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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-04

Quarrel VIII Get
Congress Airing

DALLAS. Tex, Jan. 4.-The discussion
between Major General Funston and the
Baptist preachers relative To holding re-
yivals in border army camps will be
brought TO the attention Of congress by
Representative Oliver Of Alabama, il was
announced here today BY J. b. Gambrell Of
the Baptists.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-04

city. The extension in South Houston will
cost in excess of 100000, according to
Commissioner Fitzgerald. As an initial
fund, to he used for the purchase of pipe
and other material for this extension, $40,
600 will be appropriated from the general
fund by the council Wednesday.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-04
WOMEN ARE DROWNED
IN FERRY COLLISION
tiBy Associated Press.

LONDON, Jan. Am Amsterdam dis
patch says that twenty-five women and
children were drowned through the sinking
of the ferry boat in a collision that occur
red on the Mlsselle near BillStein.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-04
Girls To Be
Trained For
War SeyUice
(By Associated Press.)

CHICAGO, Jan. 4.-Proposals to estab-
lish IN the Chicago high schools a course
IN military work for girls, teaching them
10 serve as army nurses and first aid work
ers, are being considered by the city board
of education AZ an adjunct to plan for
military training for school boys now un-
der way.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-04
RELEASED CONVICT
BRINGS BACK PEARLS
(By Associated Press.)

CHICAGO, Jan. "A rope Of pearls
valued at $4,000, lost by Mrs. Charles L.
Hutchinson, wife Of Chicago banker, last
Tuesday, was returned to her today by a
man who alleged that he was recently re-
leased from the Pennsylvania state pen-
tentiary after serving term for safe blow
ing. lie was given 800 reward.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-04
CHICAGO TERMINAL
DELAYED BY STRIKE

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. 4.-Work on Chi
cago's new union passenger and freight
terminal has been delayed six months be-
canse of series of strikes called last
summer by the Chicago Building Trades
council. Work on the terminal, to be com
pleted at cost Of $47, 100000, was be-
gun early last year.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-04
NEGRO INFANTRYMAN WINS
ARMY WELTER CHAMPIONSHIP

Columbus, N. NJ, Jan. 4.--Private Ru-
fn Williams Of the Twenty fourth United
States Infantry tnegro) won the weIter-
weight championship of the regular army
yesterday at Ell Vale, Mexico, by defeat
ing Private Whitley Burns of the Sixteen
tn United States Infantry. They fought
twenty rounds,
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-04
BARK IS T0WED INTO porto
(By Associated Press. }

NEW YORK, = e. The Brazilian
bark Nepthis, which broke away from the
toug Garibaldi during the storm the night
Of December Is and whose crew OF twelve
was rescued two days later, was towed in
TO port today.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-04
QUARTER MILLION ACCIDENTS
IN YEAR IN PENNSYLv vANiA

HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. 4.-Industral
accidents IN Penns ylvania during the past
year. 1916, attained a total OF 25l ASS, Of
which 2,5S7 resulted fatally, according to
statistics OF the state department of lab
or.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-04
MAGNOLIA ADVANCES PRICE.
BY Associated Pres

ARDMORE, Ok, Jan. 4.-The Magnolia
Petroleum company has advanced the
price on crude oil five cents per barrel
over yesterdays quotation.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-04
LODGE OPPOSES RESOLUTION.
tBy Associated Preas.)

r WASHINGTON, ID. O., Jan 4.-Senator
Lodge today has resumed arguments in op-
position To IIitchcock's resolution TO have
the senate endorse President Wilson's
note. When the debate automatically
ended, Hitchcock urged a vote for it, con-
tlnuance.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-04
THREE ARE KILLED
IN MINE EXPLOSION
tHy Associated press.l }

DILLON, Mont. Jan. i-Three miners
were killed by an explosion of gasoline
engine IN mine At Gilmore, Idaho, late
yesterday. Ten others who were impris-
oned were rescued after ten hours.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-04
WILSON TO CONTINUE WORK IN PEACE Behalf
in SPITE OF ENTENTE NOTE, But YET VAGUE
IS OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF administration
(Bv Associated Press.)

WASHINGTON D. C, Presdent
Wilson's note matter bu
definitely aIhouch
Is indicated is sinu undecided " '
another communication sent expected DO
tO felt
States
e
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-01-04

THE WEATHER FORECAST.

The following weather forecast for
; the lower gulf coast states and the
; Magic Valley is issued by the United
States weather bureau at New Orleans.
Tonight unsettled and local rains,
Friday, generally fair, except rain in
the extreme east portions. Moderate
southerly winds will prevail.
Local Weather 0hservatisas.
The following LEGAL weather observa-
tions are issued today by Mrs. a. wv. Reed,
United States official weather observer AZ
Brownsville. and covers the period nf
twenty-four hours ending at z q. m- TODAY:
Maximum temperature ....... 80.5
Minimum temperature ....... 700
Barometric pressure ......... 29.74
TX KK - - - EEX XKEK
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-11-03

buying Liberty Loan Bonds by the bill
ions, they are conserving on food,
they are sending their men, young and
old, by the hundreds of thousands,
to assist the allies in winning the war.
The women, God bless them, are TAX
,ng a hand as they never did before
md showing that they are entitled to
'eceive the consideration men receive,
by taking up and performing mems
work in all sorts of labor or endeavor.
This war has worked wonders in in
lustrial lines for the colored people,
nd they by thousands are securing
>ositions, in the labor world, for which
hey were not even considered three
ears ago. They are also receiving
consideration in military matters such
3 was hardly thought possible, and
they are generally making good. This
utter fact is very gratifying as they
ire learning that their efforts are not
:onfined to certain mental lines, but
hey have something of chance to
arm their bread by the sweat of their
rows in many new fields. And, while
var may be all that Sherman says it is
has in a way verified the old adage:
is an ill wind that blows nobody
God. -.~.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-11-03
Jim-crow Camp Opposed:
(Chicago Defender.)

In the east Major General Wood of
the United States army has started a
movement for a separate military
training school at New York City.
Every man in the east should look
upon this with disfavor and oppose
1t. There should be no segregation
in an army of the United States. II
there should be military training it
should be one and all. The men of
the east who think, especially edi-
tors and writer's, should sound death
knell to this "Jim Grow" proposition.
1t will not be tolerated in the west
and should not be in the east. In
other countries all men of all colors
and nationalities serve on the same
army and fight for the same flag be,
cause it does not segregate or dis
On the firing line we
should be as one. No longer members
OF the race should be looked upon as
cooks. but as citizen soldiers, wear.
ing the rank of equality, with no in
justice or discrimination heralded
against them. In case of war a num-
Der OF southern whites are getting it
in their breasts to lead our men to the
battlefield. In the past they have
shown that they have proven them
selves to be lot of chain drivers
and we advise them not to let a
southern man command them. When
you join voluntary army be led by
members of your own race and not
southern officers. Be led by men of
the north who treat you like humans,
and not southerners, who treat you
like slaves.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-11-03
Must Judge A Group by It's Best.
iFrom the Christian Register, Boston
Mass.)

R0Sf0n
Mass.)
No one can be said to know an,
class OF people who has not been in
intimate and sympathetic relation with
the best as well as thes worst of the
class. We compare many persons
who live in the South, and think they
know the colored race, with others
who have had no such contact. but
who have come into intimate and SYM
pathetic relations with large numbers
OF that race whom their Southern
friends have never known: and Of the
TWO sets of people we should say that
he second knew-the colored people
better than the first. They know aspi.
rattons among them that the others
DO not know, or, knowing, do not
inter into and appreciate; they know
capabilities by direct contact with the
hest OF the race which others are obi.
vlous OF; thew know qualities which
only resrect and sympathy can bring
Out: thew know possibilities to which
others by their very acquaintance are
blinded. II those who know the col
ored race through the mass and by
observation merely could know what
Individual possibilities are demon
strafed IN growing numbers Of the
elect, and would be courageously can
did with themselves. they would re.
wise their judgments and possibly sof-
ten their prejudices. At any rate,
they ought to credit to those on whom
they charge ignorance of the colored
race the values that come from know.
Ing how many of that race are the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-11-03
THE POWER OF UNITY.

United we stand; divided we fall'.
is an old maxim and is one which a
nation no less than an individual can
afford to overlook. 49, .--.
We are at war with Germany, one
of the greatest military powers on
earth. It is needless for me to stop
here and recount the many destructive
instruments that she employs to take
human life or the wanton toll of death
she has been exacting. The question
of the hour is How do we stand as a
nation? are we moving forward as one
man with a solid front against the
enemy, or are we divided and weak,
Quibbling over trivial and insignifi-
cant matters among ourselves e-
In looking the matter over with cir
cumspection and great care 1 am COM
PEELED to say that the picture does not
present a roseate hue. So shocking
was the crime, outrageous the depre-
dation recently perpetrated upon poor
defenseless colored people of East St.
Louis that l sometimes wish could
blot 1t from my memory, but, alas, I
cannot. And, again we are called upon
to witness another crime which was
perpetrated at Houston, Texas, appa-
rently in sense of retaliation. It's
results are no less grevious.
Think of it! Twelve million people
living in this country, clothed with all
the guarantees of the constitution with
which other citizens are clothed, vet
through the systematic practice of
"jim-crowism," segregation and preju-
dice the races are at dagger points;
the fires of resentment are constantly
smoldering just below the surface and
require but a breeze of ill-wind to
burst into flame. In any part of this
country instead of peace and good
will the opposite is the condition.
So, now, instead of the nation being
able at this time to defend herself
with unity and courage she is busying
herself with that dead issue-"The Ne
gro Problem" Before this great
world war is ended, every vestige of
"jim-crowism" shall have been swept
from the statute books of this coun-
try. When this is done the ever-loyal
colored people will re-enter the deadly
trench, stand upon the parapet and in
the jaws of Hell-he will truthfully
sing,
my Country tits Of thee,
Sweet land of Loberty.'
Robert e. Anderson.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-11-03
INCREASED PENSIONS PROPOSED.

Substantial increases in existing
rates of pension for disablement of the
limbs from injuries received in line
of duty, are contained in bill intro
duced by Representative George P.
barrow of Pennsylvania, which will
come up for action by the House at
the next session of congress. Mr.. Oar.
rows proposed rates run from SOS for
the loss of total disability of one hand
or one foot, to $3.50 for the~loss or to-
tai disability of both arms and both
legs They amount roughly to an in
crease of about SO per cent in the
existing rates for similar cases. The
bill is made to apply to persons al
ready on the pension rolls, and to all
who may be granted a pension here
after; but Mr. Darrow specifically pro-
vides that the measure shall not 3D.
crate to reduce any pension hereto
fore granted. The passage of this
measure will be heartily approved of
by the people. $3.50.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-11-03

the public on the installment plan by
using stamps that may be purchased
and pasted in book for that purpose.
When there are sufficient stamps to
cover the cost of certificate the book
can be exchanged for one. The stamps
will be placed on sale in every town
and city in the country. g..
The individual who has money laid
by for a rainy day need have no hest
tation in converting it into war saw.
ings certificates, since the government
will redeem them at any time upon
the request of the holder, allowing in
terest at 4 per cent. Under this ar
rangement the investor in these Ger
tificates will have the satisfaction Of
knowing that if any emergency should
arise in his family, such as sickness
or death, he could Immediately realize
upon his certificates. -.-- ..-
1t is safe prediction that the war
savings certificates will go like "hot
cakes" Their small. denomination, the
good interest rate, the terms upon
which they may be purchased, the
fact that they are not subject to taxa.
ton when held by persons of small
means-all will make them an at
tractive investment. Working people
whose margin Of income above expen.
ses is narrow at best will find in them
an excellent incentive for beginning
the prudent habit of saving. They
will be popular for Christmas presents.
School children will be able to invest
part of their little weekly allowances
in certificates. AS a result many mil
lions will be transferred to the Fed
eral Treasury and through it will flow
into the channels of trade, while the
people of small means will be made
to feel that they, too, are doing their
share toward helping their country
win the war.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-11-03
OF One Blood.

Gerald Stanley Lee in Mount Tony
/ am a human being. l do not pro
pose to be cooped up or shut in in NV
love and criticism to mere geographi
cal streaks or spots of people on a
planet. This planet is small enough
as it Is, when one considers the
height and depth-the starry height
and depth-0f the human spirit that
wavers and glows through US all
Wagner and Shakespeare. Tolstoi and
Holihre! Though the cathedrals quar-
rel together and sing praises with
sjege-guns to their own little foolish
national souls, and rain bombs on
each others naves, take my stand
by the great bells ringing in their
towers, by the souls of their poets
overriding the years. by the pravers
and songs Of their heroes, artists. in.
ventors, by the mothers and the little
children
We are all in the same world. w
are all alike. I will not say of an =.
one nation what I will not say OF the
others; and will not say of any man
what I will not say of myself.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-11-03
GRAMMATICAL UNANlMlTY.

Hoover says the prices of food will
e reduced before the New Year
ONES and Garfield says there will be
lenty of coal for all domestic and
Industrial needs. CrOzier says there
ill be rifles enough for our soldiers
Tho go to France. Sharpe says there
7ill be adequate heating apparatus in
he cantonment barracks. The use Of
the future tense by the authorities at
Washington seems to be unanimous.
And, if these things come in the near:
:uture we'll hail them as prophets.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-11-03
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1917
OUR coLORED SOLDIERS.

"The American Negro has the max
ing of a fine soldier. That is the tes-
timony Of military experts, as we'll as
the verdict of history Colored troops
have fought for the Republic in all of
it's wars, and have acquitted them
selves like men. They have shown
their metal on many a field and in
many tight place.
I'm the Civil War they made fine
record I'm the regular army they have
proved themselves dauntless fighters
and daredevil riders. The Tenth
Cavalry, detachment of which
showed great courage and stamina in
the Carrizal affair in Mexico last year,
has been called the finest cavalry regi-
ment in the world.
"The colored population of the coun-
try is cheerfully furnishing it's share
of the men for the new National Army
1t is expected that about one-eleventh
of the American contingent in Europe
will be made up of colored troops.
Only the other day the Minnesota con-
tingent of young, colored Americans
left for Fort Dodge, each one evidently
glad of the opportunity to serve his
country ...
More than ever before American
colored troops will have officers of
their own race, especially in the lower
grades. Young men of Negro blood
have made unusually good records in
the officers training school, and their
instructors predict brilliant service
from those who won commissions.
"The country is likely to have many
occasions for feeling proud of it's col
ored soldiery in the coming strenuous
campaigns in France.
The above is an editorial that ap-
peared in the Minneapolis Daily Jour-
nal few days since and it breathes
such a spirit of fairness that we take
pleasure in reproducing it.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-11-03
WALLER AGAINST "NEGRO."
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says it Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.

(From the Amsterdam News.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: cannot too heartily congratu-
late you on recent editorial discour-
aging the use of the word Negro"
There is no greater delight enjoyed by
the white people of the United States
today than the spreading use of this
unfortunate term. Why? They real
ize that it is the most potential fac
tor at work at the present to bring
about both a physical and mental
segregation of the people of color. It's
use is on the increase only because
our speakers and writers, especially
Do Bots and Washington feel that it's
repetition, ad nauseam, is necessary to
retain the good will of the masses.
The term Negro is not only absurdly
inaccurate as applied to millions of
colored people, but it is also alarm
ingly injurious, for the following rea-
sons:
a. 1t has never stood historically or
in the present, anywhere in the world,
Tor anything noble or uplifting. Most
h1gh-grade Africans repudiate it.
b. In Africa and out of Africa it
was never applied to the higher types,
but to Guineas, Sudanese and Sene.
gambians only.
c.: It's derivatives, "Negroism," NE
grofy," and it's compounds, Negro
head, Negro-fly, Negro-monkey, are all
clearly, in their associations, degrad-
ing.
d. It's feminine form, "Negress," is
Justly and correctly used to define
your wife and daughter and sweet
heart, If you favor the use of the mas
culine term.
e. It has been the word used by the
Southern whites for two centuries.
when formally speaking or writing
about an unworthy or criminal man
or woman Of the race. For when he
speaks of the worthy he invariably
says "colored."
t. 1t is not differentiated in the
mind and thought of the whites from
their favorite and generally used
(among themselves) terms, "Nigro''
and Niger
g. AS stated by an eminent JAP
anese diplomat it has an unquestioned
influence in cutting US off from the
thought, sympathy and cooperation
of the millions of colored Africans,
As1at1cs and islanders of the Yonder
world.
Very truly yours,
, ~. OWEN M. WALLER, M. D.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-11-03
Why Did They Prefer "colored?"
(From the New York News.)

\riOAH Inc new YORK NeWS.)
We trust that all of the advocates
learned and otherwise, white and
black, North and South-of the use
or the word Negro" as a race term
have caught the full meaning of it's
use at Houston, Texas. At the re-
quest of the Twenty-fourth Infantry
men themselves, the authorities, de-
cided to refer to them henceforth as
"colored" soldiers. They had been de.
r1ded and nagged and goaded by the
corrupted use of the word until for.
oearance ceased to be one of their
virtues. They had become contemptu.
ously and constantly referred to in
the daily press not as American sol.
d1ers, or Americans, nor as Uncle
Sans Boys" or in any other respectful
terms. They had been designated and
debased in the public mind there
these brave, manly defenders of the
American fag-as Negroes" Per-
ceiving this evil practice and influence
the while officers of the Twenty-fourth
appealed to the authorities to use the
word "colored' instead. With the
word "colored," troopers or soldiers
would have to be~used. A kindlie1
feeling between the soldiers and the
townspeople they were sure would in
evitably result. They were profoundly
right, but they were too late. Had
the practice obtained prior to their
coming in Houston, a different state
OF affairs might have ensued. We ask
all promiscuous, wilful and Indifferent
users~of the word Negro" to ponder
this situation slowly. The request of
the troopers and their officers for the
change should be striking example
to all Doubling Thomases as to Just
how the practice works out today in
hard, everyday life. Whatever the ar.
gument about making it respectable in
the future, it decreases respect for the
race today. It does no good today.
1t does much harm. What reason,
then, for it's use? Are you willing to
be called a "Nigger?" Are you pleased
to have your wife or mother called
a "Negress?" Then discontinue using
Negro" If you think it worth while
for you to be referred to as a man and
your folk as people, insist on the use
of the word "colored."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-11-03
CoLoRED TROOPS.
Baker Says They Will Be Trained IN
States Where Raised. s.

washington, D. C.-Secretary Baker
OF the war department has announced
that colored troops drafted into the
United States army will receive the
same consideration and treatment
heretofore given them under the rules
OF the army. Those colored troops
grated in states having camps of
their own will be trained in them.
which means that the Illinois contin.
gent OF colored troops will train at
Rockford. Units from other states
will be assembled and trained with
their state troops as separate organi-
zatlons, the same as is now done in
the regular army.
Will Be Called Separately.
The rule of the regular army in the
matter of the training of the colored
Troops as separate organizations will
be adhered to-" said Mr.. Baker. "The
call for colored men will be postponed
nhtll one of the latter calls, so that
they will be called at a separate time.
merely giving an opportunity to the
omcers at the camps to assemble the
organizations of which they are parts
substantially all at one time. They
will not be called last, but they will
be called separately.
May Volunteer for France.
:"All colored men called in a state
which has cantonment in it will be
organized and train there. Provision
will be made for the assembling of
colored troops from those states which
nave no environments. It has not vet
been made. An opportunity will be
given to both white and colored men
among the selected forces to volunteer
TOR service and training in certain
lines of communication organizations
which is necessary to form, and it is
hoped that an adequate number will
volunteer for this military but non.
combatant service, but there will he
both combatant and noncombatant or
CARNATIONS, just as there are white
'rganizations.' :
Those who volunteer for this ser.
vice, it is said, will have an early on.
portunity to 60 to France"