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Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
DRESS BINDING

Tolson Dress Binding. black and white, N inch wide-SaIe price 4c a yard; 42e a dozen yards.
 Taffeta Silk Binding, all acolors, 10- yard piece-SaIe price 121ac.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
DRESS FASTENERS

Kohinor Dress Fasteners in black or white-SaIe price Sc a dozen.
 Sonomoor Dress Fasteners - Sale price Sc dozen.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
Twenty Five Per Cent. Dividend to
 Comtois Creditors.

A twenty-five per cent. dividend has been declared to the creditors of the estate of David F. Comtois, bank rupt, and approved by the Referee, A. J. Bowen of this city,
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
ChoWder Supper.

An enjoyable chowder supper wa1 given in the parlors of the Methodist church Friday evening from five thirty to seven thirty, under the auspices of the Mems club of the church.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
HAIR PINS

Smooth Heavy Wire Hair Pins-Sale price 1c a paper; papers for 4c.
 Fern Cabinet Hair Pins, assorted sizes to a cabinet-Saie price 40 a Cabinet
 Delong Steel Hair Pins, 21z to 4-inch Sale price packages for 6o.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
HOOKS AND EYES

Calmac Hooks and Eyes, 2 dozen on a card, all sizes-Sale price 4e card, 8 cards for 1oc.
 Peet's Invisible Hooks and Eyes, black and white-SaIe price 3 dozens for Sc.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
SAFETY PINS

Clinton Safety Pins, black or nickel Sale price 4c a dozen.
 All Brass Nickel-plated Safety Pins all sizesISale price dozens for Sc.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
Only One "BRoMo oUININE.n

Whenever you feel a cold coming on, think of the full name, LAXATIVE PROMO QU1NINE. Look for signature of B. w. GROVE on box. 25c.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
FLOSS AND SILKATEEN

Royal Society Embroidery Floss Sale price 3 hanks for Sc.
 Silkateen. all colors-SaIe price 3 spooIs for 1oe.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06

The larger the gun the more> rap idly is the accuracy impaired by the erosion of it's bore and rifing.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
FUN ERALS,

Mrs. Mary Kennedy. The funeral of Mrs Mary Kennedy was held from her home on Maple av-
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06

In many parts of Asia and Africa the peacock is found in wild state.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
NICkEL-PLATED BRASS PINS

360 full count Nickel plated Brass Pins. all sizes-SaIe price 4c a paper.
 Full count Victoria English Pins, all sizes-Sale price 5e a paper.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
DANIELS0N AND PUTNAM NEWS
DANIELSON

w. E. Labelle to Have Charge of Wild wood Park Concessions-Funera of Miss Annie Lees-Trust Company's New Banking Rooms to Be Open For Inspection Today.
Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-06
PIN CUBES

Large Size Pin Cubes, GA count plain and assorted-Sale price 7e a Cube.
 Small Pin Cubes, 100 count, all colors Sale price 4c a Cube.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
THE DEMISE OF THE SlxTY.THIRD
CONGRESS,

Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.):
A dlspassionate review of the work
of the Sixty-third congress brings lit
tie to congratulate the people of the
United States upon and much to con-
denim that body for. It's sins of omis-
sion and commission were many; it's
works, in advancement of the inter-
ests of the people and of the nation,
few and far between. Brought into ex-
1stence upon the summit of wave of
progressive reform; given power up
on promises plainly and definitely ex-
pressed, it demonstrated incapacity
from the beginning and deliberately
repudiated in numerous instances poll
c1es and principles it was elected to
promote and maintain. It produced a
tariff law that fails to secure the reve-
nues needed for sound administration
OF the country's affairs, and it enacted
a levy for taxes in a time of profound
peace. Need we go farther than this
as an evidence of it's weakness, inca
pacity and failure to grasp the require
ments Of the republic?"
No, unless you would call the atten-
ton of the country to the mistreat
ments of the loyal old soldiers and
AFRO Americans in the departments at
Washington, D. c., and elsewhere in
the federal service, at home and
abroad; and the patronizing, in everv
way, of former traitors, ex.Confeder-
ates, by the Wilson administration
which, of course, includes the South
ern Democratic Sixty-third congress.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
CENSUS SEGREGATION.

Negroes in the United States" is
the title of pamphlet just issued 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 Me-
groes born in Africa.
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 We're Americans and so
on back for ten generations.
If 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 q
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. IN
The mixing of bloods in this country
has gone SO far that it is impossible
so does the writer.
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
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
THE NEW ABOLITION.

The National Association for the Ad-
vacement of Colored People came as
a direct result of the Springfield riots
of 1908. After several conferences it
was organized and permanent head
quarters opened in November 1910.
The growth of the organization has
been phenomenal. Today it has fifty
branches throughout the country and
1000 members and the crisis, edited
by DR.. w. e. B. Dubois has reached
a circulation of over $4,000.
The platform of the association is
broad but uncompromising. The off,
cial statement contains among. other
thinks the following strong statement
and demands:
"The National Association For the
Advancement Of Colored People seeks
to uplift the colored men and women
of this country by securing to them
the full enjoyment of their rights as
citizens, justice in all courts and equal
lty OF opportunity everywhere. It Ia
vors and aims to aid every kind of
education among them save that which
caches special privilege or preroga-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
GOOD WORK, Mr.. TYLER.

The Cleveland Gazette, speaking of
the increase Of race prejudice in
Columbus, Ohio, tells a little
story of the commendable action
Of Ralph w. Tyler, former auditor
for the navy: "A motion picture
theater in East Long street recently
hung out sign reading: First five
rows in the rear reserved for colored
patrons Learning of it, Mr.. Tyler
went out and saw the sign, then called
up the chief of police. over the phone
and demanded that he cause the sign
to be removed, claiming it was an in.
suit to $4,000 colored citizens, and
stated, if the authorities did not re-.
move the sign instanter he would tear
it down if he had to go to Jail for it
The sign was removed" That was an
heroic action. THE APPEAL also
commends Mr.. Tyler's recent article
in which he condemns the use of
negro" as race name. Mr.. Tyler
thinks that American is good enough
for all people born in this country and
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01

statement is Abbottesque and like
many Of the half truths he is wont to
utter.
If DR.. Abbott had stated that the
South has decreed that there should
be no lawful mixing of the races he
would have been nearer the truth.
The South, that is the white South is
not opposed to racial admixture, but
being at heart thoroughly immoral it
insists that the mixing be done in an
illegal manner.
The mixing which has already been
accomplished was started by the white
South. 1t began in the days of slav.
cry, when the white master forced the
black slave women to bear children,
who followed the condition of their
mothers and became slaves. A few
masters manumitted their half breed
children, but they were the excep-
tons to the general rule. Many mas.
own offspring for sale and in time the
ters made practice of breeding their
raising of children for the slave mar
kets became a recognized Southern
industry.
Since the abolition of slavery, the
white South, claiming Christ as it's
guiding star, has enacted laws making
Christian marriage felony, thus d.
rectly aiding immortality: The white
South has in every way endeavored
to humiliate and degrade it's colored
people the majority of whom have
more or less Caucasian blood.
Search history through; read the
atrocities of the barbarian invasians
OF the early days, read the barbar-
tiles of the Middle Ages; read Of the
Inquisition; read the story of the
French Revolution; read of Russia's
persecution of the Jews; read of CIV
ilized CD Europe's rape of Africa;
read the horrors of the Christians
war now devastating Europe. Add all
OF these together and they will not
equal in blackness what Southern
white people have melted out to their
own sons and daughters to their own
brothers and sisters, who are of
slightly darker hue.
It is the blacklist page in the annals
of the world.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
OUR NEED OF JUxTAPosITlon.
(From the Boston Guardian.)

(FrOm the Boston Guardlan.)
That we much rather be, and asso
ciate among ourselves, is a saying by
Colored Americans that has become
almost trite. That is a mistake; it
is feeling of avowed cowardice and
innate inferiority. It is an utter i'm.
possibilitay for the two races to sub
scribe to common government, and,
at the same time, each race work out
It's own salvation. The theory" has
been tried and resulted into a CHASTITY
failure; instead of making for har.
mony and cordial good feeling be.
tween two races, it has increased
race hatred AMI antagonism in leaps
and bounds. We have needed too
long the advice from false and treach-
erous leadership that resistance is
wrong, that it only breeds race hat
red and antagonism; that the thing
for us to do is to get property and
other rights will inevitably follow.
We have followed this advice" faitl1-
fully and have been rewarded in
terms of residence segregation, street
segregation, confiscation and loss of
property, anti-intermarriage which is
all Of the blacklist pieces of legis-
lation, since that it leaves our women
defenseless and at the mercy of white
brutes = separate schools, jimcrow
cars, and even legislating to exclude
further Negro immigration. These
are the evils resulting from non
resistance" and rather be by our
selves" That with the same degree
of effontry and terrible legislation
with which our property is taken and
confiscated, with this same effontry
and legislation will our political and
manhood rights be taken from us.
That is a fact. Every congress of.
fers legislation degrading and mimi,
cal to our we'll being. Race preju-
dice, therefore, can only be worn down
by attrition. We must send our
children, and go ourselves. to mixed
institutions and other places where
we can mix with the other races and
consequently become accustomed to
one another. ABOVE ALL THINGS
WE MUST WELCOME AND PRAC-
TICE JUXTAPOSITION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG.

For many years the South has op.
posed higher education and is not gen.
orally in favor of any kind of educa.
ton for the masses, and to suggest
that a colored person ought to receive
a classical education is sufficient to
throw a Southerner into Mysteries.
There's a reason.
Rev. George H. Atkinson, president
of the Albemarle Norman and Indus
trial Institute, Albemarle, N. c., is
now in the North raising funds" as
so many other Southern beggars of
various colors have done, prior to Rev.
Atkinson's arrival. In recent speech,
the reverend gentleman said:
1--WE believe if you educate man
in the South he will become dissatis.
fed and move to the North, where op.
portunities seem to be more numer.
Gus. His education, therefore, does
not help the South.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1915
AN INFAMOUS THING.

It 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.
It is wrong, unjust and un-American
for the government to segregate its
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 it has done In
the case of the bulletin, Negroes in
the United States"
One instance of the inaccuracy is
the statement that it is the work of
NEGRO clerks The editor of THE
APPEAL has known two of the clerks
mentioned for many years and is well
aware of the excellent records they
had made before the census segrega-
ton scheme was evolved. These two
gentlemen are mixed bloods, one be-
ing blonde, at least three-fourths
white. He should not be called a
NEGRO" because he is not Negro"
but a colored man.
Call him colored man if it is alb
solutely necessary to call attention to
the fact, but it would be better for
the country and for all the people II
he and all other people were called
Americans. That's the correct name
for all persons born in the United
States.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01


committee Of the whole and was about
to be discussed. Rev. a. ]. Carey,
pastor OF the institute onal Church, Chi
cago. was in Springfield on business
and Senator Daley Of Peoria, ar
ranged to have him address the SEN
ate on the bill, which he did with SO
much logic and eloquence that when
the roll was called it was found that
not a single vote had been registered
in its favor. After Rev. Carey's adj
dress no one had the temerity to de-
fend the bill and before the vote was
taken the author of the infamous leg
islative proposition slipped out Of the
Senate Chamber looking like whip
ped dog.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01

treatment in church and state, is to
perpetrate great wrong.
There is no reason why Democsa-
cy should attempt to classify its cit
liens by their blood. All persons
born in this country should be con.
sidered Americans without any pre-.
fixes or suff1xes.
If the Government contention that
every person with drop of Negro
blood is Negro, then the Census
figures are false. Instead of about
100000, there are really nearer co.
100000 or in other words, the majority
Of Americans are Negroes, and AMER
ICA IS NOW A NEGRO NATION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01

~ a ~ D.
Paul Runganadhan, native of Ban
galore, India, presided at the diner
given recently by the 1876 Class of
the w. s. D. Y. M. c. A. at Chicago.
The Chicago Y. M. c. A. is greatly
interested in breaking down caste in
India. Money and men ar esent to
break down this insidius foe in far
off India and when East Indians come
to Chicago, they are treated with
great consideration. The Y. M. C.. A..
however, show that it is not entitled
to the name Christian" by erecting
and maintaining a jimcrow branch for
colored Americans. Away with such
Christianity.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
REFUSES TO BE INsULrED!
Even in the Name Of christianity-A
Young Man Shows Manhood and
Independence When Y. M. c.
A. Conference Draws a
49,. HoInr.I ina
cleveland GaZette.)

CoIor.Line.
Cleveland Gazette.)
Louisville, Ky.-Despite the fact
that he had been invited and urged
to attend Y. M. C.. A. conference of
employed men Of that organization,
Mr.. Theodore Pettyjohn, physical d.
rector Of the Colored branch, was
asked into the kitchen when the call
for dinner was sounded. Following
his guide from the main dining room,
prepared for the other conferees, back
to the kitchen, Mr.. Pettyjohn politely
informed the lady that he would not
eat. He turned his back on the VIC
tuals prepared for him and walked out.
He then looked up the gentleman who
had insisted on his being at the con-
ference and told him a few things.
The gentleman tried to defend him
self by telling Mr.. Pettyjohn that he
ought to want to eat with his own
people and that Booker T. Washing
ton ate in kitchens. Mr. Pettyjohn,
seeing that the Christian could not
understand the principle Of the mat
ter, left the conference and walked
five miles on an empty stomach
when he reached the city limits he
boarded a car. At this conference all
present sat in the same room, read
the same Bible, declared Christ and
his teachings were the salvation of all
men, and yet when the dinner bell
rang, Christ and his teachings were
forgotten. Mr.. Pettyjohn was the only
colored delegate and fearing some un.
pleasantness - although it was a
christian" conferences only attended
after two insistent invitations.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
PASTOR ABBoTT's sLUsH.

Old man Lyman (wel named) Alb
bott, one of the worst enemies the
colored people have ever had and
whose record as giver out OF mis-
leading information about racial con-
.ditions is AL, is out west again hand
ing out some more slush.
Recently he stood in a pulpit In
Illinois and said: THE South has irss,
revocably decreed against the mixture
OF the white and black races" The
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01
WALLER AGAINST "NEGRo"
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says It Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(Fr0m Amsterdam NawS

"Sueos oSO 6uyoISAS oSSTSSdssVUs
(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 y
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
ize that it is the most potential fac
tor at work at the present to bring
about both physical and mental
segregation of the people of color. It's
use is on the increase only because
our speakers and writer's, especially
Do Bots and Washington feel that it's
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:
a. 1t has never stood historically or
IN the present, anywhere in the world,
for anything noble or uplifting. Most
high-grade Africans repudiate it.
b. In Africa and out of Africa it was
never applied to the higher types, but
to Guineas, Sudanese and Senegam-
bians only.
c. It's derivatives, "Negroism," 'Ne-
grofy," and it's compounds, Negro-head,
Negro-fly, 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.
e. 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"
f. 1t is not differentiated in the mind
and thought of the whites from their
favorite and generally used (among
themselves) terms, "Nigro'' and mig
ger"
g. AS stated by an eminent Japanese
diplomat it has an unquestioned in
tuence in cutting us off from the
thought, sympathy and cooperation
OF the millions of colored Africans, Ash
atics and Islanders of the Yonder
world.
Very truly yours,
OWEN M. WALLER, M. D.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01

rel together and sing praises with
siege-guns to. their own little foolish
national souls, and rain bombs on
each others naves, take my stand
by the great bells ringing in their
towers, by the souls of their poets
overriding the years, by the prayers
and songs Of their heroes, artists, in
ventors, by the mothers and the little
children.
We are all in the same world. We
are all alike. l will not say of any
one nation what will not say of the
others; and will not say of any man
what will not say of myself.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-05-01

THE APPEAL has received notice
of the death on the 10Th inst, of Mrs.
Ann Dickson, aged 81, at Nashville,
Tenn. The deacesed was the beloved
mother of Rev. R. H. Boyd, D. D., Sec
rotary of the National Baptist Publish
ing Board, to whom we tender our
sympathy. Mrs. Dickson was a grand
old lady and was known as the grand
ma of the National Baptist Publishing
House.