Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-01-12
INTERESTING CHATTER
FROM nations CAPITOL

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-For the
sec md time in it's history Washing
ton is about to open a penny restau-
rant and to place it on something
like a permanent basis. 1t is to be
established for the benefit Of poor
white men and boys, and women, too,
and not for folks earning comfortable
wages who wish to live cheap. A
man will be able to get a cup OF
good coffee for / cent, a thick slice
OF bread with fresh butter for 1 cent,
heaping plate of beans for l cent,
and soup, meat and other such things
at a similar price.
Rarely have 50 many beautiful
American women figured so numer-
ously and conspicuously in the dip
lomatic corps as now. Notable among
them are the Countess de Chambrun,
who was Miss Longworth of Cincin-
natl; Nine. Jusserand, wife OF the
French ambassador; Nine. Bakhmo-
tioff, wife of the Russian ambassa-
dor; Nine. Louden, wife of the minis
ter for the Netherlands; Countess
Moltke, wife of the Danish minister;
Nine. Riane, wife Of the Spanish min
lister; Nine. Havenith, wife of the
Belgian minister; Nine. Ekengren,
wife of the charge d'afaires of Swe-
den; Nine. Ali Kuli Khan. and Nine.
Zia. daughter-in-law Of the hostess
for the Turkish ambassador. In add1-
ton to them there are many Amer
ican-born women of oyunger years
who are the wives of the secretaries
of legations end embassies, or of at
taches of lower rank; but all these
of whom l have spoken were reared
and educated in Washington.
Many humanitarians and sociol-
ogists are quietly discussing the fea-
sibility Of carrying into practical ef-
feet the suggestion of Prof. Albert E.
jerks of the University of Minneso-
ia of establishing bureau or COM
mission, properly endowed with pr1-
vate funds so as to remove the in
vestigators from all the i'll effects OF
political influence, to study the negro
problem in the United States. I'VE
must have facts" says the learned
professor. For instance, while few
negroes claim that they are the equals
of white Americans. while the major
ity of white Americans believe the
negro to be inferior to the white
American. a respectable body OF
scientists claim that they is no evil
dence as yet to show that the negro
is not the peer of the white man.
What are the facts? Opinion and
prejudice we have in abundance.
Now we should have the facts"
Directing attention to the facts
that We have no United States laws
forbidding the immigration Of "Afri-
can black people, and none against
their demand for citizenship, he as
serts that within the past ten years
1851 black African immigrant aliens
came into this country, about 20 per
cent of them being illiterates. 81
believe" he says, that these African
blacks are undesirable immigrants.
For the same reason, urged with
greater force. that We exclude Chi
nees and Japanese, we should ex.
clude the African black man. He
adds that there are 200 legitimate
families of negro men and their
white wives in Minneapolis, and con-
tends that the negro problem is the
most pressing one facing the United
States today. In the way of remedy
he suggests: Stop immigration, stop
intermarriage, stop illegal miscegena-
ton, define negro" uniformly, stop
murderous race riots. educate the
child all he is capable of being, 'es-
tablish a commission of experts, pref
erably by private enterprise, to study
thoroughly the negro situation.
1t is a matter of nationwide inter-
est that the first memorial military
chapel in America is to be erected
and consecrated as part of the CEN
tenary celebration of the War of 1872.
and that the location will be Govern.
ors island in New York harbor, the
sacred edifice to be built by members
of the Military Society of the War OF
1912. While it will serve the dual
purpose of concentrating services
in that war and in the war Of the