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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-13
d. WALLER AGAINST "NEGRO."
Noted Brooklyn Doctor Says it Causes
Mental and Physical Segregation.
(From the Amsterdam New

(From the Amsterdam News.)
Editor Amsterdam News:
Sir: I. 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
10 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
lngly injurious, for the following rea.
sons:
a. 1t has never stood historically or
IN the present, anywhere in the world,
for 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: It's derivatives, "Negroism," me.
grofy," and it's compounds, Negro.
head, Negro-fly, Negro-monkey, are all
clearly, in their associations, degrad.
ing.
d. Its 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. 1t 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."
+. 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 Jan.
anese diplomat it has an unquestioned
influence in cutting us off from the
thought, sympathy and cooperation
OF the millions of colored Africans
Asiatics and islanders of the Yonde1
world.
Very truly yours,
OWEN M. WALLER, M. D.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-13
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1917.
WAR SAVINGS CERTIFICATES.

The new war savings certificates
will bear per cent interest, will run
for term of five years and will be is
sued in denominations as low as IS.
They are to be just what their names
Indicate, Savings" certificates, a
means of investment for small savings,
so that the money will be safe and
profitable and at the same time afford
ing the government the use of it. 1t
is planned to sell the certificates to
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.
The individual who has money laid
by for rainy day need have no hest
tation in converting it into war say
ings certificates, since the government
will redeem them at any time upon
the request of the holder, allowing in
terest at 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 a 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 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
win the war.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-13
Agreed to Be "Set Aside"
(From the Eagle, Washington, D.

(F'rom the Eagle, Washington, D. 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 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
rio honors to the 100000 colored COM
munlcants 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 by-product.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-13
Stokes Now Is Principal of Hampton
Institute.

Newport News, Va, Oct 11.-Dr.
Arson P. Phelps Stokes, secretary of
Yale University, has been chosen prin-
cipal of Hampton Normal Institute to
succeed the late DR.. H. B. Frissell.
The school is one of the largest de-
voted to the vocational education of
colored students and Indians in the
United States. Last year it had 934
students enrolled:
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-13

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??, 1917-10-13

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 democracy are separated on the
basis of color.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-13
Hates the Term "Neuro."

Il 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
DISTINGUISHING 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. "-Ex-Assistan
United States Attorney General VIM.
II. Lewis, Boston, Mass.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-13

In a recent speech ex-senator Elihu
Root said: Americas great oppor-
tunity> 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 I have faith in Gods people,
for they are the earth's democracies."
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-13
AN ADDRESS TO
The American People


S' eSSs s ss
Of y 6on on SOIL our
Aa nav soil with our tears enriched with blood defended
% hts s! aS
s n % oes and
Jm-crow Gallery Senate
living e w a by yu an 1 which
the we are REJECTED in business in
ssf hi SsI
cruz oshse s % Ts 3 5
any SuoE n that would
Make Democracy 0 the
the The @ sais a ss @ The the r mds pulpit " usually silent
thew These human r9ksd
as S ts not
a a ss 5 F,s9ss
said should country in and SYM
3ss2 Sst T. %
in Civilized World.
The we Upon mos; hat
% s S % % % o
The war-President and The Kaiser
oss the
@ make %6 up Ss1s @
our x 5 our administrators and
Upon President Wilson.
When n ~ ea sn
eaa can be- The t the u
fed only youhsafng
the United States regardless
they control Likewise all patriots should
discrimination against fellow
N $ EST
World
specifically the
all closer together brotherhood
for American Independence Hence
call President Wilson abolish essential
ton segregation clerks
Congress the enactment of @ To enforce the 18th 18th
political rights
make lyncng federal
state travel travel federal territory.
Opportunity for dent and
this world Wilhelm
the u S.
grant
citizens
added strength to secure peace by success in
Segregation Democracy.
Cooed
he home
believe democracy
clean hands and that in this formation
compelling distinction
We demand equality rights for all all
All patriotic Americans must that
American citizens the
until
citizens alike
the favor and blessing of Almighty God.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-13
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-13
THE SIN OF SILENCE

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, tho in
QUESTION yet would serve the law, and
euiIIotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right tho wrongs Of
many.-EIla Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-13
Not Worthy Of Freedom.

(From the Richmond Planet.)
When 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??, 1917-10-13

The colored man has large part in
raising cotton in the South. More
than one-third of the cotton farms are
cultivated by colored men, either as
owner or tenant.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-13
GOD GIVE US MEN.

God give us men time like this demands
Strong minds great hearts, true faith and ready b,d
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 a demagogue
And damn his treacherous batteries without wnl;roI
Eau men, sun crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty and in private thinking.
u. g. Holland
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-13
CONVERTING THE ESKIMO.

Christian missionaries seem to have
made little Roadway in converting the
Eskimo in the far north, according to
Donald B. Macmillan, head of the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-13
COLORED DIVISION


Washington, D. C.-The c0lored d.
vision will be distributed for training
throughout all sixteen national army
environments. It will not be assembled
as division until the eve of it's de-
parture for France.
Only CoIored to Labor.
Army orders today authorized imme-
date organization of "a labor CON-
panies ,''by voluntary enrolment of
conscripted c0lored men after their
mobilization" or, if sufficient men are
not obtained in this way, by voluntary
enlistment of colored men-no white
men to be enlisted in labor companies.
Each company will have four white
officers captain, two first lieuten'
ants and a second Newfoundland 200
enlisted men, Negro non-commis-
stoned officers will be obtained by
transferring qualified men from the
Ninth and Tenth cavalry and the
Twenty-fourth~ and Twenty-fifth infan-
try of the regular army. n
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-10-13

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.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-10-04
NAME MIGHT Be QUO vADIs
AZ Any Rate Brilliant Youna Chi.
nese Who Studied In United
States, Has Kept on Going.

A brilliant young Chinese gentle.
man. Quo N-Chi by name, is among
the eminent military and naval lead.
ers comforting at Shanghai in the name
Of the Chinese Republic, writes Cir
ard in the Philadelphia Ledger.
/. "Quo," as everybody called him,
graduated several years ago at the
University Of Pennsylvania.
He was president Of the Economic
club. an editor Of the undergraduate
magazine and a skillful debater.
I met him at a Phi Beta Kappa din.
ner at the University club, when he
was one Of the speakers.
do you say "a Chinaman' or "a Chi.
nese'7" ! asked him.
He smiled. "You wouldn't say AN
Americaman,' would you7" he an
swered.
He told me that when he went home
for vacation he had to travel 1000
miles inland up the treacheroua
Yangtse-Kiang to reach his home.
Quo became secretary to the first
vice president, later the president Of,
the republic. Young as he is, he 1.
one Of the big men among his people
today.
Judge Gest suggested that his last
name might well be ''vadis." At any
rate. he has kept on going.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-10-04
When Thing. Go wrono.

There are times when everything
seems to go wrong. From o'clock a
m. until 10 p. m. affairs are in twist.
You arise in the morning and the room
lis cold, and a button is of, and the
beefsteak is tough and the furnace
smokes, and you start up street net.
tied from head to foot. All day long
things are adverse. The mucilage bot.
tie upsets and spoils the desk pad ;
some one gives a wrong turn to the
'damper and the gas escapes; an agent
comes in determined to insure your
life when 1t is already insured for
fmore than It is worth, and you are
afraid some one will knock you on the
head to get the price Of your policy,
but he sticks to ysa, showing you pic.
lures Of Ola Time s1d the Asur dRssa
and the death s0lhs and q Skeleton,
making It quite certain you VIII die
before your time unless you take out
papers in his company. Besides this
You have q cold In the head, and q
grain OF dirt In your eye. and you are
walking uneasiness. The day Is out
Of Joint and no surgeon can set it,
Exchange.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-10-04
Largest Gold predoe.

A dredge company contracted with
the United States government not long
ago to build Notwithstanding levees on
either side of the Yuba River, CAL,
and to do it free of charge, the condi.
ton being that the company be al.
lowed to dredge for gold while fulfill
Ing its contract. Accordingly q gold
dredge. costing $5O0OOO,. was built
which is said to be the largest of its
kind in the world. An unusual fea.
ture Of the mammoth floating machine
is that it has two arms, each 225 feet
long. instead Of one. These are pro.
vided with 44-inch belt conveyors that
deposit the tailings on either bank of
the stream as the dredge moves along,
The digging ladder is equipped with
steel buckets Of IS cubic feet capacity,
which can dig to a depth of 80 feet.
The hull which supports all this ma
chinery is entirely of steel and is 1855
feet long and 68 feet wide. The gold.
saving tables have an area of 5000
square feet.-Popular Mechanics Mag.
azine.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-10-04
Mlsnts In College Glasses.

In every large college there are stu.
dents who ought not to be there.
Usually they are sent by parents who
think the SOCIAL status Of the family
demands college graduates. Most par
ents who can afford 1t send their chill.
dren to college. Many Of them do not
60 through to the end, because they
are incapable Of completing the work.
and it could have been foreseen that
they would fail.
Many persons overestimate the SO.
cial and intellectual value of college
education. This notion leads parents
to insist upon putting through liter.
airy college boys and girls who ought
to be training for usefulness in farm
store or shop.
When one whom nature intended ia
be but in the open using his muscles
mainly, or at least doing practical
work, is put through literary course
he is quite likely to be a misfit not
only in college, but also out in the
world thereafter.
A college course is not an unmixed
blessing for every one who is pushed
through it.-Mother's Magazine.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-10-04
RAT.PRooF BUILDINGS
Plan Given for Construction Of
Crib and Granary.
Metal Strips Prevent Rodents From
Climbing Higher Than Lath-Leave
No Openings Around Doors
Large Enough for Mice.

/ The accompanying sketch shows
one method Of construction for a rat.
proof crib and granary which is to be
separate and apart from other build
ings. The wire cloth or metal lath
should have no meshes wider than
one-fourth to three-eighths inch. Either
Stats or boards may be nailed outside
the lath. The metal strip prevents the
rodents from climbing higher than the
metal lath. Care must be taken to
see that no openings are left around
the doors large enough to admit mice,
writes F. w. Ives in Ohio Farmer.
IT One-story structure is desired,
building 10 feet square and 10 feet
high to the plate will hold 500 BUSH
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-10-04
CALF AFTER SKIM MILK AGE
Animal Should Be Kept Gaining From
Birth to Maturity-oive Heifers
Some Grain.

The problem Of caring for the dairy
calf is by no means solved by the enc
Of the mild-feeding period. The animal
should be kept gaining constantly from
birth to maturity If good growth Is &c
be expected. Calves are frequently
well cared for up to four or hve
months Of age and then given little At
tention. II good growth is to DO %
cured, heifers under year OF age re-
luire grain in addition to hay or pas
lure.
Since the condition Of the heller at
pasture 10 not 80 closely observed a.
when in the stall, the heller beyond the
milk-feeding period is more likely to
% neglected during the summer when
On pasture than during the winter
months.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-10-04
CHEER FOR ROOKIE
Encouragement In Letters From
Home Helps Fighting Men.
Officers Say Gloomy Mlssives Demon.
alize Soldiers While Bright Ones
Give Will to Win.

Mothers! Sweethearts! Sisters
Here's a new way to DO your BIZ"
equally as important as knitting gray
wool socks for the recruits or cutting
bandages for the Red Cross.
"Write a cheerful letter to your
soldier"
Having its origin at Chickamauga,
the South's greatest war mobilization
center, this vogue, for it has found fa-
vOr much as the American godmother
to the French soldier fad, is bounding
into popular favor. It is accelerated
by these advantages: it is based or
facts; it strikes at an imperative need.
and it achieves obvious results.
The facts are these: Fully so per
cent of the letters received by the
army man convey, instead of good
cheer, a tale of petty woes and imag-
mary griefs.
"There's vacant chair ut the ia
BILE, George"
"Poor sisters went to work to help
support us since you went away"
"How we need your strong, broad
shoulders to help US bear the burden"
Mothers sick. Fathers sprained
his little finger and poor little Johnny's
down with the measles"
These are typical dum-dum letters
to boys in camp. Ninety per cent of
them are better left unpenned. And
herefrom springs the new service.
"Shield the boy from the trifing
cares and worries Of home" urge the
officers. "Tell him how proud you are
Of him, how fine you know he's doing,
how happy you all are.
SOLDIERS. like schoolboys, particu-
larry the younger ones that are out in
the world alone for the first time, look
forward to the letters from home with
eagerness." said veteran major. III
they carry a morbid tone, he imbibes
It; drinks 1t to the dregs, and broods.
Either that, or as with some DISPOSE
lions, he becomes reckless and care
less.
ION the other hand, CHEEKY letter
encourages him and sends him forth
with a will to lick a regiment single
handed.
'Either way the effect is contagious.
"Despondent, the trooper is reduced
to one-half efficiency. His spirit
spreads to the squad, to the company.
He becomes discouraged and dissatis.
fed with the service. Gloom letters
are responsible for more than half the
assertions"
SO 1t Is that the Importance of a
troopers mail is recognized by army
officers far and wide, and ut Chicka-
manga the new 'bit'' is set in motion.
It has already gone so far that stu.
dents at the officers training camp are
receiving daily epistles, even from fair
ones they do not know, each carrying
a little insertion Of Joy. The result is
general cheerfulness and firm endeav.
or throughout the camp.
write cheerful letter to your sol.
dier," Is the slogan.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-10-04
Value Of Horse. Declines.

The value Of horses on the farms IN
Ms country seems to have falIe:i
Slightly. for the department Of agri.
culture reports that the average value
OF these horses on January 1, 1917, was
only SOB, as compared to 500 on
January 1, 1914. The difference in
price between the horses exported and
those on the farms is due chiefly to
the fact that only the youngest and
Dest horses were sent abroad, while
those on the farms include tie lame.
the blind and the halt Of ali ages.