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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17
IRON CROSS FOR VARDAMAN,

Thomas Collins, a Biloxi, Missis-
sippi blacksmith, has forged a forty
pound iron cross and sent it to Sen
ator James K. Vardaman with the in
scription, "Lest the kaiser forget"
Vardaman was one of the filibuster-
ers who obstructed public business in
the senate. Now if one of the Missis-
sippi negroes" who are so often
abused by Jim Kay in his speeches,
should take it into his head to attach
the cross to the neck of the senator
with good strong cord and then cause
the body to fall into the Gulf of Mex
leo, not many tears would be. shed,
even by the so-called white" people
of Mississippi. e.. ~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17
Protests Jim Grow Camp.
(FrOm the New York Age J

The Age joins with the Baltimore
Afro-American and other race papers
IN registering a protest against the
establishment of "Jim Crow mill
tary training camp for colored men as
advocated by Prof. J. E. Spingarn of
the National Association for the Ad-
yancement of Colored People. Like
Professor Spingarn, we look with dis
favor on the segregation of colored
clerks in the, governmental depart
ments at Washington, but unlike Pro
tessor Spingarn, we are unalterably
opposed to the segregation of Negro
citizens in military camps conducted
by the government of the United
States.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17
Jim-c row West Point.
(From the Indiananolis Freeman


"a bill in the house of representa-
tives at Washington was recently in
troduced reading in the title: To pro-
vide q commission to secure site,
plans and designs for school to train
Negro soldiers. The object is to give
similar training to that at West Point.
We note that among those named for
the commission is Thomas Taggart,
former senator of Indiana. Knowing
his goodly intentions toward the race
one may be assured that the effort
is worthy of consideration. The Ne
groes, however, we think, will not be
too hurried in Selling what appears
an opportunity. They, we think, will
be divided in their opinion as to which
is the better thing to do: to go on be-
coming soldiers as they have been, or
ask the government to bring about a
greater and more distinct separation.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17

The bill introduced in Congress by
R. W. Austin of Tennessee to establish
a Negro Military Training School is
one of the most Infamous measures
ever introduced at Washington. The
colored people of the country, that is
the thinking, far-seeing, intelligent
people, bow their heads in shame to
know that there are colored men so de-
graded and so Indifferent to their
standing among men that they will
sponsor such a bill.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17
DEsP'sE noTTHE DAY OF SMALL
THINGS. .sl.

According :ssthe report of the Ma
tional Association for the Study and
Prevention on Tuberculosis just made,
$1,O00,OO0 was raised from the sale of
Red Cross Christmas Seals during the
recent holiday season. For the past
eight years these seals were sold an
nually during the holiday season and
a sum total Of $4,206,051 has been
raised from the sale of the little
stamps at one cent each. This vast
sum has been used in the fight against
the white plague"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17
1.-THE BEST SPIRIT OF AMERICA"

Senators Stone, La Toilette, ct al,
are lauded by the German press COM
ments as representatives of "the best
spirit in America according to dis
patches received in Amsterdam sum-
marizing German editorial views on
the senate filibuster.
1t is we'll that the filibusterers are
applauded abroad. They are almost
universally condemned in the United
States, but perhaps they prefer the
smile of the kaiser to the approval of
their countrymen. Wilhelm ought to
decorate each one of the thirteen with
an iron cross,
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17
Hates the Term "Neuro."

II hate the term Negro because it
is being used in terms of hatred. It
is the cause of the segregation of the
Negro; it is being used in contempt
in public places; it is an excuse for
disfranchising him; and it is an ex-
cuse for lynching him. Only one
tenth of one per cent of the colored
people in America can trace their
descent to Africa, and there is no
more right to call all colored people
Negroes than to call all white people
Turks or Armenians."-
United States Attorney General VIM.
II. Lewis, Boston, Mass.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17
Agreed to Be "set Aside"

Nfrom the Eagle, washington, D. c.
No, the colored delegates to the M.
=. General Conference, held at Sara.
toga Springs, N. Y, recently, did not
walk out" They simply assented to
arrangements to be "set aside"-to be
segregated into "a colored general
conference, to be presided over by a
white bishop, being denied the priv.
lege OF directing their own labors in
the Masters vineyard. Two years
from now the two wings Of the M. E..
church, North and South, will unite
and the separation of the colored
membership and the refusal of bishop
TIC honors to the 100000 colored com
are designed to clear the
way for the approaching 'love feast"
There is verify in the assertion that.
IN its primal manifestations, the
church is social organization, with
religion as a by-product.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17
ARE WE TO GET IN THE WAR?

~ - N1s IN ST7E WAN!
The horrible, inhuman, unnecessary
war which has devastated millions of
acres of the lands across the sea, has
cost billions of dollars and millions of
lives, seems to be knocking at our door
good and hard. We hope we will have
wisdom granted to us to avert the
catastrophe with honor It now looks
as though the break must come, but
all may rest assured that we will be
fully equal to the emergency and, as
ever, the colored citizens will be found
in it up to their necks, as they have
never been disloyal to their native
land. .>.s>+ III.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17

and public, opinion for many years
and it affc~ us much satisfaction to
find that :, re in DR.. Cranes class
in our be It makes very little
difference victim or his rela-
tives and friends whether he is MUIR
dered by a mob, an individual or the
state. Capital punishment should be
abolished.( ~ ~.,. II
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17

There have been 50 Saturdays in the
year 1916 and as THE APPEAL has
appeared on each one Of them our sub
scribers have been given one extra
copy as .1anieppe" as they say in
New Orleans.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17
Not Worthy Of Freedom.
(From the Richmond p,a,

(From the Richmond Planet.)
When a race or an Individual sub
mits uncomplainingly to oppression.
It is a practical demonstration that
the race or the individual is not wor-
thy Of freedom.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17

Minnesota is prepared for almost
any emergency from a cash basis, as
she has $6,274,073 in her treasury and
more coming.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17
THE SIN or slLEnc &C

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
guillotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs Of
many.-EIla Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17
THE. MAN WHO DARES

honor the man who in the consci-
entious discharge Of his duty dares to
stand alone; the world, with ignorant,
intolerant judgment, may condemn,
the colntenances of relatives may be
averted, and the hearts Of friends grow
cold, but the sense of duty done shall
be sweeter than the applause of the
world, the countenances of relatives or
the hearts of friencls.-Charles Sumner.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17
HUMAN NATURES FOULEsT BLOT

My ear is panied
Ny soul is sick with every days report
~ wrong and outrage, with which earth is filed
There is no flesh in mans obdurate heart.
It does not feel for man: the natural bond
OF brotherhood is severed as the flax
That falls asunder at the touch Of fire.
He finds his fellow guilty Of skin
Not colored like his own: and having power
10 enforce the wrong, for such worthy cause
= Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
I 4 :
thus man devOtes his brother, and destroys:
lis human natures broadcast foulest blot.
Cowper.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17
HAMPTON AND TuskEGEE.

The Following Article is Taken From
The Cleveland Gazette, ana is Only
One Of Many Such That Have APP
peared From the Trenchent Pen Of
Rev. William a. Byrd. Read and
q Ponder.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17
GOD GIVE US MEN.

God give us men! A time like this demands
strong minds great hearts true faith and ready hands
Men whom the lust Of office does not kill !.
Men whom the spoils Of Office cannot buy;
Men who possess opinions and will;
Men who have honor-men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before demagogue
ana damn aus treacherous batteries without winlng!
Tau men, sun crowned who live above the fog
y public duty and in private thinking.
u. g. Holland
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-17
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"Any prejudice whatever will
be nsurmountable If those who
do not share in it themselves
truckle to 1t and fIatter it and
accept it as a law of nature"
John Stuart Mill.
HOPEFUL SIGNS,

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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-23
PAPER MAKERS GATHERING.
Conference with Federal Trade Commits
sion in Washington.

Washington. Feb. 23-News print pa
per manufacturers began arriving here
yesterday for conference with the fed
eral trade commission on a proposal that
the commission fix news print prices for
a period OF six months. Manufacturers
representing about one-third of the pro-
duetion of the United States and Canada
have signed the proposal. Those coming
did not join in the suggestion and are
here at the request of the commission,
which wishes their views on it.
Restoration of free competition in news
print paper manufacture is the aim of
the commission and if it accepts the pro-
posal it will work with that purpose in
view. The commission, il was stated
yesterday, is bent ON finding cure for
conditions and not a mere palliative.
A census of pulp wood consumption
made by the forestry bureau in co-opera-
ton with the News Print Manufacturers
association, announced yesterday shows
that 100 mills reported used in 1916
about 3,4l9,000 cords OF wood and pro-
duced approximately 2,239,0O0 tons of
pulp.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-23
AMUSEMENT NOTES
"The Little Cafe" at Barre Opera Hous,
Wednesday.

The mammoth production of the mu-
steal comedy success, "The Little Cafe
will be the attraction at the opera house
next Wednesday night, Feb. 2S. The
piece had happy engagement in New
York for nearly year, where its charms
gave it wide popularity. Although its
music has been proclaimed perfect, from
the standpoint of light musical comedy,
and its humor called fetching, great
deal of stress is laid upon the natural
beauty of the chorus, the ranks of which,
it is said, are filed with the cream of
the Broadway stock.
Of course, fine clothes make fine wom-
en-, as you viii see when THE Little
Cafe" unfolds its gorgeous costumes in
this city, but if you can observe the
young man who boosts for the show, not
even the brilliant plumage of the girls in
the company can add TO their seductive
charms. With such an endorsement, the
piece should have no difficulty in at.
tracing all of the front-row regulars,
as well as few volunteers.--adv,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-23
Glass of Hot Water
Before Breakfast
a Splendid Habit
Open sIuices Of the system each
morning and wash away the
poisonous, stagnant matter.

! Those of us who are accustomed tc
feel dull and heavy when we arise; split
ting headache, stuffy from cold, fou
tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach, lame
back, can, instead, both look and feel as
fresh as a daisy always by washing the
poisons and toxins from the body with
phosphated hot water each morning.
We should drink, before breakfast, a
glass of real hot water with a teaspoon
full of limestone phosphate in it, to flush
from the stomach, liver, kidneys and ten
yards of bowels the previous days indi-
gestible waste, sour bile and poisonous
toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening and
purifying the entire alimentary tract be-
fore putting more food into the stom-
ach.
The action of limestone phosphate and
hot water on an empty stomach is won
derfully invigorating. 1t cleans out all
the sour lamentations, gases, waste and
acidity and gives one a splendid appetite
for breakfast, and it is said to be but a
little while until the roses begin to APP
pear in the cheeks. A quarter pound of
limestone phosphate win cost very little
at the drug store, but is sufficient to
make anyone who is bothered with bill
iousness, constipation, stomach trouble
or rheumatism a real enthusiast on the
subject of internal sanitation. Try it
and you are assured that you will look
better and feel better in every way
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-23
NO LEAK WAS FOUND.
Report of Committee to Be Published
SATURDAY.,

Washington. Feb 23.-No leak of ad.
vance information preceded the publica.
ton of President Wilson's note to the
belligerent powers last December The
only information which might have in
fluenced the market came through gen
eralization and deductions resulting from
Secretary Lansing's statement to news
paper men on the morning of Dec. 20, in
which Mr.. Lansing expressly stated that
the note to be given out for publication
the following morning was not peace
note"
No government officials, and none of
the persons named by Thomas w. Law
son, were concerned in or profited by
advance information on the note. These
are the conclusions drawn by the rules
committee of the House from the facts
brought out in their investigation of
the alleged leak. They are embodied in
report on which the committee yester-
day agreed unanimously and which prob
ably will be given out Saturday.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-23
GLASS OF SALTS IF
YOUR KIDNEYS HURT
Fat Less Meat if You Feel Backachy OF
Have Bladder Trou-
BILE

Meat forms uric acid, which excites
and overworks the kidneys in their eff
forts to filter it from the system. Reg
ular eaters of meat must flush the Kid
neys occasionally. You must relieve
them like you relieve your bowels; re-
moving all the acids, waste and poison
else you feel dull misery in the kidney
region, sharp pains in the back or sick
headache. dizziness, your stomach soursi
tongue is coated, and when the weather
is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The
urine Is cloudy, full of sediment; the
channels often get irritated, obliging You
to get up two or three times during the
night
To neutralize these irritating acids
and flush off the body's urinous waste,
get about four ounces of Jad Salts from
any pharmacy; take a tablespoonful in
glass of water before breakfast for a
few days, and your kidneys will then act
fine and bladder disorders disappear.
This famous salts is made from the acid
of grapes and lemon juice, combined with
lithia, and has been used for generations
to clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys
and stop bladder irritation. Jad Salts is
lightful drink, which millions of men
inexpensive; harmless and makes de-
and women take now and then, thus
avoiding serious kidney and bladder dis
cases.-Adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-23
WzfTERBURY

The mems club of the Congregations
church had an enjoyable meeting or
Wednesday evening when Rev. w. E
with his lecture, "Wishbone, Funnybone
Backbone" Not much doubt was loft
when the lecture was through but what
Backbone" was the one to be desired
The supper was in charge of DR.. Z. A.
Stanley, Roy w. Demeritt, William
Parks, b. r. Demeritt and G. G. Graves.
The son of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Mar
shall has been named Daniel Waite Mar
ehall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius L. Berry of Waits
field were guests Wednesday and Thurs
day of their son and wife, Mr.. and Mrs.
B. j. Berry.
Rural Route Agent Moody is one of
those i'll at the Center with measles.
Miss Lena Norcross, who broke her
wrist about week ago, has gone to Bur
lington for an X-ray examination and
treatment for the fracture.
H. j. Parcher is confined to the house
with hard cold and Mrs. Parcher with
an injured ankle.
Joseph Harvey has returned to Hart
ford, Conn, after spending few days
with his brother, d. T. Harvey.
The funeral of Bert Goodell was large
~ attended from his late home, Rev
B. P. Parker officiating. Burial was in
the village cemetery. the bearers being
Martin Barber, Ira Knapp. l.. J. Rob-
erts, James Breene, Edward Ather and
Thomas Martin.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-23

inaries was felt, the bureau, after ex-
hausting the local supply of competent
men, had to appeal to the United States
for other veterinaries. At best these
are poor substitutes for the trained men
who are quitting since it takes them
fully a year to learn the conditions with
which they have to cope in the field
here
Among the better known Americans
who have recently left the bureau are
d. r. FIacl, an employee of Is years
service, who goes to Petrograd to join
the staff OF the American embassy there,
John T. thinner, entomologist, who joins
the British agricultural forces in Papua,
and NJ. NJ. Saleeby, fibre expert of the
bureau since the Inauguration of the
government standardization of hemp and
kindred hbres. who resigned to represent
in the local field New York fibre i'm
porting company.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-23
W1ITSFIELD

Mrs. Lizzie Livingston has pneumonia
and is at her sons, r. ]. Livingston,
The Nature club win hold its annual
meeting Saturday, Feb. Ia. Election of
officers for the ensuing year.
The choir of the Congregational church
win meet Saturday night at the parson-
age for rehearsal.
The Women's Foreign Missionary So
ciety of the NJ. Z. church will meet this
week with Mrs. Warren Wright.
The junior league of the NJ. T.. church
will meet Saturday afternoon in the yes
try.
The fourth quarterly conference of the
NJ. E. church win be held Saturday at
7:30 p. m. Members of official board are
asked to be present.
Mrs. w. Z. Jones has improved and
her nurse has returned to Montpelier.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-02-23
LEAVE PHILIPPINE SERVICE.
Because of Law Allowing Workmen to
Retire on Pensions.

Manila, Feb 23.--While every bureau
of the Philippine government has suf
fered in the past six months since the
passage of the law which enables the
American civil service employee OF more
than six years standing to retire on a
small pension extending over three years
the bureau of agriculture reports the
heaviest loss from designations and re-
tirements. Fully fifty per cent Of the
Americans in this important bureau have
left the government service.
Adriano Hernandez, Filipino, the di-
rector of the bureau, in published state
ments denied that these designations
have affected the efficiency of the bu-
reau. He states that for sometime past
Filipinos have been acting as assistants
to the Americans who have retired, thus
gaining training to take up the work
the Americans leave. OF the 81 divisions
of the bureau, seven are now entirely
in the hands of Filipinos while the re-
mainder have American chiefs with Fill
Pine subordnates training to take their
places.
In one department--that OF the veteri-
naries-the retirement of Americans has
caused serious inconvenience. Kinder
pest has for years been a dread cattle
sconrge in the islands Last year saw
it reach a high mark of fatality just
when American veterinaries, already re-
duced in number and crippled in their
operations by the small appropriation
for their work, were beginning to tire
of the service and take advantage of the
retirement law.
Unlike the other departments, there
are few Filipinos competent to take UP
the work OF the retiring veterinaries.
There is but one institution Uni
yersity Of the Philippines which teaches
veterinary medicine; primitive farming
in vogue throughout the coun-
try make private employment OF veter
inaries rare and poorly paid; and Fill
Pine youths aspire rather to the learned
profession than to those which demand
akin to manual labor.
So when the pinch OF retiring veter-