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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-23

According - Ii" reports al"d with ~"
Belmont County Election board by IN"
reEisteration officials Of precinct l.
Fourth ward. nine women res'st"r"a m
that precinct. they viii vote Tor mem
pers of school board ut the election on
November s.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-23
Marriage Licenses Issued Monday.

Charley Nfrc. nErd y. and Mary An
drrozHi. aged is, both Of Martins Ferry.
Clyde NJ. Thompson. aged a, and f.l'i
T. Kirk. aged 10. both of Flushing
Mike NisnIc. aged Is, and Amelia Mir
gle. aged IS, both of Lansing.
Andrea F'itani aRerl 81. and Adele BAN
dccchi. aged - both Of Glencoe.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-23
Gave Banquet to Friends

Steve kummaS. ono Nf IN" h"Si known
Greeks nf this city aud VIII" Will i"aN"
with the next contingent for camp
Sherman gave II banquet I" n number
Cr his friends at tho Windsor hotel IN
Wheeling last evening. Several musical
selections were rendered.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-23

church for tho young child at Mr.. and
Mrs. John Ruska of Yorkvill". which
died Saturday after n short Illness. The
services were In charge OF Rev. Fnther
{. A. Muhcarn and ntcrmcnt was IN St.
MNrNS ConNtterN.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-23
Democrats Meet

Tho Democratic voters Of tho city held
q w"ll attended meeting last evening AT
thr office Of Francis K kcrhcr. Another
meeting has. been called for this eve
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-23

abo"t $500. The EcIiarc department
responded but could do nothing with
the flames and the flrenlen worked he
:olcauy to eXiinEuish the flames Oh
Other buildings.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-23
C.. ". 3. Nj. 20 Meet.

The G. ". +. ". will hold -" :eFuia:
meeting this evening ut The Christian
church. Following 'hc business pro-
gram will ~, ".nd"rru and a !unchcor
served
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-23
Bad Fire.

Tc,, To-. lie. yesterday nrt-rrnHn to en-
ting,,tSh I ire WINCH c"r:l.',",''i: destroy
ct, Two residence; b"sdrr tho firemen
arrived OH ,h., %~-ue. Thr loss sill he
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-23

Funeral srrvic"S r,r ~ tar,. Hrtr.rit
Connolly. former r"sid'u' "f thl~ ''i,.
who did at st. Clairs:ili" FRIDAY. all
be conducted this morning FROM TN
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-23
Common Pleas Court.

The following criminal raS"S We're DIS
posed Of in common pleas court on Mon
day:
Ohio vs.. John Burs"v and Joseph ''S'r.
burglary md larceny. HrrSrE with
drew former pl.a nf moi guilty and en-
tered plea %! guilty and WAS stn'"n"" !
To the pcnitrntiarr for m Indefinite
period.
Ohio " John T:urs"y anu JaS"rh hs"r.
burglary and larceny. This case WAS
nullied as To the defendant. John Rursey.
ohio vs.. Homer Kinney. Cutting and
srahhing with iui"n' I" Kill and wound.
Cause continued until nest term of court.
Bond fixed at $500.
Ohio VIZ Sr"nricr Hopkins. Cutting
and stabblng with intent t. wound. I'm
motion Of the prosecuting attorney III"
frInminliS part ui III" charge was nnllI"d.
Defendant Withdrew former plea Of not
guilty aud entered II plea "r guilty ri
assault and battery. and was sentenced
IL imprisonment in IN" county jail for
fifty days and I" pay costs.
ohio VS. Louis Morusrn. Order on
tered Ocimbcr II. 1911. fnrrciting hond
Of defendant sci aside and vacated. I,"-
PENDANT Withdrew former plea al not
guilty AMI entered li"n OF guilty. "
krrpInc 4 place for the unlaWtul sale
,f Liquor aud WAS sentenced Ia pay d
tine Of $@mn and COSTS.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-23

Ecllalr" Catholic church. The services
Will be- in charge If Rev. Father Whit
man and iatrrmcnt will be in Mount
Calvary cemetery ut Bcllaire.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-23

then led tho officers to the scene or inc
holdur. Ilr puintcd out two or the men
and they were arrested. Later four
others were arrested.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-23
ST. Cairsville Briefs.

Mrs Mary I:"lI" Armour ~ Column
bus, noted Temperance" w"rl>"r. will SpHHk
IN the court hnuS" hnll This evening nj
: u'clu"k.
Miss Ella Clemens - I;"ilHlr" visited
local friends MuniNy.
Corporal clyde Miller has returned. I"
Camp sherman after a few days visit
with relatives.
Corporal Clnrrn"" Mcfarland Of Camp
sherman visited his parents. VII! Me-
Farland. and wife. over Sunday.
Ed ,;rul, IT KY * WISHING relatives
AT this place.
Miss Lena iIawi horn" has returned 10
Columbus after a few days visit win
relatives.
Mrs. L. NJ Y"3ns has gnn" I" Mount
Clemens sNIirh.. for treatment,
Mrs Arthur Stewart left Mnnday fur
Cleveland ~ ATTEND III" grand lodge
meeting If III" Eastern Star lodge.
Joseph r'sHjka If Maynard has pur-
chased the Chandler property in tho cast
end.
John 4 Nom aud wife have returned
from Il w,rk'S visit with relatives nt
Akron.
$. NJ. Cellar aud wif" left Monday for
New York.
Miss Margaret Anderson left Monday
evening for her hOm" NJ Philadelphia.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-23
Mrs.. Shelton Peck.

Mrs. Shelton Peck an aged lady. pass
cd away at her home al the corner Of
Arch and Main streets. early Sunday
morning death following an Illness Of y
complication Of diseases. She was about
Is years Of age. Funeral arrangements
have not yet been completed.
Temperance Lecture.
Mrs. Mary Harris Armor. Of Georgia.
will deliver a temperance lecture at the
First NJ: z. church. Wednesday evening.
This wifi bc a union meeting and the
public is invited to attend.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03

do they compromise the rights of their
people.
Splngarn the Jew, is classed as a
white man in the United States. There
is no Jewish problem here. Now that
he is out of Russia, from whence he
came, leaving the ghetto behind, he
is willing to put the colored man in
the ghetto here. What is the differ.
ence between the segregation in the
departments at Washington and segre-
cation in the training of black Ameri-
cans, who are to fight for their coun-
try. What is the difference between
the separation of the soldiers of this
country and the Jim crow cars-the
only place on earth where such things
obtain.
Colored men who desire to prepare
to risk their lives in the defense OF
their native land should be treated
as all other American citizens are
treated and especially no colored
Americans should be parties to any
plan to segregate themselves from the
other elements of our complex Ameri
can citizenship.
You cannot defeat prejudice by com
promising with it.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
Jim-Crow Camp Opposed.
(ChicagO Defender.)


In the east Major General Wood of
the United States army has started a
movement for a separate military
training school at New York City.
Every man in the east should look
upon this with disfavor and oppose
it. There should be no segregation
in an army of the United States. If
there should be a military training it
should be one and all. The men of
the east who think, especially edi-
tors and writer's, should sound death
knell to this "Jim Crow proposition
1t will not be tolerated in the west
and should not be in the east In
other countries all men of all colors
and nationalities Serve on the same
army and fight for the same flag be-
cause it does not segregate or dis
eliminate. On the. firing line we
should be as one. No longer members
of the race should be looked upon as
cooks, but as citizen soldiers, wear
ing the rank of equality, with no in
justice or discrimination heralded
against them. In case of war num-
Der of southern whites are getting it
in their breasts to lead our men to the
battlefield. In the past they have
shown that they have proven them
selves to be lot of chain drivers
and we advise them not to let a
southern man command them. When
you join a voluntary army be led by
members of your own race and not
southern officers. Be led by men of
the north who treat you like humans,
and not southerners, who treat you
like slaves.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
Must Judge A Group by Its Best.
(from the Christian Register, Boston
MaSS.l

MdSS.)
NO one can be said to know anv
class Of people who has not been in
intimate and sympathetic relation with
the best as we'll as the worst of the
class. We compare many persons
who lWeAin the South, and think they
know the colored race, with others
who have, had no such contact, but
who have come into intimate and SYM
pathetic relations with large numbers
OF that race whom their Southern
friends have never known; and of the
two sets of people we should say that
me second knew the colored people
better than the first. They know aspi.
ratlons among them that the others
90 not know, or, knowing, do not
enter into and appreciate; they know
capabilities by direct contact with the
pest OF the race which others are obi
vious of; they know qualities which
only respect and sympathy can bring
out; they know possibilities to which
others by their very acquaintance are
blinded. If those who know the COL
ored race through the mass and by
observation merely could know what
individual possibilities are demon
strated in growing numbers of the
elect, and would be courageously can.
did with themselves, they would re-
wise their judgments and possibly sof-
ten their prejudices. At any rate,
they ought to credit to those on whom
they charge ignorance of the colored
race the values that come from know
Ing. how many of that race are the
equal of any members of the dominant
race in the highest abilities and in the
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
CHARITY MAkES EDWARDS

Charity makes for slaves, towards
and sycophants," said Mother JONES'
OF Colorado mine field fame, recently
Her words are true.
Men cheat their employees out OF
what is their just due and become rich
and when they have accumulated mil.
lions they pose as "philanthropists'
and endeavor to perpetuate their
names by giving money for libraries
or "charities," or Christian CD asso,
Citations.
Instead of being great philanthopists
these men, in many cases, are simply
thieves who really ought to be in
prison for having robbed their fellow
men.
No class has suffered more from the
"phllanthropies' of these rich thieves
than the colored people and their ne.
farious work has been aided by so
called colored leaders who have taken
the role of public mendicants and have
begged for money to organize jimcrow
institutions and thus prevent their own
class from securing their rights as
American citizens.
The product of the segregated insti.
tuition is usually crop of young col.
ored people with slavish instincts;
cringing towards, servile sycophants.
Great God deliver the people from
such charity and give them Justice.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03

The short month of February
was the birth month of number
Of good men notably among whom
were George Washington, Abraham
Lincoln and last but not least Fred
erick Douglass. These men live in
history and in the hearts of their fel.
low men because of their uncomprom.
Using stand for justice under all cir
cumstances. 1t is such men as. these
whose memories are ever kept green,
and who deserve to live in the hearts
of men.
William Lloyd Garrison did not com.
promise with slavery. He said he
would not compromise and he never
did. He did not hesitate to denounce
the Constitution of the United States
He was mobbed in Boston but that did
not deter him. He did not compro-
mise, and he fought slavery until
freedom came.
Charles Sumner was another of the
uncOmprOmising men who lives in the
hearts of those who believe in the
Brotherhood of Man. ~
In recent years j. E. Spingarn took
a stand for h~man rights that seemed
to put him in the Garrison-Sumner
class but lately he has said and done
things that have weakened the faith
he had inspired. Now he has come out
and advocated the establishment of a
Jim crow military training school
where colored men may (if they will
accept the situation) have an oppor-
tunity to prepare themselves to be-
ccome officers if this country is
plunged into war
Mr.. ]. E. Spingarn is a Jew. His
people have suffered for hundreds of
years from the prosecutions of alleged
Christians. He is thes last man on
earth who ought to advocate any com
promise on the rights of any human
being. Mr.. Spingarn said in writing
about Dubois recently, 'unpurchasable
leaders do not sell their souls, neither
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
, clearest aims. No estimate is worth
much which does not take people at
their BEST
OUR NEED OF JUxrAPOSITItN
(From the Boston GuardiauD

(frOm the Boston Guardian.)
That we much rather be, and asso
ciate among ourselves, is a saying by
Colored Americans that has become
almost trite. That is a mistake; it
is feeling of avowed cowardice and
innate inferiority. 1t is an utter i'm.
possibilitay for the two races to sub.
scribe to a common government, and,
at the same time, each race work ou,
It's own salvation. The theory" has
been tried and resulted into a CHASTITY
failure; instead Of making for har-
mony and cordial good feeling be-
tween two races, it has increased
race hatred AMI antagonism in leaps
and bounds. We have needed too
long the advice from false and treach-
erous leadership that resistance is
wrong, that it only breeds race hat
red and antagonism; that the thing
for US to do is to get property and
other rights will inevitably follt.w.
We have followed this "advice" fai:i
fully and have been rewarded in
terms of residence segregation, street
segregation, confiscation and loss of
property, Observation-Disclosures is
all of the blacklist pieces Of legis-
lation, since that it leaves our women
defenseless and at the mercy of white
brutes - separate schools, jimcrow
cars, and even legislating to exclude
further Negro immigration. These
are the evils resulting from mon
resistance" and rather be by our
selves" That with the same degree
OF effontry and terrible legislation
with which our property is taken ana
confiscated, with this same effontry
and legislation will our political and
manhood rights be taken from US
That is fact. Every congress Of
fers legislation degrading and mimi
cal to our we'll being Race preju-
dice, therefore, can only be worn down
by attrition. We must send orr
children, and go ourselves. to mixed
institutions and other places where
we can mix with the other races ana
consequently become accustomed r.
one another ABOVE ALL THINGS
WE MUST WELCOME AND PRAC-
TICE JUXTAPOSITION.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
"WHY AMERICANS FAIL"

1t is notorious fact that in spite OF
Pan-American congresses, long-winded
editorials in American newspapers,
etcetera, the United States is far be.
hind Great Britain, France
and Spain so far as trade in Latin
America is concerned.
A book by A. Wyatt Verril on
epe1L ueo!1emV 1s141eO pue qanos,,
Conditions Of Today" recently issued
by Dodd, Mead & Co., New York, has
this to say under the heading, "Why
Americans Fall
Race or religious prejudice, con.
descension, discourtesy or bluff have
no place in Spanish America. The
Latin-American is gentleman first,
last and all the time. He has never
acquired our habit of being a. gentle
man in private life and boor in
business and he expects others to be
as courteous as himself and if they
are not he judges them accordingly.
He may be white, brown, yellow or
black, but he remembers that one of
his ancestors was probably a plumed
grandee of Old Spain. You may scott
at his ideas, you may laugh at his
faith, you may curse at the "lazy
Greasers," and through it all he may
smile, treat you with respect and po.
likeness and greet you with express
s1ons of the greatest pleasure, but in
his heart he despises you for an ILL.,
bred yankee pig" and thanks God
that he is of Spanish blood.
On the other hand treat the Latin
American with courtesy, praise the
buildings and industry OF his town,
admire his beautiful women, visit his
places Of interest, and speak his Ian
guage and you may command respect,
admiration and true friendship and
every entertainment and comfort will
be yours"
THE APPEAL has printed number
OF editorials along this line showing
that Americans have lost millions of
dollars through their jimcrow methods
and it is a great satisfaction to have
this view upheld by a great authority
thoroughly familiar with conditions.
Race prejudice is an expensive
proposition for those who indulge in
1t.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
Of One Blood,

(Gerald Stanley Lee in Mount Tom.)
l am human being. l do not pro
pose to be cooped up or shut in in my
love and criticism to mere geographic
cal streaks or spots of people on
planet. This planet is small enough
as it is, when one considers the
height and depth-the starry height
and depth-of the human spirit that
wavers and CLOVIS through us all
Wagner and Shakespeare, Tolstoi and
Moliere! Though the cathedrals quar-.
rel together and sing praises with
siege-guns to their own little foolish
national souls, and rain bombs on
each others naves, take my stand
by the great bells ringing in their
towers, by the souls of their poets
overriding the years, by the prayers
and songs Of their heroes, artists, in.
ventors, by the mothers and the little
children.
We are all in the same world. We
are all alike. I will not say of any
one nation what will not say of the
others: and will not say Of any man
what I will not say of myself.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
Jim-crow West Point.
(From the Indianapolis Freeman.

NHAom eAo Indianapolis fIeemdH.1
A bill in the house of representa-
tives at Washington was recently in
troduced reading in the title: To pro-
vide commission to secure site,
plans and designs for a school to train
Negro soldiers. The object is to give
similar training to that at West Point
We note that among those named for
the commission is Thomas Taggart,
former senator of Indiana. Knowing
his goodly intentions toward the race
one may be assured that the effort
is worthy of consideration. The Ne
groes, however, we think, will not be
too hurried in Selling what appears
an opportunity. They, we think, will
be divided in their opinion as to which
is the better thing to do: to go on be-
coming soldiers as they have been, or
ask the government to bring about a
greater and more distinct separation.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03

are forgetting the fine simplicity of
life in our mad rush for money, and
we must admit that he is about right.
He says, there is more to life than
just making money. Life calls for
leisure not machine-made days of
money-mad activities. "You hurry so
you forget that life at it's best is just
simplicity, taking time to get the
things that money can never buy.
Like a popcorn wagon are your
modern ideas of life. Everything is
popping and bursting in different d.
rections, no peace, no poise any
where"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-03-03
Hates the Term "Neqro."

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
dlsfranchising 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-Assistant
United States Attorney General VIM.
Il. Lewis, Boston, Mass.