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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-03-10

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Examine carefully every bct(lo q
CASTORIA. . safe and dar9Bqmedy for
infants and children. and - tat &
Bears the ~ <x~.z ,.. = =
In Use for Over - Years.
Children CRY for Netcher's Cabtoris
The Fad.
Knicker-Tired?
Bocker-Yes. Was ~ III niekt
skating the baby.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-03-10

W. N. " LITTLE ROCK, NO. L1s1s.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-11
WOULD ALTER 4DIxIE.n
Music Teachers Want .star spanalsd
Banner Changed Also.

Music Teachers Want .star spanalsd
Banner Changed Also.
New York.-At conference Of high
school music teachers committee was
appointed to ask music publishers and
the public school teachers to eliminate
negro dialect from songs printed in the
textbooks DR.. Frank r. Rix. musical
director of the education department.
who was present at the conference.
said:
MY suggestions for these changes
were made some time ago by me to
the board of superintendent, but they
were shelved, and do not know what
has become Of them. The reasons for
changing the darky dialect should
appeal to any interested person. We
want our children to learn pure Eng
lish, not dialect. Then also there are
many foreign children in our schools.
The number is growing constantly.
Dialect confuses them. It is hard
enough for them to learn our ordinary
English. think that the change
ought to be made throughout the coun-
try"
In Star Spangled Banner "perilous
fight" is to be changed to clouds of
the fight" and the uniform key will be
changed from B fat to A fat to make
the singing Of the song easier. In
Dixie de" will be changed to 'the''
and ''nebber'' to never" among other
things. ~. f.. s:'-t
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-11
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. l sug-
gest that you urge your men to join
the regular organizations of the ma
tional guard or such other organiza
lions as may be recruited by the fed
eral authorities"
The mayor ought to have added that
it is a mistake to form separate
regiment of colored men. Colored
men in New York made fight to have
themselves segregated. 1t was a great
mistake and adds another to the lis
of causes which will prevent the
colored people from being treated as
American citizens. 1T NEVER PAYS
TO ASK FOR SEGREGATION OF
ANY KIND.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-11
PLEASE DON'T ROB Mel"
HIS PLEA TO BURGLARS
jeweIer Tries New Method to
Keep Stock Intact-Has Ap-
peal Published.

Paterson, N. J.-1f there is any sport
Ing blood in the veins Of the industrious
burglars who have made professional
visits to Leon Friedmann's jewelry
store here at regular intervals it is
hardly possible that they can ignore
their victims final appeal. -
Double locks. bars, burglar alarms
and Watchmen having proved equally
futile, Friedman decided to make a
personal entreaty to the entire profess
sion of burglars after a visit which
cost him $1,000. He wrote this COM
mun1cation and caused it to appear in
both the afternoon papers here, on the
theory that an up to date burglar must
read one of the two: ~
"..- NOTICE TO BURGLARS
Observation-Disclosures of your profession
nave called upon us with great profit to
themselves Of late. We feel that we have
cone our share toward your support: there
fore we would deem it a great favor If
you would take your trade elsewhere in
future, at least until we can recover from
the many losses we have suffered in the
past, all Of which, unfortunately, are our
own. Respectfully yours,
LEON FRIEDMAN.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-11
"WHY AMERICANS FALL"

1t is notorious fact that in spite OF
Pan-American 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
speIL uBollemv ls12ueO pu1 Q3nos,
Conditions Of Today" recently issued
by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, has
this to say under the heading, "Why
Americans Fall
Race or religious prejudice, con.
descension. discourtesy or bluff 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 gentle
man in private life and a boor in
business and he expects others to be
az courteous as himself and IL they
are not he judges them accordingly.
He may be white, brown. yellow or
black, but he remembers that one OF
his ancestors. was probably 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 po-
likeness and greet you with express
stons of the greatest pleasure. but in
his heart he despises you for an ILL.,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-11
KEEPS FISH FROM DROWNING.
Captain kintz Would Get Medal II
Perch Had q Carnegie.

Captain kintx Would Get Medal II
Perch Had 4 Carnegie. ;.
New York. - Captain Frank Kintz,
master in the Taylor tugboat fleet Of
this city, recently became fish life
saver. Aboard the tug Captain Toby.
Captain Kintz was In Occoquan with
tow from this city. A yellow perch
boy had caught had been left dangling
on string in the water until it was
almost dead, not having strength
enough to hold itself below the sur
face.
Captain Kintz saw the fish and also
his opportunity to save life even If it
was only that of a fish, and bony
yellow perch at that. Reasoning that If
It was water that drowned a human be-
ing 1t must be air that drowned q fish,
Captain Kintz proceeded to apply first
aid and help the fish to get rid of the
air. Holding it down in the water, he
gently rubbed it's sides, and bubbles of
air rolled to the surface. About fifteen
minutes of this manipulation were nee
essary. and the perch revived and with
tlirt of its. tail swan rapidly away.
II there was Carnegie among the
fish Captain Kintz would surely be
awarded medal as a fish life saver.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-11
CHARITY MAKES EDWARDS.

Charity makes for slaves, towards
and sycophants," said Mother Jones
of Colorado mine field fame, recently
Her words are true.
Men cheat their employees out OF
what Is. their just due and become ricl
and when they have accumulated mil.
lions they pose as "philanthropists'
and endeavor to perpetuate thei,
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 ne.
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 as
American citizens.
The product of the segregated insti
tuition is usually a crop of young col
ored people with slavish instincts:
cringing towards. servile sycophants.
Great God deliver the people from
such charity and give them justice.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-11
Must Judge A Group by tic Best.
(From the Christian Reristar poe+on

Must Judge A Group by Its 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
he best as we'll az the worst OF the
lass. 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
fho have come into intimate and syn.
PATHETIC relations with large numbers
y 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
40 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 obli.
NOUS Of; they know qualities which
only respect and sympathy can bring
out; they know possibilities to which
otners by their very acquaintance are
blinded. II those who know the col.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-11
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.
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, feel that we ought to get rid
of the hyphen in America at once and
for all time. Any meeting in which it
is a part of the program calls atten-
ton to it. do not really favor any
reference to the term Swedish-Ameri-
can. I think every man who came
from Sweden ought to forget the n.y.
phen. It is true that those who come
from Sweden have many tender recol-
.ections of the old country and also
hat they are among the quickest to
adopt American ways fully and COM
pletely. For the latter reason I should
Ike to see the Swedish part of the
Term dropped. l think it would be
cropped quickly, too, were it not for
,ome men who try to make political
,apital out of it by playing to the
,o-called 'hyphenated' vote.
Foreigners in America should be
quietly made Americans through edu-
cational method, by patriotic concerts
N the parks and patriotic meetings on
occasions of national moment. The
group meetings should be discour-
4ged."
Mr.. Anderson is right. People who
;ome here and become citizens ought
% drop the hyphen and become Ameri-
:ans in fact. And if this is true how
much more important is it that people
Who are born in the United States
hould reject any proposals to set
hem apart in groups for any reason
Or purpose whatsoever.
The colored people are citizens for
lified 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??, 1916-11-11
FATE PLAYS STRANGE
PRANK WITH SAIL OR
After Crossing Ocean In an Open Boat
He Loses His Life In River

4 ssO .OOOo LILO III 0IV0r
Lorain, 0. - Ludwig Eisenbraun. 4
German sailor, who was drowned here
recently in Black river, was treated
very strangely BY fate. Eisenbraun
was the hero Of one of the greatest
feats In marine history, achieved when
ne crossed the Atlantic ocean in a
nineteen foot dory.
After encountering furious storms AT
sea, facing death score of times in
his frail open boat, he lost his life
when his hand slipped on an icy rope,
which he was using to climb to the
deck OF a lake steamer on which he
was Waterman, and fell back into
the river.
On April II, 1903, Eisenbraun sailed
from Boston harbor in his dory. Co
iumbus II. On Nov. % of the same
year he locked his craft at Gibraltar.
once IN storm his boat was cap
sized, and he lost water and provisions.
He righted the boat, and two days
later was reprovisioned by a British
steamer.
He steered his craft against q sleep.
Ing whale, and the aroused monster
nearly capsized him.
Eisenbraun had been sailor on the
great lakes for five years. He was
forty eight years old.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-11
EXPLORES PALACE RUINS.

Pennsylvania Museum Finds Discov.
cries Of Growing Importance.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. excavations in
the palace Of Menepthah by the ex-
petition to Egypt of the University of
Pennsylvania museum indicate that
the palace is almost twice as large
as was at first supposed. This makes
it among the greatest palaces Of an
cient Egypt, according to DR.. Clarence
S. Fisher, head Of the expedition.
On account Of the great heat the
excavations temporarily have been dis
continued, but the general outline of
the ruins has been established. DR..
Fisher has found, in addition to the
throne room where Moses and Aaron
IRE supposed to have appeared before
Pharoah and demanded the release of
the lsraelites. many chambers and a.
notable vestibule with rows Of enor
nous pillars, carved and colored.
Many interesting and valuable relics
which will enrich the university mu
scum have been unearthed. ~&
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-11
OF One Blood.

(Gerald Stanley Lee in Mount Tom)
| am a human being. 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 a
planet. This planet is small enough
as 1t 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 Guar.
rel together and sing praises with
sfege-guns to their own little foolish
national souls, and rain bombs on
each others naves. take nv 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. ''0
We are all in the same world. We
are all alike. will not say OF any
one nation what l will not say of the
others: and will not say of any man
what I will not say Of myself.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-11
bred Yankee pig" and thanks God
that he is Of Spanish blood.

bred Yankee pig and thanks God
that he is Of Spanish blood.
On the other hand treat the Latin.
American with courtesy. praise the
buildings and industry of his town,
admire his beautiful women, visit his
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 1t 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. 49, III"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-11
OUR NEED OF JUxrAPoslTIoN
(From the Boston GuardianD

That we much rather be, and asso%
ciate among ourselves, is a saying BY
Colored Americans that has become
almost trite. That is mistake; it
Is feeling of avowed cowardice and
innate tnferiority. It is an utter i'm
possib1litay for the two races to sub
scribe to common government, and,
at the same time each race work out
It's 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
for US to do is to get property and
other rights will inevitably follt ".
We have followed this advice" fat:i
fully and have been rewarded In
terms of residence segregation, street
segregation, conf1scation and loss OF
property, anti.intermarriage 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 ano
conflscated, with this same effontrv
and legislation will our political and
manhood rights be taken from US
That Is fact. Every congress Of
fers legislation degrading and mimi
cal to our well being. Race preju.
dice, therefore, can only be worn down
by attrition. We must send orr
children, and go ourselves. to mixed
institutions and other places where
we can mix with the other races and
consequently become accustomed tn
one another. ABOVE ALL THINGS
WE MUST WELCOME AND PRAC-
T1CE JUXTAPOsIT1ON.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-11
DEFENDS Sidewalk SKATING.
montelair Champion Says It Helps
ChiIdren's Morals.

ChiIdren's Morals.
Montclair.-The controversy in this
town over the use Of the sidewalks,
which was started when Mrs. John
Haynes Lord protested to the authori-
ties because children were allowed to
use them for roller skating, bids fair
to become community issue.
Mrs. Lord, who was injured by being
run down by bicyclist on sidewalk
few years ago, has many supporters.
Her attitude, however. is resented by
others. chief among whom is Arthur P.
Heyer, who was q candidate for town
commissioner at the last election.
Mr.. Heyer came out with another
broadside. He believes that the streets
could be made the greatest educational
asset OF any community If the people
would look at the matter in the right
way. He says skating in the open air
makes children moral.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-11
WALLER AGAINST "NEGRo"
Noted Brooklyn Doctor saysIt Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(From Amsterdam News.)

(From Amsterdam News.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: l cannot too heartily congratu-
late you on 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 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 Bots and Washington feel that it's
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 it is also alarminly
Injurious. for the following reasons:
a. 1t has never stood historically or
In the present, anywhere in the world,
for 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. It's derivatives, "Negroism," "Ne-
srofy," and its compounds, Negro-head,
Negro-fly, Negro-monkey, are all clear
ly, In their associations, degrading.
d. It's 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. It 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
s-"colored."
t. It is not differentiated in the mind
and thought of the whites from their
favorite and generally used (amonP
themselves) terms, MICRO" and mig
ger" b..
E., As stated by an eminent Japanese
diplomat 1t has an unquestioned In
duence~ In cutting us off from the
thought, sympathy and cooperation
Of the millions Of colored Africans, Ash
atics and islanders of the Yonder
world. .~~>
Very truly yours,
OWEN M.>WALLER. M. D.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-11
PH0N0GRAPH IN BASEMENT.
Machine Sends Music by Cold Air Duct
and Heat Registers. ~.

Machine Sends Music by Cold Air Duct
and Heat Registers. 49,
Brazil, 1nd.-H. e. Thompson when
he wishes music at his home presses
an electric button on the wall and from
the cold air duct and the registers of
the hot air furnace come in succession
ten different selections, which are re.
peated until the electric switch is turn
ed off.
The music is produced by a phono-
graph arrangement in the basement
A circular table is arranged with ten
records around it, all moved by an cleo
trio motor beneath the table. In the
center of the table, pointing upward
into the air duct, is a large plaster of
paris horn. which is connected with the
reproducing mechanism. After a rec
ord is played cork roller carries the
needle to the next record.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-11
Hates the Term "Neero."

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
DISTINGUISHING him; and it is an ex-
cuse for lynching 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-Assfstan
United States Attorney General VIM.
II. Lewis, Boston, Mass.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-11
ANY prejudice whatever will
be insurmountable II those who
do not share in II Themselves
truckle to It and fiatter It and
accept it az a law Of nature"
John Stuart Mill.
SOME POEMS BY A COMING POET
The Birth Of a Wild Flower.

The Birth Of Wild Flower.
l was tiny seed
Implanted in Mother Earth,
Who, enamoured of the Glorious Sun,
Conceived-and gave me birth.
If Ye 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 q 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.
The Cave-Man.
Massive of build, nightly muscled,
Coarse, black hair matted and tousled,
Beetle-brow'd, and an ape-like jaw,
He was whelped during the reign of
primitive law.
Knowing no god, disdainful of man,
He wrest'd from reluctant nature,
with ruthless hand
A bare existence from q. barren land.
His abode rock-hewn cave; his mate
wolfish woman,
1.-the and cunning, heeling to no man
But one-her master; she-his slave.
His weapons fashioned of flint and
slate,
We're grim evidences wherein War and
Hate played their part.
Hunted the cave-bear to it's lair. Il
Warily watched winged monsters Of
the air,
Alone, unafraid, these creatures all he
dared.
Neither wholly animal. nor wholly
man,
He was both master and slave of this
rock-hewn age.
Crudely he wrought, savagely he
fought,
With sweat and blood life itself he
bought.
Frederic Hart Williams.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-11-11
Thieves Stole House.

Deer Park. Wis.-Herman Larson
purchased farm in the vicinity Of
Frederic, in Polk county, and last sum-
mer built house there and made
preparations to move on the property.
which he had been renting to neigh.
bors. The other day he went up to
Frederic ahead Of his family. expect.
ing to put things In readiness, when he
found that the house had been carried
OF by thieves.