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The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-19
The Bystander believes in got

The Bystander believes in good
government, because in good govern
ment only can all the people of all
races, classes, professions and call
ings enjoy equal rights and privileges
under the law. Good government is
not alone the result of good laws, but
is rather the result of the enforce
ment Of those laws. That we may
have good laws properly enforced it
is necessary that we have at the head
Of the department of justice a man
who is able to enforce them and is
guided by the spirit of justice to his
fellowmen in enforcing them.
1t is necessary that we have man
for attorney general who will enforce
the laws against the powerful inter-
ests which are taking advantage of
the weak and helpless, instead of
using the law enforcement machinery
of the state exclusively to the search
ing out Of the petty offenses of the
weak and ignorant and furnishing
them. There is no man appearing
or attorney general who meets all of
these requirements as completely as
does H. M. Havner of Marengo.
Mr.. Havner is recognized as the
greatest trial lawyer in the state, and
the state is entitled to the best legal
talent within it's boundary to look
after the many interests of all the
people.
Mr.. Havner was classmate in the
Iowa university of our steemed S.
Joe Brown, who speaks Of Mr.. Hav-
! ner with the highest praise for his
ability as a lawyer, his kindness as
a classmate and his behavior as q
gentleman. On account Of this class
mate relationship and years se
quaintance S. Joe Brow w in
such close touch witt -Ad of the
state department Of ace were Mr..
Havner attorney general as to insure
Y fair consideration for our most
humble fellow citizens at al times. &,
Mr.. Havner' lwas taught the equal
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-19

Music-Miss Juanita White.
Report of suffrage chairman-Miss
Teresa Adams, followed by five min
ute talk, suffrage workers.
Wednesday, 2 D. m.
Music.
Invocation.
Roll call-Quotations from Dunbar.
Minutes.
Parliamentary drill-Mrs. Helena
Downey.
Music-Mrs. Fannie Sorrell.
Symposium, Social Service-Miss
Jessie E. Walker, chairman.
The Horne as Social Center
Mrs. Jennie G.. Johnson.
The Church as a Social Center
Mrs. J. L. Edwards.
The School as Social Center
Mrs. Minnie B. London.
Vocal duet-Mrs. Gus G. Nichols
and Mrs. C. B. Woods.
Report of child welfare chairman
Mrs. I. l.. Brown.
Address on child welfare-Dr. E. A.
Carter, Buxton.
Election Of officers.
Original poem-Mrs. Jonnie Storey
Johnson.
Wednesday, s p. m.
Music.
Invocation.
Roll call-Quotation from DR.,
Booker T. Washington.
Minutes. Nr@r &c.. '..
Vocal selection-Mrs. Pearl Thomp-
son. u 1..".>..: q ~ .
1 Original poem-Mrs. H. w. Hughes
Paper, "The Care Of the Teeth" Dr..
l.. r. Willis, Buxton.
b. Music-Mrs. w. "a. Brown. #
Address, "Our Boys" Mr.. ]. q,
McGrew, Buxton, secretary Y. n. 9.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-19

Address, Earlier Educational Ad-
vantages-Mr. A. G. Clark, Oska-
loosa.
Report Of music chairman-Mrs.
Gus G. Nichols, followed by demon
stration.
Why Preserve Negro Folklore
Mrs. Clara Shepard.
Tuesday, 8 p. n.
Music.
. Invocation.
Roll cal1-Quotations from Negro
women.
Minutes afternoon session.
Musical selection-Miss Edna
Jones, Oskaloosa.
Original poem-Miss Margaret
Roberts.
Instrumcntal-Miss Mildred Griffin
Annual address-Mrs. S. Joe
Brown, president.
Violin selection-Miss Vivian
Smith, Waterloo.
Reading-Miss D. Mae Lee.
Vocal solo-Mrs. S. H. Armisted.
Style show, how women should
dress, conducted by Madam Geo. c.
Young, assisted by Madam C. H.
Mease.
Announcements. .... .
Wednesday Morning, S:45 .. m.
Devotional exercises, is minutes.
i Music. 81, MA
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-19
EDITORIALS
THE MODERN SHORT DRESS IS
HARMFUL.

This new style short dress and high
fashionable shoe tops that the So
called society women wear nowadays
are very harmful, hurtful and dam
gerous to the morals of the Ameri-
can girls. It seeks to create the
wrong impression. It is almost OBJ
scene and indecent to see our girls
out on the streets with those short
knee dresses. The sentiment that we
sow now the next generation will
reap. Mothers, your girls will soon
lose all the modesty and womanly
graces by such exposures. Why real
ly some go on the streets with such
stunts in short dresses and other In
decent apparel that it u shocks the
gallant manhood 81 man 70 So them.
You may my, Don't look q them, but
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-19
Iowa State Federation C0lored
W0men'S Clubs
Fifteenth Annual Session of the Colored Women's Clubs
Will be held at the Y. N. C. A. at Buxton. Iowa
May 22nd to 24th Inclusive

Board meeting Monday at 3 p. m.
Monday Evening, May 22-Citizens'
Night.
Music-America.
1nvocation-Rev. F. B. Woodland,
pastor Mt. Zion Baptist church.
Instrumental solo-Mrs. Eva Pugh.
Welcome address on behalf of city
MIR. Richard Anderson.
Vocal selection-Mrs. Rosa Guy.
Welcome address on behalf of
churches-Rev. J. H. Ferribee, pastor
of St. Johns A. M. E. church.
Clarinet solo-Mr. Joseph Tate.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-19

A new chapter of the O. E. S. was
organized at Fort Dodge, Iowa, Sat-
urday evening, May 18th, by the G.
W. NJ, Mrs. Ruth B. Bright, assisted
by Rev. I. w. Bess, W. P: of Queen
of Sheba, Waterloo. There were sew
enteen applicants who received the
light of the order. Every one seemed
highly pleased with the secret work.
Sister Lydia Cooper, W. NJ; Bro. S.
Hudson, w. P; Sister J. Raglon, A.
M
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-19
n. A. A. G.. p.

DR.. A. J. Booker, chairman of the
educational committee, announces
that he has another big surprise to
spring in connection with the educa-
tional meeting to be held at Union
Congregational church Thursday
evening, May 25th. Hon. J. B. Weav-
er, Jr., son of the late J. B. Weaver,
Sr., formerly candidate for president
of the United States, will be the prin-
cipal speaker. The legal redress COM
mittee will also make full report on
the recent fight on "The Birth of a
Nation" and donations received to de-
fray the expenses of this local fight
and the fight on segregation being
conducted by the Louisville, Ky.,
branch.
All members are urged to attend.
The public is cordially invited. By
order of the executive committee.
S. Joe Brown, Chairman.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-19
BURNErTE FOR RECORDER.

Mr.. A. 5. (Buzz) Burnett Oh VAL
ley Junction has announced his name
as a candidate for county recorder,
subject to the republican primaries.
Mr.. Burnet,e is one of the best quail
fed young men for this office that
Polk county could find. He has been
deputy county auditor for about seven
years, also worked in the recorders
office a short time. He has lived IN
Valley Junction for the past twenty
two years. For three years ne was
postmaster there. He was IN the
grocery and hardware store for sev-
eral years. The editor OF The BY
stander has known Mr.. Burnette for
many years and has found him to be
a gentleman. He has never held an
elective office. His many friends So
licit your support.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-19

"The Face At the Window" a
thrilling drama in three acts, given
by Mrs. Chas. Wilson at West High
school Thursday evening, May rs, at
S:15, for the benelt of St. Paul's A.
M e. church rally. Tickets on sale
at Model Drug Store. (Adv.)
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-19

rights theory from childhood by .
father who gave four years of his
life to free an enslaved race, and
these principles of equal rights are
imbedded in his life so that any other
course for him would be impossible.
The battle cry of Bystander read
ers should be "Havner for Attorney
General" 1Hs.-
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-19

what do they get out on the streets
and in public if not for men to see.
They are out to attract and be ad-
mired by men. In reading this ar
ticle some will call me an old fogy,
but some day you will say that we all
ought to rise up and put a stop to
the vulgar and indecent dressing.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-19

Bailey.
Parliamentary drill-Mrs. Helena
Downey, parliamentarian.
Music.
Symposium, Education-Mrs. A. G.
Clark, chairman.
Cooperation of Parent and Teacher
Mrs. Minnie Brown, Buxton.
Race Literature-Mrs. Emma
Brooks, Davenport.
Vocational Training-Mrs, Anna
Williams, Buxton.
Mothers Meetings-Mrs. Gertrude
E. burden Rush, Des Moines.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-19

Mrs. ]. Alvin jefferson.
Report of health chairman-Mrs.
Elnora Gresham.
Paper, 'The Practical Influence Of
the Clubs"-Mrs. Lulu Horne.
Solo-Mrs. Minta Miles.
Address, 'Why Clubs Should Fed
erate"-Mrs. Gertrude S. johnson.
Paper, Medicinal Value of Fruits
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-19

,, and Vegetables followed byy' demon
stration-Mrs. Clara Comely, Webster
City, assisted by delegate F. B. W.
club.
Report of young women's chairman
Mrs. Eliza Redd.
Round table, "What Our Young
Women Are Doing" delegates from
young women's clubs.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-19

Mrs. J. H. Mcdowell, the delegate
from Eliza E. Peterson Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, will
leave for Buxton nMonday a. m, to
attend the State Federation of Clubs.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-19

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Roll call-Quotations, miscellane-

1soff "I-V0oe"VfVflS' HffSSc1"IR0
Gus.
Report of temperance chairman
Mrs. Lydia Hockedy.
Report of civics ichairman-Mr.
Wells Fowler.
Report Of arts and crafts chairman
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
L0ngest and VarY0West 0f AZ Countries in fhe World

of California, which is the seat of the Chilean people. Many rivers rising in the Andes descend to it and meander more or less directly westward through the coast range of the Pacific; but the intervening divides are nowhere of such altitude as to interrupt the con- tinuity of the great valley which ex- tends from north to south. Santiago is situated at the northern end, and 1lOurishing cities are located at each favorable point on the railway that connects the capital with Puerto MOntt
 The climate as we go from north to south becomes even more humid, and we pass from the irrigated lands about Santiago to the dense forest swamps of the southern portion of the district While much of the land has been has been cleared or is in the process of clearing, in a state which reminds one of our own Pacific coast thirty years ago, other areas remain impenetrable forests, still unexplored after nearly 400 years of occupation of the coun- try.
 ',Thc third section of Chile, eNterd- ing sOuthward from Puerto Montt to Cape Horn, is like our southern Alas ka cOast--a stretch of islands, of peninsulas broken by intricate chan rels and profound fiords that pene- trate far into the land. Tumultous rivers descend from the Andes and de- bouch into the fiOrds in swampy deltas which are covered with dense forests.
 Santiago is the chief city of Chile, but not in the same degree as Buenos Aires is of the Argentine Republic. BuenOs Aires has become almost the republic itself, in the sense that Paris is France; but Santiago is only the capital of the country, which has other cities that may compare with it in To- cal importance, Santiago contrasts with Beunos Aires as the conservative capital of a small country with the metropolis of the continent You feel in the Chilean capital the conservative character of the people; in Buenos Aires the liberal spirit of the world city.
 "The modern Chileans are descend ants of waring Spanish invaders min gled with a warlike Indian race, the Araucanians. They are without ques- ton the most independent, the bold est, the most aggressive of South American peoples. The people of Ar gentina are the most enterprising, as they are the most cosmopolitan and progressive, of the Spanish-Ameri- CanS.'
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
BOOK REVIEW

In his recent book "The Sins of the Children" Cosmo Hamilton takes a theme that is strilIingly similar to the one around which he wrote, "The Blindness of Virtue." So similar is the thought in the two books that a person having read the one, cannot help but anticipate in a general way that which is coming in the other. in his last work, however, MT. Ham ilton has made the leading character a male and has interjected a william of the most approved type. The book deals with the relation of father and son and bring out Strikingly the tragic results that may follow if tho Iaternal parent does not explain sex hygiene to his son. The story deals chiefly with an American family, al-~ though there is a touch of English to it, wove in by the attendance of the oldest son at Oxford.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19

tory. It is more than twice tho size of the original hospital. ard modern i'll many details. The opcIati2s5 roo ! is second to none in the 3tat1, tic staff of physicians ana nurses ranks with that of any in this part of the uCcolnncdations were not so cOm- fNrtabIo as they arc today the patients l;,%y have had some remote reasons to- I, &i@tcr complaint. They have nonc TOW. Added to this is the co-opera- ton extended by various orga nizations "'od societies throuGhOut the city. par ticu2arly the Sunshine Society, which %ende q representative to the hospital every day to distribute flowers and fruit ard little offcrin%s to those who arc temporarily isolated from home and friends.
 We could not get along without tho New Britain General Hospital. As tho city grows the hospital must grow with it. This must be so if New britain is to maintain it's present stan d@rd and reach to heights anew. No enc knows at what hour of the day or night the ambulance might be called fer @ trip to the hospital It is ever there ready to serve humanity. It has it. arms open for tho rich and the. poor. It takes in old age and child hood, men and women. It is there fore something that is of equal in terest to all good citizens. To those who cannot afford to pay their way there is as sympathetic a welcome as to those who upon their arrival might firing with them enough money to found a new ward. Sickness ana pain recognize no faVOrite. Those who devote their lives to the care or the stricken administer alike to all. That is what the New Britain General Hospital means, that is why it de- serves the consideration and help ot every mcm Der of the community.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
THE HOSPITAL

When the sun shines, the rain is
 rgotten. When the sky is bright Rd clear there isi little thought for |e clouds. When good health bounds, no one thinks of sickness. |hile life is rosy and gay, death never It's a thought. That is the way of |e world, the way of human nature, hd, Withal, it is a sensible attitude. the rush and hustle of the city
 hrt there is no time to mourn the
 Bs of hillside and countryside. ose things take care of themselves Rcause in the scheme of things therc always someone around to lend a |lping hand. There is always some 4c back in the quiet corners of the nth to look after the things that Bmand attention there. While the Rnds are playing on Main street and Be circus parade holds the attention thousands, there are those who Ry home to care for the household. it is in the matter of sickness and Hath While the strong and the #althy are stalking the streets, not owing of the anguish and pain of zher men and women, there are the d se1t1c nurses in the hospitals 8llstantlT administering to the sick q the dying.
 j 4Men and women might live in New Eitain all their lives and never have fcasion to think of the General Hos ltal, except in rare instances. such the publication of the annual re- Ert of that institution, or upon the Icasion of an accident.the account of |aich mentions the name of some lend Yet the hospital is there I'D the bill, day after day, night after lp ht, and the nurses and doctors are Ter attending to the wants of the Imerous patients. This year the sw Britain General Hospital has at lined the greatest period of it's his
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19

Washington, D. C., Oct. 16.-So ob- thoughts of war and it's weapons that the reader is prone to think of Chile as nothing more than a vast nitrate mine, contributing to munitions fac tories it's millions of tons of this non- metallic mineral, an essential ingredi- cnt of high explosives. The nitrate fields of the South Amercain republic have an area of less than $50 square miles, however, and they are located from 50 to 100 miles from the coast in' deSOlate, arid region. The real Chile, the Chile of the Chileans and not the mining region controlled by British nitrate companies, is de- scribed by Bailey Willis in a com municatiOn to the National Geo. graphic society, a part of which has been issued as the following geography bulletin:
 'Chilo is the longest and narrowest of all the countries of the world. It stretches 2,70O miles, from Cape Horn to the deserts of Atacama, within the tropics. Its width is rarely more than 125 miles from the ocean to the An dean crest If we were to place it upon
 
 America, it would cover Lower Cali fOrnia, Oregon, Washington and Brit ish Columbia to the St. Elias district of Alaska
 "Chile is divided into three sections by the natural features of the Pacific shape of the Andes. The northern is that of the semi-ardi and desert re- zion, which reaches from Peru south ward to Valparaiso. It is an utter desert in the north and becomes less 1nhospitable toward the south. It is traversed from the Andes to the coast by short, deep valleys, separated by high spurs of the mountains, and cOm- munlcatiOn from north to south has always been exceedingly difficult. Nevertheless the Chilean engineers have found route through which to extend the state railway which will link Santiago with the territories con- quered from Peru.
 The central section, extending from Valparaiso to the island of ChilOe, @ distance of 600 miles, is the heart of Chile, the only portion of the country which can support a sufficient popula- tiOn to constitute a nation. The area is not large (abOut as extensive as the state of COlOradO), and much of it is occupied by mountain ranges of great heights and ruggedneSs. But betewen the Andes and the coast there extends in this section a valley similar to that
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19

cies''
 With the tin gods, by Mrs. Horace
 Tremlett
 An account of journey in north ern Nigeria, made by an English woman while accompanying her hus- band who was Investigating tin de- posits. Told with humor and spright- illness, these glimpses of native life end customs have their va/e as en- tertaining travel Iiterature'-A L. A. Booklist. WracS of the storm, by Maurice Mae
 terlinck.
 "The devastation of Belgium has in- spired the patriot in Maeterlinck This book is a plea for the cause of Bel gium and of humanity" y."-Publisher's nCte.
 Curious case of Marie Dupont, by
 Adele Luehrman.
 Good mystery story, clever, en- tertaining, and not gruesome."- Publishers note. Jim-Unclassifled, by Robert Kelly.
 "A WellWritten romance. Jim" is cheerful, refreshing, and enliven- ing companion, and we part from him with the kndliest feelings glad to have made his acquaintance."- ."-N. Y. Times.
 Man proposes: or, The romance of
 John Alden Shaw, by F. II. Rob
 inSOn. More excellent way by Cyrus Town
 send Brady. Prudence says so, by Ethel Hueston.
 ''Sequcl to "rudence of the arson age'
 Rising tide, by Margaret Deland. Roundabout, by J. F. Buckrose.
 "The author writes always with quiet but penetrating humOr of types and situations which in their sub stance are as familiar to us in Amer ica as to our British cousins. ."-Na- ton.
 Winds will, by Agnes and Egerton
 Castle.
New Britain herald., 1916-10-19
GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED
 IN INSTITUTES LIST THIS WEEK

Charles E. Hughes, the statesman, as
 shown in. the opinions of the
 jurist, by w. l.. Ransom Elements of the great war: second
 phase, by Hilaire Relloc.
 
 Burgh Daily.
 Story of her twenty years in China"
 Making of modern Germany, by Fer
 dinand ScheviH.
 Lectures, delivered in 1915 for the University Lecture association, in CO., operation with the University of Chicago. The author believes that the German system is a more ad- vanced type of social organization tban either that of the United States or Great Britain."-A l.. A. Booklist. Nights in London, by Thomas Burke.
 Prescriptions of night life in Lon- don among the lower middle class and the underworld, filled with color, odor, sound, presenting types and individuals with much vitality, the whole characterized by personality all it's own.' "A. l.. A. Booklist Our Eastern question: America's con-
 tact with the Orient and the
 trend of relations with China and
 Japan, by T. F. F. Willard.
 ''The author has been for the last five years editor of the China Press (ShanghaD"
 Our military history, it's facts and fa1-
 lacies, by Leonard Wood. Penny Piper of Saranac an episode in
 StcvensOn's life, by Stephen Chal-
 mers.
 Tlavs bv l.. N. Andrcvev
 'ThC plays are preceded by brief biographical sketch and an essay on the authors symbolic dramas by " Y. Brusyanin, a literary critic and personal friend, facts which give the essay the ''unique value of being an authoritative statement of Andreyeff's own views, "A. l.. A. Booklist Scenes and mem Ories, by Lady Paget. "Thc author was a member of one of the noblest families of Germany end the wife or the British Ambassa- dor at many European courts" "Thc charm and dignity, the quiet pleasure and beauty and the serene sense of duty that belonged to the ftties and sixties. have never been so clearly placed before the present generation as in the graceful, reticent yet romantic pages of Lady Pagct's volume. .''-Academy.
 Shakespeare's England: an account of the life and manners of his age. 2 volumes.
 ''Thc finest tribute during this ter centenary to the memory of the dra- rlatist. It should prove one of the 1 1rOst Serviceablc handbOOks to the serious student furnishing a vast amount of relevant Information. end helping the public to read the works with understanding and sane appreciation. -Athanacum.
 "This book is a splendid work of scholarly research. .'-Spectator Wilson and the issues. by c. Creel. "Summing up of the presidents personality, achievements and poli-