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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1908-05-15
OFFICIAL CALL.
Colorado, Springs, Colo.
May 10Th. 1908.

Colorado, Springs, Colo.
May 10TH, 1908.
To the Press:
Pursuant to the Regular Appoint
ment under the Provisions of the Con-
stitution.
The Western Negro Press Association
of the United States of America is
hereby called to convene at Des Moines-
Iowa, in it's twelfth annual session
June 10TH, and 11th., 1908. Proprie-
tors, Editors, Managers and Corre-
spondents west of the Mississippi river
are eligable to membership in said as
ISOLATION and are urged to be present.
We cordially extend an invitation to
the members of the fraternity and the
friends of the Newspapers in general
throughout the country to meet with us
at Des Moines to cnosider those ques-
tions so vital to the welfare of the race
in the United States of America. We
also extend and expect all ministers
and college professors, business men
and professional men and women to
join US in this meeting.
Recent developments show the need
of action on the Fart of the intelligent
and thoughtful members of the race
and the press with the aid assistance Of
the clergy, must undoubtedly take the
lead. @-#
w. H. Duncan, President,
Porter S. Simpson, Recording Sec'y.
Nick Chiles, Chairman Executive
Committee.
Address Hon. John L. Thompson,
Des Moines, Ia, concerning hotel ac-
comodations.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1908-05-15

hiohOy oAuSAS S@APA WV -
Iowa State Bystander Publishing
Company.
Communications must be written on
one side of the paper only and be OF
interest to the public. "Brevity is
the soul of w.t." remember.
We will not return rejected manu-
script, unless accompanied by post
age stamps.
Advertising rates for display Ads
20 cents per incl, for each insertion
Three to six months contract 10 cents
per inch. Local advertising 10 cents
per line for each insertion, counting
seven words to a line. For churches
and secret societies where admission
is charged, one-half of the above
mentioned rates. For professional.
legal and announcement cards, yearly
contracts, ETC., terms are given on ap-
plication. All advertising is to be
paid in advance.
We are prepared to do first class
job work at reasonable prices. All OF
our work Is guaranteed.
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oldest Afro-American journal pubs1sas-
ed In Iowa. It was established IN 1884
and is read ~ nearly all the colored
people of Iowa. We have correspond.
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M, w. u. GRAND LODGE OF
IOWA AND JURISDICTION
A. F.. & A. M.
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GRAND LODGE OFFICERS.

GRAND LODGE OFFICERS.
w. Fl. Milligan, M. w. Grand Mas.
ter. Cedar Rapids. Iowa, Rural Route
H. E, Jacobs, R. W. $. Grand War
den, Des Moines.
H. E. Williams, r. w. j. Grand
Warden, Ottumwa.
H. X. Hillon, R. W. Grand Treasurer
Omaha, Neb.
T. n Sturgis, R. w. Grand Secretary
Sioux City. #1
E T. Banks, R. w. Grand Custodian
Des Moines.
j. Il, Shepard, Chairman of Commits
tee on Foreign Correspondence, De
Moines, Iowa.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1908-05-15

WANTED. Every colored lady and
gentleman to write us for large samples
Of STRA-KO HAIR TONIC, the best
hair dressing used with comb and brush
only, no pressing, and CREOLE FACE
CREAM made especially for our race.
Send ten two cent stamps to cover
packing and postage. Agents wanted
everywhere. The BURTON TOILET
GOODS Co., st. Joseph, Michigan.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1908-05-15
Whooping Cough

SIN February our daughter had the
whooping cough. Mr., Lane, of Hart
land, recommended Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy and said it gave his
customers the best of satisfaction. We
found It as he said, and can recommend
it to an gone having chi dren troubled
with whooping cough" says Mrs. A.
Gross, of Durand, Mich For sale by
all druggists.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1908-05-15
Bad Attack of Dysentery Cured.

IAN honored citizen of this town was
suffering from severe attack of dy-
sentery. He told friend if he could
obtain a bottle of Cham berlain's Collie
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, he felt
confident of being cured, he having
used this remedy in the West. He was
told that kept it in stock and lost no
time in obtaining it, and was promptly
cured" says NJ. J. Leace, druggist, of
Wolcott, Vt. For sale by all druggist.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1908-05-15
WANTED-Colored ladies' every

WANTED-Colored ladies' every
where to sell our toilet articles maun-
featured especially for our race, the
colored people of America. Splendid
opportunity to make money. Most
liberal terms. Full size packages FREE
to agents who will use the preparations
on their own hair and face. FREE
premiums to their agents and custo-
mers. Devote part or all Of your time,
Write for particulars. Secure exclu-
i've territory. Have a pleasant and
profitable business of your own. Men
ton this paper. The Burton Toilet
Goods Co., Century Blk, St. Joseph.
Michigan H
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1908-05-15
A Strong Appeal.

Almost modern is the Persian story
OF the man whose disagreeaDle voice
in reciting his prayers in the mosque
was annoying to everyone. One day
some one asked him how much he was
pa d for reciting. Paid" he replied.
u am not paid. recite for the sake
of A]lan!" Then" replied the othezs
for Allah's sake don't!"
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1908-05-15

WANTED-A first class girl to do
house work in small family of only
four. Inquire Bystander Office, 7th &
Mulberry.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1908-05-15

To WHOM IT MAY CoNCERN:-I have
given to my son Guy Foy his time and
will not be liable after this date for
any debts he may contract. F. FoY.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1908-05-15

Pemberton will spend few days in
Sham baugh with his sister and aunt,
Mrs. A. B Cason.
Mrs. Nancy Montgomery is on the
sick list.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05
THE CITY CLUB

II ANSAS CITY has a City club,
N composed of men willing ito do
something big and fine for the
town." The biggest and finest thing
that can be done for any town is to
give it high class men for it's officials,
and keep them well posted, not only
through the newspapers but through
the City club, as to the best public
opinion on subjects of moment. In
Los Angeles our thriving and success
full City club has a membership of one
thousand. The best people in the COM
munity are enrolled, and through the
agency of the club the brightest minds
in the city are brought to bear on
matters of vital interest as they arise.
The luncheons of the City club are re-
nowned for informing discussions OF
interesting and timely topics. The City
Los Angeles, all the stronger because
it is non-official. Its object is to pro-
mote good citizenship. and TO bring
about whatever may be for the city's
welfare, and, incidentally, check prof.
ects that may not be for the city's
welfare. The civic patriotism of the
City club is far above suspicion IT'S
aim is lofty, and because the best
available information helps ethics and
promotes principle, it procures for its
embership-generally at first hand
the best information available on cur
rent municipal affairs and interests.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05
FIRE DRILL IN SCHOOLS

NIRE followed by panic has again
II exacted a terrible and terrifying
= tribute of innocent human life
A public school at Collfnwood, near
Cleveland, Ohio, has been burned and
one hundred and seventy pupils have
perished. According to dispatches the
children were kept under restraint and
were moving out of THEN various rooms
in admirable order, the result of con-
scientious fire drills. until they saw the
flames. Terror then overcame the
habit of discipline. There was d mad
rush and the worst of the mischief
was done. Catastrophes such as this
touch the great heart of America with
a special appeal to human sympathy.
Tears for the dead are flowing i'm every
city and hamlet. and, indeed, practi-
cally in every home in this huge coun-
try. But with the lamentations there
is raised again the questioning voice
that follows nearly all disasters.
Was it necessary, this slaughter of
the innocents? Was it inevitable? Is
there no way, in this age and in this
land of progress. of making school
buildings everywhere thoroughly fire.
proof, of equipping them with fireproof,
non-combustible fittings and stairways
and of placing our children beyond the
remotest danger of destruction by
that dread enemy, fire? 1t is not cred
ible that truly fireproof, incombustible
school buildings cannot be erected. We
should have them in Los Angeles and
in every city, town, village and hamlet
of the United States. If any school
buildings are not thoroughly fireproof
tear them down and rebuild them or
make them thoroughly freproof by
putting in the needed alterations. COM
munities should not stop to count the
cost While they are counting the cost
and perhaps disputing over it another
fire may claim new victims, For III the
east this is the season of cold weather
and furnaces and extra risk.
Even in Los Angeles where heating
is only a remote source of danger, we
should be able to feel that our chil-
dren are SAFE when they are IN
school, that fire cannot possibly be
started and that in case of an alarm
Or of any other emergency our boys
and girls are not merely drilled, but
had been drilled so thoroughly ana reg
ularly that drill has become hxed
habit with them. In case OF alarm OF
If danger the drill habit will assert |
- - ~ ohadianoe. fO that habit |
they may march out readily and stead
ly to safety, avoiding the danger OF
rush and crush and suffocation'
All drills are worth while. They do
not unnecessarily take up time that
might be devoted to other instruction.
There is no instruction more necessary
There is none that should be so faith
fully persevered in until it becomes a
habit.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05
THE RECALL

TN order that reform may be
operative it must be practical.
II This may sound like trite truism.
but it is worth saying, because
neglect of this self-evident proposition
may have a serious or at the least an
embarrassing effect on the practical
efficacy of the recall. Anything that is
worth doing is worth doing well, and
"welr' in legislation means not only
thoroughly, but sensibly. If the recall
cannot become operative unless the per-
centage of recalling voters is reason
able-that is to say, unless the per-
centage is not so high that it is a
laborious or even an impossible task TO
secure the requisite number of sigma
tures-then the recall might as we'll be
abandoned, because, in popular phrase,
whats the use?"
Direct representation and the recall
will assure to Los Angeles a city coun-
ell composed of good citizens who can
never drive the governmental team at
such a gait that it will run away with
the municipal coach. When Citizen
Voter sits in the drivers seat and holds
the reins there is no danger of disaster.
But if the reins are placed out of reach
his position on the drivers seat is a
mockery. Should the horses run away
he can YELL whoa, there!'
That is moral suasion. A runaway
team seldom responds to moral suasion.
You cannot argue with it. You must
ge. a good steady pull on the reins and
put on the brake.
Your brake must be in good working
order. Your reins must be at your
command and within your grasp. The
application of the parable of the coach
and driver is obvious. The recall must
be operative. An imperative recall is
a sham. In order to be operative it
must be accessible and/in good work.
ing order. Let the percentage neces-
sary to make the recall effective be a
reasonable and a reachable percentage.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
THE SOUP KITCHENS

MOOD BY, soup houses. Good by,
gT soup. The hard times are almost
~ over, and no longer will mans
only chance to earn a meal be to stand
in line and work his way to it. In
January 5000 men were fed at the Sal
walton Army kitchens in Los Angeles
In February the number of meals pro-
vided was over 10000 In one day the
number of meals given to penniless
people was 514 Even when allowances
We're made for the fact that consid-
erable percentage might have been
professional hobos, who devote their
lives to getting meals and other neees-
saries for nothing, the figure was dis
couraging, especially as the eastern
dispatches were reassuring in tons ana
said that normal conditions of pros
perity prevailed in the snow country.
However, on the day following that Oh
the high record. the number of free
soup eaters had dropped to 400, and
further secessions of the worthy Iett
the providers with choice collection
of regulars, hobos and ne'er-do-wells.
The line must be drawn somewhere
and as free soup kitchens would always
have patrons of this class, and would
encourage the idleness of the idle by
choice, it was found necessary to sus-
pend the charity. In addition to the
poor people fed by the Salvation Army
those entertained by Volunteers of
America should be taken into account,
and the total number of the needy who
had to depend on organized charity in
Los Angeles to save their lives is in
creased to a formidable figure. Let us
hope that it will never occur again"
When soup kitchens do a lively busi-
ness it shows that there is something
amiss with the economical system of
the community. In the United States
there is plenty for everybody, other
wise the soup kitchens would not have
been enabled to furnish free meals.
The system governing the distribution
and apportionment of the plenty for
everybody is at fault, or it would never
have TO resort to makeshifts like soup
kitchens. All. but you say, what would
be the case in time of famine? Friends,
in times of real famine we fear that
there would not be any soup kitchens.
The existence of these institutions is
evidence not of famine or of scarcity,
but of ERROR.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05
REPUBLICAN LEAGUE

HHE president of the Republican
league of Los Angeles county says
n 1.-The league does not represent any
faction of the party, but the party as
a whole. He declares no corporation,
individual or faction will control it.
Its objects are to advocate, maintain
and promote the principles and organ
ization of the Republican party, and
thereby interest, influence and irect
those to take part in politics who have
hitherto been more or less Indifferent
and neglectful to their political duties
and obligations; to bring out party
voters at primary meetings and elec-
tions in order that honest and capable
men may be nominated and elected to
office; to guard and defend the purity
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05

If it be true-and 1t is openly averred
that the delegates to what looks like a
Rockefeller convention at Pasadena are
gathered there for the purpose of plot
ting campaigns and expenditures of
money against Roosevelt policies, poor
Pasadena is in for a series of para
graphic roasts that it won't relish.
Won't somebody head off the impend-
ing assault and battery of funny men
and serious men, long writer's and short
writer's, editorial oracles and stately re
viewers, upon the Rockefeller rendez-
Vous?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05
Not Catching

The young clubman had been intro
duced to the beautiful Russian actress.
He was charmed, entraneed, and he
finally led her to the conservatory,
where they might have a quiet minute
to themselves.
pardon me-" he said. IT did not
quite catch your name"
"What is it that you did not do?"
she asked in bewilderment.
"Catch your name"
"Oh. your language is so strange. Do
you want my nameg"
Eyes; your own full name"
"Will you catch it this time2"
eI'll do my best"
"WelI, it's Vera Federovina Kommis-
arjewskaya,"
He muffed it.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05
THE KING OF TERRORS

n My degeneracy is illustrated in
the story Of the Chicago artists s
~ model who was led blindfolded
into a room filled with corpses and
skeletons and photographed for SELL
sational picture entitled ASLEEP with
the Dead She tainted when a bandage
was removed from her eyes and she
saw the 'grewsome, grinning hulks of
human forms that surrounded her"
Before she had allowed herself to be
blindfolded and had posed among the
corpses, this strange young woman had
nerved herself to waltz with an ar
ticulated skeleton, and with her sllee-
ton partner on her lap to sit for pho
tograph. There is a market for such
stuff, or the artists" would not go to
the trouble and expense of hiring the
models, living and dead.
To trifie with death and its emplems.
among a certain class, has always been
regarded as the height of jovial aban-
don, the ultimate of jocular deviltry.
There is nothing uncommon about
death. AS compared with the dead the
living are a picayune minority. Fa-
miliarity with the fact OF death should
not make anyone contemptuous of it.
The man who Knocks DEATH" and. as
the poets say frequently--poets talk a
great deal of nonsense-'laugh at the
grim king of terrors," is an idiot or a
fool When a man declares, Death
has no terrors for me- he is either a
thoroughly sincere believer in the
truths Of Christianity or he is a cheap
lying braggart
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05

Abraham Lincoln has been found
guilty of incendiary speaking. Some
one in the east has been ransacking old
newspapers and letters and has found
that Lincoln said to Andrew G. Curtin,
Pennsylvania war governor; "What
would you do with those fellows in
Wall street who are gambling in gold
at such a time as this?'
"They are set of sharks said the
governor
For. my part" declared Lincoln,
bringing his mighty clinched fist down
on the table, II wish every one of
them had his disloyal head shot Off"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05
PROHIBITIONS PROGRESS

N OILERS WEEKLY, after an e&-
haustive inquiry conducted in
~ fair-minded spirit, is presenting
to the public facts regarding Inc
American Saloon.' 1t is odd and per-
hans significant that until now no pc
riodical has though it worth Whlle'
even in this era of investigations, 10
detail expert inquirers and special
writer's TO gather information regard
ing the retail liquor traffic In the
United States. There has been much
anti-saloon talk, but most of it has
been couched in generalities which re-
mind one of the temporarily telling but
from a permanent standpoint ineftec-
tive rhetorical efforts of many temper
ance crusaders, and of the unsatisfac-
tory results of the publication of such
hooks as Ten Nights in a Bar Room.
That story was phenomenaly DIG
seller in book form, and after it was
dramatized the rival of "Uncle Tom s
Cabin" as a perennial theatrical at
traction.
Alas, poor human nature! When
"Ten Nights in Bar Room was first
played, all the saloons in the neighbor-
hood of the fortunate theater that was
drawing bumper houses to enjoy the
great temperance attraction could
count with confidence on greatly in
creased receipts. Most of the play
house neighborhood bar rooms found
it worth their while to add few extra
bartenders to their forces while Ten
Nights was on the boards.
The same kind of publicity that has
Of late been bestowed upon many other
abuses of civilization will effect a
change in easy-going American senti-
ment toward that arch mischief maker
the saloon. A great anti-liquor move
ment has already made it's influence
felt in many states, and although we
justly characterize it as great, and al
though its achievements are beyond
the dreams of the most fervid early
temperance reformers, it has only been
begun. Up to date, reports the bril-
liant and versatile Will Irwin, who has
conducted the investigation for Col
lier's, the result of the anti saloon
movement may be summed up thus:
one half of the area of the United
States is dry. The movement has gone
further and faster in the south than
anywhere else. 1t is unfelt only in the
Rocky mountain region and in the CEN
traI states of the Atlantic coast
Georgia is dry. Alabama has passed a
pronibitory law. Mississippi has fol-
lowed suit. Only three small districts
of Tennessee remain "out in the wet"
Kentucky has four wet counties.
Florida has only a mere fringe of wet
territory. Texas is more than half dry
Missouri and Kansas are falling into
line, one community after another hav-
ing voted for dry areas. In the north
ern half of Louisiana the manufacture
and sale of intoxicants are prohibited
II is expected thai the anti-liquor sem
timent in North and South Cai olina
will make them both dry states within
two years, and the old Governor" joke
will be pointless and dead. Maine.
Kansas, North Dakota and great areas
of Illinois and Indiana have adopted
prohibition laws. Ohio, which is dry
in many localities, is on the point of
Nearly half of the area of Chicago is
under ward prohibition laws And the
end it not yet
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05

Governor Gillett is sending a special
out whether compulsory arbitration
and other advanced New Zealand ideas
will be suitable for staid, slow Amer
lea. New Zealand regards the United
States as an old world power. why
does she remain in the British empire?'
Because she believes that the fedora
ton of the empire will precede the fed
Grafton of the English-speaking coun-
tries. and thinks that she Will be one
of the finest and foremost states of
the English-spesking republican feder-
alton,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05
IN THE OPEN

Here's what love--the blue sky above
And the wide clear space.
The mounting plain. the guiding rein,
The wind In my face
To ride and ride. where the land spreads
wide
To the darkenng hills,
In a splendid race to the open place
And tho life that fills.
TO ride and to rest on the hilrs high crest
Under open sky
And TO sleep without fear. where the stars
are near
And God close by. Outing Magazine
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05

With joy we read that the postoffice
department has appointed eight new
letter carriers at Los Angeles. But if
the population keeps on increasing at
the present rate the government should
settle down to an appreciation of the
situation without having to be prodded
from time to time. Whenever per-
ceptible increase of inhabitants can be
reported to Washington new carriers
should be appointed promptly.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05
Wild East Alarmed

Sound the tocsin; have the president
issue a call to arms and hurry the fleet
to the Pacific coast. Seven Japs have
been discovered firing off pivot gun
in all directions on an unfrequented
California bluff and making maps of
the cliffs along Santa Monica bay
Philadelphia Inquirer
Thus hath the mighty works and
words of Gumshoe, the war corre-
spondent, penetrated the jungles Of the
wild east.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05

A correspondent says that he is puz-
zled to account for the origin of the
word fleet. Nothing puzzling about it.
Fleet means exactly what it says-the
fleet or swift ships. Man O. war is
short for a man o. wars ship, vessel
carrying armed men, or men of war.
This reminds us that once upon a
time little boy on the Firth of Clyde,
where warships are not as uncommon
as they are off the coast of California.
was sorely puzzled over a Biblical ex-
preston quoted by an earnest minister
one Sunday morning. 1.-THE Lord is a
man of war" 1t tinged his apprecia-
tion of the Deity with a salty, nautical
flavor which fingered for years.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05

The United States consul at Edin-
burgh says American patent medicines
have big sale in Scotland Are we
to infer from this that bottled cords
make an unusually persuasive appeal
to the Scots?
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05
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M N FR0P1 A n
W NL1VE WIRE e
Soul Sisters Fade

PecK-Do you notice a decided wane
in the affinity craze?
Beck-Yes; they killed it by flooding
the market with near aff1nities with
bleached hair.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05

oregon does not present an enticing
prospect to certain citizens of Los An
gees The United States marshal says
that the government is as much deter
mined to send the men to Oregon as
they are to stay here.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-03-05
Joy jug of Jag jug?

Bella-I see in the dispatches they
have discovered an ancient Egyptian
tear jug which once belonged to Gle
opatra.
Billy-Great snakes! Did Cleopatra
go on tears?