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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-05-18
(By Associated Press.)

BALTIMORE, May IA Prelude to
Peace" was the subject of an address
by Mrs. John M. Glenn, of New York.
President lat last nights session of the
National Conference of Charities and
Correction, in which she sounded tie
note of high ideals in social service,
and spoke of the tide of emotional
giving" which had detracted from the
years usual preventative and con-
structive work.
Social workers." she said, have
passed through winter during which
heavier demands have been made upon
them than in any other winter of their
experience. Many of us have come to
this conference worn in body and de-
pressed in spirit after fighting what
has seemed in many instances to be Il
losing fight to keep standards of WORK
high. Torn by conflicting claims upon
our sympathies, we have had to face
retrenchment in work that we knew to
be important, and have seen the en-
phasis shift from preventive and con-
structive effort to remedial and palli-
alive aid"
Mrs. Glenn spoke of foes, sensate
and insensate, that have blocked the
social workers PATH" and an "epitome
of the winters outburst of emotional
giving, taken on its lowest plane" she
found in Ell Greco's famous painting
of ST. Martin dividing his rich CLOAK
with a naked beggar, an act Of relief
which was essentially palliative one
without the slightest CLEAN of humor
on the face of either the knight or the
/ beggar to show there was felt to be
any irony in the situation.
This she contrasted with FL Greco's
painting of ST. Paul, with the face OF
one who lives by the rule Of charity
/ who vaunteth not himself, who suffer
eth long and is kind, who believeth all
nS HCCu vi OOClol WI hCi p
she said, was that they should bear
such as lamp of personality as that
borne by st. Paul. "The need Of our
field is that we move forward within il
not as mere personages but IS person
alities whose general spirit marks each
as having tone such as can come only
from a persons having struck some
depth in his own being. To allow our
selves to be hurried because of the i'm
patient temper of the times inro
thoughtless actions means that we be-
come mere automations and are in
reality condemned to almost total alb
sence from ourselves.
I'VE social workers are now being
brought face to face with realities as
never before, and it is we that are 60
ing to be put to the test. More and
more it is to be hoped that we shall
be brought to see that we stand in
need of a something that will trans
cend our own intelligence.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-05-18
Bulgarian Girls Are Beauties
Of the Balkan Alliance

her Bulgarian pupils: Nadezda, Mad
elka, Xarafnka, Blagoya, Vesselina.
Goonka, Zdrava. The last names all
end in 'oc' for the men and ova' for
the women, meaning son of or daugh-
ter of. Thus Magthalena Petrova is
Magdalen, daughter of Peter; while
Stoke Petroff is Stokio, son of Peter.
However, now last names are coming
to remain permanent in family.
Bulgarian girls are bright dressers.
The village holiday brings out won
derful array of gaudy costumes,
straight and awkward in line, but
brilliant in color and decoration, the
writer tells. The women's big waists
are usually emphasized by huge silver
buckles. When, however, girl is
young and pretty, her abundant curly
hair, into which is braided brighe
threads of ribbon, with often a flower
in her ear, her bright color heightened
by the gay embroideries, and her
slender figure, which the straightness
of her dress cannot spoil, make her an
attractive vision. The pleasures of the
girls, Miss Jenkins describes:
"A girl in Bulgarian vi-:age ID not
without her amusements. AS in the
Bible times all the water for village
must be drawn from one or two wells
or springs, and these watering places
Or fountains are the scene Of much
sociability. Hither come all the youths
and maidens of the village to loite~.
There is coquetting and counting about
the fountain and home gatherings in
! the evenings. Marriage spring from
, mutual attraction and choice rather
than the arrangement of families, as
do the Armenians and Turkish alli-
ances.
There are husking bees and quilt
ing bees where the young people meet,
but the most popular form of social
entertainment is the sedanka. Here
assemble the young men and women
of the village and adjoining farms,
grouped about an open fire, singing
solos and choruses. The Bulgarian
folk dances are danced in a row OF
circle, the leader generally waving a
! bright handkerchief and turning and
twisting about his line of followers
like a game of snap the whip 1t sug-
gests health and Astounding spirits and
good fellowship, without the sensual
| ity so often marks the Oriental dance
Occasionally the sedanka ends in a
dramatic fashion. Some brawny fell
low who has been counting his Darka
assiduously will seize her in his
arms and carry her to his home. The
next day this marriage by capture is
given legal and religious sanction by
the blessing of the Orthodox priest
once asked Zarainka what would hap
pen if two men wanted the same girl
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-05-18
COTTON SEED MEN
ATTEND CONVENTION

ATLANTA, Ga, May Is = The adj
vance guard of the membership of the
Interstate Cotton Seed Crushers' as
ISOLATION who live in Georgia left to-
day for Birmingham, Ala, to attend
the annual convention of that organ
ization which is to be held there on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. The
party left in a special car over the
Southern railway at noon today, head
ed by President P. D. McCarley and
Secretary E. P. Chivers, of the Cotton
ers, of the Cotton Seed Crushers' as
sociation of Georgia, both of thi scity.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-05-18
ENGLAND HAS TIME
To PLAY GOLF

Four of Englands leading profess
sional golfers sail today for this coun-
try and British golfing authorities
predict that one of the quartet will
win chief honors in the United States
National Open. Ray, Vardon, Duncan
and Mayo form a formidable entry and
the American players will have to be
at their best at Baltursol month
hence in order to keep the National
Championship in this country. An Eng
lish expert writing of the invasion
states
"The British quartet this time have
the very best prospects, and it is at
least likely that the humiliating de-
feat of Brookline will be avenged. The
American climate is not likely to beat
it's worst from the British point of
view in June. Then Vardon and Ray,
who are both playing WELL though the
circumstances of the times prevent
much attention being given to their
forms and doings, acclimatise quickly
in America, and have had the inesti-
mable advantage of experience in the
IN l..
the ordeal of Baltusrol in a different
frame of mind from that in which they
engaged upon their task at Brookline
and WILL moreover, not run any risk
of being overplayed beforehand, as
they will have just three weeks on
the other side to lick their game into
proper American shape. AS to Dun
can, whose chances in this expedition
I regard as being as bright as they
possibly could be, there is this to be
said-that though he has not taken
part in the American championship he
was in the country on a short tour
four years ago, and on that occasion
he played some wonderful golf on var
ious American courses.
Charles Mayo the Burhill profes
sional, who has been in partnership
with Duncan on many memorable oc-
cassions, has not been in America be-
fore, and it is difficult to estimate his
prospects. He is a sound golfer, and
very steady and is not so slow as he
used to be. / might add that there is
q possibility of a certain British anna
teur-one who has not won the cham
pionship either here or in America, be
it said-making the trip as we'll as
the professionals, and if he does so he
will need to be taken into most SER
ious consideration, for l do not think
that any amateur in this country is
playing better golf at the present time,
and hardly professional either TO"
that matter"
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-05-18

She replied simply: The stronger
would get her"
The Bulgarian girls are bright and
make eager use of educational advant-
ages, Miss Jenkins says. The college
trained Bulgar maidens become verit-
able centers of progress in the towns
and villages throughout their country.
instilling the hunger for knowledge
that, in turn, is to lead Bulgaria to a
great future.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-05-18

WASHINGTON, D. c., May 1S.-How
much the strength of Bulgaria, whose
steady progress during the last forty
years of troubled existence has COM
PEELED the admiration on Unlocking ma
tons, is owing to this nations sturdy
womanhood, explained for the Ma
tional Geographic Society by Hester
Donaldson Jenkins, an American edu-
Gator in the Balkans, in monograph
upon Bulgaria and it's Women" Con-
trasting the Bulgarian girls with the
other girls of the Balkans, Miss Jen-
kins says:
Among the Oriental girls with
whom l lived in my nine years resi-
dence in the Near East, none interest
ed me more than the Bulgarians. They
are perhaps the least Oriental Of the
eight or more nationalities to be found
jim the Constantinople College, of
which l was professor. They are
fairer and brighter in coloring than
the Armenians, Greeks or Persians.
rather taller and larger on an average,
and have far more energy and less
languor than the Turk
The Bulgarian girls, the writer con-
tinues, distinguished themselves from
the others by a certain wholesome,
Out-of-door quality sanity which
marked them sharply from the fanci-
full, sentimental, and weaker-nerved
girls of some of the other nationalitieS.
Their greater sturdiness was some
times expressed boisterously, and,
Miss Jenkins found, the Bulgaria.
hoyden was much more common than
the Turkish howden. Of the Bulgar
girls physical loneliness, she says:
Bulgarian girls incline TO round
ness of contour and figure, many OF
them having round full face, rosy
mouths, and dimples. This effect is
heightened by the fashion Of wearing
the hair in braids wound about the
head. One sees plenty of dark hair in
Bulgaria, but one also looks with
pleasure on warm brown tints, chest
nut tresses, and occasionally auburn
heads. One of the most beautiful girls
ever saw was a Bulgarian, with a
glorious mass of copper-cOlored waves,
a clear pale skin, handsomely set
gray eyes, a delicate mouth, and small
white teeth, and the height and car
riage of a princess.
THE bright cheeks that so many
Bulgarians have are pleasant change
from the dark or pale skins Of the
Aremenians and Greeks. Their eyes
are generally less large and languor-
GUS than Oriental eyes, looking yod
squarely in the face, with more frank
ness and less seduction"
Miss Jenkins gives the following
melodious samples of the names of
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-05-18
Watch Your Children

Often children do not let parents know
they are constipated. They fear some
thing distasteful. They viii like Rexall
Orderlies-a mild laxative thai tastes
like sugar. Sold only by us, 10 cents.
Murray's Pharmacy.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-23
THE COEORED MANS STAND
ARDS.

An0S.
The Christian Register, the leading
Taken altogether the standard of ante.
Unitarian publication of the country,
prints so excellent an article on col
ored mans own standards that we are
constrained to print extracts from it.
White men have set standards tor
the colored man for many years. Dur
Ing slavery days the standard was
mainly one of health and strength, a
good disposition" was also esirable:
"bad niger" was harder to sell
than one who would make no trouble.
bellum days for colored men was
much the same as that for horses
warranted sound and kind" and all
the rest. During the war, with the
splendid record of black men as SOL
dlers, the standard held up for them
by the white man shifted, though only
slightly. After the war, and after the
Fifteenth Amendment began to oper-
ate, the white man gradually altered
his expectation of what the black
could be and ought to be. Whites diff
fer greatly to-day, both North and
South, upon this question; as rule,
the more civilized the white man, the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-23
Must Judge A Group by Its Best.


(From the Christian Register, Boston,
Mass)
NO one can be- said to know anv
class OF people who has not been in
intimate and sympathetic relation with
the best as well as the worst of the
class. We compare MANY persons
who live in the South, and think thew
Know the colOred race, with others
VINO have had no such contact. but
VINO have come into intimate and sym.
palmetto relations with large numbers
OF that race whom their Southern
friends have never known; and of the
two sets of people we should say that
the second knew the colored people
better than the first They know aspf.
ratlons among them that the others
90 not know, or, knowing. do not
enter into and appreciate; they know
capabilities by direct contact with the
best of the race which others are obi.
vious OF; they know qualities which
only respect and sympathy can bring
out; they know possibilities to which
others by their very acquaintance are
blinded. If those who know the col.
ored race through the mass and nv
observation merely could know what
individual possibilities are demon
strated in growing numbers of the
eject, and would be courageously can
old with themselves, they would re.
wise their judgments and possibly sof-
ten their prejudices. At any rate.
they ought to credit to those on whom
they charge ignorance of the colored
race the values that come from know.
ing how many Of that race are the
equal OF any members of the dominant
race in the highest abilities and in the
clearest aims. No estimate is worth
much which does not take people at
their best.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-23
coNDoNING coLoREp OURS.

THE APPEAL approves of every
word OF the reprinted editorial from
the Chicago Tribune and wishes to
add few words of excoriation of the
contemplate colored ours who contin-
ually praise the southern people and
condone many of their Infamous acts.
1t is not only contemplate but Grim
lnal. The extension of race prejudice
IN the North has been greatly aided
by these fiends in human form who
nave been paid in cash or the appella-
ton OF good negro" to laud the brut.
al, barbarous, unhuman, unchristian
un-American South.
When the Georgia senate recently
passed law forbidding white persons
to teach colored pupils some of these
human skunks rushed into print to de.
lend the action, saying that it would
benefit the colored man.
The white Georgians who burn and
hang and legislate against their col.
ored fellow citizens are saints when
compared with colored men who con.
done their crimes.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-23
SEGREGATION BY CENSUS.

Negroes in the United States" is
the title Of pamphlet gotten out by
the United States Census Bureau. The
title is misleading, for there are only
473 real Africans in the United States,
according to the Census, that is Ne.
groes born in Africa.
It Is wrong, unjust and un.American
for the government to segregate it's
clerks by color in the Departments
IN Washington, and it is also wrong, un'
just and un-American for the govern.
ment to issue a separate and inaccu.
rate Census Bulletin as 1t has done in
the case of the bulletin, Negroes in
the United States"
The United States assumes that a
group of about 100000 people are
Negroes and proceeds to so classify
them. More than ninety-nine per cent
OF the persons so classified were born
In America of American parents, and
their parents were Americans and so
on back for ten generations.
II man whose ancestors for many
generations is not an American, who
Is entitled to the name? If a white
man can become an American in two
generations. why should a person of
any other color born in this country
fail to ARRIVE" in the same space OF
time?
The name Negro" applied to a
group of citizens in this country is in.
accurate, because it does not include
forty or fifty million other Americans
who have more or less Negro blood.
The expression pure race" is amyth
so all great writer's on racial questions
agree.
The mixing of bloods in this country
has gone so far that it is Impossible
to determine with any degree of accu-
racy who has Negro blood and who
has not, and for the Government to
select about 100000 people and say
that they are Negroes" and by that
act to aid in making them a separate
treatment in church and state, is to
perpetrate great wrong.
1t is an Infamous thing for the gov.
eminent of this great republic to draw
the color line in any way. In re
public every citizen should have ex
actly the same status so far as the
government is concerned.
There is no reason why Democra
cy should attempt to classify it's cit
lzens by their blood. All persons
porn In this country should be con.
sidered Americans without any pre-.
fixes or sufixes.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-23

reader he is, in Judging the colored
man, to see his great possibilities and
his remarkable progress, as already
shown.
The subtler problem, and more
vital to the colored people, is regard
ing the races standards for itself in
the various arts of civilization. And
his most serious obstacle is-not the
injustice of his white neighbors, EVIL
dent and regrettable as that is, but
the danger he continuously incurs Of
holding up low standards of attain.
ment for himself. If he is to COM
pete with the white man in business,
manufactures, arts, scholarship, and
other pursuits, he must hold himself
up to as high standard of excellence
as does the white man. AS a rule,
colored people do not quite come up
to this; they have the faults of their
qualities; they are too easily satisfied
with attainment which is distinctly
second-rate in the worlds Bradstreet.
The colored musician, or painter, or
artisan, or writer is too apt to meas
ure himself by the many people be-
low him in skill instead Of keeping his
eye fixed on the few who surpass him.
For this reason it is good for col
ored boy or girl to attend school OF
college which white boys and girls
attend. Well-meaning friends of the
colored people have pitied such pupils
of mixed schools and academies be-
cause of the many Sights put upon
them by careless or unfeeling white
schoolmates; but people who see more
deeply into the real problems OF the
colored race believe that it is better
for such affronted young people to
undergo the affronts and to remain in
the keen atmosphere of white stand
ards OF custom, costume, and scholar
ship than to live in a mild atmosphere
of half-attainment, among brothers
and sisters of their own race, all alike
half blindly cropping their slow way
out Of the darkness. Better that a
colored boy should bear whatever
sights are put upon him by certain
narrow, selfish, white boys at Yale
or Harvard than to drift comfortably
along in some Negro school which has
not got itself as yet squared to the
world standards, in a. world where
white men rule
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-23
WALLER AGAINST "NEeRo"
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says It Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(FrOm Amsterdam News y

Noteo /6rookIyn DOCTOR says 1t Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(From Amsterdam News.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: cannot too heartily congratu-
late you on a recent editorial discour-
aging the use of the word "Negro."
There is no greater delight enjoyed by
the white people of the United States
today than the spreading use Of this
unfortunate term. Why? They real.
lie that 1t is the most potential fac.
tor at work at the present to bring
about both physical and mental
segregation of the people Of color. Its
use Is on the increase only because
our speakers and writer's, especially
Do Bots and Washington feel that its
repetition, ad nauseam, is necessary to
retain the good will of the masses. The
term Negro" is not only absurdly in
accurate as applied to millions of col
ored people, but it is also alarminly
Injurious, for the following reasons:
q. 1t has never stood historically or
In the present, anywhere in the world,
for anything noble or uplifting. Most
high-grade Africans repudiate It.
" AZ 1AAAAS1 0AN OuL VI (AlElCd WdS
never applied to the higher types. but
to Guineas, Sudanese and Senegam-
bans only. ....-..-. ..'
c. It's derivatives, "Negroism," "Ne-
grofy," and it's compounds, Negro-head,
Negro-fy, Negro-monkey, are all clear
ly, In their associations, degrading.
d. It's feminine form, "Negress," is
Justly and correctly used to define
your wife and daughter and sweet
heart, If you favor the use of the mas
culine term. ~ -~.---. =
g. It has been the word used by the
Southern whites for two centuries.
when formally speaking or writing
about an unworthy or criminal man
or woman of the race. For when he
speaks of the worthy he invariably
says "colored" &.
1. It Is not differentiated in the mind
and thought of the whites from their
favorite and generally used (among
themselves) terms, MICRO" and mig
ger"
g: AS stated by an eminent Japanese
diplomat it has an unquestioned in
f1uence In cutting us off from the
thought, sympathy and cooperation
OF the millions of colored Africans, Ash
at1cs and Islanders Of the Yonder
world.
Very truly yours,
OWEN M. WALLER, M. D.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-10-23

1.-THE BIRTH OF A NATIoN."


The representative of THE APP
PEAL was present at the compliment
tary presentation of "The Birth of a
Nation" at the Auditorium last Tues
day evening, and we unhesitatingly
and unqualifiedly declare that we
failed to discover one redeeming fea-
ture in it, or, a plausible reason for
It's existence, other than that it is a
tne example of the perfection that
has been reached in presenting NOV
ing pictures. But it does not engen-
der one good thought that is not ban
ished by the horrible mass of ill feel
ing, race and sectional prejudices
which it, with goulish glee, delves
into the charnel houses of the buried
past and brings to view the grinning
skeletons that would much better be
left to molder and decay.
Nor, is it historically correct. ex-
cept in measure, and almost every
thing touched upon is outrageously
exaggerated. It, however, certainly
has the effect desired by the despic-
able author Of. the book from which
it was inspired. How any human be.
ing who possesses the slightest belief
In the fatherhood Of God and the
brotherhood of man, can derive one
iota of pleasure from viewing such
scenes as are depicted, we are unable
to realize, for it certainly was bred
in sin and born in iniquity and should
not be permitted to be exhibited.
Commissioners McColl stated fact