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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-03-02
THEY CONSIDER
DER
LIBERAL easy"


The report has gone broadcast that
Liberal is "easy picking" when II
comes to marketing stocks of all kinds
A few of these propositions have mer-
1t there is chance for the stakeholder
to make a fair investment, but the
greater part of them have barely
enough merit to get the blue Sky
Law" and this does not take very
much. For instance, there has been
thousands of dollars worth of Oil
Stocks sold in LIBERAL the buyers
knowing nothing whatever about the
personelle of the men behind the COM
pany. We know of none of these
stocks which have paid any dividends,
except the home company, or even
have promising prospects. Before in
vesting, 1t is always well to know
who the parties behind the company
are; and to know something about
their integrity. There has been over
one-half million dollars invested in
different kinds of stocks in the past
I few months in the community around
Liberal and very small per cent Of
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-03-02

this stock promises success. Too
many are wont to fall for the slick
talk of the stock salesman and buy
without sufficient investigation. The
exertion of little common sense
would have convinced an intelligent
person of the absence of merit in
many of these propositions. When
a company is about to start business
and declare such dividends as some
of these companies intend to divide,
there is usually enough money in the
greater financial circles to take up
all the available stock, but when
these larger financiers fail to see
where the proposition will bring big
returns, the clever stock salesman
comes out to the Great Southwest and
disposes of the stock, takes out a
healthy commission and returns re-
joicing. 1t would be we'll in all cases
for the prospective stock buyer to con-
suit with his banker, the Chamber of
Commerce or some institution which
can look into the matter and get their
opinion before spending any of his
money in a proposition which may
have no real merit whatever
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-03-02
RURAL CARRIER EXAMINATION

The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced an exam
ination for the County Of Texas, State
of oklahoma, to be held at Liberal,
Kan, s:45 a. M, and Guymon at $3.50
a. M, on March "a, 1917, to fill the
position of rural carrier at Tyrone,
and vacancies that may later occur
on rural routes from other postoffices
in the aforementioned county. The
examination will be open only to male
citizens who are actually domiciled
in the territory of a postoffice in the
county and who meet the other re-
auirements set forth in Form No.
1877. This form and application
blanks may be obtained from the Of
fices mentioned above or from the
United States Civil Service Commits
sion at Washington, d. c. Applica-
tions should be forwarded to the Com
mission at Washington at the earliest
practicable date.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-03-02

This number of the News is edited
by the boys. You won't find mucf
in it about the girls. The majorit!
of us are not much interested in girls
anyway. So we present to you a boys
number this week, gotten up by THE
BOYS.
A great number of the boys hav,
taken advantage Of the Penny Saw
ings Club of the Peoples bank Ever.
boy should start a savings account
There never was time when thu
American boy had so much, nor need
ed so much, to cultivate thrift.
A boy of words and not of deeds,
Is like a garden full of weeds.
There is considerable competition
among the boys as to who will get to
work at the work bench. The table
and tools have been moved into va
cant room, in the old church build
ing. Bird houses this week.
We wish Mr.. Bone would get an
other dry" bill through the legisla-
ture. We enjoy those parades.
That child labor law never did help
us much with our heavy school work.
This week there goes into effect a
law that young ladies must not work
more than ten hours day. The girls
are going to take advantage Of the
law. Teachers, beware!
Few are more patriotic than Wade
Grinstead. In a skirmish on the
school ground he got bloody nose
Thursday. A few moments later, dus-
ty and with blood-stained face and
clothes, he gave stirring recitation
in honor of George Washington.
Folks living near the school house
muzzle their roosters. One attacked
two boys last week. The boys had to
kill the rooster in self defense.
The 6-B celebrated Washington's
birthday by having a splendid pro-
gram. A number of visitors.
1t took Fred Funston three months
to capture Aguinaldo. A San Fran
cisco girl captured Funston and had
him at the parsons in just three days
from the time she met him.
You can tell a good bit about boys
by their school attendance. The boy
that is in school every day doesn't
have much time to plan mischief. He
doesn't want to. But few days of
hockey" with pal" and time to
plan and get into meanness, then the
town marshal has to be called in, etc,
etc. A boys unexcused absences will
tell more about your boy than you
can learn from his grades.
The South Side school was discon-
tinued Monday morning. Miss Dun
ham is teaching Ord grade in the H
IS. building.
The whole school ask every morn
ing, "Are we going to the H. s. build
ing today?"
The last number of the Lecture
Course next Tuesday evening.
Glee Club.
Mr. Harris showed the boys how
to put lock on the west door Of thu
shop also how TO drive nails. Sam
pie of the work on exhibition. Conn
up ana see it.
| Mr.. Fulton says the 5th-A will d
three days work in one on the prom
Use Of story.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-03-02
NICE LITTLE BOYS NEVER

NICE LITTLE BOYS NEVER
laugh at rude jokes.
make fun of peoples misfortunes.
clean their teeth at the table.
make fun about drunkenness.
whisper before company.
keep folks waiting for them at an
appointment.
Sam Beltz-"Vell, II sure looks
like we vus going to fight dem Ger
mans"
Merle and Vernon Engle. gave a
party Friday night to about twenty
Of their young boy and girl friends.
"Foot-and-a-Half" is the game
now.
Geo. Spradling visited school this
week, looking after the interests of a
younger brother.
Edgar Bush has Just completed a
nice magazine rack for use in his
tent.
Ola Heaton failed to convince Miss
Brooks that there can be a peace
Without Victory" We hope Ola
doesn't sever diplomatic relations al
together.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-03-02
WIDEAWAKE.

j. L. Boles is building an addition
tV his dwelling. Mr.. Boles Just fin
ished one of the finest barns in the
southwest.
Miss Rhoda Resell, teacher of the
South school, took dinner with Mrs.
N. L. Groves last Sunday.
w. H. Hall butchered hogs Nom
day.
Raymond Boles entertained hie
Sunday schol classmates Sunday in
honor of his 9th birthday.
Miss Hazel Hall, who is attending
high school in Liberal was home oy-,
er Sunday.
B. q. Harness is putting up 10o--
barrel supply tank.
Mr.. Ingham, wife and son attend
ed Sunday schol at WideawaRe Sum
day.
e. G. Walden. recently brought
three loads of sand from the river
preparatory to putting lin a pit siIo.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Brown were
dinner guests with the A. G. Thomp-
son family Sunday.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-03-02

Mrs. LaDelle Anderson of Tyrone
spent Wednesday with friends in the
city.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1917-03-02

Joe Bryson left Wednesday for
Wichita to attend the Cattlemen's
convention.
Sunny Side continues to be the fav-
orite place for homeseekers when one
wants home in the city. Statesmen
report healthy demand for lots.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-02-17

surely turn round to look 1t over and
to wonder at the cleverness of its de-
signer.
Because of its pockets and buttons
and its odd belt, Spring, 1917 is
written boldly on the suit pictured.
And because of her suit and hat and
her swagger stick the judgment of
their wearer is above question; she
knows smart style and chooses it for
her own.
1t does not take long to tell the
story of the pretty suit, since its skirt
is plain and all it's points of interest
centered in the coat, which is short.
Although women are reluctant about
giving up short skirts, this model
reaches an inch or so below the shoe
top, and shows the insistence of de-
signers in their attempt to bring long
er skirts into favor. This skirt model
The coat hangs straight at the front,
and would at the back if it were not
held in a little by the belt. There is
an odd management of this feature.
The belt of the material slips through
slashes in each side of the front of
the coat and buttons in the back. The
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-02-17
DESSERT TO TEMPT INVALID
Baked Milk With stewed or Fresh
Fruit Is Appetizine and Can
Do No Harm.

A perfectly %innocuous dessert for
the most delicate of patients is pro-
vided by baked milk, and 1t makes a
very pleasant accompaniment for
stewed or fresh fruit. II is very sim
ply prepared, as the milk is merely put
into an earthen ware jar, covered tight
ly and allowed to bake in a very slow
oven for several hours, until it is of
the consistency of very thick cream.
The main attraction about that recipe
is its harmlessness, but a really deli
cious and nutritious pudding can be
made from the following:
Rice Flour Pudding.-One-half pint
milk, two tablespoonfuls cream, one
ounce butter, one ounce rice flour,
whites of two eggs, flavoring, n ia
~blespoonful sugar. Put the milk, but
ter and sugar into a saucepan and
bring just to the boiling point mix
the rice, flour and cream well together
and stir into the boiling milk draw to
n side to cool and beat the whites of
egg to a stiff froth, then add them to
the rest, folding them carefully in so
as not to break down their fluffiness.
Pour into a fireproof dish and bake in
a quick oven until a light golden
brown.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-02-17
PREPARING FOWL FOR TABLE
che Operation Of "Plueking"
Biddy Before Cooking.

The fowl being carefully plucked and
singed must next be drawn. To do this
cut off the head, leaving about four
inches of the neck, slit the skin down
the back of the neck and loosen 1t
completely all around. Separate the
gullet and follow it with the fingers,
passing them all around where it en-
tiers the body, so as to loosen the crop,
which can then be pulled out whole
with its contents, merely by laying
hold of the gullet with a cloth to pre-
ven it from slipping. Then cut the
neck off quite close to the body, leav-
ing the flap of skin on. With the point
of n sharp knife make n short cross
way slit, just beneath the tail of the
bird, taking care in doing so. however,
not TO wound the intestines. Into
this slit put one finger as far as 1t
will go, and pass it round close to the
breastbOne and backbone. so as to
break through the attachments which
hold the internal organs in place. En-
large the hole then. If necessary,
enough to admit two fingers, and be-
tween these lay hold Of the gizzard,
the large hard mass which will usually
be found lying just beneath the point
of the breastbone. Draw this out first,
and then, by pulling gently but firmly,
all the rest will follow together, af-
ter which the body should be washed
or wiped out.-Modern Priscilla.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-02-17

One of the developments of the one
piece dress, which makes of it a good
model for the promenade, is shown in
the accompanying photograph. 1t
looks like a plated skirt of silk jer-
sey, with a plain coat suggestive of
Il sweater, but its looks are mislead-
ing. 1t is a one-piece garment, and it
might be made in serge, gaberdine, or
any pliable wooden goods. Like so
many others, it bears the imprint of
sports styles in the straight lines of
the body, in the long girdle which is
wrapped easily about the waist, and in
the patch pockets.
This is n of those designs which
are adapted to almost any color. 1t has
a number of novel finishing touches
that give it a distinction which will
match up with the peculiar shades of
green and the beautiful blues that
have c%aptivated everybody. But what
ever color is chosen must be used
throughout. The ties at the throat,
of brocaded ribbons, furnish all the
contrast needed.
1t is noticeable't that the sleeves are
of the same material as the dress and
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-02-17
SWEET DISH ALL WILL LIKE
Strawberry Ice Comparatively mex
pensive and One of the Most De-
licious Dessert CONNECTIONS.

A most inexpensive strawberry Ice
may be made by boiling two cupfuls
of sugar with a half n cupful of hot
water for three minutes. Cool and add
a box of berries, crushed, and the juice
of a lemon. Then add a cupful of ice
water and partially freeze. Stir in the
stiffiy beaten white of one egg and fin
ish freezing.
Tiny sponge cakes iced with straw
berry juice and confectioner's sugar
are delicious to serve with this ice, or
n big layer cake, frosted with white
and decorated with u wreath Of roses
made from candied rose leaves and
cltron, with yellow candies for centers.
Or the ice may be made from grape
juice and the little cakes decorated
with candied violets. Strawberries
dipped in pink fOndant and served in
little paper cases are very pretty
Peoples Home Journal.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-02-17
MAKES MOST TASTY oMELET
Prepared With Kidneys 1t Is "Some-
thing Different" From the Usual
Run of Egg Mixtures.

Melt two tablespoonfuls of bacon
drippings in a frying pan; add two
lambs kidneys that have been cut
into dice and toss them about in the
hot dripping for three minutes. Then
add sufficient thick brown sauce to
moisten, and season with a pinch Of
paprika and m tablespoonful of wor-
cestershire auce. Prepare an ordinary
omelet from the yolks of four eggs
beaten with n little salt, pepper and
four tablespoOnfuls of water. and when
very light fold in the stifly whipped egg
whites. Turn into an omelet pan in
which has been melted one tablespoon
full of butter and cook very slowly I'M
til well risen. Then spread with the
kidney mixture, sprinkle with chopped
parsley, and turn over, after loosening
the sides, into a neat half circle. Tip
the pan gently, so that the interior of
the omelet may cook through, and
serve inverted on a hot platter.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-02-17
~AFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

DR.. James Hardy billiard of Char
~1ottesville, Va, who Is the executive
officer of the Jeanes and Slater boards,
and n of the foremost educational
experts in the country, spoke ut the
public meeting at the Hotel Somerset,
Boston, in behalf of Hampton instl-
rtute.
Doctor billiard was for a number of
years professor of Latin and dean Of
the academic college of Tulane univer-
sity, New orleans. Since 1907 he has
been engaged in Negro school work,
and 1t is said of him that he has tray
eled through the South to a greater
extent than any other man in the
country.
Hampton institute and other schools
for Negroes had made a slight rift in
the colOred mans cloudy way" when
in 1892 announcement was made of
the establishment of the John f.
Slater fund for the education of the
freedman, with its milIiOn-dollar en-
dowment. In 1908 the Anna T. Jeanes
Foundation for the assistance of Ne
gro elementary schools was started
with an endowment of a million dol
lars.
Doctor billiard declares that the mi
grafton Of southern negroes to the
North in the last ten months has
forced a new problem on the South
that legislation only may solve. 1t is
said that 10000 Negroes in Savannah
and vicinity are already at work in the
North, attracted by high wages, many
of them having left their families in
want.
The Southern educational problem
is showing steady progress" billiard
says, but unfortunately a low grade
of politics in many places still stands
in the way. The need in the South is
still great for bringing more and more
TO the front the better thought of our
most intelligent and progressive people.
This seems TO me our chief Southern
problem today.
Politicians count relatively more
with US than they do in other parts
of the country. Public sentiment is
more dependent upon the professional
politician than it Is upon other classes
of public men, such as clergymen, edu-
Gators and educated men of business.
I'VE badly need more voices from
the thinkers who are not politicians,
and we need the commanding voices
from politicians who are statesmen"
The Hampton meeting, presided over
by Hon. w. Cameron Forbes, was ad-
dressed by Doctor billiard, Rev. George
A. Gordon, DIR. Hollis F. Frissell of
Hampton and j. E. BlantOn, a half
brother of Major Motion, president Of
Tuskegee, who is in charge of the
government farm demonstration work
in Beaufort county, South Carolina.
MI. Beaufort, a graduate of Hamp-
ton, told of many interesting expert
ences on the island of st. Helena, off
the South Carolina coast, where the
population consists of 5000 Negroes
n As whites.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-02-17
How TO Pour LIQUIDS.

In pouring a liquid from n jug or
bottle the vessel should be held with
the opening downward, rather than
horizontally. if convenient, and swung
quickly with a circular motion, says
Popular Mechanics Magazine. The
liquid will rotate, and in leaving the
opening will permit air to enter con-
tinuously, causing the liquid to run
out rapidly and without intermittent
gurgling sounds. If the opening of
the container is at one side it is best
to hold the cOntainer so that the open
ing is at the highest point of the end,
rather than at the bottom. The air
may thus enter and permit a continu-
Gus flow until the container is empty.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-02-17
Good Supper Dish.

Here is a good supper dish. Cook
one pint tomatoes and a small onion.
When done, strain. Blend two table
spoonfuls of -four and two of butter,
salt and pepper to taste, and add to
tomatoes. Mix together one cupful
chopped lamb, beef, veal or chicken
and one cupful boiled rice. Put all
the ingredients in buttered baking dish,
cover with crumbs and bake until
brown.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-02-17
Pan DoMdY.

Pare and quarter enough sour, juicy
apples to nearly fill an earthen baking
dish, add to the apples half a cupful
of hot water and nearly a cupful of
molasses. For crust use one quart of
flour, one ~teaspoOnful soda, two tea
spoOnfuls cream Of tartar, n tea
spoonful salt, half a cupful creamed
butter, one pint rich, sweet milk. Mix
soda, cream of tartar and salt well
into dry flour, work the creamed but
ter into the prepared flour till fine
and yellow. Acd milk to this mixture
and mold to a delicate dough. Roll
1t out an inch thick and fit closely
over the apples. Bake in a moderate
oven as long as the crust will allow.
When done, while warm, break the
crust into pieces and mix through the
apples; serve with cream or milk.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-02-17
Health Twist.

A new exercise is called the "liver
twister." 1t starts a sluggish liver
into activity and helps to clear the
complexion. Here is how it is done:
Sitting erect, take a deep breath,
place the tips OF the fingers upon the
shoulders and slowly twist the body
from the waist up as far as possible
to right and left without moving the
hips. Then make the same movement
with the fingers clasped back of the
neck and, the elbows on u line with the
shoulders.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-02-17
"sPRINe, 1917" PRocLAIMs THIS SUIT.

that a deep cuff is set into the band
that finishes them. Those who re-
greet the disappearance of the crepe
sleeves may have these cuffs made of
crepe, which is so soft and so becom-
ing to the hands, The pockets are
put on with clOse-set rows of buttons,
covered with the same material as the
dress. Smaller buttons, made the
same way, fasten the bodice above the
waistline. All the lines are long and
straight In this model; even the collar
is carefully managed so that they are
unbroken.
The first fugitl1e fine day that the
year vouchsafes I'd drop in the frozen
north, we are likelJ to meet this pretty
substitute for the street suit. We will
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-02-17

There are in Texas. according to the
thirteenth decennial census of the gov
eminent. 252.S6S children between the
ages Of six and twenty years, of which
number $50. 7OS, or 51.7 per cent, are
attending school there are S5,461 chill
dren in Texas Of Negro blood between
the ages of ten and fourteen years,
of which number 67,636, or 79.1 per
cent, are attending school; there are
93,271 between the ages of fifteen and
twenty years, of which number 1854,
or only 29.7 per cent, are in attendance
upon school. According to the above
figures it is readily observable that the
tendancy of colored parents is to start
their children to school at a late age
and to take them out early. The proof
of this tendency is further substanti-
ated by the fact that Texas literacy is
higher than that of any other state
having a Negro population of as many
as 100000, while there are several such
states whose total scholastic attend
ancc is greater in percentage han that
of Texas.
The point 1 wish to emphasize is the
fact that statistics show that while
Texas has good schools and other
things necessary to the educational de-
velopment of our race, we are taking
but meage advantage of them. Out of
the IA years of the possible scholastic
life of a child, it is clearly shown by
carefully compiled statistics that from
20 per cent to 65 per cent of the chill
dren of colored %parentage in Texas at
different periods Of their scholastic
life do not utilize the advantages Of
fered them along educational life. Only
for about four years Of the probable
school life of the children in Texas of
Negro descent is there anything like a
decent showing made In school at
tendance. From the ages ten to four
teen as indicated above, we have 67,-
636, or 79.1 per cent out of a possible
S5,461 who are in school. This period
is when the best record in attendance
is made.-Communication to Houston
Post.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-02-17
Mock Chicken OmeIet,

One slice of roast veal or roast
pork will do, cut up in tiny pieces,
One or two slices of onion as thin as a
wafer, cut up very fine, put in frying
pan with one t~easpoonful butter after
it is melted. Pour over one well beat
en- egg with one teaspoonful ~(scant)
flour, a little salt and pepper and four
tablespOonfuls of milk mixed with II,
and cook slowly until egg is all cooked
Delicious on toast.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-02-17
Something Nice for Supper.

Here is a nice supper dish 1 made
from the remnants of a roast of beef ::
Chop or cut fine all the lean beef and
mince al onion fine. Put into a bak-
ing dish and cover with the leftover
gravy. Cook in hot oven about three
quarters of an hour. Have hot mashed
potatoes ready, remove dish from oven
and spread mashed potatoes over top.
Well season and return to oven to
brown. 1 served this dish one night
last week with hot biscuits, apple
sauce, doughnuts, pickles and tea and
1 must say they did full justice to it.
Try it some day.-Exchange.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-02-17

American institutions, Captain Crosby
would extend to him the suffrage re-
stricted and regulated by the Consti-
tuition and by the laws of congress so
that he would not find himself entirely
shut out of all participation in pub
lie affairs.
Captain Crosby holds that a restrict
cd and regulated suffrage would not
be manhood suffrage" and that the
integrity of his race ought to be of
as much concern to the Negro as the
integrity of the white race is to the
white TAI No race which has de-
spised itself has ever proSpered. The
fact that the Negro is a Negro can
not be changed by constitutional
amendments or statutory enactments
hut IN assured and regulated suf-
frage would make him all the more
desirable citizen and all the better
able to protect his racial integrity,
which is absolutely essential to his
racial salvation.-Birmingham (Ala.)
Age-Herald.