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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
a, NEEDED WAR MEASURE.

The government Of the United
States ought to stop lynching as a
needed war measure. As a-military
necessity, loyal patriotic citizens
ought to have a chance for their lives
and no man, even though he be inno-
cent of crime Is safe when the lyncher
IS abroad.
The stern hand Of military law
ought to descend upon the people
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
WITH 'MARKEDCAR|OS''

In It's Army of Democracy U. S.
A. Begins With a New jim
Crowism Added to the Rest to
Fight for World Democracy,
but to Have Distinctions of COL
or in Our Own Army-Denial
of Equality.
(From the Journal, the leading daily
paper of Boston, Mass, June %,
1919 .. TIT
THE DEAREST PROMISE IN THE
WHOLE OF THE CONSTITUTION
OF THE UNITED STATES IS THE
PROMISE OF EQUALITY FOR ALL,
REGARDLESS OF RACE, COLOR OR
PREVIOUS CONDITION OF sERV1-
ITUDE. 49,
But it is not always pleasant for a
Negro to read that promise.
"Marked Cards.
Nor will the Negro feel a thrill of
promise when he comes to write
down his name for service to his coun-
try. For the registration card makes
a distinction of color. The man who
puts his name to that piece of paste
board signifies that his life is at the
disposal of this government in war.
That should be enough But no-the
government asks that he shall spe-
city his Color" Literally. this govern.
ment IS beginning with marked cards.
We don't need to review the fine
record Of the African race in fighting
the battles of America. It's men
have been in the front rank wher-
ever there came an opportunity to
serve. History vouches for that.
Now Jim-crow Registration.
And here, when we come to fight
Tor democracy, we find distinctions
drawn according to the color of a.
mans skin. .--...
Negroes have not Jared we'll dur
ing the present national administra-
ton. They have disappeared from
public Offices, and Jim Crow grin
OF the South has grown flrmer. And
NOW A JIM CROW REGISTRA-
TION. ~ -
Race and color in our "Army Of De-
mocracy:" ~
II we were to define democracy as
applied to the army of a democratic
nation, we should picture men of all
races and all creeds grouped together
IN equality. A white millionaire's son
might share tent with a Negro and
Chinese. But-"color"!
Race, color and previous condition
of servitude apparently are to he
recognized in our army of democracy.
Blunder No. l.
Must Be Wiped Out.
But it must be wiped out. If an
arlstocratic snobbishness has drawn
up the registration blanks, demo
cratic decency must later DENY the
Distinction
Else we make a joke of our high.
est boast
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
The Eternal GOSPEL

(From the Martinsville Pioneer-Pressl
We have no respect for servile,
crlng1ng colored man. He is of more
service to his people under the sod
than on top of it-Richmond (Va)
Planet. That is our eternal gospel.
preach it in the valleys and on the
mountain tops.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
The SIN OF SILENCE

To Sin by silence when we should
protest makes towards out Of men
The human race has climbed on nro-
test. Had no voice been raised against
Injustice, Ignorance and lust, the in
QUESTION yet would serve the law, and
guiilotInes decide our least disputes.
The low who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs Of
.many.-Ells Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
The Color Line in the Catholic Church,

: ~ 0oo' |"'e ]" e"e VdtnoIIc Church,
tFrom the Southwestern Christian Ad-
vocate, New Orleans, La.)
There are two hundred thousand
colored Catholics in the United States
according to Walter F. McEntire, a
prominent Catholic, who in telling of
the orders and societies of men and
women working among color people in
the United States, among other things
says in the Tidings, of Los Angeles:
The Church knows no color-line in
the House of God, and any man who
tries to lay one down is not a true
Catholic"
This is good reading but it is not
true to fact. There are only two col
ored priests in the entire Catholic
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
Must Have asPIace in School
fFrom the Chicago Defender,

From the Chicago Defender)
Our naval training camp has every
nationality under the sun. AS a red
flag to fiout into the face of the bull:
we have Cinnamon out there, the
Filipino out there, the Greek out there,
the Hebrew out there, the Italian, out
there, and God himself only knows
what else out there, but we do know
that if we are anywhere near there
we are near the bathroom with a mon
and broom. Space must be made for
the boy of the Colored race in the
school for which we are paying taxes.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
Negroes and Dogs Not Allowed"

(F,rom the Nashville Clarion)
Down in Houston, Texas are some
elevators in public buildings labeled
NEGROES AND DOGS NOT ALLOW
Ed" Generous Classification! Such
signs as these account in such meas
ure, for the exceedingly rapid manner
IN which the Colored men are depopu-
iatlng the South. They can be neither
blamed nor censured for leaving a
town like this. They have hearts and
souls and human pride, just like the
people of other races
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
TRIBUNE voMITs AGAIN.

-
Tribune seems like voice from the
tomb. It is on a par with some of
the stuff printed by the copperhead
Tribune before and during the slave
holders rebellion. The writer may
have been born since 1870 but his
think machine was evidently cast in
one of the left over molds Of 1850. It
is headed:
BLACK MAN, STAY SOUTH!
They say down south that ringers
are all right in their place." but where
is that place? South? At Memphis,
Tenn, a Negro was recently burned
alive. North? At East St. Louis, ILL.,,
Negroes are mobbed, beaten, and run
out of town.
We taunt the south with race preju-
dice when it burns bad Niger" but
just see how we northerners detest
even good niggers!' The real race
prejudice is ours. Our very philan-
thropists betray it. They saw to a
black man, God bless you, good-by,"
whereas the south says, g. -
you, come here!" Or put it this way:
The northerner is a great friend of
the Negro but not of Negro; the
outherner is great friend of Negro,
but not of the Negro.
Prof. Munsterberg once described
the race as passive at every turn of
fortune yet within the last year
Negroes by the thousand have actively
undertaken to find place for them
selves. They have come north. 1t
was huge mistake. They escape bar
barous punishment for their occasional
crimes while winning no appreciation
for their -habitual virtues. They are
d1sliked. When their presence be.
comes BURDEN. as at East. St. Louis,
they are abused.
It is on these terms only that they
enjoy the longed for CELEBRITIES of the
north"-its social equality" for in
stance. But do they really enjoy that?
Our observation goes to show that the
Negro is happiest when the white race
asserts it's superiority, provided that
sympathy and understanding accom-
pany the assertion. Not long ago a
Virginian noticed very gloomy black
porter in northern hotel, and, learn
ing that the Negro had come from
Virginia, said, "You - black
fool go back to Virginia!" The reply
revealed much: 20, Cunnel, denis de
fust kind wuds dat's been spoken to
me since All come up noff!"
Southerners insist that "the niger
must be kept down. They enforce
the color line. Yet they will work side
by side with Negroes, befriend them
in adversely, and overlook their minor
failings. Gradually they are working
toward the results suggested in the
carton on this page. They do not hate
Negroes. In their heart they like
them. Said Dooley: "I'm naught
troubled whin the naygur is amon'st
his oppressors, Hinnessy. What
throubles me is whin he falls into tn
hands iv his liberators." Is
In the same city where the forego-
ing vomit was spewed up, Miss So
phronisba Breckenridge, of the Uni
versity of Chicago, Southern woman
and one of, the famous Kentucky
family of Breckenridge, said:
THE cry has gone up from large
number OF people: What are we going
to do with these dreadful men and
women who are coming to us from
the South? | say we should be here
to welcome them, to help them, to give
them a chance to make Chicago bet
ter home than they could find in the
South"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
A Chinese Puzzle.

(From the Cleveland Gazette.)
The governor of Massachusetts and
mayor of Boston are trying to find out
Why Jews are refused enlistment in
that states field artillery and in the
first coast artillery. Also, why Afro
Americans from that state land
others are refused at the Plattsburg,
N. Y, officers military training camp
where DR.. j. E. Spingarn is a major
in-training.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
Campaign Against Lynchlnu.

- lrTUm ING Cnr1stlan Recorder.
There is no better time than NOW
to begin National Crusade Against
Lynching in the United States. For
the rapidity with which this national
crime has spread, the barbarity with
which It Is committed and the utter
disgraceful comp1acency with which It
= FegaEdsd should arouse the CON.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
Not Consistent

baltimore tMd.) Commonwealth
President Wilson cannot consistent
~ contend for liberty, equality and
Justice for Belgians, Russians, Poles,
French, English and Teutons without
conceding justice, liberty and equal
lty 10 ALL citizens of his own coun-
try.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23

YES, THERE WAS A TRAITOR.
THE APPEAL has stated number
of times that there are no colored
traitors in the United States, but we
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
Worse to Ask for Jim Crow,
(From the Cleveland Gazette ,

(From the Cleveland Gazette.)
We agree with the editor of the
N. Y. News: 1t is bad enough to have
segregated Tor "jim crow') military
training camps FORCED on us by the
government, but infinitely worse to
ASK for them.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23

Submitted by THE APPEAL for Use the Newspapers
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-06-23
LET AGITATION GO ON, SAYS
REV. F. J. GRIMKE,

Commends Protest by Guardian and
PIanet-Race Will Protest Till White.
America Accords the Rights Which
Belong to Every American Citizen
STEADY Decline Of Rights Under
B. u. Washinqton Policy.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14
The Schoolroom Voice.

The "schoolroom voice has long
been a term of reproaeh. Teachers
may not be able to improve the quail
ity of their pupils voices, but they
can dc Il great deal toward getting
pupils to speak in an easy and nat
ural tone of voice, which will still be
audible not only TO the teacher. but
also to the pupils in all parts OF the
room. In addition, constant attention
should be given, day in and day out
to matters of clear articulation, correct
pronunciation and right infection. BY
making the conditions of the recita-
ton such that the pupils get the feel
ing that they are actually talking 10
one another with the intention of i'm
parting information, or opinions. and
not merely "reciting' TO the teacher to
prove they have learned their lessons
The speech of children would greatly
improve in these respects. But no mat
fer how favorable TO good talking tht
schoolroom conditions are made, pu
nils ought to have throughout the en-
tire course systematic training through
special exereises.-ENehange.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14
Honey Earliest Sweet.

Until the beginning of the sixteenth
century honey was almost the only
sweet known and quite the only one
generally used, it being available with
out preparation. The Old Testament
refers to Palestine as "a land flowing
with milk and honey synonyms for
richness and nourishnent. ana mutually
complimentary. our pioneers located
"bee trees and some of us still re-
member the midnight journey to the
tree, which was felled and its treasure.
IA mingled mass of splintered wood,
broken comb and dead bees, brought
home to be strained and the wax melt
ed down. Modern beekeeping has en-
tirely changed this crude proceeding,
and the up-to-date apiarist handles his
bees almost as freely as his chickens.
Exchange.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14
LITTLE ROCK GETS
CANT0NMENT CAMP
WORK TO BEGIN AT ONCE UPON
CONSTRUCTION OF WATER
WORKS AND ROADS.
ESTIMATED COST S3,500,000
Work Incidental To Construction of
the Camp VIII Furnish Employment
For Months For Every Carpenter,
RrickIayers and Other Workmen.

Washington-Th War Department
announced that Little Rock had been
selected as the site of the cantonment
of the Twelfth division of the new
United States army Work will be-
gin Immediately upon the construc-
ton of roads and laying of water
mains, which must be in readiness
by September 1.
Other cities approved as additional
eantonment sites were: Louisville,
Ky, Battle Creek, Mich, and San An
tonic, Texas. Additional camps for
National Guard mobilization will be
located at Fort Worth, Waco and
Houston in Texas; Fort Sill. Okla,
and Linda Vista, Cal. Cities that pre-
viousIy had been selected as canton
nent sites are: Aver, Mass, Wrights-
town, N. J.. Atlanta, Ga, American
Lake. Wash, Columbia, S. c., and
Chllicothe Ohio.
The cost of the Little Rock camp
Is estimated at $S,500,0 900. There will
be required 26.5O0,00O feet of lumber.
About 40 miles of improved roads
must be constructed.
The camp will neeessitate the con-
structlon of a good-sized city. 1t will
bring to Little Rock monthly pay
roll estimated at $2.500,000 for three
years. Four miles of railroad will be
built and seven miles of sewer and
water mains will be laid for the $4,000
soldiers, officers, their families and
attendants The work incidental to
the construction of the camp will fur
nish employment for months for every
carpenter. bricklayer and other work
men, both skilled and unskilled. 1t
will furnish a ready and profitable
market for all farm and garden prod
ucts. These are only a few of the
many material advantages that will
come to Little Rock and vicinity
The value of the advertising that
will come to Little Rock and to Ar
kansas cannot be overestimated.
Health conditions. transportation
facilities and moral environment were
the principal factors that governed the
War Department in selecting Little
/ Rock.
The Twelfth army division will
consists of men from Arkansas, Louis
lana and Mississippi.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14
Plato or Socrates?

If Socrates is conceded to rank as
the greater or more influential of the
two philosophers, 1t is largely because
of the devotion and ability of Plato,
his admirer and biographer. Accord
ing to Piato's "Apologia, Socrates was
really the supreme man of his age,
foremost in originality and in thought.
Plato's great humanity-his uncon-
sciOus prophecy of Christianity was an
exhibition of that-his application of
philosophy not simply to morals in the
abstract but to a nation, or a PERSONAL
ity, has won him great popularity in
all ages. and there are many who put
the Stagirite in the second place. and
consider Plato his exponent as the
greater, aud more influential of the
two. Really, it is wise not to attempt
comparison of these great Grecians,
but to read thankfully what their wis
dom has given to the world.-Ex-
change.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14
send Them CANDY
Officers Advice to Women Wish
ing to Aid Soldiers.
Suggestion Explained by Fact That
Men Need More Sweets Than They
Get in Their Rations.

Somebody asked someone in the
auartermaster's department what she
could do to make life for the soldiers
at the front wherever that i1ight be,
more attractive.
do they need sweaters. or wrist
warmers, or what can l make them?"
she queried.
Don't knit" said the man quoted.
make them candy. They crave sugar
and they need sugar"
So the young woman in question
promptly went to the nearest candy
shop and placed an order that pound
of candy be sent every other day to the
particular soldier i'll whom she was in
terested.
Years ago, when the Boer war was
raging, Queen Victoria once celebrated
her birthday or some other feStal day
by sending IA package of sweet choco-
late to every Tommy fighting in South
Africa. And some of her subjects stay
ing safely ut home said To themselves
and each other: why ON earth is the
queen sending sweet chocolate to men
who are giving their lives for us? Why
doesn't she send them something they
need?"
Today most of us have come to rec
ogniZe the food value that lies in
sugar. We have learned that pure
candy, If it is eaten as food. is
wholesome. 1t is harmful when it is
eaten between meals, and so spells the
appetite. We know, too, that the more
hard physical work we do, the more
sugar we need. because it is an easily
assimilated fuel food.
Hence today the quartermasters
mandate that we send candy to the
front, although 1t mt first seems
strange is easily understood. The, RAJ
tions of the soldiers are carefully bal
anced, but still, many of them, living
outdoors all the time, crave more
sweets than they can get, and are bene-
fitted by them.
So add to your list another chance
to help the men at the front-and send
them candy.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14
An ANONYMOUS Book.

Two young ladies of literary tastes
were once discussing their reading
when one of them remarked: II have
been engaged with Il delightful work
for week past Indeed; what is
it?" "Anthony Trollope's autobiogra-
phv." "Who is the author?" Really,
| don't know. | have looked over the
title-page and through the preface, but
I cant find any reference to the author
at all. Whoever 1t is is n charming
writer. and seems to have known the
novelist very intimately" ''I'll get il
and read it, but it is too provoking,
isn't it, that So many delightful au-
thors of late are writing anonymous
Iy?"
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14
cowardice and Bravery.

To make men towards give them
continually ease with every comfort
and pleasure; to make men brave
give them continually harnesses
bardships, hard work, with every dis
comfort and misery. As ease an1
Measure weaken and soften the sour
producing cowardiness and fear, sc
hardships and misery strengthen ana
burden the soul, making ii determined
and brave; as only pleasure makes n
man love life, only misery will make
him detest il.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14
slouaks a Scattered Race.

No slovak in Hungary is allowed
10 sneak the SlayiSh language out on
the streets. and even the priests are
not allowed to preach in the Slavish
language and Slavish people don't
know any other language hut their
own. Before the tenth century the
Slovaks had n kingdom, but after the
last king. Svatopluk l. the kingdom
was divided between his three sons,
Moimir. Svatohoj and Svatopluk. and
since then the Sloyaks have remained
a scattered but never assimilated
race.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14
Taller in Morning.

The very wise smile knowingly
when someone offers the foolish" as.
sertion that a person is taller in the
morning than in the evening. But
iust try it, Between the II vertebrate
of the backbone are little disks of car
tilage. and these during the course OF
the day are considerably compressed
by the weight of the body, expanding
again when the body is in a recumben,
position In the case of heavy man
of good average height, the difference
in his height mt morning and evening
is generally about half an inch.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14
Would Tax Aliens $500.

Washington. Former Governor
Glynn of New York and former Mayor
Fitzgerald of Pittsburgh proposed TO
the Senate Finance Committee a war
tax of 500 on each alien in the Unit
ed States who has not expressed in.
tention to become an American citi-
zen. They said such a tax would
raise 100000 900. Aliens who enlist
ed in the armed forces of the United
States would be exempt.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14

Washington-Pr Samuel E. Gil
man, who retired from the army as a
colonel some years ago and has since
been on the faculty at West Point.
will be appointed superintendent Of
the Military Academy. succeeding Coz
onel Biddle, who has been assigned
to command the new Sixth Regiment
of Engineers for service in France.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14
HAVE CAPTURED FIVE TOWNS
British Make Gains Of Tremendous Inn
portanee in Their Two Victorious
Drives in Belgium.

London. June THE British really
made two victorious drives. Begin
ming their attack on nine-mile front
between Messines and wytschaete. at
an early hour. they captured all their
first detectives. taking a large num-
her of prisoners. and then continued
10 press the advantage thus gained
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14

An undercoyering ofton flannel
or felt made 10 fit theing table is
desirable. II preyentsse and the
cloth may be laid morpothly.
The Greek kiltedoops. the
Euzones. bear vtlri of Il name
which was given TO trim the days
OF ancient Greece, Ebl, meaning
well-girdled.
An oregon inventorindmill has
blades that move horribly instead
of vertically and whi+e sheltered
when moving against wind by Il
screen that is goyernea yindvanc.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14
SCRAPS

This year Korean student is en-
rolled in Dubuque college and semi
nary.
Fruit lars can he easily opened If
you will take hold of the top with a
piece of sandpaper.
The new battleship Mississippi. with
full-load displacement of $4,000 tons. i
the third vessel of that same name.
An electrically driven machine
wraps lump sugar in ipdividuai papers
al a speed of 1900 Jumps an hour.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14
Potatoes left To Spoil.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT investigators
into the reasons for high priced coal
in Illinois recently discovered Is
cars loaded with potatoes on sid.
ing close TO coal mine, near Sea-
tonville. III. The investigators CON
Guided they had been Left on the sid
ing to spoil while high prices were
being maintained in Chicago.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14

Messines. Lenfre, Zeehrea and Wyt.
sehaete We're reported taken.
The Official report says that the sec.
ond drive carried the village of
oosttaverne and the German posi-
tions east of the village over an ex.
tent of i've nsleS. The German cas-
ualties We're very heavy, and the Brit.
ish took more than 5.0oo prisoners.
many guns, trench mortars and ma
chine guns.
Naval alrplanes dropped bombs on
the airdrome at Nieumunster, near the
coast between Zeebragge and ostend.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14
To Weed Out MANY Men.

Fort Sheridan, determination OF
those men who cannot mark up 10
the most rigid physical and mental
sions in the officers reserve training
camp here is expected soon. One of
feer estimated that approximately %
per cent of the 5000 men now in train
ing may be affected.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14
The Idea.

Good gracious, John. why did you
allow the agent To persuade You TO
take cottage with no more ground
than this?'
Because. my dear, I did not so into
this deal with any selfish idea OF ter
ritorial expansion"
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14
Mould Hurt Bond Sales.

Chicago.-omcials of the federal
reserve banks are endeasoring to To-
cate the leaders of German propa-
eanda designed to impair belief in the
stability and soundness of Liberty
Loan bonds.
The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1917-06-14
British Burn Fields.

Berlin.-In its report on operations
along the Macedonian front army
Headquarters says that British airmen
dropped ineendiary bombs on ripen-
ing grain fields on the East bank Of
the Struma.