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SPIRITUAL CAMPAIGN SPIRITUAL CAMPAIGN At the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Third and Eye Streets N.W. A spiritual campaign at the Mount Carmel Baptist Church, Third and Eye Streets N.W., beginning Sunday, April 7th to 26th, conducted by Dr. S. L. Johnson, of Virginia, one of the greatest evangelists in this country, and who has had the greatest success of any evangelist who has ever visited Washington. Hear his opening sermon, Sunday, April 7th, at 11 a.m. One hundred persons have given their names as personal workers in this meeting. The personal workers' group will be led by the following ministers of the church: Revs. J. E. Ennis, J. B. Roberts, H. L. Denman, Emanuel Griffin and S. Freeling. First Week—Church Nights. The following churches where Dr. Johnson conducted successful meetings, with the exception of three, have been invited to have charge of one hour's devotional the following evenings: Monday, April 7—Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, Rev. W. H. Brooks, pastor, and Zion Baptist Church, Rev. W. J. Howard, pastor. Tuesday, April 9—Second Baptist Church, Rev. J. S. L. Holloman, pastor, and Mt. Airy Baptist Church, Rev. A. J. Tyler, pastor. Wednesday, April 10—Shiloh Baptist Church, Rev. J. M. Waldron, pastor, and Florida Avenue Baptist Church, Rev. W. A. Taylor, pastor. Thursday, April 11—Mt. Horeb Baptist Church, Rev. Charles Fox, pastor. Friday, April 12—Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, Rev. J. H. Randolph, pastor, and Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, Rev. J. E. Willis, pastor. Second Week—State Nights. All persons in the city who are from the following States, are cordially invited to be present on their State night—including their clubs: Monday, April 15—Virginia night. Tuesday, April 16—North and South Carolina night. Wednesday, April 17—Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas night. Thursday, April 18—Alabama, Florida and Georgia night. Friday, April 19—Tennessee and Kentucky night. Third Week. Monday, April 22—District of Columbia and Maryland night. Tuesday, April 23—Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas night. Wednesday, April 24—Missouri, Illinois and Minnesota night. Thursday, April 25—Ohio, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts night. Friday, April 26—New York, New Jersey and Delaware night. Special Meetings. Sunday, April 7th, at 3 p. m., women only. Dr. Johnson will deliver a special message to women. Sunday, April 14th, at 3 p. m., men only. All fraternal orders are cordially invited to be present, wearing the uniform of their order if possible. Dr. Johnson has a special message to lodge men. At this service Prof. J. Henry Lewis, leader of the Amphion Glee Club, will direct the singing, with Prof. R. J. Daniels, of Zion Baptist Church, presiding at the organ. Special solos by Mr. William Lewis, the national singer. At 8 p. m., thanksgiving and memorial services of Columbia Lodge No. 8s, of Elks. Note.—All sister churches and pastors are cordially invited to join us in this great fight against sin and the devil. Every member of the church is requested to become a personal worker in this meeting. Prayer services begin each evening at 7:45. Sinners, where will you spend eternity? Remember, there is only one step between you and death! W. H. Jernagin, Minister. EASTER AT ANTIOCH. There was a large and appreciative congregation at the Antioch Baptist Church Easter Sunday morning: Rev. Peter Ailer, pastor, delivered an eloquent and patriotic sermon. The singing by the congregation was excellent. Interesting papers were read by Miss Martha Cornelia Ailer and Miss Emma F. Crump. Miss Ailer's paper was an Easter greeting interspersed with existing crisis in this country and what it meant. She was highly commended. Miss Crump has a sweet voice, and her paper was on the Resurrection of Christ. Little Victoria Ailer, a child five years old, is a wonder for her age. After she recited an entertaining recitation, sse was anxious to make a speech. The services ended by all singing "Columbia." The Antioch Baptist Church is fast growing in popular favor. How. It Is Growing Under Its New Management. The association at present has a membership of 285 men and 117 boys, making a total of 402. Membership July 1, 1917: Men, 77; boys, 5; total, 82. Indebtedness July 1, 1917, $2,600. Indebtedness April 1, 1918, $1,100. Our City. Washington is "home" and will be what we make it. Anything falling short of the best at home is a reflection upon the home folk. The Y. M. C. A. is a valuable asset to our home city and community. We must have the best Y. M. C. A. here. We have the building. We need now men. The men need the association also. The estimated amount for all memberships in a year will not be one-fourth of the money necessary to finance the association. No man can pay for what the association offers. Fellowship and service, given and received, cannot be bought. There are splendid men in our city who will come into the association to serve. The Campaign. During the time—April 12 to 17—two hundred workers will approach men and boys for their membership in the Y. M. C. A. The modern community is tested by the degree of its interest in the Young Men's Christian Association. The workers in our campaign are out for 1,000 memberships. Let 700 men and 300 boys show interest in themselves and in the community. The rates are within the reach of all. Boys' membership (one year), $2; boys' summer (1918), $1. Men: Social (one years), $2; full membership, $5; sustaining membership, $10. APRIL MEETING. The April meeting of the District Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will be held at the Twelfth Street Branch, Y. M. C. A., on Wednesday evening, April roth, at 8 o'clock. The machinery for producing five thousand new members during the Moorfield Storey drive has all been worked out, and a general resume of the situation to date will be given by Mr. Banton, general chairman of campaign activities. Business Section Destroyed by Fire. Attorney Lightfoot Lost a $2,500 Library and Other Valuable Alliance Papers. Atlantic City, N. J., April 2.—Not since the fire of 1902 has this city witnessed such a fire as was seen here Easter Monday. A half million dollars' worth of property was lost. Attorney James Lightfoot and the colored Alliance offices were completely destroyed. Mr. Lightfoot's library, valued at $2,500, and papers of the colored Alliance were soaked. The furnishings of one room was lost. Important papers and dockets of cases were in steel cabinets. Most of the Alliance records were lost. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Ninety Branches in Existence—A Testimonial to Hon. Moorfield, Storey. Ninety branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, scattered throughout WASHINGTON HON. MOORF Boston, Mass., National V. the country in all the principal cities, are to join from April 17th to 27th in a nation-wide "Moorfield Storey Drive" for 50,000 members. This membership drive has been undertaken by these branches as a testimonial to Moorfield Storey, of Boston, the association's president, in recognition of his service to the colored people of the nation in the Louisville segregation case. In that case compulsory residential segregation of colored people was declared unconstitutional by unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, handed down last November. The colored people and their friends declare the anti-segregation victory to be the greatest legal landmark affecting the Negro since the Fifteenth Amendment was enacted. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded on Lincoln's Birthday, 1900, and has its headquarters in New York. From its New York office an appeal for public support in its membership campaign is made in the following statement issued today: "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ap- FLOWERS AT By Ralph At Eastertide flowers convey an artistic mind—the mere love for Easter time, a depth of religious At Eastertide flowers convey more than the mere sentiments of an artistic mind—the mere love for nature. There is, in flowers, at Easter time, a depth of religious sentiment. Their blooms and their perfumes are hallowed with the belief that "Christ has risen"—with the hope, even when, as now, merciless Mars struts the earth devastating cities and blighting millions of human lives with his ungodly reverence for tragic grief and sorrow, and the horrible. But at all times the love of flowers—the love of nature—redeems man from sin. It's a common thing, an old familiar cry, to see the poor man's florists in the big cities, to hear their loud-voiced invitation to buy their violets, carnations and roses—a bit faded—discards, perhaps, from the big florists, but nature, nevertheless, and yet it is a call, a conjuration of the heart of man overlabored and desponding—walled in by the gloom of the city—divorced from the fields and their sweet, healthful influence—almost shut out from the sky that reeks in vapour over him. It is a call that tells him there are things on earth beside food and covering to live for, and that God in His great bounty made them for ALL men. Really the strong-lunged bawler of violets, and carnations, and roses, at the congested corners in the big cities of avarice, is a high benevolence, a peripatetic priest of nature. Adown dark, crowded streets he carries sweet remembrances—touching records of the loveliness of earth—that with their bright looks and balmy odors cheer and uplift the dumpish heart of man; that makes his soul, especially at Eastertide, stir within him, and acknowledge the beautiful—acknowledge God. The jitney—the ill-spared jitney—for it would buy a bit of bread—the poor woman pays for a flower at Eastertide is her offering to the hopeful loveliness of nature; is her testimony of the soul. struggling with the blighting, crushing circumstances of sordid earth, and sometimes yearning towards earth's sweetest aspects; is her testimony to the belief that "My Redeemer liveth." Amidst the violence, the coarseness, and the suffering that may surround and defile the wretched, there must be moments when the heart escapes; craving for the innocent and lovely; when the soul makes for itself even of a flower a comfort and refuge; when it finds, on Easter day, that in the lily there breathes the spirit of Him who said "Consider the lilies as they grow." There is always hope for him who loves the irresistible, dewey flowers, whose fragrance we should know and remember—a lovable, luring thing, that haunts us with its suggestions of unforgettable memories. SUNDAY, APRIL 6, 1918 WELD STOREY President, N. A. A. C. P. peals to all fair-minded citizens, white and colored, to join with it in the effort to secure simple justice under the law for our colored citizens. They represent over one-tenth of our American citizenship. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is making a nation-wide appeal for membership not on any narrow grounds of race or class privileges but on the broad ground of justice, of equal protection of all citizens under the law without distinction of race or creed or class. The maintenance of these just principles is of equal interest to all classes of citizens and an essential element of national strength. We therefore feel justified in asking all classes of citizens to join our association for this common principle of justice and civil liberty. The Association admits members upon payment of any amount from one dollar per year upwards. "The association feels that the American people have a right to be proud of the one hundred thousand colored soldiers now serving in the regular army of the national army. As a result of an active campaign on the part of this association, an officers' training camp for colored men EASTERTIDE. W. Tyler. more than the mere sentiments of our nature. There is, in flowers, at sentiment: Their blooms and their was inaugurated at Des Moines, Iowa, as a consequence of which nearly seven hundred Negro officers were commissioned. "The association, through an antilynching fund contributed by believers in law and order, investigates as many cases as possible of lynching and mob violence, gives publicity to the facts regarding them, and endeavors to arouse public opinion against the mob spirit. Annually, through the gift of the chairman of the board of directors of the association the Spingarn medal is awarded for the highest or noblest achievement by a Negro American during the preceding year." Rev. Dora Kelley is still in the city in the interest of fallen humanity. She is stopping at 1021 Twenty-second Street N.W. She wants the help of all Christian workers. She was invited to sing before the Baptist Ministers' Conference on Monday afternoon, on which occasion Rev. E. C. Morris was the guest of honor. Rev. Mrs. Kelley feels very keenly, the cool reception given her last Monday by the Conference. She felt that she should have been given greater consideration than what was given her, after she had been invited to sing, which seemed to please all present. At the conclusion of her singing she was not even tendered a vote of thanks. As a rule, wherever she sings a donation of not less than four dollars is given her, although she did not ask for nor did she expect a contribution. She has also been treated equally as cool in other churches. Rev. Mrs. Kelley has been sent out by Bishop J. S. Caldwell of the A. M.E. Zion connection. She has also recommendations from other prominent ministers. She is expected to bring in $65 for her part of her mission and needs the help of Christian people. In a very few weeks she will have her hymns put in book form and will sell them for the benefit of building a home for aged people. This is her life's ambition, and if she can accomplish this she will die happy. She is confident that she can, with the aid of the people. HOME DEFENSE LEAGUE. The Home Defense League, District of Columbia Volunteer Guard Division, held its regular drill at the armory of the Dunbar High School last Thursday, March 28th. Owing to the inclementy of the weather, drills had been suspended for several weeks. The attendance was good and applications were numerous. In view of the critical condition of affairs in the United States, and especially at the Capitol of the Nation, it becomes the duty of every able-bodied citizen to join the Home Guards. Again the meetings are harmonious and pleasant. In view of the fact that the District of Columbia has a large territory, the police, owing to lack of proper numbers in event of trouble and owing to war, etc., would be unable to cope with the situation; hence the Home Defense League. Mr. Ernest L. Thurston, superintendent of schools, will address the division during the month. A letter of encouragement is expected from Major John Van Schaick, at present in France. Lieut.-Col. A. J. Brooks will have charge of the new company to be formed. Mr. Andrew Thomas, of the Howard Theatre, has very generously agreed to give the proceeds of the matinee April 18th for the benefit of the treasury of the division. Mr. Garnet C. Wilkinson is treasurer. The principal officers of the division are Major R. P. Pullman, superintendent Metropolitan Police, District of Columbia; Dr. W. A. Warfield, captain; pro-captain, M. Grant Lucas; military instructors, Captain Rae and Lieut. Hall; inspector of rifle practice, Major Webster. The regular drills are every Thursday night. PEW RALLY. The Emergency Club of the Second Baptist Church held a pew rally on Sunday, March 24th, and realized the sum of $189.52. Mrs. Ella Cawthorne is president of this club. 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. AUTOCRACY IN THE CHURCH. President of the Progressive Church. The Man of the Hour. to Speak at the Bethel Literary Next Tuesday Night. Dr. J. E. Mason, the enemy to Church autocracy, will address the Bethel Literary next Tuesday evening. Rev. Mason is an orator and a scholar. Go and hear him. Rev. Mason is secretary of Livingston College, Salisbury, N. C. He will speak on Dr. Price and his work: the institution and the man. He has done the principal lecture work for Livingston since Dr. Price's demise, and spoken several times in the famous Plymouth-Beecher Church in Brooklyn, N. Y. He toured Canada and was the first Negro guest of the great Empire Club, composed of the leading literary and business men. This association has as its guest annually the leading authors and lecturers from both sides of the Atlantic. He is an independent thinker, and his last annual address on "The Signs of the Times, or Sounding the Alarm" has been published, creating a sensation in his denomination, and is still widely discussed. The facts presented against official autocracy in high places are striking and impressive. He also spoke upon the same platform with Colonel Roosevelt. Y. M. C. A. SERVING NOW. The cry of the secretary is for an opportunity to do larger service. Already we reach 10,000 people a month. We place about 100 a month in homes to lodge; 300 and more men in uniform come in during a month. We send men to different churches in the city. Through us about forty men have connected themselves with churches since January 1st. We have a safe place for men and boys to enjoy themselves. Help us then by joining if you are not a member and encouraging someone to join if you are a member. Over the top for 1,000 memberships. PATRIOTIC NIGHT. A rare treat for all men in the District of Columbia to hear the soul-stirring ovator, Rev. Clyde F. Armitage, Federal Council of Churches of American, on "Team Work in the World's War." The speakers will be introduced by Rev. Walter H. Brooks, D. D., pastor of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, where the exercises will be held, Sunday, April 7th, at 8 p.m., under the auspices of the Trustees' Auxiliary, Miss Ella M. Boston, president: Music by the choir. The O. P. Morton and Sumner W. R. C.'s will be present—Miss Julia B. Collier and Mrs. Julia W. Hamilton, presidents. Remarks, "Woman's Part in the World's War." Silver offering for the rally. Come and bring a crowd. Miss Gertrude P. Early, Sec'y. ```markdown ``` SATURDAY SEMMONS BY UNUS And he played on a harp of a thousand strings.** By Unus. "A hypothesis is any supposition which we make (either without actual evidence or upon evidence avowedly insufficient) in order to endeavor to deduce from it conclusions in accordance with facts which are known to be real; under the idea that if the conclusions to which the hypnothesis leads are known truths, the hypothesis itself either must be, or at least likely to be, true. * * * A hypothesis being a mere supposition, there are no other limits to hynotheses than those of the human imagination."—John Stuart Mill, "Logic," p. 290. I quote this explanation of hypothesis because it nearly explains a kind of inference which I wish to distinguish from proof. The word "inference" is often used to mean proof. This is unfortunate, because the word is as often used for another purpose, viz., to denote a mere supposition based on doubtful grounds. I note that Mr. Mill throughout his great book system of "Logic" uniformly uses the word "inference" to designate the process of reasoning commonly known as proof. For instance (page 5), he says: "The province of logic must be restricted to that portion of our knowledge which consists of inferences from truths previously known." As Mr. Mill is consistent in this use of the word, it does not matter so far as his book is concerned; but this is not the most common or popular notion of inference. About a week ago, some time after the big snow here, Charlie C., who had not been outside of the city for several months, said to me, in the course of some argument: "The snow is still on the ground in the country." I asked, "Is that so?" He replied: "I suppose so; it always lingers longer in the woods than in the city." He had no evidence for his first assertion, and offered none. What he gave me was a mere guess, which was based probably on indefinite past experiences, hearsay or beliefs. It was a mere hypothesis, or what I call an inference. Such an inference is at best a mere preparation for, or first step towards, proof. Thinking I had a good joke on Charlie C., I mentioned this conversation the same day to Henry H. Henry is one of those cocksure men who decide first and think after. "Charlie is right," said Henry, "everybody knows that the snow remains longer in the country than in the city." Here are samples of the reasoning methods of two men with whom I am compelled to associate almost daily—slipshod, do-nothing habits of thought. In the first place, it was not necessary for either of them to make the cocksure assertion. Proof is another sort of thing. If it had been a question of any importance whether the snow was still on the ground in some spots in the woods near Washington, Charlie or Henry could have given me reasonable proof of it in one or more of several well-known ways—by trustworthy testimony from some one just from the country, or by our joint personal inspection, or by citing local weather reports of past years. Bishop Whately tells us that "Reasoning comprehends inferring and proving, which are not two different things, but the same thing regarded in two different points of view." Like the road from Washington to Baltimore and the road from Baltimore to Washington. If Washington happens to be the place we want to reach, it is a matter of some importance to distinguish carefully between the two different directions. It will not suit to find ourselves either in Baltimore or wandering between Laurel and Camp Meade. Before we can infer safely, we must prove something. Before we can prove, there must already have been an inference or a guess having some set up for proof. Belief always draws a large part of its life from prior beliefs, some more or less vague and indirect. Some inferences are our first vague guesses, some are the last assured results of careful inquiry. To infer we must scout forward; to reason we must go back and bring forward known facts—bring up our heavy artillery. Therefore, it seems fitting to reserve the term "inference" to mean reasonable foundation—some belief, guess, or a hypothesis. A hypothesis is a proposition to be tested; the test is proof. Between gueses, hypotheses, theories, "impirical laws" and "laws of nature" there are only continuous degrees of certainty, each succeeding one being only a degree more certain than the next preceding. The exact point where inference ends in this scale, and proof begins, is not always the same, not always certain. But proof should always establish something more than a theory, at least. In practical affairs it is often necessary for a person to act on a mere inference, and act promptly, because there is not sufficient time for proof. This is always risky, however. Of a man who usually infers successfully we say that he has good intuition, is quick-witted. He can often dispense with the slow steps of ratiocination, or reasoning. It is said that women are specially gifted in intuition. The most of us had better try to rely mainly on the slower process of reasoning. The average cocksure fellow relies on inference when there is no real something resembling a reasonable need to do so. He jumps at conclusions; he is impatient of investigation; his habit of mind is slipshod or do-nothing; he is fond of epigrams; it is easier for him to "argufy" than to hunt for proof. Governor of Louisiana Asked by the National Association to Act. New York, March 28. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People today sent to Governor R. G. Pleasant of Louisiana a telegram of protest against the lynching of the Negro in the Court House yard at Monroe, La., on March 16th. The association's telegram calls attention to the fact that this is the third protest which it has been compelled to make against lynchings in Louisiana within the last six weks involving altogether five Negroes lynched on three separate occasions and that no reply to the association's previous requests for information or public statement as to Louisiana's attitude toward these lynchings has been made by Governor Pleasant. Similar telegrams were sent to the Chambers of Commerce of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport and Monroe. The telegram follows: March 18, 1918. Hon. R. G. Pleasant, Governor, Baton Rouge, La. 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Does Louisiana wish the nation and her thousands of colored soldiers now serving their country in the battle for democracy to understand, that she will not protect black men accused of crime, and that mobs may visit their vengeance upon Negroes without let or hindrance by the constituted authorities of your State? What shall we inform the newspapers who receive our press service regarding Louisiana's attitude? Secretary, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Armstrong Manual Training School track team scored a victory over the track team of the Dunbar High School in the latter's armory a few days ago, by the score of 701-2 to 671-2. The meet was a close one, as the score indicates, and not until the last event was the decision possible. Armstrong was superior to Dunbar in the speed events, while Dunbar was stronger in the team events, the relay race, and the tug of war. 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COME IN AND REGISTER. DAY AND NIGHT CLASSES. MME. AGNES J. SMITH Principal. SURGICAL CHIROPODIST Special Treatment For Corns and Bunions. Will Cure All Foot Ailments. Graduate of Columbia Institute. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. M. "DIXIE HOSPITAL" NURSES GRADUATE. Hampton, Va., March 28—Frank W. Darling, president of the board of directors of the Hampton Training School for Nurses and Dixie Hospital, presented on Monday night diplomas to the following fourteen nurses who have completed the prescribed three-year course: Annie W. Keith, High Point, N. C. Elizabeth C. Pritchette, Moormans River, Va. Emily W. Hurdle, Newport News, Va. Rebecca Smith, Norfolk, Va. Dollie Fields, Frogmore, S. C. Cora Williams, Rochelle, Ill. Sarah E. Cason, Norfolk, Va. Gertrude L. Jackson, Birmingham, Ala. Sarah C. Weir, Greenwood, S. C. Celestine B. Orton, Portsmouth, Va. Coral E. Smith, Columbia, S. C. Fannie E. Doswell, Blackstone, Va. Zula S. Bonner, Ocala, Fla. Mamie E. Lewis, Mattoax, Va. Mr. Darling, who is also a trustee of Hampton Institute, declared that there is at present a great need of workers who will help on the moral side to send away an army which shall be clean and ready to win victories. Since it costs $10,000 to put a man on the firing line in France, it is important that every available man shall find a place in action. Dr. Lyman Abbott, of New York, who was the principal speaker, said to the Dixie nurses: "Go into your mission with faith and hope and love in your hearts. Go into your mission and carry into the homes into which you go the strong purpose, the warm heart, the wise; trained judgment that will help the sad through their hours of sadness and help men and women of failing faith into the light and life you have in your own hearts." RODE THREE TIMES THROUGH BARRAGE Indian Rajput at Cambrai Escapes Without Scratch in Daring Mission. Delivers Messages Which Perhaps Saved Battalion of British From Extermination—Three Horses Shot Under Him. London—Lieut. Gobind Singh has the Victoria Cross and he earned it. He is a Rajput from India and he is a brave man. Three times he dashed into what seemed almost certain death and he escaped without a scratch, although the horses were shot from under him. And furthermore he delivered messages which perhaps saved a battalion from extermination. There is no prouder Indian in Great Britain or France than Lieutenant Singh. It is nothing unusual to see a soldier salute when he passes—just out of admiration. It was at Cambral that he went through the bullet-swept areas to deliver his precious messages. The officer in command of his battalion felt it imperative to send word to the general staff, and volunteers were asked for. There was no other way to communicate. Lieutenant Singh offered his services. He mounted a horse and fared forth into No Man's Land. Five others had volunteered and been killed in the rain of machine gun bullets from the German lines, but a few hundred yards away. Singh galloped at full speed into the region of death. He is a skillful rider and his charger was experienced. A short distance away his horse fell under him. The Indian finished his trip of 600 yards afoot. The message required a reply and he volunteered to deliver it. He salled forth on another horse and with his body glued to that animal he plunged ahead with the machine gun fire again playing on him. A second time his horse was killed. He finished this journey also, on foot running as swiftly as his trained legs could carry him. His colleagues cheered him as he dropped into the friendly trench and all agreed that he led a charmed life. Makes Third Trip. But his task was not finished. His officer found that if one more message could be sent to the staff the battallion might be rescued. Singh said he would go a third time. The officers offered him his choice of horses and he selected a splendid animal, which he caressed before undertaking the last and most dangerous dash of all. The distance he had to go was a mile and a half. He covered almost half the distance and heard not a shot. But instantly a barrage started from the German guns. A British sentinel in a shell hole warned him to pause, saying no human being could get through the curtain of shell fire alive. But Singh ignored the warning. He spurred his horse to new speed. A shell struck the animal and almost tore it to pieces. Singh dropped to the ground and half crawling and half dragging himself he finished his perilous journey without receiving a bullet wound. To the astonishment of the officers who had watched with breathless excitement his plunge through the shadow of death the Indian asked if he were to make a return trip. He was told it was not necessary. A short time later, due to the order he had delivered, his battallion was rescued from a most dangerous position. BRITISH GIRLS STUDY RADIO To Be Used on-Land Stations When Efficient, Later in Coastwise Shipping. London.—English girls are taking up wireless telegraphy. The Marconi company has started a special school for training women in wireless telegraphy at its North Wales station. At present the company is taking only women of experience in Morse telegraphy, but this is only a temporary restriction. The course deals with slip reading, punching, record reading and the general duties of a wireless station. The girls will be drafted to land stations when efficient and will go on night duty in rotation. It is not proposed to extend the use of women to ships for the present, but if this is to be altered it probably will apply only to coastwise shipping. FIRM OFFERS ENTIRE OUTFIT Contractors Willing to Give Services and Complete Roadmaking Outfit to United States. Pittsburgh.—The firm of James H. McQuade & Co., a Pittsburgh contracting firm, has offered to the government the services of father and two sons, together with a complete roadmaking outfit, to be assigned to duty anywhere, at home or abroad, during the period of the war at a nominal cost of $1 a year. While the tender practically means a cessation of the contracting firm's business, James McQuade, the head of the firm, said it meant nothing more than a desire to rally round the colors in what they considered their best capacity. C. MIBSE & FRIYA "Hair-raising stunts" by student aviators may seem foolhardy to the average civilian, but the knowledge of them will save many lives in aerial battle, according to Lieut. Col. Charles E. Lee of the British Royal Flying corps, who has been startling Washington for several days with seemingly impossible feats in the air. Colonel Lee's demonstrations have done much to lessen the criticism in official Washington that student flyers have been killed because of foolhardy tricks rather than in straight flying at American training fields. "The so-called danger of flying lies not with those who do stunts in the air," says Colonel Lee, "but with those who cannot do them. Unless a pilot can turn his machine any way and every way at any time in order to maneuver for position, all the straight flying in the world will not help him when he has a fight." NEW AIRPLANE BULLET Special Cartridge Which Surpasses Any in Use. Will Pierce Armor, Flight Can Be Seen Day or Night and Is Incendiary. Washington.—The war department authorizes the following: The present war brought forth a new kind of ammunition for airplane use in the form of special cartridges containing bullets for armor-percling, tracing, and incendiary purposes. With the progress of the war the more vital parts of the airplane were protected with light armor, so that it became necessary to introduce the armor-percling bullet. As the gasoline tanks were particularly susceptible to incendiary explosion, it was necessary to procure a bullet containing an inflammable substance, ignited upon discharge, which would carry the spark of flame into the tank upon piercing it. As the target, the enemy airplane, was within fighting range for only brief moments at a time, and as there were no means of determining the fire effect as on land, a tracer bullet containing a bright-burning composition, which would indicate the path of the bullet in daylight as well as in darkness, and thereby allow the aim of the machine gun to be corrected, was introduced. The composition is set on fire upon discharge and the bullet flies through the air as a bright spark plainly visible to the machine-gun operator. At the outbreak of the war, further information was promptly gathered from the allies and this subject was studied by those responsible for this work in the United States. Of course, on account of the difficulties of the problem, none of the special bullets possessed by any country is entirely satisfactory or what might be termed "perfect" in operation. The bullets developed by the United States ordnance department have been tested on land and from airplanes to see if there is any difference in their performance when fired from a quickly moving airplane in the upper atmosphere and when fired on land. These tests indicate that the United States has developed a class of special cartridges with a performance fully equal to or surpassing that attained abroad. AUSTRIAN FOR AMERICA FIRST, LAST-ALWAYS Greensburg, Pa.—Peter Dorzuk, an Austrian shoemaker, is for America first, last and all the time. He was sent back from Camp Lee because of physical disability. Before going to camp Dorzuk invested all his savings, amounting to several thousands of dollars, in Liberty bonds. He also made a will beqdeathing "any and all properties or money or whatsoever of value I may have or possess at the time of my death to the United States government." Woman Honored by French. Gincinnati, O.Au Ohio woman, Miss Jeanne Emma Morhard, has received the badge of the Legion of Honor from the French government in recognition of her work as head of the Franco-Belgian relief fund in Cincinnati. For 23 years Miss Morhard taught French at Hughes High school. Third Blow of Flaillike Implement Puts Out U-Boat's Eye and Allied Crew Escapea. London.—When one's vessel is in danger from enemy submarines anything will do as a weapon of defense, as is shown by the story of a captain of a British trawler who used a coal shovel with good effect against a German-U-boat. The trawler, according to the story told by one of the crew, was in the North sea in a stiff breeze when the skipper saw a periscope crawl through the breaking surface of the sea about a hundred yards off. There was no gun aboard and the trawler's best speed was less than eight knots. "It was a situation to dismay most men," said the seaman. "Our skipper, however, has a fighting spirit. A touch of the wheel sent the trawler's blunt bows' pointing at the submarine's whaleback, and we wallowed menacingly toward the pirate. "The U-boat swung round to avoid the impact and the sides of the trawler scraped along the sides of the submarine. The periscope still was well out of the water but was beginning to slip down as the submarine dived. "The skipper bawled for a hammer, a crowbar, anything that would hurt. One of the crew thrust a coal shovel into his hand and he scrambled on the bulwarks and leaned over, two of the crew hanging on to his coat so that he wouldn't fall overboard. Backward and forward he swung the heavy scoop at the fragile periscope, and the third blow reduced it to fragments. "The submarine commander, hearing the noise and wondering what new and horrible device the enemy had invented, crept to his periscope to have a look, but all was black. He was blind, and the trawler got away in safety." DESERTER RETURNS TO FIGHT Saya Country Needs More Men as He Surrenders to Police at Connellsville, Pa. Connellsville, Pa.—Saying the "country needs more men," William V. Curry of Marysville, Ky., gave himself up to Police Lieutenant Thomas McDonald as a deserter from the United States Marine corps. Curry says he ran away from his division, at Newport News, Va., in August, 1916. Since the outbreak of the war with Germany he said that he has been constantly tortured, by remorse, and when he heard of the sinking of the Tuscania he could stand it no longer. "The country needs more men," he said, and I might as well be back if Uncle Sam will have me." FOOD COSTS 9 CENTS MORE Student Who Has Been Living on 23 Cents a Day Finds He Must Pay More. Greensberg, Pa.—Roy R. Mumma of Jeanette, Pa., who, while a student at Carnegie Institute of Technology has been living on 23 cents a day, has had to increase his budget. He is now living on 32 cents a day. Since he graduated from Tech last June Mumma found a job, saved $400, took unto himself a wife and has just been accepted as a private in the radiomechanics branch of the aviation service. Mumma's diet program includes bread, milk, cereals, cocoa, rice, peanut butter, fruit, eggs, meat, gelatin, oleomargarine and even ple. DIP According to an ancient German legend the fall of the house of Hohenzollern will come when the statue of "Christ on the Cross," a relic of the seventh century which stands in Kaysersburg, decays. The statue has been fastly decaying in the past few years, and since the war the authorities have been continuously repairing the damaged parts because of the effect of the destruction of the statue would have on the people familiar with the ancient legend. The Bee Entered at the Post Office at Washington, D. C., as second-class mail matter. ESTABLISHED 1880 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One year in advance.....$2.00 Six months.....1.00 Three months.....50 Subscription monthly.....20 THE ALLEY LAW. The Bee has for many months tried to keep before the public the importance and necessity of making some provision for the operation of the so-called "Alley Law," which is to go into effect July 1st next. It is gratifying to note that the matter has recently been brought to the attention of the Congress. Senator Jones of Washington has introduced two bills in the Senate designed to afford housing accommodations for alley dwellers who will be made homeless next July by the operation of the alley law enacted four years ago. One of the measures authorizes the District Commissioners to sell bonds up to an aggregate of $6,000,000, and with the proceeds construct safe and sanitary dwellings for the alley dwellers who will be affected. The bill further provides that the monthly rental of these dwellings shall not exceed one-twelfth of one per cent of the construction cost. It further provides that the Commissioners may expend not more than $2,000,000 in any one year. The Commissioners are vested with wide discretionary powers in establishing regulations for the construction and rental of the proposed dwellings. The second alternative measure introduced by Senator Jones provides for a similar $6,000,000 bond issue, but vests authority to provide the dwellings in the Commissioner of Labor. It is understood that these measures were introduced at the request of a group of social welfare workers, presumably the Emergency Housing Association, of which Rev. J. Milton Waldron is president. The supporters of the proposed legislation urge that the added population of Washington makes more imperative than previously the strict enforcement of the alley law passed four years ago. They point out the present unfavorable health and vital statistics of the National Capital. In introducing the bill Senator Jones expressed the opinion that Congress will stand pat on the law enacted four years ago. The persons active in this movement, including Senator Jones, are entitled to the thanks of this community and of the nation. INACTION Some time ago we called attention to the fact that the District Surveyor, Mr. Melven C. Hazen; made a report to the District Commissioners relative to the enforcement or non-enforcement of the alley law due to go into effect next July. It involved some form of prohibition for delay in the enforcement of the law, to which we objected at the time, but otherwise embodied some constructive provisions worthy of attention. We have been unable to ascertain whether the Commissioners have given any consideration to the question at all. According to the Evening Star, they are no nearer to a solution of this problem "than they were many months ago, when this serious problem began to press for attention." It is a reasonable supposition that the Commissioners, an unusu- ally able and enlightened trio, have been delayed by the special difficulties of the situation, and that they have had no intention to ignore such an important responsibility of office. We trust that they have not been lulled into delay by the ingenious arguments of the Real Estate Brokers' Association, the Chamber of Commerce and the Board of Trade. These bodies, representative of local financial interests, have not in the whole four years that the alley law has been on the statute books taken a single step to make the law a success, but after waiting until near the time for its enforcement, advance specious reasons why the law should be materially modified or its enforcement indefinitely postponed. It is sincerely to be hoped that when the bills recently introduced by Senator Jones come before the Commissioners for consideration and recommendation, they will take an attitude in keeping with the most enlightened local and national sentiment on this question. It is not a race question, but a question of sanitation, public health and general social betterment. WHY TREAT US THUS? What have our faithful allies of color done that they should be treated thus? What does the Constitution of the United States mean? Is it a Constitution whose articles and amendments apply to the white citizens alone? The outrages that have been inflicted upon colored citizens have been borne with the patience of Job. When he is called to duty nothing deters him. Is it treason to appeal to a Government to protect him from mob violence? Is it treason to tell your Government that the colored man insists on recognition according to merit? The French Government has always recognized merit in her citizens and those who are friendly and loyal to a great cause. Why treat us thus? That is the question that is uppermost in the minds of colored Americans. TO AID DEPENDENTS OF COLORED SOLDIERS Speakers Make Appeal at Big Patriotic Meeting—Secretary Tyler Pushes Plan for Two Million Dollar Relief Fund—Past and Future. Baltimore, Md., March 27—The loyalty of the Negroes of the country to the Stars and Stripes was heartily reaffirmed at a monster patriotic meeting last Wednesday evening at the Bethel A. M. E. Church. Emphatic urgency was also given to the movement to aid financially the dependents of colored soldiers either killed or injured in fighting for world democracy on the fields of France. The meeting was held under the auspices of the National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee, which is fostering a nation-wide campaign to raise a fund of $2,000,000 to assist in providing for the wives, children or other dependents of the boys at the front. The speakers were Judge Robert H. Terrell of the Municipal Court of the District of Columbia; Bishop I. N. Ross of the A. M. E. Church, and Lawyer Armond W. Scott, Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks. Ralph W. Tyler, former Auditor for the Navy Department and the prime mover in the work of the National Colored Soldier. Comfort Committee, presided. Secretary Tyler Outlines Plans of Committee. In opening the exercises of the evening, following an invocation by Rev. W. H. Weaver, and the singing of "My Country 'Tig of Thee" by a section of the choir of Bethel Church, Mr. Tyler gave a clean-cut statement of the plans of the Comfort Committee and how it purposed to raise among the people of the nation the $2,000,000 to aid the families of the colored soldiers. Other races and other distinct units of the American people were doing their bit toward such causes, and he thought the Negro would be derelict in his duty if he failed to do something definitely for his own blood and kindred. The loyalty of the race had been shown in a positive and unquestionable fashion by the donning of the khaki, by subscribing to Liberty Bonds, War Savings Stamps and Red Cross funds, but there is a special work to be done for colored soldiers that could not be done so well by movements of a general character. For this reason the National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee came into being. He told of the appeals for aid that had come to the committee in Washington and gave instances of relief that had already been extended to bereft widows and helpless children. He mentioned a number of cities that had responded generously to the call for help and of organizations that had sent in liberal contributions. He lauded the unselfish labors of Prof. Kelly Miller, Hon. J. C. Napier and others identified with the management of the committee, and stated that all were working without compensation of any kind, save the approval of their conscience. Noted Speakers Join in Appeal for Aid. Judge Terrell reviewed the services of the race in all of the wars of the republic, and asserted that the Negro race had never made a deeper impression upon the country than now. He believed consecrated loyalty to the ration in its hour of need would be rewarded by better conditions for all in the future. All of the problems of the race would not be solved, but the new day would be much brighter than the old by reason of the manhood and good citizenship displayed by us during this world's crisis. Lawyer Scott spoke in a similar vein of optimism and pointed out that the Negro should be anxious to help the colored soldiers, for our race does not make as much money as those of other races, and hence the dependents of colored men called away to war stand in greater need of financial assistance, and this should be promptly and cheerfully extended. He told of the heroism of the black soldier from Bunker Hill to Carrigal, and was confident that a black hero would develop in the tragic military drama now being staged on the soil of France. Bishop Ross, a "near-Baltimorean," woke the echoes with a stirring message of hope drawn from the history of the race in war and in peace, and now that our loyalty to the flag had been fully demonstrated, it is our duty to show our loyalty to our own people—to aid the loved ones lefebehind by the gallant battlers for freedom. These valiant warriors are not only fighting to make Europe and the isles of the sea safe for democracy, but also that a true democracy may be instilled into certain elements in Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, Georgia and elsewhere in the United States. Dr. W. Sampson Brooks, pastor of Bethel Church, coming in late from another engagement, bade the visitors welcome and gave the cause his heartiest endorsement. The collection, supervised by Judge Terrell, assisted by R. W. Thompson and John T. Howe, of Washington, netted about $50. It is understood that similar meetings will be held in the various churches of Baltimore, Washington and nearby cities. A notable feature of the meeting was the singing of Dr. Peter J. Smith's significant, paraphrase of Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic," adapted especially as a campaign "key" for the National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee. The patriotic fervor of the race in Baltimore and its sympathetic interest in the deendents of the colored soldiers at the front have each received a distinct impetus by reason of this great meeting at Bethel Church. MAN AT A GLANCE This modern age and its revolutions, seems to victimize man, psychologically, and instinctively, reducing him to a peculiar consistency of conceived propaganda and deceitfulness—a selfish, one-sided observer, with an inexplicable aspiration. He thinks only of the things that tend to play to his personal advantage, and sees many of his "own" faults in others. He condemns his fellowman for the identical acts that he "himself" is not innocent of. He speaks disfavorably of his fellowman, "to close friends and near neighbors," not thinking (at the same time) of the many faults seen in himself by his friends and neighbors. He speaks disfavorably of his fellowman, without thinking of how he may be 'snubbed, or ill-spoken of by others—where others may assume or possess the shortness or the prejudice-audacity to improperly insinuate or carelessly express themselves "disfavorably to others." It is impossible to convict a man for thinking, so long as he doesn't think loud. The best policy is to speak well of your fellowman, if you speak at all. In this modern time "apparently" man is subject to the big I and little you disease "in the head." With this disease and idea' of course, he thinks and sees nothing except himself. He thinks of himself as the great I Am and sees himself as no one else does. Apparently the contact of the rough and rugged world forces man to do many things against his will "in self-defense"; others blindly ape after their superiors for self-aggrandizement; then there are still others who are helplessly lured by the lust of worldly gain. Down in the human heart, Crushed by the tempter, Feeling lies buried that grace will restore. In this modern age one man may be convicted and condemned for an act, while another may be acquitted and exonerated on the same charge. Seemingly every man thinks it is the other folks' place to work for the promotion of human happiness. Man in the higher-up (worldly) circle often demonstrates his shortness, shallowness and ill-breeding by ignoring the ordinary wishes, reasonable desires, and honest requests of his less fortunate fellowman. After all, this modern age is a leadpipe cinch for some men; luck—see? Some men buy friends, at the cost of others, and reap lust at the same cost. The proverb, motto or command—Do unto others as you would they should do unto you—is indeed a great one, a good one, very good, but, to our sorrow, "in this modern age," farce outclasses reality to such an unlimited extreme, and the command is so frequently transgressed by simulation, that it has "apparently" been reduced to a mere supposition. Nothwithstanding "this," our country, known as a Gospel country and Bible land, this proverb is preached throughout the land; but practiced—about in spots. Yes, in this modern age, some men are exceptionally fortunate and lucky. Seemingly fate frowns on some men and smiles on others; some men get the wool over the eye of the public and are graciously lauded for their ability in displaying force; while others who battle honestly, with the pigfron side of life and live by the sweat of the brow are only known by the public when they err. The false expression of the attitude of some men often misleads one to believe that he is better than his advocates, but you are apt to find this caliber of man of great talk and small deeds—nice talk and nothing to it. Since every succeeding age helps to unfold the mighty plan, the results of the present crisis may be the bringing forth of the grand idea of humanity of the importance of man as man. The results of the present crisis may be the presentation of the great doctrine, that every human being shall have the means of self-culture, of progress, knowledge and virtue, of health, comfort and happiness, of exercising the rights and powers of man. The results of the present crisis may be the bearing of verification; that no human being shall perish but through his own fault; or that the great end of humanity will spread a shield over the rights of all. This modern age, inspired by the present crisis, makes life a great voyage for the sons of Adam. William C. Jordan, Cheltenham, Md. N. B.—Watch for sidelights on man. NINETEENTH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. The Easter services at the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church were largely attended last Sabbath. The pulpit was beautifully decorated with palms and cut flowers. Rev. Brooks preached an eloquent sermon on "The Resurrection." His text was from Mark 16:6. At the evening service the choir of the church, under the directorship of Prof. Smith, rendered a most excellent song service to a crowded and appreciative audience. The third Sunday in April (the 21st) will be grand rally day, at which time the trustees will endeavor to secure $2,500. The membership has been very faithful in the past, and it is expected they will do their whole duty in the future. JACKSON AND SIMMONS. (Waxachie, Texas.) The Meddler unqualifiedly approves the Washington (D. C.). Bee's appraisement of Rosco Simmons and Giles Jackson as evidenced by leaders in its issue of the 23rd inst. But he not scandalized, Dear Brother Chase, if Negroes who tally up most nearly to the "race inferiority" dictum curry more favor with white men than the other kind. It will be discreet gambling to play Giles as if known to have up his sleeve all that he says he has.—The Meddler Statement of the ownership, management, circulation, etc., required by the Act of Congress of August 12, 1912, of the Washington Bee, published weekly at Washington, D.C., for April, 1918: District of Columbia, County of Washington, ss: Before me, a notary public in and for the State and county aforesaid, personally appeared William Calvin Chase, who having been duty sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the editor, publisher, business manager and owner of the Washington Bee, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management, etc., of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in Section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 4. That the two paragraphs next above, giving the names of the owners, stockholders, and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company, but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees, hold stock and securities in a capacity other than that of a bona-fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association or corporation has any interest direct or indirect in the said stock, bonds or other securities than as so stated by him. 5. That the average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date shown above, is _____. (This information is required from daily publications only.) William Calvin Chase. Sworn to and subscribed before me this first day of April, 1918. Jno. T. C. Newsom, (Seal.) Notary Public. My commission expires May 29, 1918. DEATHS. The funeral of John Frazier, 3051 Thirteenth Street, took place from his late residence, and also the funeral of Miss Uaomi Shorter, from her residence, 1930 Twelfth Street N.W.. Mrs. Mary Ferguson, of 1207 Twenty-fifth Street N.W., was buried from the chapel of Frazier & Bundy. The three funerals were conducted by Messrs. Frazier & Bundy, the well-known funeral directors. John A. Simms Dead. John A. Simms, one of the oldest residents in this city, died Sunday, March 31st ulto., at 10.20 a. m., and was buried from the Metropolitan Church Thursday at 1 p. m. The Odd Fellows' Veteran Association and John F. Cook Lodge of Odd Fellows attended the services. * * * Mrs. Mary E. Overton was buried from the Metropolitan A. M. E. Zion Church Wednesday at 2 p. m. She was the wife of George B. Overton. Rev. John W. Pope, husband of Mrs. Pocahontas Pope, died at his late residence, 1500 I Street N.W., on Saturday, March 30th, at 5.30 p. m., and was buried from the Second Baptist Church at 1 o'clock Wednesday. Rev. J. S. Holloman officiated. IN MEMORIAM. IN MEMORIAM McLane—Sacred to the memory of our dear husband and father, Wm, R. McLane, Sr., who died six years ago tomorrow, March 31, 1912. A faithful husband, both loving and kind; A better father no one could find. By His Devoted Wife and Children. Expert Oculists and a Firm That Knows No Color Prejudice-All The Block Optical-Company, at 737 Seventh Street N.W., is one of the best known firms in the city. Dr. Block is an expert oculist and a man who treats everybody alike. If you want eyeglasses to give you satisfaction, go to Dr. Block and have your eyes examined and have him to fit 1930 them with first-class glasses. There is no extra charge for examination. If you want to be waited on by a polished gentleman and an expert who knows no color prejudice, The Bee recommends you to this well-known oculist. When you call, just mention The Bee and ask for what you want, and he will do the rest. His reputation in Baltimore, Md., was made by his treatment of colored citizens. Call and see him and be convinced. 737 Seventh Street N.W. TAYLOR'S You Street at Eleventh. Can't you give Taylor's Jewelry Store a boost? Why we do the jewelry business of this section is because we put quality above prices so far that it becomes an economic consideration. Examine jewelry elsewhere and you will find no comparison in quality and prices, and we mean there never shall be any to overshadow them. Special prices in ```markdown ``` Diamonds, 35 points pure white Studs or Rings, $15; 75 points Pure White Absolutely Perfect Diamond Rings, $100; Genuine Pure White threestone Diamond Lavalliers, $25; and three-stone Gypsy Mounting Diamond Rings, $26; Gold Bar Pins, 79c.; Watch Fobs, 79c.; Masonic, Odd Fellows and Elks Buttons, 69c.; Sterling Silver After Dinner Rings, 43c.; Sterling Toilet Articles for the Dressing Table, 49c.; Comb, Brush and Mirror Sets, quadruple silver, or ivory, $8; Vanity Bags, sterling, $9; Cigarette Cases, $5.50; Solid Gold Thin-Model Elgin Watches, $22.50; Ten-Year Gold-Filled Watches, $5.50. While my assortment is not only cheaper, it is absolutely exclusive in character and quality. HARRY A. BROWN. Do you want fresh meats of all kinds? Do you want a first-class meat dispenser? Harry A. Brown, who is an expert in the meat business, has just what you want. If you want to deal with a fair man, call at Stands 38 and 39, O Street Market. TAKE NOTICE. All church notices and notices of meetings that are to be held, for rent of rooms, and want notices are chargeable at the rate of one cent per word. All marriage announcements not to exceed twelve lines, $1, and all over twelve lines, one cent per word. Don't send any notice for publication unless the cash accompanies the same. O Street Market, Seventh & O Sts. Finest fresh and salt-meats, Loefler's sausages, lamb, veal, pork, and everything in the line of meats, will be found at this stand. Lunch rooms, societies, eating and other establishments should call before purchasing elsewhere. Mention The Bee. --- the Week in Society DR. BOARD. Confidence is the best paying asset to any business. Confidence to hold must be built on good deeds, not claims. That is the whole secret of business success. Your patrons must have confidence in the purity and quality of your wares—confidence in the honesty of your prices. Whether it be a linament, a prescription or soda water, be sure it is bona-fide, pure, full-strength—the best—and that the customer is getting in worth the full value of his money. That is the policy that has brought success to BOARD'S DRUG STORE, 1912% Fourteenth Street N.W., the place where everybody meets everybody else for quality, service and satisfaction. Mr. Cornelius Burkley, uncle of Mrs. Fannie Lewis, is quite ill, under the care of Dr. W. E. Lewis. * * * Rev. W. W. Edwards, financial agent of the National Training School of Durham, N. C., was in the city last week. He left Monday evening for the East. * * * Dr. James E. Shepard, of Durham, N. C., passed through the city. Monday en route for the East. Mrs. Mary Jones, wife of Attorney Thomas L. Jones, who has been suffering with an attack of rheumatism, is improving. Prof. and Mrs. Hawkins, of Baltimore, Md., were the guests of their mother, Mrs. Fanny Gregory, the widow of the late James M. Gregory. Editor W. Calvin Chase attended the band concert at Camp Meade last Sunday. Hundreds of citizens from this city were present. Rev. C. H. Stepteau, of Baltimore, formerly pastor of the Metropolitan M. E. Church, was in the city this week. Rev. C. M. Tanner, D. D., pastor of Metropolitan M. E. Church, received an ovation last Sabbath. The anniversary exercises were largely attended. He is doing great work and his congregation is supporting him. SOCIAL CHIT CHAT. Corporal Otis Allen, National Guard of the District, stationed at Newport News, Va., visited relatives and friends here last week. * * * Several female employees of the G. P. O. have received permanent appointmenes. * * * Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, who met with a painful accident recently, is now convalescent and will be pleased to see his many friends at his parents' residence, 1756 Oregon Avenue N.W., on and after April 15th. * * * Mr. L. N. B., of the Naval Reserve Force, was seen out with his intended last Sunday. Mr. Earl H. Ross, of the Delivery Section, G. P. O., is making a fine record. * * * Mr. Thomas L. Wynne, G. P. O., has entered the Naval Reserve Force. * * * Dr. and Mrs. B. F. Browne, of Baltimore, and their little son, Benjamin, Jr., are visiting relatives and friends here. * * * Rev. John W. Pope, of the Press Division, an employee of the G. P. O. for sixteen years, died last Saturday afternoon. The funeral of Miss Katie M. Diggs was held Sunday morning, April 1st, from the chapel of Joe D. Bailey, Third and K Streets N.W. The body was shipped to Tye River, Va., for interment. * * * William Davis, of this city, was visiting in Baltimore Sunday of last week. * * * Mr. Charles Scott, U. S. A., and wife, of Philadelphia, are visiting in this city. * * * Miss Ethel Ewing was to have spent Easter in Atlantic City, but owing to a little mishap she was unable to do so. * * * Hon. John C. Dancy delivered two patriotic speeches at Camp Meade last week. * * * Miss. Nannie Burroughs spoke at the Fifth Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky., Easter Monday night, and will be the guest of Mrs. C. H. Parrish while there. * * * Rev. James E. Mason is in the city. TOWN TOPICS Miss Estella Coffey, the well-known modiste and fashion designer, was married Tuesday evening to Mr. Fred Carr, of Boston, Mass. * * * Mr. Arlington B. Chaney, of Brooklyn, N. Y., and Fall River, Mass., came down to spend the Eastertide with his family. The War Department has invited a number of colored orators to serve as members of the speakers' committee, to deliver addresses, write articles and otherwise stimulating the patriotism of the Negro people. They will speak directly and plainly on the issues of the day and enlighten in their own way the masses of the race on the war aims of the Government. "The Loyalty of a Race" is being filmed this week by Messrs. Hamburg and Miller, representing a national movie syndicate, and the work is progressing satisfactorily under the supervision of Mr. Ralph W. Tyler, secretary of the National Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee. The goal sought by the committee is to raise a $2,000,000 fund for the relief of the dependents of the colored soldiers in the national army, and it is expected that this elaborate picturization of the valor, loyalty and achievement of the Negro race will be instrumental in bringing in a large portion of this amount. The picture will be presented at the Washington theatres at an early date and will then go to the country for a run. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Scott Turner, Jr., spent Easter Monday with friends in Baltimore. *** Miss Henrietta Vinton. Davis, the popular elocutionist and lecturer, is continuing her successful series of queens' pageants in Pittsburgh, and is giving dramatic recitals and travelogues in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The press of both races teem with praise of Miss Davis' work and testify warmly to its cultural value to all classes of people. She is doing the most brilliant work of her career. Mr. John Reddick, a performer and manager of experience, is to join the Dudley forces in this city. He scored big successes in Detroit during his sojourn there. *** The Chelsea and Dunbar theatres—both good stands for the right men—are "dark." *** Charles Anderson, the yodler and double-voiced singer and impersonator, has been putting in two good weeks here at the Mid-City and Foraker theatres. He now goes to Virginia to make the rounds of the Dudley circuit. Emmett J. Scott, special assistant to the Secretary of War, is at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, this week, attending, the exercises commemorative of founder's day. April 5th, set apart as founder's day, is the anniversary of the birth of the late Booker T. Washington. WEST WASHINGTON Miss Sadie Creeke, who has been sick with la grippe, is able to be up and out again. 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. *** Corporal Lawrence Hawkins, of Camp Meade, visited Washington on Sunday to attend the Easter services at Mt. Zion M. E. Church. * * * Miss Anna Contee has an excellent record at the Bureau of Engraving. * * * The St. Augustine's Convention Club was reorganized last Friday evening. The following officers were elected: Miss I. M. Smackum, president; E. Smackum, secretary; Mrs. M. E. Dent, treasurer, and Mrs. K. V. Brown, chaplain. Thus far this club has been a great success. Question: What will Miss G. T. S. do when Mr. F. B. P. joins the Naval Reserves? ALFRED F. FOLEY. There is a file clerk in the file room of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by the name of Alfred F. Foley. There are thousands of files in his room and millions of cases and there is no case filed that cannot readily be reached by this well-known and competent man. Not only is he a file clerk, but he is a man that does three or four clerks' work. He is an invaluable acquisition to this branch of the court. He is polite and at no time is he too busy, or too tired to give satisfaction to the lawyers and judges who may call for cases. He certainly ought to be rewarded. "BEE" VISITORS Dr. E. C. Morris, president of the National Baptist Association, and Dr. W. H. Jernagin. * * * Examining Board of Bishops of the Baltimore Annual Conference, Drs. C. H. Stepteau, J. W. Norris, R. E. Ford and P. W. Wortham. * * * Dr. J. E. Mason, of Livingston College. HIS BIRTHDAY. On Saturday, March 23d inst., a birthday surprise party was given Mr. Elwood G. Hubert by his wife, Mrs. Vernetta M., at their residence, 922 Seventeenth Street N.W. The house was beautifully decorated and a large host of relatives and friends from Philadelphia, Germantown, Pa., and Wilmington, Del., were present to complete the surprise. Those present were Mrs. Ruth A. Carmichael, his sister; Mr. Raymond F. Hubert, deputy of the State of Delaware, American Protestants; Mr. John L. Hubert, Grand Master F. A. A. M. of the State of Delaware, his brothers; Mrs. John L. Hubert, Wilmington, Del.; Miss Neonta Jones, Wilmington, Del.; Mr. and Mrs. John Chipping, Mrs. Julia Green, Wilmington, Del.; Miss Nettie Mornish, Mrs. John Newman and Mr. Robert Wilson, Wilmington, Del.; Mrs. Florence Wright and Mrs. Mary Cannon, of Philadelphia, Pa., and Miss Katherine Hubert, Germantown, Pa. Washington friends present were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dorsey, Mr. and Mrs. E. Simmons, Mrs. C. Watts, Mr. Paul Simmons and many others. IRIS CIRCLE. Mr. Charles A. Reeder entertained the ladies of the Iris Sewing Circle and their escorts at a supper dansante at 909 R Street Tuesday, April 2d. The guests included the Misses Breda Bustele, Mrs. Florence Brown, Miss Gertrude Carroll, Miss Maude Wilkerson, Miss Beatrice Wilkerson, Miss Emma Tate, Miss Mabel Sayles, Miss Beulah Roland, Miss Mayme Thomas and Miss Rose Brooks, Messrs. Paul A. Simmons, Robert Ford, Arm. R. Darr, Jr., Cuntheel Sayles, W. H. L. Logwood, C. C. Powell and Joseph Blunt. LOCAL BRIEFS. Mr. Joseph S. Jones, confidential messenger to Commissioner Louis Brownlow, has been promoted to a clerkship. Colonel Brownlow will reward merit wherever found. * * * Mrs. Lightfoot and her baby are visiting Washington. Dr. James E. Mason, of Rochester, N. Y., will address Bethel Literary next Tuesday evening in the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church. His subject will be "Dr. J. C. Price and His .Howard Theatre. Entire Week Starting Monday, April 8th. Mat. Sat. 2:30 P. M. THE PARAGON FILM Inc. THE WHIP Direct from New York City. Great Racing Scenes, Wonderful Hunting Scenes, the Best-Train Wreck and the Nost Thrilling Automobile Accident ever seen in motion pictures. Night Prices: 15c, 25c Mat. all seats 15c Next Week—"The Master Mind" with Clarence Muse and all Star Cast will have charge of our sheet music department from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily begining the first week of April. A big bunch of the latest musical hits await you. A colored store, colored clerks too. Go where you are accepted and buy. J.M. Miller. New Manager April 23—Medico-Chirurgical Society, Dr. U. L. Houston, president. MISS EVA HARVEY MARRIED. Mrs. Fannie Ware Taylor announced the marriage of Miss Eva Hortense Harvey to Mr. William Isaac Blake, which took place Saturday, March 30th. Mr. and Mrs. Blake are "at home" after April 6th at 717 S Street N.W. ANNULLMENT OF MARRIAGE Mr. Evans E. Murray has filed in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia his petition for the annulment of his marriage, alleging infancy and his failure of the ratification of the same upon reaching his twenty-first birthday. He is represented by Attorney Perri W. Frisby. OUR PLAYGROUNDS. The Georgetown public playgrounds, under Miss Minnie Price, continue to improve. * * * The Willow Tree. Alley playgrounds, under Miss Ollie Kibble, had two hundred on the list Saturday. A skating carnival is in preparation at this popular ground. * * * Mrs. Underdown is doing well at the Howard playgrounds. COLORED TROOPS IN FRANCE. N. Marcell Kanecht of the French Army, has agreed to deliver an address before the colored citizens of Washington on the heroic efforts of the colored troops of France in the near future. Watch The Bee for day and date. MR. DONALDSON. Mr. Donaldson, one of the most competent and energetic young men under Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, the director of the public playgrounds, will resign, it is said. The Bee hopes that the rumor is not true. No young man is more popular and better liked by the authorities than Mr. Donaldson. The colored playgrounds have never been in a better working condition than they are now. The Greatest Florist in the Country. The Man Who Knows No Color Prejudice. Mr. Frank H. Kramer, 916 F Street N.W.; is considered today as the greatest florist in the United States. 7th and Tea St. N. W. Andrew J. Thomas Theatre Co. Prop's g Monday, April 8th. THE PARAGON FILM Inc. Monday, April 8th. Mat. Sat. THE PARAGON FILM Inc. Presents The World's Biggest Motion Picture THE WHITE Great Racing Scenes, Wonderful Hunt Thrilling Automobile Accident ever seen 15c, 25c Mat The Master Mind" with Clarence Muse Study! Our Spoil Baily, Pianist-Demonstrator of our sheet music department by begining the first week at musical hits await you Go where you are acco J. M. Miller, New Manag rop.) FORAKER T Twentieth Street Between L RAYMOND H. MU HIGH-CLASS VAUDI and NEW MOTION PR First Class in Every Particul WHIF Wonderful Hunting Scene ident ever seen in motion Mat. all se Clarence Muse and all Stars ur Spring -Demonstrator usic department f first week of A wait you. A c are accepted an w Manager FORAKER THEATRE reet Between L and M Street MOND H. MURRAY, Man CLASS VAUDEVILLE W and MOTION PICTURES DAY Every Particular. Come E Twentieth Street Between L and M Streets Northwest RAYMOND H. MURRAY, Manager HIGH-CLASS VAUDEVILLE WEEKLY and NEW MOTION PICTURES DAILY First Class in Every Particular. Come Early for Seats HIAWATHA THEATRE 1906 Eleventh Street N. W. This Theatre is close to two lines of If you want an evening of pleasure—c W. Raymo to two lines of cars. The bu of pleasure—come to the H 1906 Eleventh Street N. W. Raymond H. Murray, Manager This Theatre is close to two lines of cars. The best pictures shown daily. If you want an evening of pleasure—come to the Hiawatha. He grows his own flowers, and they are unsurpassed. Mr. Kramer has served some of the best known citizens in the United States with flowers from his own garden. His famous Beatrice flower is one that has made him famous. He employs colored help, and many of them he has placed in responsible positions. The colored citizens who continue to patronize him have the most implicit confidence in his honesty and integrity, and he extends to them his greeting and an invitation to call and inspect his greatest collection of flowers. If you are looking for flowers and all kinds of wedding; party and funeral designs, call at 916 F Street N.W. F. H. Kramer. Mention The Bee. ACTOR SIMMONS. For the second time Roscoe Simmons delivered the same talk in this city. As an entertainer he is very good, for he succeeds in keeping the audience wrap in laughter during his entire performance. He reminds one of a clever actor who has committed his part well, and when the audience fails to respond to that which has amused other audiences, he performs a clever bit of pantomime, MEMBER FOOD AMENDMENT MENBER WOOD WISTORY IT'S ONLY TWO JUNES EACH WEEK MEMBER FOOD AMERICA IT'S ONLY TWO DAYS EACH WEEK THIS IS A WHEATLESS DAY PUZZLE-FIND THE SLACKER. Phone Norta 2367 1911 NINTH STREET, N. W ER THEATRE In L and M Streets Northwest MURRAY, Manager BUDEVILLE WEEKLY and PICTURES DAILY ticular. Come Early for Seats HA THEATRE Raymond H. Murray, Manager of cars. The best pictures shown daily. come to the Hiawatha. as if inwardly "chuckling" that would do a Vaudette comedian great credit. His reference to "My People" is assumed as though he was a leader of the calibre of the late Booker T. Washington type. In these days, the man that would lead any people must be more than a play actor. He must rather be a man that has succeeded in some field of endeavor, and we are unable to find any constructiveness ever performed by this self-styled leader of the race and excellent press agent. Of course, he says many good things. So do some of the boys around the barber shops and pool halls; some can easily surpass him.—Detroit (Mich.) Leader. GRAVES. Do you want a first-class lunch? Do you want a fine dinner? Do you want a good breakfast? Do you want everything good that is in the market? If you do, go to Joseph S. Graves, 16 G Street N.W., where you will receive first-class service. Go and be convinced. TRIANGLE PRINTING CO. If you want first-class printing done, call at 1109 Eye Street N.W. Triangle Printing Company. IT'S ONLY TWO DAYS EACH WEEK GRAVES. NOW MOSE, YOU WELL WOT ITOLD YOU AND WE'LL GET THE COP TO PLAY ROSCOE FOR US YEUM THE GREAT AND ONLY ROSCOE "EATS 'EM ALIVE" EVERY DAY FROM TWO TO SIX DAYS WHAT ILL DO ILL CALL HIM UP ON DE MAGGIPHONE STOP THIEF STOP THIEF DON'T SHOOT THERE IT IS DROR IT OR I'LL SHOOT STEP RIGHT UP GENTS AND SEE THE ONLY ROSCOE HE EATS 'EM ALIVE I WONDER WHAT HE'S STOLEM I BET HE HOLLERS FOR SAINT PATRICK THEY'RE AS TAME AS KITTEN MOSE BUT HE DON'T KNOW IT DITE THE HEAD OFF ROSCOE ROSCOE IS GIBBIN A PUBLIC EXHIBITION AN RELYS ON DE GENEROSITY OF DE PEOPLE While I was standing in line at the Howard Theatre last Saturday night, I watched the face of that little lady ticket seller Andy Thomas has hired for abou: steen dollars per week. Her face was always wreathed in a smile that looked just as real as a bottle of Anheuser Busch alongside of a bottle of Morlo. And she was handing out the pasteboards to all kinds of curious compounds. Some of 'em hove in sight with a grouch as big as one of Milan's when he's caught trying to pilfer second. Some of 'em hung around trying to make her give 'em seat one in row A for Sunday's supper show when it had been sold a week ago. Some of 'em tried to make her sell them Col. Arthur Brook's seat that he has had reserved ever since Andy camouflaged those Baltimore Hebrews into letting him have the Howard all by his lonesome. Some of 'em tried to make her believe she had slim-flammed them out of the proper change. Some of 'em tried the masher's stunt on her, handing her goooo eyes from beneath a baboon-like brow, and all that stuff. Some of 'em when they struck the ticket window had an odor on them like the attar of roses, and some had an odor like a combination of over-ripe chitterlings and limber cheese. To all she had the same smile, the same pleasant reply, all the time keeping her temper—if she has any—hidden somewhere in the recesses of her lingerie. As I watched her I thought that while they are handing out Carnegie hero medals and Spingarn prize badges, hire is one little piece of unadulterated femininity that ought to have both, and then one or two crosses of the Legion of Honor besides; for if anybody can wait on that bunch of Hooverized dudes and spearmint chickens and old rues and deteriorated bachelors with a three-week old grouch, and keep on smiling, they deserve all the hero medals that were ever designed. Believe me, half the charm, delight and pleasure of going to Howard Theatre is just to watch that bundle of good nature and assemblage of smiles that Andy Thomas has hired to hand out the pasteboards to a heterogenius set of fumigated, unfumigated and herbiferous variegated bodies that call regularly for tickets at Howard. She is just some wonder, and Andy couldn't duplicate her this side of Paradise. Old Xenophon, once upon a time, some years before Jesse Foster started in to "dying to live," said that "a woman that can smile through tears, and smile at work, and smile always and ever, is a flower that will never fade." Old mumified Xenophon must have bought tickets from the woman of whom the ticket seller at Howard Theatre is the reincarnation to have been inspired to get off that bit of philosophy. I was standing on the corner of Ninth and R Streets Monday morning looking at my Waterbury and trying to figure out how much earlier I would have to get up to keep going with my watch, now that it has to be turned up a hour, when two good sisters got off a car with a basket of laundry as much as the De Sales Hand Laundry washes in a whole week. They toated it to the curb, then stopped to rest. While they were resting a dandy groomed "cullud" minister, in a toppy auto, breaking the speed limit, sailed by. the speed limit. "Ain't that that yo pastah?" said one of 'em to the other. "Bless de Lawd," said the tother, "sho tis." "Well, you helped to buy dat speedometer he dun spun by in, didn't you?" the first ejaculated: "Sho I did, an' I'm mouty proud of it." "Well, all I got to say is, you doan catch me washin' of white folks rags from Monday to Saturday for to buy dem der artermobuls for no kind of minister 'no time." The lady what was proud she had helped to buy the speedometer, catching the first symptoms of the meaning of her sister, had her face drafted over with about a million question marks, but said nothing. Now, I'm going to ease one over to my brother ministers, my "pastah" as well as youn, and tis this: As long as the sisters in your churches are buying them there "artermobuls" for you, by washin' in the tub from 6 a.m. Monday to 12 p.m. Saturday, ain't no more than proper when you whizz by one of them toutin' a big basket of unlaundered clothes, to hesitate—stop—and pile both her and the clothes in your wash-bought choo-choo car and take her to the little alley home where she does "plain washin' an' ironin'" for to "help buy your artermobul." You know, gentlemen of the cloth, one good turn deserves another, and these "foolish virgins" what dig in the wash tub and stand at the ironing table—stand cause they done been vaccinated on what they sit down on—all week to buy your coal, pay your house rent, feed your family, and throw an extra automobile in now and then, are just the salt of the earth, and you had better not kill the goose that lays the golden egg. If I was a minister, and I ain't, I wouldn't let the washin' and ironin' sisters of OUTFIT CONSIST OF ONE DURHAM DUPLEX DOMINO RAZOR WITH WHITE AMERICAN IVORY HANDLE SAFETY GUARD DRAWL 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. my church buy me any auto 'ceptin' a second-hand Ford, if that, 'cause with all this socialism spreadin' through Russia and Germany there ain't no telling when the washin' and ironin' sisters will just naturally get inoculated with it, and vote to make movie picture theatres out of their churches, and when the women quit the churches, it's good-night and fare-the-well, for most of the male members took a vacation from their churches long ago. Brother ministers what ride about in "artermobuls" take my advice, and when you shoot by some of your sisters carrying a big basket of laundry, stop and make a taxi or truck out of the fliver they bought you, and you will be returning good for evil. As Lafe Hershaw would say, with a sort of hesitation waltz in his start-off enunciation: "There's a lot of logic in that reasoning." Speaking about Lafe Hershaw reminds me that I've often wondered why a fellow with oodles of brain like he's got continues to hang on the rim of this Wilsonized berg. Hershaw has got more gray matter hid away under his No. 71-8 hatband than most department and bureau heads around this vale of tears have in their noodles. And he's got just about enough pugnaciousness to make good, even at his present age, anywhere this side of Ukraine or Katchina, where his ancestors came from. He's got enough affableness secreted underneath his epidermis to make a jolly good fellow even among the unconversational Esquimaux. Why, with his mixing abilities, and his information, and brain, had he happened in Russia about the time that Trotsky undertook to do the leader stunt, he, Hershaw, would have shoved that guy who waited table in little old New York only a few months before off the earth, and everything in Russia would now be like a summer's dream, hypnotized with success. You've got to hand it to Lafe Hershaw, he's got the stuff in him out of which they make real unevaporated statesmen. If he had gone to New York or Chicago when they handed him a certificate testifying to the fact that he roamed aim lessly over Howard University's campus long enough to be registered as an alumnus of that educational factory, he would today be a big corporation lawyer with oodles of money to match his oodles of brain. Now that Washington is dry—just as dry as the interior department of Sahara—I can't figure out what there is here to hold him in this metropolis of near-statesmen. As Petrolium V. 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One block from Union Station Franklin 4633 A WARREN. A RELIABLE PHARMACIST in 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 capabilities is its prescription department, and ours is perfect. We fill your physician's pre- to the letter and no- ble. \RMACY R, Prop. Quality is lon to Our ment nts Phone Frank in 2765 am 6 W, ment. PEL. itary under the aus- Memorial A. M. E. presented a very unique program Monday evening, April 25, before a large and appreciative audience. The program opened with invocation by Rev. Melichior. Miss Pauline E. Mullen recited "The Dying Hebrew's Prayer" with great feeling and force. Miss Alberta Williams, solo; Miss Julia J. Jenkins recited two of her original poems, which won great applause and comment. An oration on Lincoln by Mr. T. L. Taylor was masterful. The quartette composed of Misses Mildred G. Waddleton, Jones, Mesdames Martha Montrey and E. Spencer sang "The and "Mighty Lak a Rose" ladies possess voices of rare sweetness and showed themselves to be real artists. Mrs. M. V. Browner, instrumental solo. Mrs. Marie Letcher Johnson recited two of Dunbar's selections, which were very entertaining. Mr. Stanley Brooks, well known in the music world, sang very sweetly "Absence" and "Mother Machree." Mr. Brooks charmed and swayed his hearers. Mr. Fred Green, instrumental solo. A quintette composed of Mrs. Ruth Larkins, Mrs. Lillian Hammond, Mrs. E. C. Sightler, Mr. Goodloe and Mr. A. R. Sightler. Mrs. Keyes, solo. The participants deserve great credit for making the evening a success. The wife of the pastor, Mrs. M. W. Monokoe, needs great commendation for her untiring efforts in making the program a delightful one. COUNCIL OF DEFENSE. Charleston, W. Va.—At a recent meeting of the Executive State Council of Defense thirty colored men and women were appointed as an auxiliary advisory council of defense. J. C. Gilmer, former State Librarian, was named secretary and directing head, with an office in the State Capitol here. Another appointment of more than usual interest was that of Hugh Bess, a colored man, as baggage master of the urion station. Forty passenger trains arrive at and depart from this station daily: The most successful powder ever made for bringing out the beauty of a dark complexion. TEST IT CRITICALLY We want every woman who has never tried SKIN WHITENER FACE POWDER to put it to this test. Powder your face before your mirror on one side with the face powder you have been using; powder the other side of your face with PALMER'S SKIN WHITENER FACE POWDER. Notice how evenly SKIN WHITENER POWDER adheres to the face, and the soft and beautiful appearance it gives to the skin. Compare it to your heart's content. This test will convince the most skeptical that our claims are based on fact, and that SKIN WHITENER FACE POWDER is just what we claim—the best face powder that money can buy. It is put up in a beautiful box, the same size that retails for 50c and upward for other powders not near so good. Price 25c at all druggists and toilet goods dealers, or sent direct for 25c postpaid. Write to PEOPLE'S DRUG STORES. Quinade 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 U Sts. N.W. Store No. 4, 7th and M Sts. N.W. Store No. 5, 8th and H Sts. N. E. TERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF THE COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE Article I. Section 1. The name of this society shall be the COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE. 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 wilt: to foster and regulater any number or branch units in the District of Columbia and vicinity having like objects, which shall be integral parts of this society; to affiliate itself with any national society having similar aims and objects; to accept gifts of money securities, goods, material and real estate for the promotion of its objects; to print and disseminate such literature as may be deemed calculated to advance its objects. Section 4. The powers granted in this charter shall not be construed to exclude any other powers reasonable for the promotion of the public-spirited and charitable objects of this society and consistent with the Code of Laws of the District of Columbia and the laws of the United States. Article IV. Section 1. The affairs, funds, and property of this society shall be in the general charge of a Board of Governors of not more than twenty-four members of the society, who shall be assisted by a Supervisory Committee of three members of the society no one of whom shall be a member of the Board of Governors, and by such executive officers and other employees as may be provided in the bylaws. During the first year the number of Governors shall be not less than twelve. Section 2. The first Board of Governors and first Supervisory Committee shall be chosen by the persons who sign this certificate of incorporation, and 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 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. ARMY SUPPLIES IN CHAIN OF CITIES Three Towns Behind the Lines in France Hold Great Stores. BAKERY SYSTEM A FEATURE Forty Shipments of White Bread Made Daily—All Facilities Being En- Behind the American Front in France.—Less spectacular than the continued arrival of American troops, and their occupation of a definite front sector, yet in its way quite as important for their success, has been the steady development of the system of keeping them in the myriad supplies they must have. Keeping pace with the increasing training-camps there has grown up a storage, transportation and distribution system that not only accurately and efficiently supplies the needs of all our soldiers but is continually being enlarged against future needs. Neither troops nor supplies can come too fast for it. The various functions of the system—bakery, refrigerating plant, warehouses for clothing, non-perishable foods and similar supplies, and the main distributing plant—are located for convenience sake in three towns or cities situated respectively at the three corners of an obtuse triangle, and near enough to the training camps and front so that supplies can reach the furthest points in 24 hours. Bakery is Great industry. No link in the chain between "a port in France" and the American front is, perhaps, more interesting than the bakeries. The supplying of the American troops in France with white bread has become a great industry and is growing all the time. The few bakers originally here have grown into companies; the relatively small daily quantity of bread turned out in July has increased to scores of thousands of pounds, and entire shiploads of flour are arriving weekly and are being stored away in warehouses with capacity of millions of pounds as a reserve against the arrival of still more troops. The American army first took possession of a huge bakery in a central French city, formerly operated by a German, and having a capacity for storing 1,500,000 pounds of flour, in addition to a not inconsiderable daily output of bread from its coke ovens. Those making the arrangements knew that the time would soon come when the city bakery would be inadequate, so they went outside of the city and leased from the French a tract of land consisting of several thousand acres, upon which the conventional military wooden shacks soon sprang up and-where there is room for an indefinite number of additional field bakeries as the need may arise. By the time the city bakery had reached its capacity the shacks were fully equipped with the very latest in baking machinery. Spur tracks have been constructed out to the field from the city, and over them carloads of bread leave each morning and afternoon for the training camps and the front. Forty Shipmenta Dally. Each baking company has for some time been exceeding the limit of 80,000 pounds a day and has been turning out from 83,000 to 85,000 pounds. The men, 101 to a company, work in two 12-hour shifts. Their product, ciliefly great, round, hard-crusted loaves, constitutes about forty separate shipments that are made daily—by train, motor truck and horse-drawn vehicles. The bread is supplemented by biscuits and rolls at breakfast and supper. In the city itself the Americans found one of the largest refrigerating and meat storage warehouses in France, and absorbed it last July, though it was then many times larger than their needs. Its capacity is close to two million pounds, and while it has at times been nearly full, the supply is never permitted to fall below half a million pounds. There are more than 600,000 pounds there now. Direct railroad lines lead not only from the bakery and the refrigerating plant to the camps but also from the seaports and the city. Several miles westward, at the lower apex of the triangle, lies another French town which has been all but bodily taken over by the Americans as a storage center. Here non-perishable foods—canned goods, salt, sugar and vegetables other than those bought fresh from the French peasants—are stored. One of the largest buildings which the Americans have taken over is devoted to equipment. Here are stored many thousands of uniforms and every article of clothing from shoes and caps to buttons and handkerchiefs. The needs of the troops is estimated at several pairs of shoes a year and three or four uniforms. "2 Helmet der Kaiser" Columbus, O.—A unique sign has been tacked above the counting room door in State Auditor Donahey's suite. It bears the numeral "2" then a picture of a helmet, and then the words "dar kaiser," reading "2 helmet der helsen." SPOTS SUBMARINE ON BED OF OCEAN Seaplane Has Important Part In Hunting Down German U-Boats. SNARED WITH STEEL ROPES Enemy Is Given Five Minutes to Rise and Surrender, Then Is Blown Up—Vivid Description by English Writer. London.—One of the methods by which, as the first sea lord, Sir Eric Geddes said recently, the submarine menace is being "held," is vividly described by a writer in the Liverpool Journal of Commerce. A seaplane had "spotted" a submarine lying on the sea bed. Instantly the observer's finger commenced to tap a key. Ten miles away a long, lean destroyer and four squat trawlers detached themselves like a pack of hounds working a covert, and hastened to the kill. Meanwhile the seaplane circled around. When the surface ships arrived, her instructions, delivered by wireless, were curt and precise. Acting upon them the trawlers stationed themselves at the four corners of a wet quadrangle, while the destroyer kept her guns ready to talk to Fritz should he appear above the surface. The trawlers at the corners got out their sweeps—long wire hawers, with a heavy "kite" in the center to keep their bights down on the seabed—and commenced to steam toward each other. As the pairs of vessels met, their wires simultaneously engaged themselves under the U-boat's bow and stern, and commenced to work their sinuous way between her hull and the sea bottom. Then the strange thing happened. Two round, black objects seemed to detach themselves from her hull and float surfaceward, to hover a second and then to commence bobbing down the tide. "Minelayer, eh?" called the seaplane's observer. "That's it, lad," came the telephoned answer, "but her eggs can wait for a minute." Then the trawlers crossed their dependent cables and thus held the U-boat in a kind of wire cat's cradle. She seemed to suddenly awake to her danger, for with a bound she tried to disentangle herself from the meshes which held her. But it was no use; the trawlers had been too long at the game and the submarine was doomed. "Got him," signaled the seaplane. "Thanks," responded the destroyer. "We'll give him five minutes to come up and breathe, but no longer." That time passed but still Fritz made no further move. The End of the U-Boat. At a flag signal from the destroyer the port foremost trawler and the starboard after one clipped a small red tin of high explosive to the bur-taut wire, and allowed it to slide down till it touched the U-boat's hull. It was the seaplane's turn to wave a flag, and immediately there followed the fall of two fists upon two firing-keys; the uprising of two gray mounds of water and a rumbling, muffled explosion. The seaplane circled twice above the patch of rising oil, ascertained that Fritz had been destroyed, and notified the destroyer. Then, with her observer slipping a drum of cartridges into his machine gun, she sped on after those objects bobbing down tide. A burst of rapid firing—and the first of the devil's eggs, its buoyancy chamber punctured, sank with a gurgle; the second gave a better show, for it exploded grandly—and harmlessly—as the bullets reached it. TEACHES SOLDIERS TO ACT James K. Hackett, the Actor, Is Director General of Amusements, at Camp Devens. Camp Devens, Ayres, Mass.—After five months in bed, five months on crutches and five months walking with the aid of a cane, James K. Hackett, the noted actor, is today enjoying army life at this big camp teaching the boys how to act. He is director general of amusements for the Knights of Columbus, and is to make a tour of all the big army camps. He is showing the boys how to put on shows and how to amuse themselves by acting. "We don't need scenery—Shakespeare didn't," declared Hackett. "These men will learn the trick." LIKE HIS FAMOUS ANCESTOR Israel Putnam of Revolutionary Fame, Had Nothing on His Great- Great-Grandson. Boone, Colo.—Israel Putnam of revolutionary fame, who cut his horses loose from the plow and hurried to engage in battle against the British, had nothing on his great-great-grandson, Ralph W. Putnam, a farmer near Boone. When the "war urge" overtook Mr. Putnam he hurried from the farm to the nearest recruiting station, enlisted and left for a cantonment camp, then sent word home by telegraph: "I'm off to grab the German goat." THOMAS WALKER, Attorney. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia—Holding Probate Court. Estate of George W. Milford, deceased—No. 24,112; Administration Docket 56. Application having been made herein for probate of the last will and testament of said deceased, and for letters testamentary on said estate, by Carreleon Milford, to be granted unto Thomas J. Brown, it is ordered this 19th day of March, A. D. 1918, that William Smith, of Baltimore, Md., and Mildred Smith, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and all others concerned, appear in said court on Monday, the 29th day of April, A. D. 1918, at 10 o'clock a. m., to show cause why such application should not be granted. Let notice hereof be published in the "Washington Law Reporter" and "The Washington Bee" once in each of three successive weeks before the return day herein mentiond, the first publication to be not less than thirty days before said return day. Ashley M. Gould, Justice. Attest: W. Clark Taylor. Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. Thomas Walker, Attorney. A. W. GRAY, Attorney. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia—Holding Probate Court: No. 24430. Administration. This is to give notice that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters testamentary on the estate of Thomas J. Marshall, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 25th day of March, A. D. 1919; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 25th day of March, 1918. Martha E. Marshall, 812 G Street S. W. Attest: W. Clark Taylor, Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. A. W. Gray, Attorney. GASKINS & MOORE, Attorneys. Supreme Court of the District of Columbia—Holding Probate Court. No. 24,450, Administration. This is to give notice that the subscriber, of the District of Columbia, has obtained from the Probate Court of the District of Columbia, letters of administration on the estate of Geo. F. Jackson, late of the District of Columbia, deceased. All persons having claims against the deceased are hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, legally authenticated, to the subscriber, on or before the 21st day of March, A. D. 1919; otherwise they may by law be excluded from all benefit of said estate. Given under my hand this 21st day of March, 1918. Frances Frelinghuysen, 1622 Vermont Ave., D.C. Attest: W. Clark Taylor. W. Clark Taylor Deputy Register of Wills for the District of Columbia, Clerk of the Probate Court. B. L. Gaskins and Zeph P. Moore, Attorneys. FOR RENT Two nicely furnished front rooms for rent, suitable for young men; reasonable rent. Mrs. Johnson, 474 O St. N. W. Third floor. Wanted—Office for, physician. Address W. H., "The Bee." FOR RENT Rooms for rent. Furnished or unfurnished. Apply 1917 Third Street, N. W. FOR HIRE Two Ford electric trucks for hire by the job or hour; quick and competent service. Address Adam Hite, 332 M St. S. W. Tel. Frank. 1545-M. WANTED Large and small chicken wire; must be in good condition and reasonable. Call in morning or write 1216 Eye Street N. E. WANTED. Wanted - Young colored woman for office work; one capable of operating typewriter preferred. Must be good penman, quick and accurate. Address in own handwriting, N. C. B., Your First Home! "Let us help you make it beautiful" Two Reasons for Buying Furniture on Credit The two reasons are Necessity and Convenience. You may think that practically all the people who buy on credit do so from necessity; but that's far from the real facts about such buying. Hundreds of our customers who are perfectly well able to pay spot cash for their purchases use a charge account because of its convenience and because their ready money can be profitably employed elsewhere. A careful examination of values and a comparison of prices have shown these people that we sell a high grade of furniture without charging an extra penny for credit privileges. Every article is price marked in plain figures and purchases are charged at these prices; without notes or interest. We arrange the terms of an account according to the means of each individual customer, making the small weekly or monthly payments to suit them. Young married couples can do best by coming to us; also the people who have just come to Washington to enter government service. We're glad to give them exceptionally easy terms. Peter Grogan & Sons Co. --- incorporated Branches: Center Market, Phone M 2373 Storh,722 9th N.W. Phone M 2710 Green houses, Anacostia E.C., Phone Lincoln.193 WANTED—Farm laborers, with some knowledge of farm work. Call at Room 618, Union Trust Building. WANTED—Plowmen, with teams, plows and harrows. Call or Write the GARDEN COMMITTEE, Room 618, Union Trust Building. 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 fall. Workingmen, if there ever was a time when cash is most valuable, it's right now, when prices are away up for all you buy. But some hustlers save cash when buying a slightly used suit here, and pay $5 up, getting fine grade tailored garments. LABORERS WANTED. JUSTH'S OLD STAND 817-819-821-823 Seventh Street N. W. DR. W. L. SMITH'S INDICATION REMEDY. This remedy will relieve all forms of Indigestion, Catarrh of the Stomach, Heartburn, Sour Stomach, Flatulency Pain in the Stomach, Water Brush Acid Fermentation, Gaseous Accumulations and Mal-Assimilations of Foods When taken in the Stomach it thoroughly digests the albuminous foods relieves the indigestion, by resting and assisting the stomach until normal or natural digestion is restored. DIRECTIONS Take a teaspoonful in a little water after meals or when suffering. Repeat in an hour if necessary. W. L. SMITH, Druggist. 601 Florida Avenue N. W. Where you may purchase the general article. Washington, D. C. DR. T. THEO. PARKER On Bone, Nerve, Eye and Diseases of Women Blue SERGES Of Pure Wool and Fast Dye Are Scaree BUT NOT AT HORN, The Tailor My large capacity makes it possible for you to get a $25 pure wool and fast dye pure twill blue serge suit for 18.7 TAILORED TO YOUR MEASURE AND PERFECT FIT GUARANTEED Come in and get samples or send your wife in for samples. Give These Goods the Acid Test And then make comparisons. You will then appreciate that Horn's thirty years of good tailoring has enabled you to save at least $8.25 on a suit. HORN THE TAILOR 611 7th N. W. A. T. BRONAUGH, PHARMACIST Southwest Corner Seventh and P Streets N. W. Prescriptions Filled Promptly. All the Leading Physicians patronize this store. Agents for Madam Walker's Goods. TETTER SALVE, TEMPLE GROWER AND GLOSSINE. Agent for Fred Palmer's Whitener, Soap Powder. Agent for All High Brown Preparations, Soaps, Hair Pomade, Pace Powder, Bozal and Ada Pomade. BRONAUGH, PHARMACIST, Seventh and P Streets N. W.