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The Denver star., 1917-06-02
.co.oPERArIoN-'

How many of us realize how much
the other fellow can help VI achieve
what We are working fort
How many Of US realize how much
We will help ourselves By boosting our
competitor instead Of knocking himf
To those of US who do not. tho
above picture, from Armour, will carry
its own message. No amount OF rea-
soning or logic could show any more
clearly and definitely just what Co
operation means.
Let's all apply 1t to our own busi-
ness this year and wait for results.
NEGROES, STUDY THIS PICTURE.
THEN ACT. 3.
Tho Star prints the above lesson in
order to convince some Of the most
skeptical Negroes of Denver and Colo
rado. ~ well ~ elsewhere. what Il
win mean for ten millions OF Negroes
whose minds, hearts. objects. pur.
poses, ambitions and work are dog
gedly set up ON one certain thing
elimination Of all caste. prejudice and
inequality for every one-0r certain
things Of uplift to humanity. and what
. unified action can do. This lesson
applies to Negroes who patronixe
others than their own in business,
oven II you or they don't like the
man or men running in business.
Patronise him or his competitor Of
color. Every nickel taken from the
business and professional man Of color
only weAkens him and strengthons the
chains OF prejudice and unfair COM
Aetition upon your necks. besides
Aelping the race who least need your
The Denver star., 1917-06-02
Howard Univ.r.ity'. Patriotic Spirit.

Howard Univsrsity's Patriotic Spirit.
Howard university has put at the
disposal Of the government site for
a training camp for soldiers. There are
at least 25,OOO colored men available
for the army at short notice. One thou
sand colored men will be trained as Of
hcers If the war department carries out
its idea of establishing training camp
according to plans already announced.
The prevailing opinion in Washington
on May 10 was that fully 25,O0O col
ored men would be called at once un-
der authority of the new conscription
bill.
The Denver star., 1917-06-02
CLEAR AWAY THE WASTE

Bowel regularity 10 the secret Of
good health, bright eyes, clear COM
that regulates the bowels and relieves
eApvxsI eI3ue5 pus pIIw eIs slid
OFT AoN S.1uYX III puv 'SuoIx9Id
feeling disappears. Get Dr.. Kings
New Life Pills at your druggist. 25c.
the congested intestines by removing
the accumulated wastes without grip
ing. Take . pill before retiring and
that heavy head. that dull spring fever
The Denver star., 1917-06-02

Kentucky Minister Eager For Action.
Tho Rev. Robert Quarles Of Paris.
Ky, has offered to recruit 1000 colorcd
men for service in the prescn. war
with Germany. The Rev. n Ouafles
says that he can easily enlist this num-
Der from the four counties howle'in.
the town Of Paris and thrt no vii,
lead his men to the front ut any time
President Wilson commands Their serv.
icsA
The Denver star., 1917-06-02
PHYSICIANS TO MEET IN
JACKSON, MISS, JUNE 27
President 8hsrrod's Effort to Better
Condition Of tbs Masses.

Meridian, Miss-The colored people
Of this section OF the state are allowing
q timely interest in local and national
affairs and are ready to perform any
service for the good Of the country at
this critical period Of our national life.
While the farmers are redoubling their
efforts to enlarge their crops our busi-
ness and professional men and women
are lending splendid patriotic cooper
alton In all good movements for the
public good.
Among the able and influential lead
ers Of the race In this city and state Is
the well known DR.. d. W. Sherrod.
president Of the Mississipd Medical.
Dental, Pharmaceutical and Surgical a.,
ISOLATION. DR.. sherrod was formerly an
instructor in Latin at Aeharry Medical
college, Nashville, Tenn, and secretary
Of the board Of United States examin-
ing surgeons. In order to coopefate
with the other leaders here for the ben
eft Of the masses DR.. Sherrod has sent
the following letter to all members OF
the General Medical association with
regard to the coming annual meeting of
that organixa don DR.. Sherrod says:
This Is a year impresnated with
many possible events. The world
seems to be more generally disturbed
now than it has ever been since the
dawn Of true civilization. There are
wars and rumors Of wars throughout
the world.
Every country, organization, race
and class OF citixens IL studying how
best to prepare for possible coming
emergencies. Our people, the Negroes,
are commercially and financially dis
turbed and are migrating to the north
and other sections in great numbers
In search Of better conditions.
Owing to these general distufbances
and the duty We owe ssveral1y to our
various communities in assisting In this
great work OF preparedness and read
tustment Of conditions among the Ia
boring elements Of our people, I have,
after conferring with the executive
committee. decided to defer the meet
ing Of our association until wednes-
day and Thursday. June q and %
and hope that these dates win meet
your hearty approval.
1--WE are expecting . great meeting,
with quite q number Of prominent
members Of our professions present
from other states You will remember
that the meeting viii be in Jackson.
where ample Arrangements are being
made to entertain us.
II will thank you for an immediate
reply, with your subject sent to DR.. L.
r. Young. secretary, Hattiesburg. Miss.
ID. W. SHERROD, President"
The Denver star., 1917-06-02

fHtssnth infantry Regiment In Camp.
The Fifteenth infantry REGIMENT.
New York national guard. Of 300 men
under command OF Colonel William
Hayward Is In camp.
The First and the Third tAtt ,lions
composed Of Manhattan t,vors. we're
In command OF Majors Edwin w. Day.
ton and w. A. Pickering. The Second
from Brooklyn. was i'm COM
mand Of Major Monson Morris en- route
to the camp.
The Denver star., 1917-06-02

SIaes Advertising 10 the Lite Of
trade, t behooves you 70 cooperate
with ". We realize that We must first
mako money for you before we can
make any for ourselves, therefore let
- help you BY doing your advertising
10 help ourselves Advertise In The
star that's all. Il pays yeus and pays
us. Advertise and let 10 have Q pay
The Denver star., 1917-06-02

help. We are our own masters, II We
would rightly and intelligently use
what means which are ours. Think
Of 100 Negroes putting 81 aside q
month in colored company or in q
bank and buying pigs. horses. cattle.
chickens, turkeys and Belgian hares
and putting those animals on the
ranches of our Negro farmers. what
would 1t mean in two years to the
farmer, yourself and our Denver COM
munity? A Negro auto transportation
service. q Negro commission merchant
and produce dealer. Negro distributor
Of eggs and poultry to Capitol Hill
customers and q Negro general store
in the farmers settlement all because
Denver and Colorado Negroes are
working together. Study this picture
and wisely develop your money and
brains.
Again. let us suppose every female
who needed such an article would
patroniIe the only corset maker in
Denver and in Colorado, Miss Beatrice
Lewis. in one week she would bo COM
pelled to hire extra help. Suppos, ,
that in July, when the Prince Hall
chapter of the o. E 8. meets in Colo
RADIO Springs, that the women have
exhibits and displays for their inspec-
ton. thoroughly showing that cooper
alive spirit. When the calves decid-
cd to get together for their own
benefit hrst all opposition failed.
Unity leads to conference which will
ultimately result into cooperation. 70
stick together IL you have to hang
together In parts. Success crowns an
cooperative 06orts.
The Denver star., 1917-06-02
compIiments the Hampton institute.

Compliments the Hampton Institute.
Colonel Charles E. Hasbrook, editor
In chief Of the Richmond Times-Dts-
patch, has sent the following telegram
to the "Greater Hampton Patriotic
movement" Chicago:
Hampton institute in this time Of
national stress, in keeping with Its
long and honorable traditions, is taking
splendid and efficient steps to develop
its men and women into worthy and
useful citizens. Its agricultural exten-
sion work and instruction in military
tactics are its greatest measures of
war preparedness"
The Denver star., 1917-06-02

Everybody 10 going TO tha 9f-nd
theatre. the best place for the best
fve-cent show in the city. Tho Grand
theatre 10 the place which invites and
accommodates you. Boost for the
Grand. Everybod: vaacome and treat.
Cd nicely. .--.....-
The Denver star., 1917-06-02
COMMENCEMENT WEEK At
THE TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE
Two Part Program Includes Variety
Of Topics on Praetiea! Subjects.

Tuskegee Institute, Alnbama.-May
"a has been set aside as the day for the
commencement exercises here. The
commencement sermon was preached
on Sunday. May 20, by Rabbi Max
Heller of New Orleans. On Monday,
May 21, the commencement exercises
Of the Phelps Hall Bible training school
were held, the principal speaker being
Rev. G. C. Alleyne Of Charlotte, N. 9.
On Tuesday evening, May %, the an
nual Boston Trinity church prize con-
test was held and the annual class day
exercises on the 23d.
The program for commencement day,
Thursday, May "a, is divided into two
parts and Is as follows:
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES.
Part I-10 A. N.
Orchestra. music; ''The Lark at Morn"
by the choir; salutatory, Machinery. the
Chief Servant of the Dairyman' dllus-
trated>, Ernest Frazier, Selma, Ala: "The
Development of Tailoring dllustrated).
Robert N. Scott, Falmouth. Jamaica, B.
W. l.; music, "Rockin' Time" girls cho-
rus: 'The Devices For Saving Labor In
the Home Gllustrated), Miltrude Bernice
Beverly, Galveston. Tex: THE Machinery
of a Business Office" allustrateO. James
Julius c. Flood. Demopolis. Ala; music,
"My Heavenly Home" boys chorus;
New Helps For the Rural Minister" Ql-
lustrated). Ismay Robinson. Vaudeville.
Jamaica, B. W. l.; '.Vitalizing the Daily
Program In the schoolroom'' dllustrat-
ed). Willie May Durant. Atlanta. Ga;
1.-THE Pig an Economic Factor on the
Farm" Cllustrated). Sylvester Sanford
Davis, Waugh. Ala; music. medley Of
national airs. orchestra and school.
Part ia P. NJ.
Music. Anvil Chorus" (VerdD. choir;
Industrial exhibition; valedictory, Tho
Wonders of Modern Machinery" Abra-
ham Hill. Tuskesee. Ala: music, ''Torea-
DOR from "Carmen'D. choir: alumni ad-
dress. DR.. A. B. Mckenzie, '07, Tusca-
loosa, Ala: music, go to Sleep. My Dus-
ky Baby" girls chorus: commencement
address. Professor Kelley Miller. dean OF
College of Arts and Sciences. Howard
university. Washington; the Tuskegee
song; awarding of diplomas; the Hallelu-
jah chorus, choir.
Among other features Of commence
ment week are the exhibition of physt-
cal training by the young women stu
dents, the cadets prize drill and the
Inter-sociesv declamatQry contest
The Denver star., 1917-06-02

If "cARTHAeo pELENDA EST"
THEN DEARFiELD COLONY, A NE
GRO TOWN, MUST BE HELPED, DE-
vELoPED AND PUT ON THE MAP
BY THE NEGROES. WHY MOTT
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-08-18
Music and Ita Trinity.

What we call music is well described
as trinity. The three components are
rhythm, melody and harmony. Rhythm
is to music what the will is to the indi-
viduaL The rhythm Of music is its
physical side, just like the body or
flesh of the human being. Melody In
music parallels the heart Tor blood, a
component part Of the Individual Har-
mony is the soul Of music just as feel
ing is the soul of the human being (also
possessed of three fold nature) The
triple elements in music are represent
ed In the history Of the world first by
the drum rhythm); second, by the lutte
(melody), and third, by the Tyre (har'
mony). Music lays its first hold on the
human understanding by its rhythm.
All men are Influenced by it (even saw
ages. And every soldier with or with
out an ear for music can appreciate
the tap, tap of a drummer boys drum
and can march longer and better for 1t.
Philadelphia Record.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-08-18
Orioin of the Matinee.

Whether or not we have to look back
to the fifties for the first matinee, there
is at least little doubt that the invention
had not attained any general popular
ity when the seventies were reached.
/ am reminded that the Bancrofts, who
were responsible for many innovations
that have since become the vogue, did
not institute afternoon performances
until 1876 after they had been in man.
agement eleven years. The Bancrofts,
If not the inventors of the matinee,
were certainly the first to pay full sal
aries to those who took part in them.
Not until 1878 did the matinee be-
come a fixed and regular feature Of
even the Bancroft management. It
was q byproduct of Diplomacy" the
success Of which made any means Of
providing additional performances ac-
ceptable. Sir Squire Bancroft has put
It on record that at the beginning the
matinee was a much more costly affair
than 1t is now, as frequent and sepa-
rate advertisements and.announcements
were necessary to make 1t Known
Westminster Gazette.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-08-18
A Defect In Hiaher Education.


1t must be said that the higher ed
ucation Of the United States is at pres
ent In a condition where it may read
lily drop backward rather than improve.
The college student Of today and In
some cases even the university student
Is permitted to sprawl over so large
and so varied an area Of intellectual
interest that he loses the discipline In
concentration, in hard work, and In
the mastery Of some relatively small
field that comes from pursuing a bet
ter and older method. There is Just
now, however, a marked tendency
among the better colleges to aid and
to guide the student toward concentrat-
ing his interests and his energies upon
a small group Of subjects that have
some common center Of interest and
some well marked relationship. This
movement is a sound and hopeful one
and should be encouraged and aided
President Butler in Youths Compan-
ion
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-08-18
About the Welsh.

Wales has plenty Of coal, slate,
scenery and consonants, but very few
surnames. If a Welsh schoolmaster
should say, Jones, you may go home
now for being a good boy" the whole
school would quit.
People who are not called Jones are
called Williams, or Evans, or Hughes,
or Lloyd. They divide these names
between them and make the best Of it.
They do not follow the English meth
cd Of taking their surnames from
towns and villages. They felt that to
do so would cut them OF from the rest
Of mankind. Nobody could possibly
call on Mrs. Llanymynech. Disloca-
ton Of the jaw is a great drawback to
social intercourse.
The Welshman has the Celtic mag
ination, says London Answers. He
never calls spade a spade. When he
has done describing this implement Of
agriculture the stolid Englishman
thinks he has been listening to a story
from the arabian Nights" hence the
Englishman says the Welshman is an
"untruther." He isn't really. It's
only difference of method.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-08-18
The Winner,

The difficulties of crossing Broadway
at Forty-second street can be exag-
gerated. The feat is usually accom-
plished by born New Workers without
loss of more than one limb. But to the
visitor from Boeotia or some other
suburb it presents itself as as diff
Guilty which, once overcome, is to be
looked back at with horror and re-
membered with gratitude for a provi-
Dental escape. One such visitor had
just crossed Broadway. He wore long
white whiskers and a black hat such
as may be seen on senators from Mis-
sissippi He was on the safe side Of
Broadway. He pulled agitatedly as he
turned to survey the maelstrom Of
traffic he had passed through.
every time / cross Broadway" he
said, 81 feel as IL I had won a bet
New York Post.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-08-18
Mhats the AnsWer2

Old elephant hunters who have hunt
ed their quarry In India, Siam and the
wilds Of the Malay peninsula are agreed
upon the following fact: Bury the car
cass of a full grown tusker in any spot
In Asia-it matters not whether the 10
cation be high and dry or low and
damp-one year from the date Of burial
not a shred Of hide nor a silver Of bone
can be found by digging. Neither dis
indignation nor ants can be an expla-
nation, for the phenomenon has been
noted in the highlands Of Nepal, where
buried carcasses of other animals than
the elephant undergo little or no change
within a year and elephants bones dis
appear in localities where ants are un-
known. So far the scientists have
failed to come forward with an answer.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-08-18
Valuable Black Walnut.

Black walnut is the ideal wood for
gun stocks, but it Is scarce and high
in price, and there are few Of the tees
left In this country. A single tree of
this species can be sold for q good
price, and a grove Of black walnut
trees represents q small fortune.
About the only black walnut trees
available now are those on farms and
private estates, and they are fast dis
appearing. The wood is hard and takes
Q high polish, qualities which make it
desirable for the use to which it Is put.
Manufacturers have not found q wood
to take its place satisfactorily.
Some Of the black walnut used is OBJ
tanned from old furniture or wainscot-
ing, stairways and interior trim Of
dwellings or churches. Many years
ago black walnut was used extensive
ly in the manufacture of the best
grades Of furniture, and in old churches
pews and pulpits made Of it can be
found today. The demand for the
wood is gradually causing them to DIS
appear.-New York Sun.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-08-18
London In a Foo.

London is more or less noted for the
dense fogs that obscure IL at times, and
a recent specimen that was in its prime
a couple Of hours before midnight, was
q particularly fine one.
In a space that a good aerOdrome
could have inclosed 1 found a chaul-
feur looking with a lantern for land
marks, so that he could discover In
which direction his car was heading.
/ saw a telegraph messenger fall OH
his bicycle in the middle of a quiet
road, apparently from sheer perpleA-
ity, and found three motor buses that
came to rest with their bOnnets close
together in such a way as to suggest
that each had been charging the otner
two and had only stopped just In time.
In the small hours Of the morning
found another bus standing helpless D!
the roadside, with the driver slulnDef'
ing within, but the driver OF motor
bus is a remarkable man In many ways
London Spectator.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-08-18
Tho "Crowned Republic"

1t was Tennyson who gave to Eng
land the phrase "Our crowned repub-
Hc." 1t was the bill Of rights, by
which parliament voted dutch VIII
liam" and his wife, Mary, joint sover-
eigns Of England, which made Great
Britain a crowned republic" From
the moment the bill of rights gave the
house of commons the sole right to
levy taxes and that house resolved only
to grant the crown annual supplies the
backbone Of absolutism was broken
and the nerve centers Of tyranny were
paralyzed. Henceforth we were a
Crowned republic" -London Answers.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-08-18
CONSTIPATION.

On account of the choking of the
gastro-intestinal tract nutrition is ar
rested or impeded and metabolism is
disturbed. How far a habit of con-
stipation can go in the production of
various diseases of slow growth but of
terrible consequences is a question of
the greatest magnitude.
The retained poisonous products are
absorbed into the blood stream and
other body fluids causing autointoxica-
lion which is manifested by symptoms
of wide variation. The elogging of the
liver and its peculiar system produces
congestion of the lower bowel result
ing in hemorrhoids called by the laity
piles. Certain organic disorders are
easily traced to constipation as a first
line of offense. On the other hand
many functional maladies are admit
ted to have their fountain and origin
in a sluggish bowel metabolism.
Women are more subject to this dis
order because of the habit of closer
confinement indoors and a more seden-
tary life. Mental and bodily diseases
Of grave consequences are frequently
developed though slowly from consti-
patton resultant from the violation of
hygienic laws. Pelvic diseases are
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-08-18
CareIessness and Fires.

Little Horace, whose father thinks
he Is a second Edison, and his mother,
who would like to use electricity for
everything from curling her hair to
stoking the furnace, do more to keep
the fire engines busy than mice ever
did In all the years they chewed
matches.
Washington Devereux, chief Of the
electrical department Of the Philadel-
phia Fire Underwriters association,
said $4,000 fires were caused last year
by overheated electrical devices. The
fault wasn't with the devices, he said,
but with the human equation-the wo-
man who turned on the "juice" In her
electric iron and then went out for a
social afternoon without turning it OF.
He made the statement that no father
had a right to buy his ten-year-old son
a ten cent book on How to Wire the
House In Your Spare Moments" unless
he was prepared to see the place go
up in smoke some bright afternoon
Philadelphia Ledger.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-08-18
Salt Means Much to Health.

IF the human race should be de-
prived of salt even for a period Of a
few months" said a physician, I'VE
would not only lose a natural health
full incentive for our food, but disease,
with all its attendant miseries, would
spread with such relentless speed as to
defy the efforts Of the most skillful
doctors Of the land. Ailing persons
frequently refuse sugar, but they sell
dom turn up their noses at common
salt. That is because there is in the
body deficiency Of chloride of sodium,
and nature intuitively excites the de-
sire for 1t. Salt is essential to health
and life and is as much a food as
bread or flesh. If there is no wish for
salt in person doctors uniformly con-
clude that disease in some form is
lurking unsuspected in the system"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-08-18
Keep Up With the Present.

Success and happiness depend upon
the way In which we adapt ourselves
to the realities of the objective life.
If we fight against change-and change
we must meet at every turn and in ev-
cry department of life-we soon become
exhausted, wear ourselves out and sink
back into ourselves-into the subcon-
scious-and fail and grow old before
our time.
If we cling to past experiences, refuse
to live In the present, let our faith die
when disappointments come, the results
are the same. The life forces ebb and
we sink into the great sea Of the I'M
conscious and are on the road to being
submerged.
Desire, will, concentration, purpose,
faith-these can be applied to keep us
living In the present, to keep our en-
thusiasms active and our creativeness
expressing.-Nautilus.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-08-18
Salt.

among the earliest known to mankind
There is much evidence in holy writ
about the ceremonial uses of 1t, and the
old Mosaic law commands that every
sacrifice Of a meat offering shall be
seasoned with it. Homer calls it d.
vine, and many Of the old Teuton races
looked on salt springs as holy and wor-
SHIPPED at them. The origin Of this su-
perstition seems to be that since salt
cannot corrupt it should be regarded as
symbol Of immortality.