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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29

but they wouldn't believe it; they
only shook their heads and said:
No; that's impossible. There is plenty
of land for everybody When we were
getting ready to leave Eta they begged
us to remain with them. why 20
back there?'-meaning civilization
they asked us, where everyone is pib-
lockto? Stay here with us and be
happy"
THE APPEAL believes that the mis-
sionaries who are trying to Convert"
the Eskimos are "piblockto," espe-
cially those from the United States,
who are trying to impose the Amer.
lean brand of jimcrow Christianity on
them. If they have all of the neees.
sary virtues right now, why waste time
and money teaching them the murder
Gus Christianity of America?
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
INCREASED PENSIONS PROPOSED.

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 $65 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.. barrow specifically pro.
vides that the measure shall not on.
crate to reduce any pension hereto
fore granted. The passage of this
measure will be heartily approved of
by the people.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
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 SIS.
! 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. It
is planned to sell the certificates to
the public on the installment plan by
using stamps that may be purchased
and pasted in a book for that purpose
When there are sufficient stamps to
cover the cost of a 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 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 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-an 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
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
to feel that they, too, are doing their
share toward helping their country
win the war. ,< =
PLAY SAFE.

One of the Liberty Loan workers in
New York suggests that it is mis-
take not to accept the entire sum Of
the oversubscription which has re-
suited from the drive" 1t took a
great deal Of work and no small
amount of time and a tremendous lot
of careful planning, he argues, to Sc
cure the host of small subscriptions
which came in at the last and swelled
the total of the Offering. This work,
he says, will have to be done all over
again when the next loan is floated,
scribers will not then be in position
to subscribe anew.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
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
Crockerland expedition, who has re-
Gently returned to New York, after
four years in the Arctic.
Mr.. Mcmillan was in daily contact
with the Eskimos. He finds them
lovable and easily managed. The
members of the expedition trusted, i'm
plicitly the little colony Of six fam
lilies at Eta, base of the expedition,
on the northeast shore Of Greenland,
and never suffered a loss by theft. Yet
the same understanding of the Eski-
mo character has made Mr. Mcmillan
skeptical as to the power of mission
airy work to better their social stand
ards.
II don't believe the missionaries will
be able to change the social customs
of the Eskimos very greatly. They
are happy, care-free, jovial' people.
They are continually laughing. If they
see man in serious thought for more
than a few minutes at a time they
think something is wrong with him.
And, really, they have all the neces-
sary virtues right now. They love
each other, they care for each others
welfare, and they protect each other.
If one is hungry all are hungry. They
have perfect socialism.
"And they are absolutely honest.
Our supplies at Eta lay on the ground
in plain view of every one in the SET
tlement for four years, and no one
ever touched them without permis-
sion. In New York after dark they
wouldn't remain four. minutes before
being stolen. 49,
"Piblockto" is the. word that ex-
presses what the Eskimos think of the
world at war, Mr.. Macmillan said. It
means run amuck; gone clean crazy"
The Eskimos believe that all the white
man nations have gone "piblockto.''
II tried to explain" Mr.. Macmillan,
said, that the war started because
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
FOOD CONSERVATION.

Lest we forget! We are at War,
and it is not a mere outing like the
Spanish.American War-but a serious
war in which the little things that
each person is asked to do will prove
OF as special Importance as the larger
ones. You are asked to make the
small sacrifices, so that the larger
sacrifices will not be necessary.
If one-half of all the colored families
IN the United States would use one
teaspoonful of sugar less in their tea
and coffee one day each week, this
little sacrifice would result in the saw
ing of 100000 pounds of sugar year.
Sugar is a necessity in this war. If
one-half of our families would use one
pound of -four less each week, it
would save 100000 bushels of wheat,
which could be sent to help feed our
soldiers and those who are fighting by
our side in this war.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
THE ONLY SOLUTION.

Recently at the Church of England
Congress at Southampton, Sir Sidney
Olivier, who was governor of Jamaica
from 1907 to the end of 1912, put for
ward the claim that no solution of the
American color question was possible
except by resolute disclaimer Of the
color line and the race differention
theory.
Sir Sidney Olivier certainly knows
what he is talking about. In the
Island Of Jamaica, where he was gov
ernor for five years, there are about
100000 colored people and only 10000
whites and yet there is absolutely no
friction between the races. Jamaica
is British colony and the govern
ment is just. Colored men enjoy ev-
cry civil and political right which
white men have and there is no color
line.
Among other things Sir Sidney said:
my study and comparison of con.
West Indies," he said, has brought
me to that conclusion. American and
colonial politicians and public men
are not Exeter Hall abolitionists nor
evangelical Christian missionaries. l
do not expect them to adopt the meth
DDS Of missionaries, nor do I sympa-
thize with all their programmes But
1t cannot be ignored .-:t it happened
that the faiths of the mo4- Who laid
the foundations for the peaceful de-
velopment of the mixed community in
Jamaica were democratic and human
itarian and, above all, uncompromis-
ingly Christian.
Were race. differentiation held to it
must increase civil discord. When tho
balance of numbers is as it is in the
South in America 1t must tend to
foster Obscure preparations for civil
war and rebellion. II statesmen and
citizens face in the contrary direction
I do not say that they will attain i'm
mediately civil peace, but l am conf
dent that they will be travelling the
only road toward it.
Il do not suggest that race does not
greatly affect facilities for combina-
ton between humans in healthy
national life, but race difference is
only one of many schismatic agencies.
The solution of the difficulty involves
discipline for the white man as we'll
as the black
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
The Color Line in the Catholic Church

(From the Southwestern Christian Ad-
vocate, New Orleans, La.)
There are two hundred thousand
colored Catholics in the United States
according to Walter F. McEntire, a
prominent Catholic, who in telling Of
the orders and societies of men and
women working among color people in
the United States, among other things
says in the Tidings, of Los Angeles:
''The Church knows no color-line in
the House of God, and any man who
tries to lay one down is not a true
Catholic"
This is good reading but it is not
true to fact. There are only two COL
ored priests in the entire Catholic
colored constituency of America, and
the Catholic Church is the only reli-
gious body in America that forces on
it's constituency white ministry.
Moreover. the color issue is drawn as
completely in the Catholic Church as
elsewhere. There was a time when
the Catholic churches welcomed COL
ored people to the affairs but not now.
In st. Joseph Church, New Orleans, a
few seats in the rear are marked re-
served for colored.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
WHEN THE WAR WILL END.

There are whole lot of people in
this world who would like TO know
when the great world war will end p?
OF course no one wishes it to end un-
til it ends right, with "FREEDOM
FOR ALL FOREVER" but Brush
and PAIL" gives this information
which our readers are welcome to:
WHEN THE WAR WILL END
Absolute knowledge 1 have none,
But my aunt's charwoman's sisters
son
Heard policeman on his beat
Tell a housemaid in Downing Street,
That he had brother who had a
friend
Who knew when the war was going
to end.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
THRIFT STAMPS.

1t is pointed out by the Treasury
department that Thrift Stamps are
not made redeemable in cash for the
reason that these stamps are simply
intended as convenient method for
the small savers to accumulate enough
to purchase War Savings Stamps.
which bear interest and are redeem
able in cash.
IN addition. to provide for redemp-
ton lor these Thrift Stamps would in.
VolVe such an amount of detailed &C.
counting and labor and expense as to
impair the practicability of their use.
In fact, they would be more trouble
and expense to the Government possi.
bly, than they are worth.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
THANK GOD!

The Associated Press dispatches
very seldom bring good news to COL
ored people; but, last Tuesday there
was one dispatch that was read with
unalloyed Joy by the colored people as
follows:
Washington, D. c., Nov. 5.-Louis-
ville's Negro segregation ordinance
was today declared unconstitutional
by the Supreme court. The decision
affects similar ordinances in Balti-
more, Richmond, St. Louis and many
southern cities.
In rendering the opinion Justice
Day said:
1.-The authority of the state to pass
laws in the exercise of the police DOW
er having for their object the promo
ton of the public health, safety and
welfare is very broad and has been af-
firmed in numerous and recent decis-
ions of this court. But it is equally
we'll established that the police DOW
er, broad as it is, cannot justify the
passage of a law or ordinance which
runs counter to the limitations of the
federal constitution.
THAT there exists a serious and diff
ficult problem arising from a. feeling
OF race hostility which the law is DOW
erless to control and to which it must
give measure of consideration may
be freely admitted. But it's solution
can not be promoted by depriving
citizens of their constitutional rights
and privileges. The right which the
ordinance annulled was the civil right
OF a white man to dispose of his prop
erty if he saw fit to do so to a person
OF color and of a colored person to
make such disposition to a white per-
son.
We might say much in reference to
this act of tardy justice, but we will
satisfy ourselves by saying: "Praise
God, from whom all blessings flow"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
The Cause Of Migration
(Atlanta (Ga.) independently

When meat was 15c pound and
-four $500 barrel, the colored laborer
received from $500 to $500 a week.
Now meat is SOC pound and flour
$1,000 barrel, he is receiving the
same wages. He cannot live at this
and the white man cannot expect him
to remain in the South and live on the
starvation, wages he is paying him
when the fields and the factories in
the North and West are offering him
living wages. If the white man will
suppress lynching and lawlessness in
the rural districts, pay the colored
man living wages, give him a square
deal on the farms, better schools. open
the doors Of the shops and factories
to his prowess, and let him in the
labor unions, municipal ordinances
Ito keep colored men from leaving the
South) will be unnecessary.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Before another issue of THE APP
PEAL is published, the present year
with Its joys and it's sorrows will have
passed into history, and we will know
it no more, except as a memory. A
memory that will not soon be forgot
ten. The year now drawing to a close
has been especially notable and has
wrought more changes for veal or
woe to a. larger number Of the world s
people than any that preceded it.
Very few, If any, of us, fully realize
just what has taken place in the past
twelve months, but to many it has
been horrible nightmare from which
we have been unable to awaken. How.
ever, as "hope springs eternal in the
human breast" we hope for better
things in the coming year. "Then hail
New Year! We bid thee welcome.
Thy gifts are many but not yet dis
closed. With thee may come Joy or
sorrow, pleasure or pain, failure or
success, hope deferred or dreams real
lied. We bid thee welcome and will
try to cherish and improve thy gift
of time. We greet thee with a cheer
as we undertake our journey in thy
care" In the words of Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene T. Skinkle we send this New
Years greeting to all our patrons and
friends:
If you were superstitious I'll tell you
what we'd do:
We'd send a bunch of lucky charms
to all of yours and you;
A swastika, rabbit foot, a four leaf
clover, too,
A lucky stone, a dry wish bone, also
an old horse shoe.
But then you know there is no show
for these old charms of yore.
They've had their day, and passed
away with myths chats gone before:
So we will send to you, dear friend,
our greeting full of cheer,
Our kindest love-hovering above
you all throughout the year.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
Of President Vail to Employees Of the
Bell Telephone System.

Two thousand years ago a new era.
new religion, dawned upon the
world. We are approaching the an
niversary of that dawning.
Whatever of civilization, of free
don or of liberty we have and enjoy,
comes from the subordination by man
of human passion and selfshness be-
cause of the teachings, the incarnation
or reincarnation of the ideals and
principles of that religion.
Peace and good will on earth to
men. Peace on earth to men of good
will is the basis of liberty of man
kind.
Our democracy is based on liberty,
the liberty of all to live and enjoy life.
the fullest liberty to each Individual
consistent with the same right to all
other individuals. More is impossible.
Under this civilization has come
greater peace throughout the world.
Wider Accommodation and more
neighborly feelings towards our fell
low-men have been developed. Won
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
SOLDIER AND SAILOR INSURANCE

The insurance offered by the United
states Government to members of it's
military and naval forces has been
called the most just and humane pro-
vision ever made by any nation for it's
soldiers and sailors.
That its value and advantages are
appreciated by the Army and Navy is
evidenced by the extent which it has
been availed of. Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo officially announced
on December IA that 238,924 applica-
tons had already been received, repre-.
senting $2,073,72S,5O0 of insurance.
The average amount for applicants
is $3.50, which is very little less than
the maximum of $4,000. The Ameri
can forces in France were prompt in
availing themselves of the insurance
Gen. Pershing himself subscribing to
the maximum of $4,000.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
A MID-WINTER CONFERENCE.

OF the National Association for the
Advancement Of Colored People.
The Seventh Annual Conference of
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People will be
held December 9th, 28th, 29th and
30th in New York City.
1t is proposed at this Conference to
discuss freely the phases of the eco
nomic and civic relations of the COL
ored peoples, especially the American
Negro, to the war and the adjustment
OF those relations after the war.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
Must Have Place in School

(From the Chicago Defender)
Our naval training camp has every
nationality under the sun. AS red
flag to flout into the face of the bull,
we have Cinnamon OUT there, the
Filipino out there, the Greek out there.
the. Hebrew out there, the Italian out
there, and God himself only knows
what else out there, but we do know
that if we are anywhere near there
we are near the bathroom with mop
and broom. Space must be made for
the boy of the Colored race in the
school for which we are paying taxes.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
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, the in
QUESTION yet would serve the law, and
guilIotines decide our least disputes,
The few who dare must speak and
speak again to right the wrongs Of
many.-Etla Wheeler Wilcox.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
PREPARE FOR WINTER.
Box of thirty tablets-25c

Box of thirty tabIets-25c
When you are suffering from that
winter cold that stops up your head
and nasal passages, you want relief
relief that is quick and permanent.
We recommendRexalI Cold Tablets
as being the most efficient of all rene
dies for this trouble, being slightly
laxative to free the system of all mu-
cous and relieve the congestion. Safe,
sane and sure
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5th and Wabasha.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29

New President for Hampton Institute.
New York, Dec 23-The Rev. James
E. Gregg, a Congregational minister
of Pittsfield, Mass, has been appointed
president of Hampton Institute to sue
coed the late DR.. H. B. Frizzel.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
PASSING OF PIONEER REPUB-
~ LICAN.

William E. Chandler of New Hamp-
shire, whose death has just occurred
at the ripe age of eighty-two, was one
of the founders of the Republican
party. An early Free Soiler, he was
"a stive in the organization of the FIRE.
mont campaign in 1856; and his State
was among those which gave their
electoral votes to the Pathfinder. The
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29
BARBER WANTED.

For an out-of-town job, salary $500
per week and all over $500. Married
or single man, not over IS years of age.
For further particulars call at THE
APPEAL Office, 3O2 Court Block.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-12-29

Save on luxuries, buy war savings
stamps, and thus speed the war.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-08-21

the guests partook of delicious
luncheon.
Mrs. Homer Kiser, of Cypress
street, has as guest Mrs. Walter Nc
Kinney, of Richmond.
Miss Eva Cromwell, of Los
Angeles, California, is a guest OF
her sister, Mrs. Susan Meglone.
Miss Elizabeth Clarke, daughter
of Mr.. Charles Clarke, of Louisville,
formerly of Paris, is a guest of her
aunt, Miss Belle Ogden.
Mrs. Edward Thomason and
daughters, Misses lima and Gather
inc, have returned from visit to
Mr.. JOS. Thomason, in Detroit, Mich.
Mr.. Ed. Burris, of Little Rock,
has rented the residence of Mrs.
Alice Ware, on Cypress street, and
will move to Paris on October 1 to
reside.
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