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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-20
Pay of American Workman
Question United States
Has to GrappIe.
(By 4. Il. Porter.)
tsPEeiAL TO rHE rrLIaRau,

OMAHA. Neb.. Oct. 20. - The
payroll OF the American worklngman
after the close OF the European war
is the greatest question with which
the United States has to grapple. says
Leslie NJ. Shaw. former governor OF
Iowa and secretary Of the treasury
during the Roosevelt administration.
"And that payroll depends absolute
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-20

Mr.. Sutherland has taken UP with
the pension bureau the following
cases TO secure for them an increase
in pension: G. T. Gearheart, Of
Eatons; John Earnest. of Littleton;
w. W. syphers, Of Wheeling; P. 7.
screup, of Wolf Summit, and Hezekinh
Robinson. Of Rosemont. Special bills
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-20

have been prepared by Mr.. Sutherland
which will be introduced in the House
Immediately after December / granting
pensions to Joseph W. Toothman, OF
Big Chimney; and obedlah W. Martin,
of Frenchton.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-20

The appointment Of Mazen Devaughn
as acting postmaster at Walker. W.
Va, was approved by the postofTice
department.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-20

Goodrich F.. White. Of Webster
Springs, and Miss Virginia II. Rogers.
Of Mount Scion. Va, were united iii
marriage here this week.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-10-20
WOMAN HAD
NERVOUS TROUBLE
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound Helped Her.

West Dandy, N. Y.-"I have had
nervous trouble all my life until / took
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-01-15
Colonel R0OSevelt'S Message
To PrOgreSSiveS' Committee

1 send you my hearty greetings.
We, as country. are facing a
great world crisis, in which for the
last eighteen months this nation
has fallen far short of its duty,
both to its own people and to the
law-abiding and justice-loving na-
tions of mankind.
There is a crying need that we
shall cast aside all purely partisan
considerations and disregard all
but the vital issues affecting the
national life and shall strive
whole heartedly for a sound Amer
icanism which shall insist that ev-
cry man who is within our borders
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-01-15
PRoGREssIVES OFFER TO UNITE
WITH REPUBLICAN PARTY
FOR 1916 CAMPAIGN.

The national committee of the Pro-
gressive party in session last Tuesday
at Chicago decided to hold it's national
convention on June 7, '16, in Chicago,
the same time fixed for the Republican
national convention, with the hope
that both parties may agree on the
same candidate for president. In the
adoption of declaration of principles,
the administration of President Will
son was criticised for it's alleged fail
ure to deal adequately with questions
involving national honor and the in
dustrial problems which confront the
country at this time. The Progress
sive party also went on record as ia
voring the program of preparedness
not merely consisting of military
armament, hut mobilization of all the
country's resources for the purpose
of uniting American citizenship. The
leaders of the party declared that this
action did not necessarily mean ANAL
gamation with the G. o. p, but as
the country stands in great need of
reawakening of older Americanism,
good leadership of the highest order
and most courageous character is the
one thing required to preserve the
principles and policies of the nation,
which should be carried out by a man
who has the wisdom to formulate
them and the manhood to fight for
them.
They are confident that if the union
of the parties is effected for this spe-
cific purpose of choosing leader in
whom the people will confide, that the
same will go far toward insuring vic
tory in the November election.
The Progressives have resolved to
put aside partisan bitterness and pre-
judice, and are sure if the Republi-
can convention meets this crisis in the
spirit of broad patriotism, the effort
for common leadership will be sue
cessful. THE surrendering of the prin-
ciples for which the party stand will
never be accomplished" prominent
Progressives say, and they are ready
to follow a leader who stands for
them and is able to carry them thru.
Realizing what the rank and file of the
Republican can do in their effort to
support this proposition, the Progress
sives go further to say that should
this intended union fail, the RESPONSE
bility would not rest on their national
convention or the voting element of
their party, as they are ready to be
guided under the banner of leader
that will uphold the dignity of the ma
tion and protect our American insti-
tutions and standards of justice.
The detailed arrangements of the
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-01-15
Negro 1nvents
Mail Device

had a difficult task raising money
to further his idea. At first he
sold shares to his colored friends
at ten cents each, but they soon be
came discouraged and refused to
advance more money Three years
ago he went to Adolph Kreutzer, a
butcher at 56th and Market streets
whom he had known for years, and
interested him in the invention.
Then Kreutzer bought out the 9TH
er stockholders.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-01-15
DENVER COLORADO SATURDAY. JANUARY Is, 1916

shall be an American and nothing
else. We must do justice to our
own people at home; we must in
sist upon the most thoro-going
preparedness to protect our rights
against all possible attacks by any
aggressors. Such preparedness is
the best guarantee of any honor
able peace.
We must ever remember that
there cannot be such preparedness
in things material unless there is
also that preparedness of soul and
spirit which alone renders a nation
fit to perform its high and difficult
duties in national and international
life.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-01-15
KANSAS CITY SELECTED
National Negro Business League
To Hold Seventeenth Annual
Session August 16, 1916

After a most careful considera-
alton of the several invitations re-
ceived from different sections of
the country for the next meeting
of the National Negro Business
League, we are authorized by the
members of the Executive Com
mittee to announce that the League
has decided to accept the invita-
tion extended by the Local Negro
Business League of Greater Kan
sas City. The meeting will be
held August 18th, 18th and 18th,
1916.
1t appears that the Business
League has selected most oppor-
tune time to hold their meeting in
Kansas City, for as Mr.. Fortune
j. Weaver, President of the Kan
sas City Local League says.
These dates fit in just right, as
the Masons will mold their Grand
Lodge in Kansas City during the
second week of August and the
National Medical Association
comes during the fourth week"
These two meetings i'll addition
to the Business League session,
will offer best possible Inducements
to the railroads to make special re-
duced fares and will afford dele
gates to the Grand Lodge and the
Medical Association an opportun-
ity to attend some of the sessions
of the Business League.
The Executive Committee has
also decided that it will be most
appropriate and fitting the first
nights august 16th) session be
devoted to Memorial exercises in
honor of DR.. Booker Il. " ash
ington, founder and first President
of the National Negro Business
League.
Further announcements regard
ng the forthcoming meeting of the
National Negro Business League
will be made from time TO time
through the press. For further
information write 10 j. @. Napier,
Chairman Executive Committee,
Nashville, Teun Emmett j Scott,
Secretary, Tuskegee Institute,
Ala; Charles Banks, First Vice.
President. Mound Bayou, Miss.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-01-15

Granville T. Woods and Elijah
Mccoy are among the best known
inventors of the colored race.
There have been issued to Mr.. Nc
Coy twenty-eight patents from
the United States patent Office for
his inventions of various kinds, and
Mr.. Woods is widely known for his
success in inventing telephone and
telegraph appliances, for which
there is large demand.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-01-15

Knoxville, Tenn.-Colored Re
publicans of East Tennessee were
accorded signal recognition by the
party when Editor w. l.. Porter
of the East Tennessee News was
selected as one of the secretaries
of the executive committee at the
convention. The Colored citizens
are granted every right in politics
in this section and they are now
beginning to demand that more
official recognition be accorded
them. Esq. w. F. YarGley, at
one time candidate for governor
in the state and the first colored
lawyer to be admitted to the bar in
this state, appeared before the
committee and asked the election
of Mr.. Porter, His selection was
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-01-15

Trenton, n. J.-Dr. @. Y. Kinds,
a former State senator in Mississ-
ippi, has announced that he will
move from the city because real
estate owners and agents refuse to
let him occupy house in keeping
with his station in life solely on
account of his race. He is an
alumnus of Dartmouth College and
has also received degrees from
other institutions. He has trav.
eled in Europe and other foreign
countries and is deep student.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-01-15
unanimous

Bristol, Va, Jan. 4.-Because
the question was raised as to
whether or not African blood ran
in his veins and was for that rea
son reduced in rank and forced to
take a run he did not desire, L. ).
Cousins, a member Of the Clinch-
field Lodge of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers at Ermin,
East Tenn, brought suit agains
the lodge in the Federal Court at
Greenfield, seeking to recover dam
ages in the sum of $4,000 for al
leped libel. Cousins won in his
contention and was awarded dama-
pes in the sum of So, 800. 1t was
revealed in the evidence that the
lodge had written a letter to the
officials of the Carolina, Clinch-
field g. Ohio railway charging that
Cousins was not full-blooded
white man, and demanding that he
be remove d from a preferred run
The railroad authoritits s acceeded
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-01-15

Philadelphia, Pa. james Q.
Jones a colored laborer of this city,
residing at 4720 Falrmount avenue
has invented mail delivery de
vice to be used ON rapidly moving
trains, which postal expects have
giving a severe test and say will
save the government millions OF
dollars. Jones, who is fifty eight
years old and has had hard time
of it making both ends meet all
his life, believes that he will soon
become wealthy. He expects 10
get a million dollars from the gov
ernment for his invention.
The last test of Jones new de-
vice was made when trair going
as high as sixty mile an hour drop
ped bags of mail and took up 9th
ers without endangering either the
contents of the bags or the con-
tainers. With devices now in use,
trains must slow up to take up
mail bags automatically and the
government loses over million
dollars a year in damages for lost
and destroyed mail matter and in
the cost of pouches that are hurled
under the wheels of the train by in
adequate catch devices.
At the test Jones accompanied
the postal authorities and directed
the tests from the mail car. An
engine attached to two cars was
run past the receiving device.
The test was made eight times,
and on each occasion the train was
operated at increased speed. The
mail catcher worked perfectly at
fifteen miles an hour and perform
ed it's allotted function without a
hitch after the speed OF the mail
car had been pnt to sixty miles an
hour.
The inventor, who is a cement
worker, has never had any scienti-
fic training. His invention is the
outgrowth of an idea. that struck
him some years ago when he read
a government pamphlet telling of
the need of perfect mail catcher
for use in the railway service and
the fortune that would fall to the
successful inventor of such device
E. M. Norris, superintendent OF
the Railway Mail Service of the
Second Division of New York,
represented the Government in the
tests. B S. Fellows, chief clerk
of the Railway Mail Service of the
Eighth Division, Philadelphia, was
also present as were John Q. Nc
Cam and w. w. Beakey, repre-
senting the Baltimore d Ohio
Railroad. At the conclusion of
the experiment tne government Of
ficials announced their approval of
the device although they refused
TO give out statement for the
public. Their report has been for
warded to Washington.
In perfcting the device Jones
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-01-15

Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. 30.-A
school for the Negro Roman
Catholics was opened at 432 Queen
Lane, Germantown, on Monday,
December 20, with an attendance
of 146. The archbishop blessed it
on Saturday and called it St. Cath
crimes School.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-01-15
LINCOLN DAY CELEBRATION.

Kentucky
in D. C, Is,
policy noble AMERICAN
irrespective of
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-01-15

Progressive national convention were
referred to the executive committee,
who will meet in New York shortly
complete plans and issue the formal
call
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-01-15
RACE NEWS
GATHERED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

to the wish of the lod ge and Cous-
ins was transferred. The jury de-
cided that Cousins was a white
man.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-01-15
The Nectar of Autlmn.

Very few cider barrels ever contain
enough not to disappoint the owner.
Baltimore Sun.
The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-01-15

CITIZENS LEAGUE Colo, their forth
M all previous
gathering participate in commeor
public
arrange
ment is will be published.
great celebration which viii
of
the puphc
attractive
andoh Lncolns Day on
memo as once OF the OF Americanism
LEWIS, Presiden
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the supreme court, was somewhat less
than 2 IL per cent.
The widest extravaganza on the
part Of the executive branch of the
state government. would scarcely be
observable in the average mans tax
bills. Indeed, if the entire state gov
eminent should run amuck, ~increas-
ing exenditures by a wide margin, it
would scarcely be discernible in the av-
erage mans tax bill, since the state
government expends in the neighbor-
hood of ten per cent of the tax levied
for all purposes in the state.
The increase in taxes for 1915 are
not due to any Encouragement or ex-
travagance Of the state government.
The increase even in county and town
ship taxes is very much greater than
in the state tax. If the people of
North Dakota desire smaller tax bills
they must look after their county, city,
school and township tax levies, for If
1they~were to abolish the entire state
government it would. not reduce their
tax bills to exceed ten per cent, while
if they were to abo1;c1 their local units
of government, their tax bills would be
reduced approximately ninety per cent
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The table indicates that almost one
third of all expenditures are returned
to the common schools; that the state
educational institutions claim almost
sne-fourth; showing that more than
IS per cent Of the expenditures of the
state treasury 60 to the aid Of educa-
ton. Adding to this direct expendi-
ture, such indirect cost and the ex-
pense' of the office of the state superin-
tendent of public instruction and other
agencies connected with the admins
tration of public schools, we find that
approximately sixty per cent or all our
expenditures go for educational pur-
poses. More than sixty-five per cent
goes to charitable and penal and other
institutions maintained by the state.
The executive branch Of the state
government, which includes all Of the
state officials and all of the state
boards and their employees, spend less
than 2 IL per cent Of the revenues
flowing into. the state. The Legislative
expenditures for 1913 was a trife
more than l-2 per cent; the Judicial
arm Of the state government, which
includes the salaries and expenses Of
the district judges, as we'll as those o.
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From the above compilation it vii!
he seen that the increase in the tax
levy for state purposes has kept al
most even pace with the increase in
in population since statehood. On the
other hand the county, city, school and
total tax have increased much more
rapidly than the population or the
state tax. t..
That the increase in the North Da-
kota tax burden has kept pace with
the wealth of the state is clearly in
1icated by the phenomenal increase in
bank deposits. While the bank de-
posts are not entirely safe guides as
ty the actual wealth of the state, ow-
ing to the fact that a considerable per
sentage of the original deposits are re-
deposited, making a total somewhat
too large, yet as an indication of the
growth of the wealth of the state, no
safer and surer index could be select
Cd. Not only has the cost of the state
government increased much less rapil-
ly in North Dakota than the cost of
local government, but it is relatively
much less than in neighboring states.
On page 80 of the last biennial re-
port Of the State Tax Commission, is
to be found a table showing the state
tax paid by a 100000 of actual value
for several states. These statistics
which follow were furnished by the
Tax Commission by the officials of the
respected states included:
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Increase

the ratio of assessed to actual value is
the smallest Of any state, save Ne
braska, Of those included. In this Ia
BILE the percentage Of assessed to actu-
al value is used to find the assessed
valuation on $1,000 Of actual property,
then the state levy in mills is applied.
1t will be seen that in North Dakota
$1,000 of actual property only pays a
state tax of 80 cents, while in Indiana,
for instance, it pays a tax of $500: in
the state of Washington $3.50: and in
Arizona $3.50.
On page 81 of the same report is
found the following table showing the
per capita cost Of state government in
.novnra1 statns.
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America. Appalling Ftr> Lees,

Amsriea's Appalling Fire Lees.
Every man, woman and child In the
United States pays s. q year for dre
waste. II on a certain day Of the year
a government official should 60 to the
average family Of five persons and pre-
sent a bill for $15 as the annual fire
tax Of the family, there would be a
universal protest against the tax and
against the -carelessness which makes
possible. a yearly fire waste Of $780,
0O0.00QM this country. Big manufac-
turersSSnd big merchants know that
the freexpense to which they are sub
jected is a drain on all the people, but
because it is indirect the average per
son is not conscious he is paying a tax.
Let the masses once realize that every
time they buy a hat, a pair of shoes
or a suit Of clothes or anything which
goes through the regular channels of
industry, production, distribution and
exchange, they are paying a part of
the country's enormous fire tax, and
fire prevention would become the order
Of the day.-Leslie's.
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In the above compilation, while the
levy in mills in North Dakota is high,
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1t will be noted that of the state i'll
cluded South Dakota is the only one
with a smaller per capita cost of state
government than North Dakota. While
in North Dakota the per capita lost
was found to be $3.50 that of Arizona
was $7.0s; that. of Montana $5.40; that
of Minnesota $6.42; that of Nevada
1892; that of New York $7.44; thrat
of Oregon $7:O4, clearly indicating
that the charge of 'extravagance
against the state government of North
Dakota is unfounded. On the other
hand all available statistics indicate
that the state government of North
Dakota is being administered in a most
economic manner, and that the cost to
each citizen of the state, for his state
government is the lowest in the Union.
On the other hand our state educa-
tional and penal institutions, and the
various branches Of the state govern
ment, executive, legislative and ju-
dicial, are among the most efficient in
the country, ranking very high.
On page SO of the last biennial re-
port of the State Tax Commission is to
be found a table showing the classifi-
cation of expenditures, including the
revenues received from direct and in
direct taxes and fines, forfeitures and
from other endowment and interest
! funds:
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Anew FACTS RELATIVE 70 TAXATION
- IN THE STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA

ties, cities, school districts and town
ships in the increase in the tax burden
but that North Dakota is an exception
to this rule, IS conclusively shown in
the following tbale:
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Throughout the United States public
attention is being centered on the re-
narkable increase on the cost of gov
eminent. AS a rule the state govern
nents more than keep pace with coun-
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Ringing In the Ears.

o Persistent ringing in the ears
o is not only a disagreeable and
o annoying sensation, but it may
o mean serious trouble. Ringing
o in the ears is a condition result
o ing from colds. The catarrhal
o affection Of the nose and throat
q spreads into the eustachian tube.
o and the congestion and swelling
@ following cause the ringing in
. ears. Tie trouble, unless re1iev-
o ed, will result in deafness. .Suf-.
o ferers from this condition should
. seek the advice of a nose and
Q throat specialist without delay,
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The spittino Snake.

A snake found in Africa is called the
splitting snake by the Beers. 1t is be-
tween two and three feet long and is
especially bold and active, readily at
lacking every one who approaches it.
In confinement it is very savage, open
ing its mouth and ejecting its fangs,
from which the poison may be often
observed to drop and even sometimes
to be forcibly elected, whence the
name given it by the Beers.
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PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.

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She Could Furnish II.

PERCY am tired Of this life of ease.
I want a life Of toll, danger, excite
ment and adventure. Penelope-Oh,
this Is so sudden! But you may speak
to, my father.
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Discernment.

II don't think women have a sense
Of humor." said the man with opin-
ions.
'.Most of u.s." replied Miss Cayenne,
"have the very highest sense Of hui
NOR. We know when not to laugh
Washington Star.
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Blanketed.

She-You'd think he'd cut more ice!
He's a Son of the Revolution and He
Il know, but he married a daughter
of the resolution.-Judge.