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The Delta independent., 1915-10-15

Senator Chamberlain.-lf the Ferris
bill providing for federal control of
western water power becomes law
ii will be the second step-not the
first step but the second step-in
establishing as governmental policy
the leasing of the remainder of the
public domain. Do you want your
children TO be tenants of the govern
ment. or do you want them to be
homecoming citizens? The vital
question has been evaded. The prin-
ciples OF the Ferris bill go to the right
and life of the states The hides
tructibility OF the states must be
maintained. Who are clamoring for
the Ferris? Bureaucrats anxious to
increase power and revenues. and
some power companies. willing TO pay
any charges the bureaus demand, pro-
vided that they can pass on the
charges to these people.
The Delta independent., 1915-10-15

retreat? They would not have to do
it if they could get the proper cooper
alton from the government and they
will not have to do it when once I'm
Gle San gets on his specks and looks
into the condition of things as they
are.-Field and Farm.
The Delta independent., 1915-10-15

Charles McCaffree.-A state ought
TO be good business institution and
any business house that had such
wonderful values for the people as our
western states and did not exploit
them by advertising would be forced
out of business by a competitor with
more enterprise. And we have all to
acknowledge the advantage gained by
Canada because of its consistent ad-
vertising Wherever you go you see
the Canada publicity. Any district
fair In good territory, at any state
fair, you will find their products dis
played. and it is generally conceded
the finest building at the worlds
exposition in San Francisco is the one
showing Canada's resources.
The Delta independent., 1915-10-15
Make Your Plans Now.

Have your name placed on the lnde-
pendent list in order that you may
have reading after the fall rush is
over Besides you should be sub
scriber and be in touch with what is
going on. The Delta Independent is
n home paper for home people. Send
In your name today.
The Delta independent., 1915-10-15

Sending three battleships to the re-
serve because the country does not
have enough officers and men to han
die them is humiliating confession
of weakness.
The Delta independent., 1915-10-15

James II. MacLennan.-The Colora-
do state tax commission seems to i'm
agine itself an Oriental potentate
standing athwart the gate with drawn
sword and demanding the last dollar
from every unfortunate that has to
pass that way Since its creation At
the behest OF certain corporations
some years back, all it has done has
been toward tax increase and the en-
couragement Of extravaganza in all
departments. There never was
genuine excuse for its existence and
its continuation ought to be prevent
ed at the earliest possible moment
Taxation records since it. went into
being condemn It as the most costly
institution ever created at the state
house.
The Delta independent., 1915-10-15

C. A. Frederick.-opportunity is
now knocking at the door of this
country Having command Of the
money situation We could declare
gold and silver equal and begin coin
ing silver al the mints. paying Sl.29
for each ounce This would not only
relieve the money stringency but
would spread unparalleled prosperity
over the whole silver producing ter
ritory. But for the grip held by the
New York and London bankers. who
do not want the people SO prosper
GUS that they would not have to boz
row money and pay interest. this
would be done. Great fortunes have
been built up by the system of keep
ing the mass OF the people sufficient
ly poor that they would be just able
TO pay interest.
The Delta independent., 1915-10-15

A California editor surmises that
the name of the Order of ST. Sava con-
ferred on John d. Rockefeller comes
from a serb word meaning saving.
The Delta independent., 1915-10-15

If lawyer may be prosecuted for
slander uttered in a speech to a jury,
court proceedings will become stale
and tedious.
The Delta independent., 1915-10-15

Election of the president by the
popular vote is another reform the
Democrats dropped like hot potato.
The Delta independent., 1915-10-15

Buyers of stocks OF war specialities
may sometime feel like stoning the
false prophets of false profits.
The Delta independent., 1915-10-15

All the news, all the time, Delta
independent.
The Delta independent., 1915-10-15

Colonel William Hunter.-Nearly
everyone in the business world seems
to be engaged in the occupation of
catching up. Nearly everyone is a
little behind in the matter of finan-
ces. As soon as one gets across the
stream and is on dry land and has
his bills all paid, then he takes on
new responsibilities and goes deeper
in debt 1t is very hard game, this
catching up. The game of existence
is very easy to play when you are
caught up. We have tramped through
the hills of the great west, and. we
have invariably found that the pace
makers or leaders are the least tired
at night. while the followers or those
who are behind trying to catch up are
the ones who are most fatigued.
The Delta independent., 1915-10-15

tempt the prospective purchaser have
adopted such names as Chore Boy.
Jack of all Trades, Red and Ready.
Such names personify qualities which
the engine is supposed to possess,
and to a very large extent does dis
play. When a small portable, we'll
balanced engine of from 21R to
horse power can be purchased for
from 500 to $3.50 there is little rea-
son why farmers should not make
much of their labor easier. These
engines are now so well perfected
that they will work with very little
fastening to the ground, hence they
can easily be taken from place to
place for the various jobs for which
their services are needed.
The Delta independent., 1915-10-15
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The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16
SPORT.
part.

BY voting to increase stock from
$5O.0O0 to $150,0OO, and the authorize
ton Of a bond issue for 100000, the
new directors of the Kansas City Club
of the Federal league set at rest all
rumors that the franchise might go to
another city.
Darrell Hamlet, marathon bowler,
created a record at Sioux City, Ia, by
finishing a thirty-six-hour continuous
performance on the alleys. Hamlet
did not stop for food or sleep, al
though he ate an occasional sandwich
during the long grind
With forty-six out of fifty-two coun-
ties to be represented strongly with
agricultural exhibits selected from the
best Colorado crops in ten years, the
agricultural section of the National
Horse Show and Midwinter Fair to be
held in the Denver stockyards stadium
Jan. 1928 will be a cord-breaker, in
the opinion of Prof. w. H. Olin, super
intendent in charge of that depart
ment.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16
FOREIGN.

The Berliner Tageblatt says that
the king of Saxony has ordered that
war bread shall be used exclusively
in the Dresden court
The Amsterdam Handelsblad says a
biscuit factory, twelve houses, and the
big oil works, in Merxem, suburb OF
Antwerp, were destroyed by fire.
Several persons have perished in
avalanches following the heavy snow
fall during the past few days at
Berne, Switzerland. twenty-five stu
dents who were skiing near Navoss,
were overwhelmed and three were
killed
Having induced both warning Mexican
factions in Sonora to keep their war
away from the American border, Gen.
Hugh l.. Scott, chief of the United
States staff, left Naco. Ariz., for Wash
ington, accompanied by his staff.
George w. Guthrie, the American
ambassador, gave a farewell luncheon
at Toxic to Admiral Baron Shigeto
Dewa, special envoy of Japan to the
Panama-Pacific Exposition, who has
arranged to sail for San Francisco on
the steamer Chiyo Maru.
The Amsterdam Tyd says that most
of the priests in the Diocese of Ma
lines have refused to obey the Ger
man order not to circulate Cardinal
Mercier's pastoral letter on the ground
that they take orders from the cardi-
nal and not from the military.
nicin af oil cd
Court at San Francisco declaring un-
constitutional the Arizona alien en-
ployment law is being eagerly dis
cussed at Toxic. Hope is expressed
in various quarters that this decision
will pave way for a solution of the
California alien land act.
A great crowd assembled in severe
van bearing the body of Constantine
Garibaldi, grandson of the famous
Italian soldier, who was killed while
serving in the French army In the
crowd were veterans of the Garibaldi-
an campaigns wearing their red shirts,
and representatives of various politi-
cal parties.
'The civil army we have to feed is
greater than the British and French
armies combined. Yet we can scrape
through on about $6,25O,00O worth of
food month" This statement was
made by Emil Tranquil, prominent
Belgian banker who is on brief visit
to London in connection with relief
work in Belgium, in the organization
of which he played a. conSpicuOus
part.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16
WESTERN.

Nine Schumann-Heink, the singer,
is seriously ill with bronchial pneu-
monia in her home at Chicago.
The Sioux City, Ia, Retail Bakers
Association petitioned the City Coun-
Gil for the right to reduce the size of
the loaf as result of high prices for
flour. A local ordinance governs the
weight of bread.
The $10,O00,OOO profit-sharing plan
inaugurated by the Ford Auto Com
pany of Detroit year ago will be
came from F. l.. KlingeLs smith, secre-
tary of the company.
In his farewell message to the South
Carolina Legislature Governor Blease
commented upon what he described as
the "encroachment by the federal gov
ernment upon states rights many Of
which, he asserted, "had been stolen"
Sentence was not pressed on the 80
men who, when arraigned before
Judge Anderson in the Federal Court
at Indianapolis, pleaded guilty to par
ticipation in the alleged conspiracy to
corrupt the election of Nov. 8, 1914,
in Terre Haute-
Ramon Villalobo, sentenced to be
hanged in the Florence, Ariz., state
prison Jan. s, is still alive. Warden
Sims thus informed Gov Hunt and
the Superior Court of Pinal County.
The warden explained that he did not
hang Villalobo, because the Board of
Pardons was not yet organized and
there was no authority in Arizona
with power to grant reprieve should
Villalobo have made an appeal for
clemency. Villalobo, Mexican, killed
an American, in race riot last Au-
gust.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EvENTs
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE,.
Western Newspaper Onion News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

The French attacks to the north of
thes, east of Rheims, are developing
into a serious offensive.
The Turks have been offering stub
born resistance to the Russians at
Kara Urgan. where a battle has been
in progress for five days.
The Albanian insurgents have occu-
pied the heights of Ritspol and have
placed guns in position for use against
Durazzo, the Albanian port recently
occupied by Italian forces.
There has been received at Amster.
dam from Berlin an officially inspired
telegram which repudiates all the ac-
cusations against the troops of Ger
many, made in the report of French
committee which investigated certain
alleged atrocities.
In the Argonne and on the heights
of the Meuse the Germans are on the
offensive and claim to have made fur
ther progress. Fresh German troops
dispatched to Alsace, combined with
the wintry weather, have stopped the
French advance in that region.
An official dispatch from the Ber-
lin war office says: Vienna reports
state that it has been ascertained that
the French dreadnought Courbet was
hit by the Austrian submarine No. II.
The Courbet was rammed by her sis
ter ship, the Jean Bart, which was at
tempting to tow her. The Courbet
sank Tho lean Rart docked at Malta
badly damaged.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16
WASHINGTON.

The House of Representatives, by a
vote of 204 to 174 refused to submit to
the states an amendment to the fed
women.
The President nominated, to be reg
listers of land offices, Edward ].
Hoefnagels of Twin Lakes, at Lead
vile, and Alonzo l.. Beavers of Lamar,
at Lamar, Colo. To be receivers of
public moneys, Robert j. McGrath of
Towner, at Lamar, Colo. To be post
master, D. Lee Staley, Telluride.
Actual construction of the govern
ment railroad to connect the Alaskan
coal fields with the coast as author
lied by Congress last March, will be
begun during the coming spring, ac.
cording to a statement by Secretary
Lane of the Interior Department, after
a conference in the White House be-
tween President Wilson and Lane and
William C. Edes, Lieut.. Frederick
Mears and Thomas Riggs, Jr., COM
prising the Alaskan Engineering COM
mission
President Wilson said he had no
comment to make on the British re-
ply to the American note, inasmuch
as it was only preliminary. He in
dicated he had not given the British
communication full study as yet and
plans to discuss it at length with Sec
retary Bryan.
A total of s1.s03,923 has been paid
out by the federal government dur
ing the last five years to more than
$4,000 of its employees who met with
accidents in the course of their en-
ployment under the federal compen-
sation act of 1908.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16
NERAL.
ment.

The organized militia of South
Carolina was disbanded by an order
signed by Governor Blease.
The three labor union business
agents indicted for alleged conspiring
to obstruct interstate commerce have
been released after giving bonds of
$4,000 each.
Herrsisland stockyards at Pitts
burg, Pa, were placed under temper
ary quarantine following discovery of
case of foot and mouth disease
among cattle shipped in from Ohio.
According to figures compiled for
the public forum of the Church of the
Ascension, in Fifth avenue, and made
public, a partial list of the unem-
ployed in greater New York totals
562 ZOO.
Lyman c. Robbins, nineteen, mill
tary academy student, who says he is
the son of wealthy st. Louis man,
and Helen Hardy, fifteen, were ar
rested by the police at Little Rock.
Ark. The youth is charged with
bigamy. The police say Robbins mar
ried the Hardy girl in Memphis few
days ago, and that he has another
wife in California.
The closing of the Dardanelles and
the shutting off of Turkey from out
side commerce has resulted in the peo-
pie of Constantinople being reduced
to the verge of starvation, according
to George Tomayan of Chicago, for
the last eight months in charge of an
Armenian orphan asylum at CONSTANT
nople, who arrived in New York on
the Greek steamship Athenai, from
Piraeus.
Police of several Virginia cities are
one the watch for four convicts who
escaped from the Virginia state peni-
tentiary at Richmond after overpow-
ering and binding prison guard, an
armed watchman and shop foreman
Suit was filed on behalf of 81 mem
bers of the Texas Cattle Raisers' AS
sociation against ten railway COM
panies in the Federal Court at Kansas
City. The cattlemen seek to collect
from the railways about $4,000 al
legged overcharges on cattle shipments
from Texas points between 1903 and
1908.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16

The Deutsches Theater in Berlin
opened it's season August 2S. The
owners and the managers of the the
ater have announced that ten per cent
of their gross returns of every per-
formance will be given to the Red
Cross, and that they are willing to
carry all the risk and forego any
profit
The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16

There is serious work in progress to
educate the Negro along sensible lines
so as to increase his efficiency. his
sense of sponsibility and his useful
ness as a citizen. and gratifying re-
suits are being achieved.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16

The areas of the nine Canadian
provinces in square miles are: Quebec,
706S34; Ontario, 407252 British Co
lumbia. $1,000; Alberta, 253, $40; Sas-
katchewan, 250,650; Manitoba, 251, 1872:
New Brunswick, 27,9S5; Nova Scotia,
21,42S, and Prince Edward islands,
2,1S4.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16

Sabullite is the name of a new high
power explosive, tests of which have
lately been made in British Columbia
1t can be handled without danger. and
is cheaper than dynamite, which has
only about one-third of its destructive
effect. 1t is used for blasting purposes
only.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16
AFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

The present war will have a serious
effect on more than ten million white
and Negro farmers who grow cotton
in the South, according to statement
made by DR.. Booker T. Washington,
the noted Negro educator, when seen
at the capital on his arrival from
Tuskegee, Ala. Doctor Washington
said the depressed price of cotton
would hamper the farmers in paying
their debts, purchasing foods and 9TH
er necessities and the raising of the
next crop. He was much pleased, he
said, with the remarks of President
Wilson in outlining his attitude toward
the Negro when he told the University
tions that "our object is to know the
needs of the Negro and sympathetic
ally help him in every way that is pos
sible for his good and our good"
Every thoughtful man North and
South" he went on, will agree with
the president l think his statement
represents growing liberal sentiment
on the part of an increasingly large
group of Southern white people,
In regard to his suggestion made re-
Gently that each Negro family raise
one or more additional pigs this year,
to help bring about more prosperity In
the South, Doctor Washington said:
Il have been surprised to note how
we'll this suggestion has been received
and how many are following it. One
church pastor in Uniontown, Ala.
went so far as to organize a pig club
among the members of his congrega-
ton.
Now l want to make one other sug-
gestion that in my opinion is of still
greater and more practical Importance.
For months the great cry all through
the South has been to stop the grow
ing of cotton or to reduce the acreage.
Chambers of commerce, business
leagues, state legislatures and other
bodies have adopted resolutions with
out end urging that we in the South
stop growing SO much cotton. To stop
growing cotton is very easy; in fact
it is always easy to stop work. But
merely to stop growing cotton is a
mere negative proposition and will not
fear, leave the South much better OFF
than at present. If we destroy or Grip
pie great industry we should be very
sure to have one or a number equally
good to put In its place."
The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16

The tusks of an ordinary elephant
weigh 120 pounds and are worth $500
1t requires 10000 elephants to supply
$50 tons of ivory to the English mar
ket. Sheffield takes one-third.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16

Kindergartens for colored children
are being adopted in different parts Of
the South as one of the agencies for
improving social conditions that have
troubled two generations. Richmond
Va, has lately opened an experimental
kindergarten which has already Gre
ated such interest among Negro pa
rents and the school authorities that
it is expected it will soon be made per
manent. The Richmond kindergarten
was opened by the National Kinder
garten association of New York at the
request of Richmond people who knew
of the success of the demonstration
given among colored children at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, where the local associa-
tion assumed the care and support of
the school. Kindergartens for white
children in the South have also been
started by the association and later
carried on locally.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16

Wife suing because husband treated
her as a cook apparently doesn't know
when she is being well treated.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16

The American Negro and the Amer
lean Indian have really been succeed
ing in farming, in teaching, and in bust
ness during the recent years, and
Hampton. therefore, has valid public
appeal to make, not only for it's con-
tlnued support by rich and generous
men and women, but also for the
spread of it's educational aims, meth
ods, and ideals, which have received
the hearty Endorsement of leading
American and foreign educators.
Hampton's lateral influence is pub
licly recognized by men like DR.. Wal
lace Butterick, and DR.. Wickliffe
Rose. Distinguished foreigners, in
cluding Sir Horace Plunkett and AL
exander Fraser, declare that Hampton
is an important factor in the solution
of perplexing problems of race adjust
ment through education,
These tributes to Hampton need no
words of explanation. IF a man is
looking for a sure way to benefit the
Negro race or the Indian race in the
United States, let him send money to
Hampton institute, making no re-
surely get a large return in benefi-
cience. Charles W. Eliot. Hampton
is perhaps doing more for the future
peace and prosperity of this country
than any other institution in it"-Rob-
ert G. Ogden. Il have always loved
Hampton and 1 love her more and
more because she is not only giving
the Negro knowledge, but is seeing
and reaching the needs of the race as
no other institution is doing. Booker
L. Washington, who is Hampton's s
most distinguished graduate. "Hamp-
ton stands for dignity of labor and for
the self-respect which is justified in
any man when he has learned to do
one thing well.''-Francis G. Peabody.
There is nothing that offers such an
opportunity for the wealthy man of
this country as the cause of Negro
industrial education in the South.
| Hampton is the solution of the Negro
problem. William H. Taft.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16

Shanghai recently saw the opening
of the first street-car system financed,
constructed and operated solely by
Chinese.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16

A three days session of the board of
directors of the Negro Baptist General
State convention was held at Waco,
Tex. The chief work of the board was
the formulation of plans for the mis-
sionary and educational work of the
Negroes during the coming year. The
work of the convention is done
through eight boards, each of which is
under the supervision of a financial
secretary.
Two hundred and sixteen thousand
dollars has been raised during the past
year for the conventional work.
The convention is supporting three
educational institutions in Texas for
the training of the Negro youth =
Boyd's Institute at Oakwood, Central
Texas college at Waco and Guadalupe
college near Seguin. Another big in
stitution fostered by the Negroes is
st. Johns Institute and Orphans home
near Austin. 1t is said to be the larg-
est Negro orphanage in the world. The
plant is valued at 100000.
The following secretaries were pres.
ent: Church extension, w. R. Toliver.
Calvert; educational, w. H. Fuller.
Austin; ministers relief, S. T. Floyd.
Sherman; endowment, A. W. Early,
Palestine; state missions, j. G. Gath
ings, Goliad; foreign mission, James
Kelly, Waco; publication, M. NJ
HAYNES, Austin; orphans home, A.
Mpnra
The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16

Miss Belva Lockwood made az ad-
dress before a mass meeting of col
ored people at the Cosmopolitan Bap-
tist chuch at Washington. The meet
ing was held in celebration of the an
niversary of the adoption of the thir-
teenth amendment to the constitution.
Rev. Simon P. Drew presided. Rep
resentative Willis of Ohio, governor
elect Of that state, and Representative
Folconer of Washington, spoke. 9th
ers who took part were DR.. Harvey
Falconer of Washington, spoke. 9th
tist church, Miss Hattie P. Ivy of
Howard university: Prof. James
Wright, Prof John T. Layton and Rev.
F. w. Dixon of Berean Baptist church.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-16

The Delaware state board of educa-
tion has received communication
from the Negro teachers in the district
south Of Wilmington In which it is
asserted that the condition in the Ne
gro schools is deplorable.
1t is alleged that teachers are en-
ployed who are not properly qualified; +;
that the clerks in many districts dis
burse the taxes without accounting to
the district; that in many instances
the state dividend is not sufficient to
pay the teachers salaries and in such
cases it is necessary for the teacher
to give entertainments to raise the
necessary amounts, all of which tends
to be detrimental to the schools.
They suggest that conditions would
be improved if county commissions or
superintendents are empowered to fix
the tax for double the amount of dupli-
Gates; the provision of a state super
visor of Negro schools; enforcement
of laws with reference to Negro COM
missioners. increased salaries for
teachers and an eight-month instead of
a seven-month school year.