Washington Bee

IF IT'S NEWS, IT'S IN THE BEE, FOR THE BEE IS A NEWSPAPER. THE BEE WASHINGTON Washington's Best and Leading Negro Newspaper-That's THE BEE VOL. XXXVIII, NO. 40 WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1918 HON. JESSE M. LITTLETON Republican National Committeeman of Tennessee—One of the Great Factors in National Politics. The seating of Hon. Jesse M. Littleton, Mayor of Chattanooga, by the Republican National Committee at St. Louis, Mo., as national committeeman from Tennessee, was the wise and only logical course they could have pursued. The action of the committee goes to reaffirm one of the cardinal principles of the Republican party, that has ultimately triumphed in every contested case within the last thirty years. Many years ago the National Convention decided that a delegate, was not bound by instructions by his State or district convention. It ruled that he was amenable only to those who had chosen him as their representative. Such was the case in the election of Mr. Littleton, a delegate from Tennessee who had been instructed to cast his vote for another candidate. As national committeeman, upon HON. JESSE M. LITTLETON Mayor of Chattanooga, Tenn.—National Committeeman From That State—A Great Factor in Republican Politics. his arrival at Chicago, he deemed it wise not to follow the instructions that had been given, and cast his vote for Mr. Littleton, which act he regarded as conserving the best interest of the Republican party. The editor of The Bee has known Mr. Littleton since the Philadelphia Convention of 1900. He was the attorney in Tennessee contest cases for the late Congressman Walter P. Brownlow. He made an able impression upon party leaders as an orator and statesman. He won his case. The Bee predicts a useful and serviceable career of the Tennessee committeeman. The colored friends of Mr. Littleton will never forget his support of Perry Howard at St. Louis, one of his first official acts. There is no man in the State of Tennessee more appreciated than Mr. Littleton, and no man in the State is better liked by all classes than this distinguished Republican. The Bee congratulates him on his victory. FULL SUFFRAGE Favored By Speaker Clark and The Washington Times. Joint Resolution Inadequate — Senators, Representatives and Electors Not Enough. By H. A. Clarke. The joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, giving to the Congress the power to extend the right of suffrage to residents of the District of Columbia, except the preamble, is in part as follows: "When the Congress shall exercise this power the residents of such District shall be entitled to elect one or two Senators as determined by the Congress, Representatives in the House according to their numbers as determined by the decennial enumeration, and presidential electors equal in number to their aggregate representation in the House and Senate." The above is why Mr. H. A. Clarke filed a protest with the President, the Senate and the House in opposition thereto. The joint resolution is being strenuously opposed in behalf of the people of the District of Columbia, partially, for the reason that it does not grant full or even adequate suffrage to the residents of the District. Providing for the election of a Senator or Senators and a Representative or Representatives, and failing to provide for the election of other municipal officials, is the main ground advanced in opposition to the resolution. If it should be decided that the District should have suffrage, give the rank and file suffrage as a whole and not suffrage in part—that is, give the Irish, the Jew, the Italian, the Greek, the colored, and all other residents the opportunity to vote for all of the city officials, who are to rule them or who are to select the subordinates. The Washington Times, August 4, 1917, contained the following from Hon. Champ Clark, Speaker of the House of Representatives, to Mr. Brisbane: "My Dear Mr. Brisbane: "I thank you for sending me a marked copy of the Times. I read it with a great deal of pleasure. By the way, I see that you are pegging away at the proposition to have the people of this District vote. Along in July or August, 1898, I introduced a bill to make a Territory out of this District; give them a legislature with two branches, a governor appointed by the President, and the right to elect a delegate to Congress. I introduced it in three Congresses, but I never could get it reported. "I think that you will discover that all the moneyed interests of this town are bitterly opposed to your position. I know they controlled the committee on the District then, and would never let my bill be reported." The Washington Times, August 4, 1917, editorially stated in part: "There is no doubt, as Speaker Clark says, that money, especially, organized money that exploits the people and injures the business of Washington, objects to voting in this city. But organized money, like organized nobility in the ancient days, has always objected to the people controlling themselves. Money was against-the-American Revolution, against freedom of the States, but that didn't keep this country English. Corporation money and some other kinds of money in Washington are opposed to suffrage for men and women that live in the District. It is comfortable for corporations to operate in a great city where the people have no vote—and can only say 'Ouch! Please don't.' But the corporations will have to give up that comfort, and soon. To keep a vast body of men and women deprived of all share in their own government is a disgrace to any nation. It is a disgrace to this country to have a voteless Capital, just as it is a disgrace to the individual to have a thoughtless head. The man who opposes suffrage for Washington is the enemy of the city. And he is the enemy of the country, because he works against the country's interest." The Washington Times, November 6, 1917, stated in part: "The Times wants it fully understood that it will not stop at advocating representation in Congress. What Washington needs is not only representation, but the ordinary American right to allow its citizens a voice in local government." The Washington Times, January 1, 1918, stated in pare: "The greatest gift in the power of the nation as far as Washington is concerned is the right of suffrage. Washington should vote. It should have representation in Congress and should make its own laws. Only when Washington has full suffrage will it take its place among the cities of the world. Let us hope the steps toward complete suffrage will be taken in 1918." SNOWDEN—WHO WILL HELP HIM? A meeting was called at the Asbury M. E. Church, Eleventh and K Streets, by Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, on Wednesday, February 13, 1918, at 8 p. m. The purpose was to secure funds in order to obtain a new trial for the accused Snowden. Rev. M. W. Clair was unanimously elected president; Rev. W. A. C. Hughes, first vice-president; John Lewis, president of the Industrial Savings Bank, treasurer; and Miss Mildred G. Waddleton, secretary. The public is earnestly requested to be present at the next meeting, Wednesday, March 6, 1918, at 8 p. m. sharp. The president, Rev. M. W. Clair, appointed a publicity committee consisting of the following: Attorney W. Calvin Chase, editor of The Bee; J. Finley Wilson, editor of The Eagle; Mr. Waller and Mr. Frederick Brooks, with Mr. Edward Turner as chairman. BILLY SUNDAY Disagrees With His Critics—Mr. Watson to His Defense—Cannot Convict Him of Falsehood. The impression, it is said, a man makes upon the age in which he lives is in direct proportion to his intensity. Billy Sunday, by his surpassing moral intensity, has made a most profound and lasting impression upon the present age. His intrepid and aggressive heroism, his outstanding individuality, his invincibility of purpose and his formidable impetuosity have arrested the attention of all classes and conditions of men. Some are contemplating him with unmixed astonishment; some are applauding him, and others are bitterly denouncing him. Both the religious and the secular world have felt his intensity. Undisturbed, however, by the adverse criticisms of his enemies, Mr. Sunday continues to make unmitigated assaults upon the ramparts of wickedness. Nor is he deterred from his ateacks by the faded blushes of affected modesty. It is noteworthy, moreover, that Mr. Sunday's adversaries cannot convict him of falsehood. They are bound in conscience, to admit the truth of his assertions. Their invectives are directed not against what he says, but against how he says it. In short, Mr. Sunday's thoughts are unimpeachable, but his language most indelicate and reprehensible. Now, it is no marvel that those who have been accustomed to hearing the obscure generalizations and euphemistic circumlocutions of tongue-tied divines, afraid to speak out, lest they should jeopardize their lucrative positions, are convulsively shocked by the bold, specific and individualized doctrine of Mr. Sunday. Those whose palates have grown tender under the mild preparations dispensed from the rostrum cannot endure the pungent, acrimonious doses handed out by Mr. Sunday. We shall not, however, essay to prove that Mr. Sunday's diction is not at times uncouth, unchaste, shocking. We do undertake, however, to show that it is seasonable and defensible. We are living in a grossly vicious age. Sin, in its multiple forms, has struck its blighting roots deep in our moral, social and religious life. Mr. Sunday has addressed himself to the tremendous task of destroying this malady, which menaces the life and happiness of mankind. We maintain, therefore, that Mr. Sunday is justified in employing the strongest remedy at his command. Mild remedies, such as those applied, do not suffice to eradicate this deep-rooted, obstinate and chronic malady. The severity of the remedy must be proportioned to the gravity of the disease. Some of Mr. Sunday's enemies are flaying him, not for his unguarded language, but for his demanding a definite sum of money before he begins, in a community, his campaign against Satan. We shall not attempt to defend Mr. Sunday against this eminently just attack. The demand by Mr. Sunday of definite sums of money for his preaching looks like a deliberate endearment upon his part to commercialize the Gospel. To degrade the Gospel, which was intended to be a free-will offering to mankind, into an article of merchandise is an irreverence in the sight of God and a disgrace before men. But Mr. Sunday offends in common with myriad others who are entrusted with the inviolate commission, "Go. into all the world and decile all nations." He is following precedents, not establishing them. From time immemorial the Gospel has been placed on the auction block and knocked down to the highest bidder. From time immemorial ministers of the Gospel have been unscrupulously mercenary. We see, every day, pastors, to their eternal shame, leaving one church and going to another for no other reason than that a salary more handsome than the one they are receiving has been offered them. To single out Mr. Sunday, therefore, for reprehension is the quintessence of injustice. It is grossly unjust, on the other hand, to mete out castigation to preachers only, for prostituting the Gospel, when laymen are equally guilty with them. There can be no selling without buying. And those who buy what should not be sold are just as censurable as those who sell it. Preachers have brought the Gospel to the market place, because they have found there eager buyers. The fact is, the entire church, preachers and laymen, need a lustration. Finally, we shall not essay to prove the motives which prompt Mr. Sunday's zealous efforts. We should judge of a man's acts not according to the motives behind them, but according to the good or evil which emanate from the acts themselves. Detrimental acts often spring from good motives; beneficial acts from wicked motives. It is undeniable that Mr. Sunday, whatever his motives are, is doing great good. Let us encourage him in his work. M. W. Watson, 63 Myrtle Street N. E. THE COLOR LINE. There is a theatre in Washington managed by a man of color, producing attractions with Negro actors and ability to big houses at every performance. The fact will surprise many, for few of us take enough interest in the black man to even inquire about what he is doing, how he is living or what are his amusements. We get the greater part of our information of the Negro from the police courts, and fail to recognize the fact that the ninety and nine are hard-working, self-respecting and earnostly trying to uplift the race. Take this company of actors, for instance. Not one in the cast of a show seen recently was overdressed, or, as are many in our white shows, underdressed. The lines were spoken intelligently, and, in several instances, with a fine sense of the dramatic. The audience was as orderly and as repressed as a Philadelphia audience. Only when the action was humorous did the fun-loving propensity of the race run riot. The ushers were uniformed, the aisles were carpeted, the seats were of leather, the scenery was up-to-date, and the audience, wholly of Negroes, well dressed and decorous. Washington has Negroes of doubtful repute, and they break into print only through committing petty crimes, but let us not lose sight of the fact that there is a very earnest attempt, within the race, to better their standing in the community in which they make their homes. The race that produced Frederick Douglas and Booker Washington and Paul Lawrence Dunbar is going to come into its own, and it is our duty to encourage and to assist them in the achievement of their ideals.—Washington Herald, February 25th. BETHEL LITERARY. The address before Bethel Literary last Tuesday evening at the "Y" was a thriller. But few of the citizens of Washington have had the privilege of hearing Mr. John W. Davis, executive secretary of the Y. M. C. A., in a set speech, and he gave them a sample of what can come out of Georgia. His subject was "The Albatross," but he gave little time to Coleridge's well known "Ancient Mariner." Briefly he reviewed this classic, then proceeded to the burden of his remarkable address, in which he pictured the inconsistencies in the social organism of the world as so many weights, so many albatrosses, on the neck of social conscience, preventing human society from attaining unto its perfection. Mr. Luke G. Reynolds excelled himself in the rendition of his solo. Prol' L, M. Hershaw and Rev. Wm. G. Brown contributed much interest to the evening by their discussion of the address. Incidentally the church was indicted for failure, as an institution, to make itself felt in preventing the world condition now existing or to take any effective step in remedying that condition. Next Tuesday evening the meeting will consist of a program by the War Service Commission on Training Camp Activities. Judge Terrell is chairman of this unit, and special invitation is extended the public to learn what are its functions. FOLLOW THE WHITE MAN? It is with pleasure that we read in the columns of The Bee of the desire of the American Federation of Labor to organize the colored wage-earners engaged in the various trades and occupations throughout the country. It shows the breadth of view of the members of the present executive council. Without doubt the present crisis in industry has helped force the A. F. of L. to see the need of co-operation of all wage-earners. The colored wage-earners have always been willing to co-operate with the white wage-earners, but with the exception of a few trades, the unions have always closed this door of opportunity. The benefits to be derived from these associations are many, too numerous to mention, but in the enjoyment of these benefits and privileges we trust that the colored unions will be guided by wise leaders and not led by parasites of the unions, in the persons of agitators, into such demonstrations of unloyalty as the recent strikes of the journeymen carpenters and joiners employed in the various shipyards. These recent strikes are bound to have a detrimental effect upon labor after the present crisis. Let the colored unions copy from the white unions those practices that are good and ignore those that are bad. National prosperity and security depend upon industrial peace. THIRTY-NINTH ANNIVERSARY M. C. Maxfield to Write the History of Sunday Schools. One of the interesting features in the coming anniversary of The Bee will be a history of Sabbath Schools in the District of Columbia from the time the memory of man knoweth not to the contrary. Mr. Maxfield was for a number of years superintendent of the Second Baptist Church Sabbath School and one of the pioneers in Sunday School work. FRAUDS. This town is full of frauds and fraudulent schemes. There are fake preachers, orators, teachers and all other kinds of fakers. These fakers have succeeded in robbing people of money, property and other valuable articles. OLD LANDMARKS. Mr. L. Graham Fletcher, formerly business manager of the Washington Free Lance and one of the oldest real estate men in this city, will write a history of some of the oldest landmarks in the city. He has been a resident of this city since the days when it was dangerous for a colored man to breathe. The people will know of it, if it appears in The Bee. Of The Bee To Be Celebrated—A Monster Edition Will Be Issued. The thirty-ninth anniversary of The Bee will be celebrated June 3d this year. It will be one of the greatest events in the history of its publication. Special space may be obtained by writing to the manager. Don't miss appearing in this edition. HOLY NAME SOCIETY. The regular meeting of the Holy Name Society of St. Augustine's Church was held Wednesday, February 13th. The president, Prof. T. N. Turner, presided. The features of the meeting were the remarks by the spiritual director, Father Griffith, outlining the progress of the $10,000 campaign now in progress, and the address to the society by Representative Saunders' of Indiana. The president has outlined a special program for the season. HONOR HIS MEMORY. The Blaine- Invincibles Will Hold Memorial Exercises. The Blaine Invincible Club, at its regular meeting at Fisherman Hall, Sunday, February 17th, subscribed $10 to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. After the regular business, they held their lyeum, which is a feature every third Sunday. The club is increasing both in members and finance, taking care of their sick and burying their dead, and taking interest in everything pertaining to the race. We are preparing for our annual memorial in April to our founder, Col. P. H. Carson. THE PAN-AMERIGANS. The Pan-Americans, though a new club, has created for itself a unique place in the social annuals of the District and bids fair to gain the patronage of the most exclusive. The club was organized solely to meet the increasing demand for the popular matinee dance, and its policy is to turn much of the proceeds of its dances back to its patrons, either through "favors" or complimentary dances. The initial appearance at Pythian Temple on the afternoon of Thursday, February 7th, was a pronounced success in every detail. The members of the club are Hayward G. Burrell, W. A. Graves, Marshall L. Thomas and Lawrence V. Quander. The post-Lenten dansante to be given Friday afternoon of Easter week from 3 to 7.30 p. m., is expected to eclipse all previous efforts. WAR TIME COMMISSION. Rev. W. H. Jernagin has just returned from New York City, where he attended an interesting meeting of the War Time Commission of the Federal Council of Churches, where plans were laid to employ two colored men to assist in the community activities in respect to better conditions of our soldiers on the outside of the camps, and to arrange to secure more competent applicants for chaplains in the army. FRANK WELLS. An Active Worker—The Colored Home Defense League Wants an Aristocrat. At a meeting of the Home Defense League of Colored Citizens, some of the colored aristocrats, who had been invited to take part by Mr. Frank Wells, who was made secretary of the original organization, have shown a spirit to defeat Mr. Wells and select a colored codfish aristocrat _Mr. Wells is so strongly intrenched in his position that the colored aristocracy cannot remove him._ Mr. Wells is an energetic and progressive citizen, who is popular in the local government, in which place he has made a good record. He is on the job and he proposes to hold it. Read The Bee if you want to know who is in the city. SAVVORING SERMONS BY UNUS The old-time meaning of the word "fiddling" is almost forgotten. The etmology of the word indicates that it originally meant to celebrate at a festival. Later it came to mean to fritter away, to spend on trifles, to waste. Example: He fiddled away his time and strength. The other day I was looking over a sketch of Lord Francis Bacon. Bacon is known as a philosopher, a theological and ecclesiastical politician, an every-day politician, and a moralist. His dream was first and mainly to be a philosopher. That was the life work that he marked out for himself. But for a young man of his high social rank he was poor in worldly goods, and he found it necessary to devote the most of his time and talents to other objects. In his private notes he wrote: "Multum incola: my soul hath long dwelt with these that are enemies unto peace." No other words were so often on his lips as these. Doubtless by "multum incola" he meant to convey the thought that he is a pilgrim in a strange land, a stranger to his grosser work; his occupations are alien to his nature. He had intended himself to be a Prophet of Science, a mouthpiece of the discoveries of Time, and fate had diverted to the petty details of a lawyer, or a courtier, or a statesman's life. Such a policy and such a life were obnoxious to him, and he stigmatized them by the name "fiddling." He regretfully admitted that he was just fiddling. Bacon, were he not a philosopher of the first magnitude, would still be eminent for some of his side lines, even that of poetry, and yet he called his work in these fields fiddling. Here is for us a most forceful argumentum a fortiori (argument from the greater to the less). If. Bacon was fiddling, the most of us are certainly fiddling. I do not mean that everyone could or should be as eminent as was Bacon along lines as important as even his side lines. I mean simply that a person capable of A grade work should not content himself with E grade work, or capable of any grade of work above the mose trivial should not potter away all the time on Z grade work. To neglect or misuse one's best abilities or opportunities is fiddling—just fiddling. I am constrained to apply the thought to our own people, particularly the talented and educated. I wonder if a fair proportion of them employ their talent to the fullest advantage to themselves or the race. Of course, all races and peoples have their fiddlers. By "fair proportion" I mean to convey the notion of relativity. Let us beware not to have amongst us an undue proportion of fiddlers. A diploma from a college does not mark the pinnacle of attainment; it is only the beginning of serious study and work. All of the sciences and arts and industries are our proper fields and occupations. "The world belongs to those who take it." We must be bold and energetic to enter those fields. Whenever I observe one of our most talented men spending his whole life on mere rhetorical feats, I am constrained to say he is just fiddling: Who employs his voice solely in complaints and with no thought of race progress is just fiddling. Who devotes his sole energies to job hunting and job holding is just fiddling. Who fritters away his "spare time" in useless conversation is just fiddling. Who reads many books and makes no use of the knowledge, or writes merely for literary fame, is just fiddling. Who acts simply from motives of personal success is just fiddling. We cannot all be Bacons. But there is not a man or woman who has not the power to point to a better condition and lead the way to it as Bacon pointed the way to the mastery of Nature. Let every one of us ask. What am I doing to advance the human race, my race, my family, myself? Am I just fiddling? COLORED MAN LYNCHED. An Appeal to Legislators by the N. A. A. C. P. New York, Feb. 20.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People today wired an appeal to the Tennessee Senators at Washington—John K. Shields and Kenneth McKellar—and Representative John A. Moon, of the Third District, which includes Franklin County, Tennessee, and to the Cham- bers of Commerce and leading commercial organizations of Tennessee cities, asking what Tennessee and its commercial bodies propose to do to vindicate her law and clear the fair name of the State in regard to the torturing and burning at Estill Springs, Tenn., of a Negro accused of murder. The following commercial organizations were included: Chamber of Commerce, Chattanooga; Board of Commerce, Knoxville; Commercial Club, McMinnville; Business Men's Club, Memphis; Commercial Club, Nashville; Business Men's Association; Nashville. The telegram follows; Sirs:—On Lincoln's birthday, February 12, Jim McIlheron, a colored man, was burned and tortured with red-hot irons by a mob at Estill Springs, Tenn. On February 15, a telegram was sent to Governor T. C. Rye of your State requesting information from the Governor as to what the great State of Tennessee was to do concerning this atrocious violation of her public law. No reply has yet been received from the Governor, nor have we seen any statements by him in the Tennessee press up to Sunday, th 17th inst., concerning any action he proposed to take. An earlier statement indicated that "the Governor did not know what authority he had in the matter." Assuming that you have vitally at heart the good name of the fair State of Tennessee, we ask you what action the leaders of your State propose to take to assure the country that law lives and justice reigns in your State. This outrageous flouting of the courts and of the orderly processes of law for the punishment of crime is not the first to occur in your State. Memphis, Dyersburg, and now Estill Springs, challenge Tennessee citizens to assert their respect for her laws. This association, composed of representative citizens of both races, would be glad of the opportunity to assure the press and people of the nation that Tennessee's representative men are concerned for her law and would welcome vigorous action on your part to that end. Do you stand for law, or do you approve mob violence? Midwinter Session a Success—Next Meeting at Knoxville, Tenn. Meeting at Knoxville, Tenn. Louisville, Ky., Feb. 20.—Prior to the meeting of the joint session of the bishops of the A. M. E. Church and the A. M. E. Zion Church and the C. M. E. Church of America, the Zion bishops held their regular mid- TO MAKE THE HAIR GROW LONG TO MAKE THE HAIR GROW LONG There are so many so-called hairgrowers on the market, a large number of which are nothing more than perfumed grease, it is no wonder people get discouraged and lose faith in all hair tonics. In deciding what to use on your scalp be sure and get a remedy of proven merit. Seeby's Quinade is a highly medicated pomade that has stood the test of time. It is a real scalp food; it stimulates and nourishes the roots of the hair, causing a natural growth of long hair. Quinade is the invention of an expert chemist and is made under the supervision of an experienced registered pharmacist. It makes the hair soft and smooth and easy to put up in the style desired. To get best results from the use of Quinade, it is necessary to shampoo the scalp about every two weeks with Seeby's Quinasoap. Quinasoap is made entirely out of pure vegetable oils, principally cocoanut oil; and is a thorough cleanser. Quinasoap lathers very freely. 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. Quinado and Quinasoap 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. W H. Edgar Lewis PUREDRUGS 63rd & Eastern Ave., N.E. Chesapeake Station DRUGS, SODA WATER, CIGARS Phone Lincoln 3136 winter session in Jacob Street Tabernacle. This was considered one of the most successful sessions ever held. The following bishops were present and took part in the opening: Bishops G. W. Clinton, acting senior, bishop; J. W. Alstock, A. J. Warner, J. S. Clinton, G. L. Blackwell, R. B. Bruce, L. W. Kyles, G. C. Clement, W. L. Green. Following the opening Bishop G. C. Clement was elected chairman, to succeed Bishop Lee, who preached the opening sermon. Following this were addresses of welcome. There were many important things brought before the council. The council issued a statement pledging full support of the membership of 250,000 to the nation in the war, and sounded a note of protest, and what is termed hasty trial and execution of the thirteen members of the Twenty-fourth Infantry without a review of the evidence. This refers to the court-martial and execution of the thirteen members of the regiment who had the trouble in Houston, Texas, last summer, resulting in a number of white civilians being killed. "We earnestly plea for." says the statement, "and implore the Government at Washington to be more humane and merciful in passing final sentence on the other members of the Twenty-fourth Regiment, now condemned to death." "We appeal to the press of the country to aid in the race's struggle for better conditions and for the untrammeled exercise of our citizenship." Every department of the church reported through their representatives and were discussed. The General Conference will meet in Knoxville, Tenn., May, 1920. APPEAL TO THE PRESIDENT. The executive committee of the National Race Congress has sent a DEAF Promptness Nea [Image of a man in a suit standing with his hands on his knees.] High Class Work, Reasonable Prices Life-like Features Restored Free Funeral Parlor 2053 Ga. Ave. N. W. Phone North 4068 Joseph I. Bailey AND Co. strong petition to President Wilson in behalf of the five colored soldiers recently condemned in Texas. They also urge colored citizens to write the President. THE BEE You Can Hear, With (Formerly with J. H. Dabney) FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER O. 723 Tea Str Tea Street, Northwest Polite and Efficient Service Open Day and Night Phone N.7796 W. Thigp HOME OF THE PEOPLE'S FUN Automobile Service is no more plete success and our hearse and o Washington Cemeteries, as well as encountered the slightest hitch and satisfied with the excellent service number of weddings, also hired out our purposes, such as receptions, tou Whenever you desire quick and will always be glad to give you our We have a large store room equ plies as well as catalogues which we We have experienced embalmers of service at the most reasonable price When you need our Funeral Se send Auto for you Free of charge. W. Thigpen, Manager THE PEOPLE'S FUNERAL SERVICE CORPORATION Service is no more an experiment, it has proven to our hearse and cars have been tested in many series, as well as in the rural districts. We have eightest hitch and all parties concerned have been excellent service rendered them. We have sets, also hired out our cars at moderate prices for as receptions, touring by the hour, etc. desire quick and polite service call North 2006 and to give you our best service. Large store room equipped with the most up to date analogues which we will be glad to show upon request. Fenced embalmers and we are ready, to give you the most reasonable prices. Our Funeral Service, Phone North 2006, and we Free of charge. Much More Than Your Money's Worth Automobile Service is no more an experiment, it has proven a complete success and our hearse and cars have been tested in many of the Washington Cemeteries, as well as in the rural districts. We have not encountered the slightest hitch and all parties concerned have been well satisfied with the excellent service rendered them. We have served a number of weddings, also hired out our cars at moderate prices for various purposes, such as receptions, touring by the hour, etc. Whenever you desire quick and polite service call North 2006 and we will always be glad to give you our best service. We have a large store room equipped with the most up to date supplies as well as catalogues which we will be glad to show upon request. We have experienced embalmers and we are ready to give you the best of service at the most reasonable prices. When you need our Funeral Service, Phone North 2006, and we will send Auto for you Free of charge. Silverbloom, St. Nicholas and Golden Glow for skirts, dresses and coats for all season wear. Heavy Cloth 52/44 in. wide, 8/8 to 9 ozs. to the yd. for hard wear suits, skirts, dresses. Exquisite pattern, permanent finish, guaranteed by us for durability and fast colors. You will feel dressed up all the time if you wear these goods. For sale by leading retailers. LESHER, WHITMAN & CO., Inc., 881 Broadway, New York P. S. Act on this advice.—If your dealer does not keep them, just cut out this ad, paste it to a paper card, your name and the name of your dealer and mail it to us. We will send him and advise him of your request. --- address on it with samples at once Carriages For Hire Bundy DIRECTOR MER Northwest Reasonabl Prices Lady Attendant Residence Phone N. 1213 SERVICE CORPORATION. Experiment, it has proven a com- have been tested in many of the rural districts. We have not teries concerned have been well treated them. We have served a ars at moderate prices for var- ly the hour, etc. service call North 2006 and we service. with the most up to date sup- glad to show upon request. we are ready, to give you the best Phone North 2006, and we will Your Money's Worth your dealer does not keep them, a postal card, put your name and email it to us. We will send him The Week in Society OUIT BARKING and making yourself and everybody else miserable, by-getting a bottle of BOARD'S COUGH REMEDY—a cough mixture that stops a cold and clears up the throat and lungs in a short time. BOARD'S Laxative Cold Tablets are famous for breaking up head colds and la gripe in short order. Sold at Board's Drug Store, 1912 $ Fourteenth Street N.W.-Adv. A reception is to be given in honor of Miss Ethel Ewing Wance and Mr. Lorenzo A. McLane at the residence of Miss Ewing on Thursday, February 28th. Mr. James Jackson, messenger in the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, wishes to announce that he will open a moving picture house in the rear of his shoe shining parlors in the near future. Lieut. James B. Morris, of Camp Dodge, Iowa, is very much better at this writing. Corporal Baltimore, of Honolulu, has been sent to Camp Meade to help train the men for "over there." Mrs. Banks, of 912 Twelfth Street N.W., keeps quite ill at her grand-daughter's, 1233 Linden Street N.E. Master Harry Hawkins had his throat operated on. He is getting along nicely. Mr. Raymond McLane is improving, to the gratification of his many friends. Mrs. Lewis W. Allen and sister Miss Nannie Huntley, returned to their home (New York City) Tuesday. Miss Lillion Evans stopped over in New York City on her return from Boston, where she appeared in a recital with Mr. Clarence White. Mrs. Francis Payne Elliott, of Montgomery, Ala., is visiting her brother, Mr. Cornelius Payne. Mrs. Alice Powell, of this city, and Mrs. Margaret Atkins Huntington are visiting their husbands at Camp Stuart Newport News, Va. Mrs. Mary Penneley, of this city, was in Newport News, Va., visiting her husband, Mr. Robert Penneley, who is stationed at Camp Stuart. Rev. P. D. Cross, the pastor of Piney-Grove Baptist Church, and his wife, spent Sunday in Myrtle, Va. Mrs. Martha Jackson, of Orange, Va., accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Ross Ailer, and granddaughter Victoria, visited Baltimore Tuesday evening. evening. The high-class vaudeville at the Howard this week was a drawing card. card: Miss Ethel Wilson, who was taken ill last week with a severe cold, is improving and is able to be out. proving and so is the city this week. Lieut. Vincent Thomas was in the city this week. Mr. Abram Myers, of Syracuse, N. Y., arrived in the city last Tuesday evening. IN THE SOCIAL WHIRL Attorney E. J. Grahame, a prosperous barrister of Wheeling, W. Va., was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. G. Jenkins, Sr., and family of S Street N.W. Mrs. Sallie Robinson, of Amelia, Va., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Fannie Smith, of 2309 E Street N.W. Mrs. Cecelia Kennedy, of 1427 S Street N.W., is recovering her usual health, much to the delight of her family and many friends. Mrs. Alice Hundley, of 1814 Fourteenth Street N.W., entertained at dinner Friday, February 22. Mr. and Mrs. Theophilus Houston celebrated their first wedding anniversary last week, receiving many gifts and letters of congratulation. Miss Maude Cole, of French Street N.W., one of the popular young ladies of the city, who has just recovered from several months' illness, is out again, much to the delight of her many friends. Miss Cole was the happy recipient of flowers, magazines, fruit and books during her illness. A meeting is to be held at Asbury M. E. Church, Wednesday, March 6, 1918, at 8 p. m., in the interest of John Snowden, who is held in the Brandon murder case. First Lieut. Raymond R. Jackson of the 372nd Infantry, who is stationed at Newport News, Va., spent five days with his wife and family, Mrs. Juanita Freeman Jackson, 1437 Swann Street N.W. Mr. Peter Anderson, of Richmond, Va., was in the city Saturday last. Miss Elorence Burgess, a popular and well known young lady of this city, entertained at a smart gathering at her residence February 22nd. Mrs. Belle Harris, of 1439 Swann Street N.W., is slowly convalescing; to the delight of her devoted family and many friends. The Valentine party given by a few clever young ladies of this city was one of the smartest gatherings of the season. Mrs. Arthur Douglas, formerly the beautiful and popular Miss Ethel Barker, of the well known Barker family was in the city, the guest of her sister, Miss Maude Barker, of 1538 T Street N.W. Mrs. Martha Jackson, of Orange, Va., was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Rosa Ailer, this week. Mrs. Jackson left for Baltimore, Tuesday, to visit her sons and daughters. She will return this evening. THE RICHARDSON-MOSBY WEDDING. The marriage of Mrs. Florence Childs Richardson to Mr. Joseph Mosby, of Pittsburgh, Pa., was solemnized at her parents' residence, 2235 Thirteenth Street N.W., Saturday, February 23, 1918. Rev. Norman officiated. Mrs. Beulah Harris Johnson was matron of honor, while Mr. T. Brown acted as best man. Mr. Mosby is a member of the Colored Fire Department of Pittsburgh, and is a popular social favorite. Mr. and Mrs. Mosby left Saturday night for Chester, Pa, thence to Pittsbuargh, Pa., their future home. Many valuable and beautiful presto Pittsburgh, Pa., their future home. LOCAL BRIEFS. Miss May Mulford, of Newark, N. J., was in the city last week visiting Miss Elizabeth G. Coles. She arrived February 21st at 11.20 p. m., and was entertained the same evening at a midnight supper given by Mrs. Corayle McLane, who had as her guest the original Entre See Art Circle. As the ladies were, without escorts, automobiles were rather popular. The supper was one without an equal. On Sunday, February 24th, Miss M. E. Janifer entertained Miss Mulford at breakfast and had as her guests Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Leon McLane, Misses Elizabeth Cole, Edna Hunter, Lieut. Hardin and Edward F. Janifer. The high cost of living was certainly not considered, as all the early market products were prevalent.* Most of the Entre Art Circle visited Camp Meade, in company with Miss Mulford, on Saturday last and spent a most delightful afternoon with the officers. PRINTING NOTES. Live for something, be not idle; Look about thee for employ; Sit not down to useless dreaming, Labor is the sweetest joy. Mrs. Sadie B. Jenkins, Misses Lillian Alexander and Lydia Montgomery, who were on the night force in the Bindery Division, are now detailed in the Stamp Perforating Division on the day force. Mr. Benjamin Gant and Mr. Frank Foote are experienced and competent pressmen in the Hydraulic Pressroom. Miss Marion Giles is doing commendable work in the Surface Division. .Howard Theatre. 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. Entire Week Starting Monday, March 4th. Mat. Tue. Thu. Sat. Series of Special Sermons From the Book of Revelation by Rev. M. W. D. NORMAN, D. Presents The Wonderful Play of the South Sea Isle D., L.L. D. Pastor of Metropolitan Baptist Church R St. bet 12th and 13th Sts. N. W. Beginning Sunday, March 3rd and continuing 7 Sunday nights The Tidal Wave All Star Cast Includes: Cleo Desmon, Lillian Gilliam, Elizabeth Williams, Andrew Bishop, Clarence Muse, Chas. Moore, H. L. Pryor, Arthur Ray J. C. Night Prices 25c 35c 50c Mat. all seats 25 ext week—Faust—Grand Opera—Seats now selling Watch For the Spring OPENING with one of the best lady piano demonsttators hereabouts and a big fresh bunch of all the Iatest song hits in the country. Get your musical merchandise here Sunday March 3: The Seven Candlesticks Sunday March 10: The Four and Twenty Elders Sunday, March 17 The Seven Seals Sunday March 24; The Seven Trumpets Sunday March 31: The Chncrch in Couflict Sunday April 7: The Seven Bowls Sunday April 14; The Holy City MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED W. A. Adams (Uptown) Music House Phone North 2367 1911 NINTH STREET, N. W. THE BLIND WONDERS OF THE WORLD Chas. P. Williams of Chicago, Ill., presents the Invincible Concert Company at the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, 3rd and I Sts.N. W. Monday March 11, 1918, at n.m. Reorganization Sale These Blind Musicians have carried their audience by storm in the way they have rendered music on all kinds of Instruments Mr.J.W. Cooper has no equal in the race as a Ventriloquist. THE BLOCK OPTICAL CO. Don't fail th be present. One night only. Admission 25c Reserve seats 35c W. H. Jernagin, Ministsr Will be reorganized because its present head is about to enter military service, and therefore their stock MUST be reduced. Now is your opportunity to have your Eyes Examined and get a pair of glasses at a remarkably low price. Mrs. Alfred Hughes, of the Printing Division, has returned to her duties after a few weeks' illness. $1.50 SPECIAL! Remember: This is no jewelry store. All we do is to examine eyes and furnish glasses. Miss Maude Cole, of the Printing Division, after two months' illness, returned to her duties this week. * * * Miss Maude Barker has been appointed in the Printing Division. * * * Miss Rebecca Mayo is now detailed on the day force in the Surface Division. * * * Mrs. Lucinda Shorter Walker is now in the Surface Division, counter and examiner. We will fit you with the best spherical lenses in a guaranteed double-naught-one-tenth twelve-carat gold-filled frame, and your eyes examined by a graduate Optometrist and backed up by our reputation to give you absolute SATISFACTION for $1.50. Mrs. Viola Turner Hunter, of the Hydraulic Division, is doing commendable work. give you absolute SATISFACTION. Many of people have already taken advantage of this great offer, and you should not delay. Do not think because we are selling $3.50 glasses for $1.50 that it is a "BARGAIN or CUTRATE GLASSES" advertisement but rather that we find it necessary to reduce our stock and adjust our business to meet a certain war condition—the enlistment of our present head in the army. It therfore behooves everybody to g a line on this sale. the army. It, then, fore, behooves everybody to be a little more careful. For the benefit of the many strangers in Washington we wish to say that we are an established firm in this city, caturing for your business and ready to refund your money at any time if you are in any way dissatisfied. QUEEN'S RALLY. We Grind Your Lenses Right—Right in Your Presence. Any lens duplicated while you wait. Lowest prices for prescription, bifocal, or compound lenses, and finger-piece mountings—we only sell the genuine Shur-on. The Queen's Rally given for the benefit of the Antioch Baptist Church of which Rev. Peter Ailer is pastor was a financial success. Mrs. Rosa Ailer was crowned queen. She was successful in winning the gold prize the church offered to the contestant who collected the largest amount of money. BLOCK OPTICAL CO. EXCLUSIVE OPTOMETRISTS & OPTICIANS 4 DOORS FROM M ST 737·7TH ST.N.W. PHONE M 9566 Open Evenings During This Sale Until 8 P. M. Look for the Optical Store With the Grinding Machine in the Window Open Saturday Evenings Until 10:30 P. M. Misses Emma F. Cramp, a very refined young lady, and the vivacious Miss Martha C. Ailer were maids of honor. Little Victoria Ailer, as usual, was one of the attractions. The entertainment was given in Rev. Hawkins' Church on Bladensburg Road. Light refreshments were served after the entertainment. THE FOXY TRAMP VS. THE FOXY DOG ON NO! HE DON'T KNOW WHAT A FOXY FELLOW HE'S TACKLING! THAT WILL PUT HIM WISE ALRIGHT! FOR ME?- WELL I GUESS! THAT'S RIGHT DOG-GIE! RUN AND PLAY! LIKE TAKING CANDY FROM A BABY! WHO'S FOXY NOW! International Cartoon Co. N. Y 158 PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS By the Sage of the Potomac. I was in a little pig's feet, etcetera, joint up in the Northwest last Saturday when Prof. Charlie Thomas came in with a paper for the proprietor to sign. From what I could gather from the remarks that percolated through the Postum cereal I was drinking for Mocca and Java coffee, and through the Hooverized, meatless soup I was souping, Charlie was trying to interest them there merchant princes up there to come together and put "biz" in business. Charlie, who handles the King's English with all the ease and grace that Larry Lajoie used to handle screaming grounders in his palmy days, was handing the proprietor a bunch of "get together" talk so fast that it would have nipped Milan ten feet from first running to beat out a bunt. I have often wondered why the little shops, big shops and embryonic business places up in the Northwest didn't get together, form a board of trade, start a boomlet with proper publicity work, and let the people know they are on the map. Charlie Thomas is doing a thankless job—running enthusiasm and business foresight into a round up—but ever since Adam mauncheed on Eve's apple of the red pippin variety there has been someone alway kind of the thankless stunt. Every day there are thousands of varigated chromos promenading up and down You Street and Seventh Street holding their coin from colored merchants, while they work their rabbit foot for "trust," and there is a great big bunch of "em what never poke their noses in that vicinity. If the colored business men up there had about two drachmas of enterprise and about two grains of confidence, they would purchase Charlie Thomas an Ingersoll dollar watch, or a second-hand loving cup, and present it to him out of appreciation for his unselfish efforts to jimmy into them business sense with a coal chisel. A colored board of trade, with every member doing his and her bit, would make the "dollars of our dad," secured in various ways, roll into the coffers of them there corn-fed merchants who are trying to make a riffle around the Northwest. Some time ago they launched a hotel proposition around this man's town. Some people listened to the persuasive talk of the promoters, reached down in their jeans and produced the price of a share or more stock. For several months we ain't heard no more about that hotel project than we have heard as to the whereabouts of Dorsey Foultz, who turned up missing about steen years ago. I was talking to an individual the other day—one of them there black ingrain silk color variety—and he told me that whenever he had the temerity to ask the promoters in what subterranean cavity his money for stock was resting, about all he got was a hesitation waltz, a Charlie Chapman smile, and a vague bit of information about the weather, and the likelihood of the war continuing for another year. The wise guy who takes money from duplicate whist dupes for stock on the promise of a castle in the air, generally hands them, weekly, monthly, or quarterly, a bit of semi-conscious stuff about plans and specifications being nearly complete, and the present intention of starting building immediately after the millennium. But this hotel project bunch ain't never whispered since they copped the coin. You can bet your binoculars and telescopes used to find the oysters in the stews served at most of the ham caffaterras and spare-rib emporiums that when John Lewis starts on his hotel apartment house project you will get more than a subconscious gaze and a Charlie Chapman replica of an idiot's smile in exchange for the dough you planked down for stock. Speaking about John Lewis, while I was sizing up the projection and direction of his oblong head the other day, I thought to myself that if that fellow had started in life about four weeks before he was born, had walked across the campus of some university, like Bert Williams walked across the campus of Leland Stanford University, it would have been John, instead of McAdoo, who built the tube under East River. Accordin' to the biography written by Fate, John Lewis started in life with nothing but hope and denial as an incentive to get into the king row. After riding Hope for a few years, and getting knocked about by Denial, he took to praying. It didn't take him long to discover that God was so busy listening to about three hundred million other prayers He hadn't much time to listen to him, so John then took up a hod, joined the Hodcarriers' Union, and began climbing the ladder After finding that carrying the hod made a lot of corns on a fellow's hands, and at the same time kept him out of high society, he got hold of the idea that he could organize a Laborers' Realty Company, using the other hodcarriers and misnomers for members. Well that hit the sawdust trail of success, and then an idea bored its way through his unstraightened hair and cranium that he could start a bank. When this idea got noised around the fringes of society they gave John the horse laugh and began calling up St. Elizabeth to notify it that an inmate had escaped. John said nothing, but just went ahead an inoculated—the hodcarriers and other misnomers with the vision he had seen in his sleep. By and by he bought some second-hand contraptions, hypnotized Bill Bowie into looking like a cashier, put the whole bundle of wax into a room on Eleventh Street, hung out a sign with the unintelligible words, "Industrial Savings Bank," and then occupied his time sweeping off the front sidewalk until a few people had the nerve to enter the place accompanied by so much as fifty cents or a dollar. The rapin eaters and champagne guzzlers continued to laugh, but the chitterling and pig's feet eaters began to come his way. One day, during the darkness of the moon, and about fifteen years after the eclipse of the Capital City Bank, of troubled memory, a crackerjack building went up at the corner of You and Eleventh; with some bran-new bank furniture, a real safe, instead of a tin box, tile floor, and such fixin's, and now stowed away in that safe is about $85,000 in money that the people brought in just to show that they had confidence in this oblonged, hard-headed, long-visioned fellow with an opaque complexion, who began life with hope and denial crystallized into a hodcarrier and now writes his name as just plain, ordinary, every-day "John Lewis, President of the Industrial Savings Bank." Yes, it was a long ways from hod-carrier to president of a bank, but John Lewis made it without ever having, attended an inaugural ball, dancing at a Monica Club reception, or orating on constitutional law at a Mu-So-Lit gathering of suspects. You just got to hand it to him. "Nuf sed." WRITES TO THE PRESIDENT. John R. Shillady, of New York, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, makes public his second appeal on behalf of the association to President Wilson, through Secretary Jos. P. Tumulty, that the President speak out in condemnation of the burning and torturing at Estill Springs, Tenn. Negro accused of murder. Mr. Shillady calls attention to the fact that the United States Attorney General, to whom the President referred the association's first appeal states that the Federal Government has no jurisdiction, and that the Governor of Tennessee has made no response to the association's telegram requesting information as to what steps the State of Tennessee will OUTFIT consists of one Durham Duplex Domino Razor with white American ivory handle safety guard, straping attachment and Durham Duplex Blades, packed in a genuine red leather Kit. GET IT FROM YOUR DEALER OR FROM US. Every reader of this paper may secure THE $5. DURHAM DUPLEX DOMINO RAZOR FOR $1. DURING THE LIFE OF THIS ADVERTISement DURHAM DUPLEX RAZOR CO. JERSEY CITY, N.J. take to apprehend the mob violators of law. The letter to the President's secretary follows: I am in receipt of yours of February 14th informing us that the President had referred to the Attorney General our appeal for a word of condemnation of the torturing and burning at Estill Springs, Tenn., of a colored man accused of murder. This morning we have a letter from the Attorney General, by William C. Fitts, assistant attorney general, informing us that "under the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Federal Government has absolutely no jurisdiction over matters of this kind; nor are they connected with the war in any such way as to justify the action of the Federal Government under the war power. On February 15th we telegraphed Governor Rye of Tennessee, a copy of which is attached. On the 14th Governor Rye is reported in the Knoxville Journal and Tribune and other Tennessee papers as saying that he did not know what authority he had in the matter. No reply or acknowledgment of our appeal to the Governor of Tennessee has yet been made. In view of this statement of the Attorney General and the silence of the Governor of Tennessee, we beg you to lay this matter again before the President, lest the laws be flouted and justice denied. A statement from the President at this time, if he would be disposed to make it, would have a tremendously stimulating effect on the morale of the colored people whose sons are preparing to give their lives for America and who in sadness of heart and some disturbance of mind are looking apprehensively toward Tennessee to see whether in our own nation law or mob violence is to be supreme. The President's inspiring moral leadership as a man, no less than his position as President, gives him the opportunity, and may we suggest, respectfully, the responsibility. of speaking out. Hundreds of thousands of colored soldiers in the army, and millions of their fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers, would receive a new baptism of devotion to their country if it were made clear that the equal protection of the laws was to be afforded all men, whether white or black. This association wishes it understood that it does not and will not condone the crimes nor apologize for the offenses of colored men. Sincerely, (Signed) John R. Shillady, Secretary. "THINGS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME." Our ancestors bequeathed and devised to all Americans, Equality and tranquillity, That they might enjoy real permanent liberty. Their children were never students in the School of Sacrifice, And formerly preferred "peace at any price." But now posterity has discerned and sighted a just claim. Now things will never be the same. We admit that many of our martyrs have been assailed, And subjected to unwarranted criticism. For their advocacy to teach the Negro the rudiments of militar- And the dew of lame justice did seldom fall, When it did drop, the drops were very small, But history shows that he is a veteran at the fighting game, So after the war things will never be the same. Many recently thought Teddy Roosevelt was arguing And wrestling with Fate, Protesting about some one juggling with the books At the Golden Gate; Now they say he was wrangling and searching for a running mate, Versatile, to help steer the "Old Ship GET IT FROM YOUR DEALER OR FROM US. Every reader of this paper may secure THE $5. DURHAM DUPLEX RAZOR FOR swerved by inundec. He must take the same prescription Written for the law of endurance. 'Tis society's duty to receive him home mained and lame. Up through the ranks of obscurity sprang Lord Reading, After many years of toil and fretting He is now seated at the table in the council of the leading nations, With his pyramid of knowledge, he is helping to solve Some of the intricacies of our international relations: Now we admit that he at all times has had a due and just claim, Hence things will never be the same. —Huver I. Brown. DR. W. L. SMITH'S INDIGESTION REMEDY. This remedy will relieve all forms of Indigestion, Catarrh of the Stomach, Heartburn, Sour Stomach, Flatulency, Pain in the Stomach, Water Brash, Acid. Fermentation, Gaseous Accumulations and Mal-Assimilations of Foods. When taken in the Stomach it thoroughly digests the albuminous foods, relieves the indigestion, by resting and assisting the stomach until normal or natural digestion is restored. DIRECTIONS Take a teaspoonful in a little water after meals or when suffering. Repeat in an hour if necessary. 801 Florida Avenue N. W., Where you may purchase the genuine article. Washington, D. C. A RELIABLE PHARMACIST is the one you can always depend upon to use no substitutes, but compound prescriptions from pure and fresh drugs, with accuracy and care. The real test of drug store's capabilities is its prescription department, and ours is perfect. We fill your physician's prescriptions to the letter and no mistake is possible. PLUMMER'S PHARMACY ROBT. F. PLUMMER, Prop. Accuracy, Service, Quality A. D. S. Remedies We Pay Particular Attention to Our Prescription Department Telephone Your Wants Phone Franklin 2703 and 26 301 H St. Cor. 3rd St. N. W. Washington, D. C. DOG COLUMBIA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC. Wellington A. Adams, President. 1911 Ninth Street Northwest. Phone North 2637. Washington, D. C. Musical instructions in Vocal Culture (four-year course), Solfeggio, Piano, Violin, Mandolin, Guitar, Clarinet, Pipe-organ, Harmony, Musical Form, History of Music, Composition and Public School Music (N. Y. method). Our course in vocal culture is modern in every respect and perhaps unequaled in any colored institution of music; pupils taught from the beginning to the final preparation for the concert or stage. The reason of our success is the fact that the courses taught are CLEAR, ATTRACTIVE, EFFICIENT and MODERN. Open all the year. Further information upon request by addressing the president. "PORO" COLLEGE COMPANY 3100 Pine St. Dept. I: St. Louis, Mo. HOWARD'S HAIR POMADE Excellent for Dry Stubborn Hair Produces a fine glossy appearance 25 Cents Size for 15 Cents Special FOR SALE AT ALL THE PEOPLES DRUG STORES THE EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER try ER price stir its Perfumed with best known rem Eye-Brows, also Color. Can be Price Sent by AGENTS OUTFIT 1 Hair Grower, 1 Temple Oil, 1 Shampoo, 1 Pressing Oil, 1 Face Cream and di- rection for selling. $2.00 25c Extra for Postage ```markdown ``` CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC. Boston A. Adams, President. West. Phone North 2637. Washington, D. C. Vocal Culture (four-year course), Solfeg-Mandolin; Guitar, Clarinet, Pipe-organ, Form, History of Music, Composition School Music (N. Y. method). Texture is modern in every respect and perhaps stored institution of music; pupils taught to the final preparation for the concert or stage. Press is the fact that the courses taught are VE, EFFICIENT and MODERN. Open information upon request by addressing the president. 100 PORO AGENTS Special Cities of the United States HERE IS ONE NEAR YOU FORMULATED 1900 PORO HAIR GROWER MADE ONLY BY Mrs. Amelia Purbulo Malone ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI ANDRUFF, FALLING HAIR, ITCHING P: GIVING LIFE, BEAUTY, COLOR AND ABUNDANT GROWTH STYLE OF BOX ADOPTED JUNE 11,1905. COLLEGE COMPANY Dept. I: St. Louis, Mo. WARD'S HAIR POMADE For Dry Stubborn Hair fine glossy appearance Size for 15 Cents Special SALE AT ALL THE ES DRUG STORES INDIA HAIR GROWER Will promote a Full Growth of Hair. Will also Restore the strength Vitality and the Beauty of the Hair. If your Hair is Dry and Wiry, Try EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER If you are bothered with Falling Hair, Dandruff, Itching Scalp or any Hair trouble, we want you to try a jar of EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER. The remedy contains medical proprieties that go to the roots of the Hair, stimulates the skin, helping nature to do its work. Leaves the hair soft and silky, with a balm of a thousand flowers. The remedy for Heavy and Beautiful Black also restores Gray Hair to its Natural be used with Hot Iron for Straightening. nt by Mail, 50c; 10c extra for Postage S. D. Lyons, Gen. Agt., 314 East Second St. Oklahoma City, Okla. --- THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL (INC.) offers an excellent opportunity for the woman who desires to enter the business world, by taking up a course in BEAUTY CULTURE. Nobody nowadays can say, "I have no chance." There are and always will be new lines with each woman whether she will be one of those to create and take advantage of the opportunities that THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL OFFERS. We teach the following courses: Hair Dressing, Facial Massage, Manicuring, Scalp Treatment, Instantaneous Bleaching, Electric Treatment for the Face and Scalp. There is a constant demand for THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL'S GRADUATES. THE ABILITY TO USE AND CREATE OPPORTUNITY DEPENDS UPON INDIVIDUAL VALUE, and value depends on training, and training depends on earnest, well directed efforts to increase skill. THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH BEAUTY CULTURE SCHOOL'S branches are taught from five dollars up. COME IN AND REGISTER. DAY AND NIGHT CLASSES. MME. AGNES J. SMITH, Principal. Tel. North 4017, 935 R. St. N. W., Washington, D. C. D. C. SURGICAL CHIROPODIST Special Treatment For Corns and Bunions. Will Cure All Foot Ailments. Graduate of Columbia Institute. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. Mary DR. O. E. JOHNSON 633 T Street N. W. THE BEST PLACE TO EAT EVERYTHING FIRST CLASS Hot Bread Morning and Evening Home-Made Desserts Joseph Graves' CA E Ice Cream and Soft Drinks of All Kinds Oysters in Every Style Cigars and Tobacco. Rooms for Rent Open All Night Opposite Government Printing Office Telephone Franklin 4571 16 G Street, Northwest Washington, D. C. JUSTH'S OLD STAND Workingmen, some good permanent result is sure when you buy new pants from us—sure to be pleased with the good value in new pants at $2 to $4. These are the values that you won't get elsewhere, and we have them. Sure to have your size. JUSTH'S OLD STAND 619 D Street ARMY PAY ROLL IS NOW NEARLY A BILLION A YEAR Facts and Figures About Sums Paid Various Grades of Officers and Enlisted Men. HOW AND WHEN THEY GET IT Wide Expansion of the Army Makes Task of Paying Off Intricate and Difficult—Is Quartermaster's Washington.—The actual pay roll of the fighting forces of the United States is now nearly $100,000,000 per month. This sum is disbursed by the pay officers of the army and navy in the form of checks or currency or by the treasury department in the form of family allotments as compensation for services rendered according to the scale of pay prescribed by law for the uniformed defenders of the nation. This figure does not include "family allowances" which are paid by the government toward the support of the families of enlisted men, under specified conditions, nor does it consider any of the special compensatory features of the military and naval insurance act, under which $176,150,000 was appropriated. For the purpose of informing the public accurately as to the system of pay in the army the following authorized statement has been issued by the committee on public information: Army Pay Nearly Billion a Year. The total pay of the United States army for the month of December was approximately $78,580,800. Disbursements on account of the pay of officers and men of the army are now at the rate of about $950,000,000 per year. These figures consider solely the pay disbursed by the quartermaster department and do not include family allowances or compensation for disability of soldiers, provided for by the military and naval insurance act and paid by the government through the war risk insurance bureau of the treasury department. Following is a comprehensive statement of the system of pay of the army authorized by the quartermaster general. The quartermaster, general of the army, under the direction of the secretary of war, is charged with the duty of providing for the payment of the officers, enlisted men, female nurses, field clerks, and civilian clerks of the quartermaster corps on duty at places other than in the office of the quartermaster general. Due to the lack of office buildings necessary to take care of the increased number of employees required to carry on the business of the army at Washington, it has been necessary to lease many privately owned buildings for office purposes. The finance and accounting; division of the office of the quartermaster general is charged with the details of providing funds, and interior administration in connection with the payment of the army, and is now located in a large apartment house at the corner of Fifteenth and M streets NW. Intricate and Difficult Task. The intricate task of paying the officers and men of the United States army, made more difficult by the wide expansion of the past six months, is being satisfactorily accomplished. To prevent failure to meet the monthly compensation of every man in the service, no matter where he may be located, liberal sums are furnished the various disbursing quartermasters in order promptly to meet the army pay rolls with their extraordinary demands for funds. The officers and enlisted, men of the army are paid at the end of each month, or as soon thereafter as possible, by the disbursing officers of the quartermaster corps, in cash or by check, at their stations or in the field. If on duty in France they are paid in French currency or by United States checks, as officers and men may elect. Pay of Enlisted Men. The pay of enlisted men depends on their grades, ratings, and length of service. From June 1, 1917, and continuing during the term of the war the pay of enlisted men is as follows: Men receiving $30: All privates, the army entering grade. Men receiving $33: First-class privates, men promoted to act in minor noncommissioned officer capacity. Men receiving $38: Corporals, saddlers, mechanics, farriers and wagoners, and musicians of the third class. Men receiving $38: All sergeant grades in the line, which include infantry, field, artillery, coast artillery and cavalry; cooks, horseshoers, band corporals and musicians of the second class. Men receiving $44: Sergeants of the various corps of the engineers, ordnance, signal corps, quartermaster corps and medical department; band sergeants and musicians of the first class. Men receiving $48: Battallon sergeant majors, squadron sergeant majors, sergeant majors (junior grade), sergeant buglers, master gunners and assistant band leaders of the line. Men receiving $51: Regimental sergeant majors, regimental supply sergeant sergeant majors (senior grade), quartermaster corps, ordnance sergeants, first sergeants, electrician sergeants of the first class, assistant engineers and battalion sergeant majors and battalion supply sergeants of the engineers. Men receiving $50: Sergeants, first class, of the medical department. Men receiving $71: Hospital sergeants, master engineers of the junior grade and engineers. Men receiving $81: Quartermaster sergeants of the senior grade of the quartermaster corps, band leaders, master signal electricians, master electricians, master engineers of the senior grade and master hospital sergeants. Assignment to Special Duties. These are the established grades of the enlisted men, but they may variously be assigned to such special duties as chauffeurs, switchboard operators, cobblers, clerks, camoufleurs, sanitary inspectors, draftsmen, stevedores, accountants, plumbers and such other occupations and trades as are necessary to meet the requirements of army service. In addition to the rates of pay for enlisted men heretofore mentioned, supplemental pay or allowances are made as follows: (1) Increased pay is allowed for continuous service, computed under what is known as "enlistment period." An enlistment period ordinarily represents a period of three or four years, dependent upon the law in effect at date of enlistment. There are seven such periods, covering a period of service of 1 year to more than 18 years provided for, and the increases range from $3 to $24 per month, according to the grade and length of service. Men in the grade of private calling for $30 per month are increased $3 per month during the second enlistment period, an additional $3 during the third enlistment period, and $1 per month for each additional enlistment period to include the seventh enlistment period. Men above the $30 grade and up to and including the $38 grade are entitled to $3 per month additional pay for each enlistment period from the second to the seventh for each successive enlistment period. Men above the $38 grade are entitled to $4 per month additional pay for each enlistment period from the second to the seventh. (2) Enlisted men of the coast artillery, below grade of mess sergeants, are entitled to the following additional ratings, according to established individual qualifications: Casement electricians, observers of the first class, plotters and coxswalns, $0 per month; chief planters, observers of second class, chief loaders, gun commanders and gun pointers, $7 per month; enlisted men of the field artillery—expert first-class gunners, $5 per month; first-class gunners, $3 per month; and second-class gunners, $2 per month; enlisted men of the cavalry, engineers and infantry—expert riflemen, $5 per month; sharpshooters, $3 per month; enlisted men of the medical department—surgical assistants, $5 per month; nurse (enlisted man), $3 per month, and dispensary assistant, $2 per month. (3) Enlisted men of the signal corps, while on duties which require them to participate regularly in aero flights, assuming that they have rating of aviation mechanician, receive 50 per cent increase in their monthly pay. Housing and Substance. (4) All enlisted men, while on detached duty not in the field where there are no army quarters available, receive in addition to their pay $15 per month to cover the expense of housing and also a suitable allowance for subsistence and for heat and light. (5) Enlisted men, if serving in a foreign country or beyond the continental limits of the United States (Porto Rico, Hawaii and Panama canal zone excepted) receive 20 per cent increase in pay computed on the base pay and service pay prevailing prior to June 1, 1917, when an act of congress increased, for the "term of the emergency," the pay of all enlisted men in amounts ranging from 50 per cent to 8 per cent. (6) Enlisted men attached to the United States Military academy are entitled to the same pay and allowances as other enlisted men of the regular army of the same grade and additional compensation provided for performing certain duties upon detail therefor in orders. Officers of the army are paid according to rank held by them. A second lieutenant receives $141.67 initial pay per month; first lieutenant, $166.67; captain, $200; major, $250; lieutenant colonel, $291.67, and a colonel, $333.33, with an increase of 10 per cent known as longevity pay for each period of five years of service, provided that such increase shall not exceed 40 per cent. The pay of a brigadier general is $6,000 per year; major general, $8,000; lieutenant general, $9,000, and a general, $10,000. These officers receive no increase for continuous service. suitable allowance for heat and light, dependent upon the locality of their stations and the season. While on foreign service officers receive an increase of 10 per cent of their base pay and longevity pay. Aerial Flight Increases. Aviation officers of the signal corps, or officers attached to the signal corps, while on duty which requires them to participate regularly and frequently in aerial flights, are entitled to an increase in the pay of their grade, under their commissions, as follows: Aviation officers, 25 per cent; junior military aviators, 50 per cent; military aviators, 75 per cent. Each junior military aviator and each military aviator duly qualified and serving has the rank, pay and allowances of one grade higher than that held by them under their commissions, provided that the ranks under their commissions are not higher than that of captain. For deeds of valor, recognized by acts of congress, officers and enlisted men receive certificates of merit which entitle them to an additional compensation of $2 per month. Enlisted men can apply for retirement after 30 years of service. They are retired on 75 per cent of the monthly pay drawn at the time of retirement, and $15.75 a month additional in lieu of allowances. Officers are retired for disability, or after sixty-four years of age, and receive 75 per cent of the pay of the grade held at date of retirement. An enlisted man in active service has no necessary personal expenses except for barber and laundry. Uniforms, underclothing, shoes, hats, quarters, medical attendance and subsistence are supplied them at government expense. Such materials as tobacco, postage, confectionery and incidentals of individual taste may be purchased at the post exchange at cost. Officers, while in hospital, are charged $1 per day for subsistence. They are not entitled to clothing or equipment and are required to subsist themselves, purchasing their supplies either from the quartermaster or through the ordinary channels of trade. ENTRANCE TO DUGOUT com. bernard l. lint His letter home may be composed under these difficult conditions and in a concealed "cranny" of this sort. HE FINALLY GETS IN ARMY Colorado Giant Who Weighs 240 Pounds Finally Finds a Place in the Service. Denver, Colo.—After trying unsuccessfully to enlist in the aviation corps, as a yeoman in the naval service, or as a member of Uncle Sam's "land sailors"—the marine corps—William Lloyd Harbour, eighteen years old, five feet eight inches in height and weighing 240 pounds, was finally accepted as a chauffeur in the engineering corps, and is now on his way to France. The eighteen-year-old giant has a chest measurement of 40 inches, a 42 waist, wears a 7½ hat, size 8 gloves and 8½ shoe. Harbour weighed 11 pounds at birth, 150 when he was eleven years old and nearly 200 when he was fifteen. SMILAGE' BOOKS WILL CHEER THE SOLDIERS Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass.—"Smileage books" for the soldiers is the latest device for making the manin-khaki's life as cheerful as possible while at cantonment camps. "Smileage books" are issued by authorities in charge of camp amusements and are guaranteed to contain 100 good times' for any recruit fortunate enough to possess one, which will cost $5. RETURNS AFTER TEN YEARS Wanderer Comes Back to Old Home In Army Uniform and Then Leaves for France. Chicago. After ten years of wandering, away from all communication with his family, Howard Clarke, sion of one of the oldest and most distinguished Chicago families, returned to visit those he left behind for probably the last time. He returned in the uniform of a United States soldier. He is now Capt. Howard Clarke, and after a few days here, left to rejoin his regiment at a Pacific port, and his latest adventure will take him to the battlefields of France. --- The Bee Published at 109 Eye Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. W. CALVIN CHASE, EDITOR Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One year in advance.....$8.00 Six months.....1.00 Three months.....50 Subscription monthly.....20 HOWARD UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT. Some months ago it was announced that the present president of Howard University, Dr. Newman, a most estimable gentleman, would voluntarily retire at no distant day. Since that time many public suggestions have been made as to the attributes the new president should possess. Some have taken the ground that the time has not yet arrived when a colored man should be chosen; others the contrary. No one has advanced the theory that there are not many colored men who possess the academic, moral and temperamental qualifications. It is reasonable to infer that the only objection anyone can have to a colored president of Howard at the present time is a minor consideration of expediency. For example, the fear has been expressed that it might endanger the continuance of the Government appropriation, or entail some relaxation of discipline; but no reasonable ground for such fear has been advanced. The efficiency and growth of Howard University means much to the colored race. By the standard of scope of work it comes nearest to the dignity of a real university of any colored institution. The colored people ought to have several real universities, as distinguished from colleges, in different sections of the country, and Howard must be one of the best of them. Howard should at all times have the best man for president that can be obtained, whether he be colored or white. Other things being equal, he ought to be a colored man. The time is now fast approaching when the colored race must assume the responsibility of managing all lines of business that are peculiarly their own. They should assume these responsibilities as fast as they develop men and women of the proper managerial capacity. So as to the headship of Howard. Assuming that the trustees may want to choose a colored man for the next president of Howard, the question naturally arises, Who is the best man? In this question the whole country is vitally interested, the colored people especially. The Bee has heretofore suggested several men. We now repeat the names of some of these, adding some others, in alphabetical order: DuBois, Archibald Grimke, Hershaw, Miller, Scarborough, E. J Scott, Sheppard. Let us have other suggestions. JIM-CROWING PATRIOTISM "Attorney William Harrison, Oklahoma City, has been called to Washington by the National Public Speakers' Bureau of the War Savings Committee. He leaves today at 2.30 for Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida."—News item in our last issue. It is to be regretted that Attorney Harrison while on this trip of patriotic duty should be compelled to ride in jim-crow cars, and especially so since the railroads are now under Federal control. We urge upon the Government, if it is going to ask colored men to travel throughout the country to make speeches to arouse the patriotism of the race to the necessity of contributing of its means for the prosecution of a war "to make the world safe for democracy," as it has already contributed of its men to fight for that idealism, that arrangements be made, whereby these loyal citizen will not be subjected to discrimination and segregation on the railroads. It is only fair and just, and consistent, to make the patriot, no matter what be his color or race, feel that his splendid show of patriotism is fully appreciated. We all know that Attorney Harrison, because he was a colored man, had to travel in jim-crow cars from his home to the boundary line of his State, en route to Washington to tender his services gratis to the Government, and, unless the Government intervenes, must travel in jim-crow cars through the States in which he may make patriotic speeches. It is a splendid attestation to the loyalty of our race to know that, in spite of discouraging segregation, we are contributing our bit willingly, both of men and money, and we mean that history shall convey to posterity this truth: "In that world war for world democracy the colored race fought nobly and contributed splendidly." ALLEY HOUSES. The Bee is not disposed to let the question of the enforcement of the alley-law rest. We ask Congress and the proper executive and judicial officials not to overlook the subject, the elemental facts in the case. There are probably from 3,000 to 5,000 alley houses here that are practically condemned by the alley law. They are a disgrace from the standpoints of comfort and sanitation, and yet they return enormous profits to owners and real estate agents. Many of these houses fetch rentals amounting to as high as 25 per cent or more on the investment. Agents make the highest profits on this class of houses in the form of commissions on "repairs"—a very good thing for the agents. No wonder both the owners and the agents want to "postpone" the enforcement of the law. We are advised of a particular alley house in Washington which was bought at auction about 1893 for a little over $300. For ten years thereafter it rented steadily for $8 and $9 a month. The gross profit in that time was about 27 per cent. A goodly slice was deducted by the agent for repairs. The owner no doubt got over an average of 20 per cent. This is a frame house, and we concede that it is not a representative example of the average record of alley houses. But the average return from all Washington alley houses is known to be above 10 per cent. It is excessive, and easily accounts for the desire of the profiteers to perpetuate the now-existing conditions. A LONG-FELT WANT. The spirit of helping the National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee to raise a big fund to properly provide relief for such dependents of colored soldiers and others of the race who actually need and are worthy of relief is fairly sweeping the country, if the letters and contributions coming in from every section is an indication. In an incredibly short time there has been whipped into form the largest beneficial organization known to the race. It is an organization that infringes on no other, antagonizes no other—an organization that was urgently needed—all over the country, in cities and towns from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Very properly it can be said of the National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee: It fills a long-felt want. Can there be any faith in Billy Sunday's doctrine or his religion? In that section of the city bounded on the north by Florida Avenue, south by New York Avenue, and west and east respectively by Fourteenth and First Streets, there resides not less than 25,000 colored people. This is the section—the Northwest—in which resides the greatest number of our best and most enlightened of the race; the greatest number of our professional men and women, schools teachers and clerks—the cream of the race. In this particular section practically everything our race buys to eat and wear, and all the fuel used by it, is sold to us by white merchants who do not so much as reciprocate their patronage by hiring colored clerks: And most of these merchants, particularly the grocers and clothing and shoe stores, are conducted by foreigners. We have no word of criticism to offer against these white merchants, presuming upon the race's indolence; establishing themselves in this almost strictly colored section, and selling to the race all the necessities of life. That is their right; that is business—an unsentimental proposition that always seeks to convert necessity and dependence into an asset. But we do offer a criticism of a people, that is continually crying for opportunities who will permit a fertile field of their own to be plowed, harrowed, sowed and reaped by aliens. Into the coffers of these white merchants, in the district described, there flows daily, conservatively, $25,000 of the hard-earned money of their colored patrons. Every week totals $150,000 spent by the race to enrich these white merchants who offer no reciprocation. Outside of a half dozen colored drug stores, a score of restaurants, most of which are from necessity, and a few from choice but a travesty on the word "restaurant," and a number of compulsion barber shops, the business of this strictly colored district is a monopoly of white merchants—near-illiterate foreigners from Russia and Italy. A well, safe-conducted colored bank exists in this district more because of the pluck and determination of its founders than because of encouragement received from the race. A few undertakers profit from the race's mortality, because, and only because, the white undertaker finds it to his disadvantage to handle black and white corpses with the same hands. The indolence shown by the race in this aforesaid district, to combine its capital and enter business, reminds one of the unharnessed, unused water of a mad-rushing stream over some great fall—merely going to waste. If the race combined its capital, or if the individuals with small capital would start the various needed businesses in this section, and receive the race's patronage, the $150,000 that is weekly handed to white merchants upon a silver tray would be returned to the race in the form of employment for our hundreds of young men and women graduated from our schools. Opportunity sits, invitingly, in the district referred to, and in every other section of the city where is congested a large colored population, but we are blind to its invitation; we are deaf to the appeals of our own young for a chance to do and to be; we are like the unharnessed mad-rushing waters going to waste over a great fall. And still we sigh, and cry for opportunity, when opportunity is so near we can hear the rustling of its wings—feel the pulsations of its heart. heart. OPPORTUNITY is here patiently waiting for INDOLENCE to be surfeited on inaction. Both may be right, and Billy Sunday may be wrong. He is wrong when he fails to condemn the greatest crimes known to humanity, and they are lynching and burning at the stake human beings. How is it that he can see so many wrong acts committed by those he tries to convert to Christianity and fails to see any wrong in the lynching of human beings, and more especially when his attention has been called to it? There is something wrong with Billy's religion. REV. NORMAN. Elsewhere in The Bee will be seen and read with interest a series of sermons that are to be preached by Rev. M. W. D. Norman, pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church: There is not a more gifted speaker or a greater thinker than this distinguished minister. He will preach seven different sermons, and not one of them should be missed. His first sermon will be delivered tomorrow morning, March 3rd. Subject: "The Seven Candlesticks." Don't miss it. RECOGNITION OF TROOPS. Ex-Collector Charles W. Anderson of New York, Acts—Brilliant New York, Feb. 25. At a joint meeting between the Mayor's Committee on National Defense and General Johnson, in command of Camp Upton, at the Hotel Astor, on Saturday afternoon, February 16th, it was decided that ten thousand men of the National Army now training at Camp Upton should parade through the streets of New York City on Washington's Birthday. General Johnson named the various units which were to be brought to town, but did not include the 367th Infantry, the colored regiment at Camp Upton. After reading the reports of this meeting Sunday morning, Hon. Charles W. Anderson called up the secretary of the Mayor's Committee on National Defense and in- quired why the colored regiment had not been included among the paraders. He was told that only 10,000 men of the 48,000 now quartered at the cantonment could be brought in, and that the power of selecting the organizations was vested in the commander of the camp: The ex-Collector then addressed a strong telegram to Governor Whitman, asking him to request General Johnson to include the colored regiment among those who would be brought to the city. Within four hours he received the following telegram from Governor Whitman: Albany, N. Y. Charles W. Anderson, I have received the following telegram from General Sherrill: "As requested by you, I have taken up with General Johnson matter of colored troops joining parade this week. He reports they are at present quarantined for months, but hopes to bring a battalion for next Friday." Mr. Anderson conferred with Hon. George W. Wickersham, Hon. Schuyler Meyer and Dr. William J. Schieffelin, all three of whom sent telegrams asking the Governor to use his influence in behalf of the inclusion of the colored soldiers. He then asked the trustees of Mother Zion A. M. E. Church, Bethel Church and Keys & Buckner, proprietors of the Lybia Restaurant, to send telegrams of like tenor. As a result of this prompt and energetic campaign, the General promised that a battalion of the 367th Infantry would be in the parade. Collector Anderson was careful to advise his fellow workers that the fight for representation of the colored soldiers must not take the form of protest, as General Johnson was acting well within his rights as commander of Camp Upton when he named the parade units, and because it would be impossible to prove that his failure to include the colored soldiers was due to prejudice, as he was only selecting 10,000 men out of the 48,000 in training at his camp. On Tuesday morning the Mayor's Committee on National Defense invited Mr. Anderson to meet a committee of army officers named by General Johnson to arrange for the transportation, housing and feeding of the men. This committee informed the ex-Collector that the colored regiment had been selected after all arrangements for housing and feeding had been completed, and as the committee had no funds for the purpose, it would expect him to secure a place for assembling the battalion and to provide them with two meals on the day of the parade. Mr. Anderson at once arranged conferences with Mr. John A. Rogers, superintendent of the Union League Club; Mr. George T. Wilson, president of the Bankers' Club; Mr. Henri Mouquin, president of the Mouquin Restaurant Company. The Union League Club volunteered to supply hot soup, hot coffee and mixed meats, consisting of sliced tongue, sliced chicken and sliced ham for 600 people. Mouquin's Restaurant agreed to send mixed sandwiches for 100 and fancy cakes for the entire 600. A. Silz & Co. and W. J. Farrell & Co., poultry dealers, each agreed to supply two immense turkeys, and other clubs, restaurants and firms consented to donate the following items of food: Bankers' Club, 200 sandwiches; Colony Club, 100 sandwiches; Metropolitan Club, 100 sandwiches; Union Club, 100 sandwiches; University Club, Republican Club, National Democratic Club, New York Yacht Club, Century Club and Racquet Club, each 100 sandwiches; S. H. Furgatch, 600 cigars, 100 boxes cigarettes; Mouquin's Restaurant, 100 sandwiches, fancy cakes and pies; Fred Eberlin's Restaurant, Shanley's Restaurant, 100 sandwiches each; The Libya, sliced ham; Haynes' Restaurant, 100 cornbef sandwiches; A. Silz, Inc., two large turkeys; W. J. Farrell & Co., two large turkeys; The Dolphin Restaurant, one turkey; John Tones Colonial Restaurant, three sliced harms; John Minder & Son, sliced ham for 500; C. Anderson, butcher, one boiled ham; A. Weaver, butcher, one boiled ham; Hotel Astor, six boxes eating apples; Hotel St. Regis, 100 sandwiches; Hotel Men's Association, 550 ham sandwiches, 550 rye bread and cheese sandwiches, 44 gallons coffee milk and sugar. Through Mr. Fred R. Moore, the Rocky Mountain Club donated coffee, sugar and milk for 600. Reisenweber's Restaurant, mixed sandwiches for 100; Churchill's Restaurant, bread, butter, rolls and cakes. Fifty ladies, under the leadership of Mrs. Charles W. Anderson, Mrs. Jno. W. Johnson, Mrs. A. S. Reed and Mrs. Daisy Tapley, waited on the tables while John T. Gallahorn took charge of the kitchen, and Messrs. Keys & Buckner of the Lybia and Mr. Streaty of Haynes' Restaurant assisted by Mr. Adrian Smith of the War Thrift Club took charge of the dining-room. The battalion was served with luncheon before the parade and dinner after it. At the conclusion of the evening meal the soldiers lined up in the large auditorium of the Amsterdam Opera House and gave a vocal and instrumental concert. Three cheers were given for the Union League Club and the other donors of food, and for Richard Sauce & Co., proprietors of the Opera House. Major Mitchell then had his buglers sound the assembly call and proposed three cheers for Collector Anderson. It is no exaggeration to say that the colored battalion received twice as much applause as any unit in the line of parade, and it was a pleasant and noticeable fact that the cheering at the officers' reviewing stand was led by Secretary Daniels. It was, indeed, a happy outcome of a fight for proper recognition in a matter so delicate that an indignation meeting or a telegram of protest would surely have defeated the desired object. THE PAN-AMERICANS. The Pan-Americans wish to invite their friends to their ante-Lenten frolic, on Friday evening, April 5th, from 4 to 8, at Pythian Temple. The club: Messrs. Hayward G. Burrell, Lawrence V. Quander, W. A. Graves and Marshall L. Thomas. AT CAMP MEADE. Mrs. E. M. Wilson visited her husband at Camp Meade, Md., Wednesday, February 11th, where she spent the entire evening. It was quite a delight to have heard the evening retreat. Lieut. George W. Lee insisted upon her dining, and she found it quite a pleasure. She spent a delightful evening with the boys. SPARKS FROM MARTINSBURG. Martinsburg, W. Va.—A chorus of fifty voices will sing Sunday at 4 o'clock at the Ebenezer Baptist, under the auspices of the Christian Alliance. Members from Dudley, Mt. Zion and Ebenezer choirs will participate. Rev. J. T. Reid, pastor. The Dudley Baptist Church, a well built and uniquely finished brick structure, with a most substantial stone foundation, has outgrown itself, which was demonstrated Sunday night when all of her members came with their families. The "Pew Rally" was a success, both financially and numerically. Rev. E. T. Johnson, pastor. Rev. S. R. Hughes leaves for Conferencecakrying with him a glowing report from the Mt. Zion M. E. Church. The following persons who have been on sick list for several weeks were out to church Sunday, to the very great delight of their friends and pastors: Sister Lillie Carter, Sister Blakey, Prof. J. W. Corsey, Sister Walker Dennis, Miss Lillian Carter, Sister Trip, Sister Crumwell, Sister Maggie Tolliver. Bro. James. Goins is on the sick list. Big doings expected at the Dudley on the third Sunday in March. Women's Day at Ebenezer on the 24th. The Hill Top City is one in hope, one in doctrine, one in charity. On to Kansas City, Mo., August 25 to 30l The Knights Templars are making a big drive for the international conference of Knights Templars. The Imperial Council, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Interstate Conference of Grand Chapters, Order of the Eastern Star, will also meet at that time. *** Bro. John E. Smith, the new Grand Master of Masons of the District of Columbia, will open the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge on the first quarterly session Wednesday, March 13, 1918, with the best wishes and earnest desires of every craftsman in this jurisdiction that peace and harmony may prevail, and the able support of such grand officers as Bros. John C. Nalle, Jesse Mitchell, John Simmons and John A. Sorrell success seems to be assured. ** It is hoped that those who are well informed will pay a little more attention to our two baby Lodges—Corinthian, No. 18, and Doric, No. 19, and encourage them in the good work before them. *** Ruth Chapter, No. 16, O. E. S., held its regular meeting Wednesday, February 13th, with a goodly number of members present. Hon. Lady R. Robinson is the Matron, and Sir Knight Henry Gordon, Patron. Past Patron John P. Turner and Past Matron Minnie Frazier and Patron J. T. Tascoe were present and gave very encouraging remarks. The members of Miriam Chapter, No. 8. O. E. S., will hold their annual social evening at their regular meeting the first Thursday in April, at which time a musical and literary program will be rendered and refreshments served. Members of sister Chapters are invited. MISS REED ENTERTAINED. Miss Roselle Reed, a charming student of Howard University Commercial College, was entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Wm. C. Coleman on February 22nd, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Delaney, 999 R Street N.W. Among those present were Mrs. Jesse Howard, Mrs. McCaden, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Patrick, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Botts, Mr. G. E. Carr, Miss Audrey Marshall, Mr. Simpson, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Delaney, Mr. J. M. Carr and Miss Daisy Wylie. A delightful afternoon was spent in music and games, after which an appetizing repast was served. Miss Reed is from Colorado, the home of Mr. Coleman. She possesses much of the Western spirit of hospiality and is undoubtedly an attractive guest. A GIFT TO HIS MOTHER. Mr. Andrew J. Thomas, the wellknown and progressive manager of Howard Theatre, has presented his mother with a new handsome Hudson automobile. It is one of the finest cars in the city. WANTED—PRESSFEEDER. Wanted—Cylinder pressfeeder, male or female; A. M. E. Book Concern, 631 Pine St., Philadelphia, Pa. D. A. Hart, Assistant Business Manager. VIRGIE TO LOUISE. Next week The Bee will contain a weekly letter from Virgine to Louise, who for years wrote under this nom-de-plume. These letters will not be abusive, but interesting. Look for the letter to Louise next week. Miss Alice Harrison is the new and accomplished pianist at Dudley's U. Street Theatre. Mr. W. P. Curtis is acting assistant custodian in charge of the labor ties of Boston and undoubtedly has a brilliant future. The NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL, Durham, N. President, James E. Shepherd, Durham, N. C --- "I cordially commend the school' interest and needs to all who believe in the Negro race and in our obligation to help promote its intellectual, moral and religious uplift."—Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, New York City. IT IS MORE THAN A MERE SCHOOL—IT IS A COMMUNITY OF SERVICE AND UPLIFT Its influence is destined to be felt in all sections of the country in improved Negro community life wherever our trained workers locate. Settlement workers, missionaries for home and foreign mission fields, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. secretaries and district nurses receive a comprehensive grasp of their studies under a Wellesley graduate and experienced co-workers and actual every-day practice through the school's SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT. A HIGH STANDARD COLLEGE DEPARTMENT has now be We aim also to create a better qualified ministry. Industrial training, advanced literary branches, business school. Thirty-two acres; ten modern buildings; heathful location. We can accommodate a few more earnest, ambitious students. Communities requiring social workers should write us. NEXT SCHOOL TERM OPENS OCT. 4, 1916. For catalog and detailed information, address: PRESIDENT JAMES E. SHEPAED NATIONAL TRAINING SCHOOL Carter's Little Liver Pills You Cannot Be Constipated and Happy A Remedy That Makes Life Worth Living Gernine bears signature Small Pill Small Dose Small Price ABSENCE of Iron in the Blood is the reason for many colorless face but CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS CARTER'S IRON PILLS will greatly help most pale-faced people. Pimples and black-heads can be removed—rough and "ashy" skin can be made as smooth as velvet. BY USING Dr. Fred Palmer's SKIN WHITENER and Dr. Fred Palmer's SKIN WHITENER SOAP DR. FRED PALMERS SKIN WHITENER RECOMMENDED AS A SKIN BLEACH AND FOR CLEANING WITH CALCIUM, SALLOW SILICON CARBON SILK Freshly Harvested DR. FRED PALMERS Skin Whitener Soap MEDIUM CALCIUM DR. FRED PALMERS SKIN WHITENER SOAP IS PARTICULARLY SMOOTHED FOR SENSITIVE, DELICATE SKIN, BEING CLEANSING, WOODING AND HEALING. Whitens dark and brown skin; removes all blemishes and makes the skin soft and smooth. The following letter is a sample of the hundreds we receive daily, testifying to the worth of DR. FRED PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER: Gentlemen: Enclosed is 25 cents in stamps, for which please send me a box of your Dr. Fred Palmer's Skin Whitener. I have used one box of your Skin Whitener, and it did me so much good I have decided to continue the use of it. Yours truly, UGY L. HADSTON Do not accoress substitutes. Insist on the original DR. FRED PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER and DR. FRED PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER SOAP. The price has not advanced. It is 25c each. At your druggist or sent direct upon receipt of the price. MANUFACTURED BY Palmer's Skin Whitener may be purchased in all the People's Drug Stores, as follows: Main 5670, Store 1, Seventh and K N.W. N.W. Main 5671, Store 1, Seventh and K N.W. Main 4119, People's Drug Store. Main 900, Store 2, S. W. Corner Seventh and E N.W. Main 3140, Store 3, 2002 Fourteenth N.W. North 3228, Store 3, 2002 Fourteenth N.W. North 2398, Store 4, Seventh and M N.W. Lincoln 3496, Store 5, Eighth and H N.E. Lincoln 2789, Store 5. N. E. Corner Eighth and H N.E. --- "BLUE BONNETS" The Artisocrat of New Fabrics. The exquisite quality of this new cloth is only equaled by its practical utility. Transcendently beautiful, yet firm, full bodied and wonderfully durable. Wears without wrinkling, repels dust, launches beautifully. Absolutely dye fast. Eminently suitable for all manner of costumes in or out of doors. Also for draperies and furniture coverings. In a broad range of patterns and colors. If your dealer doesn't entry "Blue Bonnet" send as this ad with name of dealer and we will send him and notify him of your request. LESHER WHITMAN & CO. Inc., 681 Broadway, N. Y. CAUTION:- A You Get GOOD Value at ANY Price—Silk; Lisle or Cotton 25c to $5.00 per pair AT ALL GOOD DEALERS 509 UP STYLE 4523 "Onyx" You Get GOOD Value at 25c to $5 Emery-Beer WHOLESALE 153-161 E KATZ' MARKETS. Two Stores in One Ninth and Florida Avenue N. W. and the Great NORTHEAST GROCERY, 1644 Montello Avenue N. E. Goods Delivered Free H. KATZ AND CO. Is the Cheapest Store in the City Ninth and Florida Avenue N. W. Lincoln 4940 ```markdown ``` Gustave Oppenheim, 800 B street northwest, Washington, The Bee is a representative organ of the people. Beautiful Bust and Shoulders are possible if you will wear a scientifically constructed Bien Jolie Brassiere. The dragging weight of an unconfined bust so stretches the supporting muscles that the contour of the figure is spoiled. BEN JOLE IN AN JOLEED BRASSIERES put the bust back where it belongs, prevent the full bust from having the appearance of flabbiness, eliminate the danger of dragging muscles and confine the flesh of the shoulder giving a graceful line to the entire upper body. They are the daintest and most serviceable garments in the world, with all materials and styles: Cress Back, Hook Front, Surplice, Bandeau, etc. Boned with "Walohn," the rustless boning-permitting washing without removal. Have your dealer show you Bien Jolie Brassieres, if not stocked, we will gladly send him, prepaid, samples to show you. BENJAMIN & JOHNES 1.51 Warren Street Newark, N. J Hosiery e at ANY Price—Silk; Lisle or Cotton to $5.00 per pair Beers Company, Inc. 161 EAST 24th ST. NEW YORK MRS. S. J. TAYLOR Furnished rooms by the day, week or month. Transient accommodations a speciality. 128 F street northwest, Washington, D. C. One block from Union Station Franklin 4632. WARREN. WARREN. If you want a first-class photo, go to Warren, 803 Florida Ave. N. W. Ask for Mr. Warren and he will do the rest.—Advt. Open Day and Night Livery and Chapel JOHN T. STEWAR, Undertaker and Embalmer. 30 H Street, Northeast. Main 1124 Washington, D. C. TERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF THE COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE Section 1. The name of this society shall be the COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE. Article II. Section 1. The term for which this society is organized shall be perpetual. Article III. Section 1. The general business and objects of this society shall be to promote the education, industrial, commercial and social welfare of the people of the District of Columbia and vicinity, and to counsel and encourage those in other communities in the same direction. Section 2. The particular business and objects of this society shall be to encourage and foster vocational edu- --- cation, skill and efficiency; to stimulate and encourage industrial and commercial enterprises in and near the District of Columbia and to assist in the establishing of such enterprises; to encourage and promote co-operation in business; to establish and maintain a technical economic library in the City of Washington for public use; to promote the establishment of gymnasiums, baths and recreational centers; to promote better household and community sanitation; to encourage improved landscape architecture and gardening for the adornment of home surroundings; to assist poor and needy persons. Section 3. In addition to the power to pursue the objects enumerated in Sections 1 and 2 of this Article III, this society shall also have the following corporate powers, to wit: to foster and regulator 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. Brodt, whose factory and sale stores are at 419 Eleventh Street N. W. and 503-5 Ninth Street N. W. If you want an up-to-date hat for a Christmas present or a fine winter hat of any description, go and see the new hats at Brodt's. Mention The Bee. AMERICA SPELLS GERMAN DEFEAT Entry Into War Means Victory for Allies, Says British Writer. Now a Case In Which "the Dog Has Begun to Bite the Pig," Says Writer—Something Rotten In Germany. London.—How America's entry into the war has hurt Germany is the subject of an interesting article in the Birmingham Post by Edgar Wallace, author and military correspondent. It is now a case in which "the dog has begun to bite the pig," he says. "It is as well," Mr. Wallace writes, "to separate the causes of the present German offensives from the circumstances which have made them possible. We know that the stagnation of the Russian front allows the Germans to employ in the west troops which, were the Russian army an active factor in the war, could not have been employed; we know that the Italian has lost nearly 300,000 men in the course of the fighting of the last month; but neither of these facts explains the German offensive plan. For example, the push against the Isonzo was obviously uninfluenced by Italian losses—because they had not occurred. The push against Italy was and is part of the great scheme which would certainly have been carried out even if Russia had remained loyal to the alliance. "Reckson Is 'America '" 'The reason is summed up in the word 'America.' I do not particularly refer to the forces which America will put into the field. The German general staff, I am certain, has no particular fear that sufficient American troops will be put into the field next year, to secure a decision against Germany. I doubt very much whether the German is worrying at all about what will happen in the field in the summer of 1918. But he is tremendously concerned over what will happen in Germany between May and August of that year unless he can break the fighting spirit of the entente during the forthcoming months of the winter. 'It is no secret that Germany had been drawing large supplies, of food and necessary raw material from America, via neutral countries. America supplied these articles in the way of business, just as she supplied Britain with material in the way of business, and strictly in the way of business the neutral countries had been passing on their imports to Germany. "And so this jolly war might have gone on whilst Germany's credit abroad held—only America came in. She declared war, she called millions of men, she reorganized her industries to meet the demands of war—and then she sat down to take a good look at the neutrals. And they seemed unnecessarily bloated. They did their best to engage her sympathy. And they had little bread and potato riots just to show there was no deception. "But America understood. She said very simply, 'Feed yourselves, you big stiffs!' (if the picturesque vulgarity be allowed). "In the old nursery rhyme, when the stick began to beat the dog, the dog began to bite the plg. If the neutral has no food to spare and cannot buy any in America, the German cannot buy food from the neutral. In fact, the dog has begun to bite the plg. The neutrals have no right to complain. Something Rotten in Germany. "So many millions of tons of food-stuffs which came to Germany once in the dear dead days are not coming any more. She is that much shorter of food. We do not know for certain the conditions of Germany's food reserves. That there is something rotten there we know from the curious attitude of Bulgaria. "But if the German, with all the supplies he was securing from the neutral, was short in the spring of 1017, what will be his position in the spring of 1018, when the new American embargo becomes fully operative? We think it will be fairly bad. The German crops were poor—as were all the world's. "Nobody but a perfectly insane person or a statistician—who will believe anything—imagines that the world shortage of food does not affect Germany. It does affect her very seriously. It will affect her worse this year than it did last. "Food is going to decide this war. The fact that the German censor has closed down all reference to food difficulties and coal shortages is significant. The things that Germans do not talk about are the things that matter. If we are witnessing the beginning of a series of offensives in the west and the opening of a new campaign, that campaign, as I have said before, is a hunger offensive, and the plan dates from that day when America decided that it was a good idea to ration the neutrals, but they would have to find the rations themselves. "If my theory is sound and well founded we should look to the collapse of the war in June or July. I do not say if the German does not break-us in the field between now and August. He won't break us in the field or starve us in our homes." GAVE COMMAND FOR FIRST SHOT AT KAISER Roodhouse, Ill.—Central Illinois has the distinction of giving to Uncle Sam the man who ordered the first American shell fired against the Germans in France. He is Maj. John R. Starkey of this city. And it was an Irish "Sammie" from Indiana who fired the first shot. Major Starkey designated the gun and the gunner who sent the first historic shrapnel at the kaiser. Word to this effect has been received here by relatives in a letter from the hero. When the war broke out the major was detailed to Gen. John J. Pershing's command and is now serving with "Black Jack" "over there." Carpenter Asks Damages From Construction Company Because of Accident: Camp Funston, Kan.—If a one-eyed man is driving a nail and the head flies off and hits him in his glass eye, breaking it, is he entitled to damages for "injuries?" That is the question that is bothering the Fuller Construction company, camp officials and Louis Scudder, a carpenter of Topeka. Scudder worked for the Fuller Construction company, building the Funston cantonment. Scudder went to the company doctor, who examined the eye, took out the broken glass, but found no cuts. "Don't I get damages for injuries?" demanded Scudder. "Till take it up with the company," the doctor answered. "Well, I'll go down to Topeka and get another glass eye before I go back to work," said Scudder. LEASE OUT WOMAN CONVICTS Action of County Commissioners in Alabama May Bring Legislative Action. Mobile, Ala.—At the next session of the state legislature a measure will probably be introduced looking to prohibiting counties from leasing woman convicts. A sensation was recently created when the Escambia county commissioners leased negro woman prisoners to a contractor for 15 cents a day, for a term of two years. For years male prisoners have been leased to mine operators and other employers of labor, but this was the first instance where women had been leased. Until the war made a strong demand for labor there was no market for the negro woman prisoners. But in certain lines of work it has been found they have a small earning capacity and other counties will probably follow the lead of Escambia. KING OF THE BELGIANS Copyright: erwood & Underwood This unusual photo is probably the most characteristic ever made of the hard-working king of the Belgians. He is busily engaged on some important piece of business in the simple little room that is his headquarters not far from the front lines. From here he directs the armies and the destinies of the little nation whose entry into the war prevented Germany from overrunning all western Europe. "DRY SHAMPOO" IS FORBIDDEN British Hairdressers and Patrons Latest Victims of Defense of Realm. Act. London.—The defense of the realm act, which has been nicknamed "Dora," has now come in for abuse from hairdressers, owing to new restrictions on the use of alcohol. This measure has become necessary in consequence of the enormously increased demand for munition and Red Cross needs. Dry shampoos and hair lotions are all threatened by the latest order or "Dora." As the use of methylated spirit for burning also is forbidden, forced-draft oil stoves which cannot be lighted except by the aid of spirit are made useless. M. Nattily dressed in khaki and bringing with her many thrilling stories of experiences on the western front in France, Miss Carolyn Stevens, of the famous old Hoboken family, returned to her home on a furlough of three weeks. She has driven supply automobiles and ambulances for more than a year and has been under fire of German guns on numerous occasions. She was on the western front when the Germans bombarded Nancy and during the artillery engagement was under fire for many hours. On one occasion while she was attending to some children, who had been overcome by gas from the German lines, her ambulance was bombed by a German aviator. She was the first woman to drive through the newly established American camp after the arrival of General Pershing's forces, from whom she received a stirring ovation. Joan of Arc Saved France WOMEN OF AMERICA SAVE YOUR COUNTRY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS The kaiser's baleful face has been obliterated from one more spot and in his place is Joan of Arc. Three young ladies of the Junior League, Misses Jeannette Pruyn, Evelyn G. Payne and Candace Howard started out to interest New York in the War Savings stamps campaign. Their first stop was at a prominent New York hotel, where they espied a likely spot for their posters in a place where hung a cartoon of the kaiser. Down came the kaiser's picture and in its place went a spilted reproduction of Joan of Arc, which Miss Evelyn Payne is displaying in this photo, urging the women of America to buy War Savings stamps. Oldest Dog Discovered. Oldest Dog Discoverer Zanesville, O.—The oldest dog in Muskingum county has been discovered by the county auditor, who issued a license to William Casey for a white poode aged twenty-four years. METHODIST BISHOPS MEET. Race Discrimination Condemned Meet Next in St. Louis. Louisville, Ky., Feb. 16.—One of the most important meetings ever held in Louisville will close here tomorrow, and great good for the whole race has been accomplished. It was the meeting of the federated bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion and the Colored Methodist Episcopal Churches in the Chestnut Street C. M. E. Church. This is the third meeting looking forward to the unification of the three branches of Methodism among the colored people in America. The bishops are first getting together, and later the ministers and laymen will be called together. It has already been declared that before this time another year the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South will have agreed to unite, the only question involved now being the Negro contingent. "Will the Methodist Episcopal Church eliminate the Negro in order F. H. Kramer Co. Branches: Center Market, Phone M 2373 Storh,722 9th N.W. Phone M 2710 Greenhouses, Anacostia, E.C., Phone Lincoln.193 Southwest Corner Seventh and P Streets Northwest. Prescriptions filled promptly. All the leading physicians patronize this store. Agents for Madam Walker's Goods. Fred Palmer's Whitener. Agents for all High Brown Preparations, Soaps, Bleach, Hair Perfumes and Face Powders. Bronaugh's Grower, Shampoo, Tetter Salve, Temple Grower and Glossine, Hair Dressing and Powder. BRONAUGH'S, Seventh and P Streets N.W., Washington, D. C. to unite with the Methodist Episcopal Church South?" is the question asked by many people all over the country, and all will wait and see. At the opening the following bishops were present: A. M. E. Church—Bishops B. F. Lee, Evans Tyree, C. S. Smith, C. T. Shaffer, L. J. Coppin, H. B. Parks, J. S. Flipper, J. Albert Johnson, W. H. Heard, John Hurst, W. D. Chappelle, Joshua A. Jones, J. M. Conner, W. W. Beckett, I. N. Ross. A. M. E. Zion—Bishops G. W. Clinton, J. W. Alstock, A. J. Warner, J. S. Caldwell, G. L. Blackwell, R. B. Bruce, L. W. Kyles, G. C. Clement, W. L. Lee. C. M. E. Church—Bishops L. H. Holsey, R. S. Williams, I. Lone, C. H. Phillips, E. Cottrell, M. F. Jamison, R. C. Carter and A. C. Cleaves. The councils were opened with Bishop G. W. Clinton presiding, and the opening sermon was preached by Bishop L. H. Holsey of the C. M. E. Church. Bishops John Hurst, L. W. Kyles and N. C. Cleaves were elected secretaries, and Bishop Charles Stewart, official reporter. After Holy Communion and the introduction of the general officers and representatives of the three churches a recess was had. In the afternoon there was a lively business session and addresses were delivered by representatives of the M. E. Church South and the Methodist Episcopal Church. This meeting was harmonious and full of enthusiasm. The feature of the session Saturday was the report of a committee on address to the country, setting forth the position of the colored bishops on the things which concern the nation today. This document was manly, yet conservative. Each of the councils held separate meetings during the week. The question of locating the next session of the A. M. E. General Conference—1920—claimed the attention of a commission appointed for that purpose. After a lively contest between Chicago, St. Louis and Nashville, Tenn. St. Louis was selected. Bishop J. Albert Johnson, D. D., one of the most eloquent preachers in the country, preached the opening sermon. Rev. J. R. Ransom, of Kansas, called attention to the treatment of the Negro in this country, and urged that the race look to the President of the nation, who had more power today than any living man in the world, and with one stroke of his pen could wipe out Jim-crowism, discrimination on the common carriers—just as Abraham Lincoln wiped out slavery. "Today," said Dr. Ransom, "all he needs to do is but to speak and the thing is done, it matters not what it is. We have given him all of this power." Bishop C. S. Smith, of Detroit, Mich, delivered an address on "Democracy vs. Mobocracy." He was given an ovation. Special attention was given to the educational mass meeting. Bishop W. D: Chappelle presided, and addresses delivered by Prof. A. S. Jackson, commissioner of education, Waco, Texas; Rev. R. R. Wright. Jr., editor of the Christian Recorder, Philadelphia, and A. J. Carey, D. D., of Chicago, Ill: GRAVES' CAFE. If you want a first-class meal and up-to-date service, The Bee would suggest the Joseph Graves' Cafe, 16 G Street N.W. If you enjoy home cooking, this is the place to patronize. Clean service, polite attendants and everything you need to appease your appetite. Call for Mr. Graves and he will do the rest. MAN WANTED. Wanted—Man, high class, unques- able reference, to handle stock sales; gilt-edge proposition. Address Manufacturer, 3836 Sta. D, Philada., Pa. OMFORT REDIT CONVENIENCE 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. DR. T. THEO. PARKER Osteopathic Physician (Brit. Has the method of curing Uterine Tumors without operation or drugs; also joint and nerve troubles. Hours: Until 9.30 p. m. Phone, North 533-J. 18:00 NINTH ST. N. W. 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. MADAME AGNES J. SMITH. One of the most successful beauty culture schools in the city is that of Madame Agnes J. Smith, of 935 R Street N.W. Call and inspect her parlors. Don't fail. amer Co. Furniture Furniture everlasting home comfort for an charge account in such a way that this is to our interest to enable you to al- with this object in view we make at the circumstances of each individ- endous stocks of homefurni- variety of attractive patterns. Thi- s; also the better grades that range the different periods. Every article is marked in figu- rals for the credit help that enable to have it at once. Specially eas- carried couples, and we are very wi- t come to Washington to enter the Grogan & So- 7 to 823 Seventh Street UNCLE SAM'S FIRST FUEL Keep Your Rooms at 68° Uncle S comfort for you. We can a way that your credit become available you to afford the better price we make the small weekly fee each individual customer. homefurnishings in which patterns. There are plenty of designs that range up to the expense ked in figures you can re-help that enables you to have w Specially easy terms are alw we are very willing to do the s in to enter the Government service & Sons Co nth Street FIRST FUEL CONSERVAT SAVE COAT Uncle Sam NEEDS UNCLE SAM'S FIRST FUEL CONSERVATION SIGN 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 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 S TO SAVE SUGAR-WHICH IS We will learn Sugar in the Gather of the Coffee Cup. We will trim up the sugar. faced a famine sugar has not adva- ripped an amount co-operation of the amount of our of the United Stat- es, the price of Administration. SEVERAL WAYS TO SAVE SUGAR-WHICH IS YOUR WAY? Do not leave sugar in the bottom of the coffee cup How do you prevent it from melting? 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. JUSTH'S OLD STAND. Workingmen, don't you think it would be nice to buy in a store that has one price? And it's not on ice. Well, we sell that way, and hustlers know where value is to be had. See us for pants at $2 to $4. We want to show you how to sell pants. JUSTH'S OLD STAND. 619 D Street. --- 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. SUGAR-WHICH IS YOUR WAY? sugar has not advanced, through the co-operation of the patriotic people of the United States and the Food Administration. 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.