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Secretary and Treasurer, Nurse De-
partment, Civic League of Sumter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-07-13
Lands! M a66N49 Lands!
Largest County in the State

The Land Of welcome and plenty. Many thou-
sands of fertile farming lands still on hand and you
can purchase many you to handle,
at right prices Take trip out into this county
and you will be most agreeably surprised after
ing and an investigation of this great agricultural
region The land is easy tabe and products of this
land are close to cash markets.
Wausau, a city Of 1880 population, is the
county seat of this county and is the metropolis OF
the Wisconsin river valley. The county embraces
many prosperous towns and villages within its Dor
ders and is populated by some of the most prosper
Gus and intelligent farmers to be found anywhere.
Good roads, telephones, excellent churches and
schools, good railroad facilities the choicest hard
woods and abundance OF other kinds of woods for
domestic and manufacturing purposes and good
water in abundance.
For further information concerning this valuable
and rapidly developing region, send for booklets,
charts maps, ETC., to the
c. D. Jones Land Co.
over the First ssIonsI Bank
"AOSAo' Wisconsin"
The Appeal., 1915-01-30
PUPILS WORK SCHOOL FARMS.
Get Pay For Toll and Michigan Cite.
Buy the Produce.

Get Pay For Toll and Michigan Cite.
Buy the Produce.
1shpeming. Mich.-The cities Of un
per Michigan have devised new way
for school children to earn money IN
the summer vacation months BY es-
tablishing school farms which pay pu-
Pill workers for their time and sell the
produce to people Of the cities inter.
ested practically at cost.
1shpeming began the experiment. Il
was so successful that the idea is
spreading over the upper peninsula.
The Michigan State Agricultural COL
lege this year will have experts to sys-
tematize the work.
Farms have been conducted under
the management of the Ishpeming
board of education for three years, and
this year they will be operated on a
larger scale than heretofore. M. A.
Russell. from the Michigan Agricul-
tural college,. has been placed in
charge. r..
The board of education owns eight
cen acres of tillable land in three
tracts. and most of this will be cult
vated. Students do the work. One
hundred and twenty-five boys have
agreed to perform the necessary labor.
Their pay Is 10 cents an hour. The
school board markets the produce and
retains the proceeds. The chief crops
this year will. be potatoes, cabbages
and caulifower. One acre will be de-.
voted to Strawberries.
The Appeal., 1915-01-30
SATURDAY, JANUARY 80, 1915.

In "Dr. Cranes Editorial" very
interesting feature of the St. Paul Dis
patch, expressed some proper senti-
ments in regard to the recent lynching
Of the four Afro-Americans, two Of
whom were women, by the white mob
of Georgia. Everyone knows, who
knows anything about it, that these
human beings-although they were
black-had not committed crime that
deserved death as a punishment
They were mob-murdered and all who
participated in it were more criminals
than their helpless victims. Says DR..
Crane, "Lynching is just one example
of the great delusion under which
mankind rests: that punishment stops
crime" 1t is entirely useless to point
out to these persons the fact that since
the foundation of the world such meth
DDS have not abated evil "Whoever
believes that pain, violence, or any
form of punishment abates crime is
in the same fog with the BRUTES
who hanged and riddled with bullets
the two Negro women" The crime
for which these four people were mob
murdered was being born black. DR..
Crane says, "Cut out vengeance from
your hearts, God says, "Vengeance
is mine, I will repay" So these Geor-
gia mob-murderers have got "some-
thing coming that they don't expect "
The Appeal., 1915-01-30
EDISON BANS CIGARETTES.
Workers CANT Use Thorn, Though he
Smokes Cigars and chews.

Workers CANT Use Them, Though he
Smokes Cigars and chsws.
West Orange, N. When the 6.7oo
employeeg0f the Edison plants here
entered the shops the other morning
they were confronted on every side
with printed signs bearing this warn.
ing: "Cigarettes Not Tolerated They
Dull the Brain .. ..s.
AS result Of correspondence with
Henry Ford. the Detroit AUTOMOBILE.
manufacturer. Thomas A. Edison de-
c1ded to be crusader against the Gig.
arctic. At the request Of Mr.. Ford
Mr. Edison made analyses of at least
twenty brands of cigarettes. While
he found the tobacco contained in
them was Of all qualities. he found
poisonous matter In all the papers in
which they were rolled. Said Mr.. Edi.
son:
THAT poison attacks the brain and
works havoc with mans mental &C.
tivity. his mind becomes clouded.
Evaristo Madero. brother of the late
president Of Mexico. told here q few
days ago that men. women and chill.
dren are inveterate smokers Of cigar.
cites in the southern republic. That is
why Mex1cans as q race are not clear
headed"
Mr.. Edison has always abhorred Gig,
arettes. but he Is heavy smoker Of
cigars. and he likes to chew tobacco.
The Appeal., 1915-01-30
THE COLOR LINE VExES THE
PRESIDENT.
(Erom New York Eveninn

(From New York Evening Mail.)
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
ernment 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-
tion had been supplied by Mr.. Trot-
ter. 1t would surely have been dis
closed
That there was reason for the Pres
ident'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 a 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., 1915-01-30
BABY CUT OFF 200 PHONES.
Papa tho Real sileneer, However, VIII
Aid n$

Papa tho Real silencer, However, With
Aid Of Shotgun.
Atlantic City. N. 1.-THE birth of a
baby in the home Of Matteo Gionetti
of Merlonville cut of all telephone
service In that section for the greater
part Of day, to the rage Of 200 sub
scribers.
The boy arrived at the Gionetti home
shortly and there was nobody around
to help Matteo celebrate, SO he grabbed
his shotgun and proceeded to blow
holes in the atmosphere.
Mr.. Newton, the phone companys
wire chief, discovered the lines were
useless when he came to work next
morning. At Gionetti's place he found
the broken wires hanging loose from
the pole, with about a pound of shot
In the cross arm. Gionetti told all
about it. Newton started to swear.
changed his mind, grinned. said, Hope
the kids all right" and started repairs.
The Appeal., 1915-01-30

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: "No
race or people in the history of civili-
zation ever endured a leadership of
more consummate cowhrds. 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 inflicts 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 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
nand 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 tell
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 manly race; and we
can only have a manly race by manly
leadership
The Appeal., 1915-01-30
M'AD00S WILL LIVE IN
A LITTLE COTTAGE"
Future Home Situated In FASH
lonabIe Washington Suburb.

Washington.-Now that the Wilson
McAdoo wedding is over, one great
postnuptiaI fact stands out promi-
nently:
The McAdoos are going to live in a
cottage! ... .., .,>
This has come as something OF a
shock to Washington society, which.
when it heard the news. elevated it's
eyebrows and emitted little murmur
Of surprise
But it will be jarring to certain Of
sentimental cast Of mind to learn
that the cottage" of the McAdoos
will be cottage In name only.
It's something on the order OF the
cottages down at Newport" that Co.
han used to sing about long years
ago. and the cottage which the Nc
Adoos are reported to be taking is
situated at Chevy Chase. not far from
the Chevy Chase club, of which Presi-
dent Wilson is member
A cottage at Chevy Chase comes
very near being the kind Of house
known in 1880 as mansion. Chevy
Chase is the most exclusive suburb
Of all the suburbs around the capital.
and the man who buys house there
finds his deed quite full of clauses.
stipulatfng everything from the price
Of the house he must build on the lot
to the color and nationality Of the
man to whom he may sell his prop
erty If ever he goes broke.
Therefore it seems that the mere re.
port that the McAdoo cottage is to be
in Chevy Chase kills all the roseatc
dreams Of the sentimental minded.
who probably conjured up dreams Of
bungalow where the red roses grow
The Appeal., 1915-01-30
DID THE PRESIDENT LOSE HIS
HEAD2

(from the Philadelphia Press.)
It 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 anu 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 were segregated in
the departments to avoid friction. But
there was no friction until Mr.. McAdoo
and Mr.. Burleson got into the Cabi-
The Appeal., 1915-01-30
1.-THE POWER OF AelTAT,oN"

THE APPEAL is always pleased to
read in the columns of it's Southern
Afro-American contemporaries editor
lals which may serve to inspire the
race to always protest against wrong.
In the article which follows, Mrs. Mag
gle Walker, the banker editor of
st. Luke Herald, Richmond, Virginia,
truly says, when the spirit and pow
er of agitation die among a people,
they are doomed beyond all hope of
resuscitation and redemption"
THE POWER OF, AGITATION.
The greatest power on earth for the
righting of wrongs, is the power of
agitation. When the spirit and power
of agitation die among a people, they
are doomed beyond all hope of resus-
citation and redemption. So important
is the power, that It is guaranteed to
the people through the mandates Of
the Constitution of the United States.
The colored man is not an aglrator,
nor has he ever been. It has dinned
into his ears until it has reached his
very soul, that all he has to do toward
righting his wrongs, is to wait until
the Lord himself shall see fit to come
down and right them. The idea OF
peaceably assembling and making in
telligent and persistent protest against
outrage and wrong seems foreign to
him. Or, should he start an agitation
and is rebuffed at the start, he loses
heart, abandons the effort and gives up
like disappointed child.
It is the agitation of the waters of
the sea, which prevents stagnation
and death. 1t is the agitation of the
air which gives pure air to breathe.
1t is the agitation of the blood, which
gives us the power of motion and lite,
and it is the agitation of thoughts and
ideas which prevents brain stagnation
and mental death. When a people lose
that interest in themselves, to that
extent that they stand supinely by,
quietly submitting to wrong, without
protest, they have reached the danger
point in race progress development.
The Appeal., 1915-01-30
WALKS 100 MILES TO ENLIST,
10y Disappointed When Told War Had
Not Been Declared.

eey Disappointed When Told War Had
Not Been Declared.
Jackson, Miss.-Coming afoot all the
way from Tate county, 100 miles,
George Starks. young farmer, went
to the Office Of the adjutant general OF
the state and astonished everybody
there by saying that he wanted to en-
list as private for the war in Mexico.
The attaches Of the Office looked at the
man in wonder. This certainly was
unusual. Everybody else that had said
anything about enlisting in the state
militia wanted to be captain. a colo
mel or major.
The simon pure patriot was told to
keep up with the daily newspapers and
return to the adjutant generals Office
when war should be declared and Mis-
s1ssippi would be called on for militia.
Starks was disappointed. He wanted
to get into the fight at once. He want
ed no stripes. no honors-simply the
privilege of being a private in the
ranks to fight for the honor of the flag
The Appeal., 1915-01-30
INFAMOUS LEGISLATION

The Democratic House of Represen
tatives has passed an Infamous act
prohibiting the intermarriage of white
and colored persons I'm the District OF
Columbia.
The vote was about four to one but
the fact that sixty members voted
against the Infamous measure shows
that the idea Of justice is not yet dead.
The bill is an insult to one-tenth of
the population of the United States,
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 interraci is wholly neg
ligible. The real purpose of the Bill
is to place 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 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
ary War was that of a mixed blood
!-Crispus Attucks. Frederick Doug
lass, one of Americas greatest orators,
a patriot and statesman was of
mixed-blood. DR.. w. e. B. Dubois.
the great literateur and sociologist, is
a mixed-blood. DR.. Booker r. Wash
1ngton, the great Industrial educator, is
4 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 a mixed.
blood. DIR. 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 it
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., 1915-01-30
Mr. WILSON AND "SEGREGATloN."

New YOrk.-TO the Editor Of THE
APPEAL. Sir: The interview of Will
liam Munroe Trotter and the delega-
ton OF colored gentlemen with the
President Of the United States brings
forward again the burning question Of
the treatment OF colored civil servants
in Washington. The whole incident
shows grimly and forcefully how deep
ly the colored people of this country
feel the injustice which Mr. Wilson's
government has inflicted upon them
and still inflicts.
The National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People has been
fighting segregation in federal depart
ments ever since the first rumor of it
was made public. Over year ago an
investigator was sent to Washington
and report printed. Since that time
representative of the national as
sociation has kept in close touch with
the local situation, and on one oc-
casion this representative appeared be-
fore the civil service committee and
helped kill the bill of Edwards of
Georgia and Aswell OF Louisiana max
ing segregation legal throughout the
federal civil service. Much of the
segregation has disappeared.
When the U street station OF the
postoffice in Washington was abol-
ished all the colored men employed
lost their positions, but through the
Intervention of this association three
of them were reinstated. When the
bureau of engraving and printing
moved to its new quarters it was the
original idea to segregate colored and
white people throughout the entire
building, but through the efforts Of
this association there is no segrega-
ton in the lunchrooms or on the roof
garden. Segregation, nevertheless,
Sill exists in the Postoffice Depart
ment and in the Treasury, and pos
sibly here and there in small de-
gree in other places.
1t still remains true that for the first
time in half century a President of
the United States and distinguished
members of his Cabinet have deemed
1t necessary for the peace and quiet
OF these United States that clerks in
the federal service, having passed the
same examinations and receiving the
same rate of pay. must be separated
In their work If the ancestors of any
OF them had drop of Negro blood
In. some cases the "colored'' Aterks
have been so white in appearance that
the officials themselves have made
mistakes in classifying them In other
cases clerks of all colors have pro.
tested against the attempted separa.
tion. Always the separation has
caused humiliation and Inconvenience
and added cost.
J. r. SPINGARN.
fChairman Board of Directors Nation.
nj Association for the Advancement
of Colored People.)
The Appeal., 1915-01-30

school Of the Ingersoll's, etc. He shows
that the fall Of man was matter of
the Flesh and the Sex and that the
Christ had to be conceived without
a natural father in order to be a 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., 1915-01-30
UNCLE SAM KEEPING
GIRLS ON THE FARM
Tomato Clubs Bring Good H.
comes to the Members.

Washington.-Guided by southern
school teacher, Uncle Sam is turning
his attention to- keeping some of his
country nieces happy on the farm in
stead Of letting them join the workers
in the cities. In five southern states.
under the direction of the department
Of agriculture, schoolgirls are learning
how to turn tomatoes and snap beans
into money.
Miss Mary Cromer Of Aiken, S. c..
began the girls canning clubs with
forty-six Of her own pupils. She had
heard of the boys corn clubs and saw
no reason why the girls should not
make little money too. So one spring
she encouraged forty-six girls to plant
little tomato patches.
All summer she worked with them.
showing them how to hoe and cult
vate. Along toward harvest time the,
neighboring station of the farm demon
stration service heard about what she
was doing and sent canning expert
to Aiken to show the girls what to do
with their product. One girl got 512
cans from her patch. which gave her a
profit at the rate Of $4OO an acre. Even
Jerry Moore, the boy who won the
corn prize had cleared only $40 an
acre. Miss Cromer was given a place
in the department Of agriculture and
has organized tomato clubs in five
states.
The clubs are formed very early in
the spring before planting time. and
the demonstration who travels about
tells the girls how to have their land
prepared. The farms are only one
tenth of an acre now. that being sup
posed to be all that one girl can we'll
take care Of. Usually the fathers do
the plowing. but they are paid for their
time and the fertilizer they use. just
as an outsider would be. For the cul-
tivating the girls allow themselves 10
cents an hour, They learn to enjoy the
work.
The girls are taught to put up wild
and garden berries in glass. In the
fall. when the harvest is all in tin or
glass. the demonstration visits each
home. weighs each can and marks its
weight upon the outside. The little
gardener adds her name and address.
and the can is sent straight to some
bOdy's table at 10 cents for the tin
cans Of vegetables and IL fer glass
jars of preserves. If the purchaser is
dissatisfied she notifies the department.
and the girl is directed to send anoth-
er can. If there are continued COM
plants of her products it is assumed
that she is not following directions.
and she is dropped from the clubs.