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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-12-11
to Santa Claus

AY1ITH the approach of Christ
w mas each year the Santa
- Claus Association of New
&EGJ York, which each Christmas
IL tries to answer the requests of
~ thousands of poor children who
VI would otherwise receive no
R presents Christmas morning,
rs receives hundreds of letters
Il each day from all parts of the
II United States and Canada.
VI Below are a few of the hun
III dreds Of letters received by
IL the association. The first is
II from a little girl in the Bronx:
" Dear Santa Claus-Do you live
n: far? Would you please come up
"a my house Christmas day? I,
~ Rose. ten years of age, wants a
~ don; John, seven wants a en-
CINE; Alice, about five, wants a
m doll; Beatrice, just more than
~ three, wants a set of dishes, and
. Andrew, not w yet, wants a
IN Teddy bear.
IN ~. L lAOPS ~ eNI Aot l 19A
n: for. l am very poor, and my
n father is not working. Your lit
~ tie friend, ROSE -
e. This letter was received from
81 a little girl whose home is on
III the west side not far from
~ Times square:
III Dear Santa Claus-I heard about
. your great kindness to poor chill
~ dren. and hope you will be good
N to US. l have a little cripple sis
N. ter and a baby sister and brother.
My little cripple sister is only
"a five, and my papa has been out
M of work all summer. l hope you
N: will answer soon and won't for
II get us. Your little girl friend,
~ HARRIET -
II: A six-year-old lad whose
rs home is in a distant part of
* Brooklyn sent this letter to
"a the general postoffice. The let
m ter was forwarded to the Santa
rs Claus association:
a Dear Santy-I wants a nice
~ small train, not a expensive one
E: one that's just strong and will
u last long time. This is all l want,
M and we can't afford nothing this
r winter. Yours truly,
"a DONALD -
NJ This letter has been received
& from a child whose home is in
n a small town in the northern
* part of Ontario, Canada:
VI Dear Friend Santa Claus-I am
~ a very little girl, not ten years
* old, and both my parents are
III very poor, and they said they
couldn't bring me nothing this
~ Christmas, and what l van is
. a pair of ice skates and, if you
X can spare them, also a pair of
N hockey boots. Your little friend,
X MABEL -
~ Little Miss Mabel's seven
N year-old sister, Ethel, also ask
. ed for a pair of skates and
"a added that she would consider
* the gift "a very beautiful and
n likewise a precious one"
n Most of the letters are pa
. thetic, of course, but the asso-
IL citation also receives some very
" ludicrous requests.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-12-11
Christmas Carols.

1t is generally thought that Christ
mas carols originated in the middle
ages in connection with the then very
popular miracle plays. There is no
doubt that they formed an important
part in these early ceremonies.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-12-11

The Christmas candlel What
. a charming sound it has and
what a honey" picture it
| centuries before US of the
/: many who will attend it's
| burning en- Christmas eve!
/ All of us know the legend of
: the Christmas candle. If it
| burns clear down to the sock
: ct good luck and prosperity
will attend that household
( throughout the year.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-12-11

| Mince pies Eel known in I
! England in the sixteenth cen !
fury as mutton pies" the \
| other ingredients being much (
: the same as today. Later they :.
were called "shred pies" and ]
/ christmas pies" as in Her
: rick's poems. He refers to :,
! the old practice of setting a !
watch on Christmas eve over :
, the great store of mince pies B
l made for the morrow's feast. \
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-16
THE COLOR LINE VExES THE
PRESIDENT.
(From New York Evening Maii.)

(From New York Evening Mail)
It 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
If any adequate reason for his vexa-
ton had been supplied by Mr.. Trot-
ter, it would surely have been dis
closed.
That there was reason for the Pres
ident's ill 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??, 1915-01-16
ON THE PLATFORM

OO"AhOICE ON NE PLA IFORM."
A recent issue of the Atlanta Inde-
uendent had full page of redhot
editorial matter lambastig the coward
ly ours who call themselves Headers"
If our esteemed contemporary will
keep up this kind of work for while,
perhaps our Georgia brethren may be
aroused from their lethargy and do
as the editor suggests, and these are
his words: "Kick out of pulpits and
platforms every Negro leader who
does not protest against the indigni-
ties thrust upon U.S."
Under the caption "Cowardice on
the Platform" the editor says: mo
race or people in the history of civili-
zation ever endured a leadership of
more consummate cov1ards. The aver
age Negro is a coward in his own
esteem. Void of respect, appreciation
or manly resentment, he submits to
every indignity, with apology, the
white man inficts upon him. When
we speak of towards, we do not mean
physical towards, but moral and intel
lectual towards. The coward who
hasn't the moral courage to resent a
wrong. The coward who submits to
every indignity imposed upon him by
cowardly newspapers; the coward who
accpets every jimcrow accommodation
offered.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-16

The Jews will not read a paper that
is hostile to the Jews. The Irishman
resents with all his hot blood insults
heaped upon his race by newspapers
and other nationalities. The Japanese
resents with all his manliness, with
all his soul, with all his might, every
wrong done him because of his race,
his color or his condition.
There is nobody a coward but the
Negro; there is nobody that kisses the
hand that smites him but the Negro;
there is no race so divided against it.
self and is such a consummate band
Of bootlickers, towards and .sy
cophants as black educated leaders
What we need is manly leadership
one full of moral courage and intel
lectual bravery. Men who will tel
the race of indignities that they ought
not to endure, and how they may rid
themselves of the agencies that seek
to crush and undo it.
Let us have a manly race; and We
can only have a manly race by manly
leadership"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-16
GIFTS FROM INDIAN PRINCES.
Send $4,000, 900, Besides Hospitals, Mo.
tors and cameIs, to England.

Send 100000, Besides Hospitals, Mo-
tors and CamsIs, to England.
London. = Contributions by ruling
princes OF India to the expenses of the
war now amount approximately to
100000. according to telegram re-
ceived from Delhi. This sum includes
s2.O00.0 900 from the nizam of Haidara-
bad and $1,650.0OO from the maharaja
Of Mysore. Besides this amount, $780,
600 has been subscribed to the Prince
Of Wales relief fund and the Indian re
lief fund.
A further sum of nearly $4,000 has
been given by the chiefs in the form OF
heavy motorcycles. telescopes and kin
dred equipment. and S12O.OOO has been
given by Maharaja Scinda of Gwalior.
who has also presented motor ambu-
lance. consisting of forty one cars. for
the use Of the troops in Europe and is
arranging for the establishment of a
convalescent home in East Africa.
In addition to these gifts. many of
the chiefs have presented large num-
Der OF horses. mules and camels and
even their private motorcars. A hosp1-
tai ship. which is splendidly equipped.
Is another of their donations, the Delhi
telegram states.
All the great native states, the dis
patch declares. have now expressed re-
greet to the viceroy that Turkey has
Joined Germany In fighting England,
and all the ruling princes continue to
take the keenest interest in the war.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-16

1t strikes at the very foundation of
Christianity for among Christians of
every creed, marriage is regarded as
a divine institution.
There is no reason for such legisla-
ton. Caucasians usually marry Cau-
casians and Afro-Americans usually
marry Afro-Americans. The number
who marry interracially is wholly neg
llgible. The real purpose of the Bill
is to place a stigma upon the Afro
American people.
The Clark Bill is really an open In.
vitation to immortality and leaves the
Afro-American woman without protec-
ton and an easy prey to vicious men
of the white race. If there is to be
any mixing of the races it ought to
be done legitimately in Christian mar
riage and not in an immoral manner.
1t is not the proper function of the
Government to draw lines of invidious
distinction between it's various classes
OF citizens and place on the statute
books a law which in effect brands
one group of citizens as unfit, CHASING
it with imbeciles, idiots, detectives, de-
generates and criminals.
And then there is another point OF
view. The mixing which has already
taken place has not resulted in de-
generate specimens of manhood. The
first blood spilled in the Revolution
airy War was that of a mixed-blood
|-Crispus Attacks. Frederick Doug
lass, one of Americas greatest orators,
a patriot and a statesman was of
mixed-blood. DR.. w. E. B. Dubois,
the great literateur and sociologist, is
mixed-blood. DR.. Booker T. Wash
ington, the great industrial educator, is
a mixed-blood. H. Y. Tanner, the great
artist whose pictures have been pur-
chased by the French Government and
now hang In the Louvre, is mixed.
blood. DR.. Daniel H. Williams, one
OF the worlds greatest surgeons and
who was the first man surgeon in all
the world to operate successfully on
the human heart, is a mixed-blood
! THE APPEAL could name thousands
of other mixed-bloods of whom Amer.
lea may well be proud.
Every colored person ought to get
busy at once and write to the Senators
who represent his state and ask them
to vote against the bill when il
reaches the Senate.
Do it now
We are delighted to state that to
the everlasting credit of the Minnesota
delegation in the House, they voted
against the Infamous bill.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-16
DID THE PRESIDENT LOSE HIS
HEAD?

(From 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 a 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 Cabl-
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-16
TO LIGHT IRIDESCENT CAVE.

Newly Discovered Wonder In Cali
fornia to Be Opened to Visitors.
Iron Mountain. Cal.-Superintenden
Cole of the Hornet and Iron Noun.
tain mines announces that Bears Dip
cave, the newly discovered greatest
natural wonder in Shasta county. Is
soon to be wired electrically and
thrown open to the public. Because
Of inacessibility less than half dozen
persons have explored it's dark depths.
containing the strangest. most highly
colored and extremely beautiful copper
formations ever seen.
There are many crystal pools, and
when Illuminated the cave will be a
fa1ryland. 1t is expected to attract
visitors from all over the state. Metal
stalactites Of hundred colors are be.
ing prepared for display at the Pan
ama-Pacific exposition by Nj. r. Dit
mar. The mine owners believe the
cave will become as great an attraction
as eruptive Mount Lassen.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-16
MOUSE TIES UP WHOLE TOWN.
Causes Short Circuit at Light Plant
and Everything Stops.

Causes Short Circuit at Light Plant
and Everything Stops.
Hutchinson. Kan. - An understood
mouse short circuiting some wires in
the city electric light plant here stop.
ped the street cars. put out all the
lights in the city. shut down certain
parts of the salt plants. chemical
works, -four mills, strawboard plant
newspaper typesetting machines. one
telegraph company and other indus
tries depending on electric motors for
power for an hour.
Edward Benson, assistant engineer
at the plant. tried to get the mouse out
with pair Of tongs without shutting
down the plant, and the little animal
jumped into a connection that electro
cuted it, causing several thousand peo-
pie to take vacation until the burned
out switches and wires could be re-
paired.
Mr.. Benson was badly burned about
the hands, arms and face. but will re-
cover
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-16
PHYSICAL BLIGHT AS
FRUIT OF The war
Offspring Of Survivors to Be-
Weak and Crippled.

Washington.-Over Europe of the fu-
ture. no matter upon which side VIC
tory rests. declare medical men and
scientists, will sweep the devastating
hand Of physical blight. Children with
crippled forms, weak bodies and un-
balanced minds will fill the cradles of
every nation now at war, offspring Of
the men made unfit for parentage by
the rigors of the great conflict.
DR.. Ales Hrdlicka, curator Of the Ma
ti0nal museum and noted anthropoI.
ogist. is one Of the savants who has
studied the effect of Europe's conflict
upon the children yet to be born. 10
him the present war presents vastly
different aspect with regard to future
generations than any conflict has ever
presented before.
Since men of science first began to
study the effect of wars upon the hu-
man races it has been admitted that
whenever the best physical examples
OF nation went to war to be destroyed
the physical manhood of that nation
suffered. Then it was discovered that
for every man killed or fatally wound
ed four died Of disease. AS warfare
approached it's present modern charac
ter the number Of killed and wounded
in each engagement decreased. while
the number who died from natural
causes" increased. Army physicians
say that the percentage of mortality
from wounds in the present conflict i.
likely to be far less than it has been in
the wars of the past
But the scientists-both medical me1
and anthropologists-add to that state
ment their belief that the loss OF the
men killed in the war will not detrac>
from the physical welfare Of Europe's
future sons 0ne-hundredth part as
much as will the men who return IN
wounded from the field. because war /.
no longer primarily an annihilator 81
life. so far as the calculations Of science
are concerned, but shatterer of nerv.
GUS constitutions. creator Of neuras
thenic wrecks. weakened mentalitlel
and Slapped vitalities
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-16
SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1915
WILLIAM MONROE TRoTTER.


The visit of William Monroe Trotter,
editor, orator and agitator, to the
Twin Cities was great event.
He was received right royalty and
the simple modest manner in which he
told the story of his visit to President
Wilson to protest against an outrage
Gus wrong, charmed his hearers, Gre
ated enthusiasm and made a host of
friends.
The moral fibre of the people has
been quickened and there is now as
never before a determination to fight
against the many wrongs and insults
which are heaped upon the colored
people.
They have learned the lesson that
it takes money to fight for justice and
they mean to make sacrifices if neces-
sary in order to provide the means
for the fight.
There are no frills and furbelows
about William Monroe Trotter. He is
a plain, earnest, honest, upright man,
who has decided to give up wealth,
official pre4erment and worldly honors
to dedicate his life to noble cause.
THE APPEAL has always admired
him because he is an UNCOMPRO-
Missing advocate of right and justice.
While the majority of the so-called
leaders have equivocated and COM
promised the people for gold or power,
William Monroe Trotter has always
stood as a stone wall against every
form of injustice whether by the Ma.
ton, the state, the municipality or
the church.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-16
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1915-01-16
DEAD ten MINUTES,
RESTORED TO LIFE
Artificial Respiration Caused
Heart to Resume Functions.

Los Angeles. Collaborating to three
reputable surgeons Of Los Angeles.
Drs. p. M. Williams, G. S. Hutchinson
and w. S. Holman, modern miracle
in medical science was c0nsummated
in the restoration to life Of Mrs. Wal
ter W. Akers, after she had been
dead for at least ten minutes.
1.-THE raising was not from a theo-
retical death or state of coma" said
DR.. Williams. Mrs Akers was &C.
tually dead. Her heart had ceased its
functions and there was no pulse. and
her eyes were fixed in the stare that
to every medical man spells the eter.
hal sleep. Usual tests all failed. She
was dead. The end came during a ma.
jor operation for laparotomy.
"Mr. Akers. who was waiting in an
adjoining room. was summoned and
1ealized all was over. when seemingly
by intuition l began to get busy.
worked hard to produce artificial respi-
ration by the usual methods. but fail
ed Then DR.: Hutchinson inserted his
finger through the tncision made in
the abdominal wall during the course
Of the operation slowly until the dia-
phragm was reached.
with one finger on top Of the heart.
bis thumb on the bottom. he made a
slight compression, then another and
another until his hand was contract
ing and dilating the organ of life in
stimulation Of heart throbs He was
rewarded in moment by an expan-
sion of the heart, and then as the or
gan gradually grew stronger In ITS
beats blood began to flow through the
arteries He intensified this with oxy-
gen and other artificial respiration and
after few moments Of this treatment
the lungs reluctantly took up their
burden. The patient rallied wonderful
~ fast, and within fifteen minutes an.
other anaesthetic was administered in
order to complete the first operation"