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The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21
RED RIVER COUNTY FAIR.
Progress of Texas Farmers Featured
at Sixth Annual Outdoor Meet.

at sixth Annual OutdooF Meet.
GAINESVILLE, Tex.-For the three days
beginning Oct. 10 the Red River coun-
ty eolored fair drew the largest
crowds ever attending a similar enter
prise in Texas. With cotton in this
section of the state selling at from 10
to ~ cents per pound, prosperity Is IN
evidence on all hands. The crowds
from the adjacent counties exceed all
expectations, and the exhibits covered
a wide range of farm products.
One hundred and fifty-six prizes, ar
ranged to cover all manner Of field and
home products, as well as cooking aud
sewing, brought out exhibits that
would have done credit to a national
exhibition. In awarding prizes even
the school children are not forgotten,
and prizes are given for collections of
fossils, wild flowers, etc.
The fair just closed is the sixth an
nual fair, and its constant growth is
testimony to the loyal work of Pro-
fessor j. w Jamison. its president
since organization. President Jamison
is grand treasurer of the Texas juris-
diction of the United Brothers of
Friendship and has been engaged in
educational work for a quarter of a
century.
The Red River county colored fair
is the direct outcome of a corn show
that was formerly held under the d.
rection of Professor Jamison. A prize
Of So was awarded at the corn show
for the best dozen ears of corn dis
played. The show grew to such inter-
esting proportions that it was finally
decided to organize fair association.
The officers of the fair association this
year are: j. W. Jamison, president;
DR.. Fl. G. Wallace, vice president; Pro
lessor l. NJ. Becton, secretary; D. A.
Fisher assistant; G. W. Martin, treas
urer, and Professor r. Coleman Pierce,
publicity director.
One of the features of the fair this
year was the brilliant fireworks dis
play prepared especially for the oeca-
sion. The races featured some Of the
best live stock In this section of the
state, all owned by the eolored people.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21

The fact that Springfield is be-
ing run much better now is not
due to the fact that we have Com
mission form, but to the fact that
Republicans are in the majority
4 to 1-all due respect to our DEM
ocratic friend, however, man
who is honest and of high calibre.
But you know that the republicans
run things better than our friends,
the enemy as Joe Cannon puts
it.
Senator Mason says the Demo-
Gratis are all right, but they are
not capable of self-government.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21
The FRUITS OF
WATCHFUL WAITING

There were only two sane cours-
es to take in Mexico-t to go in and
restore order to the anarchy-mad-
dened creatures of that country or
to keep out and leave them their
mutual destruction, But the adj
ministration did both and neither.
If to safeguard American lives is a
duty, then the administration fled
from that duty. If to protect
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21
RELIGIOUS RACE QUESTION.

Color Line Engages Attention of Pro-
testant Episcopal Church Conference.
The question of electing bishop of
their own race, now being agitated by
the members of the Episcopal church
among colored people. will soon be
decided by the general conference of
the Protestant Episcopal church. There
are said to be 1893 churches, with a
membership of 19,99S and $50 minis
ters. on that denomination among our
people.
The consensus of opinion seems to
be that if these churches cannot get
fair and equal treatment under the
present system of government In the
Episcopal church 1t is better that a
sufficient number of bishops be elect
ed from their membership to serve
their churches.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21

American property is an obliga-
ton, the ADMINISTRATION repudiated
it. 1t allowed powder and guns
and all the implements of warfare
to pour across the borders, then
closed the embargo on arms, then
raised it again, and closed and
raised it once more.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21
The MOB And
The PRESIDENT

Two colored youths were out
rageously murdered at Paducah,
KY, Monday-a most shameful
thing. The first man was accused
of an attempt to assault woman,
and the other was accused, or was
alleged to have sympathized with
the action of the former and was
murdered for this allegation. Civil
lized people, what you think of ito
People who believe in justice,
what do you think of it9 The law
was made by the people who are
now breaking the law.
We have associated the name of
the president with the mob in this
head, and we have done so qdvis-
eddy. There has been deal of
outrageous lynchings during this
administration and never once has
the voice of Wilson been heard in
protest. He has never uttered one
word against it and so far as the
public knows, h e approves the
most atrocious and ignominious
outrage that has ever stained the
escutcheon of this or any other
nation. He that is not for me.
is against me-" We believe one
of two things about Wilson,: he is
either in sympathy with the mob,
or else he is a coward-afraid to
speak out against it.
In regard to his love for human
ity, he is a first class hypocrite.
He has proven that clearly in his
diplomatic see-saws. He profess
ed to be for the weaker nations
and has not proven it. He allow
ed Germany and Great Britain to
make fool out of him; he per-
mitted Mexico to spit in his face,
but hurried a man-of- war to Hayti
to crush that nation, because he had
no foreign powers to fear. He was
afraid to not accept Japan's pro-
position and South America TO-
nored his advice, yet he sets dates
for general prayer service for Bel
GUM sufferers and the Armenians,
who are in want. All the while,
the piteous cries of men and wo-
men, being burned alive, are heard
on the back door of the white
house-but in vain, in vain. Yet
he is a christian gentleman and
will accord every man the respect
and Difference due from such a
christian gentleman.
No sir. do not vote for such a
man. If you do you will be MUIR
dering yourselves and your chill
dren. Why can't the government
protect its subjects and uphold its
own laws?
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21

Weekly paper devoted to the interest of
the whole people.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21
RACE LEADERS HOLD BIG
MEETING IN WASHINGTON
State Delegates Condemn Unjust Laws
and lndorse Hughes For President.

Westinghouse the recent race con-
ference held at the Mount Carmel
Baptist church In this city, Of which
the Rev. DR.. w. II. Jernagln is pastor
representatives were present from
twenty-one states, mainly in the north
and west The conference adopted res
olutions indorsing Charles e. Hughes
for president and gave approval to the
migration of Negroes from the south
ern states to the north. There was a
large attendance of delegates repre-
senting the New England and middle
Atlantic states.
The economic phases of the present
movement of the Negroes of the south
to Pennsylvania, New York and New
England to take the places Of Italians.
Polaks, Hungarians and others who
have returned to Europe to engage In
the war, was discussed at length.
The conference Endorsed the wisdom
of the migration and presented great
deal of information In regard to it. 1t
was asserted that more than 100000
colored men had moved north In the
last six months. Letters and kilograms
were read from many manufacturers.
mine owners and others, giving assur-
ances that Negroes would be encourag-
ed to make their homes In the north
and would receive a square deal" II
was represented that the Industrial
situation now In Pennsylvania and
New York was such that at least 2,000.-
600 Negro laborers could be employed
In the next year and would be wei
come.
At the morning session Of the confer
ence the convention was addressed by
II. Martin Williams, reading clerk of
the house of representatives, who
asked that the conference declare it
self for President Wilson. The matter
was discussed, and 1t was decided to
appoint q committee of nine represent
alive Negroes to visit Mr.. Hughes and
ascertain his attitude toward the Ne
gro race and. If his views justified, to
support him. The conference emphat
lOdlll lHuOlSGd HUGHES III PANsAhShbs
A committee of nine was appointed
to visit Mr.. Hughes and inform him of
the action of the convention and re-
ceive from him any word he might be
willing to extend to the Negro race as
to civil rights and the economic impor-
lance of the present migration of the
Negro from the south to the north.
The conference also adopted resolu-
tons condemning race oppression,
lynching, the Jim Grow ear and the
practice of segregation in government
departments in Washington. A resolu
ton was adopted thanking the bust
ness men, manufacturers, mine own
ers, railroad managers and other EN-
ployers In the northern states who had
given the Negro of the south chance
to earn living.
The committee appointed to visit Mr..
Hughes includes the Rev William H
Jernigan, NJ. w. D. Norman and Cal
win W. Chase of Washington, William
NJ. Alexander of Baltimore, NJ. B.
HUGHES of New York, ]. e. Dockery of
Waltham, Mass; q. A. P. Cheek of
New Jersey, s. L. Corrotbers of Penn
sylvania and J. P. Brown Of Florida.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21
When in LincOlnalways stop

at Hardin & Demands Palace. The
finest in Lincoln. Absolutely SAM
tary. Leisey's beer on tap, cold,
Finest of wines, liquors ann cigars.
imported and home made. A strict
ly fisrt class place. 200 Chicago st.
The very best courtesies to all. A
few doors from Interurban station,
Cor. Chicago and Pulaski Streets.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21

Penn Speaks at Wyandotte Celebration
John Stewart as an exemplar Of Ne
gro altruism WAS the subject of an
informing address delivered by l. Gar
land Penn at Upper Sandusky. o.. on
Thursday. Oct. II. The occasion was
the Wyandotte celebration. Mr.. Penn
Is secretary of the Freedmens Aid So
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21
THE ABDICATION
OF GOVERNMENT

In the COD0lCJ DebWteu Uiio iali-
way managers and the labor chiefs
a real government would have de-
clared that the nation is supreme
over both; that neither side has
the right to injure the whole peo-
pie from which both draw their
very life; that both must agree to
settle their differences by just and
honorable arbitration or else post
pone, their threatened battle until
Congress could learn the facts with
wisdom and justice to both sides
and in the interest of the whole
nation whose service both sides
perform.
And if these two combatants,
hot with mutual hatred and un-
mindful of the nations welfare,
refused to follow that counsel of
patriotic wisdom, then real gov
eminent would have used all the
power of real nation to keep un-
cut the arteries through which the
lifeblood of the nation flows. And
even if this could not be done, it
would have been better to suffer
temporary disaster than for the
head of the nation to have forced
Congress, in panic and in ignor-
ance, to vote into law the demand
of a small fraction of one per cent
of the whole people, who alone in
their collective capacity Congress
exclusively represents.
The deadly hurt which the adj
ministration's juggling with ex-
pediency has wrought to the cause
of organized labor-it has set that
against the principle upon which
the national existence depends; |
have gone further than most in
championship of the laborer's cause
in all its phases; but between the
nation as such and any power with
in the nation, | am for the nation.
If as free citizens of a free Repub-
lie we could discuss the merits of
the railroad controversy, calmly
and impartially, l should from
what little is known, take the side
of labor, for all my sympathies
are with it.
But that is not the case. For
the mighty issue before us is that
of abdication of the national gov
eminent itself, and until that vital
question is settled and settled for
ever, no patriot can hesitate to
take his stand, no matter what the
cost. In free Republic of free
and equal men, better maintain
law and order even though it mean
the delay for time of full justice
to few, than to blast the founda
tions of the government through
which alone justice to all can be
obtained. What must foreign
governments think of this9 The
sacrifice of self-respect at home
destroys respect aboard.
What answer does the partisan
of the administration make to this
long record of national humiliation
abroad and national abasement at
home.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1916-10-21

The colored citizens of this city
will soon have an opportunity to
vote theRepublican ticket straight.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-03
Al,srRIA,s REPLY.

Dealing with the Ancona case alone there can be no question but what AuEtria has recognized the soundness of the American demands by its reply Of compllance The answer now in the hands of the authorities at Wash fngt0m admits that this government asked nothing except what it was jus tided in doing. It comedies that the protest Of the United States, based aip1n the Austrian admiralty's report WAH 5fsstifled and that it called attention to and asked for the ending ox acts which cannot be consistently endorsed by civilized nation.
 Tlis government throughout the months of the war has not sought to secure anything more than it's rights. It has been free to stand up for them whenever occasion arose and though there were instances when it could have done so with greater firmness for it's own good, it has displayed no endeawor to bring pressure to bear on pfe side for the detrimental effects It might have upon the other.
 By it's insistences that international law should be respected and the rights of humanity observed it has protested to one as freely as to the other, when ever occasion arose, a fact which is borne out by the action which other countries have taken thereon. Austria remedies nothing in the Ancona case other than what 1t was obligated to do. It was guilty by it's own state ment of the transgression of interna- kipnal regulations and 1t is in acknowl- edgment thereof that 1t agrees to the United States demands. As far as the Ancona case goes it has met the issue squarely and right. which cannot be said of the Lusitania case in which Germany is involved, but the credit for such action has been seriously dis counted by the submarine activity in which the Austrian navy has since been engaged.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-03
ENFORCING THE LAW.

It would appear that New York,s fire commissioner is going about the solution of the fire perils which exist in that city through the dangerous conditions existing in the factory buildings, in the right way. Having had submitted to him a list of 250 manufacturing es- tablishments where conditions are such as to cause them to be regarded as creating a serious fire hazard irl- spectors are being set to work to make special Investigations of these places with the intentions that if they possess faults over which the fire com missioner has authority they will be closed until such a time as the menace is removed.
 Every now and then New York is visited by a fire in factory buildings where many lives are threatened and where number often perish, and the revelation is afterwards made that there has been a total disregard for demands of the law in giving protec- tion to life and property, or that while orders have been issued for necessary changes there has been no compliance herewith. The effective way to over come this situation is to enforce the flaw and this Is apparently what is being undertaken. It will be of no use for those who have been burned to death or lost their lives by suffo- cation or jumping. but it should have the desired effect in the way of pre- venticn for the future.
 As long as the law and orders of authorities can be lodged. litte ina- provement in the condition of factory buildings can be expected, but when the proprietors are brought to the reali- zation of the fact that they must meet the demands of the law and under stand that the officials charged with that duty are ready to enforce them. meaning obedience or the closing of the buildings. greater respect will bs paid to regulations.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-03
THE WAR PRIMER By National Geographic Society

St. Mihiel--War waves have rolled forward and backward around the little town of St Aihiel. like angry surf against a rocky shore, and the struggle here has been as stationary as that between a granite headland and the sea. A primer on war geoe- raphy just issued by the National Geographic Society describes this yii- lase. grown famed during the past year as the starting point of innum- erable German assaults. and as a po- sitfon bearing the brsint of many a fierce French answer. The primer reads:
 "st. Mihiel, in it's youth, was . place of much military importance. a feudal stronghold Of good revenue and sessed massive Notifications, and two castles. about which cling q wealth of traditions of bravery, stories of TO- nance. and tales, of uflbridled reyelry. The old fortifeatious and the castles were destroyed in q quarrel between Louis [ XII and 9s Charles ". duke of
 Modern St. Mihiei formed an irn- portant link in the long. closely woven chain of French defenses to- ward the German frontier The chief fame remaining to 1t at the time Of was that of it's age-meiiowed abbev the Benedictine abbey of St. MichfeI. to which foundation the town owes its name. The present abbey buiIdinas. in which the municipal bffices house. date from the 1Tth century.
 On the road to Verdun, the domin- ant fortress Of the whole region. are seven huge rocks, In one of which a. sepalchre has been heWn and a. iife- sized figure of Christ carved. Mira culous powers are ascribed to the image, and to it the peasants of the neighborhood take their troubles and their petitions.
 "st. Mihiel.lies on the right bank of the Mouse and the Canal de isEsf in northeastern France. some 2s nffeg southeast of Verdun In peace fIrness 1t has population Of 5000 and < large garrison"
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-03

val few eo-called Imperial roads,s which were, for the most part. strips of sand. From the inhabitants--or such of them as remained-they learn ed that taxes for the upkeep of the thoroughfares had been collected over and over-and never for the purpose intended. A second class of roads, the so-called government streets, were all but impossible, and the third variety consisted of roads that not only were i,npassable but impossible. All three sorts were torn by shells, cut by ane German wagons bound for the front.
 The Germans in charge of road re- building claim that they never have had any word as to the ultimate in tentieh of their government with re- specf to PoIand-that their. work has gone on irrespective of any intention to annex the ancient Kingdom, that the work has been done purely as sort of philanthropic measure and that it will stand as a heritage for those who may in the futufe-govern Poland.
 That is has been thoroughly done. however, is attested to by the fact that between 30,000 and 35,000 laborers have been employed in the various sections of Poland. Most of these men are Poles, thrown out of their ordin- ary occupations by shortage of raw materials.
 Throughout the length and breadth os Poland the sand stretches are be- ing belstered up with wood and stone -end 710,o00 cubic meters tapproxi- in making passable roads, even in dis tr;cts where no military need for them eS ists.
 For instance, a road 75 kilometers in length has been built to the south of Lodz, where there have been no arm ie5 for months, and where there is no immediate prospect of need for good roads from a military standpoint. The work continues, and a contrast be- tween the old and new order of things easily ohtainable in the coudse of a ride outside of Lodz-gives a slimpse of the constructive efforts of the Ger mans.
 The Polish population in general has proven thankful for what has been ae- plished-additioually so because thousands of it's men and women have received employment in the recon in this way been saved from the star vation that otherwise stared them in the face. a.5y. s..
 It Is peculiar that the women, rather than the men. have done the most to- ward rehabilitatine their own country. The women, and grown children, haye proved themselves industrious work CTS for the reconstruction of Poland, while the men with few exceptions have had to be driven, and have never ot ercome their suspicion of the Ger mans. This suspicion. it is assumed, is founded on generations of experi- enee of Russian domination. The men rather than work, offer erihes to the Germans. as they used to effer them to the Russians, and then appear ut- teriy dnmfounded when the hiibes are rlo- accepted and they are confronted with the alternative of working or staTving.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-03
RECIPES.

Chocolate Puddine-one egg, white beaten, yolk not beaten, one small tablespoon butter, two-thirds cup of sugar. Add and heat well two-thirds cup milk. and and a half cups flour, one teaspon baking powder, one- eighth cake chocolate melted. Pour into hot pudding dish and steam one hour.
 Sauce-One cup sugar, one table- spoonful of flour mixed. dry together, one tablespoon of butter, one eighth cake of chocolate cut into pieces put in with other ingredients in a sauce pan. Pour over all boiling water and boil until it thfckens.
 Mocha Cake-One cup sugar, small piece butter. two eggs lightly beaten, pinch of salt, one cup flour with one teaspoon soda and two teaspoons cream Of tartar, one teaspoon vanilla, one cup boiling milk with one tea spoon butter melted in 1t. Add in- gradients as they are printed in or der. This makes a very thin dough, but puffs up lightly. Filling: Half cup butter melted, one heaping cup powdered sugar, two tablespoons strong coffee, two tablespoons cocoa, one teaspoon vanilla.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-03
FOR THOSE WHO MOTOR.

Many people find that their com plexions suffer considerably from the exposure that motoring entails, but the application of a. good face cream and little fine powder before setting out will be found to be a great pro- lection. It is fatal to wash the face in either warm or cold water after a long run; cream should again be used to remove all dust and a soothing lo- ton applied after the former has been carefully wiped away. Some women have a great objection to goggles. on the plea that they are so extremely unbecoming. but the wise woman will realize that the strain on the eyes produces lines and "crowsfeet," and that 1t is far better to submit to a temporary less beautiful appearance than to risk any permanent harm.