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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-30
SEEK CHAMPOLLION'S BODY
French authorities Assist IN search
for War Victim

sBr'iH 'dbtr IespGfoh to THr It
bA,Is. Aprii 2a-Th- military .,u.
tn"ri,i"s ar" making every EFFORT to IND
III" grave OF Andre ChampoIHon. I'm
American citizen who enlisted IN tho
French army and was killed recently.
An Intimate friend OF Mime. Chamuoiliuu
Mas authorized to-day To- 20 To the Bots
IL hrctr", whore champollion met his
death, 20 %" present at a dis!ntcrmcrt
AMI Identify and bring back the body
If possible.
II found the body will be sent 20 tho
United States
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-30
WABASH NOW NEAR
PAYING DIVIDENDS
Bright Outlook Told With AM
nounccmcnt Of Rc0r-
ganiZatiOn Plan.
SURPLUS rs PROMISED

Announcement was made Yesterday or
the reorganization plan for the WABASH
Railroad. the first n the big systems
tina, went under during the period or
trouble about i've years ago
The fact that the earnings or the
Wabash promise a substantial yearly
surplus under the plan for reorgahiza-
ton. in the opinion Of bankers. ein-
pha sizes the feeling among railroad ana
nnapcial leaders that the period now be-
Ing entered is one of constructive rail-
road progress
The Wabash plan az outlined was
commended by the thancial community
~ adequate and fair In the cutting
away of overcapitalizatiop. The fixed
deb, has been cut. u GG,G000o0 from
si23 200. O0U by a decrease of s16,6oo,-
600, or about 4G per cent. Fixed charges
hav. been reduced $4,000, 600, or about
a. per cont, to So 200, 600 a year. Total
capitalization has been reduced by sl',-
200, 600 to $205,iO0.OCO In addition
guarantees Endorsements ana other un-
secured obligations running into many
millions have been cut away.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-30
calls city Well NiIk-d Cow.

"lf the Republicans really mean 10 ne
fair why not make the Alde-mLnic dis
trlcts The same as the Senate districts
and cut the board To- twenty two MEM
hers" or why not the same IS the con-
press districts with nineteen or twenty
members? That would save the city $780,
UOo = year. but saving Ia the least of the
Republicans worries THIS city il "A
rich ncl1. Its fine COW. we'll MIXED.
but they think there's u fow DIR ~ more.
Your Honor" concluded Hon. Frank.
"sll We ask Is that you treat us as
we. ~ YOU would Curran."
and John Godfrey SAKE ard Al Smith.
Democratic leader in III" Assembly.
heapcd -corn on the Stodd1ld hl,l
1t Was passed 10y the gentlemen from
thcnHugo. pSwcgo. oWrEo and other UP
state places. exactly 1s they passed the
direct tan" said Mr.. Smith They woke
up IN their seas at I O'Clock In the
morning and without asking what the
bill was about, shouted Aye" The
cities Committee members We're led to
believe they were voting for another till.
pTepa red by the Citizens CDson. \ ma -
Of stun was hastily thrown into the Dill
al the Last moment and it was passed
Is favor To the Republican county
committees of New York and Brooklyn.
Here we have appropriated Sii0 200
Tor a Lew census, and We and they re
trying TO rcdistrict the city beror. that
CENSUS bcgias
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-04-30
see MiiIion- for Di,id-nds.

The reorganization committee. 10
statement Yesterday. said that from esti-
mates made by J. g. Stubhs. former Vice
president and director of tram" of the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific sys-
tens Darius Miller. president Of the
Chicago. Burlington and Quincy ana
j. W. Keudrick the road under normal
business conditions should earn gross
OF from 49, 900. 600 to $3.50 900. which.
at 20 per cent. cost of operation would
mean = net Of about sll.00o,00O This.
after paying fixed charges. would leave
a yearly surplus of from s4.OOO.Oo0 TO
e.. 600 900 available Tor stock dividends.
Never before in its history has this
property. 80 advantageous situated u
a geographical respect. connecting 'hi-
ragu 81 Louis. Kansas city, Detroit
and Toledo been IN 80 satisfactory
position to demand and handle is share
Of the business ~ the territory which
il serves" saws the committee.
rh- asses Sucut of 80" share on the
TWO class.e~ Of stock. producing So
100000. VIII give the new company
S3.i0u.OOO Of working capital Kuhn.
Loeb n co are forming syndi'at" 10
IuderWrite the plan.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-09
"WHY JESUS WAS A MAN AND
NOT A WOMAN"

This book, which is just from the
press is the third book by Mr. Tapp,
in which he interprets the Sex-Law
Of the Bible. His first book on the
subject, 1.-THE Truth About The Bible
came from the press about two years
ago. About year after that, his
second book "Sexology Of The Bible"
followed In these books, Mr.. Tapp
contends that all sin of the Flesh is
in the Sex-Senses and that is the rea-
son that Jesus did not have a natural
father. He is a lawyer and has done
a great work for the inspiration of
the Bible and the Divinity of the
Christ. He has answered all the
school of the Ingersolrs, etc. He shows
that the fall of man was a matter Of
the Flesh and the Sex and that the
Christ had to be conceived without
a natural father in order to be per-
feet man and Redeemer of the world
His idea is, The Law of Sex is the
Key Of the Bible. The idea is arrest
ing the attention of the great thinkers
of the world. The books may be Sc
cured by addressing Sidney c. Tapp,
Kansas City, Mo. They should be in
every home and every library of the
world.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-09
THE COLOR LINE VEXES THE
PRESIDENT.
(from New York Eveninu MailN

(From New York Evening MaiI.)
1t is hard to discover, in the rather
fully published reports, any sufficient
reason for the Presidents resentment
of the efforts of Mr. Trotter to per-
suade him to abandon the offensive
policy of several Cabinet officers in
drawing the color line in the Federal
departments.
The subject under discussion was
the violation of the customs of fifty
years and the spirit of the Constitu-
ton in establishing "Jim Grow" gov.
eminent. If the spokesman of the
Equal Rights League Waxed warm in
urging the cause of his race. it is not
to be wondered at. That he over.
stepped the bounds of propriety is not
shown.
That the President was veXed is all
that appears in the published record.
II any adequate reason for his vexa-
ton had been supplied by Mr.. Trot-
ter, 1t would surely have been dis
closed
That there was reason for the Pres
ldent's i'll temper is quite true, but it
was supplied by the Cabinet members
who were responsible for the narrow
minded policy of segregating Colored
employees from white jobholders.
The incident recalls the similar vex.
alton shown by the President when he
abruptly dismissed an equal suffrage
delegation on June 80 on the ground
that he could not submit to cross
examination"
When man is right, he usually will
listen patiently to the other side;
when he knows he is wrong he is very
likely to fly off the handle.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-09
THE PRESIDENT AND SEGREGA-
7ION

(From The Indianapolis News.)
The government, which makes laws
for all, collects taxes from all, and
summons all alike to it's defense in
time Of war, cannot rightfuly make
such distinctions. When men and
women enter the public service they
ought to be ready to conform to that
principle. No one is compelled to
enter 1t, but having made his choice
he should comply with the conditions
OF his employment.
So the question is not wholly
economic, as Mr.. Wilson seemed to
think it vast is political as well,
not in the narrow partisan, but in the
broad sense. The people of the United
States as a whole would oppose the
adoption by their government of any
thing resembling the Jim Crow policy.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-09
TROTTER'S SPECIFIC DENIAL OF
lNSOLENCE TO PRESIDENT.
Interview in Boston Globe of Nov. II,
1914.

William Monroe Trotter, whose re-
marks on segregation in Government
departments stirred President Wilson
at hearing in the White House last
Thursday, arrived in Boston yesterday
afternoon, and, after denying any,
thing offensive either in his speech or
manner, told Of the way in which the
report of the hearing was given to the
neWspapermen.
GAS we left the President" said Mr..
if he still considered that I had Of
tended him. The President smiled
and said: o, we'll call it all right
when we came out our delegation
caucused in Sec. Tumulty's room as
to what we should say for the news
papers. I told the newspaper men
briefly about the conference, merely
describing it as a warm affair.
II had gone outside the White
House when Mr.. Tumulty called me
back and said: 'Trotter, you have yio-
lated every courtesy of the White
House in quoting the President to tho
press
Il told Mr.. Tumulty that had done
so in ignorance of the rules, and. apol
ogiZed. He accepted my apology.
Then I asked the newspaper not to
publish what told them, and they
consented Mr. Tumulty said he was
satisfied and left.
White House Statement Issued.
"The report of the conference was
then given out from the White House.
It seems very peculiar to me, after
the President had told me everything
was all right, that a White House
statement should say that I had Of
Tended the President of the United
States" ' 49,,
Did Not Lose Temper or catechize.
II want to say" he continued, that
neither in manner, language, tone nor
in any other way was I discourteous,
impertinent or insolent to President
Wilson. b..
my whole attitude was that of en-
deavoring, on the spur of the moment,
to answer piece of masterful sophis-
try and to refute it successfully and
feeling great responsibility to do so,
spoke with positiveness, deliberate
ness and directness, looking the Pres
ident full in the eye.
II did not quiz or catechize the
President, and did not attempt to
debate with him. The difficulty did
eliminated against and segregated in
of my race and to say that should
regard it as a benevolence and so rep
resent it to my race. '''
Although it was trying ordeal
to listen to such statement at length
by the Chief Executive of the Nation,
1 had at no time any temper, much
less lost my temper"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-09
DID THE PRESIDENT LOSE HIS
fHEAD7
(trom the Philadelphia Press.)

(F'rom the Philadelphia Press.)
1t looks as though the result of the
last election has got on the Presidents
nerves and made him unreasonably ir.
ritable In no other way can we &C
count for the, extreme sensitiveness
and quick resentment which he eXhib-
tied while w. NJ. Trotter, of Boston,
as chairman of delegation of Col
ored men undertook to show him that
Colored employees were unfairly dis
permitted to declare for segregation
not come until the President had been
some of the executive departments.
There is nothing in Mr. Trotter's
remarks as reported which disclose
any ground for the Presidents resent
ment. Possibly the speakers manner
may have been too earnest, positive
and aggressive to suit the President.
He turned on him as he once before
turned on the woman suffrage delega-
ton whose assertions and arguments
were not to his taste and drove the
President into making the absurd
statement that he was not at liberty
to approve woman suffrage because it
had, no place in the National Demo
cratic platform. He told Trotter that
the Colored people we're segregated in
the departments to avoid friction. But
there was no friction until Mr.. McAdoo
and Mr.. Burleson got into the Cabi-
net and began to enforce in their de-
partments the principle of the Jim
Crow law.
The segregation practiced is wrong in
principle because it is disagreeable and
unfair to one class of public employees
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-09
DR.. sPlNGARN's SECOND TOUR,
We''-known White Advocate Of Justice
to Tour Country AGAIN.

to Tour Country Again.
DR.. J. E. Spingarn, chairman of the
board of directors of the National AS.
ISOLATION for the Advancement of Col
ored PEOPLE, and one of the most con.
slstent white advocates of justice and
equal rights for Afro-Americans, is soon
to make a second tour Of the country
IN the interests of the cause of our
race. 1t will be remembered that last
January he addressed meetings in De.
tro1t, Chicago, Quincy, Kansas CITY.
Topeka, st. Louis, Indianapolis, and
Cleveland, attracting very large audi.
ences wherever he went, and nearly
everywhere winning wide publicity in
white papers for the cause of Justice
to the Negro.
DR.. Spingarn will speak at Whining
ton, Delaware, on November 22nd, at
Howard University, Washington, D. c..
on November 23rd, and at Harrisburg,
Pa, on November Oath. His main tour.
however, will not begin until next
January, and he then expects to speak
IN Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Dayton, Colum-
bus, Springfield, St. Joseph, Omaha,
Des Moines, Minneapolis, St. Paul,
Milwaukee, and other cities. He hopes
by succeeding tours to cover every
part OF the country and to carry his
burning message of freedom to the
whole nation. All those who are in
terested In his coming tour, which like
all his other work for our race is car
ried on entirely at his own expense,
can obtain further information from
Miss May Childs Nerney, secretary of
the National Association for the Ad.
Vancement OF Colored People, 10 Fifth
Avenue, New York City.
DR.. Spingarn was for twelve years
Professor of Comparative Literature
In Columbia University, New York,
and he is writer and scholar of In
ternational reputation. He brings to
this cause not only Learning and ripe
scholarship, but eloquence, practical
experience, and passionate sincerity.
He was born in New York thirty-nine
years ago, and for the last ten years
he has given untiring devotion to the
cause Of black folk. He is a man OF
independent means, who has never
asked pay Of any kind for this work.
The National Association for the Ad-
vancement OF Colored People, Of
which he Is chairman, has q member
ship of about 5000, with branches In
over thirty cities all over the country:
and It's official organ, 1.-THE Crisis"
published under its direction, has a
circulation of over $4,000 a month
Among its other directors are Miss
Jane Adams and DR.. c. E. Bentley
OF Chicago, Archibald H. Grimke of
Washington, Moorfield Storey of Bos-
ton, and Oswald Garrison Willard,
John E. Milholland, Rev. John Haynes
Holmes, DR.. w. e. B. Du Bots, Charles
Edward Russell, Miss Lillian D. Wald,
Miss Mary White Ovington, Mrs. !
Florence Kelley, Paul Kennaday, and
William English Walling Of New York.
It Is the only organization in the world
In which both white and colored
people work together for the equal
rights Of black folk.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-09
TELEGRAM TO PRESIDENT VIII.
SON By DR.. w. SINCLAIR, UN-
ABLE TO BE PRESENT WITH
DELEGATION,
Hon. Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States.
Executive Mansion,
WaShington. d C

Honored Sir:
Unavoidable circumstances make it
lmpracticable for. me to join the dele
cation as field secretary Of the con-
stitution league Of the United States
who are to present memorial to
you on Thursday, the 18th inst, in
voking your Intervention against the
segregation of government employees
at Washington or elsewhere on the
ground of race or color. I respect
fully submit that such segregation vi
olates the spirit and letter of the Con-
stitution of the United States, forces
hardships and degradations of Col
ored employees, undermines civiliza-
ton, is subversive of American in
stitutions. contravenes every prin.
ciple Of righteousness and justice and
Is a shameful reproach to our Chris
ton religion. Segregation represents
not the ideals of freedom but the
ideals of slavery We pray that you
as the Christian President of this free
and Christian nation will use your
great powers, which are more than
amply sufficient to remove this foul
blot from our civilization. aa:-
'H'i (Signed), VIM. A. SINCLAIR,
Field Secretary Constitution League.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-09

Jack Johnson was indirectly the
cause of a splendid but peculiar
funeral for Walter Campbell, an Afro.
American barber of Little Rock, Ark,
this week. Just before the Johnson
Jeffries fight Campbell made a wager
with the leading white undertaken of
the "City Of Roses" that if Johnson
lost, that he would shave the under
taker free as long as he lived; and if
johnson won and Campbell died and
furnish the best funeral possible
Johnson won and campbell died and
on last Tuesday the undertaken fur.
nished the most costly casket in his
establishment, a dozen carriages and
an elaborate funeral for Campbell.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-09
ABILITY CAUSES RACE HATRED

ABILITY CAUSES RACE HATRED,
A novel explanation of the Russian
dislike for the Jew has been given by
Count Alexander Scherbatskoy. coun.
cillor Of the Russian embassy in Wash.
ington.
The count said that Russians object.
ed to Jews because they were more
capable than the Russians and not be.
cause they were of different race and
faith.
There is not much difference be.
tween the Jewish question in Russia
and the Japanese question in Califor~
nia," he declared. "The Californians
know the Japs are more clever than
they are. The Russians know that
they can not compete with the Jews.
Their fear of the Jews is based on eco.
nomic considerations" ....
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-09
NO JIM-cRoW GOVERNMENT.
(From the New York WORLDLY

\rIOM Tue new YORK WOrld.)
No President ever suffered more
from the foolish indiscretions of mem
bers OF his Cabinet than has Mr.. Will
son. He had a further illustration of
II yesterday in his unfortunate inter-
view with delegation of colored men
who called at the White House to pro-
test against the segregation of races
in Government departments. ..
The President should have foreseen
this unfortunate issue when Mr.. Nc.
Adoo and Mr.. Burleson were carving
their cOlor-line theories into demo
cratic government. Mr.. Wilson told
the committee that there had been no
discrimination in the comforts and
surroundings of the colored clerks. but
explained that "he had been informed
by officials that the segregation had
been started to avoid friction between
the races, and not with the object Of
| injuring the colored men," The Presi-
dent failed to explain, nevertheless,
why no such rule had been considered
necessary until Mr.. Burleson and Mr..
| McAdoo got into the Cabinet.
For narly half a century white
clerks and colored clerks have worked
side by side in the departments Of
Washington, under republican and
under democratic presidents. The
| World keeps itself fairly we'll informed
about Washington affairs, but the first
it ever heard of this alleged friction
to which Mr.. Wilson refers was when
Mr.. McAdoo began his Jim-Crow pro-
ceedings in the Treasury Department.
The president thinks that this is
not political question, but he is
wrong. Anything that is unjust, dis
eliminating, and un-American in gov
eminent is certain to be a political
question. Servants of the United
States Government, regardless of race
or color. For several years a colored
man has been Collector of Internal
Revenue in New York. He never
found it necessary to segregate the
white employees of his department to
prevent "friction"; yet he would have
had quite as much right to do so as
Mr.. McAdoo had to segregate the COL
ored employees of the Treasury in
I Washington.
! While the Democrats of the coun-
try have been trying to solve certain
great problems of government, a few
Southern members of the Cabinet
have been allowed to exploit their
petty local prejudice at the expense of
the partys reputation for exact JUS.
tice.
| Whether the President thinks so or
not. the segregation rule was promul.
gated as deliberate discrimination
against colored employees.
Worse still, it is a small, mean,
petty discrimination, and Mr.. Wilson
ought to have set his heel upon this
presumptuous Jim-Crow government
the moment it was established. He
ought to set his heel upon it now. 1t
is a reproach to his administration
and to the great political principles
which he represents.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-09


Losing His Temper When He Received the Trotter
Delegation.
(From the Lexington Herald Lexington, Ky)
~ a; ss:
him Vi S:Ss
TEMPER and dears
% Hs S su@b.9 him
the washngo % pR tine fSG9
R %o s a @ 91s}
Th Ss ud the Of all
% eGs he . oS es tf s
~ a:rS sss
,S Sss: s:: eject h %s 5 % %
Every 6eHg or MASTER is entitled to
So and snSu ofhes ab n gs o
y @ 5 n i in nG ann
right to refuse questions
peculiarly that he should
policy %b % t ne 5
# Se @ thu So aR his
% as @ hGS each BE act Ga s
ps % sss :sss ss.s
ls s n
its s saf @ ss ss
people the that distinguished
s sa ss s:
class ag W g %
f'~OO'ON
81; n
sss nf s5 the ss 9s
ca charged with the duty of serving the
humbIest in
the full Of the
me pubic servant elected
TO he most powerful Neither breed
determine the treatment
are distressed that the President has allied
PerPetuat'on
pnhc SsGn every has the right his
ana treat with patience those who public
put step in descent from the position public
advocates
c,o oy lower official
South that ynches step further Than the csl "rder
mat se9regates because Of color in the ~ ~ WV
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-09
SEGREGATION PROTEST.
Statement to the American People Meeting
Equal Rights League at District Of Columbia
Read Inv hanaas Ea~c.>>

Read by T. Thomas a@=s -
meeting today auspices Equal
Kagas League to enter emphatic
arst
contention in making enforcement the laws
the land State and Federal secondly people
that we have me m "s b ene
@ %n th g an eve
% 5
and and all being the Household of
Federal Policy Line.
We make
from the highest authority the policy
country denomnate government which one
they may associate together the same
service authority another
departments Rway Mail service in the matter
such employment having for the
color was the test of preferment
Refuse to Accept
-, 1t.
Mo The contention set up by those highest authority
works forfeiture of citizen supposed
cizens
i thf % S
Faith nor by the history the Jews
TEL: bu"t that
f than n % & %o % hs4 been
by the Of the
essentially political hem even
~ ~
Segregation Policy Will Extend to Other Race Groups
crisis and that the Of life death will
the people of the Nation shall be called the
n policy
groups
Appeal Against It to God andou Fellow.hnen.
In conclusion appeal from the policy
men the God who made and fellow
of Nations in the firm belief that we shall not