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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-06-09
STATEWIDE CAMPAIGN.
Health Car Coming.

The automobile bringing Alden
Anderson, Field Secretary of the
Maryland Tuberculosis Association
and his Boy Scout helper, G. L. Wis
sig on their statewide tour in the
interests of better health, is due to
arrive in Cecil county Monday OF
next week for stay of about ten
days. Elkton will be the head
quarters. Messrs. Anderson and
Wissig will pitch their tent and
make camp in the open, in or near
Elkton, and thus at the beginning
and throughout their entire stay,
practice one of the doctrines preach
ed in the campaign, namely, that
everyone should be in the open air
as much as possible both during the
day and at night while sleeping.
By means of motion pictures
the car carries it's own picture MAJ
chine and films with illustrated
lectures on tuberculosis for both
grown-ups and children, by exhibits,
by the wide distribution of edcua-
tional literature throughout the
county, by talks to various local
organizations and with many indi-
Mr.. Anderson will try to
arouse the people of the county to
a fuller realization of the toll of
human life claimed yearly in the
state, by tuberculosis. This disease
caused about 5000 deaths in Mary
land in 1915. A needlessly high
proportion of those now living who
have the disease will die this year
because of the lack of provision for
their proper care and treatment.
It is the aim of the Association
to establish Cecil County Tuber-
culosis Committee as one of it's
county branches to follow up this
and for the development
of the work here in Cecil.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-06-09
Community Club Organized.

On March 16, 1916 a Community
Club was organized at Liberty Grove
by Miss Grace Rawlings, the aim of
the Club being to benefit the Com
muhity and to bring good entertain
ment to the people.
Miss Rawlings had arranged with
Miss Pritchett the State agent of
Maryland to give SIX lectures and
demonstrations on home economy.
The first meeting was held at the
home of Mrs. Jos. Gillespie and was
presided over by Miss Hunt of Wash
ington.
The following officers were elect
ed, Pres. Miss Rosa Caldwell; Vice
Pres. Mrs. Jos. Gillespie; Secretary,
Mrs. Howard Griest: Treasurer, Mrs.
Harry Mcdowell. After the regular
routine of business Miss Calkins
gave very interesting talk and de-
monstration on Kitchen Equipment;
the ladies were given the privilege
of showing the arrangement of their
own kitchen and then Miss Calkins
pointed out the many ways of saving
steps by rearrangement.
The second meeting was held at
the home of Mrs. Howard Griest,
April II. Miss Calkins being pres
ent gave an interesting lecture of
Food Principles and Values.
The third meeting was held at the
Scheol House, the subject being
Poultry Raising. Mr.. George Brown
a poultry specialist of Balto., gave a
lecture on the subject. This meet
ing was open to the gentlemen who
showed marked interest in the
lecture and the Club work in
general.
The next meeting will be held at
the home of Mrs., S. D, Mccullough,
June 6, at 2:3Q, Miss Calkins will
be with us and give demonstration
of Menu Planning and Table serving.
Visitors are welcome,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-06-09
To Organize County League.

Base ball enthusiasts expect this
week to complete the organization
of County League, the teams to be
composed Of local talent.
The towns that have signified a
willingness to be represented are
Rising Sun, Port Deposit, Elkton,
Elk Mills, and Chesapeake City.
The project has been discussed for
some time and those interested are
anxious to get the ball in motion
without further delay.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-06-09
DEATHS.
Mrs. Margaret Krauss.

Mrs Margaret Krauss, wife of Jonathan
Krauss, died Friday morning. June and
at her home in Oakwood, aged 76 years
She had been in i'll health for over six
months. The deceased had been member
of Bethesda Church since childhood, and
was very popular. Her husband and four
children survive. The funeral was held
on Tuesday, with interment in Bethesda
cemetery.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-06-09
Motion Picture Play.

The Spoilers, from Rex Beach S
book, in nine reels, featuring VIM.
Farnum, will be given at Riverside
Theatre, Port Deposit, on Monday
afternoon and evening, June IL.
This is one of the most wonderful
stories ever filmed and is to be given
at Port Deposits handsome new
photo-play house for the benefit of
the Fourth Of July Celebration,
which the Patriotic Association of
the town is arranging for on larger
scale than ever before. The tickets
are 25 cents.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-06-09

Gen. Murray Vandiver. who died re-
Gently, left no will. The Orphans Court
for Hartford County, has granted letters
of administration to his widow and their
son, Robert M. Vandiver whogaye bond
in SIS, ZOO.
! The summer schedule on the P. B. &
w. R. R. went into effect May aS. A
new accommodation train leaves PerryvilIe
at 6.Io a. m. arriving in Baltimore at
7.s4 o'clock; returning, leaves Baltimore,
at 5.3s p. M, arriving in PerryviIle at 6. IS
O'Clock.
The Directors of the Peoples National
Bank and Citizens National Bank, of
Middletown. Del, at a joint meeting, de-
cided to consolidate the two institutions
into one trust com pany. 1t will probably
be several months before the plans are
perfected.
James Henry Bruce Binkham. of Will
mington, works every day at his trade of
harnessmaker, celebrated his o7th birth
day May 20. Binkham served in the
Confederate army and located In Will
mington 81 years ago.
Apparently asleep while sitting on the
end of railroad crosstie at one end of
Sharon trestIe, in Hartford county, Charles
Roberts, colored. of Baltimore, was struck
and instantly killed by Md, g. Penna.
Railroad passenger train.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-06-09
oxford FaIr. A ThIna Of the Past.

Oxford Fair is thing of the past.
The grounds were purchased some time
since by AL. F. Wheeler as winter home
for his show, and the Association finally
disposed of the remainder of the fair
property at public sale on Saturday.
The exhibition cases. stands. ETC., used
in the main building, were sold to the
West Chester Association. The sprinkler
and lot of tools went to Nathan Shear,
while chicken coops, drags, tables,
benches, ETC., were purchased at fair
prices by those attending the sale.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-06-09
Samuel MostelIer.

Samuel Mosteller. after a potracted ill
ness. died al his home in Rowlandville,
Friday night, aged 48 years. from tuber-
culosis. being sufferer for several years.
He is survived by his wife, five small
children. four sisters aud one brother.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-06-09

Two trackmen employed by the Penp-
sylvania Railroad Company, we're struck
by New York and Washington express
train, just south of the Havre de Grace
station. Wednesday afternoon of last week,
and one of the men an Austrian, instantly
killed, aud an Italian seriously injured.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1916-06-09

Get one Of Wards special cakes
lat Hindman'B. ,......
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-20

1t is very gratifying and encourag-
ing that every once in awhile, some
white man is right in heart and head
and manly enough to express himself
as pure unauthorized MAN.
The only people who create any
trouble in this world along race or
color lines are those who cultivate the
erroneous idea, that they are superior
to other human beings made in the
image of the Creator, and who do not
recognize the brotherhood of man. "Of
one blood God created all the nations
of the EARTH"
We therefore were very much
pleased at and heartily indorse the
sentiments of Bishop William A.
Neagle, who in an address before the
Methodist Conference, now in session
at Saratoga Springs, N. Y, the other
day, on the occasion of anniversary
of the Freedmen's Aid and Southern
Educational Society, said:
IF I belonged to a church that re-
fused membership to a black man l
would be excused. I want to belong
to church of all men. Complexion
cuts no figure in the sight of God, for
you can buy so much complexion with
so little money. If you tried to fix up
a white church would not join it,"
Great God, give us more such men,
we pray thee!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-20
HANDS oFFPueLIc SCHOOL.

In strong report to the Religious
Education association, aDr. George A.
Coe, professor Of religious education
In the Union Theological seminary,
New York, gives reasons why church
and public schools should be separate:
THE opposing religious bodies are
still watchful Of one another. No
workable plan for increasing the reli-
gious functions in the public schools
Is likely to be agreed upon.
The argument for teaching the
Bible in the public schools on the
ground Of it's literary merits seems to
have had little weight because it has
been advanced Hby religionists from
evidently religious motives.
"The forces that are devoting them.
selves assidiously to the reform of re.
ligious education are rarely, if ever
eager to commit religious functions
to the state. The demand that the
public schools provide religious edu.
cation proceeds in large measure from
persons who feel that something needs
to be done, but have not yet become
absorbed in the details of the recon
struction that is already under way
within the churches"
The reasons are logical and those
who wish to carry religious teaching
into the public schools are enemies OF
the state.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-20

In agreeing to draw the color line
on it's colored membership the Metho-
dist church is following the lead of
other so-called Christian bodies in the
United States. The alleged Chris
tians are defying God, but He is not
Knocked.
The probable eventual solution of
the color line in religion will be the
Introduction of Mohammedanism into
the United States. Islam PRACTICES
the doctrine of the Motherhood of
God and the Brotherhood of Man" and
welcomes all men to it's folds. And
of the Methodist bishops, Bishop Hart
zell has declared that the NOLAN.
medan negroes in Africa are superior
in every way to those who have en-
braced Christianity and this in the
face of the fact that he was laboring
zealously to propagate Christianity.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-20
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AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE.

AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE.
There is always rejoicing in hell
when the South succeeds.
The regions of the damned were the
scene of great hilarity when the word
was passed around that the Southern
plan of reuniting the Methodist church
north and the Methodist church south
had been unanimously approved, with
display of emotion without parallel
in many general conferences"
The plan favors the segregation of
the colored membership in special
conferences" and as the vote was &C.
cording to the press dispatches, unani-
nous, it seems that not one of the
many colored delegates had the man
hood to make a protest against the
unholy, ungoodly plan.
Thus seventy-one years after the
Methodist Episcopal church split on
the slavery question, the hypocritical
northern branch welcomes back the
church south over the PROSTATE body
of it's colored membership. If that is
Christianity the writer prefers to be
damned. -.-
The Methodist church fought slav-
cry with zeal in 1874, the general con-
ferences by resolution ordered a
bishop who held slaves to refrain from
exercising his episcopal function until
he had washed his hands of slavery.
The Southerners were so Infatuated
by this action that the Methodist Epis-
copa1 church south was organized in
Louisville, KY, in 1876.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-20
Of One Blood.

(Gerald Stanley Lee in Mount Tom)
l am a human being. do not pro-
pose to be cooped up or shut in in nv
love and criticism to mere >geographi-
cal streaks or spots of people on a
planet: This planet is. small enough
az 1t is, when one considers the
nelght 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
siege-guns to their own little foolish
national souls, and rain bombs on
each others: naves. I take my stand
by the great bells ringing in their
towers. by the souls of their poets
overriding the years, by the prayers
and songs Of their heroes, artists in.
ventors, by the mothers and the little
children.
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 / will not say Of myself.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-20
OUR NEED OF JUx1APosl1IoN
(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 a feeling of avowed cowardice and
innate inferiority. 1t is an utter i'm
possibilitay for the two races to sub
scribe to a common government, and,
at the same time, each race work on:
Its own salvation. The theory" has
been tried and resulted into a CHASTITY
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-
erous leadership that resistance is
wrong, that it only breeds race hat
red and antagonism; that the thing
Tor US to do is to get property and
other rights will inevitably follow.
We have followed this advice" fattl-
fully and have been rewarded in
terms OF residence segregation, street
segregation, conf1scation and loss of
property, anti-intermarriage-which is
all OF the blacklist pieces of legis-
lation, since that it leaves our women
defenseless and at the mercy of white
brutes - separate schools, jimcrow
cars, and even legislating to exclude
further Negro immigration. These
are the evils resulting from mon
resistance" and rather be by our
selves" That with the same degree
OF effontry and terrible legislation
with which our property is taken and
conf1scated, with this same effontrv
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 go ourselves. to mixed
institutions and other places where
we can mix with the other races and
consequently become accustomed to
one another. ABOVE ALL THINGS
WE MUST WELCOME AND PRAC
T1CE JUXTAPOSITION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-20
WALLER AGAINST NEGRO"
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says II Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(FrOm Amsterdam NeWsl

Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says II Causes
Menta! and Physical Segregation.
(From Amsterdam News.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: I cannot too heartily congratu-
late you on a recent editorial discour-
aging the use of the word Negro"
There is no greater delight enjoyed by
the white people of the United States
today than the spreading use of this
unfortunate term. Why? They real
lie that it is the most potential fac
tor at work at the present to bring
about both a physical and mental
segregation of the people Of color. It's
use is on the increase only because
our speakers and writer's, especially
Do Bois and Washington feel that its
repetition, ad nauseam, is necessary to
retain the good will of the masses. The
term Negro" Is not only absurdly In
accurate as applied to millions of COL
ored people, but 1t is also alarminly
Injurious, for the following reasons:
a. 1t has never stood historically or
IN the present, anywhere in the world,
Tor anything noble or uplifting. Most
high. grade Africans repudiate it.
b. In Africa and out of Africa it was
never applied to the higher types, but
to Guineas, Sudanese and Senegam.
bans only.
c. Its derivatives, "Negroism," NE
grofy," and its compounds, Negro-head,
Negro-fy, Negro-monkey, are all clear.
ly, In their associations, degrading.
d. Its feminine form, "Negress," is
justly and correctly used to define
your wife and daughter and sweet
heart, If you favor the use of the mas
culine term.
9. 1t has been the word used by the
Southern whites for two centuries,
when formally speaking or writing
about an unworthy or criminal man
or woman of the race. For when he
speaks of the worthy he invariably
says "colored"
I. 1t Is not differentiated in the mind
end thought Of the whites from their
favorite and generally used (amone
themselves) terms, MICRO" and mig
GER"
6. AS stated by an eminent Japanese
diplomat it has an unquestioned In
nuence In cutting US off from the
thought, sympathy and cooperation
OF the millions Of colored Africans. ASH
at1cs and islanders of the Yonder
world. :
Very truly yours.
OWEN M. WALLER, M. D.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-20
The Program.

F. .s... The Program.
AS announced by Mr.. Reynolds, the
program follows: -
WEDNESDAY,, June Z.
II a. m.-Chairman Hilles calls the
convention to order.
Secretary Reynolds reads the Official
call of the convention.
Chairman Hilles introduces Senator
Warren G. Harding of Ohio as
temporary chairman, Senator
Harding delivers keynote"
Election of temporary secretary, as
sistant secretaries, sergeant-at-
arms and other minor
officers.
Appointment of committee on creden-
tials, resolutions, rules and
organization. Adjournment.
THURSDAY, June 8.
II a. m.-Report of the committee on
credentials.
Report of committee on permanent
organization.
Permanent organization effected.
Report Of committee on rules and un-
finished business.
Adjournment.
Secretary Reynolds explained that
the program as outlined simply In
cludes the preliminary rules neces-
sary to complete the permanent or
ganization and does not include the
probable addresses and discussions In
cidental to the completion Of these
preliminarfeS.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-20
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. It would bring men to-
gether in a common movement.
Il 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 l feel that we ought to get rid
of the hyphen in America at once and
for all time. Any meeting in which it
is part of the program calls atten-
ton to it. I do not really favor any
reference to the term Swedish-Ameri-
can. think every man who came
from Sweden ought to forget the n.y.
phen. 1t is true that those who come
from Sweden have many tender recol-
lections of the old country and also
that they are among the quickest to
adopt American ways fully and CON-
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-
aged"
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
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-20
"BAsIs OF SOCIAL sTRlFE"

In a recent address before the Sun
day Evening Club, Bishop Charles D.
Williams handed out some straight
goods. We quote three sterling para
graphs: ..-... ~ -.
''Nine-tenths of our social strife
come from trying to know people by
labels or numbers. We require a
great deal more temperance and virtue
from the tramp who comes to the back
door and asks for cold victuals. than
we do from the society youth who
comes into the drawing-room and asks
for our daughters hand. 49,
Think Of the simple Russian, Ger
man and French peasants across the
sea tonight, numbering each other. II
you went through the ranks most of
them wouldn't know what it il all
about. They are doing it Just because
some one in authority has labeled the
other fellow-'enemy.'
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-20
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-05-20
Hates the Term "Neoro.u

Il hate the term Negro because it
IS being used in terms of hatred. It
is the cause of the segregation of the
Negro; it is being used in contempt
IN public places; it is an excuse for
dlsfranchising him; and it is an ex-
cuse for 1ynching him. Only one
tenth OF one per cent of the colored
people in America can trace their
descent to Africa, and there is no
more right to call all colored people
Negroes than to call all white people
Turks or Armenians. "-Ex-Assistant
United States Attorney General VIM.
H. Lewis, Boston, Mass.