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The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-01-06
COMNIU

Malta, Mont, Jan. 4, 1916.
To the Citizens of Malta:
A good old adage reminds us that
IAN ounce of preventive is worth
pound of cure" This is true in
all things, physical, mental moral.
Recognizing the truth our city
council recently passed an ordinance
which, when in effect, will bar all
under age from patronizing the pool
halls. 1t is a step forward. But is
it far enough?
Under our social system part of
the young men and boys are forced
to seek pubic amusement places to
spend their leisure. II barred from
pool halls where will they congre-
gate? On the street corner in some
shop, at the movies, and in some Sc
cluded spot where the games in
which they indulge will be democrat
iGing. These boys need place, they
can call their own while there,
where they may read, play games
and indulge in athletics.
There are in Malta many young
men, living in the hotels and room
ing houses. These are without a
proper place to spend their evenings.
They patronize our places of amuse-
ments, which as such, are high class.
But they do not supply the proper
means for the use of leisure time,
nor the proper recreation.
Tributary to Malta is a large
farming population. The farmer
and his family, in town for the day,
needs rest room to which he may
repair. The farmer needs a place
for his public meetings, which
would be in part his own.
These needs have been mentioned
to the writer by others, and it was
suggested that the matter be placed
before the public for consideration.
1t has been suggested that build
ing be erected which would be usa-
BILE by boys club, a young mems
club, business mans club, far
mers' club and other organizations.
There should be reading room,
writing room, nursery and combi-
nation gymnasium and assembly
hall.
Just how much the cost is is hard
to say. That would depend on the
size, kind, ocation and finish of the
building. Erected as business VEN
ture for the community it should
not only make good financial return,
but it would more than pay for it.
self in the resulting moral uplift
This is in brief statement of the
need and suggested ways of meet
ing it. The papers of Malta are an
open forum for those who wish to
endorse or combat move to sup
plement the prohibitory ordinance
by providing suitable "trysting
place" for our own boys and young
men. May we hear from many.
Do you desire a mass meeting to
discuss the question? If so, one may
be called. Let us act now, when the
time is ripe for action.
Sincerely yours,
JOHN Fl. ELLIOTT.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-01-06
BALL GETS REPRIEVE.

According to dispatch in the
Tribune today from Ottawa, Ont.
George Ball will not de next week
as was given out by the courts at
the time of his conviction. The dis.
patch says:
The Canadian government has re-
ceived a note from the Wilson adj
ministration at Washington. It asks
that reprieve be granted George
Ball, western cowboy, who was to
have been hanged next Thursday at
Saskatchewan for the murder of a
Montana rancher, William Long, last
August. The request has been &C
coded to. and the execution post
poned for a month, to give the Am
erican authorities the opportunity of
adducing new evidence. Ball him
self is former American, living
near the boundary. He killed Long
in dispute over cattle trespass1ng,
but alleges that it was in self de-
Tense
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-01-06
At Billings New Years eve while

At Billings New Years eve while
the ringing of bells and the blow
ing of whistles announced the birth
of a new year and 200 couple at the
Northern hotel were whirling to
the strains of lively waltz, Duke
Smith of Columbus, an aged man,
suddenly fell from the arms of his
dancing partner and when assist
ance reached him he was dead. Only
few of the dancers saw him fall
and those who did thought he had
tainted. The body was removed, no
one was told what had happened and
the midnight revelry continued
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-01-06
PAULINE FRIEDRICH IN "SOLD."

Pauline Friedrich, the famous
stage favorite, who won a transcen-
dent triumph in her initial screen
characterization as Donna Roma in
the Famous Players Film Company's
superb production, 1.-THE Eternal
| City," and who as result of her
sational success, was induced by
! the Famous Players to devote her
exclusive film service to that COM
pany, returns to the screen in a five
part adaptation of the celebrated
emotional drama, "Sold.'
Containing all the elements for Wig
orous emotional portrayal, "Sold,"
the great drama of woman's devo-
ton, adapted from the Russian of
George Erastov, provides Miss Fred
erick with role as fully adapted
to her finely developed dramatic
talents as was that of Donna Roma
in her first engagement before the
camera. In "Sold" Miss Friedrich
portrays the sacrificing young wife
of a struggling artist who refuses
to cOmmercialiZe his art for his f.
nancial betterment. Through a SER
les of powerful climaxes the story
reaches the point where the wife ar
ranges to pose for her husbands
successful rival in a sensational
painting, in order to save him from
the restitution which threatens him.
The husband, hearing of the act
comes to the studio of the other ar
tist,and in mad fury shoots at the
painting of his rival, striking his
wife, who is hiding behind the easel.
Miss Frederick, who proved con-
clusively in her portrayal of Donna
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-01-06

Roma that she is the screens great
est dramatic actress, will undoubted-
ly strengthen this position through
her powerful rendition of this role.
Miss Fredrick's methods of inter-
preting tense emotion are unsur-
passable. She delineates all the
broken heartedness and despair of
the crushed wife with appealing
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-01-06

The Bitter Root Irrigation COM
pany filed a petition in the United
States court at Helena asking that
it be declared a bankrupt. The pc
tition was filed in pursuance OF &C
ton taken at a meeting of the d1rec-
tors held in New York, December
%. The total liabilities of the COM
pany are given as $5,426,44S, and
the assets as $2,292,OO3.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-01-06

Prisoners of war so embarrass
France that she's shipping them to
England. The war can be stopped
if all the men in all the trenches
will surrender and go to eating the
other fellows supplies.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-01-06
AN 80 ACRE UNIT

HG ldIlu OWucIo VI CllC Mil
River Valley have had delegation
at Washington for some time trying
, to get a 100 acre farm unit estab-
lished, but the last reports they have
mot met with much success. Follow.
ing is the report as given out al
Washington:
The entire Montana delegation
with Thomas Dignan and Matt Muir
.phy of Glasgow, were given a hear
ing today by Secretary Lane at
which conditions on the Milk River
reclamation project were discussed.
When the project was commenced
the farm unit was established at 100
acres and many of the land owners
arranged to take water on that ba-
sis. Recently the Reclamation SER
vice decided that the farm unit
should be 80 acres and that owners
of larger acreage under the project
should sell all of their holdings over
that amount. This proposed ar
rangement is causing great dissatis-
faction and the land owners sent
Dignan and Murray to Washington
to have the original plan continued.
:. Secretary Lane heard the Mon
tana people, but did not give any
assurances as to the action to be
taken. He said he would consult
the reclamation officials before TAX
ing final action. He intimated that
the $50 acre unit plan had not prov
en- success on the lower Yellow
stone project, 80 acres being about
the number that coud be profitably
irrigated and farmed.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-01-06
UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH.

Services next Sunay in the old
school building at 10000. Brief SER
mon at 1900. Christian Endeavor
at $50 p. m. Evening services 1880
Cordial welcome to all the services
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-01-06

According to figures offered by the
League of America, the
addition of the seven states that go
@'dry' will bring the total of prohi-
bition states in the union to 10.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-01-06

Statesmen wanted to solicit orders
for lubricating oils, greases and
paints. Salary or commission. Ad-
dress The Harvey Oil Co., Cleveland,
O.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-01-06


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The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-01-06

Fl. c. Dobbs was a business visitor
at Glasgow one day the past week.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1916-01-06

Coming at the Orpheum Jan. 18th
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-08-01

When the skies are blue and tender,
And the little birds are building.
And the buttercups and sunbeams
Far and wide the fields are gliding,
And the hollows every morning
With a pearly mist are trimming,
Then + feel constant yearning
To go swim ming.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-08-01
THE MAD RUSH.

Isn't It mOnOtOnOus at these sum-
mer hotels?
Not at all. You should see our
exciting games Of Switchboard.
Switchboard? Why, they play that
on ships.
I know, and they play it at our
summer hotel. If you don't shuttle
pretty lively you don't get any board
at all.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-08-01
PERFECTLY NATURAL.

Once there was a little maiden,
Very, very shy;
Never known to smile or flirt,
Or even wink her eye.
She spent season at the shore;
Returned with tan so brown,
Now she winks her eye and f1irts
With every man in town!
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-08-01
In Summer Time

When the tree toads pipe their music
In the green and marshy places,
And the bumblebees are booming,
And the spiders spread their laces,
And the boys their willow whistles
After school are busy trimming.
Then the water calls and calls me
TO 60 swimming.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15

that honesty in advertising was good
business and dishonesty in advertis-
ing was bad business.
Nowadays advertisers talk more
about quality than they do about
price. The use of the exclamation
point is not so common. There is
more calm, business-like argument
and less bombast and sensationalism.
Only now and then does merchant
claim to be selling goods for less than
they cost him. The public has come
to realize that no one can sell goods
at a loss as a regular pastime and re-
main in business. What the buyer
seeks nowadays is service on the part
of the seller and durability in the
goods for which he pays his money.
Not that the day of the bargain is
past, but nowadays an advertised bar
gain is pretty apt to turn out to be
| real bargain. Because advertisers
are more conservative in their claims
than they used to be, the buying pub
| lie has come 90 put more confidence
| in what they say and to respond with
more enthusiasm to their announce
ments On the other hand, the old
| fashioned advertisers went through
| the same experience through which
| the boy of the fable went when he
| called wolff" He turned in so many
false alarms and so often disappointed
the public that when he really did
have a good thing in the way of a
bargain he could not attract any at
tention with it.
1t is a good thing all around that the
I change has come about. Dishonest
advertising is only one form of graft.
and whenever a business man in
| dulges in it it is at the expense of his
self-respect. The modern idea of mer-
! ch9ndising is to regard a customer as
a friend whose confidence is to be won
and returned rather than as victim
to be fleeced. The better the service
that is given him the more likely he
/ is to core back to distribute more OF
his favor with the store that has
/ treated him well. 1t is with the store
in which he has confidence that he
will prefer to trade, and one of the
! surest ways of enlisting customers
confidence is through advertising col
umns which admit of no statement
| that will NOT stand the test for hon
| esty.-Nashville Globe.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
NEGRO CONTRACTORS
DO LARGE BUSINESS

Philadelphia, Pa.-Records kept by
only one organization in this city show
that Negro contractors have handled
in Philadelphia during the past two
years more than s15O,OOO in contracts.
This by no means represents the vol
ume of work done by Negro workmen,
but is simply the amount of contracts
given to Negro contractors. who were
meeting in open competition the most
successful contractors of the white
race.
Many thousands of dollars paid to
Negro workmen cannot be included in
this total because the workmen indi-
vidually secure employment from
other sources than from the Negro
contractor.
Last year Negro contractors. on
work that came through the offices of
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
WHITE DESERTERS COMMAND
MExlCANS.
WHITE

Ell Paso, Tex.-Private VIM. Givins,
Troop X, Tenth calvary, states that
the commander of a detachment of
Mexicans at the Carrizal fight was a
former soldier of the Twentieth U. S.
Infantry.
Givens was among the captured
troopers at Carrizal and the prisoners
were put in charge of the company
commanded by this American. Civ
ems said he asked the man if he had
not been at Columbus, N. NJ, with the
Twentieth Infantry, and the white
American admitted that he had de-
serted at Columbus. Givens stated
that he had heard of other white
with the Carranza forces.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
DENVER COLORADO SATURDAY, JULY Is, 1916
er had his way they would only be

er had his way they would only be
there as servants.
1t is almost unbelievable that any
man who knows anything of the bril-
liant record of Negro soldiers could
have voiced SO cruel, untrue and un-
just sentiment. Yet this came from
the lips of one who holds a commits
sion from a sovereign American con-
stituency; one who prides himself on
his culture and accomplishments; one
who boasts of his proud Amercnism.
Surely such an one is acquainted with
the potent facts of our history.
All! yes, but neither truth, facts nor
justice are permitted to thwart the
purposes of violent prejudice and un-
reasonable hate and so, in the face of
heroic service, whose climax was a
cruel martyrdom at Carrizal, the old
spirit of reaction; the old Cause of Re
bellion, boldly lifts its voice to inspire
and stimulate in the Congress of the
Nation doctrine of racial hate and
repression against a class that yields
preeminance to none for the elements
of original Americanism, unbridled
loyalty and patriotism that has
stood for fifty years the soul-crushing
tests of a continued and persistent
civic mistreatment.
But the time is come when such
utterances should receive their mer-
tied rebuke, no matter how high and
proud and influential the offender.
1t is the duty of all true Americans
to Danish the caste-ridden standard OF
false Americanism, for just as each
color of the nations flag contributes
equally to the power of it's symbolism
and attracts its share of love and re-
spect, just as insistently does the Ne
gro deserve and demand, an equita BILE
share of the privileges and benefits
which adhere of right to the other
descendants of the Founders of our
Great Republic
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
HONESTY IN ADVERTISING.

In addressing the Associated Adver-
tising Clubs of the World, at Philadel-
phia last week, President Wilson told
the members he understood they had
banded themselves together in the in
terest of candor and truth in adver-
tising and complimented them upon
the part they were playing in estab-
fishing and maintaining ideals in bus
mess.
The Associated Advertising Clubs of
the World, standing for truth in ad
vertising, is an organized manifesto
ton of a somewhat remarkable change
that has come about in the publicity
business in the last quarter of cen
tury. p. T. Barnum was too smart a
man ever to have said for publication
anyway, that the public like to be
humbugged. The fact remains that for
many years the public did stand for
being humbugged by advertisers. Nor
was the humbugging confined to the
circus business. But the public event
ually rebelled and rebelled in a way
best calculated to bring advertisers
to their senses. 1t gradually refused
to respond to dishonest advertising,
and advertisers gradually came to see
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

the Armstrong Association of Philadel-
phia alone, carried out contracts to
the amount of s65.OOO. Already this
year, however, the figures have
reached SS5,OO0. The largest single
item totalled $4,000, but large dairy
plant now being figured on will cost
approximately $4,000. and other bust
ness operations will aggregate more
than $4,000.
Reference is made to the fact that in
1913 the buildings of the Emancipa-
tion Exposition, entailing an outlay of
$4,000 were erected in the remark
able time of forty-four days, the work
being handled by Negro contractor.
The Armstrong Association, through
which these contracts were secured,
has offices at Fourth and Chestnut
streets, and at 1919 Lombard street.
John T. Emlen is the secretary and
treasurer, and A. L. Manley is the in
dustrial secretary.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
BE MANLY.

The other day we heard a young
man say that he was not going to
give his seat to a white woman, no
matter what the conditions were. We
were very sorry to hear such an ex-
preston, coming as it did from one
who has had the advantages of edu-
cation and travel. He should respect
womanhood, no matter what the color,
else he makes the same mistake that
the white. people are making in re-
spect to us. There is no doubt that
politeness pays and the sooner young
America, black and white, finds this
out, the better it will be for him.
Suppose Lincoln had felt Indifferent
or careless, nay, even glad when he
saw that black mother and child on
the block when he made that memor-
able trip to New Orleans? The best
people in both races are interested in
men and women, not dresses and
trousers, and manners is simply the
expression of manhood and woman
hood. So we would advise this young
man to keep on being polite. and if he
chances to run across a snob. let him
remember that that is the common
thick and thin of the world. The
banker, the ticket agent, the school
teacher, the doctor, in fact people in
all walks of life can tell true stories
of rudeness and impoliteness that
happen to them every day. Some peo-
pie are snobs because they have not
been taught any better; some are
snippish because they think 1t looks
like the upper ten" Then there are
some who. ar so, just because they
are plain fools and always will be-
But that ought not to deter anyone
from doing that which he knows to
be decent and right, especially the or
binary civllities that make life pleas
ant.-Wisconsin Weekly Blade.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
REPUBLICAN, STATE
ASSEMBLY CALLED.

PhiliD 3. Stewart, chairman of the
Republican state central committee,
and John F. Vivian, secretary, acting
on instructions from the members of
the committee. have set August 10 as
the date of the meeting of the Re-
publican state assembly. The conven-
tion will be held in Denver. 1t will
place in nomination six presidential
electors, and candidates for the fol-
lowing state offices: Governor, lieu
tenant governor, secretary of state,
treasurer, auditor, attorney general,
superintendent of public instruction,
and regents of the University of Colo
rado.
The assembly will consist of two
delegates-at-large from each county
and one delegate for each 200 votes
cast for Governor Carlson at the last
general election. Credentials OF all
delegates should be mailed to the
state secretary in Denver.
The candidates placed in nomination
by the assembly will be voted upon
at the primaries, which will be held
not less than thirty and not more than
sixty days after the assembly.
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15
ANNUAL
SERMON
To the General Guy " Henry Garrison No. g. Army and
Navy Union, Washington, DC. Il Have Fought
Good Fight

lives to uphold it's flag and its honor
as a willing sacrifice. And as l rode
along, guiding my horse this way and
that, lest his hoofs should profane
what | considered the sacred dead,
and as looked at their bronzed faces
upturned in the shining sun, as if in
mute appeal against the wrongs of the
country for which they had given their
lives and whose flag had been to them
a flag of stripes in which no star OF
glory had ever shone for them-feel-
ing | had wronged them in the past
and believing what was the future
duty of my country to them-I swore
to myself a solemn oath, May my
right hand forget it's cunning and my
tongue cleave tc the roof of my mouth,
if ever l fail to defend the rights of
the men who have given their blood
for men and my country this day and
for their race forever And God help
ing me, will keep that oath"
And so in the Spanish War at Ell
Caney and San Juan Hill, by signal
courage and yalorous deeds the Negro
soldier cast a halo of imperishable
glory over the armed forces of Ameri-
vice the life of one who was to be a
future President.
And now comes the marvellous ac-
Mexico. The stage had been set for
a repitition of the lamentable Custer
massacre at the Little Big Horn; a
second Alamo.
There on the open sands, exposed
on all sides and advancing, on an in
vitation for a friendly parley, these
eighty troopers were subjected to
merciless machine-gun fire and the
bullets from several hundred Carranza
rifles, deployed in cowardly ambus-
cade.
Sergeant Sam Harris says, "They
shot He'll out of us, but we got them
too" Truly the wonder is that there
were any left to tell the tale, but in
the days that are to come, some dark
skined Virgil will sing another story
of Arms and the Man" and will SYM
bolize in an Epic that shall be imper-
ishable, "the brave troopers of the
Tenth at Carrizal."
Thus in all the wars and in all the
battles in which Negro troops have
been engaged, the language of the text
81 have fought good fight" has been
gloriously vindicated.
Yet, in view of all this, the asser-
ton was made few weeks ago on the
floor of the United States Senate, that
the Negro should only be allowed in
the Army as a menial and If the speak
The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-15

Mt. Gretna, Pa.-Twenty-five Negro
cooks employed in the commissary de-
partment of the Third Brigade, Pa. N.
o., mobilizing here fcs service in Mex
leo, have been discharged. Some of
the men have been in the employ OF
the National Guard for many years. 1t
is alleged that orders for this action
came from the War Department at
Washington. 1t can only be surmised
judice. There is some question as to
whether the order emanated from
spirit and letter of the law.