvery like, from his humanized lips, like Marsans hanging to an intended three-base line drive. When the assemblage recovered composure, Royal Hughes was introduced as the personification of purity to respond to the toast, "Morality." Never did morality, in her palmiest days—in the days when Adam insisted on a bite from the apple Eve offered with malice aforethought—receive such an eulogy as the Samson-hair adorned Royal paid her. Rummaging into the innermost recesses of his soul for spiritual promptings, he told how, for years and years, and then some, he had stood, with Spartan-like guard at morality's Thermopolian pass; how he had conserved, observed and revered morality; how he had often gone, in the silly nights of a bleak December, to the bed of morality to see if she was sleeping soundly; how he had stood on the street corners, when the clock in the church tower had announced to a slumbering world that the day had merged into a black, bat-like night, to protect, from impious hands, and sensualized brain, tender bits of femininity that might happen to be strolling the streets in search of protection, or the equivalent for cash. When Royal concluded his masterly defense, championing and extolling morality, Bill Houston, stunned by the oratory, and apparent sincerity of the speaker, succumbed to a state of coma, and while in that state uttered various incoherent passages from the writings of Oscar Wilde. When Royal sat down there was a hushed silence that marooned the banqueters into a suspense. quite similar to the suspense that pervades the Washington bleachers when, with one on second and third, two out, two strikes on the batter, and the opposing team two to the good, McBride waits, semi-consciously, for the pitcher to deliver a ball which may recall DeWolf Hopper's immortal "Casey at the Bat." On the conclusion of Royal's panegyric, paragonic, or something akin to it, on overworked morality, the Grand Diatribe introduced America's greatest constitutional lawyer, Hon. Thomas L. Jones, Grand Chef of the Sengalese, to respond to the toast, "The greatest attorney of the Washington bar." The Hon. Thomas arose with all the leisure of a constitutional rheumatic, and after first adjusting his cuffs to a stationary and fixed position, he began in measured tones, and a voice as soft as the babblings of an exotic child of darkest Africa expiring on the Desert of Sahara from thirst. When he got warmed up to his subject his voice increased to the "Strike-three-batter-out." Tom called up all the hoary lawyers of the past, and paraded them, spectre-like, before the astonished banqueters; he volume of an umpire when he raves told of their wisdom and their failures to grasp all that is in the great profession; he referred feelingly to Clinkscale, the wonderful brief writer; he came down to the present, and marshalled before all present the Howard-equipped attorneys that are now watching the Police Court for clients, like Walter Johnson watches a fellow trying to ease himself away from first. Then, pausing for an instant, as if to impress upon all the wonder of his next denoument, he thundered, just like that one-time historical personage thundered from Mount Sinai: "Gentlemen, I stand here, and with charity for all, and malace to none, and declare that I—he who speaks to you—have never Madame Walker's Goods We have the exclusive Wholesale Agency for Madame Walker's Preparations Wholesale and Retail AGENTS SUPPLIED Peoples Drug Store - Agency 7th & M, N. W. feared that my fame, my acumen, my wonderful grasp of the effusions from legalized brain, whether of the hoary past or the dubious present, would suffer one iota of eclipse from those who strode the boards doubtfully in the past or lazily in the present." When Tom finished pandemonium broke loose with all the ferocity of the bleacherites incensed at the umpire when he calls a perfectly fair ball a "strike three." There were cries of "Snyder!" "Put him out!" "Robber!" and other like terms of endearment and admiration. Through it all, however, Tom maintained a composure, sanguine of his superiority, that would have made little old Casabianca, who once in a time now long since resting in oblivion, "stood on the burning deck whence all but he had fled." The Grand Diatribe, waving the olive oil branch of peace, admonished all that they must not permit their enthusiasm to expose their breeding to such an extent that they would be classed with plain, ordinary, garden variety of "Booleys." Owing to the insufficiency of funds possessed by Editor Chase to pay the printer for composition, this account of the first feed of the Senga-lse will be "continued in our next," as the announcement on the curtain would say after one scene from "The Million Dollar Mystery." to oppose another because it outnumbers the other? The colored Americans who are without the necessary protection and arms of defense are continually being oppressed by a superior force, simply because that force is in control of everything. The question is, Why are colored Americans being opposed? They are obedient to the laws of their country and willing defenders against foreign invasion. In no conflict in which the American nation has ever been engaged has a traitor been found among the colored race. Since the Government finds so many traitors and spies among the white race, would it not be safe to place upon guard men who are known to be loyal and who are known to have been tested, notwithstanding the treatment they have received at the hands of those who arrogate to themselves superiority? In every conflict the colored soldier has done his duty. World Democracy. In no public speech that is delivered by a Southern Democrat does he ever mention in it democracy for the colored citizen. If the South means democracy for the American white man, let the colored American know it. He is fighting the battles for America, regardless of color. 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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 witt to foster and regulater any number or branch units in the District of Columbia and vicinity having like objects, which shall be integral parts of this society; to affiliate itself with any national society having similar aims and objects; to accept gifts of money securities, goods, material and real estate for the promotion of its objects; to print and disseminate such literature as may be deemed calculated to advance its objects. Section 4. The powers granted in this charter shall not be construed to exclude any other powers reasonable for the promotion of the public-spirited and charitable objects of this society and consistent with the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia and the laws of the United States. Section 1. The affairs, funds and property of this society shall be in the general charge of a Board of Governors of not more than twenty-four members of the society, who shall be assisted by a Supervisory Committee of three members of the society no one of whom shall be a member of the Board of Governors, and by such executive officers and other employees as may be provided in the bylaws. During the first year the number of Governors shall be not less than twelve. Section 2. The first Board of Governors, and first Supervisory Committee shall be chosen by the persons who sign this certificate of incorporation and thereafter the members of that board and that committee shall be chosen by ballot by the general body of members at the regular annual meetings. Section 3. The by-laws shall prescribe which of the executive officers if any, shall be also members of the Board of Governors. Section 4. At the first annual election all members of the Board of Governors and the Supervisory Committee shall be chosen anew by the members of the society, and one-third of the members of that board and of that committee shall be chosen to serve one, two and three years, respectively and after one year following the first annual election the persons chosen to serve one, two and three years, respectively, and after one year following the first annual election the persons chosen to fill vacancies in those bodies shall be chosen for the term of three years. Section 5. During the first year, or previous to the first annual election the executive officers of this society shall include a President, at least one Vice-President, a Secretary and a Treasurer. But the by-laws may provide additional or other executive officers to be chosen at the first annual election of officers and thereafter. Section 6. All officers and employees charged with the custody or handling of the funds or other property of the society shall be required to furnish an adequate indemnity bond for the faithful performance of their respective duties, and the amount of any such bond shall be prescribed by the Board of Governors. Article V. Section 1. The Board of Governors shall immediately after its appointment make such prudential by-laws as they may deem proper for the management and business affairs of this society, and thereafter any by-laws 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. Brodtt, whose factory and sale stores are at 410 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 Brodtt's. Mention The Bee. "A cold in the head which lasts longer than three days is no longer such, but a nasal sinusitis," said Dr. John J. Hurley of Boston in an address reported in the Medical Record. Doctor Hurley was arguing that "grippe" and influenza were nothing but an inflammation of the sinuses, of the face, that labyrinth of the passages in the bones of the nose, cheeks and forehead which empty into the nose or pharynx. After comparing all the classic symptoms of influenza as described in the textbooks with those of sinusitis and pointing out their similarity if not identity, he called "influenza" and "grippe" the "allibis of ignorance." The familiar influenza bacillus discovered by Pfeiffer is found in many but by no means all cases of so-called gripe. It has a special affinity for the sinuses of the nose. But there are many other bacilli—all of the performing kinds—that produce the same effects. Sinusis is nothing but the formation of an abscess in the sinuses. The patient needs no drugs; what he needs is to have the sinuses emptied. This is easy in nearly all cases; a specialist can open the swollen passages with a cotton pledget on the tip of a boule and generally nothing more is needed than the touching of the passages with nitrate of silver. Once they begin to discharge their pus freely the cure is rapid. Cases in which an operation is necessary are the rare exception. DAYS ARE GROWING LONGER Scientists Say It Takes World Three Seconds Longer to Turn Over Than It Did 100 Years Ago. Our earth appeara to be slowing down its spin. Two British astronomers who have just finished a long study of the matter report that it now takes almost exactly three seconds longer for the world to turn over once than it took 100 years ago, and, a century hence, still another three seconds will have been added to the day. At this rate, Shakespeare had nearly ten seconds, less in his 24 hours than has a modern dramatist, says Saint Nicholas. William the Conqueror was handcapped a half minute in keeping up with his descendants. Julius Caesar was a whole minute to the bad; while even if he had lived to old age, his life would still have been some twenty of our days short of what his biographers would have claimed for him. Abraham and the early Pharaohs would have been still more pressed for time. The earliest men, say in the year 100,000 B. C., would have had no use for How long to live on 24 hours a day, for they had only 24 hours to do their living in and were really only seventy-six years old when they thought they had reached fourscore. May Be Oldest Book Extant. In an ancient Samaritan synagogue at Shechem a double roll of parchment is guarded jealously and is zealously preserved. It was to Shechem that Abraham came in his first visit to Canaan. Near Shechem Jacob sank his famous hearth here for the last time the voice of Joshua. Shechem was the first residence of the kings of Israel and was a city of the kings of Israel and was a city of refuge. Here at Jacob's well Jesus met the woman of Samaria. Here the great Justin martyr was born. After the division of Israel into two kingdoms Shechem became the religious center of the northern kingdom, and Jeroboam's self-appointed faith degenerated into the Samaritan worship of our Lord's day, which is perpetuated in the old synagogue which holds this scroll. This double roll of parchment, possibly the oldest in the world, contains the first five books of the Old Testament and may be as old as the days of Jeremiah. - Christian Herald. Why Singera Break Down. Why Singers Break Down. Singing is an abnormal exercise of the lungs, to say nothing of the other organs involved. It over exercises the upper portion of the body, forcing abnormal pressure in an upward direction and tending to overheat the upper portion of the body. Up to a certain point, a healthful stimulation of the blood circulation is the happy result; but beyond that point, the increasing motion imparted tends to fever, and a reaction the next day shows that a cooling down period has been forced upon the singer's attention.—Physical Culture. Morning Glories Wild morning glories, like the lilies of the field, "toll not, neither do they spin." But though arrayed like Solomon, they are not sought after for landscape decoration. In the plant klugdom they are military oppressors, outing every other aspirant for vegetable honors, from every acre where they obtain a footing. Hence has sprung a strange lawsuit between two wealthy ranchers in Santa Barbara county, the one accusing the other of having seeded his land to these radiant but hostile flowers.—Los Angeles Times. The Hurried Life. Mrs. Uptodate—Have you got the latest record for your phonograph? Mrs. Hurriup—I'm afraid not. I haven't been downtown since this morning. ALLIES SUFFER FROM SERIOUS FOOD SHORTAGE Success in War Imperiled if American Homes Do Not Come to Rescue. Stories Alleging Plentitude of Food In Allied Countries Jeopardize Cause of Allies—Correspondent Tells of Conditions in France. Washington. — Irresponsible statements from unknown sources, purporting to show that there is no food shortage in France and other allied European countries, are creating, a wrong impression in the public mind and seriously hampering the government's food conservation program, declares the United States food administration. The administration can only repeat what it has said all along on the basis of official government statistics: There is a serious food shortage in France, and in other allied European lands,—shortage which, if not made up by conservation in American homes and shipments from American ports, will imperil allied success in the war. Any statement, innocent or malicious, which alleges a plenitude of food over there is German propaganda, pure and simple. Get Wrong impression. Persons returning from Paris have unintentionally jeopardized the cause of the allies by giving American newspapers their flash impressions of food conditions in France. Explaining how this happens, Fred B. Pitney, American correspondent, recently returned from France, said: "I have kept house in Paris during the war and I can speak from experience. One learns a great deal when keeping house of which one gets no inking when living in a hotel and eating in restaurants. One can always go to a restaurant and get a meal. "I have heard many visiting Americans, who lived in France in that way, pooh-pooh the idea that there was a food shortage in the country. If those same persons had had to search the market before they had their meals, they would have gained a very different idea of the food situation. "We paid last winter in Paris 11 cents aplece for eggs and $2 a pound for butter and there was frequently neither butter, nor eggs nor milk to be had. Private families were allowed to buy one-eighth of a pound of flour at a time. The grocers could not sell flour, only the bakers." Scoffing at the idea that there is a shortage in France, one article recently published in the United States declared that a certain Paris meat market advertised "beef a la mode" and other real meat items as "meatless day specials." This, according to Pitney, may easily have occurred without at all indicating that there was no meat shortage in France. With regard to the meat situation Pitney said: "The French government is very bureaucratic, but the French people do not like to be overgoverned. They object seriously to anything that savors of meddling in a man's private affairs. "Saying how much or what a man shall eat is getting pretty close to private affairs and therefore the French government knowing intimately the people it has to deal with, is slow—low—in coming to such measures even in face of the only too evident good shortage in the country. "Sq far, meat has withstood all efforts to control its consumption—there has been no attempt to control its price, and yet it is vitally necessary to control the consumption of meat in France or to increase the supply." Herds Are Disappearing. With regard to the published statement in this country that France's herds are sleek, fat and plentiful, Pitney said: "France's herds are disappearing rapidly. They are today far below the danger point. Soon they will have to be reconstituted entirely. To what extent the herds have disappeared is shown by the cutting of the meat ration of the soldiers at the front. At the beginning of the war they were allowed one pound of meat a day. Twenty per cent has now been cut from that ration. Only dire necessity will countenance reducing the food allowance of soldiers at the front. "At the beginning of 1914 France's cattle herds comprised 14,787,710 head; sheep 16,181,890 and hogs 7,035,850. By the end of 1914, after five months of war, her cattle were reduced to 12,668,248 her sheep to 14,038,361 and hogs to 5,925,291. Today her cattle herds are down more than 20 per cent, while her sheep number no more than 10,000,000 and her hogs 4,000,000. "Cattle feed is short in France and the cattle are poor and underweight." National Price Fixing Concerning the statement that there are plenty of beans and potatoes in France, Pitney said: "A scheme of national price fixing is to be tried now with beans and potatoes. Both of these crops are far below the requirements of the country. I have seen many days when potatoes could not be bought in Parla." The statement that there is plenty of rye and barley in France, which has been given wide publicity in this country, is flatly refuted by Pitney, who said: "It is not only wheat that is short in France, but all cereals. According to official figures, the annual consumption of barley in France before the war was approximately 1,250,000 tons, 15 per cent of which was imported. Production has fallen off so that nearly one-third of the barley had to be imported in France last year. "The normal consumption of rye is about the same as for barley, but normal imports are only about 8 per cent. In 1915 the production was about 400,000 tons under normal and no imports were available. Italy Worse Off Than France." "The annual consumption of corn average 1,150,000 tons, about one-half being imported. The proportion of imports in 1916 had risen to two-thirds. "The annual consumption of oats before the war was 5,500,000 tons, of which 500,000 tons were imported. In 1916 these imports rose to over 1,000,000 tons and the stock was still 500,000 tons short." Broad general statements have been published saying there is no food or supply shortage in Italy. They are of the same stripe as the statements concerning France. Italy's plight, if anything, is worse than that of France, according to official reports in the hands of the United States government. WOMAN SITS IN STORTHING Miss Sara Christie Takes Place In Norwegian Parliament as Representative of Trondheim. Christiania, Norway. — Miss Sara Christie has taken her seat in the Norwegian parliament as a conservative representative of the city of Trondheim. At parliamentary elections in Norway substitutes for members of parliament are always elected at the same time to take the member's place in case of illness or death, so elections to fill vacancies never take place. All members of the storthing are engaged in special committees to prepare legislative work or dealing with the government's proposals before they are submitted to the storthing. In this way Miss Sara Christie, who is now summoned to take the seat of Professor Soeland, becomes a member of the defense committee to consider the army and navy estimates instead of her predecessor. Miss Christie is a director of a girl's school in Trondhjem and has for many years been a member of the town council. She is esteemed as a prominent teacher and a great administrator. "USE THE WATERWAYS AND WIN THE WAR" Washington.—"Use the waterways and win the war!" is the slogan of the National Rivers and Harbors congress, which opened its fourteenth annual convention here. The auditorium of the New National museum welcomes governors of states and territories, mayors of cities towns and villages and many prominent representatives of commerce and business. The fundamental purpose of the conclave, it is announced, is not to urge appropriations for new projects, but to plan how the various branches of government may most effectively co-operate to use the waterways at this time of railroad crisis and congestion. CIRCUS PEOPLE WILL HELP Routing Experts to Assist in Railroad Problems, and Kitchen Experts Will Give Advice. New York.—Experts in the booking and routing of circuses will come to the aid of the government in its problem of transportation for the country, it was learned here, and the efficient methods of the show business will be applied directly to the work of moving supplies for the United States. Nor will the circus methods to be placed on the military roster be confined to the booking of transportation. The kitchen system of the big tops will also be transferred to the army cantonments, and men who have long traveled with the circuses and established the kitchens of the outdoor organizations will shortly be enlisted into the service of the country for the purpose of standardizing the kitchens at the various army cantonments. 365 POTATO DAYS 1918 GOAL United States Food Administration Seeks to Obtain Constant Use in America. Washington—The Irish potato on every table in America every day in the year is the object of a campaign begun by the United States food administration. Grocers will be asked to inaugurate a "potato day" each week, selecting whatever day is slack in deliveries, and making a special price. Fairly regular purchases are to be urged on the public, so that distribution will be equal everywhere for the next five or six months, relieving railroad congestion and encouraging production of a larger crop next spring. Improvements in potato growing methods are being studied by the department of agriculture. Germany plans twice as many potatoes as the United States and gets more than twice as many bushalls per acre." ONE-ARMED SERBIAN HERO M. This is a photograph of Lieutenant Colonel Nenadovitch of the Serbian mission which recently arrived in Washington to call upon President Wilson and express its gratitude for the extensive relief work carried on in stricken Serbia by the United States. Lieutenant Colonel Nenadovitch, who is a cousin of King Peter, was side-decamp to the Serbian crown prince at the commencement of the war, but left this post to engage in active service at the front. He was severely wounded in battle. POLICE GIVE A DEEP SIGH Conviction of Aged Woman Ends Criminal Career That Has Worried New York Force. New. York.—New. York police are breathing sighs of relief today because Miss Marlon La Touche, seventy-two, is in the Tombs awaiting sentence after conviction on the charge of grand larceny. "Her conviction," said the district attorney, "ends a criminal career which has worried the police of New York for thirty-five years. During that long period she has engaged successfully in swindling operations which have baffled the power of the police to stop. Not since 1885, when she was sent to the penitentiary, has she been indicted or convicted until the present charge was made against her." She was convicted on the charge of obtaining $200 from a woman on the pretense of making a profitable investment. FRENCH WOMEN PAINT GUNS Thousands From Fourteen to Past Sixty Years of Age Working for the British Army. Behind the British Lines in France. Many thousand French women and girls, ranging in age from fourteen to well past sixty, are employed by the British army at various kinds of work behind the lines. One task at which they excel all other workers is the painting of camouflage on guns. They also make good packers at the various army storehouses and ordnance dumps, their deft, active fingers making it possible for them to do this work with 50 per cent more efficiency and speed than any other, class of workers. In many of the clerical sections of the ordinance department they work side by side with the uniformed English girls belonging to the women's auxiliary army corps. The French girls have no knowledge of English. HAS 32 RELATIVES IN WAR Wife of Denver Physician Has Numerous Kin Fighting on Side of Allies. Denver, Colo.—Thirty-two relatives sent to the war—all on the side of the allies. That is the record of Mrs. R. M. Campbell of Denver, wife of a prominent physician of this city. Four kinsmen of Mrs. Campbell, who entered the struggle at the beginning of hostilities between England and Germany, have been killed. All were serving with Scotch regiments. Two others in the same units were wounded. The other twenty-six are still fighting with Scotch or Canadian forces on the western front in France. A brother of Doctor Campbell also is a dentist with the Cameron Highlanders, having enlisted at Winnipeg. Woman as Pastor's Secretary. New York.—Rev. Dr. David J. Burrell of the Marble Collegiate Reformed church, realizing that war is claiming practically all young men eligible to the position of secretary, has engaged a young woman to perform such duties. She is Miss Mercer E. Boyer of Cleveland, O. OMFORT REDIT ONVENIENCE Furniture 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. Peter Grogan & Sons Co. 817 to 823 Seventh Street DR. T. THEO. PARKER Osteopathic Physician (British) as the method of curing UTER- NE TUMORS without operation or ugs. 1810 Ninth Street N.W. Joint and nerve. troubles. cured without drugs. Hours until 9.30 p. m. Phone N. A. F. JACKSON RETURNED. Mr. A. F. Jackson, the well-known artistic painter, who paid a visit to his friends and relatives in St. Louis, o., returned to the city this week highly pleased with his trip and the reception he received while there. The Bee congratulates its good friend on his safe return to the city. * * * Mr. Solomon Morrison, a well-known citizen of this city and confidential clerk of Mr. A. F. Jackson, is ill in the Freedme's Hospital. FOR SALE 1216. Eye Street; six-room brick; all modern improvements; through entrances; 110 feet deep and 18 feet wide; front yard and room for garage. 1248 H Street; brick house; six rooms; all modern improvements; good location for store; all white. Will sell to any responsible colored doctor or dentist or any colored business. Workingmen, if there's anything to be glad of the days of high cost of living, it's the great pleasure of buying in a store that knows not that prices are advancing. We sell low, and every hustler says so. See the pants at $2 to $4. Slightly used Suits, fine grade, $5 up. JUSTH'S OLD STAND, 619 D St. NAVY SHOE REPAIR SHOP 501 Twenty-third Street N. W. Phone West 1173-J We help charitable institutions—we help them to get shoes for the poor ones that are in need. So we Furniture everlasting home comfort charge account in such a way that is to our interest to enable you to with this object in view we make the circumstances of each indivi- dous stocks of homefurni- variety of attractive patterns. also the better grades that rai- the different periods. Every article is marked in fig- ured for the credit help that ena- to have it at once. Specially o- married couples, and we are very come to Washington to enter the Grogan & S 7 to 823 Seventh Street UNCLE SAM'S FIRST FUE Keep Your Rooms at 68° Uncle the comfort for you. We much a way that your credit be enable you to afford the better view we make the small wee of each individual customer. of homefurnishings in various patterns. There are plenty grades that range up to the exp. marked in figures you can't help that enables you to have Specially. easy terms are we are very willing to do the on to enter the Government s & Sons Co enth Street FIRST FUEL CONSERVA SAVE COA Uncle Sam NEED UNCLE SAM'S FIRST FUEL CONSERVATION SIGN Keep Your Rooms at 68° SAVE COAL Uncle Sam NEEDS it U.S. TOLL ADMINISTRATION 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. LET'S HELP KEEP THE WHOLE WORLD SWEET SEVERAL WAYS TO SAVE S Our Low Sugar in Ice and Coffee 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 TO SAVE SUGAR-WHICH IS Do not leave Sugar in the Bottom of the Coffee Cup Not He Found in Coffee faced a famine sugar has not advan- pped an amount co-operation of the amount of our of the United Stat- e, the price of Administration. SEVERAL WAYS TO SAVE SUGAR-WHICH IS YOUR WAY? Do not leave Sugar in the Bottom of the Coffee Cup Use Less Sugar in Tea and Coffee Use Less Sugar Use the Frozen Tea Although we have faced a famine sugar has not advanced, through the in sugar, and have shipped an amount co-operation of the patriotic people over and above the amount of our of the United States and the Food shortage-to our Allies, the price of Administration. 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. W. L. Mattingly. 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. UGAR-WHICH IS YOUR WAY? sugar has not advanced, through the co-operation of the patriotic people of the United States and the Food Administration. WANTED. Wanted -Young colored woman for office work; one capable of operating typewriter preferred. Must be good penman, quick and accurate. Address in own handwriting, N.C.S., care The Bee. WANTED.