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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20
WALLER AGAINST "NEGRO.'
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says it Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.

Mental and Physical Segregation.
(From the Amsterdam News.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: l cannot too heartily congratu-
late you on a 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 physical and mental
segregation Of the people of color. It's
use is on the increase only because
our speakers and writer's, 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
high-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.. Its derivatives, "Negroism," me
grofy," and it's compounds, Negro
head, Negro-f1y, 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."
f. 1t is not differentiated in the
mind and thought of the whites from
their favorite and generally used
(among themselves) terms, "Nigro'
and "Nigger."
g. AS stated by an eminent Ian.
anese diplomat it has an unquestioned
influence in cutting us off from the
thought, sympathy and cooperation
OF the millions of colored Africans,
Aslat1cs and islanders. of the Yonder
world.
Very truly yours,
OWEN M. WALLER, NJ. D.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20
Agreed to Be "Set Aside"

\HAoW tue Eagle, washington, u. C.}
No, the colored delegates to the M.
e. 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
ric honors to the 100000 colored COM
municants are designed to clear the
way for the approaching love feast"
There is verify In the assertion that,
in It's primal manifestations. the
church is a social organization. with
religion as a by-product.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20

More than 1000 colored men, women
and children marched through the
principal streets of Newark, New Jer-
sey, recently in silent protest against
the wrongs, injustices and CALLING race
prejudice now so rampant in the
United States. rA
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20

The latest jimcrow idea is segrega-
ton In the galleries of the Capitol at
washington. 1t is almost unbeliev.
able that such condition could exist
yet reports from Washington say that
American citizens who desire to listen
to the deliberations of the law makers
of a democracy are separated on the
basis of color.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20

x The New York mayors committee
for National Defense will start a cam.
paign this Fall for the Americaniza,
ton of the foreign.speaking people OF
the city. The slogan is to be: Zone
city, one loyalty, one people," "The
melting pot must be made to melt"
said committee members.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20

The members of the Eighth Illinois
Infantry, the only regiment of colored
men with colored officers, contributed
$92,150 to the Camp Logan Liberty
Loan Fund making them stand sec
ond In that division. Col. Denison
promises that his regiment will raise
$115,000. How is that for loyalty?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20
coLoRED TROOPS.
Baker Says They Will Be Trained in
States Where Raised.

States Where Raised.
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
drafted 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
thelr 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 Tor colored men will be POSTPONED
until one of the latter calls, so thai
they will be called at separate time
thereby giving an opportunity to the
of1cers 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 a cantonment in it will be
organized and train there. Provision
Will be made for the assembling OF
colored troops from those states which
have no environments. It has not vel
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 be
both combatant and noncombatant or
CARNATIONS, just as there are white
organizations"
Those who volunteer for this ser
vice, 1t is said, will have an earlv on
pOrtunlty to go to France"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20

Federal Judge Oscar A. .Trippet' is
deep in a study to determine whether
a Hindu is a white man or a black
man or neither. Diwan Singh wishes
to become a citizen of the United
States and the laws it is claimed limit
citizenship to aliens of either the eau
casian or African races.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20

IN a recent speech ex-senator Elihu
Root said: Americas great oppor-
tunlty was slipping away, but at the
eleventh hour we grasped it and found
opportunity to restore ourselves.
Through it we shall find our national
soul and have faith in Gods people,
for they are the earth's democracies."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20

The National Woman's Party which
has picketed the White House during
the recent session of Congress will
shadow" every Congressman about to
start on speaking tours Of their home
districts and will speak from same
platform in favor of w0man's suffrage.
Here's a hint for the colored people
to make. known the many wrongs un-
der which they are crushed and hu-
inflated.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20
Police Officer Is Indicted for Houston
Riots. .-r.s.

Houston, Texas.-Lee Sparks, the
houston police officer whose alleged
assault on Sergt. Baltimore, a colored
trooper of the Twenty-fourth infantry.
is said to have preceded the riot of
the colored troops on August %. in
which seventeen persons were killed
and twenty-five wounded, has been in.
d1cted by the Harris county grand
jury on two charges.
One indictment charges him with
aggravated assault on Sergt. Balt1.
more.
The second charges him murder in
connection with the death of Wallace
Williams, a colored civilian who was
shot to death on the Sunday following
the riot. 40
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20

Segregation ran up against segrega-
ton when the white residents of Nc
Culloch street in Baltimore objected
to the proposed jimcrow Y. M. C. A.
building being erected in their street.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20

1t seems that the suffrage pickets
In Washington have won President
Wilson, Secretary of Treasury Nc.
Adoo and Secretary Tumulty. 1t is
said that all will work from now on
for suffrage for women. b.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20
! THE SIN OF SILENCE

70 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 tho wrongs Of
msny.-EIls wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20

The colored man has large part in
raising cotton in the South. More
than one.thlrd of the cotton farms are
cultivated by colored men, either as
owner or tenant. $780,.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20
Worse to Ask for Jim Grow.
(From the Cleveland Gazette.

(Fr0m the Cleveland Gazette.)
We agree with the editor of the
N. 7. News: It 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??, 1917-10-20
Not Worthy Of Freedom.

tFrom the Richmond Planet.) -
When q race or an individual sub
mlts uncomplainingly to oppression.
1t is practical demonstration that
the race or the individual is not wor-
thy Of freedom.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20
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 a will;
Men who have honor-men who will not lie:
Men who can stand before a demagogue
And damn his treacherous batteries without winlno,
ia4 men sun crowned, who live above the fog
IN public duty and in private thinking
~. g. Holland.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20
Graduation of coIored Officers Is DE-,
ferred.

Washington.-The date of gradua-
ZION OF the colored officers training
camp at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, is
deferred until Oct. Is, Secretary of
war Baker announced today. Instruc-
ton at the camp will be continued un.
til that date. - -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20
CONVERTING THE ESKIMO.

Christian missionaries seem to have.
made little Roadway in converting the
Eskimo in the far north, according to
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-20

equal Of any members of the dominant
race In the highest abilities and In the
clearest aims. No estimate Is worth
much which does not take people at
their best.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-09
SEEKS TO STRIP
COURTS OF RIGHT
TO UPSET LAWS
From The Tribune Bureau ]


Washington. Jan. S.-A resolution de-
priving the Supreme Court and other
Federal courts of the right to pass on
the constitutionalty of acts of Con-
gress was introduced to-day by Senator
Owen, of Oklahoma The resolution
charged that this power had been
"usurped" by the Supreme Court after
having been denied specifically three
times by the constitutional convention.
II provided that if any Federal Judge
should declare an act Of Congress un-
constitutional he should be considered
to have vacated his office, and the Pres
ident should then appoint his sue
ceSsor.
The resolution also declared that
"such assumption Of power by the Fed
eral courts interferes with the reason
able exercise of the sovereignty of the
people of the United States, and diverts
il from the hands of the representa-
tives Of the people in Congress, as
sembled to a tribunal appointed for
life and subject 20 no review and no
control by the people of the United
States. and is therefore against wise
public policy"
The power to declare an act Of Con
gress unconstitutional, Senator Owens
resolution said, is nowhere granted by
the Constitution.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-09
Governor Plans to Refer
Charges to Association,
1t Is Reported
APPELLATE DIVISION
WOULD HOLD TRIAL
Breckinridge's Counsel
Waits for District AttOr-
ney's Next Move

Unofficial reports were circulated
yesterday that Governor Whitman
would refer the Delehanty accusations
against District Attorney Swami to the
Bar Association, which in turn II the
charges were supported, would turn
them over to the Appellate Division Tor
trial and dsbarment proceedings.
'1t's all news to me. haven't heard
any rumors about the Bar Association
said Mr. Swami last night
The District Attorney was sure OF
one thing yesterday. He declared that
he would carry his complaint against
Lucian S. Brecknr;Gg-. his accuser. be-
fore Chief Magistrate McAdoo, and will
summon Mr.. Breckenridge to appear Tor
examination. lie would not say den
nitely whether the charge would DC
bribery. No date has been fixed for the
hearing.
Could Prevent Open Hearing
Mr.. Swami admitted that Mr.. Brock
inridge could prevent an open hearing
Of the charges by merely waving eN-
animation. In that event Magistrate
McAdoo will have no other course LETT
omen but to hold the defendant FOR the
grand jury.
Martin W. Littleton. counsel for Mr.
Breckenridge. had this to say about that
situation:
Until / sec the District Attorney
summons for my client ] cant tell what
course we shall take. As the matter
stands now. we have the true facts
from the lips Of the witness Wilson,
who was held by the District Attorney
as a material witness last Saturday.
Wilson got bail to-day. We have abso-
lutely nothing 10 fear from ms testi-
monv. and we have assembled all the
documentary evidence to prove that all
his relations with Mr.. Breckenridge
we're just as we have represented
them"
District Attorney Swami said last
night that he had proof that wilson
was convicted of forgery in 1905, and
that he was now masqueradng under
the name of his brother. MIR. Swami
says his real name is Louis Wolfsohn.
Swann's Move. Says Littleton
Mr.. Swami also said he was waiting
to hear from Mr.. Breckenridge or his
counsel before setting date for hear
ing the charges. Regarding this, Mr.
Littleton said:
"The District Attorney. although he
has continually stated in the news
papers that he was anxious TO allow
Mr.. Breckenridge to choose his own
forum has never communicated with
him or with me. 1t is his move; let
him go ahead
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-09
10000 Physicians and Sur
geons Represented in
Appeal to Senate
BENEFIT TO NATION,
EXPERTS DECLARE
Training Would Make Bet
ter Americans, Mentally
and Physically

Washington, Jan. s. Medical experts
representing $4,000 American physi-
cians and surgeons made an appeal to
the Senate Military Affairs Committee
to-day for nationwide survey OF the
health Of American boys as a part OF
the universal military training bill now
pending. The moral and physical stand
ard OF American manhood, they SAID,
was showing alarming symptoms OF de-
cay.
DR.. Hugh II. Young, Of Johns Hopkins
University, and Dr. z. NJ. Bush we're
Inc chief Spokesman for the doctors.
Dr Rush is a student Of nervous dis
cases and lives in Baltimore His be-
lief ia that universal military training
would do much 10 make American boys
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-09

and men saner mentally and stronger
physically.
THE death rate from diseases Of the
blood vessels, heart. kidneys, liver and
brain the so-called degenerative dis
eases have greatly increased in this
country said DR.. Young. "They are
chiefly responsible for our alarmingly
increasing death rate in middle-aged
men.
"These 'degenerative diseases are
largely preventable, and early system
attic physical training and subsequent
HYGIENE and sanitary training. along
with military trimming, would be of in
calculable benefit 20 our citizens-in-
crease their vigor, effectiveness and
productivity, materially lengthen the
span of life and add much to the sum
of human happiness and material pros
perity."
Widely divergent views as to the
proper military policy were laid before
the committee by Captain George V. II
Mosely. of the General staff OF the
army, and Major William G. Harlee, of
the Marine Corps.
Major Harlee dIsapproved OF all uni
versal training proposals and suggest
ed plan of his own. one of the most
radical changes in policy yet proposed.
lie asserted that as recruiting officer
he had learned that the military caste,
the most orthodox caste in the coun-
try" and the fixed obligations Of the
enlistment oath were the factors that
deferred men from entering the army.
"The oath of enlistment is an oath
OF bondage" he said at brands the
man who takes it as OF lower caste.
! am opposed to any service except that
rendered by willing men"
The major proposed that no enlist
ments be required, and that the men
trained annually be permitted TO leave
the service at will. To make il a seri-
Gus matter for them to quit. however,
he suggested that minimum monthly
pay Of $50 be provided and all but a
small sum be held back until the
training period had been completed.
Major Harlee pictured a training
army equipped only with meagre ne
cessites for professional education,
doing all it's work in the open air, thus
avoiding the expense of quarters and
camps, and the officers of which would
be selected by those who had come up
from the ranks themselves in success
sive years of training. He agreed to
draft a tentative bill to show the de-
tails OF his plan
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-09

erS Of the country arc unable or un-
willing TO undertake the complete pro
grammc with any assurance OF speed IN
completion, even at prices which the
department regards as unreaSonabiN
high. The preparedness programme
halts by reason Of this condition"
Six million dollars already has been
authorized by Congress for.the improve
rent of navy yard building plants. The
additional s12.0o0,000 is sought TO equip
sufficient yards to permit building OF
ships for which the department has
been unable TO contract with private
yards.
-Four battleShips. one scout cruiser
eighteen destroyerS and twenty-nlnc
coast submarines have been awarded
70 private builders. Two destroyers, one
coast submarine. one fuel ship, one
hospital ship, one gunbost, and one am
munition ship have been assigned for
navy yard construction. This leaves
four bsttle-cruisers and three scout
cruisers for which construction remains
10 be provided.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-09
BARTOLOZZI PRINTS FETCH
MUCH AT HALSEY SALE
THE Twelve Months and Miss Far
rem" Go for 81 800 Each

The Twelve Months and Miss far-
rem" Go for 81 800 Each
The opening session Of the sale oil
Part " Of the Frederic r. Halsey col
lection Of prints. consisting of Eng
lish stipple engravings OF the cigh-
teenth century, attracted large tnrong
TO the Anderson Galleries last night
The III items brought S993O5O. bring
ing the total Of all parts to date 70
S21S.990.
Bartolozzi's "The Twelve Months
from the painting By Hamilton, brought
s 900. and the same price was gwen
for Miss Farren," painted by Sir
Thomas Lawrence, with the inscription
printed in colors. The first named was
bought BY Kennedy & Co. and the last
by r. B. Moe, who also gave $40 Ior
Portraits of Illustrious Persons OF
the Court of Henry VIII from the
original drawings by Hans holbein..
Knoedler & Co. gave S40O for another
nrint of Miss Farren.' and j. f..
brakes purchases included "The Cot
tagers." another Bartolozzi print from
q painting by Reynolds. for which ne
maid 1915. william Blake's Mrs. q
wife OF Colonel Quentin. Of the 10Th
Hussars) was sold to George D. SmltA
for 1895. "Miss Ann Bingham daugn-
ter OF Lord Lucan. painted by Reynolds
and engraved by Bartolozzi, went TO
= Keppel & Co. for 500 The sale
continues this evening.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-09
Deeds Their Home to Husband

Mrs. Marion NJ. Bell made her hus-
hand. Gordon Knox Bell. lawyer. a
present of their house. at SO East Sew
entv-second Street. as New Years
Gift il became known yesterday. Th0
property. which is at the southwest
corner Of Seventy-second Street and
Park Avenue. is valued at sl5O.OOO. The
lot has a 20-foot frontage by 81 feet
on Park Avenue. The house has Tor
some time been the home of the Bells.