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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-21

CHARLESTON: Sunday school
workers from all parts Of the Kan
awha and New River valleys are
gathered at Hinton, where the Sum-
mers county Sunday school conyen-
ton is in session.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-21

CHARLESTON: Collect Littlepage,
Charleston lawyer, pays the heaviest
dog tax OF any man in West Virginia.
He has twenty fox hounds, several OF
which cost more than 500 each.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-21

About $4,000 acres of the Madras
presidency in India has been sown in
indigo this year, about twice tho nor
NAL area.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-21

TERRA ALTA: business men hero
have decided that Preston county must
have an annual fair. They are consld-
cring sites for race track and build
ings. Grain, stock and fruit will be
exhibited.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-21

FAIFAfoNT: A wholesale grocery
business, capitalized at 100000. is the
latest addition 10 Industrial Fairmont.
1t is tho Stevenson Company, OF which
John y. Stevenson, Of Huntington, will
be the head, and Interested in ii will DO
several OF the influential mon of Fair
mont
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-21

GRAFTON: Authorities are still
puzzled over the death Of Charles Arm
strong, coal miner Of Junior, whose
lifeless body with the throat cut was
found along railroad track near here.
He may have been murdered and his
body placed there in an effort to hide
the crime. he may have committed
suicide or train may have struck
him.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-21

twisted to form the girdle ana end
Of n sash. while a third color isused
for the knot.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-21

of Parkersburg, vice president; Floyd
j. Brown, OF Huntington, secretary;
w w. Hornlsh, of Wheeling, treasurer,
The selection OF the next meeting place
was left 10 the executive committee.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-21

Sailors in the British navy now
utilize their spare time In making
munitions, for which they receive no
remuneration.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-21

DAVIS: G. C. Lashley, Of this city,
has been elected cashier OF the Peo-
pies Bank, just chartered with an
authorized capital of $4,000, which
has all been paid in.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-21

MADISON: Just as the state had
completed its case against him in
the circuit court. Sherman Adkins.
on trial on a charge Of bigamy, made
his escape from the courtroom and
is now at large. The state had made
an unusually strong case against the
accused. 1t is charged Adkins first
married Miss Anna Ball, OF Boone
county, with whom he lived a short
time. and then went to Kentucky and
married Miss Minnie Morgan, bring
ing her to live In the neIghborhood
where his first wife lived. There Is
no clue to Adkins's whereabouts.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-21

CHARLESTON: The Masonic fra
ternity had charge Of the ceremonies
incident to laying the corner stone for
the proposed court house Of Wyoming
county. The county seat, having been
changed from oceana to PInevllle, a
handsome new court house is being
erected. More than 1000 visitors went
to the new seat of county government
to attend the ceremonies.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-21

HUNTINGTON: 2. T. vinsun and
other business men have purchased
the Pence Springs property Of thirty
acres, including the celebrated Pense
Springs in Summers county for 100000
and plan to erect a big summer resort
hotel there.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-21

GRAFTON: Fires have been lighted
for a resumption OF operations at the
Royal Window Glass Company's plant.
1t will require twenty-one days to get
everything in shape, when a full com
plement Of glassworlers will be en-
ployed. A new tank holding 800 tons
Of glass has been installed.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-21

MoUNDsvILuE: Pedestrians were
too quick for thief who snatched a
purse from Mrs. August White in Sec
ond street and after a chase he was
captured and taken to Jail, where he
said his name was Richard Moonan, of
Chicago.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-21

PARSONS: The belief that hard
working newspaper men are never fay-
ored by fortune has been shattered in
the case of d. w. Thurston, editor of
the Parsons Advocate, he AYERS. The
stork has just brought twin daughters
to his home. ''Hurrah but we are
happy" be states In his paper,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-21

CHARLESTON: The supreme court
Of appeals OF West Virginia has al
lowed two wrlts Of error. One was
on petition of the Banner Window
Glass Company in the case from Kan
awha county. of Hector Thirty against
the concern. The other was on petit
ton Of the plaintiff in the case from
Wood county, of Florence May Nicely
against f. G. Butcher, justice Of the
peace.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-21

RIPLEY: Jackson county physic-
ians have organized permanent coun-
ty association with DR.. T. z. Rymer,
Of Ripley, president.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-18
OPPOSES HYPHEN REGIMENT.

Mayor Mitchell of New York OBJ.
jects to the organization of regiment
Of troops composed exclusively of
citizens Of German birth. In his let
ter, which he has given out he said he
was of the opinion that it would be
hurtful to draw racial lines in Ameri.
can military matters.
II would deprecate the formation of
a regiment composed wholly of men
Of any one nationality" he added,
whether they be German, French,
Italian or Russian, as this might tend
to draw the very racial lines which
believe ought to be avoided. sug-
gest that you urge your men to join
the regular organizations of the ma
tional guard or such other organiza-
tons as may be recruited by the fed
eral authorities"
The mayor ought to have added that
it is mistake to form separate
regiment of colored men. Colored
men in New York made a fight to have
themselves segregated. It was great
mistake and adds another to the list
of causes which will prevent the
colored people from being treated as
American citizens. 1T NEVER PAYS
To ASK FOR SEcpEcArI0N m
ANY. KIND.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-18
"WHY AMERICANS FAIL"

, It is L notorious fact that in spite OF
congresses, long-winded
editorials in American newspapers
etcetera, the United States is far be-
hind Germany, Great Britain, France
and Spain so far as trade in Latin
America Is concerned.
A book by A. Wyatt Verrill on
apvlL usoI1emV le12ueO pu1 Q4nos,
Conditions of Today" recently issued
by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, hal
this to say under the heading. "Why
Americans Fail" -..
Race or religious prejudice, con
descension, discourtesy or blutf have
no place in Spanish America. The
Latin-American is a gentleman first
last and all the time. He has never
acquired our habit of being a gentle
man in private life and a boor in
business and he expects others to be
as courteous as himself and If they
are not he judges them accordingly
He may be white, brown, yellow OF
black, but he remembers that one OF
his ancestors was probably a plumed
grandee Of Old Spain. You may scot
at his ideas. you may laugh at his
faith, you may curse at the "lazy
Greasers," and through it all he may
smile, treat you with respect and pc.
likeness and greet you with express.
sions Of the greatest pleasure, but in
his heart he despises you for an Ill.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-18
OFFICE BOY NOW MUST
BE 4 CHAUFFEUR TOO
Business Men Send Youths to Driv.
Cars Around Block.

Philadelphia Requirement for Of.
dce boys have automa ticalIy risen with
the new ordinance regulating the
parking of automobiles in central
streets OF this city. Advertisements
for boy Wanted" now conclude With
something like this:
Must be experienced In driving mo-
torcars or willing to learn" Here's
the reason:
Suburbanites who drive their cars to
their offices in the city in the morning
cannot leave the autos parked in the
street as they could formerly. In a
section Of Chestnut street where there
are several big Office buildings. for ex
ample. cars must, not be left standing
for more than half an hour at time.
So every half hour the business man
sends bis Office boy to the street to
drive his auto around the block. II bis
office boy isn't chauffeur the bust
ness man goes himself. But this takes
valuable time. and. added to the ex-
pense Of starting up the car and NOV
Ing 1t around the block sixteen times
a day for six days q week. it costs
money. ''';''> ~t.-.. :
Hence the demand for Office boys
who are also chauffeurs. ... !.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-18
WOMAN 100 YEARS OLD.
Mrs. Van Sickle Takes Active Part Il
Her Birthday Celebration.

Mrs. Van Sickle Takes Active Part In
Her Birthday Celebration.
Sussex. N. J.-Surrounded by her six
children. twenty grandchildren and
four great-grandchildren to say moth
ing of host of relatives. friends and
neighbors. Mrs. Sarah Van Sickle Of
Vantage township. two miles from
here. celebrated her one hundredth
birthday. She took an active part in
the celebration and urged the younger
ones to dance and play games while
she looked on and directed things.
Mrs. Van Sickle was born and has
lived In this part of New Jersey all
her life. She said that her health
was good and that she felt no older
than she did thirty years ago. She is
still able to read without the aid of
glasses and is a daily reader Of the
newspapers. The sewing machine still
claims much Of her time. but she is
not able to thread the needle as dex-
terously az once. .. .>
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-18
KING GEORGES BADGES
FOR INVALID SOLDIERS
Medals Also Will 30 Awarded "a
Qussn's Nursing Services.

London.-1t is officially announced.
says the London Times. that on the
recommendation Of the army council
the King has approved the issue Of
silver badge to- officers and men of
ethe British. Indian and oversee forces
who have served at home or abroad
since Aug. 4. 1914. and who on nc
count OF age or physical inf1rmity
arising from wounds or sickness caused
by military service have. In the case
OF officers, retired or relinquished their
commissions or. in the case of privates,
been discharged from the army.
The badge will also be awarded to
members Of Queen Alexandra's impe
rial military nursing service, regular,
reserve and territorial force, Queen
Alexandra's nursing service for India
and members Of voluntary aid detach
ments who have quilted the service
under above conditions; also to civil
practitioners and to other civilians
who. having occupied positions nor
mally held by officers or other ranks
Of the royal army medical corps under
a d1ed agreement for a period of serv.
ice. have been forced to resign By
physical incapacity caused by military
service. - :.
The badge IL in the form Of q circle,
an inch. and a quarter In diameter
The circle bears the words "Tor King
and Empire-Services Rendered." md
clrcumscribes the imperial cipher sur
mounted by a crown. 1t will be worn
on the right breast or on the right lapel
OF the Jacket with plain clothes only.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-18
CHARITY MAKES EDWARDS.

Charity makes for slaves, towards
and sycophants," said Mother Jones"
|of Colorado mine field fame. recently
Her words are true.
Mon cheat their employees out of
what is their just due and become rich
and when they have accumulated mil.
lions they pose as "philanthropists"
and endeavor to perpetuate their
names by giving money for libraries
or Charities" or Christian (?) asso-
Citations.
Instead OF being great philanthopists
these men, in many cases, are simply
thieves who really ought to be in
prison for having robbed their fellow
men.
No class has suffered more from the
"philanthropies'' Of these rich thieves
than the colored: people and their me-
farious work has been aided by So
called colored leaders who have taken
the role of public mendicants and have
begged for money to organize jimcrow
institutions and thus prevent their own
class from securing their rights az
American citizens.
The product of the segregated insti-
tuition is usually a crop Of young col
ored people with slavish instincts:
bringing towards. seryile sycophants.
Great God deliver the people from
such charity and give them justice.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-18
OF One Blood.

(Gerald Stanley Lee in Mount Tom
am a human being. I do not pro-
pose to be cooped up or shut in in nv
love and criticism to mere geoeraphi-
cal streaks or spots Of people on q
planet. This planet is small enough
as it is, when one considers the
height and depth-the starry height
and depth-of the human spirit that
wavers and CLOVIS through us all
Wagner and Shakespeare, Tolstoi and
Moliere! Though the cathedrals quar-.
rel together and sing praises with
slege-guns to their own little foolish
national souls, and rain bombs IN
each others naves, I take nv stand
by the great bells ringing in their
towers, by the souls Of their poets
overriding the years, by the PRAYER.
and songs of their heroes, artists. in.
ventors, by the mothers and the little
children. 1919
We are all in the same world. We
are all alike. will not say Of anv
one nation what will not say Of the
others; and will not say Of any man
what l will not say of myself.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-18

bred Yankee pig and thanks God
that he is Of Spanish blood.
On the others5hand treat tho Latin.
American with courtesy. praise the
buildings and industry Of his town.
admire his beautiful women. visit hit
places of interest. and speak his Ian
guage and you may command respect
admiration and true friendship and
every entertainment and comfort will
be yours" ~
THE APPEAL has printed number
Of editorials along this line showing
that Americans have lost millions of
dollars through their jimcrow methods
and it is a great satisfaction to have
this view upheld by a great authority
thoroughly familiar with conditions.
Race prejudice is an expensive
proposition for those who indulge in
It.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-18
III AM A MAN."

DR.. Frank Crane, with whose writ
ings most of us are quite familiar,
always says something worthy of con-
sideration but recently in his article
under the heading, II am a man." he
showed himself to be much of man,
for he said, II cannot despise any
humans creature because of the acct
dent of his birth or condition"
IF he is Chinese, with almond eyes
and strange speech and peculiar ways,
still he is human"
"Ifhe is Negro, with different skin
and hair from mine, yet he is my
brother"
II am man, and nothing but man
is alien to me"
He said whole lot more to justify
his claim II am man." but nothing
that was more convincing than what
he said concerning the Negro. Few
men have the courage Of their con-
yictions equal 70 Frank Crane.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-18
SP0RTSMEA PLAN TO WIPE
OUT The ENGLISH SPARROW
Will Ask Governor Of Every State
to Aid In Work.

New York.-The League Of Ameri-
can Sportsmen. whose object is the
preservation Of wild life. Is consider
Ing the question Of inaugurating ma
t1on wide campaign for the destruction
OF the English sparrow. Its officials
say this bird has made such Roadway
here that it is driving out the smaller
song and 1nsectivorous birds and that
1t has become question of whether
we will have only the English sparrow
to represent our bird life or destroy It
and regain some fifty species of useful
and beautiful birds that used to in
habit farms and countryside all over
the land
The league intends to issue q procla-
nation declaring war on the English
sparrow and setting aside week. pos
sibly In April or May of next year, to
be devoted especially to waging it.
The governor Of every state will he
asked to aid the work, Printed in
structions as to the plan of the cam
Ypaign will be sent to the mayors of all
incorporated cities and villages. to the
heads of the school systems in every
county. to college presidents. to princi-
pals of preparatory schools. to the
heads Of the boy scouts in each state
and to other organizations which might
be expected to- extend sympathy and
aid.
-Four principal methods of action will
be employed: Tearing down the nests.
trapping the birds. shooting them un-
der police supervision and under H.
censes issued by the police authorities.
and. in cities where water pressure is
available. turning the hose on the
birds at night after they have gone to
roost.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-18
WOULD ABOLISH THE HYPHEN.

WOULD ABOLISH THE HYPHEN.
Universal service in military train.
Ing camps as an aid toward American:
izing the immigrant has been sug.
gested by G. Bernard Anderson, Swed.
ish vice-consul at Chicago. Here is
what Mr.. Anderson says:
II think immigrants will get more
Of the American spirit by serving for
some weeks side by side with born
Americans than by being lectured or
instructed. 1t would bring men to-
gether in a common movement.
II do not really favor the holding OF
meetings in which the difference be-
tween American born citizens and nat.
uralized citizens is emphasized. In
fact, feel that we ought to get rid
of the hyphen in America at once and
for all time. Any meeting in which II
is part of the program calls atten
ton to it. I do not really favor any
reference to the term Swedish-Ameri.
can. I think every man who came
from Sweden ought to forget the by.
phen. 1t is true that those who come
from Sweden have many tender recol.
iectionss Of the old country and also
that they are among the quickest to
adopt American ways fully and com.
pletely. For the latter reason should
like to see the Swedish part of the
term dropped. I think it would be
dropped quickly, too, were it not for
some men who try to make political
capital out of it by playing to the
so-called 'hyphenated' vote.
Foreigners in America should be
quietly made Americans through edu.
cational method, by patriotic concerts
in the parks and patriotic meetings on
occasions of national moment. The
group meetings should be discour.
lged."
Mr.. Anderson is right. People who
come here and become citizens ought
to drop the hyphen and become Ameri
cans in fact. And if this is true how
much more important is it that people
who are born in the United States
should reject any proposals to set
them apart in groups for any reason
or purpose whatsoever.
The colored people are citizens for.
titled by ten generations of residence
and they should shun any schemes
which segregate them in any way
Such plans, no matter how alluring
they may seem are un-American
dangerous and damnable.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-18
Must Judge A Group by lts Best.

Must Judge A Group by lie Best.
(From the Christian Register, Boston,
Mass.)
NO one can be said to know any
class OF people who has not been In
intimate and sympathetic relation with
the best as well as the worst of the
class. We compare many persons
who live In the South, and think they
know the colored race, with others
who have had no such contact, but
who have come into intimate and sym.
pathetic relations with large numbers
OF that race whom their Southern
friends have never known; and of the
two sets of people we should say that
the second knew the colored people
better than the first. They know aspi.
rations among them that the others
90 not know, or, knowing. do not
enter into and appreciate; they know
capabilities by direct contact. with the
best of the race which others are obi
v1ous Of; they know qualities which
only respect and sympathy can bring
out; they know possibilities to which
others by their very acquaintance are
blinded. II those who know the COL
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-18
OUR NEED OF JUxfAPOSlTloN,
(From the Boston Guardian\

That we much rather be, and asso
clate 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 Inn
possibilitay for the two races to sub
scribe to common government. and.
at the same time, each race work out
Its own salvation. The theory" has
oeen tried and resulted into a ghastly
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.
srous leadership that resistance Is
wrong, that 1t only breeds race hat.
red and antagonism; that the thing
1or us to do Is to get property and
other rights will inevitably follow.
we have followed this advice" fail.
fully and have been rewarded In
terms OF residence segregation. street
segregation, conhscation and loss of
property. Observation-Disclosures ia
oil OF tho blacklist pieces Of lekis-
latton, since that it leaves our women
defenseless and at the mercy of white
orutes - separate schools, jimcrow
cars, and even legislating to exclude
further Negro immigration. These
arc the evils resulting from mon
resistance" and rather be by our
selves" That with the same degree
OF efontry and terrible legislation
with which our property is taken ana
conf1scated, 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 90 ourselves. to mixed
institutions and other places where
We can mix with the, other races and
consequently become accustomed IL
ono another. ABOVE ALL THINGS
WE MUST WELCOME AND PRAC-
T1CE JUXTAPOSITION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-18
ANY prejudice whatever will
be insurmountable If those who
do not share in It themselves
truckle to It and fiatter It and
accept It as a law Of nature"
John Stuart Mill.
SOME POEMS BY A COMING POET
The Birth of a Wild Flower.

The Birth Of a Wild Flower. =
was tiny seed
Implanted in Mother Earth,
Who, enamoured of the Glorious Sun,
COnceived-and gave me birth.
If We Be Coward.
.Cringe and cover to the lash's swish,
Shrink from the blow of hard-knuckled
fist,
Sickly grin when your women they
slur,
And heel to white men like a belly
dragging cur.
Fatuously applaud bombastic praise,
OF pseudo heroes of abolition days.
Fervidly sing, my Country IT'S of
Thee"
CAS- it was taught to you and to me).
Lick the hand that knots the rope
They put about your fellow-man's
throat.
Submit to infamy, insults, abuse.
Champion the craven, who these
things excuse.
Frederic Hart Williams.