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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-11
Reforms Needed at Home.
From The Christian Register.)

Race bitterness makes argument, or
discussion, or any effort to come to a
common understanding quite useless.
Where much racefeeling is engaged,
reason Is neutralized. With some peo-
pie, questions of the rights of colored
people under the Constitution, of the
people Of California have become i'm
possible: They simply can not discuss
the subject. While this is the case
in this country, we have enough to
do in cleansing our own blood of
germs of conflict without thinking It
our main business to reach across
the water in restraint of war. War is
1nclpient among US in these matters,
and cruel barbarities frequent enough.
to keep us busy reforming ourselves.
Billy Sunday speaks out emphati.
cally, acrobatically and ungrammatic-
ally against almost every wrong in the
country-except race prejudice. II
ne wants to show that he is a real
brave man, not afraid to tacke any,
thing, and do some good where It Is
most needed, let him speak out aginst
race prejudice.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-11
TRUE CHRISTIANS.

The Chicago Tribune recently pub.
llshed in it's photogravure section a
page OF pictures showing the eight
christian Science churches. All of
the edifices are classic in their pure
simplicity of architecture and they
are typical of the true Christianity of
the Christian Scientists.
These eight churches are the only
ones in Chicago that are absolutely
free from race prejudice. Jews and
Gentiles, white and colored people all
meet together and worship God in the
beauty OF brotherly love. It is an in
spring sight to visit one of these
churches where the lines Of creed
and race have been eliminated and
the spirit of Christ reigns supreme.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-11
SEGREGATION IN ST. LOUIS.
TURNING THE DIAL BACKWARD

TURNING THE DIAL BACKWARD.
Saint Louis has spoken and en-.
dorsed by a three to one vote a ghetto
for colored citizens and Missouri takes
It's proper place beside medieval Rus.
sia
The majority of the colored people
worked and voted against the in.
famous ordinance, but it is sad to
relate that there are some cringine
colored skunks, including preachers
who for pay openly advocated the TAX
ing away of the rights of their own
fellows.
One of the most infamous facts
about the matter is that many natur-
allied citizens, Germans, Russians,
Jews, Poles, Italians and others who
came to this country to find refuge
from the oppression of Europe, did
not hesitate to aid in imposing the
ghetto upon class of Americans
whose ancestors for ten generations
were born in the United States
there are in this country according to
the census of 1910 only ATS colored
men who were born in Africa.
The daily st. Louis Republic claims
great credit for the success of the
segregation movement, stating that it's
daily talks on Segregation" caused
many whites to vote for the un-Ameri
can ordinance. And the Republican
also had the audacity to print the fol-
lowing honeyed, hypocritical edi.
t0rial:
WORKING SEGREGATION OUT.
I Now that the negro SEGREGATION or
dinance has passed, the duty of the
citizens of st. Louis, both white and
black, is plain. 1t is to strive to carry
out the provisions of the law with the
minimum of friction. The law con-
! templates no sudden change or i'm
mediate disturbance of relations.
The way to do this is clear, so far
as the dominant race is concerned,
The leaders of the segregation move
ment have repeatedly declared that it
was conceived in no spirit of hostility
against the negro and merely aimed
to conserve property values in a man.
ner just to both races. Nothing. can
better facilitate it's operation than the
ordering of the entire relation of the
two races in the light of these ex.
pressions of good will. Now is time
when, as never before, the members
OF the black race in st. Louis should
find active support from their white
neighbors in every effort for social,
moral and economic betterment.
Only one daily paper in st. Louis
had the courage and manhood not only
to fight against segregation but to
severely rebuke the other papers which
stood for the unholy thing.
The st. Louis Post-Dispatch, the
Pulitzer paper, in an admirable edi
torlal, set forth its view of the situa
ton as follows:
1.-THE forces backing the segregation
movement were so powerful that they
were able to control newspapers and
induce them to abandon their princi
pies. That they should mislead fo1
a time large number of voters is not
a matter of wonderment. ..
"Of course the ordinances adopted
under the initiative will have to stand
the tests of the courts. We do not
believe that they will survive. If they
do not we do not look for a solution
of the problems they were planned t.
meet. We believe that they are mis-
takes and that they will be recognize,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-11

huge dog, which is on watch in the
basement He is ready to give house
burners warm reception.
Jefferson's house cost $4,000 and is
free from debt. He has been a stu.
dent at the Art Institute, where he
took prize, and is a member of the
chicago Guards band, a Hull house
organization. ...t
THE APPEAL congratulates Mr..
Jefferson on his pluck and prepared
ness and hopes that the next coward
ly scoundrel who attempts to burn his
home may receive a bullet through
his back into his vile heart.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-11
HONORABLE SECRETARY VISITS

HONORA6LE SECRETARY VISITS.
"The Honorable, the Secretary of the
Treasury w. G. McAdoo, has started
for South America. He is accompanied
by Senator Fletcher of Florida. The
United States is reaching out for Cen.
trail and South American trade and
these two worthy segregationists will
no doubt receive a rousing hearty wei
come from the warm hearted Latin
Americans.
In Brazil the Honorable Secretary
will meet many prominent citizens
high officials and merchants who are
colored men of various shades, from
bright yellow to a lustrous black
and he has made great mistake if
ne has not included among his i'm
pedimenta samples OF the famous seq.
regated water closet which was in
vented by former Honorable Assist
ant Secretary of the Treasury Will
Jams and installed in the treasury
building at Washington by 'The Hon
orable, the Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo. Doubtless this new-fangled
Democratic continuance would greatly
impress many of the men of various
mixtures of Indian, Negro, Portuguese
and Spanish bloods, "The Honorable
the Secretary of the Treasury" will
have the HONOR of meeting.
And it is appropriate that "The Hon
orable, the Secretary of the Treas
ury" should steam away on the u. S
armored cruiser Tennessee. The name
Tennessee, as we'll as that of every
other state in the murder zone of the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-11

protection therein. CD That the Mis-
souri, Compromise of 1920, in so far as
it prohibited African slavery north of
designated line, was unconstitutional
and void.
The decision raised a storm from
one end of the country to the other
and made the civil war a foregone
conclusion.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-11

We congratulate our fighting. con-
temporary, the Union of Cincinnati,
on it's beautiful new dress. Editor
Dabney is one of the most forceful
writer's in colored journalism and he
strikes many sledge-hammer blows for
the rights Of the people. Just now he
is fighting the attempt of the jimcrow
preachers to fasten jimcrow schools
upon his people.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-11
the MAN W. e pAREs

honor tho man VITO in rho con.
scIentious discharge Of his duty dares
to stand alone; the woI Id, with ienor-
ant, intolerant jv~gment, may con-
denim, the countenances It relatives
may be averted, and tho hearts Of
friends grow cold, but the sense Of
duty done shall be sweeter than tho
applause Of the world, the counten.
ances Of relatives or the hearts Of
frisads.-Charles Summer.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-11

United States, is one for segregation
lists to conjure by, reeking as it does
with civic injustice, race prejudice,
1lmcrow laws, religious cant, hypocrisy
and lynching.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-11
WHY SHE RESIGNED.

1t is said that Miss Nerney, secre-
tary of the National Association for
the Advancement Of Colored People,
resigned because she became disgust
ed with the Indifference of the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-11
the SIN or SILENCE

To sin by silence when we should
protest makes towards out of men.
The human race has climbed on pro-
test. Had no voice been raised against
Injustice, ignorance and lust, the in
\
QUESTION yet would serve the law, and
euillotines decide our least DISPUTES.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs Of
many.-EIIa Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1916-03-11

Needed by coIored Leaders.
(From the Richmond Rlanet.)
Manhood is an asset that every In
dividual should be proud to possess.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-09-30

On Monday next the youth of u
community will be back in school pre-
pairing themselves for the duties OF
life. A few years hence they will be
bearing the burdens of the community
that are borne by US today, and 1t is
incumbent upon US to see that they
are in every way fitted to cope with
the many and intricate problems that
will confront them. Education is a
modern necessity. 1t is 10 longer a
luxury reserved principally for the
rich. 1t is just as essential that the
mind of the farmer be developed to
the utmost capacity as it is for the
merchant or the doctor or lawyer.
Each branch of industry is depend
ent in a great measure to the success
attained by other branches. No lon
ger a we ego it alone" as u fore
fathers did in the good old days.
Hence, if we would have our children
successful in life it is necessary that
we afford them every opportunity to
acquire the education that is the first
requisite to such achievement. Keep
the public schools in mind, encour-
age the teachers by your personal in
terest and support, and commend the
children in their efforts to meet your
expectations. Speak the good word
that breeds ambition in the breast OF
teacher and pupil alike, and begin the
speaking today.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-09-30
THE CITIZEN AND THE SCHOOL.

No matter how exalted or humble
a person may be, there is n sacred
duty which he owes to humanity and
which it is i~mperatively incumbent
upon him to pay. That duty is the
protection and fostering of our pub
lie school system.
We are living in an age of educa-
ton and advancing intellectual de-
velopment, and the human mind that
is deprived of the best advantages
obtainable will be hampered and him
dered at every step in life.
1t matters not how bright nor how
acute the infantile mind may be, if
that mind is denied the advantages
of education then the child grown to
maturity will be retarded and humil-
lated because of its intellectual de-
iciencies. 1t will be a living monu-
ment to the neglect and the inditfer-
ence of its parents. 1t will be a mark
of shame and a blight upon the COM
munity that reared it in its ignor-
ance. 1t will be an object of pity
where it should be n of pride.
Education and the advantages of
intellectual advancement have made
America a great country. And Amer
lea is ever yet in its infancy.
Our school system should be en-
couraged and raised to the highest
point of efficiency. The instructors
should be upheld and given to under
stand that they have the backing of
a united community, and that the
community expects satisfactory re-
suits.
If present buildings are inadequate
and new mes are needed, then for the
sake of enlightened humanity let's
spend the money and get them. Let
US make any other improvement or
new departure that the welfare of our
children require.
We have brought these children in
to the world, and in their infancy and
youth they are helpless. 1t is our
duty to give them an education that
will enable them to successfully cope
with the intricate problems of eXis-
tence that will confront them later
in life. To do less would be to neg
lect a sacred duty, to shame the in
nocent ones for whose very existence
we are responsible.
Let US keep our schools and our
children in mind. Let US study their
welfare individually and collectively.
Let us leave no stone unturned that
will advance their moral and material
interests.
For the MAJ who honors his off
spring is honored of men.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-09-30
In Chancery of New Jersey.

To T. B. Wireback and Sons:
By virtue of an order of the Court o.
Chancery of New Jersey, of date September
26, 1916, in a cause wherein Alvin P. Risley
is complainant, and Walter T. Chase, Lottit
Chase, William H. Horstman Company ant
you, T. B. Wireback and Sons, are defend
ants, yor are hereby required to appear
complainant, on or before November 27
next, or said bill will be taken as confessed
against you.
The said bill is filed to foreclose a mort
gage executed by Walter T. Chase and Lotto
Chase, of date October 5, 1909, on land
in the city of Pleasantville, New Jersey, ant
you are made defendants because you holt
a judgment of record against Walter T
Chase, the present owner thereof, and b!
reason of which you have some lien thereon
Dated September %, 1916.
H. w. LEWIS,
Solicitor of Complainant,
A Chelsea Bank Bldg,
Atlantic City, N. j.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-09-30
In Chancery of New Jersey.

To 7. B. Wireback and Sons:
By virtue of an order of the Court Of
Chancery of New Jersey, of date September
26, 1916, in a cause wherein Lake & Risley
Company, a corporation, is complainant, ant
Walter T. Chase, Lottie Chase, William IL
Horstman Company and you, T.. B. WirebaeR
and Sons, are defendants, you are hereby
required to appear. plead, answer or demul
to the bill of said complainant, on or before
November 81 next, or said bill will be taken
as confessed against you.
The said bill is filed to foreclose a mort
gage executed by Anna Elizabeth Underwood
to said Lake & Risley Company, of date
January %, 1909, on lands in the city Of
Pleasantville, New Jersey, and you are made
defendants because you hold a judgment Of
record against Walter T. Chase, the preseni
owner thereof. and by reason of which yot
have some lien thereon.
Dated September IS, 1916.
H. w. LEWIS,
Solicitor of Complainant,
4 Chelsea Bank Bldg,
Atlantic City, N. j.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-09-30
DIED

GILLESPIE.-At Mortified, on Sep
TENDER %, Frances Bryce, son of
Benjamin and Ella Gillespie and
grandson of Thomas and Martha
Boyle, aged 16 years. Funeral on
Wednesday A. NJ, from the par
ents' residence, 1922 Paramount
Ave-, Atlantic City. Interment at
Camden.
CARMAN.-At Mortified, on Sep
TENDER 26, Daniel, husband of late
Maggie E. Carman. Age 70 years.
Funeral at the residence of his SON
in-law, Joseph Johnson, Mortified,
on Friday. Interment Salem GEM
etery.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-09-30
TIME PAYMENTS
FOR AUTOMOBILES

The public generally has long held
to the idea that to purchase an auto
mobile a man should be well supplied
with this worlds riches. This might
be true concerning those luxuries
which are not an absolute necessity
but in the Ease of an Universal Utility
like the automobile, especially a car
which has reached such world wide
prominence as the Ford, there natur-
ally has been brought about a system
of payments which brings a car with
in the reach of ala system of pay
ments which makes the owning of a
machine as convenient and pleasurea-
BILE an operation as the buying of a
home or piano.
The annual decreased cost of pro-
duction, selling price and the cost of
upkeep of automobiles, have greatly
widened the field for legitimate auto
mobile sales. Now automobiles call
for so modest a financial outlay that
thousands of people who do not have
the full price in cash at one time, can
with perfect propriety, own and pay
for cars in monthly payments with
money which otherwise would be
spent in some less beneficial form of
recreation.
The automobile is not merely a one
mans pleasure, but it affords an OPP
portunity for the concentration of the
entire recreation expenditure of the
family with a considerable asset re-
naming for years after the eXpendi-
lures are finished.
Right now in Pleasantville and sur
rounding towns there are a very
large number of people who ought to
W NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. men, bank
officers, every man on a good salary,
well-to-do farmers, irst-class me-
chanics, and all men whose business
requires them to get about.
These men can afford automobiles
they need automobiles-they want au-
tomobiles-but they do not want to
disturb their savings, or they have
not accumulated the price of a car as
yet in ready cash.
These people can-AT ONCE
without inconvenience, have the pleas
ures, benefits, and advantages of a
car with the bigger, healthier, hap
pier, more contented, more united
family life that goes with the outdoor
freedom the automobile brings.
In addition there is a growing and
particularly large field among gro
GERS. bakers, furniture dealers, depart
ment stores, hardware dealers, ETC.,
for delivery wagons and light trucks.
A system permitting of a fair cash
deposit and light monthly payments
lends itself in a particularly attrac-
tive way to this class of business.
All these people will find it a great
economy and convenience to buy in
this manner. They will buy their
car, other things being equal, of the
dealer who shows them their oppor-
tunity first, and that this truth is well
recognized by our local business in
terests is brought squarely to our at
tention by a casual scanning of the
advertising pages of The P~leasantville
Press.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-09-30
THE NEUTRALITY
OF PONTIUS PLATE.

But as soon as the need for
deeds arose, Mr.. Wilson forgot
all about "the principle he held
dear" He promptly announced
that we should be neutral In
fact as well as in name, in thought
as well as in action" between
the small, weak, unoffending ma
ton and the large, strong nation
which was robbing it of its SOW
ereignty and independence. Such
neutrality has been compared to
the neutrality of POntius PLATE.
This is unjust to Pontius PLATE,
who at least gently urged mod
GRAFTON on the wrongdoer.-
From the speech of Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt, delivered at
Lewiston, Maine, in behalf of
Charles e. Hughes.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-09-30

Miss Helen Risley delightfully."- en-
tertained at her home on Chestnut
street, on Tuesday evening. The eve
ming was pleasantly spent in singing
and games, after which dainty re-
freshments were served by the host
ess. Those present were: Miss Nellie
Fennell, Miss Eleanor Helfrich, Miss
Thelma Clark, Miss Ada Thomas and
Miss Mary PenholloW.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-09-30

MI. and Mrs. Mark A. Risley en-
tertained at their home, SO E. Park
avenue at dinner. Their guests were
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Lake, MI. and
Mrs. Clarence Lake, of Mortified;
Mr.. and Mrs. Higbee, of Somers Point;
Miss Ruth Risley, of Vineland, and
Mr.. Arthur Risley.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-09-30

Now that the primaries are over
and the people have selected in no I'M
certain tones their choice for the Of
fees to be filled in November. it be-
hooves every loyal Republican to for
get any past differences and lend their
influence to the final triumph of the
ticket. The Pleasantville Press con-
fdently believes that such will be the
result,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-09-30
NOTICE.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of
the ATLANTIC COUNTY WATER COMPA-
NY OF NEW JERSEY for the election of Off
GERS for the ensuing year and for such other
business as may properly come before the
meeting will be held at the office of the
Company in Pleasantville, New Jersey, at
two P. N. of WEDNESDAY, THE 18th DAY
OF OCTOBER, 1916.
GUY H. DAVIES,
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-09-30

The President gets up early during
the hot spell, and there are some who
think he may have to continue the
practice until November If that man
Hughes continues to be so undigni-
fed.-Pittsburgh Dispatch.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-09-30
Editorial Comments.

The Democrats continue to ignore
Mr.. Hughes speeches to the extent
that all they do is to sputter and gasp.
Let 1t be conceded there are really
strong grounds for the opinion that
President Wilson may carry Texas
next November. If these indications
are taken at their full worth, some
enthusiasts will soon be going out to
bet that the tide will sweep on until
Mississippi and Alabama are also en-
rolled in the Democratic column.
Many big Democrats willing and
ready to speak for Wilson are care
full that their money shall not say any
thing on his side.
President Wilson says he is utter
ly Indifferent as to his reelection.
Perhaps that explains a good many
things nobody has heretofore been
able to understand.
Help me, Cassius, or 1 sinkl" For
"Cassius' read Congress"
The notion seems to be that the
Democratic national chairman is claim
ing more than he will get, but not any
more thar he will need.
As further evidence that he is warm
hearted and intensely human, Mr..
Hughes likes apple pie.
No man Is going to be elected-or
re-elected-to high Office by votes
gained from States rights declara-
lions this late in the game. The
States rights question was settled
some fifty years ago to the evident
satisfaction of a considerable major
ity.-Kansas City Star.
Adequate preparedness is not MILL
tarism. 1t Is the essential assurance
of security. 1t is a necessary safe
guard of peace" Candidate Hughes
has left nothing to be said on this
subject. He has snuffed out counter
argument at the very outset.
Are we Americans q ndLlOn OI
bunglers?" asks the New York Sun.
1t would be very harsh to answer
this In the affirmative-and, anyway,
we elect a Democratic president only
every once in a while.
Charles E. Hughes cannot get so far
away from Washington that the men
in charge Of the chariot of government
there do not feel the jolting of his
criticisms. In fact, the Democratic
leaders at the capital city show symp-
toms of sea-sickness from the way In
which the ex-justice of the Supreme
court has shaken them up. Mr..
Hughes Is pursuing the only proper
method, which is first to take the
deadwood out of the way so that the
path to righteous and propitiOus gov
eminent may be made clear.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-09-30

Mrs. A. J. Fleming, of New York
City, came here for a short visit with
her mother and brother, Mrs. M. r.
M. Fish and DR.. Clyde M. Fish. Mrs.
Fleming, it will be remembered, spent
some time in Paris during the earlier
part of the war and has a fund of in
teresting stories of her experiences
over there.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-09-30

MONEY TO LOAN on mortgages;
various amounts; placed promptly
Campbell & Wootton, 10 N. Main
Street, Pleasantville. N. J.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-09-30
STRAND THEATRE
PLEASANTVILLE, N. J.
Cal. Zimmerman, Lessee & Manager.

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