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FRIDAY ONE MEAL WHEATLESS THE NO BREAD, CRACKLEL, THE GRAVEY KOOS CONDENSED WHEAT The Washington daily press has announced that 1,050 colored registrants are to be called in August, and sent to Camp Sevier, at Greenville, S.C. The calling of these registrants is proper. The colored race is willing to do its bit, and valiantly, to help win the war. But, please, Mr. Secretary, don't send our boys to Southern camps. To do so, with the South's well-known attitude towards our race—the South's damnable discrimination against colored men, even when they wear the uniform of an American soldier—is such as to either break down an erstwhile splendid morale before they land on foreign soil to fight with every drop of their valor the Hun, or arouse a hatred which would be against the best interests of the army, the country and the race. The Northern born and reared colored man cannot fit in with contentment into the South's scheme of un-American discrimination, segregation and brutality to the race. Send our boys anywhere, Mr. Secretary, to the ice fields of Alaska, if you will, but for God's sake, for the sake of a splendid morale, for the sake of buoying up their enthusiasm and sustaining their traditional loyalty, don't send them South. They do not fear the microbe-infested trenches of France, or France's bloody battlefields—these they are eager to be in and on—but they do shrink from the discriminations; the hurtful animosities the race is forced to suffer in the South. VOL. IXXXIX. NO. 9. Appeal to AN. APPEAL TO S Dear Mr. Secretary: The Washington daily press has trants are. to be called in August, a S.C. The calling of these registraring to do its bit, and valiantly, to help tary, don't send our boys to Southe well-known attitude towards our race against colored men, even when the soldier—is such as to either break do they land on foreign soil to fight with arouse a hatred which would be again country and the race. The Northern born and reared oment into the South's scheme of un and brutality to the race. Send our ice fields of Alaska, if you will, but for morale, for the sake of buoying up traditional loyalty, don't send them infested trenches of France, or France eager to be in and on—but they do hurtful animosities the race is forced THE MASONIC BODY United Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons the Only Recognized Masonic Body in the World—Ill. H. C. Scott and His Workers. Many Illustrious Women Doing Good Work—Daughter Brent, the Veteran Organizer. There are a thousand different organizations in the United States—organizations of all classes and creeds, but there is none that stands higher in the minds and are dearer to the hearts of the American people than the United Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons for the Southern and Western Masonic Jurisdiction, United States of America, Its Territories and Dependencies, and the Daughters of Sphinx, which is an adjunct to this great Masonic body. Within recent years a bogus Supreme Coun- cil has been organized, clandestine and irregular; alleged Masons have invaded this city from time to time; expelled Masons have joined these irregular bodies, and, setting themselves up to be regular and the representatives of the people. The Bee is published in the interest of the people and all legitimate organizations, and gives this brief history of the recognized body of Masons in the United States. Bogus and Clandestine Masons. This city is the dumping ground and rendezvous for bogus and clandestine Masonic bodies. An attempt is now being niade to organize a new body of colored Masons, the offspring of expelled and clandestine Masons, and the people are warned against such an organization. Thousands of people have been fleeced out of money by these bogus institutions. Men and women who have been expelled from the United Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons for the Southern and Western Masonic Jurisdiction, United States of America, its Territories and Dependencies, met in this city a few days ago, are not recognized under this jurisdiction. There are only two Masonic bodies in this city, and some day it is the hope that they will get together and make one great and grand Masonic organization. All other Masonic bodies in the United States who are not working under either one of the jurisdictions are bogus and clandestine, and the world is warned against them. In an address of the late Illustrious John. G. Jones, 33rd Degree, Sovereign Grand Commander, delivered in Boston, Mass., July 6, 1906, among other things gave a history of the THE EDITOR. Illustrious H. C. Scott, 33rd. This distinguished Mason is at the head of the Manosic orders under the foregoing jurisdiction, and a man of broad experience. He has the united support of the Masons of this jurisdiction under him, and the man who represents the real and legitimate Masons in the United States and the District of Columbia. ern Masonic Jurisdiction, United States of America, its Territories and Dependencies. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1918 Scottish Rite Temple. At this sitting in this city September 14, 1905, Sovereign Grand Commander Jones recommended the establishment of a Scottish Rite Temple, and recommended that Illustrious Newport Henry, 33rd Degree, of this city, and who is now Inspec- Illustrious Newport Henry, 33rd. Is a man of remarkable Masonic ability. He is Inspector General. tor General, be the Illustrious Newport Henry, president, and Illustrious J. C. White, 33rd Degree, of Boston, Mass., be the secretary. Traitors and Spies. Illustrious Jones said further in his address July 6, 1906: "We are surrounded by a few traitors and spies in our ranks, who have been planning to disrupt this United Supreme Council and establish for themselves an independent, spurious and fraudulent Supreme Council, and they are ready to sell out at any time to the highest bidder. Some of these black-hearted and treacherous individuals were in consultation in Washington, D. C., with our enemies on Illustrious Daniel Williams, 33rd., Inspector General, Washington, D.C. This fine specimen of manhood is a man of wonderful determination. the other side. Those that had been expelled out of the United Supreme Council for dishonesty, treachery and misappropriation of funds from the Supreme Council. Many of these expelled Masons, in conjunction with the clandestine Masons, are endeavoring to organize subordinate lodges under their own jurisdiction. In 1847 a bogus national compact was organized." It cannot be denied that Freemasonry, was first established in the United States among colored men in 1775, at Boston, Mass, and from that date to the year of 1847, lodges and grand lodges were established. In 1847 a few colored Masons who wanted high-sounding titles met Illustrious Wm. H. Johnson, 33rd., Inspector General of Washington, D. C. No man in the Masonic craft stands higher in the estimation of the people than Mr. Johnson. June 24th in Boston, Mass., without any authority whatever, voted themselves in a clandestine national compact grand lodge. This, says Mr. Jones, was consummated by the assembling of the spurious Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Boston, Mass., and the Clandestine Grand Lodge of New York and Pennsylvania, which makes the United Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Masons of the Southern and Western Jurisdiction, United States of America, its Territories and Dependencies supreme. Masonic Qualifications. A Mason must have conferred upon him the 32nd degree of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, and he must be a master Mason in good and regular Masonic standing in his blue lodge, and that the blue lodge with which he is connected must be working and halding a charter under some regular and genuine Grand Lodge of A. F. and A. Masons. All Masons, or so-called Masons, who belong to or are in any way connected with the spurious National Compact Grand Lodge, or subordinate Compact Lodges, which are bogus, clandestine and irregular, cannot under any circumstances be admitted into the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. So the so-called Masonic body that met in this city comes under this edict. July 24, 1912, under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, Grand Master H. Illustrious Theo. Mayes, 33rd., C. Scott, of the Grand Lodge of (Continued to page 4.) "EVERY OUNCE THE CALL TO COLORED AMERICANS" Hundred Thousand of Our Kin "Over There"—The Black Phalanx—Snug and Safe at Home—Our Grievances—No Need to Bury Them—They Are Not Selfish—Response to Duty. There are one hundred thousand of our kin "over there" in France on the battle front. But they—"our"—colored soldiers are giving every ounce of their patriotism, their courage and their valor for civilization. Among them, in that black phalanx that is grimly fighting and stoically dying, glad of the opportunity for a new freedom, are colored men from the cane breaks of Louisiana, the rice swamps of the Carolinas, the cotton fields of Mississippi, and the coal mines of Alabama, whose ancestors, and themselves, drank to the dregs from the cup of bitterness—race discrimination. But they, these black soldiers, are giving every ounce of their patriotism, courage and valor. Should we, back here at home, who are snug and safe from the bestial German's bullets and poisonous gas, fail to give every ounce of our support, and these soldiers of ours—our flesh and blood—fall on the battlefield, they will die feeling that WE did not appreciate their sacrifice of "blood and lives. If they return—God grant they may—they will return with reluctance to meet those who may have failed to contribute their mite over here while they were doing their MIGHT "over there." We have grievances. High heaven is cognizant of it. We have been forced to suffer disheartening discriminations. We have been sinned against when we were faithful. We have borne the brunt of the battle in the heat of the day, when our white brothers were basking in the sunlight of free opportunities. But the country is in peril now—"our" house, as well as theirs, is afire. There is but one alternative left for us—we who are over here—and that is to give every ounce of our patriotism, service and sacrifice while "our own" are fighting and dying to better our condition—to democratize the world. There is no need to "bury" our grievances—to push aside into utter forgetfulness the discriminations and segregations which hang over us like a pall; but we may, can, and MUST look to the future—that future when victory will of a necessity bequeath the rich legacy of HONOR to those who fought and kept the faith, regardless as to whether their ancestors were the denizens of African jungles or the descendants of the prehistoric cave man. In thousands of colored homes throughout this land there hangs today a little red-bordered, white background service flag on which appears one or more blue stars. Those stars in that service flag is the proof that at the front—perhaps a son, a brother or a husband—there are those whose skin wears the clouded livery of the burnished sun, who are either fighting for civilization or forever bivouacing with the dead. The duty of the colored race in this crisis is clear—we must give every ounce of our patriotism, service and sacrifice to sustain those who are near and dear to us who are giving every ounce of their patriotism, courage and valor for civilization. Our grievances are NOT "selfish"—they are not imaginative—they are REAL; but civilization's grievances against autocracy and German militarism encompasses ALL our grievances. From the trenches in France, damp, dismal and pestilential; from the bloody battlefields "over there" comes the challenge to us—and from black soldiers—our kith and kin: "Sustain us in our fight for you there at home." Even when the belching of cannon has ceased, the rattle of musketry is no more, the dead buried, and the dove of peace spreads its pinions over the abodes of men, should the New Freedom for which we long and pray prove but a will-o'-the-wisp, if we, while the battle rages—while, "our" boys are making crimson the fields of France with their blood—and fertilizing them with their bones—keep before us the motto, "Service and Sacrifice," we will at least have the consciousness that we were true to "our own"—that we fought the fight and kept the faith; that our dead did not perish, because of us, in vain. And when other years have come—when this mighty, horrible, titanic war has been long but history—somewhere there will be erected a monument dedicated to Liberty and Equality, which our children's children may gaze upon, and as they stand before it in exultation, they will thank God that we of today gave every ounce of our patriotism, courage, valor, sacrifice and service when our country called for it. Duty calls us—we MUST respond—no matter if there be those who fail in their FULL duty to country and the people thereof, without reference to race or color. "Every ounce"—that's the call. SATURDAY OVER MEAL WHEATLESS USE NO BREAD CrackerL PASTE OR BREADFUCK CONTAINING WHEAT THE CALL FORDRED AMERICANS" Over There"—The Black Phalanx—Snug Branches—No Need to Bury Them— Bush—Response to Duty. H. W. Tyler. of our kin "over there" in France on is the siren song of death; where poi- bleness worse than death. ers are giving every ounce of their valor for civilization. ans that is grimly fighting and stoically a new freedom, are colored men from ce swamps of the Carolinas, the cotton mines of Alabama, whose ancestors, and in the cup of bitterness—race discrimi- diers, are giving every ounce of their who are snug and safe from the bestial fail to give every ounce of our support, and blood—fall on the battlefield, they appreciate their sacrifice of blood and may—they will return with reluctance to contribute their mite over here while er there." Even is cognizant of it. We have been inninations. We have been sinned against borne the brunt of the battle in the heat were basking in the sunlight of free in peril now—"our" house, as well as it for us—we who are over here—and patriotism, service and sacrifice while to better our condition—to democratize grievances—to push aside into utter segregations which hang over us like look to the future—that future when the rich legacy of HONOR to those ardless as to whether their ancestors or the descendants of the prehistoric throughout this land there hangs today and service flag on which appears one that service flag is the proof that at the husband—there are those whose skin ished sun, who are either fighting for in the dead. This crisis is clear—we must give every sacrifice to sustain those who are near ounce of their patriotism, courage and "they are not imaginative—they are against autocracy and German militar- s. ump, dismal and pestilential; from the is the challenge to us—and from black us in our fight for you there at home." has ceased, the rattle of musketry is love of peace spreads its pinions over Freedom for which we long and pray while the battle rages—while, "our" boys ance with their blood—and fertilizing us the motto, "Service and Sacrifice," less that we were true to "our own"— the faith; that our dead did not perish, —when this mighty, horrible, titanic where there will be erected a monu- ity, which our children's children may it in exultation, they will thank God of our patriotism, courage, valor, sac- called for it. —no matter if there be those who fail the people thereof, without reference SATURDAYS SERMONS BY UNUS and he played on a harp of a thousand strings. The editor of the Bee has asked its readers for frank expressions on the question, "Should Married Women Teach In the Public Schools?" I am a reader. I say yes. Below are some reasons for my conclusion. It is not a primary purpose of the public school system to provide employment for persons. That it does afford employment to many persons is merely a necessary incident. If a married woman's family will not be injured or seriously inconvenienced by her teaching, or if her home claims will not interfere with her efficiency as a teacher, a married woman should from these stand-points be on a precise par with other women as to opportunity to teach. A married woman whose home problems are properly adjusted is more likely to continue for a long time to be an efficient and dependable teacher than persons of some other classes. It is well known that many young men and women desire to teach only temporarily, only for makeshift—young men while studying for other professions, young women until they can get married and quit the school room permanently. Such persons are often not whole-souled teachers; they are not interested in the science and art of pedagogy. But a married woman, who has dedicated her life to the teaching profession, is likely to be a whole-souled teacher and an ardent student of her profession. The chances are that the average married woman is better fitted to understand, sympathize with and manage children than any other class of teacher. This is often asserted, and I have never seen a reasonable denial of it. We must never set up any artificial barrier to marriage. That would in many cases conduce to a life of unhappiness, and in some cases to immortality. What if some married woman teacher, by reason of her wifehood, be temporarily incapacitated for her school room duties? Have we not enough resourcefulness and ingenuity to provide for that? True civilization consists in a proper adjustment of our doings to the immutable and necessary laws of nature. Probably the most expert student and expounder of the English language today, Mrs. Josephine Turck Baker, the grammarian, is a married woman and has children. For years she has edited and published a magazine devoted to correct English, and has done her work well. In the largest sense she is a teacher. In a newspaper today I see the picture of a splendidly intellectual type of a woman who is a member of the Danish parliament. The picture shows a handsome boy, her son. I venture the guess that she is an efficient and useful member of the parliament. Women, single and married, must stand on an equal footing with men in rights and privileges, and these include the opportunity to labor in whatever fields they can labor successfully. They may not be best adapted to some work, but neither are some men. They may not make the best soldiers and sailors, but they should excel in very many lines, and they do. Conjugal condition of man or woman should seldom or never be admitted as a factor in determining adaptability; the main consideration is efficiency. The laws under which our public schools are governed is an emphatic recognition of the value of women as factors in our school system. The women members of our school board have for many years been almost invariably married women. Why? If the law is silent as to the employment of married women in other capacities in the schools, it must, nevertheless, be assumed that the intent is clear. We must provide many and varied fields of honorable employment for our young colored women—in the manufactures and trades. It is a fundamental error to regard the school room as a convenience for bread winning. I repeat, the schools are not designed to give employment; they are solely for the children and for the welfare of society. THE ST. LOUIS RIOT. National Association for Advancement of Colored People Withdraw From the Case. St. Louis, Mo., July eo.—The Na- tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People will no longer defend Dr. Leroy N. Bundy, who has been charged with complicity in the St. Louis, Mo., riot July, 1917. The association charges Dr. Ray with collecting funds and not accounting for them. Dr. Ray also wants to employ three more law firms for his defense, which the association objected to. The people throughout the country are advised to contribute no more money to the association for his defense, as it has withdrawn from further defense of him. The association is justified in withdrawing. MOORFIELD STOREY FOR COLORED LIBERTY FIGHT. N. A. A. C. P.'s National President Volunteers Endorsement of Colored Inaugurating Movements for Rights of Citizenship. Boston, Mass., July 20, 1918. Great interest has been taken here in the attitude of Hon. Moorfield Storey as expressed by himself toward the National Colored Liberty Congress, which called 115 delegates to Washington from thirty states, and at the close of a whole week's sessions, with five nightly mass meetings, had a race petition presented to Congress and entered in the records of the House asking for the enforcement of democracy for colored Americans. The interest was the greater because of Dr. Du Bois' editorial in the Crisis against agitation in war time, and the attempt of Major Spingarn to prevent the congress. Without being consulted at all, Mr. Storey sent the following letter to the executive secretary: 755 Exchange Building, Boston, Mass., July 8, 1918. Dear Mr. Trotter: I congratulate you on the success of your Liberty Congress. Persevere. "Who would be free himself must strike the blow." Sincerely yours, (Signed) M. Storey. COLORED NURSES IN ARMY CORPS. The War Department authorizes the following statement from Emmett J. Scott, Special Assistant to the Secretary of War: Orders are issued today by the War Department to the office of the Surgeon General which will enable colored nurses who have been registered by the American Red Cross Society to render service for their own race in the army. Colored nurses will be assigned to the base hospitals now established at Camp Funston, Fort Riley, Kansas; Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois; Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa; Camp Taylor, Louisville, Ky.; Camp Sherman, Chilicothe, Ohio; and Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. J. At these camps a total of about 38,000 colored troops are stationed. General Pershing has been asked by cable whether the services of colored nurses can be utilized to advantage among the American expeditionary forces. CAMP PLEASANT. Duty of City Folks to Visit the Camp and See What Nature and Charity Is Doing. Have you visited Camp Pleasant? If you have not it is your duty to do so at once and see what is being offered to and provided for such as the Master referred to when he said "Suffer little children to come unto Me and forbid them not." Out at Lincoln Heights, at 538 Street, is a camp for the little children of poor colored parents of the city. Located on a beautiful knoll, in the midst of a pine grove, overlooking the city, it is an ideal place for congregating our poor children. The camp is in charge of Mrs. Laura Bruce Glenn, who, with the assistance of school teachers as assistants, to help those farthest down, sacrificed their summer vacation in some retreat where pleasure, ease and self-comfort abound. Every two weeks a fresh "bunch of innocence" from the hot, stuffy, crowded ghettos of the poor in the city are brought there and given a two weeks' outing—aut where "Nature sits to hear the sound, beneath the hollow round of Cynthia's seat, the airy region thrilling." They run and play the live long day; their little lungs drink in the pure ozone; they feast, as they never did before, on wholesome food; they are taught reverence for their Maker; tidiness, cleanliness and dutifulness. It's a relief from the sordid cares of life; from the temptations of a big city, to go out there and listen to the innocent prattle of these "nymphs of the woods," and hear their childish voices blend soulfully in song and prayer. Last Friday evening Mrs. Zeph Moore and her husband, playing the part of Lady Bountiful, loaded a bunch of city children into their auto and went out and entertained the little ones at Camp Pleasant with the juvenile, play "Cinderrella," the children forming the cast of characters. Camp Pleasant, an annual outing for colored children, is maintained by the Associated Charities. Colored people should journey out there even if but to show their sympathy for and interest in the poor of their own, and when you go, play the part of the Good Samaritan and learn a talent—just to show that your heart is really in the right place. Anyhow, go out and commune with nature and mingle with innocent kiddies of the poor. It will do your soul good. Tuskegee Institute, Ala., July 20. Mr. Emmett J. Scott, Secretary of the National Negro Business League and Special Assistant to the Secretary of War, was at his desk at the Tuskegee Institute for a few days this week. While here he addressed the Summer School, which closed its ninth annual session yesterday. After a conference with Principal Robert R. Motten, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Business League, Mr. Scott announced that an important feature of the next session of the National Negro Business League, which is to be held at Atlantic City, N. J., will be a symposium discussion on "Winning the War." Important representatives of various agencies engaged in war work, together with a number of government workers, will be present and participate in this effort to devise plans and methods to help our country in the great crisis through which we are now passing. Communities which have been successful in local war relief campaigns will also be represented in this discussion. Persons who have been invited to speak at Atlantic City are responding promptly, and the program matte. will be given to the printers next week. Every effort is being made to make this a most interesting and constructive session. LANCASTER ELKS Lancaster, Pa., July 20.—Conestoga Lodge, No. 140, I. B. P. O. E. of W. of this city, appropriated from its treasury a contribution to the Nati- onal Colored Soldiers' Comfort Committee, at Washington, and Ex- alted Ruler Edward Carter has sent a check for the amount contributed. True to the traditions of the order, Conestoga Lodge has done its bit, and urges all others to do likewise. SURGICAL CHIROPODIST Special Treatment For Corns and Bunions. Will Cure All Foot Ailments. Graduate of Columbia Institute Before After U.S.TROOPS SING BEFORE BATTLES True Stuff in Average American Appears When He Goes Into Action. CLEAN HEART AND MOTIVES Yankee Drops All Foolishness and Horseplay Before He Goes Into Battle—Courage and Determination In Every Face. With the American Army in France. The true stuff that is in the average American soldier comes to the surface just before he goes into battle. The hour comes when he suddenly quits all foolishness and horseplay with his fellows and settles down to a lot of sober thinking. Far from being the rough, careless fellow that his life back of the lines might often indicate, he stands out as a young man with clean heart and motives, fully alive to the dangers he is going into, but possessing a high patriotism and courage and a determination to see the thing through regardless of the cost to himself. America's interests will always be safe in the hands of such young men. No Faltering Displaced. They have felt, before the command to go forward was given, that their names would likely figure in the casual lists within a very few days. But there was no faltering. Never in my life have I seen such nobility of countenance. On every face there appeared the light of an iron resolve, writes C. C. Lyon in the Chicago Post. A soldier can be judged by the songs he sings. The Y. M. C. A. has done a most valuable work; through its musicians and entertainers, in breaking the terrible tension that must necessarily hang over the army just before a big engagement. Every evening Y. M. C. A. song leaders went from battalion to battalion, assembling the boys and having them join in songs. I went out several evenings with a young fellow named Mee, who in civil life is a professional song director. he is a professional song director. Nearly every soldier had been provided with one of the Y. M. C. A.'s "soldiers' song sheets," containing some 65 soldier songs. In the list were "Cuddle Up a Little Closer," "I Wish I Had a Girl," "Oh, You Beautiful Doll," "Oh, My Darling Clement," "Polly-Wolly-Doodle" and others of similar muskiness. But not once did I hear a soldier call for one of these songs. They were popular stuff in the care-free, rolling days back in the rest camps, but the boys had no heart for them as they waited, within earshot of the big guns to go into action. When Director Mee would say: "What'll we sing, fellows? Name it," calls would go up on all sides for "Keep the Home Fires Burning," "Silver Threads Among the Gold," "There's a Long, Long Trail," "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean," "Little Gray Home in the West" and "My Old Kentucky Home." Fighting for Home. "Boys whose thoughts go back, thousands of miles across the ocean to their mothers and their sweethearts; can generally be depended upon in a pinch," a colonel said to me one evening, as he stood on the outskirts of the crowd listening to the singing. "These boys think they have to show a rough exterior to one another in the army, but at rock bottom, they're pure gold," he added. Letter-writing increased three-fold among the boys after they reached the threshold of the big battle. The boys have no illusions as to what they're getting into. They're determined that it shall be said of them, if they die, that they gave a good account of themselves. Though Blind, He Wants to Get Hands on "Bill" Albany, N. X.—Joseph Carroll of this city is blind, but he knows he could "get" the kaiser. Carroll was called before a local draft board. He appeared; led by his mother, and was immediately rejected. In sorrow he told the physicians, "I may be blind, but I know I could get my hands on that kaiser." He was insistent that he be given opportunity to do something for Uncle Sam. Leavenworth, Kan.—A Leavenworth teacher who has a fourth grade class, is the idol of the boys of the town. The other day, during her geography class, a picture of the kalser was found in the book. The boys openly tore out the offending page with the picture of Kalser Wilhelm. The girls, more timid, pasted paper over his face. The teacher smiled and let it go. There is a state law in Kansas about destroying public school books. THE INSTANTANEOUS VIOLET. RAY TREATMENT. Scientific instruction of a method to remove blemishes. Guarantees to bleach your face two shades lighter. 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G Through Georgia.") horus: I'll get the Kaiser yet, far Stamp is our bet; we'll find the country pays its debt to Victory. against, and segregated, in many of the departments at Washington, the Treasury Department, which inaugurated and directed the Liberty Bond and War Savings Stamp campaigns, in which the race had cheerfully contributed millions, being a notable offender in the matter of segregation and discrimination against colored appointees who had won in a competitive examinator, and twelve other grevances which our loyalty, patriotism and cheerful cooperation called for adjustment. Our race is proof against the machinations of the brutal Hun; we have stood patient in the face of a discriminatory propaganda enforced by certain departmental and bureau officials in Washington and elsewhere; we have turned the left cheek when smote upon the right, as instanced by the magnificent valor of our fighting men on European battlefields while their kith and kin were being lynched and burned alive back at home, by our splendid response to the Government's appeal for funds to finance the war, by our laboring from sun up to sun down without being even tainted by the spirit of strikers who would tie up Government operations. The Germans have not reached the hearts of colored men—they CANNOT REACH THEM—but those of this country who have fostered and are now fostering a spirit of unrest among us have caused the race to wonder if a German propaganda is at work among those from whom our loyalty and patriotism calls, by right, for JUSTICE. We petition the President—we petition the American people—to abolish the segregation and discrimination policy in the Treasury Department and other departments; we petition for the suppression of Southern brutality against the race that is emulative of the atrocious Hun; we ask for only those things that will enable us to become the most efficient fighters for world democracy. THE WASHINGTON BEE We desire that it be known, and thoroughly impressed upon all our readers, that this newspaper stands for and champions the cause of the common people—"the holy middle" and "the lowly plebeian" who earn their bread by the sweat of their brow. It is no reflection upon a man or woman that he or she earns distinction and enviable notoriety through having labored to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number. In fact, prominence so achieved is to be applauded. But to merely get one's name in the society columns of a newspaper because of an invitation to a meaningless "pink tea," a liquor-decorated stag, and an ennui-placated luncheon—a place among "the climbers"—merely to have it said that you are "keeping up with the Joneses," constitutes no evidence of real service. COLORED LEADERSHIP. "From the time the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," colored leadership stood for something. As time rolls on it has been on the downward road. When the blandishment of office failed to become a ruling factor in the American body politic, colored leadership was a factor. Some colored men who today aspire to leadership remain steadfast until their brain becomes dazzled by office or the promise of an office, then they become intoxicated for social or political power. The present-day leadership is made by the white man, with but few exceptions. There are twelve million colored people in this country, and 98 per cent of these are of the common people—the "salt of the earth"—who, though living humble lives, recluses in the domain of honest toil, are noiselessly achieving, and achieving more, far more, for themselves and the race than the devotees of an imaginative, meaningless, empty society that regards a full dress suit, a V-shaped transparent bodice disclosing the "things which should be hidden from soulless eyes," and the ability to say "sweet nothings," as the sine quo non-for distinction. There are a few colored people in this city, and in every city—far too many, although they constitute but a negligible few—who are constantly striving among the "climbers"—constantly impelled by the desire for "keeping up with the Joneses"—a do-less sect of the suspects—suspected by the masses because, like the drone, they are achieving nothing in the hive of industry and service to the race. This paper stands for the common people—first, last and all the time—and has no patience with—no enconiums—nothing but criticism for the dull colored imitators of the white idle rich. Prof. DuBois was selected by his people, and was coming to be a great factor. His appointment and acceptance of a captaincy in the Army has weakened his leadership, and no matter what he may do—retain the editorship of the Crisis or reject the captaincy in the Army—like Othello, his occupation is gone. The colored Americans have lost confidence in him. A great leader should not have accepted such a small job, no matter what he may think or how much he may appreciate it. The colored people have lost confidence in him. No great defender of right should advise a people to cease demanding that wrongs and the perpetration of brutal treatment against them should not be condemned and appeals made to the powers to have such wrongs cease. Dr. DuBois should explain to his people why he asks such, Whatever even his pronounced antagonists could say in criticism of the late Dr. Booker T. Washington, they were compelled to admit that he stayed close to the common people. Herein lay his great strength, power and influence. Whatever can be said in praise of Dr. W E. DuBois, even his staunchest supporters have to admit that he, unfortunately for himself, disdains to mix with "the common clay." Whatever criticism may be passed on Emmett J. Scott, the now luminous star in our little world, because his training was under the late "Wizard of Tuskegee," all MUST admit that so far the interest of the masses of his race, rather than the few social climbers, is his first and foremost consideration. Whatever can be said in criticism of Archibald Grimke, Washington's local uncompromising intermediator, it must be admitted that "the many" rather than "the few"—those shallow-pated social climbers—occupy his thoughts and invite his efforts. Each and all of these had, and have, selfish satellites, whispering proselytes, opportunists, who are always and ever ready to selfishly make or break, respectively, with men who are in the public eye or the men who, having moved from Avenue de Prominence, are quietly striving in the ghettos—among the common people. This paper stands unequivocally for the common people, and for them it will labor, always and ever keeping in the front and holding up the hands of men like Scott, Moton, Shepard and others; whose motto is "Deeds, not words," for the common people. If he is not in a position as the editor of the Crisis to continue a crusade against brutality and hold the captaincy in the Army, be a man and resign. GERMAN PROPAGANDA AMONG NEGROES. Much has been said and written, more intimated, as to a possible German propaganda among colored people. While we do not put it past the desire of the descendants of Attilla to influence colored people against this country, we have taken no stock whatever in the reputed, hinted attempt, unless it be that this alleged propaganda has for its tools the white people of the South, who, while prating about their loyalty to the country, are lynching, burning alive and segregating and discriminating against a race that has bespoke its loyalty and patriotism in millions of dollars given to the Government to help finance the war, in the purchase of Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps, the contributing of hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Red Cross, and by cheerfully, eagerly, giving of its men to the number of three hundred thousand, to win the war on the battlefields, and by gladly serying as dependable laborers at home without even the suggestion of a strike, as has been true of our white brothers, to paralyze the Government's efforts to beat down Prussian militarism. --- THE REAL MASONIC BODY. Continued from page District of Columbia, of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons, presided. Many lodges from all over the country were present. There was a discussion as to the possibility of erecting a Masonic Temple. $1,000 dollars was subscribed by one brother; Grand Master Scott, $100; Bishop Thornton, $100; J. S. Green, $50, and other smaller amounts. Renewed efforts are now being made to erect a Masonic temple. The committee that was appointed to arrange for the erection of a temple is as follows: Dr. E. E. Jackson, Rev. S. P. Robinson, D. D.; Rev. Nelson McCargo, D. D.; W. H. Young, Al. Oglisby, James S. Green, J. D. McKnight, Bartlett Perry, E. W. Mayfield, Newport Henry, W. C. Cody. The committee made a recommendation to erect the temple in this city and to organize a stock company, with a maximum capital of fifty thousand dollars, and that the price of the stock be five dollars a share. Recently the colored editors of the country were invited by the Government to Washington for conference—to tell what, if anything, militated against a splendid morale within the race; what was necessary, on the part of the Government, to invite a more enthusiastic cooperation, if such be possible, and what were the real grievances of a people whose loyalty had stood the acid test from Lexington in 1775 to Verdun in 1918. In their bill of particulars, setting forth their grievances, all of which were REAL, and not fancied, these colored newspaper men—each and every one a true patriot, presided over by that 100-per-cent loyalist, Emmett J. Scott, special assistant to the Secretary of War, called the Government's attention to the fact that ONE HUNDRED of their people had been lynched in this country since the beginning of this titanic war; that the race was discriminated The following board of directors was appointed: President, H. C. Scott, Bishop Thornton, J. D. McKnight, Dr. E. E. Jackson, J. P. Johnson, Rev. S. P. Robinson, D. J. Bradford, W. Cargo, J. W. Moore, J. A. Perry, S. W. Allen, Bartlett Perry, Marris H. F. Henry, William J. Hennan, Al. Oglesby, W. Chamberland Young. Clandestine Masons. There are in Boston, Mass., quite a number of expelled and clandestine Masons, some of whom came to this city a few days ago, and from all reports they anticipate organizing lodges. No respectable Mason will become a member of clandestine lodges. The courts in this city have decided that the Ancient and Accepted Masons of the United States of America, of which H. C. Scott is Grand Master, are the only legitimate and bona fide Masons in the United States. Supreme Grand Officers. Board of Directors. Noble J. J. Burnell. Dgt. Chloe K. Dade. Dgt. Lelia Smith. Dgt. Clara V. Ray. Noble Albert Harris. The Daughters of Sphinx. The Daughters of Sphinx. The Daughters of Sphinx, of which Mrs. Brent is Grand Matron, with her illustrious membership of some of the best women in this city, have fully demonstrated their power and worth, and when the last session of Masons was held in this city these noble women came out in force and demonstrated to the world that there is no other such organization of females in this country. List of Inspector Generals. The list of Inspector Generals of the 33rd and last degree of the Ancient and Accepted Order of Scottish Rite Masons, emanated through Council's Rites of Scotland, is as follows: 1. H. C. Scott, 33rd degree. 2. Daniel Williams, 33rd degree. 3. Mingo Saunders, 33rd degree. 4. Alex. Oglesby, 33rd degree. 5. Aleck Dabney, 33rd degree. 6. Henry Dowell, 33rd degree. 7. Allen Doyese, 33rd degree. 8. Wm. Douglass, 33rd degree. 9. Morton Garnett, 33rd degree. 10. Thomas Hamilton, 33rd deg. 11. N. P. F. Henry, 33rd degree. 12. J. S. Greene, 33rd degree. 13. E. E. Jackson, 33rd degree. 14. E. W. Oram, 33rd degree. 15. J. N. Proctor, 33rd degree. 16. Thomas B. Harper, 33rd deg. 17. W. Calvin Chase, 33rd degree. 18. Wm. I. Harris, 33rd degree. 19. Richard Johnson, 33rd degree. 20. Wm. H. Johnson, 33rd degree. 21. Wm. H. Shields, 33rd degree. 22. B. R. Sydnor, 33rd degree. 23. C. E. Walker, 33rd degree. 24. Wm. Young, 33rd degree. 25. Isaac Bursh, 33rd degree. 26. Albert aBiley, 33rd degree. 27. James E. Willis, 33rd degree. 28. J. R. Green, 33rd degree. 29. J. S. Greene, 33rd degree. 30. E. E. Jackson, 33rd degree. 31. M. W. D. Norman, 33rd deg. 32. Washington C. Perkins, 33rd deg. Daughters of Sphinx. The ladies connected with the order are known as the Daughters of Sphinx. Daughter Rebecca E. Brent is the Supreme Grand Matron. She is one of the most remarkable women in the United States and a thorough organizer, and has been elected by the Council, Rites of Scotland the Worshipful Mistress of the Rites of Adoption and the Princess of the Crown. Recorder Mrs. Houston of Brooklyn, N. Y., is an active and progressive worker. Assistant Recorder Miss Sadie Bell of Washington, D. C., is an excellent young lady and very influential among her sex. Grand Treasurer Mrs. Ella Crawder of Brooklyn, N. Y., is a woman of property and highly honored by the craft. Ill. H. C. Scott is the Supreme Grand Patron, and Mr. Crawder is the Assistant Supreme Grand Patron. Ill. H. C. Scott will visit the lodges in New Jersey and New York City next week. He will leave this city tomorrow. DR. ROMAN ENLISTS IN WAR WORK. Dr. C. V. Roman, of Nashville, Tenn., who is known the length and breadth of the American continent as "the noblest Roman of them all," has enlisted in war work, and has a cosy office at Nineteenth and G Streets N. W., in connection with the War Commission on Training-Camp Activities. His position, to be exact, is Field Secretary of the American Social Hygiene Association, and his assignment is to the venereal division of the Commission on Training Camp Activities, to do educational work in the cantonment areas, which will include the camps where colored soldiers are stationed and the cities adjacent thereto. He sacrifices a large practice as a specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat diseases at Nashville to take up this new and patriotic work. LOYAL AMERICANS. Columbia Lodge, No. 85, I. B. P. O Elks of the World. Columbia Lodge of Elks, at its last regular meeting, unanimously voted to purchase one thousand dollars' worth of Liberty Bonds of the fourth issue. Membership numbers 700. Each one has also pledged himself to take at least one bond in his own name. E. W. Bundy, Exalted Ruler of the Lodge, is chairman of the delegation, which will represent this city at the Grand Lodge Convention to be held in Baltimore, August 27th, and as such his delegation will urge the central body to make a substantial purchase of the bonds also. EDITOR HARRIS Indorses Stand Taken by Local Branch of the N. A. A. C. P. As Against Du Bois and Spingarn Propaganda. New York, July 17.—Last week's issue of the New York News, under the caption, "Major Spingarn and Captain Du Bois," carries the following uncompromising editorial on Editor Du Bois' lay down with respect to the rights, of the race: The race generally approves of the stand of the Washington branch of the National Association in rebuking the chairman of its board of directors, Major Joel E. Spingarn, and its director of publicity, Captain Candidate William E. Du Bois. We had thought that long ere now that these genuflecting gentlemen would be called to book for playing both ends of the game against the middle. We must not be surprised at their going to any limit for reproving those who disagree with the peculiar "safe aid sane middle course program" they lay down for the race. That Dr. Du-Bois should seek even indirectly through Major Spingarn to aspire no higher in the service than a captaincy, is a reflection upon his race and his own standing as one of its foremost leaders. But that he should seek to become a captain in the Intelligence. Bureau Department of the service at $2,400 per year; and at the same time continue his editorship of the Crisis at full pay, seems to be beyond courteous expression. That these now conservative gentlemen should seek to continue their services for the Advancement Association, which has stood foremost for race rights without let, hindrance or compromise, and at the same time strive so valiantly to temporize and surrender, only confirms the opinion which we have long held concerning the sincerity and ardor of their race championship. We applaud Dr. Du-Bois' patriotic desire to enter the government service for the period of the war. We do not applaud his desire to serve himself in that service—if the report of the alleged confession he made before the association meeting last week is correct. We advised Dr. Spingarn last year to cease his disservice of the colored race. He does not know them. He never can. His mad meddling, as he should by now be aware, is bitterly distasteful and cruelly hurtful to them. He has been the evil genius, perhaps unwillingly, but for that reason, all the more disastrously of Dr. Du Bois. If he has joined the ranks of those who do not believe in the rock-ribbed principles of the Advancement Association, let him withdraw. The Advancement Association, if it would remain true to its name, must rise up and ask its spokesman, Dr. Du Bois, to recant and reverse his position as taken in the last issue of the Crisis. These are plain words, plainly spoken. The situation permits no other. Our words of March, 1917, we repeat on this similar occasion with added emphasis. "Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois, in the Branch Bulletin of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, comes out in full and abject accord with Dr. Joel E. Spingarn, the chairman of the Board of the Advancement Directors, on the Jim Crow camp for colored officers. This, it seems to us, makes the case complete. The association which has for its name the Advancement of Colored People, unconditionally surrenders to those associated for the degradation of colored people. Tuskegee, in all of its manifold and triumphant practical efforts, has never yet advanced a Jim Crow proposition. Tuskegee, reviled as conservative by the radical Advancement Association, is now in turn disgracefully and hopelessly out-Tuskegeed. Booker T. Washington, if he were alive, would never have countenanced, let alone counseled, such a constrous proposition as this. We can candidly advise the gentlemen of the Advancement Association that the race at large not only does not thank them for this surrender at this critical juncture, fraught with splendid strategic opportunities for the race, but it heartily condemns their efforts. It is the most lamentable blunder that any man essaying to represent colored people has made since freedom. The cry of all sensible men at every step in the life of the freedmen has been forward. Now, during this fateful hour when race proscription, and class bars throughout the world are being swept away, for those essaying to be radical for the rights of the race to surrender in advance, not only reveals the silly selfishness of these advocates, but the "crass moral cowardice." CAMP MEADE'S COLORED BAND ALMOST COMPLETED A new band of fifty men is being organized at Camp Meade. The new bandmaster of the 808th Infantry was in the city this week with his assistant recruiting good musicians for the band, which will be completed in a few days. It is claimed that this will be one of the best bands in the country. MR. FERGUSON RETURNED. Assistant Director F. E. Ferguson of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, who has been on a day trip for recreation, returned to the Bureau this week, looking like a French Prince. His return was unexpected to those in the Bureau. The Week in Society BOARD'S. The price is important, but what you get for the price is more important. Get the best for your money by buying reliable products from a reliable store. Board's Drug Store, at 1912% Fourteenth Street N.W., is the place where everybody meets everybody else for quality, service and satisfaction, from ice cream soda to the highest grade drugs and chemicals. Prescriptions filled just as your doctor ordered here.—Advt. Magnus L. Robinson, a former Virginia political leader and newspaper editor, is lying ill at his residence, 1434 Florida Avenue N.W., under treatment by Dr. Mundy and Dr. Tolson. * * * Miss Helen M. Hall, of 905 New Hampshire Avenue N.W., left on Thursday for New York City for an indefinite stay with relatives. * * * Miss Martha C. Ailer spent last Sunday in Laurel, Md., with friends. Mrs. Martha Jackson, of Orange, Va., accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Rosa Ailer, left for Baltimore Monday. Mrs. Jackson visited her daughters, while Mrs. Ailer visited her sister and her little daughter Victoria, who is visiting her aunts. * * * Miss Minnie Price has been transferred to the Howard Playgrounds. * * * Miss Ollie Kibble of the Willow Tree Alley Playgrounds, is preparing to give a drama for the benefit of her playground fund. Rumor has it that Attorney Royal Hughes, the Blackstone bachelor, has his head matrimonially inclined. Mrs. James F. Bundy of the Y. M. C. A., is one of the most energetic workers in the organization. She is a thoroughgoing business woman. Miss Edith Frazier, of New York, is in the city, alternate guest of Miss Isadore Kenny and Mrs. Daisy Miller, of T Street N.W. Miss Frazier returned Tuesday to her home after spending a most enjoyable time. Mrs. J. C. Withrop, formerly Miss Florence Campher, is visiting her mother-in-law in Newport, R. I., and also friends in Providence, Boston and New Haven, Conn. Mr. S. A. Young, of Camp Humphrey, Va., was in the city Monday looking for a house in which to place his family while he is in France. Mr. Young is connected with the Y. M. C. A. Miss Marie F. Choates, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Choates, of 705 S Street, has gone to Fredericksburg, Va., to spend a few weeks. * * * Mr. Peter Anderson, of Richmond, was in the city Sunday last, the guest of relatives and friends. * * * Rev. Jos. H. Lee filled the pulpit the absence of the pastor, Rev. Walter H. Brooks. Mrs. Lois Gentry and young son, Master Theodore, of Camden, N. J., are visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Gentry was formerly Miss Lois est and best known families of the of the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church last. Sunday morning during Geary, a member of one of the old-District. Rev. Dr. and Mrs. Walter H. Brooks of New Hampshire Avenue left the city for different points. Mrs. Cynthia Shorter, of 1406 S Street N.W., left the city to spend her vacation in Maryland. Miss Esther Freeman, of 2317 E Street N.W., left the city last week to spend several weeks with her sis- ter, Mrs. Joseph E. Cabaniss, formerly Miss Hilda Freeman, of this city. * * * Miss Marguerite Brown, the young and accomplished daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Brown, of 1527 S Street N.W., is improving, to the delight of her parents, relatives and friends. \* \* \* Mrs. Samuel Harris, of 1214 You Street N.W., left the city a few days ago to visit relatives and friends in New York and Atlantic City. Mrs. Amanda Williams, of Deanwood, D. C., received an appointment in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Mr. David H. Evans, of S Street N.W., has returned to the city after a very pleasant stay at the family homestead in Lexington, Va. Mr. J. Armistead Gray, of Jersey City, was the guest of his brother, Mr. Wilson Gray, of Corcoran St. N.W. ST. LUKE OFFICERS CALLED. All St. Luke officers, past and present, are called to meet at St. Luke Building on Monday, July 29, 1918, at 8:30 p. m. Great business. Secretaries please inform all officers. A. C. Garner, Deputy. Elizabeth S. Lee, Asst. Dep. M. M. Peace, Chairman. Dep. MRS. RHODES. One of the sweetest little women in this city is Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes, who has been recently reappointed a member of the Board of Education. Mrs. Rhodes is also at the head of the Municipal Playgrounds. The work that is being done by the children at every playground is most beneficial. A visit to the playgrounds or to the office of Mrs. Rhodes will convince everyone that Mrs. Rhodes is a directress of great ability and forethought. REV. W. H. JERNAGIN. Rev. W. H. Jernagin has just returned from an extensive Western and Southern trip. He went as far as Mexico. He found that the people are enthusiastically supporting the Race Congress which is to meet here in October. A reception tendered Rev. M. S. Caver, chaplain, commissioned as first lieutenant in the National Army, at the Colored Club, 1636 14th Street N. W., Thursday, July 18th, was a great success. Judge R. H. Terrell, chairman, told of his acquaintance with Lieutenant Caver, and then introduced the secretary of the War Service Commission of this branch, Francis Wells. Miss Ida Plummer was mistress of ceremonies. The Christian Endeavor choir of the Third Baptist Church furnished the music. The audience sang the camp songs with much enthusiasm. The speakers of the occasion were. Rev. S. C. Garner and Rev. Waldron, who are responsible for Rev. M. S. Caver entering the training camp. Rev. Royal C. Carter, a blind preacher, presided at the piano, assisted by Miss Mary Clark. Rev. Caver stated that he had an appointment as instructor at Camp Taylor, where he is to report Friday. Rev. Caver praised the women of America for the part they are playing in this great world battle for democracy. Refreshments were served, after which all joined in the singing of "The Star Spangled Banner." FALLS CHURCH NEWS. Mr. Newton Dixon is here visiting his parents until the "colors" call him to the front. * * * Mrs. Melvin Turner continues to THE WILLIS FEMALE BAND FIRST DANCE HOWARD AUDITORIUM Pythian Temple Twelfth and You Streets N. W. THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1918 Dancing, 8 to 12 Tickets, 25 cents. War Tax, 1 cent Music by the, Band. Prof. J. H. Willis, Director. The date of the Willis Band Dance was inadvertently printed August 1, 1918, by the Secretary. Don't forget the date—August 22, 1918. improve, much to the gratification of her friends. Her siter spent several days with her last week. * * * Mrs. Julius Johnson and daughter, the mother and sister, of Rev. Johnson, are spending a few days here. * * * Mrs. Cyrus Stribbling and daughter, Mrs. Sommerall, entertained a few friends at their delightful home Monday evening. The Baptist Church at Merrifield held a successful rally on Sunday last. Rev. Powell and his choir from Falls Church had charge in the morning. A soul-stirring sermon and delightful music were enjoyed by the Merrifield congregation. Rev. Thomas of Washington held forth in the afternoon: At the last report nearly $200 was raised. * * * A garden party was held on the spacious lawn of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Henderson on Wednesday last for the benefit of the Second Baptist Church. Next Sunday, July 28th, the Second Baptist Church will hold its annual rally. Everything seems to be in line, and the congregation is look-in gforward to a "big-day" in every way. *'* * Mr. Addison Chew continues on the sick list. His friends wish him a speedy recovery. * * * Mrs. Thomas, mother of Mrs. William Henderson, is spending the summer with her. Mr. Roscoe, C. Ewing has given up his former employment. He is now classed among the "farmers." His fine garden shows the wonderful training he received under his grandfather, Capt. Isaac F. Norman, one of Virginia's finest gardeners. "A worthy son of a worthy sire." * * * Mr. Fred Wilkinson was the Sunday ugest of his brother, Mr. Garnet Wilkinson; at Norman Farm. Miss Sadie Merriwether and Mrs. Lattie Griffen Taylor were guests of Mrs. Edwin Bancrot Henderson on Sunday. * * * Little Louise and Aurie Wady are with Mrs. Susie Campbell, their aunt, for the summer. * * * rM and Mrs. Dave Weaver were visitors at the Simmons Cottage on Wednesday of last week. * * * On Monday of last week Mrs. Mat. Hunter had as her guest Miss Loretta Simms of Washington. Mr. and Mrs. Otis Wade motored to the home of Mrs: Wade and renewed old acquaintances and spots of childhood days. The trip was one long to be remembered. * * * Dr. Moten, "our doctor," has graced our town with another new car, making his third car. This time it is a "Pullman," and a beautiful one it is. The famous racing play, "His Last Dollar," is the most thrilling drama of its type ever produced in America. The success of the original production was so decisive and notable that the title of the play has become a byword in racing iccles, and for many years a "David Higgins" has been commonly accepted as representing the last dollar in one's possession. The story involves a Joe Braxton, first a little newsie of the slums, who goes South, learns to handle horses, becomes a noted jockey, then drifts West; for years is a cowboy, investing his earnings in cattle, lands and finally mines, until he is a millionaire. Coming East, the selfmade man determines to enjoy a life of ease and forget the hardships of his youth. Still unmarried, he becomes the catch of the special season, and is eventually entrapped into an engagement with Viola .Howard Theatre. Week Starting Monday, July 29th Matinees:Tues. Thurs., and Sat. The Quality Amus. 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Linson returns to New York and inveigles Braxton into a heavy stock speculation, in which he hopes to fleece his friend. Meanwhile old Colonel Downs, losing money and health, sends Eleanor East to run their horse "Mongrel" in the great Futurity race. Eleanor and Braxton meet, and in that meeting Braxton learns the difference between true love and false, while Eleanor, too, looses her heart. She discovers the plot to ruin Braxton, and learns that Viola is false to him. Though Linson threatens to ruin her reputation with the story of their proposed elopement, she does reveal the truth to Braxton, who believes Eleanor, defies Viola and Linson, and rushes to the stock exchange to fight for his tottering fortune. The exchange closes in time to save him from being wiped out, and he knows that the afternoon's Futurity race will make or break him, for he has placed all he did not put into the Wall Street venture on Eleanor's horse "Mongrel," which is to run against Pompadour, the favorite, Linson's horse. The great race itself, the rascally tricks of Linson, the dramatic hand-to-hand fight between the rival jockeys, their magnificent riding, the attempted fouling of "Mongrel" and the splendid triumph of Braxton and Eleano Come Early for Seats THEATRE. Fine Condition— ossy by using ard's omade over their enemies, is vividly shown in one of the greatest and most realistic race-track scenes ever portrayed before the public. At its close Eleanor and Braxton decide to finish life's race together, and the drama ends happily. COLORED DEMOCRAT Chicago, Ill., July 20.—Senator J. Ham Lewis, Illinois, democratic United States Senator, has begun to fix his fences for re-election. Through his recommendation S. A: W. Watkins, Supreme Attorney for the Colored K. P.'s, has been appointed Assistant United States District Attorney for this district. Watkins has long been a colored Democrat, and has held local offices here when his party was in power. THE WASHINGTON "BEE" ANNIVERSARY MARCH This beautiful and classic march was written by Prof. Wellington A. Adams especially for the thirty-ninth anniversary of The Washington Bee. It will be on sale at Adams Music Store. It is a gem and should be in the homes of musical people. One year's subscription for The Bee and a copy of this beautiful march. PUBLIC MEN AND THINGS, (By the Sage of the Potomac.) “Again referrin’, without’ circum venting,” as John Dancy would say after occupyin’ an imaginary: berth in a. Pullmian—something he never actually did in his whole life, to this thing _ of teekwood-complexionec parents hangin’ an outlandish fame .on their projeny, let me dissertate as follows: Now, there's Jesse Fos- ter. For thé love of Mike, I have never figured out why Jesst’s par- ents handicapped him with a, name like “Jesse” what is the next of kin to “Jessie” they usually hang on to a bit of crinolin. A fellow always suspects that “Jesse”. belongs to some demure little guy with a lock height and figure. Now, Jesse Foster is a great big, four-ply sun-of-a-sea-cook, what’s big enough to belong ’to. the mastodon age. Here he is “dyin’” every day just to live under the handicap of a ,“Jesse.” . Jesse tells me that just a few hours before his birth he asked his mother to name him Jack, Jim or Bill, but that when he hoved in sight-with an “old Vir- giny”. case: of -countenance, and ‘a skin whose color. was 95 per cent white, his mother reached up. and took down an, old almanac hangin’ on the wall, ran through it, found) the name of Jesse, and just pinned it on him, Now, if Jéssé had been one of them there handsome féllows, with a Grecian beek, anda mouth chiseled after ‘the fashion’ of Apollo's, ‘'Jesse” | wouldn’t’ have sounded so all-fired bad. But even Jess’ wife never thought he. was handsome, or near- handsome. But, speakin’ about: this feliow what walked all the wa¥ from | ‘ole Virginy” to Washington to start sundry dye and .cleanin’. establish- nents, restaurants and what not—for, fess has been in every business save hat of sellin’ gold bricks; he is: sure ome hustler, and you just have°to 1and him the tobdsco sauce for get- in’ ‘by on a ‘rain check when most eople have to’ hold a’ reserved seat icket to see the’big show. There's een a lot of land lobsters, and syn- ‘opated ducks around these diggin’s | vliat’s batted, Jesse all over the dia- |. nond, among theniselves, for three-|. ase hits and homers, but he stayed |: ight on ‘the pitcher's little mound |. nd kept on ‘pitchin’ dye stuff, ben-|, ine and .gasoline, until now he has joint’ what's makin’ him enough’ to cep his choo-chod car a goin’ and). ufficient: Hooverized food to keep| is wife and babe out of the county |’ nfirmary league. . ei. Another .derelict “whose parents |' ad no more regard for his’ future |' han to lumber himy up with a near-|é -minine name is Jesse Powell: Jess | ewell is another one of ‘them big, |' ree-ply fellows, big enough ta ‘play |’ rst ‘base in the Consumers’ League, | ‘ ho is sadly roamin’ through life | nder the handicap of a rotten name, |* ess ‘Powell tells me ‘that’ fully -a|? onth before he was born he: prayed |J his’ father to name him Crispus.|! ttucks, John Sullivan, Jim Mace or |* rrora Beaureallis,. or -somie stich}? ke name, but when’ the, doctor; an-| © punced “it's a boy,” his father |i oked out of.the window, saw ajes-| 4 min. growin’: and just went out,|! ed it ‘up’ by the roots, cut off]! e “min” and hung the :“Jess’ ‘on |i m, and ever since he has -been a|" arked squeeze print. Just because |S got his name from ani abbreviated. wer, he went into’ the floral busi- ss, and from the titfe he can re-| ember until now he’s been .cam-|», flaging-people with bloéms—mak- |.) them think’ its classy to buy: vio- ‘A s, when they are -four dollars a i, nch, an. American Beauty rose} ren they are ten dollars a dozen.} | >w, Jess: Powell is a ‘handsome fel-| w—a- regular lady-killer, and ‘that | ack mustachio of his’n is. always]; t for a conquest. of hearts. Like |?° ck Bunsby, “if anybody kin, he|= n”; that is, he sure can handle flow: |’ s—can tell a sunflower from a toad- ool without lookin’; can tell an old- . Somehow or another, I just can’t stay off of some of these imitation “cullud” restaurants, They-do hand you ‘such a big load of charges for such-a little bit of food and no serv- ice—“nositutly -and absostivily.” as Bert Williams would say, no service. A friend told’me that he walked into one of these ‘ranches with Moquin _ Uncle Sam Needs Our Men. Let the -“PORO SYSTEM” take-care of you fgg LLG ca FP UN. * fT e A : ' Po eee | MAY nie ese NY y HABE ONLY BY i Tie CinphlepeLanaibeo di) | DD sar ert oy AIRY BAN FoR gahoRuccrAnuNG uate cin ) 1A 5 Ay PuANDABUNDANT GROWTH, (ey : WO es Vey igus 7 I ey SYNE : "PORO" COLLEGE COMPANY St.Louis, Mo. i em * atee ty 2 peace ang ROR ws ee otlier day, arid*after he had. eaten Ja lamb chop with a mutton longevity, one cold potato the size of a_mus- Htard seed, a sample dish’ of string Ibeang they had forgot to string, two Slices of bread with not eriough but- Iter to satisfy 2 mosquito, and drank [ cnp of coffee that was so weak it would have taken the count before Jit entered’ the ring, the “waitress handed him a check, which could, be read without glasses, callin’ for 65 cents. He said to the waitress, who didn’t, have enough ambition to’ wipe Ithe fly specks off his: plate, for. a glass of water, and she’ simply point- ed” to a.nice cooler that looked like the one Noah used inthe’ ark, and said,’ “Go hep yosef.”” He said the floor of the “Cafe de Excelsior,” or some such highfalutin’ name, hadn’t seen any water: singe Dorsey Foultz used to do, odd chores ‘about town. that ‘the spoons, knives and. forks given him to-massage; the food with looked like junk picked -up at the city dump, and that a lot. of barrels, kegs arid boxes of various sizes and ages were the asthetic decorations of the room. For all of this, he says— this wonderful near-Moquin service and’ food Hooverized down to a -knat’s ‘heel, he was charged 65 cents in American money. 3 . . ee =| Well, all I've got to say to this derelict is that He got off easy. I roamed: into one of: these 100 per | cent. pelow” a’ fifty-fifty’ break food | reserves the otlier day, arid for 75! cents‘ I got.a reminder ‘of food; @ stiggestion “of mo’ service, and a stony {tare from a charcoal-com- plexioned waitress what “hadn’t been deoderized, because ‘I failed to tip her: with the 25 cents change she gave me. Just as I. moved out-of the door I héard her say to her com: panion inthe art, of. overchargin’, ‘He’s a cheap ‘guy from’the Deen-|| wood sector.” I stepped. back—I|: was sore anyway over the service |; ind food I had got; and in a tone of], roice’ that would remind you of grate- | ; ul. thanks uttered to Tom Jones], fter he had. given you a life-saver |, ut of a Cascade bottle, said: “If you |, an change ‘a three-cent postage | tamp so I can get a two cent stamp ute of it, “I would ‘like to: tip you vith the remainder.” ~ 4 +e “At the next meetin’ of the’ Oldest" inhabitants we are goin’ to take up he matter of these relay hash houses | ‘ nd.pass’a set of resolutions calling |‘ pon the Provost Marshal to include |’ very one of.them in the néxt draft,| ‘ nd send them across to No Man's ‘ ‘and. without’ any previous. camp|‘ rainin’’ If I had my way; I’d put]) nost most of-them in front of the]? hock troops in. order to_end their |! gony soon,:and if I couldn't get |} re Provost Marshal to ship them to | fo Man’s Land; I would-ask Ban‘'4 ohnson to. organize. a ‘Criminal 4 eague, with Kaiser Bill ds manager, nd put them in that league.. They -" re .400 hitters in the matter of ™ argin’,. but in the matter ‘of serv. ® e-and: food they. just -ain't-got no ‘din’ ‘average at ali. Why. dor’t‘ ™ ey get a wiggle and a riggle on -* eirselves and- meet a ‘sufferin’ pub- © about half way down Price’ Ave- © ie and Service Street? Echo, an- jp vers, “Why?” ae aoe. be ** . te I was around in the vicinity. of ; sntral Market - Saturday . evenin’ out § o’clotk, pricin’” po’k ‘chops d pigs’ feet, and so drapt over to |.d aron Gaskin’s for dinner. Now, !7 is is what I had, and all'-for 351 nts: Roast :po’k, with nee esr | w taters, one ‘size of a base ball; | ring corn,, greens cooked like tc other uster “cook ’em—with hog” ti el;' stewed “termatissus,” apple _ Bi aa tiara gar ioeien: “sass” and bread and butter, and he l gave me “nuf” butter.to spread two whole, thick ‘slices’ of bread. And me ain’t all 1 got—I got’ some real service. Now, if I had got such a layout up’ in the’ Northwest or South- ‘west, ‘it would have cost me, with* ‘out, service, ’bout one wholé dollar, and then.the tater Iq got, would have been the size of a pigeon’s egg, and the butter—well jt would just been.’a mere “suspicion,” Now,: if Aaron “Gaskin can give such grub and high service for 35 cents down town, where rents are’yp as high as an aeroplane goes, I can’t see why these-abbreviated hash houses in the Northwest, where -rents are still, about: normal, can’t do’ as well. One hash house keeper in the Northwest, when I told about Aaron Gaskin’s 35 cent spread,, said,"“J don’t see how he. does. it.” “Well, that ain’t my business, nevertheless, an old ex- pert like Aaron must know his busi- ness,.and I never heard of Aaron bein’ voted the Carnegie hero medal for: just naturally : givin’ -way stuff., Aaron’s 35 cent bill of fare sure does look good to yo’s truly, | .GREEN WILLOW PARK. he Recent Alleged Fight in. Which | It Is Alleged a Soldier was Cut.” | ‘Some few days ago, the daily press published a sensational article alleg- ing that.a fight took place‘upon the street.car returning from Grech Wil- low Park, between certain’ colored ‘citizens. and white soldiers. The Bee has made careful investigation,. and it ascertained that'‘such a fight took place aid no one was cut. Two white soldiers’ and three United States Marines were upon ‘this car. A soldier requested a colored man to go to thé rear of the car, and a marine kicked at a colored iman, and had the kick reached him it. would have been fatal. The colored citi- zens weren't interfering with any one, and neither was the ‘colored man at whom the marine kicked, Had any such fight occurred there were snough colofed-people ‘upon the car that could. have cleaned up for the marines and soldiers. ! HOME DEFENSE LEAGUE. The Votunteer Guard Division. of the’ Home Defense League for the District of Columbia held an inter- esting meeting atthe Armory, Dun- bar High School, last Thursday, July 18th. There was a fair attendance of the: command. Owing to extra duties of Major E. L. Webster, in- structor of rifle practice, an assistant will be appointed in the hear future. The division agreed to contribute to the Police Memorial Fund for the District of Columbia. ‘There will be first-aid ‘instructions by Dr. Charles A. Sewell in the future.. Owing to dances of the war kitchen the di- vision had to suspend some of its meetings, so in the, future the drills will be held every’ Thursday ‘night at the Armory, Dunbar High School, Principal officers are as follows, Major, R. W. Pullman, Superintend-. ent of Metrépolitan Police, District of Columbia; Ds. “W. A. Warfield, Captain; M. Grant Lucas, Pro. Cap} tain; Military Instructor, Captain | Rhea of the Treasury Guards; In-| structor of Rifle Practice, Major. E. 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This-magnificént hotel, located in the heat shore resort in the world; replete with « nt, superlative'in construction, appointme ronage. Orchestra daily, garage, .bath | mises. -Special attention. given to ladies < - E. W. DALE |. - . Hotél Dole, Cape May,.New i BOA Sema SEES FSCS: Se tig SSE 5 a I 2:83 Re Sepia woh3 SPE SOR ea ee 1 ¢ ee > ee ee Ree eS: «sh OES os) Bg aes Me sah 2 MEd ees: «|. Paneer Cea UNCLE SAM'S BIG WORK IN FRANCE Gigantic Things Being Accomplished by Men From United States. Immense Structures Spring Like Magie From Ground—Troops Slated for Three Months' Training Go Into Service. With the American Army in France. Americans in France who are familiar with the gigantic things Uncle Sam is doing here sometimes wonder if the people who are subscribing for Liberty loans and giving their full moral support to the national government fully realize what their money and their support are making possible over here in France, writes Don Martin in the New York Herald. The rule of the army is that Americans must not boast. In simpler, backwoods language, Americans must saw wood and let the other fellow de the talking. Consequently the folks back home get only fragmentary pictures of what Uncle Sam, three thousand miles away, is accomplishing. Forests in places have been cleared away to make room for sldings. Imense structures have come almost like magic out of the ground. Railway tracks have been laid so swiftly that one could almost see them extend themselves. To see a thousand hardy, eager young Americans working in an isolated part of France is a sight to be encountered many times any day. And the work has just begun! Building Lines of Communication. Only a few weeks ago while driving along a well-known highway of eastern France I saw young engineers surveying along a distance of perhaps twenty miles. They were young college men. A few days later they were thirty miles further along the road, and where they had been were gangs of men digging holes and unloading colls of wire from trucks. Next day tamamack poles were scattered along the route. What I saw along this 50-mile strip was merely a duplication of what was going on in every 50-mile sector all the way from the coast to the front line. Now there is a fully-equipped American telephone line. This is just an incident in the enormous program of organization and preparation which the United States is carrying out. If we lack perhaps in the long military experience of some of the other nations, no one can accuse Americans of lacking in quick organization and achievement in construction work. France is marveling at the speed with which our engineers and their bands of men have progressed with their mammoth tasks. She knows now, although she really never doubted, that the United States is in the war to a finish and is determined to prosecute it with the same vigor. she has every other conflict she has ever engaged in. American soldiers, as Secretary Baker predicted, have been pouring into France for several weeks. They are distributed in villages where until now no American was ever seen. One has but to see the gigantic barracks being erected here and there along the line of communications to realize that sturpendous things are in the immediate future. At one point thirty one-story frame buildings, each 100 feet in length, were built in two weeks. Now they are filled with soldiers going through intensive training for service at the front. So, as the Americans are gradually coming to realize that somewhere back home there has been wonderful speed and efficiency in getting men across the Atlantic, the people of France are beginning to understand that Uncle Sam has a vast army here already. How much of it will participate in the great battle which is still going on, no one can foretell. It is known only that American troops have been moving about recently and that many troops which were slated for three months' additional training behind the battle lines were found to be in a state of such perfection that they were ready to meet any emergency. French Rejoice; Americans in Line. Americans were sent to the big front not long after the battle began. Official announcement to that effect was made. Publication of the fact caused a feeling of exultation to sweep over France. Everywhere one could hear the French saying: "America is now in the line!" Americans had been in the front line long before that, but not in the front line of the biggest battle of the war. The French newspapers commented widely on the matter and later gave great prominence to the statement of General Pershing that anything America has is at the disposal of France for what use she wishes to make of it. This was regarded by France as the most generous and patriotic offer ever made by one nation to another. The people of France are overjoyed. They never feared the result of the big battle now going on. Possibly they worried sometimes about the capacity of a nation bled as France has been bled to continue indefinitely if years were required to give the Germans the licking they deserve. But now they are filled with optimism and confidence, are swelled with pride and a International Bureau A. J. "Dad" Babcock, a ninety-seven-year-old ship worker, is spinning oakum in the Seaborn yards, at Tacoma. Wash. Babcock has been in the shipbuilding industry for 80 years and was the founder of the first shipyard at Tacoma. Too old to undertake more strenuous work, "Dad" offered his services spinning oakum and is at his post daily, his trusty lunch box keeping him company. PUTS O. K. ON SAUERKRAUT Food Administration Says It Is Valuable Food and Use Should Be Encouraged. Washington.—On account of its supposedly German name, sauerkraut seems to be losing its popularity as an American dish. The food administration has learned that throughout the country men and women in their patriotic zeal have been spreading a strong propaganda to discourage the use of a valuable foodstuff. As a matter of fact, the dish is said to be of Dutch, rather than of German origin. In any event, sauerkraut is a valuable food and adds to the variety in which cabbage may be prepared. Its wider use would no doubt stimulate a greater use of cabbage and would further the food administration's campaign for increased consumption of perilable foodstuffs and a greater saving of the staple foods needed abroad. No matter, by what name it may be known, sauerkraut is a valuable food and its use should not be curtailed as a result of overzealous and ill-advised patriotism. MENDING MOTHERS BIG HELP Boys in Camp Look Forward to Their Coming with Real Cheer. 'San Diego, Cal.—Camp Kearny, the great military training camp of southern California, is receiving, almost daily attacks from an organization known as "the Mending Mothers." Armed with needles and thread, patches and buttons, surprise attacks are made upon the various units and clothing of all descriptions is mended, patched and repaired in tiptot shape, such as mothers only can do. Each soldier's "army trousseau" is thoroughly renovated and a note left for the soldier by the thimble squadron telling the day or week the organization will again visit the regiment. While the mending mothers sew away a regimental band furnishes music to the time of the needles and then over to the mess hall goes the entire organization for luncheon. "This organization is a real help to us all," said one officer, "and all of us surely look forward to their coming with real cheer." DADDY KEeps PROMISE AND GETS FRENCH CROSS Pittsburgh, Pa. — "Good-by, dear; when daddy comes back he'll bring you a French cross." These were the parting words of Levent. Walter Rogers Flannery to his infant daughter, when he left with his company for France two months ago. And the lieutenant's promise came true when he rescued a wounded Frenchman after swimming the Marne river in a hall of German bullets. For this act he was decorated with the French cross of war. ```markdown ``` "Pug" Fined for Loafing. Macon, Ga.—Pugilism is not a business and therefore anyone following that calling as a means of livelihood is a common loiterer, according to Recorder Maynard of the Macon town HOW THE U. S. NAVY BUYS ITS SUPPLIES Purchasing Department, Under Admiral McGowan, Has Met All Tests Successfully-Centralization the Chief Merit of the System-Complimented for Efficiency After Investigation by Congress. Washington.—A business concern which can increase its turnover 2,500 per cent in 12 months without radical changes in method would seem to be a pretty sound organization. Amid all the expansion of government activities due to war, with far-reaching changes in methods of conducting business, reorganizations, increase in personnel, and addition of wholly new departments, one big business agency of the government has changed not at all, except in magnitude. That agency is the bureau of supplies and accounts of the navy, which purchases practically everything required by the navy except armor plate, guns, and shells. It feeds and clothes the navy, buys its steel, metals, lumber, textiles, and chemicals, provides transportation for the navy's supplies, coils its ships, and pays its officers and men. During the last year this bureau has been greatly enlarged by the addition of new officers, technical experts from civil life, and clerical workers, but its organization and methods have fully met all tests of war and have required practically no change, says the New York Times. After thorough investigation, congress recently declared this great business office of the navy to be notable for efficiency, as well as one of the biggest business enterprises in the United States. There are two reasons for the efficiency—an excellent business system and an excellent business man, Admiral McGowan, who first became identified with the navy's purchasing affairs four years ago, after demonstrating his ability as purchasing officer for the American fleet when it went around the world. Its Chlef Merit. The chief point of merit in the navy's purchasing system is centralization. All its supply activities are administered from Washington, no matter how widely the American fleet may be scattered over the world. Ships are provisioned in the West Indies, sailors are provided with warm winter clothing for destroyer service in the submarine zone around the British Isles, coal is dispatched to ships in the Philippines, nitrates are brought from Chile, clothing is manufactured in New York and Norfolk, stores are carried at innumerable points ready for delivery to ships at instant notice. Yet all activities center in Washington, and navy supply business is not only kept under the eyes of a few executives, but is expedited by a fine working spirit. Next to centralization and this fine working spirit, probably the most important element in the system is publicity in dealing with the supply of the navy's innumerable needs. Under pressure of war other departments have found it expedient to set aside the normal peace-time methods of purchasing under competitive bids, but the navy has adhered to the method of open bidding, with full publicity, on the principle that the public, contributing war funds by taxation, has a right to know exactly and in the fullest detail how its money is being expended. Another principle the navy adheres to is that war demands should be met by the peace-time system of purchasing. Great as war demands are, they call simply for an increase in volume of business—not a change in the fundamental method of conducting business. If the method has been properly worked out in peace, it will meet the exigencies of war. Directed by McGowan. If every institution is the length and shadow of one man, as Emerson said, then the bureau of supplies and accounts today reflects the personality of Admiral McGowan. When the bureau transacted its affairs with 28 people, he knew them all, and they worked under his eye every day, helped by the optimism and energy which he radiates. After a year of war, with his organization approaching 1,000 people, he still knows them all and sees them frequently, and maintains the original spirit of organization by making unlimited demands upon each individual for work, according to his or her capacity, with unstinted commendation for all good work, whether the job be great or small. When the strength of the navy was about 64,000 officers and enlisted men the bureau of supplies and accounts did all its purchasing and transportation through naval officers of the paymaster's corps. When war came, and activities increased by several hundred per cent monthly, the organization was strengthened by taking on about a dozen civilian experts from business life, men who gladly resigned good positions and large salaries with private business concerns to don Uncle Sam's uniform and work day and night for the comparatively slender salaries of naval officers. Other purchasing departments of the government met their early war problems by enlisting advisory committees of business experts, who investigated given problems outside, complied facts, made arrangements, and offered suggestions. The navy, on the contrary, took its civilian experts in bodily, put them into uniform. and made them part of the organization. The navy needed steel for war, thousands upon thousands of tons of it, for construction and other purposes. It got a steel expert, S. R. Fuller, who resigned from a big Chicago railway supply concern and went to work in the bureau of supplies and accounts supervising the purchase of structural steel forgings and castings for ships and shipyards. Gathers In Experts. The navy needed cotton—millions of yards of canvas, duck, drill, sheetings, and uniform cloth. It got W. E. Hooper, a cotton mill executive, who immediately severed all connections in his industry, sold his cotton mill interests, invested the money in Liberty bonds, and came into the bureau. The navy needed transportation on sea and land. All the problems of chartering ships for a world-wide distribution of supplies, coal, and provisions going out to the fleet, and nitrate and shellac coming back in naval vessels were placed in charge of Benjamin T. Young, an expert on ship chartering and ocean transport, who severed his connection with a big New York shipping concern for the period of the war. Transportation on land was taken over by O. M. Ellsworth, who left a remunerative position with a big railway system to enter Uncle Sam's service. The navy needed chemicals, and Donald Riley came from a large chemical concern to take charge of this department. It needed industrial accounting, and a great accounting machinery concern made arrangements whereby C. S. Ashdown took that activity in hand, giving all his time to the development of accounting systems as the burenu's transactions multiplied again and again. A department to deal with foodstuffs was provided under F. A. Tillman; another dealing with lumber under C. M. Mortford, and another dealing with leather and allied materials under J. W. McIntosh. The general standard of ability set by the navy for its civilian experts is that each man must be worth several times what the navy pays him in salary, and that he must come into the organization for the period of the war absolutely. "Outside talent with inside control" is the principle followed, and this has worked so well that the navy has never been obliged to seek advisory service outside its own organization. Growth has been entirely from within out. Can See Blds Opened. In Sanda court, the bureau's temporary structure in the central court of the state, war and navy building, a room is provided which can be entered by anyone without pass, question, or formality. There is an open door, entered from the street, giving access to a room called "The Public's Room" and there any person interested in offering a bid on navy supplies or wishing to see that bids are opened fairly can go and, watch all transactions. Employees engaged in opening the thousands of bids received daily work in open view of any person who wants to enter this room. As fast as bids are opened the amounts of each item are posted in books and placed upon counters, where anyone may examine them, learning all the facts about the prices bid by competitors. Admiral McGowan's views on publicity for government purchases are very pronounced. "In handling other people's money things must not only be right," he says, "but they must look right." And the best way of having them look right in his belief, is to let the public supervise operations to the utmost extent. Only in war has the navy found it necessary to keep any information about its purchases confidential, and even in war secrecy is necessary for but a very small fraction of the purchasing, where knowledge of details might afford assistance to the enemy. Centralized purchasing with a wellplanned organization has made it possible for the navy to increase its turnover many thousand per cent, not merely without congestion or other difficulties, but with actual increase in incomes and efficiency. As purchases have grown larger and more numereous they have been handled with greater speed and at lower cost. Quality Sareguarded. And with growth and magnitude there has been every care to safeguard the quality of supplies purchased for the navy. When we entered the war confusion existed in commodity markets, and there was apparent shortage of wool and other supplies. It was believed for a time that navy specifications would have to be revised, with a lowering of quality. But the bureau of supplies and accounts took a determined stand on that point. Very often, in view of assumed conditions, it looked like a stiff-necked stand against reasonableness. Despite a wide-spread belief among textile men that navy uniforms would have to be made partly of shoddy, if the enormous requirements were to be promptly met, the bureau refused to consider any lowering of its standards for uniform cloth, and, through the department of agriculture, secured actual figures regard- ing the available wool stock in this country at that time. This survey not only proved that there was ample wool in the country for military purposes, but checked a wildly rising market. The same stand, has been taken on food for our sailors, coal for battleships, and practically every article required by the navy. "The best that is humanly possible," says Admiral McGowan, "is none too good for the men at the front, whether they be in the army or navy. I hold myself personally accountable to every father, and every mother, and every wife, and every sweetheart, that the men I have any supervision and care over are as well clothed and as well fed as it is possible for them to be. I acknowledge that as a personal responsibility resting on me. I freely acknowledge it; excuses are not receivable, and alibis are not accepted. What we want for the navy is the best!" MAKES NEW KIND OF MEAT International Film Service On the top floor of 641 Washington street, New York city, is one of the most interesting kitchens in the world, presided over by a Chinese woman doctor. She recently spent six months in a trip to China to study and analyze the soy bean. Dr. Yamel Kin, for that is her name, says that the protein contained in the soy bean is equal to that of meat and is of great value to persons who cannot safely eat meat. It is a replacer of meat—a sort of vegetable cheese. It forms no acid. It is an alkaline form of protein. Combined with hash or any form of meat leavings it forms a wonderful food for diabetics, as the curd contains no starch. When you eat "chop suey," "chow mein" and other dishes in Chinese restaurants, the salty black sauce served with the food is made from soy beans. It is by no means simply a condiment. It is as nutritious as a meat gravy. Excellent cheese can also be made from them. Doctor Kin says that she can make coquefort cheese that smells and looks like the real thing. She says further that as the public becomes educated to the obliging "soy" it will take its place at the head of the procession of American products. In all the world there is not a more misunderstood vegetable than the soy bean, says Doctor Kin. MOTHER TAKES LIFE WHEN SON JOINS NAVY Memphis, Teen.—When Mrs. Sarah Brewer, forty-five, mother of Harry Brewer, eighteen, heard that Harry had enlisted in the navy she exclaimed: "Now I have nothing to live for," and then swallowed a fatal dose of carbolic acid. SEEKS SERVICE FOR REVENGE Harold Bowen Saw, "Red" When He Heard Brother Had Been Wounded in France. Sloux Falls, S. D.—When Harold Bowen of Hartford, S. D., was advised that his brother, William Bowen, had been wounded while on the firing line in France with other American troops, he immediately commenced to see "red," and hastened to Sloux Falls in an effort to be assigned to early service in France so he could avenge the wounding of his brother. Harold Bowen was a selective draft man, and stood well down the list. He appealed to the local exemption board in Sloux Falls and begged to be accepted into the service at once, out of his turn, in order that he could get to France with the least possible delay so he could kill a few Germans. His plea was accepted by the members of the exemption board, and young Bowen departed to undergo training at Camp Lewis, Wash., preliminary to being sent to the battle line in France. Football Team Enlists. St. Louis—Thirteen Illinois miners, and all British subjects, enlisted in a body at the local British-Canadian Recruiting Mission headquarters. They comprise the membership of the British-American Football club of Springfield, Ill. USE FAT CARDS IN SWITZERLAND They Have Been Added to a Long List of Food-Saving Measures. People Urged to Use Peanuts and Fruit Stones as Substitutes—Planting of Sunflowers Along Roads Recommended. Zurich.—Neutral countries are now feeling the scarcity of articles of food and are compelled to adopt rationing measures, thus following the footsteps of belligerent countries. Switzerland is adding to the bread card, meat card, coal card, etc., a new saving device—the fat card. Commenting on the impending innovation the Neue Zuricher Zeitung says: "Of course the coming of the fat card is greeted with a general chorus of howling and cursing. The bread card received the same sort of welcome. However, systematic rationing of all our food is only to be welcomed when you consider the necessity of justly and equally feeding a whole people. "It is the only way to make possible a fair distribution and it is the only way to suppress mean egotism. The fat portion prescribed by our government is sufficient for these extraordinary times of general food shortage. But even in peace times the housewife could hardly use 500 grammes a month for each person. Wholesome Leason. "It does no harm at all if we are somewhat restrained in the use of fats. It will be a wholesome lesson to many of us. Some, people were in the habit of wasting fat in shameful manner. It belonged to the requirements of an elegant kitchen to soak everything in fat. It became customary to trim the fat off boiled and coasted meat and even off ham and leave it on the plate. And then fat such as butter was added to meat and eggs, which contain enough fat of their own. Here the cooks squander a lot of fat because it is the easiest way. "Some restriction and a little more thoughtfulness in preparing dishes will harm nobody. Overanxious people are howling about starving. They forget that the poor who form a very numerous part of our population always had to economize in the use of fats. Besides, man can get along without fat for a time. For most of our foods contain fat in another form. A shortage of fat might become serious if we had no substitutes, such as cornstarch and sugar. Every ounce of fat can be replaced by two ounces of starch. "Of course weather and climate affect the amount of fats required by the human body. A person working hard during cold weather needs more fats than otherwise. As a whole, though, man is able to adapt himself, and his craving for fats is more a matter of habit than, of necessity. In the kitchen butter should be displaced by oils. Oil is cheaper and well answers all purposes in frying and baking. Peanuts as Substitutes. Peanuts as substitutes. "Peanuts may be used as a substitute for fat in the preparation of many dishes. All kernels and stones of fruit should be collected for the production of oil. A kilogram of cherry stones will yield 720 grammes of shells and 280 grammes of inner kernels. The latter will yield 67 grammes of oil. "Peach and plum stones may be treated similarly and will give the same results. Even the pits of apples, pears and oranges can be made to produce oil. Pumpkins, too, contain a wealth of oil. Mostly all of these oil-yielding particles are thrown away as useless. "Children should be taught to pick them up and collect them. Depots should be established where the children—and others too—can turn in their collections. The rising generation must become imbued with the desire to serve their country. Planting of sunflowers along roads, walks and railroad tracks must be encouraged. "If all this is done systematically and faithfully the present shortage of fat will mean nothing to our people. It may be felt as an annoyance in the kitchen and the palate may miss something, but it will not cause any malnutrition of the people." GRUNTS AND CACKLES BRING HAM AND EGGS Connellsville, Pa. — Private Scott Lysinger, writing home of his tribulations in making himself understood in France, says that when he and several of his comrades entered a restaurant and tried to make the waiter understand they wanted ham and eggs, one of them grunted and/another cackled. A quick nod of the head by the waiter indicated the order would come. German 1a Banned. Charlestown, W. Va.-The German language will be eliminated from the course of study in all the schools of West Virginia. The state board of education by unanimous vote adopted a resolution to this effect. THE TALK OF THE TOWN. Armond W. Scott is booked for reelection as Grand Exalted Ruler of the Elks at Baltimore last week in August. **** Many Washingtonians are planning to be in Baltimore on the 27th of August to witness the monster parade of the Elks, and on Thursday night, the 29th, to attend the grand ball. Miss Gladys Luckey of Atlanta, Georgia, who has been teaching at Sumter, S. C., is in the city, the guest of Miss Marie A. D. Madre, 2047 13th Street N. W. She is assisting in the circulation of the new Negro Business Directory that is being projected by a publishing firm. *** Mr. T. Thomas Fortune, secretary of the Negro Migrant Welfare Commission, of Trenton, N. J., was in the city last week on business connected with the Labor Department. \*\*\* Mr. William H. Lewis of Boston, former Assistant Attorney General of the United States, was in town yesterday on legal business. *** Grand Exalted Ruler Armond W. Scott was royally entertained last week by the Elks of Brooklyn and New York City. He is being warmly applauded upon all sides for being able to free the order from litigation with the white Order of Elks, through his superior brand of tact and diplomacy in dealing with the Grand Exalted Ruler of the Caucasian wing of the order. This means the saving of thousands of dollars to the treasury of the colored branch. \*\*\* Mrs. Laura E. Henry of 6th Street N. W., has been appointed to a desirable position in the office of the Quartermaster General of the Army, War Department. * * * Directed by Rev. R. B. Robinson, the corner stone of the Shaw Memorial Chapel at Alexandria, Va., was laid last Sunday with appropriate ceremonies. The game of the American Giants of Chicago vs. the A. B. C.'s of Indianapolis will be the event of tomorrow. Judge Robert H. Terrell will have a box party to witness the proceedings. Mr. Emmett J. Scott delivered a telling address Tuesday night before the meeting of the local Negro Business League at the Y. M. C. A. He indicated that the coming meeting of the national body at Atlantic City will rank with the best of the series, because the league is essentially engaged in promoting thrift, industry, commerce and patriotism, all necessary ingredients in winning the war. \* \* \* Dr. J. Stanley Durkee, the new president of Howard University, came here two weeks ago, looked over, the ground and stated that he is greatly pleased with the prospect in view. He will come for permanent location about the first of September. He resigns one of the most desirable pastorates in New England to take up the work for the colored race here at Howard, and makes the sacrifice cheerfully for the good he feels he can do at this new post. \*\*\* Wilberfore University, of which Prof. W. S. Scarborough is president, recently conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws (LL. D.), upon Emmett J. Scott; Special Assistant to the Secretary of War. Mr. John C. Gilmer of Charleston, W. Va., former editor of the Advocate, and now secretary of the Auxiliary Advisory Council of the State Council of Defense, spent last Sunday in the city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Thompson, 1223 S Street. Mr. Gilmer was en route from a long tour, including points in New York, Pensylvania, Maryland and West Virginia, in the interest of war work. He may revive the Advocate, once a leading paper of the race. Mr. Walter L. Cohen of New Orleans, the leader of the stalwart Republicans of the State of Lousiana, was in town Saturday, the guest of Former Governor of Louisiana P. B. S. Pinchback and Mrs. Pinchback, at their apartments, 1341 U Street. Mr. Cohen looks the picture of health and still has his leadership "on straight." He says there is to be some "big doings" in the Pelican State ere long. Rev. Walter H. 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He delivered an inspiring address to the student teachers and faculty on the issues that are being fought out by this war. The local Negro Business League met Tuesday night at the Y. M. C. A. and perfected arrangements for the sending of delegates to the 19th annual session of the National Negro Business League at Atlantic City August 21, 22 and 23. Dr. Daniel Freeman presided, and Mrs. Julia P. H. Coleman acted as secretary. Several Washington speakers, including Mr. John W. Lewis, president of the Industrial Savings Bank, are scheduled to appear on the program. Miss Abbie Mitchell is here this week with the Quality Amusement Company, presenting "The Woman in the Case." Sidney Kirkpatrick is underlined for next week in the thrilling race horse play, "His Last Dollar." \*\*\* Whitney and Tutt's new "Smarter Set" in. "Darkest Americans" will be here early in the fall. Whitney says this season's piece is his masterpiece. * * * A new aggregation of soldier boys are at Camp Meade. 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When taken into the stomach it thoroughly digests the albuminous food and cures the indigestion by resting and assisting the stomach until normal or natural digestion is restored. Agents Wanted—Liberal Commission DR. W. L. SMITH, Druggist, 801 Florida Avenue N. W., Washington, D. C. ROOMS FOR RENT. Rooms for Rent-For men. Apply 1822 Thirteenth Street N. W. WANTED. WANTED. Cement contractors at once to do $500 worth of excavating and cement work for building foundation. C. W. Tignor, 2503 Nichols Avenue S. E. Phone L. 4105. WANTED. WANTED. Wanted—A Drug Clerk. Apply at 208 N Street N.W., or Pinkett's Drug Store, corner Fourth and N Streets N.W., city. WANTED. Two (2) girls at The Bee office at once—bookkeeper and mailing clerk. The Bee, 1109 Eye Street N. W. SPECIAL NOTICE. Trinidad Baptist Church, Bladensburg Road and Lewis Street N. E., Sunday School, 9.30 a. m.; preaching, 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.; prayer meeting, Thursday, 8 p. m. Rev. Robert J. Hawkins, pastor. DF. T. THEO. 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Whatever you pu small weekly or monu and this will NOT add you can read, on every Make comparisons cases lower than you o remember, we allow a Peter G 817-819 Buy Furn Facts that are being printed on must surely convince you that furn near future. We're reminding you to proing NOW, not only for your imm will be needed in the months ahead. Our form of credit convenien cost—and AT ONCE. Whatever you purchase will small weekly or monthly payment and this will NOT add a penny to you can read, on every article. Make comparisons and see that cases lower than you can find in an remember, we allow a discount of Peter Groga 817-819-821-823 Buy Furniture Now Facts that are being printed daily in the news columns of the papers must surely convince you that furniture prices will be much higher in the near future. We're reminding you to protect yourself against the advance by buying NOW, not only for your immediate needs, but also what you can see will be needed in the months ahead. Our form of credit convenience enables you to do this without extra cost—and AT ONCE. Whatever you purchase will be charged on an open account with small weekly or monthly payments to suit your individual circumstances, and this will NOT add a penny to the prices you'll find marked, in figures you can read, on every article. Make comparisons and see that these prices are as low and in many cases lower than you can find in any other store in Washington. Then remember, we allow a discount of 10% for cash or settlement in 30 days. Peter Grogan & Sons Co. 817-819-821-823 Seventh St. N. W. A RELIABLE PHARMACIST is the one you can always depend upon to use no substitutes, but compound prescriptions from pure and fresh drugs, with accuracy and care. The real test of drug store's capabilities is its prescription department, and ours is perfect. We fill your physician's prescription to the letter and no mistake is possible. PLUMMER'S PHARMACY Robt. F. Plummer, Prop. Accuray, Service, Quality A. D. S. Remedies We Pay Particular Attention to Our Prescription Department Telephone Your Wants—Phones Franklin 2700. Franklin 2634. 301 H St., Corner Third St. N. W., Washington, D. C. —Advt. EVERYTHING FIRST CLASS Robt. F. Plummer, Prop. Accuray, Service, Quality A. D. S. Remedies We Pay Particular Attention to Our Prescription Department Telephone Your Wants—Phones Franklin 2700. Franklin 2634. 301 H St., Corner Third St. N. W., Washington, D. C. —Advt. EVERYTHING FIRST CLASS Hot Bread Morning and Evening Home-Made Desserts Artificial E Inserted MU Columbia Violin, Pipe O courses with o tries. Corres Open the year "THE MU the world. S by mail. Sub JOSEPH GRAVES' CAFE Ice Cream and Soft Drinks of All Kinds Oysters in Every Style Cigars and Tobacco. Rooms for Rent Open All Night Oysters in Every Style Cigars and Tobacco. Rooms for Rent Open All Night Opposite Government Printing Office Franklin 4878 16 G Street Northwest make, $5 to $5 every class, stamp for rep B. W. I. MUSIC A Address: Workingmen, we thought we would have a surprise when we announced that we were selling new pants at $2 to $4, and some winked the other eye and passed us by. But, son, they pay for the "know it all," and wise hustlers are not in this class. Try us. Justh's Old Stand, 619 D. Use Your Credit and My Furniture N be being printed daily in the news colu ence you that furniture prices will be n ding you to protect yourself against th ily for your immediate needs, but also the months ahead. credit convenience enables you to do NCE. You purchase will be charged on an op monthly payments to suit your individ I add a penny to the prices you'll find every article. issons and see that these prices are as you can find in any other store in W ow a discount of 10% for cash or settle Grogan & So 19-821-823 Seventh St. Announce Dr. David L. Block, in charge SAMUEL Exclusive Optometrists Artificial Eyes Inserted MUSIC!—WASHINGTON Columbia Conservatory of Music, to Violin, Pipe Organ, Harmony, Compos- courses with diploma. Pupils from six tries. Correspondence courses in Harm- Open the year round. "THE MUSIC MASTER," only co- the world. Send your music news. G by mail. Subscribers in British Colum- started small, but'll end big Join us! ADAMS' MUSIC HOUSE—"Think make, $5 to $200; any instrument desire- every class, from 10c. down. Will s stamp for reply. Customers as far as N B. W. I. MUSIC ARRANGED and revised Address: W. A. ADAMS, 1911 N Artificial Eyes 737 7th Street, N. W. Inserted Washington, D. C. Columbia Conservatory of Music, teaching: Piano, Voice Culture, Violin, Pipe Organ, Harmony, Composition, Elocution, etc. Standard courses with diploma. Pupils from six States and three foreign countries. Correspondence courses in Harmony and Public School Music. Open the year round. "THE MUSIC MASTER," only colored music journal monthly in the world. Send your music news. Get agency. $1 a year, 12 cents by mail. Subscribers in British Columbia and eleven States. We've started small, but'll end big Join us! ADAMS' MUSIC HOUSE—"Things Musical." Violins of finest make, $5 to $200; any instrument desired. All kinds of sheet music of every class, from 10c. down. Will ship by mail anywhere. Send stamp for reply. Customers as far as Nicaragua, C. A., and St. Lucia, B. W. I. MUSIC ARRANGED and revised for publication satisfactorily. Address: W. A. ADAMS, 1911 Ninth Street N. W. would announced at $2 or eye pay wise Try 45 M Street N. The largest colored automobile firm so added a $3,50 car to their number. Special town. Phonè, Franklin Joseph Slade The largest colored automobile firm south of New York. Have recently added a $3,50 car to their number. Special rates for parties in and out of town. Phoné, Franklin 7161 Joseph Slade Edward Robinson After all, it isn't the amount you spend for your dining room furniture, but the care and thought that has gone into its design and making that tells when you finally arrange it in your own home. Let us show you some of our really good suites in handsome designs at little price Culture Now In the news columns of the papers are prices will be much higher in the yourself against the advance by buy- te needs, but also what you can see enables you to do this without extra charged on an open account with to suit your individual circumstances, prices you'll find marked; in figures These prices are as low and in many other store in Washington. Then % for cash or settlement in 30 days. n & Sons Co. Seventh St. N. W. announcement ck, in charge Phone M MUEL BERLIN Successor to BLOCK OPTICAL CO. Live Optometrists Opticland 737 7th Street Washington, H WASHINGTON, D. C.—MUSIC Observatory of Music, teaching: Piano, Voice in, Harmony, Composition, Elocution, etc. ma. Pupils from six States and three foreign college courses in Harmony and Public School ground. "CIC MASTER," only colored music journal m your music news. Get agency. $1 a year, others in British Columbia and eleven States will end big. Join us! MUSIC HOUSE—"Things Musical." Violins any instrument desired. All kinds of sheet in 10c. down. Will ship by mail anywhere. Customers as far as Nicaragua, C. A., and S. CHANGED and revised for publication satisfac A. ADAMS, 1911 Ninth Street N. W. Exclusive Optometrists Opticians MUSIC!——WASHINGTON, D. C.——MUSIC! SLADE & ROBINSON 45 M Street N. W. oored automobile firm south of New York. Have to their number. Special rates for parties in a Phonè, Franklin 7161 Edward